Switzerland is nearly as famous for its exorbitant cost of living as it is for its ski slopes and watch making. According to the 2013 Mercer Cost of Living Survey, three of the country's cities, namely Geneva, Zurich and Bern, ranked within the top 10 most expensive destinations in the world.
Needless to say, expat life in a Swiss urban centre is expensive, and not necessarily so much cheaper than in a rural area. On the flip side, salaries in Switzerland are also among the highest in the world, and the quality of living is on par: a study by Credit Suisse even designated Zurich as the city affording workers the highest wages across the globe – with Geneva a close second.
Furthermore, expats living in Switzerland will find that they do in fact "get their money's worth". Everything is efficient, the infrastructure is designed for the general welfare of the people, and public spaces are incredibly beautiful and well maintained.
Still, those planning on moving to Switzerland should educate themselves about what kind of cost of living they can anticipate, and should negotiate their contract accordingly. Watch out for unforeseen expenses and strange compulsory taxes; expats are likely to need to finance aspects of their life they took for granted in their home country.
Furthermore, keep in mind that every canton, region and even city, town or village has different tax percentages and fees for specific things.
The Swiss are a population of renters: nearly 70 percent of people are tenants rather than owners, and as a result a pointed shortage of apartments in both cities and towns has developed. The situation in Zurich and Geneva is especially stark, and the stiff competition has naturally resulted in sky-rocketing rental prices. Expats should expect to fork out at least 20 percent of their salary on accommodation in Switzerland.
Furthermore, in many cases three month's deposit is expected upfront to secure a rental.
Budget between CHF 340 and CHF 350 per month for electricity and gas.
The novelty of paying for the amount of trash one produces wears off quicker than one can say "recycle". In Switzerland, special garbage bags are required for trash collection, and these bags are priced according to their size. Thus, if a household produce more waste, they pay more. Recycling is free, and expats who didn't consider themselves environmentally friendly before can count on a "greener" life in Switzerland.
Aside from high housing prices, expats may be surprised to find that health insurance will eat up a large amount of the bank balance. Private health insurance in Switzerland is compulsory, and expensive to boot. Premiums are based on geographic area rather than salary, so even if one doesn't make a CEO's wage, they still may be paying the same premium as a CEO. The government does grant cash subsidies to those who find the monthly premium is equal to or above eight percent of their monthly salary. On average, expect to pay 4,200 CHF for health insurance annually.
Keep in mind that all family members will need to be insured separately, and discounts are granted to young adults and children.
Switzerland has an extensive and well-integrated system of public transportation; however, the trains, buses and boats are expensive to use. If one lives in an urban centre and plans on utilising one or more of these modes of transit regularly, it's recommended expats purchase a "Swiss Half Fare" card for 165 CHF. This card is valid for one year and entitles commuters to (up to) a 50 percent discount on train, mountain-train, boat, bus and cable-car travel.
One good way to avoid extensive transportation costs is to use a bicycle, a popular and free mode of transit in Switzerland. Keep in mind that cyclists need to purchase an annual licence for a minimal fee. Don't write this petty purchase off though, fines for those cyclists caught without a licence is a whopping 40 CHF.
The cost of owning a car in Switzerland is mushroomed by a number of supplementary fees. In addition to the cost of importing, buying or leasing a vehicle, expats will need to pay for monthly insurance, for canton tax, for a parking permit, for a highway sticker and for petrol. Costs vary depending on the area in which one lives, but anticipate spending between 150 and 300 CHF per week on a car. Needless to say, if it is possible to live without one, do so.
The Swiss education system is renowned for its high standard and it is free. That said, the teaching language will reflect the primary language of the respective canton (either German, French, Italian or Romansh). Some bilingual and even trilingual schools do exist, but tuition at these institutions can be as much as 25,000 CHF per year.
Additionally, those expats who wish to send their children to international schools that uphold their home country curriculum and teaching language should anticipate astronomical fees. Price increases as students age, and can peak at over 35,000 CHF per year.
Try and convince the employer to shoulder this expense, if at all possible.
Restaurants, bars, and grocery stores are more expensive than almost anywhere else in the world. Expect to pay 20 to 30 percent more on groceries in Switzerland than in surrounding countries. There are a few discount grocery stores; however, these are generally frowned upon by the Swiss. In fact, purchasing non-Swiss products, even if they are cheaper, is frowned upon by the Swiss.
Alcohol is still reasonably priced due to the level of VAT and state taxes charged. VAT in Switzerland is about eight percent, compared to nearly 20 percent in Germany and France.


Delighted to announce the launch of a brand new art space in Cascais!
Permanent exhibition of my work (paintings, drawings & photos) from Tuesday to Friday at the Grande Real Villa Italia Hotel & Spa. Looking forward to seeing you there!


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After a week of side swipes and bitching it's nice to see at least two of the candidates coming out today with some policy ideas.
First this morning we had Craig Cox flexing his sound muscles with
for young members to back Gove's school reforms and push for the bill to allow Free Schools to make a profit:
"If a restaurant knew for sure that no matter what it did, it would always get 100 customers a day and make enough money to pay its overheads, what incentive would it ever have to make a nicer soup or update the furniture? None. And it's exactly the same with schools."
This afternoon has also seen Ben Howlett release the first batch of his manifesto commitments:
It's heavy on campaigning and pledges to fight AV. The first of ten such documents apparently. Intriguingly a lot of what was discussed by all the candidates at the hustings has made its way into the document, but fair play if you are first out of the block with getting it on paper. The downside is you give your opponents the ammo with which to pelt you with. Hopefully the fight will remain on these issues rather than getting bogged down in bitching as last week did.
A rumour hit TB's phone earlier. A good point raised - nominations haven't even opened yet. Have we seen all the declared candidates...?
Conservative Libertarian
Obviously free schools will have to be allowed to make a profit. They should be in control of their own admissions criteria too. Markets would deliver if empowered to do so.
Conservative Libertarians now have somewhere to go:-
https://www.conservativelibertarian.co.uk
Howlett's release is like a child wrote it! Yet another sloppy rushed release!

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The main environmental problems of Cyprus and how we can help deal with them.
Cyprus is an island that has a rich ecosystem of both forests and marine. The remarkable variety of features in the vegetation, wildlife, geology and beautiful sites and beaches make it an important landmark attraction and interest not only for nature lovers but also for scientists too.
The responsible ministry that monitors and manages the air quality in Cyprus is the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, through the Department of Labour Inspection.
Local air pollution is a growing problem for various cities of Cyprus. Mostly the air pollution in cities is a result of the increasing traffic and central heating but also due to the many industrial sites.
One way that everyone can contribute greatly to the protection of the environment is to recycle waste. At the following process, waste is converted into raw materials from which new goods are produced. Part of the recycling process is the conversion of environmentally harmful materials into less or no harmful.
Therefore it is important for all of us to contribute to this effort massively, in order to create a better and greener Cyprus, in collaboration with Green Dot .
What things do you do that add to the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere? Find out by calculating your carbon footprint.
Plant a tree – Trees soak up carbon dioxide and so help reduce climate change. The billion tree campaign has planted one billion trees a year since 2006. The campaign is now run by the Plant-for-the-Planet children initiative, set up by schoolboy Felix Finkbeiner. Watch Felix address the UN.
Turn off your lights – At 8.30pm on 23 March you can show your concern about our planet by simply turning off your lights. Hundreds of millions will be doing the same all over the world during Earth Hour. And save energy whenever, wherever and however you can.
Educate the next generation – Teach your younger brothers and sisters about climate change and encourage them to make a difference with these interactive games.
BBC Climate Challenge: Earth's future is in your hands: As the President of the European Nations you need to tackle climate change while trying to remain in office as the same time. It's not as easy as it looks.
Eco Kids: for kids and teachers, this is the award-winning environmental education site from Earth Day Canada.


While that other surprise celebrity cameo in Thor: Ragnarok came out of left field, there's one character appearance that makes a whole lot of sense. Early on in the third installment of the standalone Thor films, we check back in with none other than Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch). Basically, Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and Loki (Tom Hiddleston) go to Earth to find their father, Odin (Anthony Hopkins), whom Loki has left stranded in a human retirement home. Sadly, the human retirement home has been completely demolished. Loki then suddenly vanishes from Thor's side, and only a small card with a Bleecker Street address is left behind. Thor goes to the address to find our mystical brooding doctor, complete with his magical cape.


The EU-Canada agreement details Canada's unprecedented opening of its procurement markets.
A year ago, when Canada and the European Union announced the conclusion of their negotiations of a major trade agreement – the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), I discussed the government procurement results in a November 1, 2013 blog post, based on a summary of its content. Last month, the parties released the full text of the Agreement. That document reveals that Canada is opening far more procurement that it has opened under the revised WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) or any other international agreement. The EU, on the other hand, has not added much, if any, new procurement. Rather, it removes restrictions to Canada's access to its GPA-covered procurement.
Canada will cover 98 federal entities, 20 more than it covers under the GPA. Many of the new entities are boards, commissions and offices, which are likely to be small. But, several may be more significant. For example, Canada is covering the Canadian Space Agency, but limiting its coverage to procurement related to satellite communications, earth observation and global navigation satellite systems. It also retains the right to withdraw coverage of that Agency after five years. Also of note, seven entities that Canada lists in the GPA are not listed under CETA.
The EU provides Canada with access to three EU-wide entities and the central government entities of its 28 member states set out in an exhaustive list from the GPA. The EU provides Canada with greater access than it has under the GPA, but less than it gives its most favored GPA partners. Those partners are given access to all central government entities – both existing and any created in the future.
In the new Agreement, Canada substantially expands its coverage of sub-central government entities. Most significant is Canada's first-time coverage of the so-called MASH sector (municipalities, academia, school boards and hospitals). As an example, Ontario covers all municipalities, school boards and publicly-funded academic, health and social service entities. Only the Yukon does not appear to cover the MASH sector.
Most provinces and territories are apparently providing comprehensive coverage of their government entities, with certain exceptions. New Brunswick and Yukon limit their coverage to listed entities. Canada has also reduced the threshold for the goods and services purchased by its sub-central entities from 355,000 Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) under the GPA to 200,000 SDRs, the same threshold applied by the EU. For its part, the EU is giving Canada access to procurement of its cities and regions, which it withholds in the GPA.
Canada has also substantially expanded its coverage of other entities from just 10 entities under the GPA to most Crown corporations at both the federal and sub-central levels, as well as corporations controlled by municipalities. It excludes several energy entities, including Labrador Hydro. In addition, Ontario limits its coverage of energy entities to Hydro One and Ontario Power Generation. Ontario Power also reserves the right to apply preferences to tenders providing benefits for the province.
Canada covers mass transit procurement under CETA, but allows Ontario and Quebec to require local content in purchasing mass transit vehicles (buses, subway cars, passenger rail cars and subway or rail locomotives), but limits the local content to 25% of the contract value. That value includes the costs of components, sub-components and raw materials produced in Canada and all costs related to a final assembly of the vehicle in Canada.
In the GPA, the EU denies Canada access to a broad range of utilities: drinking water, electricity, airports, maritime or inland ports, railways, urban railways, automated systems, tramway, trolley bus, bus and cable. Under CETA, it opens all of those sectors, except airports and maritime or inland ports, to Canada. The EU also covers utilities providing gas or heat, which are not cited in its GPA coverage.
The CETA procurement chapter adheres to the text of the revised GPA, with provisions tailored to a bilateral arrangement, and a couple of elaborations. One clarifies that sub-central entities may not favor local goods, services and suppliers. It directs Canadian provinces and territories and EU member states and their sub-central regions to provide treatment to the other party that is no less favorable than they provide to their own goods, services and suppliers. Another provision expands on the GPA provision that prior experience may be required, by prohibiting procuring entities from requiring such experience to be acquired in the territory of the party.
In addition, Canada and the EU have simplified the process for modifying the annexes that specify the procurement covered by CETA. The GPA allows parties to modify annexes only if there is no objection from another party. In contrast, CETA gives the parties the right to modify their annexes, but requires notice to the other party and an offer of compensation, where necessary, to maintain a comparable level of coverage. The other party may object to the proposed compensation and to the characterization of the modification.
By closely following the revised GPA, the CETA procurement text advances its use as the standard for bilateral and regional agreements.
This entry was posted in Third-Country Agreements and Issues and tagged Canada-EU Trade Agreement, Canadian procurement, CETA by Jean Heilman Grier. Bookmark the permalink.


Outpost Firewall Pro is a discontinued personal firewall developed by Agnitum (founded in 1999 in St. Petersburg, Russia).
Removable media protection (so-called "USB Virus Protection", part of the Proactive Protection module) blocks unsigned programs set to run automatically upon the connection of a removable media.
SmartDecision technology (so-called "Personal Virus Adviser", basis of the Proactive Protection module) facilitates decision-making process.
Version 8 introduces further improvements as well as Windows 8 compatibility and a redesigned user interface; version 8 also has extends x64 host-based intrusion-prevention system (HIPS) support.
Outpost Firewall Pro allows the user to specifically define how a PC application connects to the Internet. This is known as the "Rules Wizard" mode, or policy, and is the default behavior for the program. In this mode, Outpost Firewall Pro displays a prompt each time a new process attempts network access or when a process requests a connection that was not covered by its pre-validated rules. The idea is to let the user decide whether an application should be allowed a network connection to a specific address, port or protocol. Outpost Firewall includes pre-set rules for many popular applications. Users could optionally submit rules they had created.
First versions for Outpost Firewall Pro (1.0–4.0) allow users to create their own plugins and add other third-party plugins to meet specific needs. Later versions do not have the plugin programming interface.
Outpost Firewall Pro users developed an unofficial web forum fed by Agnitum since 2002 to discuss product features and support. The forum is moderated by experienced senior users of Outpost Firewall Pro and offers help and support for technical advice and program assistance.
Outpost Firewall Pro's self-protection technology aims at detecting attempts to modify or disable its services or hinder program protection, and received accolades by Comparison Testers as being capable and sophisticated at detecting all known methods of disabling it without user permission. The testing site Matousec.com (performing a test-set of leak-tests to all known software including PC firewalls), consistently gives Outpost Firewall Pro its highest ratings in PC firewalls independent comparisons. Outpost Firewall Pro has more than[weasel words] 30 awards in 15 countries in computer media and test labs since 2002.
The product was also licensed by several security software publishers in 2003–2010: Sophos (UK, USA), Lavasoft (Sweden), Canon (Japan), Bullguard (UK), CAT-QuickHeal (India), Novell (USA), AVG (Czech Republic), Avast (Czech Republic), Proland Software (India), and others.
Outpost Firewall Pro: A shareware personal firewall with inbound-outbound PC program actions control and port stealthing plus anti-spyware and web surfing security plus HIPS engine.
Outpost Firewall Free: A freeware version which includes a web and local PC firewall with access control and port stealthing, plus HIPS engine.
Outpost Security Suite Pro: Includes personal firewall, anti-virus, anti-spam, web surfing security tools and HIPS. Anti-spam has been dropped from version 8 onwards as it duplicates functions built into the most popular web and PC mail clients and is thus redundant.
Outpost Security Suite Free: Free but limited edition for Internet Security Suite features (PC firewall, anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-spam and host intrusion prevention system HIPS).
Outpost can generate a large number of security alerts, which some experts[who?] believe will lead to an inexperienced end-user habitually dismissing all alerts, even important ones. This firewall is preferred by experienced users[who?] as Agnitum's direction is to give the end user complete control to all aspects of their system to avoid unwanted changes by malicious software, disclosure of personal information and malware. In advanced security mode, Outpost's Component Control will notify the user every time a network enabled application has a changed component and Anti-Leak Control will notify the user whenever an application performs a potentially dangerous operation such as overwriting another application's memory space. In practice this can result in such a high number of alerts that they can quickly become intrusive. To mediate this, Outpost includes the option to apply validated pre-sets automatically, to allow for a secure configuration, and yet provide ease of use.
On December 9, 2015, Yandex Acquired Agnitum in order to use their technology in the Yandex browser. Valid license holders were given until January 31, 2016 to exchange their license keys for a 1 year license of Kaspersky Internet Security.
^ "History of changes: Outpost Security Suite Pro". Agnitum. Retrieved 2015-06-22.
^ Cox, Stephen. "Outpost Firewall Guide - Plug-ins". Outpost Firewall Guide. Archived from the original on 2003-02-14.
^ Rubenking, Neil J. (2006-11-26). "Security Suite Smackdown, Part II - Outpost Firewall Pro 4.0 - Reviews by PC Magazine". PCMag. Archived from the original on 2008-02-13. Retrieved 2018-08-31.
^ "unofficial Outpost users forum". Archived from the original on 2010-01-03. Retrieved 2009-09-13.
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Bernstein analyst Jonas Oxgaard started coverage of Down (DOW) with an Outperform rating and a $74 price target, driven by his belief that tightening ethylene markets will yield an upcycle in 2020. Tactically, the analyst sees a "compelling entry point in mid- to late-April," as he expects the stock to sell off immediately after the spin before it moves up to his target price over the next year. Dow will be spun out of DowDuPont (DWDP) as a distribution to the latter's shareholders on April 1st.
RBC Capital analyst Arun Viswanathan lowered his price target on DowDuPont to $64 and also lowered his FY19 and FY20 EPS outlook to 75c and 85c from 99c and 94c respectively, citing the company's higher costs related to its three post separation entities. The analyst is keeping his Top Pick rating on the new Dow however given the management's "stronger focus on profitable EBIT growth, free cash flows, and return on investment", while also noting that at its current price, the stock trades at over 1-turn multiple point below his modeled sum-of-the-parts valuation.
Morgan Stanley analysts led by Mayank Maheshwari and Vincent Andrews said the consensus view is that new polyethylene capacity and demand weakness in China and developed markets aside from the U.S. will continue to weigh on margins. However, they differ from consensus in that they believe capacity digestion should be faster than in past cycles and note that more ethylene is moving into non-PE products. Chemicals stocks are pricing in no recovery in demand or margins, said the analysts, who called their top Global Chemicals picks Siam Cement, Lotte and DowDuPont, which they note is scheduled to spin out its Materials business on April 1. Andrews keeps an Overweight rating on DowDuPont shares.


Bearing the initials of Sir George Clausen (1852-1944), this is a preliminary study for one of his finished oil paintings – "The Harvest" – and shows a field-worker holding what looks like a scythe. In good condition in its original frame and mount. A note on the original back-board indicates that this work came from the estate of the artist and collector Edward Le Bas (1904-1966). A small label, verso, also seems to indicate that it may have been exhibited in 1926.
Measures 14.5 cm wide by 23.5 cm (39 cm by 47.5 cm in its frame).
N.B, Edwards Le Bas, with the Fine Art Society, provided provenance for the sale of another Clausen work – the 1890 pastel – "Sheepfold At Evening".
An original copperplate etching impression by the Scottish caricaturist and engraver John Kay (1742-1826) titled "McArthur, Piper to Ranald Macdonald, Esq. of Staffa". Signed in the plate, this work is dated 1810. In good condition in its original frame and mount.
Measures 12.5 cm high by 19 cm wide (34 cm by 43 cm in its frame).
Interior of a Victorian cottage in the little fishing village of Shandwick, in Ross-shire, Scotland, showing an old woman sitting in front of the fire, doing her knitting. This work shows some interesting domestic features, including the form of the fire-place and the traditional bed.
This work appears to show part of an indistinct signature, lower right. It is in good condition in its original frame.
Measures 42 cm wide by 32 cm deep (49 cm by 39 cm in its frame).
A delightful etching in colours showing the cliffs at Balmeanach, on the North West coast of Skye by the Portree artist Tom Mackenzie who died last year.
In good condition in its original frame and mount. Signed in pencil, titled and numbered 40 from a run of 75.
Measures 60 cm wide by 43 cm deep (80 cm by 60 cm in its frame).
Ben Wyvis Under Snow by Bill Shannon.
A winter landscape showing the slopes of Ben Wyvis near Dingwall, in Ross-shire, Scotland. This work uses several thousand pieces of individually-cut lengths of stub wire, epoxy and oil paint on board.
Measures 60 cm wide y 43 cm deep (75 cm by 58 cm in its frame).
~ see full details and price for Ben Wyvis Under Snow by Bill Shannon.
The Tower Of Babel. A sculpture using several thousand pieces of individually-cut lengths of stub wire, epoxy and paint. Very Heavy. In view of the weight of this piece, delivery charges and options would need to be discussed prior to purchase.
Measures some 56 cm by by 35 cm square at the base.
My name is Elephantias King of Kings. With apologies to Shelley.
Mixed media and collage with ivory panels.
Measures 49 cm wide by 49 cm deep in its frame.
The Queen Of The Night – a delightful lithograph by the Scottish artist John Bellany. Signed, titled and numbered 21 from a run of 200, in pencil, and bearing a label, verso, for the Berkeley Square Gallery in London. In good condition in its original frame.
Measures (sheet) 85 cm wide by 120 cm deep, 106 cm by 136 cm in its frame).
A very nice little gouache by the Tain artist Marion Notman. Signed lower right and in fine condition having recently been reframed.
Measures 34 cm wide by 24 cm deep (57 cm by 48 cm in its frame).


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Q: Необходима помощь в отладке функции js Есть метод:
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Метод работает но не так как задумывалось, я так понимаю дело в таймерах..
Задумка была, что бы картинки менялись последовательно и при первом запуске так и происходит... но дальше они начинают меняться хаотично. Подскажите направление поиска решения?
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A: Используйте для это setTimeout вместо интервала. Просто потому, что при setInterval будет запускаться след. функция, даже если прошлая не успела закончиться, вот в этом вся и проблема. В вашем коде вы не очищаете "таймер". Вы должны его очищать, чтоб была хоть какая-та последовательность.
Вот мой пример, только с рекурсивным setTimeout.
В этой статье сказано почему setTimeout > setInterval

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Archdiocese of Washington announces plans to close Catholic schools
In a March 12 statement from the Archdiocese of Washington, Archbishop Wilton Gregory announced that in response to public health recommendations from local government leaders regarding the potential spread of coronavirus, Masses open to the public in all archdiocesan parishes, missions and campus ministries will not be celebrated starting this Saturday, March 14, until further notice. Weddings and funerals may proceed but should be limited to immediate family.
And following public safety directives made by Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and state superintendent Dr. Karen Salmon, Archbishop Gregory announced that all Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Washington – which includes the District of Columbia and the five surrounding Maryland counties of St. Mary's, Charles, Calvert, Prince George's and Montgomery – will be closed from March 16 through March 27.
Read the full statement story from the Catholic Standard HERE.


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To see All uses of "cease" in Sense and Sensibility, please enable javascript.
used in Sense and Sensibility
to stop or discontinue
With such a reward for her tears, the child was too wise to cease crying.
CHAPTER 3 Mrs. Dashwood remained at Norland several months; not from any disinclination to move when the sight of every well known spot ceased to raise the violent emotion which it produced for a while; for when her spirits began to revive, and her mind became capable of some other exertion than that of heightening its affliction by melancholy remembrances, she was impatient to be gone, and indefatigable in her inquiries for a suitable dwelling in the neighbourhood of Norland; for to...
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"Dear, dear Norland!" said Marianne, as she wandered alone before the house, on the last evening of their being there; "when shall I cease to regret you!
To enquire after Marianne was at first his excuse; but the encouragement of his reception, to which every day gave greater kindness, made such an excuse unnecessary before it had ceased to be possible, by Marianne's perfect recovery.
Colonel Brandon's partiality for Marianne, which had so early been discovered by his friends, now first became perceptible to Elinor, when it ceased to be noticed by them.
She would have been glad to know when these difficulties were to cease, this opposition was to yield,—when Mrs. Ferrars would be reformed, and her son be at liberty to be happy.
Mrs. Jennings, in the meantime, talked on as loud as she could, and continued her account of their surprise, the evening before, on seeing their friends, without ceasing till every thing was told.
With her children they were in continual raptures, extolling their beauty, courting their notice, and humouring their whims; and such of their time as could be spared from the importunate demands which this politeness made on it, was spent in admiration of whatever her ladyship was doing, if she happened to be doing any thing, or in taking patterns of some elegant new dress, in which her appearance the day before had thrown them into unceasing delight.
The necessity of concealing from her mother and Marianne, what had been entrusted in confidence to herself, though it obliged her to unceasing exertion, was no aggravation of Elinor's distress.
He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in a voice of emotion, "to your sister I wish all imaginable happiness; to Willoughby that he may endeavour to deserve her,"—took leave, and went away.
The good understanding between the Colonel and Miss Dashwood seemed rather to declare that the honours of the mulberry-tree, the canal, and the yew arbour, would all be made over to HER; and Mrs. Jennings had, for some time ceased to think at all of Mrs. Ferrars.
When that was once done, however, it was time for the raptures of Edward to cease; for Marianne's joy hurried her into the drawing-room immediately.
Here Mrs. Jennings ceased, and as Elinor had had time enough to collect her thoughts, she was able to give such an answer, and make such observations, as the subject might naturally be supposed to produce.
Happy to find that she was not suspected of any extraordinary interest in it; that Mrs. Jennings (as she had of late often hoped might be the case) had ceased to imagine her at all attached to Edward; and happy above all the rest, in the absence of Marianne, she felt very well able to speak of the affair without embarrassment, and to give her judgment, as she believed, with impartiality on the conduct of every one concerned in it.
For a short time he sat deep in thought, after Elinor had ceased to speak;—at last, and as if it were rather an effort, he said, "Colonel Brandon seems a man of great worth and respectability.
Elinor did not offer to detain him; and they parted, with a very earnest assurance on HER side of her unceasing good wishes for his happiness in every change of situation that might befall him; on HIS, with rather an attempt to return the same good will, than the power of expressing it.
The kindness, the unceasing kindness of Mrs. Jennings, I had repaid with ungrateful contempt.
Here ceased the rapid flow of her self-reproving spirit; and Elinor, impatient to soothe, though too honest to flatter, gave her instantly that praise and support which her frankness and her contrition so well deserved.
When Elinor had ceased to rejoice in the dryness of the season, a very awful pause took place.
She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.
He was released without any reproach to himself, from an entanglement which had long formed his misery, from a woman whom he had long ceased to love;— and elevated at once to that security with another, which he must have thought of almost with despair, as soon as he had learnt to consider it with desire.
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Lucy's marriage, the unceasing and reasonable wonder among them all, formed of course one of the earliest discussions of the lovers;—and Elinor's particular knowledge of each party made it appear to her in every view, as one of the most extraordinary and unaccountable circumstances she had ever heard.
The whole of Lucy's behaviour in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned it, therefore, may be held forth as a most encouraging instance of what an earnest, an unceasing attention to self-interest, however its progress may be apparently obstructed, will do in securing every advantage of fortune, with no other sacrifice than that of time and conscience.
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ALBANY, New York, June 01, 2016: The global market for IT spending in the oil and gas industry has been analyzed in a market research report recently added to the vast research report portfolio of ResearchMoz.us. The report, titled "Global IT Spending Market in the Oil and Gas Industry 2016-2020," states that the market will expand at a healthy pace over the period from 2016 through 2020, and rise to a valuation of US$48.54 bn by 2020.
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From a geographical perspective, the global IT spending market in the oil and gas industry has been segmented into EMEA, APAC, and the Americas. Of these, the Americas was the largest regional market in 2015, accounting for a dominant share of over 43% in the global market in terms of revenue.
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Seattle Council Majority Backs 50% Police Defunding; Time to Arm?
July 10, 2020 By Dave Workman
Threats of police department defunding in Seattle may convince residents to arm themselves in anticipation of rising crime. (Dave Workman)
The Seattle Times and other local news organizations are reporting that a majority of the City Council supports "a high-level proposal" to slash police department funding by 50 percent, igniting an uproar among citizen critics.
Sentiment among some respondents to the Seattle Times story can be summed up in two reader reactions. One reader suggested "Everybody open carry." Another reader wrote, "It's all good. I live in Seattle and am going to use this as an opportunity to buy a gun, get licensed to carry, and learn to shoot. Without enough police, we are the law and it will be our responsibility to defend ourselves."
A third reader had this suggestion: "Instead of TV cops from olden days, I would rather want to see Dirty Harry patrolling the Seattle streets."
The Seattle Times report had garnered nearly 400 reader reactions as this story was written.
According to Patch.com, groups calling themselves "Decriminalize Seattle" and "King County Equity Now" earlier this week "outlined a four-point 'roadmap' for accomplishing the goal during a City Council meeting." The story says a "veto-proof" majority of the council, consisting of Council President M. Lorena Gonzalez, Socialist Kshama Sawant, Tammy Morales, Teresa Mosqueda, Lisa Herbold, Andrew Lewis and Dan Strauss all indicated support for the plan.
But their sentiments appear to concur with a minority of people responding to a Pew Research survey published Thursday that says there is "little support for reducing spending on policing."
"Just 25% of Americans say spending on policing in their area should be decreased, with only 12% saying it should be decreased a lot; another 14% say it should be reduced a little," Pew reported. "A 73% majority say that spending on their local police should stay about the same as it is now (42%) or be increased from its current level (31%). While Black adults are more likely than whites to favor cuts in police budgets, fewer than half of Black adults (42%) say spending on policing in their areas should be reduced. That is double the share of white adults who favor cutting funding for their local police (21%)."
The published game plan of the two groups includes a hiring freeze for Seattle police, a reduction in patrol and administrative staffing, cut the department's budget for recruitment and retention, end overtime pay, cut the training budget and "Prioritize for reduction those officers with highest number of complaints." Other far left groups also want the police department to be essentially eviscerated.
According to the Seattle Times, a Thursday news conference involving various defunding advocacy groups suggested "community organizations and practitioners… can protect Seattle residents better than the Police Department in many instances."
But is that really true? A look at what occurred in the so-called "CHOP" (for "Capitol Hill Occupied Protest") zone during the 16 days when six blocks of the city were seized and occupied by protesters suggests otherwise. There were two homicides over the course of nine days, plus at least four other non-fatal shootings. There were reports of assault and other crimes. Self-appointed "security" personnel were visibly armed and are even blamed for the shooting death of a 16-year-old black teen, an incident that finally brought police action to recapture the area.
Seattle isn't the only municipality where far left elected officials appear to have declared war on their police. Minneapolis is another city facing the same dilemma, and reports have surfaced about a spike in retirements from the New York City Police Department.
Filed Under: 2nd Amendment, Headlines, Politics Tagged With: City council, Crime, Police cuts, Seattle, Self-Defense
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Dave Workman is an award-winning career journalist with an expertise in firearms and the outdoors. He is the author of several books dealing with firearms politics. He has a degree in editorial journalism from the University of Washington and is a lifelong Washington resident.


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Electro-Voice Sound System Helps Revive Roof Garden Ballroom at Iowa's Historic Arnolds Park
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Nestled on the shores of West Okoboji Lake in the heart of the Iowa Great Lakes resort region, Historic Arnolds Park has been a major vacation attraction in the Midwest since the 1800s. The park was renowned for its Roof Garden Ballroom, a large dance hall that attracted such artists as Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, The Guess Who, the Glenn Miller Orchestra and many others during its heyday from 1923 to 1988. Today, it operates as a non-profit attraction to benefit the community.
On August 2, the new Roof Garden Ballroom reopened as a 1200-capacity multipurpose venue, with an authentic vintage look buoyed by a thoroughly modern sound system – Electro-Voice X-Line Advance X2 line-array loudspeakers powered by Dynacord IPX series DSP amplifiers. The system enabled the park to celebrate its history with a series of concert events featuring artists who played at the original venue. Tommy James & The Shondells had the honour of headlining the first concert in the redesigned Roof Garden Ballroom.
"Tommy James played the original Roof Garden six times going back to 1966, so they were the perfect act to open the new building," notes Jeff Vierkant, CEO of Historic Arnolds Park. "It was a packed house. They put on a fantastic show, and the sound quality was incredible."
Designed and installed by NLFX Professional, the all-Electro-Voice loudspeaker system consists of twin eight-box X2-212 line arrays, with five 90-degree enclosures flown above three 120-degree versions. Low frequencies are supplied via six X12/128 dual-18" subwoofers. A set of four Fri-28LPM line the stage lip as front fills, ensuring full coverage in every seat.
Three Dynacord IPX20:4 DSP amplifiers drive the rig, with each capable of supplying up to 20 kW of power. These intelligent amplifiers also provide a built-in OMNEO/Dante interface for networking the system, plus FIR-Drive and additional system DSP for easy centralized control of the entire sound system. The entire system is controlled from a laptop via IRIS-Net software. Handy presets make it easy to operate the system while still affording the advanced control that touring engineers prefer.
According to John Lynch, FOH engineer for Tommy James and the Shondells, the Electro-Voice system was outstanding. "This was a really nice rig – really smooth, with tons of headroom," he reports. "We run an old school rock 'n' roll stage, with classic guitar amps and no in-ears. The EV system had the punch to get over that easily, yet with excellent clarity. And the subs are amazing. We were moving a lot of air – shook all the dust out of that room!"
The band's monitor engineer, John Melasippo, had access to the venue's new stage system, also courtesy of Electro-Voice. Available speakers include 10 Xw15A 15" floor wedges, with three Dynacord IPX10:8 DSP amps providing power along with network connectivity. One ETX-18SP powered subwoofer is also available as a drum monitor.
"We couldn't have done this without NLFX Professional, who did a fantastic job," notes Arnolds CEO Jeff Vierkant. "Ben Stowe really made sure we were well taken care of. He designed a system that sounds fantastic from every seat in the house. He also trained our local sound engineers on the system, and got it all installed and perfectly tuned on our short timeline. Great company."
For Historic Arnolds Park, the re-opening of the Roof Garden with the X-Line Advance system marks the return of a classic venue that meets the needs of top-level talent to play amid the natural beauty of northwest Iowa. "From the opening number, the crowd was happy, the band was happy, and Tommy was happy," adds John Lynch. "That's what's important. The sound system is a big part of that, and the EV rig helped make for a very smooth day."
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Drug smugglers are using drones on America's southern border, and the response from the Border Patrol isn't very illuminating.
A recent incident on the Mexican side of the United States' southern border has shed new light on how drones are being used by both sides in the War on Drugs. Late last month a drone overloaded with meth crash-landed in a supermarket parking lot in Tijuana, Mexico, less than half a mile from the border, and was recovered by Mexican law-enforcement officials. The drone's existence provides a rare glimpse of the constantly evolving tactics of transnational smugglers, and it also raises questions about the U.S. federal government's surveillance of the border. The U.S. law-enforcement agencies in charge of policing the border claim to be ready for any threat posed by drones.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, on the other hand, is downplaying concerns about the potential for growing use of unmanned aircraft at the border. "To date, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has not intercepted any drones smuggling narcotics across the borders into the United States," CBP spokesman Carlos Lazo said in a statement. "In collaboration with our federal, state, local and international law enforcement partners, CBP remains vigilant against emerging trends and ever-changing tactics employed by transnational criminal organizations behind illegal attempts to smuggle narcotics into the U.S."
We're supposed to be relieved that they haven't intercepted any drug smuggling drones? Whatever the CBP told Ryan Lovelace, their drone strategy isn't a counter-drone strategy in any sense.
Outwardly, the Border Patrol appears to be ready for drone-powered drug smugglers. Border Patrol agents would not comment on the counter-measures the agency might employ to combat drones that are threatening its agents or being used in the commission of crimes. But the Border Patrol has an arsenal of drones of its own. The agency's Unmanned Aircraft System has a fleet of nine Predator B drones that can fly for 20 hours straight and travel at speeds up to 276 miles per hour to help secure the nation's border. Predator B drones, which are also used by the military, are much more sophisticated and powerful than the drone that crashed in Mexico. The drug-smuggling drone was much smaller, slower, and less durable than the top-dollar equipment paid for by American taxpayers.
Possessing your own drones doesn't help you defeat enemy drones in any way, unless you've got air-to-air combat drones of some sort. Definitely not Predators, which are for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance. So the fact that CPB's drones are more expensive and more capable than the smuggler drones is really not relevant to this matter.
If the White House can't be protected from hobbyist drones then the borders definitely cannot be protected from determined adversaries with drones.
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The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, on the other hand, is downplaying concerns about the potential for growing use of unmanned aircraft at the border. \"To date, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has not intercepted any drones smuggling narcotics across the borders into the United States,\" CBP spokesman Carlos Lazo said in a statement. \"In collaboration with our federal, state, local and international law enforcement partners, CBP remains vigilant against emerging trends and ever-changing tactics employed by transnational criminal organizations behind illegal attempts to smuggle narcotics into the U.S.\"
\n\nPossessing your own drones doesn't help you defeat enemy drones in any way, unless you've got air-to-air combat drones of some sort. Definitely not Predators, which are for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance. So the fact that CPB's drones are more expensive and more capable than the smuggler drones is really not relevant to this matter.\n\nIf the White House can't be protected from hobbyist drones then the borders definitely cannot be protected from determined adversaries with drones.


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Read moreSalut! Sunderland's 13 years, SAFC's 13 managers. A Sixer series: (1) Roy Keane
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Salut! Sunderland's 13 years and Sunderland's 13 managers: (1) Keano
November 19, 2019 November 17, 2019 by Colin Randall
As Salut! Sunderland winds down, Pete Sixsmith comes up with an idea to keep us occupied in our remaining weeks. He will describe each of the 13 managers seen at Sunderland since this site was created at the beginning of 2007.
That means he starts by remembering the short, explosive reign of Roy Keane. It may be recalled that when Keano took over at a salary of £1m-a-year shortly after a calamitous start to the 2006-2007 season, he responded to a warts-and-all, player-by-player appraisal of the squad he was inheriting by saying: 'Good grief (or similar)? I should have asked for £2m.' …
Yet for a time, he made it work, a sensational bottom-to-top romp to promotion as champions followed by a hard-fought survival year back in the Premier League. Then it went wrong as Sixer explains …
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The Brexit Debate. Today: the not so good Europeans of Sunderland AFC
September 13, 2019 September 12, 2019 by malcolm
Malcolm Dawson writes…..with the seemingly never ending issue of Brexit, the prorogation of Parliament and the confusing and contradictory outpourings of the major political parties and politicians I decided to take a sideways look at the whole business of leave or remain by comparing the contributions that EU citizens have made to the cause of Sunderland AFC, in the hope it would simplify my thinking.
Yesterday, I made the case for the Remain campaign and in case you missed it you can find it here (and hopefully this will take you there and not some dodgy Turkish escort site!).
Today I shall be looking at some of those players whose time on Wearside was less effective and give weight to the argument that freedom of movement is not always desirable – unless it means moving them on.
Initially I did think that this was going to be an easier task than choosing a team of individuals who had made a positive impact in the club's history but realised quite quickly that my self imposed criteria, one of which was that I had had to see them play in a Sunderland shirt had actually restricted my options.
For instance, the first name that sprung to mind was that of Arnau Riera. Signed by Niall Quinn, Arnau made his first appearance from the bench at Southend, a game I didn't go to, then in a League Cup tie away to Bury, his only start, he got himself sent off after only three minutes. I wasn't at that one either. Then in came Roy Keane and out went the young graduate of Barcelona who had grown up with Lionel Messi and Xavi, so that was an obvious choice rejected.
But undaunted I have set about trawling the memory banks and come up with the following side, set up in a 4-4-2 system with a full bench of 7 subs.
GK. This was my most problematical selection. There were two obvious candidates. Mika and Keiran Westwood.
Mika's dodgy holiday on Wearside doesn't qualify him for the Brexit XI
However, whilst I am pretty sure I saw Mika play for the U23s at the Stadium of Light in a game where he made two howlers, I never saw him play for the senior team so I've ruled him out. So Westwood it had to be. After all he had played for the Republic of Ireland, which makes him an EU citizen, until I discovered that he had been born in Liverpool and qualified for Ireland owing to the fact that he liked a pint of Guinness, listened to The Corrs and once read Roddy Doyle's "Barrytown Trilogy."
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So it was back to the drawing board and a bit reluctantly I've gone for Jurgen Macho.
The Austrian was a decent enough keeper, though he lacked a bit of beef as they say and had a propensity to punch rather than catch (some would say flap at) high balls. Macho joined us in the year 2000, from First Vienna as back up to Tommy Sorensen and made a total of 7 appearances in his first season, two as a sub. He only played 4 times the next season but in his third and final year, before moving to Chelsea he actually started 15 times and also came off the subs' bench for a third time in his Sunderland career. Of the EU nationals I've seen play in goal for Sunderland (I never saw either of Edwin Zoetebier's two appearances either) he would have to be my choice between the sticks for the Brexiteers XI.
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RB Considering we finally ended up in 14th spot in the Premiership in season 2013/14 (but only after winning five of our last six league games) and we got to Wembley in the League Cup, we had a number of poor signings that pre-season. One of those Valentin Roberge is my selection on the right side of the back 4. Coming on a free from Portuguese side Maratimo, I actually thought he looked quite a classy player whenever I saw him but he didn't really coupé la moutarde as the French never say. He was quite a cultured player but his style didn't really seemed suited to the English game and after a mere 13 appearances he went back to his native France on loan to Reims.
CB There was a lot of competition for the back 4 positions but my two centre backs are Thomas Helmer and Sotirios Kyrgiakos.
Thomas Helmer – capped 68 times by Germany and a member of the winning side of Euro 96 came to Sunderland in 1999, brought in by Peter Reid to cement our place back in the top flight. He managed all of two games – a 0-0 at home to Arsenal and a 2-1 away win at Elland Road. I was at both of those games but never saw Helmer again. Did Peter Reid not rate him? Was he suffering from homesickness or couldn't he face the constant singing of the The Dambusters March by opposing fans? I don't suppose we'll ever know. He came on a free but on massive wages and returned to Germany, on loan to Hertha Berlin, before we'd all linked hands and sung Auld Lang Syne to celebrate the new millennium a year too early.
Do you remember Sotirios Kyrgiakos, the big Greek centre back who came to us on loan from Wolfsburg?
No? Well I do – just. He played a total of four games for us and I know I saw him play but I can't for the life of me recall who our opponents were. I have vague memories of a lumbering hulk with long hair who looked clumsy on the ball but that's about it. The main centre back pairing that season was John O'Shea and Titus Bramble with Carlos Cuellar ahead of Kyrgiakos, which perhaps indicates just how much managers Martin O'Neill and Paulo di Canio rated him but like so many on this list he played several times for his country as well as at the highest level in European competitions with Glasgow Rangers. Maybe we just never got to see the real deal.
LB has to be Andreas Dossena. Dossena came to us on a free from Napoli, via a loan spell at Palermo. The Italian could have become a cult figure after making his debut in a 2-1 victory at Sid James' Park but in only his second game, at Hull City, he was sent off for a needless stamp in the 6th minute of first half stoppage time. Not only was that an act of pure stupidity in itself, being as it was out by the touchline in the opposition's half with the ref just about to blow for the break, but we were already a goal down thanks to a Carlos Cuellar OG and a man light already courtesy of an idiotic lunging tackle from Barry Lee Cattermole not long before. It was a credit to the nine men still on the pitch that we finished that game without conceding another goal and unlucky in fact not to have got at least a point.
As before the competition is healthy for the midfield berths but my selection lines up like this: Carsten Fredgaard, Jason Denayer, Christian Bassila, Charias Mavrias.
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Gillingham Who are You?: the Nyron Nosworthy Appreciation Society
August 20, 2018 August 20, 2018 by Colin Randall
James Morgan: not a man of Kent, but a Gillingham fan all the same
Monsieur Salut writes: games come thick and fast in League One. We've hardly had time to celebrate the emphatic home win against Scunthorpe before the long trip to Gillingham beckons. James Morgan*, our Gills fan, is not from Gillingham and has never lived in Kent. A gloryseeker then? No, he inherited his love of the Gills from his dad and that passes my arbitrary test of true support with flying colours (heaven knows, I was born almost as far from Sunderland as it's possible to be and still be English). James has pals from uni who follow Sunderland and retains a soft spot for our club – and for a certain player who graced both the Priestfield and the Stadium of Light. I wonder what the Gills equivalent of Roy Keane's assessment of Nyron – Tony Pulis or Peter Taylor maybe – might have been (Keano said 'the less time Nyron spends on the ball, the better it is for all concerned'). Oops: forgot to ask him about the Gills sending us down to the third tier in the 1980s …
Read moreGillingham Who are You?: the Nyron Nosworthy Appreciation Society
Categories Content Tags Gillingham, Nyron Nosworthy, Roy Keane, Sunderland A.F.C., Tony Pulis 1 Comment
Season End Reviews?: (4) 'What if?' seems a reasonable SAFC question
April 27, 2018 April 27, 2018 by Colin Randall
We continue our end of season reviews with Wrinkly Pete, aka Pete Lynn, who – in his second contribution to the series; click here for the story so far – asks one of the questions which will be on a lot of minds.
Of course, being Wrinkly Pete, he has to do it in a musical way, and he has to ask it a number of times …
Read moreSeason End Reviews?: (4) 'What if?' seems a reasonable SAFC question
Categories Content Tags Chris Coleman, David Gates, EFL Championship, Roy Keane
Crowing About: why Coleman's words are cutting the mustard
February 15, 2018 February 15, 2018 by Colin Randall
Jake: 'click my image to join the Salut! Sunderland Facebook group'
For his second contribution to the pages of Salut! Sunderland, Martin Crow compares and contrasts – favourably – the Chris Coleman way with words, when talking publicly about Sunderland AFC, with the mix of gibberish, gallows humour, boorishness, beyond-the-pale philosophy and heavy gloom that has gone before …
Read moreCrowing About: why Coleman's words are cutting the mustard
Categories Content Tags Championship, Chris Coleman, David Moyes, Howard Wilkinson, Mick McCarthy, Paolo Di Canio, Roy Keane, Steve Bruce, Sunderland 2 Comments
Rest easy, Liam Miller
Whatever our feelings as yet another Sunderland horror show is staged (NB: thoroughly mitigated by an astonishing second-half fightback at Ashton Gate bringing us a 3-3 draw), it would be criminal not to offer a tribute to Liam Miller, who has died at the cruelly young age of 36 from pancreatic cancer.
Read moreRest easy, Liam Miller
Categories Content Tags Liam Miller, Roy Keane, Sunderland 1 Comment
Has the luck of the Irish in English football run out?
Kevin O'Neill is an Irish football writer who knows his subject. In a new book, he traces the declining role of Irish players in England's elite clubs. Since his research covered plenty of Sunderland-related content, we invited him to introduce his project ….
With this book, I recall better times for the Irish in England's leading clubs, largely before the introduction of the Premier League and subsequent influx of foreign players.
Sunderland supporters are fully aware of their club's own strong links to the Emerald Isle, a bond that continues today with Aiden McGeady and John O'Shea members of Simon Grayson's squad. Among the Irish stars whose careers I review are Niall Quinn, properly seen as a Sunderland hero, and the man he later – when chairman – appointed as manager, Roy Keane.
There's an interview too with another former Sunderland boss, Martin O'Neill, and former club defender Mark Rossiter – [he didn't play much for us but was there when I saw us beat Arsenal 3-2 in a League Cup game at Highbury – Ed] as well as an interview with Sunderland fan Martyn McFadden, editor in chief [crikey Martyn, that's a grand title – Ed] of A Love Supreme.
Charlie Hurley: who could replace him?
M Salut's muse
'I learned my trade at Arsenal, became a footballer at Manchester City but Sunderland got under my skin. I love Sunderland'
Keano by Owen Lennox
With thanks to Jake for adapting Kartun Malaysia's caricature
Aiden McGeady (Author: https://profiles.google.com/101377584180932207696)
My origins are in the Irish midlands town of Athlone, a place familiar to Sunderland supporters through pre-season visits.
Firstly, I wish to thank everyone who helped me get the book to this stage, and particularly past and present players who gave me their time. They provided invaluable insight and experience into what it's like for Irish players, young and old, to be part of English football.
The result, I hope, is a factual, hard-hitting account of what has happened to the Irish in top-class English football over the past 20 years.
I try to find out how and why their fortunes have deteriorated so dramatically – and quickly – while also recalling better times when the Irish triumphed in England with great regularity.
Through a series of face-to-face interviews with current and retired players, the book describes how young Irish teenagers fend for themselves in the cut-throat world of Academy football and considers those who have fallen by the wayside in their pursuit of fame and footballing fulfilment in England. I pose the question of whether the Irish can ever again prosper at English football's most successful clubs.
* Where Have All the Irish Gone? The Sad Demise of Ireland's Once Relevant Footballers will be released by http://www.pitchpublishing.co.ukon October 16 2017, is priced at £12.99, and will be available to purchase at Amazon, Waterstones and various other book stores and platforms to be confirmed.
The publishers say the book tells a story of dramatic decline, an 'ultimate riches-to-rags affair' in which Irish players have largely become irrelevant at the top English clubs.
The author can be reached on Twitter @kevoneillwriter
Categories Content Tags Charlie Hurley, Mark Rossiter, Marton O'Neill, Niall Quinn, Nothern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Roy Keane, Sunderland
Ten Years After: when Carlos Edwards and Keano warmed Sunderland hearts
June 11, 2017 June 11, 2017 by Colin Randall
Monsieur Salut writes: it seems an awful long time ago. Then, BBC Radio Newcastle's brilliantly excitable Simon Crabtree had produced the Mother of all Goal Commentaries with his description of Carlos Edwards's scintillating winner against Burnley to push us closer to promotion (achieved as champions with the 5-0 away win at Luton in the final game). It's in the superb YouTube clip you see above.
But Ten Years After – OK, a little more than 10, since the Burnley match was on April 27 and the Luton game on May 6 – we all need to have our spirits lifted. Then, we were in the hands of the Drumaville consortium, a group of Irish businessmen led by Niall Quinn as chairman and Seaham-born John Hays as vice chairman. I have seen the message Niall sent Drumaville's surviving veterans after our relegation was confirmed this season; it was a model of dignity and pride.
Can the memory of that astonishing bottom-to-top transformation inspire whoever, ultimately, accepts the job of managing Sunderland and whoever is subsequently the club's owner(s). We shall see. But here is how we reported on promotion 10 years ago …
Read moreTen Years After: when Carlos Edwards and Keano warmed Sunderland hearts
Categories Content Tags Burnley, Championship, Drumaville, Luton Town, Niall Quinn, promotion, Roy Keane, Simon Crabtree, Sunderland
Andy Reid on Keano and O'Neill, Defoe and Moyes – and Sunderland spirit
January 18, 2017 January 18, 2017 by Colin Randall
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So Salut! Sunderland was told the former SAFC and Republic of Ireland midfielder Andy Reid, speaking exclusively to 888sport, was happy to answer our questions as part of the interview. He had some interesting things to say about enjoying his time at Sunderland, playing for Ireland and observing our current plight.
Read moreAndy Reid on Keano and O'Neill, Defoe and Moyes – and Sunderland spirit
Categories Content Tags Jermain Defoe, Martin O'Neill, Premier League, Republic of Ireland, Roy Keane, Sunderland 1 Comment