Sweet, slow-cooked onions and red peppers, laced with Port, capers, and thyme, make grilled chicken thighs a special summer event. This dish is good at room temperature too. Prep and Cook Time: about 1 1/2 hours.
In a large pan over medium heat, warm the olive oil. Add onions and peppers, cover, and cook, stirring occasionally, until very juicy and almost soft, 16 to 20 minutes. Add the Port, capers, and thyme; stir often, uncovered, until all the liquid has evaporated and vegetables are very soft and sweet and beginning to brown, 25 to 35 minutes longer. Remove from heat. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Up to 2 hours before serving, in an 8- to 10- quart pan over high heat, bring about 3 quarts water to a boil. Rinse chicken, remove excess fat, and immerse in boiling water. Return water to a boil, then cover, reduce heat, and simmer until meat is no longer pink in the center of thickest part (cut to test), about 15 minutes. Lift chicken from water; drain and pat dry. Reserve broth for another use.
Sprinkle both sides of chicken with salt and pepper. Lay thighs, skin down, on an oiled grill over a solid bed of medium-high coals or medium-high heat on a gas grill (you can hold your hand just above grill level only 3 to 4 seconds); cover gas grill. Cook chicken, turning once, until browned on both sides, 5 to 9 minutes total. Transfer to a platter. Spoon onion-pepper mixture over chicken and sprinkle with parsley.
Wine pairing: A dry, fruity rosé with crisp acidity.
Notes: Parboiling the chicken eliminates flare-ups on the grill. You can prepare the onion-pepper mixture through step 1 up to a day ahead; stir over low heat to rewarm. You can prepare the chicken through step 2 up to 2 hours ahead; cool, cover, and let stand at room temperature, then grill to serve hot.


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Q: How can I receive notifications from a web site loaded in a WebView in my app in Notification Center? I am creating an Mac app with a WebView that loads a website that can send web notifications. I want these notifications to appear in the notification center. How would I do this?

A: I think what you're saying is that you don't want to send notifications yourself from your app, but you want to allow web notifications sent by a website encapsulated in your app's WebView to appear as they do with Safari. Is that right?
If so, the Notification Programming Guide for Websites seems to answer this in the first few paragraphs. They make a distinction between push notifications and local notifications. Push notifications are sent at any time, whether you're browsing the website or not; local notifications are invoked by JavaScript from the loaded web page while you're browsing. Push notifications happen outside any app and you don't have to do anything extra; local notifications have to be set up (with JavaScript on the website), per the guide. Nothing further appears to be necessary, aside from the user allowing notifications from that site or any sites.
It's unclear from the guide whether you can (or even have to) handle this from a WebView in your own app, but the guide specifies the notification object is provided by WebKit (the engine behind Safari and your own app's WebView), so I guess it should work. Have you tried it already?
Armed with this information, I recommend reading the guide thoroughly and trying it. If you run into problems, edit your post (if you can - I notice you're a new SO user; if you can't, post it as a comment and someone can help get it into the body of your post), and include a detailed description of the steps you took to try this, as well as the relevant code (including the JavaScript from the website), and what exactly does or doesn't happen. This will help us help you.

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Q: sort blocks of texts in perl I have a file that looks like:
SECTION1 id name
 sub section1
 sub section2
SECTION2 id name
 sub section3
 sub section4
 sub section6
SECTION1 id name
 sub section7
 sub section8
SECTION3 id name
 sub section9
 sub section10
 sub section11
 sub section12
SECTION2 id name
 sub section13
 sub section14
SECTION1 id name
 sub section15
 sub section16
SECTION3 id name
 sub section17
 sub section18

I need to sort this file section wise. The only thing I know is that I have 'SECTION1', 'SECTION2' AND 'SECTION3'.
Expected output after sorting is:
SECTION1 id name
 sub section1
 sub section2
SECTION1 id name
 sub section7
 sub section8
SECTION1 id name
 sub section15
 sub section16
SECTION2 id name
 sub section3
 sub section4
 sub section6
SECTION2 id name
 sub section13
 sub section14
SECTION3 id name
 sub section9
 sub section10
 sub section11
 sub section12
SECTION3 id name
 sub section17
 sub section18

Is there any easy way to do this in perl or using the utilities like grep,sed etc?

A: One more way using perl:
Assuming infile has the content of the question and following content of script.pl:
use warnings;
use strict;
use sort qw/stable/;

my ($section, @section);

while ( <> ) {

    ## Save text if first line or when line doesn't begin with 'SECTION' word.
    if ( $. == 1 || $_ !~ m/\ASECTION\d+/ ) {
        $section .= $_;
        next unless eof;
    }

    ## Save the text and the number of section.
    if ( $section =~ m/\ASECTION(\d+)/ ) {
        push @section, [ $1, $section ];
        $section = q||;
    }

    ## Begin to save next section.
    $section .= $_;
}

## Print them sorted by section number.
for ( sort { $a->[0] <=> $b->[0] } @section ) {
    printf qq|%s|, $_->[1];
}

Run it like:
perl script.pl infile

With following output:
SECTION1 id name
 sub section1
 sub section2
SECTION1 id name
 sub section7
 sub section8
SECTION1 id name
 sub section15
 sub section16
SECTION2 id name
 sub section3
 sub section4
 sub section6
SECTION2 id name
 sub section13
 sub section14
SECTION3 id name
 sub section9
 sub section10
 sub section11
 sub section12
SECTION3 id name
 sub section17
 sub section18

A: Looks like something that needs a special sort. Perl's default sort cannot properly sort strings with numbers, so we need to extract the numbers before we sort. In case of big data sets, I optimized it with a Schwartzian transform.
The basic gist of it is to extract first the section number, then the subsection number, and sort first on section number, and in case of a tie, sort on sub section number. Only the first number in the subsection is taken into consideration, and so it assumes that those lines are already sorted.
To use it on a file, simply change <DATA> to <>, then run:
perl script.pl inputfile > outputfile

Code:
use strict;
use warnings;

local $/;           # read entire file
my $data = <DATA>;  # slurp input file into scalar
my @records = split /(?=^SECTION)/m, $data;  # split into records
my @sorted =    map  {  $_->[0] }
                sort {  $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] ||
                        $a->[2] <=> $b->[2] }
                map   { getnum($_) } @records;   # Schwartzian transform sort
print @sorted;

sub getnum {    # extract section and subsection numbers
    my ($sec) = $_[0] =~ /SECTION(\d+)/;
    my ($sub) = $_[0] =~ /\n.*?(\d+)/;
    return [ $_[0], $sec, $sub ];    # return anonymous array
}

__DATA__
SECTION1 id name
 sub section1
 sub section2
SECTION2 id name
 sub section3
 sub section4
 sub section6
SECTION1 id name
 sub section7
 sub section8
SECTION3 id name
 sub section9
 sub section10
 sub section11
 sub section12
SECTION2 id name
 sub section13
 sub section14
SECTION1 id name
 sub section15
 sub section16
SECTION3 id name
 sub section17
 sub section18

A: #!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my @data;
{   # limit change to $/ to this scope
    local $/ = "SECTION";
    @data = map {chomp; $_ || ()} <DATA>;
}

{   # limit change to 'warnings' to this scope
    no warnings 'numeric';
    print "SECTION$_" for sort {$a <=> $b} @data;
}

This would preserve the individual sections.
Or from the command line:
perl -F/SECTION/ -0ane "print qq{SECTION$_} for grep $_, sort {$a <=> $b} @F" o33.txt

A: This might work for you (GNU sed):
sed ':a;$!N;/\nSECTION/!s/\n/\x00/;ta;s/n\([0-9][\x00\n]\|$\)/n0\1/g;P;D' file |
sort |
sed 's/\x00/\n/g;s/n0/n/g'

Explanation:

*

*Join SECTIONs and sub sections into single lines. :a;$!N;/\nSECTION/!s/\n/\x00/;ta

*Prepend 0's to sub sections. s/n\([0-9][\x00\n]\|$\)/n0\1/g

*Print each line then delete it. P;D

*Sort the piped output. sort

*Deconstruct the sorted output. sed 's/\x00/\n/g;s/n0/n/g'

A: This is done very simply by accumulating the records in three sparate lists according to the section label.
This program uses a hash to do this, and builds complete sections by appending each line from the file to the most recent record. If the line is the beginning of a new section another empty record is added to the list before the line is appended.
Displaying the results is simply a matter of printing all elements of the lists in order of their section labels.
use strict;
use warnings;

open my $fh, '<', 'sections.txt' or die $!;

my %sections;
my $current_list;

while (<$fh>) {
  if (/^(SECTION[123])/) {
    $current_list = $sections{$1} //= [];
    push @$current_list, '';
  }
  $current_list->[-1] .= $_ if $current_list;
}

for my $name (sort keys %sections) {
  print for @{ $sections{$name} };
}

output
SECTION1 id name
 sub section1
 sub section2
SECTION1 id name
 sub section7
 sub section8
SECTION1 id name
 sub section15
 sub section16
SECTION2 id name
 sub section3
 sub section4
 sub section6
SECTION2 id name
 sub section13
 sub section14
SECTION3 id name
 sub section9
 sub section10
 sub section11
 sub section12
SECTION3 id name
 sub section17
 sub section18


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After a decade of conflict, Iraq ranks as one of the region's more unlikely tourism destinations. Yet, Baghdad has signalled its intent with the planned construction of a new $2.5 billion airport near Karbala and significant investment in new aircraft by its beleaguered national carrier, Iraqi Airways.
Given the impact of post-invasion sanctions that put a temporary halt to fleet expansion, it's elementary that Iraq would position aviation as one of the pillars of its economic expansion strategy.
The Nouri al-Maliki government is making all the right noises: Boeing, Airbus, and Bombardier have been touting large aircraft orders, while the US, Russia, China, and France have been discussing reviving international flight routes, according to Civil Aviation Authority head Nasser Hussein.
Iraqi Airways, Hussein says, will all but have tripled the size of its fleet to 65 aircraft by 2016. Current orders include eight planes from Airbus, multiple Boeing Dreamliners, and five CSeries-100 Bombardier models.
As well as the airport plans for Karbala in the south of Baghdad, another airport project, worth around $600 million, is underway in the Kurdish region of Duhok. It will accommodate one million passengers annually. Karbala's airport, by comparison, will have capacity for 20 million passengers each year, potentially making it Iraq's busiest.
Karbala is home to one of Shia Islam's holiest sites. Iraq is keen to cater to Shia pilgrims — particularly from neighbouring Iran — and is staking its tourism strategy on this approach. Yet, the spectre of sectarian violence that hangs over much of Iraq could put a halt to these plans.
Overall death rates from civil violence have been rising, and while it's difficult to distinguish between civilian and pilgrim victims, analysts believe the influx of Shia Muslims en route to Karbala will antagonise Sunni militants operating in the country.
"Would [the prospect] of violence effect people coming? They don't have a lot of choices — they can't say let's go to Hawaii or Tahiti, it's not that type of choice," says Hamit Dardagan, co-founder of Iraq Body Count and co-director at London-based Oxford Research Group.
Ominously, 2013 is likely to prove the bloodiest year for civilian casualties since 2008. Iraq Body Count estimates there have been 5,000 civilian deaths across the country since the start of the year. That figure surpasses 2011's total of 4,147, and 2012's 4,574, providing further evidence of the worsening violence. These statistics should weigh heavily on Iraq's Shia-led government, particularly as the Syrian crisis bleeds into Iraq and raises fears of greater sectarian bloodshed.
Despite this, Ohannessian is optimistic about the opportunities presented by the planned tourism megaprojects. He believes the job creation opportunities they present will provide Al-Maliki with an opportunity to reengage with the country's Sunni population.
"What this looks like domestically is Al-Maliki making concessions to the Shia people. And right now the Sunni population is the most disillusioned — that's a dangerous prospect," he says.
"The government is catering to Shias and that can be another factor to push previously moderate Sunnis to supporting extremist acts.
Baghdad's strategy demonstrates a long-term approach to economic recovery, says UK-based aviation analyst John Strickland. "The government clearly understands how important aviation is to Iraq's development. Although unrest is slowly worsening, Al-Maliki will be provided the opportunity to unite Iraq by creating new employment opportunities," he says.
"Airports are a massive driver of government revenues in the 21st century. In Dubai for example, aviation represents 25 or 35 percent of economic activity.


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Power to the mayor, Council not boro pres.
By Benjamin M. Haber, Flushing Posted on August 16, 2008
By Benjamin M. Haber, Flushing
I take issue with the July 31 TimesLedger editorial "An Office Worth Saving," which advocated the retention of the office of the borough president.
There was a time when real power in the city rested with an Estimate Board. The board ran afoul of the U.S. Constitution because the disparity in the amount of the populations in each borough did not satisfy the requirement of equal representation. A City Charter revision commission was convened to address the problem.
The board was abolished and power vested in the mayor and City Council. A question arose as to what was to be done with the borough presidencies.
The office was retained because it was nothing more than a patronage mill. The borough president had no power at all, but as a sop was given a small amount of taxpayer funds miniscule in terms of the city budget of more than $40 billion annually.
I also take issue with TimesLedger's opinion of our current borough president, Helen Marshall. She thought it was a grand idea to build a Jets football stadium in the middle of Flushing Meadows Corona Park, which would have destroyed an important and much-needed urban park. She thinks it fine to destroy over 225 economically viable businesses with over 1,300 employees and dependents in Willets Point to benefit a real estate developer. Her constituency has always been for big business, not the little people.
An example of what the office of the borough president has been reduced to is that it has become the reward to the winner of political musical chairs. We now have municipal term limits. That means that at the end of those terms, the previously elected official is off the city payroll because that is what the electorate intended.
It never completely worked out that way, since a move would be made from one office to another if available. The best prize, however, was borough president. You did not have to travel to Albany, it paid well and you had a job for four years with another term guaranteed. We should take Marshall as an example. She was a City Councilwoman who was about to be out of a job because of term limits. Karen Koslowitz, also a City Councilwoman, was also slated to be term-limited out of office, as was then-Borough President Claire Shulman.
Marshall and Koslowitz remained in good standing with the political establishment, then contended for the borough president's office. A problem arose because Carol Gresser, a third party and not an establishment member, also sought the job. There was real concern Koslowitz would split the vote for Marshall and Gresser would win.
In typical political fashion, Koslowitz suddenly withdrew from the race. Marshall won, but Koslowitz did not fade off into the sunset. She resurfaced as an assistant to Marshall with a salary that exceeded that which she had earned as a councilwoman. Hardly an example of inspired and good government.
Taxpayers should not be paying for powerless and useless jobs that exist simply to satisfy political patronage. The time has come to do away with the borough presidencies and make sure the mayor and City Council do their jobs.

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Defend the Virgin Mary [OPINION]
Barry Richard Published: July 13, 2020
Whatever your religious beliefs, you must stand up in defense of the Virgin Mary, or the very freedom to openly worship as you see fit may cease to exists in America.
Just three weeks ago, domestic terrorist Shaun King called on his followers to target Christian symbols for destruction.
"Yes, I think the statues of the white European they claim is Jesus should also come down," King tweeted. "They are a form of white supremacy. Always have been."
According to Newsweek, King "also remarked that stained glass windows and other images of a white Jesus, his white mother and 'their white friends' should all be destroyed, insisting they are 'racist propaganda' and 'a gross form of white supremacy.'"
Over the weekend statues of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Boston's Dorchester section and in Queens, New York were attacked by vandals.
The Boston Police Department Facebook page said officers were called to Saint Peter's Parish Church in Dorchester on Saturday night where someone had attempted to burn a statute of Mary.
"An unknown suspect had set fire to plastic flowers, which were in the hands of the statue, causing the face and upper body of the statue to be burned," according to the post.
The Diocese of Brooklynn, New York says a statue of the Virgin Mary at the Cathedral Prep School and Seminary in Queens was marked with graffiti on Friday night.
Both cases remain under investigation.
Americans can no longer remain silent as their culture is destroyed by radical leftists. Our way of life is under attack and must be defended by all means necessary.
Barry Richard is the host of The Barry Richard Show on 1420 WBSM New Bedford. He can be heard weekdays from noon to 3 p.m. Contact him at barry@wbsm.com and follow him on Twitter @BarryJRichard58. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.
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Album Commentary: "Youth"
13 Tuesday May 2014
Posted by louisbarabbas in Bedlam Six, Interviews, Recording, releases
a new band a day, album, ask me pr, commentary, joe sparrow, youth
My friend Joe Sparrow (head honcho at A New Band A Day and online coordinator for ASK ME PR) has begun a project compiling album commentaries with various artists. I recently became the first of his interviewees (aka the guinea-pig).
The full-length commentary for "Youth" is still being edited together (he's probably trying to remove the persistent sound of clinking wine glasses) but here's a little taster from the beginning of the interview in which we discuss the album in general terms.
For more information about the album visit www.bedlamyouth.com
The Solo Album
Posted by louisbarabbas in Recording, releases, Songs
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For every ebullient, rollicking, bombastic Bedlam Six song I write there tends to be born with it a furtive, introspective and slightly malformed twin (which must be immediately shooed away into the nearest attic or coal cellar). The fun tunes are toured, arranged and recorded by my indecently talented bandmates and generally given the freedom to feel the sunshine upon their musical skin. The songs' neglected shrunken siblings, however, must cope as best they can with restricted glimpses through cage bars.
I do my best for these sad half-creatures, staring semi-blindly through the slimy patina growing over their light-starved eyes. I try to make time for them, to give them affection. I love them as much as their muscular assertive brothers – in fact I love some a lot more, pitiful though they are. I spend awkward tender afternoons with these songs when I'm not on tour with the Bedlams, gently rearranging their thin little wasted limbs, comforting them as best I can.
A couple of years ago one got lucky and was adopted by Bridie Jackson & The Arbour, becoming something of an ugly duckling turned swan.
Most of these songs know not to get their hopes up though. Many can't even reach the window, let alone see the view.
But now they are taking their first preparatory steps towards moving into a halfway house… AKA my debut solo LP.
Many will die along the way, many will be mocked, many will yearn for their once despised captivity. But it is time these shrunken twisted things saw something of the world.
Today I begin the recording process, ably marshaled by my friend Biff Roxby, the producer of this album.
And the name of the release?
Wish us luck.
Last Stop: Manchester Deaf Institute
Posted by louisbarabbas in Bedlam Six, Gigs, releases, tour
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The Bedlam Six's final UK album launch party (for this album anyway) will take place this Friday (28th March) at Manchester's Deaf Institute.
Support comes from my good friend Becca Williams. Entry is £8 advance and £10 on the door.
Tickets and event information can be found on the venue website.
Drinking With The Bedlams
Posted by louisbarabbas in Bedlam Six, Interviews, Recording, releases, Songs
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At 9pm on Wednesday 5th March the Bedlam Six will be convening for a live stream of new album 'Youth' with us providing an increasingly inebriated commentary of decreasingly relevant and accurate facts about the record.
Follow this link to listen and chat with us:
http://mixlr.com/debt-radio
Debt Radio is on Mixlr
You can listen directly on your computer, tablet or smartphone using your browser (Flash is required).
Android users can use VLC or a similar media player to listen through a browser.
For Windows, Mac and i-phone a Mixlr app is available for free from the App store or form the following link:
http://mixlr.com/broadcast/
Youth… RELEASED!
Posted by louisbarabbas in Bedlam Six, Debt Records, releases
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The new Bedlam Six album is now on general release, available as a 12″ vinyl, compact disc and various download formats from the Bedlam Shop and as a collection of mp3s from all the usual digital retailers.
There is a website dedicated to the album at www.bedlamyouth.com
Bedlam Six: Open Recording Sessions
Posted by louisbarabbas in Bedlam Six, Recording, releases
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As is traditional we plan to celebrate the launch of our new album with a bunch of live shows and a lot of drunken dancing. But we've been wondering how best to mark the date itself. The record is officially released on Monday 3rd March. As we are all aware, Mondays aren't the most ideal of gig days – a lot of people tend to have one eye on the clock as they wonder how painful Tuesday morning will be once they've dusted the last traces of hedonism from their hats and hips.
Also the buses don't run as late.
So we pondered long and hard. Wondered about early evening acoustic shows (a bit tame), or another Bedlam social event (a bit easy), or an informal Q&A (a bit boring), or maybe even dinner somewhere (a bit… dinnery). Something that wouldn't go on too late, wouldn't cost loads, but could still have a certain exclusive (and yet inclusive) vibe.
So we hit on the idea of an open recording session. It seemed apt to launch a new album by starting to record the next one. We have a bunch of new songs no one has ever heard, we have a lot of recording equipment (thanks to WR Audio) and a certain predilection for eschewing the opaque.
So at 7pm on 3rd, 4th and 5th March we are going to hold open recording sessions at secret locations around Greater Manchester. We'll record for approximately two hours each evening and there will be an opportunity for those present to contribute to backing vocals/percussion/noises once we've got the main body of work done. It should all be done by 9.30pm. Everyone in attendance will then be sent the songs once they're mixed and mastered.
I hope it goes without saying that anyone who doesn't need to get up too early the next day is also very welcome to stick around for a drink with us afterwards.
If you would like to attend one (or several) of these sessions please send me a message via the contact section with your preferred date. I'll then send you the relevant address once we've finalised all the details. Places will be limited so do get in touch sooner rather than later to reserve a ticket. There will be a small fee to help cover any room hire costs.
As for the live launch parties, they will be held in London, Havant, Brighton, Liverpool and Manchester (see the Bedlam Six gig list for details).
New Article: The Album – an enduring anachronism?
Posted by louisbarabbas in Articles, Keyhole Observations, Pundit
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It's been a while since my last article. I've been making an album. But why and for whom? Scarcely a day goes by without some music industry commentator arguing that the album's popularity is on the wane, that sales of both physical and digital collections are falling, that we all might as well just stick our songs up online one at a time, as we record them, a steady trickle to maintain a constant stream of traffic. A good currency for harvesting email addresses. After all, it might lead to T-shirt sales if we're lucky.
Yes, the times they are a changin' and the long player teeters on the brink of the pit.
BBC 4 are commissioning documentaries with titles like "The Golden Age of the Album" that sound worryingly similar to "When Dinosaurs Walked The Earth" while big retailers like HMV and FNAC – their species a major feature on the high streets of every town for generations – are now in administration.
Where does this leave the album? Everything hints at extinction. The evidence is falling together with a neatness that usually only hindsight affords us.
Or are we getting ahead of ourselves, distracted by the irresistible lure of tragedy?
The public's attitude to the album is shifting in two key areas: one seems to centre on a confusion over dominant formats and the other concerns itself with the wider notion of ownership itself. Neither issue is restricted to the music business though. File sharing/piracy got major headlines with the Napster free-for-all controversy of 1999 that meant everyone became predisposed to see the mp3 as a a thing of little worth. The subsequent glut of torrent sites and the grudging too-little-too-late major label treaty with the likes of Spotify have only muddled and muddied things. But still this is not peculiar to music. The film world is struggling with the same developments in technology and now the streaming services that are shaking the music market are taking similar bites out of cinema attendance and DVD sales. Not even good old trusty books are sacred. It's only a matter of time before Kindles manage to simulate that lovely smell of old once-damp paperbacks.
It's an on-demand society we're moving into and people are traveling light. The idea of owning the physical artifact is becoming increasingly irrelevant…
New Article: "Expert Exposé"
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Each day I read a bunch of articles written by people involved in or associated with the music industries.
I do not do this because I want to learn all I can about the creative economy or how best to navigate the modern music marketplace or what trends I should be keeping up with (for that way madness lies…).
No, I mostly do it to reassure myself that I'm not the only one who doesn't know what the hell's going on.
I'm not being flippant. It needs saying (and saying often). We should all be very suspicious of those who speak with too confident an air about "the future of music consumption" and "strategies for independent artists" and all those other rent-a-panel issues that fly around the conference circuit and blogosphere.
Many balk at the quantity of new bands jostling for attention on social media platforms. But that's nothing compared to the infestation of so-called media experts popping up at every opportunity like so many sardonic meerkats…
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Louis and the band have been recording the as-yet-untitled new record in a secret location on the South Coast of England.
There is a recording diary at www.bedlamsix.tumblr.com featuring videos, photos and commentary.
We hope you find it illuminating!
A release date has yet to be confirmed
Live Album Launch
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The new album by Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six "Live At The Dancehouse Theatre" is on general release from Monday 8th August.
The launch party will be held at The Ruby Lounge in Manchester on Saturday 6th August.
As well as two sets from Louis and the Bedlam Six the night will feature collaborations with friends Liz Green and Kirsty Almeida, plus support from label mate Richard Barry.


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Season Two of "Eli Roth's History of Horror" digs even deeper into the catacombs of creepiness, exhuming landmark films and cult classics while chewing on the entrails of recent horror cinema. The series explores the dark power and wicked fun of scary movies, the craft that went into making them, and the ways that horror films reflect the anxieties of their times. The story is told by Eli Roth and a celebrated cast of writers, directors, actors, cinematographers, composers, and special effects artists who bring our nightmares to life.
Interviewees include Stephen King, Quentin Tarantino, Jordan Peele, Ari Aster, Bill Hader, Nancy Allen, Megan Fox, Greg Nicotero, Rob Zombie, James Brolin, Edgar Wright, Piper Laurie, Leonard Maltin, Katharine Isabelle, Jack Black, Slash, Rachel True, Ashley Laurence, Joe Dante, Roger Corman, Mary Harron, John Landis, Tom Savini, Karyn Kusama, and many others.
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A more thorough examination of this position, in light of its application to concrete examples, indicates that the first glance is correct. The two examples commonly given include the victim of an accident whose brain is no longer generating discernable brain waves (although spontaneous heartbeat and breathing are still present) and the conceptus of human parentage before brain waves are generated for the first time. To say that in each case a "human being" is present, but not a "human person," the speaker seems to be using one, or both, of the terms in an analogues sense rather than in their primary meaning.
On the supposition that brain waves of a certain kind are correlated with personhood, those brain waves would not be required for being human but would be required for being a person. It would be logical at this point to ask whether the brain waves are thought to be necessary only for recognizing a person or do they, in some way, constitute the unique being of the person?
Characteristic brain waves seem to have been assumed necessary for the status of personhood because they are typical of man's unique consciousness. Other animals generate brain waves, but not with the same high degree of complexity as man's. It is not clear, however, why this evidence of nervous activity in man should be attributed to his being a person rather than to his being human. In fact, it is curious that preoccupation with brain waves has accentuated a distinction which has no real foundation in fact, the supposed distinction between a human being and a human person.
Not only in philosophical tradition, but in common usage, the primary sense of the two terms identifies them as referring to the same subject, namely, the individual member of the human race. Many secondary and otherwise analogous meanings have entered the field of discourse, for example: person, as subject of rights, rather than as an individual human being; thus even a group of people can become a person for legal purposes, i.e., a "moral person."
If being human were not to require being a person, it would be logical to ask whether a human person must be a human being. If not, what happens to the human being when personhood is attained? Does the human being continue to exist? If so, are there then two existing beings, a person and a non-person? If not, then becoming a person merely modifies the human being, perhaps as adulthood modifies the child? If no new being comes into existence at personhood, then the person is also the human being who existed before personhood. Therefore the person and the non-person would be one and the same being, which seems to involve a contradiction. The contradiction can be avoided only if the human being had always been a person, and never a non-person.
Being a human person requires being a human being, because the reality called personhood demands a proper subject in which it resides or which it modifies. Is personhood a mode of being which could only sometimes be possessed by a human being? Such a situation would be contradicted by the common manner of speaking, by which a human individual is not said to "have personhood," but rather is said "to be a person."
If personhood were something which is merely "had" by a person, that personhood is only analogous to the personhood which constitutes the person, since a thing must "be" before anything can be attributed to it.
PERSONHOOD, IN ITS PRIMARY MEANING, SIGNIFIES WHAT A PERSON IS. What follows as a consequence of his being a person may be called personhood also, but the word no longer has the same meaning. For example, personhood involves the individual human being in rights and obligations. This involvement does not make him to be a person. On the contrary, he is involved in them because he is a person, a responsible, free agent.
FROM THESE CONSIDERATIONS IT IS EVIDENT THAT BEING HUMAN AND BEING A PERSON, IN THE PRIMARY SENSE OF THOSE WORDS, DEMANDS A COMMON SUBJECT, NAMELY, THE INDIVIDUAL MEMBER OF THE HUMAN RACE, WHO IS ALWAYS, SIMULTANEOUSLY, A HUMAN BEING AND A PERSON.
Furthermore, personhood is sometimes confused with "personality," as seen in discussions under the title "The Beginnings of Personhood." To speak of "beginnings" instead of "the beginning" seems to imply that personhood comes about as the result of a continuous, progressive development, rather than being an instantaneous accomplishment. The prejudice engendered by this title might explain why participants in discussions on personhood shift so easily from talking about "person" to talking about "personality" (1) without realizing that they have made a dramatic transition in their universe of discourse.
According to present usage, as well as to philosophical tradition, personhood does not admit of degree -- you either are a person or you are not -- whereas personality not only allows for but demands development, as when it is said that one can improve ones personality.
This unobserved shift from personhood to personality as the subject of discussion may be explained by the preoccupation of modern science with observational changes, such as the gradual ripening of fruit, and its loss of contact with instantaneous changes which occur at the atomic level in chemistry or, at the moment of death, in biology. Instantaneous changes of substance, a thing of one kind ceasing to exist and in its place another kind of thing beginning to exist, have been traditionally called "substantial changes" and are properly understood only in terms of philosophical principles.
In this sense, the moment of conception can be defined as the first instant in which the gametes have ceased to be, this same instant being the first instant in which the human individual begins to be. For many students of the problem, this instant records the beginning (note, not beginnings) of human personhood. For then, the beginning of personhood is simultaneous with the beginning of the individual's humanity.
The unwitting substitution of "personality" for "personhood" places a condition for personhood which is impossible for the unborn of human parentage to meet. It demands that he or she possess characteristics which can exist only in mature or adult humans and never during the early stages of gestation and, in many instances, even long after birth. It simply is not reasonable to expect the unborn to have well-developed personalities based on criteria which only mature human beings can meet.
A closer reading of the position which holds that a human being need not be a person reveals a novel use of the word "person." Just as brain waves are made requisite for personhood, so also are self-consciousness and awareness of changes in ones immediate environment. Assuming that the generator of typically human brain waves is conscious because of the brain activity which generates those waves, consciousness would not seem to add a new requirement for personhood.
For some proponents of this position, however, a special awareness is demanded, called social consciousness. It is not always clear what is meant by the expression, but it seems to imply any sort of mutual stimulus-response relationship in the psychological order between two or more persons. Some have limited the social requirement to a unilateral relationship and say that it is sufficient for establishing personhood that a human being be loved by a person. Personhood, in this sense, seems to be nothing intrinsic to the person, but is a gift which may or may not be granted to the human being by some "personalized" member of human society or by the society as a whole.
It would be useful to consider whether such personhood is constituted by the social relationship and, if so, how it is related to what was formerly only a human being. In the case of the unilateral affection, it would seem that a kitten would be elevated to personhood by the affection of its owner. If it were protested that only a human being and not a kitten is eligible for the love which endows the recipient with personhood, one might logically ask for the basis of the distinction. If each is only a biological organism, why is one said to be different from the other? Is it the giver's choice which establishes the difference or is the choice made because of a difference which is already there?
In the case of the bilateral social relationship, it might be asked whether a human being could reciprocate with a personal response, unless he were already a person. In this case it is obvious that personhood is not established by the social relationship, but rather that the relationship exists only because personhood on the part of both already existed before the relationship came into being.
If personhood were once attained by a human being, by whatever means, could that personhood ever be lost, so that there is a retrogression to the non-person status of the human being? The victim of brain damage would be offered by the proponents of the position being examined, as an example in the affirmative. The value of their example might be enhanced by the fact that the discontinuation of brain waves for a determined length of time is being considered as a legal definition of death. The law, of course, is not likely to distinguish between the death of a person and the death of a human being. Perhaps the proponents of the position under examination should reconsider whether there is a demonstrable basis for such a distinction.
In those instances of brain damage wherein it is said that a human being is present, but is no longer a person, the words should be examined to see whether they are being used in their primary sense or only by analogy. For example: To speak of performing an autopsy on a human body is to use the word "human" in a sense which is quite different from its use in reference to the body of a living human being. At autopsy the body can be called human only because it is matter which, at one time, had been the body of a living human being. The radical differences manifest in the body before and after death should indicate that the term "human body" when applied in each instance, must signify realities which are far from being the same.
Care must be exercised so that a body which is no longer a human body in the primary sense of the term, be mistaken for a human being. Heartbeat and spontaneous breathing may be present in a body, supposedly because of residual medullary activity in the autonomic nervous system. But the brain damage in the centers of consciousness, as indicated by the prolonged absence of brain waves, might have changed the body from its primary sense of being human to the analogous sense of being human. This would be the same as saying that the human being may no longer be present, which would be the precise reason why the personhood is no longer present, namely, that the human being, the person, had died. At any rate, the brain damaged victim should not be used as evidence that human personhood is separable from the human being.
On the assumption that characteristic brain waves are coextensive with the life of an adult human being, their prolonged discontinuance would indicate the death of that human being. But even if it could be established that the adult human being is still present after the brain waves are no longer being generated, it is questionable whether the person has ceased to exist, since it is questionable whether brain waves are required for personhood.
And even if it were granted that brain waves are necessary for the personhood of an adult human being, it would not necessarily follow that brain waves are necessary for the personhood of an embryonic human being prior to the stage of development wherein it is natural for him or her to generate them for the first time. It is one thing to be lacking something which belongs, by nature, to an adult human being. It is quite another thing to be lacking nothing which an embryonic human being ought to have, by nature, at any stage of his or her development.
If the considerations up to this point appear to be highly academic it can be suggested that practical consequences follow from the various notions of personhood. In the case of the unilateral affection, is it to be assumed that personhood is lost by a withdrawal of the affection? And what can be assumed to remain after a unilateral withdrawal from a bilateral social relationship? Does this not appear to be the basis of justification for destroying the "unwanted" who, because they are not loved by their parents, never reach the status of persons? Or, having been granted personhood for various lengths of time, would not the socially-determined "undesirables" be capable of losing their personhood, prior to their extinction?
Because of the practical significance of human personhood in everyday life, especially for the unborn of human parentage, it would be useful to consider some of the legal aspects of the problem.
In our civil law, one requisite for citizenship is birth. The placing of this condition is not to be construed as an attempt to deny personhood to the unborn of human parentage. Rather it seems to be a consequence of the need for legal evidence to uphold the existence of any given person as a countable member of the citizenry. This would be the same as saying that being born under certain conditions, such as from parents who are citizens, is a legal basis for becoming a citizen.
It is not intended to repeat here the evidence offered in those two excellent briefs, but rather to suggest a supplementary consideration of the problem. Before the days of modern embryology, birth was used as a clear-cut, legal criterion for the existence of a living, human offspring, a person explicitly included in the Bill of Rights. For those waiting to be born, other biological criteria, such as viability and quickening, sometimes entered into legal determinations. Yet, the common-sense of legal minds seem constrained to posit conception as the beginning of human life and personhood. The other biological criteria, quickening, viability and birth, could serve as legal evidence that conception had taken place, and that action for the protection of the new individual's life and property should be undertaken.
1. Person: a human being, as distinct from an animal or thing. (Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary) The origin of the word person, "per sona," is found in early Greek drama, signifying one who speaks through a mask. This use is current in the designation of the participants of a play, "Dramatis Personae." It seems evident that every individual human being, each unique character, is a person. The concept seems to emphasize the reality behind the mask of the actor. Although all human beings are identical in their common denominator, which is human nature, each is a distinct person. Each person is a self-contained, individual, unique member of the human race.
The word person should not be confused with the word personality, as it is commonly used. Personality is the characteristic which distinguishes one person's mode of expressing his humanity from the manner in which others express their humanity, as when it is said that this or that person has a pleasing personality. Webster defines personality as "the totality of an individual's behavioral and emotional tendencies." Personality admits of variety and develops with experience and maturity, but personhood does not. A being either is a person or is not a person. There is no middle ground; a being cannot be only partially or incompletely a person.
Roe v. Wade speaks of the unborn as "not persons in the full sense." Presumably they are saying that Law does not recognize them as being our equals. Even if no legal precedent had been established concerning the personhood of the unborn, it would seem that Roe v. Wade, for whom this is the key issue, should have "taken up the slack" by facing up to the issue rather than excusing themselves on the grounds that their predecessors had never undertaken it.
After birth, the offspring of human parentage is given the legal status as a person. For those who question whether the unborn are persons in the natural, as distinct from the legal, sense, it would be useful to ask: When does the offspring begin to possess human nature? Since every human being is a person, and since human beings are what they are because of their human nature, the answer to that question would reveal the true beginning of personhood in the human individual.
2. Nature: "the inherent character or basic constitution of a person or thing." (Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary) Also, in reference to man, that is, human nature: "man's original or natural condition."
Nature, as defined by Aristotle, is the principle of motion and of rest in those things which have a specific end and a spontaneous tendency to attain it. In the noun form, the word nature is derived from the verb "to be born". (Latin, pp "natus") It signifies the root of those characteristics which belong to things which are called natural, or things of nature, as distinct from artificial things. The adjective form, "innate," signifies the composite of those qualities without which the thing could not be of such a kind of natural thing, the endowment which it possesses when it first comes into existence and distinguishes it from all other kinds of things. Strictly innate in the case of a human being, is everything which belongs to the individual because of being a rational animal, a possessor of human nature.
Because of the etymology of the word nature, it must not be assumed that only living things have natures, or are things of nature. The atoms of the elements and the molecules of the compounds are natural entities, possessing natures, as defined by Aristotle. Nor should the word's origin, in the verb "to be born" mislead anyone into thinking that the nature of a living thing comes to it only at birth. When the words were first coined, living things were seen to have a "packaged" completeness, both in structures and functions, giving rise to the concept of nature, a distinct characteristic of all things which undergo birth, that is, living things. Only later did it become evident that non-living things, exclusive of artificial things, have natures also.
In light of the scientific practice of attributing vegetable nature to the zygote of vegetable parentage and animal nature to the zygote of animal parentage, it should not be surprising that human nature should be attributed to the zygote of human parentage. It is true that the microscopic, single cell does not look like a human being, when compared with a human adult, but neither does any other zygote look like an adult member of its species.
It is reasonable to assume that the unborn of human parentage receives his or her human nature, not only before birth, but from the first moment of conception. Since the zygote is a natural, complete entity, it must be said to have a nature from the first moment of its existence, which is at conception.
3. ". . . all men are created equal . ." There would be no change in meaning, should the word "person" be substituted for men.
6. Person: "a human being, body of persons, corporation, partnership or other legal entity recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties."
9. "Embryology is the study of the human organism in its immature condition, i.e., from the fertilized ovum up to the period when it assumes an independent existence." "Gray's Anatomy."
"Ovum"... The egg or female sexual cell, from which, when fecundated by union with the male element, a new individual is developed." "Steadman's Medical Dictionary"
"I will maintain the utmost respect for human life, from the time of conception; even under threat, I will not use my medical knowledge contrary to the laws of humanity." General Assembly of the World Medical Association, Declaration of Geneva, 1958.
"The birth of a human life really occurs at the moment the mother's egg cell is fertilized by one of the father's sperm cells." Life Magazine, April 30, 1965.
"That we, the medical profession, hold to the principle of the sacredness of human life and the right of the individual even though unborn is proof that humanity is not yet lost and that we may ultimately obtain salvation." Dr. Joseph B. DeLee, M.D., "The 1940 Year Book of Obstetrics and Gynecology, p. 69."
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Since rights can belong only to persons, it is important to know that every human being, even those waiting to be born, are persons. It would be quite Un-American to deny anyone his or her rights, especially the right to life! The following thoughts could be helpful in reassuring you that, despite the confusion manifest in, and engendered by, Roe v. Wade, the offspring of human parentage, even from conception is, indeed, a person and possessor of rights.
Let us begin by considering the human individual: To be an individual thing "in the world of nature" is to be something complete in itself, possessing whatever belongs to it by its nature, and not possessing anything that doesn't. Applying this definition to the human being, several distinctions must be established. The first of these clarifies whether what is, or is not, possessed is something essential, or merely incidental, to the individual. An amputee lacks what belongs to him by nature, but the missing arm or leg does not destroy his human individuality. It merely destroys his physical integrity.
Whether the brain is an essential or merely an integral possession of the human individual may, in turn, depend on the stage of that individual's development. An adult, having lost all of his brain except the brain-stem (medulla) in an accident, might well have died at the moment of impact and is no longer a human individual, even though circulatory and respiratory functions may still be evident. In the case of early development, before the schedule of nature prompts the maturing individual to construct his or her brain, the absence of a brain is not a denial of his or her human individuality. A brain is not necessary at that stage of development, and the offspring does whatever need to be done, without it. The very concept of a maturing organism presupposes that some structures and their corresponding functions, found later, will not be present in earlier stages, except in the capability of the organism to produce them when scheduled by its nature.
It will be helpful here to review the soul's function of integrating the organism. What is the integrating principle which causes an organism, at all stages of its development, not only to be an individual, but to remain the same individual? The same question might be asked about an atom of gold or a molecule of carbon-dioxide. Living things might appear more complicated, but the problem is the same: What makes the thing to be an individual thing? The companion question is: what makes it to be an individual of a specific kind?
It is the quantitative integrity (exclusivity) of a material thing which reveals its individuality. That which reveals its specificity and incorporates it into "the world of nature" is its nature. It is our human nature which expresses our human personhood. And it is that nature (species status) which an offspring of human parents possesses, by genetic inheritance, at the time of his or her conception.
Going a step further, we seek the cause of individuality and specificity in any natural thing. Is it not likely that whatever causes it to be a thing of a certain kind also specifies the quantitative parameters proper to that kind of thing? Aristotle attributes the ultimate specificity to what he calls the "formal cause" of the thing. In the case of living things, the formal cause is the soul (psyche, Gk.) of the organism, the source from which specific, vital activity emanates. From this it would be evident that any organism is of a given kind (its species) because of its soul, which expresses itself through the unique nature of that organism. It should be evident, then, that a human soul should be required for being human, and for a human being to express his or her specific uniqueness through human nature, in accordance with his or her stage of development.
To summarize these thoughts briefly: It belongs to us, as human beings, always to be persons, in the fullest sense of the word and not, as Roe v. Wade gratuitously asserts, sometimes "not persons in the full sense."


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The crew of Barry Dock and Burnham-on-Sea RNLI were called out to a boat on fire in the Bristol Channel.
The fire had started on board a 45 foot ex Watson Class lifeboat that is now in private use. The volunteer crew from Barry Dock RNLI were called to assist just after 4pm on Thursday (14 July). Burnham-on-Sea inshore lifeboat was also called to help.
Winds were approximately force 3–4, with moderate seas but with heavy Bristol Channel chop.
When Barry Dock RNLI lifeboat arrived on scene, the crew of the Watson lifeboat had put the fire out. A lifeboat crew member went aboard the boat which was now drifting and without engines. When it had been confirmed that the fire had been made safe and the crew of the fire damaged lifeboat were safe and well, Burnham-on-Sea lifeboat returned to their station and left the bigger Barry Dock all-weather lifeboat to tow the old lifeboat back to harbour.
Barry Dock RNLI lifeboat and the ex Watson Class lifeboat arrived in Barry around 6.30pm. The Fire Brigade were on hand to check that the fire was safely out.
By 7.15pm, the Barry lifeboat was ready for its next service and the crew were able to return home.
The RNLI is a charity that relies on public support to carry out its lifesaving work. If you would like to organise a fundraising event to help save lives at sea, please contact the Chair of the Fundraising group, Chris Tutton on 01446 732195.


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Q: Is implementing an OnAction() handler on a right-click action even possible? Is implementing an OnAction() handler on a right-click action even possible? This is for a DropDown object created programmatically.

A: You can look at WindowBeforeRightClick
Public WithEvents appWord as Word.Application

Private Sub appWord_WindowBeforeRightClick _
 (ByVal Sel As Selection, Cancel As Boolean)
 Dim intResponse As Integer

 intResponse = MsgBox("Selection = " & Sel & vbLf & vbLf _
 & "Continue with operation on this selection?", _
 vbYesNo)
 If intResponse = vbNo Then Cancel = True
End Sub

Or customizing the right-click menu
I have not tried either.


The most important village in the region to the north is Monolithos (monolith means 'single stone' in Greek), the stone here being a 700 foot crag rising out of the sea, 2km west of the town, with a castle on top,(left) built by the Grand Master d'Aubusson. Within it a stairway spirals to the top along with the 15th century chapel of Aghios Yiorghios, the latter with some frescoes. Views are magnificent and include the islands of Alimnia and Halki , and can be enjoyed also from a couple of tavernas up there. 5km of winding (though paved) road below the castle is is the bay of Fourni, with shaded sand and gravel beaches , though swimmers must beware the strong currents. Around the headland are early Christian cave dwellings. The town itself offers little except some rooms and the views of the bay below from the tavernas.
Siana is the next town on the road after Monolithos, built below the summit of Mt Akramytis, (825 meters/2706 feet), which is Rhodes second highest mountain. It is a very appealing village with stone houses ,some with clay roofs, built on a hillside. There are wonderful coastal views from this town (and views of islets as well). It is known for its delicious wild pine and sage honey and for its 'suma' (a local spirit similar to raki or tsipouro-both in turn similar to Italian grappa). Both the honey and suma can be sampled in the local village kafeneia. Take a look inside the beautiful church of Aghios Panteleimon with its restored 18th century frescoes while in this village. Mt Akramytis has been proposed (along with Mt. Atavyros, Rhodes highest peak-see below) as a nature reserve since 1994 by the local Association for the Protection of the Environment. The road approaching it from the north (from Kritinia) passes through dense forest on its lower slopes.
Embonas is famous for its tobacco, wine, olives, dancing and festivals, with some of the best paneyiria (saints' day festivals) on the island. Though some of the older folk still wear traditional costume, the reputation as a traditional village has made the folklore a bit self-conscious, with busloads of tourists headed that way to see it 'presented'. The wine cooperative CAIR is here, as well as Emery Winery, founded by a local family during the 1920s. The tasting room of the latter is open Monday to Friday until 3pm. They have a good red wine with the name Cava (which usually means wine cellar or liquor store) with 12.5% alcohol, made from a local grape call mandilari or amorgyiani, but it is their white 'Villare' which has given them fame, the latter made from an indigenous grape called athiri, which grows at 700meters altitude on the slopes of Mt Atavyros, the island's highest peak (1215meters/almost 3000 feet). This mountain can be climbed (if you are very hardy) in three hours from Embonas, but is not an easy climb in any case. A temple of Zeus Atavros was built there but not much remains. Aghios Isidoros is up here, with vineyards and tavernas, and is less touristic than Embonas.


As we all know, the Gaza Strip is under siege since almost ten years. Israel is banning Palestinians from travelling through its crossings to the West Bank and the rest of the world.
Egypt from the other side, is not opening the Rafah Crossing as it must, that leaves the Gazan's unable to travel except according to the "wishes" and decisions of the Egyptian government.
Recently, the Israeli occupation authorities, announced that it will be more "nice" with the citizens of Gaza, and that it will allow them to travel through its borders to the West Bank and then through the Allenby crossing to Jordan and consequently to the rest of the world.
Only one hundred Palestinians can travel per week, and should be for either treatment in outside hospitals, or for studying abroad, or for special or private meetings or visits.
For those who are going to study, the thing might be ok, but if I want to go for treatment or for visit or meeting, how can forced to stay 12 months, why in the hell must I stay abroad for one year.
Movement and free of movement is something holly according to international law and agreements.
Allowing Palestinians to travel from the besieged Strip, is a "nice" thing, a good headline for the news, good propaganda for an occupation authority, but the details in general are not clear for so many people not only in the world, but even to many Palestinians here in Palestine.
In this step, the occupation still brutal, inhuman authority, because this permission is conditioned with hard conditions, and people may not allowed to return back if the occupation authorities decide so.
One of the very hard conditions is that any one wants to leave , he can't return before one year, and will not be able to return, except after a very complicated "security check" , which gives these authorities the justification to ban any one from returning to his homeland under the so called "security reason".
The Gaza Strip is part of Palestine, but its citizens are not allowed to live in the West bank, they are not allowed to visit the other part "the West Bank" of their own country except by a permission "which is very difficult to get" from the occupation authorities. Students from Gaza are not allowed to come and study in the universities of the West Bank.


Ten Guilds, One Destination! A massive puzzle spans the city-world of Ravnica, and all ten guilds race to be the first to crack the mystery. Rumors abound that whoever navigates the maze of clues could command world-shaking power. Will your guild take the prize?


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The Lives of the Lords Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England ...
Por John Campbell Baron Campbell
Councillors all readily signed except Cranmer, who at last had the weakness to yield (as he confessed) against his own conviction.*
01, Goodrich then affixed the Great Seal to the patent, (JUNE 21.]
Neid and Northumberland, having got possession of it, confidently expected forthwith to reign under the name of his daughter-in-law.t
Edward's strength henceforth declined so rapidly as to create a strong suspicion that poison assisted in hastening his end,-probably without foundation, for his feeble constitution had been undermined by consumption, which it had been for some time foreseen must, ere long, disappoint the hopes which the nation had enter(A. D. 1553.]
52, tained of the coming felicity of his reign. He ex
000) pired on the 6th of July, but his death was kept secret for three days, while preparations were made for the accession of Queen Jane, and steps were taken to get the ladies Mary and Elizabeth into the power of Northumberland the usurper.
Goodrich was allowed to retain the Great Seal as Chancellor, without any fresh appointment, and he heartily concurred with Northumberland in all the steps which were taken to carry into effect the new settlement of the Crown. The Lord Mayor, six Aldermen, and twelve principal citizens of London were privately summoned before the Council, and he read to them the patent for changing the succession, explained its provisions, and enforced its validity. He then required them to take an oath of allegiance to the new Sovereign, and dismissed them with an injunction not to betray the secret, and to watch over the tranquillity of the city.
On the fourth morning the Chancellor rode with the other Lords of the Council to Sion House, to do homage to Queen Jane, who was herself still entirely ignorant of her cousin's death, and of her approaching elevation. The Duke of Northumberland having announced to her the astounding intelligence, the Chancellor and other Councillors all fell on their knees,—declared that they took her for their Sovereign, and swore that they were ready to shed their blood in support of her right. When she had recovered from the swoon into which she fell, they intimated to her that she must, according to the custom of English Sovereigns on their accession, repair to the Tower of London, there to remain till her coronation; and they accompanied her down the Thames in a grand state barge which had been prepared for her, all the great
* The Archbishop's signature appears the first, and then the Chancellors; that of Cecil (afterwards the celebrated Burleigh) was the last, and it was so placed as to give him the pretext to which he resoried, that he signed only as a witness.Burnet, vol. vi. pp. 275, 276.
† Upon his trial for high treason in Mary's reign, although he could not contend that Jane had been so far sovereign de facto as to entitle him to the benefit of the statute of Hen. VII., he tried to defend himself by this commission under the Great Seal, which he contended amounted to a pardon; but the Court held that it had no force, being contrary to an act of parliament, and that it could not pardon future treason to be committed after the King's death.-See Burn. xi. 243.
officers of the Court and the principal part of the nobility joining in the procession. In the evening a proclamation was published, superscribed by Jane as Queen, and countersigned by the Chancellor, setting forth her title ; and she was proclaimed by the heralds without any opposition, but without any acclamations from the people.
A messenger arriving next day from Mary, as Queen, commanding the Council, on their allegiance, to give immediate orders for her proclamation, the Chancellor and twenty-one Councillors, Cranmer being of the number, sent an answer, directed to the " Lady Mary," requiring her to abandon her false claim, and to submit, as a dutiful subject, to her lawful and undoubted Sovereign. They likewise sent a mandate to the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Essex, where Mary was now mustering forces, which, after cautioning him against assisting the rebels, thus concluded : "Requiring your Lordship nevertheless, like a nobleman, to remain in that promise and steadiness to our Sovereign Lady Queen Jane's service as ye shall find us ready and firm with all our force to the same, which neither with honour, nor with safety, nor yet with duty, we may now forsake."*
But intelligence was in a few days received at the Tower that the Duke of Northumberland, who had marched with an army to suppress the insurrection, was deserted by his troops; and that the nobility, the gentry, and the commons, satisfied with a declaration of Mary, that she did not mean to change the national religion, were flocking from all quarters to her standard, and joyfully acknowledging her as Queen.
The Chancellor and other Councillors, in great alarm, now left the Tower under the pretence of receiving the French Ambassador at Baynard's Castle, but, in reality, with the intention of sending in, as speedily as possible, their adhesion to Queen Mary, in the hope of pardon. Having summoned the Lord Mayor and a deputation of Aldermen, the discussion was commenced by the Earl of Arundel, who declaimed against the ambition of Northumberland, and asserted the right, by birth and statute, of the two daughters of Henry VIII. The Earl of Pembroke then drew his sword, exclaiming, "if the arguments of my Lord of Arundel do not persuade you, this sword shall make Mary queen, or I will die in her quarrel." He was answered with shouts of approbation.
Goodrich thereupon declining to act any longer as Chancellor, delivered up the Great Seal to the Lords Arundel and Paget, that
y The date is " Tower, July 19." The signatures are,
" Cranmer.
"Lord W. Paget.
" T. Ely, Chancellor, "Marq. Winchester,
si The Earls of Suffolk. and nine Knights.
" Pembroke.
" Arundel,
Strype, 918.
they might carry it to Queen Mary to be disposed of as her Grace should deem proper.* They immediately framed a recognition of Mary as their lawful Sovereign, which was signed by all present, including the Duke of Suffolk, who had joined them, and the whole body rode through the streets in procession, proclaiming Queen Mary at Paul's Cross, and all the principal stations of the city.
The Earl of Arundel and Lord Paget immediately afterwards [ July 20. 1
1 set off for Framlingham, where Mary then was, and
I riding post all night, next morning delivered into her hands the Great Seal, the clavis regni, and she was so pleased with the gift and the accompanying news that she immediately granted them forgiveness. At the same hour Jane, leaving the Tower, returned to Sion House after a nine-days' dream of empire.
By some historians she is reckoned among the Sovereigns of England. Goodrich most undoubtedly acted as her Lord Chancellor, although there was not time to make a new Great Seal with her style and insignia upon it.
He was beset with great terrors from the part he had ostensibly taken in concocting the patent to change the succession; but, partly from his sacred character and partly from his real insignifi. cance, he was not molested, and he was permitted to retire to his diocese. His zeal for the Reformation now so far cooled that he offered no opposition to the restoration of the old religion effected by Mary, and he retained his bishopric till his death, which occur
i, red on the 10th of May, 1554. In the lottery of | A. D. 1904. | life some high prizes are appropriated to mediocrity, and he was the holder of a fortunate ticket.
We ought here to take a retrospect of changes in the law, and of the administration of justice during the short reign of Ed. ward VI. In the history of our religious establishment, it is the most memorable in our annals, for now indeed the Reformation was introduced, and it may be important to remember that this was done by the legislature, without any concurrence of convocations, and against the almost unanimous wish of the heads of the church.
The criminal law was improved by repealing a number of Henry VIII.'s fantastical treasons, and by enacting that in every prosecution for treason the overt act should be proved by two credible witnesses.t At the commencement of the reign an act passed from which no very favourable inference can be drawn as to the morals, habits, or accomplishments of the English nobility in the middle of the 16th century. House-breaking by day or by night, highway robbery, horse stealing, and the felonious taking of goods from a church, having been msde capital offences, it was provided, "that any Lord or Lords of the parliament (to include
* Rot. Cl. 1 Mary, p. 7.
f 1 Ed. 6. c. 12. 5 & 6 Ed. 6. c. 11.
Archbishops and Bishops,) and any Peer or Peers of the realm having place and voice in parliament, being convicted of any of the said offences for the first time, upon his or their earnest prayer, though he cannot read, be allowed benefit of clergy, and be discharged without any burning in the hand, loss of inheritance, or corruption of blood."* It seems strange to us that this privilege of peerage should have been desirable, or should have been conceded; but it continued in force till taken away by an act passed after the trial of Lord Cardigan in the reign of Queen Victoria.
Edward's chancellors, without any statute for that purpose, took upon themselves, in many instances, the exercise of legislative power. Thus in April, 1549, Lord Chancellor Rich issued a proclamation under the Great Seal, addressed to all justices of the peace, enjoining them "to arrest all comers and tellers abroad of vain and forged tales and lies, and to commit them to the galleys, there to row in chains during the King's pleasure;" and by similar proclamations rates were fixed for the price of provisions, penalties were imposed on such as should buy bad money under its nominal value, ard the melting of the current coin was prohibited under pain of forfeiture.f
The attainder of the Seymours shows that the ruling faction sould still perpetrate any atrocity through parliamentary or judicial forms. Nevertheless, in this reign, able judges presided in Westminster Hall, and between party and party justice was equally administered. The prejudices against the equitable jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery subsided, and although hardly any of the decisions of the Chancellors are preserved, — till nearly the close of the reign (when there were heavy complaints of the inexperience of Goodrich) — they appear to have been satisfactory to the public. $
CHAPTER XL.
LIFE OF STEPHEN GARDYNER, LORD CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND,
FROM HIS BIRTH TO THE END OF THE REIGN OF HENRY VIII.
We pass from a Chancellor appointed on account of his insignificance, that he might be a tool in the hands of others, to a man of original genius, of powerful intellect, of independent mind,- at the same time unfortunately of narrow prejudices and a relentless heart, — who had a powerful influence upon the events of his age, and left a distinguished name to posterity. Thomas Goodrich was succeeded by the celebrated STEPHEN GARDYNER.
*1 Ed. 6. c. 12.8 .10.14.
† 2 Strype, 147. 149. 341. 491.
Dyer's Rep. Moore's Rep.
The extraction of this extraordinary man has been matter of (Aug. 23, 1553.]
562 great controversy. The common statement is, ho, 10] that he was the natural son of Lionel Woodville, Bishop of Salisbury, brother of Elizabeth, the Queen of Edward IV.; while others insist that "he came of poor but honest parents." So much we know, that he was born at Bury St. Edmunds in the year 1483, under the reign of Richard III.
No account has reached us of his schooling, and the first notice of his education represents him as a most diligent student at Trin. ity Hall, Cambridge. There he made great proficiency in classical learning, devoting himself to the school of the " Ciceronians," then in high fashion. At the same time he laid the foundation of his future advancement by the profound skill he acquired in the civil and cannon law. In 1520 he was admitted a Doctor in both faculties, and soon after he was made Master of Trinity Hall. Having a son of the Duke of Norfolk under his care, he acquired the friendship of that great noble, and was introduced by him to Wol. sey, then in the plenitude of power as Chancellor to Henry VIII. The Cadinal was much pleased with the manners and accomplishments of the academic, — and, with his usual discernment, concluded that he might be made useful in the public service. Gardyner was very willing to change his career, for even with a view to advancement in the church there was then no such certain road for churchmen as secular employment.
He began with being the Cardinal's private secretary, and showed dexterity in managing the public correspondence and the private affairs of his patron. We may judge of the confidence reposed in him from the terms in which he is spoken of by Wolsey, who calls him "primarium secretissimorum consiliorum secretarium, mei dimidium, et quo neminem habeo cariorem."* The treaty of alliance with Francis I. in 1525 being projected, Gardyner was employed to draw up the projet, and the King coming to his house at Moor Park, in Hertfordshire, found him busy at this work. Henry looked at it, liked the performance well, the Secretary's conversation still better, and his fertility in the invention of expedients best of all. From this time Gardyner was consulted about (A. D. 1522.]
599, the most secret affairs of State. Soon after he was
"I made Chaplain to the King, and speedily Almoner, when he was admitted to Henry's closest familiarity and intimacy.
The question of the divorce from Catherine of Aragon coming [A. D: 1525.]
5951 up, Gardyner's consequence was much enhanced
20.] from his high reputation as a jurist and canonist. Misled by his ambition, and eager to conform to the King's humours, he now, and for several years afterwards, took a part of which he deeply repented when he became the great supporter of Papal power in England, and the Chancellor and Prime Minister of the daughter of Catherine. He not only gave a strong opinion
* Burnet, Ref. No. VIII.


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Fashion | Mar 25, 2015
Is Lanvin For Sale?
Reports say the brand's majority owner is selling her stake.
Lanvin's owner, Shaw-Lan Wang, is rumored to be considering offloading the luxury fashion house. According to WWD, "Madame Wang has received expressions of interest to acquire Lanvin, as in the past years, but she didn't respond."
The publishing magnate was also reportedly making an "informal approach" to a family of investors in Asia about possibly selling her stake; however, no official talks have taken place.
It was in 2001 when the Taiwanese businesswoman acquired Lanvin from L'Oréal, and hired Alber Elbaz as creative director the same year with a vision to rejuvenate the brand and expand in Asia.
Where do you think the French brand is headed to?
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This reads like a draft for a Harvard Business Review article.
Thanks John. That post took about 6-8 hours, way more than usual.
Glad you're still posting here. Stellar writing!
Awesome post – but I think there is another case for the direction paradox, one that doesn't take a black and white approach, but rather takes case 1 and case 2 – molds them together to form a tangent from the suggested direction of the board – one the CEO agrees with. I think this can be done through smart negotiation and persuasion on the CEO's part. I think this is what makes a 'lasting' CEO – and all CEOs do it to some extent.
Life is never as black and white as model of it (or a blog post). There are million shades of gray in between advice and direction — persuasion and compromise being popular ones. Sometimes one party can convince the other. Sometime you can split the difference easily (e.g., let's grow 50%, no let's grow 60% — ok, let's split it at 55%) and sometimes you can't (e.g., let's change the business from a enterprise platform to a consumer service). But yes, negotiating, finding common ground, demonstrating that both sides are listening and having a healthy dialog are all important parts of the mix. In fact, to your point, it's when people "dig in" to positions and stop dialog when trouble starts.
It's a good lesson in human nature. People want you to help them solve their problems, sometimes they just need to be shown an avenue for productive involvement.