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For crying out loud, stop hating on Miley Cyrus.
This glorious Bank Holiday Monday, I started the day as I usually do, by clicking onto various social networking sites. But instead of feeds being full of how people were going to spend their precious day off, I was met with post-VMA madness, directed specifically at Miley Cyrus.
I've followed Miley's career since the very beginning, thanks to my Peter Pan complex and love for cheesiness in all forms. I watched Hannah Montana. I knew all the words to "Best of Both Worlds". I bought her album "Breakout" on iTunes. I still listen and dance around to "See You Again" and "7 Things".
When she released "Party In The USA" and it became (semi) acceptable to admit to at least finding it catchy, I felt smug in the way fans do.
Hell, I love Miley Cyrus.
The day she cut off her luscious brown locks, I was like "Giiiirl, what have you DONE?!", my reaction similar to when Emma Watson did the same. But hey, I really think Emma works the pixie look, and Miley has kick ass cheekbones and she said it made her feel more true to herself, so who am I to judge?
However, the day she cut off her locks was the day that opinions really started to divide. People seemed to be really pissed that she'd done it, as if in doing so, she was setting a bad example.
Which leads us to the last few months. Miley (previously known as Smiley to close family and friends, doncha know) has admitted to smoking weed because it calms her down. Shock, horror! A child star doing soft-core drugs... oh no - not again! She's already done a half-Britney and cut her hair off... What's to stop her turning into Lindsay Lohan or doing an Amanda and going out in an electric wheelchair with a white blanket over her head?
And the VMAs. After witnessing a myriad of gifs from Buzzfeed articles, I decided to check out this "embarrassing" and "shameful" (shameless?) spectacle for myself on YouTube. To be honest, I was more shocked by the comments than the actual footage.
For anyone who HASN'T been sucked into the Miley-VMA-circle-of-craziness, Miley performs her newest hit "We Can't Stop" in a teddy leotard (which she rips off when she sings "Blurred Lines" with Robin Thicke) and gives the audience an interesting show of grinding and twerking, sticking her tongue out a lot and thrusting with/against a foam finger. It's pretty intense.
The performance is risqué, but the reaction was disgusting. People have deemed her a "whore", someone even saying "I really hope she dies, like, really soon." What the actual hell?!
A common response was "what would her father say... take your daughter home" blah blah blah. People, her father is her MANAGER. I'm pretty darn sure he knew what his daughter was doing. And why was the performance such a surprise anyway? Hasn't anyone SEEN the video to "We Can't Stop"? It's more of the same. The producers of the VMAs knew what they were letting themselves in for. And god knows her dad would have said something. Isn't the whole point of such awards to put on an entertaining show, anyway? Say what you like, but viewers would have at least been entertained...
I don't get what people's problem is. If the girl wants to grind, twerk, cavort in her undies and stick her tongue out suggestively at depressive teddy bears, who cares? We shouldn't be questioning her, but maybe why it bothers US so much. Miley is a display of aggressive feminine sexuality. Are we intimidated by this? Oh please, I do hope this isn't yet another example of patriarchy, telling us that females must be innocent, girly waifs, thus easily controlled and manipulated by all-powerful men. Surely not? Yawn.
Miley Cyrus is 20 years old. She knows what she's doing, and she's above the age of consent. Yes, maybe her actions are more acceptable in the confines of a bedroom, but should her death REALLY be encouraged by people who don't even know her?
And don't even start on the "bad role model" argument. If your daughter/niece/grand daughter/god daughter suddenly starts doing what Miley did on stage in public, maybe, just maybe, it's the parenting which is at fault here. The girl is just having a good time. Men (and woman) pay for worse, for god's sake.
Sure, this isn't a very thorough argument, but I'm just sick of the slut-shaming and abuse Miley is getting. It's her life - she can do whatever the heck she wants. And she's being paid for this... her life could be so much worse. And if I had her bangin' figure and self-confidence, there's no way you could try and stop me twerking in public.
As the girl herself says: "Nobody's perfect, we've all gotta work it..."
YOU KEEP WORKING IT, MILEY.
Labels: consent, Cyrus, Miley, performance, rant, risqué, role model, twerk, VMAs
Sophie Hawker 26 August 2013 at 16:19
As a general point, the way people talk about celebrities in general is what is disgusting, like the death comments! Ok, you might nit agree with everything they do, but we're all entitled to make our own decisions. I'm not sure people would be anywhere near as shocked if she hadn't been in the public eye from such a young age... why can't we accept Disney stars do grow up?
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Multidimensional mass spectrometry-based shotgun lipidomics analysis of vinyl ether diglycerides
Kui Yang, Christopher M. Jenkins, Beverly Dilthey, Richard W. Gross
Center for the Investigation of Membrane Excitability Diseases
Diglycerides play a central role in lipid metabolism and signaling in mammalian cells. Although diacylglycerol molecular species comprise the majority of cellular diglycerides that are commonly measured using a variety of approaches, identification of extremely low abundance vinyl ether diglycerides has remained challenging. In this work, representative molecular species from the three diglyceride subclasses (diacyl, vinyl ether, and alkyl ether diglycerides; hereafter referred to as diradylglycerols) were interrogated by mass spectrometric analysis. Product ion mass spectra of the synthesized diradylglycerols with varied chain lengths and degrees of unsaturation demonstrated diagnostic fragmentation patterns indicative of each subclass. Multidimensional mass spectrometry-based shotgun lipidomics (MDMS-SL) analysis of mouse brain and heart lipid extracts were performed using the identified informative signature product ions. Through an array of tandem mass spectrometric analyses utilizing the orthogonal characteristics of neutral loss scanning and precursor ion scanning, the differential fragmentation of each subclass was exploited for high-yield structural analyses. Although molecular ion mass spectra readily identified diacylglycerol molecular species directly from the hexane fractions of tissue extracts enriched in nonpolar lipids, molecular ion peaks corresponding to ether-linked diglycerides were not observable. The power of MDMS-SL utilizing the tandem mass spectrometric array analysis was demonstrated by identification and profiling of individual molecular species of vinyl ether diglycerides in mouse brain and heart from their undetectable molecular ion peaks during MS1 analysis. Collectively, this technology enabled the identification and profiling of previously inaccessible vinyl ether diglyceride molecular species in mammalian tissues directly from extracts of biologic tissues.
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All the Xperia smartphones offer a similar OmniBalance design but there are a couple of differences across the three ranges. The Xperia M5 has a plastic rear, while the Z5 Compact, Z5 and Z5 Premium all opt for frosted glass and squarer edges. The Xperia XA, XA Ultra, X and X Performance all go down the metal rear path and all four of the newest devices offer 2D curved glass over the front, as well as slightly more rounded edges making them more pleasurable to hold.
Each of the eight devices has a capless Micro-USB port and they are all waterproof and dust proof to IP68 and IP65, apart from the Xperia XA, XA Ultra and Xperia X. The Xperia Z5 Compact, Z5, Z5 Premium, X and X Performance all offer a built-in fingerprint sensor within the oblong side power button. It is worth noting that the Z5 and Z5 Compact in the US don't offer a fingerprint sensor for some strange reason.
The Xperia XA, XA Ultra and Xperia M have a circular side power button instead with no fingerprint recognition, like the previous Xperia Z3 and Z3+ range.
The smallest display sits within the Xperia Z5 Compact at 4.6-inches, while the largest is within the XA Ultra at 6-inches, followed by the Z5 Premium at 5.5-inches. The Z5 has a 5.2-inch display while the other four devices all come with a 5-inch display.
In terms of resolution, the Z5 Premium is the winner of the sharpest, crispest display with its 4K resolution, offering a pixel density of a whopping 806ppi. The lowest resolution sits within the Z5 Compact and Xperia XA, both of which have a 1280 x 720 pixel resolution. As the Z5 Compact is a little smaller it squeezes a few more pixels in per inch than the XA with a pixel density of 319ppi compared to 293ppi.
The Xperia X, X Performance and M5 all have Full HD displays for pixel densities of 441ppi. A Full HD resolution is also on board the Z5 for a pixel density of 423ppi and the XA Ultra for a pixel density of 367ppi. A few of the Xperia handsets also have Sony's Triluminos and X-Reality technologies including the X, X Performance and all three devices in the Z5 family.
The Xperia XA and XA Ultra have the most exciting displays though, even if they aren't the sharpest, because they have an edge-to-edge screen which is stunning.
The Xperia XA has the lowest resolution camera sensor on the rear at 13-megapixels, while the Xperia Z5, Z5 Compact and Z5 Premium have the lowest resolution on the front at 5.1-megapixels.
A 23-megaixel sensor with sensitivity up to ISO 12800, an aperture of f/2.0 and a 24mm wide-angle G lens sits within the Xperia X, X Performance, Z5 Compact, Z5 and Z5 Premium. The Xperia M5 and Xperia XA Ultra have a 21.5-megapixel rear camera.
The Xperia X, X Performance and the M5 all come with a 13-megapixel f/2.0 front-facing camera, with the X and X Performance offering a sensitivity of ISO 6400. These two devices and the XA also all come with a feature called Predictive Hybrid Auto Focus which tracks and predicts moment to ensure moments aren't missed.
The Xperia XA Ultra has the highest resolution front-facing camera at 16-megapixels though. It also offers optical image stabilisation and auto-focus, as well as a Smart Selfie flash.
The fastest and newest chip sits within the Xperia X Performance. It sports the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820, while all three in the Z5 family opt for the slightly older Qualcomm Snapdragon 810. The Xperia X has the Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 on board.
The Xperia XA, XA Ultra and M5 all have MediaTek chips. There is 3GB of RAM on board all of the Xperia handsets, except for the XA that offers just 2GB.
All eight Xperia devices have microSD support for storage expansion. The Xperia Z5 family, X Performance and M5 all come with 32GB of internal memory while the X comes in 32GB and 64GB options and the XA and XA Ultra in 16GB only.
The biggest battery capacity is in the Xperia Z5 Premium at 3430mAh, followed by the Z5 at 2900mAh and then the Z5 Compact, X Performance and XA Ultra, all of which have 2700mAh. The smallest capacity is within the XA at 2300mAh while the X and M5 both sit around the 2600mAh mark.
The Xperia XA, XA Ultra, X and X Performance will all arrive with Android Marshmallow in the Summer. The X Performance doesn't have pricing or availability details as yet, while the XA and X are due to launch in June for £239 and May for £499, respectively. The Xperia XA Ultra will be coming in July but no pricing has been announced as yet.
The Xperia Z5 family and the M5 launched on Android Lollipop but the Z5 family has now been updated to Marshmallow. The software experience should be very similar across all the devices when they are all updated, with all featuring Sony's software overlay on top of Android. Not all the Xperia devices will offer every feature though.
For example, the Xperia X, X Performance and Z5 family will all have PS4 Remote Play while the M5 and XA won't.
So which Sony Xperia smartphone is the right one for you? Well, that depends on what you want from your smartphone as well as where you live. As we mentioned, we currently don't know which regions the X Performance will be heading for, leaving just seven to choose from, three of which - the X, XA and XA Ultra - won't be available till May at the earliest.
The Xperia XA has an interesting display and a metal design, which is also one of the lightest. Its hardware isn't as powerful as its siblings, it is not waterproof and there is no fingerprint sensor however.
The Xperia XA Ultra also offers an interesting display, as well as the largest, and a metal design, although it is one of the heaviest. Again, it isn't as powerful as other Xperia options, nor is it waterproof and a fingerprint sensor is missing here too. It does however, have the best hardware for selfies.
The Xperia X has the metal design and a fingerprint sensor, while also offering powerful cameras on the front and rear. It isn't waterproof though and its battery is a little smaller than others.
The Xperia X Performance, is the most powerful Xperia handset at the moment. It offers the fingerprint sensor, waterproofing, decent front and rear cameras and it has a lovely metal build to boot. It very much a flagship device to rival the Z5.
The Xperia Z5 Compact is the smallest and also one of the lightest of the Xperia devices but is also the thickest. Waterproofing is on board here too, as well as a fingerprint sensor and it has some powerful specs too, even if the front camera is probably not as good as the X, X Performance or M5.
The Xperia Z5 is the slimmest handset, bringing powerful hardware and a big battery capacity, as well as a decent main camera. That fingerprint sensor and waterproofing is present here too.
The Xperia Z5 Premium has the sharpest and largest display. It is the device to buy if you want to use it with a VR headset. The Premium also has powerful hardware and a huge battery, along with waterproofing and a fingerprint sensor.
The Xperia M5 is waterproof and has well-specced front and main cameras, although its hardware is perhaps a little less powerful than others. It also features a plastic rear and ditches the fingerprint sensor but it is likely to be the cheapest of the Xperia devices.
That's the Xperia smartphones in a nutshell. Which one you choose is up to you.


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The challenge as a writer is to take that frustration and find a way to make it meaningful and purposeful, to create an outlet for futility.
"How do you take that anger and make it sacred rage?" Williams said. "How can you make it productive, so people can hear you? Not make it an assault, but keep the conversation going? "That's what it is to be human - to not avert our gaze from difficult situations."
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Submission to the National Disability Insurance Scheme inquiry into accommodation for people with disabilities and the NDIS
MS Australia Level 19 Northpoint Building,
100 Miller St NORTH SYDNEY NSW 2060
T: 02 8413 7977 F: 02 8413 7988 Multiple Sclerosis Australia
ABN 51 008 515 508 www.msaustralia.org.au
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AUSTRALIA
Deidre Mackechnie
MS Australia, in conjunction with its state member organisations, is pleased to provide a submission to the National Disability Insurance Scheme inquiry into accommodation for people with disabilities and the NDIS.
The focus of the comments, suggestions and recommendations provided in this submission is on key areas that will impact on people affected by multiple sclerosis.
The issue of affordable, accessible housing has hit crisis point with many reports from disability organisations estimating levels of unmet demand for housing by people with a disability to be from 45,000 to 100,000 nationally. We need a better understanding of what has brought about this crisis to find effective solutions.
Key recommendations MS Australia recommends:
• A change in focus to equip people with more options to stay at home, through a public education and awareness raising campaign
• The creation of the Time House; a transition housing concept where decisions for future accommodation and care options can be
• Improved sector integration through the establishment of a single accommodation gateway for all jurisdictions
HOUSING CRISIS!!!
Rationing of services
Lack of funds (loss
of job)
Lack of support for early decision-
making Costs of chronic
Lack of recognition of changed circumstances
Lack of planning/not seeking help Family
Family breakdown Separation
& isolation Progression
of disease
Equip people with more options to stay at home
The housing demand pressures set out in the diagram above speak for themselves.
In Australia, we have reached the current state of accommodation supply shortage due to a combination of a lack of funding and some service providers not adequately
adjusting their practice over the years. This has resulted in a lack of alternatives that have not moved very far from institutional-style living arrangements - we have, in some instances, just created smaller, "home-like" institutions.
We need to recognise there is a diversity of need, and that calls for a diversity of solutions. Not all solutions are those that point to the creation of additional housing stock.
There is an urgent need to move people away from thinking they need to move away from home; a change in focus is needed to equip people with more options to stay at home, or, if a move is considered "essential", to move someone together with their entire family network.
Introduction of the NDIS
The introduction of the NDIS enables an opportunity for many more people to remain at home; the scheme offers a disruption to the traditional business models in the disability housing sector.
A public education and awareness raising campaign is needed to help people make the right decision, assisted by carers, family and planners, to answer the question – do I really need to move? The introduction of the NDIS, especially the Information, Linkages and Capacity Building (ILC) Framework, gives participants the capability to access good advice and make better decisions about staying in their own homes with the right supports and modifications.
MS Australia agrees with many other commentators that the accommodation
conversation needs to address the issues that encompass the needs of all people that struggle to find, adapt or access appropriate housing options at all stages of their life and throughout the progress of their disability. The issue of available housing options, including the demand for affordable and accessible housing solutions regardless of age, disability, and home ownership status (homeless/owner/tenant), needs to remain a society-wide issue.
Early decision-making and incremental adjustments
Many people with a chronic degenerative condition such as MS struggle at home with the assistance of a carer or a family member, accessing little or no services. With the introduction of the NDIS, services are now becoming available, but these services may come too late in the disease progression and the intrusion into the household is
resented and sometimes rejected. It is essential that timely planning occurs, the earliest possible interventions are made and incremental adjustments undertaken, rather than waiting until a dramatic change in circumstances or a crisis develops, making a shift in accommodation inevitable.
The need for a preventative and proactive approach
Keeping people at home through a preventative and supportive approach will deliver emotional, social and economic outcomes for individuals and families, ensure the sustainability of the NDIS through cost reductions and, in turn, provide benefits to the wider community. However, it is equally important that where this is no longer possible, access to age appropriate specialised, supported accommodation options are available;
thus reducing the risk of placement in aged care facilities.
Transition housing – introducing the Time House concept
Many people with chronic degenerative illnesses such MS need to access "in between"
housing to adjust to new circumstances and to allow time for decisions to be made.
This need for transition housing often occurs following a hospital visit. If a person with MS cannot immediately return home after hospital because, for example, their home requires modification, they often end up in a nursing home which leads, quite quickly in some cases, to further loss of function and impairment. Once admitted to a nursing home or a residential aged care facility it is then often difficult to maintain restorative care and to meet the cost of returning to an individual's own home.
The creation of "in between" housing, or a "Time House" would ensure time is allowed for:
• Recovery and restorative care without a decrease in function
• Home modifications to be made
• Enhancement of the various service sectors' ability to work together to find appropriate supports for the individual
• Maintenance of physical, social, family and community functions
• Decisions for future accommodation and care options to be considered
Aged care sector programs such as the Geriatric Evaluation and Management (GEM) model of care, the proposed Short Term Restorative Care program and the existing Transition Care Programs, offer possible models upon which the Time House concept could be based.
We know that there are a large number of young people with MS residing in residential aged care facilities. MS Australia continues to lobby hard to prevent young people entering residential aged care facilities permanently, by seeking appropriate interventions at decision points, and to gain reassurances that all young people in residential aged care have been made aware of their NDIS entitlements. Any housing solutions must include options that:
• enable more young people to move out of aged care facilities
• support young people to live at home through the availability of restorative service models
• support young people to access private rentals that could be modified for disability use. This could be achieved through offering financial incentives for landlords to make, or allow, reasonable home modifications needed to enhance accessibility as their disability progresses. This measure will mitigate the need for
people living with disease progression or disability to seek alternative accommodation options and open the rental market to people living with disability who would like to remain living in the community.
Key decision points
For someone with a chronic degenerative condition such as MS, the decision to change their accommodation is often made following a stay in hospital. At this point it is essential that a decision is made that takes into account the impact on the individual and their family. This points to the need for new policy and operating guidelines that mandates the sectors involved in the decision-making to work alongside one another.
Need for sector integration
Housing issues such as lack of access and affordability and the resulting homelessness can be the end product of the lack of integration between the community, disability, health and aged care sectors. Many people have to negotiate many different hurdles to meet the various eligibility requirements in each sector and often must "start from scratch" each time. This is despite the principles that were set by COAG to implement the NDIS, and agreements in the National Disability Strategy, all of which promise greater integration of all mainstream services and programs. This integration is yet to be realised.
Establish a single accommodation gateway
One way to achieve integration would be to establish a single accommodation gateway for all jurisdictions and develop a workforce with a 'can do attitude' to implement housing solutions for people regardless of the individual situation and context. For example an accommodation "one stop shop" should be trialled to identify if this would minimise the variety of queues and the range of eligibility criteria currently in operation.
Require minimum access and adaptability standards in the National Construction Code MS Australia has a well-established position statement on the implementation of
Australia's Liveable Housing Design Guidelines, to require all new and extensively modified housing to meet access and adaptability standards. The implementation of these standards would ensure viable accommodation options for everyone, regardless of age, family needs, disability and disease and resulting disability progression.
Existing building regulations do not require minimum access or universal design
features, despite the low cost of including these features during construction as against the much larger cost of retrofitting.
Minimum access requirements and adaptability standards are defined by the Australian Network for Universal Housing Design, equal to the "silver level" of the Liveable Housing Design Guidelines, that sets standards for parking spaces, doorway widths, adequate space in toilets, bathrooms and kitchens, and reinforced walls to allow for the installation of grab-rails.
The application of these standards would benefit all people with access needs, including older Australians, people with temporary impairments and people with disability.
Regulation is required to ensure an equitable system and to allow incentives to be applied for early adopters. Bonus incentives could apply as higher standards (gold and platinum levels) are implemented.
Consequently, MS Australia supports the Australian Network for Universal Housing Design and Rights and Inclusion Australia proposal to review Australian Standard AS 4299 Adaptable housing (1995) to align with the 2010-2020 National Disability Strategy regarding liveable housing design. This review will hopefully align the Standard with current government policy, advance the commitment in the Strategy to an agreed
"universal design standard" in all new housing by 2020, eliminate any confusion over current guidelines and reduce overall cost to the community.
Reducing transaction costs
For home owners that have had a major life change due to the diagnosis of a serious illness or acquired disability, and are faced with a challenging decision about their home which may no longer be suitable, reducing transaction costs through incentives such as a stamp duty exemption for the purchase of more appropriate, adaptable housing should be considered. The protection of personal wealth acquired is important as in many cases, earnings of one, if not both income earners, may have been diminished or ceased to deal with the health and disability challenges faced. It is important that people are able to make appropriate choices about their housing needs when they can and be able to take some control over this part of their lives at an appropriate time.
Over time, making more appropriate earlier choices will reduce the pressure on the wider system.
For those in similar circumstances making changes to existing dwellings, incentives such as GST exemptions for architects and draftsmen and exemptions from local government planning application costs should be considered.
Rental market incentives
Establishing a variety of products to assist transition from the rental market to home ownership should be considered. These could include such initiatives as:
• novated lease arrangements (that allow people to purchase a house using rent payments to build equity, without being penalised for changing their housing arrangement during that period)
• the creation of financial incentives for the rental market to provide a greater range of accessible options
• encouraging landlords to make accessibility modifications.
The need for policy certainty
As stated earlier, MS Australia recognises that where a preventative and proactive approach is no longer possible, access to age appropriate specialised, supported accommodation options need to be available; thus reducing the risk of placement in
aged care facilities. For innovative housing supply options to emerge, policy certainty for new and existing disability accommodation providers is a key factor.
Policy certainty for potential investors
MS Australia supports the statement made by National Disability Services in their submission to this enquiry regarding certainty for potential investors:
"Establishing housing has a long lead time and more clarity about future regulatory and funding policy is needed now. Only then can developers, planners, housing providers, disability providers, families and banks be positioned to act on opportunities to invest and innovate in housing options that suit people with disability."
An important element of this certainty is ensuring accommodation pricing (through the Specialist Disability Accommodation Pricing and Payments Framework) is sufficient and recognises the need for a variety of models. It must also determine how the processes for the registration and assessment of the quality of housing, the portability of a participant's funds and the long-term viability for accommodation providers will work.
Policy certainty for existing disability service providers
MS Australia supports the following statements made by National Disability Services in their submission to this enquiry regarding certainty for existing providers:
"A key historic investment model has been disability service providers owning housing stock where people in their houses use their support services. Recently, however there has been a push in many jurisdictions to separate support and ownership in housing to increase choice and control over support options. Despite this, the NDIS should avoid creating inflexible rules around this matter as it could result in a considerable loss of investment in housing stock by service providers".
This is the case for the MS organisations around Australia who provide a diverse range of housing options, including long-term high support residential accommodation and planned or crisis residential respite options, thus keeping many people at home and reducing the burden felt by the family and service recipient. They also provide
extensive, specialist services for people in this accommodation, drawing on many years of experience in delivering high quality, disease specific and holistic supports and services for individuals living with MS and other neurological conditions. Transition accommodation is also available, for example, at MS Queensland, which provides medium term accommodation for people with MS who are, for example, waiting for alternative accommodation, home modifications or are out of town visitors attending medical appointments or assessments.
MS Australia supports the statement in the NDS submission that "the Commonwealth can play a key role in facilitating collaboration between all governments (including local governments), developers, planners, housing providers, disability providers, families and banks. These groups need to come together to fully understand and act on
opportunities to invest and innovate in housing for people with disability. There is a need for partnerships to canvas a wide range of approaches for financing such as shared
equity and social investment as well as traditional commercial return and government funded options".
MS Australia supports this approach and agrees that these stakeholders have much to learn from each other given we are not historic partners.
MS demographics
 Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a degenerative neurological condition affecting the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) that affects more than 23,000 people throughout Australia
 It is the most common chronic degenerative neurological condition diagnosed in young adults
 MS is most commonly diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 40
 75% of people diagnosed are women.
 MS varies significantly from person to person. For some people, it is a disease that comes and goes in severity with periods of unpredictable relapse and remission. For others it means a progressive decline over time; with progression of disability over time. For all, it is life changing.
 Symptoms vary between individuals and can come and go; they can include severe pain, walking difficulties, debilitating fatigue, partial blindness and / or thinking and memory problems.
 There is no known cause or cure.
For the purpose of this submission, we have concentrated on the challenges faced by people with multiple sclerosis with physical and or cognitive disabilities within the housing market, regardless of age, and therefore regardless of whether a person with MS will be accessing the NDIS or the aged care system. This is due to the needs of people with MS for continuity of their housing to enable them to remain with their family in the community and maintain the best possible quality of life.
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On balance, Djokovic got off lightly
GEOFFREY BLAINEY
Has this nation previously attracted such intense worldwide attention day after day? Perhaps the only similar occasions in the past half century were such natural disasters as Cyclone Tracy in Darwin in 1974 and the deadliest bushfire seas.
Oddly, the world was fixated by Australia last week partly because of the suspense. The fascination grew because Novak Djokovic had made a futile journey to the far end of the world, whereas if he had flown only from Belgrade to Paris, public interest would quickly have waned.
The surging global pandemic also multiplied the world's audience, because in many nations so many viewers were isolated at home or deprived of outdoor entertainment by official decree. The active worldwide audience must have exceeded one or even two billion people a day.
Central to the crisis was vaccination. Australia in recent months had conducted one of the world's most successful campaigns to vaccinate nearly all its adults and teenagers. In contrast, Serbia sometimes appeared cavalier towards vaccination. Novak Djokovic himself, while not an active crusader, clearly does not believe that vaccination and self-isolation are important. As he spends more time in Monte Carlo than in Serbia and is the equal-richest tennis star in the world (his estimated assets are $300m), he can afford to buy his own isolation. Not that he is ungenerous with money: he and his wife, Jelena, recently bought vital medical equipment for their nation, and in numerous ways he has helped Serbian Orthodox churches – in Melbourne too – as well as aiding European children in need. A week ago, a Serbian commentator proudly said that his nation was far more successful than Romania and Bulgaria in vaccinating its people. But those two nations were among the vaccine laggards of Europe, and so that comparison was irrelevant: it is like boasting that Serbia is superior to Syria in tennis.
In the percentage of its people who are vaccinated, Serbia is well behind western Europe. Serbia's death toll from the pandemic far exceeds ours, and yet it holds less than a third of our population.
Its President presumably knows that we resemble western Europe in our stricter attitude to vaccination, and that therefore we might not welcome the unvaccinated Djokovic, irrespective of whether he is the best tennis player in the world. Possibly the President was not promptly informed that Melbourne has experienced, if my calculations are up to date, half of our nation's deaths from Covid-19 as well as a world-record lockdown of normal social life. We can't even be sure whether Tennis Australia sent Serbia all the visa information it was entitled to possess.
Maybe Serbia was entitled to feel insulted that its most famous citizen was placed in a lacklustre hotel. When it became publicly known that the hotel was also housing long-time refugees and asylum-seekers, and when they shrewdly seized on the presence of Djokovic to publicise their own plight, the resultant global publicity damaged Australia's reputation. The damage continues.
Perhaps Djokovic should have been quickly escorted to a slightly superior detention hotel, especially after the judge in the first legal appeal implied that he deserved sympathetic treatment while awaiting his fate. Of course, the Serbian President's claim that his tennis star was suffering "torture" is the kind of thing you say when the debate is not going your way. Meanwhile, crippling evidence emerged against Djokovic himself.
On BBC television, a sympathetic London journalist, seeing the televised pictures of Djokovic's Melbourne hotel and its residents, made the accusation that the Australian treatment of asylum-seekers was "scandalous". In fact, Australia has an international reputation for accepting refugees. For decades, our annual quota of refugees – in relation to the home population – is usually near the top of the world ladder, though our treatment of them varies.
Likewise, Australia's legal appeal system, in administering justice to illegal refugees and other arrivals, can be generous to the point of calamity; the Iranian-born Muslim who imprisoned and killed innocent citizens in a cafe in the heart of Sydney in 2014 had the liberty to be a terrorist because the courts had given him the benefit of the doubt.
In Serbia today, few people realise that we gave Djokovic unusual privileges. In all Australia last week, he was probably the only questionable migrant allowed to leave his hotel and take outdoor exercises and even practise his profession in the actual tennis stadium. And on his last free day he received a rare privilege, the convening on his behalf of a special sitting of the Federal Court of Australia presided over by Chief Justice James Allsop and two of his fellow judges. They had agreed at short notice to sit on a Sunday, a day when courts rarely open.
There is another reason Serbians have such a sense of outrage today. Probably for the first time in their history they possess a world champion in one of the seven or so major worldwide sports. Most Serbians believe he is the greatest tennis player who has ever lived and that he would earn even more of their adoration if he had been permitted to contest the Australia Open this year. On the other hand, the annual French all-sports award, the Champion of Champions, has been won four times by Serena Williams, Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer and only once by the great Serbian – and he is great.
There seems to be a lingering west European prejudice against Serbians, ever since the Balkans wars of the 1990s, a decade when the boy Djokovic was first handed a soft ball. Like many Australians, I am tempted to criticise aspects of the handling of the Djokovic debacle, but a few simple facts are easily overlooked. The world is trying to manage a unique health crisis but even the highest medical authorities have not agreed on how to block its erratic, zig-zagging path.
Most of the nine Australian political leaders who sit in the so-called national cabinet were relatively new to high office when first they met. And our own trusted system of government – with its overlapping state and federal spheres of responsibility – can be very difficult to operate in a fast-moving crisis.
One final consolation. We can't be sure whether other Grand Slam tennis nations, if in our situation, would have confronted or pacified Djokovic as successfully.
This month, the French sports minister, Roxana Maracineanu, intimated that all gates would be open for players to attend the French Open in May. Some days later, her senior colleagues, perhaps learning a lesson or two from Melbourne, must have challenged her – and this week she announced that players and even spectators will not be allowed to set foot in the Paris tennis stadium without a valid French Covid pass. C'est la vie.
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Roger Federer earned a place in the semifinals of the Paris Masters with a 6/4, 6/3 victory over Kevin Anderson to top the Lleyton Hewitt Group of the round robin.
Despite the loss, Anderson is also through to the last four. The duo won an equal number of two matches, with one loss.
Although they both won four sets and lost two, Federer topped the group with his victory and just one game more than Anderson.
Anderson lost his serve in the opening game of the first serve, marking his first loss of serve in the tournament. However, Federer returned the favour by dropping the second game.
Serving at 3-4, Federer lost the first two points for 0-30, and Anderson lost the opportunity to reach 5-3, as his opponent won four straight points to level.
Anderson lost the second point with a double fault and proceeded to concede the break, enabling Federer to serve out the set 6-4.
In the second set, Federer broke Anderson's serve and maintained the advantage by holding serve for the rest of the match.
At 3-5, Anderson needed to hold but he fell behind 15-30 when a sliced shot by Federer was netted and on the next rally, he faced two match points at 15-40. He saved them by reaching deuce.
However, on the third match-point, Federer returned an Anderson serve with a backhand slice and Anderson netted a forehand to end the match.
The victory kept alive Federer's quest for his 100th title and was considered retaliation for his loss to Anderson in the quarterfinals of the 2018 Wimbledon Championships, that ended in a marathon 2/6, 6/7 (5), 7/5, 6/4, and 13/11.
It was the only time that the South African had defeated Federer in their five career encounters, which started in the 2013 Paris Masters.


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Q: Is there any use for unique_ptr with array? std::unique_ptr has support for arrays, for instance:
std::unique_ptr<int[]> p(new int[10]);

but is it needed? probably it is more convenient to use std::vector or std::array.
Do you find any use for that construct?

A: One additional reason to allow and use std::unique_ptr<T[]>, that hasn't been mentioned in the responses so far: it allows you to forward-declare the array element type.
This is useful when you want to minimize the chained #include statements in  headers (to optimize build performance.)
For instance -

myclass.h:

class ALargeAndComplicatedClassWithLotsOfDependencies;

class MyClass {
   ...
private:
   std::unique_ptr<ALargeAndComplicatedClassWithLotsOfDependencies[]> m_InternalArray;
};

myclass.cpp:

#include "myclass.h"
#include "ALargeAndComplicatedClassWithLotsOfDependencies.h"

// MyClass implementation goes here

With the above code structure, anyone can #include "myclass.h" and use MyClass, without having to include the internal implementation dependencies required by MyClass::m_InternalArray.
If m_InternalArray was instead declared as a std::array<ALargeAndComplicatedClassWithLotsOfDependencies>, or a std::vector<...>, respectively - the result would be attempted usage of an incomplete type, which is a compile-time error.

A: An std::vector can be copied around, while unique_ptr<int[]> allows expressing unique ownership of the array. std::array, on the other hand, requires the size to be determined at compile-time, which may be impossible in some situations.

A: Some people do not have the luxury of using std::vector, even with allocators. Some people need a dynamically sized array, so std::array is out. And some people get their arrays from other code that is known to return an array; and that code isn't going to be rewritten to return a vector or something.
By allowing unique_ptr<T[]>, you service those needs.
In short, you use unique_ptr<T[]> when you need to. When the alternatives simply aren't going to work for you. It's a tool of last resort.

A: Scott Meyers has this to say in Effective Modern C++

The existence of std::unique_ptr for arrays should be of only intellectual interest to you, because std::array,
  std::vector, std::string are virtually always better data structure choices than raw arrays. About the only situation I can conceive of when a std::unique_ptr<T[]> would make sense would be when you're using a C-like API that returns a raw pointer to a heap array that you assume ownership of.

I think that Charles Salvia's answer is relevant though: that std::unique_ptr<T[]> is the only way to initialise an empty array whose size is not known at compile time. What would Scott Meyers have to say about this motivation for using std::unique_ptr<T[]>?

A: *

*You need your structure to contain just a pointer for binary-compatibility reasons.

*You need to interface with an API that returns memory allocated with new[]

*Your firm or project has a general rule against using std::vector, for example, to prevent careless programmers from accidentally introducing copies

*You want to prevent careless programmers from accidentally introducing copies in this instance.

There is a general rule that C++ containers are to be preferred over rolling-your-own with pointers. It is a general rule; it has exceptions. There's more; these are just examples.

A: To answer people thinking you "have to" use vector instead of unique_ptr I have a case in CUDA programming on GPU when you allocate memory in Device you must go for a pointer array (with cudaMalloc).
Then, when retrieving this data in Host, you must go again for a pointer and unique_ptr is fine to handle pointer easily.
The extra cost of converting double* to vector<double> is unnecessary and leads to a loss of perf.

A: They may be the rightest answer possible when you only get to poke a single pointer through an existing API (think window message or threading-related callback parameters) that have some measure of lifetime after being "caught" on the other side of the hatch, but which is unrelated to the calling code:
unique_ptr<byte[]> data = get_some_data();

threadpool->post_work([](void* param) { do_a_thing(unique_ptr<byte[]>((byte*)param)); },
                      data.release());

We all want things to be nice for us. C++ is for the other times.

A: unique_ptr<char[]> can be used where you want the performance of C and convenience of C++. Consider you need to operate on millions (ok, billions if you don't trust yet) of strings. Storing each of them in a separate string or vector<char> object would be a disaster for the memory (heap) management routines. Especially if you need to allocate and delete different strings many times.
However, you can allocate a single buffer for storing that many strings. You wouldn't like char* buffer = (char*)malloc(total_size); for obvious reasons (if not obvious, search for "why use smart ptrs"). You would rather like unique_ptr<char[]> buffer(new char[total_size]);
By analogy, the same performance&convenience considerations apply to non-char data (consider millions of vectors/matrices/objects).

A: Contrary to std::vector and std::array, std::unique_ptr can own a NULL pointer.
This comes in handy when working with C APIs that expect either an array or NULL:
void legacy_func(const int *array_or_null);

void some_func() {
    std::unique_ptr<int[]> ptr;
    if (some_condition) {
        ptr.reset(new int[10]);
    }

    legacy_func(ptr.get());
}

A: There are tradeoffs, and you pick the solution which matches what you want. Off the top of my head:
Initial size

*

*vector and unique_ptr<T[]> allow the size to be specified at run-time

*array only allows the size to be specified at compile time

Resizing

*

*array and unique_ptr<T[]> do not allow resizing

*vector does

Storage

*

*vector and unique_ptr<T[]> store the data outside the object (typically on the heap)

*array stores the data directly in the object

Copying

*

*array and vector allow copying

*unique_ptr<T[]> does not allow copying

Swap/move

*

*vector and unique_ptr<T[]> have O(1) time swap and move operations

*array has O(n) time swap and move operations, where n is the number of elements in the array

Pointer/reference/iterator invalidation

*

*array ensures pointers, references and iterators will never be invalidated while the object is live, even on swap()

*unique_ptr<T[]> has no iterators; pointers and references are only invalidated by swap() while the object is live. (After swapping, pointers point into to the array that you swapped with, so they're still "valid" in that sense.)

*vector may invalidate pointers, references and iterators on any reallocation (and provides some guarantees that reallocation can only happen on certain operations).

Compatibility with concepts and algorithms

*

*array and vector are both Containers

*unique_ptr<T[]> is not a Container

I do have to admit, this looks like an opportunity for some refactoring with policy-based design.

A: I can't disagree with the spirit of the accepted answer strongly enough. "A tool of last resort"? Far from it!
The way I see it, one of the strongest features of C++ compared to C and to some other similar languages is the ability to express constraints so that they can be checked at compile time and accidental misuse can be prevented. So when designing a structure, ask yourself what operations it should permit. All the other uses should be forbidden, and it's best if such restrictions can be implemented statically (at compile time) so that misuse results in a compilation failure.
So when one needs an array, the answers to the following questions specify its behavior:
1. Is its size a) dynamic at runtime, or b) static, but only known at runtime, or c) static and known at compile time?
2. Can the array be allocated on the stack or not?
And based on the answers, this is what I see as the best data structure for such an array:
       Dynamic     |   Runtime static   |         Static
Stack std::vector      unique_ptr<T[]>          std::array
Heap  std::vector      unique_ptr<T[]>     unique_ptr<std::array>

Yep, I think unique_ptr<std::array> should also be considered, and neither is a tool of last resort. Just think what fits best with your algorithm.
All of these are compatible with plain C APIs via the raw pointer to data array (vector.data() / array.data() / uniquePtr.get()).
P. S. Apart from the above considerations, there's also one of ownership: std::array and std::vector have value semantics (have native support for copying and passing by value), while unique_ptr<T[]> can only be moved (enforces single ownership). Either can be useful in different scenarios. On the contrary, plain static arrays (int[N]) and plain dynamic arrays (new int[10]) offer neither and thus should be avoided if possible - which should be possible in the vast majority of cases. If that wasn't enough, plain dynamic arrays also offer no way to query their size - extra opportunity for memory corruptions and security holes.

A: I have used unique_ptr<char[]> to implement a preallocated memory pools used in a game engine. The idea is to provide preallocated memory pools used instead of dynamic allocations for returning collision requests results and other stuff like particle physics without having to allocate / free memory at each frame. It's pretty convenient for this kind of scenarios where you need memory pools to allocate objects with limited life time (typically one, 2 or 3 frames) that do not require destruction logic (only memory deallocation).

A: In a nutshell: it's by far the most memory-efficient.
A std::string comes with a pointer, a length, and a "short-string-optimization" buffer.  But my situation is I need to store a string that is almost always empty, in a structure that I have hundreds of thousands of.  In C, I would just use char *, and it would be null most of the time.  Which works for C++, too, except that a char * has no destructor, and doesn't know to delete itself.  By contrast, a std::unique_ptr<char[]> will delete itself when it goes out of scope.  An empty std::string takes up 32 bytes, but an empty std::unique_ptr<char[]> takes up 8 bytes, that is, exactly the size of its pointer.
The biggest downside is, every time I want to know the length of the string, I have to call strlen on it.

A: I faced a case where I had to use std::unique_ptr<bool[]>, which was in the HDF5 library (A library for efficient binary data storage, used a lot in science). Some compilers (Visual Studio 2015 in my case) provide compression of std::vector<bool> (by using 8 bools in every byte), which is a catastrophe for something like HDF5, which doesn't care about that compression. With std::vector<bool>, HDF5 was eventually reading garbage because of that compression.
Guess who was there for the rescue, in a case where std::vector didn't work, and I needed to allocate a dynamic array cleanly? :-)

A: One reason you might use a unique_ptr is if you don't want to pay the runtime cost of value-initializing the array.
std::vector<char> vec(1000000); // allocates AND value-initializes 1000000 chars

std::unique_ptr<char[]> p(new char[1000000]); // allocates storage for 1000000 chars

// C++20 version:
auto p = std::make_unique_for_overwrite<char[]>(1000000);

The std::vector constructor and std::vector::resize() will value-initialize the Ts - but new and std::make_unique_for_overwrite will default-initialize them, which for PODs means doing nothing.
See Value-Initialized Objects in C++11 and std::vector constructor
Note that vector::reserve is not an alternative here: Is accessing the raw pointer after std::vector::reserve safe?
It's the same reason a C programmer might choose malloc over calloc.

A: A common pattern can be found in some Windows Win32 API calls, in which the use of std::unique_ptr<T[]> can come in handy, e.g. when you don't exactly know how big an output buffer should be when calling some Win32 API (that will write some data inside that buffer):
// Buffer dynamically allocated by the caller, and filled by some Win32 API function.
// (Allocation will be made inside the 'while' loop below.)
std::unique_ptr<BYTE[]> buffer;

// Buffer length, in bytes.
// Initialize with some initial length that you expect to succeed at the first API call.
UINT32 bufferLength = /* ... */;

LONG returnCode = ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER;
while (returnCode == ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER)
{
    // Allocate buffer of specified length
    buffer.reset( BYTE[bufferLength] );
    //
    // Or, in C++14, could use make_unique() instead, e.g.
    //
    // buffer = std::make_unique<BYTE[]>(bufferLength);
    //

    //
    // Call some Win32 API.
    //
    // If the size of the buffer (stored in 'bufferLength') is not big enough,
    // the API will return ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER, and the required size
    // in the [in, out] parameter 'bufferLength'.
    // In that case, there will be another try in the next loop iteration
    // (with the allocation of a bigger buffer).
    //
    // Else, we'll exit the while loop body, and there will be either a failure
    // different from ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER, or the call will be successful
    // and the required information will be available in the buffer.
    //
    returnCode = ::SomeApiCall(inParam1, inParam2, inParam3,
                               &bufferLength, // size of output buffer
                               buffer.get(),  // output buffer pointer
                               &outParam1, &outParam2);
}

if (Failed(returnCode))
{
    // Handle failure, or throw exception, etc.
    ...
}

// All right!
// Do some processing with the returned information...
...

A: If you need a dynamic array of objects that are not copy-constructible, then a smart pointer to an array is the way to go. For example, what if you need an array of atomics.

A: tl;dr: It's a poor man's std::dynarray.
Let's think of an std::unique_ptr<T[]> as a container. While, indeed, it is crippled by the lack of a size field, and not being directly usable as a container, it occupies a point in the "parameter space" of containers available with the standard library which is shared by no other, proper, container - not even when you add Boost to the mix.
If you'll check out my comparison of widely-available vector-like/contiguous containers, and look for the same features as those of std::unique_ptr:

*

*Allocation on the Heap

*Capacity not fixed at compile time

*Capacity cannot be altered after construction (without clearing the container altogether)

You'll see that no other container offers all these, except std::dynarray; but that's not actually in the standard library - it was supposed to go into C++14, but ended up being rejected.
And I'm not merely speculating. Even here on SO, this is how things were described occasionally; see @KerrekSB's answer from 2013 to this question.


text:
The March Violets — британская рок-группа, образовавшася в 1981 году в Лидсе, Йоркшир, Англия, и исполнявшая готик-рок, первое время — утяжелённый, во многом созвучный творчеству другой лидской группы, The Sisters of Mercy (из «тени» которых, согласно Allmusic, они так выйти и не сумели), впоследствии (после смены вокалисток) — более мейнстримовский, отмеченный разнообразными поп-влияниями. Семь синглов The March Violets входили в UK Indie Chart; «Deep» в 1985 году возглавил списки. Альбом Natural History (1984) поднялся здесь до #3.

История группы
Участники первого состава The March Violets познакомились будучи студентами Лидского университета в 1981 году. Ядро коллектива составили Том Эштон () и Лоренс Эллиот (), гитарист и бас-гитарист, соответственно; вокальные партии исполняли Саймон Денбай () и Рози Гарланд (), а партии ударных — драм-машина, которая в те дни была характерной деталью местной рок-сцены: её использовали Sisters of Mercy, The Three Johns, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry.

В 1982 году Эндрю Элдрич, студент того же университета, выпустил дебютный The March Violets EP (с 4 песнями и «Religious as Hell» — в качестве основной) в 1982 году на собственном лейбле Merciful Release. Пластинка, отмеченная сильными панковскими и гаражными влияниями, поднялась до #32 в UK Indie Charts и удостоилась в целом положительных рецензий. Второй сингл, вышедший также на Merciful Release, «Grooving In Green», был лучше записан и спродюсирован; реакция на него в прессе также была положительной. Все отмеили мощное звучание бас-гитариы Эллиота, изобретательную (хоть и внешне однообразную) гитарную работу Эштона (которого часто сравнивали с Джоном Макгиохом), но прежде всего — оригинальный вокальный дуэт массивного, бородатого Саймона Денбая и «загадочной» Гарланд с её высокими завываниями, наполнявшими примитивные аранжировки «ощущением некой тайны».

Рассорившись с Эндрю Элдриджем, The March Violets создали собственный лейбл Rebirth Records. Вышедшие здесь третий и четвёртый синглы — «Crow Baby» (#6 UK Indie Charts) и «Snake Dance» (#2 UK Indie Charts) — ознаменовали творческий пик в истории группы. Два последних инди-релиза, «Walk Into The Sun» и «Deep» The March Violets записали уже без Рози Гарланд, с Клео Мюррей (.Вскоре Саймон Денбай покинул состав и образовал собственную группу The Batfish Boys. Звучание группы стало легче и упрощённее; в попытке избавиться от goth-тега музыканты стали утверждать в интервью, что их влияния — это ZZ Top, Led Zeppelin и The Pretenders; в прессе появились и сравнения с Blondie (обусловленные наблюдениями за Клео-блондинкой). Лучшие ранние работы The March Violets вошли в сборник Natural History (1984).

Новые релизы группы, отмеченные явно коммерческим уклоном, были враждебно встречены как музыкальной прессой, так и фанатами группы. Недовольство последних возросло ещё более после того, как The March Violets, заменив драм-машину «живым» ударником Энди Толсоном ()подписали контракт с мажорным лейблом London Records. Сингл «Turn To The Sky», вышедший на London (но нёсщий на себе всё ещё импринт Rebirth) успеха не имел даже несмотря на то, что вошёл в звуковую дорожку фильма «Нечто замечательное». В 1987 году группа распалась. За год до этого вышел второй сборник Electric Shades (1985); в 1993 году Cleopatra выпустила полную коллекцию лучших треков группы под заголовком Botanic Verses (1993, #3 UK Indie Charts)

После распада
После распада The March Violets Том Эштон выступал сначала с Hard Rain, затем с Clan of Xymox. Он живёт в Атланте, Джорджия, с женой и двумя детьми и занят делами своего нового музыкального проекта The Multiverse.

Лоз Эллиот живёт в Лондоне, где у него свой бизнес. По его словам, Эндрю Толсон «выпал из поля зрения… возможно, вернулся в Канаду». Клео Мюррей в 1993 году пела в Lovecraft, группе, записавшей один сингл для Acid Jazz Records. Позже она открыла свой магазин на Портобелло-роуд, — опять-таки, по утверждению Эллиота.

Рози Гарланд занялась литературой и стала известной поэтессой; она не прекращает музыкальных выступлений — в основном, на кабаре-сцене, под псевдонимом Rosie Lugosi. В Манчестере она известна как «лесбийская вампир-королева»; записывается на Switchflicker Records.

Саймон Денбай после распада The Batfish Boys в 1990 году собрал новый состав D-Rock, который ничем себя не проявил. В 1997 году он поступил на работу техником драм-машины к Sisters of Mercy. В свободное от основной работы время Денбай занимается делами собственного рекорд-лейбла Jazz Wank.

В 2007 году The March Violets воссоединились в своём первом составе и дали один концерт 8 декабря в Лидсе. Концерт был хорошо принят зрителями и группа не исключила возможности проведения дальнейших мероприятий такого рода. В мае 2010 года March Violets выступили в 02 Academy (Излингтон, Лондон); ещё один концерт намечен на ноябрь.

Дискография

Синглы
 «Religious as Hell» (1982, Merciful Release) #32 UK Indie Charts
 «Grooving In Green» (1982, Merciful Release) #14
 «Crow Baby» (1983, Rebirth) #6
 «Snake Dance» (1984, Rebirth) #2
 «Walk In The Sun» (1984, Rebirth) #2
 «Deep» (1985, Rebirth) #1
 «Turn To The Sky» (1986, Rebirth)

Альбомы
 Natural History (1984)
 Electric Shades (1985)
 Botanic Verses (1993) #3 UK Indie Charts
 Trinity EP (2007)

Примечания

Ссылки

Рок-группы Великобритании
Группы готик-рока Великобритании
Исполнители London Records
Музыкальные коллективы, появившиеся в 1981 году
Музыкальные коллективы, распавшиеся в 1987 году


text:
Cavs clogged the lane, opening up Blue Devils' 3-point game
By David Teel
Staff writer |
No college basketball team in the country would have beaten Duke on Saturday night. None.
The Blue Devils' lone statistical flaw this season has been 3-point accuracy, and on those occasions when they shoot well beyond the arc, they are untouchable. That's how sound they are otherwise. That's how gifted the roster is.
Virginia discovered as much Saturday at John Paul Jones Arena in an 81-71 loss to No. 2 Duke. The Blue Devils made 13 of 21 from deep in what was, given the caliber of opponent, their finest performance since opening the season with a 118-84 thumping of Kentucky.
The No. 3 Cavaliers (20-2, 8-2 ACC) were the last team against which anyone would figure to shake a 3-point funk. Virginia began the day first nationally in 3-point defense at 24.7 percent and hadn't allowed more than eight made threes in a game this season.
But Duke, ranked 306th in 3-point shooting at 30.8 percent entering Saturday, made its first five from beyond the arc and seven of its first eight in racing to a 14-point first-half lead. Freshmen RJ Barrett and Cam Reddish did most of the damage, hitting a combined 11 of 19.
Most distressing to Cavaliers coach Tony Bennett, a vast majority of the Blue Devils' 3-point attempts were open, a stark contrast to Virginia's 72-70 setback at Cameron Indoor Stadium three weeks ago, when Duke shot 2 for 14 from beyond the arc.
Here's why the shots were open: Since the Blue Devils (21-2, 9-1) scored 46 points in the paint and penetrated at will against them last month, the Cavaliers were obsessed with clogging the paint Saturday.
"I thought we were a little slow to our closeouts," Bennett said. "We really tried to keep them out of the lane and jam the lane, and we probably overcorrected in terms of that. You've got to read when is (your teammate) OK on the ball and then leave and be there on the catch. I thought there were too many of those where we were staying a little long. But we did jam the lane, so we got that going for us."
Hey, when you get beat by the nation's No. 2 team authoring a benchmark performance, why not show a little gallows humor?
Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski credited his players with noticing, and exploiting, Virginia's defensive tactics.
"I don't think it's anything I did," he said, "but my players felt it. I have good players, so maybe that little (shooting) room they took advantage of it without any kind of coaching. They just did that. Really good players sometimes, not sometimes, they make coaches look pretty good and pretty smart."
Despite Duke's blistering start, Virginia was within 41-37 early in the second half. But Reddish made three 3-pointers in the next two-plus minutes to put Duke back in command.
The Cavaliers' last gasp was at 66-61, but Marques Bolden overpowered Jay Huff in the paint for an easy layup before Zion Williamson spiked a De'Andre Hunter 3-point jumper into the stands. That led to a desperate Ty Jerome heave and shot-clock violation, followed by a Williamson stickback and Tre Jones jumper.
The lead was 12. The outcome was decided.
"There's two people in the world maybe that can make those plays," Bennett said of Williamson's block and overall athleticism, "and they were both in our gym. … Special, special talent. That's a gift, and he's using it."
The other person is LeBron James, who sat courtside Saturday night.
Like James, Williamson will likely be the No. 1 overall selection of the NBA draft. And while much of his talent is unmistakable, there's a subtle unselfishness to his game that is refreshing.
Williamson simply refuses to force things offensively. He didn't score in the second half until the aforementioned stickback with 4:03 remaining, and that was only his second shot of the half.
Still, Williamson finished with 18 points, five assists, five rebounds, three blocked shots and three steals. Pretty darn complete.
And then there's Barrett. If any player might supplant Williamson at the top of the draft, it's him. He torched Virginia for 30 points last month on an array of drives and making only one 3-pointer. Saturday he hit six from deep and scored a game-high 26.
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Moreover, Jones who missed the first Virginia game with a shoulder injury, contributed 13 points, seven assists, six rebounds and two steals.
Kyle Guy and Ty Jerome scored 16 points each for Virginia, but each was scoreless in the opening 15 minutes.
"It was one of my poorer performances in the first 15 minutes of the first half," Guy said. "Lot of uncharacteristic things and unacceptable things for a third-year and captain who's been there and done that."
Any chance the Cavaliers had of overcoming the Blue Devils' shooting vanished with 14 turnovers that helped fuel Duke's 17-0 advantage in fast-break paints. That sloppiness will have to be corrected if Virginia is to rebound on Monday at ACC co-leader North Carolina.
"You can't beat a team like Duke," Bennett said, "especially when they're shooting at that clip … without playing a really sounder, cleaner game."
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