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Make a case for your airplane
by Pete Hodges
We asked the Air Facts community to share with us why they bought the airplane they did and why this was the right choice for them. We heard from William "Pete" Hodges of Spotsylvania, Virginia, who made the case for his 1968 Cherokee PA28-140. Here's Pete's case:
The Cherokee 140 is "the smallest airplane that would do our biggest jobs," says the author.
In 2004 I was completing my Private and was looking for a first airplane to own that would support the flying my wife and I wanted to do, including 400 mile cross-countries, training and day trips. After reading "Buying and Owning Your First Airplane," we chose the Piper Cherokee 140. We bought it just after I soloed and I completed all the cross-country and final training in this aircraft. I learned not only how to be a good pilot, but also how the be an owner and good steward of the airplane.
We chose the little 140 because it was the smallest airplane that would do our biggest job. There are a lot of them around so it would be easy to get parts. All the mechanics know how to work on them as they are simple to maintain with fixed prop and fixed gear. They cruise at an honest 100+ knots with 5.5+ hours of endurance at 8.5 GPH, and they carry a lot of stuff with two people on board.This airplane can also carry four people, no bags, partial load of fuel, and has good short field/grass field performance, especially when lightly loaded or in cool weather. It is a great choice for a first airplane that you want to keep and grow with.
The panel is basic, but offers everything a new private pilot needs.
We bought 86F in 2004 with a zero-time engine overhaul, new interior, and six-year old exterior paint. It looked almost new for 36 years old. After we owned it for a couple of years, I started to get the "bigger airplane" itch. After doing some research, we got our bigger plane by modifying this one with the CAVERNOUS back shelf option for about $1500 instead swapping to a larger airplane for $15,000. A year later we added an AOA Lift Reserve Indicator to give us a better margin of error for short field work, and the year after that we added wheel pants for an extra 10% of cruise speed.
Are we happy with our little bird? You bet we are! Sometimes the best deal you can get is a good well-built plane-Jane!
Pete made a good case for his Cherokee. How about you? What do you fly or own and why is it the best airplane for you. Go ahead: Make your case.
Pete Hodges
Pete Hodges grew up on a farm and has been around all types of machinery since he could walk. When he was 12 he got his first ride in a small airplane at a local EAA fly-in. Watching the pilot manipulate the controls and seeing the cables and surfaces move gave him an instant "I can do this" understanding of how an airplane flies. He took several lessons in '79 and in 2004 he and his wife took lessons together, passed his check ride and bought their first airplane, a '68 Piper Cherokee. He is also rebuilding a Coot Amphibian to hopefully use on the Chesapeake Bay.
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Jeff Ingram says:
I've had a Mooney Executive (M20F) since 1991, after two years with a 172. The Executive is an honest 140 Kt. airplane with a fuel burn in the 9-10 gph range. It is a good cross-country platform and reasonably affordable to fly. Like, Pete, above, after about 5 years with the Mooney, I started looking into a "bigger" airplane, and I am so happy that the wise old sage at the airport talked me out of getting a twin. At least I can still afford to fly. Given that an Executive is about half the price of an equivalent 201, and the speed difference is only about 10 Kts, I believe it to be a better buy.
Liad says:
Mooney M20c short body. Can not get that much airplane for sub $50,000 anywhere else. 135 true all day long on 9 gph. I keep a citabia around for sunny and windy days.
I too, was fortunate enough to be able to buy a Cherokee 140, with 2 partners. All three of us were new pilots at my local airport, and were trained by the same instructor. I started later in life, and never imagined that the dream of ownership would become a possibility. With two 25 gallon tanks and a burn rate of 7 GPh,we fly as little as $12 per hour each, when 2 people split the bill! That's what burning ethanol-free 87 octane car gas can do for you! It has been a blast flying all over the southeast!
Hunter Heath says:
My first airplane was a 1966 Cessna 172, the lovingly kept toy of a group of 4 older men who let me buy it only after I wrote a heartfelt letter about how my family and I would give it a good home. It served me well for 9 years, and serves my friend and former partner even now. I flew it all over the central US for business and pleasure. The Cessna 172 is the Ford Taurus or Toyota Camry of the air– does a little of everything, reliable and repairable, and forgiving for a low time pilot. Now, flying only for pleasure, I own a 1946 Aeronca Chief, bought for several reasons. Important for a senior, it allows me to fly under the Sport Pilot rule, and since I'm extremely left-handed, it's more comfortable for me than a Cub or Champ. It burns little fuel, it's cute, and every time I fly this basic aircraft, my late father– who trained in J-2s and 3s, Taylorcrafts, and the like– is my co-pilot.
Don Myers says:
In 2004 we purchased a 1946 Ercoupe w/rudder peddles (223 on the most recent overhaul). That began our search for a newer/better airplene. We are still looking. Coupe 729 does everything we need. It is big enough for the two of us, our dog and a suitecase. Cruises at 80 knots, burns 5.5 gph, can't stall it, can't spin it and it's a convertible. LSA certified. Show me another plane that will do all of that and we will buy it!
Karl Vogelheim says:
In 2010 I purchased a Stinson 108-3. For my budget and mission, it was the best choice. It has an incredible useful load. After full fuel (50 gal) I still have around 750lbs of load. It has the classic taildragger look and it is one of the simplest aircraft you can get mechanically which translates to lower annual costs. It is also a very comfortable aircraft with good interior space for four though us taller pilots (6ft 1in) will have the headset band touching the ceiling during flight. While some will speak poorly of the Franklin power plant, I have found it to be smooth and reliable. The only downsides to the aircraft are it is relatively slow (about 110mph) in cruise and it has quite a bit of drag so it burns 10 gal per hour. However, I have always been asked by someone who sees my airplane if i is a Stinson and I will often get regaled by person questioning me about when they owned one.
Del Schneider says:
I agree with Karl Vogelheim about the Stinson, however the 108-1 or -2 is somewhat faster with the same 165 Franklin engine. Mine cruises about 122 mph on the same 10 gal/hr. the smaller tail is apparently the main difference, although the total fuel is only 40 gal. This is a great airplane after upgrading? from a Piper Arrow-180.
Frank Ladonne says:
Actually, (he said in his most condescending fashion), the best plane to own just happens to be the one I have. It's a Cessna 172XP. It is a variant of the 172 that was built originally for the Air Force as a trainer and called, by them, the T41B. It has all of the characteristics of the plain vanilla 172 that we all learned on but it has a 210 horsepower 6 cylinder engine and a constant speed prop. This gives it a 130 Kt top speed but 115 kts at 8.5 GPH at cruise and 1500 FPM climb in virtually any weather from 1,000 ft elevation and a 18,000 foot ceiling.
Not the fastest or the sexiest but boy, what a GREAT cruiser.
Gordon Hughes says:
I bought my 1981 Mooney 231 turbo 40 years ago, for its 165kt sporty behavior.
We Mooneyiacs think of them as pocket rockets. (I initially imagined the mike button was the gun trigger.) Its 10.5 gph fuel burn (LOP) let me leave out 25 gallons of fuel and fly two 200# men and our wives around Mexico. Now it means that filling the plane costs $300 instead of $450, for the same range as a Bonanza or C-210.
Very stable and turbulence resistant plane due to high wing loading, fast enough to go into LAX, but still land at (reasonably graded) Baja dirt strips. The turbo engine is easy to abuse; easy to get high CHT at altitude. LOP helps a lot, keeping CHTs<380F. Engine abuse reputation depresses the plane purchase price attractively, for buyers willing to monitor an engine analyzer.
Barry Pilot says:
1981 Mooney purchased 40 years ago?
Jim Frankenfield says:
Got my pvt. ticket in July, '52, 35 hour course, cost me $310.00 in a "Champ". Drafted (army) in November, saved my $$ while in Greenland while the other guys were buying coo-coo clocks at he PX; back in the States in '54, bought an Aeronca 7-AC for $500 bucks (rough engine…found a "pin-hole in the carb. float causing a richer mixture as the float 'sunk' in the carb bowl. After adjusting the float level a few times, finally found the float half full of avgas. Maybe that's why the price was so low? Burned the gas out, soldered the pinhole, problem fixed. Flew the Champ to-from eastern PA to Red Bank, NJ (near Ft. Hancock, NJ) before discharge. Sold the Champ for $600., bought a Chief for $650. Got additional CFI and ratings on GI bill.
Then, in 1964, decided to "roll my own", actually, me and Tom, an engineer with Narco Radios, decided to build, from plans, two D-260 Senior Aerosport aerobatic bi-planes, the 'two-holer' version of the (Parsons-Jocylin) PJ 260 designed by the great Aero Engineer Nick D'Apuzzo, Naval Air Development Center, Johnsville, PA (think Centrafuge), who flew out of Turner Field, PA, where I was Chief Pilot Pt. 135, and Chief Flight Instructor Pt. 141 and FAA DPE. Nick taught me to weld, and in April 1968, after nearly four years of evenings and weekends and 5000 man hours (each), we had our first flights and took the top awards (Tom's – Grand Champion – me, first runner-up) at EAA Rockford Convention – fly-in, 1968. Me on cover Sport Aviation, Nov'68.
Now the fun part…..what a blast, teaching oneself aerobatics,(with Duane Cole's book on my lap,) how to do a "snap", bbl roll, snap on top of loop, slow roll, immelman, Cuban 8s, outside loop, etc. and having an airplane in your hands that would 'make up' for any mistakes I made. What a joy…what freedom! I even did the Lomchevok, (tumbles tail over nose…"Big" Ed Mahler 'told' me how to do it!) One day after I landed, Mrs. Turner ask if I was near the NE extension of the PA Turnpike…I said yes….she said a State Cop came in and asked if she knew of anybody out in that vacinity….Cop said tell him to do his routine somewhere else…he's stopping traffic. (I was above 1500 ft. AGL, I swear.) The D-260, (64 gals, 10 GPH, Lauderdale to N. Phila with one stop at Charleston, SC) 6.4 hours duraion at 65%. Best airplane I ever flew, not just because I built it, but because of a great designer, Nick D'Apuzz.
This was half a century ago. What great memories. How I miss it. (old man) Jim
Gail A. Hammans says:
Getting the flying bug at age 70, caused me to look at purchasing an aircraft with a different outlook. I new that I was going to train as well as, after certification, fly my wife and family in it. After much thought and research, I came to the conclusion that one of the things that you do most to your plane, more than anything else is put fuel in it . Old people just have no busines climbing around on ladders lugging 1 1/2″ fuel hoses. The decision to buy a low wing {Piper PA 28-140} for me was a no brainier.
Pete Hodges says:
Enjoy your Cherokee! It is a fine bird that you and your wife will love flying in.
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According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, frozen turkey inventories have tumbled in the wake of higher prices and supply chain disruptions, and are about 25% below three-year average volumes.
"Turkey consumption over the last number of years is down across the board — [slipping] about 20% over the last 25 years," Greenleaf Foods COO Adam Grogan told Yahoo Finance during a recent interview. Greenleaf is the plant-based division of Canadian consumer food company Maple Leaf Foods (MLFNF).
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Price pressures have also impacted demand. Turkey prices are up nearly 25% compared to last year, and nearly 50% over the five-year average through September, according to a recent Wells Fargo analysis of USDA data.
Still, plant-based companies are not immune to inflation or COVID-related challenges. Greenleaf Foods saw 6.6% fewer sales in the most recent quarter compared to 2020. In the previous quarter, the division reported a year-over-year sales drop of 20.6%.
Meanwhile, Beyond Meat (BYND) cut its fourth quarter revenue guidance after a disappointing earnings miss as weaker grocery sales and higher prices dampened demand.
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"Over the last couple of years, the category has reached a year-over-year sales growth of 100% since 2019," he said.
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Review: Alphalink
If you wanted another reason to be depressed about your own lack of productivity during the lockdown(s) of 2020, here's one: the wife and husband team that comprise Black Hive […]
If you wanted another reason to be depressed about your own lack of productivity during the lockdown(s) of 2020, here's one: the wife and husband team that comprise Black Hive Media, Mandy and Blake Lowry, created single screen, multiplayer shooter Alphalink after they were simultaneously laid off from their jobs during the pandemic and while adopting their first child. Despite the challenging circumstances it's been created in and the small team behind the game, it's a focused and impressive title with a unique feel.
There's a plot, told in voiced, animated cinematics at the opening of the game, which tells of three factions fighting over shards in deep space outposts; colonists on these outposts determine that their best chance of survival in the midst of these battles is to pick a faction and jack in to cybernetic suits to enhance their abilities in combat, using the titular Alphalink technology.
In practice, what this means is frantic, four player (or player vs bot) battles in single screen arenas, with players jumping, shooting and collecting shards in various environments and with differing objectives, such as gaining the most kills or holding onto the stage's crystal for the longest duration. Controls are straightforward, but there's a bit of a learning curve to overcome with the fact that your character only has three shots before needing to reload and in order to fire, you need to aim – which means you stop moving. With players leaping around the screen and also being able to use powerful melee attacks, there's a surprising amount of nuance to the frantic firefights and battles for control.
Additionally, faction performance is tracked on a leaderboard and is persistent, so your ongoing performance will have an impact on how well your chosen faction is doing globally.
It's a beautiful looking game with some neat visual flourishes and a great, cyberpunk-esque, hand-drawn aesthetic. The electronic soundtrack is superb and really helps to keep the adrenaline flowing throughout the battles, as well as setting the appropriate tone and atmosphere in the game's basic hub between matches.
The platforming mechanics can take a little getting used to, with it being all too easy to misjudge the slightly inconsistent-feeling double jumps you'll need to make onto ledges. It also feels at times that the stages are frantic enough against other players or AI, without there having to be the brutal turrets that often appear in levels to add to the list of 'things that can kill you'. It also feels like a real grind to get anywhere in terms of level progress, but admittedly that could just be my lack of overall skill at the game – I often feel completely unmatched against an already very skilled playerbase and the AI hardly takes it easy against you, so I'm willing to concede that's a me problem and that I simply need to get good.
Where I've found the game to be most fun is in local multiplayer, especially as that means players have been of similar skill levels to myself, being relatively new to the game. Once the slightly unusual controls and 'stand still to shoot' mechanics are absorbed, Alphalink becomes a hugely competitive and fun game with players in the same room.
With plenty of additional content planned and a wealth of cosmetics to unlock in order to customise your character, there's lots to keep players busy if the frantic multiplayer action is up their street. Though it's not without a few issues in terms of the slightly inconsistent platforming and overly skilled AI that presents a challenge which may be off-putting to players just starting out (before they're blasted to smithereens by online players too!), there's a slickness to the presentation and design of Alphalink, with its strong focus on multiplayer fun, that makes it a really impressive game. Though the mechanics don't take long to glean, the frantic, demanding nature of the online modes means that this is one game that'll appeal to players looking for a serious challenge against other humans in fast paced, bite-sized matches. Alphalink isn't a game that'll necessarily be appreciated by casual players, but those willing to put in the practice will get a lot out of it.
Many thanks to Black Hive Media for providing me with an Alphalink code for review purposes. Alphalink is currently available on Xbox consoles.
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Chapter 140: Dual-Slot Mode. What A Comedy!
Posted on September 13, 2021 by Jack Russell
Delicious Wind Goose didn't have any fear when he saw the hanging frames with weird chuckles.
While walking slowly, he explained at the same time,
"I watched your live broadcast last night.
"I noticed that some of you also want to go to the fourth level nightmare. But why can't you make it? The reason is simple. While you are moving forward, you will not know where to go when you are halfway down the path. The sledgehammer who appeared suddenly caught up with you like a teleport.
"There seems to be only one way, which is to enter Elle's dungeon. Don't you think so?"
Delicious Wind Goose said and walked to the opened window.
He took the letter outside the window.
But he didn't read it right away, nor looked back.
Instead, he closed the window immediately and put the lock up carefully.
As he turned his head, the lightning fell at the same time.
The hanging picture frames had also become corpses hanging from the beams!
But Delicious Wind Goose did not look up.
He did not look out the window, nor did he look at the corpse. Instead, just holding the letter and remaining on the spot, he said in a low volume, "I watched all the third level nightmare videos, and now I fully understand the mechanism of this level.
"This level has a timer mechanism.
"Brother Sledgehammer is relatively slow. He is not a ghost, and he can't go through walls.
"From the time the wind blows and opens the window, Brother Sledgehammer will appear behind you in forty-three seconds. I watched all the videos three times with a stopwatch in my hand. So I won't be mistaken even for a second.
"At this time, there is a small chance that you will be able to run through as long as you continue to run at full speed. But this will worsen the injury. You will enter the next floor at minimal health because the corridor on this floor has been lengthened. Forty-three seconds are not enough for you to reach the next level. That's how you died."
"Child God was hammered to death by the window because he read the letter on the spot. Worse still, he kept turning back and forth, which wasted too much time."
As soon as Delicious Wind Goose finished his sentence, his shadow elongated.
So Delicious Wind Goose stopped hesitating, jumped forward, and started jogging.
Brother Sledgehammer was behind Delicious Wind Goose and smashed the window with a hammer.
But since Delicious Wind Goose jumped forward, this hammer could not directly crush his head.
With the wall as obstacles, Brother Sledgehammer couldn't catch up with Delicious Wind Goose like he was indoors.
Brother Sledgehammer could only be silent, hammering the glass and the wall to pieces. But, he struggled to turn over and jump indoors.
Seeing this, Annan had already understood Brother Sledgehammer's train of thoughts.
Since Brother Sledgehammer would always spawn behind him, Delicious Wind Goose targeted a place where "there was light behind him" and "the opponent could attack him even across obstacles" while he stuck close to the wall.
In this way, Brother Sledgehammer would get stuck outside the house.
Delicious Wind Goose, relying on the abrupt light of the lightning outside the house, dodged away when the hammer fell. Some players did escape the first hammer strike. But their bodies were injured, and they couldn't run fast enough. Brother Sledgehammer could easily catch up and deliver another hammer strike.
But "Brother Sledgehammer" couldn't go through walls.
He was just an ordinary Edict Wizard without the ability to strengthen physical fitness. He only had a mighty curse vessel sledgehammer.
This meant that it was difficult for him to get in from the window.
Whether he walked around from the front door or parkoured in through the window, it would give Delicious Wind Goose time.
With that, Delicious Wind Goose didn't have to bear the pain and run wildly.
Using the time that Brother Sledgehammer was delayed, he could instead jog forward at a slower speed with a smaller price to pay. At the end, when Delicious Wind Goose entered the next level, his health would inevitably be higher compared to other dungeon challengers running at full speed.
"This middle-aged player may be a genius."
Annan's eyes lit up a little, and he murmured.
It had almost been a week since the closed beta started.
The players had not yet embarked on the Transcended path.
However, several of the forty players Annan initially selected had already begun to show their prominence.
Everything went according to Delicious Wind Goose's plan.
He ran to the corner smoothly. Brother Sledgehammer was still some distance away from him.
Just in case, he didn't investigate anything. Instead, he just jogged forward. After all, he could investigate when he watched his video recording later.
The players and Annan, who were watching the live broadcast, saw what was there.
There was another diary on the display cabinet where the tomato was placed.
Annan could tell at a glance that it was Elle's diary in the nightmare!
So, that's the case. Annan suddenly realized.
If Delicious Wind Goose was greedy, he could grab the diary and run.
In this case, even if he didn't enter the third-floor nightmare, he could still learn the most critical information from the diary.
But Delicious Wind Goose still played safe.
In other words, he subconsciously chose a more cautious and safe approach to tackle the nightmare.
This was different from the other three front-line players who pioneer their path in the nightmare.
As Delicious Wind Goose opened the door and rushed over, he entered the fourth nightmare.
He was the first to successfully entered the fourth level of the nightmare, even after considering Annan.
At this place, there was a sudden change.
"—Wait? Isn't this place?"
"—Wait, Uncle Goose, don't go forward in a hurry!"
"—Fuck, is this dual-slot mode [1]?!"
"—Dual-slot mode. Such fatality."
The bullet text had such a big reaction because many of them had watched Jiu Er's live broadcast.
After Delicious Wind Goose pushed open the door on the third floor, it was no longer the previous hall that appeared in front of him.
It was a deep passage.
—It was the T-shaped passage that Jiu Er just smashed!
Both sides of the passage were dark red, and the ceiling and floor were light browns. But there was still a heavy red carpet on the ground. This place seemed to have only read at first glance.
Two lights next to Delicious Wind Goose went lit, illuminating the small area around him.
Other than that, there was nothing else…or rather, nothing could be seen.
Delicious Wind Goose also realized that something was wrong, "Why did you all overreact?"
"—Fermented Rice Ball also entered this map in the nightmare on the second floor!"
"—This is all fake, an illusion! Mutter 'this is fake' in your heart, and try to see if you can push the wall away?"
"—No! The illusion should be the second level that happened in history. This is a nightmare. Maybe it's real…"
"—Old Goose, you are in a T-shaped corridor. When you get to the innermost side, there are two forks on the road. Once you reach an end, there may be dangers once you turn around. Blood will rush out through the door's cracks."
The bullet text frantically advised Delicious Wind Goose.
The strategies flooded Delicious Wind Goose.
Annan also sent a bullet text over and maneuvered Goose as if he was the controller for the Goose Claw Machine:
"Old Goose, take a look at the content of the letter. Is there any difference from what Child God saw?"
[1] A method of communication between a Nintendo DS game card and a Game Boy Advance game cartridge by inserting both into the same Nintendo DS system.
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The entire thing with the gamers are so uninteresting and tedious to read. Does it matter in the main plot, are they interconnected like how it was done in Lord of the Mysteries? Haha it feels rather fillery and delays the story plot like a btch.


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32 famous quotes and sayings about Mick Taylor you must read.
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Mick Taylor Famous Quotes & Sayings
List of top 32 famous quotes and sayings about mick taylor to read and share with friends on your Facebook, Twitter, blogs.
Top 32 Mick Taylor Quotes
#1. It's sometimes impossible to fit in all the music we want to fit in, in an hour and 45 minute show. - Author: Mick Taylor
#2. I don't know why, but I never felt I was gonna stay with the Stones forever, even right from the beginning. - Author: Mick Taylor
#3. I suppose because I have a good ear, I could pick out harmonies and learn by ear. I still think that you have to have an ear for music to really be able to feel and understand what you're playing. You can learn by watching and listening to other people. - Author: Mick Taylor
#4. I do to keep things sounding fresh. Sometimes just changing the running order of the show is a good idea. - Author: Mick Taylor
#5. I'm sure if we had made an album that was more traditional would have been released immediately. When we actually play this music on stage and people become familiar with it, it will become more popular. - Author: Mick Taylor
#6. The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues. - Author: Mick Taylor
#7. Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players. male and female. - Author: Mick Taylor
#8. I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played. - Author: Mick Taylor
#9. It's not rubbish to say that I was a bit peeved about not getting credit for a couple of songs, but that wasn't the whole reason. I guess I just felt like I had enough. I decided to leave and start a group with Jack Bruce. - Author: Mick Taylor
#10. The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique. - Author: Mick Taylor
#11. I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with. - Author: Mick Taylor
#12. It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have. - Author: Mick Taylor
#13. I didn't think of myself as a lead player, especially when we did live shows, because me and Keith used to switch around all the time. He'd take a lead, I'd play rhythm. Sometimes even within one song. It wasn't strict and regimented. - Author: Mick Taylor
#14. The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed. - Author: Mick Taylor
#15. These days there's so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms. - Author: Mick Taylor
#16. Altamont ... I remember all of that. That was an awful day. - Author: Mick Taylor
#17. I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music. - Author: Mick Taylor
#18. It's frustrating actually, the time involved in getting something released these days. My new CD has actually been finished for a year. It's only now that it's being released. - Author: Mick Taylor
#19. What I've always lacked is a really strong band to back me up. - Author: Mick Taylor
#20. I play the piano a lot at home. I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage. I don't think I'll get the chance for a while. - Author: Mick Taylor
#21. If it wasn't for Mick, the group would've fallen apart a long time ago. - Author: Mick Taylor
#22. I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters. - Author: Mick Taylor
#23. I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing - the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song. - Author: Keith Richards
#24. The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there. - Author: Mick Taylor
#25. I certainly want to get back to the U.S. to play. It's such a big country. I've always liked playing there, and enjoyed living there. I lived in New York, LA, and Florida. - Author: Mick Taylor
#26. I have a really good band, and just returned from a short tour in California. It hasn't always gone that well. - Author: Mick Taylor
#27. Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea. - Author: Mick Taylor
#28. In this world, there's people like me, there's people like you. People like me eat people like you. - Author: Mick Taylor
#29. The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar tastes and aspirations and like music as much as you do. - Author: Mick Taylor
#30. I've never stopped learning. - Author: Mick Taylor
#31. If you've been playing for a few years, especially in a group context, you'll see if you have the ability or the passion to want to carry on. It's something that you have to be dedicated to and you've got to love, no matter what happens. - Author: Mick Taylor
#32. I never advise anyone to sacrifice something else because of music, but then I don't see why they would have to anyway. - Author: Mick Taylor
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Q: Spring Boot - Spring Rest - Build Package I am learning Spring Boot. I have just created my first project using maven, Spring Boot, Spring Rest support and MongoDB. It compiles successfully, but it resolves all the dependencies, but do not compile the java classes at all.
After compilation, jar file is correctly created, it contain lib folder, metadata etc, but it do not contain project class file at all.
Hence when i run the project with mvn spring-boot:run, it throws an exception that class not found (Main method class for Spring boot initialization).
Please suggest, what I am doing wrong here, here is my maven configuration class:
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<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">

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<properties>
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<parent>
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<groupId>com.assignment</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-assignment</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>

<dependencies>
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    <dependency>
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    <dependency>
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</project>

And here is the main initializer class:
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import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.EnableAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;

@Configuration
@EnableAutoConfiguration
@ComponentScan
public class BootInitializer {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
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What I need to do, to ensure that maven is compiling the java classes and including them in the jar file.
Thanks.

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I am learning Spring Boot.

Okay, good. Let's do one step at a time. Go to start.spring.io and generate a template project with whatever dependencies you want and whatever build tool (maven / gradle) you like. Build it and run it and see whether it is coming up or not. Then incrementally build on top of it.

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The Underberg House was originally a farmhouse built in 1860, when the lower mountain slopes still supported Wild Game, Leopard and Lynx. Some of the more popular visitors to the area included Lord Baden Powell and Rudyard Kipling who often used to take walks here.
More recently the guest house has been used as the production centre for the feature film "That English Woman"
If you feel like getting out a bit, take a quick stroll down to a corner coffee shop, boutique or restaurant or let us plan your day of activities and sightseeing in and around Cape Town. With attractions like Table Mountain hiking and Cable Car, V&A Waterfront, Kirstenbosch Gardens and the sandy beaches of Camps bay not more than a short ride away, you can have a day full of adventure followed by a night of Tranquillity in a peaceful private environment, with all the amenities to make your home away from home just that little bit more special.
The Underberg House is also ideal for business accommodation, with free Wi-Fi Internet and easy access to Cape Town's CBD, Cape Town International Convention Centre and the International Airport.
Have a look at what some of our guests had to say about their stay at Underberg House in our Guest Reviews or simply contact us to make a booking.
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Addis Ababa — The International Organization for Migration (IOM), in collaboration with the Government of Ethiopia and the National Theatre, launched a TV drama series called Mirage last Friday (30/11).
Mirage artistically depicts the intricate deception ploys employed by smugglers, and the exploitative techniques they use to deceive young vulnerable Ethiopians into taking irregular journeys in search of better opportunities.
The 13-episode TV series, which will start airing on Fana TV at 6:00 PM as of 8 December, features popular Ethiopian artists who were also engaged in script development, acting and directing.
The Government of Ethiopia has extended unwavering support in realizing the project, which is a part of an effort to prevent irregular migration within the country.
In Ethiopia, IOM is engaged in extensive awareness raising and behaviour change initiatives at grassroots level through community conversation, forum theatre performances and peer education, as well as community and school outreach. Mirage, while complementing the efforts of various stakeholders to prevent irregular migration, aims to foster better understanding of irregular migration by contributing to policy decisions and strengthening the response at various levels.
With a large number of Ethiopian returnees registered from the Middle East every month, it is clear that further steps should be taken to curb irregular migration. IOM and the Government of Ethiopia have stepped up their efforts in this area.
In addition to soft support through awareness raising efforts, the organization also provides reintegration assistance to vulnerable returnees through vocational skills training, education, psychosocial support and small business grants.
The project is financed by the Agency for Italian Development Cooperation.
National Theatre dancers performing the Traditional Gofa dance before the launch of 'Mirage' in Addis Ababa.
Launch of 'Mirage' at the Ethiopian National Theatre in Addis Ababa.


Ben Davies joined his team-mates at Springfields at the Preston North End first team returned for pre-season training and before getting started he spoke to iFollow PNE.
Ben Davies has spoken about the determination in the PNE squad to put together a good season in the upcoming campaign.
North End returned for their pre-season schedule this week and as well as long term seasonal targets, Davies has also set himself a more short term goal.
Speaking to iFollowPNE, he said: "At the end of last season we were so close to getting where we want to be, so there's a determination this year to come in and do well from the start.
"It's never easy, pre-season, but you definitely give yourself a few weeks break and then slowly build yourself up so you're not far behind, because the other boys will be doing it and you want to give yourself the best chance of coming back in good shape.
"We're all professional and we've done it enough times now to be aware of what to do. Everyone will have done the right work and will be ready to go.
After emerging from the last pre-season with eye-catching performances, that were taken into the season, ultimately leading to his young player of the year award, Ben is looking to deliver similar levels of performances; in his new No.6 shirt.
"I just need to come back and do similar to what I did last year. It was a good year for me and I definitely needed it, but I've got new targets this year. I'm looking to come back in the shape that I am and kick on from here.
There will be new arrivals joining Davies for the pre-season, and the former youth team graduate doesn't expect any problems gelling with the new players off the pitch.
"We've got a good squad here, we're all honest lads and we all give it our all day in day out to make sure we have the best chance of playing on a Saturday. It starts today and everyone is raring to go so we can have a good season.
You can watch the full interview with Ben Davies by clicking on the video above.


During the 1945-47 school years, Fort Wayne Bible Institute had a "Flying Club" made up of students with a vision for missionary aviation. Dr. S. A. Witmer, President of the institute at the time, was a pilot and no doubt encouraged the program. The club founded the Missionary Airmen's Fellowship. They met weekly for training, and if "school work was up to par" the members were allowed to fly (for a reasonable rate) the plane the Fellowship had leased.
Missionary Aviation Diploma In the 1947-48 catalog a program is outlined for the Missionary Aviation Diploma. Read the requirements of the program (1947-48 Catalog, p22). Turn to page 31 for the Private Pilot's Course requirements.
Unfortunately the program was only offered that one year due to the death of the instructor in a plane crash at the airport.
Read of the accident (The Bible Vision, Oct/Nov 1946, pp 24,25).
See the memorial page to Mr. Robert Pridy in the college yearbook (Light Tower, 1947, pages not numbered).


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Traffic has come to a stop on the A19 northbound after several vehicles were involved in a smash.
Monday, 24th April 2017, 7:17 am
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New Zealand-based startup Booktrack launched last year to provide e-book readers with something that they've been missing: soundtracks to go along with what they're reading. To push that idea forward, the startup has raised $2 million in Series B funding from Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, Park Road Post Production, Weta Digital GM Tom Greally, Sparkbox Ventures, New Zealand Venture Investment Fund, EFU Investments Ltd., Stephen Tindall's K One W One, and others.
The idea behind Booktrack is to make e-books more engaging by providing background music and sounds that go along with what you're reading. According to founder Paul Cameron, it's like providing the soundtrack to complement the text. Readers who try it out seem to like it — about 27 percent of customers who download a free sample purchase the book, and about 40 percent of those downloaded end up being read cover-to-cover.
Booktrack has been working with authors and publishers to create e-books that have soundtracks built in, creating a more immersive experience for readers (and listeners). Users can purchase and download these e-books through Booktrack's web site and mobile applications today, but it's looking to expand both the number of titles available and the distribution outlets that sell them.
So far, the startup has published soundtracks for books from the likes of James Frey and Salman Rushdie, and recently also released a soundtracked version of the Bible. But the key to its success will also depend on its ability to work with major publishing houses, which it's already starting to do. It's had books from Random House and HarperCollins, among others.
Distribution on other platforms and e-book stores will also be key to its growth. For that, it'll need to work with distributors like Amazon to deliver to Kindles natively. Booktrack uses the ePub format for publishing, so Cameron believes that it shouldn't be hard to get its files to convert and work on other platforms.
With the new funding, it's also working to roll out a self-serve platform to enable more authors and publishers to build soundtracks for its books. Today, it relies on audio processing at Post Road Post Production in Wellington, New Zealand — the post-production house founded by Peter Jackson. But it wants to make it simple so that anyone can create their own e-book soundtrack using its tools to sell on its website and through its apps.


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Ibrahim Al-Faqi or Ibrahim Elfiki (August 5, 1950 – February 10, 2012) was a human development and neuro-linguistic programming expert, was the CEO of the Canadian Training Centre for Human Development, and the founder of Ibrahim Elfiky International Enterprises Inc.

Early life
Ibrahim Mohammed El-Saied Elfiki in Alexandria, Egypt. He is a table tennis player and the champion of Egyptian Table Tennis League for many years, and represented Egypt in the World Table Tennis Championships in Munich 1969. Married from Amal Atieh and had two daughters, Nancy and Nermin.

In his professional life, he was promoted to the department director in the hospitality industry in the Helnan Palestine Hotel Alexandria. He immigrated to Canada to study management, and worked there as a dishwasher and a guard for a restaurant and porter in a hotel.

Bibliography
He has many visible and audio content from his lectures, and had written tens of books, some of them have been translated into English, French, Kurdish, and Indonesian.

Some of his self-help book titles:

 10 Keys To Ultimate Success
 Way to Success and Rich
 On The Road To Sales Mastery: The Ultimate Sales Guide
 The Path of Excellence
 Life without Tension
 Awaken Your Abilities and Make Your Future
 Successful personal secrets
 Control Your Life: To Be More Successful and Happy
 Neuro-linguistic Programming & Unlimited Communication Power
 12 Keys of Highly Successful Managers

Death
In Friday morning of February 10, 2012, Ibrahim Elfiki, his sister, and their housekeeper have been found dead after a fire break out at his apartment. The fire has started in the Ibrahim Al-Faqi Center for Human Development on the third floor and extended to the rest of the property's floors owned by Al-Faqi and resides in it, which cause to death of Elfiki, and his sister Fawqiyah Muhammad ElFiki (62 years old) and Nawal (The housekeeper).

References

1950 births
2012 deaths
Self-help writers
Neuro-linguistic programming writers
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Founded in December 2017 by Dr Pamela O'Neill, the Australian School of Celtic Learning is a community-oriented educational venture. Our vision is for a world where everyone has affordable and accessible opportunities to learn about the Celtic cultures. We present the latest and best research in the field of Celtic learning to all of our students, whether their interest is genealogical, spiritual, historical or linguistic.
Our programmes are arranged in four terms each year, each beginning on one of the Celtic festivals of Imbolc, Bealtaine, Lughnasadh and Samhain. We offer study days, evening courses, residential immersion schools and overseas study tours. Topics for our programmes range widely over topics of Celtic interest, with a particular focus on the early medieval period, and on medieval and modern Celtic languages.
Along with the rest of the Celtic Studies world, we were devastated by the loss, in August 2018, of our friend, colleague and mentor, Professor Anders Ahlqvist. Here are some items written by our Principal, Dr Pamela O'Neill, about Professor Ahlqvist:
Anders Ahlqvist imithe ar shlí na firinne
Obituary published in Tinteán 2018
Vale Professor Anders Ahlqvist
Obituary published in Australian Early Medieval Association News 2018
Ollam na nÉces: Anders Ahlqvist and Celtic Studies in Australia
Article published in The Land beneath the Sea: Essays in Honour of Anders Ahlqvist's Contribution to Celtic Studies in Australia 2013
The Australian School of Celtic Learning acknowledges the traditional owners and custodians of the land, seas and rivers of Australia. We recognise that our activities take place on their land. We pay our respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander elders past, present and future. We pay tribute to their importance in keeping and passing on knowledge, culture and heritage.


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Standard Cognition acquires Checkout Technologies to seed Europe presence
Category: #technology | By Hrishikesh Kadam | Date: 2020-05-20 |
US-based startup Standard Cognition has reportedly announced its acquisition of Italian competitor, Checkout Technologies. This alliance with the Milan-based company has been undertaken in an effort to boost the size of its engineering team as well as ensure its expansion across the European market.
Standard's co-founder and CEO, Jordan Fisher, commented on the acquisition, stating that this move would allow the company to attain solid technology, a robust team of highly skilled machine learning and AI engineers, as well as a strong presence in Europe. He claimed that the addition of this engineering power would aid significantly in accelerating Standard's autonomous checkout roadmap and ensure faster delivery of novel innovations to customers.
Checkout Technologies' founder and CEO, Enrico Pandian also expressed his views on the alliance. He has reportedly acknowledged Standard's position as a clear leader in the automated checkout space and expressed anticipation at becoming a part of their team. Alluding to the common retail issues being addressed by both companies, Mr. Pandian has said that, together, the firms can make significant inroads in the global retail business space.
Checkout Technologies' largest investor, Pariter Partners has also acknowledged the merits of the deal. In fact, partner and founder Jari Ognibeni has reportedly claimed that this acquisition will help highlight the deep tech expertise and vibrant startup community across Italy, which is quickly becoming the most lucrative foundation for expansion in the European market.
According to Fisher, Milan is an evolving hub for AI and machine learning R&D efforts. He went on to say that Standard Cognition is looking forward to bolstering its presence across Europe with this acquisition, and by investing in Milan's burgeoning technology landscape.
For the uninitiated, Standard Cognition is one of the first and best-funded startups to begin operations in the autonomous checkout business space. It is also the first company to open a cashierless store, based in San Francisco, and has earned recognition from Fast Company magazine as "One of the World's 50 Most Innovative Companies".
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South African Open 1973 - чоловічий і жіночий тенісний турнір, що проходив на відкритих кортах з твердим покриття у Йоганнесбургу (ПАР). Належав до серії Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix 1973. Відбувсь усімдесяте і тривав з 14 до 27 листопада 1973 року. Джиммі Коннорс і Кріс Еверт здобули титул в одиночному розряді.

Фінальна частина

Чоловіки. Одиночний розряд
 Джиммі Коннорс —  Артур Еш 6–4, 7–6, 6–3

Одиночний розряд. Жінки
 Кріс Еверт —  Івонн Гулагонг 6–3, 6–3

Парний розряд. Чоловіки
 Артур Еш /  Том Оккер —  Лью Гоуд /  Роберт Мауд 6–2, 4–6, 6–2, 6–4

Парний розряд. Жінки
 Лінкі Бошофф /  Ілана Клосс —   Кріс Еверт /  Вірджинія Вейд 7–6, 2–6, 6–1

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My only 10. This is absolutely brilliant. The only thing I might change is way its cropped, but that is personal preference. Nicely done.
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"Vernal Fall Vista" ~ View of the 317' tall Vernal Fall and the Merced River along the Mist Trail in Yosemite National Park. The falls are about 80' wide at the top. Notice the tree stump to the right of the falls, it's the same tree that appears in Ansel Adams' classic photo of Vernal Fall, circa 1948.


As you may know, I have been attempting to volunteer my services at Mandarin Middle School. It's been about a month now and I've made two separate trips to visit them, but no one from that school has ever contacted me.
If you'd like to see that complete story, it begins here.
If you know me from your visits to Daily Teaching Tools, you may also know that I spent my final five years as a teacher at Twin Lakes Middle School. So, my thinking went, why not offer my services there?
I called and spoke to the principal's secretary and inquired about volunteering. It just so happened that the principal herself was standing nearby–her secretary told her it was me and mentioned why I was calling.
I have to say my timing was not accidental. I knew that all schools in this county would be testing throughout the week of April 16. As a matter of fact, the people I talk to at Mandarin Middle School mentioned that is one possibility for my services.
Of course, you know how that worked out.
So, two years and five months after leaving Twin Lakes, I returned and was warmly greeted by my former colleagues.
I found out while talking with them that the sixth graders this year for the first time were scheduled to take their FCAT reading test online. If you're not familiar with testing in the state of Florida, the FCAT is the high-stakes standardized testing given to students each year.
They didn't give me much time to do much talking. They put me to work right away.
The first thing they asked me to do was to carry a large, rather heavy, cardboard box to the media center.
When I arrived in the media center, I realized that a group of sixth graders had already gotten there and were preparing to take their test online.
It turned out that the contents of the box I was carrying were several large pieces of folded white cardboard that were to be used as study carrels separating one workstation from the next one. The only problem was that they had to be put together.
The sixth grade house administrator, another volunteer, and I worked feverishly to assemble these things in time for the students to take their tests. I asked the house administrator why this had not been done ahead of time and all he could do was shrug his shoulders.
While all the kids and the test proctor waited, we pieced these things together with six plastic clips per carrel and began placing them around the individual computers. Surprisingly enough everyone remained quiet and patient as we completed this task.
Once everything was in place, the proctor was able to begin reading the directions.
At that point, I returned to the main office to find out what they would like me to do next.


As part of the scientific and student activities of Ibn Hayyan College, the College attended the GTX ICT Exhibition which was held on the ground of the Baghdad International Fair from 27/6/2018 until 1/7/2018 in the wing of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. In the Department of Dentistry, who said in a statement singled out by the Department of Media College that the purpose of the establishment of this exhibition is to identify the potential in universities, colleges and private companies in the field of information and communication technology.
Test the second and third sessions of the training and qualification program.


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IS runaway teen's baby son dies in Syria
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New battle looms for Islamic State's last Syria enclave
Islamic State closer to defeat in last Syrian enclave
US-backed fighters move closer to taking last IS Syria pocket
Syrian Kurds hail Trump's call for repatriation of IS fighters
Islamic State's 'caliphate' on brink of defeat in Syria
Syria Islamic State group Syrian Democratic Forces Shamima Begum
Renu Begum, sister of teenage British girl Shamima Begum, holds a photo of her sister as she makes an appeal for her to return home at Scotland Yard, in London, Britain February 22, 2015. Reuters
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The baby son of Shamima Begum, a British-born teenager who left London to join the Islamic State group, has died in Syria, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces said Friday.
Begum, 19, who was stripped of her citizenship by the British government despite her wish to return, gave birth last month in a refugee camp in northeast Syria.
The baby died of pneumonia, according to a medical certificate, the BBC reported.
She had previously given birth to two other children who are said to have died, apparently from illness and malnutrition.
SDF spokesman Mustefa Bali confirmed the death to AFP but declined to specify how or when it happened. He had previously denied the baby had died in a Twitter post that has since been deleted.
Her case has highlighted a dilemma facing many European countries, divided over whether to allow jihadists and IS sympathisers home to face prosecution or bar them from entry as the so-called Islamic State group's "caliphate" crumbles.
The runaway teen, who left East London for Syria when she was 15 years-old with two other schoolgirls, said last month she wanted to return to Britain after fleeing fighting between the terror group and US-backed forces.
At the time, Ms Begum told the BBC: "Losing my children the way I lost them, I don't want to lose this baby as well and this is really not a place to raise children, this camp."
But public sentiment hardened against Begum after she showed little remorse about IS attacks in media interviews from the refugee camp in eastern Syria.
Home Secretary Sajid Javid revoked her citizenship, deeming her a security risk, although the government had hinted her newborn son could be treated differently.
After news of the baby boy's death emerged, senior opposition figure Diane Abbott criticised the government's decision.
"It is against international law to make someone stateless, and now an innocent child has died as a result of a British woman being stripped of her citizenship," she tweeted.
"This is callous and inhumane."
A mass exodus from the jihadists' last redoubt in eastern Syria has sparked a humanitarian emergency, as the SDF leads an offensive to smash the last remnants of the IS territory.
The International Rescue Committee on Friday said that 12,000 women and children had arrived at the Kurdish-run Al-Hol camp since Wednesday.
Since December, at least 100 people have died en route to the camp or shortly after arriving, mostly children under five, the IRC said.
Khamenei expresses support for Guards
Foreign powers to push Libyan rivals for truce in Berlin
Dozens killed as Damascus presses Idlib offensive
Regime air raids kill 18 civilians in Idlib city
Israel responds to Gaza projectiles with air strikes
US-Iran war would bring 'untold chaos' warns Jordan's king
UN official blames politicians for Lebanon "chaos", protesters target banks


A British anti-gay group called "Straight Pride UK" sent a press-release to a British blogger, expressing their admiration for Vladimir Putin's anti-gay laws, and the measures taken in African countries to criminalise gay people (Robert Mugabe has threatened to decapitate gay people). Afterwards, they changed their mind about the interview and sent a fraudulent DMCA takedown notice to WordPress.com, the blogger's host. WordPress -- who should have seen that there was no possible copyright violation in the interview -- caved and cooperated in censoring the post.
Hotham says that Nick Steiner, a press officer for the group, said in a document headed 'press release': "Straight Pride support what Russia and Africa is doing, these country have morals and are listening to their majorities."
"These countries are not 'anti-gay' – that is a term always used by the homosexual agenda to play the victim and suppress opinions and views of those against it.
"These countries have passed laws, these laws are to be respected and no other country should interfere with another country's laws or legislation."
When asked who the symbol of straight pride would be, the spokesman expressed more support for Vladimir Putin, whose crackdown on gay rights has been the trigger to a widespread anti-gay campaign in Russia.


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One in a million! Modern soul heroes Cool Million celebrate their 10th anniversary in typically cool style
Retro Hero Raphael Saadiq continues his enthralling musical journey with sick collabs and brotherly love
Soul's forgotten royal It may be 51 years since her last studio album but for P.P. Arnold, it's just the beginning!
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A FEW WORDS FROM THE EDITOR: ISSUE 1043... We have a superb double cover this issue with 2 huge acts which share a theme, which is their reputations for retro-infused music mastery. In no particular order, we have Cool Million celebrating their 10th anniversary with us - there's a new album featuring, amongst others, the group's long admired soul hero D Train. Our double issue is completed by the ridiculously talented r&b/soul artist and go-to producer for that authentic retro-soul sound, Raphael Saadiq. Saadiq's new release, a break from the norm you could say, see's his new album devoted entirely to his late brother Jimmy Lee. This slightly dark subject matter still has all the light moments you would expect from a Saadiq release and with songwriting and production are on-point as always. And How do you follow those artists? Well, how about soul royal P.P. Arnold who has combined with Ocean Colour Scene's Steve Cradock to release her first studio album in over 51 years! Amazing by any standards, P.P. gives us the full rundown on her new release "The Adventures Of…". Next up, Tony Lindsay was Santana's vocalist for over 20 years and now he has gone solo, we talk to the 11 times Grammy winner about his new album and what's it like working with Carlos Santana. Australian authentic soul band The Teskey Brothers are about to make use waves on this side of the Atlantic and B&S is there to witness their first steps. This band has huge potential and a hugely talented lead singer who will make you fall in love with soul music all over again, Josh Teskey is that good! If you love dance music, then look no further… one of THE names in dance today is Rasmus Faber, a Swedish house producer who knows no boundaries and his new album is testimony to that statement, we talk to Faber about his new album and how he created his latest aural masterpiece. Talking of elite producers, we don't just have one this issue, how about innovating US superstar house DJ/producer Ralphi Rosario. We get all info on his contribution to new album "Wake Up! Music Remixes DJ Wall Of Sound Volume 1-Matt Warren's Music Is My Life" plus a candid insight into the career choices which helped shape his future in dance music, enthralling stuff! Our dance coverage doesn't just stop there, we talk to DJ/station boss Danny Swallow A.K.A. DJ Master Pasha and his cohort Max Fernandez, together they form the formidable DJ'ing partnership Boys At Work, we hear about the return of on-point dance radio station Centreforce - it's been 30 long years since the station graced the airwaves but boy is it back AND we are pleased to say, the whole station is smashing it! We bring you the whole Centreforce story, find out where they have been for 30 years and where they now plan to go! Duncan Payne delivers yet another unmissable slice of black music history via the Blues & Soul Years, this time travelling back to 1989 and the year of the funky dread, Soul II Soul made their mark not only on UK music scene but had their eyes fixed firmly on global domination. Chart wise, the iconic Hip List continues as THE go-to list for r&b and soul releases… we have gathered sales figures and up to the minute release lists from near and far to create a chart which is second to none. Other charts featured in this issue include the Smoove Groove R&B Chart, the Grooveyard Essential Dance Chart, Richard Searling lists his all-time Northern Soul "Best OF British" releases and to compliment The B&S Years we also feature best of charts and B&S poll winners from 1989. As usual, we have been ringside at a whole host of live events and we bring the best of those to you this issue, including Glastonbury (Somerset), Parklife (Manchester), OnBlackheath (Greenwich, London), Love Supreme Festival (Lewes, East Sussex), Malta Jazz Festival (Valetta) and B&S' Frank Elson returns to one of his favourite venues, The Birdtrap in Lancashire.... Talking of B&S columnists… as well as Frank Elson sharing his thought on the Northern Soul scene, we have Richard Searling (Northern Soul), Ben Lovett (Dance), Bigger (R&B) and Ralph Tee (Modern Soul) all sharing their expertise and views on the genres we all love. There's just time to mention a new page we have introduced this issue. We are consistently blown away by the comments from readers and artists regarding our efforts to bring you the best mag we possibly can so we thought we would share a few of those social posts with you. This will be a regular feature in each issue so if you want your comments featured in print, get posting! And you could see your comments featured in our next issue. All B&S social media tags are featured on this page so come and find us and let us know what you think. Till next time! Lee Tyler (Blues & Soul magazine Editor) Twitter/Insta: @LeeTyler13B&S
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Natty Kasambala talks to platinum selling B&S artist of the year Khalid about his thoughts, feelings and methodology making his storytelling masterclass of debut album, "American Teen"...
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Lisa Stansfield: G Live, Guildford, Surrey 22/10/19
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Steam Down : Free My Skin
It's a classic case and fine example of a band taking their time and effort in developing their sound to perfection and showing their skill sets in a different light.
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Elle Varner:Only Wanna Give It To You (MBK Entertainment/RCA)
One word tells you all you need to know about US singer Elle Varner�s debut UK single, �Only Wanna Give It To You.� That word is �HIT.� But let�s add a second word to avoid doubt: �BIG HIT."
Barrie Sharpe : Rhythm Rhyme Revolution # 3
Sharpe always has plenty going on to set him apart from the retrogressive and formulaic stylings of the day as he exclaims with one good notion on 'The Revolution Will Be Funky'.
Brandon Williams: The Love Factor (Soulasis Music Group)
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Metronomy - Small World - Includes this amazing 12x12 4 page physical comic book based on the "It's good to be back" video when purchasing the LP.
Now on album number seven , Metronomy has continued where many of their 2000s 'cool' band peers have dropped off along the way. Small World is a return to simple pleasures, nature, an embracing in part of more pared down, songwriterly sonics (some moments wouldn't sound amiss on a Wilco release), all while asking broader existential questions: which feels at least somewhat rooted in the period of time during which it was made – 2020. For all that Mount seems to think he has made a comparatively sombre record, much of Small World still pulses with the zesty, tongue-in-cheek joie de vivre you'd expect of a Metronomy record.
So sure, things are different now Joe Mount is getting older and what's on his mind is changing, but that doesn't mark a change in quality for Metronomy. An immaculate set of tracks, Joe Mount's ability as a songwriter and arranger shines through on Small World, evergreen. Metronomy might be growing up, but they're not afraid to still have fun with it all. Through the tumultuous ebb and flow of the years, Metronomy continues to endure and make great pop music – and, really, that's all that we could ask for.
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Overnight showers of hail, sleet and snow have resulted in icy conditions across some parts of the Isles this morning. Dr. Eddie Graham, weather correspondent for the Stornoway Gazette, reports a minimum air temperature of -1°C in Stornoway town this morning, together with a very low -6°C on the ground.
According to Eddie, the cold and icy weather is here to stay for a few days at least. However, the good news is that it is likely to be much drier and brighter than of late, with some nice crisp winter sunshine at times.
Heavy snow and hail showers are also likely too though – and some significant lying snow is possible, especially later on Friday, says Eddie.
Extremely temperatures below -10C are possible on the mainland over the coming weekend.
The change in the weather to more winter-like conditions has followed one of the wettest and mildest starts to winter on record across Scotland.
For the country as a whole, a record 351mm (14 inches) of rain fell during December, whilst average air temperatures were more akin to those during October or November.


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IATA: Mexico's New Airport Crucial for Passenger Growth
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Mexico risks losing long-term passenger growth and billions of dollars if it fails to go through with building a new hub in the capital to alleviate congestion, an executive with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said on Tuesday.
Mexico's incoming government last week postponed a decision on whether to complete a partially constructed new airport in Mexico City, saying the public should be consulted on the fate of the $13-billion hub, which the next president initially opposed.
President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said the project was tainted by corruption prior to his July 1 landslide election victory, and had pressed for an existing military airport north of the capital to be expanded instead.
Without the new airport, around 20 million fewer passengers would fly to Mexico City starting in 2035, year over year, said Peter Cerda, regional vice president in the Americas for IATA.
It would also mean a long-term loss of $20 billion from Mexico's GDP and cost the country 200,000 jobs, according to an airline-industry study on the financial impact of not building the new airport, Cerda said.
IATA, the Montreal-based trade association, has 290 member airlines which together transport about 82 percent of global air traffic.
Passenger traffic is expected to double by 2035 on a global basis, including Latin America, Cerda said in an interview.
"If you don't build an airport that's able to meet the needs of the next 50 years you just cannot continue to grow," Cerda said on the sidelines of the International Aviation Forecast Summit in Denver. "And that has financial implications for the country."
Work began on the new airport, which is a few miles northeast of the current one, in 2015. The present airport, located in the east of Mexico City, has become increasingly saturated by rising air traffic and has no room to expand.
"This is an airport that was built for 32 million passengers a year and currently we have 45 million passengers traveling through," Cerda said.
Cerda urged Mexico to make any decision on "technical justifications" rather than "public outcry that may not fully understand the consequences."
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Trump tariffs are based on flawed pre-global doctrines, which penalize US multinationals, as evidenced by Apple. It is not China that fails Americans, but US taxation, as evidenced by Apple.
In the pre-1914 era and during the protectionist interwar period, global economic integration declined drastically. As major corporations competed largely in home markets, their value activities were mainly domestic. Following World War II, the US-led Bretton Woods system ensured a greater degree of internationalization – including systemic US trade deficits since 1971, decades before deficits with China.
Thereafter in the '80s, US multinationals began to cut costs through offshoring as large chunks of productive capacity were transferred to emerging markets, especially in Asia. So today the "eco-systems" of US multinationals are increasingly global.
Here's Trump's dilemma in a nutshell: While tariffs and tariff wars were typical to the era of domestic competition a century ago, they do not work in a more global era. Even "made in China" products feature diverse value-added inputs by multinational companies producing in, exporting from and selling in China.
In a recent tweet, Trump urged Apple to manufacture in the US, not China. It's a bad advice. As prices would soar, Apple's profitability would plunge since it makes 60%-70% of its revenues abroad. If the company would comply, its manufacturing price would soar because of higher labor costs, and loss of advanced manufacturing, logistics and infrastructure in China.
The iPhone is not a marginal example. It alone accounts for an estimated $16 billion of the U.S. trade deficit with China.
Since iPhone alone accounts for some $16 billion of the U.S. trade deficit with China, let's use it as an example. According to data, the initial sale price of Apple's iPhone X (64BG) was $999. The Trump administration's tariffs are based on the idea that since this smart phone is made in China, all value-added is captured in China and by China and thus it must be penalized by heavy tariffs.
The breakdown of the iPhone X costs comprises both manufacturing costs ($378) and value shared between distributors and Apple ($621), which accounts for almost two-thirds of total costs. Another fourth of the total consists of various components made in South Korea, Japan, the US, UK, Switzerland, and Singapore.
China's key contribution is in the basic manufacturing costs ($8) plus battery packs ($6), which is less than 4 percent of the manufacturing cost and 1.4 percent of the total cost of iPhone X (Figure).
Is the iPhoneX an exception? No. Before the fall of Nokia, Europe captured 51% of the value-added of the Nokia N95 smart phone, even when it was "Made in China," because the final assembly (read: China) involved 2% of the overall value-added.
Obviously, the share of Chinese value-added differs by industries and companies, yet it tends be very low in the case of multinational companies operating in China, particularly in advanced technology. The same goes for such companies operating in India or other emerging markets. "Made in China" value-added does not go to China.
That's precisely why Beijing seeks China's rapid transition from exports and investment toward innovation and consumption. After all, like Apple and Nokia, Chinese industry giants – from Huawei and Xiaomi to Oppo and Vivo – capture far more of the value-added. As Vice Premier Liu He has urged, China must innovate if it wants to be a world leader in science and technology.
There is one critical difference, however. Through taxation, Nokia's success benefited Finnish taxpayers and its European investors. Most EU multinationals are constrained by similar taxation rules. In contrast, Apple's success does not necessarily accrue to American taxpayers because many US multinationals, unlike their European counterparts rely on creative tax accounting or tax havens.
Theoretically, Apple should be the largest taxpayer in the world and pay $38 billion in taxes brought home from overseas and "create" 20,000 new jobs. But as Fortune has reported, that's all spin. Instead, Apple plans to collect a huge windfall from the Republicans' corporate tax handout. Currently it holds about $252 billion - more than 90% of its cash - in profits offshore, where it can avoid paying US taxes.
Indeed, before Trump's tax code overhaul, Apple would have paid $79 billion in taxes if it had brought the money home. But it didn't. Instead, it let the cash sit offshore for years. So its offshore profits will be taxed at a one-time, 15.5% repatriation rate. All other corporate profits will be taxed at 21% (down from the pre-Trump rate of 35%).
In the postwar era, the old adage was "What's good for General Motors is good for America." What Apple and many other US multinationals are doing today may not be illegal, but it is part of a broader problem associated with America's decline.
Here's the bottom line: Chinese share of 2%+ of the value-added pie is not the problem. Trump's tariffs are a misguided solution to a wrong problem.
The real question is why US companies' lucrative profits yield so few benefits to ordinary Americans but such great benefits to few and wealthy corporate insiders.