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Friday night's Erie County football game previews, Oct. 2
Northwestern at Cambridge Springs, 7 p.m.
In this showdown for sole possession of first place, the Wildcats (3-0 overall, 3-0 Region 4) meet the Blue Devils (3-0, 3-0) in the only game for an Erie County team this week that isn't a rematch of a season opener. Northwestern has been winning with defense and an efficient ground game. QB Trenten Wheeler (196 yards passing, 5 TDs; 249 yards rushing) has led a Cambridge offense that is averaging 32 points per game.
2019: Did not play
Eisenhower at Union City, 7 p.m.
Last meeting: Eisenhower won 47-0 on Sept. 11.
Eisenhower's record (3-0 overall, 3-0 Region) might not be a surprise, but the Knights' dominance has been. Eisenhower is averaging 434.7 yards per game and is outscoring its opponents by an average of 53-4. That includes a blowout of Union City (1-2, 1-2) on opening night when the Bears had 35 total yards. QB Owen Trumbull (471 yards passing, 8 TDs) has been a force for the Knights. UC has averaged 33 points per game since the opener.
Harbor Creek at Corry, 7 p.m.
Last meeting: Harbor Creek won 56-7 on Sept. 12.
Harbor Creek (3-0 overall, 3-0 Region 6) has been one of the most impressive teams in District 10, having outgained its opponents 381-187 and outscored them 42-5. QB Casey Smith (487 yards passing, 9 TDs) has run the offense, while Cam Williamson (439 rushing yards, 5 TDs) has been tough in the running game. Corry (1-2, 1-2) got its first win last week, 13-10 over North East, as Landen Weis ran for 109 yards and two touchdowns.
Fort LeBoeuf at Fairview, 7 p.m.
Last meeting: LeBoeuf won 47-7 on Sept. 11.
Fort LeBoeuf (3-0 overall, 3-0 Region 7) started its season by rushing for 465 yards against Fairview. The Bison have continued that pounding ground game thanks to junior Tristin Harris (453 yards, 8 TDs) and senior Jack Rimpa (392 yards, 8 TDs), who both have run for at least 100 yards in each game. Since the loss to LeBoeuf, Fairview (1-2, 1-2) has had a close win vs. Girard (21-14) and a close loss to Mercyhurst Prep (35-28).
McDowell at Erie (Note: This game has been postponed because of COVID-19 cases at McDowell)
Last meeting: McDowell won 36-12 on Sept. 11.
McDowell (3-0 overall, 3-0 Region) will play its first game without senior LB Johnny Heubel, who collapsed on the sideline during last week's game and is still in intensive care at a Pittsburgh hospital. Led by QB Chris Juchno (561 yards, 6 TDs), the Trojans are averaging 362 yards and 35 points per game. He passed for 4 TDs in the first game vs. Erie High. The Royals (1-2, 1-2) ran for 359 yards last week while beating Butler 35-25.
Cathedral Prep at Butler, 7 p.m.
Last meeting: Prep won 55-21 on Sept. 11.
Cathedral Prep (2-1 overall, 2-1 Region 9) saw its long region winning streak end last week in a 24-10 setback against McDowell. The Ramblers will look to get their offense going again behind senior QB Tamar Sample (2 passing TDs, 3 rushing TDs) and junior RB Michael Parks (460 rushing yards, 4 TDs). Prep's defense has struggled, allowing 357 total yards and 24 points per game. Butler (0-3, 0-3) had 378 total yards vs. Prep in Week 1.

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What happened to the idea of fire pits in the residential quad?
Photo from Charles Buckley.
Charles Buckley, Staff Writer
Last October, there were reports of fire pits being placed around the quad of Utica College to give students something to do during the winter months while also maintaining safe social distancing. However, as of the middle of March the fire pit project has not started.
Scott Nonemaker, interim dean of students, said senior administration confirmed that the college is working with the Oneida County Fire Marshall and its insurance provider to install permanent outdoor fire pits.
"We have been asked to look at potentially safer outdoor fireplace designs and specific areas where they can be safely enjoyed by the entire campus," he said.
While the fire pits will not be installed just yet, some students hope that they will become available sooner rather than later.
"I would like to see the fire pits installed by next semester, but the latest I would like to see them is at least before next winter," said Benjamin Petrison, a freshman studying cybersecurity. "Those fire pits are a great idea towards being able to hang with friends from different halls if certain COVID-19 regulations are still in place, especially during the winter."
Many students agree that the fire pits would be a great addition to the campus and add a bonus activity during the cold weather months. However, they realize safety is a priority.
"I would rather wait and see them appear later if it means that everything is set and ok to go," said Connor Canell, a freshman studying wellness and adventure education. "While it would be nice to get them sooner since we could use them to meet new people, it's better to wait until everything is set up accordingly."
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James "Jim" Marsh (Pasadena, California, 26 de abril de 1946-Portland, Oregón, 12 de agosto de 2019) fue un baloncestista estadounidense que jugó una temporada en la NBA. Con 2,01 metros de estatura, lo hacía en la posición de ala-pívot. Tras dejar el baloncesto como jugador, fue entrenador asistente de la Universidad de Utah, y durante 12 años comentarista de los partidos de los Seattle SuperSonics. Padeció desde 2003 la enfermedad de Parkinson. Falleció el 12 de agosto de 2019 a los 73 años de edad.

Trayectoria deportiva

Universidad
Jugó durante su etapa universitaria con los Trojans de la Universidad del Sur de California, donde fue el capitán en sus dos últimos años, consiguiendo el récord histórico del equipo de mejor porcentaje de tiros de campo en un partido, anotando 10 de 11 contra Stanford en 1968.

Profesional
Fue elegido en el puesto 136 del Draft de la NBA de 1968 por Seattle SuperSonics, pero fue despedido, y no fue hasta tres años más tarde, en la temporada 1971-72 cuando firmó como agente libre por los Portland Trail Blazers. Allí jugó una temporada, en la que promedió 3,1 puntos y 2,2 rebotes por partido.

Estadísticas de su carrera en la NBA

Temporada regular

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Ficha en NBA.com
 Ficha de Jim Marsh en ultimatenba.com
 Ficha de Marsh en justsportsstats.com

Baloncestistas de California
Baloncestistas de la NBA
Baloncestistas de los USC Trojans
Baloncestistas de los Portland Trail Blazers

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The UK's decision to delay 2nd vaccine doses could cause 'greater risk' from coronavirus variants, South Africa's most senior vaccine expert suggests
Dr. Catherine Schuster-Bruce Jan. 8, 2021, 2:32 AM
People wearing face masks queue at a South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) to collect their government grant in Cape Town South Africa, Monday, May 11, 2020. South Africa's Western Cape province, which includes the city of Cape Town, has emerged as the country's coronavirus hotspot, accounting for more than half of the nation's confirmed cases, which have gone above 10,000.(AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht) Associated Press
The chair of the South African government's vaccine advisory committee said Wednesday that "there is a greater risk" vulnerable people won't be protected if they only get one dose of coronavirus vaccine.
This is especially true for the two more contagious coronavirus variants first spotted in the UK and in South Africa, Professor Barry Schoub told Sky News.
"[The variants are] more transmissible, and if your immunity is only half what it should be, that will increase the risk of transmission," he told Sky News.
The warning came after the UK announced on December 30that it would make initial supply of shots go further bydelaying second doses.
Delaying second doses of COVID-19 vaccines could put people at greater risk, especially from more infectious coronavirus variants, South Africa's leading vaccine expert has said.
The UK controversially changed its vaccination strategy on December 30 to try to make its initial supply of shots go further. The country now prioritises getting people a first dose, and is delaying the second shot for up to 12 weeks.
Professor Barry Schoub, chair of the South African government's vaccine advisory committee, told Sky News on Tuesday that delaying a second dose could risk faster spread of the virus, because people do not have full immunity after the first shot.
Variants first identified in South Africa and the UK are thought to be more infectious.
"[The variants are] more transmissible, and if your immunity is only half what it should be, that will increase the risk of transmission," he said.
"I'd think the variants would be a motivation to go for the double dose as much as you can," Schoub said.
A top scientist explains why a more infectious coronavirus variant is a bigger problem than a deadlier strain
Pfizer said in a statement to Insider that decisions on dosing are up to national health authorities, but that there is no data to show how its shot works if people don't get their second injection on time. In trials, Pfizer and BioNTech, its German partner, gave a second shot three weeks after the first.
Pfizer's shot is one of two approved in the UK — the other is made by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford.
Some US scientists have said they would back a delay in second doses, but the US has not altered how it administers its COVID-19 vaccine shots.
The Department of Health told Business Insider that it adopted its strategy based on advice from the government's vaccine advisory group, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, and the UK's chief medical officers. They recommended that immunizing twice the number of people in the next two to three months was preferable, from a public health perspective, to giving half that number of people "only slightly greater protection."
Dr. Robert Harris, who runs four regional UK COVID-19 vaccination centres, said in conference call Thursday with Michael Leuchten, managing director in Equity Research at UBS, that delaying the second dose could disrupt the most vulnerable getting full protection, because it risks family doctors not being paid for the second shot, and therefore not administering it.
There are 1.15 million confirmed coronavirus cases in South Africa, according to Johns Hopkins University, and 80-90% of the new cases are caused by the variant.
In the UK, another variant, known as B.1.1.7, has caused cases to rocket, and forced the UK in a national lockdown. This variant has been found in several US states, but the variant first identified in South Africa has not yet been found in America.
What's coming next for COVID-19 vaccines? Here's the latest on 9 leading programs, after Pfizer and Moderna
The variant identified in South Africa may evade the antibodies from people who have been infected with coronavirus and have some immunity, as well as certain antibody drugs that treat it, preliminary research suggests.
It is unclear whether this phenomenon will affect how well vaccines work against COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus. This is the "most pressing question", according to Richard Lessells, an infectious-disease expert at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, per Associated Press.
Schoub said that the new research is a lab finding, and doesn't necessarily mean that people who have been vaccinated are susceptible to infections.
"We need ongoing studies in countries where we have rolled out vaccination programmes to see if there are breakthrough infections," he said.
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Boris Getting the Coronavirus Shows How Seriously He Took It
The big news today is that the charlatan passing himself off as prime minister has personally come down with Covid-19. He showed mild symptoms of the virus, including a temperature, was tested for it, and the results were positive. He is therefore self-isolating in some corner of No. 10. Nevertheless, he was still keen to show that he was, in the words of one BBC news presenter this morning, 'Tiggerish'. He was not incapacitated, and would carry on the business of government through teleconferencing and other methods. And if he does become too ill to govern, then the Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, will take over. Lord preserve us!
Boris, as the Prime Minister, was in an especially exposed position because his duties mean that he has to meet many different people every day. Just like Prince Charles has, who has also contracted the disease. Fortunately, Boris has come down with it several weeks after he met her Maj, so she doesn't have it. But it's partly BoJob's own fault that he's got it. Mike today put up an article reporting and commenting on the fact that Boris was warned not to shake hands. But he carried on regardless, even boasting that he was. He would be all right, you see: all you needed to do was wash your hands, that was the important thing. Er, no. That's why the health authorities have been telling everyone to stand 2 metres away from each other. Hand washing's important, but on its own it won't stop anyone getting the virus. As BoJob has just found out.
But this shows very clearly how seriously Boris and the Tories, or at least his circle, took the virus: not very. Mike quotes the New York Times, which comments on the woeful leadership our comedy prime minister has shown in this crisis. He's been cheerful when he should have been grave, and presented a muddled message when clarity was needed. It's a poor performance from someone who was selected because of their communication skills.
I think part of the problem comes from Boris' own attitude to his briefs. George Galloway remarked during an interview that he's know Boris for 20 years, and he doesn't read the information given him. It's why his performance as Foreign Secretary was such an embarrassing disaster. He went to Moscow to soothe relations with Putin, only to make matters worse with remarks about the Russian autocrat when he returned. And then there was that embarrassing episode when he visited Thailand, and the British ambassador had to ask him to be quiet when he was being shown round the country's holiest temple. He started to recite Kipling's 'Road to Mandalay', and couldn't understand why that may not have been appropriate.
But there's more than an element of willful ignorance in his attitude. Medical experts have said that he should have imposed the lockdown seven weeks ago. Boris didn't, because he accepted Cummings' bonkers, malign idea that all that was needed was herd immunity. The disease should be allowed to spread through the general population. No lockdown should be imposed, as that would damage the economy. This took priority over people's health, and if some old people died it was just too bad. This policy is nonsense, the kind of Bad Science Ben Goldacre attacked in his book of that title. But even after Boris took the decision to close some businesses, pubs, clubs and other social gatherings were allowed to continue. Many Tories said that they were still going out for their pint, despite the government advising them – but not actually forbidding them – not to. Those still heading down the boozer included Boris' own father, Stanley. The pubs and other establishments were only shut down, apparently, because Macron told Boris that if he didn't, he'd close the French border. And that would seriously harm the economy.
And this lunatic attitude is still fervently embraced by some parts of the Tory establishment. This afternoon the Sage of Crewe put up a piece about another bonkers article in the increasingly desperate and bizarre Torygraph by a hack called Sherelle Jacobs. Jacobs has decided that Cummings was entirely correct, and BoJob has been panicked into adopting the present strategy by Imperial College research. She claims that there is 'no consensus' on how to handle the virus, but, as Zelo Street points out, she cites no sources for that view. And she also rants about how the strategy is also due to 'liberal managerialism' and 'global elites'. She's spouting dangerous nonsense, but she was supported in her delusion by Toby Young. Young declared that Boris was spooked by ICL's modelling, but we don't know how reliable that is, and that it's beginning to look as if ICL exaggerated the risks of not adopting hard suppression measures. Which is more nonsense for which Tobes provides absolutely no data to back it up.
I've said in several previous blogs, as have many others, like Buddyhell and Vox Political, that Boris' attitude is rooted in the Tories' own eugenicist views. They regard the poor and disabled as 'useless eaters', who should be allowed to die so that the fit and the able, and most of all, the rich, should be allowed to prosper. Boris was content to tell the nation that many of their loved ones would die before the time, but wasn't going to do anything about it, because their lives simply weren't important. He and the others in his circle were fit and, as the rich and privileged, biologically superior according to their Social Darwinist views. Only the biologically inferior would catch it, whose lives don't count and are an encumbrance to the right of the rich to do what they want and pay as little tax as possible. Now Boris has shown how irresponsible and stupid that attitude is by coming down with it himself. Positive thinking and a clean pair of mitts are important, but they won't save you on your alone.
But the Torygraph's refusal to accept that a lockdown is necessary is part of the Tories' wider refusal to believe experts. The Heil and other right wing papers have published claptrap telling the world that global warming is a myth. Michael Gove famously declared a few years ago that people were tired of listening to experts. And I believe I recall that when one of the Tories – I think it was Iain Duncan Smith – was actually confronted with evidence showing his policies wouldn't work, he had nothing to say except that he believed it.
Well, the Tories prefer belief and pernicious pseudoscience over reality. As a result, Boris has now got the disease and thousands more people are in danger of dying from it.
See: https://zelo-street.blogspot.com/2020/03/toby-young-jumps-virus-shark.html
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Guy Debord's Cat on the Tory Party Conference
Buddyhell over at Guy Debord's Cat, has some very pertinent observations on the Tory party conference, beginning with their complete absence of democracy, their ranting smears against Jeremy Corbyn and the Left, Cameron's recruitment of Blairite Andrew Adonis, and particularly journalist Julia Hartley-Brewer's outrage at people spitting and throwing eggs at the Tories attending the conference. The Cat's article begins
If anyone was ever in any doubt as to the Tories' loathing of democracy, then they need look no further than this latest conference or, indeed, previous conferences. Speaker after speaker mounted the platform to address the conference, all of whom either syruped praise on their leadership or smeared their opponents. Policies are never openly debated or voted upon at Tory Party conferences. The unspoken dictum is, as ever, "we speak and you will listen". The Conservative Party's members have little or no say in how their party operates or how policies are decided. It is, for all intents and purposes, a dictatorship. Is it any wonder why Tory governments act to crush democracy in this country when there is so little of it within their own party?
This conference also showed us how far into themselves the Tories have retreated since Jeremy Corbyn's election to the Labour Party leadership, and the hundreds of thousands who have joined the party since his victory. In contrast, the Conservatives are estimated to have less than 100,000 ageing members. So watching the Tory Party conference was, for me at least, a little like witnessing the last days of the Roman Empire. Degenerate and decadent, they can only look inward and indulge themselves in a little mutual masturbation for a bit of comfort. Indeed, it could be said that the security barrier surrounding the conference centre was the physical manifestation of their bunker mentality.
This is exactly right, and it's been well-known for decades. I can remember being told about it by members of the Socialist Society back at College. They were outraged at the way the Tories under Thatcher were making much of the division in the Labour ranks over the Militant Tendency, and contrasting it with the supposed tranquil orderliness of their own party. In fact, the Tory party has never been a democracy, and given its history, this should come as no surprise whatsoever. The Tories started out as the party of the Anglican aristocracy. The Anglican Church has since clashed with the Tories several times on important social issues. I can remember Norman Tebbit's frothing outrage when the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, dared criticised St. Maggie of Grantham on her contempt for the poor. However, the aristocratic attitude of patrician leadership over the masses continues. The major decisions are always made in private behind closed doors. The Cat notes that the Tories are now down to a bare 100,000 members – coincidentally – or not – the numbers the Italian Fascist and Nazi party in Germany claimed they would limit the membership of their parties to in order to make them truly elitist. Part of the reason the Tory party has shrunk so massively is that the rank and file members feel that they are being shoved aside and ignored in favour of rich donors and the party leadership.
Then there's the little matter of Cameron's tirade against Corbyn. Corbyn has stated that he wants a united Ireland. This, apparently, is the basis for Cameron's denunciation of him as 'friend of terrorists'. This looks very much like a piece of grossly malicious slander.
A lot of people in the Labour party want a united Ireland. One of the reasons for this is that a lot of Labour party members are themselves, or are descended from, working class Irish Roman Catholics. Clare Short was one of these. I can remember an interview with her on Radio 4, in which she talked about her Irish working class roots, and how she had made pilgrimages to the sites deep in the Irish countryside where her descendants were forced to worship secretly when the Roman Catholic church was banned by the British. Short was a very controversial figure, notably for her campaign to ban page 3 of the Sun. She was not, however, to my knowledge a supporter of terrorism. Neither is Corbyn.
Cameron here is trying to use one of the major lies Thatcher used against the Labour party in the 1980s. Some sections of the Labour party aroused extreme controversy for supporting Irish Republicans, including talking to Sinn Fein. Thatcher, by contrast, portrayed herself as resolutely defying the terrorists with her usual posturing of Churchillian patriotism.
It was all a lie.
All the time she was declaring her firmness of resolve never to give in Irish Nationalist terrorists, she was in peace negotiations with them. In fact, the Tories had tried to negotiate a peaceful settlement to the Troubles under Ted Heath, but that collapsed due to the obstinate refusals of the Unionists. And when a peaceful settlement was eventually found, the impetus for it was not the shocking violence and loss of life created by terrorist atrocity after terrorist atrocity from the paramilitaries on both sides of religio-political divide. No, it was purely monetary. It was when the IRA bombed Canary Wharf. Suddenly realising that the IRA could wreck the multi-billion pound financial hub of the City of London, Thatcher and Major finally decided to stop pretending military force was the only solution and talk to the Republicans.
Let's get this straight: for all the Tories maudlin rhetoric about the victims of the IRA, what they really cared about, what really frightened them, was the IRA might force the bankers and financiers out of the capital, thus dealing a severe blow to the financial sector that they favour so strongly. Human lives don't count. Elite money does.
As for supporting terrorists, this is another piece of massive hypocrisy. The Cat has already published numerous pieces about the connections between the Ulster Unionist parties and the various Loyalist paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland. Moreover, there is considerable evidence that the British secret state heavily supported the Loyalist paramilitaries, using them to gather intelligence and act as death squads against leading Republicans.
As for spitting on and throwing eggs at politicians, the Cat rebutted Hartley-Brewer's argument by putting up footage of Edward Heath having eggs thrown at him. There was a flurry of it in the 1980s under Thatcher, mostly directed against Keith Joseph. So much so that it became a joke in the spoof Dear Bill diaries published in Private Eye. As for it being only a feature of the Left, well, not quite. Some of us can still remember the incident when John Prescott punched a young Welsh farmer. The lad had thrown an egg at him, and Prescott responded with his fists. A thuggish, but perfectly understandable reaction.
So, as the Cat's article shows, the Tory Conference shows the elitist contempt for democracy, and the revival of the kind of lies and smears used by Thatcher. It's the politics of desperation, although you could be forgiven for thinking that the opposite was true. The Beeb was practically falling over itself yesterday about how exciting and optimistic it all was. The female newsreader on Points West, the Corporation's regional news programme for Bristol and Somerset, even went and declared that it was 'bubbly'. She seemed positively overjoyed.
It's all forced. The fact that Cameron is claiming that Corbyn is a supporter of terrorism, simply because he wants a united Ireland, is proof of that. Behind the smiles is the looming spectre of despair.
The Cat's article is entitled 'Tory Party 2015 Conference: Some Thoughts'. Go and read it at https://buddyhell.wordpress.com/2015/10/07/tory-party-conference-2015-some-thoughts/ for an effective deconstruction of the Tories' bile and hypocrisy.
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Radical Balladry, and Songs of Protest, Folk and Punk
I posted a few pieces this week on Rob Young's Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music (London: Faber & Faber 2010) and radical and Socialist British folk song and verse, including examples from the 19th century. This started an interesting debate between Untynewear and Jess over the nature of radical folk song, its influence and its appeal today compared to other genres.
Untynewear commented that the folk music he tried after reading Young's book was largely too twee for his tastes, and was too middle class, 'nice music for nice people', for which he blamed the very middle class folk music collectors like Cecil Sharp. It's a fair point, as after the raw energy and nihilistic rage of punk, some British folk music can indeed seem safe and twee, celebrating an idealised bucolic idyll that never existed except in the minds of Conservative Romantics and urban city dwellers. You consider all the jokes about Morris dancing. The new masses of the rapidly expanding Victorian towns reacted against the horrors of the new mass industrial society while unaware of the grinding poverty and squalor that also existed in the countryside, and which forced their parents and grandparents to move to the city to find work in the first place.
In response, Jess pointed out that some of the folk bands and artists did recover and perform the angry, radical songs of the past. She recommended in particular Ashley Hutchings' Albion Band, who had 'recorded 'Battle of the Field' a couple of years before punk, but inspired many later bands such as the Levellers and The Men……"
And his 'Kicking Up the Sawdust', 1977, with Bob Cann, though not overtly political, can hold its own in any musical company.'
She also points out that there was a considerable difference at the time between the point of view of the collectors of the songs and dances, with some being far more radical in their beliefs and the material they collected. She writes:
As Gergina Boyes points out, there was quite an ideological battle went on within the ;'collectors' (one that paralleled the arguments between the Jacobin John Ritson and tory Walter Scott in the 1790′s) . If you look at the work of Frank Kidson you will find an entirely different attitude to the music and the people who made it than the one held by Sharp and his cohorts.
She also pointed out that the people composing and performing the music were largely ignored by the middle classes and the music industry:
Despite the polite interest from above, the people who made the music, just carried on doing so. Fortunately some of it was recorded (try Veteran CD's) , though not much made it onto the airwaves, let alone the jukeboxes.
Try http://www.veteran.co.uk/Veteran%20Catalogue.htm
She also traces the influence that this radical music has had on modern pop through Lonnie Donegan, whose interest in music was inspired by an American folk artist.
Donegan, she writes, started off as an aficionado of Josh White an American folk singer whose music reached this country through the airwaves of the BBC, courtesy of a slightly left wing (Labour) presenter called Charles Chilton.(we will meet Charles in another context, another time)
Unable to find the records he heard over the airwaves, he found them at Collets Book shop in Charing Cross Road (Formerly Hendersons, a syndicalist bookshop). The end result, as someone once said was 'the Beatles'
Untynewear championed punk as the modern music of protest that appealed to him, as well as the music of the British West Indian community that emerged at the same time, like Steel Pulse and Linton Kwesi Johnson. He particularly recommended Johnson's 'Inglan' is a Bitch' and 'Wat About Di Workin Class?' Johnson has a sizable following, including many writers and bloggers for his left-wing music attacking racism and capitalism. Colin Firth and Anthony Arnove include 'Inglan is a Bitch' in their anthology of radical, democratic and socialist texts, The People Speak: Democracy Is Not A Spectator Sport. Untynewear gives the lyrics to 'Wat About Di Workin Class', which goes
'From Inglan to Poland Every step across di ocean
The ruling class is dem in a mess, oh yes
Di capitalist system are regress
But di Sovjet system nah progress
So wich one of dem yuh think is best
When di two of dem work as a contest
When crisis is di order of di day
When so much people cryin' out for change nowadays
So what about di workin' claas? ??
What about di workin' claas?
Dem pay the cost, dem carry the cross
An' dem nah go forget dem ??
Dem nah go forget dem plans'
While this seems very dated after the Collapse of Communism, in the 1950s and '60s, it should be remembered, the Western ruling class was very definitely in a mess because it looked like the Communist bloc would overtake the West in affluence and material prosperity. See the book Red Plenty for a partly novelised account of this period from the point of the view of the Soviets. Buddyhell over Guy Debord's Cat has also included Johnson's 'Reggae fi Peach', protesting against the murder of Blair Peach by a member of the SPD at an anti-racism demonstration.
This isn't an either/ or situation. The idea that folk music is somehow a unique expression of a nation's essential nature, somehow isolated and different from the music of other nations and cultures, as viewed by some of the 19th century Romantic folklorists, has been rejected. Writers and researchers on folk music have pointed out that folk music has always drawn on international influences since at least the 16th and 17th century. A German writer then described how musicians from all over Europe, including England, toured the Continent and the fairs of Germany to pick up the latest tunes, which they then took back with them to their own countries. Sea Shanties are a particularly mixed genre. One book I read said it was impossible to work out from which country's musical tradition the genre as a whole developed from, while noting that there was a distinct African element to the music. Which is pretty much what you'd expect from an industry, whose very nature was international trade and the transport of goods and people. And the influence of other nation's culture and the adoption of their musical forms continued in the 19th century. One type of music that entered British folk music in the 19th century was the Polka, which originally came from Poland.
And far from being the anonymous expression of a nation's collective soul, some folk music was written or composed by distinct individuals, whose identities are known, or entered the tradition from Broadside Ballads. With this in mind, it's entirely fair to regard modern radical pop artists, like Johnson and the politically engaged Punk bands, as forms of modern folk, even though some of the artists themselves may have reacted against being lumped in with the genre. Jess herself agreed with Untynewear about the quality of Johnson's music. Colin Firth and Anthony Arnove, in The People Speak apart from Johnson, also include songs by The Clash, 'Know Your Rights' and Elvis Costello, 'Shipbuilding', along with folk songs like Hamish Henderson's 'The John Maclean March' and 'Freedom Come-All-Ye', Frank Higgins' 'The Testimony of Patience Kershaw' as well as anonymous 19th century ballads like 'Hunting A Loaf'. They're all songs of popular protest and attacks on social injustice, with the same roots in the experience of the poor, the working and lower middle classes, and the marginalised and oppressed, like many ethnic minorities.
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Owen Jones on the Middle Class Domination of the Houses of Parliament
I posted a piece this morning on early trade unionist campaigns to get the vote for the working class and working men into parliament and the local authorities. This was in response to the way working people have become increasingly ignored and excluded by the political class, to the point where many feel disenfranchised.
Owen Jones in Chavs describes the way parliament has become overwhelmingly upper and middle class in its composition:
We've seen that prominent politicians manipulated the media-driven frenzy to make political points. Like those who write and broadcast our news, the corridors of political power are deominated by people from one particular background. 'The House of Commons isn't representative, it doesn't reflect the country as a whole,' says Kevin Maguire. 'It's over-representative of lawyers, journalists-as-politicians, various professions, lecturers in particular … There are few people who worked in call centres, or been in factories, or been council officials lower down.'
It's true to say MP's aren't exactly representative of the sort of people who live on most of our streets. Those sitting on Parliament's green benches are over four times more likely to have gone to private school than the rest of us. Among Conservative MPs, a startling three out of every five have attended a private school. A good chunk of the political elite were schooled at the prestigious Eton College alone, including Tory leader David Cameron and nineteen other Conservative MPs.
There was once a tradition, particularly on the Labour benches, of MPs who had started off working in factories and mines. Those days are long gone. The number of politicians from those backgrounds is small, and shrinks with every election. Few than one in twenty MPs started out as manual workers, a number that has halved since 1987, despite the fact that that was a Conservative-dominated parliament. One the other hand, a startling two-thirds had a professional job or worked in business before arriving in parliament. Back in 1996, Labour's then deputy leader John Prescott echoed the Blairite mantra to claim that 'we're all middle-class now', a remark that would perhaps be more fitting if he had been talking about his fellow politicians. (p. 29)
It would be easy, but lazy, to portray parliament as a microcosm of the British class system. It isn't, but it certainly showcases the gaping divides of modern society. When I interviewed James Purnell just before the May 2010 election that brought the Tories and their Lib Dem allies to 10 Downing Street, I put to him how unrepresentative Parliament was: two-thirds of MPs came from a professional background and were four times more likely to have attended a private school than the rest of the population. When I referred to the fact that only one in twenty MPs came from a blue-collar background, he was genuinely shocked. 'One in twenty?'
When I asked him if this had made it more difficult for politicians to understand the problems of working-class people, he could hardly disagree. 'Yes, indeed. I think it's become very much a closed shop …' For Purnell, this middle-class power grab was the result of a political system that has become closed to ordinary people.
In the build-up to the 2010 general election, a number of excited headlines claimed that trade unions were parachuting candidates into safe seats. 'Unions put their candidates in place to push Labour to the left,' bellowed the Times. And yet, in the end, only 3 per cent of new MPs were former trade union officials. There was no similar outrage about the number of prospective candidates with careers in the City – the sector that, after all, was responsible for the biggest economic crisis since the 1930s. One in ten new MPs had a background in financial services, twice as many as in the 1997 landslide that brought Labour to power. Politics has also increasingly been turned into a career rather than a service: a stunning one in five new MPs already worked in politics before taking the parliamentary oath. pp. 104-5).
He then contrasts with the great political figures from Atlee's cabinet of 1945 from the working class: Nye Bevan, Ernest Bevin, and Herbert Morrison. They were a miner, farm boy and grocer's assistant, respectively. He contrasts this with the Tory jeers about John Prescott's working class origins.
When he entered the House of Lords, that retirement home for the ruling elite, the Telegraph's chief leader writer scoffed: I'm not sure ermine suits John Prescott.' the comments left by Telegraph readers on the newspaper's website were a class war free-for-all. One passed on a friend's hilarious description of him as 'the builder's bum-crack of the Labour Party'. 'Baron Pie & Chips' and 'Prescott is a fat peasant' were other witticisms, as was 'John "here's a little tip" Prescott'. Someone has to serve the drinks between debates!' guffawed another. Prescott was ridiculed because some felt that by being from lowly working-class stock, he sullied the office of deputy prime minister and then the House of Lords. (p. 106).
We desperately need more working class people in parliament. And as for the Telegraph, Buddyhell over Guy Debord's Cat has posted a long series of pieces on just how frighteningly far-right the commenters on their website are. Very many of them post horrendously racist and overtly Fascist messages. One even suggested that the Nazis were being demonised out of ignorance (!) and that this would not happen if people knew more about them. (!)
No, the Nazis are demonised because people know exactly what they are like. Hence the attempts by Nazi apologists to deny the Holocaust ever happened, or played down the number of people who were murdered. The Cat has noted that the Telegraph uses the excuse that it can't be held responsible for what it's commenters post, and it is therefore not responsible for the ravings of the assorted stormtroopers that post there. This won't wash. Other website are modded, and stopping genocidal racists from advocating mass murder is one of the few infringements to the right to free speech that most people would applaud. But not, it seems, the Torygraph. Either – God help us! – the editors secretly agree with these rants, or else they are following the old tactic Enoch Powell adopted with his supporters from the Far Right. Powell actually personally wasn't racist. He spoke Urdu, and had served on various official bodies promoting civil rights for Blacks and Asians before the infamous 'River of Blood' speech. See the section on him in Bloody Foreigners: Immigration and the English. He actually hated the NF, but cynically used their support.
As for the Times, this is the quintessential paper of the establishment. I've got a feeling it was edited for a time by the very blue-blooded Peregrine Worsthorne. Under David Leppard, it saw fit to publish the lie that Michael Foot was a KGB agent. No wonder it printed scare stories about a coming union left-wing takeover.
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Tory MEP Hannan Describes French Front National as 'Left-Wing'
Tory MEP and supporter of NHS privatisation Daniel Hannan. In his view, the Front National are left-wing.
Following this morning's post tracing the accusation that the National Front/ BNP are left-wing parties to the pamphlet by Stephen Ayres of the National Association For Freedom (NAFF), now the Freedom Association, The National Front are a Socialist Front, I received this comment from Buddyhell:
Hannan has today written a blog that describes le Front National as "far-left". He will not be told. Even his stablemates attack him for the way he lazily draws lines between fascism and socialism. In essence, Hannan is smearing the Left with these assertions.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100265536/france-has-given-up-on-its-politicians-with-good-reason/.
I've blogged before about the way Fascism included left-wing elements amongst a number of competing and contradictory ideologies and groups. Mussolini had started off as a radical Socialist, but broke with the party over his support for Italy joining the First World War. Jess has also commented on this morning's post about the nature of Fascism, pointing to a report in the Guardian for the 13th October 2009 that Mussolini was being paid £100 a week by MI5 in 1917 for his continued vocal support for the Italian war effort. See http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/oct/13/benito-mussolini-recruited-mi5-italy. 'The name's Mussolini. Benito Mussolini', she remarks drily. Unfortunately, Mussolini was never that suave. According to Denis Mack Smith's biography, he got thrown out of at least one school for spending all his time in the local cemetery drinking, using foul language and seducing the local girls. He also raped one young woman, who had the misfortune to catch his eye. He did like sharp suits, however. After haranguing the crowd dressed in the rough clothes of a worker, he used to go home and put on a smart suit and patent leather shoes. So, with the promiscuity and the suits, a bit like Bond, but only a really nasty, thuggish one.
Mussolini and the Corporate State
Mussolini seized power by promising to defend the middle classes and private property from the threat of Socialism and organised labour. The Fascist squadristi pursued a campaign of violence and terror against the Socialist and Communist parties and their supporters. In power, Mussolini created the corporate state, which presented Fascism as a radical alternative to laissez-faire capitalism. The corporations were industrial bodies consisting of the trade union and employers' organisation for a particular industry or sector of the economy. Parliament was replaced by a Council of Corporations. Each corporation sent three delegates – one from the union, one from the employer's organisation and one from the Fascist party to represent 'the people'. It was partly based on Syndicalism, a form of Anarchism that seeks to replace the capitalist state by a system in which industry is owned and managed by the workers themselves through their trade unions. Mussolini called his system, 'National Syndicalism'. Several of the architects of the corporative state were former syndicalists, like Pannunzio and Michele Bianchi.
A similar system had also already been advocated by Alfredo Rocco and the Italian Nationalist Association, representing the interests of the extreme Right-wing industrialists. Their programme included state-organised cartels, and single, state-controlled union, and the destruction of the political role of Socialist party. Under the Fascist regime, strikes were forbidden and a special system of Labour Courts was set up to settle industrial disputes. Although the Fascists claimed to have solved the conflict between capital and labour, the reality was that the unions were under the strict control of the state, which favoured the industrialists and employers. Pannunzio did argue for a more radical corporate system, in which the corporations would take over the direct running of the economy, which would lead to the erosion of the differences between capital and labour and transcend private industry. His plan was, however, attacked by the industrialists and the Fascist party as 'Bolshevism'. Noel O'Sullivan, in his book, Fascism, suggests that the corporate state was never more than half-hearted, and had been set up by Mussolini to suggest that his regime was based on more than brute force.
Radical Anti-Capitalism and the Salo Republic
After he was ousted from power, Mussolini established a Fascist rump state, the Italian Social Republic, under German control around Salo in the north of Italy. In his constitution for the new state, il Duce declared that he was going to smash capitalist plutocracy, and make labour the 'indestructible basis' of the state. There were to be workers' councils, profit-sharing, social housing and land reform. He also nationalised some of the larger industries. It's questionable how serious these anti-capitalist measures were, as the Salo republic and its leader were nothing more than German puppets.
Fascism and the Right to Private Property
After the War, the British Fascist leader, Oswald Mosley, initially supported a pan-European corporate state. However, in his 1968 autobiography, My Life, he rejects the corporate state as too cumbersome. He advocated instead a form of the prices and incomes policy, while promising to protect and support private industry. Trade unions would still be permitted, but would be confined to managing the welfare system.
Despite advocating a strong and economically powerful state, Fascism has generally aimed to protect private industry and property, within certain limits. Article 8 of the Constitution of Fiume, the proto-Fascist state established by the poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, guaranteed 'the enjoyment of property legitimately obtained', as well as other features of liberal democracies, such as sickness and infirmity benefits, as well as assistance for the involuntarily unemployed. Mosley, in his answer to Question 42: Do you believe in Private Enterprise? in his book Mosley: Right or Wrong? (London: Lion Books 1961) made it very clearly that it had his full support:
Yes, certainly. Private enterprise must always be the main motive of the economy. Most men work for themselves and their families, and want to do so in freedom … All men and women should have freedom to live and work as they like, and to enjoy the fruits of their labour in freedom and peace without interference or robbery by the state or vested interest. We must reduce taxation in order to prevent the present interference and robbery by the state. But we must also have strong government to protect the individual against interference and robbery by vested interest, monopoly, etc. (pp. 58-9).
Fascism as Neither Socialism Nor Capitalism
Although they ally with the Right, Fascist regimes have also presented themselves as being a 'Third World Alternative' between Socialism and capitalism, in which private industry is retained but made to act socially in the interests of the state. One Fascist slogan was 'neither left nor right, but forwards!' In the 1980s there was a scandal in Germany when it was found that the German Liberal party, the Freie Demokraten, had been infiltrated by Neo-Nazis.
Origins of Fascism in Pre-WW I Conservative Elites
Despite this, historians such as Richard Thurlough in his Fascism in Britain, 1918-86, have seen the origin of Fascism in the radicalisation of agrarian elites against modernity and the threat of a radical working class. British Fascism had its roots in pre-First World War Die-Hard Conservatism, which wished to emulate some of the welfare successes of Bismarck's Germany as part of an efficiency campaign to strengthen the British Empire, a policy which necessarily also included military expansion.
Thus, while Fascism does indeed contain genuinely revolutionary elements, it is not Socialist and in practice sides with the Right and traditional Conservatives against the Left.
Daniel Hannan and the 'Left-Wing' Front National
Daniel Hannan, however, sees the Fascism as a form of Socialism. In his column in today's Telegraph covering the electoral gains made by Marine le Pen's Front National, he describes the party as moving in a left-ward direction. He writes
It is important to understand that Marine Le Pen positioned herself to the Left of the UMP and, at least on economics, arguably to the Left of the Socialists. She railed against capitalism and globalisation, called for higher expenditure, and supported state-run energy, healthcare, education, transport and financial services. Where her father used to complain about welfare scroungers, she wants a more generous range of entitlements. Where he used to describe his party as being of the Right, she recently told Le Monde that it was "neither Right nor Left, but founded on the opposition of the current political class, on the defence of the nation, on the rejection of ultra-capitalism and of Europe".
Front National Programme Fascist Anti-Capitalist, but not Left-Wing
While this approach certainly looks left-wing, and is almost certainly designed to win voters from the Socialists and the Left, it does not mean that the Front National are now a Left-wing party. Le Pen fille is merely stressing the anti-capitalist element of the Fascist tradition. In fact her statement that the Front is neither Right nor Left, but founded on the opposition of the current political class, on the defence of the nation, on the rejection of ultra-capitalism' could be taken as a general statement of Fascist ideology, with the possible exception of opposition to Europe. And it's important to note here that she rejects 'ultra-capitalism', not capitalism itself.
How serious the Front National actually is about this ostensibly left-wing programme is moot. Mussolini's original Fascist programme was little different from that of the radical Socialists and Syndicalists, but he soon rejected it in order to gain Conservative support. Hitler also made little effort to implement the Socialist parts of the 1926 Fascist programme for the same tactical and ideological reasons. And the Tricolour Flame of Berlusconi's former coalition, led by Gianfranco Fini, is a 'post-Fascist', centre Right party.
Front National Voters also Rejecting Neoliberalism, Not Just French Political Class
Apart from characterising the Front National as now rather left-wing, Hannan's view of the victory is also flawed. He sees it as a rejection by the French people of the traditional political class due to the country's economic problems – three million unemployed, high taxation and crippling strikes. But this doesn't seem borne out by the Front's tactics. If they were genuinely seeking to reject Socialism, rather than the Socialist party, then Le Pen would have no need to advance a Socialistic political programme. It instead looks like Le Pen is trying to win working class voters alienated by the political class' support for the EU and its international, Neoliberal economic and social policies, as well as hostility to immigration. And if the French electorate were rejecting Socialism, then they could simply vote for the UMP, or simply give up voting and turn inwards into apathy and cynicism, as in Britain. The UMP have made some gains, but it looks like many of them are responding to Le Pen's attack on the EU, its open borders and Neoliberalism.
Hannan is, however, a man of the Tory extreme Right. He's also an opponent of the EU, but strongly supports Neoliberalism, including loudly calling for the privatisation of the NHS. He thus doesn't want to admit that the Front's gains may show a positive rejection of laissez-faire international capitalism, as well as the political class advocating it.
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Covering New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, West Australia, Tasmania, Queensland, New Zealand, and Fiji Islands, the Australian Handbook and Almanac and Shippers and Importers Directory for 1887, the eighteenth year of issue, is a guide with all kinds of interesting and unique information.
EUCLA, 31° 43' 27" S. lat., 128° 52' 44" E. long., a township and telegraph station on the border. It is the terminus of the West Australian line and the connecting point with the South Australian telegraph system. A substantial building has been erected here for the accommodation of the telegraph officials of the two colonies. Distance from Albany, 750 miles NE. Land in the vicinity is of a salt and cotton bush character, well grassed, the country being of limestone formation, with a fair depth of red friable soil. It is now being utilized for pastoral purposes. The town is about half a mile from sea-shore.
The Directory and Business Guide portion of the Handbook is a comprehensive listing of importers, exporters and shippers. For the importers and exporters it lists their name, address and what they trade (sewing machine thread, engravings and works of art, bibles and books, wicker ware, glassware and more) - exporters from England and Scotland and importers throughout Australia, New Zealand and Fiji.
emigration information "likely to be of service to intending Emigrants"
This handbook gives a snapshot of the world of our ancestors in the late 1880s.


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Donegal Islands
Glencolmcille Folk Village
The Glencolmcille Folk Village is built in the form of a village in which each house is an exact replica of a dwelling used by the local people in each of the three successive centuries (18th, 19th 20th) and is equipped with the furniture, artifacts and utensils of its particular period
Newmills Corn & Flax Mills
Heritage site with two restored water powered mills. The corn mill for stone grinding oats for porridge oatmeal and animal feeds and the flax mill, or scutch mill, for extracting the fibres from the flax plant. The site is open from the end of May until the end of September and guided tours are available. Admission is FREE.
The oldest surviving building here is said to be 400 years old. Indeed, the whole complex is an interesting reminder of a stage in the industrial development of this country which has now given way to a more sophisticated, but usually far less fascinating technology. The visitor to Newmills can experience the pleasure of seeing one of the largest waterwheels in Ireland in action as it drives the m…
St Patricks High Cross
The St. Patricks High Cross or Donagh Cross is one of the very early Christian crosses outside mainland Europe, dating back to the 7th Century. The stone belonged to an early Christian monastery founded by St. Patrick and can be found on the Church Road beside the Carndonagh Community School. This beautifully decorated Cross reflects a mixture of ancient Celtic art as well as Christian traditions …
Triona Donegal Tweed Visitor Centre
Nestled along the Wild Atlantic Way in the picturesque town of Ardara - one of the five designated heritage towns in County Donegal - you will find the hidden gem that is the Triona Donegal Tweed Visitor Centre. The Centre offers all who visit a warm welcome and the opportunity to experience the history, skill, and craft that has gone into handweaving Donegal tweed for generations. In 1984, te…


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Man sues boss after having salary cut to match the pay of 'other females'
Wesley Wernecke was earning $213,000 – until his boss slashed his salary to less than half of that in an attempt to just "shut him out of the job".
Priscilla DeGregory
New York PostNovember 18, 20199:34am
Protesters Rally for LGBTQ Workplace Protection in Front of Supreme Court
Protesters gathered in front of the United States Supreme Court in Washington on Tuesday, October 8, to rally in support of workplace protections for LGBT+ as the Supreme Court heard two LGBT+ employment-rights cases. October 8 marked the first time the Supreme Court heard an LGBTQ rights case since the appointment of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, reports said. Gay and transgender rights groups are concerned that the new Supreme Court judge could change the course of the law in relation to employment rights. News reports said about 20 people were arrested during the protest. Videos filmed by Kiki Hackett show a crowd of protesters sitting in the street in front of the Supreme Court, and later, several people being led away by police. Credit: Kiki Hackett via Storyful
Wesley Wernecke (right) had his pay slashed by his boss. Picture: FacebookSource:Facebook
The owner of an event company that's worked for Spotify, Amazon, Twitter, H&M and Nike slashed a gay man's salary in half as he compared him to a woman – before firing the man two weeks later, according to a new lawsuit.
Wesley Wernecke, 32, says he started working at Eventique as a senior producer on June 3 after he was recruited from Boston, his Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit says.
During a meeting, a week into working at the company — which also has offices in London and Dubai — Mr Wernecke shared that he was gay when asked by another co-worker about his "flashy" and "girly" wedding ring.
"So what does your wife's ring look like?" the colleague continued.
Mr Wernecke responded that his partner, Evan, has a similar ring, according to the court papers filed on Wednesday.
Mr Wernecke says his boss, Eventique owner Henry "Liron" David, who was present at the time, began alienating him by excluding him from conferences, drinks with "the fellas" and from new business, according to the documents.
"David took all these tactics to exclude Wernecke because David had already made up his mind that, despite the proficiency of Wernecke's work, he would not accept having an openly gay man working in the office, and he intended to get rid of Wernecke," the court documents allege.
After just over three months working at Eventique, Mr David told Mr Wernecke on September 20 that he'd be lowering his salary from $US145,000 ($A213,392) to $US70,000 ($A103,016).
"I couldn't sleep at night thinking you were being paid so much more than the other females in the office," he said, according to court documents.
"David's reference to Wernecke as one of the 'females in the office' was intended, again, to reinforce Wernecke's understanding that David considered Wernecke to be a sexual deviant and unfit to work at Eventique," the lawsuit charges.
Mr Wernecke later discovered his new salary was actually set even lower to $US58,000 ($A85,356), the court papers say.
Two weeks later, on October 4, Mr David fired Mr Wernecke on the pretence that he couldn't afford to keep him, citing "errors" and "deficiencies" in his work performance, the court documents say.
The poor treatment drove Mr Wernecke to start seeing a psychiatrist for the first time in his life, the court papers say.
Mr Wernecke's lawyer, Anthony Consiglio of firm Cary Kane, said his client was an "accomplished marketing director and producer of live events."
His client was "aggressively" recruited to the job, Mr Consiglio said, adding, "About a week and a half after Wesley began work in the office the employer learned he is gay and then immediately began systematically shutting him out of the job."
"These acts cannot be reconciled with the liberal anti-discrimination positions written into law in New York City and State to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and transgender people in their workplaces," Mr Consiglio said.
Mr David's lawyer, Gena Zaiderman, said her client denied the "shocking" and "baseless" allegations.
"Mr David firmly stands by his longstanding reputation for fairness and professionalism. We expect that the facts will be revealed in due course," the lawyer added.
This article originally appeared on the New York Post and was reproduced with permission
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Sylvester Stallone Wants Ryan Gosling to Play Rambo
By Kate Beacom November 19, 2015
Well, we all just found out that Ryan Gosling will be in the upcoming and unnecessary Blade Runner sequel and now we might get a chance to see him in a Rambo reboot! While on the road for Creed, the upcoming Rocky sequel (right? Or is this more Avengers multi-verse building bullshit) starring Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone has been asked about a possible Rambo reboot.
Predictably at first, Stallone was reluctant to have anyone but himself play the Vietnam veteran. He finally settled on Ryan Gosling, though I don't think that counts as settling.
During the interview they asked who what actors would replace characters with pic.twitter.com/7bMf3iUsJq
— Sylvester Stallone (@TheSlyStallone) November 11, 2015
I was overjoyed when I heard this, as Rambo was one of Gosling's favorite movies as a kid. Way back in 2011, he shared the film's impact on him in the UK magazine, Company.
"When I first saw Rambo, that movie put a kind of spell on me and I actually thought I WAS Rambo. So much so, that one day, I took a bunch of steak knives to school and threw them around at recess time because I thought we were in the movie!"
Gosling was skeptical when the rumor of being Stallone's pick reached him, but was flattered when he found out the dream-cast was caught on video.
Just the fact that he knows my name is exciting…He's the best, I'm genuinely touched that he said that."
I haven't seen any Rambo movies and I'm generally against reboots and remakes and wish Hollywood was producing more original scripts, but all I really want in life is for Ryan to be happy.
#rambo
#ryan gosling
#sylvester stallone
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The parents of a five-year-old boy with autism say a small act of kindness by the local car wash's staff has made a huge difference in their family's life.
An Alberta boy with autism has been made an honorary assistant manager of a car wash "he just loves."
The story of the small act of kindness toward the five-year-old has touched many people after his parents posted about it to social media this week.
Jude Rudics, the son of Brandon and Hope Rudics, is a superfan of the automated car cleaning service, Mint Smartwash, in the southern Alberta city of Lethbridge. He loves the lights, brushes and noises.
"The favourite part is the tricoloured soap there," Brandon Rudics said. "We always scream out, 'unicorn soap!'"
Nearly every day this summer, they went through the three-minute car wash as a surefire way to make their son happy even on the most difficult days.
"He just loves it so much that he expects that we're there every single day," his father said Thursday. "As soon as we pull up to the car wash, not even inside it yet, he starts getting excited, all jazzed up to get going."
When the car wash realized how much Jude loved the place, the staff invited him this week for a behind-the-scenes tour of the business, including letting him look through security camera footage that monitors the equipment.
They also made him a name tag and called him an assistant manager.
"He's become one with our team, and I mean, little Jude, we love seeing the black car he comes in every day," Lethbridge Mint Smartwash general manager Shad Nelson said. "We get excited for him almost."
This summer, Jude was going to school across the street, so his father popped into the office to inquire about a membership, as nearly $10 a car wash was adding up. A membership is closer to $30 for a month.
"We were going every single day. I was like, I don't know if this is allowed," Brandon Rudics said. "Who needs to wash their car every single day?"
One of the staff members gave him a business card, which Rudics gave to Jude. The boy taped it on his shirt and started saying he worked at the car wash.
The staff thought that was so cute, they invited him to visit. They also made him a T-shirt and hat so he looked more official.
"We hear this quite often, kids love the car wash, but I guess this one was a little bit different," Nelson said. "This helped that kid's day every single day."
Brandon Rudics posted about the experience on Twitter this week, and as of Thursday, the story had been liked hundreds of times.
The family started going to the car wash about three years ago, shortly after Jude was diagnosed, but they hadn't made the connection that he used the trips as a sensory experience.
Both parents are board members for the Chinook Autism Society, and they're now hearing from other parents of children with autism and other conditions — others who understand the love of suds.
They're working with the car wash to organize a group visit for the other kids.
"I definitely wasn't expecting all this to happen, so it's truly heart-warming to see this local business doing this for us in our own hometown," Brandon Rudics said. "They're a huge support now of our autism community here."
So far, 10 kids have signed up for the tour, Hope Rudics said.


What Song will you create the Video for?
What Letter is missing? "Bruce Willi?"
What is the capitol city of USA?
Hey, we are doing a video competition.
We are looking for an "official music video" for each song from the album The Wrong Girl by Moira Waugh. In total, we have 13 Songs waiting to be paired with visuals. You can use any style you like to create the video (i.e. live actors, stop motion, CGI, animated cartoon, etc.). The main criterion is that it must be related to the lyrics and music.
Listen to the songs on the album here, pick and download (free) one song you want to use to create a music video, and let us know that you'd like to participate by giving us your contact details and song selection here.
We will reduce the list of songs available for this contest as they are picked by participants. So you better hurry up. If you are going to submit more than one video, just follow the same procedure again. In the event that all songs have been selected, we will repost the full list of songs for the next round of participants.
Every winning video will be published with your credits on Thinkroot Records YouTube channel. If you're not a selected winner, you can publish the video on your prefered platform (music credits must be included and no monetization or advertisements are allowed).
So it will be public anyhow and will be good for your own reputation. We will tweet about your work and if you submit more details about you personally, such as your Facebook page/website, we will link those details too.
Additionally, you'll hopefully have fun doing the video.
Submit your entry on the submission page where you can give us the link to your video and additional details. It could be an unlisted YouTube link, wetransfer, dropbox or any link to a storage service where we can grab the video. Please read the requirements below. The video will be put on YouTube – so you must comply with their standards. We will check this prior to judging – so please make sure you do not disqualify yourself. ;-).
Please allow us to confirm through email what stage you are at with making the music video. This will allow us to extend the chance to participate to others in case you are not going to make it in time.
The video maker must submit a link to the final video that is on YouTube to Thinkroot Records no later than midnight (GMT) April 30, 2016. For help on uploading videos to YouTube see their FAQ section – or contact us if you prefer a different submission channel.
Entrant must comply with all terms, conditions, and registration requirements of the video contest (see below). The Entrant must be 18+ years to receive a prize or, if under 18 years, must name a legal representative whom we can contact prior to the winner selection.
Winners will be notified and must execute final releases and information requests prior to payment of the prizes. Failure to do so will void the award.
Videos submitted must fit the length of the song you have selected in duration with the option to add no more than 30 seconds for final credits.
Videos must have a resolution suitable for large screen projection (1920 by 1080 pixels). Videos not achieving suitable resolution will be disqualified.
No copyrighted material may be used. If you use material based on Creative Commons licenses, full attribution must be in the final credits in the video itself AND in your video description. Only material with CC BY or CC0 (Public Domain) licenses may be used when using Creative Commons licensed material.
Videos submitted must be uploaded to YouTube as unlisted videos. If you do not have a Google Account please contact us (siobhan dot dakay at one-song dot de) we will find a way for you to submit.
The song title and artist must be included in the credits (i.e. Music: Here They Come Again by Moira Waugh) and in the video title (i.e. Here They Come Again by Moira Waugh – Music Video).
Written credits for key technical and talent positions should be provided to us (i.e., director, cinematographer, editor, writer, actors), including any footage sources. On-screen credits for technical and talent positions are not required but welcome. If on-screen credits are included, they should be listed on one screen at the end, trailer-style, and not rolling for minutes as they would at the end of a feature.
Judges: Moira Waugh, Siobhan Dakay and Thinkroot Records will be judging the competition. We will be honest but fair. We (the judges) will be the sole arbiters deciding which video maker(s) are selected as award winners. A maximum of one (1) video will be selected per song and the video makers will be notified of the awards. An announcement of the winners will be made on May 7th, 2016.
Criteria: Entries will be judged based on creativity, technical merit, adherence to contest requirements, and on how well they manage to convey the lyrics and music. These are clearly subjective categories and will be treated as such. The final awards will be selected based solely on the judges' consensus.
Online Distribution: No videos may be posted with public access anywhere prior to the contest. When posting on YouTube, you must choose the unlisted setting for your video. After the judging, video makers are free to post their video anywhere they desire as long as they do not put monetization or advertisements of any kind on the video. The video may never be used for monetary purposes.
Disqualification: The judges reserve the right to disqualify any team, contributor, entrant, or entered video that does not comply with the rules and other Contest requirements communicated by us.
Entrant keeps all rights and ownership to the video, title, interest and claim (including without limitation all copyrights), which it now has or may have in the future, to entries (including, without limitation, the submitted video). The entrant does not obtain the rights to the music at any time (beyond using it for this contest). Thinkroot Records has the right to use, publish, exploit any entry and/or video submitted on their YouTube channel (with no commercial interest or advertising), websites, and social media.
By entering, Entrant agrees to defend, release and hold harmless Thinkroot Records and its agents from and against any claims, action and/or liability for injury, loss or damage of any kind resulting from Entrant's participation herein (including in connection with the use and/or exploitation of the submitted video) or from the acceptance or use of any prize awarded. Thinkroot Records reserves the right to verify eligibility qualifications of the winner.
Entrants grants Thinkroot Records the right to use their names, images, likenesses, photographs, voices and biographical materials (of which you have submitted to us) and video submissions, for advertising, publicity and promotion purposes including posting the videos or screen names online for any purpose or on a winner's list and other online announcements, and for sharing the videos with the media for viewing, whether TV or print, without additional compensation, unless prohibited by law (US law). Neither entrants nor winner shall receive any compensation or credit for use of entries, other than that disclosed in these rules. Entrants agree that if selected as a winner, they grant Thinkroot Records and its designees the right to film and later publish footage of the winner.
Thinkroot Records is not responsible for incorrect or inaccurate transcription of entry information, or for any human or other error, technical malfunctions, lost/delayed data transmission, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, line failures of any telephone network, computer equipment, software, inability to access any online service or web site, or any other error or malfunction, or any injury or damage to participant's or any other person's computer related to or resulting from participation herein, or for any injury to person or property, including but not limited to video equipment, arising from the entrant's participation herein or for the use or misuse of any prize won. Thinkroot Records is not responsible for lost, late, illegible or misdirected entries or mail.
Entrant warrants that their submission is original, that publication of the submission will not infringe on the rights of others, and Entrant has full power to grant usage to Thinkroot Records as stated herein.
Thinkroot Records has no obligation of any nature to publish, promote, display or otherwise use any information provided by Entrants, including but not limited to biographical or video content.
Can I submit more than one music video? Yes, but you can win one prize maximum.
Does other information (e.g., resume or personal statement) need to accompany the submission itself?
No, but we may ask for it if your video is selected as a winner. We would use it to promote your video on our Youtube channel, websites, and social media..
Can I change the music to fit the video I am creating? No, please do not change the music in any way. Remixes are not accepted for this competition. However, if you would like to add sound effects that complement the scene you're creating, you are welcome to do so.
Are we allowed to get someone to lipsynch the song or you prefer a filmeo type of music video?
When uploading, do we need to upload the highest resolution possible?
We do not need the RAW format of the video but it would be nice to have it in HD. Bare in mind that youtube will compress the video additionally once it is uploaded by us. It is up to you what quality you like to deliver. It should be 1920×1040.
Can I add no more than 30 seconds of something other than the final credits?
The credits should not extend the 30 Second limit. If you have an idea for the intro or the outro you can add that….sure…please keep in mind that it is a music video requested….so the extension should be in a digestible range.


PARIS Hilton has tapped into the two biggest passions of Spanish men: women and bikes.
The California socialite chose Madrid as the place to launch her new motorcycle racing team SuperMartxe VIP.
And to celebrate the event, she danced till down in megaclub Fabrik, just like she did in Ibiza this summer.
The invite-only party hosted 5,000 revellers, many dressed in pink, white or blue – the colours of her new team.
SuperMartxe will compete in the 2011 MotoGP World Championship in the 125cc category.
And Paris' contract with Barcelona-based constructors By Queroseno Racing (BQR) obliges her to attend every race for the next five years.
Hopefully she won't get tired of socializing by then.


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Here's what the housing market will look like in 2020 in Halton
by Ashley Newport on January 1, 2020
For the past few years, the state of the housing market in Halton (and other GTA municipalities) has gotten a great deal of attention.
According to the Toronto Real Estate Board, in Oakville, the average price of a detached house sits at $1,343,425. A semi costs about $$770,613, a town costs $596,562 and a condo costs $572,066.
In Burlington, the average price of a detached house sits at 1,048,952. A semi costs $699,250, a town costs 557,374 and a condo costs 494,802.
In Milton, the average price of a detached house sits at $955,745. A semi costs $723,511, a town costs $516,271 and a condo costs $502,667.
So, what can Canadian home buyers and sellers expect as we enter a new brand-new decade?
Real estate website and brokerage Zoocasa recently released its top five predictions for home sales, price growth, and mortgage rates in the new year.
1. Home Sales Will Continue to Recover from 2018 Slump
Zoocasa says that Canada's housing market has come a long way from its 2016-2018 boom-bust cycle.
"After sustaining roughly two years of softer sales and price growth following the introduction of the federal mortgage stress test, as well as provincial taxes and policies in Ontario and British Columbia, demand for homes for sale found its footing in the second half of 2019," the blog post reads.
Canada's largest urban centres, such as the Greater Toronto Area, started to experience sustained rebounds in home buyer demand due to a number of factors, including lower interest rates.
Zoocasa says persistently low-interest rates have helped soften the blow of the stress test, which requires borrowers to qualify at rates higher than what they'll ultimately be paying.
"Not only did an overall lower rate environment pull the Bank of Canada's qualifying rate down to 5.19 per cent from 5.39 per cent in 2019, but all borrowers enjoyed deeply discounted fixed mortgage rates, which outpriced even their variable counterparts at some of the nation's most competitive lenders."
Zoocasa says this drove buyers back into the market, causing year-over-year sales and price growth to spike in most of Canada's major cities.
Zoocasa says that according to several real estate analysts and associations, home buyers and sellers can expect this trend to extend well into 2020. In its most recently revised forecast, the Canadian Real Estate Association expects the year to close out with 486,800 transactions, up 6.2% from 2018, before climbing to 530,000 sales next year, at an increase of 8.9%. The national average home price is expected to climb 2.3% to $500,000, and up 6.2% to $531,000 in 2020.
This optimistic outlook is echoed by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
"Overall, economic and demographic conditions will remain supportive of housing activity over the forecast horizon, halting the declines in starts, sales, and average home prices that followed the highs of 2016 - 2017," it states in its most recent Housing Market Outlook.
Nation-wide, the CMHC expects 2020 sales to fall between 480,600 - 497,700 units, a year-over-year uptick of roughly 6 per cent. The average price will fall between $506,200 - $531,000, up 5.6 - 6.7 per cent from this year.
2. BC and Ontario Will Lead Housing Market Growth
This probably comes as no surprise.
Zoocasa predicts the strongest action will be seen in the Ontario and British Columbia markets, particularly in the latter as it recovers from a slew of foreign buyer and non-resident speculation taxes.
In the Ontario real estate market, sales will hit between 204,200 - 213,800 units (+4.2 - 7.3 per cent), with prices between $614,000 - $633,700 (+5.4 - 6.5 per cent).
3. It'll Be a Sellers' Market - Especially in the GTA
If you're planning to purchase a home in 2020, you will face a challenging market.
Zoocasa points out that market conditions in Canada's largest cities have been largely defined by a growing supply and demand gap (a lot of people want homes and there are simply not enough of them right now).
While investors/speculators have also contributed to price growth, the lack of inventory—particularly in the GTA markets—set the stage for bidding wars and a stratospheric rise in home values over the course of 2016. The surge in prices led to the implementation of the Ontario Fair Housing Plan, which included a foreign buyers' tax and rent controls, to cool demand.
"For a time, these new policies were effective in chilling the market; combined with the federal mortgage stress test, the measures thoroughly spooked sellers, leading to a 33 per cent drop in new listings following their announcement. As well, home prices plunged across the province, with York Region bearing the brunt with double-digit declines," Zoocasa writes.
While sales and prices have rebounded steadily over the past year, the same can't be said for new listings. Zoocasa says Canadian real estate as a whole could be considered a sellers' market in November.
Zoocasa says the total months of inventory - the length of time it would take to completely sell off all available homes for sale - currently sits at 4.7 months, its lowest level since 2007.
"However, recent reports out of the GTA show that lack of supply is a far more acute issue. The end-of-year numbers from the Toronto Real Estate Board reveal the sales-to-new-listings ratio for the region was 81 per cent, indicating just under 20 per cent of all new listings brought to market were sold in November."
TREB's analysts are raising concerns that should undersupply persist, prices could skyrocket once more.
4. Mortgage Rates Will Remain Cheap
Here's some good news for buyers!
Zoocasa says The Bank of Canada (BoC) - the national central bank that sets the cost of borrowing for consumer lenders - has kept mortgage interest rates relatively low and stable for the entirety of 2019, keeping its trend-setting overnight lending rate at 1.75 per cent in each of its eight announcements. As a result, banks and credit unions were able to keep their variable mortgage and line of credit products competitively priced.
Zoocasa says that due to this, borrowers have had access to some of the lowest mortgage rates on record in 2019 - and this is likely to persist throughout the new year, according to the latest communications from the BoC.
5. It Might Get Easier to Qualify for a Mortgage
Zoocasa says that, in December, a letter from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau indicated Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau will take a second look at the controversial stress test's criteria, and potentially make tweaks to allow for more flexibility when qualifying borrowers.
"While no details have been released as of yet, this could include lowering the qualifying rate from its current 5.19 per cent, or making it more dynamic based on individual borrowers' profiles, As well, they could remove the current requirement for borrowers to be re-stress tested when switching lenders, a measure that has drawn heavy criticism from the mortgage industry for discouraging consumer empowerment and competitiveness," Zoocasa says.
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So as the anticipation builds (are you holding your breath?) for the Breeders' Cup Committee to release their rotation plan for the next few Cups (or maybe more), I am putting out there my dream rotation and in-depth reasons why. There is much debate on whether pre-setting the lineup makes sense or not. My dream plan rotates a synthetic track in every three to four years, rotates the larger venues more frequently, and adds a "boutique" or smaller track every four years or so.
Of course 2010 is set in stone at Churchill Downs, so we'll start the dream rotation with 2011.
2011 - Belmont Park. It'll have been six years since the Big Sandy hosted. I remember it well being in Hilton Head on a golf trip in '05 with a few horseballs who skipped the back nine for the start of the Cup (whatever happened to Stevie Wonderboy, by the way??).
2012 - Del Mar. One of the "boutique" rotations, and also notching a synthetic track on the rotation. Warm weather, great facility, Southern California knows how to promote it....if they could pull this off it would be tremendous.
2013 - Churchill Downs. Why not? The facility is ginormous; they can pack 'em in and maybe the first ones under the lights? Plus it'll be the big 5-0 for me and a cool trip.
2015 - Keeneland. Let's give a brother a chance. Questions on the capacity and parking could be solved via temporary/infield seating and a shuttle service? It's a great facility and deserves to hold the Cup someday. Boutique/synthetic rotation: check and check.
2016 - Hialeah Park. Holy smokes would that be great or what? Let it Ride, baby.
2017 - Belmont Park. The six year rule would kick in and bring it back to New York, New York (start spreadin' the news).
2018 - Woodbine. Synthetic rotation and I'm only 90 minutes away in Buffalo, which is why it had to make the rotation. May have to bring in some large space heaters. Backup plan: Santa Anita. 24 years is a long waiting period for our Canadian friends.
2019 - Gulfstream Park. Nice Florida weather, although the hot weather may alienate the Euros. Would need to add some additional seating on the stretch drive to do the trick. 20 year anniversary of the last GP Cup.
I know there are some notable tracks missing here (Arlington, Old Hilltop and Monmouth to name a few), but that's my ten year plan with some serious speculation regarding a couple of the venues...whaddya think?


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