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Q: XML in a .log file I have a .log file that is update every 15 minutes on my server, from communication with some mobile units.
Some of the information is text and some xml.
How can I extract the xml, i have tried excel but returns errors, have tried parsing also returns errors.
The data returned looks similar to this for each unit returned every 15 minutes, so by end of day quite a lot of mixed text and xml.
2014\09\12 00:00:49.063 | Broadcast
2014\09\12 00:00:49.064 | ClientCount: 1
2014\09\12 00:00:49.064 | ClientID: 0
2014\09\12 00:00:49.065 | ClientName: UK1  ClientType: 6
2014\09\12 00:00:49.065 | nID: 3
2014\09\12 00:00:49.065 | Client Exists
2014\09\12 00:00:49.066 | Client Connected
2014\09\12 00:00:49.066 | CUCMID set
2014\09\12 00:00:49.072 |
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Any ideas would be great
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A: Try taking a look at LogParser.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/scriptcenter/dd919274.aspx


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Home » Left Coast Chamber Ensemble: Mendelssohn and New Voices (Public Ticketed Performance)
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble: Mendelssohn and New Voices (Public Ticketed Performance) March 24, 2016 (04:30 PM PDT - 08:00 PM PDT)
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble's 2015-2016 Season continues with
MENDELSSOHN AND NEW VOICES
Thursday March 24, 2016, 5:15 - 7:15 PM in the Simons Auditorium
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, 17 Gauss Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble presents Mendelssohn and New Voices, a concert inspired by Felix Mendelssohn's highly praised Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 49. Contemporary works by Jeremy Podgursky, Sean Varah and Craig Walsh provide fresh 21st century perspectives on the piano trio.
Tickets are sold in advance to the general public for $30 general admission and $15 for patrons under age 35; and at the door for $35 general admission and $17.50 for patrons under age 35. For advance tickets and details, call 415/617-5223 or visit www.leftcoastensemble.org.
MSRI Scientific Members & Workshop Attendees: This event is a public, ticketed concert. A limited number of tickets will be reserved for current MSRI scientific members and their families, MSRI staff, and 3/21-3/25 workshop attendees. To reserve an MSRI guest ticket, please fill out this form or see Jennifer Murawski in MSRI suite 100 in person during business hours.
Mendelssohn and New Voices features Felix Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 49, scored for violin, cello and piano, widely considered to be one of the composer's greatest works. In reviewing the piece, composer Robert Schumann praised his colleague by saying, "He is the Mozart of the 19th century, the most brilliant of musicians, the one who most clearly perceives the contradictions of the age, and the first to reconcile them." This piece, both energetic and lyrical, has continued to enchant audiences in ensuing decades. The concert includes contemporary works by Craig Walsh, Jeremy Podgursky and Sean Varah, each providing an exciting new take on the traditional piano trio.
ABOUT LEFT COAST CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
Left Coast is a versatile group of twelve musicians that performs in different combinations, presenting chamber music new and old. It is the mission of Left Coast Chamber Ensemble to forge connections through stirring presentations of chamber music across the Bay Area. The Ensemble strives to make connections between composer and performer, performer and audience, audience and music, and between music of all eras by staging a spectrum of imaginative programs that enchant and delight the listener, and give diverse audiences multiple entry points for engaging with the music.
Parking is free after 5:00 pm in all MSRI lots. There are a very limited number of handicapped parking spaces near the main entrance, and the upper parking lots near the Space Sciences Laboratory are available for free parking after 5:00 pm. MSRI's main parking lot is located off of Centennial Drive in the Lawrence Hall of Science parking area's uppermost level - guests using this lot will walk up the hillside stairs to MSRI's main entrance.

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Marisa Tomei was born on December 4, 1964, in Brooklyn, New York, to mother Patricia "Addie" Tomei, an English teacher and father Gary Tomei, a lawyer. Marisa also has a brother, actor Adam Tomei. As a child, Marisa's mother frequently corrected her speech as to eliminate her heavy Brooklyn accent. As a teen, Marisa attended Edward R. Murrow High School and graduated in the class of 1982. She was one year into her college education at Boston University when she dropped out for a co-starring role on the CBS daytime drama As the World Turns (1956). Her role on that show paved the way for her entrance into film: in 1984, she debuted with a bit part in The Flamingo Kid (1984). Three years later, Marisa became known for her role as Maggie Lawton, Lisa Bonet's college roommate, on the sitcom A Different World (1987). Her real breakthrough came in 1992, when she co-starred as Joe Pesci's hilariously foul-mouthed, scene-stealing girlfriend in My Cousin Vinny (1992), a performance that won her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Later that year, she turned up briefly as a snippy Mabel Normand in director Richard Attenborough's biopic Chaplin (1992), and was soon given her first starring role in Untamed Heart (1993). A subsequent starring role -- and attempted makeover into Audrey Hepburn -- in the romantic comedy Only You (1994) proved only moderately successful. Marisa's other 1994 role as Michael Keaton's hugely pregnant wife in The Paper (1994) was well-received, although the film as a whole was not. Fortunately for Tomei, she was able to rebound the following year with a solid performance as a troubled single mother in Nick Cassavetes' Unhook the Stars (1996) which earned her a Screen Actors Guild nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She turned in a similarly strong work in Welcome to Sarajevo (1997), and in 1998 did some of her best work in years as the sexually liberated, unhinged cousin of Natasha Lyonne's Vivian Abramowitz in Tamara Jenkins' Slums of Beverly Hills (1998). Marisa co-starred with Mel Gibson in the hugely successful romantic comedy What Women Want (2000) and during the 2002 movie award season, she proved her first Best Supporting Actress Oscar win was no fluke when she received her second nomination in the same category for the critically acclaimed dark drama, In the Bedroom (2001). She also made a guest appearance on the animated TV phenomenon The Simpsons (1989) as Sara Sloane, a movie star who falls in love with Ned Flanders. In 2006, she went on to do 4 episodes for Rescue Me (2004). She played Angie, the ex-wife of Tommy Calvin (Denis Leary)'s brother Johnny (Dean Winters). At age 42, Marisa took a provocative role in legendary filmmaker Sidney Lumet's melodramatic picture Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), in which she appeared nude in love scenes with co-stars Ethan Hawke and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Marisa then took on another provocative role as a stripper in the highly acclaimed film The Wrestler (2008), opposite Mickey Rourke. Her great performance earned her many awards from numerous film societies for Best Supporting Actress, a third Academy Award nomination, as well as nominations for a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. Many critics heralded this performance as a standout in her career.
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Also Known As: 마리사 토메이, Μαρίζα Τομέι, Marisa Veriga Tomei
Movies List of Marisa Tomei
Danika (2006)
Only You (1994)
Just a Kiss (2002)
The Perez Family (1995)
Only Love (1998)
Supermom's Daughter (1987)
Happy Accidents (2000)
Alfie (2004)
Untamed Heart (1993)
Unhook the Stars (1996)
Salvation Boulevard (2011)
She Said, She Said (2013)
Dark Was the Night (2018)
Laboratory Conditions (2018)
Human Capital (2020)
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons" (2019)
My Cousin Vinny (1992)
Factotum (2005)
The Watcher (2000)
What Women Want (2000)
The Wrestler (2008)
The Guru (2002)
Anger Management (2003)
War, Inc. (2008)
Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)
Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)
Cyrus (2010)
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School (2005)
Loitering with Intent (2014)
Parker Kane (1990)
In the Bedroom (2001)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)
The Paper (1994)
Someone Like You... (2001)
The People Speak (2009)
After Everything (2018)
Frankie (2019)
Delia's Gone (2021)
Untitled Spider-Man 3 (2021)
Playing for Keeps (1986)
Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011)
My Own Country (1998)
Wild Hogs (2007)
King of the Jungle (2000)
The First Purge (2018)
Zandalee (1991)
Directed by Sidney Lumet: How the Devil Was Made (2008)
Love the Coopers (2015)
A Brother's Kiss (1997)
Dirk and Betty (2000)
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City (2017)
This Changes Everything (2019)
The Flamingo Kid (1984)
The Big Short (2015)
Grace Is Gone (2007)
Trainwreck (2015)
Since You've Been Gone (1998)
Sweet Girl (2021)
Jenifer (2001)
I Hate Kids (2019)
Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen (1996)
The Wild Thornberrys Movie (2002)
Four Rooms (1995)
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times" (2019)
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial (2009)
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Sydney Observatory
Watson Road, Observatory Hill, The Rocks, Sydney, Australia
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20 AUD
Museums nearby
Westpac Museum
Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney
Museum of Sydney
Australian National Maritime Museum
1,23 km / 0,77 mi
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Built in 1858, Sydney Observatory is Australia's oldest observatory, and one of the most significant sites in the nation's scientific history. It is recognised as an item of 'state significance' by the New South Wales Government and is heritage listed.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Observatory was essential to shipping, navigation, meteorology and timekeeping as well as to the study of the stars seen from the Southern Hemisphere. The Government Astronomers worked and lived in the building until 1982* when Sydney Observatory became part of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences.
Today the Observatory is a museum and public observatory with an important role in astronomy education and public telescope viewing. It contains an 1874 29cm lens telescope, a 42cm computer-controlled telescope and a hydrogen-alpha solar telescope, able to be viewed through by visitors during booked sessions. There are also a virtual reality 3-D space theatre, exhibitions about astronomy, meteorology and the history of Sydney Observatory, cosy planetarium, lecture theatrette, souvenir shop and beautiful gardens.
Sydney Observatory is located near the historic Rocks district and the world-famous Sydney Harbour Bridge, and is easily accessed by bus, train, ferry or car.
National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port
Old Operating Theatre, Museum & Herb Garret
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I think there are unlimited possibilities for businesses to engage potential customers. These are all great ideas.
Instagram is a social media platform for photo and video sharing. It was created specifically for mobile use, but an online version is also available. The purpose of the platform is to enable a community of visually-inclined individuals to share and view content with their followers.
Among today's youth, Instagram has become an extremely popular platform. It is a way for individuals and brands to create simple, shareable, easily understood, and universal content for others. It allows an individual to take a photo, edit it to his or her liking, and share it via Instagram and other social platforms (e.g., Facebook, Twitter) in as few steps as possible.
Eight days after being named Twitter?s permanent CEO, Jack Dorsey confirmed a report from Re/code last week that the company would be reducing it?s workforce.
According to an email from Dorsey to all employees, Twitter will be laying off 336 employees ? eight percent of its staff.
?So we have made an extremely tough decision: we plan to part ways with up to 336 people from across the company,? writes Dorsey, ?Twitter will go to great lengths to take care of each individual by providing generous exit packages and help finding a new job.?
We plan to part ways with up to 336 people from across the company.
Dorsey?s email says Twitter?s product and engineering teams would endure the ?most significant structural changes? with the rest of the organization to be streamlined in parallel.


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January 30, 2017 · by davidivens	· in Coventry, Warks, Everyday, Leamington, Tragedies, Warwickshire Branch.	·
Another newspaper report:-
This time telling the graphic story by an eyewitness, of the tragic death of a butcher, Thomas Ivens, who crashed his cart in the village of Stoneleigh, on the way home from Coventry markets to 12,Warwick Street, Leamington Priors.
The witness was John Arnold, Thomas' assistant, who was travelling with his master.
The cart was more likely to be of this kind rather than the 4-wheel Hawking type which carried meat to customers in outlying areas.
According to the newspaper, on Friday last, (10th November) John and Thomas Ivens had gone to Coventry – a distance of some 8.8 miles – and after attending the market left at about 8 o'clock in the evening with a big load of meat, returning through Stoneleigh. As they entered the village from the Coventry side, the mare swerved at a light shining in the road from a cottage window. John thought the light from the window frightened the mare.
"She did not swerve much, but ran up the bank on the off side, and upset the cart." At the time of the accident they were as near the middle of the road as they could be, and not near any turning. He and his master fell out of the cart, and John thought his master fell on him. The trap was upset and the horse down.
When he came to himself he found Mr. Ivens sitting in a chair by the side of the road, attended by some women. He tried to make his master speak, but he could not answer. John then obtained a horse and trap from someone in the village, and drove Thomas Ivens home, with him sat in a chair in the trap supported by leaning against the side of the vehicle. When he first saw him, he bled from the nose a great deal.
They were half an hour getting home, and John did not think Thomas had bled on the way. On arriving at his house, he was taken to the room (in which he was later found), and John stayed with him all night. Thomas didn't speak after the accident, as far as John knew.
Thomas had been driving carefully through the village, at less than eight miles an hour, and what occured was a pure accident. They had been talking just before, and Thomas was quite well. The mare was very quiet and one Thomas was accustomed to drive. She had never shied or run away before.
In answer to specific questions from the Coroner, John said that it was very dark (they had no lamps), and confirmed that there was a steep bank opposite the cottage. The Foreman and Coroner agreed that the road is very narrow, that they must have passed the river, and that the bridge is a dangerous place at night. John piped up that Thomas had driven that way many times and that he had been there several times himself. This was the first time they had had an accident. As they came along the road, John had said "It's a nasty place round this corner" and Thomas replied "Yes John, All right". These were the last words he spoke.
Several witnesses who had seen Thomas that day said he was as well as ever they had seen him, and because of the insurance implications, it was confirmed that he was sober.
The doctor had visited him at 10:30 that Friday night, and concluded that Thomas had fractured the base of his skull, probably caused by falling flat on his face. He remained perfectly unconscious throughout the night and died at 11:45 on Saturday morning.
Thomas left a widow, Jane Scott Pentalow (nee Ivens) [she was the daughter of John Pentalow Ivens and Jane Scott] and three children: Bertha Scottie, aged 7, Flora Sach aged 6, and Sydney Charles aged 1.
← Alfred Thomas Ivens, solicitor of Cheltenham (1855-1934)
Key Dates in English records →


An artificial Christmas tree that didn't look 'real' at the base was Ryan Kenny's inspiration for one of the most ingenious holiday ideas we've ever seen.
Kenny is the inventor of the Christmas Tree Hugger, which wraps around the bottom of artificial Christmas trees to give them a thicker trunk that looks like real tree bark.
He crowdsourced funding for his original prototype through Indiegogo, and is in full production for 2016 sales of the Christmas Tree Hugger on his website and at select retail outlets.
Ryan's passion for Christmas extends to giving back to others, so he is donating a portion of the proceeds from each sale to the Christmas Tree Santas! He took a few moments recently to tell us more about his product.
Santas: Hi Ryan. So what exactly is a Christmas Tree Hugger?
Ryan: The Christmas Tree Hugger is a brand new product that literally makes fake Christmas trees look like real trees. In just a few seconds, it transforms the fake looking fuzzy green pole at the base of artificial Christmas trees to look just like real tree bark. It really puts a nice finishing touch on artificial Christmas trees. Once you see the difference it's hard to go back.
Santas: It's a great idea. What was your inspiration?
Ryan: My wife got sick of me complaining about how goofy the fuzzy green pole at the bottom of our tree looked. She said I should just fix it. Assuming there must be something available to fix the fake factor, I hit the Internet and came up empty handed. The next day I decided to create a way to give the bottom area a face lift. Glad I went to art school.
Santas: What happened next? How did you take your idea and turn it into a real product?
Ryan: I soon found myself measuring hundreds of Christmas trees on display in stores, making sketches and creating hand made prototypes with all sorts of materials from home improvement stores. After plenty of experimenting, I started the patenting process and began to source manufacturers to help me fine tune what I started.
Santas: What kind of feedback have you gotten from family and friends?
Ryan: Friends and family all love the idea and were extremely helpful and supportive when I put together a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to help raise funds to assist in making this passion product a mass produced reality.
Santas: Tell us about your own Christmases. Any favorite memories or traditions?
Ryan: Actually, as a child I took our family Christmas tree very seriously. I wanted it to look perfect each year so that Santa would be impressed. I don't know how many kids do this, but I would actually sneak downstairs and sleep under the tree the first few nights. I was always so proud of it.
Santas: What is it about the Christmas Tree Santas that inspired you to donate some of your proceeds to our organization?
Ryan: I was always ecstatic to decorate the Christmas tree each year growing up, and there is definitely some serious holiday magic in the air after that tree goes up. Now that I have my own kids, I see that same magic in their eyes each year. I can't imagine them missing out on that, and love how your charity brings that magic into homes that need it.
Santas: Thanks! We're grateful to work with you. Tell us where can people buy a Christmas Tree Hugger.
Ryan: Our website has all the details about the Huggers and links out to our Etsy shop.


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A Point of View: Why the rich look down on the poor
In the ancient world, the rich held themselves to very different standards from the poor. Not much has changed, argues classical historian Mary Beard.
Low life in ancient Rome could be very low indeed.
There were gangs of ne'er-do-wells and down-and-outs who spent all night in cheap bars, drowning their sorrows. Apart from talk about the top chariot racers (the ancient equivalent of footballers), the only entertainment on offer was brawling and gambling.
They would sit hunched over their gaming tables, making horrible snorting sounds through their quivering nostrils.
(The Greeks and Romans seem to have been particularly sensitive to odd nasal noises. One pundit in the early 2nd Century - the aptly named Dio the Golden Mouth - gave a whole lecture to the people of the city of Tarsus, urging them to control their snorting. It must count as one of the most curious works of ancient literature to have come down to us).
Needless to say, this picture of the life of the Roman poor as one of wall-to-wall boozing and gambling does not come from the poor themselves.
I've been quoting, more or less word for word, the description of social conditions in the capital city of the Roman Empire given by a decidedly upmarket historian of the 4th Century, Ammianus Marcellinus.
To be fair to Ammianus, he had some pretty sharp things to say about the elite, too. They're the sort of people who are all over you one day and don't even recognise you the next, the sort who spend far too much money on posh dining or - to introduce a characteristically Roman touch - the sort who surround themselves with battalions of eunuch servants.
But his view of the behaviour of the underclass is the kind of fantasy that the rich have had about the poor ever since.
My guess is that Ammianus had never actually set foot in an ordinary Roman bar and had never thought about the sheer illogicality of what he was claiming - if these guys really were desperately poor, how on earth could they afford to drink all night?
As for the gambling, it's a classic case of moral double standards. The Roman elite were keen gamblers.
The emperor Claudius even wrote a book about how to win at dice, and one of the most famous phrases ever spoken by a Roman general comes straight from the gaming table: "Alea iacta est" (the die is cast), as Julius Caesar is supposed to have said as he crossed the river Rubicon in 49BC.
But as soon as the poor showed any similar fondness for games of chance, the elite got into a frightful sweat and started predicting imminent moral collapse.
It's not all that different from the double standards on view at the Lady Chatterley trial in 1960, when the prosecuting counsel famously suggested that it was the kind of book that people like himself could be trusted with, but asked if it was something one would wish one's wife or servants to read?
Ammianus, I am sure, would have said firmly no.
By and large, posh Romans didn't have much time for poor Romans, free or slave - although they were no doubt a bit scared of them too. They regularly referred to them as a "turba" (rabble) or "multitudo" (the masses).
Interestingly, given the recent fuss, plebs wasn't usually their insult of choice. It's true that they did sometimes use the word in that way.
The historian Tacitus, for example, wrote of the plebs sordida (and you don't need me to translate that). But plebs was just as often used to refer, in neutral or even complimentary terms, to the noble stock of the worthy Roman yeomanry.
It was only in English, and in the late 18th Century that the word lost its final "s" and became solely derogatory, as in "you filthy little pleb".
In fact, if I'd been advising Andrew Mitchell after his spot of bother, my line would have been an unrepentant one: "If I did use the word pleb - or better plebs - it would have been intended to flatter the officer."
But whatever slurs and nicknames were used, the misdemeanours attributed to the ancient Roman poor by their rich critics are strikingly similar to those we still hear now.
For a start, the poor were often said to be guilty of abusing the services offered to them - not by the welfare state but by rich benefactors.
Ammianus, for example, pointed in disgust to the way that the poor spent their days lurking under the awnings in the theatre, which had actually been put up so that the ordinary Roman theatre-goers could be protected from the beating sun during performances in the open air.
Here, he huffed, were people practically living under them.
Presumably it hadn't occurred to him that these must have been people with nowhere else to go for shelter. I mean, why spend your life under an awning if you've got a home to go to?
Theatre awnings aren't of course a big issue for us. But, all the same, Ammianus' moans have got quite a lot in common with modern complaints about "benefit scroungers" (and about as little hard logic).
My mother, who had lived through the foundation of the NHS, always remembered how in the late 1940s and early 50s the press was full of stories about people who were bringing the nation to its financial knees by managing to acquire not just one, but two, pairs of NHS spectacles, as well as two pairs of NHS false teeth.
As she often pointed out, what could you possibly have needed two pairs of dentures for? To have a spare, in case you lost one?
More recent obsessions have focused on those immoral wastrels who supposedly choose to have another baby in order to increase their state benefits by a couple of thousand a year.
I guess that there may be a few people who do try this - if so, they probably need a few lessons in home economics and maths rather than in morals.
But what a preposterous view of the whole reproductive process you must have, with all its uncertainties, pain, disruption, responsibilities and expense, to imagine that people are going down this route in large numbers. It's not a line I hear coming from many women.
The other way in which the comfortably-off traditionally talk of those less fortunate than themselves is, of course, to divide them into the Good Poor and the Bad Poor.
In fact, when Tacitus wrote of the plebs sordida it was explicitly to contrast them with what he called "the respectable elements among the common people".
Talking about the death of the monstrous emperor Nero, he claimed the "filthy poor", the squanderers and the racing addicts, lamented the death (for Nero had been an easy touch for entertainments and hand-outs).
Predictably enough, the "respectable elements" were those who welcomed the new regime of austerity and cost-cutting under the in-coming emperor Galba.
That division is still with us. The 19th Century notoriously had its "deserving" and "undeserving poor". Our own equivalent of the "deserving poor" is "hard-working families".
Politicians of all parties are forever parroting this pious phrase on television or radio. It's almost as if they've been told to never say the simple word "families" without its knee-jerk accompanying adjective.
Maybe I'm peculiarly counter-suggestible. But whenever I hear them at it, I feel a great well of support coming over me for the feckless and lazy, or - for heaven's sake - for the singletons who don't have families. Are you any less worthy of our political time and care just because you haven't got kids?
But there are more serious points at issue here.
For a start, it doesn't take much political calculation to see that if you treat some people as undeserving, they will quickly become so. There's no surer way to turn a child into a problem then to relegate him or her to the "naughty step".
But - OK, at the risk of sounding a bit pious myself - there's also a niggling question of human progress. It would be nice to think that we had actually "come on a bit" since the time of Ammianus more than 1,500 years ago.
In some respects, of course, we have - let's count ourselves lucky that the rich today don't surround themselves with battalions of castrated servants.
But wouldn't it also be a sign of the advance of civilisation if we treated everyone as worth caring for, whether deserving or hard working or not.
It would be nice to think, in other words, that we could make it a priority to look after the anti-social, the overweight, the smokers, the plebs sordida and the snorter too.
I'm afraid we don't do that yet. "Honk honk!" as the snorter would say.
Source: bbc.co.uk
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The jacket, released as part of West's new clothing collection which coincides with the launch of his latest album The Life of Pablo, is retailing for $400. It features the track listings from West's album.
In February, West was seen wearing a similar denim jacket at New York Fashion Week which was customised by Goldberg's subject Tweaky Dave.
In Goldberg's 1995 photography book Raised by Wolves homeless Tweaky Dave could be seen wearing the jacket.
In an interview with i-D magazine, Goldberg said: "For the jacket to become sold as fashion—it really put me over the edge."
"The spirit and intention of Kanye could be right, but the manner in which he is presenting it is wrong. All meaning has been lost. [Kanye's] forgetting history—not acknowledging where that design came from is wrong."
''Ultimately all I would want from them is acknowledgement of Dave, and maybe they give something to homeless kids."
''I don't know how to achieve that, but that's what I would want to achieve."
Tweaky Dave's tragic story began when he left home at the age of just nine. He lived on the streets of L.A. where he worked as a child prostitute, before becoming addicted to heroin and eventually passing away from liver disease.
Goldberg is now reportedly considering taking legal action against Mr West, as he believes that West should acknowledge Dave's creative input.