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Run like an Underwood with Spotify's 'House of Cards' playlists
Claire Underwood running.
Spotify is getting America back on the track with two House of Cards themed playlists sure to motivate any fan to run like the Underwoods.
Just in time for the Season 5 release of Netflix's political drama on Tuesday, Spotify is giving anyone who's ever wondered what music Frank and Claire were blasting on one of their intense runs or workout sessions a real treat.
SEE ALSO: Pete Souza pauses the Trump shade to photograph President Underwood in D.C.
Frank's playlist is no doubt fit for an ambitious, no-nonsense president with a mix of patriotic songs, Ozzy Osbourne, Iron Maiden, and Queen, while his wife's is the epitome of female strength and sassiness, featuring iconic tracks by Tina Turner and Beyoncé.
Both, naturally kick things off with Frank Sinatra's "My Way," the ideal anthem for the determined Underwood power couple, but there are a few hidden references, like the song "Peaches," which is likely a nod to the humongous peach water tower in Frank's hometown of Gaffney, South Carolina.
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And here's Claire's list of power tracks:
Now it should be noted that some of these tracks are not the best. We could probably have done without Abba's "The Winner Takes It All" and JoJo's "Too Little Too Late ..." but hey, these tracks just represent the very complex personalities of the Underwoods I suppose.
The only question that remains is which House of Cards lead are you more musically compatible with? Once you're done sitting on the couch for hours binging Season 5, why not go for a nice run to get your blood pumping again and take a listen?
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In Last Monologue, Israeli Comedy Show Host Implores Israelis to Wake Up and Smell the Apartheid
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An Israeli comedy show host's searing indictment of Israeli society has gone viral on social media, raking in over 5,000 shares in the two days since it was posted on the show's Facebook page on Monday.
In the video, Assaf Harel of "Good Night With Asaf Harel" castigates Israelis for ignoring the occupation and claims that Israel is an apartheid state.
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There is a monster taking shape in the Illinois General Assembly called the "Aurora Gun Omnibus Pro-Gun Safety" bill being floated around. Pro-Gun Safety bill. Who could argue with a title like that? When you create something you can pretty much call it whatever you want. Remember when the USSR controlled East Germany? They called it the German Democratic Republic. Same here. Good thing we have that Firearm Owner's Identification Card (FOID), huh?
1. Increase FOID card fee from $10 for ten years to $50 for five years. That's a 1000% fee hike.
2. Require local law enforcement to get a warrant to seize FOID card and firearms from the household of anyone who has failed to comply with a revocation order.
3.Failure to comply with a FOID revocation order becomes a felony.
4. ISP (Illinois State Police can revoke or deny a FOID card for anyone charged with making a "terrorist threat or material support for terrorism (not defined). I guess if you shout "kill the ump" at a ball game, they can come after you.
5. Mandatory fingerprinting for FOID and CCL holders. That's an extra $100 easy. Times 2.5 million gun owners in Illinois, that's a new $250,000,000.00 tax on your Second Amendment rights.
6. FOID application will be a mandatory "in-person" process. If you like the long lines in the Driver's License/SOS buildings, you will love this one.
7.Failure to call in a private gun sale is a felony. Currently NO penalty for this.
These are just some of the ideas going around the legislature. They have not, as of this writing, been introduced in bill form. Please forward to all SASS clubs and any others who will benefit from this information. If there are any other SASS clubs that want to be added to my email list, please let me know.
5. Mandatory fingerprinting for FOID and CCL holders. That's an extra $100 easy. Times 2.5 million gun owners in Illinois, that's a new $250,000.00 tax on your Second Amendment rights.
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Part of my team uses TFS (Team Foundation Server) from Microsoft on Windows computers, but there are some other guys like me, that uses mac computers, and there is no local client for TFS, we have to use the web portal and it's not so good. We use Producteev as a task manager and would be a nice feature to have TFS integration.


Chinese President Hu Jintao met his Zimbabwean counterpart, Robert Mugabe, in Beijing Friday. They pledged to bolster political, economic and cultural cooperation between the two nations.
During their one-hour talk at the Great Hall of the People, Hu and Mugabe hailed the development of bilateral relations since the two states established diplomatic ties in 1980.
President Hu urged the two sides to boost high-level exchange while also promoting cooperation between government departments, legislative bodies and ruling parties.
He also said the two countries should keep in close communication on issues that concern each other's core interests.
"China supports the Zimbabwean government's efforts to promote economic recovery and development and will further cooperation in the mineral industry, agriculture and infrastructure construction," Hu said.
China will also expand cultural exchanges with Zimbabwe, especially in areas like the arts, education and human resources training, Hu said.
Mugabe attended the Zimbabwe national theme day at the World Expo in Shanghai Wednesday.
He said he expects the two states to boost cooperation in trade, education, healthcare and infrastructure construction.
Mugabe said his country welcomes Chinese investors and he thanked China for its long-term support of Zimbabwe.


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Deeper Conspiracy behind Indira Assassination: Defense Attomey Charges Gov't of 'Cover Up'
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New Delhi, India: The lawyer for two Sikhs on trial for the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi compared it Monday to the slaying of President John F. Kennedy, saying in both cases a key gunman was killed.
Defense attorney P. P. Grover also said that a foreign power was behind Gandhi's murder last Oct. 31 and accused the Indian government of covering up the conspiracy, the Press Trust of India said. He did not identify the foreign power or specify how the government covered up the conspiracy.
The government is prosecuting three Sikhs for Indira Gandhi's assassination, one for the actual murder Satwant Singh and two for conspiracy Kehar Singh and Balbir Singh. Singh is a name adopted by Sikh men and does not signify relatives.
Grover said his clients Kehar Singh and Balbir Singh were "scapegoats for the real conspirators."
The lawyer made the statements during the trial of the three Sikhs, who were being held in New Delhi's maximum security Tihar Jail with the accused seated in a bulletproof glass box. The trial began June 6.
Grover compared Gandhi's assassination to the slaying of President Kennedy in 1963 because key gunmen were killed in both cases.
Beant Singh, one of two Sikh bodyguards who shot Gandhi at her New Delhi residence on Oct. 31, was gunned down by two security guards immediately after the killing.
"Kennedy's alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, had in the same way been murdered in the basement of the Dallas police station by Jack Rudy," Grover said, according to the news agency.
Ruby shot and killed Oswald after Oswald's arrest. People who believe in a conspiracy theory have argued Ruby killed Oswald to prevent the assassin from revealing details of possible foreign involvement in Kennedy's killing.
The other bodyguard allegedly involved in the Gandhi assassination, Satwant Singh, was seriously wounded by the security guards but survived to face trial.
Grover said Beant Singh was "murdered in cold blood" to prevent him from exposing other conspirators involved in Gandhi's murder.
"(His) intention of attacking (Gandhi) and surrendering was to tell the real story, but he was silenced," Grover said.
Grover said the conspiracy lay in the murder of Beant Singh. He said Beant Singh was "murdered in cold blood" and the prosecution should explain the circumstances of his death.
Balbir Singh was a sub inspector of police in Indira Gandhi's security service.
Kehar Singh is the deceased Beant Singh's uncle.
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Microsoft has pushed hard in recent years to become a fixture in the American living room — most notably via the XBox 360. A lesser-known part of its living-room play is its MediaRoom IPTV unit, which has been adopted by the likes of AT&T and Deutsche Telekom.
Now it appears Microsoft may be gearing up to sell its MediaRoom business to Ericsson, Bloomberg reports.
MediaRoom's IPTV technology lets phone companies offer TV service together with voice and broadband, allowing them to compete with entrenched cable companies like Comcast. Microsoft describes MediaRoom as the "world's #1 IPTV platform," but even so, there may not be much room left for the company to grow the business, Exane BNP Paribas analyst Alexander Peterc tells Bloomberg.
Most consumers likely don't even know that MediaRoom exists, which is another reason the company may want to let go of the unit. As a business-to-business play, it would be far more at home at Ericsson, which is primarily focused on providing enterprise telecommunication equipment.
AT&T uses the technology to power its U-Verse service, which has 4.5 million subscribers.
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Chloe Hase, 17, a senior at Southampton High School, and Sue Marder-O'Connor, 65, a teacher at the nearby Springs School, finished in a tie for the South Fork Perpetual Trophy, awarded to the Grand Local Hunter Champion at the 40th annual Hampton Classic.
Hase rode Brando, 18, to the Local Junior Hunter, Sec. B, title on her way to the grand championship. Marder-O'Connor rode Tour Guide, 18,to the L.I. Pulse Local Amateur-Owner Championship on her way to the grand championship.
Marder-O'Connor has owned Tour Guide for about four years, and she considers the veteran gelding semi-retired. He spends the summers in the Hamptons and the rest of the year at Marder-O'Connor's sister's equine-retirement farm in Virginia. When Tour Guide is in town, he resides at the Wolffer Estate, a vineyard and stable that is a show sponsor.
While Tour Guide is wintering in Virginia, Marder-O'Connor half-leases a horse at Wolffer Estate to ride on the weekends. Then, in June, sister Nancy Danfield brings Tour Guide north to train horse and rider for the Hampton Classic. "It's a real family affair," she said.
In 2013 they won the Local Amateur-Owner Hunter Championship, and in 2014 they won the Local Hunter Classic. They'll be competing in the Adult Hunter division on Wednesday and Thursday.
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Hase started showing in local day at the Hampton Classic shortly after she began training with the Toppings, but this was her first championship.
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The covers of Flame's edition of Doomstones.
Hogshead's 2001 title Heart of Chaos by Robin D. Laws was not the first attempt to wrap up the Doomstones campaign for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay and solve the problem of what to do with the Player Characters now that they have all four Crystals of Power. When the campaign was adventures originally written for D&D, a concluding episode had gone unpublished.
While I was working on the WFRP adaptations at Flame publications, I started working on an outline for a fifth instalment that would tie things up nicely. I left it behind at Flame when I quit Games Workshop in 1990, and I had assumed that, like so many other things, it had vanished in the mists of time. But I was wrong.
A copy of my outline somehow survived in the archives of Marc Gascoigne, and recently made its way to me. I have no idea whether or not Robin Laws saw it while he was working on Heart of Chaos. There are some clear parallels between my outline and Robin's final work (take that as a spoiler warning, if you will), but the similarities could be put down to the fact that some events and characters are obvious must-haves in a fifth and final Doomstones adventure.
Apart from saving the original Word file as a PDF, I haven't done anything to it at all. It is just as I wrote it (though someone – probably Mike Brunton – turned it into a Word file from my original ProText file for Amstrad PCW and formatted it using Flame's style of the time), so its integrity as a historical document is as good as it can be, for those to whom such things matter. Added later: But see the comment below about an earleir version on Gideon's Awesome Lies blog.
Anyway, take it for what it is, make of it what you will, and I hope you find it interesting. Like everything else WFRP on this blog, this is completely unofficial and no challenge is intended to copyrights held by Games Workshop, Cubicle 7, or anyone else. Anyway, here it is.
Doomstones 5 GD outline – download PDF
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I think the original protext file might be the one on Gideon's Awesome Lies blog here: https://awesomeliesblog.wordpress.com/2021/03/28/lost-warhammer-the-fifth-doomstone-2/ . It's missing some of the text in the Word document but otherwise i think it's the same word for word.
graemedavis
You are right. I see that I even commented on Gideon's post. So I must have taken a printout from Flame, and sent it to James ten years or so later.
Yes, it looks like a revision of the document Toby Pilling provided to me and I posted on my blog. There are some small changes, but the main difference is that the version I previously shared seems to have been missing a second page of plot summary, as it misses the last three bullet points of the overview. I have written up a more detailed comparison in a note on my blog:
https://awesomeliesblog.wordpress.com/2021/03/28/lost-warhammer-the-fifth-doomstone-2/#comment-4767
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Do you have any info on the other 3 books that were supposed to come out after Tahmurkhan?
Sorry, no. I didn't even know about Tamurkhan until you mentioned it.
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Systemintegration är ett begrepp inom Informationsteknologi. Begreppet innebär att flera olika fristående system kopplas ihop för att fungera tillsammans. För att detta ska fungera skapas en applikation som jobbar mot systemens olika gränssnitt. Då kan systemen skicka information till varandra automatiskt utan att behöva ha en person som sitter och manuellt matar in denna information.

Exempel
Ett paket som ska nå sin destination måste genomgå flera sorteringar och transporter. Genom att systemen på de olika lager som detta involverar är sammankopplade kan en tredje part följa paketets gång. När paketet scannas med hjälp av en RFID-läsare så uppdateras paketets tillstånd och position på en webbplats.

Olika metoder

Punkt-till-punkt
Ofta börjar integrationsprojekt med två fristående system som ska kunna utbyta information. Till exempel en integrering mellan ekonomisystemet med fakturascanningssystemet. Det kallas då att man gör en punkt-till-punkt (point-to-point) integration. Då säkerställer man att endast en mottagare tar emot ett speciellt meddelande. Det krävs också att systemet vet var meddelandet ska lämnas och hur det ska översättas så att mottagaren kan läsa det. När man använder punkt-till-punkt integration så måste sändaren veta om hur mottagaren kan ta emot meddelandet. Om mottagaren ändrar sitt sätt att ta emot sina meddelanden måste integrationen ändras.
Om många system ska utbyta information på detta sätt blir det lätt mycket jobb. När detta händer brukar man kalla det för spagettiintegration och då ökar underhållskostnaderna kraftigt. Det blir helt plötsligt en mycket stor kostnad att byta ut ett system eftersom en ny integration måste ske för varje system som denna ska ha kontakt med.

Broker
När man har många system sammankopplade blir det dyrt att underhålla en punkt-till-punkt lösning och därför använder man sig istället för ett centralt system som tar hand om kommunikationen mellan de olika systemen, en broker (en "mäklare"). En brokers uppgift är huvudsakligen att få systemen att kommunicera genom brokern istället för direkt med varandra. Då kan denna ta hand om de olika format som systemen använder och om man lägger till ett nytt system blir det enklare att integrera på ett ställe (alltså mellan det nya systemet och brokern) istället för att lära många system att kommunicera med det nya systemet (som i punkt-till-punkt integrering). Det enda språk som systemen behöver lära sig är brokerns.

Meddelandehanterare
Uppgiften hos en meddelandehanterare är lik den hos brokern, men meddelandehanteraren erbjuder också en gemensam kommunikationsmodell. Vilka meddelanden som ska kunna skickas måste då bestämmas i förväg. Många integrationsmotorer som finns på marknaden idag är meddelandebaserade (till exempel Microsoft BizTalk Server, WebSphere).

Källor

Telekommunikation
Datorkommunikation

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Even Emily got to play a bit today while mommy took pictures! She can't wait to go to school someday!
We even taught her the Pledge of Allegiance!
We all got new nametags for our attendance… Mine was a BEAUTIFUL clue butterfly!


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House prices and the economy
House Price Crash Forum
Brexit What Happens Next Thread ---multiple merged threads.
By GreenDevil,
June 24, 2016 in House prices and the economy
24gray24
HPC Veteran
The brexiters think they're getting all the fish back and throwing all the immigrants out.
There is going to be trouble when they find out they've been sold out...
Replies 142.3k
GrizzlyDave 9,502 posts
Confusion of VIs 7,633 posts
jonb2 5,790 posts
thehowler 5,648 posts
TheCountOfNowhere
I do. https://twitter.com/housepricemania
1409 pages....you guys should have your own forum !!!
Oh OK. Shame that really, but hey it looks like @IMHAL helped us both out. Nice repost though, thanks ! Any thoughts ?
Dave Beans
I live on HPC!
...Welcome to reality...
Gigantic Purple Slug
Yeah, vision of Irish plates zooming past miles of lorries doesn't go down well with the UK negotiators.
Not that it's ROI's fault. I imagine the UK were always hoping ROI would cut a deal with them first, then go to the EU, but ROI struck early and placed their bets with the EU. I wish them well.
It will be in years to come when the power of the UK to negotiate in its own interest becomes more apparent and allows us to do deals that are more beneficial.
Have to agree with this - or at least, this is the Brexit hope.
On another note, thanks to DB for the Ivan Rogers link...now vanished due to the site crash.
It's worth watching the whole thing on youtube - spectator tv 60 mins - and if you go to 57:50 you'll see him saying that any UK govt he worked with, Labour or Tory, would have vetoed the recent EU fund package. He goes on to say that the inter-governmental deal to get around Cameron was when Cameron realized he had to go for the referendum. And that's one of the ploys they - the EU - are now considering to get around the Hungarian/Poland veto.
The ref, or some kind of reckoning was inevitable...and the Brit public still choose the waves.
Or as the SAS say, either lead, follow or get the hell out of the way.
Reality hasn't started yet.
That's probably true. Too many people have their blinkers on..
24 hours in a cabin. Weather permitting. Same as flying to Oz.
No land bridge will be tough for ROI, and add substantially to haulage costs. And no fault of their own.
From the comments section where I found the article the consensus was that it was (obviously) worse than the current arrangements but looking like it will be better than the post-transition arrangements.
It was expected/hoped that technology might eventually help, but England being less hysterical about its borders and returning to planet Earth would be ideal.
MonsieurCopperCrutch
HPC Senior Veteran
When do the blinkers come off?
There's the thought that we can become this gung-ho fwee twade nation where we can tell the EU to sod off, and we can do what we like.
Unfortunately, global trade hasn't worked like that for forty years or so. Tariffs in trade make up a smaller and smaller part of FTAs - it now comes to trade facilitation and the breaking down of non-tariff barriers.
Trade has become ever globalised, and if you want to be a serious trading nation, these global norms come to the fore. As a for instance, there's COP 26, which Glasgow will be hosting next year. This is where all this talk of net zero is coming from....or there's vehicle standards that stem from UNECE, and so on and so on..
There's balances and trade-offs between trade and sovereignty...and we will need to find that balance. How can we fight our own corner, within this globalised system.
No deal would bring absolute chaos, but it will remove this theme of "betrayal" that runs through much of ultras, forever. They would be spend.
NuBrit
HPC Regular
Sounds to me like the deal is going to happen.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-55120814
Yea, we will get a deal, a very, very bare bones Canada-lite deal. The fact that the major sticking point is fisheries tells you all you need to know about where the priorities of this government lay.
Roman Roady
Dont forget the blue passports.
thehowler
HPC Guru
Is globalism working?
My own feeling is that a lot of people think it's gone too far. They want a more local world.
In some respects yes, and in other respects, no. The harmonisation of standards, and all that, are here to stay. However, there is very much room for localism (which has been my argument for several years). Both need to work in tandem...
After the referendum, the Tories especially, have treated things as normal...but it isn't...For instance, were the British people asked or consulted about net zero? "We're doing X, Y and X, and its tough". Policy areas such as this are being foisted AT us...which puts people's backs up, and are less likely to comply. If they did it WITH us, then there would be more understanding and there would be more compliance.
Edited November 29, 2020 by Dave Beans
14stFlyer
HPC Poster
At this time of year that will mean an awful lot of carrots...
dugsbody
The current deals are just a stepping point to greater independence and mitigation of the step change.
Greater independence from what exactly? We're no longer members of the EU. We're now trying to negotiate a trade deal with them.
More beneficial than what? Which country in the world are we trying to emulate?
None, the UK has taken the maverick path.
More beneficial than the current rollovers but not necessarily more profitable than if we'd stayed in the club.
At least that's my view.
I think a lot of Brexit voters just didn't want to walk the EU path, they didn't care if they'd be richer or poorer in terms of GDP.
You mean the UK? Of course.
I see more militancy if living standards get worse, not less.
"Betrayal" in the brexit negotiations will also create more resentment.
Boris is in a tight spot.
Its a catch 22... To roughly keep us afloat, we should have stayed in the EEA....but then that was a big no no from both sides. For remain - we might as well have stayed in. For Brexiteers - its not what we voted for = betrayal.
No compromise. We're all going to suffer hardship now..
Exceptionalism... Nowt wrong in leaving...but as I've said many, many, many times. Brexit is a process - not an event..
...and they will care...
It was a revolution (of a very British sort. ).
The natives were getting restless in the face of this minimum wage + immigrants world (which suited the rich so well).
Cameron went to Eton and didn't even know the price of milk: you couldn't think of a worse poster boy for the remain cause.
I absolutely get that - governments of various flavours signing treaty after treaty - without the consent of the people. I have also heard the argument that freedom of movement gives a transient population an equal status as a "native" citizen - thus eroding belonging and community cohesion..
However, there was never a grown up conversation (and there still isn't) about the trade offs that Brexit brings. This will only start happening next year, when its too late.
Yes, a lot of Brexit voters just wanted to be different. Nothing to do with imperialism/enlargement, those days are long gone. They just didn't want to be defined as European.
You say they'll care but I'm not even sure they'll notice. They weren't flying off to Berlin at the weekends to see the art galleries.
I don't feel the establishment ever did enough to show working Brits the real benefits of being in the EU. They kept it to themselves, taking advantage of the financial perks. And then they were outraged when a lot of people were seduced/convinced by parochial arguments.
Brexit was all about local and a failure of the Europhiles.
As an example of exceptionalism, comes out of these talks - we want parts of the single market; but we only want Canada..
They will notice, as the factories around close up and JIT supply chains starts to disintegrate. If your a farmer or a fisherman....Good luck..
The remain camp took it as red that they won... Leave winning would be utterly preposterous... What was the remain vision? All they had, was the economic argument. What does remain (in the future) look like? Does it mean that treaty after treaty can be passed, and no more referendums. That issue would have been settled forever...
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Renowned conductor Peter Oundjian will be artistic advisor to the Colorado Music Festival for 2018. Photo by Jaime Hogge.
The Colorado Music Festival (CMF) has announced that this summer's 40th-anniversary season will be Jean-Marie's Zeitouni's last as music director.
Zeitouni took the position for the 2015 season with a three-year contract. He has decided not to seek renewal of the contract, and instead will have a three-year engagement as principal guest conductor, starting with the 2018 season.
Peter Oundjian, music director of the Toronto Symphony and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, has been engaged by CMF as artistic advisor for the 2018 season. He will be responsible for programming the season and selecting the guest artists, and he will conduct two concerts during the summer.
He will visit Boulder this summer to meet with the musicians and others in the CMF organization.
A highly respected musician around the world, Oundjian rose to fame as a violinist, winning first prize at the International Violin Competition at Viña del Mar, Chile, in 1980, He was first violinist of the Tokyo String Quartet for 14 years, and since then he has conducted orchestras from the BBC Proms to New York, Berlin, Tel Aviv and Sydney.
There will be none of the public audition concerts that were such a prominent part of the 2014 season, when Zeitouni was selected as music director, and none of the candidates or finalists will be announced. At this point, she said, no one has been either ruled in or out for the position, including Oundjian.
Peter Oundjian conducting the Toronto Symphony. Photo by Malcolm Cook.
He says it is too early to say what his programming might be, but that is part of the excitement. "I'm open to pretty much anything and I can get enthusiastic about an awful lot of things," he says. "There seems to be a tremendous amount of flexibility and interest in music of all periods (at CMF).
In the meantime, Zeitouni wants audiences to remember that the CMF has its 40th anniversary celebration this summer. "It's a great celebration," he says. "I want to welcome people and invite them for this summer. I worked very hard to put this season together, and I'm excited to perform it.
In spite of several recent major administrative changes at CMF, McGuire says emphatically that the departure of Zeitouni as music director does not present a problem for the ongoing success of the festival and the affiliated Center for Musical Arts. "We're really excited about the future right now," she says. "We're financially in excellent shape, so we can say that it's looking up.


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The Drunken State
There was a time when the United States government ran on hooch. Hard up for cash, taxes on whiskey and beer funded the Civil War. With 40 percent of government revenues coming from liquor taxes, alcohol made the dramatic post-war expansion of government possible so that by the 20th Century, the Federal government would have been unrecognizable in scope and function to a man of the 1800s, but would have been all too familiar to us.
The Department of Education was created in 1867, the Department of Justice in 1870, the Department of Agriculture in 1862 and the Department of Commerce and Labor in 1903. Within that time, the Federal government had become concerned with every aspect of life throughout the country. After the Civil War, the same whiskey taxes that had paid for cannons, aerial balloons and widows' pensions began paying for the transformation of the government into a booming engine of social change.
During the same period that the government was being unrecognizably reshaped, the major cities were being transformed by a tremendous immigration boom. Immigration had made it possible for the Union to win the war by providing an endless supply of fresh bodies to throw into the fight. German, Irish and Jewish immigrants came by the hundreds of thousands and made the Union victory possible.
Republican Progressives had looked forward to freeing the slaves, but were far less enthusiastic about filling the country with Catholics and Jews, who were not only bound for Democratic precincts, but did not share their faith. Progressive reformers cast an uneasy eye on the slums and the Democratic political machines that ran them and pursued a grab bag of strategies for curing their ills, from birth control to temperance to socialism.
The progressive vision of a New America was being funded by liquor taxes, but a combination of bigotry and health-nuttery, which was another of the elements of the modern country taking off, brought quite a few reformers around to temperance. Associating Catholics with liquor, they went after liquor itself. But liquor could not be outlawed, without also outlawing big government.
For the practical politician the link between liquor and big government was a web that should not be touched. The drinking American was making big government possible and should be left to drink in peace. But progressive reformers are ever deaf to such logic and quick to cut Gordian knots. Faced with a liquor revenue problem, they contrived a solution in the form of the personal income tax.
The personal income tax was unconstitutional, but with the end of the post-Civil War era and the revival of the Democratic Party as a progressive political movement, the country had entered a period where the Constitution meant very little. During the Wilson and Roosevelt administrations, that document, then not very much more than a century old, had come to be regarded as an outmoded work with very little relevance to modern times.
The Anti-Saloon League, rising out of the mists of an uncertain time, had assembled a coalition encompassing Klansmen, Suffragists, Socialists and Preachers focused on a single-minded agenda, but pushing whatever laws it had to along the way to reach its goal. And the road to Prohibition lay through such policy territories as the personal income tax.
Prohibition today is remembered mainly for the quaint scenes of smugglers and lawmen chasing each other on dark roads, speakeasies where liquor made in massive illegal stills was served, and the end of national integrity as an age of national hypocrisy was ushered in by wet politicians who voted dry. But Prohibition as a phenomenon matters little compared to the ways in which the campaign to achieve it and then hold on to it transformed the country.
Before the income tax, the progressive expansion of government had been built on a hypocrisy that reformers had denounced. A better world was being built with whiskey money, some of it, though far from all of it, coming out of the slums where the new immigrants worked and died. Afterward all that whiskey money went to a mob built out of the worst elements of the slums while the government fattened itself on a new source of tax revenue.
But the income tax was not nearly enough. The Federal government had been running shocking deficits in the 1930s. The budget deficit hit $903,000,000 in 1931, and then more than doubled in 1932 to $2,472,000,000. A 2.4 billion dollar budget deficit might not attract much attention today, but that same year revenues stood at only 1.9 billion dollars making the deficit larger than the revenues. A comparable budget deficit today would not be our usual trillion dollar booms, but something in the range of three trillion dollars.
With the Great Depression underway and the ultimate progressive Democrat with a big government agenda in the White House, the liquor taxes were sorely missed. Republicans lost 100 seats in the 1932 congressional election and with FDR in the White House, it was time to put an end to Prohibition and put all the lost revenue from liquor sales to work funding the New Deal.
By 1935, revenues had jumped to 3.6 billion dollars, nearly double what they had been only a few years earlier, but the budget deficit had gone up to 2.8 billion dollars because spending had surpassed 6 billion dollars reaching nearly 10 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product. It would eventually reach 24 percent of GDP, a figure only matched by another Democrat. Obama.
Roosevelt's New Deal had drunk deeply of liquor taxes, but kept spending money like a drunken sailor, and even with the income tax and legal liquor sales, and a variety of other revenue raising gimmicks, the government had dug itself into a deeper fiscal hole than ever.
Social Security was born two years after the end of Prohibition. One of the creators of Social Security was Senator Pat Harrison of the Cullen-Harrison Act which legalized the sale of low alcoholic beer as a trial balloon for ending Prohibition. What had been thought a sin by progressive Unionists had become the salvation of progressive New Dealers who were less interested in moral reform and more interested in building the institutions that would give them permanent political power. And if those institutions had to run through the saloon, so be it.
The expanding government had gotten a heady taste of how good steady revenues from sin taxes could taste, and from that day on it was hardly ever sober again, imbibing greater and greater quantities of the stuff. One tax led to another and then another. The more the tax revenues rolled in, the faster they were spent on creating and funding the bigger and bigger institutions of the perpetually expanding system of infinite progressive government.
Prohibition proved to be less about morals than about economics and the ways that governments try to make the unworkable policy keep on going just a little longer. That could be taken as a reference to the prohibition of liquor, but it applies equally well to the economic infrastructure of tax and spend policies. Prohibition had less to do with morals than it did with political power, immigration and taxation.
On a social level, temperance had less to do with liquor and more to do with attempts to reform a country whose cities were becoming unrecognizable megalopolises packed with immigrants who were building the modern vision of the world of tomorrow and threatening the world of today.
Prohibition became a reminder that modern technology and techniques were ultimately no match for the will of the people. It was the first real destructive test of the modern government's abilities and it failed socially and economically, forcing the government to go wet to finance its own operations.
Prohibition is long gone but the consequences of it, including the cat and mouse game between organized crime and national law enforcement, the personal income tax and the budget deficit, the pressure group that forces the will of the minority on the majority and the promise that the government can perfect the men it rules over and the national orgy of hypocrisy that follows are still with us today.
With the end of Prohibition, the State accepted the idea that it had to corrupt in order to uplift, damn in order to save and do evil in order to do good. It had to become truly corrupt to be truly moral in the service of the greater good.
You ain't seen nothing yet. Now the progressives will tax the air we breath. For now, just the part we exhale.
The amazing thing is how many dumb-asses believe it's a good tax.
Harvey said...
The appetite for tax and spend exceeds the supply of money. Even when they tax savings, confiscate retirement accounts and so forth. Spreading the wealth around spreads it too thinly. In comes the Fed. Daniel, could Levin's Liberty Amendments succeed? Is there another way to reverse Progressivism before America implodes?
I don't know if it can succeed, but it is a more credible strategy than most of the party has
And the new title will be the Stoned State when the legalization of pot makes its way across the country and finally the law of the land as the new revenue source that will enable an even bigger big government and higher and higher deficits.
Truly brilliant last paragraph Daniel. Immorality and evil bring in the money.
Mark Levin's Constitutional solution can work, but right now, too many people love the "free lunches" the Demorats are selling them for their freedom and prosperity.
Until these programs' disadvantages (the pain) becomes obvious, they will not want their States to change the Government. It will take time, but first they have to hear how it can be done, and the Enemedia will not cooperate.
Mark Levin's Book TV video interview is worth watching to appreciate his solution: http://tiny.cc/nv0m9w
Joan of Argghh! said...
Remind me again how Joe Kennedy built his fortune...?
Until the Lefty dreamers are confronted with something of reality, and the discipline it demands, we will continue on with our phony money and unpayable budget deficits until the whole system cracks up. I don't like being so glum, but I see no urgency on either side. Democrats ignore the concept of value, and Republicans catch up "the new normal" a decade later so they can be acceptable company at elite cocktail parties.
I have no problem with immigration (even unlimited immigration) if there wasn't so much stress on the system with all the bloated subsidies, handouts, bilingual education, administrative nonsense, multi-language ballots, etc. It risks inviting free riders who refuse to assimilate, and then we have Parisian car burning ceremonies to ring in the New Year.
People on the other side think we're cruel. I say we are stating the obvious and not pandering to human weakness and resistance to change. Human beings are highly adaptable, but there has to be something in it for them. Like surviving, which can eventually turn into thriving. There is no such thing as abundance without scarcity to compare it to. We cannot always be on the rocket shot up, up, up! A dynamic economy requires losers along with winners. Life is not fair.
Progressives have a utopian vision for the way life should be. Let's stand for life as it really is and give people a chance to thrive.
Snackeater said...
The Department of Education was created in 1867? I thought Jimmuh Cottah created that in 1979.
the original one
You do a better job teaching history than they do in school. Have you considered authoring an American history textbook? If we are fortunate enough to save this country in the short term, we definitely need to educate the young people properly and not continue to have them indoctrinated by the leftists.
Chavi said...
Thanks for the timely history lesson. A book of these would be a gift to America.
RobertW said...
On a related note, I think you could argue that the 16th Amendment nullified the 13th.
We have met the enemy and he is us. That's an interesting re-interpretation of U.S. history. I knew that alcohol taxes played a huge role. So, pot taxes will also increase the reach and scope of government. That which is negative and evil about government is the same as in human nature. There will always be moonshiners outfoxing the revenuers.


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Van Der Burgh fastest qualifier for 50 m Breaststoke
Home News Van Der Burgh fastest qualifier for 50 m Breaststoke
News Swim 27 July 2011
The South African swimming team continued to impress on day three of the FINA World Championships in Shanghai, China yesterday.
With the fastest semi final time of 26.90, Cameron van der Burgh successfully qualified for the final of his speciality event, the 50m breaststroke. Van der Burgh won his semi final ahead of Brazil's Felipe da Silva in 26.95 and Norway's Alexander dale Oen in 27.33. The final of the event will be held today.
Cameron Van Der Burgh is the favourite to win the 50 m Breastroke
"I just want to do enough to make the final" came from Van der Burgh before he warmed up. It took just 20 strokes across the pool for the World Record holder to clock up a world best time this year of 26.90sec and advance to the final in the top spot.
19 year old Chad le Clos, who was recently chosen by Omega as one of their global brand ambassadors, also secured his place in the 200m butterfly final tomorrow after a fast finish in the semi finals. Le Clos clocked 1:55.56 to finish in 7th position.
Chad Le Clos qualified for the final of the 200 m Butterfly
Wendy Trott finished in 6th place in the 1500m freestyle, touching the wall with a time of 16:06.02. Denmark's Lotte Friis took home the gold in 15:49.59.
Earlier on in the day, Sebastien Rousseau was one spot short of qualifying for the 200m butterfly semi finals when he ended in 17th place with a time of 1:57.15. Karin Prinsloo finished 25th in the 200m freestyle, clocking a personal best time of 1:59.52. Prinsloo will also be in action in the 50m backstroke today.
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Day four of the competition will see Gideon Louw and Graeme Moore take to the water in the 100m freestyle while Darian Townsend will swim in the 200m individual medley race.
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Q: How to customize Last-Modified Header in Joomla? Even in the latest Joomla 1.5 Last-Modified Header is non-customizable and returns current date, which is imho against seo-basics. Does any one know how (or component) to make Joomla 1.5 return Last-Modified header based on last modified article?

A: JResponse::setHeader( 'Last-Modified', $yourDateHere ); should work. However, if you want to add this without hacking com_content, you'll need to build a plugin that will detect when com_content is being called, then retrieve the article from the database to get the modified date on the article.

A: @All
Feel free to download and test lite version of plugin "Last-Modified Any Content Lite". This one allows you to send right header information about last-modified date of page for search bots to increase indexing your websites.


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Piergiuseppe Morone
Name: Piergiuseppe
Surname: Morone
Mail: piergiuseppe.morne@unitelmasapienza.it
Economics of Innovation
My research interests lay at the boundary of economics, computer sciences, and social networks. My earlier research was on innovation diffusion and knowledge diffusion models, investigating the relation between social network architectures and speed of diffusion. Recently, I have been working at the interface between innovation economics and chemistry – i.e. on innovative waste valorisation activities for sustainability transitions and the bio-based economy. My publications appeared on several international journals such as Ecological Economics, Research Policy, Journal of Cleaner Production, Theory and Decision, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, and others.
Currently, I'm vice-chair and Management Committee member of the Cost Action TD1203. I'm also involved in the following two European funded projects:
FP7 - SSH – Title: European Union Action to Fight Environmental Crime (EFFACE), member of the Uniroma1 research team, Project reference: 320276.
FP7 - REGPOT-2011-1 – Workpackage Leader (WP2) "Exchange of know-how and recruitment of experienced researchers", project on: Scientific & technological advancement in research on agro-energy: an integrated approach to renewable energy generation according to sustainability criteria (STAR-AgroEnergy).
List of most recent publications:
'Assessing the Potential of Biowaste for Bioplastics Production through Social Network Analysis' (with V.E. Tartiu e P. Falcone), Journal Cleaner Production, [ISI-IF: 3.590], forthcoming
'Environmental Justice and Air Pollution: A Case Study on Italian Provinces' (with A.R. Germani and G. Testa), Ecological Economics, [ISI-IF: 2.855], forthcoming
'Estimating individual and group preference functionals using experimental data' (with A. Morone), Theory and Decision [ISI-IF: 0.762], forthcoming
'Innovation, quality and exports: the case of Italian SMEs' (with C. Imbriani e G. Testa), The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, [ISI-IF: 0.228], forthcoming
'Securing support for eye-health policy in low and middle income countries: Identifying stakeholders through a multilevel analysis' (with E. Camacio Cuena, I. Kokur and N. Banatvala), Journal of Public Health Policy [ISI-IF: 1.478], 35(2): 185–203, 2014
'Individual and Group Behavior in the Traveler's Dilemma: An Experimental Study', (with A. Morone and A.R. Germani), Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 49(3): 1-7, 2014
'Emerging innovation niches: An agent based model' (with R. Taylor and A. Lopolito) Research Policy [ISI-IF: 2.850], 42(6-7): 1225-1238, 2013
'Innovation activities and Italian SMEs' exports decisions a multi-treatment analysis' (with F. Renna and G. Testa), International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business, 5(4): 256-272, 2013
'Proximity, knowledge integration and innovation: an agenda for agent-based studies' (with R. Taylor), Journal of Evolutionary Economics [ISI-IF: 0.723], 22(1): 19-47, 2012
'Eliciting environmental preferences of Ghanaians in the laboratory: An incentive-compatible experiment' (with A. Morone and Y. Meroz), International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development, 10(2): 119-136, 2011
'An agent-based model approach to innovation niche creation in socio- technical transition pathways' (with R. Taylor and A. Lopolito), Economics Bulletin, 31(2): 1780-1792, 2011
'Innovation niches and socio-technical transition: a case study of bio-refinery production' (with A. Lopolito and R. Sisto), Futures [ISI-IF: 1.111], Vol. 43, no.1, pp. 24-38, 2011
Piergiuseppe Morone CV.pdf


Lenny and I planned to head for home by noon Monday. We had nothing planned in the morning so I went out back to take a few pictures. Then Vickie offered to drive us around looking at the fall trees. (I'll be making some web pages with those shots soon.) When we returned to their house we were in the back yard again watching Mavis swim. Told you she's a show off!
At Casa De Fruta Coffee Shop for lunch on the way home.


Family Cooking Showdown – the competitive food show that celebrates the families who make ordinary food extraordinary – is back.
Over three weeks, 16 family teams will battle it out in the Showdown studio kitchen. They'll face a series of challenges based on the realities of family cooking, and they'll be judged by presenters Angellica Bell – herself a Celebrity Masterchef winner and cookbook author – and Tommy Banks, Britain's youngest ever Michelin-starred chef.


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namespace ExampleApp
{
    namespace AboutPage
    {
        namespace View
        {
            AboutPageView::AboutPageView(AndroidNativeState& nativeState)
                : m_nativeState(nativeState)
            {
                ASSERT_UI_THREAD

                AndroidSafeNativeThreadAttachment attached(m_nativeState);
                JNIEnv* env = attached.envForThread;

                jstring strClassName = env->NewStringUTF("com/eegeo/aboutpageview/AboutPageView");
                jclass uiClass = m_nativeState.LoadClass(env, strClassName);
                env->DeleteLocalRef(strClassName);

                m_uiViewClass = static_cast<jclass>(env->NewGlobalRef(uiClass));
                jmethodID uiViewCtor = env->GetMethodID(m_uiViewClass, "<init>", "(Lcom/eegeo/entrypointinfrastructure/MainActivity;J)V");

                jobject instance = env->NewObject(
                                       m_uiViewClass,
                                       uiViewCtor,
                                       m_nativeState.activity,
                                       (jlong)(this)
                                   );

                m_uiView = env->NewGlobalRef(instance);
            }

            AboutPageView::~AboutPageView()
            {
                ASSERT_UI_THREAD

                AndroidSafeNativeThreadAttachment attached(m_nativeState);
                JNIEnv* env = attached.envForThread;
                jmethodID removeHudMethod = env->GetMethodID(m_uiViewClass, "destroy", "()V");
                env->CallVoidMethod(m_uiView, removeHudMethod);
                env->DeleteGlobalRef(m_uiView);
                env->DeleteGlobalRef(m_uiViewClass);
            }

            void AboutPageView::CloseTapped()
            {
                ASSERT_UI_THREAD
                m_callbacks.ExecuteCallbacks();
            }

            void AboutPageView::Open()
            {
                ASSERT_UI_THREAD

                AndroidSafeNativeThreadAttachment attached(m_nativeState);
                JNIEnv* env = attached.envForThread;

                jmethodID dismissPoiInfo = env->GetMethodID(m_uiViewClass, "openAboutPage", "()V");
                env->CallVoidMethod(m_uiView, dismissPoiInfo);
            }

            void AboutPageView::Close()
            {
                ASSERT_UI_THREAD

                AndroidSafeNativeThreadAttachment attached(m_nativeState);
                JNIEnv* env = attached.envForThread;

                jmethodID dismissPoiInfo = env->GetMethodID(m_uiViewClass, "dismissAboutPage", "()V");
                env->CallVoidMethod(m_uiView, dismissPoiInfo);
            }

            void AboutPageView::SetContent(const std::string& content)
            {
                ASSERT_UI_THREAD

                AndroidSafeNativeThreadAttachment attached(m_nativeState);
                JNIEnv* env = attached.envForThread;

                jstring contentStr = env->NewStringUTF(content.c_str());

                jmethodID displayContentInfo = env->GetMethodID(m_uiViewClass, "displayContent", "(Ljava/lang/String;)V");
                env->CallVoidMethod(m_uiView, displayContentInfo, contentStr);

                env->DeleteLocalRef(contentStr);
            }

            void AboutPageView::ShowHiddenText()
            {
                ASSERT_UI_THREAD
                m_hiddenTextCallbacks.ExecuteCallbacks();
            }

            void AboutPageView::InsertCloseTappedCallback(Eegeo::Helpers::ICallback0& callback)
            {
                ASSERT_UI_THREAD
                m_callbacks.AddCallback(callback);
            }

            void AboutPageView::RemoveCloseTappedCallback(Eegeo::Helpers::ICallback0& callback)
            {
                ASSERT_UI_THREAD
                m_callbacks.RemoveCallback(callback);
            }

            void AboutPageView::InsertLogoLongPressCallback(Eegeo::Helpers::ICallback0 &callback)
            {
                ASSERT_UI_THREAD
                m_hiddenTextCallbacks.AddCallback(callback);
            }

            void AboutPageView::RemoveLogoLongPressCallback(Eegeo::Helpers::ICallback0 &callback)
            {
                ASSERT_UI_THREAD
                m_hiddenTextCallbacks.RemoveCallback(callback);
            }
        }
    }
}

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Robert Michael James Gascoyne-Cecil,  marquis de Salisbury, baron Gascoyne-Cecil, (né le ) est un homme politique conservateur britannique. Au cours des années 1990, il est leader de la Chambre des lords sous son Titre de courtoisie de vicomte Cranborne. Lord Salisbury vit dans l'une des plus grandes maisons historiques d'Angleterre, Hatfield House, qui a été construite par Robert Cecil,  comte de Salisbury au début du , et il est actuellement chancelier de l'Université du Hertfordshire.

Jeunesse
Robert Michael James Gascoyne-Cecil est né le , fils aîné de Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (6e marquis de Salisbury). Son frère cadet est le journaliste Lord Richard Cecil, qui est tué alors qu'il couvrait le conflit en Rhodésie en 1978.

Lord Cranborne fréquente le Collège d'Eton et Christ Church, Oxford, et devient banquier d'affaires avant d'aller travailler dans les domaines familiaux.

Carrière politique

Chambre des communes
Lord Cranborne est choisi, de façon inattendue, comme candidat du Parti conservateur pour la circonscription de Sud Dorset en 1976, où sa famille possède des terres, malgré la présence de plusieurs anciens députés qui avaient perdu lors des deux élections de 1974 sur la liste restreinte. Il prend la parole lors de la conférence du Parti conservateur de 1978 pour s'opposer aux sanctions du gouvernement britannique contre la Rhodésie. Il remporte le siège aux élections générales de 1979, la septième génération consécutive de sa famille à siéger à la Chambre des communes. Dans son premier discours, il exhorte Ian Smith à se retirer en faveur d'Abel Muzorewa.

Il prend des positions très à droite, en particulier sur les questions concernant l'Église d'Angleterre, mais prend un virage quand il coécrit une brochure en 1981 qui disait que la lutte contre le chômage devait être plus prioritaire que la lutte contre inflation. Il s'est intéressé à l'Irlande du Nord et, lorsque James Prior annonce sa politique de «Rolling Devolution», il démissionne d'un emploi non rémunéré en tant qu'assistant de Douglas Hurd.

Lord Cranborne s'est fait connaître comme anticommuniste par ses activités de soutien aux réfugiés afghans au Pakistan au début des années 1980 et par l'envoi de colis alimentaires en Pologne. Jusqu'au début du , un magasin de bienfaisance est géré sur son domaine de Hatfield uniquement pour collecter des fonds pour ces causes, y compris des fonds pour les orphelinats polonais. Il participe aux efforts de financement de la résistance afghane. Sa forte opposition à toute implication de la République d'Irlande en Irlande du Nord le conduit à s'opposer à l'accord anglo-irlandais et contribue à sa décision de se retirer de la Chambre des communes en 1987.

Chambre des lords
Après les élections générales de 1992, John Major utilise un bref d'accélération pour appeler Lord Cranborne à la Chambre des lords dans l'un des titres juniors de son père. Ainsi, Lord Cranborne est convoqué au Parlement en tant que baron Cecil, d'Essendon dans le comté de Rutland, bien qu'il ait continué à être connu par son titre de courtoisie du vicomte Cranborne. C'est la dernière fois qu'un bref d'accélération est délivré, et en raison des dispositions de la House of Lords Act 1999, abolissant le droit automatique des pairs héréditaires de siéger à la Chambre des Lords, toute utilisation future du bref d'accélération est hautement improbable.

Il sert pendant deux ans en tant que ministre subalterne de la Défense avant d'être nommé Lord du sceau privé et Leader de la Chambre des lords en 1994. Lord Cranborne est nommé par la Reine conseiller privé (CP) le . Le financement des partis d'opposition à la Chambre des Lords, connu sous le nom de Cranborne Money, a commencé lorsqu'il était leader. Lorsque Major démissionne de son poste de chef du Parti conservateur pour tenter de mettre à l'épreuve son autorité de chef en , Lord Cranborne dirige sa campagne de réélection. Il est reconnu comme l'un des rares membres du Cabinet qui était personnellement fidèle à Major, mais a continué à diriger les pairs conservateurs après la victoire des travaillistes aux élections générales de 1997.

Lorsque le nouveau Premier ministre Tony Blair propose la suppression de l'élément héréditaire à la Chambre des Lords, Lord Cranborne négocie un pacte avec le gouvernement travailliste pour conserver un petit nombre (fixé ultérieurement à quatre-vingt-douze) de pairs héréditaires pour la période intérimaire. Par souci de forme, cet amendement est formellement proposé par Lord Weatherill, responsable des pairs apolitiques. Cependant, Lord Cranborne donne l'approbation de son parti sans consulter le chef du parti, William Hague, qui ne savait rien et était gêné lorsque Blair lui en a parlé à la Chambre des communes. Hague a ensuite limogé Lord Cranborne, qui a reconnu son erreur, affirmant qu'il s'était "précipité, comme un épagneul mal entraîné".

Tous les anciens dirigeants de la Chambre des lords qui étaient des pairs héréditaires ont accepté des pairies à vie pour rester à la chambre haute en 1999. Lord Cranborne, qui avait reçu le titre de baron Gascoyne-Cecil, d'Essendon dans le comté de Rutland est resté actif jusqu'à ce que la Chambre des lords adopte de nouvelles règles de déclaration des intérêts financiers qu'il jugeait trop contraignantes. Il a pris un "congé autorisé" le  . Il est sorti de la Chambre des Lords quand il succède à son père comme  marquis de Salisbury le .

En , Lord Salisbury et Owen Paterson, alors secrétaire d'État fictif de l'Irlande du Nord, ont organisé des entretiens secrets à Hatfield House, impliquant le DUP, l'UUP et le Parti conservateur. Ces discussions ont fait penser que les conservateurs tentaient de créer un front pan-unioniste pour limiter la progression du Sinn Féin et du Parti social-démocrate et travailliste aux élections générales de 2010 .

En , Lord Salisbury, en sa qualité de président de la Thames Diamond Jubilee Foundation, est fait chevalier par la reine Elizabeth II et est devenu chevalier commandant de l'Ordre royal de Victoria (KCVO) .

Il prend sa retraite de la Chambre des Lords le jeudi , date des élections législatives anticipées . Il est nommé Chevalier Compagnon de l'Ordre de la Jarretière (KG) le  .

Autres postes
Il est sous-lieutenant du Hertfordshire et actuel président des Amis de la British Library  et des Amis des Églises sans amis .

Lord Salisbury est le président du Constitution Reform Group (CRG), un groupe de pression multipartite qui cherche un nouveau règlement constitutionnel au Royaume-Uni par le biais d'un nouvel Acte d'Union . Le groupe a présenté l'Act of Union Bill 2017-19 en tant que projet de loi d'initiative parlementaire de Lord Lisvane à la Chambre des lords le , lors de sa première lecture officielle ; son passage au Parlement a pris fin à la fin de la session parlementaire en .

Lord Salisbury écrit pour The Spectator et le Center for Policy Studies sous le pseudonyme de Robert Salisbury .

Mariage et enfants
En 1970, à l'âge de 23 ans, il épouse Hannah Stirling, nièce du colonel David Stirling (cofondateur de la SAS) et descendante des Lords Lovat, aristocrates écossais catholiques. Sa famille s'est d'abord opposée au mariage, principalement parce que Stirling était catholique.

Au cours des années 1970, Lord et Lady Cranborne ont deux fils et trois filles; les deux filles aînées sont maintenant mariées. Jusqu'à récemment, ils vivaient au Cranborne Manor, Dorset. Le siège familial est Hatfield House, qui abritait autrefois la reine Elizabeth  d'Angleterre, qui a été donné à la famille par Jacques  d'Angleterre en échange de la maison familiale Cecil Theobalds. Les Cecils sont des propriétaires terriens du Dorset, du Hertfordshire et de Londres, et le  marquis s'est classé  dans la Sunday Times Rich List 2017, avec une fortune estimée à 335 millions de livres sterling (dont les peintures de Hatfield représentaient 150 millions de livres sterling).

L'héritier du marquis de Salisbury est son fils aîné, Robert Edward "Ned" William Gascoyne-Cecil, vicomte Cranborne (né en 1970). Il est page d'honneur de la reine de 1983 à 1986 . L'héritier n'est pas marié, bien qu'il ait une fille née en 2001 . Le fils cadet, Lord James, s'est marié  et a un fils, Thomas Richard James (né en 2009) .

Références

Liens externes

Député du 49e Parlement du Royaume-Uni
Député du 48e Parlement du Royaume-Uni
Député du Parti conservateur (Royaume-Uni)
Élève du collège d'Eton
Membre du Conseil privé du Royaume-Uni
Lord du Sceau privé
Leader de la Chambre des lords
Chevalier de la Jarretière
Chevalier commandeur de l'ordre royal de Victoria
Deputy Lieutenant du Hertfordshire
Deputy Lieutenant du Dorset
Étudiant de Christ Church (Oxford)
Naissance en septembre 1946
Marquis de Salisbury


Despite rapid growth in Amazon's ad products, only 15 percent of businesses have created voice skills so far.
Is Amazon's growing ad business actually a threat to the duopoly of Facebook and Google, or is its potential mostly just hype? A new study from GroupM-owned Catalyst suggests the former.
According to Catalyst's research, 63 percent of U.S. brands who currently advertise on Amazon plan to up their budget with the platform over the next year. Meanwhile, 54 percent of the same group of brands said they planned to up their Google budgets, while 53 percent planned to beef up Facebook. Another 27 percent of advertisers said they planned to invest in Bing, and 23 percent singled out Twitter for more budgets.
Interestingly, only 15 percent of marketers said that they were using all of Amazon's advertising products—called Amazon Marketing Services (or AMS). Another 17 percent of advertisers said that they had a fully developed and fleshed-out strategy specific for Amazon.
Per the research, only 15 percent of businesses have created voice-enabled skills on Alexa, suggesting that while voice technology is a growing area of expertise for marketers, it is a relatively small industry. Another 23 percent of marketers said they planned to launch an Alexa skill before the end of 2017.
Catalyst worked with ClickZ to ask 250 business-to-business marketers about Amazon and also surveyed 1,600 consumers about eight retail categories such as clothing, grocery, pet care and home electronics.
In terms of results from the consumer poll, 66 percent of those surveyed said they bought clothing in the past year from Amazon, while 63 percent bought home décor and 64 percent purchased personal-care items. Despite Amazon's high-profile acquisition of Whole Foods, less than half—43 percent—of consumers polled said that they bought groceries through Amazon in the past 12 months.
After years of dominating online commerce, Amazon has steadily been moving into search, display and video advertising, promising marketers shopper data they can't get elsewhere.
Amazon offers three ad formats: headline search ads, product-display ads and sponsored products. Some tech vendors are increasingly viewing the search features as differentiators to Google, Pinterest, Facebook and other search engines.
"Whether it's about brand awareness of down to performance across devices, it just works," Yoav Izhar-Prato, co-founder and CEO of Kenshoo, said at Dmexco recently.


Dreams are a funny thing. When you're young and passionate you lack the means to follow through. But when you're old enough to make them come true you're also sensible enough to let them go. The lucky ones find us before the cynicism. As was the case with Radio City Fantasy, a film with perfect timing despite being too ahead of its time.
Released to tape decks everywhere on July 21 1984, Radio City Fantasy is a foray into experimental animation and storytelling through sound led by the original MTV generation. Its sparse narrative is broken into fanciful vignettes set to the music of folksy new wave band Virgin VS--imagine Devo meets Bob Dylan--making it the anime equivalent of the film Heavy Metal, only with the cockrock soundtrack jettisoned in favor of synthpop.
The feature is steeped in the contemporary culture and architecture of a very specific slice of Japan--Shinjuku station, Chuo Park, 1984. Though the Coke cans, ice cream cones and skyscrapers make it timeless and placeless, ready to sweep up anyone in summers past.
Our protagonist is a young artist struggling to turn his picture book into a reality--or, failing that, his life into a fairy tale. He meets a girl, a stylish urbanite with a cool demeanor and ruby pumps to match her lipstick. Their dates are long walks through lucid dreams. They escape into fantasy and bring back souvenirs. The days are peaceful and idyllic. So what are they running away from in the first place?
Radio City Fantasy doesn't believe in its own Utopia. The protagonist laments the city's man-made green space lost in a sea of concrete--"the nature isn't natural," as if the cherry trees lining the avenue were poured from an asphalt mixer along with the road. His contemporaries had similar doubts.
Take another 80s anime for example, Megazone 23, where the urban paradise turns out to be a computer simulation that cloaks a dystopian reality a la The Matrix. Or the live-action Kazoku Game, whose picturesque nuclear family turns out to be a domestic nightmare. The message is clear--life is too good to be true.
And in a way, it was. In just two short generations Japan rebuilt itself from the rubble of WWII to preside as the second largest global economy. But like the protagonist's cherry blossoms, nothing beautiful lasts forever. During the early 90s the headwind propelling Japan Inc. burst from the housing bubble, leaving the country to coast along into a double-decade of stagnation that continues to this day.
But during the 80s everyone was riding high on their newfound wealth, animators especially. At the time creators were entangled in the purse strings of TV sponsors and toy companies by the outdated production model cooked up twenty years prior by manga godfather Tezuka Osamu. The burgeoning home video market emancipated studios. With the VHS came the freedom to bypass the networks and sell their product directly, giving them complete control of content, production and most importantly, profit.
Nerds with disposable incomes transformed vanity projects into a cottage industry. A title only needed to sell a few thousand tapes to recoup costs and put the studio back in the black. Artists were safe to push the envelope and ignore the mainstream. The OVA--short for original video animation--was a format driven by creators, not network executives. And few creators were as driving as Radio City Fantasy writer Shudo Takeshi.
Shudo passed away in 2010 at the age of 61 but will be remembered for the characters he created for the world of Pokemon. As head writer during the formative years of the TV series he prescribed meaning and morals to the threadbare setting of the original Game Boy adventure. His script for Pokemon the First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back brought a rare touch of humanism to children's entertainment that helped make it the highest grossing Japanese film in North America, an accolade Studio Ghibli wishes it could claim.
But he didn't start out by busting box office records. In 1968 a young Shudo graduated high school to take his first script writing class. His project, Fairy Tale at Eighteen (18-sai no Märchen), was critiqued as ambitious though unfilmable--ten years ahead of its time, the instructor joked. Flash forward over a decade later to 1984: Shudo calls the teacher's bluff and updates the script as Machikado no Märchen--literally, Street Corner Fairy Tale--or as it says on the box, Radio City Fantasy.
The entire OVA is one long callback. In order to recapture the melancholy in the air from when he wrote the original script, Shudo brought on Virgin VS for the soundtrack. The band's vocalist, Agata Morio, is a folk hero from the late 60's who writes songs and directs films based on down-and-out slice of life stories from Garo, a now defunct underground comic anthology that was a cornerstone of the 70s counterculture movement.
Agata's breakout hit from 1972, "Red Colored Elegy" (Sekishoku Elegy), borrows its melody from the classic tune "The Moon over the Ruined Castle" (Kojo no Tsuki) with lyrics that build on the eponymous manga by Hayashi Seiichi.
Hayashi's semi-autobiographical Red Colored Elegy romanticizes the struggle of an animator turned starving comic artist, a theme that resonated with the sentimental Shudo and echoes throughout his film. Although the credits list Final Fantasy series concept artist Yoshitaka Amano as the character designer, the look of the protagonists and the line work are trademark Hayashi.
Several trains of thought linked together into a virtuous circle of inspiration. Hayashi's manga moved Agata to record the song that defined an era for Shudo, who later in life would ask Agata to write music for a film reminiscent of Hayashi's work. But the parents would outlive their brainchild. There was no DVD reissue, only the original VHS and LaserDisk releases which are either too rare or too niche to make it into online auctions. It lives on in YouTube clips, a digital phantom, and once the mods quash them, the dream will be dead.
If only all bits of pop culture were so lucky. Between the reboots, spin-offs and sequels, titles don't have the luxury of being forgotten. Something needs to go away to become nostalgic. Stumbling onto Radio City Fantasy is finding a lost mixtape or a faded Polaroid of an old girlfriend. It brings you back to time and place that exists only as a flawed memory. And is there anything more romantic than what never was?
Radio City Fantasy is available in its entirety here.