How does one "spin" a coalition government? If you ask the politicians, the official line is that you don't. "The age of spin is over," they say.
But all governments need to communicate and this cobbled-together version of a government has a bigger challenge than most. The Con-Lib Dem coalition has a complex array of policies to negotiate, explain and drive through, some of which will be deeply unpalatable even to their own parties. With a former PR chief at No 10 and a former lobbyist as deputy PM, this government is likely to be acutely aware of the importance of communication.
And remember, Gordon Brown may have famously announced the "end of spin" when he arrived in Downing Street, but then surrounded himself with notorious spinners such as Damian McBride, and insiders attest to Brown's "obsession" with daily headlines.
The professionals grappling with this challenge are a diverse mix of political loyalists and civil servants. If you were watching the TV footage last Tuesday evening, as Cameron first arrived in Downing Street, you would have spotted them standing outside No 10.
BBC political editor Nick Robinson jokingly described them as the "kitchen staff" as the camera panned across a gaggle of key players such as incoming Downing Street director of communications Andy Coulson and Cameron's chief policy wonk Steve Hilton. Coulson, the former News of the World editor, will head a team that includes head of press Henry Macrory and political spokeswoman Gaby Bertin. But these special advisers ("spads") have to work with civil servants including the prime minister's chief spokesman Steve Field, formerly of the Treasury, and Downing Street head of news Vickie Sheriff, whose role is to communicate daily with lobby journalists.
This set-up is different from the previous administration in two crucial respects. First, Coulson has to liaise with a rival party's comms staff. This means Clegg's chief spokeswoman Lena Pietsch, and the Lib Dems' comms director Jonny Oates, "spads" who are currently holed up with Clegg in the Cabinet Office. And he has to cope with the yet-to-be-appointed advisers of Lib Dem cabinet ministers such as Vince Cable, who may well have their own comms agenda.
Insiders report that relations between the two teams are "amicable and co-operative" at present, after they jointly managed Cameron and Clegg's "love-in on the lawn" last week.
But things are bound to be easy in the early days. Once the coalition comes under pressure, the comms alliance will come under heavy strain. There are plans for Clegg to take an office in Downing Street, which would also involve Lib Dem advisers moving into the comms war room there.
The second major difference is Coulson's role and personal profile. Simon Lewis, the outgoing Downing Street comms director, was a civil servant – a decision that came in the aftermath of internecine warfare under his predecessor Stephen Carter.
Lewis was scrupulously low profile and apolitical, bringing stability to a role that has been problematic ever since Alastair Campbell ran things for Tony Blair in his bombastic style. Coulson's problem is that, like Campbell, he is both a spad and a former tabloid hack, who has made enemies along the way.
But while Coulson's instinct may be to shun the spotlight, the illegal phone-hacking scandal covered by this newspaper, which took place on his watch at the News of the World, thrust him into it.
A dozen MPs, some of them Lib Dems, are currently taking legal action against the paper demanding full disclosure of who knew what. While he is known to have excellent relations with former colleagues at News International and rival tabloids, the story is unlikely to go away.
Ultimately Coulson's success or failure over the coming months will come down to his ability to transcend fiercely tribal allegiances, both in politics and the media.
And his performance – along with that of his core team – will have a major impact on the longevity of the coalition government.


Courtesy of the Columbus State University Archives.
This exhibition spotlights Columbus author Carson McCullers, the city she grew up in, and the people she chose to call family. Critically acclaimed since their publication, McCullers' works offer insight into the physical and cultural landscape of early 20th-century Columbus, as well as the family and friends she knew there. Her evocative descriptions of the streets, buildings, and landmarks inhabited by colorful characters echo the paths and people that she knew as a child in Columbus. Love of her close-knit family and concern for the city's social and political structures mingle in McCullers' descriptions of her hometown. Upon her move to New York as an adult, McCullers entered a new world of cultural and intellectual tastemakers. Her intensely personal relationships, both platonic and romantic, created an extended family that exemplified "the we of me" that McCullers and her characters searched for throughout most of their lives.
Using original documents and artifacts from the collections of the Columbus State University Archives and the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians, The We of Me examines McCullers' childhood in Columbus, her circle of friends in New York, and the influence of these two different worlds in her writing. Much of the material will be on public display for the first time, including correspondence, photographs, and other items meticulously cataloged by the late Dr. Mary Mercer, McCullers' psychiatrist and close friend who lived with the author for years. Curated with the assistance of Columbus State University interns, the Museum's exhibition is part of a city-wide celebration of the February 2017 centennial of McCullers' birth.
This project is supported by Georgia Humanities through appropriations made by the Georgia General Assembly.


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Republicans move to (finally) impeach IRS director
John Koskinen
Honestly, I never thought they would really do it:
House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R., Utah) filed an impeachment resolution on Tuesday against IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, the turnaround expert who was brought in to clean up the tax agency in 2013. Mr. Chaffetz was joined by 18 fellow Republicans.
The charges focus on the destruction of magnetic tapes that contained e-mails from Lois Lerner, the former agency executive whose office gave extra scrutiny to the groups.
"John Andrew Koskinen engaged in a pattern of deception that demonstrates his unfitness to serve as Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service," the resolution says, focusing on Mr. Koskinen's statements last year about the agency's efforts to retrieve documents for congressional investigations. "Commissioner Koskinen made a series of false and misleading statements to Congress in contravention of his oath to tell the truth."
"The IRS vigorously disputes the allegations in the resolution. We have fully cooperated with all of the investigations," the agency said in a written statement.
Of course, the IRS also said there had been no high level coordinated efforts to harass conservative and libertarian groups applying for non-profit status in the run-up to the 2012 election, and then, when that was shown to be a lie, said they couldn't find Lois Lerner's emails. That was also shown to be a lie. During the whole of his time in office, Commissioner Koskinen has stonewalled, obstructed, and flat-out lied to the Congress, the elected representatives of his bosses: us. His arrogance in several hearings I've watched has just been astounding. If not impeachment, he certainly deserves a pie in the face.
Long-time readers of this blog (all two of you) will recall that I often called for the impeachment of former Attorney General Eric Holder and that I believe Barack Obama merits impeachment and removal from office. Partly because their malfeasance and incompetence in office (1) deserve it, but also to restore some respect for Congress' role as the representatives of the people and the states. Congress has been so reluctant to impeach and remove officials who abuse their power that it has contributed to the decline of the legislature's status as a co-equal branch and the rise of "Crown government." Along with denying funds, impeachment is the only weapon Congress has to hold the Executive to account.
Make no mistake, however: as the article points out, removing even a minor wretch like Mr. Koskinen will be difficult. Other than judges, Congress has gone after Executive Branch officials only twice: Grant's Secretary of War and President Clinton, himself. Removing Koskinen requires 67 senators voting to convict, which means several Democrats would have to turn against the Obama White House, which appointed him. Ain't gonna happen.
However, putting this malicious bureaucrat on trial would be a small first step on the road toward restoring Congress' authority by asserting its institutional and constitutional prerogatives. In other words, you abuse your power, you get your power taken away from you.
By all rights, this should be the first of several.
Pour encourager les autres.
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Poland elections: BBC shows its bias ever so *slightly*
Poland recently held elections in which the Right won a landslide victory: enough seats to govern on its own, and for the first time since 1989 eliminating any left-wing party from the Sejm (parliament).
I can only gather that the BBC was not happy with the results, because they headed the linked article with this image:
No. No subliminal message here.
(Photo credit: AFP)
That's Beata Szydlo, likely Poland's next prime minister. Sure, she's waving to the crowd, but just try to tell me —without laughing!— that the underlying message isn't "conservatives are all neo-fascists!" a particularly egregious idea, given Poland's recent history. I've little expectation that "the Beeb" would have run a similar photograph if the incumbent centrist coalition had won reelection.
At least it wasn't The Guardian: they would have photoshopped a certain famous mustache on her.
via Alexander Macris
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This series grew out of The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) conference 'Randomness and Order', at which academics in the fields of quantum physics, music, probability and medieval history discussed what randomness meant in their different disciplines. You can see the recording of the conference here.
Professor Etheridge discusses randomness as it applies to statistics: 'I'm interested in the way biological populations evolve, just because two individuals in the world choose to mate at random'.


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Welcome to Retro Recipes! Brought to you from the capable kitchen of Eat Me Daily's Stephanie Butler, each week we take a look at preparations from the past that straddles the line between ingenious and absurd. This week, Edward Harris Heth's Spareribs and Rutabagas.


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North Cork Engineering Cluster launched
Cllr. John Paul O'Shea, Mayor of Cork County, David Stanton, TD, Michael Loftus, Head of Faculty of Engineering and Science, CIT, Noreen Walsh, Vice Chair of Mallow Development Partnership, Aine Collins, TD, Sean Sherlock, TD Minister of State and Patrick Buckley, Deputy Managing Director EPS Ltd at the launch of the North Cork Engineering Cluster Launch on 29th January at Mallow Primary Healthcare Centre. The launch was organised by Mallow Development Partnership.
There was a full house at the Mallow Primary Healthcare Centre last Friday as Mallow Development Partnership launched the new North Cork Engineering Cluster project. Minister of State Seán Sherlock TD, Michael Loftus,
Faculty Head of Engineering and Science in CIT, Patrick Buckley, Deputy MD of EPS Ltd and meeting chair Noreen Walsh from AIB Mallow all spoke at the event about the advantages of having an engineering cluster located in North Cork.
Representatives from local business, politics and education were all in attendance at the early morning meeting to learn more about the initiative which will see stakeholders from business link up with CIT's Engineering Faculty, Solas, Cork Education Training Board and local secondary schools to create a competitive and open engineering cluster.
Minister Sherlock outlined the benefits that he has seen on his travels during his time as a junior minister where areas and companies had come together to create engineering clusters. The minister also emphasised the importance of local businesses partnering with likeminded companies which in turn helps to 'brand an area' and create greater opportunities for all.
"In North Cork we have engineering companies that have been in existence for 50 to 60 years with a massive capacity and skill-set already in place. They are already supplying to the food sector and to the pharma sector and right across the export sector as well. If we can bring all of those people together and assess what their needs are, and partner those with the education sector like in this case with CIT and the local post primary schools, then I think what we can do is build something in this region of North Cork that can scale up and help the bottom lines of local companies and therefore create new jobs and enhance the skillset we already have in place."
Mr Sherlock went on to say that he believes that the support is there to help the initiative from existing state organisations. "If we can build the relationships with the IDA, Enterprise Ireland, the local enterprise offices, which are an amalgamation of the local authority capacities, then we can feed into the skills shortage that is there at present and perhaps disrupt the thinking that if you are an intergenerational company supplying one or two products into another company locally that per-haps you could look at suppling into other sectors as well."
The importance of relation-ship building was a key message throughout the event, with EPS Ltd's Patrick Buckley outlining his experiences in the commercial world of engineering. Mr Buckley spoke about the importance of scale for local business, comparing the size of the Irish market to those of Britain, Europe and the world, and also spoke about the importance he places on relationship building in business.
Mr Buckley also spoke about the relevance of engineering clusters in modern business and pointed out that Ireland's most successful business, CRH, is in effect one of the best examples of what can be achieved when companies with a like-minded focus come together.
From the education sector, Michael Loftus spoke to the attendees about his experie-nces in business as well as in education and pointed out what his organisation can bring to the cluster.
Mr Loftus told the business leaders that he believes business linking with education is a key strategy going forward both locally, nationally and interna-tionally, and he is confident that the North Cork Engineering Cluster, linked with CIT's Engineering faculty, can help address skills needs in the area.
The Engineering Cluster initiative will be holding its first workshop in the coming weeks, with high attendance levels expected.


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Of these games, no expansion sets were released for Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, but Warcraft II was accompanied by the release of Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal and Warcraft III was accompanied by the release of Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. Multiple expansion packages also accompanied World of Warcraft, which include: The Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King, Cataclysm, Mists of Pandaria, Warlords of Draenor, Legion and Battle for Azeroth.
All games in the series have been set in and around the world of Azeroth, a high fantasy setting. Initially, the start of the series focused on the human nations that make up the Eastern Kingdoms, and the Orcish Horde, which arrived in Azeroth via a dark portal, beginning the great wars. The Orcs came from another world, referred to as Draenor, the world that will be shattered into pieces by demonic magics during the events of Warcraft II, thereafter being known as Outland. Later on in the series the world of Azeroth was expanded, revealing the new continents of Kalimdor, Northrend, Pandaria and Broken Isles, allowing the introduction of the Night Elves, Tauren and other major races into the universe. The world of Azeroth also contains the traditional fantasy setting races of elves, dwarves, gnomes, orcs, and trolls.
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You thought we were finished with our Advent/Lent study of prayer. Sorry, an ascended Jesus leads to ascending prayer. We said as much in the Collect, "Even as we believe Your only-begotten Son, to have ascended into heaven, so may we also in heart and mind ascend and continually dwell there with Him." When we pray in Jesus' name that's what we're doing.
Prayer flows from the Ascension because having an ascended Jesus means we can hold on to him everywhere we are. This wasn't the case when Jesus visibly walked the earth. If you were in Jerusalem and Jesus was in Galilee, you could not hold on to Him. Now you can, no matter where on earth you might be.
Hebrews encourages us to do this when it says hold fast our confession. Jesus is our confession. We can hold on to Jesus wherever we are because He is present wherever we are. He is not dead and buried in one place. No, He has risen and passed through the heavens to the throne of heaven and earth. From there He sees us wherever we are. The verse before our text, Hebrews 4:13 speaks of Jesus, saying, "No creature is hidden from His sight but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of Him."
An ascended Jesus means we can hold on to Him wherever we are. This wasn't the case with even a risen Jesus. Do you recall the strange incident with Mary Magdalene on Easter morning? Jesus came up to Mary in the garden. She didn't recognize Him at first, but did when He called her name. "She turned and said to Him, Rabbi!' Jesus said to her, Do not cling to Me, for I have not, yet ascended to the Father.'" When Jesus visibly walked the earth, people did cling to Him; but they couldn't do it that way in His resurrected state. Something had changed. Jesus' words to Mary say not only "you can't cling to Me because I haven't yet ascended to the Father," they also say, "You can cling to Me once I do ascend."
The Ascension changed something. The liturgy for today expresses that. Once Jesus ascended into heaven, the Christ candle that has burned since Easter is snuffed out. This doesn't mean Jesus has died to us. It means that Jesus is present with us now in a different way. Actually, it's in a better way for now He is accessible for holding and praying wherever we may be. And Jesus told us where we could reach Him.
On Easter evening He made Himself known to the disciples where? In the Breaking of Bread. We not only have, hold, and pray to Jesus in the Breaking of Bread we call Communion, but we eat and drink His Body and Blood. In Galilee, Jesus gave His Baptismal command and immediately promised, "I am with you always." If in Baptism, you put on Christ as Paul says, then in your Baptism He is always with you. Again on Easter evening, He promised the apostles, "Whoever sins you forgive they are forgiven." So, when the penitent comes to the pastor and says, "Dear Pastor hear my confession"his ears are a stand-in for Jesus', and the forgiveness he gives is not his but Jesus'.
Jesus having ascended means He is accessible to us everywhere on earth. His ascending to the throne of heaven doesn't mean He abdicated one here on earth. Jesus still holds court today. We're in it right now. The Words we speak back and forth in the liturgy are His words. The Water that connects us to Him and to each other is His. He still sets a royal table around this altar. His coming to us in Water, Words, Bread, and Wine brings forth prayers from us. His Word and Sacraments strike the drum of our heart and prayer is the sound they make.
But not just Jesus' accessibility brings forth our prayers, so does His sympathy. Hebrews says Jesus sympathizes not with our sufferings, but our weaknesses. He doesn't condemn us for the fact that we can't believe as we should, do as we should, or think as we should, He sympathizes with us. Though He lived this life perfectly, our King knows what our life is really like. Ever tried to tell a problem to someone who doesn't, can't or won't sympathize with your weaknesses? You quickly stop, don't you? Knowing Jesus sympathizes with our weaknesses, leads us to pour out our hearts.
Even when we are confessing our sins, our struggles, our falls, He encourages us to keep on talking. How can that be? He's perfect; what does He know of sin, of tempting, of stumbling and falling? Hebrews tells us He was tempted in every respect as we are yet without sin Most times we are tempted we sin in our hearts. We can't imagine being tempted and not sinning at all. Jesus was able to. But that doesn't mean He didn't feel the burn, the yearn, the ache of temptation. Don't think Jesus never felt the ache that pleads it can only be soothed by giving in. He did feel it, and so you can go to Him with you aching temptations, and He'll understand.
Jesus has flesh and blood just like ours. He hears prayers and reigns over all things in that flesh and blood. He won the right to rule heaven and earth as a Man by living a perfect life as a Man. He took on flesh and blood to enter the arena against sin, death and the devil who had already struck down Adam and Eve and us too. Temptation not to trust God came, but Jesus didn't give in. Temptation to misuse the name of God came, but Jesus wouldn't do it. Temptation to ignore the Word of God and live for and from something else came, but Jesus didn't do it. As true God, Jesus always reigned and ruled, but He won the right to do so as a man by a holy life.
Jesus lived the holy life, not for His sake but for your sake. He did it because you never could. He did like you do when you take over a project from a child who just doesn't have the ability to do it. But there's more. If men, women, and children were going to go to heaven, not just their temptations had to be overcome without sinning; their sins had to be paid for. Not only did Jesus take over our project called the 10 Commandments because we weak children could not do them, Jesus took the punishment us miserable, obnoxious brats rightly deserved for our sins.
The fear of death that creeps up on you because you know you're a sinner. The shame you see that should come upon you because of your sins. The pain, the rejection, the utter damnation that your sins deserve at the hands of the holy God, Jesus went through, suffered, endured. Jesus said, "No Father, don't punish him; punish Me. Don't make her die for her sins; make Me. Don't send them to the depths of hell; send Me." And so, the Father did. Now every single one of those sins you feel so keenly and even the ones you don't, Jesus paid for. "It is finished," Jesus cried on Good Friday. "Yes it is," the Father answered by raising Him on Easter. And today Jesus ascended as a Man to the throne of God in heaven.
An ascended Jesus leads to ascending prayers because Jesus ascended for good. I don't mean once and for all, but for your good. Jesus told the disciples before Good Friday that it would be better for them if He did ascend. This text, particularly the last verse, tells us why: Jesus established a throne of grace in heaven from which mercy and grace ever flow.
Elsewhere in the Bible God's throne is called one of Glory and one of Majesty. Apart from Jesus keeping the law for you and paying the debt you owed for breaking it, all God's throne could be is one of Glory and Majesty. That would encourage glorious and majestic people to pray, but not sinners like us. If it was only a glorious and majestic throne, then Satan and your own conscience would be right when they whispered, "Who are you to pray? You're not glorious enough to ask that. Why should God hear the prayers of a un-majestic sinner like you?"
But with the God/Man Jesus on heaven's throne, it is one of grace. You can with confidence draw near to a throne of grace. You know what you need to draw near with confidence to a throne of grace? Sins, weaknesses, failings. You need problems you can't solve. Sicknesses you can't make better. Situations you have no idea what to do with. You need thorns in the flesh, problems in your life, and fears in your heart. Do you have these? Then you have what it takes to come to the throne of grace with all boldness and confidence.
The Book of Revelation shows lightening, thunder, and fire going out from God's throne. That doesn't encourage praying but running. But since we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, what does Hebrews say comes from the throne: mercy.' Some of you may have no idea what that means. Mercy doesn't mean as long as you do better next time it's alright. Mercy doesn't mean as long as you tried your best its okay. Mercy doesn't mean as long as you didn't do anything too bad it can be overlooked. Mercy is what the blind man got who had nothing but blindness. Mercy is what the tax collector got who had nothing but sins. Mercy is what the man got who had nothing but a demon.
You can come to Jesus' throne because mercy is what awaits you there, but not just mercy, "grace to help in time of need." If you're overwhelmed with what you can't do, if you're overcome with how badly you've messed things up, if you're just sure you ought to be damned right on the spot, you are in need, and Jesus has grace for you in this time of need. He has grace not instructions. Grace not goals. Grace not just another chance.


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Q: How to make special regex in c#? In my project I would like to implement special regex for string.
For ex: I need HypervisorName like "hvm01" first letters then numbers.
I used regex like below:
[RegularExpression(@"^(([a-zA-Z]|[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9\-]*[a-zA-Z0-9])\.)*([A-Za-z]|[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-
9\-]*[A-Za-z0-9])$", ErrorMessage = "Virtual Machine name is not formatted correctly")]

But I am still able to add name like "test" but in my case I need both together first letter then number.

A: can you change the regex to something like ^[a-z]{3,}\\d{2,}$ and use the RegexOptions.IgnoreCase?
This will check that there are minimum three letters [a-z]{3,} at the start ^ on the string followed by the minimum 2 digits \\d{2,} and the end of the string $.
You can limit max number of letters by second option in the {} brackets, like [a-z]{3, 10} means min 3 and max 10 letters
var r = new Regex("^[a-z]{3,}\\d{2,}$", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

matched: hostname123
wrong match: h1
matched: HHH12
wrong match: HHH 12
wrong match: host name
wrong match: host name123

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Celebrating Excellent Educators: The 2016 Winners of The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education
By David Levin and Michael Crow, President of Arizona State University
Since 1988, The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education has honored some of the greatest minds that our profession has to offer. Over the years, we've had the privilege of working not only with leaders in our field, but with true visionaries.
This year is no different. Today, we couldn't be more excited to announce the winners of the 2016 McGraw Prize in Education, and to award $50,000 and a bronze sculpture to each. And what an amazing group it is!
Anant Agarwal, CEO of edX and MIT professor, will receive the U.S. Higher Education Prize as an outstanding leader in the development of the Massive Open Online Course movement, which has helped make possible the education of millions of students around the world. You can see Anant's TED talk here.
Alberto M. Carvalho, superintendent of the Miami-Dade school district, will receive the U.S. K-12 prize for his exemplary leadership in raising standards and improving graduation rates in a complex urban district, which is an outstanding model for others. You can see Alberto's speech at the White House here.
Sakena Yacoobi, CEO of the Afghan Institute of Learning, will receive the International Education prize for the transformational effect her work has had on communities in Afghanistan, particularly in education for girls and women, and how she has inspired others to follow suit. You can see Sakena's TED talk here.
The winners were chosen from the more than 200 public nominations that were submitted, and considered alongside those outstanding individuals identified by the Prize's dedicated research group. Harold (Terry) McGraw III, former Chairman and CEO of The McGraw-Hill Companies, worked with McGraw-Hill and Arizona State University to select the winners from a list of three finalists in each category, chosen by a group of notable jurors including former Prize winners. While the Prize has been awarded since 1988, this is the first year that McGraw-Hill and Arizona State University have partnered to administer the Prize.
The winners will be celebrated at a dinner and ceremony at the ASU GSV Education Innovation Summit in San Diego on April 19. In the meantime, you can learn more about their inspiring work and that of past Prize winners here.
Collectively, these three winners have changed the lives of millions of students. Their backgrounds are diverse, but ultimately they share a single vision: to unlock the full potential of each learner. Their accomplishments should be lauded, and their innovations should be shared with other educators who are working to make a difference around the world.
Please join us in congratulating each of this year's winners, and in sharing their accomplishments with educators everywhere.


Christopher K. Mar 14, 2019 · Lead / Flash.
Linda Shen Jan 24, 2019 · 3 pitches. Lead / Onsight. Did it in 3 pitches from Rawlpindi. Led P1&3 w/Cassondra. One 70m rope requires some down-climbing.
Flava Flav Dec 28, 2018 · Lead. dont recall which route i took to get to the crux, very cool!
Travis O'Neil Dec 4, 2018 · Lead / Flash. w/Randy. I lead the money pitch. Fun, not as hard as I feared when seeing some rate it 5.10a. Few moves off great finger locks with not great feet, then jugs again. Easy to plug protection here and make it very safe. Go for it.
Ryan Christopher Apr 9, 2018 · 4 pitches. Lead. Amazing money pitch. Great sticky rock.
Mark B Mar 21, 2018 · Lead.
John Sirois Jan 16, 2018 · 2 pitches. Lead / Onsight. With Emily. Led P4 and we rapped from there. Accessed via 1st two pitches of Rawlpindi.
Cameron Casey Dec 9, 2017 · 1 pitch. Lead / Onsight. p3 only. Very fun, enjoyable, and safe.
Joe E Lee Mar 12, 2017 · Lead.
Nate Vince Jan 28, 2017 · Cool pitch to do after you do Birdland.
Lin Yang Dec 15, 2016 · 1 pitch.
ptraicus Dec 4, 2016 · 5 pitches. Follow.
Dave Curry Apr 24, 2016 · Lead / Onsight.
AJ Kiter Mar 28, 2016 · Lead / Onsight. Only did the first couple of pitches and rapped down to birdland, and then off birdland. Lead all.
John Hegyes Feb 7, 2016 · Fun day.
Christian H Jan 24, 2016 · Lead / Onsight.
Josh Dulberger Nov 21, 2015 · p5&p6 were enjoyable, if run out. Rap was straightfoward, nice to summit.
Peter Blank Nov 30, 2014 · Scot. Fast with easy access.
Nathaniel Dray Nov 29, 2014 · Via Rawalpindi (one star). Beautiful pitch on awesome, vertical rock.
Eric Can Nov 20, 2014 · Did as one long pitch after rapping to 2nd ledge of Birdlands, juggy and cool top out moves.
Tom Drewes Mar 10, 2014 · Climbed p1-2 of Rawlpindi to climb p4 of this.
Sherri Lewis Nov 13, 2013 · Super fun and much mellower than it looks.
Jim R Dec 9, 2012 · Followed Nick. Rawlpindi to The Bighorn. 2 pitches.
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The £120,000 homes first-time buyers can afford WITHOUT putting down a deposit
If you're struggling to save for a deposit, you may want to consider a 100 per cent mortgage
By Helen Knapman, Digital Deputy Consumer Editor
Updated: 4 Apr 2019, 11:31
WANNABE first-time buyers often think it's impossible to get on the property ladder due to the thousands of pounds needed to stump up for a deposit.
The average first-time buyer deposit was a whopping £44,635 in 2017/18, according to the Government's latest English Housing Survey.
There are number of homes available for first-time buyers at £120,000 and underCredit: Zoopla
And even just a 5 per cent deposit with a 95 per cent mortgage can feel unachievable.
What is a 100 per cent mortgage?
But there are ways to buy a home without an upfront cash deposit - and one of these is with a type of 100 per cent mortgage known as a guarantor mortgage.
According to data from financial comparison site Moneyfacts, there are just under 30 different guarantor mortgages for first-time buyers - and they all work slightly differently.
Barclays' Springboard mortgage and Lloyds Bank's Lend a Hand mortgage, for example, requires parents to put down a 10 per cent deposit in a savings account.
While Aldermore's Family Guarantee Mortgage needs parents to guarantee 25 per cent of the property's value using their own home.
The Post Office's Family Link Mortgage works in a similar way, requiring a family member who is mortgage free to stake 10 per cent of their property's value against the mortgage.
A host of building societies from Bath to Buckinghamshire to Marsden and more also offer varying 100 per cent mortgages.
What help is out there for first-time buyers?
GETTING on the property ladder can feel like a grim task but there are schemes out there to help first-time buyers own their own home.
Help to Buy Isa - It's a tax-free savings account where for every £200 you save, the Government will add an extra £50. But there's a maximum limit of £3,000 which is paid to your solicitor when you move.
Help to Buy equity loan - The Government will lend you up to 20 per cent of the home's value - or 40 per cent in London - after you've put down a five per cent deposit. The loan is on top of a normal mortgage but it can only be used to buy a new build property.
Lifetime Isa - Another Government scheme that gives anyone aged 18 and 39 the chance to save tax-free and get a bonus of up to £32,000 towards your first home. You can save up to £4,000 a year and the Government will add 25 per cent on top.
Shared ownership - Co-owning with a housing association means you can buy a part of the property and pay rent on the remaining amount. You can buy anything from 25 to 75 per cent of the property but you're restricted to specific ones.
"First dibs" in London - London Mayor Sadiq Khan is working on a scheme that will restrict sales of all new-build homes in the capital up to £350,000 to UK buyers for three months before any overseas marketing can take place.
Starter Home Initiative - A Government scheme that will see 200,000 new-build homes in England to be sold to first-time buyers with a 20 per cent discount by 2020. To receive updates on the progress of these homes you can register your interest here.
Use a free whole of market mortgage broker to check what deal is best for you.
Of course, be aware that with most of these mortgages, whoever is guaranteeing your loan will likely be liable for your repayments if you miss them.
You also may end up in negative equity - where your home is worth less than your mortgage - if prices fall.
Rachel Springall, financial expert at Moneyfacts said: "The mortgage market has clearly evolved over the years to accommodate first-time buyers, as there are now a greater choice of deals.
"But borrowers must be sure that any property they are looking to buy is a place that they can be comfortable living in for a few years.
"If house prices fall, borrowers could fall into negative equity which will cause problems for when they wish to move on – that is one of issues taking out a 100 per cent mortgage deal."
What properties can I buy with a 100 per cent mortgage?
So what kind of property could you buy with this type of loan? Typically you can borrow around 4.5 times your salary.
So take the median UK salary of £29,588 a year, according to the Office for National Statistics, and that means you could snap up a property worth up to £133,146.
If your lender will only go up to 4 times your salary, then that means you could buy a home worth £118,352.
To give you some examples, we've pulled out six properties currently up for sale on property portal Zoopla costing £120,000 or less around the UK.
Of course, you're going to get more for your money if you buy outside of London and the south east of England.
How do you find the best mortgage deals?
IF you have or haven't got a deposit lined-up to buy a home, shopping around for a mortgage is the same.
Websites such as Moneysupermarket and Moneyfacts have mortgage sections so you can compare costs and all the banks and building societies have their offers available on their sites too.
If you're getting confused by all the deals on the market, it might be worth you speaking to a whole of market mortgage broker, who will help find the best mortgage for you.
A broker will typically cost between £300 and £400 but could help you save thousands over the course of your mortgage. You can also use free brokers, such as London & Country and Trussle.
You'll also have to decide on if you want a fixed-deal where the interest you're charged is the same for the length of the deal or a variable mortgage, where the amount you pay can change depending on the Bank of England Base Rate.
Remember, that you'll have to pass the lender's strict eligibility criteria too, which will include affordability checks, and looking at your credit file.
You may also need to provide documents such as utility bills, proof of benefits, your last three month's payslips, passports and bank statement.
And while you might be tempted to get a mortgage without a deposit, they tend to be more expensive than other deals, so you could be better off saving up instead.
You can check out our guide to the best first-time buyer mortgage deals here.
Three-bed semi-detached house, Bolton
You can snap up this spacious three-bed semi-detached home on the outskirts of Bolton for just £115,000.
This home near Bolton is on the market for just £115,000Credit: Zoopla
The house has a modern finish and is also near to Manchester for those looking to commute into the city.
But be aware that it is being sold as a leasehold property, which means you technically don't own the land the house is built on.
Leasehold also means you're likely to have to pay an annual ground rent to the freeholder - the person or company who owns the land - as well as an annual service charge to cover any repairs or maintenance.
The home is being sold as a leasehold property, which will likely mean buyers have to stump up annual ground rent and service chargesCredit: Zoopla
Be sure to check these before buying as they can spiral into thousands of pounds.
Two-bedroom semi-detached house, Bradford
This two-bed semi detached house in Bradford has a drive with space for two cars, as well as as small garden at the rear.
This two-bed semi-detached home is for sale in Bradford in YorkshireCredit: Zoopla
With two decent-sized bedrooms and one bathroom the property is on the market for £106,995.
The home has a modern kitchen and parking space for two carsCredit: Zoopla
It's available on a freehold basis meaning you own the home and the ground it stands on.
Three-bedroom semi-detached house, Kenfig Hill
First-time buyers can snap up a property by the beach with this home in Kenfig Hill, which is under a 15-minute drive to the Welsh seaside town of Porthcawl.
This home in Kenfig Hill is just a 15-minute drive from the beachCredit: Zoopla
The spacious property has three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a single garage and a garden.
But it has only been partially refurbished so you do need to have the time and money on your hands to carry out the rest of the work.
The property's listing says it still requires a kitchen and bathroom to be fitted, the internal walls need plastering, and it needs to be connected to the mains gas supply.
You will need to take on a lot of the refurbishments - with walls needing plastering and painting and carpets or flooring needing to be laidCredit: Zoopla
You are buying the freehold with this property.
Three-bed semi-detached house, North Lanarkshire
First-time buyers could nab this three-bed house in Wishaw, North Lanarkshire on the outskirts of Glasgow for £104,995.
This three-bed semi near Glasgow was built in 2004 and is on the market for just £104,995Credit: Zoopla
It was built by Barratt Homes in just 2004.
But carpets are missing and many of the walls are bare so you will need to be willing to pick up a paint brush and splash out a bit on decorating.
There's a spacious back garden but it is completely decked over.
You'll also need to like decking - or be willing to pull it up - as the back garden is completely decked over.
It's unclear if the property is available on a leasehold or freehold basis so check before putting in an offer.
Two-bed terraced house, Swansea
This two-bed terrace in Tregof Village near Swansea in Wales is on the market for offers of £120,000 and over.
This two-bed house near Swansea has no chain making it idea for first-time buyers looking for a quick move
There's no chain, making it perfect for first-time buyers looking for a quick move.
The property's interior has been finished to a high standardCredit: Zoopla
It also comes with its own drive and the interior is finished to a modern standard.
The property is being sold on a freehold basis meaning you own the home and the land it stands on.
One-bedroom flat, Torquay
Developers have turned this large house in Torquay in Devon into five separate flats.
There's a one-bedroom flat in this new development in Torquay up for saleCredit: Zoopla
One of these flats, which comes with one bedroom, one bathroom, one reception room and is walking distance to the town and harbour, costs £115,000.
It's a new property, which means there's no chain making it ideal for first-time buyers.
The one-bed flat is brand new and chain-free making it perfect for first-time buyersCredit: Zoopla
But as it's a flat it is leasehold, so do check for annual ground rent and service charges before buying.
It's also fairly compact so you may need to compromise on space.
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LCM Lists on AIM
December 21, 2018 Announcement, Commercial, Public
Litigation Capital Management Limited (LCM), announced its admission of the company's fully paid ordinary shares to trade on AIM, a market operated by London Stock Exchange.
LCM successfully raised approximately £20 million pursuant to the share placement, resulting in a market capitalisation on admission of approximately £56.5 million. Dealings on AIM will commence under the ticker "LIT". In connection with the AIM admission, the company expects to de-list from the ASX on 21 December 2018.
To maximise opportunities within the global litigation finance industry, LCM has taken a considered approach to international expansion during 2018. The company launched its EMEA operations by opening an office in London, led by Executive Director Nick Rowles-Davies, as well as an office in Singapore in November 2018, which will cover the Singapore and Hong Kong markets. The opening of both offices has provided LCM with a strong and immediate presence across several markets with high growth potential.
The move to AIM provides access to additional capital in a larger and more mature market to complement LCM's business expansion in the UK, while at the same time aligning LCM, as a growing company with a growth platform.
Patrick Moloney, CEO of LCM, said:
"Today is a significant milestone for LCM with the completion of our successful listing on the AIM market. We will now look to enter the next phase of our development and being a London listed company positions us to fund an attractive, qualified pipeline of future projects and grow the business through the access to capital and a broadening of our shareholder base.
We are delighted to welcome Nick Rowles-Davies to the team at LCM. Nick will head up our newly-launched London office, where we see significant opportunities across the EMEA region. Nick is a true industry pioneer and someone I have a long-standing working relationship with. We are looking forward to having Nick as part of the team as LCM moves to the next stage of its development."
Nick Rowles-Davies, Executive Vice-Chairman of LCM, said:
"The opportunity to join LCM is one that I could not miss. We have a unique proposition which combines one of the oldest litigation funding businesses in the world, with an unparalleled track record in the Southern hemisphere, together with our innovative approach to sourcing funding opportunities in the Northern hemisphere. This combination will create a global litigation finance business.
The transition within litigation financing to funding of corporate clients and those corporate clients seeing disputes as assets which can be financed, is fuelling growth for LCM. This focus on establishing a new corporate finance proposition for clients is an approach that will create new market share for LCM."
LCM completed it's first day of trading on the AIM platform with shares up 13.9% at 59.25p.
About LCM:
Litigation Capital Management ("LCM") is a leading international provider of litigation financing solutions. This includes single-case and portfolio; across class actions, commercial claims, claims arising out of insolvency and international arbitration. LCM has an unparalleled track record, driven by effective project selection, active project management and robust risk management. Headquartered in Sydney, with offices in London, Singapore, Brisbane and Melbourne, LCM listed on AIM in December 2018, trading under the ticker LIT.
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Are Dads An Optional Extra?
Home > Information & Support > Fatherhood > Are Dads An Optional Extra?
Written by Henry Brookman
Senior Partner at Brookman Solicitors
Henry was admitted as a barrister and solicitor in South Australia in 1971. He has been practising and specialising in family law in the UK since 1977. He is highly experienced in both UK and Australian law.
Many single fathers find that social traditions die hard. Even today a lot of people regard a man who takes on his full share of child-raising as a bit too strangely domestic. The traditional division of men going out into the world of work, with the women staying at home to do the housework, the washing, the cooking and the childcare has now passed into history, but a lot of society's attitude seems to lag behind the reality.
The father is a critical role model and guide, just as a mother.
In separated families the simple statistic is that most mothers continue to be the principal carers for the children, often for very good reasons such as continuity, or the employment schedules. Just because it is statistically the most common arrangement does not mean that it should be assumed to be the best arrangement. Furthermore, whatever arrangement is reached, research shows that the role of the father is vital to a child's psychological wellbeing as she or he grows up. The father is a critical role model and guide, just as a mother.
The critical issues for children are a clear commitment to loving them, reliability in keeping promises.
The law used to be quite cut and dried in assigning one parent custody and the other parent access. The Children Act 1989 replaced those terms with "residence" and "contact". Unfortunately by implying a simple division of time, the law does not do justice to the complex and important roles being played.
Hence more recently shared parenting has gained acceptance as a much better expression that recognises the responsibilities of being a parent. It is often wrongly assumed to mean equal time. In fact research shows that the time spent with children is not, in itself, the important factor. As a matter of practicality it is of course very difficult to evenly divide a child's week in any case, and the awkwardness of such a division often inconveniences the child as much as the parents. Between 9% and 12% of separated parents share residence. In Australia the figures seems about double that.
There have been some very detailed studies carried out over a long period of time now in relation to separated families. This was extended to study the effect on children who are relocated to another country altogether, away from one parent. Relocation whether within the UK or abroad often leads to a total and catastrophic collapse in any meaningful contact. The research shows that children very much value even parents whom they see infrequently. The critical issues for children are a clear commitment to loving them, reliability in keeping promises – for example, as to when the next contact will be – and regularity – not necessarily frequent, sometimes only once a year, but predictable. In addition of course the absent parent has to sustain an interest in the children's lives over the full range.
In parenting, actions speak louder than words.
To get the full range of a child's life of course it is vital to spend sufficient lengths of time with them, through the full cycle of sleeping over, being involved in or at least aware of school issues, social lives etc. Naturally all this is easier if you are geographically reasonably close to your children and see them often, but it is not essential. But spending time with children is not just school, sport and meals out. As every father knows who has children sharing time with them, it involves cooking, washing, ironing and housework. Which pretty much brings us back to where we began; that these are part of the essential business of bringing up children. Hence mothers as well as fathers have to recognise that when they are sharing parenting, they are also sharing the ordinary day-to-day activities that go with sharing.
It is very difficult to share parenting if the other parent does not accept it. You find the situations (most distressing for children) where they are specially dressed in a set of clothes reserved for their times with their father, and any new clothes seem to vanish in the wash between visits. Ultimately what matters to your children, as the research has shown, is the steadfast commitment and love that you show them. Any belittling by the other parent ultimately diminishes that parent themselves in the eyes of the children. In parenting, actions speak louder than words.
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Please visit the Family Law Panel. You can speak to a professional who will be able to set out what options are available to you. This is a FREE service....


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Did Led Zeppelin Rip Off a Folk Singer?
By Conneyfogle,
June 29, 2010 in News
Oh boy, this discusion shure went way, way, way too far!! I mean it's all so simple, you can just write in three short points!!:
1. No matter what, Led Zeppelin still wrote tons of totally original material
2. If the similiraties in songs are only small in terms of little details or bits of lyrics, its not a problem and zep should not be sued and in most cases they were not!!(your time is gonna come, how many more times, moby dick, Hat off, Rock and roll, Stairway, custard pie, in my time of dying, nobody's fault but mine)
3. if the similarity becomes too big, music or lyrics wise, it should be credited or they should get sued
That's all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, your post could have used more Churchill & Henry Hill references for my tastes, but I enjoyed it all the same lol.
Edited July 14, 2010 by kaiser
swandown 27 posts
cookieshoes 22 posts
Yupter 14 posts
Yupter
Finally you know how to quote a whole a whole passage of mine rather than splicing it up to throw in your projections of what I actually said. Nice start, still you obviously don't understand words very well.
This is what I was taught middle school. When quoting long passages you use "..." between the beginning and the end of said passage to say you are quoting the entire passage. It prevents uneeded writing by physically shortening the quote, but not excluding what was said. Other "..." usage can be included to highlight the quotes main point, ridding it from redundancy/irrelevance. Which again reduces uneeded writing. On top of which, all of the quotes from you, have been sourced with time and date. Any doubts about what the quotes say can be rectified by referring to the time and date of said quotes.
Are you saying he doesn't have a right to pursue this case & should be chastised for doing so whatever his motivations are?
(A good example of me quoting what's important and not including all that irrelevent rambling)
My answer is no, nowhere did I say otherwise.
whether it was a week or 40 years after the fact, if I still haven't gotten paid for my services I have the right to pursue those unpaid monies no matter how much time elapsed.
(Another example of highlighting the point I am referring to)
This is what I was referring to. I'm not saying you/Jake Holmes don't have the "...right to pursue those unpaid monies..." , I was stating that the law is going to dictate whether "those unpaid monies [you pursue]..." forty years after the fact is going to get paid in full or not.
There is basis to my my belief that people would support Led Zeppelin in a similar scenario if they chose to purse litigation against a band many years after the fact that they felt had plagiarised them, many of those people being those who are against Holmes case against Zeppelin.
This is not what I'm doubting
You think there wouldn't be?...protect your viewpoint by any means necessary.
(A good example of me ridding redundancy and not ignoring what was said)
It saddens me that you believe I'm "Splicing, altering, and doctoring" what you are saying, please refer to my first response within this comment about why I quote the way I do.
"This forum"?...whatever your agenda is.
(A good example of me ridding redundancy and not ignoring what was said) Here's another problem, it's not that I didn't understand, it's that you were unclear. You said filled as in "filled to the brim" nothing is after the brim. When something is filled it means full with no room for anything else. This is then strengthened by examples which portray a possible bias with no examples of possible retorts, which makes it a complete bias (filled). That is why I concluded what I concluded.
Where did I ever say Churchill's warning was based in "hindsight"? Please quote where I did.
Thirdly, Churchill's warning had basis mainly due to the benefit of hindsight...
(An example of me ridding redundancy)
??? There it is.
He looked to the past, he was looking at the then present, & he looked to future to form his basis of what he thought might occur.
People cannot look into the future, you've stated this as well. He did not look into the future to form his basis, no one can. He used what had happened and what was happening to form his basis.
"In hindsight" his basis ... Well, we'll only know for sure in hindsight.
I'll Private Message (PM) you on how this Churchill example does not help you. It will also include additional WW2 talk
In summation, please don't take any of this as a personal attack, these are just clarifications to some misconceptions. That is all, please understand this.
swandown
Jimmy Page was in a band called the Yardbirds who also played a song called "Dazed and Confused" that is almost identical to the Led Zeppelin version of the song
You should be forced to turn in your ledzeppelin.com membership card for statements like this.
Hmmm. Jimmy Page was in a band called the Yardbirds that appropriated a song called "Dazed and Confused" by a folk singer named Jake Holmes. They kept the the bassline & title of Jake Holmes song while changing the guitar riff slightly. Jimmy Page while in the Yardbirds played this song with them during his tenure, when the Yardbirds broke up he took this song with him & performed it with his new band Led Zeppelin, changing the lyrics slightly as had the Yardbirds with the Jake Holmes original, but keeping the bass line, guitar riff, title, & the added bow interlude that Page had performed on the Yardbirds version of the song. Yes, I must be turn in my ledzeppelin.com card membership right away superfan. Either you have a great sense of humor, which I'm hoping you do, or you're so delusional that no amount of therapy & medication will help you see otherwise how these songs are almost identical. Sorry that I have to keep this short, but I have a stalker on this site/thread to address at the moment. Toodles till then...
I think he's saying that because your statement that he quoted seems to imply that The Yardbirds were already playing I'm Confused before Page joined the band instead of the fact that Jimmy was in the Yardbirds and therefore is one of the original "Lifters and Rearrangers". Since he (probably) did the bulk of the rearranging, when he brought it into Zeppelin it would naturally sound close to The Yardbirds version. You could look at it as if he spent a year-and-a-half reworking and perfecting it. Jimmy, how hard would putting ,Holmes after your name under the song title have been?
Tripmender
Everyone, especially JP himself, knows the score here. Just pay the man, Jimmy, ok?
That aside, who gives a fuck?
Magic Fills the Air
Angel of Avalon
Location:The English Countryside
The question is how much money should Jimmy pay him? He didn't just lift the original, but completely transformed it into another song that was commercially successful. I'm sure Holmes knows that he was incapable of producing a sound like Jimmy, and the end result is 100% Zeppelin. I agree that Jimmy should pay him something, and give him some credit, but Holmes didn't write the Zeppelin version of the song, and he didn't make it the success it was.
Jimmy was already in the band when they started playing "Dazed and Confused/I'm Confused". Jimmy joined the Yardbirds in 66' & Holmes original came out in 67' I think. Also the Yardbirds always performed it under "Dazed and Confused" not "I'm Confused". "I'm Confused" became the title when "Live At The Anderson Theatre" came out, I guess funnily enough to avoid a lawsuit lol.
This is my last response to you. I'm not even going to acknowledge what you wrote & quoted from me in your last post as I am done enabling & encouraging your OCD. You crossed the line by personal messaging me. You offered an invite in an earlier post, I did not accept it, but you took it upon yourself to send me a personal message of your rambling. I have no desire to continue a discussion with you on this thread much less in private. I don't know you, I'm not interested in knowing you, & I don't have a misunderstandings or misconceptions... you do & I'm not interested in clearing them up for you. World War 2 is my favorite subject historically & I have no desire to go over every little bit of minutiae from 1918 -1945 and after with you. Also you're more concerned with cherry picking quotes from my original post & splicing them up then actually discussing the topic at hand, that being Jake Holmes case against Led Zeppelin. You would rather quote me & put your spin on my words to befit your agenda as I'm sure you recognized yourself in my original post & it offended you somehow. If you don't understand my meaning in my original post, that's your problem & it's no longer going to be mine. In my eight years of posting on both forums I've had my share of heated discussions & disagreements with other members but I never acquired a stalker until now. It ends now. Show some self control & refrain from personal messaging me & quoting me on this or other threads or I'll have to take some sort of action with the mods, which is something I have never had to do before. Discussion over.
It's unfortunate you couldn't understand what I was trying to clarify. It's also unfortunate that we couldn't carry this over to Private Messaging to avoid the hijacking of this thread.
I'm sorry that Private Messaging offends you, it would've been curtious to tell me so before I had done so. Now I know.
I accept that we end this now as well.
feather in the wind
Location:Ontario, Canada
...the end result is 100% Zeppelin.
100% zeppelin, nah, i don't think so.
This discussion is turning out to be rather unpleasent. I thought I'd join this forum and meet fellow Zep fans like myself, I didn't expect to see so much vindictive behaviour (this comment isn't aimed at anyone in particular but refers to the general atmosphere on this thread). I just hope this case doesn't go to court and give members here even more ammunition to use against each other.
As Knebby like to quote so often, 'Does anybody remember laughter?'.
I'm done with reading this read.
Well, ignoring all that was off topic, this thread wasn't all that bad
To make this clear to my fellow forum members, personal messaging does not offend me as one person would have you believe, however creepy & stalkerish behaviour do offend me. I've recieved personal messages throughout the years from numerous forum members either asking about some Zep info that they weren't aware of that I could shed some light on, sharing thoughts on other music that we may have had in common outside of Zep, & also because we may have shared a few laughs on various threads. Some of these exchanges even led to phone conversations so I'm hardly offended by personal messages as all of those past exchanges with other forum members all had one thing in common & that was that they were all of a pleasant nature & with the acceptable social skills. Creepy & stalkerish behaviour is not something I will tolerate & I wouldn't expect anyone else to tolerate it as well. In my last post I requested that the person in question show some self control & not even quote me again, & once again this person showed no self control & did not respect my very public request. This person doesn't actually quote any words of mine just a "..." to get off on a technicallity that I'm not actually "quoted" in his/her true passive agggressive stalker way. Enough on that. Once again my fellow forum members, all but one, feel free to personal message me as it does not offend me, but creepy & stalkerish behaviour does. Now back to Jake Holmes & Led Zeppelin...
Knebby
manbags and gladrags, Queen :)
Location:Albion
Errrm......I don't think I've EVER quoted that
Anjin-san
I read somewhere that Mr. Holmes once said: "Let him, (Page) have it."Now?Is the bloke, broke?
I read somewhere that Mr. Holmes once said: "Let him, (Page) have it." Now?Is the bloke, broke?
He did say that. But his lawyers informed him of his lack of cash.
He had to back down.
This quote has never been sourced or verified.
Mr. Holmes once said: "Let him, (Page) have it."
Well then maybe it was
Sock it to him!
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=KFEhmF-cSi8
gazz
So what if he is broke. Maybe that is the reason for the lawsuit. It really doesnt matter, though, the man is clearly entitled to a payout.
Sorry Knebby for the misquote. Someone else said it on the Zeppelin filler thread which got rather acrimonious, obviously it wasn't you. Anyway, the quote still stands, people should lighten up.
I Am The Fly
Location:In The Ointment
It's a blatant rip-off IMO, and Holmes is totally justified in making a claim.
As to why he didn't do so in 69 or soon after, only he can say. Maybe he was scared of the heavy mob. But in terms of the past 20 years or so, the timing makes perfect sense. With the 3-year limitation, he's capturing the period since mid-2007. What happened in 2007? The 02 show, where D&C was played live for the first time in over 30 years. Mothership. And the re-issue of TSRTS in mutliple formats. A no-brainer. If he'd done it immediately in 2007, he might have been perceived as a mercenary SOB. Maybe that's why he's waited until now.
So he's getting the best 3 years' retro-action he could possibly hope for, plus a share of all future earnings. And I'd say he's entitled to it. If JP hadn't heard Holmes's song, D&C would not exist. Fact.
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Everybody is!!
The chord progression and vocal melody are identical!! I certainly think writing new lyrics, a few riffs , solos and power chords is also songwriting, so Jimmy has some right to it, but the basic structure that makes the song is stolen!!
I'm just getting scared that Randy California might eventually sue for the Stairway intro. It will not be a problem of cash(Jimmy's got plenty), but a problem of reputation, because then a lot more people will know about it!!
I remember Jimmy going to court a few years ago, to sue some bootleger, it seems now he is going to be in a different role.
Oh well, he is used to it, he was sued in the seventies for Whole lotta love, which really is only lyrically similar and for Bring it on home, where the middle section is entirely original!
Who cares, he is still the greatest and wrote some tremendous songs!! When people say Page is a thief, they should first think of the incredible songs he wrote completely by himself, like The rain song, Kashmir, Ten years gone, Heartbreaker and the list goes on and on!!
Listen to the cover "You Need Lovin'" by The Small Faces. That's where Zeppelin got the idea for the song. Stolen.
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Why is it Zep is the only band to get bashed? They take a snippet of a song, add a ton of stuff to it, and yet, it's a ripoff. Lots of other bands like the Stones, Cream, and Beatles have done similar things yet they are cherished. I'm sick of this "thieving" bullshit!!!
First of all, The Small Faces didn't "cover" You Need Lovin, they fucking stole the entire song note for note and claimed full writing credits. They changed the title from Love to Lovin, thats it.
Don't believe me? Compare the two links below and get back to me.
I love it, Led Zeppelin stole the idea for Whole Lotta Love from The Small Faces, fucking please.
Willie Dixon could have sued the shit out of the Small Faces theft of You Need Love, but he didn't because it just wasn't worth it, Plant on the other hand nicks some of his lyrics (as usual)and its time to pay.
You Need Love by Muddy Waters - written by Willie Dixon
You Need Lovin by Small Faces - 'written' by "Lane/Marriott"
Now, you wanna talk about "Stolen", that was it.
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Google Manipulates Search Results, Former Engineer Shockingly Confirms
August 1, 2019 Frank
To nobody's surprise, a former Google engineer has made revelatory claims about Google's search algorithm. || Source: Photo by ALAIN JOCARD / AFP
Mike Wacker, a former Google engineer has made repeated blockbuster claims that Google engages in manual manipulations of search results. Not only that, Mike Wacker called out CEO Sundar Pichai for lying to Congress about it.
This came on top of then-anonymous claims that he himself had been told to reorder search results.
Now, Mike Wacker has tweeted out confirmation of these and other facts.
Also, since I didn't cover it in the Medium post, the blacklist entries related to the Federal Reserve were added on Sep 7, 2018, a day after @chrislhayes sent his tweets complaining about YouTube search results for that topic:https://t.co/9qsBFLJVuc
— Mike Wacker (@m_wacker) July 31, 2019
The Sad Story of Big Tech
All of this is suddenly becoming relevant as the Department of Justice commences antitrust investigations into the big tech companies including Google.
Google has been repeatedly criticized for manipulating search results, especially burying and censoring Conservative content while lifting positive results for left-wing content.
In testimony before the House Judiciary Committee in December 2018, CEO Sundar Pichai was asked directly by representative Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) if "there wasn't some little man sitting behind the curtain figuring out what we [Google] is going to show the user".
Sundar Pichai said, "We don't manually intervene on any particular search result".
Mike Wacker explained in a Medium post that he was able to find where Google had in fact altered search results regarding abortion. Google had a special file regarding blacklisted topics, and if searches regarding these topics were performed, an alternative algorithm would trigger alternative search results.
Google's Response Is Utter Nonsense
Google stated that its policy is to prevent so-called conspiracy theories from gaining steam, and to only use what it considers to be authoritative sources. It's easy for Google to use these excuses as a fig leaf for whatever agenda it has internally, which may include trying to push one Democrat candidate lower in search results.
Yet the real kicker is that Mike Wacker discovered the blacklist was manually generated by a special Google team.
What's relevant is whether these practices are anticompetitive and harm consumers? That's what the criteria will be for an antitrust investigation.
That, in turn, will determine what happens with Google stock going forward.
The DOJ Has A Good Case
There is an argument that this kind of behavior harms consumers. Depending on what it is that Google chooses to suppress, consumers who are searching for certain topics in regards to spending money may result in misleading information. Were not just talking about price comparison, but actual goods and services.
For example, imagine a scenario where someone wants to compare buying a gasoline powered vehicle and an electric vehicle? Research regarding environmental harm, or data related to which is the more economical choice over the long term, could be manipulated based on Google's agenda regarding the environment.
The manipulation of search results may also be anticompetitive. Depending on any number of variables going on behind-the-scenes, Google may blacklist various types of businesses or goods or other services, for which no real basis exists.
As it is, Google has already banned advertisements for payday loans. On the one hand, one may argue that Google is a private business and can accept or reject advertisements for anything it chooses. Certainly that might be a good idea in terms of advertising for high explosives.
Yet when it comes to financial services products, payday loans have never been proven to cause consumer harm, but the powers that be at Google don't like the product, so they ban advertising for it. That's anticompetitive because it allows other forms of lending to advertise.
This is just another piece of evidence for the DOJ and another reason to avoid Google stock.
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Washington Post Author Compares Benghazi To Ferguson….
Washington Post author Richard Cohen is trying -miserably- to construct an analogy of political rushing to judgment surrounding Benghazi Libya and Ferguson Missouri. "Trying" is obviously the operative word.
Wordsmithing analogies require some level of similarity. Toward that end only the most inane of liberal minds could possibly conceive of a proposition claiming the death of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty – have any comparison to a Ferguson street thug attacking a police officer; yet Cohen tries.
So in an effort to actually provide Cohen with similarity allow me to show what was, factually, similar in both instances.
Cohen's efforts focus on comparing the aftermath, but what Cohen misses entirely is the concept of truth. While the police in Ferguson might have made some missteps in presenting the fullest evolution of immediately known information -I would argue to an unwilling audience- there is simply no comparison to the intentional deception delivered by Team Clinton in the Benghazi aftermath.
Unlike the U.S. State Department, the CIA apparatus and the White House, the Ferguson police department did not lie, nor did they make any efforts to lie. The Ferguson police were simply trying to provide the facts amid a media frenzy set to sell a narrative despite those facts.
Hillary Clinton, the State Department and the White House were intentionally constructing wholesale NONSENSE out of thin air. Ferguson police were trying to present the facts of a deadly shooting. The media audience for the former was aligned to sell the NONSENSE because it fit the preferred liberal narrative; the media audience for the latter were aligned to dismiss the truth of the Ferguson shooting because it did not align with the liberal narrative.
The author's newspaper, The Washington Post, was at the forefront in selling both the lies that were presented by the Clinton State Department, and the lies that were constructed absent of the facts in the Ferguson shooting. That is the similarity.
The Washington Post was aligned to sell lies in both examples.
Right there, Mr. Cohen, there is your analogy.
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the convenient revising of the facts.
and fabricating a patchwork "tapestry" (isn't that one of their words?) of disinformation steeped in self-righteousness.
trying hard either to elevate Ferguson or to downgrade Benghazi.
Only things that links the two are the muslim agitators and the narrative (lies) out of the white house to push an agenda.
US government attempts to manipulate violent low IQ segment of population for political purposes. Violence and arson ensue.
The late Samuel Francis used to say Richard Cohen of the Washington Post was his favorite columnist. Why? Cohen could always be relied on to give the standard liberal position on whatever is in the news at a given moment.
Sure…Cohen is absolutely right. Because, just like Benghazi, during the immediate aftermath of Brown being shot and leaving the body lying in the street for 17 hours (uncovered), we were all clamoring for the wherabouts of the Police Chief…who was flying to St. Louis for a fund-raiser. :/Sarc-Off.
Plus, the DOJ's CRS was delayed in their investigation because governor Nixon gave them (DOJ) a, "Stand-Down Order" too.


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Aller Sogn er et sogn i Kolding Provsti (Haderslev Stift).

Aller Sogn hørte til Sønder Tyrstrup Herred i Haderslev Amt. Aller sognekommune blev ved kommunalreformen i 1970 indlemmet i Christiansfeld Kommune. Efter dens opløsning ved strukturreformen i 2007 kom Aller i Kolding Kommune.

I Aller Sogn ligger Aller Kirke.

I sognet findes følgende autoriserede stednavne:
 Aller (bebyggelse, ejerlav)
 Brabæk (bebyggelse)
 Hejls Nor (vandareal)
 Hejlsminde (bebyggelse)
 Kobbersted (bebyggelse)
 Meng (bebyggelse)
 Skovhuse (bebyggelse, ejerlav)
 Stubbom (bebyggelse, ejerlav)
 Taps Å (vandareal)
 Åkær (bebyggelse)

Afstemningsresultat
Folkeafstemningen ved Genforeningen i 1920 gav i Aller Sogn 428 stemmer for Danmark, 48 for Tyskland. Af vælgerne var 172 tilrejst fra Danmark, 41 fra Tyskland.

Noter

Eksterne kilder/henvisninger

 J.P. Trap: Kongeriget Danmark, København 1930: 4. udgave, IX bind, s. 76.

Sogne i Kolding Kommune
Sogne i Haderslev Stift
Sogne i Sønder Tyrstrup Herred
Sogne i Haderslev Kommune

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Gaular es un municipio en la provincia de Sogn og Fjordane, Noruega. Pertenece al distrito de Sunnfjord y tiene una población de 2960 habitantes según el censo de 2015.

Gaular generalmente se subdivide tres áreas, Bygstad, Sande y Viksdalen, que son los mismos que las parroquias. Su centro administrativo es la localidad de Sande.

Referencias

Municipios de Sogn og Fjordane


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Protest Presbyterians' Attack On Israel
To: ZOA Executive Directors
ZOA Regional Leaders
Friends of Israel Around the U.S.
From: Morton A. Klein, National President
Zionist Organization of America
At its 216th General Assembly, held June 26-July 3, 2004, the Presbyterian Church USA called for the divestment of holdings by multinational corporations doing business with Israel; compared Israel to the apartheid regime in South Africa for building a security fence to defend itself against suicide bombers; endorsed the right of Arab "refugees" to settle in Israel; and decided to fund missionary activities aimed at converting American Jews to Christianity.
To express your opinion, contact:
John Detterick, Executive Director
Presbyterian Church USA
Telephone: <?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = SKYPE />(800) 872-3283 or (888) 728-7228
e-mail address: jdettrick@ctr.pcusa.org
Some Points You May Want to Make:
Divestment is economic warfare against Israel.
The Presbyterians' call for divestment from Israel could have serious consequences. If significant numbers of multinational corporations stop doing business with Israel, it will have a severe impact on the lives of the Israeli public. Divestment is an attempt to embitter the lives of ordinary Israelis.
Israel has a right to defend itself.
Security fences, checkpoints, and other self-defense measures are part of Israel's basic right and obligation, as a sovereign state to protect the lives of its citizens. Instead of condemning Israel for defending itself, the Presbyterian Church USA should be condemning the Palestinian Authority for its terrorist war against Israel. If there was no terrorism, there would be no need for security measures.
The Arabs, not Israel, are promoters of apartheid.
It is the Arab demand to expel all Jews from Judea-Samaria-Gaza which most closely resembles apartheid. It is the Arabs who refuse to coexist peacefully with their Jewish neighbors simply because they are Jews. That is racism; that is apartheid.
The Presbyterians should respect Jews, not try to convert them.
The Presbyterian decision to fund a "messianic congregation" that targets Jews for conversion is wrong. Mutual respect and tolerance, which are at the core of America's values as a multiethnic society, demand that the Presbyterians accept Jews as they are, not try to convert them to Christianity.
"Return" of "refugees" would destroy Israel.
The Presbyterians' resolution on Israel asserted that "a just and equitable solution to the conflict that respects … the rights of refugees to return to their homeland". That means, in practice, that millions of Arabs from around the world would be allowed to settle in Israel — giving Israel an Arab majority and destroying it as a Jewish State.


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