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Q: Javascript hiding and showing dynamic content of a div Currently I hide and show the content of a div like this:
var header = null;
        var content = null;
        var mainHolder = null;
        var expandCollapseBtn = null;
        var heightValue = 0;

        header = document.getElementById("header");
        content = document.getElementById("content");
        mainHolder = document.getElementById("mainHolder");
        expandCollapseBtn = header.getElementsByTagName('img')[0];

        heightValue = mainHolder.offsetHeight;

        header.addEventListener('click', handleClick, false);
        mainHolder.addEventListener('webkitTransitionEnd',transitionEndHandler,false);

        function handleClick() {
            if(expandCollapseBtn.src.search('collapse') !=-1)
            {
                mainHolder.style.height = "26px";
                content.style.display = "none";
            }
            else
            {
                mainHolder.style.height = heightValue + "px";
            }
        }

    function transitionEndHandler() {
        if(expandCollapseBtn.src.search('collapse') !=-1)
        {
            expandCollapseBtn.src = "expand1.png";
        }
        else{
            expandCollapseBtn.src = "collapse1.png";
            content.style.display = "block";
        }
    }

This is fine if the content is static, but I'm trying to populate my div dynamically like so.
This is called from an iphone application and populates the div with a string.
var method;

            function myFunc(str)
            {
                method = str;
                alert(method);
                document.getElementById('method').innerHTML = method;
            }

I store the string globally in the variable method. The problem I am having is now when I try expand the div I have just collapsed there is nothing there. Is there some way that I could use the information stored in var to repopulate the div before expanding it again? I've tried inserting it like I do in the function but it doesn't work.
Does anyone have any ideas?
to replicate:
Here is the jsfiddle. jsfiddle.net/6a9B3 If you type in text between
 here  it will work fine. I'm not sure
 how I can call myfunc with a string only once in this jsfiddle, but if
 you can work out how to do that you will see it loads ok the first
 time, but when you collapse the section and attempt to re open it, it
 wont work.

If the only way to fix this is using jquery I dont mind going down that route.

A: is it working in other browsers?
can you  jsfiddle.net for present functionality because it is hard to understand context of problem in such code-shoot...
there are tonns of suggestions :) but I have strong feeling that
 document.getElementById('method')

returns wrong element or this element not placed inside mainHolder
update: after review sample in jsfiddle
feeling about wrong element was correct :) change 'method' to 'info'
document.getElementById('method') -> document.getElementById('info')

A: I think you want to use document.getElementById('content') instead of document.getElementById('method') in myFunc.

A: I really see nothing wrong with this code. However, a guess you could explore is altering the line
content.style.display = "none";
It might be the case that whatever is displaying your html ( a webview or the browser itself) might be wiping the content of the elemtns, as the display is set to none


Life's not all grim! Touch keyboards are real fun and they make you think in a completely different way about keyboard playing- odd at first- but the technique starts to change and grow. Here is me playing the MacBeth micromac-r unit and the olde 'vaporware' protoype unit with the mere 1 octave prototype job. To your right the planned three octave controller- now with now stylus, earthing yourself to ground or anything like that-0 it's now 'touch capacitative' and pure analogue!


Various IoT solutions are being developed in ASEAN countries.
Malaysian companies have begun offering three solutions: flood disaster, power management, and smart agriculture.
Both of these problems are very important for Malaysia and are issues to be solved.
In Vietnam, efforts to smart agriculture and automatic driving vehicles are progressing.
Developing countries do not just incorporate technologies popularized in developed countries as in the past, but now they are doing their own technological development. This is due to the fact that it is an industrial field of "IT" that is no required a huge fund and using open technology, besides technical information is available to engineers by the Internet.
In the future ASEAN countries will come up with many examples of solving their country's unique problems with IT technology in that country.
I think that it is time to think about once again what sort of fields Japan can contribute to the development of the world.


The news wires today are buzzing with stories about another potentially major credit/debit card breach at yet another retail chain: This time, the apparent victim is AB Acquisition, which operates Albertsons stores under a number of brands, including ACME Markets, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's and Star Markets. Today's post includes no special insight into this particular retail breach, but rather seeks to offer answers to some common questions regarding why we keep hearing about them.
Why do we keep hearing about breaches involving bricks-and-mortar stores?
Credit and debit cards stolen from bricks-and-mortar stores (called "dumps") usually sell for at least ten times the price of cards stolen from online merchants (referred to in the underground as "CVVs" or just "credit cards"). As a result, dumps are highly prized by today's cyber crooks, and there are dozens of underground "card shops" online that will happily buy the cards from hackers and resell them on the open market. For a closer look at how these shops work (and how, for example, the people responsible for these retail break-ins very often also are actually running the card shops themselves) see Peek Inside a Carding Shop.
Okay, I'll bite: Why are dumps so much more expensive and valuable to attackers?
A big part of the price difference has to do with the number of steps it takes for the people buying these stolen cards (a.k.a. "carders") to "cash out" or gain value from the stolen cards. For example, which of these processes is likely to be more successful, hassle-free and lucrative for the bad guy?
1. Armed with a stack of dumps, a carder walks into a big box store and walks out with high-priced electronics or gift cards that he can easily turn into cash.
2. Armed with a list of CVVs, a carder searches online for stores that will ship to an address that is different from the one on the card. Assuming the transaction is approved, he has the goods shipped to a guy he knows at another address who will take a cut of the action. That is, *if* the fraudulently purchased goods don't get stopped or intercepted along the way by the merchant or shipping company when someone complains about a fraudulent transaction.
If you guessed #1, you're already thinking like a carder!
Snap! But it seems like these breaches are becoming more common. Is that true?
It's always hard to say whether something is becoming more common, or if we're just becoming more aware of the thing in question. I think it's safe to say that more people are looking for patterns that reveal these retail breaches (including yours truly, but somehow this one caught me– and just about everyone I've asked — unawares).
Certainly, banks — which shoulder much of the immediate cost from such breaches — are out for blood and seem more willing than ever to dig deep into their own fraud data for patterns that would reveal which merchants got hacked. Visa and MasterCard each have systems in place for the banks to recover at least a portion of the costs associated with retail credit and debit card fraud (such as the cost of re-issuing compromised cards), but the banks still need to be able to tie specific compromised cards to specific merchant breaches.
Assuming we are seeing an increased incidence of this type of fraud, why might that be the case?
One possible answer is that fraudsters realize that the clock is ticking and that U.S. retailers may not always be such a lucrative target. Much of the retail community is working to meet an October 2015 deadline put in place by MasterCard and Visa to move to chip-and-PIN enabled card terminals at their checkout lanes. Somewhat embarrassingly, the United States is the last of the G20 nations to adopt this technology, which embeds a small computer chip in each card that makes it much more expensive and difficult (but not impossible) for fraudsters to clone stolen cards.
That October 2015 deadline comes with a shift in liability for merchants who haven't yet adopted chip-and-PIN (i.e., those merchants not in compliance could find themselves responsible for all of the fraudulent charges on purchases involving chip-enabled cards that were instead merely swiped through a regular mag-stripe card reader at checkout time).
When is enough enough already for the bad guys?
I haven't found anyone who seems to know the answer to this question, but I'll take a stab: There appears to be a fundamental disconnect between the fraudsters incentivizing these breaches/selling these cards and the street thugs who end up buying these stolen cards.
Trouble is, in the wake of large card breaches at Target, Michaels, Sally Beauty, P.F. Chang's, et. al., the underground market for these cards would appear to most observers to be almost completely saturated.
For example, in my own economic analysis of the 40 million cards stolen in the Target breach, I estimate that the crooks responsible for that breach managed to sell only about 2-4 percent of the cards they stole. But that number tells only part of the story. I also spoke with a number of banks and asked them: Of the cards that you were told by Visa and MasterCard were compromised in the Target breach, what percentage of those cards did you actually see fraud on? The answer: only between three and seven percent!
So, while the demand for all but a subset of cards issued by specific banks may be low (the crooks buying stolen cards tend to purchase cards issued by smaller banks that perhaps don't have such great fraud detection and response capabilities), the hackers responsible for these breaches don't seem to care much about the basic laws of supply and demand. That's because even a two to four percent sales ratio is still a lot of money when you're talking about a breach involving millions of cards that each sell for between $10 to $30.
Got more questions? Fire away in the comments section. I'll do my best to tackle them when time permits.
Here is a link to AB Acquisition LLC's statement on this latest breach.
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A few days ago I got an email from BofA telling me that there had been a breach and they would be replacing my card. No word on which vendor had the breach – there weren't that many, but I can't narrow it down to one. The catch is that the card being replaced is an EMV card, and the costs of replacing those things is quite a bit more than the costs of replacing a non-EMV card.
The upside is that I now have a suitable subject on which I can perform my own experiments. A good amount of data on an EMV card can be read from a properly constructed Windows application – that's a starting point.
As a previous poster I'm not sure how to understand "I estimate that the crooks responsible for that breach managed to sell only about 2-4 percent of the cards they stole (…) what percentage of those cards did you actually see fraud on? The answer: only between three and seven percent!".
Does it mean that from the (surprising small) subset of actually sold card the fraud rate was above 100% ?! Or 3 to 7% of the card actually sold (at that would be a really low number IMHO) ?
The percentage is a reflection of the percent of fraud that the issuing bank has seen in the cards they have identified as having been exposed during the timeframe estimates they were provided. Those exposure estimates are seldom giving with great accuracy. Most compromise timeframes are not know exactly and often the estimates stretch over many months.
Because of the window of exposure is a guesstimate the rate of fraud will vary. Many banks also reissue cards relatively quickly, which quells the rate of fraud.
In a well executed breach we could see close to 100% which was the case with RakBank and Bank of Muscat in Oman in 2013 resulting in millions of dollars in fraud in just hours.
The point has been made that millions of cards have been compromised. Some have been reissued and some have not. Carder sites provide fraudsters with tools to test their samples before they purchase. From that point its up to fraud detection solutions and consumers to spot behavior.
Most banks can spot elevated fraud early, the difficulty is determining the common point of the breach, which becomes more difficult as larger retail chains are attacked as this is where most legitimate purchases are also made.
The largest fallacy is criminals primarily purchase high ticket items. The top 3 most common locations for fraud are Grocery, Pharmacy's and Home Improvement stores. All sell tens of thousands of Gift Cars. Electronic stores are in the top 10, but not the primary target.
As large retailers close the door on Mag Stripe fraud will drift down to the weaker smaller merchants. The pain of fraud will most certainly be the death nell for many post October 2015 if they have not converted over to Chip.
I think for sharing purposes, the best approach for everyone is to share use cases for detection. A small retailer/company might have some Security Operation Center or techie Administrators that can help the define the newly acquired use cases . Armed with the information (use case for detection) on what to detect, we can help mitigate immediately the problem. So, again, big companies should share their use cases on detecting such fraudulent actions.
These are high tech crimes, thus, need high tech response.
So for years debit cards have been replacing cash for a few reasons, but mainly convenience and security. So you do not have to go to the bank as often and you don't have to worry about being mugged for your cash. But what if the security issue flips and the public sentiment changes because it is now riskier to use debit than it is to use cash, plus by using cash you gain side of your privacy back. Does the pendulum swing back in the other direction and counterfeiting start to overtake card fraud?
Thanks for this analysis! Just a minor correction, though: the October 2015 deadline set by MasterCard and Visa is for chip cards, but that can include chip + signature cards as well as chip + PIN cards. My bank sent me a replacement card this spring with a chip, but no PIN. That made it useless when I was in the Netherlands and tried to buy a train ticket from a machine. I've heard that one reason US banks don't want to use chip + PIN is that the PIN is programmed into the chip and can only be changed by an ATM equipped to do so, and since most Americans don't travel abroad, the banks think that the convenience for people like me would be outweighed by complaints from people who don't get the PIN they want and can't change it. Retrofitting all of a bank's ATMs would be an expensive proposition.
•Effective October 1, 2017 – Liability will shift in the U.S.
Most banks are also useing this opportunity to also shift off Windows XP.
FYI, in the U.S. Mastercard is going primarily Chip & PIN; whereas, Visa is going primarily Chip & Sig.
The EMV device detects whether a PIN or signature is required. I've been using EMV's without PIN in Europe.
The interest of the banks to have full control of the customers by making them use cards, is way higher than their interest in security. I dont believe MC and Visa will change much in their business model. Use cash as much as you can and as long as you are able to! The idea of the banksters and their political lobbyists is to limit cash alltogether. Countries like Italy have been limiting it already down to 1000.-€/withdrawl ( not ATM but counter!) Dont believe in all these "safety" snakeoil talks, avoid these cards as much as possible. The gangsters will always be ahead. Chip&PIN wont make a difference.
Someone asked me if EBT (food stamps) cards are also vulnerable in these attacks. Does anyone know the answer to that?
Magnetic Stripe Cards – use additional verification (SMS Code/Authy) to approve a transaction. This will reduce fraud.
Yup! Cowchip-N-Pen is nothing but a big expensive fail. There are much cheaper technologies that would get us to the same goal, and at least if they failed too – we the consumer wouldn't be left holding the big expensive FAIL bag!!
Yes, EBT cards could also be captured; however, how does a carder in for esample Russia convert it to money. What is the cards value since it can only be used in certain states to perform in person fraud. You can't purchase stuff with EBT online. Given what foodstuffs and household goods you can purchase; what could you resell to make money? There isn't enough profit in the carder distribution chain at this time for them to be a target.
Shawn — Thanks for your reply. That makes sense.
No US state EBT card allows for the purchase of gift cards. If the online retailer is accepting EBT cards for gift cards that's on them. Unless you are talking about SNAP which is different.
Even though the crooks were in Rassia, 80% of the cashout happens here in US. Banks should work together with law enforcement to get these buyers in prison; We can easily get video footage from big relailers and track down these people who performed fraudulent transactions.
Without these 'buyer', no matter how many cards hackers steal, it will be worthless or at least worth less to them.
A number of years ago a friend had his credit card stolen. He learned of a fraudulent charge not far from his office. He knew the dat and time. The cops wouldn't do anything, so he went to the store. Security showed him the surveillance tape and he spotted the thief. He still couldn't get the cops to go take a look.
I have had the identical experience, as have a number of other people that I have spoken with. In the US at least there is virtually zero prosecution of credit card fraud by any level of law enforcement, primarily because the credit card company isn't interested in getting involved at all.
What most people do not understand is that today all credit card fraud is charged back to the merchant – the banks and credit card processing companies do not accept any liability. Anyone in the US with even the most basic business insurance policy has coverage for credit card fraud. So all they lose is the deductible. Hence, nobody is all that interested in prosecution. So the police (correctly) see it as pointless to get involved.
The "liability shift" that people think is going to happen with EMV cards in the US isn't much of a shift from today. The merchant that accepts the card gets stuck with the bill if the card is fraudulent. In a small number of situations – very small – the issuing bank does have to accept liability, and these are generally limited to the card properly validating but the account not being active. Otherwise, the process is simple – the card is processed (correctly), identified as a fraudulent transaction and a chargeback is issued to the merchant who loses the money from the sale, the goods and a chargeback fee on top of it all.
I had the same issue when someone stole my checkbook and wrote a bunch of bad checks. I went to the bank and filed reports on the checks they wrote to themselves and cashed at the bank. They had to use valid ID to cash them. I went to the police and their fraud expert told me that the bank had to file charges because they mostly just wrote off the losses, and would not bother to show up in court.
Brian – relative to card dumps, have you seen any recent increase in card dumps being uploaded for sale in the underground…as it relates to the recent SUPERVALU and Albertson's events? Thanks.
Considering the monetary and consumer confidence cost associated with these data breaches is huge why haven't more companies and financial institutions switched to two-factor authentication? I understand the infrastructure cost and ongoing management is significant but I don't think it compares to the cost of a data breach.
Here's a new one, and it's big.
I concur with RSS. I have a couple of things to add to this. It has taken Europe 10 years + to fully implement EMV. I believe they are at 93-94% implementation now.
The US market may face a similar time line. I also agree the mom and pop shops will face the risk exposure and liability because they did not have time/ money to convert to 2015 implementation date.
What is not stated in this article is AFD's don't have a liability shift until late 2017 from my understanding, criminals will place focus on pumps for exploitation unless the AFD's plan on having EMV in place by 2015 which probably won't occur at that time.
End result is by the time this is fully implemented I believe the miscreants will have their next vehicle in place for fraud because they always look for customer convenience loopholes to exploit!
I think that's a fair theory. Most hackers are looking for the "easy win." How can they do the most damage in the least amount of time for the least amount of work? Is security is getting upped across the board by Oct 15 why not hit as many retailers as you can now and get away with what you can?
An IT professor told me that chip-and-pin POS systems are only slightly harder to hack than the systems currently used in the U.S. Can someone please confirm or refute that opinion?
I cannot understand one simple thing. Why can't every vendor enforce policies like showing ur ID card at the time of payment? I encountered something similar at a restaurant in Vegas this year. Is there a loop hole in it? Even if someone manages to forge the name on the card, the receipt will still have the original name. Please correct me if I am wrong.
When the stolen card credentials are counterfeited, the thieves can emboss or print any name they want on the face of the card…so it will match the ID they are carrying.
Yes, I understand that. But as I have mentioned in my comment, would not the receipt generated after payment still contain the name of the original card holder? Correct me if I am wrong?
So, the name on ID, Credit Card and the receipt should match, provided the receipt fetches the name of original card holder and not the one on counterfeit card.
Another thing i forgot to mention is the merchant isnt liable for the fraud loss so they have no reason to stop it. A fraudster is just another customer to them.
Correct, the merchant isn't really liable but this is because of insurance, not because the credit card bank or processor is taking the hit. In reality nobody is taking the hit. Which is why it is nearly a victimless crime in the US that isn't prosecuted – unless the come across someone with 1000 credit card blanks in their car. You can get yourself in trouble if you try something on a large scale, but the small scale thief isn't prosecuted. I know about this because I have tried to get people with stolen cards to get some sort of consequence.
None of my receipts (at least the ones I have not yet unloaded from my wallet right now) have my name. IIRC this information isn't even returned to the vendor when the transaction is verified.
Most Carders only copy Track 2 data to a counterfeit card. Track 2 data does not have the name stored on the magnetic strip. In that instance no name would appear on the receipt. Advanced Carders will also change the Track 1 data, if that is what they purchased, before the re-encode their cards. The POS reads the Track 1 data (name) and will display the Fraudulent name on the receipt.
You need at least Track 2 data to process a transaction.
Hi Brian. Do I understand correctly that only 2-4% are likely to be sold, however you're hearing that 3-7% are getting hit. If so, any insight into how the gap is being monetized by the data sellers?
Brian, does anyone maintain a list of at least suspected companies with breaches?
This is getting silly! Around 6/15 I had BOA call me and say one of the vendor's databases was breached, I had to get a new card.
I just about got all my auto billing fixed and blam! Same call last week. Right as I start vaca (with a restricted card).
Has there been any attempt at introducing law to compel these companies be disclosed? It seems completely wrong companies can remain anonymous when they've compromised OUR data.
I think banks will have to start issuing packs of cards to consumers. Use them till they get burned then go on to the next!
I've get a new email from CERT every week about Backoff. The latest one says more than 1000 entities, mostly small businesses, have been affected.
So, how to report which entities have been compromised, when the list is so long?
Hmmm you link took me to the wrong article…..
Where is the PCI consortium who have dragged there feet on Chip and pin or other newer technolgy that is newer than Mag stripe 1970's technology. I guess credit card shareholders know what is best for american public. Does not seem to be working so welll, IS IT????
Phooey on Cow-chip-N-Pen! That is too big and expensive to fail! There are newer technologies that make more sense. If I were a shill I would repeat them ad-nausem, but I get tired of everyone screaming for an expensive tech that will cost the customer greatly, and still fail, and cause the liability to shift to the customer for no real good reason.


My father's family comes from the Azores and I enjoy World War II history, so found this article fascinating about the role the islands played in the war effort.
Reading aloud as adults. Love this. Also: bookworms might live longer, which means more time for reading!
In Maine, the French language clubs unite people across generations and nationalities. Just another reminder that our differences are really just perceptions and that we all have more in common than we realize at face value.
The world's smallest monuments. Many in Europe, but who knew there was a mini Washington Monument in a manhole!
Speaking of monuments, if you haven't seen the movie The Monuments Men, I highly recommend it. It's fairly accurate about how a group of curators, art historians, conservators, etc. helped find and save so many European artworks that the Nazis took from museums, Jewish families, and public buildings during World War II. The book that the film is based on sits on my to-read shelf, but in case you are curious about the history and people, this article is a great resource too.
I have storage bins in my attic with things from my childhood like stuffed animals or objects associated with memories. I often open the bins to try to get rid of things, but then I think about wanting it for the future, so this article on the psychology behind the stuff was interesting to me. Of course, I don't consider this stuff clutter because it's nicely organized in the attic. If I could see it everyday, I might think differently. Related: How to see if your ( or your parents'/grandparents') stuff has value.
Patton Oswalt on grief. I can relate to so much of this and cannot agree more about not knowing the battles that people are going through. If the death of my Dad taught me anything, it's that every person is dealing with something and you often don't know it, so kindness matters all the time. It was amazing to me when my Dad passed away that even people who were going through tough things like a childhood friend who was dying of cancer took their time to send me a note.


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In the kitchen, Pakhi discuss with Mosmi that Naksh was tensed because of Rimjhim. She had seen a helplessness in Naksh's eyes, it seemed as if he wanted to say something.
During the aarti, Naksh prays for Pakhi's safety. Pakhi and Naksh silently speak to each other. Pakhi wonders what he is hiding. Naksh thinks he is helpless and will have to face this problem on his own. After Naksh had left, Pakhi prays to God to show her some way to the truth. She can see something in his eyes, but he is surely hiding something.
Naksh comes to the room. Rimjhim sat on the bed in yellow dress wearing earrings. He recalls a few memories with Pakhi when she wore dress of same color. He had unpinned her hair, then put a black mark under her ear. He had said he fears his own bad-eye might catch her beauty today. He cheerfully calls Pakhi talking to her in a day dream. Rimjhim was at once alert and asserts she is his Rimjhim. She murmurs when he will get over Pakhi's ghost. She asks him to get ready as they have to go. Naksh says he doesn't want to go, and he won't. Rimjhim says he will have to come, else how everyone will know he has accepted her. Naksh was assertive, but Rimjhim reminds he has no other option.
Later, Naksh comes upstairs and hears Pakhi's cough from her room. He goes inside to check. Pakhi was hiding behind the door, she holds Naksh close to herself and circles her arms around his neck. Naksh backs up shouting what is this behavior. Pakhi says his voice is bitter, but she is sure he wants to say something to her. Naksh silently thinks this is unfair, she can't read his heart so easily.
Pakhi says she loves him so much, she can sense he has something to say. Naksh thinks that's most important for him, her life. He is going to his real wife, Rimjhim who loves him truly. Pakhi gets a cough again. Naksh gets her medicines as the doctor had said her tonsils would worsen otherwise. Pakhi asks how Naksh knows she had tonsils. Naksh says her cough depicted that. Pakhi sense this was about his memory from the time of their second marriage. Naksh shouts at Pakhi what's the huge matter, it seems Pakhi has lost her mind. Pakhi asks why he is irritated, because of Rimjhim. Naksh interrupts Pakhi not to fool him, she may take the medicine if she wish to. Pakhi says it was never difficult for her to read his face, he himself is well aware of the fact. Naksh silently leaves. Pakhi thinks her doubts are turning to reality.
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Pakhi comes there to help Mamta. She runs into the kitchen and brings a glass of water for her. She takes her head in her shoulder and curses Rimjhim for her inhumane behavior.
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Outside the room, Rimjhim warns Pakhi for one last time. Naksh is hers and will always remain so. His memory will never be back.Pakhi wonders how Naksh knows that Naksh's memory won't be back. There is surely something.

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Senate Room, University of Glasgow
We are delighted to welcome Professor Richard Blundell, University College of London and Institute for Fiscal Studies, as the first guest speaker of our Distinguished Speaker series of 2022. Professor Blundell will talk about the challenges of inequality and the Covid Crisis. The seminar is open to all and will include a Q&A session.
Far from pushing inequality down the agenda, the Covid-19 pandemic has reinforced the need to deal with the challenges posed by inequality. It has highlighted many existing inequalities - in education, training, income, work, health, savings and wealth. At the same time opening up a new fissures in society along dimensions that were previously less significant – working at home, digital access, space at home. Will there be a new emphasis on building a fairer society even with the challenge of doing so with unprecedented levels of (peace time) debt? Or will the impact of the pandemic spur further rises in inequality? Furlough and increases in welfare-benefits have provided a temporary shield and the vaccine success has helped speed up recovery, but severe longer-term inequality challenges remain.
Professor Sir Richard Blundell, CBE FBA holds the David Ricardo Chair of Political Economy at University College London. He is Director of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). His published papers on microeconometrics, consumer behaviour, savings, labour supply, taxation, public finance, innovation, and inequality have appeared in the top academic journals. He was an editor and panel member of the IFS Mirrlees Review: Tax Reform for the 21st Century. He is currently editor and panel member of the IFS-Deaton Review: Inequality in the 21st Century.
Further information: business-events@glasgow.ac.uk
First published: 8 February 2022
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CELTIC-L May 2012
Re: flood of email and coins
John Hooker <[log in to unmask]>
Thu, 24 May 2012 07:39:04 -0600
Thanks for clarifying some of my "shorthand" -- "The Celts leaving..." I
give as the events leading up to the Roman mopping up operations of 192
BC in Italy.
On 5/24/2012 5:43 AM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Hi folks,
> Just a few things that I think need clarification.
> First off the Celts--taking them as a whole--do not move away from the Mediterranean region.  They were seen as a constant threat to the Romans in Italy, Gaul, Asia Minor and Spain for much of the era of the Republic, inflicting a number of defeats on the Romans along the way.  In fact, one could make the argument that the Romans fought the Celtic peoples for a longer period of time and conquered a larger area of their lands than any other people they faced.
> The Romans generally perceived them as barbarous, but that does not mean that they were nomadic.  It is a common misconception that the Celtic peoples whom the Romans encountered were primarily engaged in transhumant agriculture rather than putting land under the plow.  Not true.  In fact, in most cases, they were in settled communities tilling the soil.
> The Romans were forever ticked off at the Celts for the disastrous sacking of Rome by Brennus in 387 BC.  Afterwards, the Romans treated the Celts very harshly, though would often use them in a variety of allegiances if it was to their advantage (see the campaigns against the Carthaginians in Spain).
> With regards to Britain, Caesar did cross the Channel as part of his Gallic campaign, but it was up to Claudius to put on a full scale invasion.  The usual reasons given are that Claudius needed a triumph of some kind to secure his position in Rome, and Britain was chosen.  In this way, Claudius could claim that he had extended the frontier of the Empire to the furthest reaches of the known world as a "new Alexander".
> Be that as it may, the process was slow.  After some initial successes, the province was in rebellion until Agricola became governor and made his famous conquests, as recorded by Tacitus, in 77 AD.  He more or less pacified the Britons in the West and made a punitive expedition through Caledonia.   Famously, he looked over to Ireland, which he could see from the Scottish shore, but decided that was for another day.
> Hope that helps clear a few things up...
> Best,
> Dave
> "Some men see things as they are and say 'Why?' I dream things that never were and say, 'Why not?'" George Bernard Shaw/Teddy Kennedy at the eulogy of RFK, 1968
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: John Hooker<[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: flood of email and coins
> Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 15:40:54 -0600
> Hi Fiona,
> On 5/23/2012 11:56 AM, FIONA GIOLLARUA wrote:
>> Hi John
>> Thank you for your discourse!
>> It certainly seems , in some ways, that the downfall of the Celtic
>> British tribes was due to greed (wanting to dominate trade with Rome
>> in thier own tribal area, and diminish or delete existing Roman trade
>> with neighbouring tribes.)
> Well, the concept of greed is so subjective. To the people involved, it
> might have been seen as economic survival. Everyone was doing that sort
> of thing back then. The Celts first got to see it when providing troops
> for Dionysius I of Syracuse in about 400 BC. Dionysius was a tyrant who
> sold out other Sicilian cities to the Carthaginians to favor his own.
> Yet, he was also the sort of person who would invite one of his laborers
> home for lunch if he thought the man was hard working or conscientious.
> He was also a bit of  a "Nero", thinking of himself as talented in the
> arts. He paid well for the best people, but would also loan them to his
> allies (He loaned troops, most likely including Celts, to the Spartans
> against the Athenians). Taras was a Spartan colony, and much later, the
> Celts help defend that city. Carthage (Phoenician Colony) was concerned
> about Massalia (Phokaian, Asia Minor Colony), and the Etruscans (orig.
> somewhere in Asia Minor) It was all about resources and trade control.
> After the Celts left the Mediterranean area, the successes of their
> private armies must have been diminished. As Rome started to trade
> further north, inter-tribal disputes could be resolved better by
> bestowing or denying trade advantages. Military solutions might still be
> needed, so you would expect a number of smaller armies to merge and
> serve ever-more powerful leaders. These same leaders would understand
> that their own survival depended more on trade than on warfare and would
> be looking for ways to "diversify". Being warriors at heart, they would
> tend to be inspired by military precedents used as metaphors for
> economic power. The coin evidence supports this picture in many ways. We
> have to ask where Cassiuellaunos got all of that gold, making coins
> whose designs copied Gallo-Belgic C, but whose metallurgy shows the
> primary source of the metal to be Gallo-Belgic E -- The Belgic tribes
> contemporary wartime currency.
>> Did Rome invade Britain for economic reasons, such as  inter-tribal
>> warfare and squabbles interupting trade with Rome? Or did Rome invade
>> on the premise of Roman might and the need to ever expand the
>> frontier? (not to mention personal glory for the Emperor)
> As Caesar said, it was because the British had been supplying
> reinforcements to the continental Celts. It would seem most likely that
> Cassiuellaunos was at the apex of that business. Caesar might have also
> wanted to impress, but that could have been just icing on the cake for him.
>> How much trade between Rome and Ireland occurred? Or do we know? There
>> seems to be some scant evidence that there was some kind of trade
>> going on...
> There seems to have been at least a couple of Roman military visits, but
> nothing seems to have come from them. A number of Roman artifacts could
> have arrived, second-hand by visits from Britons and been given as
> souvenirs and the like.
>> And perhaps the whole picture is far more complex.
> I don't doubt it!
> John
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Among the more weird and remarkable stories we can report is Stellantis is keen to promote and make waves in a new developing market. Stellantis, the global auto-making company that owns Jeep, Ram, Dodge, Chrysler, among other brands is making a signing to push into the aircraft-manufacturing business. This is an undertaking that will add a new pathway and deal with Archer Aviation Inc. to help build an electric flying taxi; yes, our faithful supporters, that's correct. This is the future hitting us in the face.
What Makes Stellantis Opt For This Business?
The two forward-thinking companies published this week that Stellantis would assist Archer, a publicly traded air-mobility company created back in 2018, move into this plan. These are some details of the press release that added some details to the deal. Keep in mind, these aren't small drones; they are full-scale aircrafts with decent-sized wings flying through the sky. Such a picture will be the setting for a not too distant future.
"Stellantis' continued recognition of Archer's progress toward commercialization, and today's commitment of significant resources to build the Midnight aircraft with us places Archer in a strong position to be first to market. Our two companies are taking these important steps together to realize a once-in-a-generation opportunity to redefine urban transportation," Archer founder and CEO Adam Goldstein remarked in the press release.
Impact of A New Merge Partner
This move takes on different waves. For Stellantis, they will have many investments. Stellantis has already seen their efforts not go to waste and reaped the benefits compared to last year this time. The squaring of these brands shows the commitment towards a slew of promising developments. Not to mention the stellar amount of investments towards pursuing new vehicles and money infused towards the production side of things, including a massive $3 billion dollar infusion to pursue EV batteries at a new state-of-the-art battery factory plant. Just take a glimpse at the plans that have been in the works for the Dodge for example. As for Archer, a manufacturer's key part, Midnight, the model built by the factory, is expected to launch soon. As the aviation company has grown, they have plans to recreate their growing success in Georgia. In a statement about the process, the effort is aimed and "designed to be safe, sustainable, quiet, and … can carry four passengers plus a pilot."
The joint venture press release added that the Midnight will fly at most 20 miles but will have a 100-mile range for back-to-back trips and the all-electric aircraft will require a charging time of about 10 minutes in between flights. That's relatively very little time and will do much more work and remove the need of cars that provide traffic just for Uber eats, or so, we speculate. Hopefully this service helps Stellantis further ahead growth towards their new electric vehicle ensemble for decades to come. Just look at the next ones coming from Stellantis, like the new Jeep 4xe trims and PHEV rides are set to be incorporated all over the place in this decade. Check out the lovely line-up awaiting customers at NowCar!
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/**
 * @group Model
 * @group Service
 * @group Model_Service
 */
class Kwf_Model_Service_ModelTest extends Kwf_Test_TestCase
{
    private $_client;

    public function setUp()
    {
        parent::setUp();
        $this->_client = $this->getMock('Kwf_Srpc_Client',
            array('getColumns', 'getPrimaryKey', 'getRow', 'countRows', 'getRows'),
            array(array('serverUrl' => 'invalid'.uniqid())), '', true
        );
        parent::setUp();
    }

    public function testIsEqual()
    {
        $model = new Kwf_Model_Service(array('client' => $this->_client));
        $modelEqual = new Kwf_Model_Service(array('client' => $this->_client));
        $modelNotEqual = new Kwf_Model_Service(array('serverUrl' => 'http://service.kwf-projekte.vivid'));

        $this->assertEquals(true, $model->isEqual($modelEqual));
        $this->assertEquals(false, $model->isEqual($modelNotEqual));
    }

    public function testGetColumns()
    {
        $this->_client->expects($this->once())
            ->method('getColumns')
            ->will($this->returnValue(array('id', 'name')));

        $model = new Kwf_Model_Service(array('client' => $this->_client));
        $cols = $model->getColumns();
        $this->assertEquals(array('id', 'name'), $cols);
    }

    public function testCountRows()
    {
        $this->_client->expects($this->once())
            ->method('countRows')
            ->with($this->equalTo(array('name LIKE ?', "%hans%")))
            ->will($this->returnValue(4));

        $model = new Kwf_Model_Service(array('client' => $this->_client));

        $result = $model->countRows(array('name LIKE ?', "%hans%"));
        $this->assertEquals(4, $result);
    }

    public function testGetRows()
    {
        $this->_client->expects($this->any())
            ->method('getPrimaryKey')
            ->will($this->returnValue('id'));
        $this->_client->expects($this->any())
            ->method('getColumns')
            ->will($this->returnValue(array('id', 'name')));
        $this->_client->expects($this->once())
            ->method('getRows')
            ->with(
                $this->equalTo(array('name LIKE ?', "%hans%")),
                $this->equalTo('name'),
                $this->equalTo(10),
                $this->equalTo(30)
            )
            ->will($this->returnValue(array(
                array('id' => 13, 'name' => 'bahansl'),
                array('id' => 347, 'name' => 'hans'),
                array('id' => 4, 'name' => 'hansi'),
                array('id' => 8, 'name' => 'mahans')
            )));

        $model = new Kwf_Model_Service(array('client' => $this->_client));

        $fetchRowset = $model->getRows(array('name LIKE ?', "%hans%"), 'name', 10, 30);
        $rowsArray = $fetchRowset->toArray();

        $this->assertEquals(13, $rowsArray[0]['id']);
        $this->assertEquals('bahansl', $rowsArray[0]['name']);

        $this->assertEquals(347, $rowsArray[1]['id']);
        $this->assertEquals('hans', $rowsArray[1]['name']);

        $this->assertEquals(4, $rowsArray[2]['id']);
        $this->assertEquals('hansi', $rowsArray[2]['name']);

        $this->assertEquals(8, $rowsArray[3]['id']);
        $this->assertEquals('mahans', $rowsArray[3]['name']);
    }

    public function testGetRow()
    {
        $this->_client->expects($this->any())
            ->method('getPrimaryKey')
            ->will($this->returnValue('id'));
        $this->_client->expects($this->once())
            ->method('getRows')
            ->will($this->returnValue(array(
                array('id' => 3, 'firstname' => 'Max', 'lastname' => 'Muster'),
                array('id' => 13, 'firstname' => 'Hans', 'lastname' => 'Hermann'),
                array('id' => 4, 'firstname' => 'Foo', 'lastname' => 'Bar')
            )));

        $model = new Kwf_Model_Service(array('client' => $this->_client));

        $findRow = $model->getRow(3);
        $this->assertEquals(3, $findRow->id);
        $this->assertEquals('Max', $findRow->firstname);
        $this->assertEquals('Muster', $findRow->lastname);
    }

    public function testSelect()
    {
        $model = new Kwf_Model_Service(array('client' => $this->_client));
        $this->assertEquals('Kwf_Model_Select', get_class($model->select()));
    }

    public function testCreateRow()
    {
        $this->_client->expects($this->any())
            ->method('getPrimaryKey')
            ->will($this->returnValue('id'));
        $model = new Kwf_Model_Service(array('client' => $this->_client));
        $newRow = $model->createRow(array('name' => 'foo', 'type' => 'bar'));
        $this->assertEquals('foo', $newRow->name);
        $this->assertEquals('bar', $newRow->type);
    }

    public function testGetPrimaryKey()
    {
        $this->_client->expects($this->once())
            ->method('getPrimaryKey')
            ->will($this->returnValue('id2'));

        $model = new Kwf_Model_Service(array('client' => $this->_client));
        $pk = $model->getPrimaryKey();
        $this->assertEquals('id2', $pk);
    }

}

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The Napoleonic Saga
Few historical figures have ever risen to the heights Napoleon I did. Like Alexander the Great or Julius Cesar in the Antiquity, Napoleon marked history and shaped our contemporary society in a way we often don't even see.
As May 5, 2021 marks the bicentenary of his death, we wanted to explore with an extraordinary several-week-long trip his life and exceptional destiny and separate his critics from his admirers to see the reality behind the legend.
When we think about Napoleon Bonaparte, most of us usually think about the military genius and visionary leader heir of the French Revolution who raised to power by defeating all his enemies over and over and imposing himself as Consul and then crowned himself Emperor of the French in 1804. Yet, some think only about the despot whose thirst for power tore down republics across Europe with the blood of millions and reestablished slavery.
The problem is nothing with Napoleon is simple, especially when we look at him with our modern eyes (after all, he is close enough to us to dare compare with our contemporary times). He was the man who stabilised France and ended the terror of the French Revolution, and at the same time, he shut it down. Almost every aspect of his personality is a maddening paradox, which is probably why he is so fascinating. But if we want to better understand the man and his time, we must look at him with fresh eyes.
This is precisely what we want to do by exploring with a gigantic tour that will take us in the Emperor's footsteps, from Corsica to Paris, from Milan to Madrid, from Austerlitz to Moscow and Waterloo and finally, Saint Helena. A tour made of several chapters, each one of them exploring a facet of Napoleon with the help of some of the most renowned experts in the world as well as heirs of the Imperial Family so you can grasp the complexity of one of the most influential figures in history while visiting what's off-limits for everyone else.
The Napoleonic saga (and our journey) begins on the island of Corsica before it became French territory with a family of Italian origins descending from a minor Tuscan family who emigrated to Corsica in the 16th century. It was here, in this Corsica, that has been newly conquered by the French that Napoleone was born on 15 August 1769 while his parents were part of the Corsican resistance fighting the French to maintain the 14 years independence of the island.
During his youth, the future Emperor of the French was an outspoken Corsican nationalist and a supporter of the island independence from France. He spoke and read Corsican (as his mother tongue) and Italian and only began learning french when he moved to the mainland to study at a religious school in Autun and then transferred with a scholarship to a military academy at Brienne-le-Chateau when he was 10.
The Napoleon of the early years was routinely bullied by his peers for his accent, birthplace, short stature, mannerisms, and inability to speak French quickly and yet, despite becoming reserved and melancholic, his talent opened him the doors of the prestigious Ecole Militaire in Paris where he trained to become an artillery officer and graduate in 1785. Just 4 years before the outbreak of the Revolution that will change the course of history and his own destiny.
In the early years of the French Revolution, Napoleon joined his mentor Pasquale Paoli and got involved in a complex three-way struggle in Corsica between royalists, revolutionaries and Corsican Nationalists. However, he came to embrace the Revolution's ideals and became a supporter of the Jacobins, coming into direct conflict with Paoli's policy and aspirations of secession, ultimately forcing him and his family to flee to Toulon in 1793.
How does one go from being a simple captain on a small island to successfully take power in Paris with a coup d'état only 6 years later?
This is one of the chapters of the incredible saga of Napoleon Bonaparte we want to immerse you in. A chapter to discover all the characters who shaped Napoleon's destiny and the events that precipitated his ascension to power because, as you well know, this wasn't the work of a single man nor a matter of luck.
A chapter in Paris where we will be visiting several incredible places that never open to the public, like the tunnels of the Hotel des Invalides the mob stormed in search of weapons on 14 July 1789 or see precious treasures like the original of the Declaration of Human Rights and the obscure Constitution of the Year VIII establishing Bonaparte as First Consul, the first of the constitutions since the Revolution without a Declaration of Rights.
Our third chapter will take us to explore Napoleon's life and see him conquer power. From the moment he was appointed senior gunner and artillery commander of the republican forces in Toulon, we will see him rising in the army ranks with his bold military genius and incredible political intuition. This was, by no means, an easy journey. It was only when Paul Barras, a leader of the Thermidorian Reaction who knew of Bonaparte's military exploits in Toulon, gave him command of an improvised force to defend the Tuilleries Palace that his destiny was sealed. From the moment where he quashed the royalist insurrection of October 1795, it will take Napoleon only 4 years to become the First Consul (putting an end to the French Revolution) and then 5 more years to crown himself Emperor in Notre-Dame de Paris.
Napoleon's military career lasted more than 20 years, and out of more than 70 battles he fought, he only lost 8 (most at the end of his reign), making him one of the greatest military commanders of all times (if not the greatest). But why was he so brilliant, and how did he really win all those battles, often against armies surpassing his in number? We will try to answer this question with an incredible chapter that will take us to visit some of the Napoleonic Wars' battlefields with some generals and experts in military strategy to guide us.
From Nice (French Riviera), we will follow in the footsteps of the Army of Italy and see how their general defeated all his opponents and conquered all northern Italy. In the Southern Czech Republic, we will explore the Battle of Austerlitz (near Slavkov u Brna) and how this battle redrew the borders of Europe. In Spain, we will see through Francisco Goya's eyes the disastrous campaign of Spain and, finally, in Belgium, Napoleon's final defeat in Waterloo (we can extend this chapter to visit Egypt, Germany, Poland and Russia).
But Napoleon was more than just a military genius and an ambitious (and skilled) politician. He also profoundly in love with his first wife, Josephine and, out of that legendary love story, France saw the birth of the Empire Style that revolutionised the arts during his reign. With a chapter about Empress Josephine and the arts, we will explore all this and the profound changes Napoleon made to society and how his vision is still the backbone of France.
The last chapter of our Napoleonic Saga will take us to explore the end of his reign. His first exile to the Island of Elba (that we will visit), the reconquest of power without firing a single gunshot, the defeat of Waterloo and his last years exiled in Saint Helena. A journey through some of the most incredible years of the history of France (and the world) with fantastic private visits to famous palaces such as Versailles, Fontainebleau, Compiegne and the Chateau de Malmaison as well as cultural institutions such as the Hotel des Invalides where you will be able to see some incredible treasures no one else can, including the Napoleon Relics (3 legendary objects that have never been on display or showed in exhibitions).
Our last stop will be Saint Helena Island for a once in a lifetime experience. Here, on this tiny remote tropical island in the South Atlantic Ocean, 1,200 miles west of Angola and 2,500 east of Rio de Janeiro (one of the most isolated places in the world), you will have the incredible privilege of spending a weekend in Longwood house where Napoleon spent the last years of his life. It is here where Las Cases wrote the journal-memoire of the beginning of Napoleon's exile: The Memorial of Saint Helena. During our stay in Longwood House, we will see how the fallen Emperor spent his last years reflecting on his life and reign before dying on 5 May 2021.
While dictating his memories to Las Cases, Napoleon said: "My life, What a novel!" and he was absolutely right. A novel we are turning into an outstanding trip to pull back the veil of the legend and discover the real man behind the myth - a man with his parts of light and shadow that forever changed the course of history.
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The tedium that bored into my soul as I watched The Lady in the Van was complex, like the description of Miss Shepherd's odour that opens the show. A touch of resignation, leavened by whiffs of frustration and impatience. A slight tinge of anger. And what has always been for me the essence of dead theatre, a gnawing despair.
The drawcard of Miriam Margolyes, coupled with a status-worthy name like Alan Bennett, saw this show sell out in advance, posting a season extension even before it opened. The Melbourne Theatre Company is likely to consider it a huge success. And I suppose it is, if one considers theatre to be an adventure into corporate public relations.
It's no mystery why the MTC, despite being a subsidised state theatre, has to stage box office hits: government subsidies account for less than 10 per cent of its income, and the rest has to come from somewhere. The argument goes that marquee shows like The Lady in the Van are the financial poles that hold up the tent of adventurous art.
Looking at the 2019 season, there seem to be more poles than art. Anything that might be labelled "adventurous" is either sequestered in the Lawler Studio or has been well tested elsewhere. Even so, this doesn't explain the particular nostalgia that seems to infect this year's program: as well as The Lady in the Van, which was written in 1999, there are two film adaptations, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Shakespeare in Love, that date from the late 20th century.
I guess these shows are designed to appeal to, well, my demographic, Gen X; or at least that portion of it that is presently heading into their well-heeled fifties. It's also not my demographic: I'm from the part that, after a life spent in the arts, is more likely to be contemplating Miriam Margolyes' artfully filthed-up costumes and wondering if I, too, will end up as an odiferous inconvenience in someone else's driveway.
Alicia Clements' design is beautifully lit by Matt Scott, and has everything that opens and closes or rotates. The first minute or so is a breathtakingly lovely sequence: a set adorned by a single Victorian street lamp gives way to a seated nun playing the piano. As she glides across the stage, another light comes up on the writer, seated in his chair. It has a kind of grace that is squandered through the rest of the production, which features constellations of lamps, levitating vans, and actors on platforms that are effectively mini-sets continually skating across the stage.
As most people probably know by now, especially after the 2015 film (which featured another Harry Potter star, Dame Maggie Smith), The Lady in the Van is an autobiographical story. In 1974, a homeless woman called Mary Shepherd moved her van into the driveway of Alan Bennett's newly purchased home in the then arty London suburb, Camden, and stayed until her death 15 years later.
After she died, Bennett began to find out intriguing snippets about her life: that she had been a nun, that she had been a pianist. His diary entries became an article that turned into book, which then became a play, which was adapted into a film. So I guess in the end she paid her rent.
The two of them (or the three of them, as Bennett is split into two characters, the Writer and the Actual Person Living His Life, respectively played by James Millar and Daniel Frederiksen) keep a formal distance: they only touch once, on one of the few times he loses his temper. Between them this distance is expressed in honorifics: he is always Mr Bennett, she is Miss Shepherd. In the film, which was perhaps where this whole exercise was always heading, there's a sense of relationship between the hapless playwright, who is also dealing with his increasingly demented mother, and the overbearing homeless woman who leaves her turds in his front yard. Or, at the very least, a sense of reciprocal exploitation.
There's a very British heartlessness lurking in the centre of this play that Dean Bryant's over-produced staging inadvertently exposes. Miss Shepherd is a parasite, tactically and determinedly wending her way to Bennett's driveway. Bennett's willingness to accommodate her demands is characterised as timidity or laziness on his part. Or, perhaps, the predatoriness of the writer, who has, as he reflects later in the play, no life of his own and so must prey on the lives of others.
Margolyes' performance struck me, surprisingly, as somewhat muted: she plays the abrasive comedy, with a touch now and then of the pathetic, but somehow a more complex humanity never quite shines through. Likewise with Bennett's overly-cute double self portrait, which comes across as a simplistic cliché about writerly practice and ethics. (Or non-ethics). As with the smaller roles, which all rehearse satirical stereotypes of one kind or another – the working class thugs, the anxiously hypocritical liberal middle class, the dotty mother – it all reads as a series of caricatures, rather than characterisation.
To be fair to (the playwright) Bennett, this is more about the production than his play. The play has room for a certain nuanced warmth that would leaven this chilly view of atomised and alienated people, who live in proximity without ever developing any intimacy. It's a picture of two emotionally brutalised people: Bennett (the character/s) is a man frozen in adolescence, a peculiarly British phenomenon that the novelist Martin Boyd called the "pickled boy", while Miss Shepherd is a woman damaged by trauma and mental illness. Their relationship is built on their recognition of their mutual class – educated, middle class outsiders – as well as an unspoken admission of their mutual damage, that's expressed in the perversely respectful tact that marks a necessary distance between them.
Without this insight, all you get is heartlessness: the misogyny that lurks uncomfortably beneath Bennett's writing begins to jut over the surface and the social satire begins to feel a little too comfortable, a bit too much like laughing at the homeless and unfortunate. The overblown spectacle of sentiment with which it ends seems like an apologetic for the delusion and obliviousness that have led, inexorably, to the otherwise inexplicable insanity of Brexit Britain. If it weren't for all the overdressing – and, of course, the boredom – I'd almost suspect this was a subversive production. But it isn't.
Thanks for this, Alison. I was completely mystified by the design. Why the black tiled floor? Why the constantly gliding trucks and objects? The piece seems to be about someone who comes and stays, but nothing stayed put for more than a couple of minutes. I felt sorry for Miriam Margolyes who i thought did pretty well under the circumstances. I think a lot of the coldness was because the alienation that you describe in the two protagonists was never seen against an environment (however competed over it might have been). I suspect that Alan Bennett understands the dynamics of territoriality quite well and wrote them into the play. They just never appeared in this production.
Hi Tom – the design certainly dominated the whole production! It's interesting to compare the film – it's on Netflix if you're interested – which does give an idea of relationship between them (as well as the environment around them) that is missing here. I doubt I'd love this play even in the best circumstances, but it should be a lot more lively and human!


As my request for an extended check out was granted, I had time for a good one hours' rest at the Residence before meeting up my uncle's nephew Adam, whose family are true Kuala Lipis residents for generations. The place of the meet up was at the Pahang Club. A request that I made to my uncle was to visit it as it was the only place that I could remember when visiting Kuala Lipis for the first time in 1976. The Pahang Club was the first building to be built by the British in 1867 and became it's first administrative site in Kuala Lipis and it served as the first Residence of Sir Hugh Clifford who was then only the Superintendent of Ulu Pahang until the Residence building was built on top of a hill. It was a brief residence for the Kuala Lipis Police Chief until it became an elite social club in 1926.
The Pahang Club building turned into a high society exclusive club that was reserved only for high-ranking British officers, planters, miners and military officers where the dress codes were strictly adhered to at all times. It was also rumored that the British wanted to turn the building into a palace for the Malay royalty but the proposal was shot down by the royalties themselves. After the Independence of Malaya in 1957, the club opened membership to all, regardless of race and status.
Adam with his connections in Lipis managed to gain permission to visit the interior of the club which was like walking back in time.I could imagine the parties and events that took place there. The walls of the club were filled with portraits of the British royal family with the squeaky wooden planks squeaking with British government officers dressed in their monkey jackets, military officers with their medal-laden mess kits, ladies in evening gowns and long gloves smoking cigarettes with long filters walking smartly with glasses of gin and tonics and champagne in their hands respectively. The local waiters and bartenders smartly dressed in white shirts with black bow ties serving drinks and cocktails to their British masters and with the toast to the British monarchs being observed at the end of the dinners ending with the National Anthem ' God Save the King " being played by the military regimental band. On Sundays, the club was full of families enjoying themselves having picnics on the lawns, playing cards on the terrace, tennis at the nearby court and shooting billiards in the long bar room while having a pint of beer or two. The grandeur of the Pahang Club has disappeared over time and now what is left are used glasses in boxes and nearly empty rooms with one or two pieces of unwanted furniture .
Adam, the friendly person he is , offered himself as a tourist guide for the day and the next place that was visited was the former residence of the State Secretary. The house which is located on Bukit Bius and was built in 1920 was the former house of the second Prime Minister of Malaysia Tun Abdul Razak Hussien, where he served as the State Secretary of Pahang in the early 50s. Ironically his son, The Rt Hon Dato' Seri Najib Tun Razak who is currently the present and the sixth Prime Minster of Malaysia was born there. Presently the house has become a heritage museum where the memorabilia of the times that stood tall where things that were basic and used to serve its purpose with limited results. Personally, the interesting part of the museum was not it's exhibits but the building itself.
Adam being a local guy, began to show me places that were not printed or mentioned in the tourist blogs of Kuala Lipis. The first stop was at the two British graves that were situated in the middle of Kuala Lipis town where there were no explanation as to why it was located there. The next stop was the location of the living quarters of the railway staff. Located on the northern side of Lipis parallel to the railway line, the railway living quarters built in the late forties are still being used which were quaint looking and well maintained. Next on the list was the old wet market of Lipis which is located by the Jelai river and now turned into a complex of sundry shops. We then proceeded to the banks of the Jelai river to observe Patin (Silver Catfish) farms that were operating on a small scale.
The highlight of the 'off the beaten path' tour was the visit to the confluence of the Jelai and the Lipis rivers. The difference in the colours of the waters that separates the two rivers could be seen here. We observed this at the Tanjung Jati railway bridge, where the drive there was a short and interesting one, passing under the bridge that leads to the new part of Kuala Lipis and passing through a small village full of rambutan trees that were just beginning to bear fruits. Adam bade farewell as he had a prior engagement and I would like to thank him for his kindness and generosity for showing parts of Kuala Lipis' jewels that were not even known to locals of the younger generation of Kuala Lipis.
The next stop for the day was the Sekolah Clifford ( Clifford School ) and the Malay Hostel. I was lucky enough to befriend a teacher of the school at the Residence the night before and she cordially extended an invitation to visit the school.
One of Malaysia's stately schools, Clifford School goes back to the days of the British imperialism period. There are two main buildings which is the Clifford school building and the Malay Hostel that sits proud overlooking the banks of Lipis river. The Clifford School was first known as the Government English School and was opened in 1913. The official opening of the school was launched by Sir Hugh Clifford the then Resident of Pahang. In 1926 he became the Governor of the Straits Settlements and the High Commissioner of the Malay Federated States where the school was named after him.
The school also boasts notable students whom the present Sultan of Pahang, His Royal Highness Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah is an ex-student. Other notable ex-students were Tun Muhammad Ghazali Shafie the former Home and Foreign Minister in the Malaysian cabinet and also Dato' Siti Nurhaliza who is one of the famous Malaysian entertainers. During the Second World War, according to elders of Kuala Lipis , the Japanese Army turned the school into their headquarters and also a torture chamber where some executions took place.
The Malay Hostel was completed in 1926 and to me, is the most beautiful building in the school compound. It was originally a wooden building but due to floods the ground floor of the hostel was renovated and a concrete block was built and turned to classrooms. The second floor still remains wooden. The Malay Hostel was built to support the shortage of classrooms for the Clifford School and parts of it were turned into hostel rooms for the increasing number of students who were from the interior part of Kuala Lipis. Presently on the ground floor of the hostel there is a mini museum where artifacts of the school are exhibited there.
The Clifford School boasts a huge sports field and it was used to host Malaya Cup ( Malaysia's prestigious football tournament) football matches back in the forties and fifties when Kuala Lipis was the state capital of Pahang. The game of cricket was widely played on this ground during the times of the British Administration. Now the school is one of the schools chosen for excelling in the game of cricket by the Ministry of Education.
As it was dusk and also time to drive back to Kuala Lumpur, the last place that was visited was the Kuala Lipis District Administration building that is located on a small hill just beside the Clifford School. Built in 1919, it was the administrative centre for the state of Pahang where on the top floors were the offices of the Resident himself and his senior officers. The collection department of the Treasury of Pahang was located on the ground floor. Presently the Kuala Lipis District Administrative building houses the office of the Kuala Lipis District Council and also the Kuala Lipis Magistrate courts.
It was time to head back to Kuala Lumpur and I missed visiting a few more historical buildings in Kuala Lipis such as the Istana Hinggap which was once the residence of the Chief Minister of Pahang, the Residence of the District Officer and the Nurses Hostel. Insya Allah ( God Willing) I will return to Kuala Lipis to visit these buildings, as well as have wild Patin and Jelawat fish (Hoven's Carp) for dinner and to embark on the 'Jungle Railway' from Kuala Lipis to Tumpat, Kelantan .
Lama betul Clifford School dari 1913!


I have a simple answer to one of those problems, scrap FAS and give the money in the form of education tokens to the unemployed. The private sector or universities will be delighted to train them. That is a stroke of pen decision.
Well if you are on the Dole and someone hands you a 5K token for education you could do a degree or some other course that appeals to you. I dare say you are better able to pick and source a good course than some idiot in FAS.
They spent 900K per person on some courses in FAS without getting them jobs. 900K!
FFS just give the people with no jobs the money to retrain themselves, if they are worth employing they will figure out what to do with it. Anyone in FAS that is running a worthwhile course will thrive on the business they get so they have nothing to worry about.
FAS is an organised FFraud. I know of one private operator operating courses for them that gets paid a lot of money for nothing.
What course was that ?


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Current: A silver coin from the world's bloodiest shipwreck
Silver coin from the world's bloodiest shipwreck
On the morning of 4 June 1629, the Dutch East India Company ship Batavia was wrecked on Morning Reef in the Abrolhos Islands, off the coast of Western Australia.
It was the prelude to an extraordinary tragedy laced with depravity and barbarity.
Commander Francisco Pelsaert, the ship's senior officers as well as some crew and passengers, deserted 268 survivors on two arid islands whilst they went in search of water. Abandoning their hunt on mainland Australia, the party instead made their way to Batavia (modern Jakarta), to obtain help. The journey took 33 days.
On arrival, the high boatswain was executed on Pelsaert's indictment for outrageous behaviour before the loss of the ship. Skipper Adrien Jacobsz was arrested for negligence.
The Governor General of Batavia dispatched Pelsaert in the 'jacht' Sardam to rescue the survivors. With extraordinary bad luck, it took 63 days to find the wreck site, almost double the time it took the party to get to Batavia.
Once at the Abrolhos, Pelsaert discovered that mutiny had taken place. A small group of mutineers had massacred 125 men, women and children. Pelsaert arrested the mutineers and executed a number of them.
When the Sardam finally returned to Batavia, some of the lesser offenders, who had been flogged, keelhauled and dropped from the yard-arm as punishment on the voyage, were executed. Out of 316 people originally aboard the ship Batavia, only 116 survived.
The wreck of the Batavia was discovered some 300 years later in 1963. Around 9,000 coins were retrieved from the seabed, and only 1,442 (16%) of them are officially in private hands.
Consider the above statistics and you'll see just how rare these coins truly are. This example of a silver rijksdaalder clearly has a porous planchet (with a crack redolent of the 17th century production process), however the flan is full and round, and all of the major design elements on the obverse remain clear.
For mine, the knight's portrait, with the dress and regalia that is unique to the period, really is evocative of all of the history that this coin has.
The story of the Batavia is so compelling that it has inspired numerous books, documentaries and even scripts for a feature film or two.
You may recall I featured a rijksdaalder in a short video recently entitled 'What is Western Australia's first coin?'
- Andrew Crellin
Andrew Crellin's numismatic career began at The Perth Mint. Subsequently he spent over a decade in Sydney with two of Australia's leading numismatic dealers. In that time he wrote two acclaimed books on Australian numismatics, appraised The Perth Mint's archival collection and was nominated to the position of Secretary of the Australasian Numismatic Dealer's Association. Back in Perth, his company Sterling and Currency specialises in Australian coins and banknotes, from the Holey Dollar of 1813 through to the modern coin sets.
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Austin's 18-piece baroque pop collective Mother Falcon released their sophomore album, You Knew, earlier this month, and maybe it's a little too soon to get nostalgic feelings from their sound, but it sounds a whole lot more like it came out around 2006. It immediately brings to mind the time when bands like Broken Social Scene, Arcade Fire, and Beirut were some of the biggest breakouts in indie and tons of new bands felt like they needed just a little more violins and a little less guitar riffs. Now, those bands are either huge or on hiatus, so it's a little exciting to have a new band channeling that kind of energy. Especially since it should be pretty cool to see 18 people crammed onto a tiny stage.
And you'll be able to do just that in NYC this June, because the band have two upcoming residencies here. One happens at Manhattan's Joe's Pub on June 2, 9, 23, and 30 and the other happens at Brooklyn's Littlefield on June 4, 11, 18, and 25. [Can you fit 18 people on Joe's Pub's stage? – Bill] The 6/30 show at Joe's Pub and the 6/25 show at Littlefield will see the band performing Radiohead's OK Computer in its entirety (which they've done before), and the rest are all regular Mother Falcon shows. They've got a reputation for being a good live band too, which you can see for yourself in some live videos below (including one of them playing "Paranoid Android"). Tickets for all Littlefield shows and all Joe's Pub shows are on sale now.


The living room audio Receiver can be the most powerful part of your multiroom setup or its achilles heel. Any decent receiver connected to a pair of decent speakers can output higher quality music than most stand alone multiroom speakers. But what good will it do if they lack multiroom technology?
Im currently in the market for a new home theater receiver and multiroom support is a must. Along with support for 4K UHD, Audio return channel, 7.2 surround, HDMI 2.0, HDCP 2.2 and decoding of the usual HD audio formats. But without multiroom techniques, it would end up collecting dust for most part. Or i would have to buy an external streaming player and connect it to the receiver.
AVR-X1200W is part of Denons 2015 lineup and has Spotify Connect, AirPlay, Bluetooth and DLNA 1.5. Denons own Heos system is not built in. X1200W can drive speakers in a second zone if not all 7 speakers are in use for your home theater setup.
The output is 80W at 8 ohm. It has basic support for DTS Atmos (5.2.2), which can bring 3D surround with ceiling speakers. DTS X will come in a firmware update later this year.
The STR-DN860 has Google Cast, AirPlay, Spotify Connect, Bluetooth and DLNA. The STR-DN860 is fully integrated with Sonys multiroom system so it can be grouped together with Sony stand alone speakers, in their Song pal link app, to play music in party mode.
The output is 95W at 8 ohm. It also has Miracast. STR-DN860 does not have Dolby Atmos.
The TX-NR545 has Spotify Connect, AirPlay, DLNA and Bluetooth. Which are the same techniques that the AVR-X1200W supports.
The output is 65W at 8 ohm. TX-NR545 has basic Dolby Atmos support (5.2.2) in that two of its 7 speakers can be used for it. The TX-NR545 does not have DTS X.
From a multiroom perspective, the STR-DN860 is the strongest receiver with its support for Google Cast, AirPlay, Spotify Connect, Bluetooth, DLNA and works well with Sonys other multiroom products. The other two supports the same, except Google Cast.
From a home theater perspective, the AVR-X1200W is the strongest receiver with both Dolby Atmos and DTS X support. The TX-NR545 comes second, due to its Dolby Atmos support and the STR-DN860 third. Even though they all support the usual HD formats.
So the AVR-X1200W from Denon seems like the best overall choice, when weighing in both multiroom and home theater aspects. With the STR-DN860 from Sony as close runner up due to its even stronger multiroom support. But maybe the better integration with the other Sony products (and Google Cast) makes me go in that direction. Its a hard choice.
Intel Compute Stick seems like the multi-room DIY dream. Put it in a receiver and you get digital audio (and video) from a full fledged computer with the size of a (large) usb stick and the power footprint of a smartphone charger. Put spotify on it to enable Spotify Connect functionality and AirServer for AirPlay functionality. Pick your software choice for playing music from the device and your network. I will get back to this type of DIY setup in more detail in the future.
Bluetooth 4.0 is built in. It has a quad-core Atom processor, Windows 8.1, 32 GB of eMMC storage, 2 GB of RAM, HDMI, USB, a microSD slot and wireless 802.11b/g/n. All this for 149$. There is also a 1GB RAM/8GB memory Linux version priced at $89. Both arrive in march.
Philips adds the Spotify Multiroom Adapter SW100M to its existing Spotify Connect lineup.
The adapter can be connected to existing audio systems through analog (RCA) or digital (coaxial, optical). Then you'll be able to send music from your Spotify app on your smartphone to the adapter or send it to more than one Philips speaker/adapter in party mode.
It launches in Spring 2015.
Harman Kardon has a new addition to its Omni family of wireless audio products. The Omni Bar is a 2.1 soundbar and has its own wireless subwoofer. The system will cost $800 and arives in April 2015.
The Omni Bar connects to a TV through digital optical or HDMI, and connects to your home wi-fi network. It's controlled with Harman Kardon's Controller App. You can stream the same audio (including TV audio) to the rest of the Omni speakers in your system. As the rest of the Omni family, it supports playback of 24-bit/96kHz high-resolution audio.
The Omni system also gets more compatible services including Tidal, Qobuz, Tunein, Rhapsody and Juke, made available in April 2015.
Sony announces multiple speakers, support for Google Cast and a new Song Link app to control them with in a multi-room environment, up to 10 wireless speakers/devices.
Among them, the new Sony SRS-X99 wireless speaker that has Hi-Res audio, 154 Watts, supports Google Cast, Spotify Connect, Bluetooth and NFC. The SRS-X99 also supports Hi-Res audio up to 24bit/192kHz.
Sony uses a new LDAC codec that, they claim, transmits data three times more efficiently than Bluetooth.
A new speaker in LGs Music Flow series with rechargeable battery. The LG H4 Portable is their first wireless speaker with a built-in battery for easy portability in the home. Two Wi-Fi Sound Bars are also added to the Flow seris that aims to deliver rich, full and immersive audio — the HS7 provides HD sound while the HS9 offers deep acoustics.
Googles lanches a new audio streaming platform called Google Cast. It is the same technology as behind Chromecast that lets you cast your favorite music from your mobile device to compatible speakers. Use your Android and iOS tablets and smartphones, Mac and Windows computers to control the music directly from compatible apps like Google Play Music, Pandora, Rdio and programs like Chrome. It reminds a lot of how Spotify Connect works and of course Chromecast. The device tells the speaker what to play and the speaker then handles it from there. This marks the final step in Googles clean up after the failed Nexus q.
Compatible speakers will be available in the spring from Denon Heos, LG Music Flow and Sony. Google is also collaborating with audio chip designers and system integrators, so expect to see more Cast-friendly equipment later in the year.
SuperTooth multi-room audio system is the odd bird in the multi-room family with its bluetooth only approach. This makes the system simpler and thus cheaper to buy. The system includes up to five speakers placed around the home. The speaker system connects to SuperTooth's free multi-room app, from which a user can control both system volume and which speakers that are set to mono versus stereo.
Samsung shells the multi-room market with two artillery ammunition like speakers, the WAM6500 and the WAM7500. WAM6500 is a battery portable speaker and WAM7500 its bigger brother. Both are part of Samsungs Shape multi-room family. Both utilize a proprietary "Ring Radiator" technology that "allows sound to flow in a 360-degree radius, with the perfect balance between treble and bass." according to Samsung. The speakers were developed at their new audio lab in Valencia, California.
Finally, NYNE will demonstrate its new WiHi family of products that you can create a multi-room, multi-source audio experience with using both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, independent of a router or Internet connection.
Using the NYNE WiHi iOS and Android based apps, you can play your personal music from any source on your network such as a laptop, hard drive or any storage device to any room or all rooms. It also has built-in rechargeable batteries for use away from home.
Listen to your personal music from your smartphone, Internet radio, laptop, or any external device connected to the network. The NYNE Ally box features analog, optical and coaxial digital audio outputs with network access on any DLNA or UPnP server. Lets hope for support for services like Spotify in the future.


BattleTanks II is a combination action/strategy tank combat ga e where you can battle against up to 3 other teams of computer-controlled tanks,in one of 5 unique battlefields. BattleTanks II features three tank types to choose from,each with their own strengths and weaknesses.
There are any ways to winning a war in BattleTanks II.If you like being the commander of your army,you can sit back away from the action,directing your army's actions strategically.
can make sneak attacks,massive assaults,try weakening your enemy with artillery,and much ore.
With BattleTanks II,the possibilities are endless.
NOTE: Please view "KeyChart.pdf" for a graphical representation of the game keys.


Ground Floor Bungalow in Torrevieja area Paraiso.
63 m. of surface, 5 m2 of terrace.
Only 250 m. from the sandy beach.
2 double bedrooms, one bathroom, property to move into, equipped kitchen, wood interior carpentry, south-west facing, stoneware floor, aluminum exterior carpentry.
Extras: fitted wardrobes, corner, lots of light, sold with furniture, communal pool, terrace.