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Harry & Meghan visit ReprezentRadio 9 January
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Prince Harry and Ms. Markle will visit @ReprezentRadio in Brixton on 9th January, to see their work supporting young people through creative training in radio and
broadcasting, and to learn more about their model of using music, radio and media for social impact.
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This will be the 2nd place where Harry's taking this phony where black British youth are doing things that are positive. IMO, she could care less about that only in the press she'll get and to stick it to the naysayers regarding why she's still around. Is her presence part of a marketing/pr effort to engage people of colour to view the royals differently? It's not working with this phony who people see right through. It's insulting to people of colour. Harry was doing fine including all people prior to getting involved with this
woman. Comments aren't good regarding her inclusion.
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^I think Harry has done his fair share of visits to organizations that help people of color prior to Meghan to not make it seem like he is doing it all of a sudden because he is marrying a half-black woman.
It certainly looks it, though. But us veteran Harry watchers should know that that is not the case.
The American press may pounce on it because they are racism watchers and probably don't recall that Harry has always enjoyed helping out in Africa.
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As a black woman, I resent this pandering campaign H&M seem to be on. Everything I need to know about how M really feels about black people is reflected in her choice of friends (not her so called celebrity friends) and the fact that her mother is trotted out when its convenient.
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^that article that came out with the engagement news writing by black woman no less still bugs me saying that this marriage will some how earse all the racism in the world and its such great hope for black women
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^That article chapped my hide big time. MM does not represent me nor any other black woman. We aren't even fit enough to be in her inner circle.
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^exactly. I'd love this too bit strumpet to be called out on her hypocrisy. Funny how Harry's the real one who's really putting the spotlight on things that that effect black British youth. The comments are really going after her more so than Harry. They basically saying she'll pretend to care whilst putting on her pretend concerned face.
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I'm willing to give them(her) the benefit of the doubt. Being the daughter of a Social Worker (a very underpaid, underappreciated & overworked profession), heavily media covered visits to charities geared toward people of color in the United Kingdom would be great (hopefully this will open the doors to more forward thinking programs).
Lord knows in the US the severe cuts in Art & After School Programs has had devastating effects. Some communities have independently networked and now have sponsorships. Now if it's January 2, 2019, and there's nothing then.........
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Quote from: Alexandrine on January 02, 2018, 02:45:30 pm
Prince Harry and Ms. Markle will visit @ReprezentRadio in Brixton on 9th January, to see their work supporting young people through creative training in radio and
broadcasting, and to learn more about their model of using music, radio and media for social impact.
Their work?
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Meghan and Harry will meet presenters, content producers, volunteers and staff involved in the Reprezent training programme which was set up in Peckham in 2008 in response to an alarming rise in knife crime.
The programme has helped more than 4,000 young people develop and socialise by learning media and workplace skills at the radio station, and is viewed as a hotbed of emerging UK music talent.
It also offer support to young people with mental issues, a cause very close to Prince Harry's heart.
Neneska, Tricity, Poland, about 3 hours ago
on duty? I'm sorry but this is an American tv actress and always will be for most of the world, even if she will be named a duchess after her wedding. There's a lot of nasty rumors about her past and her former relationships. Is she supposed to represent British monarchy from now? I that case, I can't imagine how can we take it seriously.
kiwicat, BREXIT-NOW, United Kingdom, about 3 hours ago
Really can¿t take to this person at all. She seems so superficial.
Anjonelas, London, United Kingdom, 7 hours ago
They are just using these kids for PR stunt its ridiculous. He should have been doing this instead of trips to Toronto over the past year whilst wooing her. He can't have it both ways - now he wants the press for PR and a few months ago he was telling them to back off. She is fake with a phony smile remember she is an actress but the public can see right through her. I would be offended to be used in this way - poor Brixton. Harry can't make up for lost time. He should have been doing this over the last few years. Also Kate and William need to buck up their ideas instead of procreating more Royals for us to keep.
The article was updated to clarify that the visit will be about. The comments are mostly negative as they should be.
IMO, I don't give people the benefit of the doubt when they show me who and what they are. Mehgan's track recod speaks for itself regarding her short marriage, her fake lifestyle of being an independent, feminist, hard working out spoken woman. She's a poser and chancer/lying con artist who chages her image and story when a new mark comes along, like she did for Harry.
This visit will occur on Waity's birthday. Maybe she'll actually do some work on that day to overshadow this sham.
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^How can it be her first royal visit when she's not a royal yet? Seems like a pr push.
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January 03, 2018, 03:44:18 am »
^^^ I think it's a grammatical error by the DM. So, what else is new? The quote 'their work' refers to the work Reprezent does with young people, I believe.
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As a twice married professional ( 1st marriage lasted 2 years & we dated for 8.5), currently marred for 8 years after dating for 14 months; switched focus of my profession and even changed religion. I've said and done dumb stuff at 16, 18, 21, 23, 25,26, 30,32,33,36,38,40 & yesterday (probably tomorrow because it's cold as heck over here).I'd hope no one would hold anything in my past against me or believe my good intentions come with motive
?But as my Grandmother would say, "They talked (spoke ill/ bad about Jesus Christ. What makes you so special?"
As the daughter of a Social Worker and niece of numerous Educators any spotlight on any program highlighting people of color, young girls and coding, art programs for poor underfunded neighborhoods, tutoring after school and etc, bring it on. Hopefully, more royals will visit these areas with heavy media coverage and put a spotlight on the issues happening right there in the UK.
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Wow you have some things in common with MM. I'm a prosecutor for Los Angeles County but I also volunteer teaching kids in ghetto areas and that is very rewarding. And I agree the more anyone does to help underprivileged children the better regardless who is doing it or their motives. So this is a good thing that these two are doing. And I would expect that they will do more because that is what is expected of them and that is why they are getting taxpayers money to appear or at least live the life they live so they can appear it things. It would be far better if they volunteered for no money to do these things. Because I do it for free.
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Unfortunately, there is an old saying, which I have found to be very true for many people - mud sticks, and murky murkle had had a lot of mud in her life, created by her own self. It is rare that a leopard changes its spots, and so new into this, with a lot to learn, she is continuing in her old ways, making little or no effort to change her MO so far. Some people can get mud slung at them and they are innocent, but that is the exception rather than the norm. And for murky she has no good intentions, all her "charity" work was to gain pr and show off frocks, she was paid to do it. As for the royals, I very highly doubt they will do what you have outlined above, because purely and simply they won´t want to. They don´t care about white British people, why should they care about black British people. And no, I am not a racist, far from it, but the rf are a breed apart. IMO they are not happy at all about a mixed race marrying into the rf, not at all. Nor one with such a colourful, grubby past and track record. They would not welcome a white person with the same background, still a mystery to most as to how council cath got it. Haza is a do gooder, but only as it would now appear, to suit his own agenda when necessary. A second bill medd, never thought he would turn out like that.
Put these two together and let them get on with it, but personally, speaking for myself, I do not see their very fake and transparent charade working in the long term. And why is she being foisted on the British public, she is not married in yet, pushing the boundaries a lot aren´t they.
The rf has gone downhill so rapidly it is untrue, they must realise that this charade with haza and murkle is doing them not one bit of good and sending them out to fly the race flag like this will likely not be popular with them. With all due respect, rightly or wrongly, many in the UK are racist, and this will not go down well with them, with many not even liking her. Why should the rf highlight racism, and the acceptance of it in the UK, when our own pensioners get a monthly pittance and can´t afford to put the heating on, dying of hypothermia or living the most miserable existence, having worked and paid into the system all their lives. It really is just not on.
To send haza and murkle out on engagements like this, in my view, is just not on, and a very poor show indeed on the part of the rf. Why should murky be given top priority, she is not even British (and I am not against US people other, I have many friends in the US). Surely the British people should come first. Why should the British taxpayer fund her, she is only out for what she can get.
HM has made a big mistake allowing this marriage to go ahead with what appears to be her approval, this is the rf, not your ordinary every day family.
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As a lonnnnng time fundraiser, this event is not designed to promote anything but Meghan Markle. It is a test to see if she has "a draw" and by draw, it means to take her empathy pulse. Also another opportunity to sell the new, modern, more aware generation which they, from their yacht or whatever in Monaco and fashion photo spreads are not only blind as bats to the disadvantaged but horrifyingly ingenuous.
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^ Was ready to say something along those same lines, but you said it so much more eloquently than I. Yes, fer shure . . . this is a trial balloon. The Royal Family Handlers are worried about Meggles' negative factor. They are trying to figure out if they can handle it, or indeed if it CAN be handled. I think not, myself, but they will have to figure it out on their own.
What I am curious about is: Does Harry know now how unpopular Meggles is? That her "celebrity" does not translate to popularity? And that her unpopularity is going to bring him down?
That's what I want to know . . . .
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Agree I think she's a menace
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The Prince's Trust has worked for several years helping underprivileged people, not just children, in the UK and long before MM appeared on the scene. The plaudits for this kind of work belong to other people, many of whom prefer to be anonymous, and not to MM who will jump on the most appropriate, publicity-seeking bandwagon. And it's a wagon that could turn into a tumbrel...
The ghost of Frances Winchcombe is finding a new house to haunt. She has reportedly said: "Carole Middleton scares me to death..."
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I don't buy the dumb Harry act as he's never acted this way before. Yes, he's done dumb things just like any other human being, but being taken in by a shyster like Meghan, I'm not buying it. It's an extreme insult to think that this mixed raced woman who's very comfortable living her life an ambiguous raced woman and only uses being black when it suits her, usually to play victim, that she'd be seen as someone who would care about black British youth. This visit will be a waste of time and as I said, an extreme insult to the volunteers and whoever else they'll meet st the event. People see what she's about, so the staff at KP shouldn't use the people of Brixton to see if she'll pull her weight. How can she when she doesn't care. The dumb thing about this is that Brixton's not like it was years ago as it's a mixed area although, yes, there's still problems like any other neighborhood that needs programs for the youth to do something positive with their lives. I'm getting tired of seeing good, honest people being dragged in and used to make this bizarre paring acceptable to the people. They're not and the sooner cool heads at the Palace put a stop to this circus the better.
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Aintree Racecourse
6th April 2013
The term "bucket-list" has sort of crept into contemporary parlance over the last few years or so primarily, I should guess, in the wake of the film of the same name. But for us Groundhoppers the concept has long been around: for we all have this list of sporting arenas we wish to visit before we "kick" the aforementioned bucket. The prime difference is that we, or most of us anyway, are not lugging a terminal medical time-bomb around within us. At least, one hopes not.
And the appearance of The Grand National in this blog represents one such ticking-off from my personal bucket-list, I suppose. To be followed later this year (should I be spared) by an Ashes Match, the British Open Golf plus the Rugby League World Cup Final.
The first Grand National I can recall was the 1968 one, before which I had been invited to draw a horse in a sweepstake run by our neighbours. This running was the Foinavon/pile-up shambles and, although I don't remember watching it on TV, I do recall hearing later that my horse Vulcano had perished during the race.
I would subsequently make a point of catching the equestrian bun-fight each year, only really stopping doing so once I began attending football matches regularly on Saturday afternoons - with the consequence I can still name most of the National winners from the 1970s, but precious few since.
I ensured I arrived early enough at Aintree to participate in the walking-round-the-course thing. To do this one had to access what is called the Steeplechase Enclosure (otherwise known as the cheap seats). Here the folks (Scousers to a man/woman if accents are anything to go by) were already well into party mode. They had an ice-cream van in there, plus a stage set-up for a rock band. Neither of which we in the expensive-seats enjoyed. What they did not have, I noted however, was any sort of a view of either the finish line, or indeed much of the course itself.
I congratulated myself on shelling out for a bit of luxury and a decent view from the Lord Sefton stand, but was soon given a reality check on just how far down the food-chain I really am, as a fleet of helicopters began dropping off small groups of the well-heeled and well-scrubbed in a heli-pad in the centre of the track.
Wandering around the race route, I have to say the fences were actually considerably less impressive than I had thought they would be. I had imagined standing dwarfed by towering piles of greenery but, whilst I certainly would not like to have attempted to jump 'em (either on a horse or anything else), the sight was just a tad disillusioning.
Even the legendary Becher's Brook looked no more intimidating than most of the others. The actual height of the fence has, I believe, remained unaltered over the years. Rather it is the depth of the drop on the landing side which has been amended to make it safer for the riders and their mounts. The effectiveness of which was reflected by the fact the fence garnered no fallers this year, the first time such has thing had happened since 1996.
|Looking back towards the Lord Sefton and Earl of Derby Stands
|Ready to rock in the Steeplechase Enclosure
|The only way to arrive
|I saw someone who looked a bit like Meg Mathews get out of one of these choppers, but no-one really famous.
|The toned down Becher's Brook
|I went onto the hallowed turf to get this close-up shot before I was
huckled off by some 14-year-old steward.
|Becher's Brook showing the ditch
|Fence number 3 & 19 - The Open Ditch
|The Lord Sefton and Earl of Derby Stands - completed as recently as 2007
|The finishing post
|Arguably the best known National-winning jockey Bob Champion, who was
presenting inductees to the Aintree Hall of Fame with commenrative tankards.
|Some action from 1:45 race...............
|...........won by Jamie Moore riding Ubak
|Panorama of Aintree Raceourse, Liverpool
|This happy chap is Paul Carberry, who has just won me £45 on Solwhit in the 2:50
|This fine piece of horse-flesh was my choice to bring me untold wealth in the big race
I watched the horses being presented in the parade ring beforehand; paying particular attention to Colbert Station upon whose nose I had placed £8 of my hard-earned. The jockeys then entered the fray from the Weighing Room, flanked by some decidedly youthful looking Welsh Guards. But not half as young as some of the jockeys looked. A few of those had not even started shaving yet, it seemed to me.
The horses and riders made their way to the starting point whereupon they all indulged in an odd swirling, spiralling dance for a few minutes before finally lining up facing the same direction.
And then they were off ! – in a slightly casual manner it appeared, with some setting off at a fair old gallop with others seemingly content to canter to begin with. They all swiftly hoofed-it up the course to begin kicking the immaculately groomed fences to pieces. Then all the riders took a left turn, disappeared from view, and we all settled down to watch the business on the large screens.
The re-designed fences appeared to be to the competitors' liking as they all managed to negotiate the first half dozen or so, including scary Becher's Brook – the announcement of which achievement elicited a huge roar from the crowd. There were sighs all around me each time the commentator relayed a mistake by the favourite Seabass (of which there appeared to be quite a few), but this was as nothing to the almost tangible groan as we learned Colbert Station had unseated jockey Tony McCoy at The Chair. Clearly a lot more folks than just I had pinned their hopes on this one.
The horses eventually came back into view and completed the first circuit down below us, with Across The Bay leading the pack, before they turned to inflict more carnage on the partly-rebuilt fences in front of the Steeplechase Enclosure. Welsh horse Teaforthree's name came up frequently in the commentary as the horses swung into view for the final time, but it was only after the last fence that it became clear that 66-1 outsider Auroras Encore had somehow pulled clear of the field.
And a clearly stunned Aintree watched in bemusement as the unknown galloped towards the finishing post leaving a number of more fancied (and heavily backed) runners in its wake.
My recollection of the final seconds of each National I had seen on TV was of a swelling mass of cheering & waving bodies urging the winner home. But all was eerily quiet here. The only sound was that of running liquid, as the assembled bookmakers wet themselves laughing at their good fortune.
Keen to see the presentations in the Winner's Enclosure I arrived to see Claire Balding interviewing some old codger in a bunnet, whom I was surprised and rather pleased to learn was actually Harvey (Victory-V) Smith. I naively assumed the rather attractive blonde Sue Smith standing nearby (who had trained the winner) was his daughter. Silly boy, Ian.
Jockey Ryan Mania when he arrived was politely applauded but certainly not given the ovation I had expected, and indeed felt he deserved. Perhaps he had not quite been forgiven for the fact his win had cost a lot of punters here a lot of money. Even after the presentations he was left to battle his way to the Jockey Club office through a moving crowd, most of whom ignored him. It all just seemed a touch tawdry.
None of the bets I placed on the race provided any return, but fortunately I had fluked a winner in an earlier race, so found myself still in the black for the races thus far. I briefly contemplated placing one last bet on the next race, but decided No. I chose instead to be one of the few people (apart from the bookmakers) to leave Aintree that afternoon having made a profit, albeit a modest one of £15.
|The National entrants are paraded prior to the race
|The Parade Ring and Horsewalk
|Colbert Station once more - you can tell I was keeping a keen eye on him/her
|Richard McLernon
|Ruby Walsh
|Nick Scholfield and Sam Twiston-Davies
|Richard Johnson, Mark Grant and (I think) Henry Brooke
|Adam Wedge and Ryan Mania (never heard of him!)
|The 2013 Grand National jockeys
|This was the pre-race jockeying for position dance
|And they're off, as they say
|Aintree Racecourse just after the stsrt of the 2013 National - the horses can just be
glimpsed galloping off towards the first fence in the top RHS of the pic
|The runners approach the third fence having comprehensively destroyed the first two.
Note the chaps frantically rebuilding the fence before the second lap.
|Back into view having disappeared over the horizon for a few minutes.
|The leaders approach the Water Jump leaving Tony McCoy (and my hopes)
in a crumpled heap behind them
|The horses clatter past the Lord Sefton stand at approx the half-way point.
|The horses clatter past the Lord Sefton stand at approx the half-way point.
|The horses clatter past the Lord Sefton stand at approx the half-way point.
|Ryan Mahon decides Harry The Viking would benefit from a gentle whipping
|Second time up past the Steeplechase Enclosure. These two laps would be the only time
folks in that part of the ground would see any horses, as all the other races cut across the course.
|Back into view again - I thought Oscar Time in the orange looked the most likely winner at this point.
|Across the last fence..............
|................and suddenly Auroras Encore has the lead
|Ryan Mania pulls away
|The closing few metres, with my horse Colbert Station (regretfully sans jockey)
the only one close to Auroras Encore
|Scot Ryan Mania wins the 2013 Grand National on Auroras Encore
|The stunned (and perhaps slightly resentful) Aintree crowd
|Ryan Mania is welcomed to the Winner's Enclosure
|Auroras Encore getting a splash-down
|The winning team
|The Winner's Enclosure after the 2013 Grand National
|Harvey & Claire
|Ryan Mania
|Ryan is left to batle through the throng to the Jocky Club.
Where are the Welsh Guards when you need them?


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France recently experienced one of the largest truck crashes in the country's long history. According to a national news report, over 40 people, mostly seniors, were killed while they were on a day trip visiting a countryside town. Evidently, this was the worst road disaster the country experienced in over 30 years.According to initial reports, a tourist bus crashed into a truck carrying logs and other timber materials. Witnesses and local residents of the town told investigators and news reporters that the location of the accident occurred at a very dangerous bend in the road. After the truck and bus slammed into each other, they both caught on fire and became engulfed in flames.
An investigation is ongoing to determine the actual cause of the accident. Some stated that the timber driver lost control of his truck and was left in the middle of the road, and when the bus approached the driver was unable to avoid an accident. Some conflicting reports stated that the bus driver was able to get some people off the bus. Townspeople reported seeing massive amounts of smoke from miles away. The two large vehicles were basically incinerated and completely black when emergency crews were finally able to get the flames under control.
Out of all of the individuals involved, only eight people survived, one of which was the bus driver. However, out of the eight survivors, four of them are in the hospital and remain in critical condition. Police and emergency personnel reported that it could take over three days to extract the decreased individuals from the wreckage.
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These two types of cases are very similar, and issues often arise when there are many parties involved, due to the complexity of the accident. For example, in the above case, it is unclear which party was actually at fault. It could have been the bus driver for not avoiding the accident, or the timber driver for stopping in the middle of the road, or even the city for not having warning signs regarding what seems to be known as a dangerous curve. Cases that involve massive tragedies can be extremely complex, and it is important that you contact an attorney.
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These gorgeous sumi-e paintings depicting various video game characters are made by 'MyCKs', an art studio comprised of several artists of different styles.
A style of East Asian brush painting, ink wash paintings go by various names in different cultures; in Japan they are called sumi-e paintings. The people of 'MyCKs' have created a series of paintings that paint some of gaming's most iconic characters in the style of sumi-e paintings. Link, Zelda, Ganondorf, Cloud, Lara Croft, Grunt and Shepard are realized beautifully and appear as they do in the video games. The only exception are the characters from Zelda who are transformed into a pirate version and feudal samurai versions of themselves.
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Everyone is very much impressed by HP's CoolSense Technology. I have heard and mad e a lot of research on this technology but after experiencing it, I can say that HP CoolSense technology is something which make HP's product better than others. Let me tell you that how HP CoolSense Technology works.
One thing which is the baseline of this technology is the sensing criteria like HP CoolSense technology detects where are you working (on your computer table or sitting comfortably on your bed) and it adjust your PC's cooling to prevent heating automatically. Now let's take a look on the following video, you will get the idea of HP CoolSense Technology's working:
Following is the workflow of how HP CoolSense technology works:
- Automatic detection system uses the motion sensor in your notebook PC to sense where your PC is being used and automatically adjust the cooling.
- Strategically placed vents minimize heat and channel it away from the PC's base to keep your notebook PC from overheating.
- HP Thermal Assistant software allows you to specify your cooling preferences (maximum cooling, quiet or optimized performance) and automatically shifts into that mode when you're mobile.
This technology is a great achievement of HP's Personal System Group. Many other machines of HP PSG will be coming up with HP CoolSense Technology very soon.


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Please don't take what I'm about to write as any sort of recommendation that you should use a payday loan company. Financially speaking, they are a bad idea. Period.
Payday loan companies are, at least from a finance blogger's standpoint, the equivalent of a giant oil spill to an environmentalist. (Topical!) They are an absolutely terrible way for someone to get a loan. In comparison, credit cards look like they charge next to nothing for interest. I'm sure if many bloggers got their way, payday loan companies would be outlawed forever and their owners subject to some sort of ironic punishment.
I'm here to argue that payday loan companies have an important- no, necessary role to play in the financial markets.
Let me tell you a story. Meet Sally. Sally is 27 years old and the single mom of two kids because she left her drunk husband. Sally only has a grade 10 education because the prospect of working as a stripper appealed to her much more than struggling at school. Like most people from her sort of background, she can't control her spending on credit cards, so she chooses not to even try applying for one. Sally lives hand to mouth every month, but manages a meager existence.
One day, Sally finds out her grandfather is on his death bed. Concerned, she wants to fly out and be there for his final days. Sally's problem is that she has no money. What's Sally to do? After asking all her friends for cash, Sally discovers they don't have any more money than she does. Ditto with her parents and relatives, they're strapped too. Defeated, Sally goes to a payday loan company and in 15 minutes she walks out with the money she needs. *
What's the point of this story? It wasn't to show you my skills in writing tearjerker dramas.
Payday loan companies serve an important role in the market. They lend money to people who have nowhere else to turn. Even people who are financially illiterate have emergencies. The difference between them and you is that you've planned for them. They haven't because they don't have the intelligence or they simply don't care.
Remember prohibition? The unintended consequence of the banning of alcohol was the black market the mob created to quench demand. Can you not picture something very similar happening if we banned payday loans?
We let people consume all sorts of things that aren't good for them. One could make the argument that everything from cigarettes to cheeseburgers be banned because they're bad for us. Yet we live in a free society; we're allowed to do and consume things that aren't good for us because we deserve the choice. Payday loans fall under that category.
According to this report from the FDIC, an estimated 30 million Americans are either unbanked (no bank account, exclusively using payday loan lenders and check cashing places) or underbanked (having a bank account but not using things like credit cards, getting loans, etc.) That is a significant part of the market who would have little to no access to credit if it wasn't for high risk lenders.
I would love for these people to get their act together and use more traditional forms of financing and save themselves money. Yet how realistic is that? Millions of people continue every day to smoke, drink or eat unhealthy food, knowing full well the consequences. We cannot legislate common sense, no matter how hard we try. We cannot legislate financial literacy either; you can't force someone to learn and apply something that doesn't matter to them.
The bottom line is that even though payday loan companies have some shady business practices, they provide an important service to a segment of the market that no other lender is willing to touch. I don't think that's really so bad.
*Sally doesn't really exist, but millions of people just like her do.


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And then he was back :p Basically, I haven't been posting for the last few months because Blog was broken and I was too lazy to go back to an older version. Let me first see if this posts fine and then maybe think about writing a longer entry …
Hallelujah! It works!! At least, the posting via FTP does … but there are other behind the scenes issues which are going to make things a bit difficult for a while. Basically, I got all the work necessary for translating the existing data into the new database formats which support storing journal entries irregardless of where the entries are finally published to at least a couple of months ago. Unfortunately, just after I got all that work done and added the code in for publishing to remote blogging servers, I ran into several problems with the WYSIWYG HTML editing components. The usually reliable author of HTMLEdit would not respond to my bug reports and I was totally baffled by the problem since I didn't have access to the source.
So, I decided to find a replacement component and looked at several. The authors of WPTools and TRichView were extremely kind in providing me with a free license to each of their components. However, I found that in each instance, I would have to do a lot of recoding and would lose a few existing features that I found extremely useful in Blog using HTMLEdit. So, I have been playing a waiting game, trying different components when I ran across them and then discarding them and at the same time, hoping that the HTMLEdit author would release a new version which fixed the problems that I had. Of course, nothing seemed to happen at all for a couple of months … or a bit more.
Then I was shaken out of my apathy by Nigel yesterday :p Nige has been a long-time Blog user. His site, The Red Ferret Journal, has around three years of archives totalling probably thousands of entries – all in Blog. Nige has been thinking of shifting to WordPress so that he can allow multiple users to post to his site but still be able to use the Blog interface by using the new functionalities that I was supposed to add with the next release of 8.0 :p So Nige has been waiting patiently for quite a while for me to get my posterior in gear and get Blog out but of course, it wasn't happening. He finally decided to write to me and see if he could get me to expedite the process since he urgently needed to shift to WP and I finally decided to give the code another look and see if perhpas I could decouple the WYSIWYG component from everything else so that I could at least come up with a Blog version which did what Nige wanted for the short-term while I figured out the WYSIWYG problem. However, in trying to sort out the code, I actually figured out how to get things to work – or so I thought at that time :p
Of course, things haven't turned out to be that easy. I did figure out the problems with the HTMLEdit componet but I discovered in the process of making this entry why I'd had problems in the first place. The original problem which started all this stagnation was related to the HTMLEdit component dropping images when an entry was saved. I realized today that only images but even formatting is dropped by the HTMLEdit component on first save. However, I realized that if I went to the HTML view and added some HTML tags and then switched back to the WYSIWYG view and saved the entry, it saves perfectly fine :p Ah well, the joys of coding …
In the meantime, I've also discovered that the code which seemed to work fine with WordPress a couple of months ago is now giving me trouble. But then again, I just came across an article online which suggests that this might actually be XMLRPC and PHP related problems than Blog related problems. So I'm going back to the code to see if there is a way in which I can fix all these things so that I can finally get that long-delayed version of Blog out :p
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