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For the artist, see Mimi Smith (artist).
"Mary Elizabeth Smith" redirects here. For the American gossip columnist, see Liz Smith (journalist).
Mary Elizabeth "Mimi" Smith (née Stanley; 24 April 1906 – 6 December 1991) was a maternal aunt and the parental guardian of the English musician John Lennon. Mimi Stanley was born in Toxteth, Liverpool, England,[1] the oldest of five daughters. She became a resident trainee nurse at the Woolton Convalescent Hospital and later worked as a private secretary. On 15 September 1939 she married George Toogood Smith who ran his family's dairy farm and a shop in Woolton, a suburb of Liverpool.
Mary Elizabeth Stanley
(1906-04-24)24 April 1906
Liverpool, England
6 December 1991(1991-12-06) (aged 85)
Poole, Dorset, England
Nurse, secretary, homemaker
(m. 1939; his death 1955)
None (Parental Guardian of John Lennon)
Parent(s)
George Stanley
Annie Jane Stanley (née Millward)
After her younger sister Julia Lennon separated from her husband, Julia and her son, the young John Lennon, moved in with a new partner, but Smith contacted Liverpool's Social Services and complained about his sleeping in the same bed as the two adults. Julia was eventually persuaded to hand over the care of John to the Smiths. He lived with the Smiths for most of his childhood and remained close to his aunt, even though she was highly dismissive of his musical ambitions, his girlfriends and wives. She often told the teenage Lennon: "The guitar's all right John, but you'll never make a living out of it".
In 1965, John bought her a bungalow in Poole, Dorset, where she lived until her death in 1991. Despite later losing touch with other family members, he kept in close contact with Mimi and telephoned her every week until his death in 1980. The Smiths' house in Liverpool was later donated to The National Trust.
1 The Stanley family
2 Marriage and 'Mendips'
3 John Lennon
3.1 John Lennon and music
4 John Lennon's relationships
5 Later years
5.1 Death
6 Portrayals on film
The Stanley familyEdit
9 Newcastle Road, Liverpool; the former home of the Stanley family
According to Lennon, the Stanley family once owned the whole of Woolton village.[2] William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby, did once own the manorial rights to Woolton but Lennon's Stanley family were from humbler origins and only came to Liverpool in the 1870s. Smith's grandfather was born in Birmingham and her great grandfather was born in London. Smith's father, George Ernest Stanley, was born in the Everton district of Liverpool in 1874 to William Henry Stanley and Eliza Jane Gildea. George's mother, Eliza Jane Gildea, was born in Omagh, County Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland.[3][4][5][6] By 1891 the Stanleys were living in Upper Frederick Street, south of the city centre, in the same inner city area of Liverpool as the family of George's future wife, Annie Millward.[7] Smith's mother, Annie Jane Millward, was born in Chester in 1873, to Welsh parents.[8][9] George Ernest Stanley and Annie Millward were married at St Peter's Church, Liverpool on 19 November 1906. Stanley was a merchant seaman often away at sea so was absent from some census records.[10][11][12]
George and Annie had five daughters: Mary Elizabeth, known as 'Mimi' (1906 to 1991), born on 24 April 1906, several months before her parents married;[13] Elizabeth Jane 'Mater' (1908 to 1976); Annie Georgina 'Nanny' (1911–1988); Julia 'Judy' (1914–1958); and Harriet 'Harrie' (1916–1972).[14][15][16] After the birth of his daughters, Stanley stopped going to sea and got a job with the Liverpool and Glasgow Tug Salvage Company as an insurance investigator. He moved his family to the Liverpool suburb of Allerton, where they lived in a small terraced house at 9 Newcastle Road. According to Beatles biographer Bob Spitz, Mimi assumed a matriarchal role in the Stanley house to help her mother, and dressed "as if she was on her way to a weekly garden club meeting".[17] Friends of Lennon later stated that his aunt based everything on decorum, honesty, and a black-and-white attitude: "Either you were good enough or you were not."[17] Lennon's school friend, Pete Shotton, later commented that she "had a very strong sense of what was right or wrong".[17] Annie Stanley died in 1941, so Mimi accepted the responsibility of caring for her father, with help from her younger sister, Julia.[16][18]
When other girls were thinking of marriage, Smith talked of challenges and adventures that arose from her attitude of "stubborn independence", and often said that she never wanted to get married because she hated the idea of being "tied to the kitchen sink".[19] She became a resident trainee nurse at the Woolton Convalescent Hospital, and later worked as a private secretary for Ernest Vickers, who was an industrial magnate with businesses in Manchester and Liverpool. She had long-term plans to buy a house in a "respected suburb" of Liverpool one day so that she could entertain the "scholars and dignitaries of Liverpool society".[19]
Marriage and 'Mendips'Edit
'Mendips', the Smiths' former home, which is now owned by the National Trust
In early 1932 she met George Smith, who lived across from the hospital where she worked, and to which he delivered milk every morning.[19] Smith and his brother, Frank Smith, operated a dairy farm and a shop in Woolton that had been in the Smith family for four generations.[20] Smith started courting Mimi, but was constantly thwarted by her indifference and her father's interference. Stanley would only allow the couple to sit in the back room at Newcastle Road when he or his wife were in the front room, and before it grew too late he would burst into the back room and loudly order Smith home. The courtship lasted almost seven years, but Smith grew tired of waiting. After delivering milk to the hospital one morning he gave her an ultimatum that she must marry him, "or nothing at all!"[19]
Mimi and Smith were finally married on 15 September 1939. They bought a semi-detached house called Mendips – named after the range of hills – at 251 Menlove Avenue, in a middle-class area of Liverpool.[21] Menlove Avenue suffered extensive damage during World War II, and Mimi said that she often had to throw a wet blanket on incendiary bombs that fell in the garden.[22] During the war, the government took over the Smiths' farmland for war work, and Smith was called up for service. However, he was discharged three years later and worked in an aircraft factory in Speke until the end of the war.[15] Smith later left the milk trade and started a small bookmaker's business, which led Mimi to complain later that he was a compulsive gambler and had lost most of their money.[20]
John LennonEdit
Main article: John Lennon
Julia Stanley married Alfred ("Alf" or "Fred") Lennon on 3 December 1938,[23]; on 9 October 1940, the couple's first and only child was born.[24] Smith phoned the Oxford Street Maternity Hospital that evening and was told that Julia had given birth to a boy.[25] According to Smith, she went straight to the hospital during the middle of an air raid, and was forced to hide in doorways to avoid the shrapnel. As she later recalled, she ran "as fast as my legs could carry me".[22] A parachute-borne landmine fell outside the hospital, and Mimi later said "My sister [Julia] stayed in bed, and they put the baby [Lennon] under the bed. They wanted me to go into the basement, but I wouldn't. I ran all the way back to Newcastle Road to tell father [Stanley] the news. 'Get under the shelter,' the wardens were shouting. 'Oh, be quiet,' I told them."[25] The story about the air raid has since been refuted, as there was no attack that night. The previous raid had been on 21–22 September, and the next was on 16 October, when the areas of Walton and Everton were badly hit.[26]
After Julia separated from her husband, she and the infant Lennon moved in with her new partner, John Albert "Bobby" Dykins,[16]. However, Smith twice contacted Liverpool's Social Services and complained about John sleeping in the same bed as Julia and Dykins.[27] Julia was eventually persuaded to hand over the care of John to the Smiths, who had no children of their own.[27] Smith later confided to a relative that although she had never wanted children, she had "always wanted John".[20][25] In July 1946, Alf Lennon visited the Smiths and took Lennon to Blackpool, ostensibly for a long holiday, but with the secret intention of emigrating to New Zealand with him.[28] Julia went to Blackpool and took John back to her house, but a few weeks later she handed him back to Smith.[29] John then lived continuously at Mendips in the smallest bedroom, which was located above the front door.[20] Although she was a caring guardian, Smith was also known for being very strict, compared to the more relaxed influence of her husband and John's mother.[30] Family friends described Smith as stubborn, impatient and unforgiving, but also said that she had a strong sense of humour.[30] On many occasions when she criticised John, he would respond with a joke and the two of them would be "rolling around, laughing together".[20]
Smith bought volumes of short stories for John, and her husband taught him to read at the age of five by reading aloud the headlines of the Liverpool Echo.[31] Every summer, from the age of nine until he was fifteen, John was sent alone on a ten-hour bus journey to visit his Aunt Mater and cousin Stanley Parkes at their home near Loch Meadie in Durness, Scotland.[32] Smith also took her charge to a garden party in Calderstones Park every year, where a Salvation Army band played. She remembered John pulling her by the hand to get there, saying, "Hurry up Mimi – we're going to be late". Strawberry Field, in Beaconsfield Road, was the name of a Salvation Army house that Lennon would later immortalise in the Beatles' song, "Strawberry Fields Forever".[33] She would later say: "John loved his uncle George [Smith]. I felt quite left out of that. They'd go off together, just leaving me a bar of chocolate and a note saying, 'Have a happy day'".[25]
Smith's husband George died of a liver haemorrhage in June 1955[34] leaving £2,000 in his will (equivalent to £51,500 in 2020).[35][20][36] The Smiths had rented their two first-floor bedrooms to students for extra income since 1947, while the Smiths slept in the former dining room; on the ground floor, at the back of the house.[37] Some of the students who lodged there included John Cavill (from September 1949 until June 1950).[38] Cavill played piano, but as the house had none he bought a guitar; admitting he knew almost nothing about chords: "My father had a violin and I had learned to play pizzicato on it, so when I got the guitar I played tunes on the strings, and John [Lennon] did the same".[38] Michael Fishwick also lodged there (from October 1951 until December 1958),[39] as did Keith Capron (September 1956 to July 1959).[37] Both Capron and Cavill were studying veterinary science at the University of Liverpool,[38][37] with Fishwick studying biochemistry.[40]
Three years after Smith's death, John's mother was killed on Menlove Avenue when, shortly after a visit to Mendips she was knocked down by a car driven by a drunk, off-duty police officer, PC Eric Clague. Smith did not witness the accident, but shortly after was seen crying hysterically over Julia's body until the ambulance arrived. Clague was acquitted of all charges, given a reprimand, and a short suspension from duty.[41] When Smith heard the verdict, she shouted "Murderer!" at Clague.[42]
After John Lennon became famous, Smith berated him for speaking in a Liverpudlian accent, but Lennon replied: "That's showbusiness, they want me to speak more Liverpool".[43] Despite the talk of Lennon being working class – as were Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr – he later refuted the idea, saying, "I was a nice clean-cut suburban boy,[43] and in the class system I was about a half an inch in a higher class than Paul, George and Ringo, who lived in subsidised government houses. We owned our own house, had our own garden. They didn't have anything like that".[citation needed]
John Lennon and musicEdit
Although Smith later claimed that she had bought John's first guitar, it was actually his mother who did so, after Lennon had pestered her incessantly for weeks. Julia insisted that the £5 instrument (equivalent to £100 in 2020)[35] had to be delivered to her house and not to her sister's.[44] The two sisters first saw John perform with the Quarrymen at the Woolton St. Peter's Church fête on the afternoon of 6 July 1957.[45] Julia (who knew that her son would be performing) heard music coming from the field behind the church (now the site of the Bishop Martin School), and pulled Smith along with her to listen.[46] John saw his aunt coming through the crowd and comically changed the words of a song to feature her name: "Oh-oh, here comes Mimi down the aisle now..."[47] Smith related two versions of what she thought that day after seeing him on stage: "I was horrified to behold John in front of a microphone", and "as pleased as Punch to see him up there".[47]
With help from Smith and John's headmaster, Lennon was accepted into the Liverpool College of Art because his aunt insisted that he should have some sort of academic qualifications, even though he was beginning to show an interest in music.[48] She opposed the idea of John forming a band and disapproved of Paul McCartney because he was "working class", calling him "John's little friend". When she later met George Harrison, she "hated him" because of his thick Liverpudlian accent and Teddy Boy clothes.[49] John and Paul often met at Mendips to write songs, and rehearsed in the glass-panelled porch at the front of the house, which was the only place where they were allowed to play.[50] Mimi once asked Parkes to take her to The Cavern to see John and the Beatles play, but when she descended into the damp, dark cellar; full of screaming teenagers, she shouted to Parkes, "Get him [Lennon] out, get him out! Tell him to come off the stage! He can't stay here.... We'll have to stop this!"[51] The band's first residency in Hamburg exasperated her because she wanted Lennon to continue his studies, but he placated her by greatly exaggerating the sum of money he would earn.[52]
She hoped Lennon would become bored with music; often saying, "The guitar's all right John, but you'll never make a living out of it".[53] In later years, Lennon would jokingly remind her of the comment, and later had a silver plaque made engraved with her words.[54] When later asked about the plaque, she would say that Lennon had it made for her husband, and not her.[55]
John Lennon's relationshipsEdit
Smith's attitude to John's partners was often frosty, disdainful or sarcastic and she constantly criticised him about his relationships. She once referred to Cynthia, who became Lennon's first wife, as "a gangster's moll", and was particularly unpleasant or cold towards her.[56] In summer 1962, Cynthia discovered that she was pregnant with Lennon's child,[57] so he proposed marriage. When he told his aunt, she threatened never to speak to him again to stop him from going through with it.[58] Nevertheless, John and Cynthia were married on 23 August, at the Mount Pleasant Register office in Liverpool, although Smith did not attend.[59] Lennon had wanted his half-sisters, cousins and aunts to be there, but Smith had contacted them beforehand and advised them against attending.[60] After the Lennons had been living at Brian Epstein's flat for a few months (and after hearing about Cynthia's near-miscarriage), Mimi offered to rent her downstairs back room to them.[61]
Before Christmas 1972, Smith met the then-divorced Cynthia at the funeral of Smith's sister, Harriet, in Liverpool. Smith sternly criticised Cynthia for divorcing Lennon – and letting him start a relationship with Yoko Ono – by saying she should have stopped him from making "an idiot of himself".[56] Even though Smith was described as domineering, Ono later compared herself to her when describing her own relationship with Lennon.[62] Smith later admitted that Ono was a good wife and mother.[63][64] After Lennon's death, Ono and Sean Lennon visited Smith in Liverpool, where she was staying at her sister Anne's house because of a heart condition. She said, "Sean is like John in every way – looks and manner – and he has got John's sense of humour. As long as he keeps away from music, he will be all right".[65]
Ono later bought 'Mendips' and donated it to The National Trust.[66] It was renovated to make it look as it was in the 1950s when Lennon lived there, and Ono paid a visit before it was opened to the public.[66] Lennon's cousin, Michael Cadwallader, had advised the National Trust on how the house looked when the Smiths lived there.[43]
Later yearsEdit
Smith had relatives in Eketahuna, New Zealand, because her maternal aunt, Harriet Millward, had married and moved there. Smith had exchanged letters with her relatives over the years, so Lennon arranged for a tour of New Zealand in 1964.[67] The success of the Beatles caused problems for her and she was constantly pestered by fans at 'Mendips', so she sold the house for £6,000 in 1965 (equivalent to £114,100 in 2020)[35]; Lennon bought her a £25,000 bungalow (equivalent to £475,500 in 2020)[35] by the beach called Harbour's Edge in Sandbanks, at 126 Panorama Road, Poole, Dorset,[68] which was her home for the rest of her life.[67][69] The Lennons and their son visited her there in the summer of 1965, which was the last time all three of them visited the house together.[70] Lennon later gave his aunt his MBE medal, but later asked for it back so that he could return it in protest.[71]
Lennon gave Smith an allowance of £30 per week (equivalent to £700 in 2020)[35], but when she found out that his wife's mother was being given the same amount, she phoned the Lennons' house and said, "What has she [Cynthia's mother] done to deserve anything? Tell John, when you speak to him, that I am very, very annoyed", before slamming down the phone.[70] Lennon moved to New York in 1971, and never returned to England again. Despite losing touch with several family members, he kept in close contact with her and telephoned her every week.[72][73] On 5 December 1980, three days before Lennon was murdered, he called her to say he was homesick and was planning a trip back to England.[74] After Lennon's death, Smith was furious to find out that he had never transferred the ownership of the house over to her, which meant that Ono owned the house, and could sell it at any time.[72]
DeathEdit
Smith died on 6 December 1991, at the age of 85, while being cared for at home by Lynne Varcoe, an auxiliary nurse. During the night, other carers were present. On the day of her death, Smith collapsed in the bathroom, so Varcoe helped her to her bed, where Smith started Cheyne-Stoking. According to Varcoe, her last words were, "Hello, John".[55]
Although the oldest of the Stanley girls, Smith was the last to die.[75] Cynthia, Sean and Ono attended her funeral on 12 December 1991: McCartney, Harrison and Starr all sent floral arrangements. Despite the animosity between Cynthia and Smith, Varcoe remembered Cynthia crying throughout the whole funeral, and said that Smith had always spoken positively about her.[55] Smith was cremated at the Poole Crematorium and the reception was at the Harbour Heights Hotel.[68] The whereabouts of her ashes is unknown. Ono put Smith's house up for sale on the same day as the cremation; it was demolished in 1994,[76] so a four-bedroomed house could be built on the site.[68][77]
Portrayals on filmEdit
Smith was portrayed on film in Birth of The Beatles (1979),[78] John and Yoko: A Love Story (1985),[79] In His Life: The John Lennon Story (2000),[80] and by actress Kristin Scott Thomas in Nowhere Boy (2009).[81]
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Wow! Nashville legend and critically acclaimed alt-country pioneer, Jason Ringenberg returns for a rare solo concert at The Greystones on Tuesday 26th March 2019. Following his outstanding show last year (his first at the venue for 5 years) Jason will be touring in support of his new album Stand Tall, his first new solo recording since 2004!
This will be a special evening exploring all of Jason's work both with Jason & The Scorchers and as a solo artist. Expect an evening of exceptional acoustic music from one of the most significant careers in American roots music, delivered by one of its most influential artists.
This is going to be simply fantastic. Best get your tickets fast or you'll miss out!
Jason Ringenberg was born and raised on an Illinois hog farm that bordered the Rock Island Line Railroad. He left for Nashville on July 4th 1981 to pursue his dream of making a band that could kick American roots music into the modern age! Little did he know just how far the kick would travel.
Their instinctive ability to combine traditional country music with high energy punk rock has not been surpassed to this day. In 2008 they were awarded the Americana Music Association Lifetime Achievement Award for Performance. There is an exhibit of them in the Country Music Hall of Fame.
But Ringenberg's story does not stop there. In 1999 the Godfather of Americana (Mojo) decided to go solo. He has released five solo albums where his song writing has been lauded by everyone from the BBC to USA TODAY. Touring the world relentlessly, The Times (UK) called him one of the most exciting performers of his generation. So don't go to his shows expecting to see a sensitive singer-songwriter sitting on a stool. With his acoustic guitar and fearless charisma he will rock the house.
Tickets are available from the venue daily until 6pm.


This is a really difficult question that people often find themselves having to ask themselves. When should I tell mum or dad to stop driving? Is anybody ever ready to answer that question?
Mum and Dad have always been the ones we turn to for advice and guidance or the ones that difficult conversation with us. It doesn't matter how old we get, turning the tables and having that difficult conversation is never easy.
But, with so much at stake, this is a topic that will not go away in fact, it will only get worse if you do not address it.
How good are our older drivers?
Much is made that the group of drivers most likely to be involved in a road incident is the young new drivers aged between 17 and 24. Whilst all that is true that younger drivers have the highest number of overall incidents they also do more miles.
Some groups claim that older people have more incidents per mile driven and there are clear statistics that back up this claim. However, as always it is not that simple!
When the average driver reaches 70 he or she has about 50 years of driver experience behind them which counts for a great deal. That is why many of them continue to drive safely for many years to come.
But there will come a time when reactions, eyesight, general health or other factor means that driving for each individual is no longer appropriate. It is with this group of drivers that should for various and personal reasons no longer be behind the wheel that group is the one that has most incidents.
For some people it says surprisingly little – there is no mandatory age to stop driving. But, from the age of 70, you have to renew your Driving Licence and then again every 3 years thereafter.
If you do not renew your licence, you will not legally be allowed to drive after your 70th birthday. If you carry on driving, your driving licence and motor insurance would not be valid, and you would be committing a serious offence which carries stringent penalties, which could include a heavy fine and having your car seized by the police.
Although this renewal is free you are required to declare any medical conditions you on the form and confirm that you meet the legal eyesight standards for driving.
Why is it hard to know when to stop?
The first thing to remember is that all drivers are different and the time to stop driving is different for different people. There are many people driving over the age of 100 and putting many of their younger contemporaries to shame with the quality of that driving. Many others have health issues that force them to drive decade before this point.
The most important thing is to do is not ignore the situation, if you have had any of the above indicators or indeed a number of others then be brave an address them. In the first instance, this probably means having a conversation and see how they feel about the situation.
You never know they may be glad you brought it up and happy to consider their driving future.
When you start your conversation be honest, remain respectful and considerate of what this means to them and how hard it is likely to be for them. But you still need to be honest, their safety and that of other road users is at stake. Tell them why you are worried and what you have noticed that made you feel compelled to have this conversation.
In the first instance if they agree things might be changing and they need to consider the future a driving assessment may be an idea. These aren't Driving Tests but simply a means of giving some independent insight into if things are changing or not.
If the conversation does not go well maybe it is time to talk to health professionals or bring in other members of the family. Maybe there is a friend that they may be likely to listen to. Either way, it is your responsibility to try and help them see if know of a genuine and compelling reason that they should be giving up driving.
This may be one of the most difficult and uncomfortable conversations you may ever have, but if you know deep down that you have to have it then you should do so.
You are worried that it may not go well and they may react badly and you may be right. If this is about your parents remember how much you love them, how much they love you and how many difficult conversations they had with you as you were growing up.


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David Williams were among the celebrity attendees.
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Webster, who had workers tear down walls and create a loft ceiling.
opportunity for his store to get involved with the community.
year. "I don't like to do anything that feels ordinary," he says.


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OCMC News - 2019: A Year of Blessings!
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Thank you for all you did in 2019 to make moments like this one from Kenya possible! May God continue to guide and strengthen us to take the Faith to even more people in the coming year.
As the year draws to a close, we want to take the opportunity to thank you for all that you have made possible in 2019. It was truly a year of blessings that saw the faithful take the love of Christ to people around the world! Here are just some of the things that you and other Orthodox Christians made possible:
There are now 32 long-term Orthodox Christian missionaries serving in 8 countries. These missionaries are training clergy and church leadership, reaching out to the youth, evangelizing and catechizing people who have never heard about, or are new to, the Faith, providing counseling, and translating Church texts into new languages.
23 Mission Teams of nearly 200 volunteers provided healthcare, built schools and homes (in partnership with Project Mexico), coordinated youth camps, ministered to women, and introduced Orthodoxy to people from Sweden to Colombia to Indonesia and beyond.
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Harris wrote a story for the Post saying much the same thing. He insisted that the Miller speech had "overshadowed" Cheney's "more sober speech," implying that Miller was out-of-control. Harris also quoted "Democrats" as saying "they were certain the senator had crossed the line and would hurt Bush?" Harris added this: "Privately, some senior Republicans agreed that red meat that tasted delicious in the convention hall did not look appetizing to independent voters watching on television." This view fell into disrepute when polls showed Bush with an 11-point lead after the convention.
Harris did something that is fairly common in the liberal media?disguising his opinions as a news story. A September 4 story by Harris and Dan Balz used a similar trick. The story predicted division in the Republican Party in the future, citing the "frank talk" of Republican Senator Chuck Hagel. This phrase, "frank talk," means that Hagel is saying something that conservatives don't want to hear. That's why it was highlighted by the Post.
It just so happens that the Hagel view is close to the liberal view of Kerry and the Democrats. It was no accident that he was quoted by the paper. Later in the story, the Post reporters claimed that, "Social issues present another concern for the party. Some of the most enthusiastically received speeches in New York were delivered by Republicans at odds with the party on abortion and gay rights, particularly Giuliani and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger." Of course, what they failed to mention was that Giuliani and Schwarzenegger did not talk about gay rights or abortion in their convention speeches.
These were manufactured stories designed to create problems for the Republicans. Through the manipulation of quotations, and selecting some sources over others, the paper can create its own warped view of how Republicans should act and what they should believe. This kind of "journalism" should be dismissed out of hand. The people who are "unhinged" are those who regard John Harris of the Post as objective. Harris himself is unhinged if he thinks his stories are fair and balanced.


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To maim things or people is to damage them so badly that they're injured permanently or made useless.
For the literal meaning, talk about something or someone maiming people or things: "The car accident maimed the poor dog." "The forest was utterly maimed by the fire."
Figuratively, describe something as maimed (often by something) when it's been so damaged that it doesn't even function anymore: a proposal maimed by terrible revisions, a relationship maimed by an affair, an investment plan maimed by sharp downturns in the market, and so on.
In fiction, a maimed body often represents a character deficit. You might remember the story of Johnny Tremain? His hand got maimed early on in the book, and the author draws parallels between the useless hand and Johnny's off-putting and boastful attitude.
My mom taught me to be careful with people's feelings, which can be easily maimed by thoughtlessly critical words.
Look away from the screen to explain the definition in your own words. You'll know you understand what "maim" means when you can explain it without saying "injure" or "disfigure."
Think of a thing or place that has been badly ruined by something, and fill in the blanks: "It's such a shame how _____ was/is/gets maimed by _____."
Example: "It's such a shame how a child's interest in reading for fun gets maimed by dull required reading at school."
James Baldwin: "You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive."
2. Her confidence was maimed by _____.


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from django.template import loader
from django.utils.text import capfirst
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse, NoReverseMatch
from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _

from xadmin.sites import site
from xadmin.filters import SEARCH_VAR
from xadmin.views import BaseAdminPlugin, CommAdminView

class TopNavPlugin(BaseAdminPlugin):

    global_search_models = None
    global_add_models = None

    def get_context(self, context):
        return context

    # Block Views
    def block_top_navbar(self, context, nodes):
        search_models = []

        site_name = self.admin_site.name
        models = self.global_search_models or self.admin_site._registry.keys()

        for model in models:
            app_label = model._meta.app_label

            if self.has_model_perm(model, "view"):
                info = (app_label, model._meta.module_name)
                if getattr(self.admin_site._registry[model], 'search_fields', None):
                    try:
                        search_models.append({
                            'title': _('Search %s') % capfirst(model._meta.verbose_name_plural),
                            'url': reverse('admin:%s_%s_changelist' % info, current_app=site_name),
                            'model': model
                        })
                    except NoReverseMatch:
                        pass

        nodes.append(loader.render_to_string('xadmin/blocks/comm.top.topnav.html', {'search_models': search_models, 'search_name': SEARCH_VAR}))

    def block_top_navmenu(self, context, nodes):
        add_models = []

        site_name = self.admin_site.name
        models = self.global_search_models or self.admin_site._registry.keys()

        models = self.global_add_models or self.admin_site._registry.keys()
        for model in models:
            app_label = model._meta.app_label

            if self.has_model_perm(model, "add"):
                info = (app_label, model._meta.module_name)
                try:
                    add_models.append({
                        'title': _('Add %s') % capfirst(model._meta.verbose_name),
                        'url': reverse('admin:%s_%s_add' % info, current_app=site_name),
                        'model': model
                    })
                except NoReverseMatch:
                    pass

        nodes.append(
            loader.render_to_string('xadmin/blocks/comm.top.topnav.html', {'add_models': add_models}))

site.register_plugin(TopNavPlugin, CommAdminView)

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"Ghostbusters 3" Still Happening, But Is Delayed
"Ghostbusters 3" has been in talks for a while now, and fans have been both anticipating and dreading the new installment for years. With the tragic loss of Harold Ramis earlier this year came the news that the film would probably never see the light of day, but Ivan Reitman–who directed the first two films–says it's still on. It just won't be helmed by him.
"The first [script] was done by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, and me, Harold and Dan [Aykroyd] helped them on it," he said. "It was a really good script, but then it became clear that Bill really didn't want to do another Ghostbusters and that it was literally impossible to find him to speak to for the year or two we tried to get it going. When Bill finally…well, he never actually said no, but he never said yes, so there was no way to make that film."
But the film holds a special significance for Reitman–not to mention memories–and so he will reportedly stay on as a producer.
"It's a version of Ghostbusters that has the originals in a very minor role," he said. "When I came back from Harold's funeral, it was really moving and it made me think about a lot of things. I'd just finished directing Draft Day, which I'm really happy with and proud of. Working on a film that is smaller and more dramatic was so much fun and satisfying. I just finally met with Amy and Doug Belgrad when I got back. I said I'd been thinking about it for weeks, that I'd rather just produce this Ghostbusters. I told them I thought I could help but let's find a really good director and make it with him. So that's what we've agreed will happen. I didn't want all kinds of speculation about what happened with me, that is the real story."
The premise of the film is rumored to be centered on the Ghostbusters handing over their business to a younger generation, but now only Dan Akroyd is involved out of the original members (although Rick Moranis may make a cameo appearance). Now that Reitman has dropped out as director, however, and with the death of key member Ramis, the film has been delayed with no release date in sight.
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Podcast: https://is.gd/KQDf1x
"Life-panic is lack of Trust, which is lack of Self-Trust, which is lack of Self-Confidence and Self-Assuredness, resulting in lack of Joy and un-empowers us." – From: Insights of the New Nobility
Self-Trust, Self-Confidence and Self-Assuredness are founded on what? On knowing everything? Obviously no! Then on what?
They're all rooted in the reliance on our Ability to Do, adjust, figure out, be Appropriate, be Sensible. On our Sobriety, our Patience, our Humility, our Energy and Ability-to-Learn. On our Trust in our Intent-to-Goodness, our Unrelenting-Positivity, our Perpetual-Awareness, and of course, our Indisputable-Impeccability!
With all this, we might say, "But but, sometimes I just don't know and there's not always time to figure out or learn, then what?"
That's when we bring out Capital T Trust!! That's what. Because that Trust is also a Trust in our Personal Power. The Trust we'll *make* things work out good, regardless of not knowing how. Trusting our Personal Power no matter how small it may be is part of our Impeccability. Because at root, Impeccability is the best use of Energy. This is our Difference. The Difference of our Way-of-Being of living as a Spirit-Warrior. We have other weapons and shields, those of Energy and Intent, Power, Sobriety, Trust, Awareness, and…. our ultimate power, weapon and shield, **JOY!!!**
With these Abilities-of-Character and Self we know we can affect the outcome of events in ways which are not in the ordinary world. We have More, are More, no matter how little that More may be, it's there. Our unflinching Honesty ensures our Humility, but we also know we are not nothing. Thus in that More we will Trust when we've Impeccably done all we can, when we've *been* Impeccable and know we always *are* Impeccable, regardless of our errors and ignorance, we're still at root Impeccable in our Intent, in our ever-ongoing learning, and this is where we come to our true power: **JOY!!!**
If we do not move into Joy, it's as if we're saying to our Full-Selves, to the Universe, "I do not Trust, I do not Celebrate myself and Appreciate who and what I am and have become, and who I will be."
"But," our Deep-Self admonishes, "As nothing as we may be in the Universal Context, where we are now is still considerable compared to where we were."
We *have* Learned, we *DO* know some little, and what we have learned and what we know is enough for Joy and Trust, for we have learned about Sobriety, we have learned to Understand Impeccability and the Humility it brings, we know of Power, we realise Patience is a SuperPower as we fully comprehend Trust to be. How can we *Not* be Joyful knowing all this? How can we not Enjoy our Being with this Awareness and Understanding that we have these *Tools-of-Being* at our disposal? How?
Only if we are crappy and insist on knowing the future and knowing everything, and insist on not *Making-Peace-With-The-Unknown.* This, this acceptance of the obvious reality of our condition is our secret Magic!!! This is what makes the Difference between living as a Spirit-Warrior or as a nincompoop.
A nincompoop knows it doesn't know, knows its flaws, knows its inabilities, incompetences, knows it doesn't know, but, it's the *ego* fear of the nincompoop which dreads exposure and makes it afraid of the Unknown. The most foolish of fears as the Unknown is one indisputable fact of our existence and will always be. Thus, unless we want to always *live* as a nincompoop, we first have to make peace with the fact that in some way, we will always be nincompoops relative to the Universe, that's the Humility of the Spirit-Warrior, then we shift to knowing we have Tools-of-Power with which to deal with the Unknown.
These Tools are the Empowerment of the Spirit-Warrior. Thus, what's left to do? Once we're set on our never-ending Journey into the Unknown, what else do we need to Accomplish before we get to JOY? Nothing! JOY *IS* our ultimate accomplishment right *NOW!*
Our journey is not *TO* Joy, since that will take forever. Our Journey into the Unknown is also a Journey into the magic of Infinity, and as such, we cannot wait to get to Joy. If we wait, thinking it's the end of our Journey, we'll wait for infinity. No, Joy is the accomplishment which comes from *BEING* on the Journey. Joy is the *consequence* of being on the journey. Joy is the culmination of our efforts to *get* onto our Path. Joy is the Awareness of the realisation that we *are* now on the Journey into the Unknown.
We celebrate the infinity of the Unknown as the Gift-of-Perpetual-Magic it is, and Joy is. Thus, how can we not feel Joy, be Joy? What else is there to do which makes *more* sense than feeling Joy? What? As a Spirit-Warrior on the never-ending Journey into the infinite Magic of the Unknown, all we have is our Impeccability, Trust, and Joy. But without Joy, what's the point?
Comes a time we have to make this shift, this shift to Self-Acceptance of the reality of who and what we are, who and what we have become, who and what we are going to be, will be, and the knowing no matter how much we are, there will *always* be More, and always we will be nothing. Thus, we have to shift to enjoying the *Process* of becoming, the Joy of Being, that Journey into the More-of-Being, which is a perpetual Journey-of-Joy we can enjoy NOW! Through that Joy we Empower our Being, through that Empowerment, through our Impeccability and our Path, we move to the Joyful Exemplification-of-Being which balances our Attunement with the World.
And enables us.
Enables us through the Joy of knowing our Humility. The Humility of a Spirit-Warrior. The Joy of knowing it's not a limitation or an inhibition, but an Empowered Freedom when connected to the More of our unrelenting Life-Efforts. We are enabled through the Joyful Awareness of those labours which have yielded the considerable value and usefulness we have at our disposal. But, which we can only take full advantage of through an Impeccable Exemplification-of-Being, through the constant empowered Joy of Self-Understanding, and the full acceptance of a Self-Honesty which includes our More, a More we can no longer hide, and a More which is not a conflict to the fact of our ever-present Humility, but a More to celebrate and exemplify through the Joy of *Being* who we are, unrequited.
#SpiritWarrior #Impeccability #More #Humility #SelfTrust #Trust #SelfAcceptance #Joy #LifeJourney #LifePath #SelfConfidence


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Privity of Contract. In contract law, the rule of privity ensures that only someone directly involved in a contract or agreement can sue any other party in relation to that contract. For example: John enters into a purchase contract for a rental property in which Abigail is already living with a one-year lease. Exceptions to Privity Of Contract: It is very essential to know the doctrine of provity of contracts and its exceptions as a lawyer, law student or scholar because, most of the cases that come to court these days are cases that concerns a contract. People do not usually want to settle contract issues through Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) because they believe that their contract contain If you need help with a case in which privity of contract is an issue, you can post your legal need on UpCounsel's marketplace. UpCounsel accepts only the top 5 percent of lawyers to its site. Lawyers on UpCounsel come from law schools such as Harvard Law and Yale Law and average 14 years of legal experience, including work with or on behalf of Privity of contract came about when third parties went to court to enforce the terms of contracts, even though they weren't actually parties to the contract. This was due mostly to issues associated with ancillary contract terms that dealt with acceptance and consideration. History of Privity of Contract. In the past, common law found many complications pertaining to enforcing contractual terms by a party not privy to that contract, largely due to issues associated with ancillary contract law terms requiring acceptance and consideration. The doctrine of privity of contract is a common law principle which provides that a contract cannot confer rights or impose obligations upon any person who is not a party to the contract. The premise is that only parties to contracts should be able to sue to enforce their rights or claim damages as such.
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I suspect I am just not configuring my credentials correctly (I made them by going to the dev console, clicking google drive and basically checking all the boxes.)  Any help would be appreciated.

A: Well, if any poor confused soul has this problem, it's probably because you changed something in your program without first wiping out ~/.credentials.

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Season 2 of Dallas started up again last week and at least for now, Larry Hagman is still with fans onscreen as the iconic J.R. Ewing. He is joined by actors from the old series Linda Grey and Patrick Duffy. But this reboot has plenty of fresh faces for the series as well including Josh Henderson as Larry Hagman's son, J.R. III, Jesse Metcalfe as Patrick Duffy's adopted son and Jordana Brewster, who plays the daughter of the Ewing's cook. In the role of her mom is Marlene Forte who has played her share of maids and housekeepers. But she doesn't mind being typecast. In a recent one-on-one interview, we discussed the role of Latinos on Dallas and working with Larry Hagman.
Marlene is a veteran character actress who has been in the business for over 20 years. When she heard there might be a part for her in the reboot of Dallas, she was confused thinking, "A Latina in Dallas, really? There were no Latinas in Dallas." But after much encouragement from her manager she read the script and fell instantly in love with Carmen Ramos, the Southfork cook.
At her audition she said, "She's my mom. I'm playing my mom. It was very easy for me… I got her rhythm immediately. I walked in the room and met [Executive Producers] Cynthia [Cidre] and Michael [Robin]... I did my little this and it was very easy." She added, "By the time I got to the car they had booked me… I guess it was mine. It was like Cinderella's slipper and I just fit right in there."
Marlene talked about the character of Carmen and why she felt right for the role. "She is the housekeeper, but she also runs that house. There's something — a strength and a pushiness about a person who's brought you up. So this woman has brought up all those kids including her own. She's been part of this family for over 16 years and this is her home. She doesn't feel submissive to them. She's almost the only one that tells them what to do."
She continued, "She's not afraid of J.R. She's definitely not afraid of the kids. Those are her kids. So it was that assertiveness. And I also found her sense of humor, because I think she's very funny. She's the only one that doesn't lie in that house. Everybody's got something to lie about but she's got a moral compass. She's not below any of this, she's actually above it all. She has a very, very strong faith and she's very loyal."
Unlike the original version of Dallas, this reboot has a large number of Latino characters. Shee discussed how that feels as an actress from that community, "It's delicious. It's exciting… The lovely thing about this script is that we are woven into the fabric of this script very much the way that the Latino culture is woven into the fabric of this country. We're not separate from it. We're woven into it. We are in your homes. We park your cars... There is a reality to that."
She credits Cynthia, also a Latina, with bringing that sensibility to the show. "I was born in Cuba, but I was raised American. I am an American. And I'm very much a Cuban lady, who's an American. So it's part of my consciousness, not going, 'I'm going to see a Latin movie today' or 'I'm going to hang out with my Latin friends.' I don't do that. We don't compartmentalize like that. It's so easy in this show. It's just part of the story and I think there's going to be a lot more to come. And I really hope that other shows take a little nod from that. We're part of the country. Part of the fabric that makes it stronger. It's not a big patchwork and the Latinos are over there. We're all over the place."
Sadly Larry Hagman, who had been fighting cancer since before the new Dallas began taping, passed away in November 2012. He appears in the first few episodes of Season 2, but J.R. will be laid to rest in the eighth show this year. Marlene talked about working with Larry. "It was a treat. He had sparkly eyes. He sparkled from within, even at 79 when we met him."
She continued, "He was a very kind, loving human being. I like to say that as evil as J.R. can be, the other end of the spectrum is how wonderful a person Larry Hagman was. Beloved by everyone. Fun, always. Even when he was totally ill and going to chemo and shooting his days, that guy never lost his sparkle, never lost his smile, his love for what he did. He was so happy to be working all the time. That's the way I want to go. Eighty-one on the set, all the way to the end."
She says the mood on the set is melancholy now without Larry. They all knew he was ill from the start, so it was not a surprise, but knowing it would come didn't make it any easier. She noted, "We had the enormous blessing to have Larry Hagman with us, for this reboot as long as we did. And that will carry us for a long time, definitely through this season… There's a little hole in our hearts but we're working hard and moving forward because that's how he was every day that he showed up on the set. He was very ill, so if he could do this, we can totally carry this torch forward until the audience decides they don't want to see us anymore."
Marlene discussed what it was like on the set the day they shot J.R.'s burial. "It was very sad for all of us. Everybody showed up. There's some secret guests coming up from the show's past. And it was really something. It was sad but not weepy. We were going through this and he was still there with us. When we filmed that scene when the casket gets lowered into the ground, there wasn't a dry eye to be seen."
Watch Marlene on Dallas Monday nights at 9 p.m. EST/8 p.m. Central on TNT.


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Mother and son injured as branches crash down in Belsize Park
Georgia Graham
Published: 1:00 AM May 6, 2011 Updated: 1:30 PM October 14, 2020
A MAN and his elderly mother were lucky to escape with their lives after a large branch from a 60-year-old Belsize chestnut tree crashed to the ground in high winds.
Raphael Friedman and Linda Gilardoni were struck by the branch after stopping to look at the damage caused by another branch which had fallen from the same tree minutes earlier.
The pair have criticised Camden Council – saying the tree should have been chopped back months ago.
They also suggest that police should take some responsibility for failing to put a cordon around the obviously dangerous tree.
Mr Friedman suffered serious back wounds and now has pain in his hip. His mother, who is in her late 60s, was left badly shaken and sustained a bad cut to her knee. She is also covered in scratches.
He said: "All I remember is hearing a crunch. I looked up and saw a crack where the branch meets the trunk. The next thing I remember is a huge whack. At first I was worried that I could have been speared by the branch but luckily I escaped with a large cut and grazes down my back.
"My first thought was that my mother had been hit or even killed. Thank goodness it wasn't actually worse. I can't believe the luck really, for both of us.
"If my mother had taken the blow she might not have survived. It is ridiculous just how big those trees have been left to grow. I am really angry with the local authority. If the council had cut back those branches to seven or eight foot, rather than 40ft or whatever they are, this would never have happened. From now on I will walk on the other side of the road where there are no trees."
His mother added: "The first half of the tree had already fallen. and the police were there. We were passing and stayed to have a look at what was happening.
"Then suddenly this branch on the other side fell on to us. We were rushed in an ambulance straight to the Royal Free. The police were very helpful but they should have cordoned off the area so that this could not happen."
In a response to concerned councillors, Camden's arboricultural manager Alistair Smith said: "I carried out a visual inspection of all the other trees up to Belsize Avenue and all appeared to be healthy. But I will organise a more detailed visual inspection directly."
The remaining trunk will be removed in the near future and the council intends to replace the tree this winter, he said.
A Camden Council spokesman described the incident as a ''freak accident'' and said: "The damaged tree showed no signs of decay. We have a thorough and robust inspection and maintenance programme for all our street trees. We wish those caught by the falling branch a quick recovery."
Councillor Claire-Louise Leyland, who witnessed the incident, said: "It was shocking to see such a beautiful 60-year-old chestnut tree, in full bloom, fall victim to the high winds on Sunday."
This weekend, branches from trees across Camden have been crashing down, causing havoc, blocking roads and in some cases, narrowly missing passers-by.
A large branch from a tree on Heath Street in Hampstead was blown down at about 9.30am on Monday, just missing an unsuspecting pedestrian.
Monday's high winds also felled a tree at about 10am alongside the Regent's Canal. The tree blocked the canal and the towpath near to the Danbury Street entrance – causing frustration for the hundreds of cyclists and walkers enjoying the bank holiday sunshine.
Meanwhile, a large tree in Southwood Lane in Highgate was completely toppled, blocking an entire road and blocking traffic as residents looked on.


My Crash Course: Which came first: the Jesus or the Pope?
This morning I returned my students' first exams. It amazes me still how lost the art of composing even the most simple of sentences is. I scolded them for "random acts of capitalization," and told them that, for the most part, I was "disappointed in their writing capabilities." I even made them name aloud some of the most basic and common rules of capitalization - much like I was required to do way back in fifth grade.
Both Christianity and Buddhism were originally attempts to reform earlier religions. What were those earlier religions, and who, in your opinion, did a better job at reformation?
I don't remember if I've written about this before or not, but here's my twisted view of the Second Coming: Jesus returns to earth to copyright & patent his name so that so-called Christians cannot reference him unless he signs some licensing agreement with them. Jesus will finally take back his name (but not in vain, hee hee!). He'll still let me use the derogatory "Jesus-freak," I hope.


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Q: Request Quote Button in Magento? I want to add request quote button in product view page that submits all the information in the admin grid instead of view shopping cart.
Actually, I have created two buttons, one is add to cart & other is request for quote.
If the user selected product options like size (which is defined from backend custom option, input type = dropdown). In this case, User can only show add to cart button & request for quote button is hidden.
If the user selected product options like size (which is not manually defined from backend - for example, input type = field). In this user can enter the size from the front end. In this case, a user can only show the request for quote button.
I have done the button cases. But How do I send the selected data in the custom admin grid from the product detail if a user clicks on request for quote button?
or
Just want a page similar to the shopping cart if the user selects a request for a quote but he is not able to proceed to checkout.


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The programme shows that it is shaping up to be a day spent listening to good writing and the panel discussion should get ideas going. We also want to create an atmosphere where creative writers can meet and have conversations with each other. As the MC I have had the pleasure of meeting some of the participants and am looking forward to meeting others in a cherished day among creative minds.
I was entrusted with the responsibility to put together the segment Recorded Talk that starts the morning. I had great visions of digging into public and private archives for audio of treasured writing, but that turned out to be a task greater than the efforts that I can devote at this time. Fortunately, we have a lovely cache of recorded talk here already in Jamaica and my play list includes poetry in dialect, inspirational work, the humourous side of life in Jamaica and the Caribbean and yes, some Shakespeare from an online resource.
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The Changing Tune of Protest Music
Posted bySpitzy	 September 7, 2017 May 10, 2019
In the age of Twitter and Trump, can a politically charged song still make a difference?
Chuck D is shouting at me, and it's making me want to set a cop car on fire.
I'm driving through the north side of Chicago, blasting "Hail to the Chief." The song is from the new self-titled record—out September 15th—by Prophets of Rage, a super group comprised of the former Public Enemy frontman, Cypress Hill's B-Real and three-fourths of Rage Against the Machine. It isn't just a great excuse to drive too fast while pounding the steering wheel; it feels like a gasp of oxygen during a politically suffocating time.
But a funny thing happens when you start singing along to songs demanding that you fight back against your oppressors: You start to wonder whether we've entered a new golden age of protest music or we're just stuck in our little bubbles, each with its own rage soundtrack. "What the fuck are you waiting for?" the Prophets ask in the record's first single, "Unfuck the World." It's a very good question.
Whatever your political leanings, there are pop songs out there to prop you up. Most of them are anti-Trump, from Jack Johnson's "My Mind Is for Sale"—the first single from his new album, which rails against "paranoid 'us against them' walls"—to Neil Young's "Children of Destiny," which urges listeners to "resist the powers that be." The pickings are slimmer on the support-our-president side, but you can sing along to Joy Villa's summer hit "Make America Great Again" while wearing any of the pro-Trump T-shirts being peddled on Kid Rock's website. And given the fact that the Devil Without a Cause announced, just before press time, that he's running for the Senate, we might be in for a patriotic rap-rock album called American Carnage.
There's a lot of racket being made, but is it all just more partisan noise? A few years ago, Roots drummer Questlove wrote on Instagram, "We need new Dylans. New Public Enemys. New Simones." Have we gotten them? Or have we become too jaded for protest music like it once existed, when you could stumble upon Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" on the radio and have your entire worldview upended?
Chuck D is hopeful that Prophets of Rage can be more than just a reason for young men to mosh righteously. "You listen to Roy Orbison's 'Pretty Woman' and it makes you want to get with some fly girl," he explains. "Why can't it be the same with protest music? If a song speaks to your soul and mind and body, then it can change you."
I love his conviction—I grew up singing along with it—but in 2017, it seems almost quaint. Is anybody's political opinions going to be changed by a song anymore? The Internet sometimes seems to exist just so strangers can shout at each other about how they're wrong, so what chance does Chuck D have of being heard over the din? I've probably over-romanticized protest music, but it used to feel important. Didn't Bob Dylan's "Masters of War" single-handedly end the Vietnam War? I swear I read that somewhere.
During the '60s and '70s, when music was a countercultural force in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam war movements, "more people were involved in disseminating the message in ways that the music bolstered," says Eric T. Kasper, a political scientist and author of Don't Stop Thinking About the Music: The Politics of Songs and Musicians in Presidential Campaigns. That's not happening today, he says, thanks mostly to the Internet. We all stay in our respective bubbles, leaving only to lob rage-bombs at other bubbles. A protest song that doesn't preach to the choir doesn't have much of a chance. When Bob Dylan wrote "Masters of War," he didn't have to worry about being dismissed as fake news. Joe Strummer never got hate-tweeted to shut up about politics and sing.
"In the '60s, I believed that rock music was the most powerful communicating force in human history," says Wayne Kramer, the founder and lead guitarist for MC5, a Detroit punk band so radical that former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover allegedly told president Ford they "breathe revolution." Wayne's opinions have softened in recent years. "I don't really believe that music leads to political change anymore," he says. "Politics and the building of civilization is serious business. It's immune to troubadours and poets." It's a little disconcerting to hear this from a guy who performed at the 1968 Democratic Convention at the request of notorious "Yippie" Abbie Hoffman, playing for eight hours before it devolved into a police riot.
He's right about politics being serious business—but then, so is politically charged music. When Compton hip-hop artist YG released the single "FDT (Fuck Donald Trump)" in 2016, it didn't get much attention, other than a visit to the rapper by the Secret Service. But after the election, the song jumped 435% to 3.1 million U.S. streams and sold over 4,000 downloads in a matter of days. Joy Villa had a similar sales bump for music with a very different sentiment. After walking the Grammy red carpet in a dress with the words "Make America Great Again" and "TRUMP" bedazzled across it, the iTunes sales rank for her album I Make the Static jumped from #543,202 to #1 in just one night.
Villa tells us that her newest single—titled "Make America Great Again" and released over the July 4th holiday—was meant to "encourage people to reach across party lines" and "work toward unifying on important issues." Okay, but naming a song after a slogan from a historically divisive presidential campaign seems less like an olive branch extended to the other side than a "we won, so shut your loser hole" sing-along for her own. Then again, was "Yes We Can," will.i.am's 2007 tribute to Barack Obama, really all that different?
Maybe that's all it needs to be. Maybe it's unrealistic to think that protest music has ever been more than preaching to the choir. Did any Nixon supporter listen to Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's "Ohio" and think, "You know, they make some good points?" Did an anti-war progressive pay close attention to Merle Haggard's "Okie From Muskogee" and wonder, "Maybe I have no idea what I'm talking about?" The world was simpler in a pre-Facebook age, but people have always been stubborn assholes.
If protest music is having a resurgence, it's not necessarily that we need more rallying cries. It could just be that we need reassuring. "It gives voice to our frustration," Wayne says about the music he once thought could spawn a revolution. "It can be like a town hall/ It's not going to change any minds. It's just a way to come together and voice our frustrations, and I think that's plenty."
Chuck D echoes the sentiment. The man who once told us to fight the power now hopes that his music can be "a beacon for people, to let them know, hey, you don't have to be afraid."
So maybe there is power to pumping your fist along to Prophets of Rage as they tell us to "Stand up and rise like the tide!" It's okay if I don't take the song literally, and join an angry mob and storm the White House. It just makes me feel a little less crazy and alone. Sometimes that's enough.
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Q: How can I generate Excel spreadsheets on the server? I got the requirement to output some reports as Excel 2002 spreadsheets.
Normally a job for reporting services - however - that's "not great IMO" and I hate it so for this project I used ExtJs - which doesn't do any excel output - not really - but does do the UI really, really well.
The reports will need to have outlining, grouping summaries and all sorts of formatting not available if I use the plain XML formatting.  This is the one thing Reporting services does do really well. Gutted.
So... Does anyone have any suggestions for alternatives to reporting services and definitely not installing Office on the server? Crystal reports are just as "not great IMO" as RS so not that either :)
I have looked at aspose et al but they're a bit expensive and I'd like to find something open-source, if possible - such as perhaps using open office -, if I can find a way of using OOo on the server without actually installing it.
Any ideas?

A: If your reports are not very large perhaps you can get away using the free version of Gembox Spreadsheed?

A: The Perl module Spreadsheet::WriteExcel works very well at generating reports in Excel format.

A: SpreadsheetGear for .NET can do it and requires only ASP.NET 2.0 on the server (no reliance on Excel or any other libraries).
You can see live ASP.NET (VB and C#) Excel Reporting samples here.
If performance is important at all, I would suggest running your own performance tests with your actual data and formatting as you compare your options.
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A: I ended up going the OpenXml SDK route - which is a bit of a PITA in some situs but good in others - once you get the hang of it...

A: The answer to this depends on budget, time and whether r not you're allowed to install coms on the server -
for us all of the above were negative,
we needed the follwing:
export of generic data
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template based output
sql server reporting services offered all of this if - and only if you adhered to their rules.
what we have now is near as damn it ad-hoc reporting - using extjs for the ui, nhib for the domain castle windsor for the binding, and ooxml sdk 2.0 for the export.
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A: I am working on (right now) a windows service that does Excel and PDF generation and merging on the server, unattended, using the SyncFusion XlsIO components.
So far this has been effective.  The only limitation I have run into is the ability to read some 'legacy' html/xml based Excel formats.
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London, May 19 (IANS) Actor Alec Baldwin believes he was arrested this week for riding his bicycle the wrong way down a street because of his star status. However, he was released shortly afterwards. Baldwin was handcuffed and taken away in...
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London, May 19 (IANS) Actor Alec Baldwin believes he was arrested this week for riding his bicycle the wrong way down a street because of his star status. However, he was released shortly afterwards.
Baldwin was handcuffed and taken away in a police car on May 13 after he was caught riding his bicycle the wrong way down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, reports femalefirst.co.uk. He denies claims he shouted at the two female officers.
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He added: "There's a process hearing July 24, when all of this will come out."
The actor - who has eight-month-old daughter Carmen with wife Hilaria, and 18-year-old daughter Ireland with ex-wife Kim Basinger - also joked New York police take cycling offences as seriously as terrorism.
He said: "Now write this down carefully -- as I was stepping out of my car tonight outside the Four Seasons, a delivery guy on a bike going the wrong way down the street rode right in front of me and my wife.
"I joked to a police officer outside the restaurant, 'There is only one crime worse in New York than riding a bike the wrong way down a street, and that's terrorism.' The police officer laughed."
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How many years will the Radeon RX Vega 11 graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon RX Vega 11 in your PC? This Radeon RX Vega 11 graphics card has reached the end of its ability to run games released today. If you have it in your gaming PC then it's time to upgrade your graphics solution.
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How to add this iGPU to my RIG? Because I cannot find it..
Hows the gaming performance of your Rig with this CPU & GPU? without any external GPU are you able to game on 720p High??
Hows the normal operation performance on Ryzen compared to intel?
Osaleem303 if you are curious of the performance of the iGPU it is between the RX 550 and RX 560 2gb models and in the bios you have to set it for 2gb Vram cause for most motherboards by default it usually it usually has it set by default for 512mb also it is best to have 16gb memory minimum 2800MHz max 3200MHz so you get the actual performance cause using something like 2400MHz memory you be a lot closer to having it as a RX 550.
Nice to see the GPU on this APU is able to handle Destiny 2 without that much problems which would be a good thing in case my GPU was to ever die out on me.


Many homeowners prefer to select wooded sites for their residence because of the beauty of Mississippi's forests. Some are unaware, however, that the majority of Mississippi's woodlands are actually fire ecosystems. This means that fire is a part of our environment and that wildfire can occur from lightning strikes or other sources under the right conditions. This guide lists steps and practices that you can take in your home landscape to reduce the risks of wildfire damage.
The area between your home and the surrounding woodlands is an important zone of wildfire protection. The types and amount of combustible materials in this immediate area determine the relative risks of wildfire. Building materials, brush storage, firewood, paints, chemicals, trees, shrubs, groundcovers and leaf litter can all be combustible under the proper conditions.
Depending upon the types of vegetation and slopes that surround your property, it is generally recommended to create a minimum of a 30' safety buffer zone between your home and the adjacent forest. In this defensible space, you can reduce the types of flammable materials for proper fire protection.
1. Reduce dense shrub and tree thickets.
Thick areas of vegetation are highly susceptible to fire. It is recommended to selectively thin shrubs and young trees from around structures to reduce vegetative fuels. Routine maintenance such as mowing, pruning, limbing, weeding, raking, and removing dead vegetation can keep wildfire from spreading.
2. Use non-flammable garden mulches and materials.
Pine needles, bark and wood chips can assist in the spread of ground fires under the right conditions. Non-flammable garden mulches, such as stone, pebbles and gravel, hinder the spread of fires. The use of wood for landscaping uses such as timbers, decks, arbors, fences and trellis's can also increase fire damage potential. Areas of high fire risk may consider substituting concrete, steel, brick or stone for constructing landscape or building materials.
3. Incorporate fire breaks where possible.
Fire breaks are areas cleared of flammable materials. For example, when a grass fire reaches a concrete driveway or road, the lack of flammable materials can cause the fire to extinguish. The recommended width of the fire break depends upon the estimated height of the flames of the adjoining vegetation. The greater the flame length, the greater the width of fire break. Roads, driveways, sidewalks, ponds, wet ditches, irrigated lawns and gardens, and tilled earth are considered to be effective fire breaks.
4. Keep your roof clean of debris.
Wind born fire embers can travel across the best of fire-proofed landscapes. Leaves and pine needles that build up on roofs and in gutters are potential fire hazards. Also, wooden shingles on roofs and exterior walls are susceptible to fire. The use of Class-A asphalt shingles, slate or clay tile, metal or cement and concrete products are suggested for roof construction. Cement, plaster, stucco and masonry are materials that can resist flames and heat.
5. Maintain adequate space for emergency equipment.
For a fire department to effectively protect your home, proper location and access should be provided. Street signs and house numbers should be constructed of fire proof material and clearly identified for rapid response. Driveways and access routes should be at least 12 feet in width and cleared up to 15 feet in height to accommodate emergency vehicles.
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