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France is back, but where is Germany?
Paris and Berlin are out of step, as Emmanuel Macron pushes ahead with new strategy for EU.
By	Mujtaba Rahman
French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel | Boris Roessler/AFP via Getty Images
Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group's Europe practice.
PARIS — Franco-German relations are tense. Unfortunately, this is unlikely to be just a passing phase, but something more systemic. The reason is simple: The differing political fortunes of French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (or indeed her successor) and their respective governments has turned the relationship upside down.
Berlin is weak while Paris is strong.
What this means for the EU is still taking shape, but the first tremors are already being felt.
Senior German officials acknowledge that the first misstep in the relationship with Paris was theirs. When Macron came to power, he tried to correct the wrongs of his predecessor, François Hollande, by initiating and implementing reforms in France before he sought Germany's cooperation to secure a budget dedicated to stabilizing shocks in the eurozone.
The differing political fortunes of the French and German leaders and governments has turned the relationship upside down.
Macron simplified French employment law, tightened jobless benefits and loosened bureaucratic constraints on hiring and firing, to name a few reforms.
Rather than meet the French president halfway, German leaders only agreed to minimal, cosmetic changes for the eurozone. This key lesson was not lost in the Elysée.
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Very well-placed officials in Berlin now believe that "Macron has decided to push forward with European reforms that he considers necessary, alone and without Germany." As evidence, they cite the French leader's veto on starting trade talks with the United States, his decision to block the opening of EU accession talks with Albania and North Macedonia and his support for rapprochement with Russia.
But Macron's willingness to strike out on his own is not just about his frustrated ambitions. He considers that Hollande's inability to think "conceptually" stymied his progress in Europe. Macron's more strategic idea of the EU, first articulated in his landmark speech at the Sorbonne — where he called for a "Europe that protects" — stands in contrast to Hollande's perceived failures on the Continental stage.
Macron presented a grand European vision at the Sorbonne in September 2017 | Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images
Put bluntly: Macron believes the European Union must abandon its obsession with the free market and become a political and strategic player with one voice and one purpose — first in its own neighborhood and then in the world. Creating a proper EU defense policy is the key to all.
These ideas have exacerbated tensions with Germany. First, because there isn't much strategic thinking in Berlin. As one senior member of the German government recently told me, "the last time we had a German idea for Europe was under the chancellorship of Helmut Kohl." Second, because in the pockets of the chancellery, foreign ministry and Bundestag where such thinking does exist, the ideas differ markedly to those in Paris.
By placing defense at the core of his "new EU," Berlin suspects that Macron wants to replace the economic leadership of Germany with the foreign and security policy leadership of France. This would amount to making the French army, rather than German economy, the nucleus of EU action and power, German officials groan.
The dynamic between Paris and Berlin seems unlikely to improve anytime soon. Rather than bringing France and German together, plans for a two-year "Conference on the Future of Europe" will only serve to highlight their differences. In any case, Macron has managed to install allies into all the key posts in Brussels who will broadly facilitate his goals, and the incoming European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, whom Macron helped vault into the hot seat, has already said her term will be "geopolitical" in its focus — a nod to the Elysée's priorities.
Macron will also to continue to preside over an absolute majority in a hyper-centralized political system that will likely last until 2027 (although his majority may ebb in elections in 2022).
"The last time we had a German idea for Europe was under the chancellorship of Helmut Kohl" — A senior member of the German government
In contrast, Germany's governing grand coalition — between Merkel's CDU and the Social Democrats — looks set to continue wobbling until elections in 2021, despite important votes among SPD ranks in December where the viability of the coalition will be a major issue.
The longer Merkel limps on and the more drawn out her succession, the less likely it will be that her chosen successor, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, will replace her. Her less than impressive performance as CDU leader and defense minister has not inspired colleagues in her party; more time is likely to afford her many enemies more opportunities to replace her as the prime candidate for the top job.
So, as Macron continues to dominate in France, political uncertainty will keep plaguing Germany. Franco-German tensions aren't structural yet, but they could soon become entrenched. This would seriously impede the two countries — and the EU — from making any serious headway on their policy priorities.
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Show us your passport – woman's racist rant in Virginia restaurant goes viral
White woman abused Spanish-speaking family including girl, 7
Tirade is latest anti-immigrant incident caught on video
Erin Durkin in New York
Tue 23 Oct 2018 12.24 EDT Last modified on Tue 23 Oct 2018 14.43 EDT
'She asked for our passports. She said that she knew everyone in the area, that we should get out,' said one victim. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo
A white woman accosted a family speaking Spanish at a Virginia restaurant, demanding they show their passports and shouting vulgarities in the latest incident of anti-immigrant sentiment to go viral on video.
The incident, which comes as Donald Trump has injected a stream of invective against immigrants into the midterm election campaign, happened at Andy's restaurant in Lovettsville, Virginia, on Friday.
The video, obtained by Telemundo 44, shows a sunglasses-wearing white woman wagging her finger and shouting at the family to "show your passport" and "go back to your fucking country."
The victim of the tirade told Telemundo she was dining with her seven-year-old daughter and a group of relatives visiting from Guatemala when the fellow customer abused them.
"She asked us for our passports. She said that she knew everyone in the area, that we should get out," said the woman, who was not identified. "We told her: we are not talking to you, we are talking among ourselves."
An employee said she was calling police, and the woman continued her tirade after stepping outside the restaurant. "You do not fucking come over here and freeload on America, OK?" she said. "I'm tired of this shit."
Police were called to the restaurant but no charges were filed, according to Telemundo.
Andy's restaurant denounced the white woman's behavior in a Facebook post, saying she was not welcome to return to the business.
"Thank you for disrupting the rights of others who were enjoying an evening of camaraderie in a confined public space," they wrote. "Thank you – and we mean this with all the aforementioned respect that you rightfully deserve – for never returning to Andy's. You are not welcome."
It's the latest in a spate of incidents captured on video that have shown people berating strangers with anti-immigrant abuse.
Video from a Colorado grocery store this month showed a woman confronting two fellow shoppers who were speaking Spanish among themselves, while another woman came to their defense.
In California earlier this year, a driver launched into an anti-Asian rant directed at another motorist who she felt wasn't driving fast enough. "This is not your fucking country," the woman said. "This is my country."
A Manhattan lawyer, Aaron Schlossberg, became infamous after he was caught on video berating a manager at a Manhattan restaurant after he overheard a customer speaking Spanish with an employee, and threatening to call immigration authorities "to have each one of them kicked out of my country".
He was banned from his office building and faced calls for his disbarment. He later apologized.
A woman in Portland, Oregon shouted racist comments at a Filipino American outside a donut shop, saying: "You're illegals crossing the border."
Soon after Donald Trump's election, a driver in Queens went on a profane anti-Muslim rant against another driver, calling him a terrorist. "Trump is president," the man says on the video. "So you can kiss your visa goodbye."
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The partners work to keep the wraps on a secret campaign. Joan is visited by an old friend. Megan is given more responsibility.
Original Air Date: April 21, 2013
Inside Episode 604 Mad Men: To Have and to Hold
SCDP embarks on a secret project, Joan feels she has no true power in the company and Don's hypocrisy grows in Episode 604.
Janie Bryant on Costumes in Episode 604: Inside Mad Men
Costume Designer Janie Bryant describes the outfit Megan wears to dinner with her boss in Episode 604.
The Doorway Part 1
In Part 1 of the Season 6 two-hour premiere, Don spearheads a new campaign, Roger gets some unsettling news, and Betty takes in a houseguest.
Don doesn't agree with a client's direction. Pete entertains guests in his home. Peggy struggles to motivate the other creatives.
Peggy makes substantial plans for the future. Megan's big night is ruined by an unexpected event. Don is surprised by his son.
Roger changes tack to make new business. Don comes up with a secret plan to win a client. Pete has an awkward run-in with a client.
Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce tries to placate competing clients. Don is distracted at work. Pete is blindsided by an unexpected guest.
The agency brings in an expert to get an added boost to help with their work. Don is disrupted by a surprise visitor. Ken entertains clients.
Roger is plagued by a recurring dream. Don takes a surprise trip. Joan goes to the beach. Harry reveals his plans for the future to Pete.
The agency works to hold onto a client. Roger has his own agenda for Don. Joan brings a new business opportunity into the agency.
Don attends a client meeting with his own agenda. Betty plans for Sally's future. Pete and Ted have a conflict of interest.
The partners disagree on a new campaign. Don takes a day off. Ken makes a proposal to Pete. Sally asks a friend for help.
In Care Of
Don has a problem. Ken breaks the news that a big company is looking for an advertising agency. Pete is faced with a tough decision.


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Do you know if it fits the older 86-89 LS cable trans with the smaller diameter input shaft?
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As Daniel Johns releases his first solo album since 2015, he's clearing the air about his past and present, and plunging headfirst into his 'FutureNever'.
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"In Australia, I'm kind of famous, so I kind of expected something," Daniel Johns says with a sly smile. "I assumed something would happen, but I didn't expect the round of applause I got."
It was in the final months of 2021 that the world found itself engrossed in the latest Spotify original podcast, designed to answer its titular question, Who is Daniel Johns?. The multi-part production was an impressive undertaking, with host Kaitlyn Sawrey diving deep into the life of its namesake as he eschewed his usual apprehension toward media attention in an attempt to invite fans deeper into his world.
As with anything Johns touches, it was a riveting success, beating out the likes of Joe Rogan to become Australia's most popular podcast, with countless listeners globally receiving an unprecedented insight into one of the country's most beloved artists. But as the dust settled, one question remained: if this podcast told us all about Johns' past and present, what does the future hold?
Daniel Johns, photographed in Newcastle on February 12th, 2022, by Sam Wong and Long Story Short.
It's a cool day in Newcastle as Daniel Johns welcomes me into his coastal home; the same home he once referred to as a "'Seventies porn palace" out of Boogie Nights. A brewing rainstorm can be seen in the distance via an ocean view, while a friendly hug from a barefoot Johns accompanies the trip across the threshold and into a world that can only be described as an artist's paradise.
Guitars, vintage synths, old drums, and countless other pieces of gear sit to one side, while renovations see a number of paintings (Johns' lockdown-inspired foray into the medium) scattered against a wall. Just by the door sits a Yamaha grand piano, the same instrument on which Johns wrote the material for 2002's chart-topping album, Diorama.
On paper, the prospect of sitting down with Johns is an almost daunting task. After all, he's a 42-year-old with the legacy of an 80-year-old, he's sold more than ten million records worldwide for his work as a member of Silverchair, The Dissociatives, DREAMS, and as a solo musician, he's won more ARIA and APRA Awards than any other artist (21 and six, respectively), he's the only Australian to win both a Grammy and an Emmy in the same year, and his disdain for both interviews and being in the spotlight is well-documented. But as we sit down in Johns' living room, his dog Gia sitting casually alongside us, the perceived barrier crumbles. He asserts himself not as an icon of the music world, but rather, a vulnerable human being with an innate desire to create.
"Some people write records so they can perform it live, which is completely cool, but I don't write music so I can perform it," Johns explains, his sleeveless black top showing off his famous tattoos. "I write music because I'm trying to figure out ways to get the shapes in my head into a sonic form. I don't think I'll ever stop because I don't think I'll ever get what I want."
"I write music because I'm trying to figure out ways to get the shapes in my head into a sonic form. I don't think I'll ever stop because I don't think I'll ever get what I want."
The podcast Who is Daniel Johns? arrived in October of 2021, more than six years after Johns had last released a solo album by way of his 2015 solo debut, Talk, and three years since the release of No One Defeats Us, the long-awaited debut from DREAMS, a collaboration with longtime friend and collaborator Luke Steele.
"I believe that the embryo of the podcast was me saying to the record company, 'There has to be a way to reach people with music where I don't have to perform on stage'," he recalls. "Because I really, really don't want to do that."
Immediately, the podcast became a massive hit, with fans the world over appreciating the invitation into Johns' rise to fame as the frontman for Silverchair while still a teenager, his vulnerability as he discussed his battles with both anorexia and reactive arthritis, and the bluntness with which he clarified that not only would his iconic band never reunite, but he would also likely never perform live again.
"I didn't really comprehend that, for lack of a better term—and I hate this term—my 'fanbase' was still there, that they're still hanging around," he explains. "I think that's the beauty of being in the game for almost 30 years; I think I've proven that I don't deliver shit."
"I think that's the beauty of being in the game for almost 30 years; I think I've proven that I don't deliver shit."
Despite describing the podcast as a way to escape a need for more therapy, Johns explains he didn't expect anyone to care too deeply about it, but was honoured that listeners were eager to hear the truth after years of misinformation, which included a high-profile defamation suit against News Corp in 2019. That case resulted in Johns receiving a six-figure settlement after the publication of photos which falsely claimed to show Johns "swaggering out of [a] notorious Sydney brothel".
Using it as an opportunity to set the record straight on many questions that would frequently come his way, Johns admits it has the added benefit of helping listeners with their own struggles.
"There's a lot of people that have issues that they're embarrassed to talk about. It's not embarrassing to have been sick or fragile or to be sad," he notes, before his mischievous smile gives way to a sly quip. "No one's embarrassed about being happy, except for goths."
However, the biggest benefit of the podcast was the way it managed to serve as a bridge between the past and the future—a necessary step which allowed Johns to excise any mental confusion and forge ahead with pure clarity.
It was in early December that Johns announced the forthcoming arrival of FutureNever. Some snippets of his second solo record had been teased throughout the podcast, but it wasn't officially unveiled until Johns shared a personal letter to his fans.
"FutureNever is a place where your past, present, and future collide," he explained. "In the FutureNever the quantum of your past experiences become your superpower."
"I know I have a tendency to go missing but I'm back now," he concluded. "Follow me into FutureNever."
Preceded by no singles, the record was born out of Johns' desire to simply "fuck shit up" and to create things that are "real and resonant", though he admits that its almost "schizophrenic" nature will polarise some listeners.
"I'm sure I'm going to get slayed in the press, because it doesn't sound cohesive," he admits, casually brushing off memories of past criticisms. "But I'm not cohesive.
"Some people are going to be perplexed because it's not an experience of a record that I've ever done before. It's more a collection of stuff that I've been doing while everyone thought I was dormant."
"I'm sure I'm going to get slayed in the press, because it doesn't sound cohesive. But I'm not cohesive."
Enthusiastically referring to it as the best record he's made to date (while freely admitting any artist would label their current work as such), FutureNever doesn't have origins in the conventional compositional sense of writing for the purpose of a new record. Rather, Johns explains it was the product of three entirely different albums colliding.
Never one to stop writing or composing (he admits to having thousands of demos around the place), three separate records (which will remain unheard) had managed to make themselves apparent over the years. One, dubbed "The Modern Punk Record", featured an electronic punk sound; another—"The Opera Record"—was self-explanatory; while "The Modern Electronica Record" featured the sort of futuristic R&B sound he had ventured into with 2015's Talk.
"I thought they were all separate records, so I was like, 'I don't know what the fuck to do'," he admits, "and I also had thousands and thousands of demos.
"So I actually called my label and just went, 'Once again I've bitten off more than I can chew. I don't know what the order is, I don't know what the fuck to do.' And it took ages to figure out that all of those sessions which I thought were different projects, were just me doing songwriting sessions. So I was actually doing the same record."
"It took ages to figure out that all of those sessions which I thought were different projects, were just me doing songwriting sessions. So I was actually doing the same record."
Though initially he'd toyed with the notion of releasing the three records under different names (to which he was told, "that is the dumbest idea you've ever had"), Johns began to realise he had effectively created the same record three times with different genres across eight years.
Intriguingly, the genre-hopping style of the record also influenced his synesthesia–a sensory phenomenon in which one sense often involuntarily stimulates another. While many artists see colours when they listen to music, Johns' new record reacts with his synesthesia to provoke chaotic images of gangster movies and the Forties.
"It's crazy how many different genres there are, but it sounds like the same record," he explains, perking up as he animatedly lists examples of famous albums that have done the same. "'Have you heard Smile by The Beach Boys? Have you heard anything that OutKast has done?' Most of my favourite records feel chaotic.
"I'll do like an old school Prince funk jam, then do something like it's from an opera, and something like it's from the Tron soundtrack if it's cool and it makes sense lyrically. Everything's supposed to sound like it's a collage rather than a painting. It's bits and pieces stuck on each other, and it's supposed to be a bit more dimensional."
For many of those close to him, the creation of such a record would be of no surprise. Having long been described as a visionary, Johns' musical ideas began to flourish as he left his teen years. Following Silverchair's grunge-laden 1995 debut Frogstomp and 1997's Freak Show, Johns began to showcase his unique flavour and grandiose ideas on 1999's Neon Ballroom, an album that kicked off a run of what he labels "predominantly solo records with a great rhythm section".
Noting that every Silverchair album was set to be the last after Neon Ballroom, Johns explains he began to perceive resentment following the creation of this record. "It was always like, 'It's the three of us or it's not a thing'," he recalls, remembering a meeting with bandmates Ben Gillies and Chris Joannou which saw him request their presence as he followed his vision.
"It was like, 'I know this is going to be uncomfortable, but I'm going to pretty much make solo albums, and you're going to be the rhythm section. Otherwise I'll get another rhythm section'," he notes. "Obviously I would've preferred what [ended up happening], because they were really good, and we were all friends from childhood."
"We were successful enough, I didn't want to do something amazing or else I'd get murdered."
However, the decision to work on a record such as Neon Ballroom, that is, one with a far more resplendent vision than the likes of Freak Show, was difficult for Johns, given that he had previously tried to keep his head down while in high school for fear of his aspirations making him the target of bullying.
"High school was so traumatic for me," he recalls. "I wouldn't say I was visionless, but I didn't know what to do next, because if I did something too good, I was probably going to get beaten up. We were successful enough, I didn't want to do something amazing or else I'd get murdered.
"As soon as I left high school, that's when I moved into the house. I started writing Neon Ballroom, and then I was like, 'Okay, everything's changed now.'"
He pauses for a brief moment as he reflects on that time in his life, the air in the room changes and he wipes his eyes.
In 2002, Silverchair released Diorama, a record often considered to be their magnum opus. Working with composer Van Dyke Parks, and inspired by a sound more characteristic of the baroque pop genre, Diorama was a kaleidoscopic mix of sounds that went from the band's classic grunge to an orchestral power ballad in moments. Despite lacklustre critical reviews, the record would win five of the seven ARIA Awards it was nominated for, with the band's performance of "The Greatest View" at the ceremony considered a career highlight, especially given Johns' battle with reactive arthritis at the time.
Grammy Award-winning producer David Bottrill, who has worked alongside icons such as Peter Gabriel, King Crimson, Tool, and Muse—and co-produced Diorama alongside Johns—recalls the sort of vision the Silverchair frontman brought to the table.
"I think he's one of the rare talents of musical compositional ability in that he's almost too clever and almost too talented in a way," Bottrill explains. "I think he has a hard time tempering what he does for commercial appeal. Because I think he's so uniquely talented as a writer and as an artist."
One of the record's standout moments, the five-and-a-half minute "Tuna in The Brine", is remembered by Bottrill as an example of Johns' legendary creativity thanks to its sweeping orchestral arrangements, complex chord structures, and soaring, almost operatic vocals.
"He'd never played piano before," he begins, "But he got this piano, learned how to play it and wrote 'Tuna in The Brine'. It's an extraordinarily complex composition. I mean, nobody does that. When you're a kid, you pick up a guitar and you write C, D, G songs—you don't write 'Tuna'."
"He got this piano, learned how to play it and wrote 'Tuna in The Brine'. It's an extraordinarily complex composition. I mean, nobody does that. When you're a kid, you pick up a guitar and you write C, D, G songs—you don't write 'Tuna'."
Recalling the time spent working alongside Johns and his Silverchair bandmates while recording Diorama, Bottrill explains that Johns stands tall as a unique talent whose desire to create is only handicapped by the general public's ability to understand it.
"[If] you keep driving forward and compositionally writing things that you want to develop into something special, unique, and emotional […] then you end up with somebody like Daniel who creates these amazing things," Bottrill notes. "And sometimes—for lack of a better description—goes above or beyond what people can comprehend."
Though he admits his only failing on the record was his inability to help Johns "dumb it down" for the masses, he concedes that some of the greatest songs in rock music were often far from the traditional compositional structure, yet received widespread praise years down the line.
"[Queen's] 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is a classic example of that," he points out. "Who would say that was a structure that was pop standard format? And yet, [it was] hugely successful. To this day, it's one of the most classic rock and pop songs ever.
"The world was open for this kind of experimentation in pop or rock music. So I was excited to explore these new, or even old dimensions, but bring them into a new era."
One notable fan of Silverchair and the wider catalogue of Johns' is Ryan Tedder, a prolific songwriter, three-time Grammy Award winner, and the lead vocalist of chart-topping pop/rock outfit OneRepublic. Just two months younger than Johns, Tedder explains he found himself looking to the Aussie musician as an example of what a potential career could be.
"It was like [Silverchair were] teenage superheroes because nobody, no 15-year-old that I was friends with, had even a snowball's chance in hell of getting a record deal, much less writing a decent song," he remembers.
"I had just started writing songs at 15. So for me, I was probably the biggest Silverchair fan in the state of Oklahoma. And then I ended up following them all the way through."
As Tedder recalls, the careers of both Silverchair and OneRepublic were akin to passing ships in the night, with Young Modern arriving just months before OneRepublic's debut album, Dreaming Out Loud, was released into the world. Despite this, he remembers the record and its lead single, "Straight Lines", having a profound impact on the music his band would make.
"I remember doing promo in America in 2007 and 2008, when they were promoting [the single] and I was telling radio programmers in America, 'Guys, you're sleeping on the Silverchair single," he recalls. "'You got to be playing "Straight Lines". This song is an absolute banger'.
"I remember that we were all so obsessed with that record. We actually have probably tried to copy it a few times with OneRepublic."
But despite Silverchair's lack of success in the US, Tedder claims it was in fact Johns' musical versatility, and his lack of desire to pander to audiences by repeating the same trick over and over again that contributed to his overall success as an artist. While Tedder notes that Americans are notoriously the "most fickle audience in the world", Johns' refusal to "play the game" set up by major record labels, and to instead stay true to his own creative visions, is a testament to his status as an artist.
"Doing [The Dissociatives and Young Modern] back to back really shows the breadth and depth of what that guy's capable of, which is just crazy," he explains. "And then he did the solo [material], which is more R&B and urban. I think the guy can do whatever genre he wants to.
"More than anything, it's really hard when you don't have parameters. When you're capable of actually genre-hopping or shape-shifting into so many genres, that is the hardest. Believe it or not, options can spell disaster, and I often end up jealous of artists who can only sing one way, really only play one instrument, and are only interested in one genre. That's kind of a blessing, because if you're a guy like Daniel, you're just going, 'Well, my option is everything'. And that'll drive a person crazy."
In the years following Diorama, Johns again showcased his appetite for a grander vision. While 2004 brought with it the self-titled album from The Dissociatives—a collaboration with longtime friend Paul Mac—2007 saw the release of Silverchair's Young Modern, their final record before their 2011 split. While 2015 featured the release of Talk, 2018 saw Johns and Luke Steele release DREAMS' first album, a record that arrived after the duo had made their live debut at Coachella—the first band to perform at the iconic Californian festival before releasing any music.
"I love that record," Johns says of DREAMS' debut. "I think that's—in my entire career—the least successful and most proud I'd been of a record until now. I'm proud of all my records, but just in terms of the amount of effort, the amount of vision that went into it, and the risks that we took. I was so proud of it."
However, it was his solo debut, Talk, that achieved the most attention upon its release. Ending a lengthy drought of records from Johns, it was—like every record he had released previously—designed as the next step in a continual musical evolution, and most importantly, a reaction to everything that had come before.
"It's about deleting yourself and starting again," Johns told triple j's Richard Kingsmill at the time. In hindsight though, he argues that summation was more pertinent for FutureNever than Talk.
"Talk was pressing restart; like starting a new career," he explains. "And it was very much on purpose so I didn't sound like a rock'n'roll band.
"Talk was pressing restart; like starting a new career. And it was very much on purpose so I didn't sound like a rock'n'roll band.
"FutureNever is a lot different because I'm embracing the past, I'm embracing the present, and I'm looking forward to the future. Whereas Talk was more like a desperate attempt to get to the future; leap-frogging everything that's happened."
Such a decision to rapidly race to the future was understandable. After all, with countless fans ignoring the prospect of a burgeoning solo career to instead plead for the return of Silverchair (whose final three records Johns looks at as solo releases anyway), it makes sense that there would be a mad dash to move ahead and break new ground.
"Talk was a protest against everyone that wanted me to keep doing Silverchair, despite the fact that Silverchair was always different," he explains. "I was really worried about if I had a future outside of the brand and the band Silverchair. FutureNever is way more emotionally evolved.
"It's not just about avoiding what happened in the past. FutureNever includes everything," he adds. "The record is a celebration of self-acceptance, whereas Talk was an avoidance of myself."
Indeed, FutureNever is an album unlike anything Daniel Johns' fans have ever heard before. Those seeking something of a Silverchair throwback are advised to look elsewhere, but for anyone hoping to find Johns at his creative peak, it's manna from heaven.
Due to its somewhat unexpected composition as the best tracks from three separate records, it shows an unfiltered artist at his best, and one creating work far from the idea of monetisation and commercialism.
"We started working on a record here [during lockdown in 2020] and I deliberately said, 'This is not for public consumption; this is just for a visceral experience'," he recalls. "I really just wanted to sit and fuck with gear and just be crazy and make shit—no one needed to hear it. But as usual everyone goes, 'That should be the first single'."
Frustrated by the way everything turns into a corporate exercise when you're a signed artist, Johns turned his attention to painting—for the first time since high school—as a way to escape the idea of selling a product, even though demand for his paintings have begun to grow. Given the current mid-pandemic climate for artists, Johns is in an enviable position. He says he's not in it for the financial side of things, admitting he's happy with the position that he finds himself in, and that if "everything went to shit right now", he wouldn't care.
"I don't think people realise how much I don't give a fuck about that bit," he explains. "It's the only reason that the FutureNever is so important to me, because I'm actually so proud of it and I want people to hear it. I really genuinely do."
"I really just wanted to sit and fuck with gear and just be crazy and make shit—no one needed to hear it. But as usual everyone goes, 'That should be the first single'."
It's easy to see why. Despite its varied sounds, it feels indelibly stamped with Johns' classic influence. A natural evolution from his last body of work, it effortlessly moves between the woozy pop of songs such as "Mansions", the operatic grandeur of "Reclaim" (which shows a side of his work that we've not yet seen), and "Electric", which feels like the closest Johns has ever come to making a 'pop' record. In the case of the latter, it also sees Johns working with the extremely talented vocalist Moxie Raia who, by design, remained a complete unknown to him at first.
"I've never met her," he admits. "We had the song and our producer was working on the demo, and he sent it back with this funk jam in the middle with this girl. I've still never met her, I don't even know her name, but I was like, 'This chick is fire'. She sounds like a star.
"I kind of loved that I heard it back and I deliberately have never tried to figure out who it is, because even to me that's mysterious. This random goddess comes into the song."
Though they've since formally connected, that's not the only collaboration featured on the record, with names such as What So Not, Van Dyke Parks, and Tame Impala's Kevin Parker making appearances, while the Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin both appear on one song.
Meanwhile, the record also boasts some call-backs to Johns' past, by way of the purplegirl-featuring "FreakNever", which revisits his 1997 single, "Freak", through a modernised yet childlike lens, or "Those Thieving Birds Part 3", which completes a trilogy first explored on 2007's Young Modern. However, one of the record's biggest moments comes by way of "Cocaine Killer", a song created with Peking Duk, hours after they'd abandoned what Johns believes could've been a huge single.
"I wrote that song right here with Peking Duk, ages ago," he recalls. "I'm gonna say 2017 or 2018, maybe even earlier. They're writing all these party bangers, and they played me that beat and I was like, 'I want to do something on that'.
"Ironically it was the morning after we wrote a song that we thought was going to be a massive Peking Duk hit, and I was like, 'Nah'. We did it in about three hours and then obviously we worked on it for ages."
While FutureNever undoubtedly creates new opportunities, they won't be explored in a live setting. Johns explains he no longer has a desire to perform live.
"I'm 95% sure that it's never again," he explains. "I never said 'No, never again', because it's not healthy; you've said it and now you can't. It's like putting yourself in jail. But I have absolutely no fucking way to think in my head that that's something I would want to do.
"I didn't enjoy it since I was like 17. At the start, when I was like 13 to about [1997], I loved it. I just loved it because you just want to play and put pedals on. From about the second album, I've never wanted to be onstage. I'll do it, for example, when Van Dyke Parks calls me and asks if you want to learn 30 American classics and play at the Adelaide Festival, I'm like, 'it's Van Dyke Parks, okay'. But I don't need that validation."
In the Who is Daniel Johns? podcast, Johns explained his mental health plays a role in his decision not to play live, with a mental cloudiness and stage fright working against him in addition to regular anxieties that go along with any performance. Stage fright might not be an uncommon experience, with a 2016 survey finding that about 75% of artists admitted to performance-related anxiety, but for Johns, it's a debilitating condition that hampers his ability to perform to the level he strives for.
But in addition to that, he also notes that for any artist that experiments sonically, the live experience usually ends up somewhat more disappointing than the record.
"The future is freedom. That's how I think about it."
Though Johns has performed live in recent years—including the aforementioned Van Dyke Parks performance, two Opera House shows supporting Talk, performing with DREAMS at Coachella, and appearing alongside close friend What So Not in 2019 for a rendition of "Freak" at Splendour in The Grass—he explains that the only time he would perform again would be to aid a friend, before upping his level of certainty to 99.9%.
"I just don't feel like a performing artist. I don't feel like a touring artist," he explains. "I feel like someone who needs to come up with stuff, and come up with new shit.
"The performance is fine; I'm totally cool to perform. It's the bit leading up to it. It drives me mental. It drives me crazy, I get so anxious. If someone said to me—like they did with the Van Dyke Park Adelaide performance—'Okay, in three months, you're going to do this thing'. I was like, 'Okay, cool that seems far enough away'. From that night on, I couldn't sleep. Three months of thinking about, and it drives me fucking crazy."
Sitting in his Newcastle home, it feels as though we've come full circle. Johns is no longer running from or reacting to his past, and he feels at peace with the present while looking into the FutureNever. But the question remains: What does the future look like for Daniel Johns?
"That's a good fucking question." He looks to his right, staring through his stereo setup and casually-placed musical equipment as he pauses for a few moments to think. "The future is freedom. That's how I think about it."
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Q: How can I build multiple submit buttons django form? I have form with one input for email and two submit buttons to subscribe and unsubscribe from newsletter:
<form action="" method="post">
{{ form_newsletter }}
<input type="submit" name="newsletter_sub" value="Subscribe" />
<input type="submit" name="newsletter_unsub" value="Unsubscribe" />
</form>

I have also class form:
class NewsletterForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Newsletter
        fields = ('email',)

I must write my own clean_email method and I need to know by which button was form submited. But the value of submit buttons aren't in self.cleaned_data dictionary.
Could I get values of buttons otherwise?

A: one url to the same view!
like so!
urls.py
url(r'^$', views.landing.as_view(), name = 'landing'),

views.py
class landing(View):
        template_name = '/home.html'
        form_class1 = forms.pynamehere1
        form_class2 = forms.pynamehere2
            def get(self, request):
                form1 = self.form_class1(None)
                form2 = self.form_class2(None)
                return render(request, self.template_name, { 'register':form1, 'login':form2,})

             def post(self, request):
                 if request.method=='POST' and 'htmlsubmitbutton1' in request.POST:
                        ## do what ever you want to do for first function ####
                 if request.method=='POST' and 'htmlsubmitbutton2' in request.POST:
                         ## do what ever you want to do for second function ####
                        ## return def post###
                 return render(request, self.template_name, {'form':form,})

/home.html

    <form action="" method="POST" >
      {% csrf_token %}
      {{ register.as_p }}
    <button type="submit" name="htmlsubmitbutton1">Login</button>
    </form>

    <form action="" method="POST" >
      {% csrf_token %}
      {{ login.as_p }}
    <button type="submit" name="htmlsubmitbutton2">Login</button>
    </form>

A: It's an old question now, nevertheless I had the same issue and found a solution that works for me: I wrote MultiRedirectMixin.
from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect

class MultiRedirectMixin(object):
    """
    A mixin that supports submit-specific success redirection.
     Either specify one success_url, or provide dict with names of
     submit actions given in template as keys
     Example:
       In template:
         <input type="submit" name="create_new" value="Create"/>
         <input type="submit" name="delete" value="Delete"/>
       View:
         MyMultiSubmitView(MultiRedirectMixin, forms.FormView):
             success_urls = {"create_new": reverse_lazy('create'),
                               "delete": reverse_lazy('delete')}
    """
    success_urls = {}

    def form_valid(self, form):
        """ Form is valid: Pick the url and redirect.
        """

        for name in self.success_urls:
            if name in form.data:
                self.success_url = self.success_urls[name]
                break

        return HttpResponseRedirect(self.get_success_url())

    def get_success_url(self):
        """
        Returns the supplied success URL.
        """
        if self.success_url:
            # Forcing possible reverse_lazy evaluation
            url = force_text(self.success_url)
        else:
            raise ImproperlyConfigured(
                _("No URL to redirect to. Provide a success_url."))
        return url

A: You can also do like this,
 <form method='POST'>
    {{form1.as_p}}
    <button type="submit" name="btnform1">Save Changes</button>
    </form>
    <form method='POST'>
    {{form2.as_p}}
    <button type="submit" name="btnform2">Save Changes</button>
    </form>

CODE
if request.method=='POST' and 'btnform1' in request.POST:
    do something...
if request.method=='POST' and 'btnform2' in request.POST:
    do something...

A: Eg:
if 'newsletter_sub' in request.POST:
    # do subscribe
elif 'newsletter_unsub' in request.POST:
    # do unsubscribe

A: I know this is old, but some of the answers are, to say the least, brief, and they do not address a common case where the form is not a django form.
This solution was inspired by this blog post. It relies on using a view class that is derived from django.views.generic.edit.FormMixin, e.g. CreateView, UpdateView or DeleteView. These provide the get_success_url method which exposes the button name in request
html

        <form method="post">

                 <input type="radio" name="select-type" value="A">Type A

                 <input type="radio" name="select-type" value="B">Type B

                <input type="submit" value="Use selected">

                <input type="submit" name="no-selection" value="None of the above">

        </form>

views.py
from django.views.generic import UpdateView

class GetType(UpdateView):
    def get(self, request):
        return render(request, 'get_type.html', {})

    def post(self, request):
        button = self.get_success_url()
        print(button)

    def get_success_url(self):
        if 'no-selection' in self.request.POST:
            return 'none selected'
        return ''

A: You can use self.data in the clean_email method to access the POST data before validation. It should contain a key called newsletter_sub or newsletter_unsub depending on which button was pressed.
# in the context of a django.forms form

def clean(self):
    if 'newsletter_sub' in self.data:
        # do subscribe
    elif 'newsletter_unsub' in self.data:
        # do unsubscribe

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Victor Jeurissen, global practice leader for IBM Management Development Solutions, defines eLearning as "the use of innovative technologies and learning models to transform the way individuals and organizations acquire new skills and access knowledge" (Moeng, 2004). He further defines learning as a collaboration of information, interaction, and information interchange.
In an online environment, an experience without communication is akin to searching for something in the dark.
In this section, we explain communication strategies that will enable deeper engagement and higher order thinking skills in online learners.
Have you ever walked in the dark? Literally, in pitch black darkness? With a feeling that you are definitely walking in circles – getting nowhere? Well, first-time learners feel exactly like this. If you really empathize with the "fear of the unknown" feeling, be proactive in communicating with your eLearners. Put yourself in their shoes and think of your expectations and questions as a first-time eLearner. What information should be easily accessible? What technical skills need retouching? Any software plugins? Above all, what are the different formats of communication in this eLearning environment and how to navigate to them?
There are a couple of examples of how to facilitate communication, regarding your online courses.
Forums are undeniably the most popular form of communication. Involve some expert employees, whose work speaks for them, and you have an engaging discussion! It really depends on how you, as a training manager, will moderate the messages. Moderating comments is also an art in itself. You need to be able to sense aggression and defensiveness in words. Your goal is to shift the conversation towards a more productive, positive and creative direction. The best part about textual interchange is the use of passive language that is usually hidden in active speech. As individuals, we share more in a text form than we do verbally. A personal perspective sharing makes forums (and any text-based communication) a really superior form of communication, as compared to a live classroom.
Instant messaging is one of the oldest methods of communicating online. Announce the chat times you are available for any "course-related" assistance! Chatting in real time is more effective in eliminating confusion and frustration in learners. Chatting with an expert is also very rewarding. Involve a chat session with a VIP in your organization. Watch how eager learners and achievers will flock in that session to get a piece of the expert's mind. The fact that experts elsewhere in the eLearning environment, charge substantial amounts of money, makes this session even more satisfying. Announce the availability of experts for their respective courses. Learners enjoy interacting with experts and gaining access to meaningful information. Instant messages are also a great way to engage peers with each other. A mandatory, once a week session will enable learners to collaborate with each other. They can share their concerns and offer suggestions, creating a more trustworthy learning environment. A factor relatively hard to establish later, if not done early on.
Personal messages are like notifications. We discussed notifications and their type in the previous section. Personal messages are easy to send out if there is a limited number of learners. Indeed, the quality of learning is enhanced with learner specific feedback. One of the best strategies to automate customized messages to the learner is to create a database for comments that is integrated with the course, hosted by your learning management system. Use this database to store learners' profiles, their performance, their concerns, their strengths and weaknesses. Most importantly, post at least two comments a week. These comments can reflect a change (no matter how small) in their performance. The day you update these comments in this database, use their mobile contacts to send the comment out in the form of notification. When learners receive specific and timely comments on their performance, they are more likely to improve. However, at a larger scale, this method loses feasibility. Personalized messages are time-consuming for a large learner group. Mass notification would be the only effective way to be proactive in communicating with eLearners.
Any learning management system must have a system announcement feature. These announcements are sent out as either notifications or emails. System announcements can vary from technical downtime information to upcoming events in the LMS calendar. They can be used to provide a heads-up on upcoming e-course related events. Reminders linked to the system calendar can be sent out to learners to ensure their participation. System announcements can also invite more learners to an online orientation or seminar by key speakers. Another great idea to post on system announcements is the post-course survey results including learners' testimonials. Polls that ask user preference in learning, interactivity requirements and communication preferences can also be integrated in system announcements. Finally, use this format of communication to announce your latest course. Talk about its features periodically. Announce the enrollment dates and deadlines related to the course. Include any messages from CEOs and VIPs that endorse your upcoming course. Consider system announcement as a very serious and "final" method of conveying news and messages that should be received by everyone using the learning portal.
The previous section provided an example where course defects are detected using reporting and tracking tools of the LMS. Improvements made in increments are actually the final aspect of instructional design. Not surprisingly, the phase is never completed. New comments and issues arise based on work context changes that need to be addressed in the course. This reminds us the importance of this eBook. If you want to be involved in upgrading your company's courses and training, work closely with an ID (and follow the tips in this eBook) to perform in-house training improvement tasks. We guarantee an impressed boss and a raise! When we stressed the importance of communication between all users of an LMS, we also meant to use data collection strategies. These strategies fall under the "Evaluation" phase of the course design process.
Best practices in instructional design, advise us to create a pre and a post-course survey. A pre-course survey enables ID's to understand the learner in better detail These surveys aid in performing efficient course improvements during the iteration process Pre-course surveys will also allow instructors to understand the capability, needs and expectations of learners enrolled in the course. Similarly, the post-course survey will demonstrate the quality of the learning experience. Any suggestions and ideas should be considered seriously when revising the course's content. Iterations through evaluating the course truly raise the quality and relevance of the learning materials.
Apart from evaluating your course's performance, integrating all features discussed above in your eLearning environment will ensure socio-constructive learning and more satisfied learners.
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Clark M. Kerr, age 90, of Irwin, died July 14, 2019. He was born in Turtle Creek and the son of the late Mary and Edwin O. Kerr. He graduated from Turtle Creek High School then served in the United States Air Force during the Korean War. After serving in the military, he earned a bachelor degree from Slippery Rock University and a master's degree from Indiana University. He taught at South Fork, Gateway, and 25 years as a guidance counselor in the Hempfield Area School District. He was preceded in death by son-in-law Ben Lubinsky, brothers Blaine Craig, Carl Kerr, and sister Elva Zenk. Surviving are his wife Mildred Patterson Kerr, two children: Dr. Clark M. Kerr, Jr (Judy), Lori Lubinsky, five grandchildren: Nathan (Dory)Kerr, Travis Kerr, Whitney (Ryan) Driscoll, Lauren (Dan) Blaszkowski, and Taylor (Lane) Waltenbaugh, and two great-grandchildren: Maxwell Kerr and Peyton Blaszkowski. Friends and family will be received 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the William Snyder Funeral Home, 521 Main Street, Irwin, 724-863-1200. Everyone will gather at 11 a.m. Wednesday for a funeral service at the funeral home with Rev. Bruce Judy officiating. Interment with military honors will follow in Irwin Union Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made to Leukemia & Lymphoma Society at http://donate.lls.org or the Pittsburgh YMCA at http://pittsburghymca.org/give. For online condolences please visit www.snyderfuneralservices.com.
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Q: How to compile the dll back after decompile C# dll? I use reflector to decompile a asp.net dll, after that I find the bug and fixed it, now I want to compile it back to a dll, then I can deploy, but it seems that I can't how can I do this ?

A: You have two choices, either you use Reflector's addin Filedisassembler, which is free, or commercial ( and pricy) .net dissemblers such as spices.net or salamander decompiler.
I used Filedisassembler; the quality of the decompiled code is very bad. The decompiler code cannot be recompiled.
I'm sure about the quality of commercial decompilers but I suspect that it would be much better.
Edit: To use Filedisassembler, go to Reflector, View->Addins, click Add and select the Filedisassembler.dll.

A: If the fix is simple enough and you know IL, you are better of round tripping it using IL instead of a high-level language such as C# or VB.Net.
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NDP accuses VIP of disrespecting youth & inciting violence
- Hons Ronnie W. Skelton & Myron V. Walwyn make allegations
May 27th, 2015 | Tags: allegations inciting violence Myron V. Walwyn Ronnie W. Skelton VIP
Minister for Health and Social Development Honourable Ronnie W. Skelton (left) and the controversial Minister for Education and Culture Honourable Myron V. Walwyn have accused some member/s of the opposition Virgin Islands Party (VIP) candidates of allegedly bashing a young man and, in another instance, allegedly inciting violence and criminal activities against government officials. Photo: VINO
The issues were voiced by two Ministers of Government last night May 26, 2015 at a campaign meeting held in Road Town, Tortola. Photo: VINO
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Senior members of the National Democratic Party (NDP), during a campaign meeting at the Bandstand in Road Town on May 26, 2015 unleashed furious allegations against some member/s of the opposition Virgin Islands Party (VIP) candidates for allegedly bashing a young man and, in another instance, allegedly inciting violence and criminal activities against government officials.
These allegations came from the lips of Minister for Health and Social Development Honourable Ronnie W. Skelton and the controversial Minister for Education and Culture Honourable Myron V. Walwyn.
Hon Skelton's allegations
Hon Skelton alluded to a VIP candidate 'bringing down' the initiative and actions being taken by a young man, Jaleel Cameron, who since October of 2014 has been selling water on the streets in his quest to donate sizable amounts of cash to Peebles Hospital for the purchase of a specific equipment for the children's ward.
"There is this young boy, I don't know him, Jaleel Cameron, who is on the road selling water to make a donation to Peebles Hospital and I understand that one of the candidates on the Virgin Islands Party say that the Minister for Health got this young boy on the road selling water."
"But here is a young man that finds a cause to go out there and do something about and all we elected and trying to be elected and calls the young man down. I think that is indisputable…….Apologise to the young man."
According to Hon Skelton, he understands that young Cameron is trying to raise some $25,000 to be donated to the Peebles Hospital for the purchase of equipment for the children's unit. "It's not about the young man buying the equipment. The young man has found a cause and that cause he can probably help other young people find similar causes all over this country."
On the spot, Hon Skelton made a pledge to donate $5,000 to Jaleel Cameron's cause. "When we see young people trying to do something we cannot use them to try to get some place where we shouldn't be."
Hon Walwyn's allegations
On the other hand, Honourable Myron V. Walwyn took offense to what he alleged was an act of inciting violence and criminal activities by a candidate on the VIP slate while at a meeting in North Sound Monday evening, May 24, 2015.
Reading from his phone the alleged offensive remarks made, Hon Walwyn stated, "When you elect team VIP we will stamp out corruption, we will stamp out corruption and avoid (inaudible) of political favour. We have to stop this, we cannot give out contracts to just a few and the rest of us suffer. For three and a half years we walked the streets singing lullaby and sometimes people does wonder what is wrong with she and what is wrong with him, but we couldn't put food on our table, we hadn't a job to go to, we didn't know where to turn, we were just taking, talking and saying lullaby.
"So ladies and gentlemen we have a chance now to send them NDP the same lullaby. The difference is that they are so well taken care of because, believe you me, they set up themselves with our money, your money so while you decide you have enough of them they are not going to be bothered….. (Inaudible) However, she tells the criminals will find them. They will go home and close their property with their gates. But I remind them tonight that the criminals will find them because they robbed poor little us who don't have no money when they saw the cookie jar…. We put our hands low, we will tell them that's where the cookie jar is. You see that house up there, that is where it is, so be careful."
Giving his interpretation of that statement allegedly made by a female VIP candidate, Hon Walwyn said, "You see what is happening there? Somebody who wants to be a leader in this country has incited violence and criminal activities on the leaders of the country… You understand what is happening there? You understand what is happening there?"
He further alleged that some one thousand shareholders lost their investment because someone didn't like them because they are a part or close to the NDP.
"The 99% were our people, the 1% is Biwater, so you caused our people because of hatred, because of hatred you going to destroy the investment of a thousand local persons in favour of a foreign company because you think the investment club is linked to members in the NDP. Are these the kind of leaders we want to lead our country?" Hon Walwyn asked.
NDP against Biwater
The National Democratic Party had surrounded their 2011 campaign on the Biwater contract signed by the Virgin Islands Party government, saying that the contract was going to saddle the territory with a huge debt while taking bread out of locals' mouths.
The VIP has defended the hiring of Biwater for 2.3 million gallons of water a day for which government must pay, whether they use it or not, saying it was no oversight but the only sure way to hold government accountable to the people of Tortola to provide them with a reliable supply of potable water 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
"The people of Tortola can take comfort in knowing that the VIP is satisfied that they have brought a solution to the shortages of water on the island by signing an Agreement for the daily supply of 2.3 million gallons of water at $12.90 per 1000 gallons, at a time when Government was being billed as high as $24.00 per 1000 gallons. And that same Agreement included a sewage treatment plant, which provides for a permanent solution to ridding the Road Town metropolitan area from having raw sewage running in the streets and ultimately dumped into the ocean," Virgin Islands Party Chairman, Hon Julian Fraser RA (R3) had said in April.
25 Responses to "NDP accuses VIP of disrespecting youth & inciting violence"
pat (27/05/2015, 09:28) Like (45) Dislike (33) Reply
A vote for the ndp is a vote for the uk to take over the bvi
Boo (27/05/2015, 09:44) Like (35) Dislike (72) Reply
So wrong Pat, A vote to keep Frazer out of office and the UK out of our affairs
true tolian (27/05/2015, 09:57) Like (21) Dislike (23) Reply
@ pat
why dont you stop lying ,if uk is to take over the bvi it would
be under an vip administration.they are dishing out plans but
will not tell us how they will be funded.We all make plans but
some of us have no clue where the funding will come from.
YOU (28/05/2015, 16:27) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
Fool really talk foolish
xxxxxxxx (27/05/2015, 09:40) Like (75) Dislike (25) Reply
The NDP should apologize for
1.	Corruption
2.	Conflict of interest
3.	Lack of financial reports
4.	Victimization
5.	Snap election and not allowing the youths to vote
6.	Insulting virgin islanders with nasty propaganda
@xxxxxx (27/05/2015, 16:16) Like (13) Dislike (5) Reply
you forget disrespect in we house of assembly, people and culture and endorsing these behaviours. Offending a legislature while holding office. Which caribbean island can you hear somebody tell a legislature get the f*** out my face and it go down good! Which paarrt??????????????
ann (27/05/2015, 10:14) Like (28) Dislike (71) Reply
Look he black face the face of devil!!!
ooooo (27/05/2015, 10:20) Like (45) Dislike (29) Reply
fraser was looking out for the whole country and not just a few investors
Yes (27/05/2015, 10:39) Like (12) Dislike (2) Reply
The first chink in the armor is starting to show... Pressure bust pipe!
Valley Political Analyst (27/05/2015, 10:42) Like (33) Dislike (20) Reply
Ronnie as minister of health don't even know what the lil school boy was raising money for. but he's so caught up in his own illness, he don't have a darn clue. Now because it was mentioned by VIP you want to donate towards the machine? All the money you all bragging about could get this machine. For Jehovah sake Ronnie w. Skelton, go and RETIRE. You are ill and according to the radio ad of about your own health challenges, I think you need to take a back seat.
i from here (27/05/2015, 10:44) Like (20) Dislike (52) Reply
VIP will never see the Admin Complex again.
i from here (27/05/2015, 14:51) Like (17) Dislike (4) Reply
At least they will not see the jail house either where some of you belong!
born here (27/05/2015, 11:26) Like (31) Dislike (10) Reply
Vip all the way you are not going to waste our time June 8 Ndp will be out the bin
Road Town Rebel (27/05/2015, 12:02) Like (26) Dislike (7) Reply
These men are BOLD FACED LIARS who are fighting? whothe youths are? All yo need a bitch slap
No (28/05/2015, 08:32) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
Even that type of slap too good for that group. That one there especially. He a BIG Lair and take people for fools but we got one for he.
nonsense (27/05/2015, 14:00) Like (21) Dislike (3) Reply
I used to buy water from him, when I realize he giving his hot sun money to the hospital I stopped. What happened to the 47 million dollars budget along with the high fees?, these NDP and their board are heartless and careless. NDP are the one that don`t care about the youths.--Strrruuuuppeess- poor people in general.. Send Cline and his board on the street to sell water to give the hospital money..Strrruuppeesss
voter (27/05/2015, 14:55) Like (13) Dislike (2) Reply
He is too busy collecting it in various contracts and giving executive bonuses to give a hoot
123 (27/05/2015, 14:52) Like (10) Dislike (3) Reply
NDP going no where fast but up the guth!
jet (27/05/2015, 16:39) Like (8) Dislike (2) Reply
boy things really getting low in the BVI qwalwyn you is not tired making confusion hope you does not cut rope to hang your own swlf it is time you STOP power belongs to one man that is GOD and when he is ready he will take it back MVW you need to pray because you are looking tires as for ronnie i am ashamed of you after twisting your tounge MVW need to hear what you talked about him I thought you wee difrent but you is just the same. May the good Lord be with you all god is going to give us the people of this country the wisadon and even if NDp win the election God is going to show sings and wonders you all time commiing only a matter of time MVW You want to cut dow fraser but God is on his side i have never seen the righteou foorsaken or his seed out begging bread MVW be care full the bil-ble is not lying you shall reap what ever you sow MVW
.......... (27/05/2015, 17:48) Like (2) Dislike (2) Reply
Now now who will take funny man seriously?
bvibuzz (27/05/2015, 17:51) Like (11) Dislike (1) Reply
Just listening to myron hogwash everynight make me voilent
power hungry (27/05/2015, 18:38) Like (5) Dislike (1) Reply
Look he face- he too power hungry- vote he out people
VG1 (27/05/2015, 19:46) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
Aaaahhh Shadddup
TRUTH PLAYER (29/05/2015, 01:37) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
Both Ministers Skelton and Walwyn are misinformed about what the VIP candidate said. Or what was said taken out of context, or deliberately mis-interpreted.
As a matter of fact, the candidate said that the young man was collecting money for the purchase of some piece of equipment because the hospital (the health authority?) said it was too costly. She said that the government has claimed that it has some $90,000 plus in the bank and raised the issue as to why the young man should be on the street raising funds when the NDP is bragging about the (?) surplus in the bank.
TO REPEAT, THAT CANDIDATE DID NOT CONDEMN THE YOUNG MAN' EFFORTS. CRITICISM WAS AGAINST THE NDP GOVERNMENT AND NOT HIS EFFORTS.
AT THE END OF THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL THE MUD-SLINGING HAS OBVIOUSLY NOT STOPPED. This is exactly why POLITICAL DEBATES ARE LESS DANGEROUS than what is going on!!!
One would think that in the 21t century political candidates (regardless of party) will be a bit more civilized.
STOP THE THUGGISH BEHAVIOUR. Stop spitting out ALLEGATIONS, while sounding credible, are NOT SUBSTANTIATED.
For heaven's sake, HOW SINCERE ARE YOU PEOPLE ABOUT THE WELFARE OF THE COUNTRY?
And, the fact that the NDP has, seemingly, gone out of its way to ensure that it has control over the air time- radio and TV- makes one think that the NDP does not want people to listen to the VIP or the Independents. The other night, Channels 51 and 55 as well as ZBVI carried live NDP's campaign. DEBATES MAKE MORE SENSE. Don't say that we don't have debates here. So, what? THE SYSTEM, THE USUAL WAY OF DOING THINGS IS OBVIOUSLY WRONG. The confusion to which people are exposed proves this! And, some might say that this is deliberate. I for one resent this.
Anti Ronnie and NDP (01/06/2015, 20:08) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
Ronnie needs to sit down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is not what the lady said. This is what the NDP does take people words and turn them around. Come on guys wake up and smell the coffee. I guess when this blows up more he's going to say that he did not say it. Smh. The National Democratic Party will be forever saying things and then turning around and saying they never said it.


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Aaron Fitt of Baseball America on what he sees in Mississippi State this season
By cristilmethod Feb 15, 2012, 12:00pm EST
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Several weeks ago we reached out to Aaron Fitt, senior college baseball writer at Baseball America, to share his thoughts on the 2012 edition of the Mississippi State baseball team. I didn't really know how much I would get back from him, seeing as he is in the height of busy season for a college baseball writer.
Not only was Aaron kind enough to respond, but he responded with some in-depth (and kind) words on what he sees out of Mississippi State this year. Here's what he had to say:
I think Mississippi State has an extremely exciting club, and if the young infield gels this team could get back to a super regional or beyond. The depth of power arms on the pitching staff looks really special, from Chris Stratton and Evan Mitchell in the rotation to Caleb Reed and Taylor Stark in the back of the bullpen. I think the lineup will be very athletic, and the only thing that kept MSU out of our Top 25 (they were team No. 26 in our internal deliberations) is the uncertainty in the infield. It's not easy to break in new starters behind the plate and all over the infield -- those guys are talented, but also unproven. One of the most important things in this era of college baseball is to minimize mistakes defensively, so how Adam Frazier and DeMarcus Henderson handle the middle infield and Darryl Norris and Trey Porter do on the corners is of vital importance. It's entirely possible that all those guys emerge into quality everyday players; if they do, the Bulldogs will be very dangerous in June.
First pitch is this Friday #HailState


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Applications can be made to the SAB Foundation using the details given below. Applicants will do a 5 minute presentation of their businesses and their need.
i. Ivy Halieo Mafahla is the founder of a Cape Town based production company called Basadi Women Technical Productions. She received grant funding of R150 000, which she used to purchase technical equipment. With her own equipment, her business is set for growth and expansion as she no longer faces outsourcing costs.
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The proportion of houses and apartments selling at auction gained momentum last weekend, with sellers showing great willingness to accept offers they would have previously rejected.
The increase is clearing a backlog of unsold homes, creating the conditions for prices to go up next year, analysts say.
The answers were many and varied, ranging from photocopiers to CRM (Customer Relationship Management) systems to ipads, the list goes on.
The unique Lightkeepers Cottages at 9-11 Federal Street, Aireys Inlet is up for auction this Saturday at 2 pm.


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Bitcoin Tops $50K and Crypto's Nouveau Riche Move In
www.coindesk.com 16 February 2021 14:38, UTC
Bitcoin (BTC) shot past $50,000 for the first time Tuesday to a new all-time high price.
The gain took the year-to-date return to about 70%, and traders immediately began to discuss what comes next.
"We're still in the midst of a violent bull run that will soon be more violent," Ari Paul, chief investment officer of BlockTower Capital, tweeted Sunday.
"We're concerned about the pace of these market moves and would therefore recommend proceeding with caution over the short term," Joel Kruger, cryptocurrency strategist at LMAX Digital, said in an email. NOTE: A price correction on Monday led to more than $520 million of futures-positions liquidations.
Bank of America, in a monthly investor survey of the "most crowded trades," said that "long bitcoin" – bets on further price gains – slipped to second place behind "long tech." Bets against the U.S. dollar ("short dollar") ranked third.
In traditional markets, U.S. stock futures pointed toward a higher open. "The reflation trade is powering assets tied to economic growth and price pressure, including commodities and cyclical stocks," Bloomberg News reported. "At the same time, investors are riding a wave of speculative euphoria from penny stocks to bitcoin amid abundant policy support."
CRYPTO CRUSH: Signs continued to mount of greater mainstream acceptance of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
Michael Saylor's MicroStrategy plans a new sale of $600 million of convertible notes and will use the net proceeds to buy more bitcoin.
Deutsche Bank, Germany's biggest lender, is exploring cryptocurrency custody, with aspirations to offer high-touch services to hedge funds that invest in the asset class, CoinDesk's Ian Allison reported Friday.
Morgan Stanley's $150 billion Counterpoint Global investment unit is considering placing a bet on bitcoin, according to a report by Bloomberg, which cited people familiar with the matter.
The city of Miami, following the lead of Mayor Francis Suarez, voted late last week to study the use of cryptocurrencies to pay for services or worker salaries while launching educational campaigns in English, Spanish and Creole.
VERGE SNAFU: Verge, a small cryptocurrency serving as a payments option on Pornhub, suffered a massive 560,000-block reorganization Monday, according to researchers at Coin Metrics.
The past 200 days of Verge transaction history "just vanished," wrote Coin Metrics network data analyst Lucas Nuzzi. He described the event as "likely the deepest reorg that has ever taken place in a 'top 100' cryptocurrency."
Verge's official Twitter account said the "dev team has released a fix," and everything should be "business as usual" in "13 hours," CoinDesk's Zack Voell reported.
The cryptocurrency previously known as DogecoinDark is no stranger to network attacks. It suffered similar but less severe exploits in April 2018 and May 2018.
Nouveau riche emerge as crypto market cap tops $1.5 trillion
The market value of all cryptocurrencies has topped $1.5 trillion for the first time, and it's interesting to note just how much of that growth has been fueled by speculation over which projects might be the most promising – rather than just the pumping of also-ran tokens that dominated the industry's top ranks in recent years.
Sure, the industry leaders bitcoin and Etherum's ether still dominate the charts, representing roughly $1.1 trillion of the total. But the top 10 tokens now include cardano (ADA), polkadot (DOT), Binance coin (BNB) and chainlink (LINK) – all associated with projects perceived as having at least some claim on helping to create the future of finance.
They're crypto's nouveau riche, climbing in the industry hierarchy at the expense of XRP (XRP), litecoin (LTC) and bitcoin cash (BCH), which held sway until recently but apparently have failed to inspire traders to the same degree.
Some companies in the growing arena of decentralized finance, a subsector of the crypto industry where entrepreneurs are using blockchain technology to design automated versions of lenders and trading platforms, are raising money through token sales the way a Silicon Valley startup might sell an equity interest to a venture-capital fund.
In fact, Synthetix, a decentralized trading project, has just raised $12 million from investors Coinbase Ventures, Paradigm and IOSG – apparently through a sale of the project's associated SNX tokens. "The raise looks to be a rare occurrence of VCs investing through the purchase of a platform's native token directly from its treasury rather than wiring funds to its founders," CoinDesk's Daniel Kuhn wrote Sunday. The SNX tokens have tripled in price this year to a market value of about $2.9 billion.
"Individually, none of these may make sense, and no one can really predict who actually will win," John Wu, president of Ava Labs, said in an interview. His company backs the Avalanche blockchain, whose native AVAX cryptocurrency is up roughly 10-fold this year to a market value of $3 billion. And that's after the revelation of a programming bug last week triggered a quick price correction.
"This is very similar to tech investing where people are paying for the future," Wu said.
Token Watch
Ether (ETH):
Staked ether in "2.0" deposit contract tops $5.5 billion.
Price hit new all-time high of $1,872.52 on Feb. 12.
Simon Peters, cryptoasset analyst for the trading platform eToro, wrote in an email: "Supply is constrained by investors depositing coins off the network, and buying from institutional investors continues to climb."
Denis Vinokourov, head of research for crypto prime broker Bequant: "The amount of bitcoin locked on Ethereum remains on a relentless trend higher (174k as of this morning), underpinning the 'hunt for yield' trade, which, combined with the surge higher by BTC resulted in the total value locked on DeFi platforms surging to over $40 billion. However, the well documented double-edged sword of a 'hyperactive' Ethereum network with erratic gas fees continues to wreak havoc and cause hour-long delays in transaction validations, yet again squeezing out the smaller market participants. The time for platforms to put more focus on layer-2 solutions is here, and doing so will prove beneficial for the broader ecosystem because it will likely drive many users towards decentralized exchanges."
Dogecoin (DOGE):
Price has fallen in five of the past eight days to about 5.8 cents.
Slide accelerated after Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Sunday: "If major dogecoin holders sell most of their coins, it will get my full support. Too much concentration is the only real issue imo."
One dogecoin address holds 27% of meme token's supply, according to Decrypt.
Avalanche (AVAX):
An unusually high volume of transactions highlighted a code bug that severely crippled the Avalanche blockchain last week, but funds were never at risk, an engineer Ava Labs, the development company behind the network, wrote in a Medium post on Sunday.
The episode represented an embarrassment for the because the "Ethereum killer" blockchain has touted its ability to handle high throughput.
AVAX tokens have tumbled in price since the incident, though they're still up 11-fold so far in 2021.
Opinions and Observations
STIMULUS BITCOIN WINNINGS: Americans who bought bitcoin with first $1,200 U.S. government stimulus check are up 639%.
BLOCKCHAIN POWER USAGE BETWEEN ROMANIA'S AND POLAND'S: Bitcoin and six other proof-of-work blockchains use between 55.1 terawatt-hours of electricity per year (roughly the energy footprint of Romania) and 180.1 terawatt-hours (Poland or Thailand), argues Tim Swanson, founder of Post Oak Labs and head of market intelligence at Clearmatics, in paper published Sunday.
MOHAMED EL-ERIAN SEES GROWING "OFFICIAL" RISK: "The private sector is embracing more and more bitcoins as both a form of payment and as away to invest," the Allianz chief economist told CNN's Julia Chatterley in an interview. "The official sector is warning more about bitcoin. The real accident here is that the official sector says, enough is enough."


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Celebrating the fine art of the Silver Gelatin and Platinum Print.
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Ellery To Close Its Australian Stores And Operations
The end of an era.
By Susannah Guthrie
Australian fashion designer Kym Ellery has announced she will be closing Australian operations for her eponymous clothing label, Ellery, and relocating the brand's production to Europe.
Following 12 years in Australia, Ellery revealed it had made 22 staff redundant on April 18, 2019, and closed its two Sydney-based Australian stores on April 16, 2019.
"I am very proud to have built an independent, globally recognised fashion house from my home, Australia. It has not been without its challenges, which we had always managed to overcome, however unfortunately, running the production out of Australia proved to be commercially unsustainable," founder and creative director Kym Ellery said in a statement.
"As a result of some poor strategic decisions that were made, and the high cost of manufacturing in Australia, we have been left with no choice but to close Elleryland, our production facility and Australian operations company."
Kym Ellery photographed by Jake Terrey.
Ellery added: "I have always championed Australian manufacturing, and this decision was incredibly difficult to make. I am deeply grateful for the dedication and support of everyone involved."
The label, which was founded in Australia in 2007, has achieved international success in its 12-year existence, and is stocked in prestigious stores ike Galeries Lafayette, Harrolds and NET-A-PORTER. Celebrity fans of the brand include Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Rihanna and Nicole Kidman.
Shoppers will still be able to purchase the label's pieces online and in international boutiques.
According to Broadsheet, the bulk of Ellery's business already comes from international buyers, with 90 per cent of the company's sales occurring overseas.
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