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Pre / Post-Zeppelin Forum
The Firm Thread
By Bong-Man,
June 6, 2009 in Pre / Post-Zeppelin Forum
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Dont get me wrong, I like the Firm, and I also think if they had come out in some other decade they would have more likely had more success. My feeling about their music is the same now as when I first heard it, not bad by a long shot, better than 70% of the stuff that was coming out at the time and still great today, but far from what I would expect from musical giant's like JP, PR and the other two very talented musicians (feel the same way with WIC). I dunno maybe Im selfish.
SteveAJones 132 posts
luvlz2 92 posts
Deborah J 72 posts
thozil 18 posts
I liked it well enough back when it was first released but those two records are something I've never owned on CD and very likely, never will. I have them on vinyl though so if I ever want to transfer them over to iTunes using a USB turntable the option remains to do that. Of course, I will need to purchase a USB turntable first.
Hi Jahfin:-)
I admit, I am a major fan of The Firm. I have the albums and CD's for the house and my car. I know I am out of control. I remember when I first heard that Jimmy was getting together with Paul I literally had chills! I still would LOVE to see these two together
Never say never. I feel fortunate to have run across the 12" remix of "Radioactive" back when I'd given up all hope of ever finding a copy. Like I've said before, I also enjoy hearing The Firm on XM's Deep Tracks channel whenever they break out the odd cut every now and again.
Knebby
manbags and gladrags, Queen :)
Location:Albion
They'll always be special to me - I have such memories of their tours. Jimmy was wonderful, and really dragging himself out of the quicksand.
But truthfully, a bit like you Jahfin, I rarely play their stuff. Must be due a spin!
My favorite post Zep stuff from Page is still the Whatever Happened To Jugula? album. Unfortunately, I have only seen him in concert once and that was when I drove to Atlanta in the mid-90s for the Page/Plant show at the Omni on the Unledded tour. I had a chance to see him with the Black Crowes when they played at Walnut Creek in Raleigh on July the 4th weekend back in '99 but I passed it up. I'm still kicking myself in the ass over that one.
Especially enjoyed their first tour in 1985 as Jimmy was on fire and the whole band was really gelling. I thought Mean Business was the better album of the two but the 1986 tour reflected a " wrapping it up" feeling to it. It was still great to see and hear Page play live again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngOUajEQMUQ
There was no studio version on YouTube so I just had to put it up, The Firm's best song!
Edited December 13, 2011 by TheStairwayRemainsTheSame
40 seconds into the Satisfaction Guaranteed vid....um....so is that Charlize Theron? Opinions?
Hi Chap, I don't think Charlize was even born then.
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Paul Rodgers was on the VH1's 'That Metal Show' a couple weeks back. Paul described in some candid detail how he and Jimmy Page started The Firm and also described the history on Bad Co's entry onto the Swan Song label. The show is rerun quite often, so catch it the next time around. Interesting stuff.
I posted this several days ago on the LZ related Video thread. Agree^^, It was great to hear Paul talk about the history with LZ.
http://www.vh1.com/video/that-metal-show/full-episodes/paul-rodgers-buckcherry/1676926/playlist.jhtml
Rock Historian
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^ Thanks for the post Deb, that was an enjoyable view. I was surprised at Paul Rogers answer........on best guitarist.
Paul's answer was based on his personal time working with each person, - the others answered on their favorite in general...it was entertaining to watch.
Edited January 25, 2012 by Rock Historian
This is from a couple days ago but better late than never. This is from the All Things Music Plus page on Facebook:
ON THIS DATE (26 YEARS AGO)
February 3, 1986 – The Firm Mean Business is released.
# ALL THINGS MUSIC PLUS+ 3.5/5
# Allmusic 2.5/5
Mean Business is an album by The Firm, released by Atlantic Records on 3 February 1986. Repeating the same bluesy formula as the debut album, Mean Business did not achieve the same commercial success.
One of the album's tracks "Live in Peace" was first recorded on Paul Rodgers' first solo album, 1983's Cut Loose. The differences between the two versions was that Chris Slade played the drums slower than the Cut Loose version except for the ending and Jimmy Page added a bluesy guitar solo at the end of the song.
The album's title was intended to have a double meaning: that the music business is a hard one, and that the band was serious about its music ("The Firm mean business"). However, perhaps due to the lukewarm-at-best critical and financial success with which the band met, Jimmy Page and Paul Rodgers decided to disband The Firm within months of this album's release.
The album peaked at #22 on the Billboard's Billboard 200 album chart and #46 on the UK Album Chart, and the single "All The King's Horses" spent four weeks at the top of Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
"Fortune Hunter" was originally co-written by Page and Chris Squire for the aborted XYZ project in 1981. Squire was not credited on The Firm's version and later stated he would have sued for royalties if the album had been a hit, but since it failed he dropped the idea because he saw it as inappropriate at a time he was receiving six-figure yearly income from the sales of 90125.
By Ace Jones, amazon.com (4/5 stars)
For anyone suffering Led Zep (or Bad Co.) withdrawal symptoms in the mid 80s, the Firm wasn't quite the answer, but upon repeated listening - Mean Business is probably Jimmy Page's best post-Zep effort. Punchy yet atmospheric with the bluesy vocals of Paul Rodgers, I do admire how these guys actually tried to produce a pretty serious album - and in spite of less than a stellar response - this album stands the test of time. Page would later play some of these tracks live - "Tear Down the Walls" is particularly nice. And "Fortune Hunter" rocks. A progressive album that is underrated and worth exploring.
1. Fortune Hunter (Jimmy Page, Paul Rodgers) 5:00
2. Cadillac (Page, Rodgers) 5:57
3. All the King's Horses (Rodgers) 3:16
4. Live in Peace (Rodgers) 5:05
1. Tear Down the Walls (Page, Rodgers) 4:43
2. Dreaming (Tony Franklin) 6:00
3. Free to Live (Page, Rodgers) 4:13
4. Spirit of Love (Rodgers) 5:06
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/The_Firm_%28band%29/Timelines
thozil
Christ Slade backing Tom Jones in 1964 on The Beat Room (a show on which Jimmy Page apparently appeared too)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRdNrwE13Yg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHOTV0KLOrk
....and Tom Jones doing The Firm.
WTF!!!!!!! :hysterical: :hysterical:
Does he do a cover of Hanger 18 too?
Anjin-san
Didn't Jimmy play on some early Tom Jones records?
It's Not Unusual his best hit was played on by Jimmy,
Thanks!KB
Edited February 7, 2012 by Anjin-san
When I saw the Firm in Rochester NY I left before the encore to get a glimpse of Jimmy Page in his limo. Of course I was trying everything in my power to try and meet him. The limo pulled out right in front of me and I was waving at him in the back seat and I know for a fact he made eye contact with me. It was the best chance I would ever have to get that close to him other than the concert in 77 in Landover. Plant's concert here was memorable. after Now and Zen. Opening act was Stevie Ray Vaughn. Would be not much longer until he met his untimely fate. Plant did Misty Mountain Hop and I believe that was the only Zep song he did.
A dollar short and a day late but I figured some folks might be interested in reading this entry on the Firm's debut album from the All Things Music Plus page on Facebook.
All Things Music Plus
February 11, 1985 – The Firm:The Firm is released.
# Allmusic 4/5
The Firm is the eponymous debut studio album by British rock band The Firm, released by Atlantic Records on 11 February 1985. Tracks ranged from the epic "Midnight Moonlight" based on a previously unreleased song by Led Zeppelin called "Swan Song", first tinkered with during the Physical Graffiti sessions, to the commercially successful "Radioactive". "Closer" employs a horn section to subtle effect.
The Firm peaked at #17 on the Billboard 200 chart, and reached #15 on the UK Album Chart. The song "Radioactive" topped Billboard's Top Rock Tracks chart for one week.
by Brian Downing, allmusic
Anticipation was quite high when it was announced in 1984 that Paul Rodgers, the past voice of Bad Company, and Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin's former guitarist, were creating a "supergroup" called the Firm. Page and Rodgers had first tinkered with the idea of an album after their successful collaboration on the ARMS benefit tour for Ronnie Lane in 1983. Based upon the fact that it had been over five years since Page's last band effort, and two years since Rodger's lackluster finale with the original Bad Company, pundits were more than eager to hear what new material the duo would unleash. However, when the band's self-titled debut was actually released in 1985, it received a critical drubbing and was all but ignored by the record-buying public. That's too bad, for the album is quite good and does nothing to taint the sterling reputations of either of its key players. Page and Rodgers were joined on The Firm by veteran drummer Chris Slade and Roy Harper-alum Tony Franklin. Slade's Bonham-esque sledgehammer attack on the skins, coupled with Franklin's fretless basslines, added dimension to Rodgers' smooth vocals and Page's layered guitar textures. Page's tone throughout is very reminiscent of the sound of his overdubs on Coda, as well as the sound he would subsequently employ on 1988's Outrider. Opening track "Closer" cleverly uses a subtle horn section to good effect, while "Someone to Love" represents all the good elements of the band in one number. Rodgers' "Radioactive" was actually a minor hit for the band, its quirkiness overcoming the goofiness of the lyrics. The album's best cut is "Satisfaction Guaranteed," a mid-tempo gem with a snaky and exotic Page riff and a heartfelt vocal performance by Rodgers. The only weak track on the record is the unnecessary cover of the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Loving Feeling," which feels totally out of place. The album-closing "Midnight Moonlight" could have been the Firm's best song, but the underwhelming arrangement and superfluous backing vocals partially destroyed it. The fact that "Midnight Moonlight" was actually an unfinished Led Zeppelin cut entitled "Swansong," left over from the Physical Graffiti sessions, led some to believe that Page had run out of new ideas for the project. While it is true that this album isn't as uniformly excellent as Led Zeppelin's work, it is the best from this short-lived band and turned out to be Page's most consistent effort from the entire decade of the '80s.
1. Closer (Jimmy Page, Paul Rodgers) 2:52
2. Make or Break (Rodgers) 4:21
3. Someone to Love (Page, Rodgers) 4:55
4. Together (Page, Rodgers) 3:54
5. Radioactive (Rodgers) 2:49
1. You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling (Barry Mann, Phil Spector, Cynthia Weil) 4:33
2. Money Can't Buy (Rodgers) 3:35
3. Satisfaction Guaranteed (Page, Rodgers) 4:07
4. Midnight Moonlight (Page, Rodgers) 9:13
Edited February 12, 2012 by Jahfin
Quite an interesting perspective. I always thought Rogers and Page to be "strange bedfellows" for lack of a better term. The concert was very good. The Now and Zen concert I would have to rank higher. But seeing Page is always worth the price of admission.
^^Nice post Jahfin:-) Of course I would love to see Jimmy do something new, but if he ever gets back on stage with Paul I would be one happy person!!!
Edited February 14, 2012 by Deborah J


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'Isn't it enough for art to be joyful?'
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Julia Gray describes her work as a post-doctoral fellow at Holland Bloorview as "the humanities reaching into rehab." Julia trained as an artist, playwright and theatre director and did her PhD in education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. Before coming here she worked with Ontario rehab researchers to write and direct a play called Cracked—about how we stigmatize people with dementia. "The researchers were interested in what they termed 'the discourse of tragedy' around dementia," Julia says. We talked about how a similar devaluation happens to people in the wider world of disability.
BLOOM: How do you describe your research?
Julia Gray: I'm interested in thinking about what it means to be disabled and/or able-bodied, and how art-making comes into that conversation. For example, I'm working on a study about the therapeutic clowns.
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Julia Gray: Yes, research here and elsewhere shows tangible outcomes, but I'm interested in the art part. What techniques are the clowns using, and how does what they're doing as artists link with those outcomes? What do kids with disabilities appreciate or value in that art part? This will be a pilot study where we observe 30 kids playing with the clowns, then debrief with the clowns on exactly what they were doing with the kids. We're also hoping to interview three to five kids to ask them what is special about the clowns, and what helps them?
BLOOM: Why is there a need for this research?
Julia Gray: My research focuses on the humanistic side of disability and the humanistic side of care. As a critical researcher, I try to flip over assumptions that we have. For example, we often think art has therapeutic value—that it can help cure or fix something. And my thought is: 'Really? Does it?' Do we have to assume that it always has only medical outcomes? Can't it just be part of being in the world? Isn't it enough for art to be joyful? As humans, we create things and that includes art sometimes, and kids with disabilities do it, too.
Medical outcomes are like an awesome bonus. If a child's anxiety or depression is reduced, or their functional movement is improved—awesome. But what about all of the other stuff we're missing, like joy, expressing sadness, producing something, or playing?
BLOOM: It does seem like a lot of our outcome measures are related to function, not happiness.
Julia Gray: That's rehab's roots, and it makes sense that that's the frame and the assumptions people bring to the work. We need to think beyond it. This is where my supervisor Barbara Gibson's work is really critical in asking what the purpose of rehab is philosophically. How do we help people live their best life? What are the assumptions that we're bringing about what we think a better life is? What are we valuing?
BLOOM: What do you love about working here?
Julia Gray: I really love working with my supervisor. Barb is genuinely interested in helping me learn things and build my skills. She has a wonderful balance between being genuinely kind and critiquing, challenging and pushing me in the most supportive way.
I also love the way Holland Bloorview is genuinely interested in improving the lives of kids with disabilities. Many clinical settings are not like that. Here, people are receptive to different ways of working and doing things. As an arts person, I feel people are genuinely curious about what I bring, in conversation with science. I'm humanities reaching into rehab.
BLOOM: What is most challenging?
Julia Gray: That cross-paradigmatic conversation!
BLOOM: Do you feel like you're talking different languages?
Julia Gray: Completely. The ways things are measured, or your outputs as a researcher, are done in a different way. There are outputs that aren't on the radar of scientific research—like artistic creation, which is a kind of exploration. We're in the process of having a discussion about how do we value that in a scientific research institute? And what is it that is valued?
For example, a lot of humanities- and arts-related work will be published in journals that have a low impact factor. The impact is in concepts and ideas and criticizing cultural norms and assumptions, not objective research or technology. Of course, all of these things can impact services or how care is provided, but the impact is different. To try to assess humanities with a scientific impact factor is challenging. Barb and I, and lots of other qualitative and arts researchers, are working to find ways to value, frame and talk about qualitative work. But we want to have that conversation without trying to fit it into dominant forms or frames.
BLOOM: What did you do your PhD in and why?
Julia Gray: I did my PhD in education at OISE. In my practical work with health researchers, I felt I wanted the education degree to allow me to learn more about social sciences and qualitative research, since my background is as an artist.
BLOOM: Did you have experience with disability before coming here?
Julia Gray: Before coming here my research was in dementia, which is cognitive memory loss. As a teenager, I worked at a summer camp with kids with disabilities. I was a special-needs counsellor who worked to integrate kids with special needs into the program. The emphasis was on helping kids be kids.
BLOOM: How did your play Cracked come to be?
Julia Gray: I had worked on a previous play called After The Crash about brain injury, and one of the investigators told me there was a group of her colleagues interested in doing a play about dementia.
BLOOM: What did they hope to achieve with a play about dementia?
Julia Gray: They were interested in what they termed the 'discourse of tragedy' around dementia: That we value cognition so much that if you lose that, you're devalued as a human being, and you could only be in the world in a negative, sad way.
They wanted to look at how assumptions about dementia being tragic affect how people are cared for, and the way long-term homes are built and run. They didn't want to address policy alone, or only the way health care providers are trained, but to look underneath at cultural beliefs around stigma. Why do we have to assume that dementia is sad? It's not to say it's not difficult, but is it only sad? Why can't it also be about just being in the world, being in nature and enjoying the sunshine on your face?
BLOOM: What is the play about?
Julia Gray: It follows two characters who have dementia. With one character we see how her relationship with her children changes, and with the other we see how her relationship with her partner changes. We see both characters move from the initial diagnosis through to their life in long-term care.
Part of what we see is the way these characters thrive in their lives. We see them join a political activist group and work with their MP to develop a national dementia strategy. We see one move into long-term care and make new friends. So the care home isn't just this dour, cavern of death. It's vibrant, and the character grows and learns, which is not what we expect to see.
We see that the things that are causing this character to shrink are not related to her disease, but to the assumptions people bring, and the way people stigmatize her. Every single scene in the play, except for one, is based on stories we've heard from people living with dementia and their families and clinicians.
BLOOM: Where was the play seen?
Julia Gray: We've toured it to many conferences, long-term care homes and community settings. Several performances were for the general public. It was also filmed and is available on DVD.
BLOOM: So you were trying to tackle stigma on a broad scale?
Julia Gray: We wanted to look at the broad, underlying assumptions we have about memory loss, and how they manifest in the ways we stigmatize people with dementia. We wanted to show that life could be different, that full lives are possible.
BLOOM: Is this a model we could use here at Holland Bloorview?
Julia Gray: It is a model we could use with disability stigma. Social justice and reducing stigma are right in our strategic plan, and the arts are fundamental to addressing assumptions that we don't even know we have. We assume that something is a normal way of seeing the world—but why? And how is this thought or assumption possibly harming people? Art can provide that kind of insight, in a way that being lectured to about 'not stigmatizing' can't.
BLOOM: What did you learn from your work on Cracked?
Julia Gray: It's very easy to get caught up in what it means to live a good life and to be successful. I'm always challenging myself to be aware of my own assumptions about what that means, and to reflect on assumptions that I bring to my work. It's a constant. You never know enough. I learned that any social justice or anti-stigma work is about relationships—it's not about you. It's about listening and acting and doing things in ways that are as supportive as possible for everybody.
BLOOM: Did doing the play change how you feel about diagnosed with dementia yourself?
Julia Gray: Hugely. I thought a lot about it. The thing that scares me the most isn't having dementia, but the way people will treat me, and going into care. I know I can live a good life. It's whether other people will make assumptions about me, and treat me poorly when I'm completely reliant on them.
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Q: ValueError: Error when checking input: expected dense_26_input to have shape (45781,) but got array with shape (2,) My input is simply a csv file with 45781 rows and two columns. I am trying to train my data on a neural network but when I try to fit the model, it throws me an error.
ValueError: Error when checking input: expected dense_26_input to have shape (45781,) but got array with shape (2,)

I tried implementing solution as given from this link :
Error when checking model input: expected lstm_1_input to have 3 dimensions, but got array with shape (339732, 29)
but i am still not able to run the code. Here's my code :
X = df.iloc[:, 0:2].values
y = df.iloc[:, 2].values

df_sklearn = df.copy()

lb_make = LabelEncoder()
df_sklearn['Type'] = lb_make.fit_transform(df['Type'])
df_sklearn.head() #Results in appending a new column to df

df_onehot = df.copy()
df_onehot = pd.get_dummies(df_onehot, columns=['Type'], prefix = ['Type'])

df_onehot_sklearn = df.copy()

lb = LabelBinarizer()
lb_results = lb.fit_transform(df_onehot_sklearn['Type'])
lb_results_df = pd.DataFrame(lb_results, columns=lb.classes_)

result_df = pd.concat([df_onehot_sklearn, lb_results_df], axis=1)

X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, lb_results_df, test_size = 0.4)

classifier = Sequential()
classifier.add(Dense(output_dim = 6, init = 'uniform', activation = 'relu', input_dim = 45781))
classifier.add(Dense(output_dim = 6, init = 'uniform', activation = 'relu'))
classifier.add(Dense(output_dim = 1, init = 'uniform', activation = 'sigmoid'))
classifier.compile(optimizer = 'adam', loss = 'binary_crossentropy', metrics = ['accuracy'])

classifier.fit(X_train, y_train, batch_size = 10, nb_epoch = 100)

A: The rows are usually your training examples, and the model expects you to omit this dimension. So if there are 45781 examples, each with 2 columns, input_dim should be 2. Also, you can omit the output_dim argument if you are stacking layers but you do have to specify units (number of neurons).
The last Dense Layer needs to have the same number of neurons as the dimension of y (20 in your case).
Below an example with dummy data:
X_train = np.random.random((300,2))
y_train = np.random.random((300,20))

classifier = Sequential()
classifier.add(Dense(units = 6, init = 'uniform', activation = 'relu', input_dim = 2))
classifier.add(Dense(units = 6, init = 'uniform', activation = 'relu'))
classifier.add(Dense(units = 20, init = 'uniform', activation = 'sigmoid'))
classifier.compile(optimizer = 'adam', loss = 'binary_crossentropy', metrics = ['accuracy'])
classifier.summary()

classifier.fit(X_train, y_train, batch_size=10, nb_epoch=100)

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Trailer of the Day: The Song Keepers
Cinema Australia / August 16, 2017
CinefestOZ Film Festival will host the West Australian debut of The Song Keepers.
This Central Australian film will be screening on Aug 25 and 27 at Orana Cinemas Busselton, followed by an exclusive Q&A with director, producer and writer Naina Sen.
In the obscure churches of remote Central Australia, a 140-year musical legacy of ancient Aboriginal languages, German sacred poetry and baroque music is being preserved by four generations of song women. The Song Keepers tells the unknown story of the choral heritage of remote Aboriginal communities. The film follows the 32-strong, Central Australian Aboriginal Women's Choir as they embark on a joyous three week historical tour of Germany.
Born in New Delhi, India, Naina Sen is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, creative producer and video projection artist specialising in cross-cultural storytelling. Most of her work in the past 10 years has been in remote Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and more recently Indonesia, East Timor and India.
From 2008 to 2011, Naina created and operated visual stage projections for renowned Indigenous musician Gurrumul and directed 2010's Stories Through Song, a 30 minute documentary for PBS featuring Gurrumul. Naina also co-wrote and edited Bulunu Milkarri, for the Songlines to Screen initiative in 2015, which premiered at the Sydney International Film Festival and won Best Language Production at the ImagiNative Film Festival, Toronto.
The Song Keepers is Naina's debut feature documentary.
The multi-generational Central Australian Aboriginal Women's Choir contains 32 core members, including two men. The members come from six remote communities throughout central Australia: Hermannsburg, Areyonga, Titjikala, Mutitjulu, Docker River, and Alice Springs. The choir was formed as an amalgamation of various individual community choirs, including the renowned choirs from Ntaria (Hermannsburg), Areyonga and Ernabella.
Their performances include German baroque and Early Romantic hymns, now sung in traditional Aboriginal languages from the Central Desert.
Tickets to The Song Keepers are now on sale and can be purchased from CinefestOZ.com, the CinefestOZ smartphone app and local visitor centres.
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Popular Hudson Valley Business Owner Dies At 57
Bobby Welber Published: August 2, 2021
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A Hudson Valley man who owned multiple local businesses died at the age of 57.
James T. Maryniak, 57, of Wappingers Falls, was laid to rest on Saturday at Zion Episcopal Church in Wappingers Falls. Maryniak owned Middletown Tattoo, Tattooz Forever and Exotic Fish & Kustom Aquariums in Wappingers Falls.
He was born in New Rochelle and grew up in South Salem. He died in June after a lengthy illness, according to his obituary.
"Jim was an amazing artist who loved tattooing and airbrushing. Jim was a great and loyal friend. Family meant the most to Jim, especially his sons and being Pop-Pop to his grandchildren. Mustangs, Harleys, Dunkin Donuts coffee, teaching his grandsons how to draw and his beloved Chihuahuas, Cassie & Lucky, were among his favorite things. Jim will be dearly missed by all who knew him," his obituary states.
He's survived by his wife two sons, two stepsons, and stepgrandchildren
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So many EU-27 nationals living in the UK that talk to me are feeling they are no longer welcome in this post-Brexit world. Despite reassurances that they can stay in the UK, time and again they tell me how unwanted they now feel. It reminds me of my son's friend, who didn't initially . . .


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Hekla Adventure
This is truly a voyage you don´t want to miss! With its rhyolite mountains, geothermal areas, black sand desert, canyons, glaciers, volcanoes, waterfalls and so much more...
Our trip begins at Mt. Hekla, one of Iceland's most active volcano. It was labeled "The gateway to Hell" after it's 1104 eruption. That reputation grew with its 1341 eruption. People reported seeing birds fly amidst the fire with some believing it to be swarming souls from hell. Even today some say Hekla has preserved its diabolic status, claiming it the spot where witches encounter the devil!
So if you dare, come with us for this thrilling drive up Hekla volcano. We'll search the signs of these gatherings and while doing so get a gorgeous panoramic view over the highlands and the south coast of Iceland. As we're making our way towards Laugavegur, Iceland´s most popular hiking trail, our F road takes us directly on to the hiking trail in parts, leading us up to a few mountain huts, fx. Álftavatn and Emstrur. We then stop at the spectacular canyon Markarfljótsgljúfur. It is believed to have been created in a single flash flood bursting from the volcano Katla in Mýrdalsjökull glacier. Driving beside the glacial river Markarfljót with Þórsmörk and Eyjafjallajökull glacier on the east side is extremely beautiful.
We end our Super Jeep tour in Fljótshlíð, a beautiful farmland where the famous Njáls Saga took place. In Fljótshlíð you truly get a change to experience Iceland's authentic countryside.
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Autor: Edith Wharton, May Sinclair, Virginia Woolf, und andere
Sprecher: Cathy Dobson
Fifty short stories by women writers who broke the mould.
Autor: Edith Wharton, May Sinclair, Virginia Woolf, Stella Benson, Gertrude Atherton, Katherine Mansfield, J. H. Riddell
Seven Christmas Tales
Autor: Hugh Walpole, J. H. Riddell, O. Henry, und andere
Seven contrasting short stories, all set at Christmastime: 'Mr. Huffam' by Hugh Walpole, 'A Strange Christmas Game' by J. H. Riddell, 'The Christmas Tree and the Wedding' by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 'The Snow' by Hugh Walpole, 'The Gift of the Magi' by O. Henry, 'The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 'The Cop and the Anthem' by O. Henry.
Autor: Hugh Walpole, J. H. Riddell, O. Henry, Arthur Conan Doyle, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A Strange Christmas Game
Autor: J. H. Riddell
Spieldauer: 25 Min.
Charlotte Riddell (1832-1906), who wrote as Mrs J. H. Riddel, was one of the most popular and influential writers of the Victorian period. 'A Strange Christmas Game' is a brilliantly constructed ghost story with a strange twist at the end.
Autor: J.H. Riddell
Sprecher: Jill Masters
First appearing in 1882, this collection by Mrs. J.H. Riddell established her as a leading Victorian author of supernatural fiction. She achieved her effect by using commonplace settings into which the horrors crept.


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It's something every parent of a young child worries about, or should worry about, especially on these hot summer days — in the rush of everyday life some people forget their babies and toddlers in their car seats in the back of their cars, sometimes with deadly results.
But as cases have happened this summer, particularly a troubling case in Georgia where the father is alleged to have deliberately left his 22-month-old son to die in a hot car on June 18, it might be time to stop feeling sorry for these parents, who've often gotten off with barely a slap on the wrist from authorities.
The father in Georgia is alleged to have searched the Internet for information about child deaths in hot cars, which investigators believe may show he planned to kill the child and collect insurance money. Investigators are looking into whether his wife conspired with him.
But even if that particular father didn't do what he's now accused of, someone could be tempted to kill their child in this horrible way because parents in past cases have gotten off with little punishment.
In another recent case, on July 3, a 2-year-old girl was rescued from a car in a parking lot on Long Island, New York, after an alert passer-by heard the girl crying and summoned law officers. The officer who broke open a car window to rescue her estimated it was 120 degrees inside the car, while outside the temperature was 80.
Even when temperatures are in the 60s, the temperature in a closed car can rise to above 110 degrees, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
If these cases are accidents, they are preventable.
An 11-year-old Nashville boy, entering a contest to make things with rubber bands, came up with the idea to create a rubber band chain that parents can hook from the backseat to the driver's side door handle so they can't get out of the car without remembering the child.
He gives directions on how anyone can make his E-Z Baby Saver on his website at ezbabysaver.com. There he says a bungee cord could work as well to block the driver until he or she focuses on the backseat.
A variety of commercial products also exist to alert caregivers that a baby is being left in a car, but use of any of these things requires a responsible adult.
Day care establishments expecting children to be dropped off also could play a role in preventing such deaths if they call parents to ask why the child hasn't arrived.
In heat stroke cases, the heat attacks the brain, heart, kidneys and muscles, eventually leading to death, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Children and the elderly are at increased risk of heat stroke in hot conditions.
On average, 38 children die in hot cars a year, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The agency looked at such deaths since 1998 and said 51 percent happened when the caregiver forgot the child, 30 percent when children played in an unattended vehicle, and 17 percent of the cases were due to an adult intentionally leaving the child in the car.
No one should die that way, but the loss of innocent children, unable to communicate or get out of harm's way on their own, is particularly tragic.
Parents and other caregivers need to do their part to prevent these awful deaths, and the legal system needs to do more to make sure any such case is thoroughly investigated and not treated as a sad and simple accident, and that there is punishment for causing a death.
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/ Travel to Uzbekistan to find the missing pieces of my family history
Travel to Uzbekistan to find the missing pieces of my family history
Everywhere in Uzbekistan I felt a sense of déjà vu: under gilded domes; at beautifully laid tables with tandor nons and meat-filled samsas that reminded me of the naans and samosas I had at my grandmother's house in Hyderabad; in the folds of textiles; and amid volleys of words that were both alien and recognizable. Standing in front of Bolo Hauz, an 18th-century mosque in the ancient city of Bukhara, I felt as if the country also had a sense of where I came from. I was trying to photograph the reflection of 20 wood-carved pillars in the Hauz – pond – which gives the mosque its name, when an elderly man stopped my guide, Abdulaziz Isomov, for a chat. They gave me looks and grins, so I put my phone down and joined them.
"He says you look like Babur's descendants," said Abdulaziz.
I smiled. I may not count a Mughal ruler among my ancestors, but there was a grain of truth in the man's testimony: Babur did indeed pave the way for my ancestors when he conquered Delhi to establish India's Mughal Empire.
In the Sitorai Mokhi Khosa Palace in Bukhara
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Poi-Kalyan, an Islamic religious complex in Bukhara
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The term Silk Road evokes caravans on the horizon, weaving a colossal web across the desert, with mountains of gossamer fabrics, ideologies and discoveries being transported from China to Europe and back. But when I hear the words, I don't think of ancient thoroughfares, but of a lofty, elusive branch of my family tree. My father, a tireless historian of our ancestors' migrations across the Muslim world, can trace our roots back 40 generations, from Arabia to Andalus, the Ottoman Empire, Jerusalem, Baghdad, Central Asia, India, and finally Massachusetts and Manhattan. I grew up in the Middle East, have traveled to Spain and Turkey and regularly visit India. But the Uzbek intermediate station from the 15th to the 17th centuries remains a mystery of my family's wandering history.
For years I have longed to follow in the footsteps of my family's five generations who lived in Samarkand and Bukhara. A simple tour couldn't really contextualize the life they led during the heyday of the Silk Road, so I reached out to Zulya Rajabova, founder of Silk Road Treasure Tours, which has created itineraries across Central Asia, as well as Mongolia, China and the Caucasus since 25 years. Over several months of calls, I shared an ad hoc array of details and desires – the names my father had analyzed from yellowed records, as well as every landmark I had ever read of of Samarkand's majestic Registan, an ancient public one Square full of monuments , to grandiose metro stations hollowed out under Tashkent. My father concluded that a Syed Adham Rifaai landed in Bukhara from Jerusalem around 1470, and several generations later Khaja Abdullah Khan Rifaai traveled to Delhi in 1680 at the invitation of Emperor Aurangzeb. Zulya made sense of my desires and weaved around her a six-day journey that took me from Tashkent to Samarkand, and then by train to Bukhara.
When silk became as valuable as gold – and sometimes even more valuable – a network of prosperous cities sprang up along this 2,200-year-old route. When the famous Moroccan adventurer Ibn Battuta visited Samarkand in the 1330s, he described it as "one of the largest and most beautiful cities, and the most perfect of them in beauty". Later that century, the legendary Mongol conqueror Timur waged relentless campaigns from the Mediterranean to India, carting back riches and thousands of craftsmen to erect towering tributes to his greatness. Mosques, madrasas, and mausoleums were adorned with teal and indigo mosaic tiles and topped with azure domes, which became the hallmark of Central Asian architecture.
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Then I think two weeks ago Rob informed me again that now Andrew Chan will bury Barbara's gravestone in the same square of grave as her own ashes. It seems that there is a belief that it would be much better for Barbara's spirit if the gravestone does not leave her grave. It might be a Chinese culture, which I somehow understand and respect.
Thus, for now the gravestone will remain in the Cambridge City Cemetery. I will not be able to see it the next time I'm going there... but I know that it will be there, buried underneath Barbara's new gravestone.
I used to think that Cambridge was too far away for fans to visit. However, after witnessing how beautiful and serene that town is, I am actually glad that Barbara's grave is in Cambridge. The lush beautiful greeneries of Cambridge provides that peaceful feeling... such that Rob said that coming to Barbara's grave is akin to a second home for him. There's peaceful solitude there that I actually have come to love.


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You know that you have found the perfect wedding dress when you fall in love for the first time and you do not want to wear anything else. If you do not have a specific idea it is important to decide which part of your body would like to emphasize.
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If you don't like white long tail wedding dresses, you can also choose red, beige, blue or pink colours. Wearing a veil is not compulsory for the bride but the veil originally symbolized the bride's innocence.


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Black South West Network – enabling Bristol entrepreneurs
Black South West Network (BSWN) is a regional racial justice organisation supporting the development of dynamic, independent, strong Black and Minoritised communities, businesses and organisations. Earlier this year, SMV was invited by BSWN to support a new initiative aimed at widening access to business start-up support, finance and networks for businesses and social enterprises across the South West of England.
In this first phase, seven members of SMV are working with a group of dynamic entrepreneurs from Bristol's Black and Minoritised community in a mentoring role as the group develops their individual businesses over a 12-month period.
In September, the first 'mentoring mingle' was held in St Pauls, hosted by Sado Jirde, CEO of BSWN, and Derek Tanner, Enterprise Development Manager. The energy and enthusiasm of everyone involved resulted in valuable connections being made with each entrepreneur matching up with a mentor.
Over the coming weeks and months, they will spend time getting to know each other and building their working relationship so that the mentors can add real value as the entrepreneurs develop their start-ups. Every other month the teams will come together to share learning and broaden the experience as a wider group.
Amongst the Bristol-based start-ups to have signed up to the programme are:
Adolescent Support Home Services and Diverse Dolls 4 All, both projects aimed at supporting young people who have suffered child abuse and exploitation, run by registered social worker Simon Ashman, matched with SMV member David Freed, co-founder of Deeley Freed, an independent Bristol-based group of property companies that specialises in mixed-use regeneration projects.
The Green Melon, a local vegetable box scheme promoting healthy eating with affordable, fresh, plastic-free, culturally appropriate food, run by husband and wife team John Aguirre and Tara Miran, matched with SMV member Mark Burchfield, who built his career in engineering and IT managed services and grew his company to be a European market leader.
International Graduate Success Accelerator, run by Kiki Paddy, connects international graduates with public and private sector companies, helping them to integrate into the UK labour market and build successful careers, matched with SMV member Mohammed Saddiq, Executive Director of Operations for Wessex Water and a passionate advocate for the environment, sustainability and for businesses helping to address issues of inequality and social mobility.
Jerk King, an Afro-Caribbean award-winning events catering business, led by Ashley Burrowes, matched with SMV member Michael Bothamley, a retired development lawyer and former partner at Bristol-based international law firm DAC Beachcroft.
Jikoni, an East African food outlet and event caterer whose customers are able to share the unique history and culture of East Africa through food, run by Iman Salat and James Hillier, matched with SMV member Sam Roberts, co-owner of independent cafe group Boston Tea Party.
KC Concepts, Bristol's first Black-owned pop-up shop showcasing 40 Black British brands across art, lifestyle, beauty and fashion, driven by owner Latoya Adlam, matched with SMV member Edward Ware, whose career has been in property investment and construction.
Maroon Fist, a martial arts blend of traditional Chinese and African moves with Tai-Chi, boxing and self-defence, led by coach Leonard Jackson, matched with SMV member David Powell, a retired solicitor who spent 40 years practising in Bristol.
SMV members with entrepreneurs, from left to right: Latoya Adlam (KC Concepts), Iman Salat (Jikoni), Simon Ashman (Adolescent Support Home Services and Diverse Dolls 4 All), Leonard Jackson (Maroon Fist), James Hillier (Jikoni), John Aguirre (The Green Melon), Kiki Paddy (International Graduate Success Accelerator), BSWN's Derek Tanner and Ashley Burrowes (Jerk King)
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Digital Invoicing ensures transparency and economic efficiency in many companies. In more and more cases it is also becoming legally binding and tax-relevant. In Hungary real-time VAT reporting to the Hungarian tax authorities (NAV) is required by law since 1st of July 2018 for invoices issued between domestic taxpayers.
KAESER compressors already use various E-Invoicing solutions with SAP integration as cloud services from SEEBURGER, e.g. for ZUGFeRD. Due to the increasing number of country-specific directives, KAESER is pursuing an all-in-one strategy for B2B/B2G E-Invoicing services and has therefore also implemented the E-Invoicing solution in Hungary via the corresponding cloud service extension from SEEBURGER. The reporting data is now delivered to NAV securely and efficiently via XML files in real time.
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Auto Parts Giant Dana Holding is Changing Gears
Here�s a surprise: After a decade of debacles, auto parts titan Dana Holding is finally turning around, thanks to a new CEO with global ambitions
By Joann Muller
Published: Dec 15, 2012 06:40:51 AM IST
Updated: Dec 7, 2012 05:46:27 PM IST
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Roger Wood sees opportunity around the world for Dana
Roger Wood looked at Dana Holding and saw possibilities. In the past decade the storied Maumee, Ohio, auto parts maker had survived a misguided acquisition binge, a hostile takeover attempt, an accounting scandal, a bankruptcy filing, a taxpayer bailout of two of its largest customers and the Great Recession.
It had dumped a bunch of odd- ball assets, including an olive farm in South America, a jet-leasing business and a ski resort, but with six CEOs in eight years (Wood was the potential lucky number seven), Dana remained adrift, a 108-year-old company in search of a new beginning.
"I found a lot of confusion about what this company was doing and where it could go," says Wood, 50, in what could be the auto industry understatement of the decade. "But I saw a real jewel in these technologies we had, if we could put them together in a simple, sustainable strategy." He joined as the CEO in April 2011, ditching a comfy slot near the top of rival BorgWarner, where he'd worked for 26 years.
If that seemed like a fairly suicidal career move then, it doesn't anymore. Written off for dead after going bankrupt in 2006, and then racking up another $1.1 billion in losses after emerging into the teeth of the recession in 2008, Dana is—impossibly—back. It returned to profitability (barely) in 2010 and is now on a roll, with six consecutive positive quarters. Year-to-date net income is $212 million, and third-quarter adjusted EBITDA (Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amirtization) margin improved to 11 percent, despite a 12 percent drop in sales. "The transformation of the company is very much on track," says Barclays analyst Brian Johnson, who calls Dana "one of our top choices in a rocky market".
Founded in 1904 after Clarence Spicer patented the encased univer- sal joint, which enabled the modern- day automobile, Wood saw similar engineering prowess buried inside the company now. Under Wood, Dana would build three things: Drivelines (which transfer power from the transmission to the axles), sealing systems (which reduce oil consumption and emissions) and thermal-management systems (which control temperatures in batteries and other components).
Growth would come from devel- oping products that make vehicles cleaner, more efficient and better-performing. It used a proprietary magnetic-pulse welding process, for example, to develop a lightweight, one-piece aluminum driveshaft that improves fuel efficiency for both light vehicle and commercial truck customers. Another Dana technology speeds the warmup phase when a vehicle is started, reducing emissions and improving fuel economy.
Wood also stepped up efforts to grow in places outside the US. Last year, for instance, Dana sharply raised its stake in a Chinese joint venture with Dongfeng Motor, China's leading manufacturer of commercial vehicles, from 4 percent to 50 percent. Dana's geographic footprint has changed dramatically. As recently as 2009, 51 percent of its revenues came from North America.
By 2011, that figure was down to 39 percent, with Europe accounting for 25 percent; Asia, 20 percent and South America, 16 percent. Today, Dana operates 96 major facilities in 27 countries and develops technology in 15 regional engineering centres around the world.
The strategy has worked so far. But, like many companies, Dana is running into economic headwinds. Commercial vehicle production in the US is softening, China is slowing, Brazil's torrid growth is on hiatus and Europe remains difficult. On October 26, Dana lowered its earnings forecast for the remainder of the year, citing weaker demand.
"Volatility in our markets is a fact of life," says Wood. He says Dana has lowered its break-even point and changed its product mix to eke out profits even in a downturn. "Economic and market conditions may change, but the value drivers of fuel efficiency, emissions and vehicle operating costs are here to stay. So we are aligning our technology portfolio with them," he says, adding: "I didn't make Dana a technology company. It always was. But in the last decade it got confused."
Did it ever? The seeds of disaster were planted in the 1990s, when Dana, flush with cash that came from selling axles and other parts for pick-ups and SUVs, went on a spending spree, making at least 10 big acquisitions in the US and abroad. In 1998 alone, the deals added more than $4.5 billion to Dana's annual sales. Employment climbed from 50,000 to 80,000 in 12 months.
By 2003, however, after a downturn in auto sales, Dana reversed course and began divesting billions of dollars in assets, including the $2 billion automotive aftermarket business it had acquired just a few years earlier.
In autumn 2003, an industry rival, Meritor, launched a hostile takeover attempt, which failed. In the midst of it, Dana's chief executive, Joseph Magliochetti, suffered a heart attack and died. Later, the company restated 2004 and first-half 2005 results after an internal investigation discovered improper accounting.
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January 24, 2020 July 18, 2020 by FindtheMissing
Above: Gary circa, 1974
Missing Since: September 6, 1974
Missing From: Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina
Distinguishing Characteristics: Native American Male, Brown hair, Brown eyes, Gary has a scar which is 2 inches in length from a coffee burn on his abdomen
Clothing/Jewelry Description: Gary was last known to be wearing a cross necklace
Gary was last seen in Charleston, South Carolina on September 6th 1974. He was last seen at approximately 11:00 am as he walked home from a friends home. He was seen walking down Remount Road in the Charleston Farm Community. His friend said he saw Gary walking to a fast food joint and he paused to look down the street. The friend went into his home.
He never arrived at his home and was never seen or heard from again. Thunderstorms struck the area that night. His belongings were all left behind even his wallet. Authorities do not believe he ran away from home.
Locals have stated that it's been considered that serial killer Donald Gaskins may have been involved in Gary's disappearance. Gaskin claimed to have as many as 110 victims in total. Since he lived in the area and was active as a serial killer at the time of Locklear's disappearance, speculation has arisen that he was involved. He was arrested in 1975. He has not been officially linked to Gary's disappearance.
Gary was described as an average teenaged boy. He got along well with both his parents and had just recently joined the junior varsity football team. He was to receive a motorcycle for his birthday which was the day after he disappeared. He would have turned 16 years of age. He had a good home life but was experiencing some normal teenage problems at the time. He may have felt under prioritized by his parents as he was one of seven children.
Gary's disappearance remains unsolved.
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North-east addiction recovery charity makes major strides in raising funds to buy base
by Daniel McKay
An addiction recovery charity is closing in on a fundraising target to purchase its centre premises years ahead of schedule.
Addiction charity Teen Challenge North East Scotland's five-year fundraising drive to raise £535,000 launched in 2015.
Its goal is to pull together the money needed to purchase the Benaiah recovery centre for women and their children, which it currently rents.
However, less than two years into the campaign, more than three quarters of the target amount has been raised.
Support worker and PR co-ordinator Paul Beaton.
Support worker Paul Beaton said: "The highlight for us of 2016 is the Buy Benaiah campaign.
"It's going really well. The new fundraising total for the Buy Benaiah campaign is £424,240 – that's 79% of the £535,000 target.
"But there is still a fair amount of money to be raised and a lot of hard work to do.
"What's been really encouraging is the people that have really thrown their weight behind the campaign.
"The community has really thrown its weight behind it."
Teen Challenge operates the Benaiah centre near Mintlaw, as well as Sunnybrae in Fyvie.
The Benaiah centre is unusual in that it is for women who wish to remain with their children during their recovery.
Paul explained that one thing that can stop some people seeking help with their addiction is that they do not want to leave their children.
He said: "It's very successful for those that come in and stay.
"It's about coming out into the countryside away from the hustle and bustle and working on their issues.
"It's all based on Christian principles. And you've got the counselling sessions and work duties.
"For those that do go through and apply themselves – it is very successful particularly compared to other forms of addition recovery.
"It's a great atmosphere and there's a great spirit in both centres.
"There's a lot of laughter but there's got to be a disciplined element as well."
Benaiah currently has six women staying there, but there is so much demand for its services there is a waiting list to get in.
Paul said Benaiah had helped around 100 people since it opened in 2009, while Sunnybrae had seen some 400 addicts turn their lives around since it was opened in 2003.
He added: "We help them to really find lasting freedom from their issues.
"The need is as great as ever. The North-east of Scotland has been particularly hit hard with drug abuse.
"In many ways our ideal scenario is that we wouldn't be here and there wouldn't be a need for us.
"But the need is there and there are some really sad stories with people's lives being decimated."
The fundraising campaign has seen area manager Gordon Cruden take part in a homeless challenge sleeping rough for a month.
Gordon also took on a very different challenge of visiting every US state and covering more than 5,000 miles on his motorbike in just 28 days.
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I upgraded docker-engine to docker-ce and now... docker doesn't respond to any commands.
Some things I've noticed:
dockerd is sitting around 30 - 40% cpu usage with no containers running.
every single docker command appears to hang. docker info, docker ps, nothing works.
When I stop docker through service docker start, it takes about 30 seconds. It never took this long before.
When I enable debug logging, this is what I'm seeing in the log:
root@build-server-1:/var/log/upstart# cat docker.log
Waiting for /var/run/docker.sock
time="2017-10-09T12:28:50.182537180-07:00" level=debug msg="Listener created for HTTP on unix (/var/run/docker.sock)"
time="2017-10-09T12:28:50.183345325-07:00" level=info msg="libcontainerd: new containerd process, pid: 2570"
DEBU[0000] containerd: read past events                  count=0
DEBU[0000] containerd: supervisor running                cpus=8 memory=15950 runtime=docker-runc runtimeArgs=[] stateDir="/var/run/docker/libcontainerd/containerd"
DEBU[0000] containerd: grpc api on /var/run/docker/libcontainerd/docker-containerd.sock
/var/run/docker.sock is up
time="2017-10-09T12:28:50.683955722-07:00" level=debug msg="libcontainerd: containerd health check returned error: rpc error: code = Unavailable desc = grpc: the connection is unavailable"
time="2017-10-09T12:28:51.183928447-07:00" level=debug msg="libcontainerd: containerd health check returned error: rpc error: code = Unavailable desc = grpc: the connection is unavailable"
time="2017-10-09T12:28:51.185264109-07:00" level=debug msg="Using default logging driver json-file"
time="2017-10-09T12:28:51.185354633-07:00" level=debug msg="Golang's threads limit set to 114120"
time="2017-10-09T12:28:51.193263733-07:00" level=debug msg="Cleaning up stale layer dir" dir=837a16dbc38386d05c5c2c70f6a5cb6f1d9ce9e4d98ca0b27fea823a87e9a95b-removing driver=aufs module=graphdriver

Things I've done:
I've removed /var/lib/docker, /var/run/docker*. Rebooted the system, start/stop the container service.
If I could find an error in a log file somewhere, I'd have something to work off of but I haven't seen a single error. Just nothing working.
root@build-server-1:/var/log/upstart# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Release:    14.04
Codename:   trusty
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The Austrian defence
Continuing on, to produce my third piece reviewing the great circus elephant debacle, it occurred to me that, if I was writing a sequel or an update to The Great Deception (which Booker and I are thinking about for the tenth anniversary of its publication, in 2015), Pritchard's debate would probably be marked down as a good illustration of how far parliament had declined under the baleful influence of the European Union.
But what I would need to do, and have not done yet, is show how clearly it demonstrates that decline. For that, we need to look at some of the speeches in the parliamentary debate, starting with Mark Pritchard, and including the input of the minister, Jim Paice, and some others.
Before we go there, though, one has to appreciate that there is considerable history here. In a campaign inspired by PETA, the RSPCA and other "animal rights" groups – supported by the greens and lefties - there has been pressure to bring in a ban on the use of circus animals for some years, the more recent attempts directed at the previous administration and now this one.
Faced with the pressure, the response of the Cleggerons has actually been fairly direct but inept, with Jim Paice, for DEFRA, claiming that EU law prevented an outright ban. In the first of two efforts prior to last week's debate, on 12 May 2011, he had stated:
There have been recent press reports that the Austrian Government have been taken to court for their attempt to ban wild animals in circuses, so our Government can hardly recommend something that might not be legal. I can assure him, however, that the proposals we will bring forward shortly will be tough enough to ensure that animal welfare in circuses is properly protected.
Responding to Gavin Shukerm the Labour member for Luton South, and a co-signatory of Pritchard's motion, he then declared: "Whether we like it or not, this court case is going on in Europe and therefore the British Government could not bring forward a proposal ... that might well prove shortly to be unlawful".
That had the greenies and the animal rights activists scurrying away to do their homework, whence they found that the Austrian claim was not strictly true. Thus, on 19 May 2011 Mary Creagh, Labour member for Wakefield came back to the hapless Paice, who "clarified" the issue, telling the House:
... we now understand that the initiation of court proceedings against the Austrian Government has been delayed, although a case is in preparation and proceedings are expected to commence shortly ... This does not, however, affect our policy ... The very strong legal advice that we have received, which is consistent with the case being prepared against Austria, is that a total ban on wild animals in circuses might well be seen as disproportionate action under the European Union services directive and under our own Human Rights Act 1998. We believe that to have pursued a ban in the light of that legal advice would have been irresponsible.
So was set the scene for last week's debate, and when it came to Pritchard's turn to stand up and make his case, he thus decided to reject the argument that a ban on circus wild animals was prohibited by EU law. Referring to what was coming to be called the "Austrian defence", he went on to observe that:
It is not uncommon to hear of Governments sheltering behind courts in Brussels or Strasbourg, but to hear from Ministers in my own Front-Bench team say that this Government are now sheltering behind a domestic court in Vienna is a completely new innovation.
In full sarcasm mode, he then pursued his own arguments, claiming that the reality was that the Government's Austrian defence was a red herring, given that the European Commission had clearly stated that a ban is a matter for member states alone. It is an issue that English courts decide, Pritchard said, proclaiming:
Surely that is something to celebrate in this age of judicial creep from Europe, and also something to exercise and implement. A ban can be introduced in an English court - without waiting for other European capitals to decide and without interference from Europe, which makes a refreshing change.
Pritchard, the supposed Tory, was then strongly supported by the ghastly Green, Caroline Lucas, who picked up the point about member state involvement, and informed the House that "the European Commission here in London recently wrote a letter to the Captive Animals Protection Society stating plainly, yet again, that the EU considered that the welfare of animals … 'is a matter best left to the judgement of Member States'".
Now things are getting really interesting, because that is indeed the view of the EU commission. But the Ghastly Green does not mention the European Ombudsman. This is left, initially to Jim Fitzpatrick, Labour MP for Poplar and Limehouse, who completely muddies that water by claiming:
The European Circus Association challenged the Austrian ban at the European Commission in 2006, and it lost. It invoked the European ombudsman and it lost. The ombudsman asked the Commission to evaluate whether the Austrian ban on wild animals in circuses was proportionate. The Commission's final opinion of September 2009, as laid out in the documents available in the Library pack for today's debate, set out why it did not believe there were grounds for an accusation of maladministration and also set out its view on the proportionality of the Austrian ban. It ruled that this was a matter for member states to decide.
It turns out that the Ombudsman's ruling is absolutely crucial. The Commission has bottled out of infringement proceedings against the Austrian ban, quite obviously because it does not want to confront the animal rights lobby. In the Ombudsman's view, therefore:
... the Commission's statement that "animal welfare questions are better left to Member States" seemed tantamount to an abdication by the Commission from its role as guardian of the Treaties in all matters concerning animal welfare and not merely to those pertaining to the present case. As such, it failed to provide a correct, clear and understandable reasoning for the exercise of the Commission's discretionary powers to close the case. The Ombudsman found that in so doing the Commission had committed an act of maladministration.
This is all nicely set out in a press release, where the Ombudsman concluded in a deliciously robust fashion:
As the Guardian of the Treaty, the Commission is obliged to supervise the correct application of EU law in the Member States. After his investigation, the Ombudsman concluded that the Commission had abdicated its role as Guardian of the Treaty. According to him, it should have determined whether the complete ban imposed by the Austrian law constituted a proportionate restriction of the right of free movement. If it were to conclude that this is not the case, the Commission should either continue infringement proceedings or provide the complainant with a valid reason for closing the case.
It is then left for Paice to reiterate the Government's case, and this time he refers to the Ombudsman, making "a damning criticism of maladministration against the Commission, based on the view that it had abdicated its responsibility to maintain the treaties by not interfering in the rights of member states".
Bizarrely, we now have a situation that you could not in your wildest dreams make up. Let me summarise. We have the British Parliament which wants to ban the use of wild animals in circuses, supported by the EU commission, who says this is a case for member states, then opposed by the member state in the form of HMG, which says to instigate a ban would be unlawful – under EU law – supported in part by the Ombudsman, who criticises the commission, in effect, for not interfering in the rights of member states.
All Paice can do is tell the House that it is ultimately the courts that interpret legislation. Our lawyers have to advise us, he says, not about what the commission's view is, but how they believe a court might interpret the legislation. By "a court", of course, he means the European Court of Justice.
The minister then informs the House that a case has been laid by Circus Krone against the Austrian Government in that country's constitutional court. We know not the outcome, he says, but the fact that that case has been laid supports the legal advice that a wholesale ban may well be counter to section 16 of the EU services directive, and that any subsequent legal challenge would have the same consequences that I have described – i.e., declaring it unlawful.
With that, we shall leave nearly the penultimate word to Caroline Lucas's soulmate, Zac Goldsmith, who told the House he was going to back Pritchard's motion. I hope that colleagues will do the same, he said, if not for the wild animals themselves then "simply to send a message to the public that Parliament exists, and exists for a purpose".
And indeed a message was sent – to the effect that British Parliament, in all its pomp, splendour and might, cannot even ban the use of 39 wild animals in circuses (the number in the UK at the moment), because the British government says it is against EU law, even though the EU commission says it isn't. And the British government, is right ... in law.
But all this was so unnecessary. Had Pritchard any brains at all, he would have known, without all this carry on, the bit that Ministers were struggling to avoid admitting. Animal welfare is an occupied field. As long as we are in the EU, we have no power to legislate. The power has been given to Brussels.
So, to paraphrase Goldsmith, we now know that Parliament exists. But for what purpose, we have yet to discover.
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Life copies art
Another charade
Corporate clever
Voting for oblivion
Asleep on the job
Trapped in the bubble
Why only a "little"?
They still can't get it right
Doing the honest thing
And plan B is?
Sun shines ... Greeks strike
Losing the will to live
MoD "bloated and dysfunctional"
Blown it!
A measure of the divide
Has to be good
Scottish practices
Look in the mirror?
The EUterus
Ignoring the elephant
The penny drops
Nice and easy does it
Matured stupidity
What is and will be
Softening the line?
The epitome of ignorance
Escape from Brussels
A field for them all
Green jobs – Boeing jobs?
Never let it be said
The decline and fall
The circus elephant in the room
Confirming the obvious
Wilders is innocent
The perils of the eurozone
A message of peace and love
Klepturition 7
A very dangerous time
Default blues
The Green Revolution – part 1
The edifice crumbles?
Of revolutionary times
Barking cats
The bleating starts
Greece will fail
Bog off
They really are all the same
A repentant sinner?
It would be a mercy
A threat to our security
Greenpeace in our time
A nosedive of morale
Revolution on hold?
Shades of 40
Who would have thought?
Down in the underpants laundry
Ta ta Tata?
By your advisors shall ye be known
You're still going to die
Adult news values
The shame
Revolting Greeks ... again
Dhimmitude 1940
Up their own fundaments
Hitting the switch
Double domed
Cutting back
They don't get it either
The Boy dun wrong
The fat lady sings
Not an ounce of sympathy
Go hang
Encore Rafale
Aren't you proud?
The prattle of tiny brains
Delusion bites back
Another day, another promise
The wheels groan on my wagon
What did they expect?
The appliance of science (not)
Point, missed, completely
The dynamics of power
Oh woops!
Stupid, malign idiot
Who's mugging whom?
Where has he been?
The tyranny of "science"
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