apparently nearby to this home, in the Noosa Region!
noting the owner is an interior designer.
life is tough for some aye….
Thanks Tanya for letting me know about it!
nice view to come home to!
but on a rather small block.
using their land to play on!!
Def a nice feel to this home.
Loving the Ebony stained Blackbutt Timber flooring!
but I think cane furniture is pure luxury.
Nice layout, nice materials, nice views.
Great second area to hangout!
not great for storage either.
But I'm loving that bed ensemble!
This is a nice ensuite!
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It looks a bit lonely there doesn't it!
Framed by native gums and perched on a ridge line that captures breath taking ocean views to the east & Noosa hinterland views to the west, this magnificent country estate truly sits in a magical location. Wake up to the sun rise over the ocean and later in the day enjoy sunset drinks on the shaded verandahs overlooking Cooroy Mountain.
A gum lined driveway leads up to a 3 car garage with large entertaining space above. Adjacent to the garage, the separate guest bedroom & bathroom includes its own private balcony capturing the sea views. The main house is accessed via a covered walkway and wrapped by wide shady verandas on all sides.
The sense of quality & style is evident from the moment you walk in the door. Ebony stained Blackbutt timber floors compliment the off white walls and timber period features throughout. There is a lovely informal lounge and dining area with an open fire & views that span from east to west which adjoins the open plan kitchen with its magnificent solid timber cabinetry, double Ilve oven & 3 Fisher Paykel dishdrawers. The formal entertaining area incorporates a dining table for 14 people, a Jetmaster gas fireplace, and a very spacious sitting area that opens out onto the verandahs overlooking the pool area & the ocean views beyond. The four bedrooms in the main house are all ensuited, stunningly appointed and open via French doors onto the verandas. A lovely study and stunning laundry complete the layout.
Outside the 2 acres of garden frame the home beautifully & a full sized floodlit tennis court provides additional outdoor entertaining.
The property is bordered by a large farm & acreage properties and, as such, is remarkably private and yet only 10 minutes drive from the heart of Noosa.
This stunning property must be seen to be truly appreciated.
But that toilet door in the ensuite looks like it would be a pain to open and close all the time 😐 … with the tiny little handle and all.


The coverage on MOTD has really gone downhill recently but last night seemed to be even worse.
They now spend so much time on 'analysis' (pretty boring analysis at that) and showing off the graphics in the studio that the highlights only last a couple of minutes (almost as short as The Football League show - but at least they have the excuse that they have 3 leagues to show).
I don't want to see a graphic of the manager or the last striker who left or whatever else they show in the studio - just show more of the match!
aren't they restricted on how much of the matches they can show?
i agree though, the so called analysis is comically bad.
alan shearer is surly and dull and i think gullit was drunk.
I always record it, watch the action and then x30 all the claptrapping unless there is something controversial to discuss.
It makes the programme shorter, but more importantly it makes it better.
They chose Gullit to sit alongside Shearer, they can't abide each other.
remember gullit leaving him on the bench when he took over at newcastle.
for a sunderland derby too.
It's worse than you think. Each match gets about 5 pieces of action followed by 4 replays, manager close ups and crowd reaction. Totally boring.
It's not football, it's the hypnosis of millions of men (and a few women) with computer graphics technology, under the auspices of presenting a football show.
This was really bad on football focus where they have these gyrating circles driving one to distraction behind every interviewee or presenter.
looking at the live feed of newcastle v man city on bbc football and they seem to think there's value in showing us the top four 'as it stands'.
it's edge of the seat stuff.
There were definitely more crowd shots last night and that Palace chairman interview was so out of place it was untrue.
forget phil neville's delivery; just look at that barnet.
does he go to his local 'hairdressers' and ask to look like a 15 year old ponce?
i'd suggest he cuts it himself but what about those streaks?
perhaps king ponce robbie savage gives him a hand whilst they both watch dirty dancing.


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Is Open-Limping Ever A Good Play?
Today's question comes from Justin V. He says:
"Generally, it seems bad to open-limp and limp weak hands like suited kings and suited queens, especially small suited aces, in a very early position. What about extremely passive 1/2 NLHE live games with calling stations? Should one adjust, 'making a mistake' to exploit the tendencies of bad players? Thanks."
Justin, that's a great question. One of the big things we need to keep in mind, is why we generally don't open-limp. Once we understand that, then we can understand situations where open-limping makes more sense and could actually be a better play.
We normally don't open-limp, because it's a very weak, passive thing and normally we want to be very aggressive. One of the other things that open-limping does is it opens you up for people to isolate you. You limp, someone raises, smashes you, and puts you in a very uncomfortable situation.
If you're open-limping with a very, very predictable range, say suited connectors, small pairs, that sort of thing, it's really, really easy for someone to isolate and beat you because your ranges are very, very, very face up. It's very difficult to balance that appropriately.
It's even difficult to balance it if you're going to try to do a limp re-raising strategy or if you're going to try to limp aces to be tricky. Typically, it's very, very difficult to balance that. Typically it's not going to be something that we want to be doing a lot of the time, because we don't want to put ourselves in a situation where we're making a predictable action with a predictable range and allowing players to aggress us very, very easily. This is something we definitely want to avoid in our game.
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To answer your question, when would be an appropriate time to consider doing this and would a 1/2 passive live game be that appropriate situation, I might start open-limping in games where my raising isn't really doing anything. Say I would raise with pocket 44 and still end up getting five or six callers and wouldn't really be able to bluff continuation bet in that pot.
I also thought that if I were to limp, that I wouldn't get isolated. Like a really, really passive game where people are only really pre-flop raising with super big hands, limping everything else behind or just generally not fighting and contending for that isolation situation. If that's what's going on in your game and that's the exact dynamic, I don't mind open-limping things like small pairs and suited connectors that I really need to get involved with, even from early position.
It's still not something that I want to be doing a ton of, and often times I don't find this dynamic is always present, even in 1/2 games. If it is there and you know that you can limp and you know you're not going to get punished for it and you still need to be able to see the pot and you know that raising isn't really going to do what you want it to do, this could easily be a way to get involved in pots and get involved with weak players without raising and putting yourself in a situation where you really have to smash the board anyway to do anything.
One last little thing that I want to throw in here just to make sure I'm clarifying and answering as best as possible, is you mention early position specifically in your question. Now, when I'm doing it from here, even if I do deem this a good situation to start doing some open-limping, traditionally small pairs, suited connectors that I need to get involved with, those will be considered part of my open-limping range, but I'm usually not going to go crazy here. I'm still not going to throw things like K4s and Q8s typically into this range. Even things like A6s, I'm typically not going to, unless there's like a tremendous amount of stack depth or like a super, super real reason that I need to do it.
Typically I still don't want to because I'm going to be out of position going post-flop and oftentimes you assume that in a game like this you're going to be out of position in a very multi-way pot and that can be very tricky, so keep that in mind. You don't want to be just open-limping anything that's suited and looks to be sort of playable, like 56o or anything like that, you still want to be pretty damned selective here. But there are some situations, and again, in some dynamics where this can be okay.
So Justin, thanks for the great question.
assaq
open-limping

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While playing Gigatron Snake at 34C3 we got asked: "how many gates are in there?". This isn't the first time someone has asked, so today I finally went through the TTL datasheets and counted little blocks from their logic diagrams. TL;DR: the CPU has 930 logic gates.
Gate counting isn't as straightforward as it seems though. RAM and ROM are clear: they each have thousands of logic gates in their word line decoders alone, but those aren't part of the CPU proper. The clock isn't part of the CPU either, but that's just a couple of inverters. For decoding the game controller it isn't as clear cut: the kit version has a 74HC595 shift register which has roughly 80 gates. But only 10 buffer gates are really needed by the CPU and are directly controlled by it. I fact, on the breadboard version, the input chip is just a 10-gate 74LS244 non-inverting buffer. So I count that as one 10 for the CPU. I also didn't count the "extended output" register as part of the CPU because that is an extension on top of its primary output.
I did include all other gates that are in the IC packages: An unused module is in the count (there is one unused decoder in the control unit), as well as gates that are hooked to fixed inputs (L or H), even though all of those can be optimised away in VHDL. The 4-bit adders each have 4 non-inverting buffers internally that have no logic function, but I still include them. Furthermore, I count D-type flipflops as 5 gates, and SR-types as 4. Still, the total gate count of 930 is a lot lower than I would have guessed.
We are in the process of turning the Gigatron in a kit that can be built by others. For this, I've made a full-colour booklet that contains a generic explanation about the electronic components used, a crash course in soldering and the actual instructions to build the Gigatron. It includes many pictures and describes how to perform tests during the building process. In the appendix, you will find the full hardware schematics.
With this manual, even less experienced people should be able to build their own Gigatron.
The virtual CPU or interpreter is now complete. At least, its code page is full, even overflowing a bit, and nothing can be added without removing something else. It has 25 opcodes, the last added is SYS. This is an escape: with SYS the application can jump to arbitrary native code. Here I test this capability in the "clear screen" loop, right at the beginning of the recording.
Without acceleration, clearing the screen pixel by pixel with interpreted code takes more than 2 seconds. Here the application uses a SYS call that clears 8 pixels at a time. The result is that the screen now clears in 200 ms. Nice proof of concept.
Restrictions apply if you don't want to break the video timing: the callee must be timing-aware and cooperate with the interpreter loop. But it can run for longer than a regular vCPU instruction (these are 28 cycles max) and the code can do whatever it wants, as long as it completes in the available time slice on the scan line. In reality this means that SYS calls can last for up to 146 cycles. If they need more cycles, they could still use some trickery and restart themselves by messing with the virtual program counter… They are "parasitic" after all.
Another novelty is that this recording is not from an actual Gigatron! Martin @ the talkchess forum has made an incredible visualisizer for the project. I didn't get it running with the Mac binary, but it runs ok with Wine. Emulation in emulation in emulation, but it can still keep up with real time if you use "Run sketch (JIT)". Amazing.
P.S: The Christmas card is there to give my phone something to focus on. Without it the recording is blurry.
The Gigatron as a kit!
Some months ago my good friend Walter has silently joined the project. The reason is that I receive a lot of enthusiasm whenever I show this to friends, to the point where one is already seriously trying to write a chess program for it. So we decided to take this one step further and upgrade this to a build-it-yourself soldering kit. Today we received the first samples for the enclosure, custom designed for this computer.
With a new phase comes a new name. Neither of us really liked the "Chipper" working title I used before, so the kit version will be known as the "Gigatron TTL microcomputer". I couldn't possibly do this alone, so I'm super happy that Walter has stepped in.
This retro-computer is something to build, play with but also look at, so we plan to offer it as complete as possible, except for the soldering you will have to do yourself. So it will include all the 74xx-TTL chips, RAM, ROM, sockets, capacitors, diodes, resistors, LEDs, supervisory circuit, jacks, a game controller, a nice mahogany coloured wooden enclosure with plexiglass viewing window, one or two built-in video games and a mini-USB cable for power. Not all details are finalised yet: the photo is a prototype and we will still change some things we don't like. We think we can target the 150-180 euro price range (hopefully below 200 dollars), provided there is sufficient interest. For reference, getting to the first PCB version set me back north of 500 euros, that is where I stopped counting, and that excludes the oscilloscope you need when designing something like this from scratch and 800 hours of research, trial and error. This is still just a private hobby project, so this kit will be something we will literally do from our living rooms. We figure that if we do a few dozen units that would push the prices down a lot and at the same time not take too much risk.
Of course a kit isn't the same as a one-off project, and Walter has worked tirelessly on morphing the project towards something that can be reliably soldered together in 3 to 4 hours. All components are now through-hole components and sourced from proper sources (not scavenged from e-bay). Walter has written a supercool manual that includes intermediate tests, a circuit diagram and even soldering instructions and tips for novices. Although there are 144 components on the board (many capacitors and diodes), I feel it will still be a beginner's level kit because of the spacing and all through-hole components. All you need is a soldering iron, solder, a multimeter, some pliers and a rainy Sunday afternoon. If you can make Oscar's PiDP-8, then you can make this also.
For those interested in this kit, you can subscribe to our mailing list. We will use this mailinglist only to announce when we are comfortable to accept orders, know the exact pricing and have some kits ready to ship. Subscribing to the mailing list doesn't imply any obligation to buy: it is just a way to keep informed of when we are ready and you can easily delist as well. We expect we will be ready near the end of January. It will then also be clear what the final kit looks like, what the built-in software can do, etc.
This projected started out as a Hackaday project, see https://hackaday.io/project/20781. We are moving forward and have set up this dedicated website.


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CALL YOUR MOTHER is ABC's new sitcom on Wednesday nights. It's also a funny show that's getting funnier with each episode. The premise is that Kyra Sedgwick's two grown children live in Los Angeles and she moves out there (from Iowa) to be with them.
Sherri Shepherd is Sharon, her best friend, who is back in Iowa and keeps up via face time chats. Sharon's funny and they need to bring her to Los Angeles.
Jackie Seiden had a fairly one-dimensional character in her first episode but she and the writers have shaped it and she'll probably be one of the big finds of the show. She plays Danny's wife that he's left and they're in the process of divorcing.
Danny? Kyra's Jean lives in his guest house. Jean thinks he's sexy and might be with him already -- those muffins she baked might have done the trick -- but for that soon to be ex-wife.
Another character that's coming along is Jackie (Rachel Sennott). This week's episode had her basically exploding and imploding over the fact that her mom (Jean) spends forever on her brother Freddie and not on her.
Freddie is played by Joey Bragg and he's been perfect from the first episode. Did you watch THE NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE? Remember how season two saw that show really chugging along? Kari Lizer was responsible for that show and she's responsible for this one. If you watched that show, you might remember that the guy who played Christine's brother was always strong. That's Freddie. Joey's played him perfect and he's been written perfect from the start.
Because this is a Kari Lizar show, I was willing to give it many episodes to start really cooking but it's already there with just three. This is a very funny show. You should make a point to give it a chance if you haven't already.
Other TV pieces to check out this week? Ruth's "BLACKLIST," Ann's "Call Me Kat," "Charmed returns for season three" and "Disney's longterm sexism is on full display in Wan...," and my cousin Marica's "Batwoman's low ratings" and "Batwoman, is it time to cancel it?"
I'd also recommend Betty's "Cicely Tyson" and Rebecca's "cloris leachman."
Kyra Sedgwick as Jean Raines, a retired teacher and empty nest mother who reinserts herself into her children's lives
Joey Bragg as Freddie Raines, Jean's 23-year-old son and a video game designer and tester
Rachel Sennott as Jackie Raines, Jean's daughter and her eldest child
Austin Crute as Lane, Jackie's gay best friend and roommate
Emma Caymares as Celia, Freddie's girlfriend who's a social media influencer
Patrick Brammall as Danny, a therapist and Jean's Airbnb host
Special guest star[edit]
Sherri Shepherd as Sharon, Jean's best friend who works as a security guard at Ross Dress for Less
Recurring[edit]
Jackie Seiden as Cheryl, Danny's estranged wife
Going out with C.I.'s "Iraq snaphshot:"
Thursday, January 28, 2021. Joe Biden's fakery and futile efforts to 'awaken' him are among today's topics.
Starting in the US, Genevieve Leigh (WSWS) has a problem with David Sirota's recent article:
The article argues that the Biden administration is capable of making "a psychological shift" to the left, with enough pressure from below. Sirota pleads with youth and workers to not "lose hope" in the Democrats, despite their ever-further shift to the right.
Sirota begins his article by noting that just four weeks after Biden promised voters in Georgia $2,000 stimulus checks if they secured the Democratic Party control of the Senate, his administration is already walking back the deal in Congress. He also notes that the Democrats have indicated they are "open to negotiating" eligibility requirements for the stimulus checks and suggested that it could take at least until March to even pass the legislation.
Sirota makes no mention of the state of the pandemic, which continues to rage unabated throughout the country, or the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol, which Jacobin and the DSA have systematically downplayed and covered up over the last three weeks.
He goes on to recount the experience of 2009, the last time that the Democrats controlled all three branches of government: "You'll recall that back then, Barack Obama and Biden got themselves elected in the middle of an economic crisis after promising to pass a public health insurance option." By 2010, the Obama administration killed the plan, and as Sirota writes: "Senate Democrats refused to even bring it up for a floor vote when they had the chance."
He continues: "The public option fight should be a harrowing cautionary tale for Biden. … [Biden] of all people should know that this story never ends well." Sirota concludes by asking, "The question is: Can he and Democrats learn from the past?"
As they promote the fiction that the Democratic Party can be pushed to the left, one might be tempted to reply, "Can Sirota and Jacobin learn from the past?" However, in the case of both Sirota and Biden, it is not a question of insufficient mental capacity, however lacking they may be in this regard, but class interests.
I agree with Genevieve's point -- as did Trina -- but I do want to add one thing, this Tweet from David Sirota on January 25th:
We lost some subscribers after breaking this news. Clearly, theres a risk to independent news orgs that do not toe the party line. Please help us keep doing this reporting by becoming a supporting subscriber here. We need your help: https://dailyposter.com/subscribe
Biden Lifts Health Care Plan From Insurance Lobbyists
The incoming president's plan mimics an insurance industry letter, instead of pushing a promised public option or Democratic legislation
I am not an apologist for David Sirota -- couldn't be if I wanted to due to the past because the community wouldn't allow me to (David once announced he was going to sue us when we noted a failure to disclose on his part). Nor am I trying to rescue him.
But I want to add that detail because I put up with six or so years of Danny Schechter whining in e-mails through Barack's first term and most of his second (Danny died in March 2015) about how awful a job Barack Obama was doing and how he couldn't say a word because he'd lose funding. Over and over, he always had an excuse. And he always had an excuse for me because we met several times on different campuses when I was speaking out against the Iraq War and he was promoting his documentary on how the media sold the Iraq War.
When he was telling the world that Tina Turner had to -- had to -- forgive Ike Turner, Ava and I called him out. Ike terrorized her and Danny thinks she has to forgive him? He put her in the hospital multiple times. Danny publicly wrote his remarks so we called him out and we called out another at the time that was minimizing the years of abuse that Tina suffered at the hands of Ike. That began Danny's whines in e-mails.
I already thought Danny was rather pathetic. He'd done a documentary on the Iraq War and then rushed to ignore it and Iraq. He'd always e-mail or, if we bumped into each other, face-to-face try to get me to promote something he'd written or produced. And I found it hilarious as the years passed because he wouldn't do the same for us. I never asked for this site to be noted there. But from time to time, he did in the first year. Then he stopped and that was fine except he would, for example, call out MoveOn.Org and type something like, "As some sites say, 'Walk.On.org . . .' because they walked away from the Iraq War.'' Some sites?
He meant this site.
I do not like George Soros. I think he has a blood on his hands because he made his fortune via speculation. Blood money. I do not approve of him, I do not like him. Yet for years, Ava and I have had to put up with false rumors that we are funded by George Soros. In 2007, we wrote "TV: Friendly faces aren't who we meet" for THIRD. Danny decided to post it at MEDIA CHANNEL -- post in full -- and because Danny got Soros funds, we have been accused of getting Soros funds. We didn't even know he'd reposted it. Those things get reposted everywhere -- especially in the UK -- but I did tell Danny that he'd created a problem for us. We didn't even get a byline credit, by the way.
Because I am too controversial per Danny. That's why he'd refer to THE COMMON ILLS, quote it even, but not name it or link to it. "Everybody knows what site I'm talking about," he'd insist.
Every now and then, friends in publishing will try to talk me into writing a book about all this -- being online, telling my truths and what goes on behind the scenes when I do. If I ever did, I would certainly quote at length from Danny's many embarrassing e-mails where he whines, for example, that he knows Barack didn't bring all the troops home but if he says that he won't get his funding. I replied back that he could say "some sites" referring to us or he could quote Ted Koppel or cite Ted's reports for NBC and NPR. No, no, no. He'd say that ______ or ______ was already on his case and he'd lose everything if he told the truth about Barack.
So our 'news dissector' spent the last seven or so years of his life begging for money from people he was actively and knowingly lying to.
David's very clear in his Tweet (and there are others like it) that he told the truth he could and suffered. That's a world away from Danny Schechter.
That's not to rescue him or to say Genevieve is wrong.
I agree with her, that tone is off putting -- and it's off putting to many of us who long ago learned that the Democratic Party refuses to be pushed. Joe Biden is not going to be pushed. You might be able to shame him -- shame is a very strong characteristic in Joe's make up -- but you're not to push him or cajole him into doing the right thing.
I don't know what the answer is. I agree 100% with Genevieve that pimping that notion is off putting and, honestly, insulting to those of us who are 'woke' to this reality because we've seen it over and over. That's why Tom Hayden was so damn useless. He went from believing in things to being a whore. Even when Barack Obama was insulting him by name in the primaries "Tom Hayden Democrats," Tom was still such a whore and such a weakling that he was out there telling people to vote for Barack. He should have been telling them to vote for basically anyone else. Bill because of his promise on the Iraq War, for example, or Mike Gravel because he'd actually made change happen before.
There are a lot of people who have just known that they were going to change the party and they didn't. That's why I laugh at AOC. She refuses to harness the power that she does have. She thinks she's going to outsmart or out maneuver Nancy Pelosi, get Nancy to do what she wants. AOC is not smarter than John Conyers. John, a Civil Rights lion, thought he could get Nancy to come around on impeachment of Bully Boy Bush. But she wouldn't. And she crippled him. So, yeah, I laugh at glossy AOC and her stupidity as she keeps losing to Nancy and giving in without a real fight. She doesn't know her history (she clearly doesn't know the Constitution). Pretty girl, pretty girl.
This is from Ann Garrison's interview with Ajamu Baraka (BLACK AGENDA REPORT):
Ann Garrison: On January 20, we saw Joe Biden carry on about "unity" behind seven-foot fences topped with razor wire and 25,000 plus National Guard troops deployed . One friend of mine said that this pointed to an irony deficiency. Is there anything you'd like to say about it?
Ajamu Baraka: Well, I think it is ironic, but it's quite understandable that the kinds of activities that the US has been involved in promoting and supporting globally—undermining democracies, subverting states, undermining and destroying any semblance of the rule of law—have basically come back to haunt them. You have a militant movement in the US partially inspired by the inability of the state and the system to address their material interests and to look at their concerns regarding their own understanding of democracy and its deficiencies. They feel like they lack space to articulate those views, and they've decided to engage in militant actions to make sure that their voices are heard, and they believe that they are upholding democracy.
And their experience with the state made them feel justified in advancing their concerns about democracy in violent forms. The state has demonstrated to them that the way you defend democracy is through state violence. So they were taking their defense into their own hands and bringing it right back to the center of empire. Some of us call that blowback.
AG: For the past four years, liberals on the coasts have excoriated the white working class in the middle of the country, whom they perceive to be deplorable Trump supporters. Do you think that this is helpful?
AB: No. Not only is it not helpful, it is inaccurate and it has helped to create the narrative that many of these forces have embraced; that is the centerpiece of their grievances. They believe that liberals and the liberal order have not addressed their needs, their interests. They believe that the economic elites are only out for themselves and that therefore they needed to rally behind Trump, a billionaire who claimed that he understood their interests and would fight for them because nobody else was.
So this characterization of them as deplorables, and as either Nazis or Nazi-like, is not only not helpful but also contradictory in the sense that those folks who level those charges still have not been able to explain why the Trump presidency happened.
For example, some nine million people who voted for Trump in 2016 had voted for Barack Obama in 2012. Liberals can't explain why, after four years of constant anti-Trump rhetoric, the Trump forces expanded their ranks by another 11 million voters. So this is something in play that's a little bit more sophisticated than these people just being deplorables or Nazis. And that something has to be interrogated. It has to be extracted. It has to be understood if you're going to have a politics to counter it. And right now the liberals have not understood where these elements are coming from because they have basically painted those 75 million people as a monolith of deplorables.
The neoliberals have constructed a politics that is going to result in a continuation of the same conditions, politically and economically, that created what they pretend to be most opposed to—the Trump movement. So this is the failure of imagination, the failure of critical analysis, the embracing of illusions that has characterized much of the politics in the US for a couple of decades now. And we see the consequences of that with us every day.
AG: In the 48 hours after Biden became president, Israel bombed Syria, killing a family of four, a US convoy of trucks crossed into Syria to steal oil yet again, a double suicide bombing in Baghdad killed 32 people and Foreign Affairs, the journal of the US Council on Foreign Relations, published a piece with the headline "Th e M yth of a R esponsible W ithdrawal from Afghanistan ," which said, "the Biden administration should accept that there is no feasible middle way for a responsible withdrawal." What do you think is next?
AB: The continuation of policies that have resulted in the US being bogged down in Afghanistan for two decades, policies that will ensure that the wars that the US is involved in will continue. There will be a continuation of the commitment to US global full-spectrum dominance. In other words, violence is still at the center of the neoliberal project. And they intend to reintroduce that instrument under the Biden administration.
There were reports leading up to the election that Democratic Party-associated elements were secretly suggesting to the Afghan authorities that they would not have to worry about a peace process being executed once Joe Biden came to power. And they made the argument using some of the same terms and framework that we saw in that article in Foreign Affairs, that the US had a responsibility to remain in Afghanistan. And so they will fully prepare to undermine whatever progress was made for extracting US forces from that territory.
If you need audio of the interview, go to KPFA's page for the COVID, RACE AND DEMOCRACY program, it's the 1/11/21 episode that they broadcast on 1/18/21.
Staying with the topic of fraudster Joe Biden, yesterday we noted part one of Jonathan Burleigh's two-part series on Joe and climate for WSWS. Here's a section from part two:
As Biden has assembled his new administration, he devoted Wednesday, January 27, to unveiling his plans to fight climate change, with former Secretary of State John Kerry as his "climate envoy" and former EPA Administrator Gena McCarthy as the top White House adviser on climate change.
The record of these two leaders of the Biden climate policy demonstrates both the insincerity of the new administration's appeal to widespread popular concerns over global warming and the alignment of its policies with the worldwide interests of American imperialism.
McCarthy was head of the EPA during the worst pollution event in recent history, the systematic poisoning of the population of Flint, Michigan in the lead-in-water scandal that came to light in 2015. The federal EPA shared responsibility with state and local officials for covering up the profit-driven decisions that produced this catastrophe, leading to the deaths of dozens of people and the poisoning of tens of thousands, including many children who may suffer lifelong consequences.
That such an official is chosen for a top White House position, rather than publicly denounced and prosecuted, only demonstrates for the thousandth time that there is one law for the capitalists and their top servants, and another law for everyone else.
As for Kerry, the former senator, presidential candidate and secretary of state, he has so many crimes in the service of American imperialism on his dossier that it would take another article of this length just to list them all. Suffice it to say that he has supported all the American wars in the Middle East, including the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the US attack on Libya in 2011, and the ongoing interventions in Syria and Yemen, as well as the war in Afghanistan, now more than 20 years old.
His selection as climate envoy is a declaration by Biden that US efforts in relation to environmental issues will be driven, first and foremost, by the geopolitical needs of American imperialism, and particularly its predatory aims for the subjugation of China and Russia, which Washington regards as its two biggest military and security rivals.
Biden's choice of Kerry has been widely hailed by liberal and pseudoleft commentators, who drummed up 2020 votes for the Democrats as a sign that the new President is serious about climate change. Kerry co-chaired the Biden-Sanders unity task force on climate together with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) faction of the Democratic Party. One result of this task force was the Biden climate plan, a highly watered-down version of the Green New Deal popularized by Ocasio-Cortez.
Moving over to Iraq . . .
That's Minister of Agriculture Muhammad al-Khafaji insisting that Iraq's goal is to reach food security. He gives lip service. He doesn't seem very clear on the issue or on how bad it is in Iraq. The United Nations' Food and Agricultural Organization notes:
The protracted conflict and ongoing economic crisis in Iraq has left 3.2 million people food insecure, including those who depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. Violence continues to force people to abandon farms, causing the displacement of almost 3 million people and destroying or damaging harvests, equipment, supplies, livestock, seeds, crops and stored food. Water shortages and the lack or high cost of agricultural inputs continue to negatively affect the performance of the sector. Families report limited livelihood opportunities, which reduces their purchasing power and restricts their access to the public distribution system – an important social safety net that entitles Iraqis to receive rations of flour, rice and cooking oil from the government.
Last summer, the US Carnegie Endowment for International Peace noted:
As the Coronavirus pandemic batters Iraq, the Iraqi state is grappling to respond to the evolving outbreak. At the same time, the government is trying to fill a $40 billion deficit in the state budget arising from plummeting oil prices, which is estimated to have slashed the government revenues by half. With the pandemic and economic challenges taking top priority for the Iraqi government, Iraq is exposed to the prospect of food insecurity. Compounded by antiquated and competing state institutions underfunded and plagued by bureaucratic inefficiency and complexity, Iraq's government needs rapid institutional and policy reform in addition to a reorganization of its safety net systems to respond to the risks of food insecurity.
Iraq struggles from chronic structural and emerging challenges that have hampered its food production over the years. Iraq's population has been multiplying, from 23.5 million in 2000 to around 39 million Iraqis in 2019. This amounts to a 66 percent increase in population in 20 years. Food supply, both locally produced and imported, has been struggling to catch up with the population growth. Moreover, Iraq's political turmoil and instability, the cyclical conflict and wars, and the corruption and mismanagement of state resources exacerbate this problem. Food supply increased from 13.8 million tons in 2000 to an estimated 20 million tons in 2019, a 44 percent increase in the same period.
Concurrently, Iraq's urban population almost doubled over those two decades, largely due to migration from rural areas in search of employment. Climate change has negatively impacted agricultural communities. In particular, reduced the water supply from Tigris and Euphrates Rivers and the salinization of water tables has caused mounting desertification. Compounding these issues is the economic collapse—which began with UN sanctions and worsened during the collapse of state institutions following the U.S. invasion of 2003—and subsequent conflict and wars. The economic and political toll of rounds of conflict—starting with Gulf War and continuing with the Islamic State's rampage in Iraq's food basket governorates—and the waves of human displacement have all wreaked havoc on Iraq's food system in terms of local production and in its ability to procure food. The pandemic has only added more stress to the fragile food system, disrupting food supply chains, increasing food costs, and decreasing Iraqi household purchasing power as more Iraqis slide into poverty.
Today, the institutions at the core of Iraq's food system remain persistently misunderstood and neglected, given the continuous degradation of the Iraqi state. Policy and institutional reform – specifically governing the agriculture and food sector – have taken a backseat as successive Iraqi governments and the international community have prioritized food and agricultural aid in response to the country's crises and challenges. However, Iraq will likely struggle to mitigate the effects of current crises on food security unless it reforms the complex web of institutions governing food production and supply, empowers and consolidates state organizations, and reforms the institutional environment of food production.
The Iraqi government's decision to devalue the dinar will likely increase the number at risk of food insecurity.
Meanwhile Pope Francis has gotten his COVID shots and is preparing to visit Iraq in March. ALJAZEERA reports:
Pope Francis will meet top Shia religious leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani during the first-ever papal visit to Iraq in March, a senior Catholic cleric told the AFP news agency on Thursday.
Louis Sako, the patriarch of Iraq's Chaldean Catholic Church, said it would be a "private visit" between the two religious figures "without formalities".
If the Pope is able to visit, he will be the first pope to visit Iraq.
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1151-4482: NN office inventory
Office inventory consisting of: 3 office cabinets, dimensions: (3x) 1200 mm x 420 mm x 1620 mm, 8 office cabinets with sliding doors…
1151-4483: NN cabinet
Steel cabinet, dimensions: 950 mm x 600 mm x 1950 mm.
1151-4485: NN office desk
Office desk with chair and drawer, dimensions: 2000 mm x 1000 mm x 720 mm.
Office inventory consisting of: 2 office desks, dimensions: (2x) 2000 mm x 1200 mm x 740 mm, 4 office cabinets with sliding doors, d…
1151-4487: NN conference table
Conference table consisting of: 6 tables and 7 various chairs, dimensions tables: (6x) 1400 mm x 600 mm x 740 mm, wall cabinet, dime…
Office inventory consisting of: 2 office desks, dimensions: 1600 mm x 1000 mm x 800 mm and 1200 mm x 800 mm x 720 mm, 2 cabinets wit…
Office inventory consisting of: 2 office desks with 3 chairs, dimensions: (2x) 2000 mm x 1000 mm x 760 mm, 3 office cabinets with sl…
Office inventory consisting of: (6x) office desks with chairs, dimensions: (6x) 2000 mm x 1000 mm x 760 mm, 3 office tables, dimensi…
1151-4493: iPhone / Samsung / Blackberry
17 various mobile phones, amongst others: iPhone 6S and (2x) iPhone 5S. Various screens broken / technical condition unknown.
1151-4495: NN computer/printer equipment
Steel storage rack, 5 floors, with various computer and printer equipment, amongst other: Intermec label printer, Avery Dennison lab…
2 steel storage racks, 6 floors, with various computer and printer equipment, dimensions racks: 5000 mm x 1000 mm x 3000 mm and 4000…
1151-4499: NN office cabinets
2 office cabinets with sliding doors, dimensions: 1350 mm x 460 mm x 1680 mm and 800 mm x 420 mm x 900 mm.
1151-4500: NN office cabinet
Office cabinet with 4-doors, dimensions: 900 mm x 400 mm x 2200 mm.
Office inventory consisting of: 4 office tables with 13 chairs, dimensions: (4x) 1600 mm x 800 mm x 720 mm, 3 office cabinets with s…
Office inventory consisting of: 3 office desks with chair, dimensions: (3x) 2000 mm x 1000 mm x 750 mm, 3 office cabinets, dimension…
Office inventory consisting of: 2 office desks, dimensions: (2x) 1500 mm x 800 mm x 800 mm, office table, dimensions: 1200 mm x 800 …
Office inventory consisting of: 2 office desks with 3 chairs, dimensions: (2x) 1200 mm x 800 mm x 720 mm, Tenovis telephone and whit…
Office inventory consisting of: standing table, diameter table: 1000 mm, height table: 1060 mm, drawer, dimensions: 420 mm x 800 mm …
Office inventory consisting of: 2 office desks, dimensions: (2x) 1500 mm x 800 mm x 750 mm and 1600 mm x 840 mm x 750 mm, 2 wall cab…
1151-4510: NN office tables
2 office tables, dimensions: 2000 mm x 1000 mm x 710 mm and 780 mm x 780 mm x 750 mm, trolley and rack.
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Chair, dimensions: 500 mm x 500 mm x 800 mm.
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Office table, dimensions: 1400 mm x 700 mm x 720 mm.
Office inventory consisting of: office table with chair, dimensions: 1600 mm x 700 mm x 730 mm, 2 cabinets with sliding doors, dimen…
Office inventory consisting of: conference table, diameter: 2200 mm, height table: 720 mm, cabinet with sliding doors, dimensions: 1…
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Franke microwave, type: FM 1000 C, 220 V, 1 Ph, 50 Hz, 2100 W, dimensions: 550 mm x 500 mm x 400 mm.
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Tehibo coffee machine, type: 8.040.201.200, serial number: 81672, 230 V, 1 Ph, 50 Hz, 2145 W, dimensions: 220 mm x 400 mm x 460 mm.
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Post sorting centre consisting of: sorting table, dimensions: 3200 mm x 800 mm x 800 mm, storage rack, 4 floors with amongst other t…
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Peg, dimensions: 500 mm x 500 mm x 1750 mm.


Outlook error code 3253 is one of the most common errors which you can encounter while sending more than one emails from your profile. Well, if you have already encountered this error and want to resolve it, then you are in the perfect place. This article consists of a step by step guidance using which, you will be able to resolve this matter on your own. But before going on that part,now, let's focus on the causes due to which you are getting this error. After that, you will be walked through the solutions part.
If you want to send emails one by one at a time, then, the email folder puts some extra stress to the server-client communication as a result of which, you can encounter this error with your Outlook.
You can also encounter this particular error with your device due to inaccurate setup of your Outlook account in the client's computer.
In case, if you are using a damaged or corrupted version of Outlook, then also you can encounter this error with your device.
Otherwise, you can come across this error due to some inconvenience present in the Outlook server.
Once you become aware of the causes due to which you are getting this error. Now, let's try the solutions.
At first navigate to the Terminal app on your Mac. To perform this action, you have to go to the Spotlight search glass which is placed at the top right corner as well as in the typing terminal.
After that, in the terminal you have to type "defaults delete com.microsoft.Outlook" without quotes. This command will delete the old Outlook preferences.
Once dne, you have to type "killall cfprefsd" in the terminal. It will kill the cached preferences.
Now, to check the status of your Outlook, you have to try to send a mail from your Outlook. You will be able to fix the matter.
At first, choose the "Add account" option from the Setup page.
Once done, you have to enter the detailed information which is required for the account as well as click on the Add Account option.
After that, you have to tap on the "Accounts section which is situated in the right under the "Tools" Tab in order to add more email accounts easily.
At first tap on the "Add" option, this option will be present at the bottom left corner of the screen. After that, tap on the "Exchange" option.
After that, you have to provide all of the credentials related to the "Exchange" account.
Once done, you will be able to configure all of the accounts using the "Configure automatically" icon. Now, tap on the "Add "account option.
At first, choose the "Other Email" option by clicking the "Add" option after that, enter the account details.
Now, you have to tap on the "Add Account" icon.
In this way, you will be able to resolve this issue without any hassle.
Here are some expert provided solutions, using which, you will be able to resolve this particular error on your own. In case, if you encounter any kind of system glitches while performing the steps then, you can leave a comment in the comment section. Share your valuable thoughts with us. On that note, we are concluding this post and see you in the next one.


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Possessor of the happiest sound in jazz, flügelhornist Clark Terry always played music that was exuberant, swinging, and fun. A brilliant (and very distinctive) soloist, Terry gained fame for his "Mumbles" vocals (which started as a satire of the less intelligible ancient blues singers) and was also an enthusiastic educator. He gained early experience playing trumpet in the viable St. Louis jazz scene of the early '40s (where he was an inspiration for Miles Davis) and, after performing in a Navy band during World War II, he gained a strong reputation playing with the big band of Charlie Barnet (1947-1948), the orchestra and small groups of Count Basie (1948-1951), and particularly with Duke Ellington (1951-1959). Terry, a versatile swing/bop soloist who started specializing on flügelhorn in the mid-'50s, had many features with Ellington (including "Perdido"), and started leading his own record dates during that era. He visited Europe with Harold Arlen's unsuccessful Free & Easy show of 1959-1960 as part of Quincy Jones' Orchestra, and then joined the staff of NBC where he was a regular member of the Tonight Show Orchestra. He recorded regularly in the '60s, including a classic set with the Oscar Peterson Trio and several dates with the quintet he co-led with valve trombonist Bob Brookmeyer. Throughout the '70s, '80s, and '90s, Terry remained a major force, recording and performing in a wide variety of settings, including as the head of his short-lived big band in the mid-'70s, with all-star groups for Pablo, and as a guest artist who provided happiness in every note he played. Terry died on February 21, 2015, at age 94, after an extended battle with diabetes. ~ Scott Yanow
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Discussion in 'Archived Threads 2001-2004' started by ferrell, May 12, 2002.
Welcome to the forum Ferell!
As per forum rules, you must post prices unless the items are only for trade. Good luck on your sale.
He DID post a price. He is asking $375 for the collection.
How about a trade for the following DVDs. Let me know.
Jerry, this is what it says on the back of the Ali DVD under Special Features: Digitally Mastered Audio & Anamorphic Video, Mastered in High Definition, Widescreen Presentation, Audio English 5.1 (Dolby Digital), etc.
Jerry, Ali just sold. These are selling really fast.


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Aeronautics focuses on systems that operate in the Earth's atmosphere and Astronautics on those operating in space. Within each division, your choice of a career path can take you on a journey through widely varying disciplines as you advance through the ranks of an organization.
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The Bachelor of Science degrees in Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering emphasize the study of engineering principles and the application of scientific knowledge and technology for the betterment of humankind. The program stresses the team design concept and systems approach to problem solving.
The Computer Engineering major is an interdisciplinary program resting on the foundations of two departments: Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
The Computer Science Department educates students in the disciplines of computer science and software engineering, and teaches them to apply their education to solve practical problems in a socially responsible way. Pursuant to the department's educational mission, faculty engage in research and professional development that allows them to remain current in their fields and to provide technological leadership to the university community.
The Cal Poly Electrical Engineering Department serves many undergraduate and graduate students. With its large number of laboratory classes and high degree of instructor-student interaction, the Department is able to achieve the Cal Poly motto: 'Learn by doing'.
The General Engineering program is designed for students who are interested in pursuing a course of study whose scope reaches beyond the established curriculum of any single department. The flexibility of the General Engineering curriculum allows students the latitude in course selection needed to educate themselves either in the classical study of engineering or in a self-selected interdisciplinary emphasis area that requires a strong engineering foundation. Examples of some of the emphasis areas pursued by General Engineering majors include chemical engineering, sustainable energy, entrepreneurship, product design, and audio engineering.
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Tuesday 5th February saw three trams in action at Beamish – albeit only one was in normal passenger service. With some snow still lying on the ground following the recent snowfall that didn't deter the use of open toppers with the service car being Blackpool Marton Box 31 with Newcastle 114 in use on driver training. The third and final tram out was Oporto 196 which was on a special with a teddy bear and lots of small children on board! Trevor Hall took advantage of his Unlimited ticket once again and provides us with the below photos.
196 at The Entrance. Having worked anti-clockwise to The Entrance the trolley pole is being turned to enable it to run back to the Tram Shed. Note the Teddy Bear sneaking a look out the saloon window!
Blackpool 31 is pictured on the clockwise passenger service. Oporto 196 will follow it down to the Tram Shed. It's rare to see two trams side by side facing the same way at Beamish.
Newcastle 114 is pictured on No.4 Road having finished its driver training stint. Oporto 65 is on the same Road inside the Tram Shed. Oporto 196 is the sole occupant of No.3 Road, whilst 16 is in the Shed with 26 behind it on No.2 Road. In the Shed and out of sight in this view is Sheffield 264 on No.1 Road.


This page contains the description of the NatCheck Measurements performed over the Tribler network.
The results will then be compared and analysed.
Tribler has been equipped with an internal NAT-check functionality which performs a simple check of the NAT/firewall type and of the duration of a given mapping in the NAT/firewall when not used for a while (i.e. after how long a mapping in a NAT/firewall expires if there is no communication going through). We call this value NAT timeout. The NAT type check is done by using a simplified version of the STUN protocol and requires the assistance of some STUN servers, while the timeout check requires the assistance of a timeout server.
A peer's NAT-check functionality can only be activated by a special superpeer, and, once the peer has collected the results, it sends them back to the superpeer which made the request. The superpeer writes down this information in a log file.
The superpeer and the peers communicate via overlay messages, while the peers and the servers communicate via simple UDP sockets.
The idea is to synchronize the measurements form inside with those from outside. In order to do so, the superpeer that activates the internal NAT-check can activate the external NAT-check at the same time.
The data from the first class of measurements is somewhat more precise, because it has been obtained from the peer themselves. However it requires the active cooperation of the peers (they have to be equipped with a special functionality). The data from the second class of measurement, instead, is obtained by external observations of a specific peer's behaviour. It is therefore less precise, but it does not require the explicit cooperation of the observed peer.


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Denmark sets record, sourcing almost half of power from wind
By Justine Coleman - 01/02/20 10:50 AM EST
Denmark has reportedly set a record by sourcing almost half of its power from wind energy.
The European country received 47 percent of its electricity from wind in 2019, based on preliminary data, the grid operator Energinet said Thursday, according to Reuters. This is an increase from wind accounting for 41 percent of the power in 2018, and it also bypasses the 2017 record of 43 percent.
The boost is credited to big cost reductions and improved offshore technology, including the Horns Rev 3 offshore wind that opened in the North Sea in August, according to the news wire.
Denmark is ahead of other European countries in terms of wind power, with Ireland following collecting 28 percent of its power from wind in 2018, according to a report from WindEurope.
But Europe does lead the world in wind power, with 14 percent of power consumption across the European Union attributed to wind in 2018, the report said.
The International Energy Agency reported that wind power is expected to increase 15-fold in the next 20 years, from its current status of producing 0.3 percent of the global energy consumption, Reuters reported. Denmark has a goal to curtail greenhouse emissions by 70 percent in the next 10 years.
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Governor helps break ground on new hotel at iconic JFK terminal
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The long-awaited TWA Flight Center hotel project has officially taken flight.
On Thursday, Dec. 15, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and New York-based hotel investment firm MCR Development came together to celebrate the beginning of reconstruction of the TWA Terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport into the airport's first onsite hotel.
"JFK Airport is one of largest international transit hubs in the world and a key driver of New York's economy," Governor Cuomo said. "The conversion of the TWA Flight Center into a new state-of-the-art hotel will preserve this iconic landmark while cementing JFK's status as a crown jewel of aviation. This groundbreaking builds on our efforts to modernize gateways across the state and we will continue working to drive growth, support thriving regional economies and build 21st-century infrastructure of the caliber that New York deserves."
The $265 million project is hoping to recapture when the TWA Flight Center was built in 1962, reviving and rehabilitating the Terminal's iconic interiors by Charles Eames, Raymond Loewy and Warren Platner.
"We want to bring back the ethos of 1962," said Tyler Morse, CEO of MCR Development. "We are proud to play a part in Governor Cuomo's plan to revitalize our region's airports and we are excited to get to work as we breathe new life into one of the most important buildings in America."
The TWA Flight Center hotel is set to have 505 guest rooms, 40,000 square feet of event space, 8 bars, 6 restaurants, an onsite museum, and a 10,000 square foot outdoor observation deck where guests can watch planes taking off and landing at the airport. The hotel will also create 3,700 jobs, including hotel and permanent union construction jobs.
The hotel will also have its own power plant that will be off of the electrical grid, making it one of the greenest buildings in the city.
"This project is not about yesterday. It's about tomorrow," said Cuomo. "They have built a hotel for the future."
The TWA Flight Center hotel is expected to open in 2018.
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Moving to Boston Music Room and The Dome Tufnell Park London. . .!!
An established INDOOR 3 Day celebration of alternative music including Punk, Post Punk and so much more….
As the Winter months draw to a close we can say goodbye to the snow and perpetual rain by looking forward to the start of the festival season in April 2019 with UNDERCOVER FESTIVAL VII back for our SEVENTH YEAR.
With not long to go "everything is in place to make this the best Undercover Festival yet, a cracking venue and a packed alternative line up you won't find anywhere else this time of year especially in London. We believe this year's line-up is one that will appeal to any lover of alternative music and you will have none of that X Factor shite / schmaltz here.
With a reputation for being one of the friendliest festivals out there that treats the audience and bands with a the respect they deserve the fast rising Undercover Festival has announced an April 2019 line up many would be hard pressed to match.
Since it started in 2013 Undercover Festival has had a nomadic existence having occupied various locations on the South Coast, 2019 will be no different, upping the ante by going back to three days and also moving to the big city, relocating to The Dome and accompanying Boston Music Room in North London's Tufnell Park.
Undercover Festival boasts main acts such as Sham 69 (Pursey, Parsons, Treganna, Guy) / Slaughter and the Dogs / Penetration / GBH plus a very strong supporting line up of bands that to any lover of alternative music will find more than appealing.
Undercover is an established small independent alternative festival that defies all other conventions and festival templates plus it is once again held undercover i.e. not outdoors so if it's peeing down come April it's not a problem and your beer won't get diluted. Leave your wellies at home, and enjoy one of the best small alternative festivals London and the South East has to offer in APRIL 2018.
The festival is one that prides itself on taking an independent and grassroots approach to things, and is always determined to be different from mainstream events, with three days of alternative action from bands you'd be highly unlikely to see on most other festival line-ups.
General admission tickets on sale now tickets are available by post / online or (paper tickets) from All Ages Records in Camden, Banquet Records in Kingston Surrey, Sounds of the Suburbs Records Ruislip or go online to www.undercoverfest.com for more details on the line up, tickets and everything else Undercover Festival related.