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NUMBER 169 - NOVEMBER 13, 2019
COWSHIT FOR BRAINS
YESTERDAY, THE MORONS AT CITY HALL ILLEGALLY REMOVED APPROXIMATELY 8 PLUS MINUTES FROM THE VIDEO OF THE SPECIAL CITY COMMISSION MEETING TO COVER UP A SMART-ASS REMARK MADE BY COMMISSIONER "COMEMIERDA" ABOUT ME, THEREBY ENGAGING IN A WILLFUL AND WANTON ACT OF DESTRUCTION OF A PUBLIC RECORD, AND THEN THEY WENT ON AND REMOVED THE VIDEO RECORD OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMISISON BEING SWORN IN, AND FOR GOOD MEASURE EVIDENCE OF A POSSIBLE SUNSHINE LAW VIOLATION
The behavior at Miami City Hall has gone far beyond the incompetence and run-of-the mill abuse of the public's trust that had become the norm into the realm of wanton and willful criminality.
These people have reached a point, in no small part because as the result of the abject failure of both the Miami-Dade Ethics Commission and more importantly, the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office's refusal to treat the behavior of these crooked politicians for what it is: Crimes that are worth prosecuting and removing some of these people from office as an example for others to learn from.
Here's what happened yesterday to support this claim..
At approximately 3 minutes after noon, Commission Chairman Ken Russell announced that the commission had to take a short recess because by law he was required to be sworn in for his new term as a city commissioner at noon of that day, and noon had just passed.
There was some laughing and joking about the things that he had done in the last three minutes being illegal by commissioners Carollo, Reyes, and Russell yucked it up with them while Todd Hannon the City Clerk was asked to come over with a Bible that Russell could use for his swearing in.
The video tape shows just how loosely-gooey it was was, and when Hannon showed up with the Bible and a microphone, Carollo took the microphone and said to Russell, "Now our common buddy can write about something else other than the usual."
At that point Hannon gestured to Carollo that the microphone was live, and he turned it off.
The swearing in of Russell took place with the microphone turned off, and then everyone kind of scattered and some went out of camera range, while others moved over ot talk with other people.
All of this was broadcast live over the city's website, and I watched this for a couple minutes at home and somehow I got a feeling that that I should videotape what I was watching.
I keep my video camera on a tripod close to my computer, and so I reached over, quickly set the camera up, enlarged the video to full screen and proceeded to video tape 5:43 minutes of what was happening in the chambers at City Hall and being broadcast to the public on the city's website.
One of the things that happened was that Commissioner Carollo and Commissioner Russell came together by their seats, and started talking. You will see that the conversation goes on for approximately 1:20 before Jorge Mas walks up to the dais and speaks to both of them.
After they ended their talk there was some more milling around before Russell sat down and called the meeting back to order.
In all, between the portions that I had missed recording including Russell's swearing in, and the portion that I did record, I estimate that the recess lasted about 8-9 minutes.
Because I had missed capturing the portion where Carollo told Russell about their "common buddy" - which obviously was me, when the meeting ended, I tried to replay the video so that I could record that portion, but the video wasn't available.
Normally those videos become immediately available, and so I waited, and I waited, and as I waited it dawned on me that maybe the reason that the video wasn't available was because someone had given an order to edit the video and take out part of the portion of the meeting that I described above.
Sure enough, when the video finally came online, I opened it and the whole portion, starting right after Russell says that he needs to take a recess until he calls the meeting back to order is missing.
Here is the portion of that edited video copied from the version posted on the city's website.
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Neither version shows Commissioner Russell being sworn in, which in itself might represent a separate violation given that the swearing in constitutes an official act conducted in chambers, and an act that no one that I contacted could recall when the last was that the swearing in of an elected official in the city wasn't videotaped.
Certainly every elected official since 2010 has had their swearing in videotaped as part of the official record, which is why there is why I believe that the audio/video technician at City Hall didn't turn off the cameras as they normally do when a recess is called.
When he heard, "I need to be sworn in," he no doubt concluded that this was something that needed to be recorded and transmitted.
So here's the situation, once that video was live streamed out to the public on the city's website, that video tape became an official public record. The arbitrary editing of that public record as soon as the meeting ended, I believe clearly constitutes a destruction of that record, which represents a flagrant and willful violation of Florida Public Records Law.
That destruction could not, and did not happen as a result of some accident or technical glitch.
It happened because someone with the authority to tell the audio/video technician to edit the video and remove the 8 plus minutes of tape, did that, and did it on purpose.
That order and the subsequent action to remove the 8 plus minutes takes this out of the realm of an unintended civil violation and into a criminal violation because no public official would do that without premeditation based on the fact that there was something on those edited 8 plus minutes that they considered embarrassing or harmful to them.
Here's what the law says about what constitutes a criminal infraction of the Florida Public Records Law, Chapter 119.10(1)(b).
Here is the portion of the video that I shot at home that shows you the 5:43 portion that I captured that was removed from the city's version.
Furthermore, the discussion between Carollo and Russell creates an appearance of that conversation being a violation of the Sunshine Law.
It's true that from looking at the tape we do not know what was said because the microphones were turned off, but while both of these commissioners can claim that they were talking about snow cones, lollipops and fairy dust, we don't know that, and neither can they prove that they weren't talking about the remaining items still to come before them for a vote when the meeting was reconvened.
Nor, based on their past behavior, words and actions since they've been elected officials - Carollo by being the raving unhinged asshole that he is who was caught lying during the aborted Ethics Commission investigation, and Russell who openly admitted that when it comes to obeying the law he is much more interested in the spirit, rather than the letter of the law - that we should expect or allow their words to carry anymore weight by virtue of their being elected officials, than some raving lunatic standing on a street corner.
The behavior of elected officials in the City of Miami violating the provisions of Florida's Sunshine Law is not as rare an occurrence as you might think.
If you go to a commission meeting there is a good chance that sometime during that meeting you'll see 2 or more commissioners slip off into a corner where they can't be seen by one of the video cameras in the room to have a little discussion, and that's before they takes their recesses and slip off behind closed doors behind the chambers.
All of this goes on with impunity because all of these people know that no one is going to lift so much as a pinky to chastise them, much less actually take the steps to prosecute any of them for what has become an open and wanton practice of shitting on the Sunshine Law.
The Unethical Ethics Commission is always looking for excuses not to go after powerful politicians, or to pressure them to follow their so-called Letters of Instruction on rare occasions they've been willing to reprimand the behavior that is so flagrant that it cannot be ignored - an example being when the City of Miami was served with a formal Letter of Instruction for the city to change its policies regarding the issuances of "Free Tickets" in 2012, when Francis Suarez was the Chairman of the Commission.
It is now 2019, and Francis Suarez is the mayor, and he, the city manager, the city commissioners and the city attorney all continue to wipe their ass with the changes recommended in the Letter of Instruction that have never been memorialized in a change in the city's ordinances like they promised that they would do.
It's all a shit show, and the State Attorney's Office which would be the natural place to take this example of a violation of the Sunshine Law is the last place to do so, because Tim VanderGieson and Johnette Hardimon the two asswipes in charge of the Public Corruption Unit of the State Attorney's Office only seem to find prosecutable public corruption case among Black politicians in Opa Locka, or Jewish politicians in North Miami Beach.
Neither has ever lodged a criminal case against a prominent and powerful Cuban politician in the City of Miami, the County or Coral Gables.
Think I'm lying, here's the link to my story of how VanderGieson shut down the investigation against Willy Gort days after an FDLE Special Agent went to him for a subpoena to seize Willy's computer as part of his investigation into the $18,000 of "free" bus bench advertising and other alleged crimes, including Willy's accountant cooking the campaign books to hide donations that he was pursuing.
All of this is why this will get swept under the rug, and why my other story today will not result in an inverstigation of the voter fraud committed by Alex Diax de la Portilla and his campaign workers.
It truly is Miami, Bitches!


Old folk in Gorleston have been enjoying inter-generational friendships long before TV documentary makers tugged at heartstrings with their ground-breaking series.
As well as linking with a nearby nursery residents at St Augustine's Place have also enjoyed a visit from young children related to staff and other residents.
Manager Mandy Mills said the home decided to host a games and party day months before the programme Old People's Home For Four Year Olds was broadcast.
And yesterday things got particularly raucous. Instead of nap time or TV time the roar of competitive sports rose up from the armchairs.
Mixed-aged teams competed for top honours in a range of disciplines including skittles and basketball.
Norma Vitkofsky, 84, applauded her young teammates efforts on the hoopla, even though none of them found their mark, and balled her fists in victory when scoring a crucial 50 pointer.
She said she did "pull a face at first" when she found out 20 children were coming but was "quite happy" she took part.
Meanwhile Christal McCracken, 72, was proving a whizz with the bean bag challenge.
After a humorous stand off with three-year-old Toby, pretending to hide the ball, she said that spending time with the children had brightened her day.
Mum Charlotte Reed bought her son Ewan, aged five, and two of his friends, to the party which saw cups of squash and chocolate Freddos circulated on trays.
She said: "They are loving it. They are really getting involved and helping the older people. It's really nice.
Mrs Mills said the home in Addison Road had seen that children "lightened the mood" and had already hosted a range of craft sessions.
Playing with children made the old folk feel wanted and had lead to some lovely scenes.


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Doctoral candidate in anthropology Helina Woldekiros' research on ancient salt caravans in her native Ethiopia brings her to the Danakil Depression, among the hottest and lowest places on Earth.
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Posted by muntdefems, 17 November 2014 at 8:43 pm UTC | Views: 8,223
Welcome to TFC#39! Back to a fortnightly schedule and that timing turned out to be super important! Why? Well, we have some cracking titles to tell you about this time around and we would have risked missing them if we weren't back to speed on the writing front. It's been a while since we covered a Biggie in The Funding Crowd, and like buses, you wait for ages for one, then two come along at once! And keeping a nice symmetry, we have two very special Gems to reveal too.
On the heels of Okam Studio's down-to-the-wire funding earlier this month, fellow Argentine developer Blyts makes its comeback to Kickstarter with their point-and-click adventure Kelvin and the Infamous Machine. Less than a week in, they've already reached a quarter of their $20,000 goal, and zoomed right past their previous total.
Their last attempt at crowd-funding, Inspire Me, was pitched as a game about a naughty kid, time travel, and history's great thinkers. This round the premise has changed a bit, and the plot instantly feels tighter. Kelvin and the Infamous Machine starts off when the crazy scientist Dr. Lupin, after being ridiculed for his time machine, goes on a spree through history to steal credit for the greatest works of time. Controlling his simple-minded but righteous assistant Kelvin, your task is to go after Lupin and stop him.
Isn't it, though?
In the available demo you start off in 19th century Vienna, where Lupin already enjoys the fame which should rightly belong to Ludwig van Beethoven. The game is done with a simple but good-looking cartoon style, uses one-click controls, and a conventional looking inventory in the form of Kelvin's backpack. The puzzles in the demo are none too complex, but feel like a good difficulty for the beginning of a point-and-click adventure. There's also a good amount of items to pick up or interact with, several characters to talk to and inventory combinations, so it's checking off all the right marks for an adventure game.
Epic Manager, by new Montreal startup, ManaVoid, is gaining a lot of press attention. Yet, when you consider the quality of what they've already got to show before heading to Kickstarter, it's easy to see why. They think they're still a year away from delivering what is essentially a Tycoon game based on D&D. And yes, you read that right! This is a game about managing a roster of heroes and questing them indirectly in order to power them up to take on greater and greater quests.
Here you have 6 of the 16 available classes, with Terry Hatchett the Warlock sticking his head out at the bottom.
And it looks beautiful. Graphically, the style is cartoon-based, but high quality, colourful and consistently presented. The class system is expansive, with 16 to choose from a multi-class system where you can transition one high level character to start of a new class and eventually become even more powerful as a result (how often they can do so is defined by their "Epicness" rating). Traits will give each hero a unique feel as you build your party by sending scouts into the world looking for potential heroes or epic quests.
But scouts aren't working for free, and neither are your heroes. And here's the Tycoon element, as you juggle heroes, scouts, quests, gold, fame and items in an effort to keep growing your party, your options and your success.
You can back Epic Manager, as nearly a thousand others have done, for only $15CAN, which is around $13 US dollars (or £8.50 in sterling). Another $10CAN will secure you Beta access in around August next year, with the full release game following around Christmas 2015. You can help Greenlight Epic Manager, but it will also be available DRM-free, albeit the delivery method is yet to be agreed.
Gray Walkers: Purgatory blew through the first 4 stretch goals during the final 48 hours of the campaign, reaching $50k (including Paypal pledges). Backers of this post-apocalyptic RPG will thus be able to experience the storyline in Russian, German, French, Spanish, or even English; new gameplay features include vehicles and additional playable races (Wolfkin, HunterBorne, and FaeChilde).
Let's start with the less hopeful among the previously-featured projects that are still ongoing. Not too much hope this time around for Air Brawl, despite being a promising-looking example of the relatively uncrowded genre of team-based air battles -- complete with trick flying. Likely the campaign suffered from choosing the unusual currency of Swedish Krona, making it look like a much more ambitious goal than it was ("350k of something-or-other I'm not familiar with" seems a lot more intimidating than "$47k"). HoloBunnies has also failed to pick up momentum yet, with only 30% funding heading into the final week.
In contrast, HM Spiffing has already managed to reach 78% pledged by over 550 eager adventure game fans, with the critical final 48-hour push yet to come. Kicktraq and Sidekick both agree that there is likely to be some celebration at BillyGoat Entertainment come November 21. The Aerannis campaign is already in stretch goal territory, currently working on the 3rd stretch goal with plenty of time to go.
The recent robot box office hit, Pacific Rim, covered an interesting question - how do you control a human-shaped robot fluidly? It's a question that new indie studio, The Balance Inc, is hoping to address with their first game, the Unreal powered Override.
Details are hazy, but in effect, you control each limb separately, meaning that a four-way co-op must demonstrate considerable team work to do the simplest of tasks. How this works in single-player is addressed in the FAQ, where the team explain that additional layers of automation will be available to prevent the game from becoming frustrating. Missions will range from saving the city from enemy robot onslaught to simpler tasks like traffic control or saving a beached whale. Without stamping it into a mush, presumably, but there's an undercurrent in this Kickstarter that perhaps the team are toying with the morality mechanics too. Risar City might be yours to protect... or destroy.
Kick the ball!
The pledge levels are worth highlighting. You can get on board with Override for only $15, but an extra $10 will secure your name on the list of casualties that appear at the end of each level (and some other digital bonuses). The higher level tiers will even let you get involved in the design process, helping design the robots themselves, or even parts of the cityscape.
As a new studio, The Balance Inc need your help getting published on Steam. So if you're a Steam user, get clicking! If not, worry not - the Humble Store will hopefully carry the DRM-free release too. Failing that, DRM-free downloads will be made through their own website. The team are hoping to bring us Override in about a year's time with the alpha starting in March.
Weather Zen is a reverse tower defence akin to the Anomaly games. In the game a female monk must overcome rugged terrain and rough weather on a journey to restore balance to the elements. You aid the protagonist by studying the conditions ahead, before plotting out a route and planning for shelter on the way. Putting resources into strenghtening the heroine is also an option, and you won't know how successful your strategy is until you play out the turn and see how events unfold on the way. Help the monk reach her goal in as few turns and with as many resources left over as possible for an additional bonus.
The team behind the campaign consists of veterans in writing, design and game development with a wide range of projects under their collective belt. Krellware is a company that arose from a great personal tragedy when its founder, Dale Strickler, lost his wife and two daughters in a tragic car accident in 2007. The company and Weather Zen has served as a form of therapy to cope with this great loss.
The weatherworn monk with her rather absent-minded looking spirit bird.
One curious thing about the pledge tiers that immediately caught our attention is that the lowest game tier for Linux comes in at the $10 DRM free tier, while the corresponding tier for Windows and Mac is priced at $20. We asked the creator about the reasoning behind this unusual discrepancy.
Dale Strickler We expect Linux users to be [good at] managing their system [and] we like to support people who support Open Source.
We've heard of similar experiences from other developers and it's a vote of confidence we hope pays off. Of course it's also possible to pledge above this tier, as any pledge of $30 or more gives you the choice between the three PC platforms and the iPad version.
And we're done! Quality, not quantity, we hope you'll agree.
Usual plea for help:
Please PM one of the team: (scaine, Speedster, muntdefems, or new recruit flesk) if you think you can help or just want to chat about Crowdfunding! And of course, remember that you can use the comments, Wiki, forums, or direct messages (PMs) to keep us up updated on any suggestions that you'd like to see covered.
So why are you still reading?! Get your wallets out and go get pledging... these games aren't going to make themselves!
See you next time! Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
tmtvl 17 November 2014 at 9:10 pm UTC
I doubt Weather Monk's gonna make its target. It's kinda unfortunate, but that's life.
You got a thank you: https://twitter.com/WeAreManaVoid/status/534453909117759489
flesk 17 November 2014 at 9:24 pm UTC
tmtvl I doubt Weather Monk's gonna make its target. It's kinda unfortunate, but that's life.
It doesn't look too good for Override either at the moment, but there have been some amazing turnarounds on Kickstarter lately, so I'm hopeful.
Oh, and it's Weather Zen.
Krellumdead 17 November 2014 at 9:39 pm UTC
We have not given on yet! We still have a rabbit or two up our sleeve
Keep an eye out and tell your friends there will be more Weather Zen offerings soon, in select locations.
Dale - Weather Zen Mastermind at Krellware.net
This one seems cool too and has reached their rather unambitious goal several time over already:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hydezeke/flamberge
Krellumdead We have not given on yet! We still have a rabbit or two up our sleeve
That's the spirit!
Julius This one seems cool too and has reached their rather unambitious goal several time over already:
I was going to say we covered that one in TFC #38, but yeah, it never actually made it off the drawing board.
EDIT: I suck at editing my own comments. Sorry about the double post.
DrMcCoy 17 November 2014 at 10:32 pm UTC
A few more:
That Dragon, Cancer, an adventure game about a toddler's battle with cancer. Linux is only mentioned in one of the places that also mention Windows and Mac OS X, so I asked them on Twitter about the confusion. Apparently, GNU/Linux support is planned, but it seems the devs hadn't had much contact with GNU/Linux yet.
Late To The Party a cold war espionage RPG set in a country of the former Soviet Union. From the makers of Unrest. With $50k, the funding goal is a bit more ambitious than Unrest, because they want to pay themselves an actual living(-ish) wage this time.
Lovely Little Thieves, a horror/romance visual novel made in Ren'Py. Spearheaded by Hope Chapman, aka JesuOtaku, a video reviewer from the That Guy With the Glasses network.
Clannad, or rather the English localization of that existing visual novel by the Japanese company Key. The translation is done by Sekai Project who already developed and/or published several games on Steam, among them Sunrider: First Arrival / Mask of Arcadius and Rising Angels: Reborn. NOTE: GNU/Linux support isn't yet promised. They've been (over-)funded pretty quickly, and are still running for 50 days, so they're currently asking what people want for stretch goals. GNU/Linux and Mac OS X support has been asked for quite a bit, and I find it likely to happen. Still, probably wise to not back it before anything has been announced.
flesk 17 November 2014 at 11:28 pm UTC
Good suggestions, DrMcCoy. We talked about covering That Dragon, Cancer for this instalment but decided to postpone it since it has three weeks left and is definitely going to make it.
stan 17 November 2014 at 11:36 pm UTC
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bohemian-killing seems like a novel and interesting idea to me, a "first person non-linear courtroom drama" . I'll admit I'm not sure if I should pledge. It's a Unity game so it has a high chance of being broken forever but to be honest it's also the case for non-Unity titles.


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Discussion in 'Pop & Justice' started by Felp, Feb 16, 2018.
Not the collection actually being quite good.
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At this point I wouldn't mind a video for Wasabi with just these shots.
Wait is this a real advert, because it might do bits of Wasabi if so? Or did a fan add the music?
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It is the real advert
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I'd imagine we'll be seeing the advert on tv soon.
MadameX, Nov 7, 2019
I feel like I'm attacked by Pretty Little Things adverts on TV all the time as it is so it'll be a nice surprise to hear Wasabi on them.
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I discovered Black Magic only 2 weeks ago and..whew a BOP!
Liberty, Nov 7, 2019
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lushLuck
Liberty said: ↑
If that's the one you just discovered, what were you aware of before?
lushLuck, Nov 7, 2019
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lushLuck said: ↑
I actually never cared much about them, even though i thought that Wings was cute at the time ddd.
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I didn't even know Wings was Little Mix for a long time, I thought it was a Glee Original lol.
James2009, Nov 7, 2019
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The fact that they even released a Korean version is iconique tho.
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_Gru_
That gif breaks my heart. The potential they had at that point...
_Gru_, Nov 7, 2019
Superloves
V3RYP05H said: ↑
wait... what the fuck is this from?
I think it's from the launch party for the collection last night.
Superloves, Nov 7, 2019
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Wasabi has jumped to #270 on Itunes UK. Is the ad already running? Do you think they'll be running it until Christmas maybe?
Felp, Nov 8, 2019
notyourmate
A few nuggets from Bob Lefsetz's interview with Richard Griffiths (head of Modest! Management):
"Little Mix have never really done it here [in the US], and that I put firmly on the table of the label's promotion department, because that band deserves to be bigger here. We supported Ariana Grande with Little Mix a couple of years ago, and there were something like 15,000 people in the arenas, and 12,000 were singing the words to every single Little Mix song. And I would turn to various Columbia folk present and give them an exasperated look, because Little Mix are absolutely massive in the UK and very successful in other parts of the world."
Why did you stop working with Cowell?
"That was really Simon's decision, you know, he'd just decided- we'd had some problems with Little Mix. When Sonny [Takhar] left, the dynamic with the label changed, and of course, when you've had artists on a TV show and you've sort of dictated how that all went, and you've given them the break, and they've gone on to be very successful, you do have to realise there's a moment where you have to give the artists their head, and allow them to grow up as they are growing up, they're no longer 16 year olds or 18 year olds, they've grown up.
And Little Mix had really reached that stage, they were being asked to record some tracks that they just didn't like. And Simon felt that that wasn't right, and we weren't supporting him enough in getting that done, but the simple fact of life is that we work for the artists, we don't work for the record company. So we were there to support the artist, and we thought the artist was absolutely 100% right at that time. So as far as we're concerned, Simon fell out with us. We don't feel anything but good feelings towards Simon."
Griffiths also said that he judges the success of their artists by ticket count and per heads of merchandise - which might explain why he hasn't fought harder for Little Mix in other areas which may not serve as a funnel towards those metrics.
notyourmate, Nov 9, 2019
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sesita
Syco's getting closer and closer to completely implode just for thinking they know best based on past glories (which they didn't even know how to handle past their peak) and Simon's ego, it's astonishing to watch.
sesita, Nov 9, 2019
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goatface3128
notyourmate said: ↑
He also said that he judges the success of their artists by ticket count and per heads of merchandise.
This really says it all. Give me top 10s and sold out tours or you're dropped.
He's an idiot.
goatface3128, Nov 9, 2019
goatface3128 said: ↑
Actually, what I took away from it is that chart positions are only a means to an end, not the end goal themselves. Also, it's the label which drops artists who aren't profitable, not the management company. As Griffiths points out above, he works for the artists, not the other way around.
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I misunderstood, I thought it was Simon who said that.
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No worries, I've edited it above to make that clearer.
PopGaga
Simon Cowell embodies everything you have to hate about the music/showbiz industry as an artist. Literally zero support or care unless you're making him the big bucks.
Kudos to Little Mix not wanting to sell their souls.
PopGaga, Nov 9, 2019
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Screaming at this gif packing so much in its 2 seconds except for bopping.
Lapras, Nov 10, 2019
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Number of years in Gull Lake: 26+ years.
Married to Anita Lowenberger. With 3 grown children and 6 grandchildren. We recently celebrated our 40th. wedding anniversary. My wife and I are proud to have called Gull Lake home for the past 26+ years. We found with a young and growing family that Gull Lake offered many opportunities for our children that a bigger centre did not.
Retired after spending 37 yrs. with Provincial Government.
I currently sit on the following committee's Tourism, Cemetery, Chair of local C.i.B. (Communities in Bloom), Fire board, Autumn House, Lyceum theater and Maintenance personal at East View Court, Inc.
What has (or continues) to motivate you to step forward and run for Town Council?
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In the north it is gray with a yellow underside, and in the south it is black, has a white blaze on its face, and has a white tipped tail. The smallest of the tree squirrels is the red squirrel. This squirrel lives from northern Virginia north. As the name suggests, it has a reddish coat but a white/gray underside. Its tail is also red, though it features a black band edged in white. The flying squirrel is nocturnal, and thus rarely seen by hikers.
Between the front and hind legs are loose folds of skin that when extended act as a wing, allowing the squirrel to glide. Even though it is the smallest, the flying squirrel eats insects and occassionally the flesh of other small animals in addition to the squirrel diet of nuts and seeds.


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What constitutes a 'new build' under the new interest deductibility rules and extension of the bright-line test? Govt consults on design of property tax changes
The Government has unveiled detail around who it wants new investment property tax changes to apply to, and how it wants these changes to be implemented.
It has released a 143-page consultation document on the decisions it made in March to:
Prevent residential property investors from writing off interest as an expense when paying tax, and;
Extend the bright-line test from five to 10 years, so that investors who buy and sell residential property within 10 years have to pay income tax on any gains made.
The Government said "new builds" would be excluded from both changes. In the case of the bright-line test, this means investors need to pay tax if they sell a property within five years of buying it.
In the consultation document, spearheaded by Revenue Minister David Parker, the Government proposed a property should be considered a "new build" when:
a dwelling is added to vacant land
an additional dwelling is added to a property, whether stand-alone or attached
a dwelling (or multiple dwellings) replaces an existing dwelling
renovating an existing dwelling to create two or more dwellings
a dwelling is converted from commercial premises such as an office block converted into apartments.
The Government said a "dwelling" should have its own kitchen and bathroom.
As for the question of how new a property needs to be to be considered a "new build" under the interest deductibility rule change, the Government proposed it should have been acquired within a year of its Code Compliance Certificate being issued.
It's seeking feedback on how long a property can be considered a "new build" for - IE 10 or 20 years, and whether this new build period will only apply to an early owner of a property, or subsequent owners as well.
The Government also suggested that in addition to owner-occupier property, the following types of property should be exempt from the interest deductibility rule change: employee accommodation, farmland, care facilities like nursing homes, commercial accommodation like motels, land outside of New Zealand, retirement villages and rest homes, and property owned by Kāinga Ora and its subsidiaries.
An owner-occupier with flatmates is also exempt.
The Government is considering exempting student accommodation, serviced apartments and Maori land from the interest deductibility rule change.
It also made the point it wants to prevent investors trying to get out of the interest deductibility rule change by owning property via companies, so it proposed applying the rules to close companies and companies whose assets are primarily (more than 50%) residential investment property.
Another complex issue the Government is seeking feedback on is around whether an investor should be able to deduct interest as an expense when they come to sell a property and pay tax under the bright-line test.
And the document considers how the interest deductibility rule change would work with the rental loss ring-fencing rule.
Members of the public have until July 12 to make submissions on the document.
The tax rule changes are already operative, despite their details still being designed.
The extension of the bight-line test applies to residential land bought on or after March 27, 2021.
Interest on debt acquired on or after March 27, 2021 won't be able to be written off as an expense from October 1, 2021. The rule will be phased in over four years for interest on debt acquired before March 27, 2021.
The Government might have caused investors to rush into the market and push prices higher, had it said in March that changes would only apply after consultation.
National would reverse changes
The release of the consultation document prompted National to reiterate it would reverse both the bright-line test extension and removal of interest deductibility.
National Shadow Treasurer Andrew Bayly said it was "astounding" the Government would break the "fundamental rule of tax which is: tax profits, not revenue".
National Housing spokesperson Nicola Willis said it was "cynical" of the Government to exempt itself from the changes by allowing interest deductibility to continue in regards to Kāinga Ora houses.
She recognised the Government's own advisors had cautioned the changes could increase rents and impose additional costs on lower income tenants.
The Reserve Bank meets market expectations with a 25 basis point move in the OCR and by forecasting significant future rises
Market conditions for Mum & Dad residential housing investors have changed and the future looks tough for them as a series of regulatory changes take an increasing toll on their cash flows
New figures show house buyers are still stretching themselves ever more as the RBNZ prepares to consult on possible DTI limits
First home buyers borrowed an average of $548,000 during September
Government's sweeping decision to allow for more housing densification prompts renewed calls from councils for more infrastructure funding


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UPDATED: Egypt military intelligence, police authorised to arrest civilians
Controversial new decree by Egypt's justice ministry allows military-intelligence, military-police officers to arrest civilians for non-military crimes
Ahram Online, Wednesday 13 Jun 2012
Egyptian army officers arrest a suspected demonstrators (Photo: Reuters)
Egypt's justice ministry on Wednesday issued a decree authorising military-intelligence officers and military-police officers to arrest civilians, a right previously reserved for police officers alone.
Crimes to which the law will apply include "crimes and misdemeanours harmful to the government," "possession/use of explosives," "resisting orders issued by those in power or assaulting them," "destruction of public property or historic monuments," "obstructing traffic," "strikes at institutions that serve the public interest or assaulting the right to work," and "intimidation and thuggery."
The decree, drafted earlier this month and announced in the official state newspaper on Wednesday, is reportedly based on Military Judiciary Law 25 of 1966. According to the ministry, the law will remain in effect until a new constitution is drafted.
Egypt's new national charter, and the mechanisms employed for selecting members of the Constituent Assembly tasked with drafting it, remains an issue of enormous controversy. On Monday, liberal and leftist figures walked out of the assembly – for the second time – after accusing Egypt's Islamist parties of attempting to monopolise the constitution-drafting process.
Rights lawyer Gamal Eid told Ahram Online that the justice ministry's published declaration did not represent a law per se, but rather a ministerial decree that could still be overturned by an act of parliament.
Rights organisations, for their part, quickly issued a joint response to the contentious decree, which has sparked outcry among many of Egypt's post-revolution political forces. A Wednesday statement signed by 15 local rights organisations condemned the decree, saying it served to confirm that Egypt was a "military state."
"Several of the crimes included in the decree are actually rights, such as the right to freedom of expression against ruling powers or established laws, demonstrations and strikes," the statement read.
Rights groups also criticised Egypt's ruling military council for the way it had dealt with security-related issues, stating: "Instead of restructuring and purging the interior ministry, the government appointed by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces is assigning the military a suspicious role in internal affairs – a role that should be limited to foreign affairs."
Liberal MP Amr Hamzawy, for his part, described the decree as "a revival of the state of emergency using different tools," declaring on Twitter that he planned to file a request with Parliament Speaker Saad El-Katatni that the decree be debated in parliament in the justice minister's presence.


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Jackson's previous might be reexamined.
Exposing celebrities for his or her heinous sexual exploits is not a brand new factor. Michael Jackson was famously accused of molesting younger boys for years, and all of it culminated in a trial that was extremely publicized. 2019 marks the ten yr anniversary of the demise of Jackson, and a brand new documentary that reexamines a few of his alleged instances of sexual abuse might be touching down on the Sundance Film Festival. According to TMZ, the Jackson Estate is lower than thrilled with the creation and promotion of this new documentary. Entitled Leaving Netherland, the documentary will spotlight alleged victims of Jackson.
When the internet called her out on her mistake, labeling her tat an "embarrassment," Emma dug deep down, gathered all the sarcasm she could, and responded.
It turns out it was a temp! Hit the flip to what people are saying about the ink.
One music's biggest nights happened on Sunday and it caused some show stopping moments and a new set gifs to live by.
That's right, the 60th Grammy Awards was held in New York this past weekend and it was definitely full surprises.
This year's annual Golden Globes was one that shed a lot light on the already existing epidemic in Hollywood surrounding women's rights and the number ladies who have stepped forward with their stories being raped, sexually assaulted or inappropriately approached.
When the attendees at this past weekend's ceremony wore black as a silent movement to stand together against sexual harassment - as well as wearing a pin that read "Time's Up" - one actor's efforts to join in was not taken lightly.
Actress Violet Paley tweeted her distaste with James Franco wearing the pin, considering he had committed acts that the whole movement is against.
Breakfast Club star Ally Sheedy shared a number since-deleted tweets directed at James that read, "James Franco just won. Please never ask me why I left the film/TV business," adding "Why is a man hosting? Why is James Franco allowed in? Said too much."
James has yet to follow-up on these accusations.


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Huge windows, terrace overlooking the wharf. Very spacious apartment. Excellent restaurants just steps away!
Great location on the esplanade, beautiful views and very well maintained property. Great for families!
The location is perfect and our studio room had a sea view. The staff is very nice and guided us with parking and room check in.
Location was terrific; we were able to walk everywhere in Cairns CBD, nearby restaurants were excellent, view was outstanding!
The view was amazing. It was a perfect location and had everything I needed. The staff were so lovely and helpful.
The location and the size of the property is very well situated. The wrap around balcony is very impressive. The open plan living space is very spacious and comfortable too. Kitchen and bathroom facilities are well equiped. A little confusion with google map as Cairns luxury apartment is actually at Habour lights residential/hotel. Because online the pin sits on the Hilton.
Comfortable good sized apartment. Staff in Office very helpful.
Location, great apartment and helpful staff. Great view of harbour.
The location was fantastic!!! View absolutely amazing and the biggest deck I've ever seen, we could have hosted the wedding we travelled for on our deck alone. Fantastic property!!!!!
Lock in a great price for Cairns Private Apartments – rated 8.9 by recent guests!
Cairns Private Apartments This rating is a reflection of how the property compares to the industry standard when it comes to price, facilities and services available. It's based on a self-evaluation by the property. Use this rating to help choose your stay!
One of our top picks in Cairns.These 4.5-star apartments offer absolute waterfront, luxury apartments just a 1-minute stroll away from Cairns Waterfront Marina. Guests at Cairns Private Apartments enjoy an outdoor swimming pool, a spa pool, a sauna and a fitness center.
The property is located close to a wide variety of fine restaurants and bars. Cairns city center is also a 1-minute walk away along the harbor boardwalk.
뀐 Located in the top-rated area in Cairns, this property has an excellent location score of 9.6!
When would you like to stay at Cairns Private Apartments?
With spectacular harbor and marina views, this room has floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors which lead onto a private balcony. The room is tastefully decorated with modern European influences.
Please note this room does not have a kitchen or a lounge area.
This apartment features a private balcony offering views of the tropical gardens. Offers a kitchenette and has laundry facilities. Please note that use of sofa-bed is for bookings made for 3 guests only. If required for bookings made for 2 guests, extra bedding fee applies (see Hotel Policies).
Includes views of the marina and the Cairns Harbor. Room features an open-plan living area, and has floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors that open out to a private balcony. Offers a kitchenette and has laundry facilities. Please note that use of sofa-bed is for bookings made for 3 guests only. If required for bookings made for 2 guests, extra bedding fee applies (see Hotel Policies).
The Cairns Luxury Apartments are undoubtedly the most luxurious waterfront holiday accommodation in Cairns and offer personalised, professional & unobtrusive service. Our gorgeous Apartments are all privately owned & are not part of the on-site Managed Hotel.Our check in lounge is located in the Visitor Information Centre across the road from the Harbourlights complex. Our local travel staff are highly experienced in activities that Tropical North Queensland has to offer.
House Rules Cairns Private Apartments takes special requests – add in the next step!
Debit card Cairns Private Apartments accepts these cards and reserves the right to temporarily hold an amount prior to arrival.
Cairns Private Apartments accepts these cards and reserves the right to temporarily hold an amount prior to arrival.
Please note that there is a 1.5% charge when you pay with a Visa or Mastercard credit card and a 2.00% charge when you pay with an American Express credit card.
Please note that the check-in desk is located at the Visitor Information Center, which is located directly opposite the Cairns Harbor Lights complex. Guests are welcome to contact the property in advance for further details, using the contact details found on the booking confirmation.
Please note that these apartments are privately managed apartments, which are located in the same complex as the resort known as Cairns Harbor Lights. Please note they are not part of the managed hotel and resort, and do not have access to the services provided by the managed hotel, such as the on-site reception desk, luggage storage and concierge service.
Please note that reception opening hours are from 08:00 to 21:00. If you expect to arrive outside reception opening hours, please contact Cairns Luxury Apartments in advance, using the contact details found on the booking confirmation. Please note that fees may apply for after-hours check-ins.
Please note that housekeeping service is only offered on the fourth day of stays of 7 nights or longer. You can request daily housekeeping service at an extra charge.
Please inform Cairns Private Apartments of your expected arrival time in advance. You can use the Special Requests box when booking, or contact the property directly using the contact details in your confirmation.
The air conditioning was not working properly.
The apartment was very close to everything. View was great right on the waterfront.
Comfy bed, exceptionally clean, high standard of appointments but above all the location and view.
Amazing apartment with a great view. Staff were really friendly and made us feel so welcome.
A great apartment: spacious, very comfortable and extremely well-located.
Expected an apartment but got an unseviced hotel room, no cooking facilities other than a microwave. Small room, not even enough room for a couch.
The Apartment is described and charged as "luxury" however the furniture is cheap, worn. The shower drain was blocked and flooded the floor due to entrapment of hair in the drain, that I required to clean. The balcony furniture is stained and worn. Suggest better value in Cairns. Too many keys to deal with, albeit very secure. Suggest the Pest Controller visit as they had non-paying guests.
The view and the location. The restaurant Ochre is fantastic with great service and not overpriced.
The position of the apartment was fantastic, walking distance from Casino, lagoon, supermarket, Night Market. It was clean and very comfy. The staff was very nice and helpful.


In order to fix #599, we will depend on eslint-plugin-import in standard v10. This opens the possibility of enabling additional rules related to import and require().
Many rules depend on how the files are loaded in the particular project, and I think we ought to avoid those rules since that will lead to some folks with complicated webpack loader rules unable to use standard without us exposing configuration options. And we don't want to go there.
import/first failed because these import statements came after a require().
Can some folks who use the import syntax chime in with their thoughts? I still use require() for the time being so it would be good to hear other people's thoughts. @cesarandreu, who else can we tag here?
I went ahead and merged all these rules for the standard v10 beta. I'm hoping to get some real-world usage from folks who have super large codebases using all the latest stuff, ES7+, babel, etc. If anything breaks, we can back out these rules in a future v10 beta release.
Addition sounds good to me.
As about 1) - I don't see any sense to use require there. Maybe it is using Webpack v1 which was not working with import/export syntax, so this exact stylus require is intentional because of the webpack.
As about 2) make absolutely sense to error in that case. And preventing that is the right move.


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The Time Has Come for Constitutional Carry in North Dakota
(This article originally appeared on The Minuteman Facebook page on January 2, 2017.)
In April of last year, The Minuteman told you the issue was coming to the 2017 legislature, and now it is here. It is a divisive issue between Republicans and Democrats. To some extent it is even divisive within the Republican Party itself. It is the issue of Constitutional Carry or carrying a concealed weapon without a permit, and the issue is set to be debated in the upcoming North Dakota Legislative Session.
The Constitutional Carry bill will be sponsored by the fearless advocate of limited government and individual rights, Rep. Rick Becker of Bismarck. The big question will be how the rest of the Republican super-majority will respond to such a proposal.
Not only is Constitutional Carry clearly in harmony with both the federal and state constitutions, it is also the correct and logical thing to do. The idea that a person must obtain a permit to carry concealed is antithetical to the idea of "the right of the People to keep and bear arms." When an individual must seek permission from the government, it is no longer a right but relegated to the status of a privilege. Whether the government admits that or not is irrelevant.
I would imagine that it is not criminals that apply for Concealed Weapon Permits. It is those who are law-abiding citizens.
Aside from the hard-core liberal Democrats and RINO Republicans, I expect there will be some opposition to this bill from factions of law enforcement. I hope I'm wrong.
Like other gun control laws, permitting requirements for concealed weapons do little to nothing to stop crime. However, they do make criminals of many otherwise law-abiding citizens and become a hindrance to the fundamental right "to keep and bear arms" of the citizenry as well.
It is my hope that common sense will prevail on this issue in the 65th Session of the North Dakota Legislature. As the bill is assigned a number and moves through the legislative process, we will continue to cover it here on The Minuteman. In the meantime, be prepared to contact your legislator and tell them you want Constitutional Carry to finally come to North Dakota.
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Rep. Rick Becker "Very Pleased" as Andrew's Law Passes Overwhelmingly
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Rep. Rick C. Becker (R – District 7) appeared on Point of View with host Chris Berg yesterday to discuss the passage of House Bill 1221, otherwise known as "Andrew's Law". Not only did it pass the House, but it [read more…]
Gov. Burgum Should Do the Right Thing – Don't Listen to Ed Schafer
March 23, 2017 T. Arthur Mason North Dakota
Former Governor Ed Schafer is highly respected in politics and by the state he once served in. Though its been nearly two decades since he was the state's chief executive, he still has influence. And yesterday he tried to exert [read more…]


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MALCOLM MILLER previews a new exhibition in London about émigré composers
Yesterday, 18 January 2023, marked the 120th anniversary of the birth in Hamburg of the émigré British composer Berthold Goldschmidt (1903-1996). The date might have passed one by except for the fortuitous coincidence that it also marks the opening of a brand new exhibition in London on émigré composers at the Royal College of Music's recently rebuilt and refurbished Museum, an exhibition entitled Music, Migration and Mobility, which runs until 16 April 2023. Supported by an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) grant, it forms part of a major RCM research project in collaboration with Royal Holloway, University of London and University of Salzburg.
Music, Migration and Mobility - 17 January - 16 April 2023 at the Royal College of Music Museum, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BS, UK
The exhibition itself focuses on the legacy of émigré musicians who found refuge in Britain from Nazi Europe in the 1930s and 40s. At the opening preview on 16 January 2023, which I was fortunate to attend, the select audience included several émigrés and their descendants who had donated objects (including scores, documents, recordings and other everyday objects), as well as scholars and interpreters who have in recent years been involved in the process of reclaiming much of the neglected music and musical history of the Second World War and immediate post-war period. To launch the exhibition preview, we were regaled with an impressive performance by flautist Hannah Gillingham of the Capriccio for Solo Flute (1949) by Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970), the Spanish-Catalan-born émigré composer who studied with Schoenberg in the 1920s, and lived in Cambridge from 1939.
Flautist Hannah Gillingham at the opening of the exhibition.
Photo © 2023 Claire Chevalier
The work's distinctive combination of Modernist serialism and English lyrical modality set the scene for the remarks by Gabriele Rossi Rognoni, the curator of the RCM Museum, who described how the current exhibition had evolved over ten years since the RCM's earlier Singing a Song in a Foreign Land project, combining oral histories, performances and recordings, led by Norbert Meyn, a singer and faculty member at the RCM. Meyn, who is now curatorial leader of the new project Music, Migration and Mobility, then spoke in more detail about the project's aims and methods, and thanked the academic partners from Royal Holloway College, and the departments of the RCM including the Museum, as well as the scholar Alison Garnham and cellist Raphael Wallfisch, who will feature in two events complementing the exhibition, in February and March 2023.
Overall, the exhibition gives a compelling flavour of the rich contribution the émigré musicians made to British musical life. Object-based, and enhanced with sonic accessories (audio guides and installations), the exhibition is elegantly put together, its systematic theme-based organisation highlighting the phases of the refugee experience spanning from childhood in Europe, persecution, emigration and acculturation, all the while focusing on poignant and fascinating material. For instance, the first display case relating to the background features a gold medal awarded to Peter Gellhorn for outstanding achievements at the Berlin Academy, a copy of the notorious antisemitic Lexikon of Jews in Music published in Nazi Germany, letters from family members to composers interned on the Isle of Man, and a youthful self-portrait of composer Joseph Horovitz (1927-2022), who was also a promising artist at the start of his musical career.
Themed display cases trace the émigrés' journeys, including a focus on the experience of internment, with the remarkably lively original poster by Humpoletz from Hans Gál's 1940 camp review What a Life!, produced behind barbed wire at Douglas on the Isle of Man. More serious works relating to refugee experience, by Mátyás Seiber (1905-60), Berthold Goldschmidt, Franz Reizenstein and the much younger Joseph Horovitz, form a telling display, as also does one which focuses on the seminal humourist Gerard Hoffnung, with hilarious objects and manuscripts of music composed for the Hoffnung Music Festivals in the 1950s, classic models of musical wit. Installations and audio guides allow one to absorb fascinating interviews by émigrés such as the writer and BBC producer Hans Keller, composer Alexander Goehr, and performers such as the violinist Maria Lidka, for whom many works by émigré composers were composed. Various interactive maps highlight international migrations whilst a map of North West London, drawn from an exhibition in 2002 for the anniversary of the Association of Jewish Refugees, shows the whereabouts of concert clubs and venues, famous coffee houses, and refugee musicians' homes.
Exhibition visitors in front of a Glyndebourne costume (for Susanna in Figaro), worn by Emigré soprano Irene Eisinger. Photo © 2023 Claire Chevalier
Without claiming to be comprehensive, the exhibition promotes an insightful overview of a cross-section of refugee musical experience that supports the notion, expressed powerfully in Daniel Snowman's The Hitler Emigrés that the generation of musicians who came in the 1930s enriched and transformed musical life in Britain. As the first in a series of exhibitions as part of the larger Music, Migration and Mobility project, the story of the 1930s-40s refugees has a continued relevance for our own time, where more recent forced migrations continue to create challenging social contexts and environments producing powerful new creative expression.
Posted 19 January 2023 by Malcolm Miller
Further details of the Music, Migration and Mobility exhibition can be found at www.rcm.ac.uk/museum/exhibitions/musicmigrationmobility and there's an introductory video about the exhibition at youtube.com/watch?v=Xv99ayuZHks
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Malcolm Miller has co-edited a book on the same topic, Music and Exile, with Jutta Raab Hansen, which is due to be published on 23 February 2023 by the academic publishing house Brill. How did exiled musicians from Germany and Austria, who reached safety at Kitchener Camp in Britain, find themselves in an Australian internment camp in New South Wales in 1940? What were the institutions that helped Jewish refugee musicians survive in wartime Shanghai? What happened to Austrian musicians who were trapped in the Netherlands after the German occupation? This book answers these and other questions, and also covers other related topics.
Read further articles about Nazi Germany here, classical music and World War II here, further articles about classical music in London here and recent classical music news items here.
The background image on this page has been derived from A Lodging House - the 1928-1930 watercolour study for the 'Kensington Apartment House' mural (destroyed by bombing in 1940) in the Florence Acton Refreshment Room at Morley College, London, UK - by English artist Eric Ravilious (1903-1942).
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Genre: Childrens
Computers were a source of complete and utter wonder to us as young children. They promised great, exciting things such as blocky graphics, bleeping soundcards and BASIC programming.
It doesn't sound much now, but it was a real escape from the tedium of life in the mid 80s. Our early memories of computers involve being in Dixons and setting off alarms as we flapped out tiny hands at the machines.
A much less frantic time with computers was spent lazing out on the sofa watching Chock-a-Block.
The series concerns itself with the less than sentient supercomputer, Chock-a-Block. Operating the machine are Chockabloke (Fred Harris) and Chockagirl (Carol Leader).
Each episode sees one of these Chockafolk arriving by way of their electric Chockatruck. Greeting the audience, they grab a 'block' which they awkwardly force into Chock-a-Block.
A small screen whirrs into life and displays a series of computer generated pictures - we're talking 8-bit not Pixar - which the Chockaperson has to identify. If they guess correctly, then a positive chime sounds! Guess incorrectly and they receive a rather flatulent response!
A rhyming theme runs through all the pictures e.g. crow, snow, toe and this leads to a song involving one of the pictures. The chockaperson then moves over to the Rockablock where they try and match up two pictures with similar rhyming sounds.
Finally, the chockaperson announces it's time for a song which results in a short animation commencing. Job done, the Chockaperson bids goodbye and jumps on their Chockatruck to, no doubt, get down the Chockapub.
Chock-a-Block was a thirteen part series which first aired in 1981 as part of the newly titled See-Saw slot on BBC1.
The series was created by children's TV supremo, Michael Cole who was also behind Fingerbobs, Bod, Pigeon Street, Bric-a-Brac and Gran. Writing the series alongside Cole was Nick Wilson who also directed the show. The marvelously modulated theme tune which SOUNDED LIKE A COMPUTER WAS TALKING!!! was composed by Peter Gosling.
Chock-a-Block was repeated fairly regularly up until 1989 where, we suspect, it began to look rather dated.
Chock-a-Block, unfortunately, seems to have been a late victim of BBC junking. Episodes were still being shown in 1989, so the wiping of these videotapes is distressingly late.
Kaleidoscope list 8 missing episode in their Lost Shows database, so that's over HALF the series. Out of the missing shows, a number of these have surfaced on YouTube and various torrent sites.
A poster on the Missing Episodes forum has noted that although the BBC have 'lost' the original 1" videotapes for a number of episodes, they do hold off air copies of all episodes[1]. This leaves us with a slim chance of there being a DVD remastered boxset one day complete with free block toy. Or perhaps not...
Curious British Telly's favourite part of the show is the electronictastic theme tune. It's a chirpy explosion of electronic drums, synths and 'computerised' speech which promises the future.
Most children of the early 80s probably weren't aware of the building synthpop movement, so Chock-a-Block no doubt acted as their introduction to electronic music.
Carol Leader and Fred Harris are both cheery, likable presenters forged in the primordial soup of children's television. Their roles in Chock-a-Block aren't complex, so all they're required to portray is a beaming smile and a slightly curious nature. Not testing, then, but they both give warm performances.
Mary Penley-Edwards has done a great job of designing Chockablock. It's a great, big colourful machine covered in flashing lights and movements. The reel-to-reel based face helps gives the machine a smidgeon of humanity and something to relate to. Perfect for arresting a child's errant attention. Kids today, of course, would scoff at its lack of HDMI sockets, but back in the 80s it felt like a thing of wonder.
The rhyming theme gives the show an educational feel and the picture sections allow the kiddywinks at home to interact. The pictures are ridiculously easy to guess and we found ourselves shouting "IT'S A HAT FOR CHRIST'S SAKE!" at the screen. We doubt even kids would struggle with this.
The rapport between the presenter and Chock-a-Block is rather limited. This leaves the presenter rather isolated and having to keep up spirits with a stream of consciousness. If the machine had been given more of a personality then it would have been a snappier affair.
The rockablock section is interminably dull and fails to advance the rhyming theme. Being a manually controlled affair, rockablock seems rather out of place with the computerised leanings of the show. Seemingly, it's been bolted on to fill up the running time.
We were more keen on the songs and animated sections of Chock-a-Block. The songs are dreamy little pieces which seem to have drifted in from a different age. These fuzzy little bursts of nostalgia make children's tv such emotional affairs and send our amygdala into overdrive.
Disturbingly, though, one song features a puppet cat which appears to have a cleft lip. It's the thing of nightmares and we're having trouble erasing it from our memory. Hopefully, the little horror was burnt to a cinder so it could do no more harm. Its possible, though, that it rose, phoenix like, from the ashes to become Scragtag.
Rewatching Chock-a-Block brought back some nice memories for Curious British Telly. There's a good show bursting to get out, but it doesn't quite happen on this occasion. Despite having some nice interactivity and animated sections, the rest of the show feels static and it fails to fully charm. However, we would still watch other episodes if they become available and certainly don't think the show was worth junking.
Carol Leader was gracious enough to spare some time to answer a few questions about the show.
CBT: You started appearing on our screens during the late 70s, notably with Play School, but how exactly did you get into the acting game?
Carol: I had acted in drama groups since being a teenager and continued when I went to University. After uni, I did a graduate one-year course at Bretton College in teaching drama. There I helped to form and became a founder member of a theatre company called Perspectives that became a professional group where I finished the course. The company is still going today under the name of New Perspectives. They are based in Nottinghamshire and recently celebrated their 40 year birthday.
It's been over 30 years since Chock-a-Block first aired, but what can you recall about getting involved with the show?
I was doing Play School at the time and also doing a lot of acting parts in theatre and for TV. The producer asked me if I would like to take the female presenter part in a new series he was devising to get young children interested in simple computers. (How times have changed!)
Do you have any particular memories from recording Chock-a-Block that stand out?
Mostly crashing the car and having to go for re-takes. Also working with the directors and learning to relate to Chock-A- Block as another character.
Unfortunately, the BBC appear to have wiped a number of the original videotapes for Chock-a-Block. Were you aware of this and what are your feelings towards the loss?
It's a great shame that this was all before the digital age. Nowadays it would have been much easier to save things. Many important BBC drama productions and programmes have ended in the same way. It's a shame they have not been archived.
You left the acting world to pursue a career in psychotherapy, but what prompted this change? And how do the two professions compare?
In some surface ways they are very different: one is very visible and the other has very strict boundaries of privacy – but at the heart of both is I feel an interest in the human psyche – what makes us all tick – especially in drama. But also Play School and Chockablock were made with strong developmental considerations that link in well with our understanding of what children need to develop – and that drama, narrative and story telling are strong features of this. Many actors – as well as others- find themselves in therapy, as I did and then found my interest moving to a more specific exploration of the inner world and how having an inner emotional world that is very different from the external world impacts on human beings in helpful and unhelpful ways.
Thanks a lot for your time and insightful answers, Carol.
Davee Mac 14 January 2014 at 15:04
Nice interview coup there!
Lovely entry and very funny. 'Chock-a-block, the less than sentient computer'. Wouldn't have found that on Blakes 7!
I do fondly remember this but suspect I wouldn't be impressed with it now, despite nostalgia. Maybe I will check out You TUbe... tentatively...
Mr Straightman 29 July 2014 at 19:33
That cat puppet is disturbing.
EatenByAGrue 4 July 2016 at 17:33
I loved Chock-a-Block, particularly the little car and the somehow satisfyingly uniform "blocks" that were fed in. I now program computers for a living so I guess it must have rubbed off a bit!
Telly Viewer 5 July 2016 at 14:29
And don't forget the theme tune! The amazing, amazing theme tune!
Thanks for the information and links you shared this is so should be a useful and quite informative!


ABOUT LADAKH :- The beauty of Leh is that it introduces you best to Ladakh's ways while you head out for short walks or drive around. Leh stands accessible, surrounded by the majesty of the Himalayan enclave. The experience can best be described as a peek into the delights that make up this ancient trade route.
Ladakh known as small Tibet in India or Roof Top of the world. Bounded by two of the world's mightiest mountain ranges, Great Himalaya and the Karakoram, it lies in the far north of India. Ladakh is the highest, most remote and least populated region in the whole country. The name is derived from Ladags, which means 'the land of high passes'. Its corrugated, arid landscape is often described as a mountain desert which does not do justice to the inherent beauty of its chaotic ridges, twisted and exposed geological strata, snow-shrouded peaks, dark gorges and wide valleys.
The Ladakh Sarai, situated in a beautiful grove of willow, poplar, apricot and apple trees, is just ten minutes from Leh, with its fascinating labyrinth of winding streets and quaint bazaars. The beautiful and tranquil location of the Ladakh Sarai, with the Indus River flowing below, faces the majestic Stok Kangri Mountain (6150 meters) and offers an incredible panoramic view of the Zanskar range.
Tourist Attractions :- Leh-Ladakh region houses several ancient monuments and Buddhist monasteries. Prominent among these are the 17th century Leh Palace, Shey Palace, Stok Palace, and a large number of buildings at Basgo, and Tingmosgang, which served as royal capitals for the Old Kingdom for a brief period of time.
Climate :- Ladakh lies at altitudes ranging from about 9,000 feet (2,750m) at Kargil to 25,170 feet (7,672m) at Saser Kangri in the Karakoram. Thus summer temperatures rarely exceed about 270 C in the shade, while in winter they may plummet to -200 C even in Leh. Surprisingly, though, the thin air makes the heat of the sun even more intense than at lower altitudes; it is said that only in Ladakh can a man sitting in the sun with his feet in the shade suffer from sunstroke and frostbite at the same time!


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Rare and exceptional fancy color diamonds, as well as a large flawless emerald diamond will be in the spotlight at this autumn's Magnificent Jewels and Jadeite auction at Sotheby's Hong Kong. The October 7 sale presents three very remarkable stones: a superb 10.64-carat fancy vivid purplish-pink diamond of internally flawless clarity estimated at $19.1 million to $25.5 million, an important 6.01-carat fancy vivid blue diamond, and a magnificent 80.88-carat D-color, flawless diamond. A symphony of jewels by Chinese American designer, Anna Hu, showcases an impressive 100.02 carat fancy intense yellow diamond necklace, estimated at $5.1 million to $6.4 million. Notable gemstones include a 11.88 carat Burmese ruby and diamond ring by famed jeweler Raymond Yard, estimated at $5.6 - 8.2 million.
Estimated at $9.7 million to $12.8 million, the 80.88 carat diamond is D color - the highest grading for colorless diamonds - and as a IIa gem is free from all nitrogen impurities, which is the case for less than 2% of all diamonds mined. It has flawless clarity whereby it displays exceptional transparency, fashioned into the most elegant of cuts, the step-cut emerald. Sotheby's says it is one of the five emerald cut diamonds larger than 80 carats of excellent color ever offered at auction. Sotheby's sold a 100-carat, emerald cut, D color, internally flawless diamond in 2015 for $22 million, and in 2017, a 163.41-carat Flawless D-Colour diamond set into a necklace by de GRISOGONO sold at Christie's for $33,701,000.
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I'm attracted to all types of automatic bill payments, because it means one less check for me to write each month so that I can concentrate on running my business and household. Our garbage provider is Republic Services and they have allowed me to pay my monthly bill by using a Visa card, automatically. It just happens, and then I get an email reminder of the amount due each month, but no action is required on my part. So far so good.
Today I received an email alerting me that Republic Services is changing their payment system, and an invitation to click a link and get registered with the new system.
Hmm, this is the classic definition of a Catch 22. I'd love to signup with the new system, but their entire web site is down for maintenance. So what kind of company would issue an email with an inviting link, knowing that their web site was going to be down? Hmm, very poor timing or communication. But hey, Republic Services really knows how to pick up my garbage and recycle bins every Monday, like clockwork, so maybe I shouldn't expect their IT department to have their act together.


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JetBlue Agrees to 4-Year Deal with Pilots
Airlines & Airports	Donald Wood July 27, 2018
PHOTO: JetBlue Airbus A320. (photo courtesy of JetBlue)
JetBlue announced Friday it had ratified a new four-year contract with its pilots, represented by the Air Line Pilots Association, Int'l (ALPA).
Out of the 98 percent of JetBlue pilots who voted on the deal, 74 percent agreed to the contractual terms. The competitive pay rates, per diems and 401(k) provisions will take effect August 1.
Negotiations between the airline and its pilots originally began in 2015, but it wasn't until the National Mediation Board (NMB) got involved in 2017 that the two sides started to make true progress on the new deal.
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"I appreciate the hard work and dedication of both the ALPA and JetBlue negotiating teams in coming to an agreement that is fair for our pilots and that allows JetBlue to continue to grow, compete and succeed," JetBlue COO Joanna Geraghty said in a statement. "Thank you to our entire pilot group for their commitment to safety and for delivering the JetBlue experience to our customers throughout the negotiation process and every day."
JetBlue carries more than 40 million customers a year to over 100 cities in the United States, Caribbean and Latin America with an average of 1,000 daily flights. The airline is also a leading carrier in Boston, Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood, Los Angeles/Long Beach, Orlando, and San Juan.
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