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1993.03.28 - Northlands Coliseum, Edmonton, Canada
APPETITE FOR DISCUSSION :: GN'R CONCERT ARCHIVE
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Northlands Coliseum.
Edmonton, Canada.
[Unknown setlist]
Axl Rose (vocals), Gilby Clarke (rhythm guitarist), Slash (lead guitarist), Duff McKagan (bass), Dizzy Reed (keyboards) and Matt Sorum (drums).
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Re: 1993.03.28 - Northlands Coliseum, Edmonton, Canada
Review in The Gateway, March 30, 1993, Page 9:
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Preview in The Gateway, March 25, 1993, Page 11:
Another review of sorts, from The Gateway, April 1, 1993, Page 21:
by Blackstar Fri May 17, 2019 4:36 am
Articles around the time the show was announced and tickets went on sale.
The Calgary Herald, December 8, 1992:
Guns N' Roses to play in Edmonton March 28
Those had boys of rock, Guns N Roses, will be bringing their act to Alberta in March.
Led by singer Axl Rose known for naked runs through hotel lobbys and charges of assault at violence-plagued concerts the group will appear in Edmonton March 28.
The band will not play Calgary but local fans will be able to buy tickets for the Edmonton show starting Saturday at Ticket Master outlets.
The Edmonton Journal, December 8, 1992:
Rock's bad boys city-bound
Security for Guns N' Roses show will be anything but Skin & Bones
DAVID HOWELL
Journal Staff Writer
Security needs are already being assessed for a March 28 concert at Northlands Coliseum by rock's ultimate bad-boy band, Guns N' Roses.
Tickets go on sale Saturday for the band's only Alberta appearance on its Skin & Bones tour. The opening act will be The Brian May Band. May was the guitarist with legendary British group Queen.
"We're definitely aware of problems that have happened (with Guns N' Roses) in the past and we'll be having extra security and extra police," Tammi Bryant, a spokesperson with the show's promoter, Perryscope Concert Productions, said Monday.
"The band has quite a rambunctious audience. We're taking extra precautions."
At a Guns N' Roses concert Nov. 30 in Bogota, Colombia, thousands of fans who had not been able to buy tickets ran riot outside the stadium, wounding 20 police officers and damaging hundreds of cars and nearby shops.
On Dec. 2 in Chile, 178 fans were arrested at a concert after violence broke out among the audience, angered by the show's late start. Bottles were thrown on to the stage and lead singer Axl Rose walked off stage twice and threatened to cancel the concert. (Two days later Rose, completely naked, hugged a security guard in the in the lobby of a Buenos Aires hotel.)
And last August in Montreal, Guns N' Roses fans went on a rampage at Olympic Stadium after Rose halted a show after only a few songs, apparently because of a sore throat. Rioters trashed parts of the stadium, burned a sports car which was on display and set dozens of small fires before police regained control.
But at a September concert in Toronto, security was increased and no trouble was reported.
Sgt. Al Bohachyk, head of media relations with the Edmonton police service, said primary responsibility for security rests with Edmonton Northlands.
But police will be monitoring other Guns N' Roses concert dates between now and the Edmonton show and may put contingency plans in place, Bohachyk said.
"We'll certainly be reviewing how things are going as they make their tour so we can properly establish what we'll do for security arrangements."
Edmonton Northlands spokesman John Harms said security will be beefed up but likely will be no different from that in effect at other heavy-metal shows.
Tickets for the Edmonton show go on sale at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the Northlands box office and Ticketmaster outlets. The price is $29.50 plus agency fee.
Ticket buyers are asked to bring a non-perishable food item marked with their names, address and phone number. Each Ticketmaster outlet will make a draw, and one winner from each will have one pair of seats upgraded to front-row. Donations go to the Edmonton Food Bank.
And for Guns N' Roses fans who can't wait for the real thing, two new concert videotapes from the band go on sale Tuesday. Titled Use Your Illusion World Tour —1992 in Tokyo, the 90-minute videos documenting the band in concert in Tokyo last February will be sold separately as Tokyo I and Tokyo II.
No bracelet? You can skip the lineup for Guns, Roses
If you want to see Guns N' Roses in Edmonton, get ready to charge your tickets by phone — unless you're already wearing a coveted plastic wristband.
Tickets for the March 28 show at Northlands Coliseum go on sale at 9:30 a.m.
Saturday. It's anticipated they will be 1993's most highly prized rock concert tickets.
Lee Korber, assistant manager of Ticketmaster in Edmonton, says there's little point in lining up in person unless you are among the 1,500 people who scooped up numbered wristbands that became available when sponsor K-97 radio announced the concert last weekend.
Wristbands, rarely used in Edmonton, are supposed to prevent the need for ticket buyers to camp out for nights before tickets go on sale.
"It heads that off at the pass," said Korber. "And it creates less problems on the day of sale, because people know where they are in the line-up. There's no jockeying for position."
But she acknowledged the policy may create confusion for people unaware it's in effect.
"They may be surprised if they've been living on another planet or this is their first exposure to wristbands."
Signs will be posted at all Ticket-master locations warning fans who might consider camping out that wristband holders will be served first.
Each of 15 Ticketmaster outlets got 100 numbered plastic wristbands. They resemble the bracelets hospitals give patients.
One band was attached to each of the first 100 people who asked for them at each outlet, beginning last Saturday. Supplies ran out Monday.
Those who return Saturday morning to the same outlet they got their wristband from will be served, in order from 001 to 100, as long as the wristband is still intact.
Wristband wearers will be permitted to purchase up to the maximum eight tickets each, while tickets last, said Tammi Bryant, a spokesperson with the promoter, Perryscope Concert Productions.
Bryant said 16,500 tickets are available for Guns N' Roses. So in theory, the 1,500 people with wristbands could snap up 12,000.
But Korber said possession of a wristband is no guarantee of tickets, since up to half the available seats are expected to be sold by phone.
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Contest by a local radio station (The Edmonton Journal, March 12, 1993):
Preview in The Edmonton Journal with Duff interview (also posted in the interview section), March 26, 1993:
Illusions aside, it's a whole new, back-to-basics show from the world's most notorious rockers
Journal Music Writer
Things easily spin out of control when you're on the inside of the world's most notorious and volatile rock band.
For bassist Duff Me Kagan, one of three remaining founding members of Guns N' Roses, often the only solution is to close his eyes and try to shut out the screaming images that constitute his life on the road and on the stage.
"It goes back to the philosophy of having no philosophy, of not thinking about it,'' McKagan said Thursday from Winnipeg, the morning after the second Canadian date on the band's new Skin N' 'Bones tour.
"You drink your protein shake, do a couple of deep knee bends, and you're off."
Otherwise, he said, if he did try to make sense of the confusion around him, it would get to be too much. A well-choreographed schedule of events would become a sickening blur of private jets and limousines, generic hotel rooms and groggy mornings after.
Take the Use Your Illusion world tour, which started in Wisconsin in May of 1991 and has included shows in Japan and Colombia and will see the band visit Tel Aviv in a couple of months.
The gigantic shows that made up the bulk of the tour have finally ended, and McKagan sounds like he's just been released from prison after more than 18 months of breaking rocks in the hot sun.
"When we started (the Use Your Illusion tour) it was just the band, and then we decided we wanted to get the horns and the backup singers, and do something big.
"And we did it. We did all the stadiums. Every night it was between 80,000 and 145,000 people."
But the incessant touring took a toll and often led to fiasco.
Early on, rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin quit the band to pursue his solo career and the group scrambled to replace him with Gilby Clarke. There were riots in several cities, including Montreal, after Guns N' Roses cancelled concerts in mid-performance.
Lead singer Axl Rose, who is known for his hair-trigger temper and delaying the start of concerts until he feels like going on, was involved in several ugly incidents.
In Missouri last November he was convicted of assault and property damage charges after an aborted concert escalated into a riot (Last week in Hamilton, Rose stormed off the stage after he was hit by an object thrown by a fan.)
"I don't think we would have survived much longer doing all those big shows," McKagan says.
"It was too big, man. Check it out OK? Here's the deal. We had 140 people working for us. Nineteen semis. Nineteen buses. Two 747s to take the (equipment), OK? And another plane for the band. It was too big It was every day.
"And when it comes down to it it's myself, Axl and (lead guitarist) Slash who have to take care of all the financial (details) because we started the band and all that. So here we are being businessmen, and trying to get out and rock every night, and you know, you've still got faxes falling out of your pockets when you're up on stage.
"It's like, this ain't happening, man. It was cool for a while, but it just got too much. And you've got the backup singers and the horn players scream-ing that they want bigger rooms — it just goes on and on. So we're back to square one, and it's great."
The Skin N' Bones tour that Guns N' Roses will bring to Northlands Coliseum Sunday evening with opening act Brian May — the former lead guitarist for Queen — is the final leg of the Use Your Illusion tour.
But in reality, it's a whole new rock show — a back-to-the-basics concert tour that started in late February and will hit 26 North American cities before the end of April.
Gone are the horn players, the backup singers and their demands for bigger rooms. Also shelved are the two-tiered stage, 270 metres wide, and most of the equipment that was piled on and around it.
"It was a cool thing to do," says McKagan, "but we got it out of our system and we re back to what we are, which is a rock band. Now we've got an acoustic set in the middle, and a small stage, and we're playing smaller places, arenas, and it's really cool. It's just good to have that band feeling back and not like this obscene huge circus going around the world.
We're coming back to prove what we are — Guns N' Roses, a few guys on stage trying to play what they like to play."
The new concert features songs from the group's first EP and songs from the two Use Your Illusion albums that didn't get heard in the big shows. On stage this time around will be only the Gunners themselves: Rose, Slash, McKagan, Clarke, drummer Matt Sorum and keyboard player Dizzy Reed.
McKagan says the sheer size of the Use Your Illusion tour at its most grandiose was overwhelming. To cope with the pressure of performing to huge audiences, he'd try not to think about anything else than the songs he was playing.
"On this tour alone we played to over 25 million people. If you start thinking about it you're going to start going nuts. 'OK, we re going to go out tonight and play in front of 145.000 people.' If I were to let that bounce around in my head for a while, I'd lose it.
"We played Sydney (Australia) a month or so ago. We played the biggest gig ever played in the Southern Hemisphere. We were told that before the gig and you can't think. You've got to put that out of your head. That's pretty major, you know? And here we are, just a couple of lunkheads."
Have things really changed for Guns N' Roses since Use Your Illusion was transformed into Skin N' Bones?
Talking to McKagan, it doesn't sound like the difference has been all that dramatic. When he spoke to The Journal at 4 p.m Winnipeg time, he had just woken up. In his hands was a fresh copy of a local newspaper.
"Axl (Rose) and I are on the cover, and it's a really horrible picture of me," McKagan says.
"I've got like 15 double chins. Really nice. But it was a good review and was a good show last night really good, although we went on a bit late.
"Which is par for the course, I guess."
When: Sunday night
Where: Coliseum
Review and after show report in The Edmonton Journal, March 29, 1993:
'Gunners' worth the wait for fans of raucous rock
Rose passes beer, pizza to front row
DAVID HOWELL and HELEN METELLA
Journal Entertainment Writers
Although they had to wait for well over an hour Sunday night, 17,000 raucous Guns N Roses fans finally got to go ape in the rock "jungle" of Northlands Coliseum as the biggest rock show of the season wheeled into town.
It took Guns N' Roses about 75 minutes to take the stage after warm-up act Brian May, formerly of the rock group Queen, had finished a one-hour opening set. But if anything, the delay — a standard concert tactic for Guns N' Roses — played into the band's hands beautifully.
For every extra minute the fans had to wait, the air had grown thicker with tension. By the time lead "Gunner" Axl Rose took the stage, a frenzied crowd was on their feet thrusting their fists into the air as Rose launched into the band's best-known song, Welcome to the Jungle.
"I wasn't too impressed with them coming on late, but the music was great," said Guns N' Roses fan Curtis Ruvuliak, 21. Keith Bayrak, 20, gave the show a five out of 10. "There was no big light show like Def Leppard."
At deadline there were none of the major incidents that have plagued some Guns N' Roses concerts. Ambulance personnel reported several people sick to their stomachs, possibly from alcohol consumption, as well as a number of asthmatics who were overcome by cigarette smoke. One fan was wheeled into a medical room at Northlands after hitting his head in a fall.
Edmonton was the 18th city on the band's current 21-city North American Skin N' Bones tour — a back-to-basics rock show with all the backup singers, horns and lights shows of past Guns N Roses concerts. Yet it wasn't all "loud n' proud." The band performed a well-received acoustic section during which an overstuffed couch was wheeled to the centre of the stage. In the middle of the set, four topless women dispensed drinks to the band — all in keeping with the band's image as the most notorious rockers on tour today.
At one point, Rose passed out beer and pizza to fans in the front row.
The "unplugged'' segment included the band's popular cover of the Bob Dylan classic, Knockin' on Heaven's Door.
The show was hampered by a poor sound mix that rendered much of Rose's vocals inaudible, but the "Gunners" nonetheless put on their usual rock extravaganza.
Rose, wearing a Charles Manson T-shirt and his trademark shorts and a thick blue headband around his long red hair, worked the crowd like a hyperactive showman.
Mr Brownstone, a tale of heroin addiction, had the crowd singing along to the chorus.
The band also played their cover of Paul McCartney's Live and Let Die — unbearably loud — after which Rose took a break and let bassist Duff McKagan step to the microphone with a cover version of The Misfits' Attitude. It is anticipated to be on the band's much-awaited album of punk cover tunes.
May, former guitarist for the British group Queen, did a 65-minute set that seemed lost in Seventies nostalgia. May dipped into the Queen catalogue with his well-known rock anthem We Will Rock You that is now a standard at every hockey and sporting arena in the world. Other Queen chestnuts included Tie Your Mother Down.
The rest of May's set was drawn directly from his new solo album, Back to the Light, but like his old material, even that didn't sound relevant to 1993.
Guns N' Roses' popular lead guitarist Slash was decked out in a lumberjack shirt, torn jeans and runners —his usual grungy uniform.
The band also includes drummer Matt Sorum, guitarist Gilby Clarke and keyboardist Dizzy Reed.
The delay in the concert Sunday night was nothing new for Guns N' Roses.
On Jan. 13 of last year, fans in Dayton. Ohio waited until well after midnight for the band to start a concert. The temperamental Rose was having personal problems, Sorum said in a recent interview, describing the scene backstage as "a ... nightmare." The concert's late start made national news, including coverage in USA Today and Rolling Stone magazine.
"What happens with Axl is, if he doesn't feel good about playing the gig, he just doesn't... want to play," Sorum said.
"It's a weird thing to make people wait, but it's almost as if he wants to put on the best show for the people. He'd rather not go out — that's the only way I can explain it. That's what used to go on with him."
SEARCH N' SEIZURE
Rock band prompts heavy security
Police, scalpers out in force as Guns N' Roses performs at Coliseum
STEPHEN ERWIN
Jeff Hunter paid $50 expecting to be spit on, insulted and stood up Sunday night.
And he thought he was getting a bargain.
''This is going to be the best concert that ever hit Edmonton and some guys are paying like $200 a ticket," said Jackson, one of 17.000 hard-core rock fans at the Coliseum to catch an earful of Guns N' Roses, a rock band with a reputation for abusing fans and walking off stage in the middle of a show.
"They're the wickedest badasses in rock and roll and they don't take crap from anybody ever," said Hunter, slapping down $30 at a concession booth for a T-shirt bearing the Guns N' Roses logo — a skull with a blood-drenched rose in its mouth.
The band's raunchy performances and the bad manners of lead singer Axl Rose, have proved to be a big hit with young rockers and the show's $30 tickets were sold out weeks in advance.
Scalpers had a field day as fans scrambled around the Coliseum with cash in hand looking to buy their way into the building.
"This is the easiest money I ever made. All I've got to say is 'Eh, 200 bucks and you're on the floor or 100 bucks and you're in the back,' and they buy it," said one scalper, who called himself Mooch.
"I think I just might retire after this show."
Legal vendors also did brisk business with the band's followers.
"It's unbelievable. We've sold about 2,000 shirts at this stand and they're selling thousands and thousands more inside," said concessionaire Roxanne Lorentz.
"These shirts are $30 each and 13-year-olds are buying five at time. Hey, kids with money, you've got to love it."
Some Guns N' Roses performances have become violent and security was beefed up at the Coliseum. More than 140 security guards and at least 30 police officers were stationed throughout the building. Hundreds of fans were searched at the door and police arrested a least one man for selling drugs.
"They're rebels. It's all part of the show, they're defiant and Axl doesn't let anyone intimidate him. They also play awesome music," said 16-year-old Jackson Williams, who was among hundreds of screaming teenagers crammed into the LRT hours before the concert.
"The best reason to come to a concert is because your parents don't want you to."
But 23-year-old Kendra Showers brought her mom.
"I love Axl's singing, it's that simple. He's got an amazing voice and they play great music," said Kendra's 54-year-old mother, Carol. "Some of my daughters thought it would be too rough a show for me, but the heck with that, I wanted to hear them."
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PENTAGON - The commander of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) has ordered an investigation into the al-Shabab attack this week that killed three Americans, dispatching two of his top generals Thursday to Manda Bay, Kenya.
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Watch Party – Kingdom
Kingdom Episode 7 – A full dash and more!
by Sadhana C
It's been a very interesting last couple of weeks on Kingdom where we saw the contestants have a blast, taking the audience along for the ride. We saw the groups head off to a sports event to compete against each other in relay races and vault jumps and the highly anticipated inter-group collaboration stages in episode 7.
Sadhana: I thought episode 6 was fun and a nice filler, but not much to say beyond that!
Rimi: I don't have much to say either. It's always fun to see some cross group interactions and I was super happy to see Minhyuk being recognised by the guys for the hunk he is (*insert heart eyes emoji*), but that about sums up my thoughts.
Sadhana: Hahah, I knew you'd enjoy that. I was thinking about your Kingdom crush when the visual award came up 😀
Rimi: I knew he would win! ❤ Moving on though, Round 3 – uff! Those were some strong performances! As always, I'm curious to see which teams we liked best!
*drumroll please*
Rimi: Oh wow! We have the same choices this time! And unsurprisingly, they differ from those of MNET's.
Sadhana: Yeah, but this time I know and can really see why MNET chose Mayfly – but personally, I just liked It's One's performance (for rap) more. Mayfly had a strong cohesive performance to back up their interesting lyrics as well really good rap performances. But It's One had so much heart ❤
Rimi: I have to agree with you. I do feel like Team Mayfly had a better understanding of what Kingdom wants from its performances and they delivered, whereas Team It's One – under the direction of Bobby – just enjoyed the performance. Bobby composed the song, correct? If you look at the line distribution, he doesn't himself have a "strong" verse. It feels like he heard Hwi-young and Sunwoo's wish to do hip-hop/rap, and gave them an opportunity to fulfil that wish. ALSO, I was impressed with both Hwi-young and Sunwoo! They've got great flow and tone, and are better rappers than I was expecting! Final thought: Full Dash also just had a nicer composition/arrangement.
Sadhana: Yeah their chemistry as a team was so so good! Also, exactly – regarding their composition. Full Dash is just very catchy!
Rimi: Yeah! I remember Changbin announced that from Round 2 all songs would be on the streaming platforms, but it hasn't happened yet. And this one is actually an original song! I need it on Spotify, stat!
Sadhana: Yeah, it's a shame. I'd abuse the repeat button on that song. It sounds like a great one to start your Mondays off with vengeance xD Also, Sunwoo and Hwiyioung's wish to actually show off their rap skills really came through and I think help make the performance itself such a delight to watch. It puts a huge smile on my face whenever I watch it. One of the biggest joys I think is to watch musicians really enjoy themselves while performing – whatever the genre – and on this front the It's One trio have all my points and respect and even thanks!
Rimi: Yes, yes and yes – to all of this! What about Mayfly? I was certainly impressed with the way the stage was designed. I'm also slowly becoming a fan of Han. He's … a surprisingly impressive guy. All of them are overachievers, I suppose. But other than the fun at the beginning of the stage, where Changbin ruins a painter's work, then a writer's ink pad – which was just hilarious – I didn't find the stage too memorable. And the music was less enjoyable somehow?
Sadhana: Yeah, I felt the same, but I guess that's subjective? If you're looking at the kind of thing Kingdom wants out of its performances, the whole spectacle "storyline" they've been nudging groups toward, you'll see that Mayfly fit all the criteria. So yeah, I get why they won – because there wasn't anything technically wrong with it was there? They delivered on the performance, the rapping itself and the lyrics too. But yeah, for me too, it wasn't as memorable as It's One's.
Rimi: Well said. There wasn't anything technically wrong with it, plus it met all of Kingdom's criteria. But Full Dash just showed genuine heart. (Also loved the lyrics – Full Dash, again)
Should we discuss the dance team now?
Sadhana: Yup, I see we're in agreement there as well. We're quite "aligned" this week if I were to use corporate jargon that the team I'm working with loves to overuse xD.
Rimi: Hahaha!~ Indeed, and here, I think once again, Team Mayfly showed a better understanding of the assignment, but it's not that Team It's One weren't good – it's more that they made a few odd choices and missteps.
First, it's clear that a show like Kingdom, which loves its big gimmicks and stunts, would warrant a bigger team. So it was surprising that they sent only 3 performers. Second, they should have added vocals and lyrics, if they'd taken this extra step, the performance would have been much more K-pop-fans' style and MNET style.
Sadhana: YES, I found it super odd that with a team like The Boyz they sent one dancer?! It doesn't make sense. Not to mention SF9. In fact, last week I was pretty sure this round would be It's One's for sure given how good their choreo and performances were in the previous rounds. So I'm really not sure why they chose this particular group for the dance. They did a good job, really, but compared to the extravaganza that Wolf by Mayfly was, poor things didn't stand a chance. And you could also see this in their faces when the camera cut to them in the middle of Mayfly's performance.
Rimi: Exactly. I too think they understood this as they watched Mayfly's performance. They focused too much on individuality but without anything super impressive/memorable from any of the three – although Juyeon's table flip was kind of cool.
Sadhana: Yep, Juyeon's table flip is the one thing I clearly remember from their performance. I thought it was super cool.
Rimi: On the other hand, Wolf. Where do I even begin? I thought it was a simple, fun, almost childish concept, but masterfully executed. My favorite part was not even Felix's stunt but all the howling they included in the song and imitated whenever it came on. "AUUUUU!!"
Sadhana: The howling was cool but in this one too they looked like they were having fun to be honest. In the performance, they peppered individual stand-out moments with intense coordinated parts and given all the members they had I think that worked out really well for them.
Rimi: LOL yes. Even the aesthetics – from the styling to the contact lenses they were wearing, was very memorable. As a visual moment, I think Peniel walking out with the wolves on a leash was beautifully done. And Seonghwa continued to blow me away with his pink hair. Plus, they did have vocals, clear, lovely vocals – even if pre-recorded, it just made the whole thing so much more fun.
A final word on the rankings from earlier rounds that were revealed. I was really happy that SF9 and then BtoB came first and second! Given that that was the order in which I ranked them too!
Sadhana: Ooh yes, but rankings remind me also that it seems almost unfair that the "top 3" groups were into one group and the "bottom 3" in another group. It was ATEEZ's choice, but still, given how things went down.
Rimi: Do agree. Even more so because it's so frustrating that Full Dash lost the Rap round. Not everything has to be about scripted, prop heavy stages. When a stage is minimal but has so much more heart, why can't that be recognised and be counted in favor of the team?
Sadhana: Yeah, I wish things were that way. Also, I was excited to see Twitter familiar Kim Young Dae as a judge (who primarily writes about hip-hop) and was wondering what he genuinely would have thought about the two performances. Because Full Dash seems so much more in the hip hop spirit.
Rimi: Yes! I was also happy to see Kim Young-dae!
Sadhana: I'm looking forward to this week's episode because on the one hand, BtoB, but on the other, there's this whole squad from It's One that's yet to perform so they'll all be in on this vocal performance which should make for pretty exciting viewing. Also Mayfly's singing IU's song! So excited~
Rimi: Opposites once again. I'm excited about It's One taking on Taeyeon! 😀 "Spark" is pop perfection. It truly reminds you why pop, when done well, is such an easy and fun listen.
Sadhana: Fighting to both teams for Episode 8. See you next week!
Rimi: Until next week ~~ (*goes back to playing Full Dash on repeat on YouTube *)
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In the explosive debut of Stacey Lynn's irresistible Fireside series, a pair of estranged lovers are reunited by dangerous loyalties—and intoxicating desire.
Tyson Blackwell never saw it coming when his Mafia princess girlfriend dumped him and disappeared at the age of eighteen. He never forgot her, either, even after what happened next: the killing of his father, a Detroit PD officer, at the hands of one of her father's men. Tyson swore revenge, and now, ten years later, the kid who dreamed of a pro football career is a hard-nosed FBI agent, back in town to take down the Galecki crime family once and for all. But Tyson's mission gets complicated fast—because going undercover means seducing the only woman he's ever loved.
Gabriella "Blue" Galecki has been in hiding for a decade. She finally comes home to spend time with her terminally ill mother, only to receive a blast from the past when she runs into Tyson. His brooding eyes and electrifying touch still send chills down her spine. But as heir to the family empire, Blue has been promised to another. Caught in a web of deception, she is tempted to pull the trigger on the boldest risk she's ever taken: trusting Tyson with her life, her body, and her heart.
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"It's very disturbing. I felt very badly for him last night. And of course, I'm trying to figure out the source," Stone told The Daily Beast on Thursday, the morning after the president's favorite supermarket tabloid exposed the alleged extramarital shenanigans of Stone's close friend and former business associate Manafort.
"TARGET IN FBI-RUSSIA PROBE ALSO CHEATED WITH WOMAN HALF HIS AGE!" the Enquirer's headline added.
Stone, who co-founded a powerhouse Washington lobbying firm with Manafort in the 1980s and was instrumental in Trump hiring him for several months to run his presidential campaign last year, is—like Manafort—facing congressional and special counsel scrutiny for his possible role in allegedly colluding with Russian operatives to help elect Trump.
Both men have vehemently denied such conduct, although Manafort's home in Northern Virginia was recently raided by an army of FBI agents, to scoop up evidence in the widening investigation being run by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
"On motive—the motive would be what? Antagonize the guy? It makes no sense. Why would he want to do that?" Stone said, responding to widespread speculation in the media that Trump—good friends with top Enquirer executive David Pecker, who has basically put the tabloid at the president's service—would have suggested or even tacitly approved of the take-down of his former campaign chairman.
That, of course, is a highly debatable assertion. Manafort, for one thing, was, along with Jared Kushner and Donald Trump Jr., one of the top campaign officials who attended a June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower with a well-connected Russian lawyer who they hoped would provide dirt on Hillary Clinton.
Several weeks ago as the investigation heated up, Manafort belatedly—and retroactively--filed as a foreign agent, as federal law requires, after acknowledging that his firm had received $17.1 million in payments from the pro-Vladimir Putin party of ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, whom Manafort had advised for a decade.
Bloomberg News reported on Thursday that Mueller, in his investigation of Russian meddling in the election, has also subpoenaed the global bank records of Manafort and of his various companies and business associates.
Stone, who frequently appears on Trump-supporting conspiracy theorist Alex Jones's InfoWars radio program, told The Daily Beast that after he read the Enquirer story around 7 o'clock last night, he began phoning contacts in Trump World in an attempt to learn the motivations behind the hit job, but still hasn't spoken to Manafort.
Trump's influence with the Enquirer, and especially with Pecker, who broke with the tabloid's non-political tradition and formally endorsed his presidential candidacy last year, has been well-documented.
In June, MSNBC host and frequent Trump critic Joe Scarborough accused the president of using his leverage with the tabloid to extract an apology from Scarborough.
The Morning Joe host claimed he was repeatedly told by White House aides that Trump would have an Enquirer story killed about Scarborough's alleged long-ago extramarital affair with his then-married cohost Mika Brzezinski, now Scarborough's fiancée, if the apology was forthcoming.
The tabloid issued a statement denying Scarborough's claim.
While Trump is said to have planted stories in the tabloid over a decades'-long relationship, and frequently touted the Enquirer's attacks on his opponents during last year's primary campaign—notably hit pieces claiming Texas Sen. Ted Cruz had affairs with female staffers and that his Cuban-born father had been somehow connected to the assassination of John F. Kennedy—Stone said he's baffled that Pecker would publish a squalid attack on Manafort's personal life.
Dylan Howard, chief content officer and vice president of AMI, the Enquirer's parent company, scoffed at the speculation about Pecker and Trump's possible role.
"The 'mainstream media's' obsession with a story that was published more than a week ago is baffling," Howard said in a statement. "Not only does it underscore the lack of true reporting happening at many outlets, but more important, it is clear proof that no one outside of myself or my editors influence the editorial of The National Enquirer.
"We continue to do what all of the other media outlets looking for a cheap story apparently don't, we report. Our story is the result of hard working editors who received a tip weeks ago, investigated it, determined it was in the public interest, and delivered it to our readers on August 2. That's journalism."


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Torsten Kracht (* 4. října 1967 Grimma) je bývalý německý fotbalista, střední obránce.

Fotbalová kariéra
Ve východoněmecké oberlize hrál za 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig, nastoupil ve 109 ligových utkáních a dal 6 gólů. S 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig vyhrál dvakrát východoněmecký fotbalový pohár. Za reprezentaci Východního Německa (NDR) nastoupil v letech 1988–1990 ve 2 utkáních. Po sjednocení Německa hrál za VfB Leipzig, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Bochum, Eintracht Frankfurt, Karlsruher SC a 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig. V Bundeslize nastoupil ve 167 utkáních a dal 5 gólů. V Poháru vítězů pohárů nastoupil ve 2 utkáních a v Poháru UEFA nastoupil v 11 utkáních.

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More than half of the South Africans who run their own businesses are youth, according to the Real State of Entrepreneurship Survey 2017, undertaken by the Seed Academy. More than 1,200 entrepreneurs took part in the research project. Its findings also showed that the gap between male and female entrepreneurs was closing, with the latter now making up 47% of entrepreneurs.
While South Africa is considered an entrepreneurial leader in sub-Saharan Africa, its weakest link in terms of its entrepreneurial ecosystem is start-up skills. This poses the question, what skills can local youth be taught, in order to improve their appetite for entrepreneurship?
Talking to us about the various entrepreneurial opportunities out there, we had in studio with us: LJ Swart – MD at Oxigen Communications, Marie Schourie – CEO of The Workspace, as well as Busi Raphekwane from Transformation Legacy. We also catch up with Keri-Leigh Paschal from Nation Builder, about their Social Innovation Challenge.


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Connecticut's Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) announced March 31 that expects to stock almost 390,000 trout in waters across the state in time for opening day of the trout fishing season April 19 despite challenges posed by extended winter conditions this year.
"Stocking nearly four hundred thousand fish prior to opening day is a monumental task in the best weather," said Pete Aarrestad, director of DEEP's Inland Fisheries Division. "We've had to postpone several days of stocking due to morning temperatures in the single digits, and a number of other scheduled stocking runs were shifted to sites with better winter access.
Trout anglers looking to test out their gear prior to the start of trout season can visit one of the state's 15 trout management areas (TMAs), all open for pre-season catch-and-release fishing. TMAs are located on the Farmington River, Hammonasset River, Hockanum River, Housatonic River (two TMAs), Mianus River, Mill River (Fairfield), Mill River (Hamden), Moosup River, Pequabuck River (including Coppermine Brook), Naugatuck River, Salmon River, Saugatuck River, Willimantic River and Yantic River.
Typically, DEEP stocks nearly all these areas as soon as they are accessible by the hatchery trucks. This year, however, due to snow cover, frozen snow banks and shoreline ice cover, a number of the TMAs were inaccessible, thus stocking them had to be postponed. "Barring more winter weather, we plan on having most of the Trout Management Areas stocked by the end of next week," said Aarrestad.
Anglers can access up-to-date information about where and when trout are stocked on Facebook at facebook.com/ctfishandwildlife.
In addition to the TMAs, class I wild trout management areas (WTMA) are also open year-round for catch-and-release fishing, and are located on Deep Brook, Eightmile River, Hawleys Brook, Beaver Brook/Merrick Brook, Macedonia Brook, Mill River (in Easton), Quinnipiac River, Tankerhoosen River, and Wachocastinook (Riga) Brook. Class I WMTA's are typically not stocked. Additionally, downstream portions of six of the designated sea-run trout streams (Eightmile River, Farm River, Hammonasset River, Latimer Brook, Saugatuck River, and Whitford Brook) are open year-round with a two trout per day creel limit and a fifteen-inch minimum length.
Anglers should consult the Conncticut Angler's Guide for detailed information on specific locations and angling regulations. Printed versions of the 2014 Angler's Guide are now available at more than 350 locations statewide, including town halls, bait & tackle shops and other vendors selling outdoor equipment, DEEP facilities, and commercial marinas and campgrounds. The electronic versions of the Guide can be found on the DEEP website at (ct.gov/deep/anglersguide).
Additional fishing and fisheries related information can be found on the DEEP web site at ct.gov/deep/fishing. The web site has a wealth of information including; trout stocking location maps, annual fish stocking summary report, the very popular youth fishing passport program, and when you catch the big one, criteria for trophy fish awards.
Save the last-minute running around and purchase your 2014 fishing licenses directly online, or if you prefer, at one of the many participating town halls, tackle retailers and DEEP offices. For a complete list of vendors, visit the DEEP website (ct.gov/deep/fishing) or call DEEP Licensing and Revenue (860-424-3105).
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Since I now have an excuse to have babies on my brain, I've been keeping an eye out for all things baby-cool.
Check out this multifunctional bassinet/rocker called Koo that I saw on Design Milk. Baby sleeps in the bassinet until feeding time. Mom can rock baby back to sleep after nursing. Smart, huh?
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Congrats on the baby thoughts! I found your blog somehow in the mid-century blog world. My husband and I have a blog about house stuff too. Anyway, we are believers and I love how you integrate your faith into your blog.
I have heard that comfy is best … but I tend to choose style over comfort in a lot of cases. We'll see what I end up with someday when we're rocker shopping.


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Does Fixed Wireless Access Threaten Traditional Telecom Services?
Last week, in a major development for adoption of 5G, Verizon claimed the world's first commercial 5G deployment by introducing a home broadband service using fixed wireless access.
Dubbed Verizon 5G Home, the service promises speeds of about 300 Mbps, reaching up to 1 Gbps in some areas, with no data caps. The service will go live on 1 October 2018 and initial roll-out is slated for parts of Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles and Sacramento. Customers can sign up from 13 September through a dedicated Web site aptly named FirstOn5G.com.
To lure people to the new service, Verizon will offer free installation (the service requires several pieces of stationary equipment to be installed, which can't be carried out without a technician), three months of complimentary service, a free Chromecast device or Apple TV 4K and three months of free YouTube TV. After this period, customers of Verizon's mobile services with qualifying plans will pay $50 per month and non-customers will pay $70 per month. The discount for existing subscribers means that Verizon is now bundling wireless and home services.
Verizon isn't new to the fixed-line environment. The company has a long history of supplying traditional telecom services and currently offers fibre-based connectivity packages in limited markets, mainly along north-eastern parts of the US. Its Fios broadband service reaches almost 6 million customers, accounting for about 25 percent of its total revenue but almost none of its profits.
This commercial launch is certainly an important step in the roll-out and adoption of 5G. However, being first out of the 5G gate is meaningless when it can only be achieved on a technicality. CCS Insight has previously addressed tenuous so-called 5G launches before (see, for example, The 5G Playground Squabble). Furthermore, Verizon is using its own 5GTF technology rather than official 3GPP standards, which were approved too late to prepare for this launch. This is one of the costs of deploying early. Verizon promises to upgrade all equipment to the official market standards in 2019 at no cost to customers but at a potentially sizeable investment to the carrier.
We expect that Verizon's 5G Home service will prove an attractive offering to consumers, particularly those who already subscribe to its mobile services. The carrier's sign-up Web site received 100,000 hits about 24 hours after going live, according to group president of Verizon Wireless, Ronan Dunne. The US is a saturated market so Verizon will, in all likelihood, pull in customers from other competitors. The largest providers of fixed-line services in the US are Comcast and Charter Communications, two companies that are already encroaching on Verizon's core business of wireless access, providing virtual operator services using, somewhat ironically, Verizon's network.
Cable providers are specialists in customer retention, and as Verizon brings its services to more markets, existing competitors will fight back. Furthermore, competition is a two-way street and cable companies are sending a message back about 5G: two can play at that game. In January 2018, Charter began testing 5G-based fixed-wireless services over 3.5 GHz spectrum. At Mobile World Congress Americas, AT&T announced that it will use shared spectrum in the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service band to expand its fixed wireless network access solution in late 2019. It will launch on LTE initially before migrating to 5G.
Verizon's introduction is certainly creating excitement about the coming "5G economy". Global competition and the acceleration of standardization is raising 5G momentum. The next milestone will come with the arrival of the first truly mobile 5G network launches based on 3GPP standards, swiftly followed by supporting devices in the first half of 2019. Although hype could inflate consumer expectations in the near term, there's little question about the long-term potential, innovation and disruption that 5G will enable.
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Phnom Penh and S-21
The bus to Phnom Penh from Battambang bus station was a pleasant surprise. At $5 for a five hour trip, your expectations are not that high, but the bus was smooth, quiet and the aircon worked. The driver was also reasonably careful and did not go for the mad overtaking that you sometimes see in Asia. We were actually the only westerners on the bus and the only ones who used the seatbelts! It seems that the hotels and guest houses tend to push another company that does the trip for $0.50 less. We booked the Capitol bus directly with the bus station (desk/table nearest the door). Really good.
The bus did stop quite a bit for drinks and food and to pick up the occasional extra person (dropping them off somewhere a bit further on), but it arrived on time.
As usual it was a bit of a scramble on arrival in Phnom Penh as the tuk tuk drivers push for your business. They all started at $5 to go to the hotel which was probably only ten minutes drive away. We finally settled at $2 which seemed expensive, but turned out to be the going rate for that sort of distance. We had them walk away when we said that we would only pay $2 for one trip. The city was busy and all the hotels were full and the pickings were rich. We saw lots of people agreeing $5 and so the drivers are getting a bit spoiled. We want to be fair, but 'don't want our heads shaved' as the locals say when you are ripped off.
Our plan was to visit the Tuoi Sleng ( S-21) which was a school that had been converted into a prison used to hold the Khmer Rouge prisoners for torture, before being transferred to Choeung Ek (one of the two or three hundred sites used to kill and dispose of the bodies of Pol Pot's supposed enemies).
Pol Pot was educated in France, obviously from privileged background and his aim was to create his own twisted version of a perfect communist state. He banned currency, closed all borders to neighbouring countries with mine fields and expelled all urbanites to the countryside where they were forced to live off the land. Not only producing enough to live on, but he demanded an impossible threefold increase in rice production. This was sold/traded to the Chinese for weapons. In order to achieve total control he set about exterminating anyone who he felt was a threat. That included anyone previously in power, educated people, people with soft hands and even people who wore glasses. These people were tortured until they signed confessions of crimes against the state, often implicating family and friends, who were in turn arrested. Although only really in control for around 3.5 years (1975 to 1978) up to 3 million of his own people were killed. This represented about 25% of the total population. He is quoted as saying that it is better to kill an innocent person than to let an enemy live ….
S-21 is a harrowing place to visit, but important as an introduction to the exhibits at the killing Fields.
We found a tuk tuk driver outside the hotel to take us to S-21. Phnom Penh is a busy place with motorbikes whizzing in every direction.
The school building was a modern design, which brought home how recently this had happened to the poor Cambodians, barely recovered from the bombing that they suffered during the Vietnam war.
The first room we entered had a metal frame bed with leg irons to hold prisoners. These bigger rooms were used to hold and torture political prisoners from the previous regime. In this room there was still a body chained up when the liberation forces arrived.
The record keeping was meticulous, all prisoners were photographed on arrival and then photographed after torture. Signed confessions produced and filed.
There were women, children and even babies. The photographs of the women included some with babies. The babies were killed in the most brutal manner.
Around 20,000 people came through this camp. Of them only 7 survived.
After walking around S-21, two questions struck us. Firstly, how can humans treat each other so cruelly? Secondly, how did the Cambodian people manage to pick themselves up after such a terrible series of events, and keep smiling?
The tuk tuk journey back was another opportunity to observe daily life. That was not so easy while driving Troopy! There are some advantages in not driving! This is something you don't see in Exeter.
Tomorrow we visit the Killing Fields
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Emboldened by two successful drug launches, Ipsen's new CEO says the company is looking to bolster its pipeline with drug acquisitions to maintain its run of form.
David Meek, who took the job in July last year, has set a target of a new launch, or "meaningful" new indication for an existing drug every year, a new strategy he outlined in a press conference in London today.
The Paris-headquartered company recently launched two niche oncology drugs, and is pursuing this specialist in-licensing strategy to fuel its growth.
Ipsen acquired global rights for Merrimack's pancreatic cancer drug Onivyde last month, although Shire has rights outside the US. Ipsen also has the ex US and Japan rights to Exelixis' Cabometyx for kidney cancer.
Meek told the conference that thanks to the new acquisitions and a generally stronger performance across the rest of the business, 2020 sales are expected to exceed 2.5 billion euros, with profit margins exceeding 30% of sales.
This is around half a billion up on previous forecasts, and the question now is what Ipsen will buy to ensure its winning streak continues.
Sales have been growing at greater than 10% for two consecutive years, and are expected to accelerate this year as the new drugs start to gain traction.
Ipsen plans to focus in three key therapeutic areas – oncology, neurosciences and rare diseases, but it was the company's oncology portfolio that dominated Meek's discussions with journalists at the press conference.
The obvious candidate for an acquisition is to acquire remaining rights to Onivyde (irinotecan liposome injection), which are licensed to Shire.
As part of Shire, Onivyde looks like something of an outlier, the only significant cancer drug among a large portfolio of rare disease drugs and therapies.
With Shire's focus on rare disease, an obvious choice would be to buy up the remaining rights to Onivyde, giving Ipsen complete control of the product and its development.
Under the existing deal, Shire will help develop Onivyde in three indications – and has already committed to development in pancreatic cancer and small cell lung cancer.
This leaves two more reasonable options – colorectal and ovarian cancer – and although Meek said that the deal is working for Ipsen in the short term as Shire will help fund the trials, it remains to be seen whether Shire is really interested in Onivyde in the longer term.
Buying the remaining rights to Onivyde will probably cost Ipsen about a billion dollars – within the company's financial reach, especially if it does the usual pharma trick of paying in instalments as various different regulatory and sales goals are met.
While Meek didn't give much else away about Onivyde, he was more open in discussions about his plans for Cabometyx.
Ipsen and partner Exelixis are already developing Cabometyx (cabozantinib) in combination with Bristol-Myers Squibb's Opdivo (nivolumab) and Yervoy (ipilimumab) cancer immunotherapies in genitourinary cancer, and the company is interested in further combinations.
US biotech Exelixis is focused on cancer and considered less likely to sell the remaining rights to Cabometyx.
In the meantime, Meek said that Ipsen is not limiting its hunt for new R&D assets to cancer immunotherapy. "We are agnostic… we're looking at all assets with new mechanisms of action that improve response rates of patients with cancer," he said.


Gallacher, Lesley-Anne: "(Fullmetal) alchemy. The monstrosity of reading words and pictures in shonen manga." In: Cultural Geographies 18.4 (2011), S. 457–473.
Shonen manga (Japanese comics aimed at an audience of teenage boys) are often teeming with monsters, but the texts themselves are more monstrous still. The monstrous combinations of words and picture dispersed across the manga page seem to expose and challenge a fissure within representation itself—but productively so. Through reading a short section of Hiromu Arakawa's Fullmetal Alchemist, this paper explores the ways in which words and pictures can be combined to produce monstrous composite texts, which remain open-ended even after they have been recognized and 'domesticated' through the practices of reading.


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Q: Npgsql Throws an Error if Parameter Comes after IS I am attempting to use Npgsql to query for rows with a NULL value, and using a simple query it works, but it error if I use a prepared statement.
For example, this query would work:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE column IS NULL LIMIT 10;

But this one wouldn't:
// @null is a parameter with a null value (DBNull.Value)
SELECT * FROM table WHERE column IS @null LIMIT 10;

This query would return an empty result set but no errors which is expected:
// @null is a parameter with a null value (DBNull.Value)
SELECT * FROM table WHERE column = @null LIMIT 10;

I also tried using IS for a boolean value and again it behaved as was expected using =, but threw an error on IS. Am I doing something incorrectly or is this a bug?
Stack trace/error info:
Npgsql.PostgresException -- External component has thrown an exception.
at Npgsql.NpgsqlConnector.DoReadSingleMessage(DataRowLoadingMode dataRowLoadingMode, Boolean returnNullForAsyncMessage, Boolean isPrependedMessage)
at Npgsql.NpgsqlConnector.ReadSingleMessage(DataRowLoadingMode dataRowLoadingMode, Boolean returnNullForAsyncMessage)
at Npgsql.NpgsqlCommand.Prepare()

All tests were run using version 3.0.4 originally as well as 3.1.9.

A: As was mentioned in the comments IS and IS NOT are not terms that can be used alone. They are parts of a greater statement: IS NULL or IS NOT NULL that cannot be broken apart.


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"I am extremely honored to be selected for this award, and especially for being nominated by a former student and endorsed by other current and former students, as well as my colleagues," said Spencer.
Spencer, whose research focuses on spacecraft dynamics and control, joined Penn State in 1999. He is the faculty adviser for the Astrodynamics Research Group of Penn State and LionTech Rocket Labs. He served as the aerospace engineering department's director of graduate studies from 2004 to 2008 and the College of Engineering's director of graduate programs from 2008 to 2011.
He is an American Astronautical Society (AAS) Fellow, an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Associate Fellow, and an International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) Corresponding Member.
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filed: September 15, 2011 • Scotland
I'll halt £700m resort plans over turbines, warns Trump
Credit: By Ryan Crighton, The Press and Journal, www.pressandjournal.co.uk 15 September 2011 ~~
Donald Trump has warned that he will reconsider his plans for a £700 million resort around his north-east golf course if a huge offshore windfarm is built nearby.
The US businessman is furious over Vattenfall's proposals to build 11 turbines off the coast of Aberdeen and last night he drew the battle lines by officially lodging his objection with Marine Scotland.
He has also asked First Minister Alex Salmond to intervene, saying it would make other international developers think twice about investing in Scotland.
The structures, which would make up the £150million European Offshore Wind Development Centre (EOWDC), would measure up to 640ft high – twice the height of Big Ben.
Last night the billionaire said that the rest of his resort – a luxury £250 million hotel, 950 holiday homes and 500 houses – would be "at risk" if the government backs the green energy scheme.
Work on the championship links at the Menie Estate will be completed within weeks and the course, which Mr Trump believes will be the best in the world, will open in July, 2012.
But when the turbine plans were lodged with Marine Scotland last month, it emerged that they would be erected one-and-a-half miles from the coast between Balmedie and Bridge of Don, and visible from the Trump site. Mr Trump's objection states: "The reality is that this windfarm will significantly impact on our resort to the extent that the remaining parts will be at risk."
It adds: "There is no way that any international hotel operator will commit to developing a world-class hotel overlooking what will be an offshore industrial facility."
In 2006, when he first unveiled his resort plans, he insisted that he would walk away if the windfarm was built. He claims he was given assurances that nobody would be able to see the turbines from his course, and since then he has invested £60 million.
The Trump Organisation has vowed to use any available legal means to make sure the windfarm project does not go ahead.
George Sorial, managing director and assistant general counsel at the Trump Organisation, said the message in the objection is clear.
"Mr Trump stated very clearly five years ago that if there was to be a wind turbine project nearby, he would develop elsewhere," he said. "That position has not changed."
He added: "Should the Scottish Government approve this proposal, then we would obviously take a hard look at the rest of our project.
"However, we honestly believe that any rational body that was balanced and fair would not approve this project."
Building work on the windfarm – a partnership between Vattenfall, Technip, and Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group (Areg) – could start as early as 2013.
In his letter to the first minister, Mr Trump says the turbines would be "disastrous and environmentally irresponsible".
"Unfortunately, instead of celebrating the start of something valuable and beautiful for Scotland, this ugly cloud is hanging over the future of the great Scottish coastline."
Mr Trump, who issued a statement criticising the development when the planning application was lodged last month, said he had been "repeatedly promised" that windfarms would not be "destroying and distorting magnificent Aberdeen's coastline".
He said: "Despite repeated assurances from Vattenfall and others that the turbines would not be visible from my site, the current application indicates otherwise."
He went on: "In short, this windfarm should not be built, or alternatively, be relocated. If not, you should ask yourself if any other international developer would ever risk investing in Scotland after my experience and all the promises that were made to me.
"Would you put awindfarm opposite St Andrews? I don't think so."
Last night a spokesman for the Scottish Government said it had no knowledge of any assurances given to Mr Trump.
"Mr Trump's letter refers to the position five years ago, when he was submitting his Menie planning application in 2006 – before the current administration took office – and therefore we have no knowledge of what was said then," he said.
"What this administration can say is that the Menie application was determined properly, according to Scotland's planning law and procedures, and it will be exactly the same for this development proposal.
"Ministers will assess every planning application on its merits, taking into account the views of consultees, interested parties and the public."
David Rodger, project spokesman for EOWDC, said: "We understand that the Trump Organisation has made an objection to the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre and like all other comments we have received regarding the proposal we will look at this carefully."
Source: By Ryan Crighton, The Press and Journal, www.pressandjournal.co.uk 15 September 2011


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