Rainfall is the amount of the precipitation (rains, hill Etc) expressed in millimeters (mm) depth of the layer of the water that has fallen.
Climatologically normal gathered from 1961-1995 at Ambulong Batangas being the nearest station showed that most number of rainfall occurred between May to December within the month of July having the most number of rainfall at 335.9 mm.
Relative humidity expressed percent, is the ratio of the amount of water vapor in the air to the maximum amount the air can hold at the given temperature.
The average relative humidity I Calaca is 77%. September has the highest recorded relative humidity with 83%. The lowest recorded relative humidity occurred during the month of March with 71%.
Annual average temperature is 27.5°C. May is the warmest month with mean temperature of 29°C. January is the coldest month with a mean temperature of 26°C.
Vapor pressure in Calaca has annual average of 27.7 mbs. The month of April recorded the lowest vapor pressure at 27.1 mbs while the highest recorded vapor pressure is during the month of June with 30.0 mbs.
The mean sea level pressure is the force exerted by the weight of the atmosphere on a unit area at mean sea level. It is the atmospheric pressure at mean sea level.
The average annual mean sea level pressure is1010.1 mbs. The lowest mbs and the highest recorded sea level temperature are 101.7 mbs, which is recorded during the month of January and February.
The direction of prevailing wind is the most frequently observed during period while the average wind speed in the meter per second is the arithmetic average of the observed wind speed.
The prevailing wind during the month of January to April is the Northeast with a recorded speed of 2 mps. It shifted to Southwest in May to September with a speed of 1 mp during the month of May to June and speed of 2 mps from July to September. From October to December the prevailing winds returned to Northeast with a speed of 2mps. The annual average prevailing wind is northeast with 2 mps wind speed.
Generally, Calaca belongs to Type I climate characterized by having two pronounced season: wet, from May to October; and dry, from November to April.
The coastal ecosystem has land capability class moderate soil condition limitations with shallow profile, low fertility, doughtiness, and slight salinity. Those adjacent to streams and rivers have low to medium fertility, susceptible to seasonal overflow, and have a slight soil condition limitation.
The lowland ecosystem has a land capability class of slight soil condition limitation, with deep soil profile having loamy to clayey soil with none to slight flooding hazard and possible severe erosion in some areas.
The upland ecosystems have moderate soil condition limitation with none to slight flooding hazard severe erosion.
The coastal ecosystem has the moderate to high suitability rating for residential and recreational use. Agriculture is not generally advisable in this ecosystem.
The lowland ecosystem is moderately and high suitable for residential, recreational and light industry purposes. Wet diversified crops, pasture tree crops and industrial trees are fairly to moderately suitable in this area.
The upland ecosystem has moderate to high suitability for residential and recreational use. Barangay Bambang, Bisaya, Tamayo and Cahil have poor to moderate suitability for residential and recreational uses. All these Barangays, however, have high suitability for forest use.


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Q: How to reliably tell when finished reading from a socket in Java? We are integrating with an external product that requires us to communicate with it using Java sockets. We've been able to read small responses from the server with no issues, but larger responses are causing some headaches.
I made some changes to the socket handling logic and now we seem to be able to read large responses 90% of the time. It does still fail occasionally. Failure, in this case, means that the Java client stops reading from the socket before the entire response has been read. The client thinks that the read operation is finished, and stops normally - there are no exceptions or timeouts involved.
Here's what the current logic looks like:
StringWriter response = new StringWriter();
PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(response);

char[] buf = new char[4096];
int readChars;
do {
   readChars = responseBufferedReader.read(buf);
   writer.write(buf, 0, readChars);
} while(readChars != -1 && responseBufferedReader.ready());

responseBufferedReader is a BufferedReader wrapped around an InputStreamReader wrapped around the Socket's InputStream.
This code works most of the time, but it seems like checking for readChars != -1 and ready() are not reliable enough to indicate if we've read all of the content from the server. Comparing the number of read characters to the buffer size is also not reliable, since the server seems to be a little slow at sending the response back causing these numbers to differ.
I've tried changing the size of the character buffer; it helped, but it's still not working 100% of the time.
Is there a better and more reliable way to read entirely from a Socket without knowing the size of the expected response? I've been doing some research on SocketChannels, but I'm not sure if there's any benefit to be had by switching.
In case it helps, we're making a single, blocking Socket connection to the server. The Socket is configured for a 100 second timeout

A: You shouldn't be checking whether the BufferedReader is ready() to tell if you're done.  It's possible that bytes are still being read off of the wire and the BufferedReader has nothing for you, but the Socket is not yet closed.
I'm not sure what value the BufferedReader is getting you (well, it might help your performance).  I would expect the following to work better:
StringWriter response = new StringWriter();
PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(response);

char[] buf = new char[4096];
int readChars;
do {
   readChars = inputStreamReader.read(buf);
   writer.write(buf, 0, readChars);
} while(readChars != -1);

I think that you're probably dropping out of the loop when the network is the bottleneck - the loop processes the results fast enough so that the Reader isn't ready yet and you assume that you're done reading (even though you're not).

A: See the answers to the question at Java blocking socket returning incomplete ByteBuffer
If the network breaks the message into packets, you will drop out of your loop before reading all packets.

A: See my answer to this question.  The same answer applies whenever you are reading from a stream, and the only reliable way to know when you're done if EOF doesn't apply (as in this case) is to encode the end-of-message in the protocol somehow -- how you do it is up to you.
Edit:
If you can't modify the protocol to include message boundaries, you might investigate a timeout-based approach.  You have to decide how long to wait before detecting the end of a message... but then you have to handle the case where you get two messages in the same stream.  Can your code handle this situation now?  If so, then your answer is to buffer the input and use that logic to detect record boundaries.

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The aviation industry has always played a major role in California's economy, which leads the nation in economic output associated with air travel. Allan Zaremberg in The Sacramento Bee
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We're taking you down under this week with the poetic photography of Sarah Burton. Now based in Berlin, this photography graduate from New Zealand explores themes such as freedom and loneliness with her work. The exalted movements of her muses in some rather incongruous locations makes us want to drop our digital devices and run wild and free! But first... an interview!
Since I was very young I knew I wanted to do something creative with my life. After finishing high school I didn't know exactly the field I wanted to get into and felt like having an adventure, so left New Zealand and spent six months in Europe working and traveling. Being surrounded by so many different cultures, types of architecture, landscapes and viewing incredibly renowned art works was so exhilarating I wanted to be able to capture it all!
You photograph your subjects in some surprising locations. Tell us more about this! Where did this concept originate? What inspired it?
I'm a fan of slightly heightened reality and escapism and I just love the idea of placing incongruous elements together, like a fabulous dancer next to a block of council flats, to create something new. Plus I am constantly inspired by my environments, I could get inspired by walking down to the corner store, or taking a road trip across the country.
This series of work is simply about freedom. I want to infuse a bit of escapism into everyday life by celebrating unrestrained joy.
I would love to fly. If I'm in a period of life when I feel at ease I have super vivid dreams of soaring through the air, doing somersaults, or simply floating.
Sarah Burton is a photographic artist from New Zealand living in Berlin. She studied Photography at Massey University in Wellington and has been taking photos of the people around her ever since. Commercially, she shoots fashion and weddings and the beauty and timelessness she aims to capture rolls over into her personal work. She favours the rich colour, creamy grain and imperfect nature of film for her art work and hopes to convey the sense of freedom and loneliness felt from growing up alongside nature in such a remote and un-populated set of islands. Sarah has been photographing dancers for many years.


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Background: Undoubtedly regular physical activity has a crucial role in the prevention of many diseases, especially osteoporosis and also increasing mental and physical efficiency. Considering the importance of physical activity education for school age children, this study was performed to determine effect of health education on knowledge, perceptions and practice of the second grade middle schools' girl students in Isfahan related to osteoporosis preventive physical activity. Methodology: This is a quasi-experimental interventional study was conducted in Isfahan (2010). The research population encompasses 130 students that were randomly divided to groups, experimental (n = 66) and control (n = 64). The instruments for data collection were standard health belief model (HBM)-based scale and physical activity questionnaire. The standard scale was completed 3 times (before, immediately and 2 months after education) and physical activity questionnaire was completed 2 times (before and 2 months after education) by students of both groups. After pre-test, 4 educational sessions were performed in an experimental group. Finally, data collected and analysed by SPSS 16 software. Participation of individuals in this research was voluntary and with informed consent. Results: Findings showed that demographic characteristics of studied population in two groups were similar before intervention (P > 0.05). Before intervention, there were no significant differences between the scores of HBM structures in two groups (P> 0.001). After the intervention, it was observed significant differences in the levels of knowledge, perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits, perceived barriers and behaviour between experimental and control groups (P < 0.001). Conclusion: According results, intervention has a positive impact on the pattern of physical activity and it can be concluded that intervention is effective in increasing/improving the knowledge, individual perceptions and practice of the students.
Osteoporosis is a skeletal disorder characterised by low bone mass and micro-architectural deterioration of bone tissue with a consequent increase in bone fragility and vulnerability to fracture.,,,, A gradual reduction of bone density as a result of aging is normal. When a person basically has a low bone mass, or loses bone faster than normal, the risk of developing osteoporosis increases. There are no specific statistics in Iran about the prevalence of osteopenia, osteoporosis and related fractures. However, Larijani in a study of osteoporosis rates in Iran (2005), reported an estimated 7 million of the 70 million people in Iran were at risk for fractures. In addition, the Research Centre for Endocrinology and Metabolism in Tehran University of Medical Sciences reported that in the subgroup of people who are more than 50 years old, 70% of the women and 50% of the men are suffering from osteoporosis or osteopenia. Fortunately, osteoporosis is preventable by the adoption of certain health behaviours which could enhance bone mineral density, especially adequate (high-intensity/impact) weight-bearing physical activity and calcium intake. Although, osteoporosis typically does not occur under 50 years of age, prevention programs must were began by engaging in both adequate weight-bearing physical activity and calcium consumption at early ages of life that the skeleton is growing, especially during childhood and adolescence - the time in the lifespan that bone is most efficiently built. In general, regular physical activity started early in life is the safest and most available way to improve bone strength and reduce the propensity for falling. Early exercise builds greater amounts of bone so that it takes longer to deplete bone later in life. Osteoporosis prevention educational interventions are given with the aim to provide education and to increase osteoporosis-related knowledge to lead to increased osteoporosis preventive behaviours, such as weight-bearing physical activity. In a studies done to assess awareness, attitude and performance of different age and gender groups regarding osteoporosis in Iran and around the world, the study results showed that; people do not have suitable awareness, attitude and performance in this regard.,,, The health belief model (HBM) is presented as the organizing theoretical framework for this research, which is also one of the oldest theories of health behaviour.
Despite the recommendation to provide an education on prevention and training throughout the life span, many programs focus on women who are approaching menopause or who are postmenopausal and therefore considered to be at higher risk for osteoporosis. Thus, despite extensive literature on treatment and diagnosis of osteoporosis, the numbers of studies of programs geared toward primary or secondary prevention are limited, especially those including younger adult women. This paper describes the results of a study that examines whether the application of the HBM can be used effectively to change the perception of middle school girls about their risk for developing osteoporosis and lead to a change in behaviour for prevention of this disease later in life.
Considering the importance of physical activity and its outcomes, especially in adolescents and also considering the important and determinant role of education in improving the level of regular physical activity, the present study aimed at investigating effect of health education based on HBM on the improvement of physical activity aimed at the prevention of osteoporosis in girl students in Isfahan.
A total of 130 grade two students of female middle schools (aged 13–14 years) constituted the research population. After obtaining permission from the Isfahan University of Medical Sciences and presentation to the provincial education, the researcher entered the schools.
To begin with, the needed explanation was provided about the research goals, its advantages and completion of the questionnaires by the respondents. In addition, research subjects were informed about privacy and then those who consented were included in the study. They were aware of the confidentiality and gave their approval to participate in the study. Then, with giving the necessary explanations, the questionnaires were provided to students to be completed. Subsequently, all of the scales were given to subjects for responding. It was also requested that none of the questions be left blank and careful attention had to be provided to the answers. In the end, some gifts were given to each subject in order to appreciate their cooperation. The students were permitted to leave if they were not interested in participating in this study.
School girls in the age range of 13–14 years.
School girls with over 15 years are old, suffering from chronic diseases, difficult diseases, disability and student's reluctance in continuing the participation in the study.
This is an experimental interventional study was conducted in Isfahan (2010). The participants were recruited randomly from these two schools; this means that using attendance list, each student was given a code. Then, the samples were randomly selected from the code. 66 students were enrolled in the intervention group, and 64 students were enrolled in the control group.
Sampling was multistage as: Total number of districts in Isfahan was 5; district 3 was selected by simple random sampling for study. Then, the samples were selected from 2 schools by random sampling.
Data gathering instrument was a 3-part questionnaire; the first part was used to obtain the demographic characteristics of the participants included items on age of parents, level of education and job of parents and the second one was a standard HBM-based questionnaire  that included: Knowledge regarding the importance of physical activity and understanding what is the appropriate level of physical activity? (α = 0.55), perceived susceptibility (for example: My chances of getting osteoporosis are great, because I have an especial body form, I think the probability of osteoporosis is high for me, within the next year I will get osteoporosis), (α = 0.78), perceived severity (I am afraid to even think about osteoporosis, if I get osteoporosis, I will be unable to do many things, if I get osteoporosis, my feeling about myself will be changed) (α = 0.80), perceived benefits of physical activity (physical activity prevents osteoporosis, if I do physical activity, I will have less concern about osteoporosis, when I do physical activity to prevent osteoporosis, I feel better) (α = 0.87), perceived barriers to physical activity (I don't like physical activity) (α = 0.71) (Baheiraei, 2005) and healthy behaviour action for osteoporosis prevention. Physical activity was assessed using the third part of the questionnaire (α = 0.78). 420 min a week, lower than 200 min a week and between 320 and 200 min a week were considered as desirable, undesirable and relatively desirable activity, respectively. The scoring method of the questionnaire in the knowledge part was each correct answer to the knowledge questions was given one point and 'I don't know' or incorrect answer was given zero points.
Perceptions questions including HBM constructs were designed by use of Lickert scale (from 'completely agree' to 'completely disagree') and each answer was given zero to four points: So that 'totally disagree' scored 0, 'disagree' 1, 'I have no idea' 2, 'agree' 3 and 'completely agree' scored 4. The scale scores of knowledge and attitude were calculated out of 100.
The questions of parts of the validity were confirmed by face validity and content validity. Knowledge and perceptions questionnaires were given to 30 students that were similar to the studied students in terms of demographic characteristics and 10 days later, only knowledge questions were given to the same 30 people again. After filling them out, the reliability of knowledge questions was confirmed by r = 0.84. Alpha of perceptions questions was estimated ≤0.7 and confirmed.
After completion of the questionnaire by both groups, the educational program was designed based on pre-test results and structures of HBM. Educational intervention in the experimental group was directly conducted through lecture, collaborative methods combined with questioning and answering, group discussion and brain storming in four sessions (45 min per each session).
HBM is one of the intrapersonal health education models (derived from behaviour science theory) which are administered for nutrition education in various subjects. The philosophy of this model that educators can result in creation or behaviour change include three characteristics; first is that; behaviour has benefits for health, economy, social, family and cultural, second; health educators know the barriers related to choosing behaviours and consider them for planning. Finally; the educational program should induce appropriate susceptibility among people that lack of health behaviour can result in side effects and complications including health hazards, economic, social and family hazards.
HBM constructs (perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits of physical activity and perceived barriers to physical activity) were utilised to formulate the strategies for the education. To evaluate the effectiveness of the educational interventional program, the data related to subjects' knowledge and attitudes (HBM structures) were collected by the same questionnaire immediately and 2 months after the program. This was carried out just 1-time (2 months follow-up) for physical activity. The students were informed that all data obtained were used without personal identifiers and were, therefore, confidential.
After confirming normal distribution of data with the Kolmogorov–Smirnov (k–s) test, to compare the difference of variables in pre- and post-exercise, repeated measured ANOVA, paired and independent sample t-test and Chi-square (with the level of 95% confidence) was used, and P < 0.05 was considered as criterion of statistical significance. SPSS-16, Inc., Chicago, IL, USA was employed to perform the statistical analysis. SPSS 16 software was used to analyse the data executing.
Osteoporosis is a serious public health problem that affects 20 million US women. Health objectives indicate an urgent need and necessity to increase the number of women educated about osteoporosis. The most effective osteoporosis reduction strategies include prevention through health education and health promotion. The results of present study showed that prior to intervention; all elements of HBM (perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits and perceived barriers) were below average in two groups. After intervention, participants in experimental group had significant improvement for behaviour assessed; while students of control group showed a slight change, this supports our hypothesis that a health education program based on HBM can be effective in promoting the adoption of behaviours by adolescent girls to prevent osteoporosis. Studies have identified several basic educational needs in participants, which increase their knowledge and change their intention to promoting preventive behaviours about osteoporosis. Knowledge of individuals about osteoporosis significantly increased after intervention in the experimental group. The findings of this study are consistent with the researches' results of Gammage et al., who carried out on osteoporosis health beliefs and knowledge in college students, Brecher et al., Hazavehei et al., Giti and Nadia  and Sedlak et al. Other findings of the present study indicated that perceived susceptibility, severity, barriers and benefits scores of participants were significantly enhanced after intervention in the experimental group. These results are similar and consistent with the findings of studies conducted by Brecher et al., Hazavehei et al., and Tussing and Chapman-Novakofski. Given the prevalence of osteoporosis and the associated morbidity and mortality, it is important to increase knowledge of osteoporosis and encourage adoption of behaviours that help to prevent this condition, as opposed to waiting until the onset of the disease. The results of the study showed educational intervention focused on osteoporosis prevention is ideally suited to reach these goals of increased knowledge, perceived susceptibility, severity, barriers and benefits and adoption of prevention-oriented behaviour; based on findings about the performance of students related to physical activity, just 2 individuals (28.6%) from all of 66 students in experimental group had a desirable physical activity. Two months after education this reached the 31 cases (86.1%). The increase in performance of students in this study is also consistent with the findings of Giti and Nadia, Hazavehei et al., Winzenberg et al., and Brecher's  researches who reported the change and improvement in behaviour of women. Childhood and adolescence are critical periods for the skeleton. Mechanical load has been shown during this period to be one of the best stimuli to enhance, not only bone mass, but also structural skeletal adaptations, both contributing to bone strength. Exercise prescription also includes a window of opportunity to improve bone strength in the late pre- and early pubertal period.
The results of this study showed that applying constructs of the HBM can be valuable to enhance the effectiveness of an osteoporosis education program, and therefore, with regard to the important role of girls and women in foundation of families and the cost effectiveness of educational programs compared to treatment services, utilizing health education theories and models by the experts in schools is highly recommended to promote public health and well-being. Clearly, health system policy-makers must prepare educational programs based on HBM and there is a vital need to establish a national strategy for integrating preventive measures including lifestyle modification.
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On Monday, New Delhi became an unwitting site for the so-called terror strike in which a car with an Israeli 'corps diplomatique' registration plate was blown up by suspected terrorists.
Even before investigations could begin, allegations flew thick and fast that Iran was responsible for the strike, that the conspiracy was hatched in Teheran. It is after all Tel Aviv's stated position that Teheran's strategic goal is to wipe out Israel off the map. Associating Iran and its putative proxy, the Hezbollah, with the New Delhi 'attack' and the aborted attempt at blowing up another car the same day in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi appear to be cynical means to score populist brownie points at a time when both Israel and the United States have made bellicose postures over Teheran's nuclear capability.
There is no doubt that an extremely sophisticated device was used to set off the explosion by one or more highly trained terrorists who acted in precisely the same way that Israel's famed external intelligence agency, the Mossad, has for years on its soil and elsewhere. For the strike to have taken place in the heart of the national capital not far from 7, Race Course Road, the residence of prime minister Manmohan Singh is another prima facie evidence that Indian intelligence had no clue that terrorists could strike in the vicinity. But that is something that the Indian authorities have to investigate and answer for.
What New Delhi must be cautious about is not to get dragged into a diplomatic imbroglio between two implacable enemies, at least one of whom is militarily prepared to launch a unilateral attack on the other to cause sufficient damage to its capabilities to expand on its nuclear weapons programme.
Iran's denial that it was responsible for Monday's strike in New Delhi and the failed one in Tbilisi was aimed at discrediting Israel that was trying to 'tarnish' its friendly ties with India which has resisted pressure and defied United States and European sanctions against that country to import Iranian oil. It is well nigh impossible to even say with any degree of certainty that Iranian agents targeted the Israeli embassy vehicle because, if it was indeed an act perpetrated by Iranian agents, there is deniability in that act of terror. While security agencies must unravel who was behind the attack, the Indian establishment must be careful that it does not find itself trapped in a diplomatic minefield fraught with untold dangers.


There is usually much reaction among employees when a new system is introduced in an organization. These things are intended to improve performance but sometimes cause considerable controversy amongst the employees and management. This study examines the implementation of LE and it attempts to analyse the reactions of employes in a manufacturing company in South Africa - GKN Sinter Metals (GKN), Cape Town. According to the literature review, the implementation of the LE can play a significant role in improving the company's performance.


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Q: Using Picard-Lindelof to find a solution to $y'(t,y(t))=t+\sin(y(t))$ where $y(2)=1.$ Consider the initial value problem $y'(t,y(t))=t+sin(y(t))$ with initial condition $y(2)=1$. Find the largest interval $\mathcal{I}\subset \mathbb{R}$ containing $t_0=2$ such that the problem has a unique solutions $y$ in $\mathcal{I}$.

I've been trying to apply Picard-Lindelof theorem to this problem and I got that $M=\underset{R}{\sup}y'(t,y(t))=a+2+\sin(b+1)$. Where $R=\{(t,y):|t-2|\leq a, |y-1|\leq b \}$.
I know that the interval is $\mathcal{I}=[2-\varepsilon, 2 + \varepsilon]$ where $\varepsilon = \min(a, b/M)$. I also know that in order for $\mathcal{I}$ to be the largest possible, $a$ must equal $b/M$.
As $M$ depends on $a$, you cannot make $a$ to big without $b/M$ getting too small. This looks like a maximization problem here. I ended up getting a very nasty value for $\varepsilon$. So I believe I am wrong.
Anyone have any hints?


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Steve is coming with us. He's really nice.
What?! This is our romantic evening, just the two of us!


bunkers and greens.Dr Alister Mackenzie, the famous golf architect, joined forces with Harry Shapland Colt in order to create Alwoodley in 1907.Over the years this course has stood the test of time and is now in the best condition it has been for many years. Today only the 10th and 11th greens have been altered from the origional design and even they have been in place for over 70 years!
This was the first course to be designed by Dr. Alister Mackenzie whose other masterpieces include : Augusta National U.S.A. Cypress Point U.S.A. Crystal Downs U.S.A. Royal Melbourne Australia Ranked as one of the top 50 Championship courses in the UK and Ireland.
The Yorkshire Dales National Park is less than 3/4 hour away with its multitude of natural features. Don't miss Malham Cove, the Ribble valley and White Scar caves.
The spa town of Harrogate is 1/2 hour away and will transport you back to the Edwardian era with its parks and architecture.
The city of Leeds is on the doorstep and offers a multitude of sights with historic buildings and modern shopping areas.


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Letters to Lillys.
WHILE this is not a newspaper there are some inky traditions worth sticking to, and one of those is letters from The Reader.
Those who criticise must take the same with good grace, even if it's written in capital letters, using green ink, or in perfectly-scanned rhyming couplets with frequent mention of corgis.
So here's a selection from this week's mailbox, edited for sense and grammar but otherwise untouched. Where you see (...) text has been removed.
The post which got most attention was this one on Andrew Marr recanting his own newspaper super-injunction.
An unrelated Andrew wrote:
"I agree with your article and in no way am I an apologist for Marr. But you wrote: 'If only he kept his trousers on first.' When a man has sex with a woman it is either consensual sex or rape. As you seem to be in no way apportioning any blame to the woman, do I take it you are inferring rape? Just curious. But I have to say, I imagined Marr going around dropping his trousers every time he saw a woman and didn't know what to think."
Ed: For the benefit of lawyers there is no suggestion of rape. Marr's injunction and its effect on his journalistic credibility was the topic of the post, not the morality of his mistress. If she pops her head over the parapet she's fair game. Another day perhaps.
Henry was stirred enough to write at length on Fleet Street Fox's own morality and that of The Other Woman in Marrgate:
"I wish I could make some plea to any conscience or kindness you may have, just so you might think first before trotting out an article like the one you wrote about Andrew Marr... It might be worthwhile looking at your own behaviour.
"How you and others crow over it all, how easy you find it to believe he has no feelings about it. You may live or work with people who think 'he can take it'. Anyone who says that is simply giving a lame excuse for their own cruelty at another's suffering.
"The mother... slept with him, after all, and apparently someone else as well. She happily accepted payments from him... on the pretext that the child was his. Could she not have admitted there was doubt and established paternity sooner? She might have saved the child some pain there...How is Andrew Marr to blame?
"Do you have ANY EVIDENCE AT ALL that he has washed his hands of this child? ... This whole sentence 'reeks' [of] someone who thinks that Marr's feelings are of no consequence whatsoever, in a situation where he is powerless and probably ill-treated. I'm afraid you just don't want to see why what you have written is so venomously cruel. If that is the case, I feel sorry for you. Also, it seems very hypocritical of you, frankly, to take the moral high-ground about 'the interests of the child' in the middle of a piece of writing full of such spite and schadenfreude. But I guess I'm wasting my time telling you this. I think I can imagine the reception this mail will get."
Ed: I refer The Reader to the original post, and thence to a dictionary. The post was neither personally malicious nor born of a desire to harm but, as should be clear, about the ethics of a journalist injuncting the Press.
Nick was more interested in the identity of Marr's mistress:
"Please help your readers work out who Andrew Marr's mistress may be. With only a passing interest in politics, we don't have your comprehensive knowledge. My personal list of suspects is limited: Ann Leslie, Julia Hartley Brewer, the woman who used to be the The Whip on The Sun, Orla Guerin, Catherine Bennett. Am I close?"
Ed: Not even lukewarm.
Ian wanted to point out that after many years as a journalist "I can count on one hand the number of colleagues I know who have not adulterated". He went on to name and shame a few, which I won't repeat here because I don't want to be injuncted, but it included the phrases "respectable erection", "The Westminster Hotel" and "the photographer's missus".
"If you wish to do this in your blog feel free as long as you add [Ian] Hislop is not a newspaperman, he is an ex-schoolmaster and the most powerful argument there is against nepotism. Our trade invented hypocrisy. By the way do put me on your mailing list because like all fellow hypocrites I love a gossip."
Finally we have "R" who asked not to be named but wanted to say:
"I've only recently discovered your blog, and love it. I write because, as a retired journo who worked for many years out of Fleet Street itself (going back to when typewriters were tools of the trade), I know it's important sometimes when someone out there notices and appreciates what one writes.
"I started to read one of your posts, and in no time had gone through all I could find on the blog site. I was initially sceptical that the author was 30-something -- too much wisdom packed into so few years. But having listened to the R4 link that one of the blogs referenced, I'd accept it may be the case.
"That being so, I reckon you will go far. Your style puts you apart."
On a separate note, a personal thank you to my Twitter friend @ReynardCity who kindly spent a lot of time producing some artwork for this site, which for technical reasons to do with Blogger doesn't work. But if fox-based sexy cartoons are your thing, I recommend his website to you.
Foxy out.
Labels: Andrew Marr, Fleet Street, fox, Hislop, injunction, letters
Dear Kate...
YOU'RE the centre of attention on the biggest and best day of your life. Everyone loves you, and the whole world smiles on.
That was my wedding day, a long, dark time ago, and it'll be just the same on yours, except with a RAF flypast and a global audience of billions.
You'll have realised by now there are some traditions you just can't shake. The in-laws want their friends on the guest list, everyone's got an opinion on the honeymoon and there's a table of dodgy types you have to seat as far away from granny as possible.
One of the rules is that those who have survived the institution reminisce about their own nuptials and feed unwanted advice to the happy couple. But the one thing they don't tell you is the most important - that the wedding doesn't matter a damn.
It's once the ring goes on that the hard work starts. A wonderful wedding doesn't mean you don't get a miserable marriage, and when I was the same age Kate is now I was starting a divorce.
While I admit that I don't know the first thing about how to have a happy relationship, I do know exactly how to screw it up. So for what it's worth, here is my twopenn'orth:
1. Marriage is a 50-year project. Don't sweat the small stuff.
2. Always check his pockets; do not let him know you do this.
(Men will not like this advice, but if something bad happens at least you're not surprised. Being surprised in a bad way is, believe me, the worst kind. All men reading this will now ask their partners if they check their pockets/phone/email and she will say "of course not". She is lying. And if she didn't check before, now that you've asked her she will.)
3. You will never be this thin again unless you develop an eating disorder or get divorced. Enjoy and accept it, because you really don't want either of them.
4. Get rid of the dress. You'll never wear it again, whatever anyone says, and it will hang in a wardrobe wrapped in plastic "in case it loses the magic". My groom spilt beer all down mine, something I still haven't forgiven him for, and yet I refused to get it dry-cleaned in case it was "ruined".
5. It's called love-making for a reason. If you stop doing it, you stop feeling it and the whole wall comes tumbling down without that cement to hold it up.
6. Be quick to say sorry, and slow to blame. Be nice to each other.
7. Do your own thing. You've got two feet, so stand on them, and let him stand on his. You're not a doormat or leaning-post and nor is he. You walk side-by-side down that aisle; no-one gives anyone else a piggyback.
8. Never tell a lie, even a white one. You always get found out in the end and it only leads to more lies. Frankly it's too much effort.
9. Love is like a tide. It comes in and goes out, and just because it doesn't always feel like it did on your wedding day doesn't mean it's gone. The best advice I ever heard was this: "Marriage is like a stick and you each hold one end. Sometimes the stick is short and you're close together, and other times it's longer and you can't even see the other person. You just have to hope they're still holding their end of the stick."
9. a) Don't drop the stick.
10. There has never been a Prince of Wales in history who didn't have a mistress, as your future father-in-law so famously said to his first wife. Think about that before you put the ring on.
And lastly, if his brother's more fun than he is...
Labels: Kate Middleton, Prince Harry, Prince William, royal wedding
Well said that man.
IT'S an interesting time to be a journalist, what with the phone-hacking scandal and public debate over the value of the traditional kiss-and-tell.
But political blogger Guido Fawkes - who busted the Marr injunction several years ago - has hit the nail on the head with this post: "Muzzle the Press by protecting the privacy of public figures and public life will be even more dominated by unreported scoundrels."
Labels: Andrew Marr, Guido Fawkes, injunction
The first rule of journalism.
THERE are many cardinal sins in Fleet Street but with his super-injunction Andrew Marr broke the most serious of all - 'never become the story'.
To protect the lovechild he thought was his is fair enough; the story was not in the public interest, merely of interest to the public. That the gag had the knock-on effect of sparing his blushes and keeping him in his £600,000-a-year position as the BBC's top political commentator was, I am sure, a happy coincidence.
But it was the job that ultimately proved his and the injunction's undoing. Had he been any other kind of journo, famous or not, the court order would have held indefinitely. It was his position as a high-profile, impartial interrogator for the publicly-funded state broadcaster which made him, in his own words, "a stinking hypocrite".
It was that smell which meant every hack in the street knew about his affair, the child, and his mistress. Marr got one of the first super-injunctions, which bans anyone from even saying they've been injuncted. When we've been gagged by one of our own it tends to stick in the throat, so word spread out of vengeance as much as a desire for a good gossip.
The injunction also rendered him incapable of doing his job - the one we all pay him for. He was not the type to interview John Terry, fortunately, but whenever he was presented with a politician whose character was in doubt Marr knew - and every journalist watching him knew - that he could not ask the questions he should.
As a result Private Eye and its impish editor Ian Hislop, who quite rightly wanted to report that licence-fee payers' money should not be spent on gagging the Press, went to court. They overturned the 'super' part of the injunction and it became more widely known that Marr had injuncted something.
Next week the Eye was going back to court to try to overturn the rest of the injunction. Aware he was going to have to continue shelling out tens of thousands of pounds to fight what was probably going to be a losing battle, Marr came clean.
He said he felt "uneasy" but it was the right thing to do "at the time" to repair his damaged marriage and protect the child involved.
What he didn't say is that in the meantime he had discovered, via a DNA test, that the child he had been paying maintenance for was not his. His decision to speak now carries the unpleasant reek of a man who has utterly washed his hands of a seven-year-old who for some years will have regarded him as her father. Setting aside the irresponsibility of unprotected sex and of an affair outside marriage, while that child has no legal claim upon him there is surely a degree of consideration she still deserves.
It does seem however that Marr has finally realised it was getting the injunction in the first place which made the story of legitimate public interest. It also caused years of gossip for his wife and mistress to endure, and now all of Fleet Street will get a second bite of the apple where, originally, only one paper had the story. The same is true of every other celebrity gagging order - first there's the nameless details, accompanied by a silhouette, then the internet speculation, the cheeky asides in gossip columns. Eventually, and inevitably, it all comes out.
It always does. It always will. That's another of the rules of journalism. Number four, I think.
So rather than having a month of embarrassment Marr and his nearest and dearest have had years of innuendo, and now will have significantly more. If the identity of the child is revealed she will be known forever as 'Not Andrew Marr's Lovechild'. He has done everyone concerned a massive disservice in trying to hush it up: the only bonus is that now he will be labelled a "jug-eared love-rat" every time he's ever mentioned in print.
That's not to say journalists are not all hypocrites to some extent. We're as flawed as any other humans, but we have to be able to criticise or praise those that deserve it without our personal reputations overshadowing our work, and that means keeping our heads below the parapet and our noses (relatively) clean. A hack can have a fling with a celebrity, indulge in misbehaviour or push the boundaries of privacy so long as a) they don't get caught and b) no-one cares. Once those actions become of public interest the journalist becomes the story, and that makes it impossible to do the job - it's for this reason, and this alone, that Andy Coulson left the Screws of the World and, later, his job as spinmeister to Prime Minister Dishface.
As a result of all this Marr can never question a politician about their private life, however legitimate the enquiry could be. He cannot comment or ask about fatherhood, paternity rights, the legal system, the creeping privacy law no-one in this country has voted for, or even raising a child when arguably his actions will have harmed the one involved in this story.
Andrew Marr should never work as a journalist again. He probably will, because the BBC can be very stupid like that, but his credibility is shot, his impartiality is gone and his reputation is ruined.
If only he'd kept his trousers on, hey?
Jug-eared love rat Andrew Marr.
Labels: Andrew Marr, Andy Coulson, BBC, Dishface, Fleet Street, Hislop, injunction, John Terry, Private Eye
Twitching the burqa.
IF I stood on a street corner shouting my thoughts I'd never know what bits people noticed; at least, not until a policeman spoke to me about it.
But after just one week of writing this blog I can see, via the Blogger statistics, that so far 11,000 different people have read my ramblings. Presumably just to see if I was going to break one or all of the 30-odd celebrity injunctions currently in force, but you're all very welcome just the same.
I can see some people found me by Googling "who is fleet street fox?", others via my Twitter and Facebook pages or other websites (all linked on the right), and that two people came across me by doing a search for "Kate Middleton bland" which at least shows I'm not the only one bored by our future queen.
Readers are generally from the UK, but there are a lot in the US, Canada and Australia. Hundreds of hits have come from Belgium, Russia, Israel, France and Germany. There seems to be quite a lot of interest from the Philippines (Sex tourists? Gap year students?) and this week, for some reason, 30 hits from Poland.
But by far the most interesting fact is the 212 people who have read me in Iran.
How did they find me? Are they among the rich elite who have enough internet access to browse, is there a Jeremy Clarkson fan base in Tehran, or is there that much worldwide interest about which famous actor used the services of Wayne Rooney's hooker?
Perhaps it's the Savak secret police creeping about behind the national firewall. Maybe the mullahs are looking for evidence of how corrupt and wicked the West can be and think a female tabloid hack represents all that is satanic in the world.
But I hope a few of them are reading from behind a burqa. I hope a 30-something divorcee in London bumbling around and jabbering on about silly things does something for them, although heaven knows what it might be.
It's probably the Top Gear fan club. But, whether it is or not, if anyone's reading in Tehran - salam, welcome. Take off the burqa and sit down with the rest of us.
Labels: Fleet Street, fox, injunction, Jeremy Clarkson, Kate Middleton, wayne rooney
Alpha fail.
DAVINA McCall, the shouty ex-junkie TV presenter whose opinion I seek on so many topics, has been talking about her wonderful marriage to Matthew Robertson off Pet Rescue (is that still on?).
She says: "Matthew is very alpha male. For example if I am watching something I like on the telly he might come in, take the remote control and change the channel without even asking. But in a way it is quite manly."
Well, that's odd, because I think it's quite wanky. If Mr Robertson did that to me I'd explain I was in the middle of The Only Way Is Essex, that he hadn't worked since 2001, and that if he didn't like it he could kiss my bum.
But then I've got a brain and from everything I have seen of Davina she has not.
Labels: Davina McCall, Matthew Robertson, The Only Way Is Essex
It's time to put a ferret up them.
WITH another injunction ruling yesterday - this one about "office banter" which led to a newspaper hearing about a high-profile affair - it's surely time for Fleet Street to pull its finger out.
If anyone Googled the publicly-reported facts of the latest case it would not take long to figure out the identities of those involved. They arguably should be named because the married male star managed to get his female co-star sacked after their affair was over. A cad twice over, and how many office flings end the same way?
Despite that three appeal court judges say identities of ill-doers can be kept secret to stop their children being bullied, a precedent which leads in the end to the same protection being afforded to criminals, the corrupt, and all sorts of wrong-uns.
As Lord Justice Ward himself said in his ruling: "To restrict publication simply to save the blushes of the famous could have a wholly undesirable, chilling effect on the necessary ability of publishers to sell their newspapers. We have to enable sales if we want to keep our newspapers. Unduly to fetter their freedom... is to undermine the pre-eminence of the deserved place of the Press as a powerful pillar of democracy."
Fleet Street exists today only as an idea, but if the industry is to have a future it must uphold the principles on which it relies.
All the editors should get together and publish the full list of current injunctions and who's done what to whom. The courts can't send all of us to jail, it just takes a united front and a bit of gumption. Put a ferret up them, as Kelvin would say.
Labels: Fleet Street, injunction, Kelvin
Bring on the machines.
THIS is the week in which, if you believe the Terminator films, machines take over the world.
Tuesday, according to the script, was when the computer network 'Skynet' became sentient and on Thursday it's supposed to launch synchronised nuclear weapon strikes, scorch the sky and send the surviving remnants of humanity scurrying underground.
It won't, of course. All that will happen is the screen will show 'Error 404: humanity was not found' when you try to log in, and play that annoying 'donk' noise which computers use to tell you you're an idiot.
Because Skynet is already with us, in the shape of Microsoft and Apple and 18-month broadband contracts and the grid which only Matt Bourne is able to escape.
My first car was an A-reg Ford Fiesta and if it started making a funny noise my dad could put his head under the bonnet, hit things with a hammer, clean the sparks or squirt some WD40 and it would be fixed. If something goes wrong with my car now it has to go to the garage, be plugged into the wall and the mechanic looks at a computer to tell him which circuit's gone phut.
Computers run our entire lives. Mums conceive with help of an app on their iPhone, babies are born with everything monitored, and it's almost impossible to earn, spend or work without internet access. If a 14th century peasant saw a modern computer he'd swear it was witchcraft, and it pretty much is - it works with a wave of your hand, these days, and none of us understand it. Even the people who invented them seem dumbfounded when they don't do as expected, and let's face it, Arnie's already running California.
And thanks to computers we can do wonderful things. Save lives, bring about a democratic uprising in the Middle East, avoid traffic congestion on the M25. Frankly if Skynet takes over I'd not have much of a problem with it.
Look at it this way: the obesity epidemic would end pretty quick, because the fat would die first. Cancer and AIDS would no longer bother us because no-one would live long enough to get either of them, and hey, relationships would be a lot simpler because the only thing you'd expect of him would be to act as a futile human shield when Arnie's coming after you.
Plus of course there's a chance the trains would run on time and computers could fix themselves. If the price of that is homicidal self-repairing cyborgs going after women with terrible hair in the USA then hell, I'm in.
Arnie: bring it.
Labels: Apple, Arnie, Matt Bourne, Microsoft, Skynet, Terminator
Welcome to the Middle Ages.
SO Kate and Wills' wedding is to be screened live on YouTube - how very 21st century.
Except it is the very definition of "pissing in the wind" when you consider that the Royal Family is so old-fashioned it is only just aware of the invention of the wheel, much less t'internet.
I'm fed up with people saying how modern and lovely the wedding is. It's not. It's about as modern as Midsomer Murders is multi-cultural.
The "we're all in it together, austerity doncherknow" wedding is costing the taxpayer, at the last count, £20m. The wealthy bride has been bred from birth to marry into the upper classes and never lift a finger, and us peasants are expected to gather outside in our smelly masses and be happy for them. I'm not unhappy for them, I just couldn't give much of a toss, and from what I can gather most people feel the same.
Meanwhile the bride, who like the rest of the country barely sets foot in a church except for social occasions, has suddenly had to experience something a Palace spokesman has called "a journey into faith" and be confirmed into the Church of England because hubby will eventually be head of it. Were she a Roman Catholic she'd be banned by law from marrying him at all.
Afterwards there will be some light charity work for her and some undangerous military service for him before they embark on a privileged lifetime of breeding while the nation looks on and checks its calendar.
It must be a boy, of course, even if they do change the laws on primogeniture, which they won't. They've been around for a thousand years despite several really quite good queens and a succession of terrible kings, and there's no way every Commonwealth country's going to sign off on a change to their constitutions within nine months. So a boy it will have to be.
And just to add to the fun the bride will be fully aware that while this was once the one family that would never divorce that horse has rather bolted now, so if in the years to come she's found to be wanting she'll be out on her bum quicker than you can say 'Queen Camilla'. Should that happen there is no way she will ever be allowed to work, bitch about her ex, or see her own children on Christmas Day.
Now if anyone can tell me in what way any of that is modern, I'll be thrilled. Because it sounds to me more like the 14th century than the 21st.
If this was a modern wedding, they'd say "sod it" and get married in Dorking register office. Kate could work, and pay taxes, and have a point to her life beyond procreation. Her religion wouldn't matter: she could be an atheist, or Catholic, and no-one would care. She could even be a Muslim or a Jew, although I imagine both the Daily Wail and Prince Philip would have something to say about that. She could have a child and whether it is a girl or boy it would be equally entitled to grow up and do nothing very much just like its parents.
She also wouldn't need to have the rather pointless coat of arms which has been drawn up for the Middleton family, depicting acorn sprigs and some pointy triangles representing - I'm not kidding - the family's enjoyment of skiing, for the love of Mike.
Well there's nothing I like more than subverting things that aren't intended for plebs like me, so I've made my own coat of arms.
The motto of "file by three, home for tea" is very handy when you've forgotten your deadline. The family name is of course Vulpes, the Latin term for foxy types, the chevron is for victory in battle, apparently, and the colours indicate the family traits of ambition and guile. I couldn't find anything which shows an ability to drink the bar dry, snaffle the receipt and still write beautiful copy the next day, but not for want of trying.
Seeing as I come from a long line of hardworking labourers, I suppose I'm not very modern either. But at least I don't try to pretend otherwise.
Labels: blah, Camilla, fox, Kate Middleton, Prince William, royal wedding
The Fox on BBC R4 Woman's Hour.
Here's the iPlayer link for my radio appearance. The segment on Fleet Street's women starts at 13mins and I'm on at about 22mins: http://bbc.in/dNqIOb
Lawyers agree with The Fox shock.
ON the topic of injunctions here's a grab from today's Daily Wail which says exactly the same as me, only more succinctly:
Oh, put it away.
IT'S hardly surprising that Beyonce Knowles' latest video involves a chorus line of dancers clad in suspenders, and the diva herself wearing little more.
If it weren't for Adele I'd swear it must be impossible for women to sell any records without dressing up like prostitutes. But she seems to have done quite well without thrusting her gusset at fans - perhaps for the sake of my eyesight Cheryl Tweedy might like to do the same?
Labels: Adele, Beyonce, Cheryl Tweedy
Injunct and be damned.
ANOTHER week, another injunction. This time a world-famous actor who employed the services of a £195-a-pop hooker who, as is so often the way with hookers, turned out not only to sell her story but also to have bedded Wayne Rooney.
Now, none of us really give a damn who Mr Actor Man had sex with. The only reason the public are interested in such shenanigans is a prurient and very human fascination with the love lives of the others, just in case they are doing something we're not, or worse, doing it better than us. That's the way of the world and it's not going to change unless someone finds a way to rewrite our DNA or explain the sexual attraction of Jeremy Clarkson.
So why do newspapers, which are rarely safe on the moral high ground, offer up this very common denominator? Well, three reasons. First because news is a business, with shareholders and profit margins like every other industry, and they'll print whatever sells. Sex, crime, gossip, marriage break-ups, and people off the telly are all grist for the mill. If it goes on, it goes in.
Secondly, Fleet Street takes a mischievous approach to the great and the good. If they deserve the pedestal let them climb up and stand on it - but never, under any circumstances, should they feel safe up there. They're going to get the odd poke just to see if they wobble and that's as it should be in a free and fair society.
So if a politician tells us how to live our lives then we get to keep an eye on theirs, too. John Major's ill-fated Back to Basics campaign in the early 1990s would have collapsed a lot sooner - taking his government with it - if we'd known at the time he'd been cheating on his wife with Edwina Currie. Someone who makes the laws and then breaks them should be exposed for it, however minor and yes, former Solicitor General Harriet Harman who chats on her mobile while driving and then has an accident, that does mean you.
Celebrities who supplement their fortunes by selling their privacy to glossy magazines in return for a good write-up and a big cheque will have that family life scrutinised by others too, however much Katie Price hates the idea. An athlete who wants to represent their country and captain the national football team doesn't have to be an angel, John Terry, but most of us expect him to keep his pants up while he's doing it. If an average man gets named in the local paper when he's arrested with a prostitute then so does Hugh Grant, although he got a little more space devoted to his story.
In such ways the Press promotes a pleasing kind of equality - everyone's fair game, and we're all the same kind of fallible idiot, no matter how rich or pretty or clever. There is no 'them and us', there's just 'us'.
The third reason is by far the best. We do it because we can.
Because can you imagine what would happen if we couldn't?
If we stopped poking, and pushing, and prodding at everyone and everything, it would not be long before someone on a pedestal realised that not only could they abuse their position, but more importantly they could get away with it. The rich, the powerful, those with something to hide. I like living in a free country. I don't want that to change.
So how does Mr Actor Man and his wandering willy affect our freedoms? Well, I'll tell you. Newspapers have a finite budget for legal bills. That pot - bigger at some papers than others - goes to pay lawyers, court fees, and settle disputes. The legal firms who take on newspapers often do so on a no-win, no-fee basis to the client and charge very high fees to the paper if they win. The potential cost can be so high that often Editors have to be pragmatic and settle a claim, even one they think they can win, simply so their budgets can live to fight another day. For example I would not be surprised to learn Sienna Miller earns more from writing letters to newspapers than she does from acting.
So if someone famous gets targeted by a newspaper - and the famous are pretty rich to begin with - and they don't fancy being on the front page, they can afford to really go to town. If they want an injunction it's often granted temporarily, blocking publication until a newspaper can prove the story is true and argue the subjects should be named, which can be an expensive and drawn-out process. Then they can have super-injunctions, which bans the subjects from even saying they have been injuncted.
Breaking those injunctions carries the risk of massive fines, jail time, and confiscation of personal property. Of late, lawyers have begun to demand that not only newspapers can be injuncted like this but also the source of the story - so a member of the public is banned, under threat of financial and personal ruin, from speaking to anyone about their own personal life, or even saying they have been banned at all.
And where celebrities successfully blunder in, the corrupt soon follow. The same type of injunctions have been issued against those trying to expose political and corporate wrongdoing, with the added weight of hyper-injunctions which ban the source from discussing the story with their MP and gagging its discussion in Parliament - supposedly the last bastion of free speech in the country.
There are more than 30 celebrity-based injunctions around at the moment, by the last count. A lot of them are very silly, like Mr Actor Man who apparently "kisses like a virgin", enjoys unspeakable things being done to him with a sex toy, and whose identity I know but can't tell you under threat of everything outlined above.
He's got the injunction because he doesn't want his wife to find out, or their friends, or to have his employment prospects ruined or to be publicly embarrassed. He's taken the kind of court action available only to the privileged few and perhaps believes he is fighting to protect the privacy of the common man, as well as that of his dirty linen. But every time a person of wealth or power, or simply ego, gets to bend the law around themselves I feel a little more uneasy.
It sets an unpleasant precedent. A rich man caught with his trousers down demands the courts treat him as though he's better than everyone else in the country, and a week later a rich man whose company's done something dreadful will gag an MP. If the Press stopped testing the boundary between privacy and secrecy the two would soon become blurred. And a hooker has as much right to speak freely as a corporate whistleblower.
I'm not trying to claim that every newspaper editor who publishes a kiss and tell, or tries to overturn an injunction about a footballer and a Big Brother contestant, does so in the interests of freedom of speech rather than getting a good yarn in the paper. But this is the back story journalists all know and which perhaps you don't, and goes some way to explaining the impish attitude Fleet Street takes to certain people and situations.
So I hope you understand when I say, despite how his wife might feel, I hope Mr Actor Man's identity is revealed. I'm glad Jeremy Clarkson's hotel room trysts with a 6ft blonde have been published. I'm thrilled the super-injunction about oil firm Trafigura dumping chemical waste failed, that we know what a dirty dog John Terry is, and that I think Sienna Miller ought to accept when she's in a public place the public has every right to take her picture.
Injunctions are often granted under Article 8 of the Human Rights Act, which outlines a respect for private and family life. The law was not designed to protect a secret life, and the two are very different. If Mr Actor Man wants to protect his family he should stop putting his winky in hookers, and if he wants my respect he'll have to start by decrying the inequality of a justice system which this week named the fallen woman but not the dirty dog who paid for her.
And next time you hear a celebrity talk about their privacy, remember the advice which Paul McCartney's former PR man Geoff Baker used to give: "If you don't want to get caught doing it - don't do it."
Labels: Edwina Currie, Harriet Harman, hooker, Imogen Thomas, injunction, Jeremy Clarkson, John Major, John Terry, Katie Price, Paul McCartney, sex, wayne rooney
Fox in a frock.
THE papers are full of how amazing ex-model Christie Brinkley looks at the grand old age of 57.
She does look great. But then if I had millions of dollars, never had to work and could afford a £1,000 Herve Leger dress with internal scaffolding I'd look pretty perky too.
Labels: celebrity, Christie Brinkley, fox, Herve Leger
News has to be new, Hugh.
DEAR Hugh Grant: Very funny, but getting someone to say something they've already said to The Groaner doesn't move the phone hacking scandal on very much. Sorry.
Good start though, excellent duplicity levels for a celebrity who usually just chucks tubs of baked beans at photographers and tells them he hopes their "kids die of cancer". Six out of ten.
Labels: celebrity, Hugh Grant, news, phone hacking
Royal Wedding: the bland marrying the blah.
KATE Middleton's lovely hair. Kate's lovely smile. Kate's worrying weight loss. Her clothes, her make-up, her choice of tights, those ever-present knee-high boots.
Everything written about this 29-year-old is the kind of unquestioningly fawning PR which Nick Clegg would kill for, yet despite being hit over the head every single day with tales of how lovely Kate Middleton is I don't know a single person who gives a flying goddamn about her or her £20m 'austerity' wedding.
That's not to say we don't like Kate, or Catherine as she prefers to be known (annoyingly for the tabloids, as we prefer names short and sweet). She seems very nice, very pretty, very sensible. There is nothing that can be disliked. But at the same time it seems not many of us have fallen in love with love in quite the same way we did when Dear Old Di married Charles.
Prime Minister Dishface has urged us to party like it's 1661 but there are only 5,000 street celebrations planned, mainly in the richer parts of the country where they don't mind buying vol-au-vents for the neighbours. A group of impish republicans who applied for a party of their own in Camden were banned by the local council, whose members obviously understand neither democracy or satire.
We'll all tune in and watch, of course, but this time we'll be bitching about William's hairline and whatever Camilla's got on her head, not oohing over the dress or thinking how sweet it is when they kiss on the balcony. Instead it'll be "does she look bulimic to you?" and "they're only kissing because they have to". It's the bland marrying the blah.
William and Kate, however nice and in love they may be, are just dull. The stag do was dull. Their wedding, to which the Royal Family are going to be ferried in a fleet of minibuses like the cast of Shameless going to Ramsgate, will be dull. The dress will be boring and the kiss will be boring and we will probably never get to read stories about Princess Catherine's affair with a rugby player or Prince William telling an old girlfriend he wants to be her tampon.
And I for one will miss that. The Royal Family, whether you like it or not, is just a richer version of all our families; dysfunctional, fascinating, with a slightly racist grandad. The only reason it's still with us is because it's a soap opera and we decided in 1660 that it was more interesting having them around.
Maybe we're not getting excited about the wedding because as a nation we've lost our innocence, or maybe it's because, like a once-burned divorcee, the idea of another marriage leaves us cynically wondering how long this one's going to last.
Or perhaps it's more to do with the fundamental fact that this is a union between a millionaire's workshy daughter who dresses like a 40-year-old and a soon-to-be-unemployed hooray who looks like a slightly dense carthorse with a bald spot.
Labels: blah, Kate Middleton, Prince William, royal wedding


It wasn't until the computer came along that humanity was able to start computing difficult equations and running complex programs with ease. The invention of the computer has allowed us to now share all of our knowledge with each other on the internet. However, if we look back at the history of the oldest computer, we see that computers are really not that new of an idea after all.
Although the vast majority of the computers that we know about today were created within the past 100 years, human ingenuity dates back further than many of us can likely imagine. To help put this in perspective, here are the 10 oldest known computers. In the event of later models which were introduced by the same manufacturer, some models were taken off of this list to allow for a more diverse group of machines.
If you are new to the history of computers, some of the below systems will blow your mind. The oldest computer in known history is actually a lot more ancient than most of us would have previously imagined. Just keep in mind that many different exact dates and models, along with their inventors may have also been lost in history.
This computer was the first computer that made for commercial use in the United States. It became famous after it used a 1% sample to correctly predict that General Dwight D. Eisenhower would win the 1952 election in a landslide. When people realized the data-processing capabilities of this machine, many businesses started purchasing this machine for their own needs.
Clocking in as the 10th oldest computer, it predates Apple and Windows by decades.
Successfully predicted the 1952 Eisenhower election using a 1% sample.
The first commercial computer built in the United States.
Since many of the first computers were used for warfare, their use was often left in the hands of high-level personnel who received certain clearances. The Ferranti Mark 1, however, was the first widely available commercial computer that was capable of running user programs, and even playing video games. Although it pales in comparison to the specifications of modern-day computers, its place as the first computer that the average person could buy holds a symbolic turn into the modern-day use of computers.
Was used to play chess, one of the first video games.
The world's first commercial computer.
Was capable of solving most mathematical problems.
The Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) was designed in 1950. Being only the third stored-computer program to run in England, it was the fastest computer in the world at the time. Clocking in at a speed of 1 MHz, it was very fast for its time. Being able to run user-designed programs, this computer gave developers a hint at what computer technology was capable of doing.
Designed by Alan Turing, who recently inspired cryptocurrency developers to create a "Turing-complete" currency.
Had a processing speed of 1 MHz, which was the fastest in the world at the time.
Assisted British air defense in the Cold War.
The third stored-program computer to be invented in England.
Being built by the Small Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM or "Baby"), the Manchester Mark 1 was the first computer to show the potential of where this sophisticated technology was going to end up. Being able to use RAM, run user-created programs, and having all the components of the basic computer, this machine was invented decades before any Apple or Windows computer (Sorry Steve Jobs and Bill Gates)!
One of the first computers that could store data and any user program.
Ran with Random Access Memory (RAM), which is still widely used today.
Being one of the oldest computers, this is also one of the first computers used for the purpose of war. Although it was completed in 1946, at the end of WWII, it was crucial in helping assist during later conflicts such as the Cold War and Korean War. It was also used to calculate the likelihood of developing the H-bomb, one of the most powerful weapons ever tested.
Could add or subtract two ten-digit number at a speed of 5000 per second.
Was also capable of advanced division, multiplication, and square-roots.
Was capable of storing results of calculations.
Was also used to calculate the possibility of producing the H-bomb.
This computer was actually widely used to develop weapons of war near the end of WWII. Having assisted with the development of radar, surveillance lenses, underwater detection, torpedoes, and even assisting with the atomic bomb, this computer can actually be attributed with helping the Allies win the war.
Although this computer wasn't used commercially, it is regardless one of the oldest computers to date. It was quickly followed up by the Mark II and various other later models.
Used to help the Navy design equipment such as torpedoes and underwater detection.
Also assisted in the design of implosion devices for the atomic bomb.
This computer is one of the first major advancements for British intelligence services. Being used to read high-level messages from the Germans in WWII, this device was used to intercept messages that helped guarantee an Allied victory in WWII.
Since this device was primarily used for intelligence purposes to intercept wireless messages, it is considered very advanced for its time. There were around 10 of these devices being used by the end of the war.
Was invented right before the Normandy "D-Day" invasion.
Used to intercept and decode high-level German messages during WWII.
The Colossus Mark two quintupled the processing speed.
Around 10 of these devices were used by British intelligence by the end of WWII.
This computer was invented by Iowa State professor John Vincent Atanasoff while being assisted by student Clifford Berry. When the two combined their names, the acronym ABC was created to mark the creation of this computer.
Was likely the first electronic digital computer for solving math problems.
Wasn't widely known as the first automatic electronic computer until a lawsuit concluded so in 1973 against the ENIAC.
Size: Built in a living room, although unknown since it was destroyed.
WWII was a period of massive technological development, despite the massive destruction of land and lives that it caused. Although Nazi Germany is notorious for murdering over 12 million people in their concentration camps, they also were behind some of modern man's most important inventions. The computer is one of those things.
Since the development of ZI was privately-funded, we have Konrad Zuse to thank for this and not Adolf Hitler. Additionally, there were two later models, the Z2 and Z3 invented before the Atanasoff-Berry Computer was finished.
The original Z1 was destroyed when Allied forces bombed Berlin in 1943.
The daughter of this computer, the Z2 was invented in 1939.
This machine's granddaughter was built in 1941, before the Atanasoff-Berry Computer.
After being discovered in 1900 off the coast of Greece, the people who found this likely had no idea what they were looking at. Considering that its discovery predated the invention of the world's first widely recognized computer in modern times, this device is absolutely mind-blowing.
Since this device was equipped with a sophisticated gear system with 37 wheels, the discovery of this complex analogue computer changed much of what we know about ancient history. For all we know, this was just one of many different similar inventions that were lost in time.
The Antikythera Mechanism could accurately measure calendar dates.
It was also capable of predicting planet positions, and eclipses.
Likely used to measure when the next Olympic Games would take place.
Predates the first modern computer by about 2000 years.


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Get there at 1pm and we will start with a mid-Winter lunch BBQ with bread and sausages and bacon from Soggy Bottom provided. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
BYO salads and donuts for dessert. Mmmmmmm.
See you there. Brings lots of dough if you want to buy something from there.


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Alansone History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
The surname Alansone is a patronymic surname, derived from the given name Alan, meaning little rock. Patronymic surnames were created from the name of a male relative, usually of the father. As a given name, Alan beamed popular due to the Welsh and Breton saint, St. Alan.
Early Origins of the Alansone family
The surname Alansone was first found in Yorkshire where they held a family seat at Richmond, but following the pattern of many Norman and Breton families, junior branches of this distinguished name moved northward over the border into Scotland. They appeared to have settled in Dumbartonshire in Scotland.
Early History of the Alansone family
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Alansone Spelling Variations
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Early Notables of the Alansone family (pre 1700)
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Migration of the Alansone family
Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: John Allanson settled in Georgia in 1733.
Patronymic
The Alansone Motto +
The motto was originally a war cry or slogan. Mottoes first began to be shown with arms in the 14th and 15th centuries, but were not in general use until the 17th century. Thus the oldest coats of arms generally do not include a motto. Mottoes seldom form part of the grant of arms: Under most heraldic authorities, a motto is an optional component of the coat of arms, and can be added to or changed at will; many families have chosen not to display a motto.
Motto: Virtute et labore
Motto Translation: By valour and exertion.
Alansone (Borderlands)


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IBO aims to assist with the implementation of construction and social projects for people who need help, regardless of their race, nationality or philosophy. This aid is provided by volunteers who do short-term manual work.
By encouraging volunteers of different nationalities to work together and live with people in other countries, the IBO wants to assist in creating conditions for real peace between people and nations.
Furthermore, it is IBO's belief that these activities have an important educational value for the voluntary workers themselves and everyone who is directly or indirectly involved.


First, the statement of purpose will introduce you to Krannert –it is in essence a classic goals essay. Then you must address an issue clearly of high interest to Krannert in the required essay: integrity. That essay will illuminate not only what you think about integrity, but also your thought process itself. The key to making these very different essays work together is to create a synergy between them – i.e., the experiences and plans you portray in the statement of purpose will form a vivid foundation for the thoughts, examples, and ideas you discuss in the required essay.
This question doesn't technically require you to discuss the a-b-c-d points. But if the adcom mentions them, you can be sure the adcom is interested in them. So you can't go wrong in addressing these points, even if you weave in something else as well.
A natural and effective approach is to portray aspects of your experience (educational and/or professional) that animate your goals, and then elaborate on your goals. Use your response to point "b" to demonstrate understanding of the program. Point "d" gives you an opportunity to present distinctive experiences, including ones that may not necessarily relate to your goals, but that will enable you to enhance and invigorate your MBA class.
This is really four questions (each one of which could use more than 500 words!). Your answer to the first question, what integrity means to you, will shape the essay and guide your responses to the subsequent questions. Answer this initial question with a succinct definition and illustrate it with a concrete example showing what integrity means to you and why. Address the subsequent questions in a way consistent with your initial definition, adding further brief examples as warranted. In the part about Purdue's expectations, weave in specific details of Purdue's program structure or approach.
This question invites you to explain anything that needs explaining (e.g., gap in employment, choice of recommender if not direct supervisor, a bad grade, etc.) – and also to present new material that will enhance your application. If you choose to do the latter, make sure it's a point that is essential for a clear and full picture of your candidacy.
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Today I want you to focus. Real change in the brain can only happen by active relearning — not through avoidance. You have to focus on the pain in order to fix it.
Usually, when addictions start, they're almost always about escaping or trying to avoid paying attention to something that's going on in your life. It can be psychological, environmental, physical, or emotional. But the thing is… sometimes by the "end" of the addiction (or when you begin to seek help), you forget what it even looked like in the beginning — what caused you to originally run away. It's crucial that we get to the core of what first caused the addiction so we can address the main issue.
In this episode, I outline some of the ways we avoid the real issues in our life by using addiction, how we can begin to change our behavior and stop running away, and some of my real-world examples from clients I have worked with facing the same issues.
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[5:48] What do you think you were trying to escape from when you first started your addiction?
[6:04] An example of an early client of mine and how her addiction began as a coping mechanism.
[10:13] We all get so used to running away from stuff that we literally forget what we're running from. The problem with a lot of the approaches that we currently have for addiction help is that they actually teach us to escape.
[13:15] Real change in the brain can only happen by active relearning — not through avoidance. You have to focus on the pain in order to fix it.
[14:42] One of my current favorite clients who acts out in a variety of ways and how we've come to address his issues.
[18:08] Addiction is not only biological — you cannot ignore the environmental and psychological factors.
[18:52] Where to find some of my testimonials and some of the factors that have led to addiction with the clients that I've worked with.
[20:24] Tip of the week: Identify one area in your life you've been running away from and just spend a little bit of time exploring why you've been running away from it. To make this easier start simple. Nothing you can't handle on your own. Sit there and really meditate on it, explore it honestly, and develop awareness around it. Focus on the pain instead of running away from it.


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Austin Pregnancy Resource Settlement
AUSTIN, TX, September 3, 2015
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CITY OF AUSTIN PAYS $480,000 IN ATTORNEY FEE SETTLEMENT IN FINAL COURT VICTORY FOR PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTERS
AUSTIN, TX, September 3, 2015 — The City of Austin paid $480,000 in an attorney fee settlement in a case involving four Austin-area pregnancy resource centers. The settlement follows a 2014 Court ruling where a U.S. District Court judge ruled that a City of Austin ordinance regulating pregnancy resource centers was unconstitutional. View check.
In a lawsuit against the City of Austin, Liberty Institute represented three Austin area pregnancy resources centers: The Gabriel Project Life Center (run by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Austin and Catholic Charities of Central Texas), the Austin Pregnancy Resource Center, and the South Austin Pregnancy Resource Center. The fourth center, Austin LifeCare, Inc. was represented by separate counsel. The four centers challenged the constitutionality of the ordinance as a violation of the First Amendment. The City of Austin adopted the unconstitutional ordinance at the urging of the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL).
The attorney fee payment will be distributed to attorneys for the four pregnancy resource centers, including the Liberty Institute, Bowman & Brooke, LLP, former Texas Supreme Court Justice Raul Gonzalez, Jubilee Campaign Law of Life Project, and the Texas Center for Defense of Life.
Jeff Mateer, General Counsel of Liberty Institute, says, "This attorney fee settlement sends a clear message to NARAL, Planned Parenthood, and governments everywhere: respect the rights of faith-based pregnancy resource centers. If you violate a non-profit's rights, you will pay a steep price."
Case History: Roman Catholic Diocese of Austin et al v. City of Austin
In January 2012, the City of Austin passed an ordinance requiring pro-life pregnancy resource centers to post conspicuous signs outside their centers with government-regulated messages about their licensing and services. However, federal law and state law have no similar regulations for facilities that provide the simple services offered by the pregnancy centers.
The ordinance threatened criminal penalties against pro-life centers who did not post signs in compliance with the ordinance. Following enactment of the ordinance, Liberty Institute filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the ordinance.
In 2014, a U.S. District Court Judge ruled that the ordinance violated the pregnancy resource centers' rights and found the ordinance unconstitutional. NARAL has advised multiple cities to pass similar ordinances but every ordinance that has been challenged in federal court to date, including those passed by the City of Baltimore, MD and New York City, NY, has been partially or completely struck down.
About First Liberty Institute: First Liberty Institute is a nonprofit legal group dedicated to defending religious liberty in America – in our schools, for our churches, in the military and throughout the public arena. Visit FirstLiberty.org for more information.
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