Since1998, IDS has provided drilling reporting and geological reporting services to Premier Oil on all its offshore and onshore wells in locations across the world. Working with Premier was pivotal to IDS's move to the web when, as an in-house project, Premier implemented a basic HTML front end to the locally delivered IDS reporting database. Today, these basic drilling reporting services have been complemented with geological, cost and safety reporting while new automation and analytics services promise to help Premier Oil achieve its goals of cost reduction and maximizing the use of data in their upcoming Indonesian, North Sea and Falklands drilling campaigns.
"IDS's goals are to help oil companies transition to the digital oilfield, provide ANOVA-as-a-Service to enable true knowledge sharing, deliver best practices, and grow the customer base," says Chief Technology Officer Reuben Wee. "The major challenge is data quality. It's a concern because every client has their own best practice codes, data format, and data structure, and we needed to make sure we could correlate various best practices and align them for benchmarking. "We also have to look at the secondary data channels proposed by our clients. In data analysis, if there is any doubt at all as to the accuracy or integrity of the data, it is just not usable. If we weren't able to resolve these data quality issues, the benchmark reduces in value.
"Our technology initiative was to find a tool that would help us tell the data story, the facts of their data, but told in their functional design or industrial language. These narratives allow clients to quickly learn and inject those lessons back into their workflow.
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Independent Data Services uses "lean automated reporting" powered by WITSML™ data to improve the speed and accuracy of reports and free up 1–2 hours per day for the costliest people on a rig.
Drilling systems automation. Well manufacturing. Rig automation. These are all terms that describe the industry's efforts to use computer technology to automate tasks and activities for improved performance and safety, and reduced costs in drilling operations. While most of the industry is focusing on the crucial first step — automating the physical actions—one company is focused on another key aspect: automating the related reporting, which is also an important part of drilling operations. The daily drilling report (DDR) provides vital information about the last 24 hours of drilling activities, which includes information about the operations performed, progress made, materials used, problems encountered, and more. The DDR is required by operators, partners, and regulators to track progress, performance, safety, and costs. Data from the DDR is also used to optimise the current operation and as offset data to optimise future operations. If the data accuracy is poor, the analysis based on this data will also be poor. The only option is for engineers to spend valuable time on quality control (QC), verifying and correcting data. A typical offshore DDR has grown from 1–2 pages to between 4 and 6 pages, with the activities section (the detailed listing by depth of work and tasks performed, which delivers the operational narrative) often taking about 20–25% of the report "real estate" and more than 50% of the data entry effort. This increased content volume reflects operators' increased expectation for more detailed and more accurate data. Sensors, wired pipe, and other digital oilfield technologies now automatically capture much of the required data. However, much of the required report data is still entered manually—and typically by the company man or the rig manager, some of the highest paid people on the rig. While hand-written logs were long ago replaced by computerised data entry, even with the most sophisticated systems, completing the DDR can still take as much as 1 to 3 hours each day and this by highly paid personnel, who have many other responsibilities. However dedicated these technical professionals may be, they are still human, which means reports are subject to inconsistencies and errors. These errors can be further compounded if the data is used for future optimisation.
After a lengthy investigation into embeddable reporting, visualisation, and data interrogation technologies, we selected TIBCO Jaspersoft. Harnessing the multi-tenancy and embeddability of Jaspersoft, we could very quickly deliver pixel-perfect reports and dashboards to our end users. Additionally, by using JasperReports, we reduced the report generation time from an average of 83 seconds in our legacy system to 8 seconds. We are now in the process of recreating more than 1,000 reports in Jaspersoft Studio, thus not only providing our clients with faster information but also with reports that look aesthetically pleasing. To date, we have discovered that it takes a similar amount of time to create reports and dashboards (in comparison to our legacy system), however, we are continually optimising this process and the team is learning new things every day.
Furthering the use of Jaspersoft Studio, we have created many Custom Visualisation Components (CVC) that are commonly used within oil and gas. Wellbore schematics, safety pyramids, histograms, and parallel coordinates have been developed by our team and released through JasperReports Server whereby our customers can run our custom-built visualisations on their data.
Over the past three years, the oil and gas industry has seen the biggest downturn to date with more than 440,000 jobs lost worldwide at the end of 2016. As the industry begins to adapt to the 'lower for longer' mentality, many oil companies are looking at digital technology for answers. With fewer people to perform day-to-day tasks, operators are looking to automate manual work by using technology efficiently (typically moving from MS Excel to Web-Delivered Data management). To that end, Jaspersoft applications have become invaluable in our capability suite, allowing us agility in content creation, data manipulation, and speed of deployment.
IDS is proud to announce the appointment of Faazmiar Technology Sdn Bhd (Faazmiar) as its exclusive representative for the Malaysian market for its range of reporting and analytic products and services.
IDS Director, Douwe Franssens, firmly believes that this is a good time for IDS to expand its range of services in the Malaysian market; "There are many opportunities today in the Malaysian market, especially for operational reporting capabilities and associated analytics as operators and service providers strive to enhance performance and optimise operations".
IDS is proud to announce the appointment of PT Geoservices as its exclusive representative for the Indonesian market for its range of reporting and analytic products and services.
IDS Director, Douwe Franssens, firmly believes that this is a good time for IDS to explore and develop the Indonesian market; "As resources become more scarce, the need for performance related operational reporting capabilities and associated analytics will enable operators, service companies and rig contractors to compete in the local and international markets where continuous performance is essential".
PT Geoservices Director, Peter Pramana, mentioned IDS, with its Anova Analytics, is the best application for our Indonesia clients so they can analyse their data and make better decisions for their next drilling program. Also with this downturn, drilling performance and efficiency are of primary importance, more and more, operators are turning to the IDS solution to help them achieve these objectives.
IDS are proud to announce that it has signed a cooperation agreement with Kongsberg Digital (KDI). This new partnership will bring together the KDI and IDS drilling and well construction solutions that are currently being offered to existing and new clients, with combined measured, processed, manual and metadata delivered in a cohesive and valuable manner.
Many organisations struggle with extracting the information stored within unstructured data sets like Word, PDF, Log files and images. IDS took up the challenge set out by CDA to find value in unstructured data collected from 11,000 wells over the last 50 years. This data consisted of documents in a multitude of formats; from scanned typewritten documents, TIFF images and non-digitised logs.
From the outset, the IDS project team agreed that all of these document types should be searchable and utilise a web-based interface. The solution was built on top of the incredibly powerful Elastic Stack, meaning the data was searchable once ingested into the search engine, Elasticsearch.
IDS presented the outcome of the project at a conference hosted by CDA. The end product is delivered in a portal whereby a user can enter an industry known term with the results being returned in a graphical interface. For example – a search for "stuck pipe" would search all documents for this keyword then display the related wells via a split screen with a map beside the related well header data.
Due to the success of the CDA challenge, IDS have incorporated the technologies and learnings in the improved Lessons Learned solution which now allows all lessons entered at any regional location to be searchable at a global level.
Following the successful introduction of the IDS upstream reporting and analysis services to the Colorado School of Mines in 2015, IDS technical consultant Akshay Makhare, leads the inaugural IDS's 'DrillNet' reporting services and 'Anova Analytics' training course for final year students at MIT (Maharashtra Institute of Technology), faculty of Petroleum Engineering, Pune., India.
IDS strongly believes in the next generation of drilling engineers and this is reflected in our strategy of long-term investment in their future by making available world-leading data capture, management and analysis software right at the interface between academia and the Upstream. With large numbers of experienced personnel leaving the industry (and taking their knowledge with them) and at a time when there is a mandate to replace oil imports with nationally exploited reserves, IDS's upstream data-driven analytics will be the principal knowledge resource for these students as they enter the workforce. By providing and supporting our products at no charge to leading academic institutions, IDS confirms its commitment to nurturing the necessary knowledge management culture at the grass roots level.
IDS is proud to announce the appointment of SK Oilfield Equipment Co Pvt Ltd as its exclusive representatives for the Indian market for all of its products and services.
IDS Director, Douwe Franssens, firmly believes that this is a good time for IDS to explore and develop the Indian market; "There are many opportunities today in India's growing market, especially for operational reporting capabilities and associated analytics as Indian Operators, Service Companies and Rig Contractors are looking to international markets where continuous performance is essential".
SK Oilfield's Managing Director, Manav Kanwar commented "It is encouraging to see that drilling activity in India has not dropped in 2015; in fact, ONGC is about to award long-term contracts for 15 offshore drilling units. A lot of work needs to be done in India to move away from legacy reporting systems to WITSML standard web based systems which allow for instant decisions to be made based on user-friendly dashboards."
IDS is proud to announce that GeoMark Ltd has been appointed its exclusive agent for the Egyptian market representing all products and services developed by IDS.
IDS Director, Douwe Franssens, believes this a good time for IDS to explore and develop the Egyptian market; "There are many opportunities in today's market especially for operational reporting capabilities and associated analytics as Egyptian Operators, Service Companies and Rig Contractors are looking to international markets where continuous performance is essential."
GeoMark's Business Development Manager Ahmed Shereba, is confident that the Oil & Gas market in Egypt will benefit from IDS' "Knowledge Management" solutions and believes users will switch to IDS' "web operational reporting solutions" and find it an essential part of their operations.
IDS is proud to announce the release of their enhanced User Interface (UI) for the DataNet2 framework, celebrating 20 years of cutting edge operational reporting in which 3 technologies have been used. The release of DataNet2.5 UI sits solidly upon D2 core yet uses the latest HTML standards. The release will power all our traditional capabilities on any device, computer, tablet or phone without the need to install any applications or Apps. It makes accessing and entering data as well as generating and viewing reports from any of the IDS solutions easier than ever before.
IDS CTO, Reuben Wee; In 2007, when we built D2, the presentation layer was using HTML. In our attempt to build a rich user interface, we found that adopting Flex/Flash was the quickest way to achieve a rich user experience in presenting the data entry forms.
• Compatibility - With D2.5, we can now enjoy the benefit of building solutions for mobile devices and traditional browsers without the need for Apps. This is truly a zero-installation solution.
• The end of the Adobe Flash Player - It's widespread use meant that it was also a rich target for security threats. One of the key motivations to start work on the design for the HTML rendering engine.
• Rich Experience - HTML in 2015 is not the same as HTML in 2007. This allows for a more robust and reproducible experience across different browsers.
IDS, a global provider of customised software solutions for the upstream oil and gas industry, has successfully delivered the next generation of reporting capabilities to Noble Corporation's entire global fleet. With a 'Go-Live' date of March 1, 2013, IDS successfully delivered to Noble Corporation a rig-centric service called TourNet Pro. This web-based application was specifically designed to meet the operational reporting needs of the global drilling contractor.
Noble Corporation sought out to find an innovative and efficient alternative to their reporting system in order to streamline operations and gain valuable commercial intelligence. Until now, the mandatory IADC report and the required operational reports had been handled in separate processes, meaning the data was not easily used for monitoring KPIs and other crucial deliverables. Noble chose IDS, through an extensive definition and selection process where TourNet Pro came out the front- runner as a web-based system that would centralise the data and allow it to be easily mined for operational knowledge.
IDS developed TourNet Pro to provide Noble with a rig-tailored application that allows captured data to be used continuously while ensuring that data only needs to be entered once. This continuity enhances operations and IADC reporting as well as ensures that the drilling contractor can obtain up-to-date and, where required, up- to-the-minute information pertaining to their fleet. The results can be presented at the touch of a button via on-demand dashboards, as well as exported to any traditional business document format.
Building on the innovative portfolio of operational reporting services, IDS would like to introduce the latest addition to the DataNet2 suite. TourNet Pro is the advanced reporting and analytics system providing the unique ability for the drilling contractor to track and analyse their operational performance.
In order to continue to offer the very highest standards of software innovation and user support, IDS today announces its move to new facilities. The Great Eastern tower at the Travilion, Kuching City, Malaysia, is now the new state-of-the-art home for IDS, the largest provider of web-based reporting and analysis services to the upstream oil and gas industry.
IDS is showcasing its TourNet2 application at the 2012 IADC/SPE Drilling Conference and Exhibition. The application is available as a web-based tool which will allow Rig Contractors, for the first time, to learn from their data, rather than merely recording it.
Leading provider of web-based drilling reporting and analysis tools, IDS, is introducing the latest version of its analysis package at the 2012 IADC/SPE Drilling Conference and Exhibition. VisNet2.0 quickly and efficiently provides comprehensive drilling data in dynamic dashboards that can be quickly customised to suit the specific needs of the operator.
Malaysia - A crucial collaboration is announced today between the Malaysian Software Testing Board (MSTB), Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), Independent Data Services (IDS) and Swinburne University of Technology, Sarawak. A memorandum of understanding has been signed by these four influential organisations, establishing the Sarawak Chapter of the Malaysian Software Testing Hub (MSTH).


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Q: Correct integration formula I'm the author of application for android called Calculator++
One of the users submitted a bug in the integration of trigonometric functions. And I'm absolutely disagree with him.
In my app I use approach to calculate trigonometric functions differently in different modes (I mean DEG/RAD modes), e.g.:

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*in rad mode you can type $\sin(\pi/ 3)$ and get result $0.866$

*in deg mode you type $\sin(60°) (≡ sin(60))$ and get the same result

So, strictly speaking in different modes I've got different sin functions - in deg it is a function of degree argument and in rad mode - function of radian argument.
Calculator++ allows to get the integral of sin function and in both modes: $\int\sin(x)dx = - \cos(x)$
And here is the misunderstanding: user says that correct integration formula is:

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*RAD: $\int\sin(x)dx = - \cos(x)$

*DEG: $\int\sin(x)dx = - \pi / 180 \times \cos(x)$ (user assumes that variable modification is needed for correct integration)

I want to ask who is correct in this argument - me or user?

A: I don't think there's right or wrong there; it depends on how you describe what the trigonometric functions and the integration are supposed to do. Oddly, I would a priori tend towards your viewpoint, but based on your statement "strictly speaking in different modes I've got different sin functions" and on your equation "sin(60°) (≡ sin(60))", I'd say the user has a point: If you really do consider these as different functions, then clearly these different functions have different derivatives and anti-derivatives. (Speaking of anti-derivatives, both of your options are wrong since they're missing the integration constant.)
However, it seems to me that the most natural view isn't that these are two different functions (one of which never appears anywhere in mathematics), but that the same function is being applied to the same argument, just expressed in different units. Thus, I wouldn't drop the $^\circ$ symbol, but would consistently use it to denote an angle unit of $\pi/180$. Then the DEG mode would correspond to always implicitly adding a degree symbol to the current number before applying a trigonometric function. Then you have just one function, and the integral of that function is of course the one you give in your first option (plus a constant).

A: The user is right in one respect: the approach you chose is inherently inconsistent. However, this inconsistency is a lesser evil and doubling the function definitions and the corresponding differentiation and integration rules would be a greater evil.
The usual convention in pure mathematics is that there is only one $\sin$ function and the degree ${}^\circ$ is just an abbreviation for "times $\frac{\pi}{180}$". So, you can input the argument in degrees and get output in degrees if you desire so but that's it. All processing is done in radians. From this point of view, Fabian's objection gets resolved pretty easily: the base is not $90$, but $90^\circ$, which is the same old $\pi/2$ though, of course, the integral has to be set up and displayed as $\int_0^{90^\circ}$, not merely as $\int_0^{90}$. Also writing $\sin 90=1$ is a bad mistake but writing $\sin 90^\circ=1$ is totally fine.
If you try to do calculus differently in different modes, everything will become so confusing that the only thing your calculator will be good for will be "making a satisfactory thump when dropped to the floor". Half of the student's computational mistakes when using calculators in the low-level trigonometry classes already come from forgetting which mode they are in (and no, that tiny squiggly indicator in the corner of the screen or whatever else you have in your application now doesn't help much) and nothing good will happen if you spread this dual interpretation elsewhere. I would really hate to lecture that "the series $\sum_{k=1}^\infty\frac{\cos 2\pi k}{k}$ diverges in the radian mode but converges in the degree mode" when teaching elementary analysis. I'd rather say "Those calculator designers went completely nuts, so bringing any kind of calculator to my class will cost you ten points deducted from your grade for each offense" instead.
A really good thing to do would be to dispose of that special degree mode altogether and have that ${}^\circ$ sign displayed after every number entered in degrees and force the user to push the corresponding ${}^\circ$ button at the process of entering each argument if he wants to work in degrees for angular computations. Unfortunately, that degree mode is very popular on the market, so that may be not an option.
Finally, if the user is so clever that he understands the inconsistency of the degree mode, he should be clever enough to be able to do everything in the radian mode without ever using the degree one, so I see no real reason for him to be unhappy.

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We came across all these conkers by accident the other day when walking back to the car after a Dr's appointment. We saw a few laying on all the leaves and when we looked a little closer we realised there were loads of them and filled all our pockets, carrying as many as we could back with us. It still brings back the excitement of finding conkers as a kid - like finding a little shiny gem amongst the leaves! I guess no one else had thought to look for them there. We weren't nearly as successful on our conker search at the park last week!
I quite like them simply sitting in this heart shaped bowl at home - plus they are keeping the spiders at bay. Or is that just an old wives tale?!
Lovely! My boys would be delighted to get their hands on those! My spider-phobic Granny swore by conkers, I don't know if it really works, though.
I really must go and collect some conkers - but just recently, whenever I've had any spare time, it has been pouring with rain!
Beautiful! I love the simplicity of your photos.
Great Auntie Jean told me about conkers warding off spiders so it MUST be true! Need to get a load into this house I tell you! What a lovely simple photo. There's nothing more lovely than the rich colour and glossy shine of a perfect conker.
They look so beautiful displayed in the bowl that way.
They look delightful displayed in that bowl. I think I need to test the spider thing ... we seem to be over run with the blighters.
I was sorry to miss Nature in the Home this week ... I really enjoy participating and must try harder.


In Dutch oven, brown pork loin roast in bacon drippings; set aside. In remaining drippings, cook onion and carrot till In remaining drippings, cook onion and carrot till tender but not brown.... About recipes search engine. Our website searches for recipes from food blogs, this time we are presenting the result of searching for the phrase pork roast recipe cast iron dutch oven.
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This was another easy fix: Orienting the pork fat (or skin) side up and taking the lid off of the Dutch oven for the last hour of cooking allowed the exposed surface of the pork to brown and crisp into a dark bark.


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Self Announces Partnership with Steady
AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 29, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Self, a leading fintech startup offering people a way to build their credit while also saving money, today announced its partnership with Steady, the income optimization platform created for America's rapidly growing independent workforce.
Self is one of the first partners now featured in Steady's new benefits marketplace within the app, where its more than 400,000 members can discover products and services that help address their financial pain points.
This venture showcases Self's commitment to laying the foundation for people's financial journeys through its unique technology, strong team and key partnerships. Steady provides ample opportunities for people to earn extra income and contribute towards their Self Credit Builder Account (loan that is secured by a certificate of deposit).
"Steady is known for its ability to minimize the ebb and flow of income for freelancers and gig economy workers across the nation, and its tool makes for an excellent companion to our efforts," said James Garvey, CEO of Self. "This partnership takes us another step further in reaching our goal of helping the millions of Americans achieve financial stability and peace of mind."
The teaming of the two companies comes as a massive shift in the way people work and save is unfolding. A recent report from Intuit and LinkedIn found the percentage of Americans in the gig economy is expected to grow to 43% by 2020. Companies like Self and Steady are joining to expand opportunities and protect the financial future of today's workers.
"We know our members have a desire to improve their overall financial well-being, and this partnership directly aligns with our mission of bolstering their financial standing," said Adam Roseman, CEO of Steady. "Self helps our members not only build their credit score but also establish important savings habits."
Self is a leading fintech startup offering people a way to build their credit without the use of credit cards while also saving money. The company has helped over 175,000 people improve their financial journey with a credit-builder account, a simple way to build credit and save money at the same time. For more information, visit Self.
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Steady aims to solve the most critical pain points facing the tens of millions of Americans working part-time jobs and participating in the independent labor force. With a focus on near- and long- term income optimization, Steady aggregates a slate of personalized work opportunities – that match an individual user's skills and interests – in real time. Steady guides users to the best paying jobs, allowing individuals to maximize earnings, increase utilization and plan for life with steady and predictable income.
Through exclusive, performance-based rewards and personalized guidance, Steady successfully increases an individual's earning potential while streamlining their work life. For more information, visit the Steady website.
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The first row of icons in the Tools panel (below the larger 3 icons) contains the drawing tools: the brush, the rectangle, the oval/circle and the fill tools. The second row contains several tools for working with selections. They're called the Alpha tools because the selection is stored in what's called the alpha channel.
The left-most alpha tool is the Lasso tool. You can use it plain and by itself, or with the SHift key as a modifier. If you use Shift with left mouse button to lasso, the new region in the lasso is added to the current selection. If you use shift with the right button it lets you subtract a selection from the current selection, to make holes for example.
Using the Lasso tool, 'draw' the desired selection as a region around the top sky area. You can start the selection 'outside' of the actual image if you either zoom out or resized the window to reveal the grey area around it.
Note that the first selection pass is a large and not very precise region. No worries, we can fine tune it if necessary.
For example, in the area shown below, the selection (marching ants line) is way above the intended separation from white mountains and dark skies.
You can draw another selection to capture the missing pieces, making sure that you use the SHIFT key while drawing the region with the left mouse button. This will 'add' the new region to the current selection.
You can use the zoom tool in the tool panel (4th row of tools in the Tools panel - nested boxes). Or you can use SHIFT-Control and left or right mouse drag topan and zoom without moving away from the work. This is faster and avoids the travel to and from the interface: use both hands: left hand on Control-Shift and right hand on the mouse to Pan and Zoom through the image details.
Here's a snapshot of the new region being defined. You notice that the prior marching ants are still showing while we're drawing the new outline which we want to add. SHIFT key is pressed down all the time during this.
If you accidentally clear the prior selection, use Ctrl-Z or 'u' to undo and return to the good selections.
Of course, just like storing the image buffer's RGB channel from menu:Image>Store..., it would be very smart to occasionally store a snapshot of the selection found in the alpha channel.
Here's an example of the stored selection. You can invert it, paint on it, smudge it and put it back into the active alpha channel (Replace) or add or subtract it from that.
You can also grab (Get) the current alpha to show as stored here, or get the image buffer and convert it straight into this greyscale rendition for future possible use as alpha. This is a very powerful tool.
The reason for all this is that we want to have easy access to this and a few other masks. By having them selected in alpha and stored in their own snapshots we can simply click 'Replace' on the one we want at any given time.
It's time to add more. The background (sky region) is still selected, let's add the middleground: hills and trees, but not the house.
Under theside roof and between the pilars there are some small areas that we should also add to the new selection.
Zoom in and define the additional regions to be selected.


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USA axes treaty behind Iranian aviation safety ruling
US government officials are terminating a 1955 treaty with Iran which had formed the basis of a bid by Iranian officials to lift US sanctions on the country.
Secretary of state Mike Pompeo disclosed the decision following the ruling by the International Court of Justice that the US government should lift sanctions preventing the export of equipment and services for maintaining civil aviation safety, as well as medicines.
Pompeo says the decision to end the treaty is "overdue" by 39 years, a reference to the 1979 Iranian revolution.
He describes the International Court of Justice case as "meritless" and that the Iranian government has been using the court for "political and propaganda purposes".
Pompeo points out that individual licensing options are already in place to handle potential humanitarian issues.
"Existing exceptions, authorisations, and licensing policies for humanitarian-related transactions and safety of flight will remain in effect," he stresses.
"We're working closely with the Department of the Treasury to ensure that certain humanitarian-related transactions involving Iran can and will continue."
Pompeo says Iran has "hypocritically" and "groundlessly" taken advantage of the court to attack the USA and, in response, the 1955 treaty – known as the Treaty of Amity – is being "terminated".
The government is also to review all international treaties which might leave the USA exposed to similar dispute resolutions in the International Court of Justice.
National security advisor John Bolton stresses that the US government's dispute has "never been with the people of Iran", adding: "We only wish they had the ability to control their own government."
He says: "Our policy is not regime change, but we do expect substantial change in their behaviour."
Sanctions on civil aviation were restored after the US government pulled out of a multinational agreement, negotiated alongside European partners, to address Iran's nuclear programme.
While the European states have remained engaged to the agreement, Bolton believes this situation is changing.
"First you have denial, then you have anger," he says. "Eventually, you get to acceptance. And I think that's the direction the Europeans are moving in."
F-35 sensors help ground interceptors engage "air-breathing" targets
The Lockheed Martin F-35 has demonstrated has demonstrated a capability to downlink targeting data about multiple "air-breathing threats" to ground forces. The work took place at White Sands Missile Range in December 2019, according to Lockheed Martin. A pair of US Air Force F-35s were integrated with the US ...
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United Airlines's non-fuel unit costs (CASM ex-fuel) increased by 2.7% year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2019, while full-year non-fuel costs rose by 1% compared to 2018. In the third quarter of 2019 United's non-fuel unit costs increased by 2.1% in the third quarter compared with the same period ...


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1. [Bookplate for Green Hat Lending Library] Text explaining borrowing terms printed in black ink.
2. [Bookplate by Eiichi Hirose] A ragged edge of a central image is covered in a grey coloured wash. The central image is of a woman in a traditional flowered kimono dancing, done from a woodcut. The woman is facing to the left and her right hand, in the lower left of the picture, holds a hat.
3. [Bookplate by Eiichi Hirose] An image of a Japanese woman with a kimono and obi with a circular bowl shaped hat on her head.
4. [Bookplate for University of British Columbia] Picture of letter A (perhaps taken from a children's alphabet book) with a boy behind the letter on the dexter side. The boy is wearing overalls and a hat and is standing on a patch of grass.
5. [Bookplate for University of British Columbia] A set of pictures cut out in the image of a banjo with people playing banjos and singing. The images are in colour and one image of an older man with a pink shirt, suspenders, and a hat sits to the right of the Banjo.
6. [Bookplate for Michael B. Kunze] Black ink on white paper. Arms at centre of plate. Shield supported by lions. Shield shows a man holding a rosary and two sticks on a yellow (or) field. Three helmets rest on a crown above shield. There are three crests. The first is an eagle displayed, the second is the man in the shield and the third is a hat. Writing appears at the bottom of the plate.
7. [Bookplate for G Wirthrich] In black ink. Decorated escutcheon is parted per fess. Top, gules (red), a man cut off at the hips, bearded, with a downturned arrow in his right hand, a club in his left, a rapier in his mouth, and wearing a rounded hat. Bottom, azure (blue), a battle-axe and a club crossed. Supporters, two gryphons combatant with arrowed tongues standing on stairs. Above the escutcheon is a ducal coronet.
8. [Bookplate for Max Hermann] Printed in black ink on cream paper. The image shows an older man sitting, facing left. The man has long hair and wears a pillbox hat and a robe. He sits in a carved wooden chair, hunched over a large book that rests on a lectern and turns the pages with his left hand. His head is shown in profile, framed by a circular sun with lines radiating out in all directions.
9. [Bookplate for William Greening and Cornelia Greening by A. N. Macdonald] Black ink on cream paper. Elaborately decorated frame surrounds three round images, two small ones atop a larger, oval one. The border has a shelf-like appearance with the top featuring a series of curling, heart-shaped decorations with a large, spiraling curlicue extending to the left and right. The very centre of the top element features a leaf-like decoration pointing upwards. The top half of the sides of the border features symmetrical leafy curlicue decorations that extend downwards with a pseudo-fleurs-de-lis to a line of elaborate floral decorations. The large oval image extends to the sides of the borders and below the oval are decorations on both the left and right sides. The left side features a tennis racket entwined in leafy decoration. The right side contains golf clubs in the same leafy decoration. Leafy decoration also surround the two small images inside the border, which are connected by two wrapping ribbons in the centre. The image on the left features an explorer holding a walking stick and wearing a hat looking out onto a nature landscape. The landscape includes water and a mountain topped with clouds. The image on the right contains a road curving to the right. The right side of the road features foliage, including several palm trees. The large, central image shows a house with some of its garden in the foreground. The forefront of the image is a simple lawn, followed by several small trees on the left with plants in barrels, a table, and several chairs on the right. Between the trees and chairs is a path leading further into the garden and towards the house. The house is quite large and has at least two stories and a sheltered porch. Towards the other end of the house and garden are taller trees. Below the images is a rectangular box with a border. The border consists of two thin white lines with a darker centre between them. The centre of the rectangle contains text written in capitalized serif font in varying sizes. Below the rectangle, the artist's name and date of creation is written in small, sentence-case serif font. Handwritten note in pencil on the back.
10. [Bookplate for G. L'Heureux] Printed in black ink on off-white paper with an adhesive backing. The image depicts a stylized scene of a laborer in a field. The figure stands with his face in profile and in shadow with the shoulders and torso turned toward the viewer. He wears a plaid shirt and a rounded black hat with a flat brim. In his left hand the figure holds the handle of a long scythe, which rests on his left shoulder with the blade extending behind. In his right hand he carries a bushel of wheat. The foreground contains stylized stalks of wheat while the background depicts rolling hills and rounded clouds. In the middle ground there are more fields with a house positioned to the right of the figure.
11. [Bookplate for G. L'Heureux] Printed in black ink on orange-yellow paper with an adhesive backing. The image depicts a stylized scene of a laborer in a field. The figure stands with his face in profile and in shadow with the shoulders and torso turned toward the viewer. He wears a plaid shirt and a rounded black hat with a flat brim. In his left hand the figure holds the handle of a long scythe, which rests on his left shoulder with the blade extending behind. In his right hand he carries a bushel of wheat. The foreground contains stylized stalks of wheat while the background depicts rolling hills and rounded clouds. In the middle ground there are more fields with a house positioned to the right of the figure.
12. [Bookplate for L. Emile Grothé by Aimé Dufesne] Black ink on white paper. Border has white outlines, shaded for a three-dimensional effect and is filled in with thin black lines. The top and bottom sides of the border indent in the middle with squared corners. The left and right sides of the border indent in the middle with rounded corners. The top half of the bookplate has diagonal black lines extending wider from the centre. The top left corner features a person wearing a feathered headdress and a sash holding arrows in their left hand and a bow in their right hand. They are standing on a decorative ledge connected to the border and sitting atop of an elaborate curlicue. The right corner has the same curlicue and ledge and a person in a long coat and striped hat holding a pouch stands atop it. Between the two figures is an open book. The bottom of the top half of the bookplate contains half a round map of the world surrounded by a thick border of the same style as the overall bookplate border. The owner's motto is written across the map's border in thin, capitalized, sans-serif font. A rectangular border of the same design sits in the centre of the bookplate. The top of the border features large, captitalized, serif block font. The font is white with a black background and white stripes surrounding that background. On either side of that text are half circle decorations in a vertical stack between two thin white borders. The centre of the rectangle within the borders has a grey background with capitalized, sans-serif block font printed on top. The font is black with a white outline and dark shading. Two shields hang below the rectangle on the left and right side. The shield on the left is argent with sable dots per fess. The top third of the crest is charged with two fleurs-des-lis. The central portion of the crest, featuring sable and argent stripes. is charged with a lion passant guardant. The bottom third of the crest is charged with three maple leaves with connected stems. The shield on the right is per pale consisting of sable and argent stripes and argent with sable dots. The left side is charged with two lions passant that are argent with sable dots. The right side is charged with a lion sejant erect and eight hearts, each of which are sable and argent striped. Between the two crests, hanging from the central rectangular feature, is a checkered black rectangle with white borders on the left, right, and bottom sides. White curlicues extend from the left and right sides. Similar curlicues, leafy decoration, and black strip adorned with small circles extend from the bottom of the rectangle. The background of the bottom half of the bookplate not covered with other decorative features has the same black stripes as the top half. In the bottom left and right corners of the bookplate are four books each, spines facing out. Next to the books on the left is a black inkwell with two feather quills in it. Next to the inkwell is a beehive on a wooden platform surrounded by five bees. On the right of the beehive is an oil lamp with a bright flame burning. Outside the bottom border, inside the indent, the bookplate creator's name and date of creation is printed in thin, black, sentence-case, serif font.
13. [Bookplate for Library of Diocesan Theological College] Black ink on white paper. There is italicized black text with a dotted line at the top of the bookplate. There is an almond shaped design with double lined black borders. The border contains capitalized black sans serif font. In the center are two shields. A white shield with an anchor partially covers a black shield. A bishop's hat sits atop the shield. A motto is printed in the banner. Below more italicized text is printed with a dotted line. There are several lines of stylized black gothic fond, one line of sans serif capitalized black font, and then one final line of italicized text with a dotted line.


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English language, Misc humour
The English Pedant – What did you call me?
The most popular name for girl babies in Trinidad and Tobago is, apparently, Cherelle. That's a sort of Frenchified version of the British name Cheryl, which was itself an anglicised version of the French Cherie. Confused? It gets worse.
I recently came across an American actress called Aunjanue Ellis, and it took a few seconds of brain contortions to work out that this was a misspelling (or the parents might call it an alternative spelling) of the French word Ingenue, meaning an innocent or naive girl.
Like those tattoos in Arabic that no one else knows the meaning of, there is an air of mystery about this lady's name, even though I bet she's sick to death of having to spell it for people.
The giving of wacky names is one of the irresponsible (as opposed to dangerous) abuses of parental power. Any parent knows that thinking of a good name for a baby is often very difficult: you can think of a thousand you don't want, but not a single one that you really like.
Perhaps that is why, after a few beers, people think it would be acceptable, or even a good idea, to call the poor unborn mite something ridiculous.
Clearly in California, where Aunjanue was born (and it also seems to be the case in the Caribbean) you can name a baby what you like. In other parts of the world, though, the registrars would have put their foot down.
For instance, there's a British TV miniseries called Doctor Foster (which is brilliant, by the way; only about six episodes but well worth a look), the star of which is Suranne Jones. She's not Suranne on her birth certificate, though, because the registrar was of the opinion that it wasn't a real name, so her parents were persuaded to make it officially Sarah Anne, and if they wanted to call her Suranne as soon as they left his office, that was okay with him.
Well, we all have our foibles, and this guy obviously took his job quite seriously. He'd have had a fit, though, if he'd worked in the West Indies, where making names up is not unusual. Mum has three friends called Camille, Cordelia and Esther? We'll use bits of each: we'll call the kid Camcorder.
The friends are Dilys, Sandra and Margery? Why, Disandry, of course. A name isn't going to kill you, even if the disease might. And anyway, it's not common in this part of the world and no one knows how to spell it, so where's the harm?
How different the world would be if royal families were not inherently conservative. Imagine if Prince William and Kate had exercised their right to use names they heard in St Lucia on holiday, rather traditional ones like George and Charlotte. They'd have been locked up in the Tower of London at the first mention of Prince Jayden and Princess Jordan.
You might think Bob Marley would have gone down the silly-name route, particularly as he had so many to christen – at least 15 "acknowledged" offspring, plus, we are led to believe, a number of unacknowledged ones. But no, the Marley tribe includes a Karen, a Stephanie and a Julian, while even eldest son Ziggy was actually christened David, but called himself after the David Bowie alter ego Ziggy Stardust, and everyone else went along with it.
My digital encounter with Aunjanue Ellis came at the same time as George Clooney and his wife Amal introduced their newborns, Ella and Alexander, to a quiet round of applause by traditionalists the world over.
What, no Moony Junie Clooney? No Goliath Hairy Greek-looking Smoothguy?
After all, even if the registrar objected, they're a rich and famous couple – and she's a lawyer – so they could have found a more understanding official.
But how are poor little Ella and Alex going to feel when they meet other celebrity kids such as Gwyneth Paltrow's daughter Apple, let alone North and Saint, children of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian?
You can hear the Clooney twins whining when they get home: "Moooom! How could you? I sound so boring!"
The world title holders of the parent-imposed name are the children of Live Aid organiser and professional agitator Bob Geldof and his late wife Paula Yates, who gave us Peaches, Pixie and Fifi Trixiebelle, and when Yates went off with singer Michael Hutchence, she quickly produced Heavenly Hirani Tiger Lily.
Interestingly, it didn't take David Bowie's son Zowie long to ditch that millstone, plus his Dad's self-chosen surname, and become plain old Duncan Jones.
Perhaps when this generation of hilariously-labelled children are running the world they will introduce new naming regulations whereby aggrieved youngsters are entitled, at the age of 18, to rename their parents.
Were that to happen, there could well be a split between the complimentary and the insulting. There might also be a 10-year cooling-off period to allow for age-induced understanding and mellowing, because names given in the heat of the moment could be regretted later. For every King, Hero and Legend Smith there would be a Grumpy, Tyrant and Knowall, while the mothers would be split between Angel, Bestfriend or Precious and Jailer, Prude and Thatissounfair.
July 4, 2017 July 3, 2017 Aunjanue Ellis, Doctor Foster, Kate Middleton, Prince George, Prince William, Princess Charlotte, Suranne Jones, TrinidadLeave a comment
The English Pedant – The language of deception
One of the dangers of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) is not having the time, not having the courage, or failing in some other way to correct a student's enthusiastic misunderstanding of a potentially sensitive word.
I was recently challenged by a teenage girl on the meaning of the verb to cheat. We were on the subject of school and she was telling me how a friend of hers had done much better than she had in a test because he had smuggled a crib sheet in, placed it in his lap below the desk and was referring to it throughout.
"Cheating," I said.
"No," she responded with the smirking satisfaction of having outsmarted the teacher. "That means… you cheat on your boyfriend with another boy. Like you kiss somebody else or…"
She was right in that that word has come to mean what used to be called "being unfaithful", a term too cumbersome and uncool for the TV movie generation. It reached epidemic proportions in the US and then, like the grey squirrel, was introduced to other English-speaking areas including the UK and proceeded to take over, sweeping the local population aside.
My explanation that cheating meant generally taking an unfair advantage by devious means was received unwillingly; the student's understanding of the word had been drummed into her through every dimwitted teenage vampire series and unhappy, unpleasant depiction of romantic liaisons that seeps like glucose into the systems of the young.
She couldn't offer an alternative single word for the idea of cheating at cards or at school, because there isn't one, but it was hard for her to accept that the term could exist without sexual overtones.
If you examine it in that unfaithfulness context, it doesn't really match the photofit, because the conventional idea of cheating is that the cheat is achieving success in an area where someone or several people are also trying to succeed.
But, like a lazy songwriter who rhymes happen with Clapham, common with forgotten and basement with engagement because they're close enough if not exact (all these and more in Up The Junction by Squeeze), this one word has come to be accepted as describing the act of having sex with someone other than one's partner.
Coincidentally, other words concerning deception have crept into the language in recent years, by way of internet dating sites. Before the internet existed, dating or "matrimonial" agencies would describe clients in plain English, but since the advent of doing it ourselves, those who feel their physical attributes are not what is required have become creative. Enter the word "curvaceous", to describe a woman with an undulating landscape. In the real but unkind world, she is fat, but she's not going to say that about herself, and there is no conventional adjective that sounds any less critical. Overweight? Negative. Obese? Do you want a slap?
So the choice is between calling your body shape "average" and watching the look on your date's face when he sees the truth, or using the C word: curvaceous. That or the evocative but ridiculous "volumptious", a hybrid of voluptuous and scrumptious.
The current favourite is the acronym BBW, which can mean big breasted woman, big beautiful woman or even big black woman. At least your date knows not to expect a stick insect. It's just a shame that body weight should be an issue at all, but preferences are preferences.
Meanwhile, few men would ever describe themselves as short, so the world must be full of internet dating descriptions claiming "average height".
And that, when you're only a shade over 5ft. tall, is cheating. Actually, no – it's an attempt at cheating through just plain lying.
August 31, 2016 August 30, 2016 English, Esperanto, French, German, Mandarin, SpanishLeave a comment
The English Pedant – And so to Z
iTunes might seem like a strange resource for looking at language, but it's where I went when I found myself writing about the letter Z. Not only is that the last letter of the alphabet, but it's probably the most underused.
In English that may be because we often pronounce s as z (was, because etc.) So interchangeable have they become that there is a transatlantic split. The spellchecker on Microsoft Word, being a US national, automatically changes my spelling of organisation to organization, just as it changes centre to center and so forth. Regardless of its being pronounced zee rather than zed, clearly there are more z's in the USA than in the UK, but it is much more common in Eastern Europe.
So, iTunes. Being a music buff, I have more than 2,000 songs at my disposal, but not one title starts with z. As for artistes, iTunes complicates the search by its insistence on using first names for alphabetical order, but the only two bands in my list are ZZ Top and Zero 7 (whom you've probably never heard of and I've only ever heard one track, so don't worry about it).
Thinking about second names, there's some Frank Zappa among my souvenirs, and The Zombies. You may recall In the Year 2525 by Zager and Evans, but I never liked that.
Album titles: Zuma by Neil Young. Bowie's Ziggy Stardust is in there somewhere, but not under z because the album is officially called The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
Look up any list you like and you'll find the same story. Films: Ice Station Zebra. Actors: Billy Zane.
US presidents: Zachary Taylor (1849-50). UK Prime Ministers: a couple of Fitzsomethings but no first letters.
Its rarity makes z an exotic letter. Zen sounds mysterious because of the letter at the start. If it was called Ken, it wouldn't have the same je ne sais quoi.
It does crop up as a penultimate letter from time to time, though, which is what brought it to my attention. In an article about the disgraced American Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte, written by an American, it told how Lochte was "a jock" (that means Scottish where I come from) and how university students give newcomers to their fraternity a good "hazing". Adrift on this sea of Americanism I eventually decoded it. A jock is an athletic type, a fraternity house is like a men's hall of residence and hazing means giving someone a hard time to the extent of humiliation.
Although it is easy enough to find the definition in a dictionary, the origin of this word is unclear, as is the reason for its recent popularity.
Perhaps it is something to do with the word "faze", which became widespread a few years earlier. To be fazed by something is to be deterred, put off or intimidated and it is often heard in a testament to someone's fortitude. "Nothing fazes him".
And that has nothing at all to do with the word with which it is sometimes confused, phased, which is occasionally used as a verb to describe a gradual process. "Steam engines were phased out in the 1950s."
Dispensable though those two words are, at least they breathe a bit of life into the struggling z.
August 24, 2016 August 24, 2016 Ryan LochteLeave a comment
The English Pedant – When names become fashionable
Why do certain names catch on while others don't? A primary school teacher told me a few years ago that suddenly her school, in a poor area in the north of England, was full of Jordans and Kayleighs. Several years on, research has shown that youngsters with such names are far less likely to be at university than people called Josh and Daisy.
Kayleigh, of course, can be traced straight back to the rock band Marillion and their huge hit single in the early 80s. But Jordan? Why?
There was no influential man with that as a first name at around Kayleigh time, and the Scottish footballer Joe Jordan was hardly a cult figure. Michael Jordan? He's American and a basketball player, so he wasn't all over the papers and magazines and broadcast media in the UK.
Josh and Daisy are simply names that went out of fashion for a few generations and were then reassessed and popularized. It's the same with Daniel and Joseph and Rebecca and Rachel. Not many of those were christened in the 1960s and 70s, but suddenly they had a revival, mainly shortened to Dan and Joe and Becky.
These are all biblical names, which is perhaps strange in these unbelieving times, but you can bet your life most of the young parents have no idea what the namesakes were well known for in the Bible. It is probably just coincidence that the current list doesn't include such catchy names but dubious characters as Jezebel (seductress, murderer, worshiper of idols) and Delilah (cut off Samson's hair as he slept lovingly in her lap and thus removed his extraordinary strength).
Muslims are more than happy to call their children Mohammed, and the word Islam crops up in names (Cat Stevens, the English singer-songwriter, converted and was known as Yusuf Islam, although he dropped the last name recently, perhaps because it raises the subject of religion when it doesn't need to be raised).
Why are there quite a few Jesuses (pronounced hayzoose) in Spanish-speaking countries but none in English-speaking ones?
Perhaps it feels blasphemous or appears to be tempting fate in the UK, US, Australia etc. to call a child after one considered perfect and who was crucified at the age of 33.
Even the clunky old grandparent names such as Mabel and Ruby have undergone a bit of a revival, with the male side not quite so keen, but the occasional Walter and Wilfred is creeping in.
J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan was responsible for a spike in popularity for the name Wendy, which came to the author's attention when his young daughter couldn't pronounce "friendly".
Several years of living in the Caribbean have shown me that names don't have to be traditional and can be completely made up. Anything that sounds good is fair enough out there, while in the UK, registrars and ministers are likely to object. The English actress Suranne Jones, for instance, who made her name in the soap Coronation Street and recently won awards for Doctor Foster, was christened Sarah Anne because the minister politely informed her parents that Suranne wasn't a real name.
The name-pedants' vigilance hasn't stopped Jonathan being spelled Jonathon, perhaps because people are used to seeing the word marathon. And talking of the Olympics, the same contingent must be bracing themselves for a flurry of requests, such as to call boys Trayvon, as sported by American athlete Trayvon Bromell. Then again, the world's most celebrated athlete, Usain Bolt, hasn't had his name lifted by hosts of adoring fans. Nor have Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
Usain Smith? Trayvon Carruthers? Zinedine Johnson? You just never know.
August 17, 2016 August 17, 2016 Cristiano Ronaldo, English, Joe Jordan, Lionel Messi, Michael Jordan, Suranne Jones, Trayvon Bromell, Usain Bolt1 Comment
The English Pedant – Mutants in our midst
It often happens that getting a phrase wrong comes about because people have half-thought about something, but not pursued the issue to its real conclusion. Such an example is the now-epidemic "off my own back".
It means doing something yourself, using your initiative and not involving others. The fact that it used to be "off my own bat" is neither here nor there (almost). Back works just as well and in fact probably looks the more likely of two options which both seem rather odd.
One theory is that the phrase comes from cricket, a game in which a bat is used to strike the ball, although it is possible for runs (points) to be scored without the leather touching the willow. It's an unsatisfactory explanation, largely because if it really originated there, it wouldn't need the "own". You can't score runs off someone else's bat. Even if you've borrowed one, it is essentially yours because it is the one you're using.
On the other hand, "off your own back" implies the effort of carrying something, and "own" fits slightly better there, but again, it's not a clear, unarguable solution.
It's an expression that has established itself somehow and , even though no explanation is totally convincing, we know what it means, and only a pedant would take the time/waste the effort required to analyse it.
A much clearer case of incorrect use is "most amount". John is in the lead because he has the most amount of points. No he doesn't. He has the greatest amount of points, or perhaps the largest amount. You can hear the cogs creaking in people's brains as they scan the list of superlatives: largest, biggest, heaviest, blah blah blah, can't decide. So the generic one, "most", it is.
When you scrutinise it, though, if you're going to use "most", why use "amount" at all? John has the most points. Cricket has the most strange expressions of all sports (it has).
Curiously, this appears to be a modern mistake. It wasn't common until quite recently, so why has it crept in? Could it be that modern scourge, the ease with which we can communicate publicly? The fact that someone only has to say it once on TV or online and it infects the entire English-speaking world? Incidentally, to describe this phenomenon we use the term "going viral" with no regard for the fact that viruses are overwhelmingly considered to be bad. Nobody celebrates catching a virus, so why should videos, jokes, verbal expressions etc. be said to go viral in a good way?
Now that the English football season is underway (after the briefest of intervals), there is an amusing mistake to be enjoyed occasionally when someone describes a player with a particularly skillful way of kicking the ball. A commentator who knew what he was doing once referred to a player's "cultured left foot", and people wishing to repeat it, but who had forgotten the exact word, fished around in the area of their vocabulary that contains "cultured". What they found in that section was a group of words on the theme of learning, and so came the "educated left foot".
It tends to be the left foot, perhaps because most of us are right-footed, so it is more remarkable to see a left leg performing sporting works of art.
So there you are: a little tapas plate of expressions that are making their way in the world of the English language. Odd, slightly misshapen, maybe mutant, but hoping to slope along with a hood up and eventually be accepted by the authorities.
August 10, 2016 August 9, 2016 English, Esperanto, French, German, Mandarin, SpanishLeave a comment
The English Pedant – Mispronunciation? Blame it on Elvis
If your name is James Brown and you are routinely referred to as James Ground, does that bother you? If enough people do it, do you accept that that's what the world wants to call you, and get it changed officially?
This issue has followed me throughout my adult life. My surname is Morvan, which is pronounced like Morgan. (Actually, it's a French name and should really be pronounced in the French way, whereby the an at the end sounds roughly like oh, with no trace of the n. But that's another story.)
Everybody can pronounce Morgan, so what is so difficult about putting a v in there instead of the g and retaining the overall sound?
But no, for some reason, people feel the ending should be stressed as much as the beginning, and that the name should sound like more than.
Being as I am, I have spent much more than half my life correcting people. After all, it's my name.
The next generation, though, is not united in this. I have a nephew, now in his thirties, who not only accepts the mispronunciation, but apparently uses it himself.
There are other examples of this among famous people. The American statesman and general, Colin Powell, must be the only Colin in the world whose name is rendered as coe-lin.
Of course, there is a difference between the American pronunciation, (kah-lin) and the British one (where the o is pronounced with a narrower mouth, somewhere between ah and oe).
In fact, Powell's own story is that he was christened Colin with the traditional American pronunciation, but during World War Two there was a US air force pilot who became famous, and he pronounced his name Coe-lin, which apparently was an Irish influence. So, as Powell said in an interview on Fox News Talk Radio, "My family call me Colin and my friends call me Coe-lin".
In the case of the legendary cricketer Sir Ian Botham, (boe-tham) the change in pronunciation from the obvious one, sounding almost like bottom, was probably sanctioned by the family at some point because, in the UK, bottom is a word that makes people titter. And botham sounds close enough to cause teasing in the playground.
It's a relatively common occurrence, given our predilection for toilet humour. The famous house of Cockburn, producers of port wine, is pronounced Coburn, like James, the actor. The capital of Grand Turk, an island where I once lived, is Cockburn Town, and the pronunciation was explained to me by a grown woman as "Spelled c-k, pronounced coe," thereby avoiding the dangerous word cock.
One name that has changed wholesale in recent years is Aaron, which, in the UK, used to be said as Airon. Suddenly, it isn't like that anymore. Now it's like arran. And the confusion is all Elvis Presley's fault.
The path of this one is very complex, because it seems there was originally a Hebrew name Aharon, plus the English, Scottish and Irish Aron, Arun and Aran.
All of them were pronounced Arran, and so it remained until Presley was born. Elvis had a stillborn brother, Garon, which was supposed to be said as Gairon, and the boys' parents pronounced The King's middle name, Aron, to match that of his late brother.
Presley himself added the extra a officially.
To confuse matters, a typical American pronunciation of the ar sound does come across like air, so even if they were saying Aaron like barren, it comes out as bairren.
How it came back to the original in the UK is unclear, but that's what happened.
So, if your name is Aaron and you have a definite idea of how it should be pronounced, you should be on the side of tradition – depending on when you consider tradition to start.
August 3, 2016 August 3, 2016 Aaron, Botham, Colin Powell, Darren, Elvis Presley, MorvanLeave a comment
The English Pedant – Why is it so hard to say thank you?
Something most of us are taught as children is to say please and thank you. It's a matter on which there can be no discussion, certainly in the UK, and those of us brought up with it find it hard to understand why others don't do it.
Even Americans, most of whom would consider themselves polite, will say to a bartender, "Gimme a Scotch," while we wouldn't dream of it. We're the customer, so we're in charge and if we want a Scotch, the guy would have to have a very good reason not to give it to us. And yet we will dress the request up with ingratiating words. "Could I have Scotch please," or "I'd like a Scotch, please." Say "Gimme" in that way to a British bartender and you're asking for trouble.
We can't even say "I want," because that is supposed to be rude. We have to say "I'd like". In the UK there is a saying: I want doesn't get. It's hard to explain this to speakers of another language, for whom saying "I want…" is a simple statement of fact.
Some language students are grateful for this advice, while others are slightly offended that you should think so badly of them. But it has to be done.
It is even harder to convince them that when they decline an offer, they have to thank the offerer for thinking of it. Thus when someone asks, "Would you like a cup of tea?" they should say "No thank you." To just say no is plain rude in our book, but not in theirs, and some will go along with it for a while, but stop doing it at some point. I have even been told, "You know I mean it politely, so do I have to do it every time? To you?"
Well I'm sorry (excessive British politeness there), but yes, you do.
At some point in the last 20 years, as formality has been steadily eroded, saying thank you has been left isolated, like a rock left exposed by the retreating tide. And it has made certain people uncomfortable, feeing like a sap for behaving in such an obsequious way.
This is particularly prevalent among 20-something British men, naturally programmed to show themselves as tough and not yet ready to accept that toughness is sometimes best expressed by humility.
These people can't say "Thank you" for anything – not for ordinary things, anyway. They might summon the decency in the event of being saved from drowning, but in normal circumstances, no. And yet the voice of their mother is in their head. Be polite.
So what comes out is "Cheers". This is the British greeting uttered when we are given an alcoholic drink. We raise the glass and say "Cheers".
So the young man who can't bring himself to use the proper words can say "Cheers' without losing face, without showing weakness in front of his peers.
"Cheers for that," he will say.
Don't mention it, mate. Thank you for having the guts to say even that.
July 27, 2016 July 26, 2016 English, Esperanto, French, German, Mandarin, SpanishLeave a comment
The English Pedant – Lady Mondegreen and Jimi Hendrix
Mondegreen.
That is a word we don't hear every day. It means a phrase that has been misheard and misinterpreted and it was first described in an article by the American writer Sylvia Wright in 1954, based on an ancient Scottish ballad, The Bonnie Earl of Moray, in which it is written:
They have slain the Earl of Moray
And laid him on the green
Like many such old ditties, this is a tale of intrigue and skulduggery among the nobility; in this case it is about the murder of the Earl of Moray by his rival the Earl of Huntly.
Lady Mondegreen enters the story as a mishearing, but fits in nicely and just makes us wonder who she was and what her relationship with the Earl was.
Unlike the mythical lady, the mondegreen has relatives. Malapropisms, for instance, are inadvertent uses of words which sound very similar, such as when someone gets specific, but tells you this "pacifically".
In a gratifying justification of the right of 21st century people to be included in such erudite studies, the mishearing of lyrics in a song is called soramimi. Originally this Japanese word was applied to words wrongly translated from another language, which is easily done, with our imperfect language skills, grabbing at something we think we recognize.
But when it is English speakers getting the wrong end of the stick from another English speaker speaking (or singing) English, our only excuse is that pop and rock singers don't always enunciate as we would like.
One example that perplexed me as a teenager finding my feet in the minefield of the adult world was when Jimi Hendrix, on his second single, Purple Haze, seemed to sing, "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy". It was the sky he was kissing, in fact.
Many years later, the British soul singer Paul Young, lamented:
Every time you go away
You take a piece of meat with you
Or so it seemed, anyway. If he really had sung meat instead of me, we still wouldn't have heard the t. Sometimes we have to use our intuition.
As a telecoms engineer once told me, we often can't hear the s on the end of a word, but our knowledge of the language fills in the blanks for us.
That is why language teachers sometimes have to stress things in an unnatural way and then explain to students that you don't, in fact, make a sound like a punctured tyre and you can't really hear it but you have to imagine it's there.
It's not just English speakers, though. Spanish speakers have this habit of not pronouncing the end of a word. They will talk about the interne rather than the internet, because we know what they mean, so why go to all the trouble of putting the t on the end?
The recorded announcements on the Caracas Metro in Spanish-speaking Venezuela used to sound as if they were deliberately trying to fool me when, as I listened intently for where to get off, they would take all the consonants out of Parque Carabobo, so what you got was ar-eh arao-o. You get it in the end, but it doesn't make life easy.
Back at the song lyrics, there are websites devoted to this stuff, but not all of them know where to draw the line. I personally doubt that anyone really thought Jefferson Starship sang "We built this city on sausage rolls" or that Bob Dylan informed us "The ants are my friends, they're blowing in the wind."
You could amuse a nine-year-old with that, but come on…
I am, though, perfectly willing to accept there were medical students who thought they heard "The girl with colitis goes by" (rather than kaleidoscope eyes) during Lucy in The Sky with Diamonds. It's largely a matter of what we're expecting to hear.
If you've got a good one, please leave a comment.
July 20, 2016 December 5, 2016 JIm Henrix, malapropism, misheard lyrics, mondegreen, soramimi7 Comments
The English Pedant – Choosing your words carefully
Please excuse me – I've just had a month of trying to enjoy a football tournament in which my team, England, performed poorly and got knocked out halfway through, so I have been seeking other sources of entertainment within the matches.
Sniggering at the haircuts, for instance. Admiring the skill and knowledge of some of the commentators. And, as anyone interested in words will understand, picking up on attempts to speak English by people thrust into a position where their knowledge of the game is more important than their command of the language.
You know those situations where you find yourself talking to someone who's on another intellectual planet, and fancy words keep leaping from your mouth in a subconscious attempt to make yourself sound intelligent? Imagine that happening to you as part of your second career.
When the former Manchester United and England player Phil Neville attempted to follow his brother Gary into broadcasting, he was given the task of co-commentating, which means assisting a professional broadcaster, who does the nuts and bolts, keeps it moving and so on. Commentators can be erudite people: erstwhile masters of the microphone, Brian Moore and Barry Davies, of ITV and the BBC respectively, were products of the same highly-regarded public school, while Martin Tyler, the current distinguished veteran on Sky Sports, also gives the impression that, while he knows a thing or two about football, that is not the extent of his knowledge or interests. With someone of that ilk at the controls, Phil Neville was expected simply to drop insiderly pearls of wisdom into the proceedings at regular intervals.
He was terrible, and he knew it. He sounded nervous, his comments sounded forced and it was an uncomfortable experience all round. If you'd been sitting with him at home or in the pub he would doubtless have had interesting things to say, and because it was Phil Neville, you would have given a certain weight to them automatically. But there he was on television, his every utterance relayed to millions of people he couldn't see, and it got to him. He just couldn't relax and be himself.
Aeons ago the former England centre half Jack Charlton used to do some co-commentating, and he was good at it. He wasn't, though, a naturally gifted speaker. As a player, Jack was what is often described as "tough and uncompromising", and you got the sense that he was like that off the pitch too. He wasn't one for Oscar Wilde-style quips or poetic evocations of the action.
A top player at the time was the Dutchman, Johan Cruyff, whose last name has an oi sound: croiff. Jack couldn't, or perhaps wouldn't, say that. The man was Cruff to him, and because he was from the north-east of England, it came out rhyming with a dog's woof. Croof!
But never mind; we respected Jack Charlton and he was perceptive. Then one day he was attempting to describe something, but stumbled and fell momentarily silent. "I can't think of the word," he admitted, but carried on and it didn't matter.
All of this leads us to a simple word that has a place in football commentary and came up several times in Euro 2016: purchase. Not in its primary meaning: to buy. Players are bought and sold all the time, but no one in the game refers to that as purchasing, any more than you and I go to the supermarket to purchase some sausages. It's the sort of word that only police officers use.
Purchase has a secondary meaning, as a noun. To get purchase on something is to grip , lever or strike it sufficiently strongly. It is sometimes used by builders or motor mechanics, who, armed with a spanner, are attempting to loosen a nut. It may be in an inaccessible spot, so they can't get any purchase on it. "Force" would do the linguistic job – it's that kind of thing. Thus in football, when the ball is in an awkward position for a player to kick it properly, the pundits will tell us "he didn't get enough purchase on it", which is fair enough, but when it is applied to a straightforward shot, just pull back your leg and swing it forward with no complications, then purchase has stepped out of its sphere of meaning. "He got plenty of purchase on that" just means he hit it well.
Does that mean purchase is about to enter the mainstream of the English language with an expanded portfolio? Could be. Some people pick words up without realising it and use them to make simple things sound more complicated. Like "in excess of" rather than "more than".
As Jack Charlton might have said, had he written a manual on working in the media: "Keep it simple, pal. If you try to sound fancy, that's when you make a… what's the expression… a pig's ear of it."
July 13, 2016 July 13, 2016 Football commentators, Gary Neville, Jack Charlton, Phil NevilleLeave a comment
The English Pedant – The difficulty of keeping it simple
Sounding like a foreigner is less desirable than ever in these days of immigration and resentment. Even if we look different from most people (which obviously we can't do much about), a good grasp of the language can go a long way towards getting us accepted.
One of the most frustrating things about teaching English to people who already speak another language is when they ask you why a certain thing happens and all you can say is "It just does".
Take verbs, for instance. A long-distance Dutch student of mine, who still sends me her academic essays etc. to check before she hands them in, recently forgot how to make the simple past tense of English verbs. She had fallen back into an old habit of using "did" with the infinitive. I did walk to college. I did speak to my tutor.
You know what she means. You know she's telling you it was in the past, but that is not the point. She's getting it wrong, and that means she sounds less intelligent than she is. And more to the point, she sounds more foreign, and one of the chief gripes of the less tolerant is when people don't learn to speak their language.
This girl – let's call her Sophie – came to me in Suriname when she was applying to American universities and wanted to give the impression (the correct impression, as it happens) that she could slot right in with a class of American students, understand the lecturers and do the work. She is probably the most advanced student I've ever had – and a nice girl, too. It's not just students who can enjoy or not enjoy a class; the teacher is giving up 90 minutes of his life for it too. It's a lot better all round if both parties enjoy the time.
Anyway, Sophie moved back to Holland – didn't go to America, but continued studying in English – and somehow forgot about past tenses.
I dug out some material, hoping to explain it to her in a flash and send her some files, but of course it's not that easy. There are regular verbs and irregular verbs. With a regular verb you just add ed or d to the infinitive. I walk, I walked. I like, I liked.
But you immediately trip over irregular ones. I run, I ran. I speak, I spoke.
And there isn't a simple answer to the question of why it is like that, apart from "It just is."
If you look at the English language as something to be improved and simplified, that is certainly somewhere to start. Get rid of the irregularity. I run, I runned. I sit, I sitted. Why not?
All languages have their seemingly pointless aspects that confound the non-native speaker. Look at French, with its insistence on the adjective reflecting the gender of the noun. Haut and bas (high and low) have to be haute and basse if the noun they are describing is feminine. Everything is either le or la, and you sound like a dolt if you get it wrong. To the outside observer, it's an unnecessary complication.
In German they're not even happy with two genders: they have masculine, feminine and neuter: der, die and dass.
Who needs it? What difference does it make? In English we have been getting along with just plain the for centuries. Why don't all countries address the quirks of their language and give the foreigners a chance?
There will probably never be a common global language, largely due to our overriding nationalism and the sheer practical issues that would have to be tackled – the trillions of words and billions of documents to be translated.
It's been tried, but with little success. Esperanto was invented in 1887, based on European languages, and while it is claimed that some 2million people speak it, I have never met anyone who does; have you? If something similar were attempted today, it would take hundreds of years to develop, with law suits flying around the world as China demanded to have its principles taken into account, and then smaller parts of China spoke up for themselves, along with Russians, Tibetans and Indians, Swedes, Slovaks and Somalis.
The only thing that would make it happen is if the Earth was facing invasion by another planet and the military commanders needed to be able to communicate quickly and easily. There would need to be delaying tactics while the assembled brains of every country got together and thrashed it out, and then mass teaching took place everywhere.
But you know what would really happen? English speakers and Spanish speakers would squabble and remain unreconciled, while the Mandarin speakers quickly learned how to say "Hang on, what about us?"
There would be no point in having a global vote, because everyone would just vote for themselves, so you might as well just count the people. But that would be so open to fraud that it would have to come down to a simple lottery, live on TV across the world. There are two short straws and one long one. The representatives of the three options step forward one by one and continent-wide gasps throw the planet off its axis so that it plummets towards its aggressor, which has manoeuvred itself dangerously close.
And then bang! The universally understood term, goodbye. Auf wiedersehen. Ciao. Au revoir. And a couple of symbols in Mandarin.
July 6, 2016 July 5, 2016 English, Esperanto, French, German, Mandarin, SpanishLeave a comment


RuPaul's Drag Race Season Seven Miss Congeniality, Katya Zamolodchikova, made her debut in Vancouver, BC yesterday at XY NIghtclub. Disturbingly entertaining and ever so funny. She rocked the club with her monologue and a couple of intense performances. These are solo shots taken before the show. Thanks Katya and TFD Presents!


Analog Man offers the Ibanez Tube Screamer Mini. We are not sure if we will have any mods for these, as they are not hand-made and don't use normal size electronic parts.
Power Supply: No battery, use your standard 9V power supply or buy the optional power supply.


← Yay for plummy mess!
Even though Baby J LOVED his prunes today, I might be rethinking on giving him anymore.
I havn't changed this many diapers in one day. EVER.
haha colt tried them last week.. loved them! but umm.. yah not so much fun for the diaper changing!


Spring has arrived in Bristol!
The city is looking great at the moment with the sun shining and the flowers and tree blossom out.
There is lots to do in the City over Easter from Easter egg hunts at Tyntesfield, shopping at Cabot Circus to boat trips on the river and relaxing drinks in the sunshine around the Docks.
Look on our website or give us a call on 07703 069700 if you want to book.


"For much of the later '60s and '70s, the most intuitive improviser of his generation was obliged to teach improvisation to college students, gigging only in relative obscurity. Randy Kaye was a loyal and dependable supporter in those days, and he adds just the right kind of softly enunciated percussion to Giuffre's '80s quartet albums. Bob Nieske's 'The Teacher' pays no less a tribute. Scored for Giuffre's bass flute, it has a crepuscular, meditative quality that isn't altogether typical of a lively and almost self-consciously contemporary set. Levin's keyboard stylings are perhaps a little too blandly atmospheric, but they open up the texture for Giuffre's familiar chalumeau clarinet and surprisingly agile soprano saxophone. The earlier QUASAR is equally fine and the writing may even be a little better."


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5 takeaways from NY Times report on Trump's tax returns
PAUL WISEMAN and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
WASHINGTON (AP) — A New York Times report that President Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income tax the year he entered the White House — and, thanks to colossal losses, no income tax at all in 11 of the 18 years that the Times reviewed — served to raise doubts about Trump's self-image as a shrewd and successful businessman.
That Sunday's report came just weeks before Trump's re-election bid served to intensify the spotlight on Trump the businessman — an identity that he has spent decades cultivating and that helped him capture the presidency four years ago in his first run for political office. The Times' report deepens the uncertainty surrounding a tumultuous presidential campaign set against the backdrop of a viral pandemic, racial unrest in American cities and a ferocious battle over the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Since entering the White House, Trump has broken with tradition set by his predecessors by not only refusing to release his tax returns but by waging a legal battle to keep them hidden. The Times report suggests why that might have been so. It reported that many of Trump's top businesses are losing money, even as those losses have helped him shrink his federal tax bill to essentially nothing.
Eugene Steuerle, a tax expert at the Urban Institute, said he wasn't surprised that it turns out that Trump had paid almost no federal income tax. Most commercial real estate developers deduct large interest payments on their debts from taxable income, thereby lowering their tax bills. Typically, they also often avoid capital gains taxes by plowing profits from the sale of one building into the purchase of another.
"Most tax experts expected you would find little in the way of tax payments by President Trump," said Steuerle, who served as a Treasury Department official under President Ronald Reagan.
The Times noted that Alan Garten, a lawyer for the Trump Organization, said of the Times report that "most, if not all, of the facts appear to be inaccurate" and asked for the documents on which the reporting was based, which the Times declined to provide in order to protect its sources. The Times said Garten then directly disputed only the amount of taxes Trump had paid.
Here are some key takeaways from the Times' reporting:
TRUMP PAID JUST $750 IN TAXES IN BOTH 2016 and 2017.
The newspaper said Trump initially paid $95 million in taxes over the 18 years it studied. But he managed to recover most of that money by claiming — and receiving — a stunning $72.9 million federal tax refund. According to the Times, Trump also pocketed $21.2 million in state and local refunds, which are typically based on federal filings.
Trump's outsize refund became the subject of a now-long-standing Internal Revenue Service audit of his finances. The audit was widely known. Trump has claimed it was the very reason why he cannot release his returns. But the Times report is the first to identify the issue that was mainly in dispute.
As a result of the refund, Trump paid an average $1.4 million in federal taxes from 2000 to 2017, the Times reported. By contrast, the average U.S. taxpayer in the top .001% of earners paid about $25 million annually over the same timeframe.
TRUMP HAS FINANCED AN EXTRAVAGANT LIFESTYLE WITH THE USE OF BUSINESS EXPENSES.
From his homes, his aircraft — and $70,000 on hair styling during his television show "The Apprentice" — Trump has capitalized on cost incurred from his businesses to finance a luxurious lifestyle.
The Times noted that Trump's homes, planes and golf courses are part of the Trump family business and, as such, Trump classified them as business expenses as well. Because companies can write off business expenses as deductions, all such expenses have helped reduce Trump's tax liability.
MANY OF HIS BEST-KNOWN BUSINESSES ARE MONEY-LOSERS
The president has frequently pointed to his far-flung hotels, golf courses and resorts as evidence of his success as a developer and businessman. Yet these properties have been been draining money.
The Times reported that Trump has claimed $315 million in losses since 2000 on his golf courses, including the Trump National Doral near Miami, which Trump has portrayed as a crown jewel in his business empire. Likewise, his Trump International Hotel in Washington has lost $55 million, the Times reported.
FOREIGN VISITORS HAVE HELPED SUPPORT TRUMP'S PROPERTIES
Since Trump began his presidential run, lobbyists, foreign governments and politicians have lavished significant sums of money on his properties, a spending spree that raised questions about its propriety and legality.
The Times report illustrates just how much that spending has been: Since 2015, his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida has taken in $5 million more a year from a surge in membership. The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association spent at least $397,602 in 2017 at Trump's Washington hotel. Overseas projects have produced millions more for Trump — $3 million from the Philippines, $2.3 million from India and $1 million from Turkey.
TRUMP WILL FACE FINANCIAL PRESSURE AS DEBTS COME DUE
Trump seems sure to face heavy financial pressures from the enormous pile of debt he has absorbed. The Times said the president appears to be responsible for $421 million in loans, most of which will come due within four years. On top of that, a $100 million mortgage on Trump Tower in New York will come due in 2022.
New Yorker publishes stunning video of Capitol riot
The New Yorker on Sunday published 12 minutes of new, surreal footage from inside the Capitol during the mob rampage that left five people dead earlier this month.
Coating the city in snow
SLS: Nasa's 'megarocket' engine test ends early
Iran fires long-range missiles into Indian Ocean in military drill: media
In cold weather, anti-Netanyahu protests continue in Israel
The FBI is investigating whether a woman stole a laptop from Pelosi's office to sell it to Russia, after receiving a tip from someone claiming to be her ex


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computer club, I decided to give it a bash.
beautiful game, beyond what the consoles of the day seemed to be doing.
Pond was novel, and he even had vehicles that he could drive.
The cyborg nature of this incarnation of Mr Pond was quite amusing.
value, and I'm sure that for platform addicts it was great.


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import org.apache.shiro.authc.*;
import org.apache.shiro.realm.Realm;

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 * Created by Administrator on 2017/8/22.
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