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We met Maxim on a trip to Russia in 2007 and fell in love with him. He's got such a big heart, we knew almost immediately that he was supposed to be our son. We almost managed to sort all the papers out needed for his adoption.
But in December 2012 – President Putin passed a law banning us, American parents, to adopt children from Russia. We were shocked by this sudden decision. We miss Maxim terribly every day. Our son is now stuck on the other side of the world because of this new law.
But not only him. Over 300 children, many with severe health problems, are currently stuck in orphanages in Russia. These children have adoptive families whom they have met and started to fall in love with, waiting for them in America.
These children have already been abandoned by their parents once – we can't break their fragile hearts a second time. No child should have to think they've been abandoned twice. We want to fight to be Maxim's parents, just as many other US parents want to give a home to over 300 Russian kids.
We are calling on the Ministry of Education to make an exception and permit these 300 children, including Maxim, whose adoption procedures were not finalized, to reunite with their US parents.
The documentary Dark Matter of Love, which tells the story of some of the last three Russian children able to be adopted into the US, shows what Maxim is going through right now. It demonstrates what a difference the love of a family can make to children's lives – regardless of where they're from.
We've joined forces with the filmmakers in this campaign. With a series of screenings in Russia and the US we're hoping to raise the profile of the situation these children are facing, and put pressure on both the American and Russian governments to find a way to get these children into loving families.
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One of the most successful animated franchises has finally returned to the box office. The third high-kicking instalment from the DreamWorks studio has already chopped down the screen opposition, beating the latest in The Divergent Series and big action release, London Has Fallen, in takings, raking in US$327.3 million (RO126 million) since its January release.
Po, the unlikeliest of martial arts experts, is back, and this time the loveable panda has got some growing up to do when he finds himself having to lead from the front.
When Po – voiced wonderfully again by Jack Black – reunites with his long-lost father Li, the pair travel to a secret panda paradise where they meet a host of new panda characters.
Menacingly on the horizon is a new villain, Kai, a warlord yak, who has stolen power from lots of kung fu masters and needs cutting down to size.
Step forward Po, who must do the seemingly impossible and train the clumsy rag-tag bunch of panda bears to become mean, lean fighting machines. Lessons in life, as Po must go from student to master and confront his past along the way, might not be the most subtle and the message of good overcoming evil is nothing new, but it's terrifically entertaining.
Superstars Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Kate Hudson and Jackie Chan all lend their voices to bring the animals to life, elevating the movie beyond mere animation.
It's perhaps the most dramatically visual of the three so far, so well worth seeing in 3D and the set pieces are excellent.
Kids will be charmed and adults will enjoy the return of the cuddly warrior hero as much as their little ones.
Anthony Hopkins starring in a film about the FBI hunting a serial killer with the help of a clever but damaged psychiatrist? Sound familiar? This time, however, Hopkins is on the side of the goodies, playing retired forensic psychiatrist John Clancy, who is drawn into the hunt for a killer. The twist is that both the hunter and the hunted are clairvoyant. Colin Farrell takes on the role of the murderer, with Abbie Cornish playing the ingenue FBI officer (a poor woman's Clarice Starling). Silence of the Lambs it isn't and our advice is to avoid this movie.
Set in 1950s Australia, Kate Winslet (with a passable Aussie accent) is the eponymous dressmaker, Tilly Dunnage, who returns to the dusty backwater that used to be her hometown, armed with her trusty Singer sewing machine and a wish to make amends for past wrongs. Along the way, she sets her sights on a transformative fashion makeover for the town. It has echoes of Mary Poppins and Chocolat but lacks the guile and charm of those classics. Liam Hemsworth is the rugby-playing love interest.
Part of the 10th edition of the Muscat International Film Festival (MIFF), which runs until March 28, this 2014 Egyptian film weaves together three stories taking place over the course of a single day in Cairo. There's Lila, a retired actress who is searching for her last co-star, while Salma is facing a marriage break-up and Hazem, a young drug dealer on the run from Alexandria, picks up an old man with Alzheimer's. The six disparate characters are brought together by destiny. The film brings out pitch-perfect performances by some of Egypt's leading actors, including Ayten Amer and the late Nour El-Sherif, with the best of Cairo as the backdrop.
The wait is almost over as the highly anticipated battle between two superheroes is about to hit the screens in Oman. City Cinema Oman had a special screening of the movie on Wednesday, but the full release is set for this weekend. Fearing that Superman (Henry Cavill) has got a bit out of hand, Batman (a beefed-up Ben Affleck) takes on the man of steel, while arch-enemy Lex Luthor cooks up a plan to end the world. Can Superman and Batman put their differences aside and, with the help of Wonder Woman, save the world?


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Prime Metro Power Holdings Corporation (Prime Power) was incorporated in 2017 to focus on the development and operations of power infrastructure projects.
We turn our attention to the development of strategic assets in emerging markets where there is a significant needs for new power generation, transmission, or distribution to support local communicates and industrial development.
Enrique Razon Jr.
Chairman | Director | Chief Executive Officer
Guillaume Lucci
Director| President | Chief Operating Officer
Stephen Paradies
Jose Ibazeta
Jesus Bernardo Palma III
Melvin John Tan
Water Sector Lead
Rayan Kassis
New International Business & Country Director - Iraq
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Human Resource Director
Enrique Razon Jr
Chairman | Director | Chief Executive Officer
Enrique Razon Jr. is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Prime Infra and Prime Power. He is also the President of International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI), a Philippine-based company involved in the management and operation of 30 ports and terminals in 18 countries.
The Razon Group has a long-standing reputation of being pioneers and innovators in the management and development of ports, terminals and related facilities.
Guillaume Lucci is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Prime Metroline Infrastructure Holdings Corporation and Prime Metro Power Holdings Corporation, developer and operator of water and power projects and the Head of Major Project and Capital Expenditures at International Container Terminal Services, Inc.
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We need 5 workers located in Malaysia, who can work online for us. The jobs include: 1 Upload products to our online shops. 2 Comminicate with customers with emails. 3 Do some other related tasks. Note: 1 It's better if you know Chinese language . 2 Female is better for customer service. You can work by days. And at first we will start by 100$.
Basically, ...to capture the sales. To encourage shops to give us the data, we will present free device with sales and inventory system for 3 months, and read the data streams off the cloud for analysis. So we have 3 independent modules - sales/inventory, shop MIS, Analytics, and Admin... Admin needs a billing side so that shops can subscribe monthly.
Basically, I ...We need simple unencrypted SOURCE CODE. We are using an android datacollector with built-in printer, barcode scanner and smartcard reader to capture the sales. To encourage shops to give us the data, we will present free device with sales and inventory system for 3 months, after which they will subscribe monthly. I suggest we have NDA.
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Pom Pom collaborate with Norah Gaughan as their winter issue guest editor, and nothing could have prepared us for the beauty and drama of the results. Taking the idea of tough Victoriana, the traditional notion of a delicate lady surrounded by flowers is transformed into a warrior woman of strength and resilience.
Also packed into our winter issue is a column by resident columnist Anna Maltz exploring knitting beyond traditions, we have a Q&A session with Norah, and a recipe for a braided challah bread – just as comforting and squishy as knitted cables.
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I'm pretty sure we are all unanimous when it comes to cookies. Yes, we might not all agree on a flavor. But, I think we all can agree that cookies are amazingly awesome.
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Soft chocolate cookies with crunchy Butterfinger bits and warm peanut butter drizzle! These cookies with be devoured in seconds!
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Dec 14,2017 by Special to the Dispatch
OCEAN CITY — For the second year, Mayor Rick Meehan and members of the Ocean City Council will treat residents and visitors to a free concert at the Performing Arts Center.
After a brief meet and greet with Ocean City elected officials and participating community partners, the 2018 New Year's Day Concert will feature performances by musicians Bryan Russo and Nadjah Nicole, who was featured in a previous season of NBC's Emmy Award winning TV show The Voice.
"For 20 years, the Mayor's Open House offered the opportunity for our citizens to meet with elected officials that serve our community," said Mayor Rick Meehan. "That tradition has evolved in a way that continues that custom, but also allows us to highlight our beautiful Performing Arts Center by providing residents with an opportunity to enjoy this amazing venue for free."
This year's concert features Delaware native Nicole, who was introduced to 10 million viewers during her 10-week run on The Voice. She is a talented singer and songwriter who has amassed an impressive resume. Nicole has a soothing, soulful and melodic vocal style that compliments her soulful-pop music.
"Nadjah exudes positivity and an almost effortless elegance that I noticed the first time we played a small club together, and it was truly exciting to watch millions of people experience that during her run on Team Blake on The Voice," said Russo. "If you are looking for soul music with a pop twist, with the sounds of Erykah Badu, Esperanza Spalding, Corrine Bailey Rae, Jill Scott, Beyonce, then you won't want to miss this show."
Scheduled from 1-3 p.m. on New Year's Day, residents and visitors are invited to meet the Mayor and City Council members from 1 p.m. until 1:30 p.m. After the meet and greet, the Performing Arts Center doors will open for seating and the concert will start promptly at 1:45 p.m. with Russo opening the show. Tickets will not be issued, as seating will be first come first serve.


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It gets even harder when people start throwing around technical jargon that confuses the conversation.
This terminology is shorthand – a quick way of communicating a complex idea.
Unfortunately, it often feels like an inside joke, one that you're not part of.
This article is designed to demystify those complex ideas, so that in the heat of the moment your options are clear.
A place you put your money where it will work hard for you.
That is, somewhere it will grow over time, usually over a few years.
It is something you own, rather than a bet.
It is money you intend to see again, unlike a present or a grant.
You might invest in a property, like a house or apartment, or you might invest in a company.
In each scenario, you're buying an asset - and as the owner of that asset, you receive the income that your asset generates.
If you owned an investment property, you'd receive the rent from your tenants, and you'd benefit from the house price going up when you sell.
If you own part of a company, you'd receive the profits the company makes, and you'd benefit from the company value going up when you sell.
While there's a chance that it could fail, all investments are made with the hopes that they'll succeed and make everyone money.
Therefore, investors are keen to ensure that their company makes money – and that the entrepreneur doesn't do anything stupid.
A deal where a generous person or institution gives you money to achieve a noble task.
It might be to build something, teach something, run an event or design a new program.
There's no expectation that the money will be returned, but there's definitely an obligation to prove that you've done what you promised – a process known as an acquittal.
Grants can kickstart your business, but they're not free money.
In delivering on your promises, you'll spend a lot of the money hiring staff or buying ingredients. If this aligns with your mission, great.
If not, grants can become a bit of a distraction.
They're also hard to get – you're competing with lots of other organisations, and need to spend a lot of time on the applications with no guarantee of a result.
The assets that a business uses to create money.
This might be machinery or equipment that gets used to create a product or deliver a service, a brand name, software or a patent.
These are the things you need to buy/own in order to generate revenue, and some industries are more "capital intensive" than others.
For example, opening a café is much easier than starting an airline, because you only need to acquire a coffee machine and kitchen equipment, rather than a fleet of planes.
An amount of cash used to cover any shortfalls while running your business.
Most businesses buy raw materials or hire staff before they receive payments for their goods and services, so they need some extra cash in the business to tide them over – hence the need for working capital.
The longer the gap between spending money and receiving revenue, the higher the amount of working capital required.
Money that can be used to establish a new business, then is gradually repaid over time without any interest charge.
This gives an impact investor the ability to have their money be useful, get it back, and redeploy it to another cause, whilst not charging the entrepreneur any interest.
If this goes well, the investor will not have lost any cash, just the opportunity cost of receiving interest from another investment.
The lending of money for an agreed period of time, in exchange for an agreed interest payment.
An investor lends out their money to an entrepreneur, who then uses it to grow a profitable business.
The entrepreneur then gradually repays the loan, along with an interest payment to reward the investor for their faith.
When used correctly, debt is a win-win for both parties.
It allows the borrower to buy something they otherwise couldn't afford (e.g. a house or a business) and pays the lender more of a return than they would receive from a term deposit.
However, if the business fails or the borrower runs out of money, the lender will have to re-possess the assets (e.g. selling the house or the business's equipment to repay the loan).
Equity refers to the value and ownership of a company.
Owners are entitled to the profits that a business creates, which gets divided up like a pie.
If you have two founders, they might have 50% equity each, so they get 50% of all profits made by the business.
If it's a successful company, then that equity is worth a lot of money.
If it's a failing company, then that equity is worth almost nothing.
Some companies will choose to sell some equity to an outside investor, and use the investor's money to grow the business.
When the business makes $100,000 in profit, $15,000 goes to the investor.
When the business breaks even, the investor gets nothing.
Whereas a debt goes away once it's repaid, the person who owns the equity receives part of the company's profits forever.
That's why you hear stories of early investors whose shares in startups are worth billions of dollars, while those who owned shares in failed companies earned nothing.
The payment made by a borrower to a lender, as compensation for the use of their money.
This is used to make a deal fair for the lender – they are losing access to their money, and so need to be suitably rewarded based on how much risk they are taking.
For example, investing in a term deposit is incredibly safe, so pays 2-3% interest each year.
Investing in a large company has a bit of risk, so you might expect a 6-8% interest rate.
Investing in a startup carries a lot of risk, so a lender might charge closer to 20% interest.
These payments are made at agreed times, and usually are agreed amounts.
e.g. an investor lends $20,000 at 10% interest, paid back in one year.
Therefore, the borrower will repay the $20,000, plus $2,000 in interest.
The splitting of profits amongst shareholders, and is the way an equity investor earns some income.
If a company earns $1,000 profit, and has 100 shares, each share receives a $10 payment.
If you owned 15 shares, you'd receive $150 of dividends that year.
Whereas interest payments are predictable, dividends are variable.
Dividends go up and down over time, depending on how much profit is made and what the company chooses to do with it.
For example, there might not be any profits to split, or the company might choose to re-invest profits into an expansion.
This is important to think through.
Let's say you're starting your own gluten-free cookie factory.
You need $100,000 to buy all the machinery, set up the factory and arrange delivery to your distributors.
If you borrow the money, you'll be repaying the $100k plus up to $10k in interest each year, no matter how well the business goes.
Let's say that equals $25k per year, which can feel either cheap or expensive depending on your success.
If you sell partial ownership, the investor gets 50% of whatever profits you make, and has the ability to vote on important decisions.
When times are tough, you pay them nothing, and when times are good, they make a lot of money – but so do you.
This is a complex decision – the loan might end up costing you $150k all up then it disappears, but you must pay it back.
Selling equity could cost you nothing, or it could make your investor a millionaire. You also have a permanent partner, which is good or bad depending on your relationship with that person.
That's why some entrepreneurs go for a bit of both, because the debt feels cheap if the business is successful, and they get the benefits of having an investor without giving up half of the company.
How much is 1% of your company worth?
This is a very tough question to answer, and causes a lot of headaches in any investment deal.
All parties need to agree on how they will calculate the value of a business, so that they can work out how much each share should cost.
A common approach is to base the value on the profits a business makes in a year, times an agreed multiple.
e.g. a safe business might use a multiple of 4, whereas something riskier might use a multiple of 2.
Valuation is tricky, because of each party's natural perspective.
The entrepreneur sees the grand future, and wants to factor that in to the price.
The investor isn't so confident, and doesn't want to overpay based on the entrepreneur's wild fantasies.
Emotion can often get in the way of reason, because it can feel like the entrepreneur is agreeing on a price for selling one of their children.
For this reason, it's often wise to use an impartial third party to help with these negotiations.
The likelihood that a business will succeed or fail.
For example, some investments are seen to have low risk, like buying a property.
Sure it could burn down, but that's unlikely.
By contrast, investing in an oil exploration company is less likely to succeed.
The Rate of Return refers to the benefits an investor receives from their investment.
However, the investor has to make an assessment – do I want a safer, smaller return, or a larger but less likely return?
Just because one investment earns more than another doesn't make it "better" – if it takes a lot more risk, then it might not be a good investment over the long term.
Generally, Risk and Return are connected – the more risk you're willing to take, the more you stand to gain.
Unfortunately, your business doesn't have a neat Rate Of Return sticker on the front of it.
The returns are going to fluctuate, and they'll be very low at first.
To counteract this, an investor wants to see the Internal Rate of Return (IRR), which averages out what they expect the business to deliver on average per year.
This is a nice comparison tool – allowing you to gauge the overall attractiveness of a project with volatile returns.
This is usually calculated in excel, based on the cash position of the business at the end of each year.
The investor will want to see that the IRR is higher than what they could ordinarily get from their usual investments, otherwise they'll stick with what they're already doing.
$1 today is worth more than $1 in a year's time.
For this reason, we need a way of describing how much "future money" is worth today.
This is calculated through Net Present Value, which answers questions like "How much is $1m in 2023 worth in today's money?
Depending on your circumstances, it might be worth $700k-800k, because you could put that $800k in the bank and it would grow to $1m in that time.
Investors use this to work out if an deal is worthwhile.
Let's say they're looking at buying a business they think will be worth $1m in 2023, they will calculate the Net Present Value, which might be $750k today.
Therefore, they'll be happy to buy the business today for $600k or $700k, but not $900k.
A small initial sum of money used to start a business – like planting seeds that will eventually grow into crops.
This funding is used to recruit the necessary team members, buy equipment and begin the sales process.
Seed funding can comes from a grant, the team members, or the Three F's – Friends, Fools and Family.
These are each people who are not cold-hearted investors, and who are loving/silly enough to give you money before you've actually made any sales.
An Angel Investor is someone who helps young businesses grow through an early stage investment, like seed funding.
They are usually quite experienced businesspeople themselves, and often have a close relationship with the founder/founding team.
This is an investor who sees great potential in the company and its founders, and is willing to take a lot of risk in exchange for a potentially high reward.
A board is a team of experienced individuals who ensure that a company is operating in a safe and wise manner.
Whilst the CEO is there to manage the business and its day-to-day activities, a board is responsible for setting the strategy and ensuring that the business is well positioned to survive the next decade.
Boards comprise a range of skilled members, such as lawyers, accountants, and those with experience in the industry.
This ensures that the company is making good choices, and that investors' money is being used effectively.
Not many investors or entrepreneurs want to stick around forever.
They have plans to sell their portion of the company to someone else, be it other employees, a rival company, or to sell shares on the open market.
Either way, the founders should be able to articulate their plan for getting out, be it in 2, 5 or 10 years.
This allows other investors to understand where the company is headed, and they can forecast when they'll be able to sell their shares as well.


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Hong Kong protests: "Might as well go down fighting"
Zeynep Tufekci (previously) has been in Hong Kong reporting on the protests for months, and she's witnessed firsthand the failure of every prediction that the uprising would end soon -- but despite the mounting numbers and militancy of protesters, she reports that the protesters are not animated by hope or optimism, but rather, a fatalistic understanding that they will lose eventually, and a determination to go down fighting.
The protesters that Tufekci has spoken to invoke Xinjiang province, where millions of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities have been imprisoned in hundreds of concentration camps where they are subjected to torture, rape, and brainwashing. The Hong Kong protesters understand that President Xi and the Beijing establishment have declared war on dissenters in China, and that further integration with the mainland could lead to the disappearance, torture and murder of their loved ones.
The protesters have formulated a program with five demands on it: withdrawal of the extradition bill, independent investigations of police violence, dropping riot charges against protesters, amnesty for the arrested, and universal sufferage -- the right to nominate and vote on their own leaders, without those nominations being subjected to a veto by the mainland Chinese state.
Universal sufferage is the most urgent of these demands (though all of them are non-negotiable -- as the popular slogan goes, "Five demands, not one less"). The protesters understand that their fate depends on being able to elect their own leaders, and that without a legitimate, accountable state, they will ultimately be sold out to the mainland.
More than 80% of Hong Kongers have been teargassed. The protesters have lost much of their fear, and understand the stakes they're playing for. Their sole fear is of being disappeared and of being murdered and having their deaths falsely painted as suicides. When protesters are arrested, they call out their own names and aver that they are not suicidal, hoping to have video-records made by other protesters that can be used to get them a lawyer and to head off any attempt to stage their suicides.
Aren't you afraid? I asked, gingerly. "We are afraid," they quickly admitted. They even giggled, but it got serious quickly. This is our last chance, they said very matter-of-factly. If we stand down, nothing will stand between us and mainland China, they said. They talked about Xinjiang, and what China had done to the Uighur minority. I've heard about the fate of the Uighurs from so many protesters over the months. China may have wanted to make an example out of the region, but the lesson Hong Kongers took was in the other direction—resist with all your might, because if you lose once, there will be a catastrophe for your people, and the world will ignore it.
The two women weren't sure whether they would win. That's also something I've heard often—these protesters aren't the most optimistic group. No rose-colored glasses here. "But we cannot give up," one insisted, "because if we do, there will be no future for us anyway. We might as well go down fighting."
One of the young women gave me an umbrella: a tool protesters use to shield themselves from the sun, from CCTV cameras, from overhead helicopters, from the blue water laced with pepper spray and fired from water cannons, from tear-gas canisters. They had noticed I didn't have one, and were worried for me. They had brought extras to share. "You might need this," one of them said as she handed it to me, and wished me good luck. And then the clouds of tear gas drifted in our direction, as they so often do in Hong Kong these days, and we scattered.
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Motörhead est un groupe britannique de heavy metal, originaire de Londres (Angleterre). Le groupe, formé en 1975 par le bassiste et chanteur Lemmy Kilmister et dissout en 2015 à la suite de la mort de ce dernier, fait partie de la  qui donne un nouveau souffle à la scène heavy metal au Royaume-Uni à la fin des années 1970 et au début des années 1980. Habituellement un power trio, Motörhead connaît un certain succès au début des années 1980 avec plusieurs singles qui atteignent l'UK Singles Chart. Les albums , , , et particulièrement  cimentent la réputation de Motörhead comme l'un des plus grands groupes de rock britannique.

Alors que Motörhead est généralement classé dans le heavy metal et est reconnu comme l'une des principales influences du speed metal et du thrash metal, Kilmister admet qu'il déteste ce terme, préférant décrire le son du groupe par le genre rock 'n' roll. L'approche de Motörhead envers sa musique est restée la même durant toute la vie du groupe, préférant jouer ce que ses membres aimaient jouer sans se préoccuper du « qu'en-dira-t-on ». Les textes de Motörhead couvrent des sujets aussi larges que la guerre, le bien contre le mal, l'abus du pouvoir, le sexe, la consommation de drogue et la vie sur la route.

Le logo distinctif du groupe, avec sa célèbre tête à cornes, est créé en 1977 par l'artiste Joe Petagno pour l'album . Le groupe est classé  au classement des 100 plus grands groupes de heavy metal par VH1. En quarante ans de carrière, le groupe a vendu plus de trente-cinq millions d'albums à travers le monde.

Historique

Débuts (1975–1977)

Tout commence lorsque Lemmy Kilmister se fait renvoyer du groupe Hawkwind en 1975 pour, comme il l'explique,  Ainsi, il est arrêté pour être en possession d'amphétamines à la frontière canadienne et passe cinq jours en prison, causant l'annulation de certains des concerts du groupe en Amérique du Nord. Les membres d'Hawkwind payent la caution de Lemmy afin qu'il puisse jouer à un concert, le bassiste remplaçant n'ayant pu se rendre sur place. À la fin du concert, Lemmy est renvoyé de Hawkwind. Désormais seul, Kilmister décide de former son propre groupe, d'abord appelé  (, en français). Douglas Smith, alors manager du groupe, suggère à Kilmister de changer le nom du groupe car un nom pareil ne passera jamais à Top of the Pops. Kilmister décide alors d'appeler le groupe Motörhead, comme la dernière chanson qu'il a écrite avec Hawkwind — motorhead étant alors une expression américaine désignant une personne addicte au speed.

Le but principal du groupe, selon Kilmister, est de se concentrer sur  Kilmister engage alors Larry Wallis (ex-Pink Fairies) à la guitare et Lucas Fox à la batterie. Le premier concert du groupe est en première partie de Greenslade au Roundhouse de Londres le . Le  de la même année, alors qu'ils n'ont joué qu'une dizaine de concerts, le groupe ouvre pour Blue Öyster Cult au HMV Hammersmith Apollo de Londres. Motörhead est alors sous contrat avec United Artists. Ils enregistrent au Rockfield Studios de Monmouth au Pays de Galles avec le producteur Dave Edmunds. Durant la session d'enregistrement, Fox est viré à cause de ses agissements : il essayait de suivre le rythme que Kilmister s'imposait en matière de consommation de drogues, il est alors remplacé par Philthy Animal Taylor (Phil Taylor de son vrai nom), un ami de Kilmister. Le label du groupe n'est pas satisfait des enregistrements et refuse de les sortir. Finalement les compositions sortiront sur l'album  quelques années plus tard, en 1979, alors que Motörhead jouit d'une bonne réputation aux États-Unis.

En , Lemmy décide de recruter un second guitariste. Il auditionne  Eddie Clarke. Entretemps, alors que Wallis continue à tourner avec le groupe Pink Fairies, il décide de quitter le groupe, laissant Clarke comme unique guitariste. Le trio Kilmister-Clarke-Taylor est désormais considéré comme la composition originale de Motörhead. En , le groupe enregistre le single Leaving Here pour Stiff Records, mais United Artists empêche la sortie du single, prétextant que le groupe est toujours sous contrat avec eux, bien qu'il refusait auparavant de sortir leur premier album. United Artists empêche ainsi la sortie du single jusqu'en 1977. Les critiques sont mauvaises, le groupe gagnant même le titre de  dans le magazine NME.

En , vivant dans un squat et avec peu de reconnaissance, Clarke et Taylor veulent abandonner. Après de longues discussions, le groupe décide de faire un dernier concert au Marquee Club de Londres. Kilmister demande à l'un de ses amis, Ted Carroll du label Chiswick Records, d'amener un studio mobile pour enregistrer leur dernier concert pour la postérité. Caroll est incapable d'amener le studio mobile au Marquee Club et offre au groupe en échange deux jours au studio d'enregistrement Escape Studio avec le producteur Stevie Keen pour enregistrer un single. Le groupe saisit sa chance et, au lieu d'enregistrer un single, ils composent onze morceaux inachevés. Carroll leur accorde alors quelques jours de plus au Studios Olympic de Londres pour finir les parties de chant et enregistrer deux autres nouveaux titres pour réaliser un album. Chiswick sort le single  en , suivi par l'album  en août qui passe une semaine au UK Albums Chart à la . Le groupe est alors géré par le manager Tony Secunda ; l'avenir de Motörhead est incertain, Secunda se séparant de Cheswick Records et Clarke et Taylor jouant avec différents groupes. Motörhead est au bord de la rupture.

Succès (1978–1982)

En , le groupe se sépare de Secunda et engage Douglas Smith, qui arrive à leur décrocher un contrat avec Bronze Records. Un premier single, intitulé , sort en . Le groupe part alors en tournée à travers le Royaume-Uni et apparaît pour la première fois à la télévision sur la BBC à l'émission Top of the Pops. Chiswick Records capitalise le succès du single en sortant une ré-édition de l'album  en vinyle. Le groupe commence à gagner une certaine notoriété sur les scènes heavy metal et punk britanniques. Le succès du single pousse Bronze Records à reconsidérer leur contrat et le groupe part en studio avec le producteur Jimmy Miller. Le groupe joue le premier single, , au . Quelques mois plus tard, le , sort l'album du même nom, qui décroche la vingt-quatrième place au Top 40 britannique. Un second single est alors commercialisé : .

Durant juillet et , le groupe travaille sur leur prochain album , qui sort le , pour se classer douzième au classement des meilleures ventes d'albums britannique. En décembre, le single éponyme de l'album sort. Le groupe part ensuite en tournée en Europe avec Saxon. Le , alors que le groupe est toujours en tournée, Bronze Records sort l'EP  enregistré en public, qui se vend plus que n'importe quel autre album réalisé par le groupe.

D'août à , le groupe est au Jackson's Studio de Rickmansworth avec le producteur Vic Maile. Un premier single, intitulé , sort le . Le  suit l'album . L'album devient très vite disque d'or et Bronze Records sort une édition limitée en vinyle quelques mois plus tard. Après différentes apparitions à la télévision, dont , le groupe part en tournée au Royaume-Uni. La pochette de l'album montre le groupe habillé en cow-boys sur un fond qui ressemble au désert d'Arizona, mais qui en fait est photographié à Barnet dans la banlieue nord de Londres. Ace of Spades est considéré comme l'hymne de Motörhead. L'album fut décrit comme l'un des meilleurs albums de rock jamais faits.

En 1981, le groupe connaît une année encore meilleure avec deux disques bien classés : un EP intitulé  (en collaboration avec Girlschool), cinquième au classement des singles britanniques, et l'album , qui devient premier au classement des albums britanniques en juin. D'avril à juillet, le groupe part en tournée pour la première fois aux États-Unis avec Ozzy Osbourne. Entre le 26 et le , le groupe commence à enregistrer son premier album auto-produit. Le  sort le premier single , suivi le  de l'album du même nom . Cet album est le dernier album avec Kilmister, Clarke et Taylor comme membres du groupe. En effet, Clarke quitte le groupe le  après de multiples disputes avec les autres membres du groupe, ces derniers reprochant à Clarke sa grosse consommation d'alcool.

Déclin et procès (1983–1989)
Après le départ de Clarke, Kilmister et Taylor sont activement à la recherche d'un nouveau guitariste : parmi ceux qu'ils passent en revue, Brian Robertson ex-guitariste de Thin Lizzy, accepte de faire partie du groupe et enregistre l'album Another Perfect Day en 1983. En juin et , le groupe part au Japon pour la première fois. Lors de cette tournée les premières frictions entre Robertson et Kilmister apparaissent : son allure pose problème au groupe, car il arbore une coupe de cheveux de couleur rouge, porte un short court et des ballerines. Mais plus que sa façon d'être, le vrai problème est que Robertson refuse de jouer les anciens classiques de Motörhead. Finalement le groupe et Robertson se séparent à l'amiable. Après ce départ, le groupe doit rechercher un nouveau guitariste pour le remplacer. Après la réception de milliers de cassettes, le groupe engage Phil Campbell du groupe  et un inconnu : Würzel. Ainsi le groupe redevient un quatuor avec deux guitaristes. Alors que Kilmister auditionne Würzel et Campbell, Taylor annonce son départ : Phil Campbell propose de le remplacer par Pete Gill (ex-batteur de Saxon).

Avec trois nouveaux membres, Bronze Records ne croit plus vraiment en la réussite du groupe : la maison de disques décide alors de sortir une compilation. Quand Lemmy Kilmister découvre ce projet, il le prend alors en charge et choisit les morceaux qui seront sur la compilation, en y ajoutant quelques notes ; de plus il insiste pour que le groupe enregistre quatre nouvelles chansons. Sortira ainsi le  le double album . Le single enregistré spécialement pour l'album, , atteint une honorable quinzième place au classement des singles britannique.  sera la dernière collaboration de Motörhead avec Bronze Records, les deux années suivantes, le groupe sera en procès avec le label, Kilmister reprochant à Bronze Records de ne pas avoir fait proprement la promotion de leurs différents albums. Durant cette période, le groupe se met à tourner intensément, d'abord en Australie et en Nouvelle-Zélande, puis lors de différents festivals européens. En , Motörhead gagne finalement le procès. Les managers du groupe décident alors de racheter le contrat à Bronze Records et de créer leur propre label : GWR Records. Motörhead part alors immédiatement en studio pour enregistrer l'album  et sort le single  le . En octobre le groupe part en tournée à travers les États-Unis puis en Europe.

En 1987, alors que Kilmister fait une apparition dans le film , Gill quitte le groupe et Taylor réintègre alors le groupe. Le deuxième album pour GWR Records est  commercialisé le . Il ne connaît pas un grand succès. Le , le groupe enregistre un album live au  de Hämeenlinna en Finlande : l'album s'appelle  et sort le . Des divergences apparaissent quant au choix du single entre Motörhead et GWR Records, le groupe souhaitant que ce soit la chanson , mais GWR préférant . Quand le groupe apprend que le choix du single s'est finalement porté sur , il refuse qu'il soit distribué, et l'album ne se vend alors que sur les stands de la tournée. Une fois de plus, le groupe entre en procès avec une maison de disques. L'affaire ne sera résolue qu'au début des années 1990.

Depuis leur album 1916... (1990–2015)
Au début des années 1990, le groupe signe chez Sony et Lemmy déménage aux États-Unis. Toujours formé de quatre membres, Motörhead enregistre  en 1991 (qui devient un classique) et  en 1992 (avec des invités comme Slash ou Ozzy Osbourne). Le batteur Phil Taylor est remplacé par le suédois Mikkey Dee, ex-batteur de King Diamond. La nouvelle formation enregistre deux excellents albums qui marquent un retour aux sources du Speed metal :  en 1993 et  en 1995 (le guitariste Würzel quitte le groupe après l'enregistrement). Motörhead redevient alors un power trio comme à ses débuts et restera stable pour les albums suivants (qui sortent tous les deux ans) :  (1996),  (1998),  (2000),  (2002),  (2004),  (2006),  (2008). Depuis l'an 2000, de nombreuses compilations ont été éditées.

En , dans une interview avec l, Lemmy annonce l'arrivée de Motörhead en studio en   son vingtième album. Le , la participation du groupe au  est confirmée pour juin et le  leur participation au  est également confirmée pour . Pour coïncider avec la sortie de leur album, Motörhead se lance dans une tournée britannique en . Dans une interview à la télévision hongroise, en , Mikkey Dee annonce que l'album est terminé et qu'il comporte 10 titres. Le nom de cet album est . Un an plus tard (le ), Würzel meurt d'une cardiomyopathie.

En novembre et décembre, Mikkey Dee déclare lors d'une conférence de presse à Paris, en France, que Motörhead sortira une  dans . À la suite des problèmes de santé de Lemmy, la tournée européenne suivant la sortie de l'album , initialement programmée à l'automne 2013, est repoussée au début de l'année 2014, avant d'être définitivement annulée. Ce n'est qu'en  que le groupe commence à se produire à nouveau sur scène.

Le groupe se produit au Hellfest lors des éditions 2006, 2008, 2010 et 2015 (avec un gobelet anniversaire disponible sur le festival célébrant les 40 ans du groupe - et Lemmy de rappeler sur scène que Phil Campbell est dans le groupe depuis 31 ans). Mais peu de jours après la sortie du nouvel album Bad Magic, les problèmes de santé de Lemmy ressurgissent, et lors du concert à Austin le , Lemmy interrompt le troisième morceau, Metropolis, retourne dans les coulisses et revient sur scène s'excuser de ne pas pouvoir continuer, à la suite de quoi le concert est annulé. Phil Taylor meurt le .

Mort de Lemmy Kilmister et séparation (2015)
Le , Lemmy Kilmister meurt, quatre jours après son , d'un « cancer extrêmement agressif » qui lui avait été diagnostiqué deux jours plus tôt. Il était atteint d'un cancer de la prostate selon son certificat de décès et souffrait d'arythmie cardiaque. L'ultime concert de Motorhead s'était tenu le  à Berlin. Après la mort de Lemmy, Mikkey Dee dira de lui, dans une interview : « Il était terriblement émacié. Il dépensait toute son énergie sur scène, et ensuite il était très, très fatigué. C'est incroyable que, malgré ça, il ait quand même pu jouer jusqu'au bout. ». Le , lors de cette même interview, Mikkey Dee annonce la dissolution du groupe.

À l'origine prévu le , UDR Music publie Clean Your Clock, le , un album live archivé de Motörhead qui comprend leurs concerts des 20 et  au Zénith de Munich. Le , Motörhead publie Under Cöver chez Silver Lining Music, un album de reprises. Le , l'ancien guitariste de Motörhead, Eddie Clarke, meurt d'une pneumonie à l'âge de 67 ans. Le , Larry Wallis, le tout premier guitariste du groupe, qui officia sur On Parole, leur premier album, meurt à l'âge de 70 ans.

Après la dissolution de Motörhead, Phil Campbell fonde en 2016 le groupe The Bastards Sons, qui sort deux albums en 2016 et en 2018. L'année suivante, il sort un album solo, Old Lions Still Roar. De son côté, depuis , Mikkey Dee est le batteur actuel de Scorpions.

Image et esprit

Par bien des aspects, Motörhead est l'archétype du groupe de heavy metal sale, agressif et violent. Lemmy lui-même aime à entretenir cette impression par son apparence physique, ses vêtements provocants ou des déclarations sans appel telles que « si Motörhead s'installait à côté de chez vous, votre pelouse dépérirait ». Mais sa personnalité est bien plus complexe que cela : amateur invétéré d'amphétamines, d'alcool (deux litres de Jack Daniels par jour) et de Malboro Red, Lemmy est pourtant un ennemi acharné de l'héroïne et ne manque jamais de préciser que, si sa constitution physique exceptionnelle semble lui éviter les effets pervers des drogues, il déconseille à tous de suivre son mode de vie. Consommateur notoire et revendiqué de groupies, c'est un adepte de la liberté sexuelle pour tous. Personnage provocateur, il est, paradoxalement, très à cheval sur la politesse et les bonnes manières.

Ces paradoxes se retrouvent dans la musique de Motörhead : le groupe se distingue également par des textes toujours très soignés et souvent subtils, aux sources d'inspirations variées. Ainsi  joue avec les clichés rock 'n' roll en décrivant la vie des roadies en tournée, alors que  fait allusion au film muet du même nom du réalisateur allemand Fritz Lang, sorti en 1927.

L'originalité la plus significative du groupe reste dans la formule du trio, mais surtout dans l'utilisation de la basse par Lemmy Kilmister, ancien bassiste d'Hawkwind. En effet, Kilmister joue en accords sur la base d'un son saturé en assurant à la fois le rôle d'une guitare rythmique et celui de la basse. On ne retrouve cette façon de jouer que dans des morceaux de Hawkwind joués par Kilmister, comme Lost Johnny, qui sera d'ailleurs repris sur le premier album de Motörhead. Lemmy chante et joue cette chanson à la basse. Utilisée de cette façon, la basse jouée en accords produit un son extrêmement lourd et profond, donnant l'impression d'un bruit de tremblement de terre. Ce style reste sans aucun équivalent dans l'histoire du heavy metal et fait de Motörhead le groupe au style le plus lourd et le plus agressif du genre, tout en restant relativement mélodieux. Il n'y a cependant que sur les tout premiers albums, tels que ,  et déjà, dans une moindre mesure,  et , que ce style est nettement audible. En particulier sur des chansons comme , ,  (sur ), , , Metropolis (sur , l'album le plus lourd du groupe), ,  (sur ),  et  (sur ). Selon le Livre des Records, Motörhead est le groupe qui joue le plus fort au monde et il y détient donc sa place qui officialise la chose. « Everything louder than everything else » est ainsi devenue l'une des devises phares de Motörhead, laquelle se retrouve subséquemment inscrite au dos des tee-shirts officiels du groupe.

Implication dans le catch

Le titre  est écrit par Jim Johnston et interprété par Motörhead, pour le catcheur Triple H (surnommé  ou encore ) de la World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Triple H est un grand fan de Motörhead, il participe aussi aux chœurs sur le morceau . En 2006, Motörhead enregistre le nouvel hymne de Triple H : . Cette chanson se retrouve sur le disque . Par la suite, le morceau  redeviendra la musique d'entrée de cette grande star de la WWE. Le groupe chanta en live  lors de l'entrée de Triple H à  et . Le titre  est lui aussi écrit pour la musique d'entrée du groupe Evolution. Leur titre  tiré de l'album  est utilisé comme thème pour l'.

Influences
Parmi ceux qui déclarent avoir été le plus influencés par Motörhead, on retrouve bien sûr Metallica, Lars Ulrich ayant même été, plus jeune, le président du fan club de Motörhead. Le groupe leur rendra différents hommages, notamment avec l'album , enregistré pour les cinquante ans de Lemmy au Whisky A Go-Go de Los Angeles. L'album se compose de 8 chansons de Motörhead jouées par Metallica, et 12 chansons jouées par Motörhead. Sur cet album live les Four Horsemen reprennent Overkill (avec Lemmy), , , , , et . Les groupes composants le « Big 4 » revendiquent tous Motörhead comme une influence majeure. D'autres groupes de Thrash metal tel que Sodom ou encore Sepultura le revendiquent. Le groupe Venom, pionnier du Black metal, se déclare également principalement influencé par Motörhead.

Lars Frederiksen, du groupe californien Rancid, ne cache pas non plus son amour pour Lemmy et Motörhead, ainsi on peut le voir adopter le même look que Lemmy dans son groupe Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards, adoptant le style de barbe, ou la croix de fer au cou. Dave Grohl, le leader des Foo Fighters et ex-batteur de Nirvana, est lui aussi un grand fan de Motörhead ; il monta le groupe Probot autour de lui et de Lemmy, on voit d'ailleurs Grohl porter un t-shirt de Motörhead dans son clip , comme Axl Rose de Guns N' Roses dans le clip , M. Shadows d'Avenged Sevenfold lors du Hellfest 2014, ainsi que Greg Graffin de Bad Religion dans les clips bonus du DVD .

Le groupe australien Airbourne rend hommage à Lemmy et à Motörhead au travers d'une chanson intitulée It's All for Rock'n'Roll. Dans le clip de ce titre, Lemmy apparaît à de multiples reprises conduisant un poids lourd (référence probable à sa période « roadie ») ou sur scène. D'autre part, on remarque, dans le clip, une structure de scène semblable à celle mise en œuvre dans les concerts de Motörhead pour le titre Bomber.

Dee Dee Ramone, qui a composé plus de la moitié des chansons de The Ramones, était aussi très fan de Motörhead. Lemmy rendra à The Ramones cette politesse affective en enregistrant sur l'album  un morceau dédié aux Ramones et intitulé R.A.M.O.N.E.S. À ce sujet, le chanteur de The Ramones, Joey, avait dit ceci : « Le morceau de Lemmy à notre égard est l'hommage ultime, comme si Lennon avait fait pareil ».

Bon nombre de tribute bands, principalement britanniques, tels que Motörheadache, et We're Not Motörhead de Portsmouth au Royaume-Uni, ont vu le jour. En France, le groupe Vulcain est surnommé à ses débuts le « Motörhead français »

Membres

Derniers membres
 Lemmy Kilmister (†) - guitare basse, chant (1975-2015), mort le 28 décembre 2015
 Phil  Campbell - guitare, chœurs (1984-2015)
 Mikkey Dee - batterie (1992-2015)

Anciens membres

 Larry Wallis (†) - guitare, chœurs (1975-1976), mort le 19 septembre 2019
 Lucas Fox - batterie (1975)
 Phil « Philthy Animal » Taylor (†) - batterie (1975-1984; 1987-1992), mort le 12 novembre 2015
 « Fast » Eddie Clarke (†) - guitare, chœurs (1976-1982), mort le 10 janvier 2018
 Brian « Robbo » Robertson - guitare, chœurs (1982-1983)
 Michael « Würzel » Burston (†) - guitare, chœurs (1984-1995), mort le 9 juillet 2011
 Pete Gil - batterie (1984-1987)

Chronologie

Discographie

Albums studio
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Albums live
 1981 : No Sleep 'til Hammersmith
1987 : London (Brixton Academy - Live At Brixton '87)
 1988 : Nö Sleep at All (Giants Of Rock Festival - Hämeenlinna - Finland)
 1999 :
 2003 : 25 & Alive: Live at Brixton Academy
2005 : BBC Live & Session (1978 - 1979 - 1981 - 1986)
2005 : Better Motörhead Than Dead - Live At Hammersmith
 2011 : The Wörld Is Ours - Vol. 1: Everywhere Further Than Everyplace Else
 2012 : The Wörld Is Ours - Vol. 2: Anyplace Crazy as Anywhere Else
 2016 : Clean Your Clock (Munich - Zenith 2015)
 2019 : Stage Fright (2004 - Düsseldorf -Philipshalle)
2021 : Louder Than Noise... Live In Berlin (Box Set, Album, Limited Edition, enregistré le 5 décembre 2012 au Velodrom de Berlin)

Vidéographie
 1982 :  (VHS)
 1984 :  (VHS)
 1985 :  (VHS)
 1986 :  (VHS)
 1988 :  (VHS)
 1991 :  (VHS)
 2001 :  (DVD)
 2002 :  (DVD)
 2002 :  (DVD)
 2003 :  (DVD)
 2004 :  (Live 1991) (DVD)
 2005 :  (Live 2004) (DVD)
 2010 :  (DVD)
 2011 : The Wörld Is Ours - Vol. 1 - Everywhere Further Than Everyplace Else (DVD)
 2012 : The World Is Ours - Vol.2 - Anyplace Crazy As Anywhere Else (DVD)
 2016 : Clean Your Clock (DVD)

Honneurs
 (250840) Motörhead, astéroïde.

Notes et références

Bibliographie
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 2004 : Putain, je déteste le foot... Bio de Lemmy Kilmister par Virginie Despentes in Rock & Folk 444
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 Motörhead, 24 histoires pour Lemmy, sous la direction de Jean-Noël Levavasseur, Camion Blanc, 2015.

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A state in financial free fall. A shifty governor. A budget that bludgeons the poor. Welcome to the hard-knock world of Assembly Speaker Karen Bass
Ed Leibowitz
For the past year Assembly Speaker Karen Bass has led a political life fraught with irony. A lifelong activist, Bass won an assembly seat in 2004 representing California's 47th District, which encompasses both a slice of South L.A. and the Hillcrest Country Club, then was sworn in as Speaker last year—just as the state sank into insolvency. In the struggle over the 2009-10 California budget, she fought to make the holes in the social safety net less gaping, only to witness Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger use line-item vetoes to cut foster care, AIDS prevention, health insurance for underprivileged children, and services for kids with special needs. This month those cuts, as well as many the Speaker did approve, will take effect. Bass is 55 and divorced but still active in the lives of her four former stepchildren. She spoke at her Mid Wilshire offices about the governor's interpersonal skills, the human costs of California's collapse, and what drives her.
When you took your assembly seat in 2004, the state unemployment rate was less than 6 percent, home values were still skyrocketing, and stocks were reaching a record high. Did you imagine you'd take the oath as Speaker four years later during an economic catastrophe?
Let me tell you, when Alan Greenspan sat before Congress last year and said he didn't know the economy would collapse, I most certainly didn't. I went up to Sacramento to protect and expand social programs. If I knew we were going to be facing an economic crisis, I would have gone up anyway to protect and defend—instead of protect and expand. Frankly, since I have taken over as Speaker, that's what I've been trying to do.
Were there any major programs you managed to push through before the bottom fell out?
We did have one boom year out of my five-and-a-half years in office. That was 2006, and I was able to get $80 million for foster care—the largest increase to the foster care system since who knows when. The majority of California inmates today come from the child welfare system, so if you can get your arms around this population, you can prevent people from being incarcerated. Also, a lot of kids who are in foster care are there because their parents are either involved in substance abuse, have mental health issues, are incarcerated, or all of the above.
So then governor used his line-item veto to cut hundreds of millions from the final budget, including $83 million from foster care.
It's such short-term thinking. By cutting $83 million, we're really taking a $120 million cut, because we lost additional federal funds.
Senate leader Darrell Steinberg is suing to restore, among other things, the cuts to foster care, but if he loses, what are the likely consequences?
The caseloads of social workers in the foster care system will go up, and when you do that, you will have kids who will die because they will fall through the cracks. You saw that woman who decapitated her four-year-old son? That's during "good" times. The two little boys who were found dead? This is with relatively low caseloads. If you increase the caseloads even further, it doesn't take much to see what will happen.
Do any of the budget compromises you had to make keep you up at night?
A lot of them. I'll give you one that I thought was absolutely absurd. If you are a quadriplegic and you need a home-care worker, we're now going to require you to be fingerprinted because we don't want you taking your wheelchair and going to another county and getting an extra bath.
It sounds like you haven't been preserving social programs so much as performing triage.
This year has been one of the most painful in my life—not from a personal point of view but from a professional one. It's very, very painful that I'm tearing up the very thing I went up to protect. But putting it into perspective, the governor had proposed the near elimination of in-home supportive services. He had proposed a drastic change in CalWorks [the state welfare program for poor families with young children] from five years to two. He was proposing billions in permanent cuts to education. I feel good that we were able to protect those programs. If they had been completely eliminated, it would have been very hard to re-create them.
Do you think most politicians in Sacramento are fully aware of the impact these cuts in social services will have on those who receive them?
One of my frustrations at sitting in the room at the negotiating table, and I said this to the governor, is that I think some politicians in Sacramento are disconnected from the daily lives of poor folks. I think they have a hard time understanding how these changes that might seem little are really massive. It's not like I had this personal experience in th sense that I was on welfare, or my family was, but I chose to do organizing in South Central and learned there about the daily lives of people who are impoverished.
Can you give an example of one of these misconceptions you had to confront?
It's very easy to say, "Well why can't the mothers getting welfare just make an appointment with at the welfare office, and if they don't make an appointment and come in and have their case reviewed — well, we should just cut off their check." Well, if you don't have transportation in L.A.; if you don't have childcare; if your mail may or may not get to you because people are always breaking into the mailboxes…. When I tell them that, they'll answer, "Well, then just call them at home." Well how do you assume they have a phone? "Well, everybody has a cellphone." No, everybody doesn't.
So sometimes I would go into Big 5 negotiations [between Bass, the governor, the senate majority leader and the Republican minority leaders] and try to paint a picture and say, "You cut the welfare check of this mother because she hasn't come in for an appointment. So she winds up on skid row, and then child welfare comes and takes her kids away because she can't provide a roof for her kids. So now her kids are scattered all over L.A. County, and then she has to go to court. She has no transportation and no money to catch the bus, an you have set up a sit where you spiraled her down and she won't be able to come back." After that, the response was better.
Do you see any alternative scenarios in which you wouldn't have had to do such drastic pruning?
If we didn't need a two-thirds majority to pass a budget and to raise taxes, we definitely would have had to make some cuts, but there is no way in the world we would have had to make the cuts that we did. Having said that, the tax structure in California is outdated and too much geared toward a manufacturing economy. Much of the revenue for the state is based on personal income tax on the top 1 percent, and when the wealthy do well, we have boom times, and when they don't, we have a bust. We need more stable revenue.
In his bodybuilding and film careers, the governor seemed to have such clear goals. Why does he seem so all over the place in Sacramento?
I think he came into office with very clear goals. I thank that what happened is that right after he came in, he found out is that the state is a heck of a lot more complicated than he thought. I mean, this is a complicated place. It's not a movie. You can't say "cut" and do it another way. And the State of California is the largest state economy in the country — the world's sixth seventh or eighth, whatever you want to quote these days. So you just cant walk in and say, "Here I am." That's what you do in a movie. So he walked in and he had to face institutional barriers, like the 2/3 majority you need to pass a budget, like the initiative process.
What's your take on Schwarzenegger as a negotiator?
The governor is much more comfortable negotiating with men and likes to do the guy thing—the challenging and baiting, how guys will kind of come after each other. That doesn't work well with me, nor does it apply to me. With me he is very respectful and cautious. he seems much more comfortable bantering with the guys. There were times that he would say things that were very upsetting to me, and I don't necessarily think he was doing that to banter or challenge me – what's coming to mind was his descriptions of people who were not working because they were not motivated.
Do you think the governor's own American experience informs his views of recent immigrants?
He feels like he came here with the classic immigrant experience of working his way up and pulling himself up by his bootstraps. "Well, I didn't have anything, and people came over and they would bring me an iron, they would bring me this and that." Still, it's hard to imagine the experience of the Salvadoran—who's washing dishes and taking the bus and baby-sitting and working two or three jobs—and Arnold's experience as similar.
Along with the bootstrap pulling, does the governor ever display that Kennedy sense of social obligation to the less fortunate?
I do think that kicks in. I do think that he is a very moderate Republican. He is not hardcore, and I find that he vacillates. So for example, he knows a lot about foster care and is very sympathetic and supportive – and then cuts $80 million. No, I do think the Kennedy side is very influential…
But not always determinative?
Yes, it's not always determinative, that's the best way to state it.
So you're L.A. born and raised?
Yes, my father worked as a letter carrier here for 37 years. Like so many African Americans of the period, he migrated to L.A.—in his case from Texas post-World War II. My mother, very unusual, was born here in 1916, when there were very few African Americans [in L.A.]. She lived in Watts, which at that time was predominantly white and Latino, so she grew up speaking Spanish. And her mother, fascinatingly, worked in the movie industry.
What did your grandmother do?
She was a teacher for actors, but she performed and acted as well. My uncle used to tell me these stories about the Tarzan movies, when they had the scenes of all the black people. The studio would send out their drivers with these big trucks to South-Central, and they'd just pick up people off the street.
When did you realize you were going to be an activist?
In the '60s, when I was in middle school. I was so jealous watching the civil rights movement on TV. The whole world was changing, and I was so anxious to grow up so I could participate. I graduated from Hamilton High in 1971. In '69 and '70, the teachers went on strike, so I rode my bicycle up to UCLA and would sit in Angela Davis's classes, and that got me interested in philosophy.
Is that what you studied at San Diego State?
That was my major. I'm not sure how much studying I did. I was too busy protesting the war in Vietnam. I stayed for two years, then went back to L.A. and went to nursing school. I worked in the medical field because that was steady employment. My true love was after work, which was the political work I was involved in at a community level.
Did your parents encourage your activism?
My parents were terrified because they thought I would get killed or go to jail. But my father was the one who introduced me to politics. We had our debates. It wasn't so much that he disagreed—he was just fearful of challenging society.
What was behind that?
My father's life in the South had been so bad that he would never talk about it. He should have been a professional football player, but he was older than Jackie Robinson. When he first came to L.A., he worked for RTD, now MTA, but the racism there was such that he couldn't take it. And then there was the McCarthy period. When I was a kid, we first lived at 49th Street and Central Avenue. I remember two white guys coming to the door who were FBI agents. They were in suits, and that was the first time I'd ever seen white folks outside of TV. I had to have been about eight. They traumatized my family, and the reason they were there—this really colored my father's view of politics and why he didn't want me to get involved—was that somebody he worked with at the post office had signed a petition somewhere.
Who were your early political allies in the trenches?
A number of us grew up together—Antonio [Villaraigosa], [Mark] Ridley-Thomas, María Elena Durazo, Gil Cedillo. Antonio was in East L.A., and I was in South L.A. Now they talk about black and brown and multiculturalism. Everything we did back then was like that. We would come together for citywide protests or citywide events. Like in 1976, with the bicentennial. Some of us organized a protest about everything we thought was wrong about the United States.
Why did you start the Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment in South L.A.?
In the '80s, crack cocaine took off as an epidemic, and I became obsessed by it. It was the first time that a drug impacted across class lines in the African American community, and it was also the first time in history a drug trend impacted both genders equally. It was really beginning to reshape the landscape in the inner city. I wanted to find a way to address the drug problem that did not involve massive incarceration—that could get at the root causes—and at the same time I wanted to build an organization that would help create, recruit, and train a next generation of activists. We've been around for 19 years.
Does the coalition show up at your office to protest what you're doing in the legislature?
Absolutely. They're organizing a protest right now. They are nice enough to call me up and tell me when they're going to be protesting.
Would you be out there with them if the job didn't preclude it?
No question. One thing that's a little funny, if you don't mind me going off the record—OK, I'll say it on the record. I would have been protesting, but even when I was making these decisions, I was still in contact with the groups that protest to tell them to continue, because I understand better than ever how important those protests are. So it is quite interesting to be in a position like this.
You term out of the assembly in 2010. What's next?
I don't have an immediate office to run for, and you know, elected office has been nice, but I haven't fallen in love. What I love is public policy, so I'll be involved in policy no matter where I am. What I love is public policy so I'll be involved in policy no matter where I am. A lot of people think, "Oh she's going to work for the Obama administration." I met Obama when he was running for the Senate. He had won his primary right when I won my primary. I was very involved in his campaign and I work as close with the administration as I can. And I don't know that I would want to go back necessarily and work for the administration. So I'll be involved in policy. Or if there is an opportunity to run for something, I would consider it — if a member of Congress retires or whatever. One never knows, the only thing I do know is that Obama is picking a number of people, so you never know.
So you're not so future focused yet?
My belief has always been to work very hard at what I'm doing and then opportunities will open up. I think it's really dangerous to be in your job and be focusing on what your next job is going to be while you're in the job because it colors the decisions that you make.
You've just given the description of probably 99 percent of politicians in the country.
I don't care. There are a lot of people who are telling me, have to be careful about what your doing because if you want to do this or you want to do that. I cannot lead that way.
Are you surprised so many politicians can?
Yeah. I don't think it's good.
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Marantz CD-45 Limited Edition
By realspin / August 16, 2015 / compact disc / One comment
"When I first heard CD I was shocked", Marantz brand ambassador Ken Ishiwata tells me. "I felt the potential of what you could do with this tiny disc – it was amazing. What surprised me most at first was its lack of surface noise, and also because of the measurements – I loved those clean sine waves, unlike analogue which had all that noise. Of course, I knew it wasn't perfect, but we had to face reality, which was the mass market, and having more than 16-bits at that time was not realistic. Philips and Sony had to make decisions based on the available technology…"
Compact Disc finally reached the market in 1982, with Philips CD100 and Sony's CDP-101. The former had a 14-bit, 4 times oversampling DAC and digital filter, the latter was 16-bit non-oversampling design. After much praise for the Philips machine, it was clear that Sony was winning the sales war. "We were getting murdered", confides Marantz's Ken Ishiwata. It was a terrible problem for Marantz and its parent Philips, because despite having the better of the two platforms, customers seemed to believe that 16-bit was 'better' than 14-bit. It was crude, it was partial, but it was easy to remember for a buying public whose knowledge of digital audio was almost zero.
Given that CD was right at the ragged edge of technology back in the early eighties, Philips had to make a decision about whether to do a 16-bit, two times oversampling machine, or a 14-bit, four times design. Ishiwata says, "I knew four-times oversampling was the only way to go, but not one Japanese company did! They only started to talk about the number of bits – 16 is better than 14 – that was simply the way they communicated. But of course, if you don't do oversampling, you have to cut the signal very sharply at the top end with a brick wall filter, and this is actually audible right throughout the audio band. If you have such a high order filter, it ruins the sound. I knew this because of some modifications I had done to a (Sony) PCM-F1 digital recorder. I had done some recordings on it, then I started to think about filtering, and so I changed the filter and got very different results."
"We were very happy with the results. To be honest, rival machines like the Sony CDP-101 were no comparison!", Ishiwata says. Yet although Philips 14×4 system was clearly better in practice, in commercial terms it wasn't working so Philips tasked its engineers to develop a 16-bit DAC which retained 4 times oversampling. The TDA1541 went on to be one of the most musical sounding digital converter chips ever made – and it by 1986, players with it inside were just months from reaching the market. The problem was, Marantz had two thousand of its old (14×4, TDA1540) CD-45 machines still in the warehouse. When news of the new 16-bit replacement reached the world, these would be worth just pennies. How could they shift them?
"The managing director said, 'what are we going to do with them? Maybe we should sell them for ninety nine pounds?' The marketing manager didn't want to do that, but it seemed like we had no choice. So I said, 'Wait a minute, I am going to modify these 14-bit machines, and I'm going to make the most musical CD player available, and then we're going to sell them for fifty pounds more!' We finally decided on a limited edition run of two thousand. I did my modifications, and took a prototype to a classical musician friend of mine, and he was amazed. So it came out – and they all sold out without in two weeks. We said, 'what a pity we didn't have more machines to modify!' That was the birth of the Special Edition…"
"After the CD-45LE, we did the 1989 CD-65 and CD-75 Special Edition, and then every year we had a new model, like the CD50-SE, 1991 CD-11 SE, 1992 CD-52SE, 1995 CD-63SE, 1996 CD-67SE and CD-6000OSE. Each generation didn't have a new chipset, up until 1989 when Bitstream came, because fundamentally the digital filter was working very well. But we changed the mechanisms – the CD-100 had a CDM0 and the CDM1 followed. This was the original swing-arm, complete with diecast parts. Swing arms were the best way, as they had better trackability compared to the linear tracking designs the Japanese manufacturers were using. But it did have its problems. It was heavy, and the position control was done by servos which required high current, and this affected the noise floor. We managed to isolate it, but there were problems nonetheless."
"We ran with the swing arm transports through the CDM3 and CDM4 right up to CDM9," Ishiwata recounts. "After that, it was linear, parallel tracking like the Japanese. The Philips/Marantz machines always sounded very different to the Japanese rivals for precisely this reason – they had better (swing arm) transports and superior (4x oversampling) DACs and digital filters. Even the S/PDIF chip was better – that early Philips S/PDIF chip was the best one ever made. Then there was the BIMOS/CMOS issue. In the semiconductor industry, moving to smaller, lower power consumption chips is the trend – and everything went in that direction, including D-A convertors. This is shame, and it's one I couldn't do anything about, as with these you need current – which BIMOS delivers. With CMOS however, which all CD players were using by the mid nineties, it's only 3v or so – and that very tiny current isn't ideal for a D-A converter. So you can see how things changed."
Each one sounded sweeter, smoother, warmer and more beguiling than the stock version, which was hardly bad in the first place. Every single Marantz Special Edition CD player is worth owning; none sound bad and my particular favourite is the CD-63SE – and indeed the special KI Signature version is better still. They are now highly affordable secondhand, and a great machine if you want quality sound for pennies. Ken Ishiwata sums up the development of CD players through the ages. "Each new development in digital has been a new challenge – and not always for the better – we've had to find better ways of working with technology that's got cheaper, rather than better."
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Frank S Morrison
What a fantastic and insightful history of the cd player with some very interesting facts and figures thrown in . I remember being at a hotel in Glasgow to hear the first cd demo and being impressed but thinking for the time being my high end Turntable is safe .


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Volume 93, Issue 1097
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Pradeep Kumar Maurya1,
Tushant Kumar2,
Dinkar Kulshreshtha1,
Ajai Kumar Singh1
1Department of Neurology, Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
2Department of Radiodiagnosis, Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Correspondence to Dr Pradeep Kumar Maurya, Department of Neurology, Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences, Vibhuti Khand, Gomati Nagar, Lucknow, UP 226010, India; pkm730{at}gmail.com
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/postgradmedj-2016-134217
An 18-year-old man presented with a 1-month history of global headache with lassitude and dyspnoea on exertion. Clinical examination was unremarkable except for pallor and tachycardia. An unenhanced CT of the cranium showed marked hypodensity in the region of the superior sagittal and transverse venous sinuses (figure 1A). The ambient cistern appeared to be effaced on CT. In view of the headache and hypoattenuating venous sinuses on CT, the possibility of thrombosis of …
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