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Rare BMW M5 Pure Metal Silver scratched before owner takes delivery
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Adrian Padeanu
Buying a car is always an occasion. Whether it's brand new or just new to you, taking delivery is exciting, especially if the vehicle in question is a bit more special. That's certainly the case here as not only is this a BMW M5, but it's one of the only 70 cars made during the F10 generation. Only 50 examples of the Pure Metal Silver Edition were earmarked to the United States, and YouTuber Vehicle Virals recently had one shipped to his house.
Rather than driving it back home for more than 20 hours from the BMW dealership where he bought it, he decided to have the car shipped to him. That proved to be an unlucky choice as the car was delivered with some minor damages. Those hadn't been there when he originally inspected the high-performance sedan at the dealership before taking the plunge.
Fully covered in paint protection film (PPF), the rare M5 shows some scrape marks underneath the front bumper it allegedly "gained" while the car was in transit. The transport company has allegedly owned up to the mistake since apparently the damage wasn't there when they picked up the car. The owner has already talked to a few paint shops to find out how much it would cost to have the bumper fully repainted, expenses which would be covered by the transport company.
Another way to go would be by fitting a front spoiler lip that would cover the scratches. It's obviously not the end of the world, but it diminishes the joy of buying a limited-run M5 finished in a lovely BMW Individual color. The owner is already planning some mods, including a titanium exhaust system sourced from his previous car, a Frozen Black M5 F10 he crashed earlier this year.
If you're not familiar with the Pure Metal Silver Edition, it was more than just a fancy paint job as it came with an upgraded twin-turbo, 4.4-liter V8 pushing out an extra 40 hp and 16 lb-ft. The carbon-ceramic brakes were fitted as standard, as were 20-inch forged wheels and a lowered sports suspension bringing the sedan closer to the road by 0.4 inches.
When it was unveiled in 2016 with the "most exclusive paint job," the 600-horsepower M5 special edition with 516 pound-feet (700 Newton-meters) of torque retailed for $130,900. That kind of money bought you a midsize luxury sedan able to hit 60 mph in just 3.9 seconds and max out at 190 mph (305 km/h). You also got a 1/50 badge inside the cabin to denote its exclusivity. Speaking of which, the remaining 20 units were sold in South Africa.
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MEXICO CITY (AP): Pimp My Ride and former Survivor producer Bruce Beresford-Redman was detained Thursday as a suspect in his wife's death days after reporting her missing in the resort city of Cancun, a Mexican official said.
The body of Monica Beresford-Redman was found Thursday in a sewer at the swanky Moon Palace resort where the family was on vacation, according to Bello Rodriguez, the outgoing attorney general for Quintana Roo state, where Cancun is located.
Rodriguez said a security guard at the hotel saw the couple arguing Monday night and said Beresford-Redman tried to hit her.
Beresford-Redman had scratches on his neck and officials were conducting toxicology tests to determine whether he had consumed drugs, Rodriguez said.
Rodriguez left office later Thursday and his successor, Francisco Alor, said he would describe Beresford-Redman as a "person of interest" rather than a suspect, adding that several people in the hotel heard an argument in the couple's room Monday night.
"He's the initial focus of the investigation based on their alleged turbulent relationship," Alor said by phone from the state capital of Chetumal.
The cause of death has not been determined.
Beresford-Redman told police Tuesday that his wife left the hotel to go shopping the previous day and never returned, said an official from the attorney general's office who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to talk to the media about the case.
"They weren't lovey-dovey, at least when I saw them, and they didn't smile a lot," said Ratana Necth, 36, a nanny for a family in the Palos Verdes, California neighbourhood where the Beresford-Redmans and their two children resided. Necth described the couple as nice and said they always seemed "on the go".
Bruce Beresford-Redman was a producer for several episodes of the Emmy-nominated CBS reality show Survivor, including 'The Amazon' and 'Marquesas' seasons, but was not currently working with the programme, according to his profile on IMDb.com.
The Internet Movie Database also names him as the co-creator of Pimp My Ride, a popular MTV car makeover show, and as an executive producer for Crash Course, a driving game show produced by A. Smith and Co. Productions that aired on ABC last summer.
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Acetylated histones at active enhancers and promoters recruit bromo and extra terminal repeats (BET) protein called BRD4. We recently demonstrated that de novo mutations in BRD4 cause a neurodevelopmental disorder called Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CdLS) due to reduced binding of BRD4 to acetylated histones at active enhancers. The majority of neurodevelopmental disorder risk genes including BRD4 and cohesin subunits associate with enhancers, suggesting enhancer dysfunction could be a major cause of neurodevelopmental disorders. However, the mechanisms for a large number of neurodevelopmental cases remain unknown.
Building on our own publications and preliminary data, this project will aim to investigate the effect of de novo sequence variation found in neurodevelopmental disorder patients on gene expression programme and cellular phenotype in neuronal cells.
The project aims to use CRISPR Cas9 to create BRD4 mutations found in CdLS patients in human neuronal precursor cell line and investigate the effect of mutations on the altered gene expression profile in both neuronal precursor cells and differentiated neurons. Furthermore, we will analyse the effect of these mutations on histone acetylation levels at enhancers and genes that show reduced expression due to mutations by quantitative ChIPseq. We will identify the altered morphology of differentiated neurons by imaging the complexity and length of axons and dendrites, measure soma size, and we will also analyse the altered neuronal markers by immunostaining. We will then test if we can reverse the altered gene expression pattern and cellular phenotype by treating mutant cells with epigenetic drugs that increase acetylation levels for example HDAC inhibitors (HDACi) that are already in clinical trial for cancer therapy.
Olley G, Ansari M, Bengani H, Grimes GR, Rhodes J, Kriegsheim A Von, et al. Pradeepa MM and FitzPatrick D. BRD4 is mutated in a Cornelia de Lange-like syndrome and can associate with NIPBL. Nat Genet. 2018;50: 329–332. doi:10.1038/s41588-018-0042-y
Pradeepa MM, Grimes GR, Kumar Y, Olley G, Taylor GCA, Schneider R, et al. Histone H3 globular domain acetylation identifies a new class of enhancers. Nat Genet. 2016;48: 681–686. doi:10.1038/ng.3550
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Q: What resources/methods exist for testing/validation or evaluation of Statistical Methods I'm interested in the process of testing or validating a particular implementation of a statistical method, and what datasets and/or published analysis exist that could be used to do this in practice.
For instance, if I write an algorithm to implement a simple linear regression, I might feed in some numbers and check the result looks good, or I might feed numbers into my code and some other system and compare.  In some cases, people seem to have already done this and then publish the numbers and results which could be defined as reference data.
To start off, the best one I know is the NIST Statistical Reference Datasets page that publishes a wide range of datasets and calculations that covers areas such as Analysis of Variance, Linaear Regression, Markov Chain and Monte Carlo simulation and Non-Linear regression.
Are there any other good / notable ones out there.
Edit: I reworded to make clear that I'm not just looking for open datasets, but I'm interested in datasets and solutions to specific statistical problems that could be used to test an implementation of a technique.

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Three recent incidents of Satanism have occurred and none of them has been given much attention by the media.
The gruesome murder of eleven-year old Edward Werner of New Jersey got the coverage it deserved, but what was clearly underreported was the status of his accused killer. It was widely reported that the accused attended a Catholic school, but it was rarely mentioned that he was attracted to Satanism. The defendant wore shirts with the Satanic symbol 666 on it and ascribed to a theory of God as espoused by the lead singer of the band, Smashing Pumpkins: "I don't care if He exists and if He does, I don't think He cares if I care that He exists."
In a second incident, a member of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) decided to object to animal research at the Catholic institution, Boys Town, by dressing up as Satan and holding forth with a protest on the roof of the Catholic hospital.
Finally, there is the Al Goldstein publication, Screw. The October 6 edition shows a naked man having intercourse with Mother Teresa; the man has a beard, has blood emanating from his side, and is wearing a crucifix and a crown of thorns, with a halo above his head. There is also a picture of Mother Teresa's face superimposed on the naked body of a woman who has her legs spread. And there is a cartoon of Mother Teresa sitting on a toilet.
William Donohue characterized these incidents this way:
"Just as it is a mistake to brand Satanic that which one viscerally rejects, it is also a mistake to retire this word from one's lexicon. If these three cases don't merit the term Satanic, then the word has no meaning.
"What will the Catholic League do about this? Pray."
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California Dreamin' and 30 years of Rock 'n' Roll High School – DVDs of the Week
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California Dreamin' (E1)
Director Cristian Nemescu was a rising star of what has been branded the Romanian New Wave when he and his sound editor were killed in a car wreck near the end of post-production of his first feature. As a tribute to Nemescu, the producer released California Dreamin' as is. The director would likely have tightened the film up some but his dryly hilarious presentation of skewed cultural identity and appropriation, his blithely scathing portrait of bureaucratic impotence and ingrained corruption in post-CeauÅŸescu Romania (circa 1999), and the way he appreciates his characters even as he mercilessly satirizes their schemes and scams fills the film with a generosity of spirit and a richness of detail. Even at a leisurely two-and-a-half hours, there is plenty happening on screen.
Americans confront the new Romania in "California Dreamin'"
"Everyone has their reasons," was the motto of Renoir's Rules of the Game. In Nemescu's miserable little Romanian village, everyone has their agenda. NATO peacekeeping mission commander Captain Jones (Armand Assante in a gruff growl) wants to get his shipment of military equipment to Kosovo. Station manager Doiaru (Razvan Vasilescu), who runs his railroad position like a gangster and pillages every shipment that rolls through, blows off the government orders and sidelines them in a petty show of power and insolence (his reasons are slowly revealed in the flashbacks to World War II). His teenage daughter just wants to get out of the village and sees the arrival of the Americans as, if not her ticket out, at least a diversion for a while. The factory workers just want to stage their strike for maximum effect and find themselves stymied by Doiaru and overshadowed by the Americans. And the Mayor sees the captive audience as an unprecedented opportunity to promote his town and its absurd effort to transform into a high-concept tourist destination (complete with a copy of the Eiffel Tower and a Texas-themed hotel).
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CCS Gas technology Subsea
How we study the effects of CO2 impurities in the Lab?
by Sintef
Guest bloggers: Dr. Michael Hentscher, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences and Dr. Svenja Waldmann, TNO
The researchers take part in the IMPACTS project: IMPACTS is a collaborative project co-funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme. IMPACTS is run by SINTEF Energy Research. Find out more about IMPACTS.
The first question we have to answer: What does geochemical influence during storage of impure CO2 mean? The geochemical influence describes chemical reactions of the gas injected in the storage formation and the dissolution of the reaction products into the water phase. This results in increasing water acidity, which furher enhances mineral dissolution reactions? Consequently the formation water chemistry changes over time and additional minerals may precipitate.
Schematic configuration of a batch reactor with a deformable reaction cell fitted in a pressure bomb and encased by pressurized water. a) deformable reaction cell, b) water pressure inlet and connection to high pressure pump, c) batch reactor (pressure bomb), d) Thermocouple, e) reaction cell outlet to sample valve, f) furnace, heater
The mineral dissolution and precipitation reactions are important processes, which may have an influence on the storage conditions, i.e. changes in porosity and permeability of the reservoir rock. The dissolution of minerals during CO2-discharge is a favored process because it increases the pore volume and therefore it may have a positive influence on the permeability. Due to these mineral dissolution reactions, cations like Ca, Mg, Fe, and Mn may be concentrated in the water and can precipitate in form of carbonates. Carbonate precipitation is the safest option to store CO2 on the long-term.
The geochemical influence of impurities, like SOx, NOx, O2, and H2 in the CO2 stream on water-rock interactions is questionable. Possible processes are the acceleration of mineral dissolution as well the decrease of permeability due to mineral precipitation. Especially, impurities that dissolve and react with the formation water, like CO2 to carbonic acids. Such Impurities are for example SO2 and NO2, which react with water and form acids that are stronger than carbonic acids.
Experiments are useful tools to investigate the influence of impurities under controlled reservoir conditions. In the IMPACTS project, we use batch reactors that are put under high temperature and pressure conditions covering the reservoir situation.
The figure shows a schematic configuration of a batch reactor with a deformable reaction cell fitted in a pressure bomb and encased by pressurized water. The enclosed reaction cell is loaded with the mineral or rock sample, a synthetic brine and the investigated gas mixture. Temperature and pressure of the storage formation is adjusted by heating of the batch reactor and by pressurization of the reaction cell surrounded by water. The water pressure compresses the reaction cell so that the same pressure is attained in the cell.
The experimental design allows fluid sampling from the reaction cell during the experimental run-time. However, the number of samples is restricted to the volume of the reaction cell, because the cell should not be more compressed than to 40% of its original volume.
The analysis of the water samples, the comparison the recovered mineral or rock sample before and after reaction enable us to draw conclusions about the geochemical impacts of impurities. It should be kept in mind that only short time reactions can be analyzed, which are of such character that they can be attained during the experiment. In addition, these experiments have to be repeated with and without impurities to distinguish the related effects from the impurities on the geochemical impact of CO2.
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A custom wardrobe has the power to make any man feel like a champion. Apply that power to someone with as much passion and talent as James Wisniewski, and you get pure confidence. Wisniewski recently took an afternoon away from the ice to join our team for a photo shoot featuring his Astor & Black custom gear.
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James Wisniewski was born in Canton, Michigan, on February 21,1984. The youngest child and only son of Jim and Sharon, James got along well with his two older sisters, Nikki and Richelle, and was often compelled to seek attention. Skating at the local rinks and on the lakes of Canton did just the trick. People started to notice the tough newcomer on the ice. Over the years, James generated a cool confidence, which should not be mistaken for arrogance. He's humble and credits his World War II veteran grandfathers for instilling in him the importance of respecting others, while carrying on a strong work ethic. The valuable lessons that James has learned along the way have helped mold him into the man he is today. Yes, he's fallen a time or two, but haven't we all? Focusing on the good becomes the necessity. Underneath the bravado and the highlight-reels of play, James Wisniewski is a quiet champion, who'll fight for a win, fight for what's right, and fight to maintain the honor of the family name. WIZ, as he's commonly referred to now, is making an impression both on and off the ice.


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Subject: Dave Bulmer - Address
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 13 Mar 05 - 02:47 PM
I want to drop Dave Bulmer a note. Where should I address it? No rude replies please!
Subject: RE: Dave Bulmer - Address
From: GUEST,Greycap
Celtic Music,
Harrogate,
N. Yorkshire
It's on an industrial estate and I don't know the actual street. He won't answer, of course.
From: GUEST,MCP
Address, phone, fax and Dave Bulmer's direct line are available on the Musical Traditions site: Mustrad Addresses.
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 05:37 AM
From: GUEST,Chris B (Born Again Scouser)
Oh for fuck's sake.....
The guy runs a business. So did all the people he did business with. Since when did he become the antichrist?
From: GUEST,Andy, Port Erin, Isle Of Man
To Chris B - you really should read the long article about Mr Bulmer and his business practices which appeared in The Observer some years back. If you havent worked him out when you do read it,you will be in something of a minority!
Yeah, yeah, I know. I met the bloke once and didn't like him much. And I feel sorry for Nic Jones, though if he's getting the full range of benefits he's entitled to he may well have an income comparable to what he might have expected from royalties if he'd signed a different deal (with Bill Leader, who originally recorded him)- not that it's any of my (or your) business. But one of the major gripes against Bulmer seems to be that he's sitting on the tapes of lots of folk records from the 60s and 70s - which he presumably paid someone for. Does it really matter that much in the great scheme of things that you can't buy the first Swan Arcade LP anymore?
From: Leadfingers
Chris B - The problem seems to be NOT that we cant buy the first Swan Arcade LP but that artists are being prevented from doing any thing with material they recorded and which Mr Bulmer now owns the reproduction rights to . Or at least , IF he is going to permit them access to what ,in my opinion , is THEIRS they cant make any money out of it !
Well, there's the rub, isn't it? If he does own the rights how did he come by them? I can understand how artists may be frustrated at not having access to their own old recordings but presumably no-one forced any of them to sign their rights away at gunpoint. I would love to be able to buy 'Rout of the Blues' but I missed it first time round and I've managed to live without it.
From: Lancashire Lad
Just to put a spanner in the works
Rout of the Blues has been re-issued. I saw it on line. It must be one of DB's as it was on Leader
LL (who's learnt to keep his head down in the great Dave Bulmer debate)
Probably CDR. Probably no royalties paid. Probably no harm done though.
Debate: who's the biggest shit on the folk scene, Dave Bulmer of Celtic Music or Ian A. Anderson of Folk Roots?
From: treewind
if he does own the rights how did he come by them
In the case of Leader and at least one other label, by buying bankrupt stock from the receiver. His legal entitlement to the rights is not in question.
Hasn't this all been gone through enough times already?
From: dick greenhaus
Yes,Rout of the Blues is a CDR. No, there will be no royalties paid until a copy is sold. A while back, I asked anyone who's been stiffed by Celtic Music to notify me, and I'd make good on royalty payments--so far, no applicants.
And yes, CAMSCO Music carries all of Celtic Music's releases. Including the Leader label, Dambuster label and a bunch of others.
Dick,
Thanks for that. I may well be in touch.
From: GUEST,George.
If as Dick Greenhaus says, nobody want's to buy The Rout of the Blues, then the English folk scene really has hit an all time low.
If the Dransfields can't sell, then IMHO there is little chance
for anyrhing else the odiuos Bulmer might hold.
From: pavane
Perhaps the boycott is working
Dave Bulmer is just a subject the begrudgers love to whine about in order to be accepted by their peer group. It is an unwritten rule of the contemporary English neo-folk scene that one must have the Folk Roots version of the anti-Bulmer rap down, if one is to be accepted down at the folk club.
The rest of the world music community be damned, of course. By now, everyone should know that only England's opinions matter...
From: manitas_at_work
It's got nothing to do with England's opinions. It's a beef that many people on the folk scene have with Dave Bulmer. If he is selling CDs and not passing on royalties they have a right to whinge, in fact thay have a right to whinge anyway - in this case they have a reason to whinge.
But why pick on England, anyway? A look at Google will reveal he has upset Scots and Irish as well.
From: GUEST,Burner
So how many of you sainted contribituters have NEVER coppied a CD or tape or LP? Let them without sin cast the first stone. Just about any one who deals in folk music recordings, work with Messers Celtic Music/ D.Bulmer, big name artists and agences will sell them any amount of material. As mentioned, above, and in other threads on this subject, the main thrusts for the vitrole comes from two "Folk personalaties", who's empire building egoes were dented when encountering Mr Bulmer.
Bulmer doesn't pay royalties, because he isn't required by law to pay them. When you buy the rights to the music, that means the rights to the royalties.
The demonization of Bulmer is done by people who believe he should, out of the kindness of his heart, pay the royalties to musicians who signed the rights to their music away decades ago, so no longer have a right to be paid royalties.
If a legal case against him could be won, we'd have seen it done by now. It can't, so people whinge about what a bastard he is.
And BTW, I'm not suggesting he isn't a bastard. I'm just saying the whole demonization of Bulmer has been a tempest in a teapot by musicians who weren't savvy enough to hand onto the rights to their music. Which includes a large segment of the folk scene in Britain. Including some who were even warned off Bulmer in advance, but signed it all over to him anyway.
There is no cure for stupidity, as they say.
Let's keep something straight-- Royalties are due only when a CD is sold . If one wishes to castigate Mr. Bulmer for not having sold the CDs, that's ones's right...but then don't bitch about royalties not being paid. And now that Celtic Music has released some of the long-awaited titles, a boycott is the sure way to make sure that royalties won't be paid.
I'd strongly suggest that artists signing a contract with any publisher insist on a clause that states that if publication stops for a period of X (pick your own X) years, rights revert to the artist.
Don't go confusing the issue with facts there, Dick. You'll take the winds out of the "let's whinge on forever about Bulmer" contingent. Then the only thing they'd have to whinge on forever about is Mike Harding.
From: GUEST,TS in US
Date: 20 Apr 05 - 12:17 AM
I'm in the U.S. and a folk fan, sign me up for a commando raid on Bulmer's archives!! What an unjust guy. How does he sleep at night?
From: English Jon
I have no idea about the right or wrong of any of Mr Bulmers actions,
but he is on the MU blacklist.
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 20 Apr 05 - 01:04 PM
The issue of the ability of a liquidator or trustee in bankruptcy to sell rights free from the obligation to pay the royalties originally contractually provided for has been a bone of contention since the Bankruptcy Act 1907 (and must have been so before in order to have been legislated for in that Act).
From: Ralphie
And it all goes round again
Does this mean that I can legally set up a company, sign up artistes with promises of huge income, record their material, go bankrupt, buy the rights back and then issue the recordings without having to pay any royalties?
Looks like a business opportunity.
Pavanne-
Yes you can--as long as you can find arists that are hungry enough/eager enough/dumb enough to sign such a contract. The 60's were full of such artists.
I missed the BBC prog the other night on the way the Bay City Rollers got ripped off. Did anyone record it?
From: GUEST,Brenda
Dick Greenhaus wrote: "as long as you can find arists that are hungry enough/eager enough/dumb enough to sign such a contract. The 60's were full of such artists."
And so were the '60s, probably. Remind me, how does an artist get to be hungry? And tell me about your own waistline . . .
From: GUEST,Guest
Pavane - of course you can (that is if you are Bulmer with the bent one at your side to draw up ambiguous and verbose contracts). After all Celtic and its derivatives have made it an art form.
Pavane,
Is that what happened? If so, who promised the artists this huge income? Was it the person with whom they originally signed their contracts - before their original labels went bust and Bulmer bought the rights?
At least the tapes still exist and didn't end up in a skip somewhere. As long as that is the case there is always a chance of a fair settlement - though I don't think the hate campaign against Bulmer makes that any more likely. If I was Bulmer I'd probably just say 'Sod it' and bin the lot.
From: Dita
My understanding from Dick Gaughan, who started to remaster some of the Leader/Trailer tapes when he still had a relationship with DB, was that many of the tapes had deteriorated to such an extent, that remastering from a mint record was a better option.
PS However, it strikes me that the first four posts were simply a request for info , which was supplied, until DB appologist, "Guest Chris B" turned it into Celtic Music 7.
Dita,
Don't give me that. You know perfectly well that no-one starts a thread about Bulmer on this forum without having an agenda.
I'm not apologising for anyone and I'm not apologising to anyone - least of all you.
Bulmer may indeed be a crook - but I don't see any reason to take your word for it.
If Dick wants to re-master from mint records tell him I've got a couple. If the legal side gets sorted he's very welcome to drop by. You aren't.
From: Malcolm Douglas
Would you take Dick Gaughan's word for it? (See archives, uk.music.folk).
From: *Laura*
How many times have we done this now!?!?
Too bloody many.
'Guest', how do you know whose word I would or wouldn't take? As it happens, I would take Dick's word about almost anything as I know him to be a person of the highest integrity. However, the link that has been quoted leads to a post in which he takes care to factually record an issue on which he strenuously disagrees with a decision of Bulmer's - and on the information available I agree with Dick on this one. What he doesn't do is use the internet as a kangaroo court or resort to snide, cowardly personal attacks. He's more of a man than that.
Mr. Gaughan is also a man with an anti-Bulmer agenda though, and therein lies the rub.
I seem to recall him once saying that Bulmer's tapes constituted a "national treasure".
I remain unconvinced everyone should place quite that high a value on Bulmer's collection.
While Mr. Gaughan is a fine musician and by all accounts a decent enough lad, he done his share to contribute to the fracas and fuel the hyperbolic chamber on this one, mate.
From: Betsy
Date: 14 Jul 07 - 04:56 AM
To Joe Offer.........
Hiya Joe ,
Who's the Guest defending Bulmer ? I thought we were going to stop the anonymity - especially with an emotive subject like this. How do we know Guest isn't Bulmer or someone close to him.
The guest defending Bulmer posted in April, 2005. Our policy prohibiting anonymous posting began a few months ago, in 2007. It would be unfair to delete anonymous messages posted before the policy was instituted.
-Joe Offer-
I was going to send you a PM but I'll do it publicly .
Many apologies Joe - Silly Me !!!!!! I hadn't noticed the dates.I hope you can picture me biting my fist as I'm typing this .
From: GUEST,Ruaridh.G.
If this subject moves into the philosophical territory of altruism and motivation for one's actions, then that's one thing. On the other hand anyone who would question Dick Gaughan's integrity is obviously so far removed from reality that they disqualify themselves from being taken seriously.
Listen to what Gaughan has to say on the subject - he is not a liar.
Dick Gaughan, has always struck me as somebody who has integrity.
Malcolm Douglas,what is the relevance of the archives you mention.
They contain (or did when I posted to this thread two years ago) a number of discussions on the whole Bulmer question, including relevant and accurate information from Dick Gaughan.
The archive is now administered by Google, and can be searched at http://groups.google.com/group/uk.music.folk/topics.
From: Andy, Port Erin, I-O-M
Happy New Year to everyone posting to the various Bulmer threads. Yet another year has gone by - and we enter another - what will our super business man and his bag carrier be doing this year? Perhaps this could be the year when the two of them finally come face to face with justice. Pipe dream?? Who knows, but I live in hope.
From: GUEST,Seamus
Well I happen to have known Dick Gaughan and dave bulmer and
all I can say is this "tis a great insult to Dick to have his name, and Dave bulmer's, mentioned in the very same breath.
From: GUEST,Ralphie
Yep, another year passes.
Nothing changes.
Ralpie
Hi Ralphie, keep the faith!
How about another angle?
When we record a CD ourselves, we have to pay the MCPS who administer royalties in respect of the copyrights on the music, lyrics and arrangements.
We then place MPCS on the insert to certify that this has been done.
For small-scale recordings, they take our word on how many have been produced, and charge us accordingly at a scale rate.
The pressing companies for proper CDs make returns (to MCPS?) on how many copies they have pressed, so you can't avoid them knowing. It is possible to avoid this by burning CDR's and just not telling them, but this is defrauding the copyright holders.
Copyrights like this obviously CANNOT be avoided by bankrupcy, as the composer of a tune may have no contract with the recording company. Whoever issues the recording is liable for the royalties.
(Logically, therefore, I suppose that copyright on songs and tunes written by the performers, and also their arrangements, should remain with the artists, not with the recording company - is that right? Remembering that Nic Jones wrote some of his tunes,, and arranged almost all of them. Legal advice required here)
Therefore, if one finds CDR (or CD) on sale with (just one) copyright SONG or TUNE and no MCPS logo, there is a legal problem, which MCPS would probably want to investigate. And copyright is claimed on a surprising number of 'traditional' songs and tunes. (Wild Mountain Thyme, for one well known example).
If the CDR DOES have an MPCS logo, then the MCPS would presumably know how many were declared. And the royalties are paid at this point, NOT when the disk is retailed.
We know there are CDR's out there, does anyone have details of any such recordings which may contain copyright songs or tunes?
This Thread Is Closed.


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However, a benefited party doesn't waive her right to enforce the covenant by tolerating violations that don't affect her property. If the covenant is a uniform covenant applying to a neighborhood, violations farther away from her property may have little or no effect on the use and enjoyment of her property.
Her failure to enforce the covenant in that case doesn't indicate that she no longer cares about the covenant but simply that the violation wasn't harmful to her so she didn't have sufficient reason to take action against the violator.
Similarly, a benefited party doesn't waive her right to enforce the covenant against big violations by tolerating small violations. Imagine a residential covenant that prohibited even home-based businesses. If a benefited party tolerated some smaller violations of the covenant, such as a tax preparation service and a daycare business, she wouldn't thereby waive her right to enforce the covenant to prevent a retail store in the future.
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Online Music Distribution in a Post-Napster World
Topics: Digital audio player, MP3, Peer-to-peer Pages: 3 (1022 words) Published: October 23, 2008
1)What trends in networking in the 1990's and early 2000's drove the popularity of Napster? What other technologies contributed to Napster's success?
Before the 1990's, if people want to listen to music, they just visit a music store and pick up a CD and then put it into a stereo equipment. However, the development of MP3 file format gradually changed the way people listen to music. This format lets everyone download music easily and it can be converted to CD as well. But, there is still a problem: searching MP3 files on the internet is maddening and people seldom can find the music they want. Therefore, the birth of Napster solved this problem, creating a virtual music community in which music fans could use the Web as a "swap meet" for music files. More importantly, Napster is easy to use and it's free, which expands the range of audience in age. Bandwidth also contributed to Napster's success. The greater the bandwidth, the faster the file can be transferred. So, Napster really changed the way people listen to music, discover music and interact with music.
2)What were the effects of Napster on the recording industry? In this case, there are three main effects of Napster on the recording industry. The first one is that it caused a large decline in record sales in a short time. According to this case, the spending on recorded music in U.S dropped 4.1% in 2001 and the industry's top 10 albums also sold much less compared to the year before. The second effect is that it cased the sales of CD burners, blank CDs and digital audio players increase and nowadays, most new computers come with CD-RW drives installed, which means people can easily store downloaded music, share music with friends and take it with them anytime as well. The third effect is that it increased the cost of recorded music. Once people can download free music through peer-to-peer software services, they have less incentive to buy original editions, which will make recording...
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Yesterday evening I felt like making something different from the usual stuff I cook. Not that I always cook the same things but I felt more experimental than usual.
I love to improvise with what I have in the fridge and to try unusual combinations like this one: prawns and n'duja, the wonderfully tasty hot salami paste with red chili peppers from Calabria.
In the fridge I had some Black Tiger prawns already de-shelled and de-veined plus a bunch of spring onions and two big organic courgettes. This is the end result of my little experiment: a nice and hot surf & turf dish that I've enjoyed with two glasses of cold Villa Antinori Bianco.
Mixing together ingredients that are not exactly an obvious combination I managed to create a captivating dish that really surprised me. The recipe?
Peel the onion and cut it in rings (not too thick). Fry them in olive oil together with the peeled ad sliced garlic. Once the onion is well cooked (soft and glazy), caramelize it lightly by adding the sugar and let it cook a bit further if it's still too wet.
Remove and discard the ends of the zucchini. Cut the zucchini lengthwise in halves and then slice them not too thinly.
Add the courgette slices to the caramelized onion and let them cook with the lid on the pan until reasonably tender (they have to be still a bit al dente).
Add the Spring onions cut in chunks of about 3-4 cm and the n'duja. Let everything simmer for another minute stirring regularly.
Add the prawns, season with salt and cook further for a maximum of 3 more minutes, stirring from time to time. About one minute before ending the cooking process add the white wine, stir and let it evaporate.
(Recipe in Italian here) I always wanted to try crab cakes "the American way" (I had already tasted a very spicy version in Thailand, simply fantastic) and I was finally able to eat them in the States in 2006 when my Tarot teacher, Christopher Beaver, made them one evening.
I was staying at his place in Telluride, Colorado, for a Tarot course. He loves to cook for his guests so when he said he was going to make them I jumped up and said 'Yessssss!'. They were really good and since then I simply ADORE them.
Too bad I never wrote down his recipe but I've recently come up with one that was inspired by the incredibly many versions that I've found online.
It's tasty, slightly spicy and quite lemony. In short: great!
I've used crab meat in tins since the fresh one - the very best - is not that easy to find here in Holland (what you can buy here is mostly frozen and often too wet and spongy).
For the deep fried version I would definitely cover them with Panko, the flaky Japanese breadcrumbs, to make them crunchier. In this sautéed version I use Panko in the crab cakes mixture. Not too much because they're nicer when the mixture is quite moist but just enough to give it a bit more body and texture.
The pictures have been taken with my mobile phone while I was cooking at a friend's garden dinner party and they're not exactly high quality but I think they give a nice idea of how these crab cakes look like.
Remove the stem and seeds from the chilli peppers. Chop the cleaned chillies but not too finely, it's nice to see the little red chunks inside the crab cakes.
If you use tinned or frozen crab meat, press it well to squeeze out all the excess juice.
Mix the crab meat with the beaten eggs, the chillies, the finely chopped parsley, the Panko breadcrumbs, the thyme leaves, the grated lemon zest, some lime juice, the mayonnaise and some salt and pepper to taste.
Add a bit more Panko if the mixture is too wet but don't make it too firm either by overadding breadcrumbs.
Shape the mixture into eight patties the size of a small hamburger.
Fry the crab cakes in hot olive oil and serve immediately garnished with sliced lime and fresh flat-leaf parsley.
Crab cakes and salad, yum!
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Use potatoes that stay nice and firm. Cut them with a mandoline to ensure very thin slices. You'll have to check from time to time if they are cooked inserting a knife to feel their texture. When they're ready it will be very easy to pierce them.
Gabriella uses about a kilo of shelled mussels but if you use the de-shelled ones one and a half kilo will do perfectly fine (they take more space inside the oven dish). The type of rice is Vialone Nano but Carnaroli is great too.
Use two handsful of grated pecorino romano cheese that will be mixed with a couple of finely chopped garlic cloves and a bunch of flat leaf parsley, also chopped. Some freshly ground black pepper is also nice. Use the mixture of cheese, garlic and parsley twice (two layers, also on top of the mussels) in between layers of other ingredients.
The water you add before putting the dish in the oven has to be salted and very hot (almost boiling). Cover the tiella up to the rim and put in the pre-heated oven at 240°C - 464° F for about 20-25 minutes until well cooked and golden brown.
Tiella with rice, potatoes and mussels from Nicoletta Tavella on Vimeo.
What do you do when you just made pasta with shrimp and zucchini and you cooked far too many shrimps? Well... you can use the extra shrimp for pasta salad the day after, for example.
This is a summer salad because of the green beans and the ripe tomatoes (even though nowadays you can find both 364 days a year...). I used the little pomodori that here in Holland are sold with the dubious commercial name of San Mazzo - dubious because the Dutch clearly do NOT know what mazzo in Italian can mean (bum, bottom, a**), guess they wanted something that sounded like San Marzano, the original name of plum tomatoes, but had no intention of spending a few euros to ask a native speaker if there were any "hidden tricks" in the name they had chosen.
Back to the salad: the fresh note is given by the lime juice. Lots of it. I'm a big lime lover and I tend to overdo it so start with the juice of 1 lime, see if it's not too acid for you and then proceed with the second one if you think you can handle the extra tartness.
The other very Italian taste in this salad besides that of the plum tomatoes is given by the Taggiasche olives from Liguria. They're little, dark purple olives with a very peculiar and unique flavour. Extremely yummy, I find, and if used with moderation - their taste is quite strong - they add a very original note to your dishes.
I usually steam the green beans to keep them nice and al dente.
This salad is much nicer if made a lot in advance so all the flavours can combine properly.
Cook the pasta very al dente in salted boiling water. Drain and rinse immediately under the tap with cold water. Set aside in a big bowl and mix with a little olive oil to avoid sticking.
Slice the spring onions, chop the tomatoes and cut the green beans in two.
Finely chop a lot of flat-leaf parsley and add it to the pasta.
Add the rest of the ingredients to the pasta, season with salt and pepper and mix well.
A bit démodé, if you like (soooo old fashioned), but still one of the classiest Italian comfort foods ever: pasta with courgette, shrimp and cream.
With a hint of basil, to celebrate the summer (and because basil goes so friggin' well with courgettes).
And do not, I repeat, do NOT, use Parmesan cheese. Any Italian would punch you right in the face for doing something like that when pasta with fish or seafood is involved.
If you still decide to do it, at least make sure there's no Italians around.
Fry the finely chopped onion gently in olive oil until soft and golden brown.
Add the sliced courgette and let is cook until soft and slightly browned stirring regularly.
Add the cream and the defrosted shrimps and let everything cook for 2 minutes.
Add some fresh shredded basil leaves, season with some salt and mix everything well.
Cook the pasta very al dente in boiling salted water while making the sauce and drain.
Add the pasta to the sauce, toss gently and serve with a generous sprinkle of freshly ground black pepper.


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The 2023 Valencia City Council election, also the 2023 Valencia municipal election, will be held on Sunday, 28 May 2023, to elect the 12th City Council of the municipality of  Valencia. All 33 seats in the City Council will be up for election. The election will be held simultaneously with regional elections in at least eight autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

Electoral system
The City Council of Valencia (, ) is the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Valencia, composed of the mayor, the government council and the elected plenary assembly. Elections to the local councils in Spain are fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years.

Voting for the local assembly is on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprises all nationals over 18 years of age, registered and residing in the municipality of Valencia and in full enjoyment of their political rights, as well as resident non-national European citizens and those whose country of origin allows Spanish nationals to vote in their own elections by virtue of a treaty. Local councillors are elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes—which includes blank ballots—being applied in each local council. Councillors are allocated to municipal councils based on the following scale:

The mayor is indirectly elected by the plenary assembly. A legal clause requires that mayoral candidates earn the vote of an absolute majority of councillors, or else the candidate of the most-voted party in the assembly shall be automatically appointed to the post. In the event of a tie, the appointee will be determined by lot.

Council composition
The table below shows the composition of the political groups in the City Council at the present time.

Parties and candidates
The electoral law allows for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election are required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors need to secure the signature of a determined amount of the electors registered in the municipality for which they seek election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates. For the case of Valencia, as its population is between 300,001 and 1,000,000, at least 5,000 signatures are required.

Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which will likely contest the election:

Opinion polls
The tables below list opinion polling results in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The "Lead" column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a poll.

Graphical summary

Voting intention estimates
The table below lists weighted voting intention estimates. Refusals are generally excluded from the party vote percentages, while question wording and the treatment of "don't know" responses and those not intending to vote may vary between polling organisations. When available, seat projections determined by the polling organisations are displayed below (or in place of) the percentages in a smaller font; 17 seats are required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Valencia.

Results

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