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19 Aug 2011
BBC Prom 41
This concert of three substantial choral and orchestral works by Benjamin Britten recreated the '50th birthday' Promenade concert which Britten himself conducted on 12 September 1963.
After the horrors of Jagoš Marković's production of Le Nozze di Figaro in Belgrade, I was apprehensive lest Nabucco in Serbia's second city of Novi Sad on 27th October would be transplanted from 6th century BC Babylon to post-Saddam Hussein Tikrit or some bombed-out kibbutz in Beersheba.
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This concert of three substantial choral and orchestral works by Benjamin Britten recreated the '50th birthday' Promenade concert which Britten himself conducted on 12 September 1963.
Commissions from the Japanese government and Serge Koussevitsky had resulted in the Sinfonia da Requiem (1940) and Spring Symphony (1949) respectively; now added to these earlier works was a new composition, the Cantata Misericordium commissioned for the centenary of the International Red Cross, and first heard at their celebrations in Geneva just a few days earlier.
Alan Oke
It was Ronald Duncan, the librettist of the Rape of Lucretia, who once remarked that Britten had told him that "he never had a purely musical thought unrelated to a verbal context"*. Certainly, the absence of a 'straightforward' symphony from Britten's oeuvre might suggest that he was not naturally inclined towards 'pure' symphonic structures and approaches. However, this performance by the BBC Symphony Orchestra was conducted with conviction and insight by Mark Wigglesworth (deputising for an indisposed Jiři Bělohlávek), and his superb crafting of the complex and at times problematic architecture of these works revealed the composer's control of symphonic form and mastery of instrumental colour.
The Cantata Misericordium relates the New Testament story of the Good Samaritan, the chorus framing and commenting on the action as presented by two soloists — a Traveller (baritone) and Samaritan (tenor). The text is wholly in Latin and this lends an air of formality which both the BBC Singers and the excellent soloists, Leigh Melrose and Alan Oke, sustained without becoming overly stylised or austere. Indeed, the soloists' drama was earnestly related, building to a moving climax during the attack upon the Traveller which culminated in an intense, chromatic choral outburst.
Christine Rice
Wigglesworth handled the continuous form, with its clearly delineated sections, with great skill, subtly controlling the rhythmic tensions which establish a forward-moving pulse. He fashioned a coherent narrative which moved from the tightly-controlled motivic statements of the instrumental introduction (drawing beautifully tender playing from the solo string quartet), to a more expansive close, the rich concordant harmonies of the full orchestra suggesting relaxation and reconciliation.
Wigglesworth revealed a similar appreciation of form in the Sinfonia da Requiem commissioned to celebrate the 2,600th anniversary of the Japanese empire, but ultimately declared unsuitable, its sentiments considered insufficiently triumphant, overly religious and inappropriately Christian in nature. The three movements — Lacrymosa, Dies Irae and Requiem Aeternam — cohered seamlessly. After a thunderous opening, the Lacrymosa moved eerily and relentlessly, erupting in an energized scherzo — a frenzied 'dance of death' — which, seeming to have exhausted itself, in turn was replaced with the more subdued calm of the final movement.
Leigh Melrose
But, it was in the Spring Symphony that Wigglesworth demonstrated even greater insight, successfully creating a logical whole from the various parts of Britten's multi-movement score. Initially Britten referred to his Spring Symphony simply as 'the Symphony' and wrote to Koussevitsky in January 1947, 'I am planning it for chorus & soloists … but it is a real symphony (the emphasis is on the orchestra) & consequently I am using Latin words'**. Things turned out rather differently: the large forces include a boys' choir (here the Trinity Boys Choir) and extensive orchestra (triple woodwind, four percussionists, two harps), and the fifteen English texts are arranged into 12 numbers, organised into four separate parts. The result is perhaps closer to a cantata form than a conventional classical four-movement structure but, moving naturally and instinctively through the series of scene settings and choral dances, Wigglesworth located and sustained a narrative line, as we progressed from winter to spring, experiencing the reawakening of earth, and thereby fully avoided the sense that this work is in any way an 'orchestral song-cycle'.
Typically, Britten constructs chamber-like ensembles from the diverse instrumental forces available to him, and conductor and orchestra were alert to the nuances of colour which portray the various aspects of spring and reveal Britten's sensitive response to his chosen texts. After quiet beginnings, a trio of triumphant trumpets accompanied Alan Oke's exultant heralding of the arrival of 'The merry cuckoo'; in 'The Driving Boy', Amanda Roocroft's charming and eloquent depiction of the 'driving boy beside his team … Cracking his whip in starts of joy' was decorated by dancing woodwind and tambourine; glassy sul ponticello strings evoked the gentle evening rain in the setting of Vaughan's 'Waters Above'. Christine Rice carefully shaped Auden's 'Out on the lawn I lie in bed' at the close of Part 2, accompanied by an atmospheric wordless chorus. In the final movement, above Oke's descriptions of May festivities, from Beaumont and Fletcher's The Knight of the Burning Pestle, a primitive cow horn marked the end of the journey from winter to spring, and called all the people to join in the celebration of the return of life to the earth.
Mark Wigglesworth
In 1963 Britten began his Promenade concert with a performance of his own arrangement of Henry Purcell's Chacony in G Minor. For this occasion, the BBC had commissioned Joby Talbot to prepare a new arrangement, and Talbot provided an exciting, dramatic score, which in its exploitation of instrumental contrasts, and use of small groupings within the large orchestral forces, was suitably Brittenesque. Talbot's version may have lacked some sense of the inevitable unfolding of Purcell's ceaselessly evolving form, but it certainly highlighted the rhythmic vitality and freedom which underpinned both Britten's and Purcell's work.
Claire Seymour
* Duncan, Working With Britten (The Rebel Press), p.103.
** In Humphrey Carpenter, Benjamin Britten (Faber), p.278.


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According to Sreejith Gireesan, Head – Cloud Center of Excellence, Marlabs Software, skills like Cloud Infrastructure engineering (Private cloud), Cloud Dev Ops, Cloud Automation/ Integration Engineers are rare but the demand is high…
What are the benefits of "living in the cloud?" The risks?
You are smarter if you are living in the cloud. More economical, more agile and you can be more innovative. The obvious benefits of cloud computing such as efficiency, capex savings and agility of provisioning new services make the "cloud-living" story a compelling one. However, the Cloud is not a solution for everyone and everything. If enterprise CIOs are able to manage the three major questions/concerns on the cloud model: availability, security and latency - then most of the applications can live there, comfortably.
How are mid-sized organisations adapting to cloud technology and what are the popular applications being put in cloud?
Mid-size organisations don't have the comfort level of having niche technology skill set in-house. They may not have the financial muscle power to implement latest/cutting edge technology solutions quickly. So they used to lose out to biggies when it comes to technology driven innovative solutions or service offerings.However, now with the Cloud, they have a level playing field. Since, the cloud can help them in eliminating huge Capex for IT, now it is very easy, cheaper and more efficient to roll-out innovations to the market. This is driving lots of mid-size organisations towards the cloud.Except the apps which demand very low latency, tight security and compliance are already in the cloud.
What is the talent scenario in India for cloud computing?
In India, cloud computing has just started to make its inroads to big ticket implementations. There is no dearth of cloud enthusiasts in India. This is evident from the huge turnouts in cloud technology meet-ups, conferences and summits. Are all of them employable? May not be. The reason is that market needs very specific niche cloud computing skills which are rare to find. Skills like Cloud Infrastructure engineering (Private cloud), Cloud Dev Ops, Cloud Automation/ Integration Engineers are very rare in market.
What are the roles that will be in demand in 2014?
As I mentioned above, the skills like Cloud Infrastructure engineering (Private cloud), Cloud Dev Ops, Cloud Automation/ Integration Engineers are rare but the demand is high. Cloud based big data Analytics and NoSQL Skills are growing in demand.
For lateral movement, what kind of up skilling (certification, courses) is required to move to cloud computing?
In my honest opinion, I won't hire anyone just because he /she just did a certification. Since this is a new arena, pure-play "Cloud certifications" may not fly much. I would rather evaluate someone for his / her hands-on experience and understanding on the Cloud. However, training and certification helps to instill the enthusiasm and give more exposure to the cloud. It can help to fill some parts of the talent crunch.For private cloud related projects, trainings on virtualisation technologies like VMware, HyperV, Cloudstack, Openstack could be of help. Public cloud type of solutions, Amazon web services recently launched a suite of trainings which are a nice plat form to start.
What are your current talent challenges?
Lack of sufficient talent in the market and the cost of mid-level professionals (Cloud SMEs) is one of the biggest talent challenges.
What are the essential skills required to have successful career in the cloud computing?
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Jason Taylor has been in radio for over 20 years, and 17 of those years have been spent right here in Texoma! In fact, many folks have literally listened to him grow up on the radio.....they've been with him as he married his wife Lisa, as well as the raising of his three daughters. (Notice the gray hair, and receeding hairline.) His love for the Texomaland area stems from the generosity shown year after year, whether it's the annual Katy Country food drive, or the annual Katy Country toy drive, the response is overwhelming. "There is no better place to raise a family than Texoma. And having lived all over the country as a kid, I know what I'm talking about." Amen to that Jason! Of all of Jason's other passions, he is the "self-professed" biggest Dallas Cowboys fan on the planet. "Yep. I'm PAINFULLY devoted. If Jerry Jones would only listen to me, we'd be World Champs every year!" Um, yeah. Just keep playin' the hits, Jason. Just keep playin' the hits.
Penny Mitchell grew up being utterly and completely enamored of radio BUT decided to go into nursing upon graduating from high school. The thought of going into radio never even remotely crossed her mind: She grew up never hearing a woman on the air, ever, in any capacity. In nursing school at Colorado State University/Pueblo she heard the new morning person at KILO FM and it was…a woman. And lo, the world suddenly had one less nurse and one more radio person. Penny's parents never quite got over that. Penny's first ever radio job was at a country station in Pueblo as the worst overnight jock in the universe. She has gratefully spent the majority of her almost-30 years in radio working with country music, which possesses the nicest artists and BEST listeners!
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Zac was born just a few miles away from the Katy Country studios right here in Sherman and has lived his entire life in Texoma. He has always been interested in music and radio since he was a little boy. You can ask his parents, he would record songs on his radio and play them back as if he were doing his own radio show. At the age of 14, he would help
out at a local non-commercial radio station in Callisburg, TX and would host the school's Wildcat Hour while he was still in high school. He is a familiar voice to Texoma as he has been working at radio stations in Ardmore, OK for the past 6 years. Zac is very excited to be back on the side of the Red River as host of the Katy Country Afternoon Show. He is
married to his beautiful wife Jenny (we don't know how he pulled that off) and currently has one son, who is his exact clone. Seriously. He is active in his church in Whitesboro, TX, loves chips & salsa, playing drums, and going out to Lake Texoma while cranking up some good ole' country music. His other hobbies include giving his wife a hard time, irritating his brother and sister, and he is a huge sports fan. GO Cowboys, Rangers, Stars, and Mavericks!!
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Tad Svendsenhas been captivated by radio since receiving his first portable for Christmas as a child. He says it's the first (and still the best) mobile communications device. He's fastened radios to his bicycle handlebars, strung antennas through trees, and broken more radios than most people will ever own. Tad began broadcasting while still a teen at a country station in South Dakota. He's gone on to play all kinds of music at stations across the nation, but he always comes home to Country music. It's his job to make all of the show just as entertaining as the music he plays. Tad's been known to spend too much money on cars and not enough on haircuts. He enjoys looking after the family farmland each summer. Tad is single but hasn't yet given up. He lives with his border collie Grady and just about every gadget he can find. He usually has two or three radios all playing at once, and he's still looking for the best way to attach one to his handlebars.
Jeff became an instant country music fan at the age of 16, when a friend played him a Waylon Jennings album. "Prior to that, I assumed that country was about people who lived a lifestyle completely foreign to me -- that we had nothing in common. Was I ever wrong! Country is about real people with real feelings and experiences similar to what mine were growing up. Now that I'm an adult with my own family, it's truer than ever". When Jeff began working in country music radio and had the opportunity to meet and speak with country stars first hand, he was even more pleasantly surprised by how relatable and friendly they are when not on stage performing. "Plus, I can actually understand the words when they sing. Rock and pop fans can't always say the same. Which may be just as well!"
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The rules being unveiled Thursday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau impose a range of obligations and restrictions on lenders, including bans on risky "interest-only" and "no documentation" loans that helped inflate the housing bubble.
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CFPB Director Richard Cordray, in remarks prepared for an event Thursday, called the rules "the true essence of 'responsible lending.'"
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the salad spinner: kitchen essential or waste of space?
Just wondering what your opinions are...
Do you love them or hate them?
And if you're a fan, do they do anything else to earn their place in your kitchen besides drying lettuce?
They do take up a heck of a lot of space, but I use mine nearly every day and really find it to be the best way to get leaves washed and (nearly) dried. I also use it for washing greens and herbs.
Ran out of space in my small apartment kitchen and bought one of these collapsible salad spinners:
Yes, it takes 30 seconds to set it up, and some reviews said the string frays rather soon than it ought to. So I bought mine at Bed, Bath, and Beyond where I could return it if I had a problem with it. So far, though, maybe two years later, so good. And it did free up considerable space.
Absolutely necessary if you want to make a decent salad. We have the oxo spinner. Use it nearly every day. How else do you get the greens dry? Watery greens means watery dressing. But if you don't eat salads regularly, no need for one.
I had one of the collapsible ones but the string did fray and break so I just bought an OXO on Amazon. You just push the button. I'll find a place for it as my DH eats alot of salads.
i use mine all the time. i buy organic lettuce and kale from the farmers markets and it's bug city. it dries the leaves perfectly too.
A few years ago I said I would not have a plastic anything in my kitchen. I've since changed my mind. For years I used a collapsible wire salad spinner that was maybe 50 years old.
When it broke I tried a few home made impromptu methods of drying green leafy vegetables, including a colander in a deep bowl that worked quite well, but finally gave in and bought the ubiquitous OXO spinner. While it doesn't really Dry the greens it does a fair job of removing most of the water with small effort. A clean tea towel or paper towel does the rest...
Neither essential nor a waste of space. I use mine regularly but could certainly get by without it.
Mine is a cheap POS with a crank on top. Probably came from the dollar store.
I use one all the time for fruit, vegetables, cold pasta that needs good draining and as part of my blanch, shock, dry routine for stir fry and roasting.
These spinners come in a few diff sizes, brands and colors now but if you buy a good deal of produce, then you should find the spinner an essential. Having one for a while made me think of additional purposes for it. I paid $25.00 at the time for this one:
The Khantessa makes virtually all the salads at Khan's Khastle, and she swears by her salad spinner. Who am I to demur?
I've lived without a spinner for many years, and with little storage space to spare, never intended to get one, but the few lettuces I planted this year have been so abundant that I've had to change my plans and make room. After reading a lot here and elsewhere about spinners, I chose this one, the large size so it actually drys a lot, not just a few outer leaves. I roll them up in dry paper towels afterward (it dries them very well) and they stay fresh a long time in a low humidity crisper drawer.
re: sunshine842
I used to use a bag, but now I roll up the paper egg roll style and they stay in.
re: sunshine842
Now if you could only do that with the contents of their rooms.
re: sunshine842
I use an Oxo spinner and then roll up the lettuce leaves in paper towles and then into the plastic bag the Sunday paper comes in. I suppose in a dry climate the Sunday paper is not in a plastic bag.
re: John E.
having a dog dictates a different use for the paper bag (which is not designed for food use, so I'll pass)
Not like I'd DIE without a salad spinner, but I definitely make room for one in my kitchen.
VIVIDLY remember Julia Child doing her own version of a SS on PBS... back in the B&W days. She had messa greens in one of those collapsible wire basket and was dunking in sink full of water. She was shaking water off when she said something about it taking too long, I think?? Then she literally swung it around over her head!! You could SEE the water dripping down TV camera lens! Hysterical!
re: kseiverd
I saw Ina Garten put greens in a clean kitchen towel and whip it around over her head like a sling! I loved the idea.
I absolutely HATE my salad spinner. It takes up a lot of space and is a pain to clean. The only thing it is good for is a large container for storing clean greens, but even then takes up too much room in the fridge.
re: charlesbois
If I saw Ina Garten swingin' a towel like that, I'd run for the hills!
re: Perilagu Khan
There is always the Mr. Bean approach:
We have a small kitchen with limited storage, but the salad spinner is so essential that we have it. We use it almost every day - lettuce and herbs mostly, but I'm known to grab it for other jobs like berries (no spin!).
We do seem to have a problem with leaving it a bit too close to to the stovetop, so we are on our third one...
I always use mine for leafy greens of any kind. for one thing, they last so much longer in the fridge when they're dry!
I lived without one for years. My technique for salad greens was to rinse them in a large bowl of cold water, drain in a colander, and then lay them out on a clean dish towel. Cover with another clean towel, roll it all up and refrigerate for an hour or two, up to overnight.
That said, I really like having one now. I can wash a head of romaine for tomorrow's lunch, spin it and put the whole thing in the fridge, ready for the morning.
They do take up a lot of space, and if I only used mine for salads I might not bother. However, the removable colander portion is useful for many other things, as HillJ mentioned. It is great for washing leeks or anything else that is sandy enough to need a good long soak, works well as an ice bath for shocking blanched items, etc.
I like mine okay - I could live without it. It doesn't do anything other items (paper towels, hands, etc.) couldn't do, but does make them easier - I use mine for seeding tomatoes, especially cherry tomatoes.
I bought one not too long ago at Ikea, because it was super cheap and I was in a "salad" phase. Well, the salad phase ended as soon as I bought the thing, and it's still sitting in the cabinet, in the wrapping.
But, I am not a big salad person. I don't make salads on a regular basis. If you do, you probably would want a salad spinner.
As for the cabinet space issue, I think if you were short on space, you could store things inside the spinner, like measuring cups, or small ramekins, or whatever other small gadgets that are taking up room. Maybe even kitchen towels.
Love mine. Gets used once a week after I get home from the farmers market, one or two types of lettuce, plus a couple of kinds of greens. Everything is wrapped up in paper towels and baggies... And will last a week plus in the fridge.
Our spinner doesn't spin much these days.
Now that you have reminded me, the spinner does take up too much room. I think it will be retired to the " Home for Olde Appliances and other Needful Things, " this weekend.
We do make daily use of our collapsible, silicone and stainless steel colanders. Rinsing vegetables, fruit, pasta, cooked everything, and other tasks. Easy to wash and put away.
And yes, on occasion they have displayed table grapes.
I like mine. I use it as an extra soaking tub for fresh broccoli. Some water and vinegar and the caterpillars come right out.
re: tcamp
Sometimes I would wash them in batches, so I wanted to dry them before putting in the fridge so they wouldn't get gross. Also, they got vitamins everyday, which had to be stuffed inside, and this is easier with a dry mouse.
This job completely got me over any problems I had with raw meat. A supermarket prepped chicken has NOTHING on butchering a rat.
And surprisingly, I had some picky owls. They really did not like eating the mice if they were wet - sometimes I would drive out to the cages in the middle of the night to feed them if I had to wait for it to stop raining.
It's useful but not essential. I can't love or hate a mere kitchen tool. Space is not an issue because I store it on a high shelf. There's no reason to leave it sitting out.
I could not live with out one! I eat salads for dinner most nights. I clean a salad spinner's worth of lettuce and store everything in the fridge. The letter stays fresh and the spinner is out of my way. I am on my second OXO. I had my first one for over 10 years, it was melted in a few spots and started to get very grimy.
Since joining a CSA it has become an invaluable tool. So much more efficient than my old colander/dishtowel method.
re: letsindulge
Interesting. I'll have to give this a whirl--so to speak.
re: sueatmo
let's put it this way -- I've got two international relocations under my belt, and the salad spinner made the cut both times...I can't say the same about a LOT of the miscellaneous gadgetry I acquired over the years.
Love mine - Besides salad I use it to rinse and dry herbs, sliced potatoes, berries, shrooms, leek, and way more that's not coming to mind
It depends on how much salad I'm making. I live alone, and if I'm cooking just for myself it's quicker and easier to just wash a couple of leaves and dry them on a kitchen towel. If I'm cooking for a crowd the salad spinner is much more efficient. And I'm another fan of the Oxo.
I love my spinner.
I use it to dry spinach leaves and endive leaves before making spanakopita.
We make salads daily and I can't stand a wet salad. I have swung a pillow case around sometimes for big salads but I use my salad spinner daily.
I've had one that broke in 2 years. To short of a lifespan for my taste. So I've been swinging dish towels with extra padding in the center. For big salads I use the clothes washer spin cycle. Not planning anytime in the near future to get a spinner. I love that extra space my new pot.
It is not as essential as a kitchen knife or a fry pan, but it is definitely not a waste of space as it can do many things.
From a scale of 1 to 10; 1 being useless, and 10 being essential. I put it a 7-8.
Mine has been in regular use for 40 years, and has proved amazingly durable. It's a plastic model with a very open inner colander (vertical half-inch slats of plastic with about a quarter-inch of space in between) and a crank-gear spinning mechanism. It was made in France, but very much doubt it still is.
Haven't begrudged the space -- in the lower cabinet next to the sink -- because I often use the inner basket as a colander. In the heavy summer-fall produce season the outer container goes into service as both harvest 'basket' and as a prep/holding bowl: roomy yet lightweight and easy to clean.
re: ellabee
Nope, that exact model is still a dime a dozen in France. Tefal makes a kajillion of that very model.
Mind is Farberware, but it's the very same design -- I bought mine in the US, so I ended up with a US brand.
re: sunshine842
Cool to know! Mine is a 'Triumph' by Brevet. Guessing it was aimed at US and UK markets, given the English name. Are they still actually *made* in France?
re: ellabee
probably not. They still sell for a few euros, so my guess would be P.R.C.
re: ellabee
We must have the same one. It has lasted for over 40 years and it gets frequent use (greens, herbs, berries, mushrooms). I'm amazed that the plastic and the mechanism have been so durable. They don't make them like this anymore.
I also highly recommend those green bags for storage. They let propylene gas to escape and greens that have been washed and spun dry last for weeks.
re: Chefpaulo
yep- they still make the plastic ones.
Another user of the OXO; we have the larger size for 2 of us. Used for: 'shrooms, herbs, strawberries, kale and spinach, salad greens. Also used a lot for blanch/shock, (crudites, freezer, making spanikopita)
I pick up greens and broccoli, direct from farmers when I can; sometimes there are bugs.
Oh, and for drying poached shrimp, before serving as a chilled appetizer.
I have become a big fan of salads. On a recent browsing trip at Target, I spotted one and then somehow I "needed" one and drying lettuce became an issue my conscious was happily ready to steal from my sub-conscious and convince me to just buy it. It felt like a random, splurge, binge buy (just because I am here and it might be nice kind of thing), but I've actually found it quite useful. Given it wasn't a necessity until I saw it in the store, I wrestled with whether to get the mini spinner on sale or the full deal which was four times more expensive. There are only 2 of us but I figured, I'd just go big and better safe than sorry. I like it and it's useful, although it is quite large and takes up a good bit of the storage room.


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Tito Jackson's son is convinced choreographer Wade Robson is lying about allegations he was molested by the King of Pop, because he was sexually assaulted as a child and received nothing but sympathy and support from the "Thriller" star.
Robson recently asked a California judge to allow him to make a late creditor's claim against the Grammy winner's estate after alleging he was abused by Michael Jackson between the ages of seven and 14 at the superstar's Las Vegas home and Neverland Ranch.
His claims have been dismissed by Jackson estate lawyer Howard Weitzman, who pointed out Robson denied he was ever abused by the pop star during his 2005 child molestation case, as well as attorney Tom Mesereau, who represented the tragic 50-year-old during the case and believes the dancer is just out to make money and gain publicity.
Now Taj Jackson has waded into the controversy by dropping a bombshell about his past on Twitter on Thursday, just hours after Robson appeared on the "Today" to tell his story, stating his uncle's reaction to his own traumatic experience is proof enough he would have never preyed on a youngster.
In a series of posts, he wrote, "What people will $ay and do for money and to $tay relevant is $ickening. De$perate times call for De$perate mea$ures. I will not sit back and let someone flat out lie about my uncle. PERIOD. I am writing these words knowing that the minute I press send, my life will never be the same afterwards."
He continued, "I was sexually abuse (sic). By an uncle on my mom's side of the family when I was a kid. My uncle was a support system for me and my mom. ... That is how I KNOW Wade is lying. Because I AM a survivor. My hands are still trembling. Don't forget I was living at Neverland when Wade testified during my uncle's case. I sat there and ate dinner with him and his family. I will not let them smear my uncle's legacy.
"I don't want to go on TV. I don't want publicity, I just want the truth. I always told my uncle Michael that I would take a bullet for him. I mean it today just as much as I meant it back then. I hate that Wade made me do this, this way. But since my uncle Michael is no longer here to defend himself, I will. Make no mistake. Since my uncle Michael is no longer here to defend himself, I WILL. Thank you everyone for the support."
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Toyota to launch hydrogen (ie, NATURAL GAS) powered fuel cell hybrid
Climate Change
What happens to the Hydrogen? It combines with Oxygen to produce water in the air in other words: rain! We'll all drown!!!
That dreaded syncing feeling: Will Microsoft EVER fix OneDrive?
with a touch of rsync covers it for me. Works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Nearly works on Android...
Microsoft exams? Tough, you say? Pffft. 5-YEAR-OLD KID passes MCP test
Re: Biased?
"Would you have mocked all GCSE qualifications?"
Well, yes. GCSEs have been mocked since they came out as the "O'Levels - now with added pass rates" exam they were designed to be. They're worthless.
Bible THUMP: Good Book beats Darwin to most influential tome title
Re: Robert Long
"I rather doubt you bothered to read the thing or read books around the subject because it's so obvious that would be a waste of time, right?"
I have both read it and read around it. It's just typical folkelore and it has roots back to previous "drafts" of those stories. There's nothing in it that is not obviously the same old mythological viewpoint except for the bits that are ripped-off from Greek philosophers. What makes it obvious is putting it into its context as just another collection of Just-So stories; a context that people could not put it into in, say, 11th century Poland. But 1000 years later that's easy to do; the world has changed and moved on thanks to exactly the sort of person Darwin was.
Indeed, it's easy to compare it to straight-up fiction like LotR and see that there's nothing in the Bible that is inherently and objectively not something someone made up, unless you count some very biased versions of history in the OT. There's two possible explanations for that, and one of them is a lot simpler than the other.
But, going beyond even these things, dissecting the internal structure and history of the book just knocks the absolute stuffing out of it. Especially the new testament, which has so little connection with any real Jesus that it's hard not to see the entire thing as a fabrication decades after all the primary witnesses are conveniently dead. It certainly has no substantive or reliable input from the man himself.
And you're right about the centuries of debate - in the end, your side lost. Grow up and deal with it instead of pretending that your imaginary father-surrogate is going to sweep in and fix everything and then tuck you up in bed afterwards.
Re: Darwin? A joke surely?
Origin of Species isn't a gripping read overall, but it's influence is indirect and huge. By freeing intellectual thought from the limits of "God did it and then ran away" it made a lot of other things possible. Not least of which was ignoring religious leaders who wanted to wage war. It's not a coincidence that the most bloodthirsty people are religious, or that we're never worried about extreme Darwinest attacks on the Tube or against army barracks.
Re: Most people who 'like' the Bible
"For instance I approached it as an atheist determined to analyse what it actually taught, and went the opposite direction to you... but I don't claim that would happen to everyone."
I have to wonder if this is true. The book is so obviously just bad folklore and contradictory nonsense mixed with flat out lies that it's very hard for me to see where anyone could be inspired to take it as any sort of guide to existence. At the least, there's nothing that distinguishes it from other folklore from around the world, except for some 300-year old Greek philosophy that got mixed into the "jesus" (not his real name, even) bit.
influential, but garbage
The Bible really is an awful book of nonsense and gibberish. Half of it is Egyptian/Babylonian folk lore and half of it an Egyption/Greek attempt at making a synthetic god from left over bits of old ones. It's moral compass is highly dubious too - at BEST it manages to preach just being a normal person and not a psychopath. Killing is bad, mmkay? Except, you know, when it isn't.
1/10. Must try harder.
VINYL is BACK and you can thank Sonos for that
What next?
VHS comeback?
Seriously, vinyl is crap and always was; I hated it when it was the only option and I despise it now that there are decent alternatives (analogue tape was not a decent alternative).
CD could be improved a bit, but actually most of the damage is done in the mixing desk these days, resulting in output that could probably be stored in 8bits without any loss of range.
RBS's Ulster Bank whacked with enormous IT cock-up fine
Re: So...
"around 100k a day"
Plus various consultants they pulled in to try and fix it, who were each charging up to 10K per day.
Luckily, they were too big to fail so their customers will end up paying it all off for them.
Kryder's law craps out: Race to UBER-CHEAP STORAGE is OVER
Bad news for Estate Agents
"[i]n the real world, exponential growth can't go on forever"
Might have to do with just one new BMW per year for sitting in an office doing nothing all day.
Apple on the art of the deal: 'Put on your big boy pants and accept the agreement'
Re: GTAT may have been idiots
"But if half true, then Apple are evil corporate bullies and their gadgets may be built on blood, sweat and tears paid for below market rate."
In which case, what is this story doing on a news site?
Eye laser surgery campaigner burned by Facebook takedown
Re: I will fight Facebook
"I'm not big on politics (ask me about eyes and that's a different matter) but I understand democracy, and the fundamental human right to a fair trial."
You've come to the wrong place. When xkcd posted:
most of the crowd here thought it HIlarious and insightful. Basically, FB and Twitter are saying you're an asshole they don't want around and no one can do anything about it because, like, the Internet or something.
Re: Eye laser surgery is not for everyone.
"Where there is money involved, and it's elective, where is the incentive for the doctor to have your interests at heart above his/her own interests, namely bank balance?"
Exactly why private medicine should be illegal in any civilized country. Medial staff should be paid a salary with absolutely no options for bonuses. It should be a good salary, mind you.
Snapper's decisions: Whatever happened to REAL photography?
The best camera is the one you know
When you take a photo, it's generally with the camera you own so it's best to pay attention to what works and try to understand when it doesn't work, with a view to working around it in future. I had a Fuji S20 "Pro" and got fantastic shots out of it - after a year of gradually reducing frustration as I learnt how it really worked enough to write my own Perl scripts to "develop" the RAW output. Never did manage to get a good seascape out of it before the sensor packed in. The output of the shitty camera/lens in my SIII Mini has improved markedly since I stopped using the in-phone zoom.
Whatever your budget, you have to learn to use what you have and not worry about what the next camera up could do if you had it. Some of the world's greatest photos have been taken on pretty basic equipment, by people who knew what they were doing.
Pixel mania: Apple 27-inch iMac with 5K Retina display
Re: Value for money?
"The 5K display in the iMac has nearly twice as many pixels as the 4K Dell monitor you've just purchased, it's not a small step up in resolution."
Well, that's less than 40% higher resolution; is the cost less than 40% more?
The idea that anyone is editing 4K images at 1:1 and needs the extra space for toolbars etc. is classic Apple iWank. If you're editing those images, you're zoomed in; if you're watching them then you're in fullscreen mode.
Cray-cray Met Office spaffs £97m on VERY AVERAGE HPC box
Re: Is there any point? @Robert Long 1
"Do you know how many weather stations the Met Office use? I'm certain that it's more than you think."
I don't think so, but my point was that surely more of those - or better ones - would give us better results than a machine that crunches the same data a bit faster. All right, a lot faster, but the old machine wasn't running at full capacity so is there any point in that?
Is there any point?
This money isn't going to improve the data collection for inputting into the model; that's the weak link IMO.
Meet Mr Gamification: He's got a NUDGE or two for you
Re: The event sounds awful...
Gamification is just stimulus-response-reward dressed up in new clothes. As such, pretty well any teaching/learning experience can be classified as gamification; the term is so all-encompassing as to be meaningless.
In dot we trust: If you keep to this 124-page security rulebook, you can own yourname.trust
Yeah, right
Until they decide they can get bigger bucks by just selling them to anyone with $1000 or $100...
Doctor Who's Flatline: Cool monsters, yes, but utterly limp subplots
Re: Bad Wolf
"Bad Wolf was introduced in a very subtle way."
Yes, but it didn't make any sense whatsoever once it was revealed. Subtlety ain't the issue.
"Having said all that the monsters were developed way too fast."
That's a format issue - 1hr is too short while 2x1hrs is too slow-paced for the export market.
I don't agree that the story-arcs have worked at all well from the return onwards. The method of having stand-alone scripts which the script editor then patches just doesn't work for me, quite apart from the fact that none of the story-arcs have been interesting or even made much sense, starting with the gibberish that was "Bad Wolf".
Finally, a Good Episode
Fun idea, nasty monsters, interesting character development for Clara (as opposed to random mood swings), some amusing visuals, and almost no bloody I-went-to-drama-school-and-all-I-got-was-this-one-Droopy-reject-face soldier boy. What's not to like?
The complaint about the monsters simply doesn't stand; these are classic "from another universe" Dr Who monsters and that's just fine with me. We've all seen the Moon Egg episode, and we all wish we hadn't, so perhaps the first reviewer could try to move on before anyone mentions the Zarbi.
If the series never gets any worse than this from here on in to the inevitable "Tell me, Clara, would you say that the Doctor was a Good Man?" line in whatever trial Missy is planning to call her as a witness for the prosecution in, we'll be doing okay.
WAITER! There's a Flappy Bird in my Lollipop!
Derivative? Derivative!?
Is the author seriously suggesting that Angry Birds had a single original idea in it?
Take CTRL! Shallow minds ponder the DEEP spectre of DARK CACHE
Re: [ed: shurely shome mishtake, Dabbs?]
"The fracture of Great Britain requires Westminster to solve the West Lothian question"
The West Lothian Question is trivial: do away with Scotland, England, Wales, and Northern Ireland and have a single united country where there is no possibility of anyone voting on things that only effect one part of it. It would make it impossible to ever again introduce a poll tax just in the areas where you don't have votes, just as a random example.
And while we're at it, move the capital to Carlisle, York, or Newcastle on Tyne instead of being stuck in the bottom-right corner bloody miles from anywhere.
Zippy one-liners, broken promises: Doctor Who on the Orient Express
Re: ...
"As for Clara. Oh my God. She was so great as The Impossible Girl. But now, she's just so....<searches for adjective; can't find one: Abort, Retry, Ignore?>"
How about "incoherent"? Her character simply doesn't make any sense any more. The series needs a script editor who has a grasp of characterisation and can ensure that it's reasonably consistent from writer to writer. Moffet clearly isn't it.
In fact, I suspect that he is actually the problem here, bending Clara's character in preparation for a final "Trial of the Doctor" episode/special where, OMG! Clara has to testify whether he is a "good man" or not. Damn whether it makes sense or not in the context of the character's history.
The new series has suffered repeatedly under "story arcs" that no nothing but interfere with the smooth development of the characters, but this is probably the worst case of it (although I might argue that the execrable "Angels Take Manhattan" and the nonsensical end of Rory and Amy's parts was actually worse, but at least it was over in one truly terrible episode).
I liked this episode but perhaps that's just in comparison with last week's terrible space egg crap.
Right, suits off: Windows 10 preview Internet Explorer is here
Don't care, won't care
Code to the standards, if IE show it wrong then direct customers to MS Support.
Just kidding - MS never do product support, because they know all the spineless coders and designers out there will do it for them for free. "Oh, no, we better put in an IE work around because our clients are too dumb to use a decent browser". Bah.
How much is Microsoft earning from its Android taxes again?
Re: According to the patent lobby...
"Why do we have a patent system at all?"
To protect big companies from competition and to keep patent lawyers in new BMWs.
Google ordered to tear down search results from its global dotcom by French court
"Well they could provide you with a numbered listing, but how useful would that be? Any index needs to refer to the content it's talking about. The index in the back of a book has topic names with the page numbers, not just a listing of page numbers."
I was suggesting the possibility of presenting just the URL/link. So you type "Flyfishing", say, and Google presents a list of URLS with some text along the lines of "here's a list of pages where people are discussing this topic. At the moment it actually prints excerpts from the pages, which is one part of the problem. Of course, even the URL idea is a bit legally dodgy as you're still helping to spread the libel, so there's an abetting angle.
Re: Whither "les immortels"
@AC "Not so easy with an interweb."
Actually, it's easier with the Internet. Just block Google's IPs. You'd cut down their readership by a much larger percentage than you could ever hope to prevent reading an already published newspaper.
"Google is not the importer. It is an index. Once you click to the link, the content is delivered from the source website. So the source website is the importer."
That would be more true if Google only presented a link, which is not the case.
"There is going to come a point, sooner or later, where judges in different jurisdictions make conflicting demands about Google's global search results."
So what?
Re: @DaLo
"Google isn't repeating the slander, they are just saying "that guy over there it talking about it.""
If I say to you "Who's that guy that raped the hotel maid in New York and got away with it?" and you supply an answer as well as a link to a story, then you're repeating the accusation. Google doesn't just provide links, it answers questions with a little snippet and the link. In other words, it's a publisher. And in the example I've just given Google's very first result has the name in the heading of the first two results, and the body text of several other results on the first page, all readable without going to the sites Google are quoting. That, legally, is obviously republishing a slander (well, a libel, to be technical).
"Furthermore, Google is following french law on their french site. That court is over-extending it's purview, unless you think all regional laws should be applied globally."
It's not asking for the law to be applied globally, just in France. The Google website is showing information to people in France; the court is not asking nor caring what it does for people not in France. If you publish a magazine and distribute it worldwide you have to worry about this. Google and others want to live in a magic world where they are above the laws that govern everyone else.
For decades big multinational Internet companies have cruised along on the myth that the Internet is somehow not a publishing vehicle. But not only is it such a thing, that's ALL it is. The Internet is a device for taking information from somewhere and providing it elsewhere. There's no need for special Internet laws, really, as we've had laws about publishing for centuries. The fact that they vary in different countries is just something companies have to cope with. Google can cry me a river if that means they make 1% less profit next year.
"Surely they should just demand the removal of the defamatory information. "
I'm sure they would if they could. But repeating a slander is still slander so Google is culpable under that law and the court is well within its rights to tell Google not to repeat the slander in its jurisdiction. The URL or indeed the origin of the page and the data is not relevant, only the destination and place of publication - i.e., France.
This is a classic case of "But...but... our business model is to ignore the law" which is behind so many Internet fortunes. Wouldn't work for you or me, so why should it work for Google?
Doctor Who becomes an illogical, unscientific, silly soap opera in Kill The Moon
Awful Science, Good Characterisation, Bad Taste
I really liked the Doctor's stance on making the decision - he's not a god and he doesn't want to be. That's good and the dialogue between the women was well done and well acted. Clara's reaction didn't seem to work particularly well, though.
But who cares when the over-arching McGuffin was so bloody awful? The magic creation of not only the new mass for the space-baby, but then the magic creation of the mass for the new moon. To say nothing of what REALLY would happen to the "egg shell" or how we could have missed all this before now. Utter tripe. Garbage. If you didn't feel your intelligence was being insulted by this, you may have to ask yourself why.
And for no reason. The exact same moral dilemma could have been set up without using the Moon at all. Something new could have entered the Solar System on a collision course or whatever. There was no need to make this farcical mess that will forever overshadow the meat of the character development. No one will ever refer to this as "the training wheels episode" or the "Clara gets a taste of the Time Lords' perspective episode". It will always be "The stupid moon story" or "the one with the magic egg", or maybe "the one that jumped the space-shark".
Weekend reads: Consumed, The Graphic Art of the Underground and The Skeleton Road
Same price for the eBook?
I don't bloody think so.
Our Vultures peck at new Doctor Who: Exterminate or, er ... carrion?
"The Caretaker was so Whedonesque it could have been an episode of Buffy."
You seem to be saying that as if it were a good thing.
Re: Jenna-Louise
"It is foolish to imagine that beauty is a universal absolute."
Not in this case.
It's official: EU chiefs WILL probe Apple's Irish tax deal
Not so fast
"like most multinationals, it moves its profits about so as to pay as little tax as possible. This is not illegal in itself"
Actually, moving profits about for no reason other than to pay less tax is illegal. That's why they always pretend that there was a charge from one subsidiary to another and have to maintain an office in Luxembourg or wherever that is supposedly the European headquarters but employs one person part time to check the answerphone and forward the mail to the real headquarters.
Shellshock: 'Larger scale attack' on its way, warn securo-bods
Re: Attacks don't matter much
"At the current time its *only* about 70,000 machines...yeah, you're right, who cares!"
Correct. I don't give a toss. Probably 100 times that number of apache sites have been attacked in the same period. Do you care? It's meaningless.
Attacks don't matter much
How many live servers have actually been captured? That's the important number.
My home SMTP server was attacked over a million times in one year in the 00's, but none of them got through.
WHY did Sunday Mirror stoop to slurping selfies for smut sting?
Re: Sorry I'm late...
That's a bit limp.
Just doing his job
He was just trying to be civil and sociable.
CURSE YOU, 'streaming' music services! I want a bloody CD
I think it's odd how, as time goes by, the options for listening to music are gradually deteriorating. There's really nothing in the streaming/downloading arena that is as good value as simply buying a CD and ripping it to a portable device, and it seems to be getting worse. It's all a bit weird but as a result I find myself listening to less and less music every year; certainly almost nothing new goes on the player anymore, even when I like it as it's getting hard to find CDs and even then some are copy protected (without saying so) so it's a gamble. It's like the record companies don't actually want to sell music any more. Maybe it's a huge drive to make people buy concert tickets or something.
Apple Provides a Cheap Solution
I don't need to stream or download anything, thanks to Apple's policy of only providing the shittiest, cheapest earphones the world has ever seen, I can clearly hear the music iPhone users are listening to from 6 seats away on the tube, even while the train is moving.
Patch Bash NOW: 'Shellshock' bug blasts OS X, Linux systems wide open
CGI Only?
So is this a problem just for CGI? I'm struggling to see why anyone outside my system would be able to call a shell command unless I've specifically allowed it. Which I wouldn't.
Le whoops! Microsoft France boss blows lid off 'Windows 9' event
Time flies
I've not actually seen a copy of Windows 8 yet.
Microsoft vs the long arm of US law: Straight outta Dublin
Re: @ Robert Long 1
"Nope. Company law.... A company is a *distinct* natural entity, just like a real person, that happens to be able to be "owned" by other natural persons or entities."
A company is not a natural entity, it's just a bunch of people trying to avoid things - risk, responsibility, and so on. Microsoft Ireland is part of Microsoft created only and solely for the avoidance of tax. What the law says about it is of no bearing on reality and those that swallow the line that law makes truth deserve the shafting they get every day from the corporations that pay big bucks to have that law written for them (very specifically, in this case, since it was US rail-baron money that got us the original "corporations are entities" crap).
"Data is held by Microsoft Ireland. It's a separate company "
Yeah, right. I take it you're a tax lawyer?
4K-ing excellent TV is on its way ... in its own sweet time, natch
Re: But with 8k on the way...
@Rampant Spaniel: "That's probably closer to a decade away"
That's fine; if my current TV doesn't last a decade and more I would be fairly pissed off. It's not that long.
'Windows 9' LEAK: Microsoft's playing catchup with Linux
"It's not really that useful a feature for most people."
Until they use it. Going back to not having it is like going back to black and white TV but, yes, many people watched B&W for years happily.
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Creamy Lemon Tart
Servings: 10 to 12
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 2 large egg yolks
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 2 1/4 cups unbleached all purpose salt
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3 tablespoons (about) water
- 5 large egg
- 1 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup heavy whipping cream
- 2/3 cup fresh lemon juice
- 3 tablespoons grated lemon peel
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Using electric mixer, beat unsalted butter and egg yolks in large bowl until fluffy. Beat in sugar. Beat in flour and salt just until blended, adding water by tablespoonfuls if dough is dry. Transfer dough to lightly floured work surface. Gather dough together. Shape dough into ball; flatten into disk. Wrap dough in plastic and refrigerate 1 hour. Soften dough slightly at room temperature before rolling out.
Whisk eggs, sugar, cream, lemon juice, and grated lemon peel in medium metal bowl to blend. Set bowl over saucepan of simmering water (do not allow bottom of bowl to touch water); whisk slowly but constantly until mixture thickens and instant-read thermometer inserted into mixture registers 160°F, about 20 minutes. Remove bowl from over water. Cool mixture to room temperature, whisking occasionally.
Preheat oven to 350°F. Roll out dough on lightly floured surface to 13-inch round. Transfer dough to 10-inch-diameter tart pan with removable bottom. Fold in dough edges, forming double-thick sides. Freeze crust 15 minutes. Line crust with foil; fill with pie weights or dried beans. Bake 15 minutes. Remove pie weights. Bake until crust is golden and cooked through, about 30 minutes longer. Cool crust in pan on rack.
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