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A Culture of Professionalism and Caring: Keller Williams Metro Center Realty
By Barbara Pronin
Shane McCullar, Principal Broker/CEO, Keller Williams Metro Center Realty
Right out of college, Shane McCullar wanted to be a REALTOR®. "But I couldn't afford it," he says. "I knew I needed a financial cushion to get started." He accrued that cushion as an investment broker, then followed his heart into the real estate business, where he quickly worked his way into management, opening Chicago and Northern California offices for Keller Williams before launching his Keller Williams brokerage in Virginia in 2007. It was, as Charles Dickens wrote, "the best of times and the worst of times"—worst because the industry was headed into the worst slump in its history, best because it signaled the culmination of McCullar's longtime dream.
In this spotlight, McCullar shares his strategy for defying troubled times, his effort to make KW Metro Center Realty the powerhouse it is today, and his lifelong belief that hard work plus a passion for excellence is the best recipe for success.
Barbara Pronin: Shane, walk us through your first years as operating principal, and how you grew that single office in Alexandria, Va., into KW Metro Center Realty.
Shane McCullar:It was a growth experience, for sure—and pretty tough at the beginning, with 40 devoted agents fighting to survive when so many were leaving the industry. It took persistence and innovation, and a will to make it work, but we had two important things in our favor. First, we had the training and marketing support of the Keller Williams brand, which was no small advantage. Second, we learned to make the best of local opportunity, and to create opportunity where we could. As a result, once we found our footing, we knew we were unstoppable. In 2014, we acquired the Arlington and Tysons offices, and it was the merging of the three agencies that created KW Metro Center Realty.
BP: How many agents does the firm have today, and how would you characterize your positioning in your market?
SM:We are among the leading residential brokerages in our marketplace, with 635 agents in our three offices closing nearly 3,000 transactions and $1.5 billion in 2017. And I'm pleased to report that we're trending toward a 14 percent increase this year, expecting to hit $1.7 billion in 2018.
BP: What has been your approach to growth over the years, and what are your goals for expansion?
SM:I am bullish on the market both short- and long-term, due to our hyper-local positioning and the expanding job market in our area. With the military, baseline business companies and the federal government right across the river in D.C.—which has never seen a housing decline—we have plenty of opportunity to grow. More recently, Facebook and Amazon have put Northern Virginia on their short list of locations to house their eastern expansion, creating another frenzy of activity and pushing housing into the forefront of the conversation. We are currently launching another office, and we plan to acquire two more by the end of this year.
BP: Given the current state of your markets, what are your greatest challenges and opportunities?
SM:Our markets are very robust, as I explained, and I believe that trend will continue, given the low interest-rate environment. Job opportunity has our unemployment rate at 3.2 percent, where it's been hovering for some time. Our challenges have to do mostly with the inventory shortages, given low construction rates for some years. Fortunately, we are seeing new construction pick up, which is timely since we are experiencing an explosion of millennials taking jobs in D.C. and migrating into the Arlington area. As a group, these young people are very savvy about the buying process, and they come well prepared financially, which makes our job as a consultant a bit easier in some respects.
BP: What are you doing differently to set your firm and its agents apart from the competition?
SM:For openers, I credit the Keller Williams brand, which currently leads the field in terms of closed volume, closed units and agent count, despite the fact that we do no advertising. Our success comes largely from Keller Williams' agent-centric model and a training system that is second to none. We lead the industry in technology, pushing the limits by allocating $1 billion toward technological advances, including artificial intelligence. Our goal is to equip our agents with the best in technology so they can stay focused on knowing their local markets and being a full-service advocate for their clients. Also, at KW Metro Center, we offer mandatory productivity coaching, with dedicated multimillion-dollar agents mentoring new agents. It's a program designed to have high accountability mixed with real-world, real-time information.
BP: What most attracts agents to your firm, and why do they stay?
SM:Our world-class training and capped commission structure attracts them, but our culture is what keeps them loyal. We believe that being the largest comes with a responsibility to raise the standards for professionalism. No one person, no one transaction, is worth the reputation of our firm—ever. We also believe we should take care of those in need within our company—a belief that is executed through our KW Cares program at the national level, and also in each of our offices at the local level. With the approval of our Agent Leadership Council, we can respond within hours to provide help to any of our agents and their families—as we did in a very massive way after Hurricane Katrina, when so many were completely wiped out. We believe strongly in community involvement and philanthropy at the local level, and we raised millions to assist others after the flooding in Houston, and again after the flooding in Puerto Rico. Our agents come together often to host charitable fundraising events.
BP: Speaking of company culture, how would you describe your leadership philosophy?
SM:Our leadership philosophy is based on collaboration, transparency, the highest level of agent support and adding value to the agents and clients we interact with every day to ensure that they are able to build what we like to call "a life by design." In fact, we have an eight-week course custom-designed to create those habits. We call it BOLD, which stands for "Business Objective, a Life by Design." In short, we deliver on our value proposition by assisting our agents—and, by extension, our clients—in achieving their life goals.
BP: Please elaborate on your approach to coaching and training.
SM:We approach this on multiple levels, offering an abundance of in-person training on a daily and weekly basis in all three of our offices. As I mentioned, we have our top producers and office leaders teaching these events, which are open to any of our agents throughout the Metro Center area. Training Magazine named Keller Williams the No. 1 company for training in America, putting us ahead of Google, McDonald's, Starbucks and a host of other Fortune 500 companies. That is an award we treasure, as it underlines our promise and ability to deliver on our value proposition.
BP: What are some of your most innovative marketing strategies, and how are they helping you better connect with consumers?
SM:We are proud of the branding of KW Metro Center, which is hyper-local and consistent in social media, in our web presence and in our signage—right down to our signature red sign post. But our best marketing strategy, really, is pouring personal and business development skills into our agents, which allows them to expand their vision and take their business to a higher level. We teach them how to build a true business, leveraging their systems, tools and training. That's what it takes to build a successful and long-lasting business regardless of the current business climate. That's a strategy I learned early, and which I aim to pass on to every agent. Our brand is highly professional in marketing and in every other way, so when a consumer works with a KW Metro Center agent, they can have ultimate peace of mind.
BP: You've talked about technology, but how do you stay ahead of the curve on that, as well as in online marketing and social media?
SM:Keller Williams recently added "becoming a technology-based company" to its mission statement. We will always help the consumer buy, sell and invest in real estate; however, we recognize the need to lead the industry in technology, and that has been a major focus of our international company and our founder, Gary Keller. He is a leader and innovator who was recently recognized as the "most influential person in real estate" in the Swanepoel Power 200 in 2017.
BP: What's on deck for the future of your firm?
SM:First, massive growth in closed transactions and marketshare through having the most highly trained agents in the business backed by the most powerful and scalable technological tools. Second, the expansion of teams, both locally and nationally. Our plan is based very simply on giving and doing our best. The future of KW Metro Center rests on our greatest asset: our agents and our leadership teams.
For more information, please visit www.kwmetrocenter.com.


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Q: How can I write a function in python to list in a single row all the items for every customer? I need to feed this data to a Markov chain model.
This is how my data looks like (the format is a csv file):

And this is how I would like the output format of the parsing function (that I would ultimately end up putting in a text file):
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A: Do you want to reshape the dataframe and save the non-NaN values?
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"Marriages of convenience" in India a threat to Canadian immigration system: CBSA report
By Peter O'Neil, Vancouver Desi | Link to Article
More than a third of the applications to bring new spouses to Canada from India may involve bogus marriages, according to internal government documents made public on Tuesday.
"Marriages of convenience" in India "have become a threat to the integrity of Canada's immigration program," states the 2013 report from the Canada Border Services Agency's enforcement and intelligence operations directorate.
Applications involving Indian nationals engaged in phoney marriages "are constantly evolving and creatively testing the bounds of the Canadian immigration system."
The report, which cited statistics up to 2012, said it is "presumed" that there is a link between organized crime and the arrangement of phoney marriages.
The broader problem of marriage fraud primarily involves applicants from 10 to 15 countries. The report identifies China, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Cambodia, Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, Guyana and Haiti as the "high risk" countries involving Canadian permanent residents sponsoring bogus spouses under the immigration system's family-class section, according to Border Services.
But the report said the problem appears to be "most prevalent" in India and it makes an unsubstantiated assertion that "it has been estimated that as much as 36 per cent of the spousal caseload" involving that country "may be fraudulent."
The report offers suggestions to Border Services and Citizenship and Immigration Canada officials to detect fraud, but that advice was not released under provisions of the Access to Information Act protecting sensitive information.
Nationally, the document shows that the refusal rate on spousal applications from all countries had been around 14 per cent from 2008 to 2011, but jumped to 17 per cent in 2012 when there were a little over 4,500 applications.
The author also delves into the implications to Canada's immigration system of sex-selection abortions, citing statistics showing that there are 940 females for every 1,000 males in India due to the preference for having male children.
The report says the disparity is even wider in Punjab state, which is the main source of Indian migration to Canada, and notes that there are "reports" of a gender disparity within Indo-Canadian communities due to this phenomenon.
The agency implies that the resulting shortage of Indian women of marriageable age could somehow — it's not clear how because key lines in the report being censored — hurt Canada's immigration system.

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Q: Understanding Provisioning Profiles and Airwatch MDM I support a handful of enterprise iOS apps that are distributed using AirWatch MDM.  Initially, the first couple of apps were distributed all sharing the same wildcard provisioning profile.
We recently rolled out a series of apps that used the App Group capability which could not use the wildcard profile so each app created its own provisioning profile.
We have run into a couple of issues with these new apps now that the profiles are expiring.  Trying to distribute the new profile via AirWatch has been unsuccessful and the only thing that has a worked for us is to deploy a new app update.  I worry this approach is not really sustainable as some of these apps likely will not be updated within a year or 2 of profile updates.
I have a couple of questions from an Airwatch/MDM consulting perspective:

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*Is it best practice to have each app in an enterprise format have its
own profile or share profiles if possible?

*Is it possible to distribute a profile with capabilities remotely?

*When the certificate expires, is there anyway to fix the apps without
updating every app across the enterprise using the expiring
certificate?

*Can I revoke the active certificate that is used for internally published apps prior to the expiration date without impacting them?

*From a certificate administration perspective, should we create a shared Apple ID with a generic login or tie it to one particular developer?
We have very few apps now but it has become a bit of a support issue each time these expiration dates roll around and I feel like there has to be a better way for an enterprise to manage this that has hundreds of internal apps.

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Is it best practice to have each app in an enterprise format have its
  own profile or share profiles if possible?

Yes. I always use a specific provisioning profile for every app I manage. Using wildcard may seem easier, and it takes more time to set up every single profile, but it's more manageable.

Is it possible to distribute a profile with capabilities remotely?

Yes, but distributing the new profile via Airwatch doesn't always work.
It's rather a problem of signing more than capabilities

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*If the new provisioning profile is signed with the same distribution certificate, pushing it via AirWatch may work. But sometimes it won't and the user will have to manually remove and reinstall the app.

*If the new profile uses a new certificate the apps will NOT receive the update. Don't trust airwatch's information about app expiration in the apps list!

My advice is to create a new version of the app and sign the IPA with the new provisioning profile, then release it as an update.
And additional advantage is that you'll keep track of who has the older version (which will stop working when the profile expires) while the new version will work just fine.

When the certificate expires, is there anyway to fix the apps without updating every app across the enterprise using the expiring certificate?

No, I usually increase the version number, create a new IPA, re-generate the provisioning prodile, use it to sign the IPA, and distribute the app as an update using AirWatch.

Can I revoke the active certificate that is used for internally published apps prior to the expiration date without impacting them?

No, if you revoke a certificate every app that uses it will stop working.
Source: https://help.apple.com/developer-account/#/dev7d381a7ff
See Apple documentation on managing expired certificates, it's long but exaustive.

From a certificate administration perspective, should we create a shared Apple ID with a generic login or tie it to one particular developer?

Use roles. The team Agent is the admin of the account and is used only when you have to accept new TOS, renew the membership, etc.
Set up developer accounts (I prefer one for each developer, so that everyone has it's own developer certificate) and make the team leader admin of the develoepr account.
This way the team leader can set up the apps for the deploy while the developer will focus on coding.
I understand it may seem complex, but once you get used to this structure you'll appreciate how manageable it is, and usually the team leader can manage many developer accounts with little work.
Supporting your mobile apps, releasing updates to follow new iOS releases and bug-fixing are time-consuming activity. And so is maintaining certificates and deploying apps. You should charge your customer for these services too, if you make B2B


Traverse City is quickly gaining more popularity as one of the top family-friendly destinations, not only in Michigan and the Midwest, but the entire nation – and for a good reason. With an ideal location in northern Michigan located right by the water, miles and miles of beaches to explore, water activities, fun family activities, and exciting events- what's a family not to love? Although there are hundreds of kid-friendly activities to explore with kids, take a look at our family's top 5 picks. In fact, we're positive you'll have a wonderful time in the Cherry Capital of the World that we've partnered with our sponsor Grand Traverse Resort and Spa to offer you a 2 night family-friendly stay perfect for your Traverse City getaway. Read on for more details!
There's a good reason why Traverse City is named the Cherry Capital of the World – it produces over 75 percent of the world's tart cherries which not only means tons of cherries, but tons of cherry trees. Can you imagine 2 million cherry trees blossoming amongst the gorgeous blues of the waters? Luckily, during our visit at the end of May, we were still able to see some of the cherry blossoms on our drive through the picturesque and beautiful Leelanau and Old Mission Peninsula. To completely immerse yourself in all things cherries, a visit to the National Cherry Festival is a must. The weeklong festival features over 150 family activities with highlights that include air shows, fireworks, midway rides, outdoor concerts, and of course cherry-pie eating and pit-spitting contests! It's no wonder why it was named one of the 10 Best Festivals by USA Today.
Even if your travels do not bring you to Traverse City during the Cherry Festival or cherry season, all things cherry can be found year round at Cherry Republic. For the ultimate experience visit the Glen Arbor location of Cherry Republic's tasting room where the whole family can taste test different flavors of cherry flavored soda (or pop as its known around the area), and mom and dad can try out the cherry wine. My personal favorite was the cherry ginger ale, and my only regret was not buying more to bring home. Don't forget to stop by the store and restaurant for more cherry goodies – cherry chicken salad sandwich, cherry pie, and of course cherry ice cream awaits you.
Mark your calendars for next year's event slated from July 5 – 12, 2014.
Venture less than an hour away where the ultimate day trip awaits you at the "most beautiful place in America," Sleeping Bear Dunes. You can easily spend the day there, but if you're short on time, make it a mission to conquer The Dune Climb up about 300 feet. If you've made it this far, and if you're up to the challenge, take the two mile hike up to the top where you'll not only revel in sweet satisfaction, but you'll be rewarded with breathtaking views of Lake Michigan. And if you don't make it to the top, the climb (or run) down will surely be memorable.
Read more tips on how to conquer The Dune Climb!
Michigan boasts 115 lighthouses, more than any other state, and the Traverse City area does have their fair share of these iconic treasures. For a glimpse into the past a visit to a lighthouse is a must. Luckily, there are two main lighthouses that dot the Traverse City region.
Make your way to the Grand Traverse Lighthouse Museum, a former lightkeeper's home that now serves as a museum with artifacts dating from the 1920s. During the summer time, stay after dark with the family and catch a movie. If you've ever wanted to say you've been halfway between the North Pole and the equator, take the picturesque drive down M22 road through Old Mission Peninsula until you reach the end of the road and your destination – Mission Point Lighthouse. A fair warning on whichever lighthouse you choose: the climb up the stairs and ladder will be tight and more difficult for the young kiddos, but will be worth it once you set your eyes on the magnificent views.
Interested in more attractions located on the Sunset Coast of Michigan? See this list for more fun ideas!
2. Go to a beach – any Beach!
With over 181 miles of shoreline on Grand Traverse Bay and Lake Michigan, Traverse City has no shortage of beaches with sugar fine sand. Your main problem will be deciding which one to go to! For city beaches close to downtown, head to Clinch Park, and Bryant Park. If you find yourself at the Old Mission Peninsula, head to the beach families and locals love – Haserot Beach. Afterwards, stop by the funky Old General Store for ice cream.
When Mother Nature puts a damper on your beach plans, arm yourself with a Plan B and enjoy a few indoor activities that will make the time equally enjoyable. Visit the unique gem, the Music House Museum, that showcases rare and antique musical instruments of the past. Should you time it right, join a tour where you can hear the music being played from these instruments. For a change of pace where hands-on fun is encouraged, the Great Lakes Children's Museum will keep your children of all ages busy by pretending to be a Lighthouse Keeper, or learning about free-flowing water at the water table.
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Technically, you drive north on the picturesque M-37 on Old Mission Peninsula… not down M22.
Another great rainy day plan should include the Dennos Museum, on the campus of Northwest Michigan College, just down the street from Bryant Park. Besides the grown up exhibits, which include a large collection of Inuit sculpture, there is a special exhibit each summer. This year it is Birds of Paradise. Not to be missed is the children's section, a place to explore, to touch, hear and watch. There's a nifty light/shadow wall which is mesmerizing, a harp you can play, with no strings and a lot more. And of course there is a museum store chock full of all kinds of cool stuff, with a wide range of prices.
then there's the History Center of Traverse City, housed in the former (Carnegie) library building. Here too there is a special summer exhibit, and for the past 2 or 3 years, it's been LEGO's. Lots of displays, some interactive, and blocks for building. Not to be missed is the terrific museum housed here, which includes a cherry pit bin. This has clear sides, and is filled with about 2 feet of clean dry cherry pits. Kids have a ball searching for arrowheads (they can keep one) and just diving around the pits. There are a few chairs for tired parents to sit and wait. I'm a big fan of TC–it's my hometown and my favorite vacation locale!
Don't forget the Boardman Nature Center! Fun hands on exhibits.


Facebook has asked an appellate court to dismiss a privacy activist's challenge to the company's $9.5 million settlement of a class-action privacy lawsuit stemming from the Beacon ad program.
The trial judge "correctly found the settlement to be fair, reasonable and adequate," Facebook argues in papers filed last week with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
The settlement stems from Facebook's now defunct Beacon ad program -- a controversial marketing platform launched in November of 2007 that informed members about their friends' e-commerce activity on outside sites.
The program also sparked a class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of 19 Facebook users. They reached a settlement with Facebook last year, but privacy activist Ginger McCall and a handful of others opposed that deal.
The settlement calls for Facebook to launch a new privacy foundation, which will be directed by a three-person board that includes Facebook's Director of Public Policy, Tim Sparapani. The deal also requires Facebook to permanently shutter Beacon, but doesn't require the company to compensate users except for the 19 consumers who filed suit. Members of that group stand to receive amounts varying from $1,000 to $15,000.
McCall, herself both a Facebook user and an attorney with the Electronic Privacy Information Center, argued that the settlement should be rejected because Facebook will wield too much influence over the new foundation. In October, she asked the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate U.S. District Court Judge Richard Seeborg's decision to approve the deal.
Facebook disputes that it will control the new foundation, arguing that Sparapani won't have vote power over which projects will be funded by the new organization. "Although Mr. Sparapani may reasonably be expected to exercise his influence against any actions that could clearly and directly harm Facebook, the notion that the Foundation will be under Facebook's control is baseless conjecture," the company argues.
McCall also alleges that the deal's benefit is "illusory" because the company had already effectively shuttered Beacon, but Facebook denies this claim. "Although Beacon was altered before the settlement, it remained in existence," the company argues.
Lawyers for the 19 class-action plaintiffs also assert that Facebook's initial position in settlement talks was that the company wanted to keep Beacon operational. However, the lawyers contend, Facebook was unable to configure the program to make the opt-in feature work properly.
McCall's court papers back up the claim that the opt-in never functioned as expected. She alleges that Facebook broadcast her activity at Blockbuster.com to her friends in February of 2008 without her consent-- even though Beacon was supposed to be opt-in at that point.


YouTube conspiracy channels have one job: find a weird, low-res photo of something and write "WHAT IS THIS? SECRETS UNVEILED" in the title (or, you know, conduct an interview with a British youth in a sweatshirt and claim that he's a time-traveling alien archaeologist). Case in point: the new video from Secureteam10, titled "WHAT Crash Landed Over The Antarctic?"
The video consists of the narrator zooming in, scrolling, and rotating a Google Earth photo from 2011 that shows a stretch of land on the remote South George Island, located north of Antarctica.
In the photo, you can see a mountain, a long trail in the snow, and something long and relatively thin. According to Secureteam10, it is "What appears...to be some sort of massive elongated or cigar-shaped object that at some point–and we don't know when–came to a screeching halt in the snow."
The video goes on to claim that the object impacted the mountain after falling out of the sky, then skidded to a stop.
The narrator says it's too big to be a bobsled (it's about 63 meters long), and the trail it left behind looks artificial, rather than the byproduct of a rolling snowball or piece of ice.
It should be noted, however, that the man behind the channel, Tyler Glockner, doesn't do much research before claiming a photo is evidence of alien life—he once claimed that a blurry black-and-white photo was unequivocal evidence of an alien castle on the moon. On top of that, he's admitted in the past that he's disguised his own voice to trick people into thinking he was an anonymous 'source' speaking out in one of his videos.
"The research station on the island asked us to fly a photographic recce over the entire island to document population and locations of reindeer...As the photographer on that recce, I can confirm 100% that what you see in the image is just the result of a glacial slide. Sorry."
A "recce" is like a reconnaissance mission. Of all the claims in the video, this comment is probably the best guess we have as to what the thing in the photo really is.


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Do people remember when rapsploitation films were actually good? The '80s were a bit dire with yer endless breakdance whatnots (nb: I have not seen any of these) and Tougher Than Leather and so on, but there was a brief golden age in the early '90s with the House Party series doing fine young-teen comedy, New Jack City being a fun Scarface rip-off, Boyz-N-The-Hood fooling us all that both Singleton and Gooding were promising young talents, and of course the one-two punch of CB4 and Fear Of A Black Hat both trying to be the Rap Spinal Tap. Both are atrociously patchy, with enough decent gags between them for one only slightly lame comedy, but with good will, they'll entertain a bunch of stoned uni students.
The best bits in CB4 are probably the slight filkings of actual rap hits to make the fictional group's tracks. "Sweat Of My Balls" actually fumbles some of the lines from Kool G Rap's "Talk Like Sex" in its efforts to be slightly different ('give you more than pussy-tickle devices' is hardly an improvement on 'give you more than battery-operated devices'), but you have to admit that 'I fucked your sister, I fucked your cat / I woulda fucked your mom but the bitch was too fat' has a charming directness that even NWA didn't resort to until the second album. The version of Rapper's Delight is completely pointless, obv, but at least the movie's all over at that point...
CB4 - Straight Outta Locash
CB4 - Sweat Of my Balls
CB4 - Rapper's Delight
The soundtrack is out of print, as far as I can tell, but you can probably pick up the movie on VHS from the $2 bin at your local Video Ezy that's still trying to shift space for more copies of Cheaper By The Dozen 2 on DVD.
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If you're going to do a half-arsed NWA reunion in 1999, then I s'pose it's not too awful to draft Snoop in. (Obviously a whole-arsed reunion with Yella standing to the side being useless, and the D.O.C. doing the lines he wrote would have been ideal, and possibly Eminem standing in for Eazy in the confrontational-whiny-voice stakes would have been a more interesting half-arse, but politics innit?)
The concept does fall apart, though, when your reunion only extends to one live appearance on a TV show, and then said TV show releases a compilation album featuring only a Snoop Doggy Dogg cover from your performance. I mean, it's probably down to whose publishing was easier to clear or something but FUCKING COME ON!
N.W.A - Nuthin' But A "G" Thang (live on Farmclub)
At least I knew to be disappointed going in. I haven't even listened to half the horrid nu-metal nonsense, and most of the hip-hop is lame me-and-my-posse shouting unsubtly over boomy instrumental versions (okay, Eminem - The Real Slim Shady (live on Farmclub) is alright, if hardly essential), BUT!!! the five bucks or whatever I paid was totally worth it just for Mya's "Case Of The Ex." Yes, it's just a PA, and it's got a tedious "my album drops on the 23rd" plug at the start, but I had never heard the song before, so hurrah for Farmclub.com for introducing me accidentally.
Mya - Case Of The Ex (live on Farmclub)
I'll recommend you do try and find a copy in the 5-for-$20 bins at JB like I did, but if you're a mad keen fan of Bionic Jive or something, then Live & Unreleased From Farmclub.com does appear to still be in print. Unlike the URL itself.
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4Jan/060
rama lama lama
Happy new year, kids - it's been a busy few weeks, but we should be sticking up tracks far more frequently for the rest of the summer.
Seeing Francis McDonald (in his capacity as a Teenage Fannie) programming Rage before Christmas prompted me to dig out this, perhaps the most relaxed cover version ever. From the B-side of BMX Bandits' "Serious Drugs," this take on fellow Scots Primal Scream's "Don't Fight It, Feel It" is labelled as being live, but plainly has a ludicrously obvious loop of cheering sitting near the bottom of the mix (the recording could well be one take, though).
BMX Bandits - Don't Fight It, Feel It
There's a newish BMX Bandits comp out, spookily enough titled after the above-mentioned single. Sanctuary don't sell stuff online, cop it at Amazon, along with their latest.
23Dec/050
ex mass
IT'S CHRISTMAS!
But first, multiculturalism:
Beck - Little Drum Machine Boy
for those of you who feel the Hanukkah Funk.
AND NOW!
Doris Day - The Christmas Song
Chestnuts roasting, and all that.
Doris Day - Winter Wonderland
Okay, so here in the real world, we're a month into summer, but let's indulge cultural dominance, eh? IN THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS.
John Denver & the Muppets - Twelve Days of Christmas
Actually is John Denver on this? Well, it's from that record, you know the one. My bodge Korean-licensed CD version doesn't have any credits or anything and I didn't listen to this before putting it up. There's loads of Muppets, I can tell you that.
Dr Teeth & The Electric Mayhem - Little Saint Nick
This one I can credit properly due to fond memories of the gatefold vinyl edition as a nipper. Look out for Animal.
Gene Autry - 32 Feet & 8 Little Tails
AGH RUN it's a HIDEOUS MONSTER oh wait.
Gene Autry - The Story Of The Nativity
Never mind the narrative quality, feel the length! 13 minutes + of children being indoctrinated into The Amazing Robe-Man.
Fat Les - Naughty Christmas (Goblin In The Office)
Let's hope this doesn't bring back bad memories. Except of Keith Allen.
Sonic Youth - Santa Doesn't Cop out On Dope
But can we take their word for it? I mean, it's only one night a year the dude's really got to hold it together and punch the timecard, who knows how he squanders the rest of the year?
we went home for tea, it was Bushells
So, a few months ago I did a post about singer/songwriter Greta Gertler, showcasing loads of new & unreleased songs, that could well have been an entry on Womenfolk. What we're gonna do right here is go back - way back - and then come forwards a bit. The recordings today are all from a 2001 gig, but the songs mostly date back to the mid-'90s and her chamber-pop group Peccadillo - there's lots of light-hearted humour, examination of human mating rituals, bemoaning of acid trips gone wrong and silly innuendos. Plus the odd spot of sensitive introspection.
Greta Gertler (& ¾ of Peccadillo), live at the Harbourside Brasserie:
Football Song
- Possibly the first instance in popular song of musicians and rugby players being likened.
Wedding Song
- Can you spot the occasional pattern to the song naming?
I'm Not A Lizard
Fishy Song
- If you like to hear pretty girls shouting "SEX!", this is the one song you should download.
- This song had its lyrics changed and point removed by A Successful Musician a couple of years later, and became the biggest Australian radio hit of the year. And look! Here's one about the previous time he did it:
I Heard Your Song On The Radio
And here's the one newer song in the batch, written after Greta's move to New York and performed in the "solo" set of that night's show. She'd just won an unsigned artist songwriting prize thingy for it at the time. Aw.
Everyone Wants To Adore You
Greta's in Sydney this week, playing one show at the Vanguard on Sunday night. Go along for dinner, buy a CD or three.
9Dec/050
say "Go! Go go go!"
Everyone loves The Go! Team, right? Hyped-up sample-clashing fizzy-pop TV-theme happy funtime music, etc etc - you're on the internet, you know the drill. So I really, really wanted to love them live (they're the only foreign band I've gone to see all year, actually), and they certainly seemed to be putting their side of the effort into it: a crowd of people running around, swapping instruments, jumping up and down and shouting... but in Sydney, the mix was so dead that in order to get excited, I had to ignore what was actually coming out of the speakers and dance to the platonic ideal of the song inside my head.
Retrospective forgiveness: thanks to my tax dollars, one of their Melbourne shows was recorded a few days later and broadcast the next month on yoof network Triple J, whereupon I was able to confirm that indeed they should have sounded totally ace. And now so can you! The whole broadcast edit (about half an hour of the show) is streaming on the JJJ website, and for re-listening pleasure, here's a few of the non-LP songs they played on the tour:
The Go! Team - We Just Won't Be Defeated (live in Melbourne)
- from the limited edition Australian tour EP/less-limited bonus disc on the tour-coinciding reissue of the album
The Go! Team - The Ice Storm (live in Melbourne)
- originally a bonus track on the Japanese version of their album, but also on the EP/bonus disc as above
The Go! Team - Untitled New Song (live in Melbourne)
- not on the tour EP, BUT! while Ninja makes a big deal about the song being untitled and asking for suggestions, the chorus asks "Are You Ready For More?".. which happens to be the title of the EP. Hmm.
You can get the two-disc version of Thunder Lightning Strike for $26 (it's cheaper in shops than direct from the label), or Are You Ready For More by itself for $12. (For some reason, Shock have the wrong sleeve up on the site, so I'm giving you the real one here, stolen from Sanity).
You can support JJJ by paying taxes and voting against John Howard.
24Nov/051
Mother, do you have a prick?
Remember hearing this on the radio in the '80s?
Well, he loves to wear silk knotted scarves around his neck, baby
Finger them, finger the scarves!
He twists the scarf around my neck, baby
I wish he was twisting it around my clit, I mean my dick, I mean my cock, baby twist it
Twist it good, twist that silky scarf
And pull it oiled, knotted, out of her ass, let her come, etc etc. Those were the days, eh?
Since her Best Of dropped the ball, it's about time someone got to doing some lavish bonus-disced-up reissues of the first couple of Sinéad O'Connor albums (remastering is pretty essential too, the CDs are close to inaudible at times) so that a coffee-table audience can have the joy of being exposed to the way the adorable contrarian handled the marketing requirements of the 12" single.
Classic beyond classic was the "Jump In The River" extended version, which basically played the song and then let Karen Finley in the door to rant and, indeed, pant for another five minutes, but also of interest was the "I Want Your (Hands On Me)" 12" that welcomed MC Lyte on somewhat more integrated cameo duties. Two of the mixes are below.
Sinéad O'Connor - Jump In The River (12")
Sinéad O'Connor - I Want Your (Street Mix)
Sinéad O'Connor - I Want Your (Dance Mix)
Her official webstore thing is a bit limp, so don't go there unless you live in Foreign. Better deals are getting the local issue of her new album of reggae covers, which comes with a bonus disc of dub versions, or the Collaborations compilation, which is a decentish round-up, but doesn't include either of these (or Marxman's "Ship Ahoy", come to think! If I can find the single, I'll stick a version up tomorrow).
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fank you very MUCH!
So, as it happens, I actually do have a Tricky bootleg from 1996 that I'd forgotten about! No Children's Story, unfortunately, but here's two other covers from this set at the Paradiso in Amsterdam. The oh-so-classique abbreviation of Public Enemy's "Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos", which singlehandedly earned enough goodwill that you still get excited to hear each new cover he does, even though eleven years later they're often bad enough to make you embarrassed on his behalf that you've overheard; and a tense take on Eric B. & Rakim's "Lyrics Of Fury," which by this time had been released on the Pre-Millennium Tension LP.
Tricky - Black Steel (live at the Paradiso)
Tricky - Lyrics Of Fury (live at the Paradiso)
11Oct/052
Dave the dope fiend, shooting dope
When Tricky came to Australia in the wake of Maxinquaye, it might have been his first proper tour, and was almost definitely his first big chunk of dates outside of the UK. Martina was solidly entrenched in the co-vocalist position at the time, but surprisingly, rather than sing over tapes or do a sound-system-type thing with a DJ, he'd hired a bunch of professional (white) session blokeys to be a backing band. They were capable, too - about a third of the set was Maxinquaye material, another third was (often skeletal) versions of songs that would end up on Pre-Millennium Tension, but the final third seemed to be pretty much improvised. Tricky's only animated moments would come when he approached a bassist or keyboard player, dancing in front of them, geeing them up, giving them cues until he felt inspired to freestyle (at one point Mike Watt - in the country with Porno for Pyros - even came out and jammed. "Is there a My Quott in the house?!" I heard as Tricky's exhortations before Watt emerged).
The rest of the time he either clung to the mike with his eyes screwed tight, repeatedly asking for the lights to be lowered (by the end of the show, the only illumination onstage came from the exit door light in the wings), or headed back to the drum riser and shadow-boxed while Martina sang or the band played. Except for one time, where he took the mic back with him and sat on the edge of the riser, head in hand, and began declaiming the lyrics to Slick Rick's "Children's Story." As I recall, he took digressions and freestyled on the story as he went on and the band picked up, but his paranoid rasp was fantastically suited for (English native) Rick's tale of travails in ver 'hood.
When he came to record it later that year, though, he left the vocals all to Martina and hid the cover away on the B-side to a Nearly God single. Not that that's any kind of poor substitute - her detached tone also matches the song splendidly - but if anyone has bootlegs of Tricky shows from around that time, I'd love to hear from you...
Nearly God - Children's Story
And while we're at it, let's hear another two-person collabo take on it. Here's the man eternally in search of the perfect gimmick, Everlast, teaming up with human beatbox/sampler Rahzel - oddly enough, this one's a B-side too, from the former's "Black Jesus" single.
Everlast (feat. Rahzel) - Children's Story
Shit, even the Nearly God album is out of print now! You can apparently buy it on Napster though. There's a super-dodgy Best of Everlast & House of Pain that you can find in Dirt Cheap and Rock Bottom. I don't think it has any Rhyme Syndicate-era Everlast, and I'm sure it doesn't have the Butch Vig remixes of HOP. If I ever get the 7" out of storage though...
send a St. Bernard
Alright, a couple more overlooked-even-at-the-time gems from underneath the landslide of snow and rocks. I left the faffing and intro at the end of the session version on the previous post to TEASE YOUR EXPECTATION for this next track, except then I decided four versions of one song made a much better post. You know, thematic consistency and all that.
So anyway, here's the Tweakin' Mix of "Rolling High", the original version of which appeared on El Producto - this remix only appeared as (possibly the only exclusive track) on 1998's Homebake compilation.
the Avalanches - Rolling High (Tweakin' Mix)
Perhaps more exciting, their cover of "Do You Know The Way To San Jose?", from an all-Australian tribute album to Burt Bacharach, entitled To Hal & Bacharach (there were one or two songs by lyricists other than Hal David, I think). This is also from 1998 or thereabouts.
the Avalanches - Do You Know The Way To San Jose?
And just because you're special and you deserve it, another track from the same presumably-never-to-be-reprinted-due-to-licensing-headaches compilation - here's musical & life partners Dave Graney and Clare Moore roping in the Dirty Three for one of their rare stints backing a vocalist. I think Dave was going through his brief period of being famous around this time, or maybe that had already passed like a ray of sunshine on a cloudy day. Anyway:
Dave Graney/Clare Moore/the Dirty Three - What The World Needs Now


I've put up a post for last weekend's NYT Puzzle Mania.
Thought I'd put up a spreadsheet for anybody speed-solving the 50x50 Super Mega crossword by Brendan Emmett Quigley - or any of the other word puzzles in the third annual print-only special puzzle section!
Today is the 10th anniversary of this not-blog!


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Q: Open website on Wireguard host Setup:

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*Ubuntu 22.04 server

*Wireguard host

*Samba

*Tomcat

*UFW is enabled

*Both Samba and Tomcat/8080 are allowed from anywhere

I can open the Tomcat website on the local network (192.168.1.23:8080). I cannot open the website when on the VPN, via the VPN IP (192.168.5.1:8080). This results in a connection timeout. Samba however works via VPN.
How can I visit the website via Wireguard VPN?
I don't want all traffic to be routed through the VPN.

A: I wonder if Tomcat is not binding to the IP address of the VPN.
Do you need to modify server.xml to remove the "address=" directive or replace the current directive with "*" ?


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Q: Perform an explicit summation, if possible, over a restricted range of two indices both varying from 0 to infinity I would like to sum the term
 P=(32 (1/(1 - w))^k w^(-3 + h) ((8 - 3 w) w + 2 h (-4 + w) (-4 + 3 w)) Gamma[-(1/2) + h]*
   Gamma[1/2 + h])/((1 + 2 k)^2 (-3 + 4 k (1 + k)) π^3 (1 - w)^(3/4) Pochhammer[1, h]^2)

over both $h$ and $k$ from 0 to $\infty$, but OMIT precisely the range for which the conditions $h > 2$ and $h < 3/4 + k$ simultaneously hold. (The range to be omitted is that for which the integral of P can be directly computed--so an initial summation can be avoided in that case.)  Then, the numerical integral of the result over $w \in [-\infty,0]$ should give  0.25795729571462833563875652. However, we would hope to compute the integral exactly.
I'm not sure how best to set up this restricted summation problem in Mathematica
(not too optimistic about it being, in fact, doable).
This is an auxiliary question to Sum a certain hypergeometric-function-based expression pertaining to an integration problem
The unrestricted summation of $P$ over the indices $h,k$ from 0 to $\infty$ is
given by the product of
1/(π^3 (1 - w)^(1/4) (-1 + w) w^3)

and
   8 (-16 EllipticE[w] + 8 w EllipticE[w] + 16 EllipticK[w] -
   16 w EllipticK[w] + 3 w^2 EllipticK[w]) (Sqrt[1 - w] w -
   2 w ArcTanh[1/Sqrt[1 - w]] + w^2 ArcTanh[1/Sqrt[1 - w]] +
   Sqrt[1 - w] LerchPhi[1/(1 - w), 2, 1/2])

Its (numerical) integral over $w \in [-\infty,0]$ gives the "operator monotone $\sqrt{x}$  two-rebit separability probability" shown by Lovas and Andai (https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.01410    p. 16) to be $\approx 0.26223$.
It's an exact underlying value for this term that I've been seeking to find here and in the indicated auxiliary post Sum a certain hypergeometric-function-based expression pertaining to an integration problem
.

A: So for the complete sum, the integral is available.  But for the partial sum, the individual integrals are available but so for the partial sum.  Why not just perform a numerical integration on the complete sum with higher precision than what was done before?
Chop[NIntegrate[(1/(π^3 (1 - w)^(1/4) (-1 + w) w^3))*(8 (-16 EllipticE[w] + 8 w EllipticE[w] +
  16 EllipticK[w] - 16 w EllipticK[w] + 3 w^2 EllipticK[w]) (Sqrt[1 - w] w -
  2 w ArcTanh[1/Sqrt[1 - w]] + w^2 ArcTanh[1/Sqrt[1 - w]] +
  Sqrt[1 - w] LerchPhi[1/(1 - w), 2, 1/2])), {w, -∞, 1/100},
  MaxRecursion -> 10, WorkingPrecision -> 30]]

(* 0.262222891715939967267906731685 *)

Without using something like MaxRecursion -> 10, WorkingPrecision -> 30 one gets
(* 0.26223 *)


In my lifetime, I have voted for both Democrats and Republicans.
Now, I have nothing against millionaires, but did you know that 40% of the House of Representatives and 60% of the members of the Senate are millionaires? Think about it! Know that only 1% of the American population are millionaires.
this is absolutely OUTRAGEOUS! i am a full blooded american, and do you know what i plan on doing about it tomorrow?
Who elected these millionairs to office?
It's tough not to elect one when you have a choice to vote for either a millionaire, or a millionaire.
well, poor like a church mouse, you can begin by choosing neither millionaire #1 nor millionaire #2, but instead choosing someone who is more deserving, even if that is a third choice. like yourself, for example. you can choose yourself. there is nothing, absolutely nothing, wrong with that. I PROPOSE THIS: every true blodded American should vote for himslef or herself, because we have not been given a proper choice out there. OH my! so maybe if enough Americans vote for themselves, the curiously HUGE numbers will turn the attention of the politicians and the media, and they will finally take note and respond to the needs of the American people. OR WILL THEY! HA!


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Stephen Herriot: Climate emergency creates added pressure to make Scotland's social housing more energy efficient
Social landlords are leading the way in terms of the energy efficiency standards of homes in Scotland, but more work lies ahead to satisfy a new level of expectation, writes Stephen Herriot.
Stephen Herriot
The issue of climate change has been creeping up the political agenda in recent months, prompted in part by high profile demonstrations by Extinction Rebellion across the UK.
Speaking to the SNP spring conference at the end of April, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon declared a "climate emergency" and added that "Scotland will live up to our responsibility to tackle it".
That declaration was followed in early May by a vote in the Scottish Parliament to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2045, five years ahead of the previously agreed target date of 2050.
Of course, those targets can only be achieved via a range of implementing measures designed to set all sectors of the Scottish economy on a path to zero carbon.
In the field of social housing, landlords have already been set ambitious targets to improve the energy efficiency of their housing stock and to cut carbon emissions as a result. Under the Energy Efficiency Standard for Social Housing (EESSH), all social rented homes in Scotland will need to meet Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) Band D or better by the end of next year.
With that deadline less than 18 months away, it is estimated that there are still around 40,000 social rented homes in Scotland that are rated below EPC Band D.
At the same time, many social landlords are already turning their attention towards achieving longer-term energy efficiency goals beyond the end of 2020. A Scottish Government consultation on that very topic took place last year and proposed a longer-term target to maximise attainment in the social housing sector of EPC Band B by 2032 and a further goal for all social housing in Scotland "as far as reasonably practical" to be carbon neutral by 2040.
To put the ambition of that goal into context, in 2017, only 3% or around 18,000 units of Scotland's overall social housing stock met EPC Band B or better. That said, the social sector is currently outperforming other tenures of housing.
Compared to existing owner-occupied housing stock in particular, the energy efficiency of the social sector is a long way ahead. 2017 figures show more than a quarter of a million owner-occupied homes in Scotland rated below EPC Band D, equivalent to more than a quarter of all owner-occupied housing stock in Scotland. The Scottish Government's Energy Efficient Scotland Route Map sets a target for all tenures of housing to meet EPC Band C by 2040. For owner-occupied homes, progress is to be "encouraged" until 2030 with mandatory action only taken at that stage if insufficient progress towards the target has been made.
Relatively speaking, policy makers have far greater powers to drive up the energy efficiency of existing housing stock in the social sector than for owner-occupiers, where the main lever available to them is to mandate increasingly strict energy efficiency standards for new build homes. But with all analysis suggesting that the vast majority of homes in which we will be living in 2045 have already been built, improving the energy efficiency of existing properties will continue to be a key priority.
Given the collective commitments made by politicians across all parties to transform Scotland into a low carbon economy, the pressure to transform the energy performance of all tenures of housing is only likely to intensify over the coming years.
As many of our members are already doing, registered social landlords should anticipate a continued ratcheting up of energy efficiency standards for social housing as Scotland strives to live up to the ambition of becoming a zero carbon economy by 2045.
PfH Scotland is actively helping its members to meet that challenge head-on through its dedicated heating services procurement framework, specifically created to help registered social landlords meet their obligations under the Energy Efficiency Standard for Social Housing (EESSH).
The level of expectation policymakers are placing on the social housing sector to lead the way in the drive for Scotland to become a zero carbon economy should not be underestimated. Whether to bring remaining housing stock up to the EESSH1 standard in time for the December 2020 deadline or to anticipate the step-change in energy efficiency needed to comply with EESSH2, now is the time for Scotland's registered social landlords to act.
Stephen Herriot is head of operations at PfH Scotland
For more information about the PfH Scotland Heating Services Procurement Framework, visit www.pfhscotland.co.uk/eessh-2019.
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The latest data are above - European industrial production has been slowing all year and now appears to be dropping. Given the sharp drop in new orders in September this is perhaps not surprising and is also consistent with the declining retail trade and increasing unemployment in Europe.
The policy elite in Europe seems to be completely fixated on reducing government spending, which can only slow the economy more in the short term, further weakening the banks and weak government finances. Thus it continues to seem that Europe has to get quite a bit worse before it can get better. At this point I have a poor sense of where the bottom might be - does the ECB ultimately come to its senses and prevent default by more governments than just Greece? Or do we end up in a cycle of more credit downgrades, outright default by Italy, Portugal, and significant numbers of the highly leveraged European banks? In the latter scenario, I think the final consequences get extremely hard to see but it has to get very ugly and Europe might not ever be the same again.
In other news - Eurozone inflation stayed at the stubbornly high level of 3% in November. This is not your Grandfather's depression - in the thirties lack of aggregate demand (due to a previous debt-levered bubble in the twenties) combined with fundamentally plentiful resources to give rise to deflation at the same time that economic output was contracting. Here we have the same post-bubble lack of aggregate demand (relative to productive capacity), but it combines with important natural resource constraints to keep inflation moderate despite economic weakness. The principal resource constraints are oil, and that has created food constraints also (as policy elites rather foolishly decided to try and solve the oil problem by converting food to fuel). There are also secondary constraints in some industrial metals (some more short-term, others - copper perhaps - probably permanent).
This I think creates a certain zero-sum quality to the global economy at the moment that has not obtained for most of the last two centuries. If your economy contracts and your consumption of the key resources drops, others will expand to take up that resource usage and you may not be able to get back to that level of resource usage anytime soon - instead having to learn to get by on less of it.
Seems like new solar breakthrough came to the rescue!
"The policy elite in Europe seems to be completely fixated on reducing government spending, which can only slow the economy more in the short term, further weakening the banks and weak government finances."
"as policy elites rather foolishly decided to try and solve the oil problem by converting food to fuel"
Well, regardless, it's still all for the best in the best of all possible political systems.


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Police: Rochester Man Who Said He Was Shot Actually Shot Himself
Kim David Published: November 2, 2021
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Rochester, MN (KROC AM News) - A Rochester man who told police he was shot while in the downtown a few months ago has been charged with shooting himself.
The man told police he was leaving the Thursday's Downtown event when he was shot at during the evening of Aug 19th.
At the time, police were skeptical of the man's version of what happened.
The man told an officer "at least five rounds were fired at him in a parking ramp downtown." A check of the cameras at the 3rd street parking ramp showed no evidence of a shooting.
A criminal complaint was filed last week against 29-year-old Kacey Kamara, charging him with submitting a false police report, reckless discharge of a gun, and two other counts.
Kamara's brother later told police the two were waiting for an order at a coffee shop drive-through when the shooting happened. The brother said Kamara took the gun out of the glove box and was showing it to him. The brother said Kamara "racked the slide" and it accidentally fired and he was shot in the foot.
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Mr G W Coles Barrett (Chairman) presided over the first annual dinner of the North Devon Association Football League at Bromley's Café, Barnstaple, on Saturday evening. There was an attendance of about 200 representatives of competing clubs, supporters, officials, and representatives of other competitions and the function was generally voted to be highly successful and enjoyable. At the outset the Chairman read apologies for inability to attend from the President of the League (Mr F C Snell); who had an unfortunate happening to his car, Mr J W Holman (donor of the Holman Cup); Rev E C Harries (member of the League Appeals Board), Mr Reg Backway (independent member of the League), and Mr Kenneth Gatey (editor of the Football Express).
The Mayor of Barnstaple (Mr J T Dunn) in proposing "Success to North Devon Association football," welcomed the gathering and extended his congratulations on the attendance at their first annual dinner. He was glad to know that the soccer game has such a good following in North Devon, but he played both codes, and could appreciate both codes. There was room for both. He did appreciate the value of such leagues as that. He understood the area of the North Devon League extended as far as Bude, and when they came to consider the number of people interested in the various towns and districts, the existence of the League not only meant a good deal for sport, but must have a material effect upon the trade of the district. (Applause.) During the last year or two, the great contest, the Westward Ho Cup Final, had been staged on the ground of their friends of the Torridge, and he would like to see Barnstaple included in providing the venue for that very important competition. Then it could go back to the Torridge and vice versa. There were three gentlemen responding to that toast, and they all had a good kick, and could hold their own on any field, The first, Mr S A Copp, did a great deal for North Devon football; he was Chairman of the Area Committee and he was an interested member of the Westward Ho Cup contest. Mr Copp was always on the side of anything for the good of the town, and if he was interested in North Devon Association football, there would be something good for the town. Mr Henderson was a member of the Area Council and a vice-chairman of the North Devon League, and last , but not least there was his old friend, Mr Ffoulkes. Mr Ffoulkes has always had a good kick and from time to time they had landed each other one. (Laughter.) Mr Ffoulkes had done a great deal for sport in the town. They understood he was going into retirement from some of his activites, but they hoped he would still continue his interest in sport.
Mr S A Copp responding said he looked forward to the time when that dinner would become an annual fixture, and when all the other competitions in the area would join in a gathering of that sort, so that they might get the whole of the sportsmen in North Devon to meet together. (Applause.) The past season had been one of the best he had known. The standard of play had been considerably higher that in any other season he remembered, and what was more, the tone had been extremely good, and there had been an excellent spirit throughout. As Chairman of the Area he was pleased to bear testimony to the excellent spirit that existed in North Devon football in the last season. He had been particularly impressed with the raising of the standard of junior football, which augered well for the code in the district; he had had the pleasure of watching some of the junior competitions. He congratulated the League on the excellent way in which the affairs of the North Devon League were managed. In their Chairman they had a man who has considerable experience in football. Hem (the speaker) had always interested himself in soccer - he started as a player, and from that to representative on the League Committee; he had been Secretary of the League, and had finished up as Chairman. To his knowledge the League business had never been better backed then it was today. Referring to the difficulties that existed in Association Football, Mr Copp said there were three big difficulties that existed in that area at the moment. One was the question of the congestion of figures, and he thought this might be considerably helped by the clubs themselves - for if clubs would keep all competition dates open, they would solve the difficulty. It seemed that a club not interested in a particular competition arranged matches to clash with the dates of other competitions. The second difficulty was the shortage of referees, and with regard to this he, as Chairman of the Area, intended to bring forward a resolution be started to teach people to qualify as referees. It was also desired that those who had had some practical experience of the game should come forward as referees. The third difficulty at the present moment was the difficulty of obtaining a suitable and sufficiently large ground in Barnstaple. The Mayor had referred to the Westward Ho Cup Competition. As Chairman of that competition he could say there was a feeling that the final should be staged in different towns. Whilst the last final was at Bideford, the Committee would be equally delighted to have the match at Ilfracombe, Barnstaple and Torrington if suitable grounds were available, as at Bideford. (Applause.) As a Barnstaple man he would like to be able to stage the Westward Ho Cup final in that town. "My words (he continued) may carry in the direction which I hope they will be carried." (Applause.) If they were to get a suitable ground in Barnstaple and have a good team and good matches, he believed it would be in the interests of the district.
Mr A L Bale (representing the Editor of the Express and Echo), presented to the captain of the Bideford AAC, (Mr H Congdon) the North Devon Senior League Cup. The past season had, he said, been a strenuous one, and the winning of the trophy had necessitated keen play on the part of the Athletes, who had been runners-up on two previous occasions. In 1923-24 the Athletes had won the Trechmann Cup, awarded to that club by the votes of other clubs, as being the most sporting team of that season. The fact that the Bideford AAC secured the prize in 1923-24 showed that they then enjoyed a reputation. Throughout the season the Athletes had been closely followed by South Molton and Appledore and though the former lost the final they had the consolation of winning the Rowe Charity Cup.
Capt J K Irvine (South Molton), proposing the "Winning Club" said they had always found the BAAC a team ready to play the game and a sporty side.
Mr Pope, replying, said as they knew football was not the only branch of sport which the BAAC followed, and in that respect they had somewhat an advantage over the others, for they participated in rowing and harriers running. During the last few years North Devon football had been through a vert trying time and he stressed the importance of teams paying strict attention to the time for arrival on the field, and various other matters which led to disputes. He associated himself with what had been said of the work of the Hon Secretary (Mr Tom Summers), who was he said, worthy of the highest possible credit.
A very pleasing ceremony was the presentation of a gold medal to the late treasurer of the League (Mr H J Blackmore). The Chairman said Mr Blackmore had taken a great interest and had done a tremendous amount of work for football in North Devon. He had pleasure in asking him to accept a medal on behalf of the League officials and clubs for the valuable services he had rendered. He was ready at all times to give assistance. Mr Blackmore, acknowledging, said anything he had done had been done willingly for the love of sport.
The health of other competing clubs was proposed by Mr W J Bulled, who expressed regret that three of the most important town football clubs were not represented officially that night. Various explanations were offered but if the management was wrong it was up to the clubs to put it right. He suggested the time was opportune for a conference of all concerned, so that people might express their views freely on the subject of what was right or wrong with North Devon football. If individuals, clubs, organisations and referees could only sit round a table and confer an agreement might be arrived at that would put North Devon football on a better footing.
Mr R W Pitman (High Bickington) emphasised the fact that the cure for what were termed as "unpleasant incidents" rested mainly with the selection committees of the clubs themselves. He wondered why the same atmosphere could not be achieved on the football field as on the cricket pitch.
Mr T Bailey, proposing "The Press", paid high tribute to the work of the Press, and said the Press welcomed contributions from any club in North Devon.
"The Chairman" was proposed by the Rev H C A S Muller (Vicar of Appledore), and accorded musical honours. Dealing with the difficulties already referred to, the rev. gentleman said he considered their friend, Mr Copp, had found the remedy. "Do give us more referees." At present the few "poor people" were run off their legs. He referred to the many years Mr Coles Barrett had given up his time to come and sit on the committee to administer for the game they enjoyed. He hoped he would be spared many more years to promote healthy games to make healthy men.
Responding, the Chairman thanked them for the way they had received the toast. For years the North Devon League had been his hobby, and he had been Chairman for the past nine years. He also paid tribute to the work of the Secretary. He considered if they had played in their game in the right spirit they were bound to play the game of life.
Songs were rendered by Messrs J Edmonds, R W Pitman, and Tucker.