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• After initially looking as though Packers unrestricted free-agent OLB Erik Walden was as good as gone because of a late-season domestic incident, we are now hearing the team might consider keeping him around, if the price is right. Walden has shown flashes of being a difference maker — he had a team-leading eight tackles and two QB hits in the Thanksgiving Day win over the Lions one day before the altercation with his girlfriend — and word is the Packers feel reasonably confident that he can get his act together off the field, which they believe will lead to steadier play on the field.
• The Bears corrected a mistake of seasons past, finding a quality backup for Jay Cutler in Jason Campbell, who signed a one-year, $3.5 million deal. Campbell has made 70 career starts, including the first six games of last season before he suffered a season-ending broken right collarbone and the Raiders replaced him with Carson Palmer. Yet, Campbell intends to make the most of his opportunity as Cutler's backup and still views himself as a No. 1 quarterback. "It's a different role I have to accept, but I do feel like I can be a starter in this league," Campbell told PFW. "... Not being a starter anymore in the league is definitely a tough pill to swallow because everyone wants to play, especially when you're used to playing and you feel like you still can be playing, but I understand that it's a different role. I'm going to make the best of my role. I'm happy to be a Bear and I want to do everything I can to help the team."
• Bears QB Jay Cutler's emotions, on the field and off, have been heavily scrutinized during his time in Chicago, but he is making it abundantly clear to those around him that he's happy with the decisions the Bears have made so far this offseason. From bringing in Jeremy Bates as QB coach and WR Brandon Marshall — his old friends from Denver — to the re-signing of TE Kellen Davis, Cutler is pleased with the direction Chicago is heading in.
• The Redskins' contract for WR Josh Morgan looked fairly sizable, but it's essentially a two-year deal back-loaded with money he'll never make (base salaries of $9 million in each of the final three years of a five-year deal). Some have said that Morgan's presence with the 49ers might have made the difference in his former team making the Super Bowl — he fractured his right leg in Week Five and missed the rest of the season. Yet, that begs the question: Then why didn't the 49ers make more of a push to re-sign him, considering their massive need at receiver?
• Two league observers were surprised at the Cowboys' spending on OGs Nate Livings and Mackenzy Bernadeau — for a combined $30 million, with nearly $10 million of it guaranteed. "I just don't get it," one talent evaluator said. "That's starter money. Those guys couldn't start for us." Said another evaluator: "We had a veteran (minimum salary) grade on Bernadeau, a little above it for (Livings)."
• There have been reports that the Buccaneers at least considered parting ways with TE Kellen Winslow this offseason. We heard the Bucs did take a look at what was available at tight end in free agency and were intrigued by Martellus Bennett, who ended up signing with the Giants. For now, we're told the Bucs don't think Luke Stocker, a fourth-round pick last year, is ready to be the No. 1 tight end, and Winslow may be their best option in the meantime.
• With versatile OL Adam Snyder signing with the Cardinals, our sources in San Francisco tell us second-year pro Daniel Kilgore probably has the upper hand on the Niners' starting ORG job — at least for the time being. Look for Kilgore, whose playing time last season was limited to one snap as an extra blocker in the Monday-night game vs. the Steelers, to get a serious challenge at right tackle from either a yet-to-be-determined free-agent addition or, a bit less likely, a pick in the next draft.
• OLG Robert Gallery's release from the Seahawks wasn't only due to the former Raider failing to meet expectations in his one season in Seattle. It also had a lot to do with fellow ex-Raiders OL Paul McQuistan far surpassing his expectations, effectively starting at three different positions when he was called upon last season. "He ended up doing what Gallery was supposed to do," said one daily team observer said of McQuistan, who shapes up as the front-runner to take over at left guard after signing a new contract (terms undisclosed). "At the very least, he's a great insurance policy who will be willing to do whatever is asked of him."
• The Seahawks might take a free-agent flier on Vikings UFA TE Visanthe Shiancoe as a possible replacement for John Carlson, who signed with Minnesota. Seahawks offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell is familiar with Shiancoe from their time together with the Vikings.
• New Rams CB Cortland Finnegan chose to be politically correct when asked at his introductory press conference about comments that he's a dirty player. "You know, you can't ... everyone has their opinion," Finnegan said. "You go out there and try to help your football team win, and I just happen to play with an edge to me. I never want to hurt the football team, but also want to make big plays and help this football team win and lead this football team."
• With the "Bountygate" scandal involving new Rams defensive coordinator Gregg Williams having delayed the process, we hear the Rams might finally officially announce their entire new coaching staff at some point next week.
• Don't be shocked if the Cardinals either release high-priced reserve LB Stewart Bradley or restructure his contract in an effort to create more cap space in the days and weeks ahead. Bradley currently has a $6.5 million cap figure ($5 million salary). We hear another potential cap casualty in the desert could be TE Todd Heap ($3.4 million cap number), who underachieved in 2011.
• If Cardinals 14-year veteran free-agent DE Vonnie Holliday decides that he's not quite ready to call it a career just yet — word is he is leaning toward playing one more season — we hear the Cardinals are probably inclined toward re-signing him. In addition to doing a nice job backing up Calais Campbell and Darnell Dockett this past season, Holliday's experience and positive attitude paid dividends in the locker room, we're told.


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Hi all,
I bought a new desktop PC from ebuyer recently:
It's now been discontinued but I only bought it last week. I haven't touched it until this morning because I have been pretty busy. I put in a Fedora 17 XFCE live CD and I get a serious amount of pixelation so much so the screen is basically unreadable. I put in a LXF DVD from a while ago (the one with 2 DVDs and a lot of distros) I tried to boot into the Fedora 17 that is on that DVD and it flashes a few times then I don't even get an image apart from a few pixels at the top! So I tried Mint Cinnamon and I don't get an image at all.
I have absolutely no idea what could be causing it. I am currently running a mem test from the LXF dvd to see if that throws anything.
I have checked the Fedora 17 XFCE live cd in my laptop and it works fine (AMD Radeon graphics) and have also checked the monitor on my laptop and there are no problems. I have also tried the Fedora 17 XFCE live cd in my other laptop which has a Core i5 and Intel HD graphics (much like the desktop) and that works perfectly no problems at all.
The only other thing that my desktop has is a UEFI BIOS, could that be causing the issue? I am completely stumped as to why this isn't working and so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
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Have you tried alternate monitors / different graphics cards?
i5 4440 3.1Ghz, Asus H87M-E motherboard, 8GB DDR3, 2GB DDR5 nVidia card, 2x500GB Seagate hd, Coolermaster 750W PSU running Mint 16 MATE and Win7
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Don't alter the hardware, it'll violate your warranty! If it
defective hardware, you'll need to get it back to the seller with any seals intact...
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I agree with DM if it doesn't work it is "not fit for purpose" and under the Sale of Goods Act* you can get a full refund
*"If you want your money back
If you buy a product that turns out to be faulty, you can choose to reject it which means you can give it back and get your money back.
But, the law only gives you a reasonable time to do this what's reasonable depends on the product and how obvious the fault is.
However, even with major purchases or complex items, its safest to work on the basis you usually have no more than three to four weeks from when you receive it to reject it."
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Thanks for your replies. Yeah I am thinking of sending it back and getting a new one or building my own. I haven't tried any other graphics cards as I haven't got any and the machine only comes with onboard graphics. I don't think the problem is with the monitor as I have tried the Fedora 17 XFCE live cd with this monitor on my laptop and it worked fine!
I did wonder if it was just the port so might have to find my VGA to DVI adapter to try the DVI port instead see if that makes any difference but if it does work then it's definitely faulty and I might as well just send it back now.
Or it's possibly a compatibility issue but its just a 3rd Gen i5 with onboard HD graphics, probs HD 4000, so I can't see how that would be an issue.
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Hi Crispy,
Try another, recently-released distro and see what you get. Also try an installation DVD (as opposed to a CD), the F17 live CD may only have a limited selection of drivers due to space constraints.
F17 may be the problem, not the hardware. More likely though is the combination of both.
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Good point by Bruno. Try if you can install a core distro, like Debian w/o the graphics. If that works, go from there.
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Thank you for your replies Bruno and Dutch_Master. I have tried other distributions however they were all from the LXF DVD which has Fedora 17 (Gnome), Mageia, Mint Cinnamon, OpenSUSE, PCLinuxOS, and a few others, so as there is so many I would imagine that each one is equivalent to the standard live cd of that distro? So I will try the DVD version this weekend and let you know how it goes. If that still doesn't work then I will try a core distro like Debian or maybe Arch, as I can build that from scratch, but only if I'm feeling adventurous / can remember what to do lol
What's really weird is that the splash screens appear to be fine, there is no pixelation at all.
Thank you again for your replies, I really appreciate it.
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What's really weird is that the splash screens appear to be fine, there is no pixelation at all.
Splash screen uses a different method of rendering, framebuffer or direct VESA rendering. The desktop will be rendered by the appropriate driver for xorg.
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I've just been online to see the specs of your PC and I noticed that it has an Intel graphics chip. This isn't a problem in itself, but I do now remember a problem with Intel graphics drivers that occurred around the time openSUSE 11.1 was released...
The Intel graphics drivers that were shipped with that distro (and many others that were released around the same time) were below par. Somehow the next release of beta drivers that were still under development found their way into the published driver repository, or perhaps they were pushed out too early, I can't remember exactly how it happened These drivers were then duly taken up by distros and the rest is history.
I've not heard any negative reports re: Intel graphics drivers since 11.1, but perhaps you should also check with a 6-12 month-old distro, just to be on the safe side. If there are problems though, this could be why you are getting the same results with every distro you try, as they are all recent releases.
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Mint 14 as problems with UEFI, Intel GPUs among others, hence the release of 14.1. See
I'm inclined to wonder if other recent distros share any of these problems.
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Thank you Rhakios and Bruno for your replies!
I must admit I didn't realise that the splash screen used a different method - that would back up Bruno's suggestion that its the drivers that are the problem rather than hardware - phew!
This morning I downloaded the Fedora 17 DVD so will try that, however if the problem, as Bruno suggested, is the Intel drivers that ship with the distros from around that time then I expect to see the same problem but I should be able to switch to a virtual terminal to do all the updates.
I did suspect whether UEFI was at fault but I thought that would mean the distro wouldn't have booted at all? To be honest, I don't know that much about UEFI so to be on the safe side, I disabled it in the BIOS and so
be using a legacy BIOS.
I also tried my DVI - VGA adapter to see if the VGA port was faulty, only to find that the DVI port is DVI-D and the adapter is DVI-I so had 4 extra pins - slightly annoying but there we go.
Thank you again for your replies, it is much appreciated.
I will post back when I have installed Fedora 17 from the DVD to let you know how it goes.
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Thank you all for your replies.
The issue was indeed a dodgy driver that was shipped with the distro as Bruno and Rhakios suggested. I tried to install from the DVD but the installer must use the same X driver as it was all pixelated. However, I went into the live CD and switched to a virtual terminal to update the dodgy driver and the desktop worked perfectly - I feel a bit stupid that I didn't think of doing that sooner :S.
So I am now all installed and up-to-date. Also as a plus my Nexus 7 has just been shipped
this week is going to be a good one
Thank you all again for your replies, it is much appreciated.
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The Chadron Record newspaper says the U-S Forest Service has given in to a Freedom of Information Act (FIOA) request and released the names of the 3 Chadron men facing federal charges for allegedly starting and failing to put out a fire on the Nebraska National Forest in October.
The Forest Service had announced the filing of charges shortly after the Spotted Tail Fire, but refused to identify the defendants. The newspaper responded with their request, which has led to the release of the names.
27-year old Jacob Marshall and 26-year old William Jones each face federal counts of using an explosive and leaving a fire without extinguishing it, while 26-year old Andrew Meister is charged only with leaving a fire without extinguishing it.
The Spotted Tail Fire burned 83 acres in the Nebraska National Forest between October 20th and 22nd while the Forest was still under restrictions that banned the use of explosives.
Marshall, Jones, and Meister are accused of using exploding targets during recreational shooting on the National Forest, with one of the targets starting the fire. The trio allegedly then fled the area without extinguishing the fire.
Each of the 5 charges carries a penalty of up to 6 months in jail and a $5,000 fine, but the trio could also be held responsible for the costs of fighting the fire. The initial estimate on suppression costs is $175,000.
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10:56am Monday 8th October 2012 in Sport By Tim Ashton, Sports Editor
AFC Wimbledon caretaker manager Simon Bassey is one of four people facing interviews this afternoon for the top job at Kingsmeadow.
Bassey, who has been with the Dons since its conception 10 years' ago, will meet the board for a final interview at a secret location in London.
Chief executive Erik Samuelson says the board will make up its mind by the end of today and an official announcement will made on Wednesday.
Bassey has been caretaker boss for four games, winning two and losing two, since the last week of September.
However, after back to back defeats, the 36-year-old feared his chance for the top job had gone. But even before the 2-1 League Two win at Plymouth on Saturday, Bassey's name was already on the board's shortlist.
Bassey said: "This is a results game and however much I thought we deserved from the games we lost, they go down as defeats. I would not have been surprised if the board felt that way too.
"But I'm going to be called in this afternoon (Monday) and there is nothing else I can do in terms of results.
"But it has been positive how we have moved forward in a short period of time.
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Barnstaple fair starts today
An ancient ceremony takes place in North Devon today as Barnstaple holds its fair proclamation.
The town is England's oldest borough and was granted a charter to hold an annual fair in 1556 but its origins date back to 930AD.
A proclamation ceremony will be held in the town's Guildhall at 11am followed by a procession through the High Street where the charter is read aloud at each of the gates to the town centre.
Rather than a travelling fair of animals and wares, these days a funfair is held finishing with the annual carnival on Saturday.


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A pensioner in Germany is facing a 900 GBP fine for animal cruelty after pulling out the tail feathers of a parrot.
The bird's owner Elvis Bolanca, 27, had told the woman that she could not have the bird after he had earlier advertised to try to find it a new home.
Elvis, who was moving flats, could not care for the parrot any more. So he had posted an advert on the internet seeking a new home for the pet.
He said: "A 70-year-old woman in the western city of Duesseldorf answered and offered to take him. I didn't want to simply hand him over there without checking and so I agreed to deliver him to her in person.
"When I got there I was shocked that the condition she was living in, there were cigarettes ends everywhere and the TV was on far too loud for a pet. She had five other birds in a tiny cage and the cat that she had also looked in a miserable condition. I couldn't do anything about them but there was no way I was leaving Nerfi with her."
But trouble started when Elvis, from the nearby city of Bonn, declined to give her his pet, saying: "That's when she opened his cage door and pulled out the feathers.
"I was really shocked and then had the difficult job of trying to catch the terrified bird. I reported her to the police straight away, which resulted in her being charged with animal cruelty."
The case was adjourned after the pensioner failed to turn up at court, claiming that she was ill.
In the meantime Nerfi has been given a new home - and his tail feathers have started to grow again.
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Lightning strikes four homes causing hundreds of pounds worth of damage (From Braintree and Witham Times)
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5:00pm Thursday 13th February 2014 in News
Hundreds of pounds worth of damage has been caused to homes which were struck by lightning.
Up to four houses in Gilda Terrace, off Rayne Road, Braintree, are believed to have been affected by the lightning strike, "blowing" television sets, broadband connections, SKY boxes and phones.
She said: "We were watching the Olympics then there was a massive bang.
"The broadband connection flew out of the wall and is all burnt."
Neighbour Mike Ashcroft's home was also hit. He said: "The TV, SKY box, phone and the internet have stopped working, I'd only just finished paying for the £700 television."
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Hundreds of children will have a merry Christmas thanks to toy deliveries Friday in the Thomasville area.
The Georgia State Patrol and other volunteers helped unload the thousands of Toys for Tots at the Salvation Army today.
Auxiliary Captains Genny and Stan Robinson say donations have been down across the board this year, so this big delivery was certainly needed.
"There's 500 families, any number of children, that all this goes to help. Seniors alike. This is a community wide effort so it's not just for one certain group. It's for everyone who needs Christmas in Thomasville."
All of the gifts will be distributed next Saturday.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. — The Food Network said Friday it's dumping Paula Deen, barely an hour after the celebrity cook posted the first of two videotaped apologies online begging forgiveness from fans and critics troubled by her admission to having used racial slurs in the past.
The 66-year-old Savannah kitchen celebrity has been swamped in controversy since court documents filed this week revealed Deen told an attorney questioning her under oath last month that she has used the N-word. "Yes, of course," Deen said, though she added, "It's been a very long time."
The Food Network, which made Deen a star with "Paula's Home Cooking" in 2002 and later "Paula's Home Cooking" in 2008, weighed in with a terse statement Friday afternoon.
"Food Network will not renew Paula Deen's contract when it expires at the end of this month," the statement said. Network representatives declined further comment. A representative for Deen did not immediately return phone and email messages seeking comment on the decision.
The news came as Deen worked to repair the damage to her image, which has spawned a vast empire of cookbooks, a bimonthly cooking magazine, a full line of cookware, food items like spices and even furniture.
She abruptly canceled a scheduled interview on NBC's "Today" show Friday morning, instead opting for a direct appeal via online video — one that allowed her and her staff complete control of what she said and how she said it.
"Inappropriate, hurtful language is totally, totally unacceptable," Deen said in the first 45-second video posted on YouTube. "I've made plenty of mistakes along the way but I beg you, my children, my team, my fans, my partners - I beg for your forgiveness."
Deen adopted a solemn tone as she looked straight into the camera. Still, her recorded apology featured three obvious edits — with the picture quickly fading out between splices — during a statement just five sentences long.


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Students complete career readiness programBy LISA RATHKE
The Associated Press | March 28,2013MONTPELIER — At just 15, Shaylee Martin knows she wants to become a preschool teacher. Taylor Beaudet, 16, is interested in graphic design. And Dylan Martin, 17, a senior, plans to be a truck driver after high school.
They are among 11 Williamstown High School students who have completed a 15-week pilot program run by their school and the Community College of Vermont to get them ready for work or college after high school. The school was among six in Vermont that were awarded grants in the fall of 2011 to engage in innovative learning.
During the fall and winter, the Williamstown students learned how to put together resumes and an online portfolio of themselves and worked on computer, speaking and collaboration skills. They took tests to assess their achievements in reading and math. And they did some of that outside of school, at Community College on Vermont.
"We weren't just stuck in the classroom five days a week," Martin said. "We actually got to go to CCV and try different things."
On Thursday, Gov. Peter Shumlin presented them with the Governor's Career Ready Certificates at the Statehouse. Later they met with legislators to talk about what they've learned.
Beadet said she and some other students impressed perspective employers at a technology job fair in Winooski when they handed out their resumes for possible summer internships.
"They were impressed with the resumes because they hadn't seen many kids actually had resumes with them," she said. She doesn't have job experience to list but can tell potential employers what she's interested in and good at.
The program is part of a move to find different ways to engage kids in their learning, said Williamstown High School Principal Scott Lang.
"We're a rural, pretty poor community with not a lot of families who are educated. So for many of our kids it's a first experience," he said.
The Legislature is considering a bill that would combine and expand secondary school programs including dual enrollment and early college to increase the number of students completing school and help prepare them for life after high school.
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Tripp Halstead's parents say he could be headed home soon. The 2-year-old Winder boy has gone from the brink of death to thriving after suffering traumatic brain injury when a tree limb fell on him at his day care in late October last year.Tripp's parents, Stacy and Bill Halstead, said that he had his fifth surgery on Tuesday at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite."I think his cognitive ability is there. I know distinctly one day they had him answering yes or no questions with buttons and he answered seven out of eight correctly and he's routinely answering them correctly," Bill Halstead said. The parents said they are hopeful that he can be released next Friday."That can always change depending on, you know, if we have something going backwards but as of right now we're looking forward to next Friday to take him to our house," said Stacy Halstead.The Halsteads said they're trying to sell their two-story home in Winder to move into a one-story ranch in Jefferson near other family members."All of our bedrooms and bathrooms are upstairs and he's getting bigger every day and it's just going to be really hard to carry him up and down," Stacy Halstead said. After a three month emotional roller coaster, the Halsteads say there's no way to thank everyone who has supported them, including more than 157,000 people on Facebook."We literally have people all over the world praying for him and it's just the most amazing thing ever," said Stacy Halstead.
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What the Nov. 6 results mean -- and don't mean
On election night, Olague told us she believed her split with the Mayor's Office really had more to do with CleanPowerSF –- which the board approved with a veto-proof majority over the objections of Lee and the business community –- and with her insisting on new revenue from Prop. E than it did with Mirkarimi, whose ouster she dismissed as "a power play" aimed at weakening progressives.
"They don't want to say it, but it was the whole thing around CleanPowerSF. Do you think PG&E wanted to lose its monopoly?" she said.
Yet Olague said the blame from her loss was also shared by progressives, who were hard on her for supporting Lee, courting his appointment to the D5 seat, and for voting with him on 8 Washington luxury condo project and other high-profile issues. "The left and the right both came at me," she told us. "From the beginning, people were hypercritical of me in ways that might not be completely fair."
Fair or not, Olague's divided loyalties hurt her campaign for the D5 seat, with most prominent progressives only getting behind her at the end of the race after concluding that John Rizzo's lackluster campaign wasn't going anywhere, and that Julian Davis, marred as he was by his mishandling of sexual impropriety accusations, couldn't and shouldn't win.
Olague told us she "can't think of anything I would have done differently." But she later mentioned that she should have raised the threats to renters earlier, worked more closely with other progressive candidates, and relied on grassroots activists more than political consultants connected to the Mayor's Office.
"The left shouldn't deal with consultants, we should use steering committees to drive the agenda," Olague said, noting that her campaign finally found its footing in just the last couple weeks of the race.
Inside sources say Olague's relations with Lee-connected campaign consultant Enrique Pearce soured months before the campaign finally sidelined him in the final weeks, the result of his wasteful spending on ineffective strategies and divided loyalties once a wedge began to develop between Olague and the Mayor's Office.
Progressive endorsements were all over the map in the district: The Harvey Milk Club endorsed Davis then declined to withdraw that endorsement. The Tenants Union wasn't with Olague. The Guardian endorsed Rizzo number one. And none of the leading progressive candidates had a credible ranked-choice voting strategy -- Breed got nearly as many second-place votes from Davis and Rizzo supporters as Olague did.
Meanwhile, Breed had a high-profile falling out with Brown, her one-time political ally, after her profanity-laden criticism of Brown appeared in Fog City Journal and then the San Francisco Chronicle, causing US Sen. Dianne Feinstein to withdraw her endorsement of Breed. That incident and Olague's ties to Lee, Brown, and Pak may have solidified perceptions of Breed's independence among even progressive voters, which the late attacks on her support from landlords weren't ever able to overcome.
Ironically, while Breed and some of her prominent supporters, including African American ministers in the district, weren't happy when Lee bypassed her to appoint Olague, that may have been her key to victory. Latterman noted that while Olague was plagued by having to divide loyalties between Lee and her progressive district and make votes on tough issues like reinstating Mirkarimi –- a vote that could hurt the D5 supervisor in either direction -– Breed was free to run her race and reinforce her independence: "I think Supervisor Breed doesn't win this race; challenger Breed did."
But even if Breed lives up to progressive fears, the balance of power on the Board of Supervisors could be up in the air. District 7 soundly rejected Mike Garcia, the hand-picked successor of the conservative outgoing Sup. Sean Elsbernd.
"Inside sources say Olague's relations with Lee-connected campaign consultant Enrique Pearce soured months before the campaign finally sidelined him in the final weeks, the result of his wasteful spending on ineffective strategies and divided loyalties once a wedge began to develop between Olague and the Mayor's Office."
Lesson Number One: do not hire Enrique Pearce.
Decent report guys, but very sloppily assumptive on one key point. A point on which such sloppiness helped cost us the D5 election.
This was your claim:
"voting with [Lee] on 8 Washington luxury condo project and other high-profile issues."
Really? What other high profile issues? (I can only think of one other vote on which Olague reversed on progressives, and though somewhat important, it wasn't high profile. Few progressive likely even noticed it. This was Olague's vote to retain conservative Planning Commissioner Michael Antonini - who, had he been rejected, Lee would have simply replaced with another more palatable appointee who would still be a rubber stamp for developers.)
So your vague tossing off of the phrase 'other high profile votes' was due the fact that you couldn't think of any such other votes off the top of your head - because they didn't actually exist. Your oft repeated during the election vague claim, made it seem as if there was a whole raft of stuff on which Olague voted with moderates. That flat out never happened. She went against us on two important votes. Period. On all the other key votes, she was with us (and in the case of the Beach Chalet soccer fields, all by herself).
So it was this constant vague refrain from the SF Guardian and others about nonexistent bad votes, which misled progressive voters into being much more conflicted about Olague, when we all should have wised up and made clear that for progressives, Olague was -far- more preferable to Breed as a supervisor.
The wishy washy reaction to Olague's candidacy had its origin in the media and in progressives who were (quite rightly) so bitter about how the Lee-Brown administration has re-hijacked the city, that they couldn't use good judgment, cut their losses, and make sure that they supported Olague and Rizzo -strongly- from very early on as a progressive block against Breed.
That was a -major- screw up on all of our parts on the progressive side of this ongoing political battle for control of the City.
and initial evasive answers on the Lee perjury matter; admittedly not votes, but still seemingly tying her a bit too closely to the "moderates."
And in fact her statements about ranked choice voting were just a ploy to help those of us on the pro RCV front draw the debate away from Farrel's dangerous proposal, toward a pretense of a compromise; and then once Farrel's measure was off the table, to scuttle the whole idea of a ballot measure to the waste bin. Which is exactly what we did. ;)
Eric, apply your scientific wisdom to IRV without your political blinders for a moment and acknowledge that it leads to less public involvement in the electoral process and tends to elect middling, lesser evil candidates.
To date our failures with IRV have been our own failure to properly work within the model for progressive gain. Lesser evil? Perhaps a little in some RCV races. But under contentious run offs, we -also- end up having to settle for a lesser evil candidate and invariably that lesser evil candidate is far more weak kneed than the ones we end up settling for in IRV.
IRV doesn't completely eliminate the need to factor in lesser-evil candidates. But it makes them less prominent so that we can build the reputations of more progressive candidates, and in the end, if we have to settle, to settle for a lesser-evil who is not nearly as bad as we would have been forced to accept in a run off.
The evidence shows that runoffs strengthen populist politics and the lack of runoffs weakens populist politics and strengthens corporate politics.
By my equation, IRV spares progressives massive energy, person hours, and expense, that would otherwise be wasted battling in the overblown electoral arena -twice- each election against huge monied interests. Eliminating this nonsense is definitely a net benefit to progressives who should be spending far more of our time, energy and money on building our communities for resilience, passing legislation for social and environmental good, and fighting bad legislation.
And many analysts have already shown that turn out is in fact better during IRV than in run offs. Steven Hill has shown these numbers repeatedly, and this was recently confirmed by a study of IRV commissioned by the SF Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo).
And higher turn outs favor progressive outcomes.
"By my equation, IRV spares progressives massive energy, person hours, and expense, that would otherwise be wasted battling in the overblown electoral arena -twice- each election against huge monied interests."
Yes, absolutely terrible things happen when people come together to work together to skill share to contest and even win elections. To be avoided at all costs.
And in fact, electoral politics is the last avenue I would choose to build a movement upon. It is by far the worst such.
The ludicrously enormous amount of energy, time and money that organizers have totally flushed down the toilet campaigning for Obama is the perfect example.
The anti WTO and other Global Justice Movement mobilizations are far more valuable and create far better and long lasting real results in the real world.
Electoral politics in the 21st century (other than ballot measure campaigns) have become a joke.
Locally, candidate campaigns still matter. But certainly not enough to burn ourselves out fighting the same candidate battle twice in every damned election for every race.
No way, man.
but I think you've got it exactly backwards.
I very much value your opinion on most matters and consider you to be a worthy guide, but on this I think it's more likely that I'll bring you around to my way of thinking rather than the other way around.
That's because of how I remember the old system. Lets see if we have a similar recollection.
I remember how on election day how there might be one or two decent candidates, a couple mediocre ones, and one really awful one. I'd have to consult the newspaper polls to try and discern which of the non-awful candidates might have the best chance of beating the really awful one in December. I think others besides me voted in November for someone who was a "lesser of two evils" candidate so that they might maximize the chances to end up with an acceptable, mediocre, result later.
Very stressful, and it puts far too much power in the hands of pollsters.
I like the system the way it is far more than the old system, and we need to move foward with getting the election hardware which the preference voting law awaits so that it can realize its fullest potential; allowing us voters to specify a preference order for every candidate in the race.
Preference voting and IRV are different systems. There is no perfect voting system, they are all sets of trade offs. My read is that the trade offs with IRV are worse for populist candidates than the trade offs with runoffs. As neighborhood political power mounted in the late 1990s and early 2000s, due to organizing during runoffs in 1999, 2000 and 2003, political wins piled up as well. In 2000, three supervisorial seats reversed outcomes in the runoff compared to the general election in favor of neighborhoods forces. Since then, there have been two instances where the first place first vote candidates lost to second choice candidates and both have hurt progressives.
The preponderance of the evidence points to the fact that the tradeoffs in IRV when compared to those of runoffs damage populist politics. I'd go as far as to assert that the abandoning of runoffs means that populist politics have abandoned aspirating the movement with fresh air every so often such that absent that leavening, we've learned that a movement cannot live on matzoh, crackers and poppadum alone.
However I would argue that the reason there was such a progressive uprising in the 2000s was that progressives had been getting their asses kicked and finally realized that they were cooked if they didn't take action bigtime.
Once IRV came in, too many progressives wrongly assumed it would solve all of their electoral problems, and they all backed off of their sense of alarm that the right can take us by surprise and outmaneuver us if we don't stay active.
This led progressives to fail to launch strong campaigns for Tony Kelly in D10, and Rizzo/Olague in D5.
Now that progressives have seen that being too relaxed about this stuff has led to the Brown/Pak coup in 2010, a progressive loss in D10, and a total clusterfuck that could have been avoided in D5, trust me, they are sufficiently awake; and aware that IRV has to be used effectively and -actively- with real expense of time, energy, and feet on the ground to deliver its promises - and that it does by any stretch not solve all of their problems.
But IRV can help us immensely -if- we use it properly.
Eric, progressive power rose in the 1990s from nothing, there was a liberal presence on the Board of Supervisors before that but after Moscone, nothing remotely progressive at all.
IRV was put into place by Steven Hill to set the table for IRV in partisan races under the misapprehension that people were not voting Green because they feared spoiling the Democrabs for the Republicrabs when in reality people did not want to vote for wing nuts, Green or otherwise. Hill's subsequent work as a "rent-a-political-scienctist" appears to be firmly in the camp of the neoliberal establishment over at the New America Foundation.
IRV has not set the table for anything but a progressive starvation diet. At this rate, we'll be dead before the last standing progressives can figure out IRV as lack of IRV will not bring anyone new into the progressive electoral process.
D5 was an unforced error, IRV is another unforced error.
I don't see IRV causing those problems at all.
But, it can be said that Proportional Representation would certainly be a far better way locally to empower third parties and get their reps in office.
Let's make it happen.
Italy has a PR system, and government there seem powerless to make change, and seem to change every few months. PR leads to weak, disparate government which ensures a wishy-washy muddle-thru compromise on everything. If you think PR is a progressive nirvana you are greatly mistaken. It generally means more of the status quo.
I think this whole argument is flawed. If your message resonates with the people, you will win elections whatever the voting system. You seem to want a system that rigs the results in your favor. not surprisingly, there isn't such a system if you can't persuade most of the voters to believe it.
Your comments about Europe under proportional representation simply bear no resemblance to reality whatsoever.
European countries run via proportional representation have, across the board, vastly better social outcomes than the U.S.; better wealth equality, health care, early childhood mortality, worker protections, vacation time, maternity leave, pay and benefits, and on and on...
And Germany, which employs proportional representation, has the strongest economy in Europe. Germany is also now successfully completing a rapid phase out of nuclear power, and has the strongest renewable energy program on the planet, largely because its government has such robust Green Party representation.
Can you please describe the planet on which you have discovered the mythical 'Europe' that you described in your post?
Because it doesn't exist on this one.
continue to spew the same flavor of unsubstantiated "conventional wisdom" rubbish.
The UK has all those social welfare benefits, free healthcare etc and they have a "first past the post" system. So it's not PR that makes a government left-wing at all - it's a majority of voters wanting that, which can happen under any voting system.
Some nations in Europe have PR and some do not, but I defy anyone to show how those two groups are significantly different from each other..
The real reason you want PR, of course, is that you belong to a fringe party which might just scrape a small amount of representation if we had the same voting system as Italy.
would argue so insipidly.
AG is in effect saying that we want PR so we can have representation for our fringe left-wing political viewpoints, but also that we should know that PR does not make a government left wing at all; that while PR governments are wishy-washy muddle-through affairs, that there is no difference in outcomes between PR governments and first-past-the-post governments.
Take a nap AG.
would also gives us the odd fascist, nazi or racist. Do you really want to see polarization towards the extremes when the vast majority of Americans clearly want centrists and moderates in power?
PR doesn't necessarily give left-wing governments, that's true. But it does tend to prevent any one party holding power, and paralysis is often the result.
elections, and then awarding the eleven Supervisors seats on thee grounds of the distribution of votes. It's not clear to me how that would help Progressives given that they usually do badly in city-wide elections, with only the ill-fated Ross winning one in recent living memory.
Not that I agree with Eric. This idea is as bad as destroying Hetch Hetchy reservior. Eric -- we have local politics now. The idea of proportional representation as promoted in 1996 was not a bad idea, per se, but even though it would guarantee some strongly progressive representation on the board, it would put the body as a whole firmly back into PG$E's grip. No!
But anyway, just to clarify, the earlier proportional voting system would have allocated second, third, fourth, and so on, votes only after the higher preferences had attained office; in a system having multiple at-large officials, it avoids the temptation or need to excercise "bullet" voting wherein one's ballot is left partially blank so that one's vote for a less desirable candidate does not in effect work against the one who you have greatest preference for. I used to leave my ballot partially blank often in the bad old days.
I would say that proportion voting would be useful for the central committee, school board, etc.
(Now off to work for real!)
voting system is the one that most skews the results towards the guy you want to win?
Eventually, you admit it.
Plus it would bring back the main reason for district elections: that candidates running at the district level don't have to raise as much money to be competitive.
It is to widely diversify representation to all smaller political groups. My objective as a Green would be to get Greens and other third parties on the Board, and thereby end the total dominance and complacency of local Democrats.
And PR does not necessarily mean a return to city wide elections. Each district voter could vote for their preferred party and -also- rank the choices s/he wishes their party to appoint in that district.
So if the city went down to 5 districts and in a hypothetical District 1, greens won 2 out of 5 spots in that district, the IRV process would determine which 2 specific Green candidates ranked highest and were appointed in that district.
under the current rules.
Certainly not enough to gain ongoing critical mass on the Board.
Nor has there been a Republican for decades (a situation which is clearly completely disenfranchising Republican voters in San Francisco).
And if we had proportional representation, I have no doubt that the Peace & Freedom Party (and likely some other parties) would also gain a few seats.
And in any case you just tried to claim that Europe sucks compared to the U.S. because of proportional representation. Now you are claiming something to the effect of:
'ohhh uhhh... well.. Europe doesn't suck, but that's not because of proportional representation..'
Get your story straight, then type...
welfare benefits such that working there is a "lifestyle choice".
If that isn't socialism, then what is? And no PR in the UK, ever.
Yes, and the UK also has poorer social outcomes (including health outcomes) than other Western European countries which use proportional representation in elections.
Whether it is socialist or not, has nothing to do with deciding which electoral form delivers better standards of living and social outcomes through better democratic representation.
You can point to many things that differentiate different nations in Europe, but it's a stretch to argue that all is good in nations with PR and all is bad in those that do not have it.
..writing what you are claiming I wrote, troll.
I remember saying that Europe is largely run via PR and has better outcomes than in the U.S. Since what sort of democracy one has tends to greatly influence such outcomes, it is clearly relevant.
And -- as has been pointed out to me recently -- the 2002 (4?) law which established that system already provides for every single candidate to be selected in order of preference by the voter when election hardware allows it; a change which is overdue in my opinion.
If D5 voters had been able to rank more candidates, I think it is a good bet that Olague would have found herself elected by thousands of fourth and fifth place picks.
And in D7, Norman Yee has been (unofficially so far) named as the winner. Would F.X. Crowley with his SEIU and downtown support not likely have won a run-off?
Here is shill on preference voting in 1995:
a misnomer, was it not?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the parliamentary system in England is analogous to that '96 proposal and is called "proportional" not "preferential."
In our current S.F. system we vote preferences, so I think that is the correct term for it.
I do see the validity of your objection to the system, but I think that points to the need to look for some other compesatory action rather than reverse IRV.
No, the UK Parliament is elected in the worst possible of all ways, it is first past the post, or whichever candidate wins the most votes wins the election, full stop.
Proportional representation is generally done via parties where you vote for a party and it gets to fill as many percentage of seats as it gets percentage of votes.
Preference voting is generally used to fill multi seat race elections, like SFUSD or CCB or the old at large BofS. It is not widely deployed to fill a single seat election like district supervisor.
We have Instant Runoff Voting which has since been renamed Ranked Choice Voting by the SF Department of Elections to distract from the fact that it took them almost ten years to figure out how to make the algorithmic runs "instant" on election night.
In any case, the '96 Prop H proposal was to eliminate the utility (and sacrifice) of "bullet voting"; casting fewer votes than the full number of open seats so that one's votes for less desirable candidates would not in effect cause them to be elected over those who were less desirable.
As for the current system, I still think it should be called "Preferential Order Voting" and think it is worth questioning how faithfully the election department has been working to implement the law.
By-the-way, your reference to Steven Hill and his reported neo-liberal leaning seems to be a "cooties-logic" refutation of that '96 idea which itself had merit, though less so than the district elections which were achieved then.
few people have thought-out opinions on or support for more than 2-3 candidiates.
Take the 2005 D5 election when there was (IIRC) 21 candidiates. It's not realistic to rank all 21 in order of preference. Most of them where nobodies and deciding which one to rank #19 versus #20 is a big waste of everybody's time.
Three is probably the biggest number that anyone can reasonably support.
No such election took place, but if you look at the 2011 Mayoral election you were just lying about, of 25 candidates -- most of whom were write-ins -- only ten scored more than one percent and only six scored higher than five percent.
Under a more complete implementation of the IRV law, voters will have no need for, and will receive no benefit from, voting for more candidates than they wish to express a preference for consider to be viable. Any votes for minor candidates are transferred and as long as enough slots are available to cover whomever might end up among the finalists, there will be no more "exhausted" ballots.
I know you are trolling me, Guest, and I'm not going to respond any further right now as I've got some work to do.
made even the slightest difference to an election where, in the final "runoff", 3 voters chose Lee for every 2 that chose Avalos.
Allowing more choices between marginal candidiates one feels little for either way will not improve democracy nor will it enable a weak candidiate to win, as you obviously wish for.
If you want to win, put up a candidate who is more relevant to most SF'ers.
Do you guys actually believe that voters rank all the candidates?
That they go to mayoral debates and take notes on the differences between Wilma Pang vs Emil Lawrence, even though they don't want either one to be Mayor?
Or do you just want the voters to change their ways, to do exponentially more work, in order to fit the RCV system?
I know that you badly need to hide one of RCV's great flaws in that it ignores large percentages of perfectly fine ballots, but asking people to change their ways to accommodate your system is never a winning idea.
It should also tell you something about what an embarrassment RCV is to San Francisco.
to the fullest degree that have them; only the current elections equipment limits choices to three.
If voters have reason to believe that "Wilma Pang" or "Emil Lawrence" might be in the running, then they will certainly express a preference between them.
Under the old system, voters would have to guess which candidates might make have a chance at making a runoff so they might have some say in what the ultimate choice might look like.
Your argument seems to be that voters shouldn't watch debates and they ought to be able to vote while only keeping a single name in their minds; perhaps one that has been fed to them by far wiser citizens such as yourself.
The embarassment to San Francisco is that despite its generally high level of education and intelligence, that a forum for hashing out progressive ideas such as this one would be populated by so many duplicitous and shallow arguments such as your own.
concerned with which voting system will elect more of the candidiates that you three happen to prefer.
The idea of a voting system is to most fairly and efficiently reflect the wishes of most voters, not of extremists desparate to juggle the system to distort the results in their favor.
If, after 223 years of American Democracy and an untold number of elections, across thousands of municipalities, you still can't find machines to do elections the way that you want them, then you need to take a step and look back at what the hell you are doing.
I love it when people say that San Francisco is 'leading the way' with RCV. Then they have to remind you that Minneapolis/St. Paul are two cities. So are Burlington and Aspen of course, but they don't matter.
The proponents of RCV were just SO concerned about low turnout elections that they put the RCV ballot measure on a low turnout March ballot. They changed all future elections via a 30% turnout election. And Progressives have fought like crazy to prevent voters from getting another shot at it.
Don't think that Progressives are nothing but hypocrites? Explain that one.
Troll, you show no signs of change.
The IRV system was put into place by voters who turned out not at "30%" as you oh-so-typically lie, but at 34.15% -- the highest turnout of any of the previous four elections taking place over the span of two and a half years.
That 34.15% turn-out followed immediately on the heels of the turn-out run-off election of Dec 2001 where 16.58% of registered voters determined the results of two supervisorial run-off elections.
Prop A won convincingly by 55.48% to 44.52% which probably has more to do with why it hasn't been repealed than any "crazy" conspiracy you might allege.
In the March 2002 ballot pamphlet, former member of the citizens advisory committee on elections Christopher L. Bowman argued against the system, claiming there were better ways to avoid the problem of low turn-out in runoff elections -- all of which consisted of changing over to low turn-out "primary" elections!
I quote:
"First, move the primary for District Supervisors to March in even-numbered years, when city voters decide the nominees for State and Federal offices, and hold the run-off election in the high-voter turnout General Election in November. Second, move the primary in odd-numbered years, to the Tuesday eight days or fifteen days after Labor Day in September, and hold the run-off election in November. Third, move the primary in odd-numbered years to the weekend or second weekend after Labor Day when most people aren't working."
Troll, you are hopeless -- but at least unlike "Guest" above, you sometimes think of new nonsense to write each time and do so under a distinctive sobriquet.
Wow...you mean that RCV was approved by the voters in an election that had 34.15% turnout instead of the 30% that I said?
Well THAT certainly proves that the RCV proponents aren't completely hypocritical when they say that important decisions shouldn't be made during low turnout elections. Whoa. 34.15%!!!! A primary featuring incumbent Grey Davis. No way to expect a low turnout on that one I guess.
Hey, moron, did you happen to notice the turnout of the NOVEMBER election that year? The one that RCV proponents avoided? Or the one in 1996 when voter rejected a similar measure?
The rest of your post was incoherrent, sorry. Have they adjusted your meds again?
ever-changing position on RCV if one understands that his position is not based on any academic or fundamental principle, but rather is opportunistic, based on his ever-shifting perception of which variation of voting system is most likely to lead to the outcome he prefers.
Looking for logic in such a self-serving approach is futile. His views will be all over the place, election to election, race to race.
Hmmm... let's analyze that to see if it is a Troll comment -- no need to look at the byline.
Controller Ed Harrington added this to the summaries of the two choices voters faced in regard to how supervisors would be elected in Nov. 1996:
"Notice to Voters: Propositions G and H appear to conflict with each other. If both measures are approved by the voters, and if the two measures conflict, the one receiving the greater number of votes will become law"
Prop G was for the return to district elections, which... let me guess halfwit, you are hypocritically *against* even though it passed in such a "high-turn-out" election -- while Prop H was for a proportional system which would have preserved at-large elections.
The 1996 Prop H had just about no similarity to 2002's Prop A.
Answer: the comment above is larded with falsehood, therefore it *is* a Troll comment.
She voted to retain pro-development commission Anontini.
Eric, I see now that exhibit a completely troll-like willingness to diverge completely from reality in order to seem to have made a point or otherwise achieve some goal. Sad, as I once had (misplaced) high respect for you.
Contrary to what I took to be Steven Jones' position as stated in his recent "how we fight" essay -- that to bring peace and build a movement we need to make concessions to reactionary rhetoric -- I think we progressives best distinguish ourselves by simply sticking to facts.
Did you get what you wanted out of the proposal to destroy Hetch Hetchy?
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In the beginning, when this site was still on Blogspot, The Playlist focused on the intersection of music and film, and while our coverage has expanded it's still a subject near and dear to our hearts. To that end, here's some news that will be exciting to fans of two classic films.
Last week, Milan Records announced the future releases of digitally remastered editions of Anton Karas' score for the Carol Reed-helmed and Orson Welles-starring noir "The Third Man" and Bernard Herrmann's score for the classic Alfred Hitchcock film -- and the greatest film of all time per Sight & Sound -- "Vertigo."
Both releases feature great cover art and look to be a great addition to any film score collection. Serious collectors may want to keep a closer eye on Karas' score as it may soon be as scarce as the now-out-of-print Criterion edition of "The Third Man." But for any soundtrack buffs, these are two pretty essential releases to have on hand, and there's no better time to snatch them up.
You can catch the score for "The Third Man" on February 25th and get "Vertigo" on March 11th. Check out the artwork below. [Bloody Disgusting]
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The big news here is that there will finally be a digitally remastered version of Bernard Herrmann's incredible masterwork score for Hitchcock's VERTIGO. Unfortunately, the article does not tell us a very important detail: Will this be the actual score from the film that was conducted by Muir Mathieson or will it be lifted from the original film? In any case, the digital remastering of any of Herrmann's scores is always a delight, for no other film music composer has a way with orchestration, rhythm and dramatic themes than Herrmann himself. One listen to the entire score of VERTIGO (without the images) and you can literally "hear" the story unfolding between the strings, woodwinds and timpani. The way Herrmann juxtaposes high and low horns with swirling strings and thunderous timpani strikes unleashes a primal fear that can raise the hairs on the back of your neck. Only to halt this terror with a lush romantic theme (borrowed from Tristan and Isolde) juxtaposed with a Spanish "tempo di habanera" is as exciting as it is curious. The VERTIGO score is Herrmann at his most inventive; alternately romantic, tragic and terrifying. There was relatively recently a full recording of the VERTIGO score by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by Joel McNeely that is a incredibly well done complete rendering of the score. If this upcoming Digital remastered version of the VERTIGO score is from the original 1958 Muir Mathieson version, then we are not being treated to the full score, but instead to a very well crafted version that was truncated to avoid repetition. But it is just such repetitions in any of Herrmann's scores that make them so interesting to listen to. For example in the complete score for PSYCHO (conducted by Herrmann himself) we are given almost seven "cues" of the original Psycho title theme and each cue is different in tempo, effects and arrangement. Each repetition captivates you in its complexity and dynamism. Although the 1958 Muir Mathieson recording of the VERTIGO score is a marvelous work, it is incomplete; it does not contain every cue from the actual film soundtrack. Nonetheless, it is better to have something than nothing. However, if you're curious to hear just how powerful film music can be in the right hands, Herrmann's score for VERTIGO is the best place to begin.