How many systems are being managed by your epo? I answered your hips stored procedure question in other post.
There are many things that can cause I/O issues on an sql server, whether it is virtual or physical. What AV exclusions do you have in place on the sql server? How frequent is asci and server/client tasks? Are there large queries in dashboards?
The type of disk used also on the storage can make a difference. I had one customer with outdated drives and once they updated them, performance improved substantially. The type of raid or drive array can also make a difference.
To answer completely, we would need a lot of data, such as performance monitor data showing disk i/o, process information for cpu and memory usage, etc.
With 140k systems and 4 hour asci, that may be too frequent. Do you have any agent handlers? If so, how many? Too many agent handlers can also impact performance. I would recommend increasing asci to every 6 hours. Frequency of client tasks can also impact things, since every connection is logged and data written to the database.
Definitely review the KB you were given for sql exclusions. Having the sql processes as low risk and proper file type exclusions for your db files can make a huge difference. You also might want to exclude file types of .log since they are written to frequently. The one thing about AV exclusions is to keep them as minimal as possible. If you have hundreds of excluded items, especially if they are not relevant to your sql server, it takes the scanner all that much more time to parse through them on every read/write scan.


I've talked a bunch about the Rails 3 architecture in various talks, and it's finally come together enough to do a full blog post on it. With that said, there's a few things to keep in mind.
We've done a lot of work on ActionController, but have only mildly refactored ActionView. We're going to tackle that next, but I don't expect nearly as many internal changes as there were for ActionController. Also, we've been working on the ActionController changes for a few months, and have focused quite a bit on maintaining backward compatibility (for the user-facing API) with Rails 2.3. If you try edge and find that we've broken something, definitely let us know.
One of the biggest internal changes is creating a base superclass that is separated from the notions of HTTP. This AbstractController handles the basic notion of controllers, actions, and action dispatching, and not much else.
At that level of abstraction, there are also a number of modules that can be added in, such as Renderer, Layouts, and Callbacks. The API in the AbstractController is very normalized, and it's not intended to be used directly by end users.
For instance, the template renderer takes an ActionView::Template object and renders it. Developers working with Rails shouldn't have to know about Template objects; this is simply an internal API to make it easier to work with the Rails internals and build things on top of Rails.
Another example is related to action dispatching. At its core, action dispatching is simply taking an action name, calling the method if it exists, or raising an exception if it doesn't. However, other parts of Rails have different semantics. For instance, method_missing is used if the action name is not a public method, and the action is dispatched if no action is present but a template with the same name is present.
In order to make it easy to implement these features at different levels of abstraction, AbstractController::Base calls method_for_action to determine what method to call for an action. By default, that method simply checks to see if the action is present. In ActionController::HideActions, that method is overridden to return nil if actions are explicitly removed using hide_action. ActionController::Base further overrides it to return "default_render", which handles the rendering.
That's, in a nutshell, how the new architecture works: simple abstractions that represent a bunch of functionality that you can layer on if you need it.
ActionController::Http layers a Rack abstraction on top of the core controller abstraction so that actions can be called as Rack endpoints. On top of the core rendering functionality available in AbstractController::Base, ActionController provides rendering functionality that builds on top of HTTP constructs. For instance, the ActionController renderer knows how to set the content type based on the template it rendered. Additionally, ActionController implements more developer-friendly APIs. Instead of having to know about the ActionView::Template object, developers can just use the name of the template (pretty much the Rails 2.3 rendering API).
ActionController normalizes the developer's inputs into the inputs that AbstractController is expecting, before calling super (ActionController::Http inherits from AbstractController::Base). Additional functionality is added via the ActionController::Rails2Compatibility module, which provides support for things like stripping a leading "/" off of template names, and ActionController::Base, which provides a final layer of normalization (for instance, normalizing render :action => "foo" and render "foo"). As a result, ActionController::Base ends up being identical to the fully-featured ActionController::Base that you used in Rails 2.3, and none of your app code needs to change.
As an example, let's look at rendering. If you call render :template => "hello", the first thing that happens is the normalization pass on ActionController::Base. Since we used a relatively normalized form, not much happens, and the options hash is passed up into the compatibility module, which checks to see if there's a leading "/" in the template name. Since there isn't, it passes the options hash up again into the AbstractController::Renderer module.
There, Renderer checks to see if we've already set the response body. If we have, a DoubleRenderError is raised. If not, render_to_body is called with the options hash. The first place in the chain we find render_to_body is in ActionController::Renderer, where it processes options like :content_type or :status.
It then calls super, passing control back into AbstractController, which promptly calls _determine_template, again with the options. The job of _determine_template is to take in some options and return the template to render. This hook point is provided so that other modules, like the Layouts module, can use the template that was looked up to control something they care about. In this case, the Layouts module wants to limit the search for a layout to the formats and locale of the template that was actually rendered.
The Layouts module gets called first with _determine_template. It calls super, allowing the default template lookup to occur, which populates options[:_template]. It then uses options[:_template] to look up the layout to use, populating options[:_layout]. I hadn't mentioned it before, but AbstractController uses options with leading underscores, leaving undecorated options for subclasses like ActionController::Base.
After the template to render is determined, Renderer calls _render_template, which makes the call into ActionView.
I know it sounds rather complicated, but a graphic showing the relationships is forthcoming, which should clean things up. The nice thing is that there are several layers of abstraction, and while the final system is complex (mostly because the functionality is complex), it's reasonably easy to understand the higher levels of abstraction on their own. It's also easy to put various kinds of normalization into standard places, so the code you're reading at any given point is code that expects normalized inputs. Since the normalization that Rails does can sometimes be quite gnarly (in the service of making the user experience really pleasant), separating that stuff out can reduce the amount of gnarliness in the internals themselves.


FHA Loan requires 3.5% down payment of the purchase price and you can qualify for a down payment assistance program with CHDAP, Platinum Grant program, Dream Maker Grant or the Access home loan program. Each of these home loan programs has income limits based on the county you are looking to purchase in, household size that will be living in the property and may have to be a first time home buyer for 2 of these programs. I am well versed with all four down payment assistance home loan programs, I prefer the CHDAP program because it has much more flexibility in terms of income, credit and lender credit towards closing cost. If you have limited funds to close escrow on a home lets explore a down payment assistance home loan program offered in the state of California.
VA Loan at the moment is the best performing home loan program on the market today. This program is open to active and retired military personnel who are in good standing with Veterans Affairs. As an active or retired military hero you have a benefit available to purchase a home with absolutely no money down, that is one loan with zero down payment, no prepay penalty and with no monthly mortgage insurance.
100% NO Money program that you can finance the closing cost with!
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Publication: Sunday Times Issued: Date: 2003-09-21 Reporter: Takalani Ratshibvumo
Reporter Fed Us Bias
Takalani Ratshibvumo
www.suntimes.co.za
I read with disbelief last Sunday about the suspension of Ranjeni Munusamy, a political journalist on the Sunday Times. I liked the more detailed report on the IOL website, which gave a history of the same journalist and how she had been linked to the ANC, especially in KwaZulu-Natal.
For the first time I understood.
I feel that many South Africans who trusted Munusamy feel betrayed by her investigative tactics, which are very selective.
At first I wondered why Deputy President Jacob Zuma complained so much about the questions sent to him by Bulelani Ngcuka being published in the Sunday Times, whereas Ngcuka denied giving the questions to Munusamy.
If Zuma was blaming Ngcuka for disclosing the confidential questions, and Ngcuka seemed to be suggesting that Zuma had leaked them to shift the attention from the investigation , why didn't Munusamy just expose the "crook", from either side?
Now I realise that she could not have done so because her reporting was not impartial but tainted with bias.
I read that she had been a spokesperson for the ANC's KwaZulu-Natal Transport MEC, S'bu Ndebele.
It is now common knowledge that Munusamy is the one who was given the documents that culminated in City Press suggesting that Ngcuka was an apartheid-era spy, after the Sunday Times refused to publish the story. What was her interest?
Without the knowledge of her history, and how she was strongly linked to the ANC's leadership in KwaZulu-Natal (during Zuma's time), one could innocently think: no, she has no interest.
But that is obviously not the case.
It is also my belief that Munusamy must have obtained documents, including the questions from the Scorpions to Zuma, from a source that Ngcuka terms "comrade criminals".
To journalists like Munusamy I wish to say the following: your conduct may benefit you, but you are destroying the cornerstone institutions of our democracy.
Why push for the removal of a man who is so impartial that he will prosecute his friends if there is evidence of corruption?
With acknowledgements to Takalani Ratshibvumo and the Sunday Times.

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The Finnish company FinBin has been producing waste bins for public space since 1990, worldwide. And with good quality, Scandinavian design and at a competitive price. The Scandinavian design together with smart functionalities fit exactly in the product range of BOERurban. With this, BOERurban now has a complete range of waste bins, which completes the range of street furniture.


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Home/Health/EXPLAINER: China's relaxed 'zero-COVID' brings big changes
EXPLAINER: China's relaxed 'zero-COVID' brings big changes
BEIJING — In a transfer that caught many abruptly, China introduced a doubtlessly main easing of its inflexible "zero-COVID" restrictions, with out formally abandoning the coverage altogether.
It's not clear what precisely prompted the transfer, though it follows the largest present of public dissent towards the ruling Communist Party in additional than 30 years by residents fed up with fixed testing, quarantines, journey restrictions, rolling lockdowns and business closures.
Here's a have a look at the changes often known as the "New Ten Requirements" announced on Wednesday.
WHAT ARE THE BIGGEST CHANGES?
Among the most significant changes is one that allows people who test positive for COVID-19 but show no or only mild symptoms to recuperate at home rather than being forced into one of the government field hospitals that have become notorious for overcrowding, lights that stay on 24 hours and poor food and hygiene.
Where cases are discovered, lockdowns will be limited to specific apartment floors or buildings. Before, such lockdowns would encompass entire communities, districts and even cities. Widespread lockdowns were a significant factor behind protests in the spring in Shanghai and other cities.
Authorities have reduced the requirement to produce a "health code" on a smartphone app that tracks virus testing and the person's proximity to areas deemed at excessive threat of an infection and reveals take a look at outcomes.
Health codes will still be required for "special places," including schools, hospitals and nursing homes. That leaves considerable ambiguity. Restaurants in Shanghai and Beijing were still requiring a negative test within the last 48 hours for indoor dining Thursday.
One problem with the change: Centers that provided immediate, free PCR testing with results available overnight are becoming harder and harder to find.
WHAT ELSE CHANGED?
Other relaxations are more subtle but still significant, like the length of lockdowns, which can only last five days if no new cases are detected. That's a major change from the open-ended lockdowns that could drag on for weeks and leave residents with no information or ability to plan ahead.
Restrictions on the sale of cold and cough medicine are also being lifted. During the height of the pandemic, such over-the-counter medications could only be purchased through a lengthy application process. While never clearly explained, the rules were thought to be aimed at those trying to cover up COVID-19 symptoms to avoid being tested and sent to quarantine. Just visiting a pharmacy risked triggering the health code smartphone app, resulting in a visit from hazmat-attired health authorities and police.
More emphasis is also being placed on providing the elderly with vaccines and booster shots, and a greater focus will be placed on members of the population who suffer from cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and other underlying factors that can increase vulnerability to COVID-19.
Local governments are also barred from suspending business and public transportation in areas not considered at risk. They are also forbidden from blocking fire exits — an apparent reference to the apartment fire in the western city of Urumqi last month that helped set off the street protests. In theory, that would prevent some of the more extreme measures taken to block people into their homes, like locking their doors from the outside, welding steel bars across passages and fencing in entire communities.
Schools without cases will be required to return to in-person classes, and emergency patients who do not have a recent negative test can no longer be barred from hospitals.
WHAT'S THE EFFECT ON CHINA'S SOCIETY, ECONOMY, POLITICS?
The new measures will likely take some time to be implemented and leave considerable wiggle room to keep some restrictions in place. Communities whose health care resources are barely adequate at the best of times will likely be the last to drop what they see as the last line of defense against potentially overwhelming outbreaks.
In the cities, the effect appears to have been more immediate. Subways and busses in Beijing, Shanghai and other major cities are packed with commuters returning to the office.
But the new requirements don't address is international travel. China's borders remain largely closed while the rest of the world opens up, although it did reduce the quarantine time for international arrivals from seven to five days at a designated location, followed by three days of isolation at their place of residence.
Politically, the easing of regulations may take some pressure off the regime of President Xi Jinping, who is considered China's most authoritarian leader since Mao Zedong and recently awarded himself a third five-year term in power. Xi faces no term limits and has packed the top party ranks with loyalists, but the street protests were a reminder of the limits of public patience.
WHITHER 'ZERO-COVID?'
"Zero-COVID" has been touted as Xi's success, and the party is averse to backtracking or admitting mistakes, so some have put forward the notion that China will gradually adopt an approach of "zero-COVID in name only." That would give China the authority to reimpose controls because it sees match and punish opponents and critics from among the many normal public, intellectuals, the business neighborhood and even athletes.
In an editorial on the newest rules — the ninth set launched by China for the reason that Pandemic started in late 2019 — the Communist Party newspaper Global Times struck a victorious tone and conceded no errors or overreach.
"We can say that we now have come by way of probably the most tough occasions," the paper said. "Nearly three years of an exceptionally difficult 'national fight against the epidemic,' countless people have made sacrifices, endured hardships and paid an effort to win this battle."
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If you go and look for an effective HR management strategy on any search engine, chances are you'll find the top results to be blogs sharing five, six, or maybe twenty odd steps to create an effective HR management strategy. Without any idea of what your organization does, or whether you're a corporate recruiter or hire for an agency, or who your competitors are and what kind of talent you're looking to acquire, you are handed over a set of non-proprietary and generic steps. And if you're still hoping for such strategies to enhance your recruitment game, you're quite an optimist we'd say.
But if you understand the change in the dynamics of the recruitment industry and the role of HR professionals in it, you will also know that it takes much more to build an effective HR management strategy than a certain number of steps. A successful shot at HR management calls for a detailed examination of various recruitment parameters and metrics. However, such a review would require the assistance of HR management software that can bring recruiters data and insights to shape a truly effective HR management strategy.
And the above to be accomplished, recruiters need talent management software that understands their business, their industry, and the job market. This is why, Talismatic scours the web for exclusive information on recruitment sources, patterns, and trends to help HR professionals craft a sound hiring plan.
Analysis of competitor strategy is the latest, and probably the most influential, element of a successful HR management strategy. The angle of competition while devising a recruitment strategy had never been explored before, at least not the way as it is today. The HR department single-mindedly focused on its targets and goals, not caring about what others in the same field are doing. But not anymore!
It's information like this that helps recruiters and hiring managers to analyze the job market trends, compare recruitment capabilities, differentiate hiring strategies, and measure their overall performance against that of their competitor's. HR management software like Talismatic propels recruiters beyond an inward-looking strategy, towards a more value-driven approach.
Talismatic's talent management software provides a bird's eye-view of all your recruitment activities, past and present. Besides, holistic analysis of hiring performance with Talismatic also helps you set more realistic targets for the forthcoming recruitment cycles.
Making an effective HR management strategy is not an overnight task; it requires deliberation, research, and the need to constantly update your strategy. But above all, it requires intelligent talent management software like Talismatic. Talismatic brings the most premium and sought-after data and insights on a single dashboard for its users. The use of heat maps, graphical visualizations, and statistics are so intuitive; a recruiter can aim to act immediately upon them. As a recruitment strategist, choose a tool that helps you make the best workforce decisions, choose Talismatic!


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'Mapplethorpe' opens eyes to an era as he changed the art world
March 1, 2019 9:30 AM CST By Eric A. Gordon
Ondi Timoner's new feature film Mapplethorpe, written by Timoner and Mikko Alanne, in many ways fits the mold of pioneering, misunderstood artist whose struggles to project a new esthetic eventually find success. Yet the drive to secure representation and honesty in the arts is an ongoing issue.
Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) is arguably one of the most important artists of the 20th century. His project served to educate, celebrate and legitimize fresh ways of looking. He is equally famous for his exquisite "portraits" of flowers, endowing his photographs with majesty and mystery, as he is for his erotic imagery. Artists throughout the centuries have depicted flora and erotic subjects, of course: 19th-century French artists and 20th-century German artists immersed themselves in the demimonde, with their courtesans and cabaret ladies. Mapplethorpe focused his lens on his own world of bohemian chic, populated by a new generation of artists and musicians, socialites, film stars, and members of the active New York City S&M underground.
If the female breast has been an esthetic preoccupation for hundreds of years, Mapplethorpe expanded the range of showable eroticism in a way that had never been examined before.
Early childhood imagery in the film shows Mapplethorpe (Matt Smith) as the product of an archconservative Catholic family, always drawing and experimenting technically and formally. His early studies at the Pratt Institute seemed to lead him nowhere, however, until a new friend, Sandy Daley (Tina Benko), put a camera in his hands. "I would have been a painter, but the camera was invented," he quips.
Almost at the same time, he began discovering himself as a sexual being, famously pairing up for an extended friendship and romantic affair with the über-talented poet and musician Patti Smith (Marianne Rendón). In an early premonition of his career, he says to her, "There will be traces of me when I leave the world." Together they moved into a small one-room apartment at the legendary Chelsea Hotel on the south side of West 23rd St., history-laden home to a panoply of artistic iconoclasts. Radical composer and critic Virgil Thomson lived there (I interviewed him there for my Marc Blitzstein biography), and hundreds of other well-known creative types. Interesting perhaps for readers of People's World, the Chelsea stands directly across the street from the New York offices of the Communist Party USA, whose bookstore in those years opened onto the sidewalk.
Smith's memoir Just Kids focuses on her relationship with Mapplethorpe, winning the 2010 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
At one point the budding artist tries to gain entry to the Whitney Museum of American Art a couple of hours before closing time. He places two quarters and a dime on the counter as his entrance fee, but he is 40 cents short. The African-American receptionist—who is watching a clip of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech—declines Mapplethorpe admission.
The 1970s—the Disco Era—were years of sexual liberation, both for women and LGBTQ folk. Bars, meeting places, social clubs, media outlets, politics, arts, all opened up to new winds of change. What had been repressed and forbidden now found new forms of expression. Psychoactive drugs were part of the picture, too. As with many gay people, Mapplethorpe's journey toward understanding his sexual identity needed time. New York's proliferation of watering holes, bathhouses and sex clubs that catered to the gay community offered the searching artist many opportunities to find his niche. He was especially attracted to the most outré expressions of sexuality in the leather culture, bondage, and S&M scene. He acknowledges, "I have a certain Catholic esthetic," undoubtedly referring to the often gruesome portrayal of martyrdom in Roman Catholic iconography. The film explores the gradual integration of his art and his sexuality, and the slow climb toward recognition.
Another recent film about an artist at that same time and place is Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat, except that Basquiat was more drawn to the explosion of street art and graffiti. Like Mapplethorpe, Basquiat would also die young, of fame and excess.
Among the most amusing scenes in the film are those that have him visiting galleries with his work—often run by gay men showing bland, nondescript abstract paintings devoid of social content—and seeing them squirm uncomfortably in the knowledge that Mapplethorpe was onto something esthetically new and challenging, but far too controversial for their patrons. It was not until 1977 that the Holly Solomon Gallery and the Kitchen started exhibiting his work (Solomon is played by Kerry Butler). The function of galleries and well-respected collectors as taste-makers is implicitly evident.
At the same time that Mapplethorpe was reaching the height of his craft, with the help of his brother Edward (Brandon Sklenar) as an assistant, he shared in the self-destructive impulses that threatened to undermine it all—cocaine, LSD, and sexual experimentation. Many artists—and plenty of others—have been self-destructive with absinthe and other alcoholic addictions.
The first public news about a fatal disease affecting gay men in large urban centers came out in 1981. Over the next decade, it would become a virtual holocaust. It's possible that Mapplethorpe was already infected, as was his lover and an early collector of his work, Sam Wagstaff (John Benjamin Hickey). By the mid-1980s, Mapplethorpe says in the film, "My own photos are quickly becoming a gallery of the dead." He tells Sam, who is 50, "I'll never know what it's like to be 50." His chief fear was to die before he became famous.
As his notoriety grew, Mapplethorpe gave himself license to treat other people with less than admirable respect. As his own name had now become known to everyone in the art world and beyond, he demanded that his brother stop using the family name for his photos. Although he did a welcome service, while legitimizing the beauty of the male body and its parts, of including iconically, handsomely built black models (McKinley Belcher III as Milton Moore and Rotimi Paul as Ken Moody), there was also an aspect of exploitation of those bodies as racial exoticization of the erotic. The film does not recoil from examining that.
As Mapplethorpe is dying, his old family parish priest Father Stack (Brian Stokes Mitchell) pays him a visit, not to hear his confession but to inform him that his mother is fast declining from emphysema. As he surveys some of the photographer's work in the studio, he is clearly taken with it (perhaps as a subtle way of indicating something about the priest's sexuality), and wonders what it would be like to become one of his former parishioner's subjects—he always remembered Robert as "a rascal"—and Mapplethorpe happily obliges. Stack asks if he believes in God, and if not, what gives him solace. "Beauty, affection," the artist answers, "knowing that my work will outlive me."
The inevitable conclusion we are left with, and it is admitted in the film, is that the artist saw everything as a subject through his lens, even self-portraits showing his wasting from AIDS. That—not to be a nice guy—was his life project. "I can't cheat death," he says, "but I can cheat life."
Ironically, by the time of his final illness, the Whitney Museum gave Mapplethorpe a monumental retrospective. The artist was able to attend in a wheelchair. A traveling exhibition called "Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment" later opened in Philadelphia and went on to other cities, becoming, in Cincinnati, a well-known scandal about art censorship and prudishness.
Music in the film reflects the sounds of the time; the composer is Marcelo Zavos. Nancy Schreiber is director of photography. Samuel Goldwyn Films is the distributor. Running time is 102 minutes. Release date is March 1.
Mapplethorpe has already won a number of festival awards (Austin, Key West, Long Beach, Oslo, Atlanta, etc.). For some audiences, the subject matter may still leave them feeling squeamish. Mature viewers will revel in a faithful rendering of what makes an artist tick, what is meant by breaking new inroads into esthetic progress, what it means to be a conscious artist of one's time. Viewer discretion advised. See the trailer here. For an interesting sideline on the artist, see here for a short documentary about Edward Mapplethorpe's eventual reclamation of his name.
Eric A. Gordon
Eric A. Gordon is the author of a biography of radical American composer Marc Blitzstein, co-author of composer Earl Robinson's autobiography, and the translator of a memoir by Brazilian author Hadasa Cytrynowicz. He has received numerous awards for his People's World writing from the International Labor Communications Association. His latest project is translating the nine books of fiction by Manuel Tiago (pseudonym for Álvaro Cunhal) from Portuguese, the first volumes available from International Publishers NY.
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Yokohama Stadium Hits a Home Run with the Q-SYS Audio, Video and Control Ecosystem
Having first opened its gates in 1978, Yokohama Stadium in Japan is currently home field for the DeNA BayStars baseball team. It also plays host to concerts for popular artists from around the world, and will be one of the primary baseball venues for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. When the time came to overhaul the stadium's AV system, Yokohama Stadium chose the Q-SYS Ecosystem from QSC to handle networked audio and control processing throughout.
Yokohama Stadium chose the Q-SYS Ecosystem because of its open, IT-friendly architecture and its third-party integration capabilities. The audio processing/distribution and software-based control is handled by a redundant pair of Q-SYS Core 510i Integrated processors. Third-party Dante™-enabled audio mixers and amplifiers were also deployed throughout the stadium and integrated with Q-SYS using the Q-SYS CDN64 I/O card.
The integrator, Tsushin Setsubi Engineering, built custom user control interfaces (UCI) with Q-SYS UCI Editor that provide a full audio routing matrix, EQ presets and the ability to control the audio level to each zone in the venue. These UCI's are accessible to AV support technicians on native Q-SYS Touch Screen Controllers, and because control for Q-SYS is software-based, the stadium was able to add this functionality without additional hardware-based control processors.
The end-user also needed to allow their AV technicians to monitor audio, including third-party amplifier status, from a single location. Using the Q-SYS Scripting Engine, the integrator utilized Lua scripting to create custom user components that enable status monitoring of the third-party amplifiers deployed throughout the stadium. In the event of a fault, the AV tech will be able to identify the problem amplifier and its location from a Q-SYS touch screen or from separate monitors in the stadium's control room.
"The flexibility of Q-SYS really makes it a great choice for a stadium application," said Yuri Sato, system integrator at Tsushin Setsubi Engineering. "By deploying a platform that combines audio and control processing with third-party device integration, we were able to deliver a more tightly integrated user experience. The system is easy to use, reliable and most importantly, the end-user is thrilled with the capabilities of their Q-SYS system."


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Called directly after setup(), the draw() function continuously executes the lines of code contained inside its block until the program is stopped or noLoop() is called. draw() is called automatically and should never be called explicitly.

It should always be controlled with noLoop(), redraw() and loop(). If noLoop() is used to stop the code in draw() from executing, then redraw() will cause the code inside draw() to be executed a single time, and loop() will cause the code inside draw() to resume executing continuously.

The number of times draw() executes in each second may be controlled with the frameRate() function.

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There can only be one draw() function for each sketch, and draw() must exist if you want the code to run continuously, or to process events such as mousePressed(). Sometimes, you might have an empty call to draw() in your program, as shown in the second example above.

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Die 1. Tennis-Bundesliga der Herren 30 wurde 2022 zum 18. Mal ausgetragen. In den beiden Staffeln Nord und Süd spielten jeweils sieben Mannschaften, von denen die jeweils erstplatzierte ins Finale um die deutsche Meisterschaft einzog und die Mannschaften auf den jeweiligen Plätzen 6 und 7 abstiegen.

Die Spiele der Gruppenphase werden an insgesamt sieben Spieltagen von Mai bis Juli 2023 ausgetragen. Das Finale findet am 16. Juli 2023 auf der Anlage des Buschhausener TC als Sieger der Nordstaffel statt, das die Gäste des TC Pfarrkirchen als Vertreter der Südstaffel knapp mit 5:4 gewinnen konnten.

Die Mannschaften des Uhlenhorster HC und des TTK Sachsenwald im Norden sowie von Eintracht Frankfurt und des TC BW Villingen im Süden stiegen in die jeweilige Regionalliga ab.

Spieltage und Mannschaften
Die Spiele wurden jeweils Samstag um 13:00 Uhr ausgetragen.

Im Süden gab es drei Aufsteiger, da der ST Lohfelden seine Mannschaft vor der Saison zurückzog.

Finalrunde
Das Finale um die deutsche Meisterschaft wurde am 16. Juli 2023 zwischen den Siegern der Nord- und Südstaffel auf der Anlage des Buschhausener TC ausgetragen.

Der TC Pfarrkirchen gewann denkbar knapp mit 5:4 – der entscheidende Punkt konnte dabei erst mit einem 13:11 im Match-Tie-Break des letzten gespielten Doppels errungen werden: Marcos Baghdatis und Steve Darcis setzten sich gegen Franko Škugor und Boy Westerhof durch.

1. Tennis-Bundesliga (Herren 30) Nord

Abschlusstabelle

(M) – amtierender Deutscher Meister der Herren 30
(A) – Aufsteiger aus der Tennis-Regionalliga

Mannschaftskader

Ergebnisse

1. Tennis-Bundesliga (Herren 30) Süd

Abschlusstabelle

(M) – amtierender Deutscher Meister der Herren 30
(A) – Aufsteiger aus der Tennis-Regionalliga

Mannschaftskader

Ergebnisse

Siehe auch
 Tennis-Bundesliga 2022

Weblinks
 Bundesligen 2022 Herren 30 (Nord)
 Bundesligen 2022 Herren 30 (Süd)
 Bundesligen 2022 Herren 30 Finale

Einzelnachweise

2022
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Pausing is something that most people do not use very well when they are making a speech or presentation. Moments of silence when speaking are very powerful especially, as Mark Twain said, if they are used at the right time.
A great time to use a pause is just before or just after you make a bold or important statement.
This either prepares the audience for what's coming or it gives them time to absorb and process what you have just said. Pausing also gives the speaker a chance to think about what they are going to say next or to check their notes.
There are many benefits of effective pausing when speaking to groups of people or just one to one, so this is a skill worth developing and using.
It's the gaps between our words that often have the greatest impact, so don't forget the power of the pause.


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A pluralist hybrid model for moral AIs
Fei SONG*, Shing Hay Felix YEUNG
With the increasing degrees AIs and machines, the need for implementing ethics in AIs is pressing. In this paper, we first survey current approaches to moral AIs and their inherent limitations. Then we propose the pluralist hybrid approach and show how these limitations of moral AIs can be partly alleviated by the pluralist hybrid approach. The core ethical decision-making capacity of an AI based on the pluralist hybrid approach consists of two systems. The first is a deterministic algorithm system that embraces different moral rules for making explicit moral decisions. The second is a machine learning system that accounts for calculating the value of the variables required by the application of moral principles. The pluralist hybrid system is better than the existing proposals as it better addresses the moral disagreement problem of the top-down approach by including distinct moral principles. Besides, the pluralist hybrid system reduces the opacity of ethical decision-making by implementing explicit moral principles for moral decision-making.
AI and Society
E-pub ahead of print - 27 Nov 2022
We are grateful to all the audiences who gave us inspiring feedbacks at the CEPE/IACAP joint Conference 2021: Philosophy and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence.
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature.
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Goodbye, Poons
The funeral for Dave Halligan is this Friday (19 June).
If you would like to send a message of condolence and/or share your memories of Poons with his family and friends, please send them to my Gmail address no later than 12:00 midday on Thursday (18 June):
( bloggerheads DOT com AT gmail DOT com )
-.– In your email, please use the following as your subject header (including brackets): [poons]
-.– Please also make sure that you sign your message with the name or nickname that you regard to be most suitable for this purpose (keeping in mind that these messages will not be posted on the web, and only seen by myself, then Dave's family and closest friends).
I will be collating these messages into a single document and passing this on in time for it to be printed and suitably presented at the funeral reception, where it will be made available to guests.
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Poons is gone
"As many of you will by now be aware, the one and only Dave Halligan ceased to be on Saturday, 30th May 2009. The funeral will take place in Birkenhead in a couple of weeks. A lot of folks will be unable to attend, so the intention is to have a ceremony of our own in order to share our memories of Dave at a time when everyone can make it. Please feel free to post any ideas you may have here. Thank you all." (source)
Poons was a longtime supporter of and comment contributor to Bloggerheads. In fact, his last post on his main weblog was made in support of me.
Recently, Poons spent most of his time on this alternative weblog, and I'll let the introduction speak for itself:
Hi my name is poons and I am an alcoholic.
I also suffer from depression and have suicidal tendencies.
I tried to end it all on Monday 20th April 2009 and so I will document the consequences of that action.
The main objective of this blog is to allow my friends and family to keep up with where I am at, and maybe on the way inspire other people who find themselves in a similar situation so that they also make steps to address the issues of alcohol dependency and depression which I have found go arm in arm.
I will endeavour to post daily updates about my progress and details of the help I am receiving with pointers to hopefully help others who wish to get their own life back on track.
Despite support from myself and many others much closer to him, on Saturday 30th May 2009 Poons lost his battle to manage his alcohol intake & handle depression, and took his own life sometime after this last post at 3pm on that same day.
Poons is gone.
I'm going to have to do something to celebrate his life… but right now I'm busy mourning his death.
Back shortly.
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Iain Dale is an ['expletive'-deleted] liar
In an earlier post, I referred to this exchange, where Iain Dale's lawyer tried and failed to specify an example of libel on my website after accusing me of repeated libel:
L: So far as I'm concerned, it is plainly obvious; you have accused my client of being, in various guises, a liar… with a number of adjectives which accompany it.
T: Riiiight..?
L: He denies that he's a liar.
I'd like to expand on that theme briefly if I may, because it appears to me that someone is seeing bad language where there is none… while being blind to their own, no less.
Here's a further exchange that I really wish I could bring you as audio. The best I can do is present this image as a description of the mocking tone used by this lawyer during this conversation:
L: I think that calling someone an expletive-deleted liar is not necessarily the most temperate way of diffusing a situation.
T: Actually, I…
L: … you could always say that someone has 'been untruthful'.
T: … because I've been led into this trap* before, I've been very careful about my language with Mr Iain Dale recently…
L: I can only tell you…
T: … but he is a liar.
L: I can only tell you, it may be something that you may used to but the majority of people in this country still find very strong.
T: Wha…? I resent that, I really do.
L (mocking): "Oh, you resent that, you really do." Cut the crap.
T: What's with the mocking tone, sir?
L: Because I'm not here to be buggered around with.
[*Dale himself will himself tell people to "piss off" and describe them as "first class pricks" and allow/publish much worse from supporters on his website, but will feign shock if you ever swear back at him. So, because it is something that he nearly always takes advantage of, lately I've tried to be very careful about swearing at Iain.]
Now, leaving aside the possible status of 'crap' and 'bugger' as expletives, I've looked back though my posts from 2009 (because all of this crap started at or about the time that bugger Jenvey turned up) and all I can find are these two items:
In this post, I describe Iain Dale as "a shameless liar".
In this post, I describe Iain Dale as "a malicious liar".
So, depending on which of these two words is an expletive, we may finally have found what Iain Dale is referring to when he accuses me of libel… so is 'malicious' the expletive, or is it 'shameless'?
Neither word shocks me, but that's not a reliable guide, as it may simply be something that 'people like me' are used to. Would someone civilised care to point it out? Ideally, someone who represents "the majority of people in this country."
[Of course, if this were a libel case, then I would have to prove that I speak the truth when I call Iain Dale a liar (which will be very easy to do if this ever sees the inside of a courtroom, because he lied to me), but this is not a libel case; Iain is instead alleging harassment, using accusations of repeated libel to support that allegation, and 'inviting' me to shut up and back off and let him have his way with continued publication of his lies about me while assuring every man and his dog that he isn't trying to gag anyone, because he doesn't like being called a hypocrite, either… even though he is one. Iain? You agreed to call Mercer, then didn't, then lied about it. You also lied when protesting your innocence over the false claim about Tom Watson that cost the Mail on Sunday "substantial damages". You also allege that I was harassing you when trying to contact you about both of these matters (and my statement to police, obviously) when you were in the process of misleading your readers about Tom Watson's association with Draper/McBride/smeargate, and my association with Draper/McBride/smeargate. You were not sitting at home innocently twiddling your thumbs or fearfully hiding behind the sofa; you were busy publishing libel at the time (and/or 'letting it ride' after withdrawing same just a little too quietly), and I was one of the targets on your site and others. Instead of throwing lawyers and allegations at me, you should come down from your ivory tower and explain yourself under comments like any blogger worth their salt would have done weeks ago. Until you do so, you can piss off, you first class prick.]
[MINI-UPDATE – After initially allowing me to publish their letter(s), Iain's lawyers now inform me that I am no longer permitted to do so… for reasons of copyright. (Tch. They'll gag me with an accusation of jaywalking next.) Iain's lawyers also refuse to clarify if criticism of Nadine Dorries amounts to harassment of Iain Dale in his eyes, as they appear to contend in their original copyright-protected letter.]
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Steve Uncles of the English Democrats is a cowardly scoundrel
Rather than risk yet another ridiculous legal threat from yet another [expletive deleted], I'll mostly let Steve Uncle's own words speak for him in this post:
"You may recall the 'self hating' blogger – Chris Lightfoot, who in 2004, 'went off on one' just because he got a leaflet through his letter box with an England Flag on it. 18 Months ago the poor lad Committed Suicide – that's what happens when you hate your own country, you have no identity, no focus – nothing." – Steve Uncles, 30 May 2009
And just in case that wasn't enough:
"Good! Let's hope you go the same way as Chris Lightfoot" – Steve Uncles, 30 May 2009
And, as you can see, this is not a one-off or a 'moment of madness' but a theme that Steve Uncles keeps returning to:
"If we get the Liberal's way, and have a multi-cultural "soup" everywhere in the world – what fun will it be when we go abroad ? You self haters, really need to sharpen up you game. Chris Lightfoot, did not do ANYTHING for English Democracy. The guy was a waster." Steve Uncles, March 18, 2009
Jebus! I can only hope that if I pass on before him that Iain Dale will continue to take me this seriously*.
James Graham has more detail here.
PDF uses immoderate language to describe Steve Uncles here.
Oh, for those who don't already know, Chris Lightfoot put more into our democracy than even this parasite could hope to extract.
Steve Uncles is a coward and a scoundrel and unworthy of your vote.
[*If you think that sentence unfair, then consider this; Iain Dale, like Steve Uncles, is completely blind to his errors/failings – or unwilling to admit to them in public – and describes my criticism of him as having "nothing to do with advancing political debate or matter[s] of any public importance" because he's so gosh-darn important *and* right all of the time. Further, the only time that Iain Dale will address that criticism is when he knows I am not around and/or I have been effectively silenced… just as he did during the Usmanov event, while posing as a supporter. After his (in)actions over the Mercer call especially, I have every reason to believe he'd do the same while posing as a mourner, and I'll even stake a fiver from my vast estate on it.]
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Iain Dale and the subtle art of legal gagging
"Dear Iain Dale, I think Nadine Dorries is a twat. This doesn't mean I think you're a twat. But as it happens, I do." – Anton Vowl
1. According to lawyers acting for Iain Dale, I am not mad/insane and they know that. Hooray. However, at the same time, they fail to recognise that their client has repeatedly authored/published comments that imply/claim otherwise… while they contend that I pursue him for no good reason and/or to an unreasonable extent.
2. Earlier, I sent an email reply to them and hyperlinked to the full document rather than include it. They did not reply to this email or even acknowledge a further mail from me requesting that they do this. They now contend that because I sent a hyperlink to a document instead of the whole document, that I did not actually send them a reply.
3. According to those same lawyers, the reason why Iain Dale has not simply reported me to the police for harassment (or, one assumes, one of the other crimes alleged on his site) is because "we do not wish to waste public funds to deal with you" (accent on the you, which was just one example of this chap's rather demeaning manner).
4. But one of the main things that I called them about and wanted to clarify (especially when they had not replied to anything for more than a week after issuing a 1-week deadline) was their apparent assertion that any pursuit of Nadine Dorries would be interpreted by Iain Dale as 'further' harassment of him; i.e. could I enjoy the privilege of never saying anything about Iain Dale ever again, but still prompt a harassment complaint by being critical of Nadine Dorries? See, they're either accusing me of actively/unfairly pursuing Nadine Dorries about what Iain Dale published about myself (and/or Tom Watson) – one of many accusations in that letter and section that I deny – and/or they are trying to claim or imply that by pursuing Nadine Dorries I am aiming to get at Iain Dale. It is just one of the things the original letter is annoyingly vague about, but it's important given that there is so much about Nadine Dorries that is worth reporting right now. Here's what happened when I tried to get them to be clearer on this position:
['This' refers to the lies about me and others that Iain Dale was publishing on his site at the time (that are still live today) and his refusal at the time to contribute to a formal statement to police about an ongoing crime (my being harassed by being falsely accused of being a paedophile). 'T' = Tim (me). 'L' = lawyer.]
T: You're saying that I chased Nadine Dorres to pursue this?
L: I didn't say that you chased Nadine Dorries…
T: Yes you do, in the letter, that's exactly what you say in the letter.
L: I did not say you pursued this, not to pursue this.
T: Oh, so why did I pursue Nadine Dorries?
L: About Mr Dale.
T: It's to get at Mr Dale, is that your position?
L: I don't know; you're going to explain, no doubt.
He later clarified that he meant 'explain in court'… but I was wanting to clarify what action might be perceived by Iain Dale as something that would prompt him to take me to court. If it wasn't their position that chasing Nadine Dorries equated to harassment of Iain Dale, I would expect them to much clearer about it, and leave no room for uncertainty.
However, I was also politely warned that "it might be better to halt the war rather than continue it," and I took this to mean that, yes, this is seen by some as a tribal issue of sorts, and I potentially open myself to a charge of harassment if I continue to publish/say/do anything about Nadine Dorries that Iain Dale and his lawyers regard to be 'unreasonable' (and, going by the way they both approach comment moderation, I expect this to include just about anything they don't personally agree with or wish to talk about).
5. Finally, in their original letter alleging my harassment of their client, Iain Dale's lawyers pass on several vague accusations of libel to make what passes for their case, but they fail to cite a single example. So today I asked for one single example of libel instead of vague, over-reaching claims of repeated libel. Here is the result of that (wasted) effort:
T: So are you actually in the habit of sending out letters accusing someone of libel without specifying what that libel might be?
L: Well, what are you talking about?
T: Your client, in this letter, accuses me of libel more than once, but doesn't actually specify what and where that might be.
L: Well, no doubt that will appear in any proceedings that will ensue.
T: Wha… [laughter].. surely if the idea is to..
L: You know what you've done, Mr Ireland
T: …no, I don't. You see, there's a large amount of confusion…
L: … you do!
T: Could you inform me what I have done…?
L: Well…
T: … if it's that clear.
Pretty specific, huh? You'd best check your own site(s) and make sure that you haven't called Iain Dale a liar, too; there could be repercussions.
"Nobody wishes to gag you," I was assured. Apparently, I am free to take the risk of publishing what I please… within the limits stipulated by Iain Dale and his lawyers (using harassment law as their main device, in much the same way that many corporations do nowadays).
These limits appear to include not calling Iain Dale a liar when he is lying (which he does often), not criticising Nadine Dorries when she is lying (which she does often), and/or anything else that Iain Dale might intepret as an act of 'war' (which could be just about anything, depending on his mood).
That looks, smells and feels like a gag to me… and a bloody funny one that that.
(Psst! Oh, and I'm certainly not allowed to email Iain Dale to check any specifics before I publish anything; keen libel-law-watchers will appreciate the subtle art to this not-at-all-gagging technique, I'm sure.)
Why can't Iain simply explain how/why he repeatedly and knowingly complicated my harassment case instead of helping me with it as I asked? Why won't Iain remove claims about me on his website that he knows not to be true? Why can't Iain specify anything on my site that he regards to be libel? Oh, and what kind of blogger takes matters to these extremes just to avoid having a conversation where they might have to admit to making an error or two?
All these questions and more, folks… for as long as Iain continues to be an [adjective] [expletive] about this.
Incidentally, this recent behaviour of Iain's has complicated my harassment case more than the call to Mercer he didn't make; Iain's 'parish notice' post especially has prompted at least one revenge attack that included a repeat of Jenvey's claims, and there is now a new assault on my character that I have not blogged about until right now; the new attacks merge Iain Dale's repeated 'mental' smears with Glen Jenvey's 'paedo' smears and allege that I have a long history of mental illness and am therefore likely to have staged the whole event and called myself a convicted sex criminal in the process.
Both of these attacks have been reported to the police, as will all future attacks on this kind. I trust that my doing so is not regarded by some as a waste of public funds.
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Nadine Dorries censors Nadine Dorries
This week, Nadine Dorries emerged from her tragically difficult long weekend with a fab new makeover and a 'get some' attitude. To show us how bold and brave she was (and that nothing had changed), she then misrepresented the contents of a negative letter published in her local newspaper (while completely failing to mention that the letter was about her conduct on expenses) and savaged the writer while playing the victim.
Classic Dorries, and so far so standard, but this morning I discovered that Nadine had retro-moderated the relevant post, essentially removing her attack without actually admitting to any error, righting any wrongs, etc. – like it never happened, and she didn't dishonestly quote a man out of context or disgracefully split hairs over what constitutes fighting for what you believe in.
Well, I'm going to mirror her original post here in order to SAVE BLOGGING AND FREE SPEECH (or something):
All's Fair in War and Politics
Posted (by Nadine Dorries) Wednesday, 27 May 2009 at 15:16
http://blog.dorries.org/id-1397-2009_5_All%27s_Fair_in_War_and_Politics.aspx
My Labour opponent had a very strong letter in the Beds On Sunday this week.
In the letter he deployed his usual tactic of distorting the facts, something I'm becoming used to these days; however, he also said:
"I fought for as a soldier in Iraq in 2003".
Anyone who reads my blog will know how pro-military I am.
I stand in awe and admiration of our soldiers, their professionalism and bravery.
Only last week, I wrote of how moved I was when I heard a Scots Dragoon Guard use his moment on TV to talk about the moment a soldier receives his pre-assignment message: ' contact with the enemy is certain' – and what it is that fires that soldier on, one of our heroes, into battle.
So, you can imagine, when I read the words "I fought as a soldier in Iraq" I was quite impressed. Gosh, thought I, good job I'm the MP or I may be tempted to vote for him myself.
Only, did he fight in Iraq? Did he go out into the danger zones along with the a regiment on Op Telic 8, and risk his life and limb side by side with our soldiers, for the sake of freedom and democracy? The values for which he claims to have "fought in Iraq" .
I will be interested to find out the answer.
Claiming to be a hero when you write a political letter as the Labour candidate in a newspaper is a very big claim indeed. One that secures advantage and wins you votes.
Let's hope it's true.
Save Nadine Dorries from Nadine Dorries… or next time, it might be you!
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Boothroyd's resignation from the Wikipedia Arbitration Committee
The Register – Sockpuppeting British politico resigns from Wikisupremecourt: A Labour councillor for London's City of Westminster resigned from Wikipedia's supreme court at the weekend, after admitting he gained election to the site's ruling body using a false name… When standing for election to the Arbitration Committee – known in Orwellian fashion as the ArbCom – Boothroyd's platform included the notion that "editors should be encouraged to register accounts, and then ideally to stick to one account." On a private email list used by the Arbitration Committee, Boothroyd acknowledged his real identity and admitted to using a second Wikipedia account under the names Fys and Dbiv. He has also used a third account under his own name.
Now, you need to keep in mind here that Iain Dale is a carpet-bagging blog-cheat who tolerates and encourages worse on his website when it suits him (while yelling 'sock puppet' at political opponents without a lick of evidence). Iain also has a near-pathological hatred of any 'lefty' who dares to have been in the internets longer than him. I mention this mainly so you don't suffer from undue surprise when Iain continues to show a lack of interest in the detail and just carries on exploiting this rare opportunity to yell 'sock puppet' in a leftwards direction.
AFAICS, what has happened here is that a man has tried to move on from his past identities, but fallen into the trap of becoming involved (at an admin/voting level) in some disputes that have overlapped with that past – the result being a conflict of interest in a position/environment that won't tolerate perceived conflicts, never mind actual ones.
I have every reason to be personally upset with some aspects of this, but I think it's more important that I encourage you to take some time to look at the detail:
– David has resigned from the Arbitration Committee, not Wikipedia as a whole (pardon my sloppy tweet) and certainly not as a councillor as some over-excited people have been saying/thinking.
– Many people are speaking up for David's latter editing record, and I urge you to at least scan this page to get a proper sense of that. At this stage there appears to be little reason to rush about undoing/ignoring all the good work he has done on Wikipedia, but such decisions/judgements are best left in the hands of people with far more experience and credibility than the likes of Iain Dale (or Phil Hendren, for that matter). Again, this is the page to be in on if you want to follow any of that.
– There isn't a scrap of evidence linking Mr Boothroyd to Damian McBride, but I'm sure the narrative linking the two will persist regardless of any evidence, as it's politically useful to Conservatives (who will, no doubt, recall all too well the indignity of watching their head of campaigning attempting something far more treacherous and failing on an epic scale).
– David has contributed many comments to this site over the years, and he's still welcome to do so.
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Iain Dale seeks to silence me with legal threats
People keep bitching at me about long posts, but it's other people's bullshit that make things so complicated. Regardless, here I am going to try to keep to the basics and show you why Nadine Dorries and Iain Dale (and others) are having you on. I'm sure Iain Dale or one of his mates will have a go at me if I skip anything important, so let's crack on, on that basis:
Earlier this year, I ran a series of expos&#233s on self-described 'terror expert' Glen Jenvey. He responded with wild conspiracy theories about me (and the PCC) being in league with extremists and accused me of harassment pretty much at every stage that a question turned up that he could not or would not answer. He also falsely accused me of being a convicted paedophile.
Unlike some people who have been defending Nadine Dorries on the basis that wild conspiracy theories should be allowed to roam free, I regarded the latter claim to be serious and actionable, so I made a complaint to the police.
[I wish to make this next point very clear: an investigation resulted and is in progress. There are aspects of that investigation that I cannot or will not speak about at this time, but it is very real, and ongoing. I am not a blogger who issues a dubious complaint/report to a police station and makes out that action is being taken when it is not. But Glen Jevey has done this, and so has Iain Dale. Read on…]
At one stage, I needed to get in direct contact with Conservative MP Patrick Mercer, then widely seen as an ally of Jenvey's. Messages to his office about Jenvey's conduct – even the one showing that Jenvey's accomplice was the brother of a man on Mercer's executive committee – were not getting through.
I explained the situation to Iain Dale, who knew Patrick Mercer. Iain agreed to take action, then later knowingly left me with the impression that he had contacted Mercer directly and alerted him to Jenvey's smears, when he had not.
It later turned out that Iain had called Mercer's office, and not Mercer himself, and then lied about that.
When confronted about this, Iain offered a single pathetic excuse that he insisted remain a secret. He then began to take increasingly desperate measures to avoid discussing the matter in public. For the most part, Iain Dale avoided discussing the matter of his complicating my harassment case… by falsely accusing me of harassment.
On the long weekend of April 11-13, I was in the process of pursuing Iain Dale for his account of his call to Mercer's office, not just for my own peace of mind but for his input on a police statement that I was preparing.
Further, on the long weekend of April 11-13 Iain Dale was also busy publishing a few smears himself while making unsubstantiated claims that he was a named target of a smear campaign.
The Mail on Sunday was eventually forced to pay "substantial damages" to Tom Watson for a claim made by Iain Dale at this time that Iain now claims to have apologised for immediately and corrected swiftly.
However, his story about when/how he did this has already changed once, and is undermined by his revealing on his own website that he had yet to apologise to Tom Watson very late on the afternoon of the 13th (when he had claimed elsewhere that he had already done so days earlier).
Further, in this very thread where he and others implied that Tom Watson was guilty because he objected to people publishing lies about him (WTF?), Iain Dale deleted many comments from me that sought to challenge him on his persistent smearing of Tom Watson (as well as his 'helpful' role in the Jenvey smear, which I considered relevant given his outrage over some smears but not others).
In that same thread, mostly published more than a day after he claimed to have properly addressed/corrected his false claims about Tom Watson, there were at least two comments published by Iain from readers still clearly under the impression that Tom Watson was CCed on the smeargate emails; one at 13:11 (since deleted by the submitter) and one at 14:29 (still live).
But Iain did not publish anything to address or correct comments like this until 16:15, well after the main conversation had taken place and most readers had moved on. But he deleted many comments from me in the interim, and even as late as 6pm, he was deleting comments from me that pointed out; "But Tom didn't find out about these emails because he wasn't CCed on them as you claimed."
I will stress again that Iain has since claimed that this was all an innocent mistake, and he was acting in good faith every step of the way.
It should also be noted here that, at the same time, while she was playing the victim of smears, Nadine Dorries was busy smearing the Prime Minister in much the same way that Iain Dale was smearing Tom Watson (by stating as fact things that she could not even begin to prove).
All of this came to a head when I finally lost my temper with Iain, and he immediately and without warning published a single private email out of context, presented my many attempts to contact him for very good reasons out of context, made a ridiculous claim about my launching a 'DNS' attack (on a Blogger.com-hosted weblog, FFS) and published under that multiple false claims about my mental state and, further, many comments alleging my involvement of a number of criminal offences.
I made my specific intentions clear to Iain Dale within an hour, he knew damn well then (even if he didn't before) that what I described bore no relation to what he had accused me of, but Iain did not correct his post or alert his readers, and some of them went on to undertake acts of revenge against me (for 'victimising' poor Iain).
One person was so inspired by Iain's post that they attempted to repeat Jenvey's false claims about paedophilia (I have server logs to back this assertion, and would welcome the opportunity to prove/present this in court). Another more serious incident has emerged where Iain's smears have been merged with Jenvey's, and I am now falsely (and anonymously) accused of having a long history of mental illness and inventing the 'paedophile' smears against me.
[Note – All of these instances have been reported to the police, as will all future instances. You join the pile-on at your own risk.]
Fast forward roughly one month…
At the height of the expenses scandal, The Telegraph issued Nadine Dorries with a standard arse-covering letter asking her to clarify several points about an upcoming article. A major point raised was that it appeared on paper as if she were claiming expenses on a second home when she only appeared to have one.
Dorries went into a self-righteous frenzy, immediately publishing a letter marked 'PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL' and making it out to be an interrogation of the kind normally expected* of the Spanish Inquisition. Sadly, in her rush to show her moral superiority, she revealed details suggesting that while it was not her only home, neither was it her 'second home' as was required for her to claim expenses against it.
You can read the details here, but from what she has done and what she herself has published, it is clear that Nadine Dorries broke the rules… and I state that as if it were a fact, because it damn well is.
Nadine then went on to claim that the rules governing expenses didn't apply to her or any other MP (and that MPs were likely to commit suicide, so you really wouldn't want to press the matter).
Later, just in case those rules did apply to her, she claimed that the 'second home' rule as most people understood it didn't apply in this case anyway.
Also, in the process of diverting attention away from her wrongdoing, Nadine Dorries last week made several accusations that the Telegraph had acted in a self-serving manner over the matter of investigating MPs expenses. She implied in places and claimed in others that they were motivated by profit and/or far-right politics.
On Friday afternoon, she closed all comments on her site, published a further accusation of this nature, and then swanned off for a three-day weekend, fully expecting to get away with this.
The Telegraph instructed lawyers, who contacted Nadine Dorries and the hosts of her website. Dorries was either unable or unwilling to make specific edits to her site at the time, and so her host was forced to stop it from broadcasting.
Iain Dale again disagreed with the use of lawyers, gave the false impression that the Telegraph had somehow ordered the removal of the entire 'blog', and even had the audacity to make out that this event was somehow akin to the Usmanov event.
(Yes, the point about ISPs and UK libel law is a valid one, but largely irrelevant here. The Telegraph's lawyers took entirely reasonable steps in the circumstances, especially in light of the bad faith shown by Dorries. Crucially, they showed no sign of denying Nadine Dorries her right to meet that legal challenge and have her day in court.)
Iain Dale did all of this knowing that he had just issued a legal letter to me that:
a) seeks to manipulate me into a position where I am 'free' to write what I like about him on my site, but never allowed to contact him for clarification of any given point or submit comments to his website
b) threatens me with legal action should I dare to continue to pursue Iain Dale over anything in pretty much any way he doesn't like
c) accuses me of being critical of Nadine Dorries (and others) merely to get at him (see 'b')
d) makes an extraordinarily vague accusation of libel, that totally fails to specify what/where that libel might be, or even what it might refer to
Further, what clearly upsets Iain Dale the most is that I would dare to question his conduct and motives as a publisher; essentially the same thing that Nadine Dorries has done to the Barclay Brothers, only with a lot more evidence and a lot less fruitcake
But as Iain Dale would have it, my criticism of the way he misleads his readers is a "gratuitous personal attack", mostly having "nothing to do with advancing political debate or matter[s] of any public importance":
1. Who the f**k does he think he is?
2. Scroll up for a bloody good example of my being right about Iain Dale misleading his readers that also shows my concerns to be of significant importance, not just to me but to the public at large.
3. Iain Dale is a rogue publisher, a shameless, malicious liar, and a bloody menace.
4. And he is cordially invited to bring it on:
I am withdrawing all offers made in this letter, as I now regard the terms I offered to be far too generous in the circumstances. Iain Dale is clearly taking the piss and most likely wanting to manoeuvre me into a position where he can continue to do so while gagging me, and I'm not having it.
If Iain Dale is genuinely convinced that he is the victim of harassment, then he should do what any one of us could have done by now; he should walk into a police station, and make a formal complaint. Even if for reasons best known to himself he instead chooses a civil remedy, he should prepare to defend in court the conduct he refuses to discuss in public.
(During the Usmanov event, Iain Dale claimed to be supporting me, but took the opportunity to falsely accuse me of smearing him. Again, he was unable to specify what I may have said that might not be true.)
(*Nobody expects the Sp… oh, bugger.)
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Nadine Dorries is no blogger, and no blogging hero
Category: The Political Weblog Movement, Tories! Tories! Tories!, UK Libel Law
Nadine Dorries, as it was once put so delicately by Dawn Primarolo:, has recently asserted many things to be facts that are not.
While stating as facts things that are not facts, Nadine Dorries has also – by the account of many credible bloggers and their contributors – refused to allow her claims to be substantially challenged under comments (which she has only just reinstated after this disaster where she also asserted many things to be facts that were not, and responded with the censorship, manipulation and sudden withdrawal of comments).
This is not how a typical blogger behaves, the timing/nature of the dialogue leading up to the removal of her weblog is a major factor in the rights and wrongs of this, and so far we have very little reason to trust the word of Nadine Dorries or almost anyone else in her camp at this stage.
Further, I suspect that Phil Hendren* and Iain Dale might be declaring this to be somehow equal to the Usmanov/Shillings/Fasthosts event a little prematurely, and I for one would like to hear more about the specifics of it from more than one source before I rush to judgement.
Until then, as far as I'm concerned, Nadine Dorries can go stay in London at her own expense.
[Psst! I would also appreciate hearing Iain Dale's position on his use of legal threats to avoid mere dialogue, let alone any challenge in response to his asserting many things to be facts that are not.]
PS – Yes, I'm aware of the absurd aspect of UK libel law that allows this to happen, just as I'm aware of suicide statistics that might appear to support some of Nadine's recent assertions. Nadine Dorries and her supporters will take anything they can get at this stage to divert attention away from what she has said about helping herself to a pot of money that she (and, she claims, all MPs) regarded to be theirs by right, regardless of any rules.
UPDATE (24 May) – *'Dizzy' is upset, so allow me to point out here that (a) it was Iain waving the 'Usmanov' name about, and not him, and (b) they most certainly did not collude to deceive; such a thing would be as unthinkable as it is unprecedented. More details are here, but I think these two allies of Dorries could be clearer about what has happened here… and about what has not. It is not fair or accurate, for example, to say something like this:
"The Telegraph deleted Nadine Dorries blog?!" (source)
More to follow. Sunshine first.
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Open Letter to Rubinstein Phillips LLP, Solicitors
Please excuse me while I quickly post a response to a letter that just arrived in the post
Open Letter to Rubenstein Phillips LLP, Solicitors
Re: Your client (Iain Dale) and your recent letter
1. I take offence that you would expect me to act in the manner of Nadine Dorries (or your client, for that matter) and publish your CONFIDENTIAL letter immediately and without due warning, cause and/or permission, but feel free to tell your client to make good on his threat to publish that same letter in full himself, as I suspect I may have already repeated parts of your letter by using the words 'to', 'the' and 'or'.
2. However, in your letter, your client states many things that simply are not true, and he publishes such claims at his own risk.
3. If your client (an expert blogger) is aware of any libel on my site, he has yet to challenge a single claim that I have made under comments, as is the norm. Let him come forward and identify the alleged libel, or take me to court over it (i.e. instead of discussing it), or shut the hell up.
4. Thank you for confirming that, while he has claimed/implied otherwise elsewhere, Iain Dale has NOT at this time instigated any kind of police investigation against me. I would be interested to know when (and in what context) he issued a 'report' to his local police, as the devil is usually in the detail with your client.
5. I needed your client's input on a police statement being prepared for an investigation that is now in progress. I wished to give an accurate account of an important event that he took part in. Here, I refer you to those sections of the relevant Act that have to do with "preventing or detecting crime" and other reasonable circumstances.
6. Your client was in a position to help prevent a crime, but did not do what he agreed to do, and then lied about it. I needed his full account of the relevant telephone exchange for the statement I was preparing for police at the time, but he then refused to talk about that or anything else. I have already explained this to your client, but instead he persists with false claims/implications that I have made a false allegation against him.
7. Thank you for your kind invitation that I stop contacting Iain Dale of my own free will and without any actual legal compulsion beyond your opinion that an offence has been committed. I will happily pledge to never again telephone or email Iain Dale directly ever, ever, ever – if he removes each and every claim about me on his website that he cannot substantiate (including claims published as comments), agrees not to publish such material again, and further agrees to take more care in comments to the extent of ensuring that all comments published by him are read by him or by a member of his staff (not just for my protection, but for the protection of others).
8. I fully reserve the right to submit comment(s) on any article/comment he publishes about me or involving me on his website, or about anything he claims when he is contributing to any external website.
9. The Iain Dale Fan Club will close up shop at the moment that Iain Dale apologises on his site for repeatedly publishing false claims about me while denying me a right of reply, agrees not to do it again, and re-introduces the 'Registered Users only' setting on his Blogger.com-hosted website (he knows why I regard this especially to be a fair expectation). The Iain Dale Fan Club is in no way a DOS attack, and doesn't even begin to approach the type/scale of DOS attack claimed/imagined by your client. It is instead a perfectly legal braking mechanism that only prevents Iain Dale from cheating in a certain way using comments. If he's no longer cheating in that way, then the brakes serve no purpose, and I can relax. Simple. Finally, on a personal note, I am greatly amused at any reference to it in a legal letter, but I only earn points if you mention the group by name. If it wouldn't be too much trouble…?
10. I will even quietly drop the Mercer/call matter to the best of my abilities* if Iain agrees to the above terms. We can leave it at 'Iain was in a unique position to help someone being smeared as a paedophile and did sod all', as we have already arrived at and successfully held this position once already, and quite successfully, for years. It's a downright disgraceful state of affairs, but I know from bitter experience that it is a bearable state of affairs.
11. If Iain Dale seriously believes that I criticise the likes of Nadine Dorries just to get at him, then he's as confused and delusional as she is.
12. This is only here so your client doesn't suspect that I went to '11' on purpose.
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(*There is no telling at this stage how relevant Iain's call/role was and I have little control over what develops during the course of the investigation.)
Comments are open, but do behave. Iain's lawyers are watching.
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DEAF WISH - S/T LP
Vinyl only release, includes download code
Limited edition of 500 green vinyl
10 track debut album, previously CD-R and 2011 vinyl issue - sold out
Sub Pop releasing 7"EP October 7th (USA), October 6th (Europe)
Touring USA Sept/Oct, incl. Gonerfest 11 (also played Gonerfest 8)
"There would be no cause to put up with this nonsense if Deaf Wish weren't a band of such rare awesomeness — and if Deaf Wish sightings in a live setting weren't such notoriously memorable chaos. You see, they are the finest blast of well-structured noise to emerge from Australia since Eddy Current Suppression Ring. Deaf Wish's trajectory is as unpredictable as their music. They exist outside of time and space, but also some of them are in Melbourne. Don't worry about it too much. Just tune into their magnificently decaying frequency and hope it's not the last that you hear of them." – Beverly Brian (MTV)
Deaf Wish began in a soggy West Melbourne rehearsal room in May 2007, standing around screaming and bashing through songs with one solid philosophy: 'go to feedback' when things fall apart. After a handful of rehearsals, they recorded 10 songs, released these on CD-R three days later and played two shows. Guitarist Sarah Hardiman then left for the UK and it looked like Deaf Wish would be one of those short-lived bands, playing a couple of legendary shows and disappearing. Thankfully for us, that wasn't the case.
Homeless was at those shows and VERY impressed, picking up a copy of the CD-R - unfortunately missing out on the Vomit Bag edition. A few years down the track, we expressed interest in issuing this self-titled album, even before Homeless existed as a label. Three years later and to coincide with Deaf Wish returning to the USA and the release of a brand new Sub Pop 7"EP (available Oct.7th), Homeless has crapped themselves in anticipation of reissuing that 10 track debut LP. The 22-date tour of the US throughout September/October sees Deaf Wish return for another appearance at Gonerfest 8 (2011), their previous onslaught regarded by many as a true highlight of the festival.
"Being in the same room as this band, live or on record, means being at the receiving end of all the convoluted rage, frustrations and insecurities they spew forth. Like any good punk band, there's no restraint in the savagery."
- Lee Parker (The Thousands)
Deaf Wish are Sarah Hardiman (guitar, vocals), Nick Pratt (bass, vocals), Jensen Tjhung (guitar, vocals) and Daniel Twomey (drums).
A1. Green Flame (2:10)
A2. Take What You Want (1:32)
A3. Mum Gets Punched In The Face (1:53)
A4. Zen Arch-Ade (1:16)
A5. Make It Hurt (1:49)
A6. I Traded You (3:35)
B1. Mai Tai (1:30)
B2. Nerve Damage (2:38)
B3. Freeze The Sound (4:37)
B4. White Heat / Bikini (2:19)
BITS OF SHIT - CUT SLEEVES LP
CUNTZ - SOLID MATES LP
DAN MELCHIOR - K-85 LP
GENTLEMAN - SEXTAPE LP
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