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Michael Sager: "Wine is meant to transport you"
By | September 11 2016
Owner and wine director of his eponymous restaurant and wine bar Sager and Wilde, Michael Sager chats to The World of Fine Wine. We delve into the historical context of wine, regions and producers that he draws upon for inspiration, and more. Sager is passionate about how wine should be sourced, in order to keep it as pure and simple as possible. Read on for our full Q and A.
What is your favorite part of being a sommelier?
The pushing of boundaries, such as when you surprise someone in a good way. They think they know what they want and know about the wine, but then you manage to take them out of their comfort zone to try something they didn't initially want – and they really love it.
Normally people can feel looked down on when they're in a restaurant and I don't want that. If they leave and have learned something, and at the same time have enjoyed themselves without feeling embarrassed or looked down on, then I think that's a success.
No one likes to part with money, do they? So they are coming in already slightly stressed or anxious about it and they put the pressure on themselves, and we try and take that pressure off in any way we can. Because [when you're dining out] you're not walking away with anything: it's an experience, a luxury, it's not as if you're buying a set of headphones and you can walk away with those. It's different: you leave and you have nothing left, but their money's gone. And I always try to ensure that they feel good about that.
Are there any particular wine regions or countries that have inspired you most or most recently? How did they inspire you?
I like Austria. Actually Austria's really expensive but it is really good. Other than Austria I also like Slovenia and Georgia. I really like their personality, they make some really exciting orange wines and they're sort of the cradle of winemaking. They have such a history there; they are over 4,000 years old or something in terms of winemaking. So they are a lot more steeped in history than let's say a country like Australia which is officially less than 500 years old. There's nothing wrong with that, but I really enjoy the historical context of wine, and how the winemakers celebrate or rebel against history.
So would you say that history inspires you?
For me, yes, history inspires me. Wine is meant to transport you, if you place people or money in between that it takes the magic away.
Even for a short time only, wine is meant to transport you into a different world, remind you of a holiday you've been on or an emotive context. I prefer buying directly from the winemaker to keep it as simple and pure as possible. The fewer people in between, the more pure and the more connected you're going to feel to the wine.
I personally think it should state on a wine list if a wine has been bought from auction or not. I think it's more important than stating alcohol content or anything like that, as it's essentially a freshness aspect, like an expiry date.
How do you create a three star wine list? What goes into making a three star wine list?
I would try and have vintage stuff that is sourced from impeccable sources, so not from auction.
The wine finds you. It's a bit like art for that matter. You think, 'What wine finds me, why am I emotionally attached to it and why should I get my guests to be emotionally attached to that wine?' That's what I hope for when I travel. I also might see something that friends whose palates I trust have posted on Instagram, such as friends in the USA. I'll try and get that wine, buy 24 bottles without tasting it, and put it by the glass [at the restaurant]. Then I learn about that wine while my customers do – I already know the wine is good because it's been drunk by the right people.
We all look to each other for inspiration and I think it's incredibly selfish to say that I have the best palate and that's why I can write a three star wine list – it's not true; it's more about being savvy, about what is right now.
The reason I emptied the wine list last year is because I realised that I didn't really want to drink half of it or even 70% of it. I decided to run it all down – at the restaurant that is, we are known for a big list at the wine bar and people come there for that so we'll keep that. Plus, I started thinking that, because of the stress you already have of choosing food, timings, and so on at a restaurant, the wine should make things as easy and smooth as possible.
This time if you come in, the only wine on there is a wine that I would drink. The moment the wine stops being something that I would go out and drink, it's off the list. I also ask the staff what their favorite wine is. We still have the rarest wines to cater for the people who want them, we have a page of those that I just rotate and that I buy in single bottles.
I would personally love if the trend would finally go towards shorter wine lists. So sommeliers can do their work of being out on the floor helping people and having meaningful conversations with people so that they can get passionate about wine. I think a good sommelier should already have made those [wine] decisions for the guests before they come in. They don't need five sommeliers or five different Chablis that will go with their fish, they need just one.
If you, the sommelier, think Chablis is the best choice to go with a particular dish, it really helps if you don't have to think, which one of the 25 Chablis to choose? In my opinion anyway. It's much harder to write a short wine list than a book.
I really like what you guys are doing [with the World's Best Wine Lists]: in London we don't have a Michelin star or anything because we chose to focus on wine. And having the recognition is helpful.
What are your wines of choice during summer?
I love light reds, I'm a red drinker. Funnily enough I actually drink more white during the winter because I like heavy whites. I don't like light whites or heavy reds because it doesn't go with the food that we're selling, which draws upon Japanese fermentation techniques mixed with a Nordic approach to sourcing and plating – very local and hyper-seasonal. Creating and eating in this way, I'm not going to pair with it a Barossa Shiraz or any of those other oaky wines.
I would drink Beaujolais. If it was music it would be a wine that's all in the high notes and no base: herbal flavor, an exciting red wine. It doesn't have to be light in color but light in body. That could be Gamay, or something from the Savoie region in France, or light Italian wine.
I sometimes enjoy drinking wine from the Mediterranean coastline as I'd remember being there when I first drank that wine. But that's more emotional so it's not something that everyone can relate to. Quite often in summer I find myself drinking wines I've drunk in other summer environments, and in winter it's the same. I would drink a Sauvignon because I've been twice in November to Sancerre and it reminds me of that misty, foggy environment, and then if it's cold and miserable here [in London], the Sancerre is what makes me happy because it reminds me of that place. So it's from memory and my own history.
For me there's a producer who's newish, his name is Clotaire Michal. There's also a famous guy in the Rhône called Thierry Allemand, who's probably one of the best winemakers in the world because he makes Syrah very well and the purity that comes from his vineyards is crazy. Thierry Allemand is iconic and really hard to get – I think only on allocation – and it's a tiny production, I think there's only 4 hectares [10 acres]. And Clotaire Michal was his assistant winemaker. When I found out that this guy's making Beaujolais, I thought 'I've got to get this.' That was probably a year ago and we started bringing some in direct. It's affordable, too, which means I can enjoy drinking it with my mates and no one feels out of pocket.
Which restaurants or wine bars do you visit when you are looking for a good list in your restaurant's home city?
I like The Remedy in Central London. I enjoy 40 Maltby Street because I don't always drink natural wines but I like that they import all the wines directly – they are importers as well as a restaurant – so there's no one in between.
I also enjoy Brawn, which is near to Sager + Wilde in East London. I enjoy it for its wine and it's where I go with my parents, as I know my parents will have a good experience: I can order myself a funky wine by the glass and they can go for a classic wine. They are also affordable and have the wine I want that's not too expensive either.
I find the ultimate challenge of the restaurateur is to have the trifecta of these three things happening: service, drink, and food. Service should always be amazing; no matter how much you're spending.
Honestly, I mostly go to my mates' places just because I enjoy it. When I know someone at the restaurant I always have a better service experience. I also like to go to Noble Rot, and I really enjoy hanging out in East London because there's a bit of a community spirit. London you can feel a bit lost in, but if you recognize that there's a community in your neighborhood and you work closely with them, by you going to their restaurants and they come to yours all the time, then that's how you build a community. Because in the end they will recommend my restaurant to their guests, and vice versa.
Are there young sommeliers who you believe will go on to achieve great things?
In the UK there are people who have done amazing things but are not sommeliers. Take Noble Rot, neither of them have been sommeliers before, where one is a wine merchant and the other working in music, now they have a magazine [and wine bar].
Xavier Rousset has just opened up this amazing place called Blandford Comptoir, it's a smaller and better wine list that is, in my opinion, more personal. In my opinion he's only now become the amazing sommelier that he was always meant to be. At 28-50 they were selling a lot of collector wines and they had a close relationship with a lot of collectors. But now he has a small place that he really believes in, with no other investors – it's 100% him – and that's why I think it's beautiful.
There's another guy who's not really a sommelier, he's a friend of mine and his name is Charlie Mellor. He was working at Brawn and at 40 Maltby Street – so two of my favorite wine bars – and he's from Australia and he has an incredible passion for natural wines; he's collected all this natural wine, which is really hard to find. A lot of people think natural wine cannot age because of the lack of sulfur but actually if they're good enough wines then they can. He's opening up a wine bar on Hackney Road, virtually on my front door, and I'm really excited. He's opening that this autumn and whilst he's not a sommelier he has worked in a sommelier capacity. He hasn't worked in fine dining, but I really don't think the word sommelier applies for wine bars; they're just normal people who have a huge knowledge about wine but they've never worked in fine dining.
And as far as wine people go, I think this guy Charlie Mellor will do an amazing wine place on Hackney Road. He will further strengthen our East London community – all we want to do in East London is prove to the rest of the UK that we matter. Because that will finally mean that people are okay spending a certain amount on food, which they are in Soho. In East London we really don't have that guaranteed tourist footfall so we really have to be good. I'm personally inspired by the restaurants that open nearby that come out of nowhere and establish themselves to achieve their first Michelin star in the first year; and to be in the World's 50 Best Restaurants in the same year, I think it's a huge achievement.
What inspiration do you take from The World of Fine Wine magazine?
It's really quite scientific; I use it as a source of knowledge. I love the way it's written, it's quite in depth, you can't really read it on the tube. You know, I actually just purchased from someone every back issue, so I now have the whole catalogue, which is really exciting because I only started with it one and a half years ago, so I wanted everything from before. So I can't actually answer that because I've only read about seven of them.
But what I do like about them is that they are an antithesis to what Noble Rot did. Noble Rot is quirky, nice illustrations and fun, and it goes down the more cultural angle, such as interviews with musicians or actresses about what wine they're drinking, or go to cool restaurants in Copenhagen and review them – it's cool. Whereas with yours [The World of Fine Wine], what I like is that it's my own window to the world that I'm a part of, which is fine wine. I enjoy it and I like to be a part of it, and if I can't always indulge in the fine wine world, it makes me savvy and educated enough to talk to my guests about the wine that I'm selling, because I'm learning. For me it's purely educational. I don't like to read reference books and I can look it up on the internet now, so what I do like with this is that there's a narrative – a story – that I can then tell. That's the inspiration: storytelling. Something where I can turn around to a customer and tell them a story.
What do the wine awards mean to you? How has this affected you and your establishment?
I actually don't know, because it's not like we figure out who books because of it and who doesn't. Also, London is a big city and I'm not sure if someone in The World of Fine Wine demographic, if they live in London, if they go to East London or not, or if they hang out in Mayfair or Marylebone [instead].
I have a very small circle in the wine world and we will recommend each other's restaurants – that's why Americans end up coming here – but I'm not sure what is happening because of The World of Fine Wine awards. What I do really like about it is that it adds credibility, and it's really awesome.
What I also like with your publication is that it transports my list into a globally relevant list. That's what I'm aiming to do. I don't want to be provincially relevant; I want people to travel to drink at mine. And you guys are helping me to tell people about that, which is really important.
It's getting the word out there, isn't it?
That's right, like you said it's just as important as the Michelin stars, and all I know is that the Michelin stars have been really important for my mates who have got them. Their restaurants went from being really difficult to run and quiet, to being super busy. So I hope it's going to have a really good impact on the restaurant, and that you guys, whichever way you're doing it, manage to get even more traction than you have done so far. I hope that any wine drinker in the world starts taking this seriously because it would mean a lot for me. You know what; it's a really good reflection of who have good wine lists, it's the only one out there.
Now for a few pairings…What wines would you say pair the best with turkey?
Light red like solid Cru Beaujolais
What wines pair the best with beef?
I am not a fan of oaky big red with beef. I prefer Old School Syrah fermented in old oak. The tannins counterbalance the fat in the beef beautifully.
Who do you think the best sommelier in the world is?
Rajat Parr, although he's not working as a sommelier anymore.
And who do you think is the best in the UK?
I think Raphael Rodriguez from Fera at Claridge's – he did an interview last year, having a three star wine list in 2015 – he is probably the best sommelier in this country in my opinion. He will open an amazing wine bar when he has the money to do so, that's what he's aiming to do. So I think he's probably going to stay at Fera at Claridge's for another half a year, until they get their second Michelin star, and then he will want to open his own spot. And that's what I'm really excited about, I'm really excited about what he's going to do.
Who is the most influential sommelier ever to have lived?
Larry Stone and Daniel Johnnes, both American.
What is your go-to celebratory sparkling wine/Champagne? And for non-alcoholic?
I love Chartogne-Taillet Cuvée St-Anne, it's great value wine from an amazing, talented, and young winemaker.
For non-alcoholic, I love all the fermented drinks and shrubs our bar manager Marcis Dzelzainis comes up with.
What is the best bottle of wine you've ever tasted?
OUCH! Tough one. A bottle of 2007 Prieuré-Roch Nuits-St-Georges Vieilles Vignes. By myself on Mount Etna in May 2015.
What is the rarest wine you've ever tasted?
Again a tough one, I am very lucky to be able to try a lot of rare wine. Probably not well known, but a rare wine nonetheless, is Clotaire Michal St-Joseph. He only made it for a few years and then couldn't afford to do so anymore and relocated to Beaujolais. LOVE that wine. As I mentioned, Clotaire happens to have worked for one of my favorite producers, Thierry Allemand.
OH, WAIT!
Just remembered, 1900 Clos Rougeard Le Bourg, in a remote restaurant in the Loire in 2014. Yes, that's the one!


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from .testapp.models import (
    ForeignKeyTranslationModel,
    RegularModel,
    TranslationRelated,
    TranslationRelatedRelation,
)
from .utils import AppTestCase

class TranslationRelationTestCase(AppTestCase):
    def test_related_objects_in_translation_model(self):
        instance = TranslationRelated()
        instance.set_current_language(self.other_lang1)

        # This should not raise errors
        instance.title = "Title Lang1"
        instance.save()

        instance.set_current_language(self.other_lang2)

        # This should not raise errors
        instance.title = "Title Lang2"
        instance.save()

        translation1 = instance.get_translation(self.other_lang1)

        translation1.translation_relations.create(name="relation 1.1")
        translation1.translation_relations.create(name="relation 1.2")

        translation2 = instance.get_translation(self.other_lang2)
        translation2.translation_relations.create(name="relation 2.1")

        total_related_objects = TranslationRelatedRelation.objects.filter(
            translation__master=instance
        ).count()

        lang1_related_object = TranslationRelatedRelation.objects.filter(
            translation__language_code=self.other_lang1,
            translation__master=instance,
        ).count()

        lang2_related_objects = TranslationRelatedRelation.objects.filter(
            translation__language_code=self.other_lang2,
            translation__master=instance,
        ).count()

        self.assertEqual(3, total_related_objects)
        self.assertEqual(2, lang1_related_object)
        self.assertEqual(1, lang2_related_objects)

    def test_translation_is_modified(self):
        r1 = RegularModel.objects.create(original_field="r1")
        r2 = RegularModel.objects.create(original_field="r2")

        instance = ForeignKeyTranslationModel.objects.create(
            translated_foreign=r1,
            shared="shared",
        )
        translation = instance.get_translation(instance.language_code)

        self.assertFalse(translation.is_modified)

        instance.translated_foreign = r2
        translation = instance.get_translation(instance.language_code)

        self.assertTrue(translation.is_modified)

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New Atlantic City Indie Rock Fest Has Yo La Tengo, Snail Mail, Titus Andronicus, & More
News April 12, 2022 10:22 AM By Chris DeVille
Imagine booking some of these shit-ass festival lineups they've been announcing lately and then seeing what the new Atlantic City fest Frantic City locked down for their inaugural year. The lineup for the one-day event, taking place at Orange Loop Amphitheater on Sept. 24, is relatively small but uniformly good. As seen on the poster, it reads like so: Car Seat Headrest, Yo La Tengo, Snail Mail, the Murder City Devils, Shannon And The Clams, Superchunk, the Raveonettes, Rocket From The Crypt, Samiam, Titus Andronicus, Protomartyr, Control Top. As the man who sang "El Scorcho" once put it, how cool is that?!
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History of Sci-Fi Cinema 12: "When Worlds Collide" & "War of the Worlds"
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When Worlds Collide (1951)
Written by Sydney Boehm, based on the novel by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie
Directed by Rudolph Maté
Produced by George Pal
Starring Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hansen
War of the Worlds (1953)
Written by Barré Lyndon, based on the novel by H. G. Wells
Directed by Byron Haskin
Starring Gene Barry, Ann Robinson
As I'm running a bit behind in my blog, I decided to combine my next two entries into one, as the next two make a fitting pairing: two towering accomplishments of cinema sci-fi, a double-feature of destruction by producer George Pal, these two films couldn't be more similar — and at the same time, more different. Both inspired by influential works of fiction, both depicting the end of the world, both depicting strong Christian beliefs and themes, and both with a ray of hope at the end.
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Super Star Destroyer
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The Super Star Destroyer classes are the bigger brothers of the standard Star Destroyer classes (Imperial, Victory, etc.) In fact, there are not one, but three classes of Super Star Destroyer. These are the Executor-Class Super Star Destroyer (AKA Super-class), the Sovereign-Class Super Star Destroyer, and the Eclipse-Class Super Star Destroyer.
Of these three classes, only one is actually seen in the Star Wars movies, being the Executor class vessel, named Executor (as the first of its type) , which served as the flagship of the imperial fleet at the Battle of Hoth. There is also some dispute over the exact name of the ship class, regarding if it is actually "Executor-Class" or merely a "Super Star Destroyer". Regardless of the technicalities, whenever the term "Super Star Destroyer" is used without qualification, it almost invariably refers to the Executor Class.
Executor-Class:
Size: The exact size of an Executor-Claass super star destroyer is subject to a large number of conflicting authorities. While some written references suggest it may be as small as 8km on length, others refer to it being closer to 17km, and this is backed up by analysis of the canon movies suggesting that the correct length is in the vicinity of 17km, or approximately eleven times that of a ordinary Imperial Star Destroyer. (1)
Armament: Again, the exact quantities are unknown, but at a minimum, an Executor Class is accepted to have 250 heavy turbolasers, 250 turbolasers, 250 ion cannons, and 250 concussion missile launchers. (2) However, these figures are from calculations based on the original 8km Super Star Destroyer figures, so that if the 17km size is accepted, then the actual figures are likely much larger.
Crew: 279,144 crew + 38,000 troops
Fighter Complement: The standard complement was only 144 TIE Fighters (two wings), plus many other specialised craft, but this leaves substantial spare room to permit additional ships if needed.
History: Originally two of these were manufactured, one by Kuat Drive Yards, one by Seinar Fleet Systems, both under the name "Executor". This served to mislead rebel intelligence to think there was only one ship out there, and that the claims by both yards to having constructed the Executor were merely the result of pride. However, one of the two was renamed the "Lusankya" and secretly buried under the surface of Coruscant, where it served as an ultra-high security prison, and headquarters of the evil Ysanne Isard following the fall of the Emperor. How exactly a ship 17 km in length was buried underneath a huge stack of buildings on a super-densely populated world is never revealed, and the ship is only discovered when it breaks free of the surface, killing millions, in "The Krytos Trap" of the Rogue Squadron series of Star Wars books. The Lusankya was eventually captured by Rogue Squadron in their operation to free Thyferra.
As for the Executor, as stated before, it served as Darth Vader's personal command ship. It led the effort to destroy the rebel fleet at the Battle of Endor, but was eventually destroyed when its shields were brought down by an intense bombardment, permitting one A-Wing pilot to crash his ship into the bridge, disabling the ship, and resulting in it plummeting directly into the Second Death Star.
These are not the only Executor-Class Super Star Destroyers found in Star Wars, with many others being referred to in the various books. Exact numbers constructed are not known, though some sources put the figure at approximately 10 to 12. (1)
Sovereign-Class:
Size: 15km (3)
Armament: 500 heavy turbolasers, 500 turbolasers, 75 ion cannons, 100 tractor beams, five gravity well generators, 1 scaled-down superlaser. (3)
Crew: 531,000 crew + 225,000 troops (4)
Fighter Complement: 35 Squadrons of Tie Interceptors, 5 Squadrons of Tie Bombers (5)
History: These craft are only seen in the Dark Empire comic books, and were in many ways a death star squeezed into a star destroyer. Its most significant feature was the scaled-down version of the Death Star's superlaser constructed along its axis. This superlaser was only 2/3 the strength of the Death Star's, so it is not quite capable of destroying a planet entirely, but is still more than powerful enough to annihalate a planet's population. Four of these were commissioned by the Emperor prior to his death (the Sovereign, Autarch, Heresiarch, and Despot), and all of these were destroyed within a year of completion. (6)
Eclipse-Class:
Size: Eclipse I: 17.5, Eclipse II: 16km (5)
Armament: 550 heavy turbolasers, 500 turbolasers, 75 ion cannons, 100 tractor beams, 10 gravity well projectors, 1 scaled-down superlaser. (7)
Fighter Complement: 50 squadrons of TIE Interceptors, 8 squadrons of TIE Bombers
History: The Eclipse class is in many ways a slightly larger version of the Sovereign-Class, retaining the gravity generators and superlaser, but with a larger hull and larger crew and fighter completment. The Eclipse-Class was commissioned by the Emperor shortly before his death, and two were built, the Eclipse and the Eclipse II.
When the emperor was first reborn, he used the Eclipse as his flagship, and was destroyed with it when an attack he tried to send through the force to destroy Luke Skywalker turned back on him.
The Eclipse II also served as Emperor Palpatine's flagship, after he was reborn a second time. This time, he was again destroyed along with it when a rebel commando team boarded the ship and sabotaged the navigational computer, causing it crash into the Galaxy Gun, another imperial super-weapon. (9)
Just to clarify, most of this is "extended universe" canon, meaning it is not directly sourced in the movies. The reason for this is that there are only two very brief appearances of a Super Star Destroyer in the movies at all, and even then the details are minimal, so I have had to rely on secondary (the books) and tertiary (websites) sources for most of this information. As such, anything I've said it subject to a movie overruling it, but it should be noted that the books are considered canon to a fair extent.
(1) http://www.theforce.net/swtc/ssd.html
(2) http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dimension/4733/empexctr.html
(3)http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dimension/4733/empsovrgn.html
(4)http://www.stormsxwa.com/sov_ssd.html
(5)http://www.hyperjump.net/swguides/sdguide/essdstat.html
(6)http://hangarbay.tripod.com/td-sovereign.html
(7)http://hangarbay.tripod.com/td-eclipse.html
(8)http://www.stormsxwa.com/ecl2_ssd.html
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Is God a concept by which we measure our pain?
'God' is the song in which John Lennon denied belief in anything but himself and Yoko Ono. The list of things he didn't believe in included The Beatles, I-Ching, Bob Dylan, the Bible, Hitler, Jesus, Kennedy, Elvis and Magic.
The opening line is "God is a concept by which we measure our pain".
As soundbites go, it's a good one. As a lyric from the writer of Please Please Me, it's pretty fucking heavy.
I grew up a Catholic. I swallowed the whole thing, from Catechism 101 all the way to being an altar boy and swinging the incense at Mass. Confession was a wonder – you'd go and tell the priest all the things you'd done, and he'd absolve you, and you'd leave the Church walking on air.
But one day, aged 14, I found myself sitting at Mass feeling very bored. A voice in my head said, very clearly: "If there is a God, you are being disrespectful". I walked out and never went back.
And yet, and yet….I miss it.
I miss the comfort, the colour, the rites, the ceremony. Every now and then, for a wedding or a funeral, I find myself back in a church. They all feel good, but there's something special, different, about a Catholic church. We were schooled to be awed by the whole ambience. This was not the cosy, almost liberal world of The Church Of England. No, this was a world where you knew your place. God was good, but he was also a very heavy dude. If you were bad you were going to hell, no matter how small or young you were.
Another of John Lennon's lines comes to mind: "You think you're so clever and classless and free". The truth is that however grown up, smart and successful we become, how rationally we can talk about 'the real world', Catholic indoctrination never really leaves you. You're never properly free of it.
I remember, for instance, being almost relieved when Bob Dylan went through his Christian phase. The albums Saved, and particularly Slow Train Coming, contained such comfortingly familiar themes, and were a timely reminder that we are all part of something bigger than ourselves. These songs didn't necessarily convert anyone, least of all me, but they did at least legitimise the internal debate.
I remember someone saying at the time, in response to the surprise that Bob Dylan of all people could be Born Again, that anyone who was surprised by Dylan talking about God hadn't been listening. And it's true. It may not have been so overt, but Christian teachings are littered through Dylan's earlier work.
I know some fervent people, true believers. Good people. Intelligent people. Worldly and successful. We talk. I truly want to understand what it is that convinces them about something they believe in, that I would love to believe in. I believe in something, but not the God of creation.
I was talking about this one night to my friend Martin Sacree. When I told him I didn't believe in God, he said a really surprising thing. "And yet," he said, "He turns up quite a lot in your songs."
And he's right. I had to look at my own songs a bit more carefully. And there was God, in the lyrics, sometimes explicitly, by name, for heaven's sake!
One example is this week's song, Not There Yet. It's really a song about looking for a place in the world, and never really having found it. You'll hear me wondering whether 'God smiles as he points me in the wrong direction', and whether he knows who our 'true companion' is, and, if he does, 'Why does he let us waste our time?'
I'm in a better place now than when I wrote that song. It appeared on my 2012 album Now That's What I Call Divorce (which is a bit of a giveaway as to my state of mind at the time).
But it's not a doomy song. God appears as a bit of a joker, letting us go down wrong paths, get involved with the wrong people. But, in the end, we're all on the same journey. Some of us get there early, others get there very late. For me it's always been about the journey itself. I'm not complaining that I'm Not There Yet. I'm not sure I really want to arrive at all.
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Beatle, Bob Dylan, Catholicism, Christianity, God, Jesus, John Lennon, Religion and Spirituality


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Q: zip two arrays Javascript I have two arrays in javascript:
var array1 = ["a","b","c"];
var array2 = ["e","f","g"];

And I want the resulting array to be like this:
array3 = ["a","e","b","f","c","g"];

Any way to do this?

A: Will a straightforward loop do it?
array3 = new Array();

for(var i = 0; i < array1.length; i++)
{
    array3.push(array1[i]);
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}

A: You can try with concat() method:
var array1 = ["a","b","c"];
var array2 = ["e", "f","g"];

var array3 = array1.concat(array2); // Merges both arrays

For your specific requirement, you have to follow this:
function mergeArrays(a, b){
    var ret = [];

    for(var i = 0; i < a.length; i++){
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A: This should work:
function zip(source1, source2){
    var result=[];
    source1.forEach(function(o,i){
       result.push(o);
       result.push(source2[i]);
    });
    return result
}

Look http://jsfiddle.net/FGeXk/
It was not concatenation, so the answer changed.
Perhaps you would like to use: http://underscorejs.org/#zip

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Karl August Freyer (in Polen: Karol August, auch nur: August, * 15. Dezember 1801 in Oberschaar; † 28. Mai 1883 in Góra Kalwaria) war ein deutsch-polnischer Organist und Komponist der Kirchenmusik des 19. Jahrhunderts.

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Karl August Freyer war der Sohn des Gutsbesitzers Johann Gottfried Freyer und seiner Gemahlin Johanna Dorothea geb. Bach. Er zeigte schon als Kind große musikalische Begabung und nahm seit seinem 6. Lebensjahr Musikunterricht beim Annaberger Kantor K. B. Geißler. Im Alter von 10 Jahren zog er nach Leipzig und nahm dort Unterricht der Musiktheorie und Komposition beim berühmten Organisten Friedrich Schneider. Dieser empfahl ihm eine weitere Ausbildung bei dem Warschauer Meister Joseph Xaver Elsner und Freyer ging 1827 nach Polen, wo er bis zum Ende seines Lebens bleiben sollte.

In den ersten drei Jahren seines Aufenthalts in der polnischen Hauptstadt studierte Freyer Musiktheorie an der Musikakademie Warschau und widmete sich dem Unterricht. Er war unter anderem erster Lehrer des damals achtjährigen Stanisław Moniuszko und ein naher Freund von Frédéric Chopin, der ihm sein Porträt, mit einer herzlichen Widmung versehen, schenkte.

1834 unternahm Freyer eine Tournee durch Deutschland, gab Orgelkonzerte unter anderem in Breslau, Berlin, Hamburg und im heimatlichen Sachsen und feierte große Triumphe beim Publikum und bei den Kritikern. Er wurde auch von Meistern wie Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy und Louis Spohr gelobt. Nach seiner Rückkehr nach Warschau, schon als berühmter Virtuose, eröffnete er eine private Musikschule, die damals die einzige in der polnischen Hauptstadt war, denn nach der Niederlage des polnischen Novemberaufstandes von 1831 wurden sämtliche Hochschulen Warschaus als vermeintliche Unruheherde von russischen Behörden geschlossen. Er leitete die Schule bis 1861 und bildete unbemittelte Schüler ohne Abgaben aus. 1837 übernahm Freyer das Amt des Kirchenorganisten an der Warschauer evangelischen Kirche zur hl. Dreifaltigkeit, die damals die beste Orgel in ganz Kongresspolen besaß, und gründete dort einen Chor, der Werke von großen Meistern aufführte. Die evangelische Kirche in Warschau wurde dadurch zu einem wichtigen Musikzentrum der Stadt.

1861 genehmigten zaristische Behörden die Gründung einer neuen Musikhochschule, des Warschauer Musikinstituts (heute: Fryderyk-Chopin-Musikakademie). Freyer schloss seine Privatschule und übernahm das Amt des Professors des Orgelspiels und der -theorie an der neuen Lehranstalt. Er nahm seine unbemittelten Schüler mit sich und erwirkte Stipendien für sie.

Am 1. Oktober 1879, nach 52 Jahren Arbeit in Polen, ging Freyer in den Ruhestand und zog zu seiner Tochter. 1883 starb er und wurde auf dem evangelischen Friedhof in Pilica begraben. Der seit 1945 ungepflegte Friedhof wurde 1976 eingeebnet. Freyers sterbliche Überreste und sein Grabstein wurden auf den evangelischen Friedhof in Warschau überführt, und am 13. November 1976 wurde er unter Klängen seiner Musik feierlich neu bestattet.

Familie
1838 heiratete Karl August Freyer Dorothea Einert geb. Roth. Sie war die Witwe des Organisten an der Warschauer evangelischen Kirche Karl Friedrich Einert (* um 1796, Sachsen, † 1836, Warschau). Sie hatten eine Tochter, die den evangelischen Pastor im Dorfe Pilica bei Grójec in der Nähe von Warschau heiratete.

Werk
Karl August Freyer war nicht nur geschätzter Musikpädagoge und Virtuose, sondern auch ein fleißiger Komponist. Er schrieb vor allem Orgelmusik, aber auch Choräle, Messen, Präludien, Variationen fürs Klavier und sogar Tänze. Viele von seinen Kompositionen werden noch heute gespielt. Daneben schuf er auch ein Handbuch der Orgelmusik und bearbeitete ein Liederbuch für die evangelischen Gemeinden Polens. Die Noten zu seinen Werken wurden in Berlin, Leipzig, Warschau und sogar New York verlegt.

Literatur
 Michael F. Runowski: Ein deutscher Pole oder ein polnischer Deutscher? Leben und Werk von August Freyer. In: "organ" 4/2003, S. 16ff
 Michael F. Runowski: August Freyer. Jego twórczość na łamach niemieckich czasopism muzycznych XIX w. ["August Freyer. Sein Wirken im Spiegel deutscher Musikzeitschriften des 19. Jh."]. In: Organy i muzyka organowa, Bd. 12, Gdańsk : Wydawnictwo Akademii Muzycznej 2003, S. 284ff
 Michael F. Runowski: August Freyer (1803–1883). Leben, Werk und Wirken eines deutschen Musikers in Warschau : ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der polnischen Organistentradition, zur Kirchenmusikgeschichte der evangelisch-augsburgischen Kirche in Polen und zum Musikleben Warschaus im 19. Jahrhundert. Siebenquart Verlag, Köln 2016, ISBN 978-3-941224-05-6.
 Art. Freyer, Karol August. In: Polski Słownik Biograficzny, Band 7: Firley, Jan – Girdwoyń, Kazimierz. Instytut Historii, Warszawa 1958.
 Eugeniusz Szulc: Cmentarz Ewangelicko-Augsburski w Warszawie. Zmarli i ich rodziny. Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy. Warszawa 1989, ISBN 83-06-01606-8 ("Biblioteka Syrenki").

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FILE PHOTO: Canada's Minister of Transport Marc Garneau speaks in the House of Commons as legislators convene at the House of Commons in Ottawa
OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada will not extend a ban on flights from Britain when it expires later on Wednesday because new measures to fight the coronavirus have made it unnecessary, Transport Minister Marc Garneau told reporters.
The initial 72-hour Canadian ban - first imposed late last month after a new variant of the virus emerged in Britain - was later extended to Jan. 6.
Starting on Thursday, people who want to fly to Canada have to prove they have tested negative for COVID-19 in the previous 72 hours.
"The ban on UK flights, which goes until midnight tonight, will lapse," said Garneau. "(The) pre-departure testing protocol ... will replace the ban."
Everyone arriving in Canada from abroad must still quarantine for 14 days.
The requirement to test negative for COVID-19 applies to passengers aged five and over.
People in parts of the world with limited testing capacity - including some South American and Caribbean nations - can show they tested negative within the previous 96 hours.
Separately, Ontario, Canada's most populous province, said it was launching a pilot program to test incoming passengers at Toronto's Pearson Airport, the largest in Canada.
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Recent reads: Max Seeck, Susanna Clarke, GE Trevelyan & Alison Belsham
I've been reading a mix of genres recently and it's hard to find a common thread except to say that all the novels below pulled me deep into their worlds which, during these strange times, is exactly what you want.
Witch Hunter is the first in a new series by the Finnish author Max Seeck. It begins with an unsettling premise. A bestselling novelist's wife is murdered and the ritualistic killing mirrors a death in one of the author's Witch Hunter novels. As events turn darker and more victims are selected, Helsinki detective Jessica Niemi is convinced the killings aren't the work of a single person. But she has her own secrets to hide and her duplicitous life might start to unravel. We're in classic Nordic noir territory here – the brutal killings, stark setting and clever plotting – and I can see why the author has been liked to Jo Nesbo. I found it a compelling and twisty read with a decent female protagonist.
Susanna Clarke's Piranesi is a dazzling story of a man living in a house with infinite rooms. He is called Piranesi by the only other human he meets who he nicknames 'the Other' but is sure that he has another name. He's aware that his memory is transient and keeps notebooks which chart his journey around the many rooms. The book draws you into its world and shows how a man can be content living with his loneliness. You're always wondering what world we're in – the man's imagination, an altered state or perhaps the story serves as an allegory for what ever the reader chooses. However, there is a revelation which turns the narrative and which is wholly satisfying for the reader. Piranesi is perfect bedtime reading. I dropped off to sleep with dreams of great floods and sea creatures.
Publisher, Abandoned Bookshop, are to rerelease a 1930s debut from the talented writer, GE Trevelyan. Appius and Virginia is a moving tale of a women who raises an orangutan from birth and attempts to give it the upbringing of an ordinary child. Virginia's motives feel initially benign, she is a scientist with knowledge of animal behaviour. However, as she tried to dress, educate and teach Appius to speak, she's revealed as rigid in her views and exasperated by the orangutan's essentially animal nature. The novel addresses ever present themes of how we try to mould our animals to our own needs and, in the passages I found especially moving, how hard our animals try to please us.
The Embalmer is an engrossing new thriller from the talented Alison Belsham. A recently mummified body is found inside a display cabinet in Brighton Museum. A clue to the death lies in tattoos on the body and Egyptian canopic jars found nearby. DI Francis Sullivan suspects he is looking for a serial killer and with his partner Marni Mullins the hunt is on. As the list of suspects narrow, we enter the twisted mind of a disturbed murderer. The book is fast paced and engrossing and there are plenty of surprises for the reader. I particularly liked the Egyptology element and there are some genuinely frightening moments. The Embalmer is out in ebook in November.
After Dark: Fireside Gothic by Andrew Taylor
I picked up Fireside Gothic at my local bookshop before lockdown. I'm a fan of Andrew Taylor's books and here he's written three short stories with a supernatural theme. The first, Broken Voices, is set just before the Great War where two schoolboys are left in the care of an elderly teacher one Christmas. In the shadow of a Fens cathedral, the schoolteacher tells stories of local myths until the schoolboys decide to check out the truth for themselves.
The Christmas and Fens setting are classic ghost story tropes and there's a lovely gothic feel to this story, particularly as the protagonists' stories are updated at the end of the tale.
In The Leper House, a man returning from his sister's funeral gets lost and knocks on the door of a remote cottage. It's an atmospheric time leap story and could easily have stretched to a novella, I was so wrapped up in the characters. The final story, The Scratch, has a beautiful New Forest setting and is perhaps the most disturbing of the three dealing with post traumatic stress and infidelity.
This is a perfect read for an October evening by the fire. Do check it out.
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JAMES Rattray can only smile at the thought . . . could he be as good as Beautide.
Rattray's superstar three-year-old pacer Ignatius had just blown away his rivals in the NSW Breeders Challenge three-year-old colts and geldings final.
Taking his record to 14 wins from 15 starts, the James Rattray trained-and-driven youngster thrashed his rivals with a 1:51.3 mile to score a 12.4m win over Picard with Mackeral one and a quarter metres away third.
The first challenge for Ignatius occurred when the starter said go.
As predicted, Todd McCarthy and Picard had a dip for the lead and for a fleeting moment looked as if they might actually cross before Rattray got serious and Ignatius held him out before they reached the first corner.
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Ignatius turned for home in front before Rattray lowered the handlebars and Ignatius virtually left them standing as he zoomed home to win as he liked with a 54.4s last half.
Picard did it tough and did well to hang on for second while the other eye-catching run of the race was The Bus (Chris Geary) who came from near last to run fourth although nothing could be taken away from the winner . . . who just might turn out to be as good as the Rattray family's champion predecessor Beautide, a winner of two Inter Dominions and a Miracle Mile.
That might be a big pair of shoes to fill – but at least Ignatius is trying them on for size.
Earlier in the afternoon sensational three-year-old filly Goodtime Heaven earned her stripes with a stunning win in her $100,000 Breeders Challenge three-year-old fillies final.
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The Norse won their second game in row and their fourth in six with a 62-55 win over Eastbrook. The Norse built a large lead and then held on during a tough fourth quarter. Graydon Holmes and Clayton Tomlinson led the way each with 14 points. Holmes added 6 rebounds and Tomlinson had 7 assists. Logan Peas was right behind them with 13 points and 6 rebounds and hit two big free throws with 30 seconds to go to ice the game. Jared Peas rounded put the double digit scorers with 10 points and 7 steals as Cole Rosen added 7 points off the bench. Nate Drancik rounded out the scoring with 4 points and 4 rebounds. The Norse will be back in action Wednesday night in a TRC matchup at Manchester.


Ajax visit Vitesse on Sunday in the knowledge three points could potentially clinch a fourth straight Eredivisie title.
A 2-0 victory at strugglers RKC Waalwijk on Wednesday meant Frank de Boer's side retained an eight-point gap to second-placed Feyenoord, and another three points in Sunday's trip to Vitesse could see the title reside in Amsterdam for another year.
For that to happen Feyenoord must fail to win their fixture with Waalwijk at De Kuip, a scenario that looks unlikely given Ronald Koeman's charges have won four straight matches, while the visitors occupy the final relegation play-off spot.
On paper, Ajax's fixture at the GelreDome appears the trickier of the two matches, and their last defeat in the league came against Vitesse at the Amsterdam Arena in November.
However, Peter Bosz's men are enduring a poor run at the worst time, although a 2-2 draw at home to Heerenveen did see them avoid three consecutive defeats.
Vitesse, Twente and PSV are all 12 points adrift of Ajax meaning one more point for the Amsterdam outfit will definitely end their slim title hopes.
Both Twente and PSV take to the road, with the former battling NAC Breda, while PSV face a tricky clash with Heerenveen who are just one spot below Ernest Faber's side.
Faber has taken control of the first team due to head coach Phillip Cocu's health issues, with the 43-year-old having a tumour removed from his back last week.
Elsewhere, Cambuur must put off-field uncertainty to one side on the pitch when they visit relegation-threatened NEC.
The Leeuwarden outfit are currently without a head coach after Dwight Lodeweges brought forward his resignation following fan protests against his decision to move to Heerenveen at the end of the season.
That disruption may have played a part in Cambuur's 1-0 defeat at Utrecht on Wednesday, and with just five points separating them from the relegation play-offs, Cambuur must quickly recover.
A trip to the Goffertstadion could provide the perfect tonic for Cambuur, with NEC having failed to win their past six league matches, and they are just two points above the foot of the table.
Roda JC currently prop up the league table and face a tough encounter with AZ at the Parkstad Limburg Stadion, while Utrecht will look to build on the Cambuur victory at fellow strugglers ADO Den Haag.
In other matches, PEC Zwolle host Groningen in a match that could have a bearing on the final UEFA Europa League play-off spot, while Go Ahead Eagles visit Heracles.


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What A Carve Up! review: 'a point where greed and madness can no longer be told apart'
I don't know which induces nausea in me the most: whether it's Tony Blair's Joker Jack grin as he trousers £20 million thus far for services rendered, or Stephen Byers' 'gorblimey, I'm only a cabbie, mate, at five grand a shot' routine.
Who makes me reach fastest for the sick bag? Could it be Geoff Hoon, Iraq War dogsbody, who was prepared to do whatever it took to make his bones and get the Iraq war going and will do the same to join the ranks of the Croesus Class as revealed in the recent Channel 4 sting?
Or, on the other side: Eton posh boy David Cameron taking de-elocution lessons to mispronounce words like "probbly" instead of "probably", who voted for the Iraq war, who flipped his house and who now distances himself from the expenses scandal like he and his party had nothing to do with it? Or the other posh boy, Nick Clegg, who is even wealthier than Cameron and, like him, descended from royalty but who constantly implies his roots are Sheffield salt-of-the-earth?
Welcome to the three wings of the one-party state: the Business Party.
As Fabrice Tourre, the accused Goldman Sachs trader, wrote before he unloaded worthless investments to 'widows and orphans': ' … the entire system is about to crumble at any moment.'
Fabrice was specifically referring to the banking system, but we can hear the creaks and the groans of the whole edifice before it goes down.
Career politicians are like the canaries down the mine. They know what's coming, which is why they've ditched any pretence at social concern or 'stakeholding' and are leaping desperately like salmon in spawning season to join the super-rich as they shear off from the rest of us. For three deregulated decades, the powerful have been psychotically pillaging us and our poor little planet and now, 'at the point where greed and madness can no longer be told apart', it just can't take it any more.
It's this lunacy that drives the plot engine of Jonathan Coe's What A Carve Up!, and about which he is so viscerally angry. In his 1994 novel, Coe compresses the criminal class running the country — and the world — into one sociopathic, homicidal, fratricidal family: the Winshaws.
They have already carved up the key industries between them. The family seat , Winshaw Towers in Yorkshire, has spawned Henry, a backstabbing Tory minister; Thomas, a voyeuristic banker who creates nothing tangible and yet, as one of Thatcher's beloved 'wealth creators' pockets a fortune in 'commissions, interest, fees, swaps, futures, options … no longer even paper money. It could be scarcely said to exist'; and Hilary, a media mogul who doesn't believe a toxic word she writes in her populist columns. Dorothy, the battery farmer who wouldn't touch the cruelly-reared unhealthy muck she feeds the masses, carries shades of Margaret Thatcher whose chief contribution to the world in her former career as a food scientist was to devise ever more effective methods of pumping air into ice-cream, so making even bigger profits from thin air. What a brilliantly untoppable metaphor that was. Roderick, the lascivious art dealer, creates the market of mediocre crap from which he profits. And Mark, the little shit who sells arms to Saddam even as the West is gearing up for the first Gulf War, is a portrait of homicidal malice, organising William Tell-style shooting competitions for his arms-dealing buddies aiming at apples balanced on the heads of hapless Filipino prostitutes.
Minor author Michael Owen is commissoned by mad Aunt Tabitha Winshaw to write a family history which she hopes will expose them in all their rottenness and maybe exact a revenge for the murderous betrayal of her beloved brother, Godfrey, the only good person in their grotesque number, by his own kith and kin. In delving into the family mystery, Michael comes to learn who he is and suffers at first hand from the predations of the dreadful clan.
Coe's satire might have been overtaken by grim reality, but it still gives us a searing perspective from which to make sense of the current crop of horrors: of Blair; Iraq Mk II; of Tourre's revelation of how bankers run the economy with mad pointlessness, their sole aim to move money into their own pockets: 'What if we created a 'thing' which has no purpose, which is absolutely conceptual and highly theoretical and which nobody knows how to price?'
The banks took our money and, like all good monsters, bounced back more profitable than ever. And yet there is still practically no public control or accountability. Frigsample, they refuse to lend for mortgages although the Tories sold off the public stock and Labour refuses to build anywhere near realistic levels of new housing. How's that for being caught between a rock and a hard place?
You'd think this was the time for the party we voted for to take charge and protect us from the predations of the corporations. New laws, perhaps. But, no. The governent bleats that its hands are tied. The blackmailing swine might take off to where regulations are even slacker, where taxes for those who can most afford it remain at rock bottom.
Yet miraculously, one holiday aboard music industrialist David Geffen's yacht and Lord Mandelson criminalises British children who want to share the little pleasure left to them with anti-downloading laws. The government also rushed through legislation to bang up youth who imaginatively find new legal ways to get high while Ken Clarke who, as boss of British American Tobacco, brought the cancerous joys of smoking to a new generation of young Chinese, runs for political office. Again.
Talking left before an election as ever, promises are whispered by Labour of a Robin Hood tax of 0.0000000001 per cent on deals done throught the City, the same City that's supposed to yield riches for 'Britain' which never trickles down to us. I think they mean 'trickle down' in the sense that we are the sparrows stitting by the horse's arse to see if any nourishment gets pooed out. Will that legislation see the light of day? Will it, fuck!
Don't wait for the politicians to protect you. I watched the videos of last year's Orwell Prize debate. If you sit through Nick Cohen's headline-grabbing indictment of the liberal press and giggle at Peter Hitchens's retort that Nick was pissed (yeah, yeah), you get to the really telling stuff. Labour right-winger (at least he was pre-Bair when everything shifted tectonically to the right) Frank Field warns us ominously of something nasty coming down the pipeline. At first, I thought, yay! Someone's warning us that the looting of society by Milton Freidman fans at the top has gone too far and unless we rein it back we are in for an Apocalypse. But, no. As we leave the Age Of so-called Enlightenment behind, what is Frank's concern? Not that life for 'Brits' (meaning the middle and working classes) is turning into a living hell, but that the 'mob' is getting out of hand and has already, shock horror, targeted the home of a banker. When you deduce that the banker in question is the questionable Fred The Shred it makes you realise where these politicians' misplaced priorities have been leading us.
Frank wouldn't like What A Carve Up! one little bit, themed as it is around the 1964 movie of the same same starring Kenneth Connor, Sid James and Shirley Eaton in the low-brow comedy thriller about a revolting family who get bumped off one by one at the reading of a dead patriarch's will. One man's revenge fantasy is another man's nightmare.
Now I understand why Frank's lot have been building prisons and training up riot police to do their worst.
Coe not only made me laugh darkly in recognition of the state we're in, but he also made me cry and rage at the same time. His unfolding of the personal tragedy of his protagonist through the grinding destruction of the NHS and how it affects real lives is one of the most moving things I've read. These are the people who'll be in the 'mob' protesting when they realise that none of the political parties will defend them. These are the people for whom the issues are of life and death while the fiddlers burn down the town in their insatiable hunger for more, more, even more moolah.
And what happened to the far left forces who were supposed to have built a powerful alternative by now? An honest movement that would have trounced the Business Party at the polls and maybe led us into a world where we produce for need not greed? Well, during my sojourn in their ranks organising the press for the Socialist Alliance and Stop The War Coalition, I watched them creaming themselves at the first sight of fame in the public eye. As one prominent SWP member told me when I objected to the destructive swathe left by one crass opportunistic, nepotistic and exploitative leader, now trying to kick-start his media career via his breakaway RCP-style sect, 'Self-interest and ego will always play a part. So what?'
Clegg, Cameron and Brown, differentiated only by the colour of their ties, declare in an anti-Spartacus trope, "I am Tony Blair!" "No, I am Tony Blair!" "No, I am Tony Blair… and so is my best friend!"
A carve up indeed. More gravy?
Posted by Madam Miaow at 4/26/2010 04:43:00 pm
Labels: book review, culture, Frank Field, Jonathan Coe, Orwell Prize, politics, review
VenerableSage said...
Bravissomo. I can hear Honest Sid's inimitable gravelly crackle in my mind's ear right now ...
Views from the Auld Sod said...
What a Carve up Indeed! Finally Anna, someone who agrees with me about Frank Field; I switch channel if he comes on the telly or wireless!!
Great article. And of course you're right about how the Left have cocked up a golden opportunity to build a real opposition. Nice quote from an unnamed SWP "star" at the end, btw!
Brilliant article. Just the right balance of analysis and justifiable anger.
Your spot on about Frank Field by the way. He was an arch witch hunter in the Labour Party back in the 80's. Looking back it's now clear that the witch hunt against the left in the Labour Party was explicitly aimed at locking out any non-business point of view from mainstream politics. That doesn't mean those view points have gone away of course but it does mean that people who don't think the free market is the best thing since sliced pan are disenfranchised. The frustration is still there but now it has no democratic out let what so ever, not even in the stunted form common to bourgeois democracy.
I've been canvassing in a number of different working class areas around London for TUSC and the simmering frustration on the estates is palpable. Not all of it is directed against the bankers either. There is no doubt in my mind there will be an explosion in this country but unless we on the left build a positive alternative I very much fear the direction such an out burst could go in.
As to that I think your being a bit unfair to the rest of us on the far Left who aren't in the SWP. We're not all like them and often we're the ones who get it in the neck from them the worst. For example in TUSC they are up to the same old tricks you would be familiar with in the Socialist Alliance. Good 'ol SWP, they learn nothing and forget nothing.
Madam Miaow said...
Neil and Auld Sod, I'm amazed at how Field has managed to rebrand himself as a credible elder statesman of the Labour party. Neil, that's interesting about his role in 80's Labour.
I think we're all worried about where anger will be deflected. That's why Brown should have stood his ground with Bigotgate. After his grovelling he hasn't pleased anyone except for the right who are going to slaughter Labour.
Neil, I'm afraid there were plenty of non-SWPers in the SA who knew what was happening and turned a blind eye at best, or who at their most repulsive shot the whistle-blower. But, granted, I do know some solid lefties with integrity. It's just that, from what I saw, they they are in a minority. All power to those of you sticking to your principles.
Bristol Red, a wasted opportunity we're unlikely to get back.
"I'm amazed at how Field has managed to rebrand himself as a credible elder statesman of the Labour party."
The joke in Socialist Party is that Frank Field has managed to become a left winger in the Labour Party simply by standing still!
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An interesting week
ROSS GALLABRESE
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If you have not had the opportunity — or, worse yet, not taken advantage of that chance — to attend one of the events put on by the Ohio Valley Music Guild, you've missed being able to relax while enjoying an evening of food, music and camaraderie.
A reminder of that came about 10 days ago when the guild held its annual summer jazz event at the Steubenville Country Club.
The guild works to hold three events each year — a spring presentation, the summer jazz event and a late fall presentation that coincides with its annual meeting.
Headlining the July 26 presentation was the Pittsburgh-based Jenny Wilson Quartet. Wilson is a composer, a vocalist, a flutist and, as she explained during the performance, a rarity in our region — a female jazz pianist. She was joined by her husband, bassist Nathan Wilson, saxophonist Curtis E. Johnson and drummer James Johnson III.
They entertained the 100 or so in attendance with a combination of original music and familiar jazz tunes.
Chairing the event, which was dubbed "Summertime Jazz," was Debbie Elias, a longtime guild member and the organization's first vice president.
It was an evening in keeping with the guild's goal — to support culture, music and theater throughout the region and raise money to provide scholarships to students from around the Tri-State Area who are college-level music majors.
This was not the first time Wilson has appeared at a guild presentation.
Her trio performed during the jazz event held Sept. 17, 2016, at the country club. Sadly, that evening marked the last event for longtime guild supporter Anita Jackson. Jackson, who was serving as the organization's president at the time, died just a few days later, on Sept. 22.
For Jackson, who was employed as the executive director of community relations at the Franciscan University of Steubenville when she died at the age of 77, the music guild marked another opportunity to work with and support organizations throughout the region. Her involvement with organizations like the United Way of Jefferson County and the Ohio Valley Health Center (then known as the Jefferson County Fourth Street Health Center) made a big impact on the lives of countless residents throughout the region.
Another reminder of that came just a few days after the jazz event, on Wednesday, in fact, when the Ambassadors Club of the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce held its annual Burger Bash fundraiser.
About 200 or so area residents took part in the event, which was held in the greenspace at Franciscan Square on University Boulevard. As usual, the evening offered the chance to relax outside while enjoying a mid-summer evening that included games and hot dogs, drinks and, of course, burgers.
There's also a serious side to the bash — it helps to raise money. And it has raised a great deal of money since Jackson played a big role in getting it off the ground.
The focus has changed –at one time the money went to help local charities, but it now is used to provide scholarships. Last year, in fact, the ambassadors, who help to support chamber events and work with chamber members, gave out $6,000 in scholarship money.
Chris Orris of Valley Hospice, the club president, and Nicole Adamski of the Inn at Franciscan Square, who chaired the bash committee, as well as all of the ambassadors who worked to make the bash a success, deserve to be commended for being able to put on a quality event year in and year out, while helping to preserve the legacy of Jackson and, in the process, keep alive the memory of all of the good things she did for the community.
(Gallabrese, a resident of Steubenville, is executive editor of the Herald-Star and The Weirton Daily Times. He is the second vice president of the Ohio Valley Music Guild and first vice president of the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce.)
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"Guide to Community-Based Alternatives for Low-Risk Juvenile Offenders."
Source: (1999) Koch Crime Institute.
With a grant from the State Justice Institute, the Koch Crime Institute launched a two-year research project to identify juvenile justice diversion programs. The final product of this effort is a manual outlining twenty diversion programs such as teen courts, conferencing, and community service. Each program is described in detail to allow study and possible implementation in other areas.