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It is no longer worth the wait to get site and then wait very lengthy spaces to go from one post to next!! Happening for past 4 or 5 days.
re: mnosyne
Has gotten Soooo bad, I changed home page from Chowhound to another as just getting on and then waiting forever was not worth it and seemed to mess up anything else on computer!! Better now, but unbearably slow!! At least it does not mess up other web sites!!
I know that there was a response from Chow that not a lot of people are reporting this. However, it is slow to the point that it can't be reported.
It only happens with pages with a video on it.
Someone new would really have a difficult time even searching around to find where to report it or find the email to report the problem.
Since it is possible to program different pages to have different sidebars (Home Cooking for example), would it be possible to remove the vido from the Technical Help page? I can't even get to it easily to see if there is a post like this one to see if other people are having a problem.
And I miss Chowhound. I have to select maybe about a dozen topics a day to read because that is all that can be loaded. I haven't used hot posts in months because the work around to losing the list was to open pages in separate windows. When I open more than three pages at once, my computer freezes and I have to shut down ... a ctrl-alt-del shutdown.
re: rworange
People generally send email to firstname.lastname@example.com when they're having problems that they can't access the boards. We've really only had a few reports on the boards -- most people seem to be able to load the pages, even with the video on the side, just fine. We can't tell what the difference is between the few people with major problems and the ones with no problems.
re: Jacquilynne
Jacquilynne feel free to email me off line. The point is that to find out how to email the site administrators, there is a certain amount of searching a board that needs to happen, especially if you are new or use it infrequently.
My estimate is that this would take 1-2 hours for someone who was running slow and wanted to take the trouble to find out who to email.
I know the site very well and I had to make a choice between reading a few posts I was interested in and checking to see if anyone else was having these problems. I chose the former until today. I recently took thiis particular pc in for a check up. Nothing is wrong with my settings. Nothing is wrong with the pc. Chowhound is the only site I'm having these problems with and only with pages with videos on them.
There's also a problem I came across that probably wouldn't be a good idea to discuss publically. .
re: rworange
Not running the same configuration you have, but a few months ago the freezing problem I had was because I had an old version of javascript.
re: Melanie Wong
Thanks Melanie, but that's not it. This computer crashed and I had to start from ground zero to restore it after it was fixed so I'm up to date on my software.
It comes and goes. It slowed down again when the original poster did this post. About 2-3 days ago, for one blissful day ... with no changes on my part, the site was relatively zipping along. Then about 2 days ago it is the worst it has ever been.
Lot's of "Done, but with errors on page" ... this page has one.
Itstead of the video loading, there's just a white blank box.
What is particularily bad is the crashes. I figure, fine ... I go to my "MY Chow"page and open all the new responses in separate tabs and then I go off to make dinner or work for a while.
I come back to a half hour to an hour later and click on one of the tabs and my browser crashes. I've lost all the new tags and information.
Again, it is only the pages with videos on them. From day one that the videos appeared on the boards it caused a problem. I guess the benefit of all this is I've done a lot of updates to Places since there are no videos there.
I have a very fast internet connection so the site generally runs OK. But I do notice the status bar showing "Transferring data from feeds.theplatform.com" for quite a while even with this fast connection. That message is the last one of many on the status bar. That's using Firefox2. With IE6, the status line messages disappear much sooner.
re: Mick Ruthven
I'm in the same boat, Mick - with FireFox the pages never seem to completely load and the status bar shows the "Transferring data ... " message.
However, I am having days / times when the site runs REALLY slowly - pages take a while to load and while doing so the machine won't do anything else (can't switch windows or applications) and I've managed to crash a few times, too (not just the browser, but the system and I have to reboot).
I'm just not using the site very often and when I do I'm very selective about which posts I attempt to view.
I'm also getting response times ranging from annoyingly to excruciatingly slow. There is also a sprinkling of "Oops, there seems to be a problem with one of our servers," from time to time. I'd say as slow as molasses, but I can get 20 pictures of molasses lickety split by clicking on this link: http://images.google.com/images?q=mol...
It does not improve (much) if I turn off flash or javascript. The longest portion of time seems to be spent waiting on or transferring data from www.chow.com, with www.chowhound.com a distant second, and a little time on various names like mavenapps.net, google-analytics.com, and some other CNET-related domains.
I'd suggest that those of us who complain are just the tip of the iceberg. Chowhounds are used to stoically putting up with all sorts of obstacles to find delicious chow.
re: Knoblauch
I'd suggest that those of us who complain are just the tip of the iceberg.
Thanks knoblauch, that is my point exactly.
I exaggerate when I say that I have this problem nowhere else. There are occasionally sites I find when googling that hang liked this. I close the tab and look as some other site.
I don't contact the site administartor. Why should I? I have no clue what is on that site.
One site that is painfully slow for me is the Food Network. When I google and see info from that site, I no longer bother clicking on the link. It would never occur to me as a casual reader to contact someone and tell them I'm having trouble accessing their site.
Currently doing a search through Google when I see Chowhound / Chow, I rarely click on the link anymore. For all I know all that is in that post is something like a one line statement ... unfortuantely I'm losing the wealth of info of many posts.
If I were new to the site, and I wanted to comment I'd have to
- sign up say 15 minutes total
- probably look at the FAQ section to see how to ask a question. So that's another 5-10 minutes going through that
- that doesn't say who to ask, So I'd click on the feedback link ... 5 to 15 minutes to load that page
- If I'm savy enough, click on the add button to write a post ... 5 - 15 minutes more.
No where in all of that is there the info about emailing the moderators. I know the moderator's email but I could not tell you where it currently exists on this site. To find that information would take 5-15 minutes for each link I tried.
So it may not be that no one is reporting the problem, they may not know how or want to take that much effort to find out.
re: rworange
One can always just log on, go and have a pee, get a cup of coffee, knit a sweater or two...and voila!--there's the "Oops" notice!
OK, so now I know that I'm not crazy...this has become a great big pain in my ass!
Sometimes it completely crashes my whole Windows thing and explorer has to restart.
Sometimes it tells me that it has to do with Adobe.
I figured it is because I have Windows Vista (which really has been a pain in my ass) and my computer doesn't know what to do with all the videos.
It is definitely because of the video.
CH, please, get rid of the videos. If we want to watch 'em, we'll click on 'em! K?
Slow here too, and I'm not about to go hunting for an email page to point it out to Engineering, where there's a thread right here. Since posts are moderated, the moderator just needs to pass the thread on to the people who can fix it.
I know engineering can get frustrated when this happens because a simple "it's slow" doesn't point to where the problem is. If the people who are having the slow problem could give a little more info like PC/Mac, Operating System w/version, and browser w/version, it may help them to isolate where the problem is.
I'm currently running Windows XP/SP2 with firefox 126.96.36.199 with noscript and adblock, on a DSL connection and all pages are loading in from 8 to 15 seconds.
I do get the occasional log in problem and quite a few OOPS! pages though.
re: hannaone
This has been reported in the past with people reporting operating systems types of pcs and access. The response is that too few people are reporting it so it doesn't matter.
Not only have I reported it here, I have reported this through email.
I would guess that most of the people having problems are like me ... on dialup which does not handle videos as well as DSL.
The frustration is not on the side of engineering from what I can determine. The frustration is with people who can no longer acess the site.
The response from mnosme made me really laugh ... but sadly ... excluding the part about knitting two sweaters ... is exactly how I read Chowhound these days. I sign on ... have breakfast ... check to see if the pages have loaded ... sometimes they do ... sometimes there is the oops message. No exaggeration at all.
This was originally reported November 28th. It is not the first post about this. There were posts prior to that. I don't see anyone from Chow asking people having problems to give them more information.
The only other possiblity is traffic. In the past weekends have traditionally been slow. Today access was decent. It is a low traffic day.One day last week was decent.The rest were very much the situation of a minimum of 5 minutes to load a single page.
I took advantage today to read as many posts as possible because probably tommorrow it will be back to what it was.
The people reporting it in this tread are long-time contributors like myself who are sort of hanging on because we like Chowhound and are taking the excruciating long time it takes us to first load the technical support page and then the usually extremely long time to post about a problem.
You know there is a "chowhound is dead" thread that says that there are still a lot of people who are still so techincally unsavy that rather than using search or google, they just post repetative questions. If people have trouble using a search engine, how many will have the savy to be able to report a problem like this? Again, tip of the iceberg as was said earlier.
re: rworange
I was one of those affected last time and apparrantly the reporting led to a fix since this time I'm not affected.
The reason I made the comment is I truly enjoy your posts and would like to see the problem fixed so I can continue to do so. (selfish motive) :)
If it's all dial up that's being affected this time then CH needs to set the videos default to off with an option for people to "click to watch". Automatically starting video eats up way to much of the bandwidth for dial up.
re: rworange
It doesn't appear to be purely a dial up problem, since some of the people reporting the issue aren't on dial up, near as we can tell. The problem is not that so few people are reporting it that we don't care, it's that few people are reporting it, and they don't seem to be using the same browsers, ISPs or operating systems, so we can't tell what distinguishes those particular people from all of the other who aren't having the problem.
re: Jacquilynne
It would seem that, if many of the reporting users have different browsers, etc., that the problem lies with CNET. I still believe the delays are caused by the ads and video loads on the righthand side. That seems to be the common thread in the complaints.
re: mnosyne
Sure, but the majority of users are not having these problems. So there's something about the video unit that's causing an issue for a small percentage of the users. If we knew what they had in common, we could tweak whatever that was -- but they don't initially appear to have anything in common, so it's hard to know what to tweak.
re: Jacquilynne
Then I'm assuming that is based on some reporting that Chow is doing that shows traffic hasn't decreased on the site.
re: rworange
Not entirely reliable, but here's a link to Alexa stats,
re: Melanie Wong
I wouldn't be surprised if posts were down on Saturday and Sunday, even by normal weekend standards. The page-loading time was ridiculously slow all weekend, no matter which of three browsers, two computers, and one multimedia phone I used. I managed to post, but it was a huge hassle. I connect to the Internet via cable modem or wi-fi, not dial-up.
I concur with Knoblauch and others that the problem is site-specific. Even when the rest of the Internet is slow, chowhound.com (thanks to that main CHOW page) takes significantly longer to load than similar graphics-heavy website pages.
re: Jacquilynne
Jacquilynne--do you perhaps mean, "the majority of users are not _reporting_ these problems?" Remember, most dissatisfied customers in any field of business just move on to another store/vendor/site without comment. Or for a more relevant analogy, most dissatisfied restaurant customers don't complain, but just go elsewhere.
But since you asked, I'm running IE 6.0 on XP and am online via cable modem. And I agree with another poster--even when the rest of the net is slow, this site is slower.
re: Jacquilynne
I'm using IE 7 on XP via cable modem. Slow and crashing both have been happening with increasing frequency over the past week or so. I haven't noticed whether or not there are more frequent occurrences when there is video on the page, but I have noticed (hard not to!) that my computer crashes a *lot* (maybe 15% to 20% of the time?) when I hit the back button. Only way to get back is the ctrl-alt-del route. Very frustrating.
re: Jacquilynne
Jacquilynne—I don't mean to hassle you, but I can offer a counter-example: Every morning I read my newspaper and, more often than not, something in that paper really ticks me off. I should sit down and write the Times a letter or e-mail, but I almost never do. I think the same applies here. Unless you (the tech team) query the entire pool of Chow users, you'll never know how widespread the problem is.
re: mnosyne
Since I run WinXP/MSIE 6.0, which is apparently not the developers' software of choice, I've had just about every problem that everyone has ever mentioned--in the past. Right now, except for the perpetually invisible avatars, everything seems to be working pretty well. The most recent update to my firewall seemed to suppress the contents of the "In Videos" box, but things were OK even before that.
OK, I take that back, at least partially. I just got "Saving..." stuck on the screen instead of a redisplay of my message after I edited it and clicked Save. Whoever monitors these things, please take note (and maybe even acknowledge?).
re: Jacquilynne
Does the message that there seems to be something wrong with the server and that I should try to reload in 30 seconds have any relationship to ISP, browser, or operating system on my side? I would imagine not.
That message comes much more frequently when the site seems slow. In the past half hour, the site has responded reasonably well, and I've only got the "There seems to be a problem . . ." message once in that time.
As another point of data, when the site is crawling, the "Post My Reply" button still responds pretty quickly (assuming you wait to navigate to that point), even though loading any full page takes forever.
re: Knoblauch
No -- that should be independent of your browser, since we're generating that page.
OK, chowhound has been so slow today that even I am motivated to report it. I'm using DSL, with IE6, and clicking on a link takes AAAAAAAAGES (minutes, like 5 or 10). If I give up and click the link again (because the page hasn't refreshed yet), I get to the new page in about a minute.
It isn't happening right now, or I would have given up before getting to this thread. But this afternoon was excruciatingly slow. Plus, I got kicked out (logged out without my consent).
Just so you know, it's happening to LOTS of people who don't bother to complain.
This is beginning to get really, really frustrating. The past two days, when I try to send a reply, the little clock timer stops dead, the blue bar in the bottom tray (what *is* that called?) fills all the way to the right and stops, and IE7 on XP hangs and I have to ctrl-alt-del to close out IE and open Chowhound again. When I get back on, I see that my message has indeed been posted, but knowing that I'm going to have to force close IE every time I want to post has me thinking twice about it (which, I acknowledge, may not be a bad thing. Nontheless . . . ).
ETA: And sometimes, like just a minute ago, the little circular time thingie is replaced by what looks like a button that says "nul," and then it hangs and I have to force close.
re: JoanN
This entire thread is a mystery .I visit here several times a day and the site is faster than most, and every site i visit is VERY fast.
I am in the Albany NY area, run a Mac and have a high speed cable connection called Road Runner.
The problems reported here must be hard to correct at the Chow Hound server level since it it certainly does not effect all.
Might it be useful to see if there is only a limited number of problems served by only a single or a few routers?
The large # of posts appearing all day, each day suggests to me that this is a limited problem.
Good Luck to all.
re: mr jig
For me the ongoing issue isn't speed (I, too, am using Road Runner, but out of Manhattan) as much as it is crashing whenever I try to post a message. Are you using Safari, mr jig? It seems as though most of us who have problems are using IE 6 or 7 on the PC. I've cleared the IE cache, updated and run both Ad Aware and SpyBot, and run the disk cleaning utitlity. And I'm still crashing. But only on this site. I've posted to a couple of other sites I frequent with no difficulty.
ETA: Odd, but it doesn't seem to happen when I post to this board. I'm noticing it mainly on the Home Cooking board. But then, that is where I'm most likely to be posting.
re: JoanN
Joan, yes Safari and i have ZERO problems.
Frankly in 5 years i have never had any speed or freezing problems and only very rare crashes.
These days a Mac crash is limited to the application, you just go to the dock and click on the application. Nothing else has been affected.
All hail Mac!
re: mr jig
Meanwhile, here in Austin, it's taken me five hours to load and read six new items on the Austin board plus post to this one thread. I'm using a MacBook Pro and a cable-modem connection that has quickly loaded every other website that I've visited today (including graphics-heavy ones related to holiday shopping). This is the slowest chowhound.com has ever been—for me—since this past weekend.
This site used to be faster for me, too. In addition, I've experienced significantly fewer issues with page-loading when I've checked out chowhound while traveling this fall. If the problems were limited to my local Internet connection, however, every website would be similarly affected. Another poster noted above that all CNET sites loaded slowly for him or her. I wonder if the same is true for other Austin chowhounds who use the same cable-provider that I do. It would certainly explain the relatively low posting-rate on my local board over the past few days.
This is not my field of expertise, but I would guess that there's a (new?) problem with the way CNET transmits information to my Internet provider—and many others.
re: Melanie Wong
Wierd. My dial-up connection was decent from Mon-Wed. Then Wednesday night about 4-5 it went back to 15 minute page loads and that's where it is now.
re: rworange
I'm having a similar wierd experience. Last night around 8 CST I was reveling in relatively fast (but still too slow) 15-second page loads on a fast hotel internet connection in St Louis. At the moment the self-same iBook is wallowing in free time as both Firefox and Safari are waiting for www.chowhound.com. Meanwhile using T-Mobile's phone-based Internet, I'm getting relatively normal response, so I'm using a phone to make this post. (Not a good reason to become proficient at typing on this tiny keyboard.)
On the other hand back in Austin this past weekend both the mobile phone network and TWC cable modems were crawling for long periods of time.
In all cases every other Internet site behaves normally while Chowhound bogs down. Is there any chance that chowhound or some of the other domains that it links to for advertising, content, or general user surveillance have bad or unreliable nameserver entries? That could have some relation to regional and ISP variation. Posting in general on the Austin board was way down yesterday from what I saw.


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Robert Downey Jr.'s son has been charged with felony possession of a controlled substance.
Indio Downey, 20, who is currently in rehab, was arrested and booked for cocaine possession in late June, but as a first-time offender he is automatically entitled to a drug diversion program.
The 'Iron Man 3' star's eldest child has also been charged with misdemeanour possession of drug paraphernalia, according to gossip website TMZ.com.
Downey Jr., who previously battled drug addiction himself and was arrested numerous times in the 1990s on drug-related charges, thanked the L.A. County Sheriff's Department for "their intervention."
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Beyonce and Jay Z have been close friends with Paltrow and her estranged husband Chris Martin for some time.
Mariah Carey has parted company with Jermaine Dupri after bad album sales.
The 44-year-old singer, who had worked with the producer for nearly 20 years, has now teamed up with Kevin Liles. She will only be "consulting" with Dupri from now on, a source told Page Six.
The pair joined forces to launch a beverage line, Butterfly, last year. Carey and Dupri had been working together since 1995 and he was behind some of her most successful hits, including 'We Belong Together.'
The decision to split was made after her latest album, 'Me. I Am Mariah ... The Elusive Chanteuse,' only sold about 100,000 copies since its release in May.
Dupri also came under fire for arranging for Carey to perform to José Eduardo dos Santos and his family. She was slammed by human rights groups for associating with theAngolan politician, who is accused o f many human rights violations as well as corruption.
Dupri told Billboard earlier this week: "I'm a very hands-on person when it comes to my work. I put my all into every project. But when I'm not allowed to do what I do, then I know it's time for me to move on.
"Mariah and I enjoy working together and will continue to make great music together in the future."
Paris Hilton scooped up some $2.6 million for four nights' work as part of her new two-month DJ tour.
The heiress kicked off her run of 13 gigs with a set at Ibiza's Amnesia club, where she has a residency, on Wednesday night, but she was blasted for earning her huge pay packet for simply "pressing play" as other workers reportedly did a lot of the technical work.
An Ibiza source told The Sun newspaper in the U.K.: "She's making £1.6 million from the four nights — £207,000 (US$350,000) an hour.
"The crowds do seem to enjoy it but most are too off their faces to care that she's simply pressed play on a Beyoncé megamix."
Hilton appeared to confirm she received the sum after retweeting a fan's message that listed her big wages.
Hilton was set to DJ in Barcelona Friday night before she heads to St. Tropez, followed by two dates in Portugal. The 33-year-old will also spin in Spain, South Korea and Colombia, before a final gig at Harrah's Pool After Dark in Atlantic City on Oct. 11.
George Clooney's wedding will feature in the U.S. edition of Vogue magazine.
The 'Monuments Men' actor and human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin are set to tie the knot in Italy next month, and among the guests at the celebrations will be the publication's editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.
A source said: "She wouldn't go there and not cover it."
Alamuddin is expected to wear a gown created by Oscar de la Renta and, because the designer is a close friend of Wintour's, the dress will feature heavily in the wedding coverage.
The insider told the New York Post newspaper's Page Six column: "She and Oscar are such good friends and [she'd] want to give him some attention."
Meanwhile, the groom will reportedly wear Giorgio Armani, and a team of designers recently flew to his Italian estate for fittings with the 53-year-old actor and the male members of the wedding party.
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So, that is basically saying that the scheme is running in deficit, and the government is trying to reduce the burden on taxpayers too, as it is them who are currently footing a large chunk of the bill.
Still not seeing a big problem here.
That of course ignores that my members fees are currently be used to fight battles for other members of the union + It's highly unlikely I'll ever need the support (touch wood) So long term, my fees are directly benefiting others.
So no, your statement above is just silly.
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Seems wrong to me.
The people elected the government, they didn't ask them to ruin them financially did they - or did I miss that bit??
Yes... and the union can do that using the fees that I pay them. So they are benefiting people other than just me.
My disposable income is currently pretty good, yes, however it hasn't been for the last 5 years because of university debts and not being able to get a student loan (ie. having £20k on normal loans/credit cards). At stages during that time, my income was around 30% lower than my outgoings. It has only been through hard work that I have resolved this, not via handouts or 'entitlement'.
It is unfair that the current generation of people in Greece are being punished for their historic incompetence, but how else do you resolve the financial woes they have there? There debt is 150% of their GDP!
The people elect their government, so they are responsible for the good and the bad that they do!
Also, I'm not in any way a Tory. I'm a realist.
I'm in a union and will strike even though i'm not a member of the pension scheme. Sure the trunout was poor, voting turnout always is but when I have had a pay freeze for 3 years while the cost of living has gone up and there is the same excuses from MPs that there is no money but they still have huge pensions and a pay rise. Some public sector workers have had payrises (MPs) and others havent but ofcourse they promise they will look at their pensions etc in the future. Why are they not first to take "the pain", sadly public and private sector workers have been "in in together" when we have MPs on over £100k and the rest when they take into account their expenses but not changing their ways. Trade Union bosses ae also overpaid but when you get a minister who is earning the same as a Trade Union boss saying how overpaid they are, its kind of pot calling the kettle black.
Sure I understand the need for cuts, we'll be on a pay freeze again next year no doubt, but benefits aren't frozen, which I don't understand why.
Here is my quick calculation, 1,000,000 worker (unison only), then all earn say £15,000 a year. The yearly wage cost of them is £15,000,000,000 (which is alot fo money) but for 3 years they havent had a payrise (not even 1%), that is a lot of money saved out of the public sector pay pot already. Literally for a 2% payrise a year it would be 15,000,000,000 * 0.02 = £300,000,000 and that money has already been "cut" and that isn't including job cuts and this is for Unison only.
We are paying for mistakes of the past, when money wasn't set aside for now by our parents and grandparents, when the "good times" existed we still borrowed more money. Banking didn't create the mess themselves, they had politicians to help them, you can't lend money to a government if the government doesnt want it, politicians laid the foundations for this mess over the last 20 years. Look at their wages, pensions and expenses over those years.
It's interesting to see all the different views of the unions. Clearly they don't have the support they once did (probably due to the fat cat bosses).
30% lower than your outgoings - so how did you live?
I have also been to uni and had exactly the same debts. I also work hard, almost as hard as yourself. But yet from having to rent on my own and doing the living at home with parents to save money and so square up debts, it has taken a good while to pay all of this off. I think that if you were in the same boat now you probably appreciate where I am coming from a lot more than you do currently.
Your points come from your curent situation and not your previous.....
That's fine. I may have also came across a bit aggressive.
Look, I do support the union and the whole trade movement. I am well aware that we'd still be working in 19th century workhouse conditions if organised labour didn't exist, You only have to look at the conditions in China to see that.
If it was any other issue like a direct paycut, or job losses that make no sense I'd probably be out there. I just think this is absolutely the wrong battle to have.
To me, the governments reasoning is sound on this, so I can not support the union this time.
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By going further into debt, and using what little savings I had managed to build up.30% lower than your outgoings - so how did you live?
You have debts that aren't a 'student loan' from your uni years? That is very rare for people in the UK. I only have it like that because I'm from the Isle of Man so didn't get a student loan.I have also been to uni and had exactly the same debts. I also work hard, almost as hard as yourself. But yet from having to rent on my own and doing the living at home with parents to save money and so square up debts, it has taken a good while to pay all of this off. I think that if you were in the same boat now you probably appreciate where I am coming from a lot more than you do currently.
Your points come from your curent situation and not your previous.....
Having spent 5 years living on a diet of noodles and pasta, not going out more than 3 times a year, not going on 'holidays', not driving etc... I'm pretty sure I know what having no money is like. However, I know that living on low income is doable and the current proposals have nothing to do with any of that.
Don't lose sight of the fact that the proposed increases in contributions are intended to improve/stabilise the LGPS; they are a pension 'tax' on local government workers, with money going straight to the treasury.
The LGPS was overhauled a few years ago & is supposed to be in good shape now and is fully funded; if the unions allow the Govt to get away with this now, are they going to keep on coming back year on year to 'milk' local government employees of the odd £billion or two?
There are always two sides to any argument, as usual the press is full of Government spin.... to get a more balanced view take a look at http://www.unison.org.uk/pensions/re...nd_Fiction.pdf
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The Third Man: New England native Ran Blake releases his first-ever live album
There are any number of interesting things to talk about in pianist Ran Blake's music, but there's one passage in particular that caught my ear while I was listening to his new CD, Grey December: Live in Rome, released last week on Tompkins Square Records. The album, his 36th, is the first live release in his six decades as a recording artist.
About 58 seconds into "Impressions: Abbey Lincoln," an 11-minute-plus track that closes out the album, Blake plays a melody with his right hand in a register so high you can barely make out the notes. He accompanies this with a descending chromatic line in his left hand in the same octave, which almost completely obscures the melody. It's like listening to two people whisper to you in two different languages, one you recognize, the other foreign.
As a listener, you have to work to hear the melody; you have to seek out as much as it finds you. As a musical gesture, it's suitable, perhaps, for its place in the opening of a long suite like this one, which rolls through melodic reminiscences of Blake's good friend Ms. Lincoln, the great jazz vocalist and actress who passed away in August of last year.
As a composer, why do this in the first place?
For one thing, close, careful listening is of central importance to understanding Blake's music. "I think if some classical musicians, pianists on the second tier who do not hear a whole piece at once, sometimes their music is lacking," Blake tells me over the phone from his home in Brookline, Mass. "Can their ears be trained to be able to tolerate more dissonant stuff? We can really improve."
At 76, Blake still defies categories like "jazz" or "classical." Composer Gunther Schuller began to champion Blake's music in the early 1960s; it suited his conception of what he referred to as a "Third Stream" in a 1957 lecture at Brandeis University. It was a nice idea: elements of Western art music and jazz — two "mainstreams" — fusing together, seeking rather than shunning opportunities to learn from each other. What set it apart from earlier, similar trends — the symphonic jazz movement of the 1920s, for example — was improvisation.
It's the kind of thing that's now taken for granted. "In today's climate," the multi-instrumentalist Hankus Netsky, the New England Conservatory's current chair of Contemporary Improvisation and Jazz Studies and the director of its Jewish Music Ensemble, wrote me in an e-mail, "hybrid is very much the norm, especially in the 'rock' and 'bluegrass' worlds, while battle lines remain firmly drawn between the music of jazz purists and the much larger group of musicians who have created freer and more expansive and inclusive improvisational genres."
Blake, who grew up in Suffield, Conn., attended Bard College between 1956 and 1960, where he was one of the school's first jazz majors. At Bard, he also met singer Jeanne Lee, his collaborator for many years. He's since worked in duos, notably with tenor saxophonist Huston Person, a former student at the Hartt School of Music, on the 1984 recording Suffield Gothic, and with singer Christine Correa.
"Jeanne and I met in 1956 and with the exception of our junior year, two weeks would not go by where we did not play in a rehearsal room," Blake says. "Nobody can give you that kind of time today."
Blake later studied in Lenox, Mass., with Oscar Peterson, John Lewis and Schuller and subsequently learned from Mary Lou Williams in New York. Around 1960, Blake moved into an apartment at W. 113th Street and Amsterdam Avenue and subsequently met Lincoln, Thelonious Monk and the famous jazz patron Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter. For six weeks, Lincoln and Max Roach performed at a club where Blake was waiting tables; shortly thereafter, he was invited to a recording studio where Lincoln was laying down tracks for Straight Ahead, a 1961 album for the Candid label, with Booker Little, Max Roach and Eric Dolphy. He remembers Monk giving Lincoln a hug after she sang his own "Blue Monk." When we spoke, Blake mentioned he was preparing a tribute concert to Ms. Lincoln at Cobi's Place, a jazz venue whose entrance lies between Sam Ash and Manny's Music on West 48th Street between 6th and 7th Avenue in New York.
Memory is also important to understanding Blake's music. The pianist started working at NEC in 1967, and in 1973 he was named the chairman of the Third Stream department, the first in the country. (It's now called the Contemporary Improvisation department to suit current tastes.) Two of Blake's current courses at NEC concern long term memory: one having to do with melody, the other, harmony. He occasionally reads music, but most of the time he absorbs it aurally, sometimes with music playing on a soundsystem throughout the night.
A recent book, The Primacy of the Ear, solidified much of what Blake's taught his students, including John Medeski, a keyboardist known for his work with the groove-jazz trio Medeski, Martin and Wood, over the years. "If I had one mission on earth, I think the book is it," he says. "It's the most important thing I've done. ... I seem to absorb orchestral sounds without any musicological work. I've absorbed Messiaen. I just hear these sounds. My students, they'll start to retain certain elements — melody, rhythm, harmony and timbre. They get in touch with themselves."
As a composer, Blake was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and an NEA grant in 1982. In 1988, he won a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. In his music, it's hard to hear where composition leaves off and improvisation takes over. There's bits of Scriabin, but there's also plenty of late-period Liszt in there, and also some of Ligeti's wonderful Études, Poulenc, Debussy, Ellington, the occasional authentic blues run. About five and a half minutes into "Impressions," you glimpse the Desire music from Wagner's Prelude to Tristan und Isolde; a few seconds later, shades Debussy's Étude 12, pour les accords. Nine minutes into "Impressions," a droning bass takes over for a few seconds, and you enter post-bop, Coltrane/Davis territory. Seconds later, it's Alban Berg. It doesn't sound like 12-tone music — Blake does incorporate Gunther Schuller's "magic" tone row, the basis of much of Schuller's own music — nor does it sound freely atonal. The surfaces are fragmented, and you hear plenty of repetition.
It's almost maddening. As I'm thinking about how the music falls somewhere between classical and jazz, my direct experience of listening to Grey December tells me that Blake's music is governed more by harmony than by surface rhythm, of which there is little. Often, the only discernible "rhythm" is the frequency at which the chords change — what's commonly referred to as "harmonic rhythm." This quality, I think, pushes the album over toward the classical world, and yet, the improvisatory nature of the music, and most of the individual sonorities themselves, shove it back over into jazz territory. To my mind, this is at least part of why we struggle to call it either "jazz" or "classical," hence the need for a new term.
There's a considerable heft to Grey December; listening means wandering into a fog, and when you've made it through, you need time for your eyes to adjust to the light. You don't take in "Impressions" and immediately play it again. It explains, perhaps, why Blake's collaborations with Jeanne Lee and Houston Person have been so successful: Blake's is a restless, soaring imagination, one that benefits from a partner to keep it grounded. Each track unfolds as a character piece, though many of them don't feature a strong central character. Blake's music reminds me of Duke Ellington's answer to an interviewer who asked him where he got his ideas from.
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In March 2003, while doing an interview in Bagdad, I saw a number of elderly Japanese people at the hotel where international reporters were staying. That was strange, because the US army was bombing the city just then, so it was not very likely that they were tourists, and anyway, even in normal times, choosing Iraq as a destination would not be a usual choice.
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In modern warfare, bombing is very accurate, unless the intelligence is wrong, and non-military facilities are marked as military. For that reason, the places they pick to be human shields are also relatively safe, like the hotel where reporters gather, which was the safest place at the time for all of us – one thing was certain: US bombs would not take this place as a target.
In spite of this, I was still very surprised by their action, and that is mainly because human shields are mostly Europeans and Americans, but I had a stereotypical idea of the Japanese, and I always felt that their personal and international politics were very distant, and that this kind of behaviour was the fact of small minority group, but not associated with the rest of the country, even less with elderly Japanese people.
After the fall of Saddam, I met a young Japanese man who could speak Chinese on the city square. We started to talk, and I found out he used to be an exchange student at Fudan University. After the war started, he went to Jordan, and became a volunteer for a church, waiting for an opportunity to get into Bagdad. Now, he came to the City square every day with other Church volunteers, and collected letters for the people of Bagdad. At that time, communications were interrupted, but the people inside the city were eager to communicate with people outside, and those outside were also anxious to get news of those inside, so the work of the volunteers was to send the letters that they collected from people inside.
For me, this was a very surprising thing again, and made me start to think that I shouldn't rely on preconceived ideas when thinking about Japanese people.
One of my old colleagues is from Beijing, but migrated to Japan, and married a Japanese woman. Every time we talk about the Nanjing Massacre, this old colleagues starts disputing with everyone one around the table: he keeps insisting that he doesn't believe in it, he doesn't believe that the Nanjing Massacre took place. His reason is very simple: go to Japan and look at the Japanese. And in the end, whatever you say won't convince him otherwise. 最后,谁也说服不了谁。
In fact, I really understand his way of thinking: every time I've been to Japan, after seeing the Japanese order, and feeling the extreme politeness of the Japanese, I can't really imagine that only a few decades ago, when Japan was ruled by militarism, the Japanese could be so cruel. However, the facts are the facts, and even if Japanese society has changed, through the joint efforts of Japanese government, society and the Japanese themselves, Japan finally bid farewell to militarism, 日本的价值观和现代文明社会接轨了,日本人不再像以前,会陷入以爱国为名义的疯狂,历史就在那里,现在的好,you cannot deny the evils of the past.
Some time ago, I interviewed a few Japanese workers and comfort women慰安妇, 原来当年最早帮助这些人群像日本政府和企业提出索赔的,正是几个日本人。一名一直和日本律师一起帮助这些人群的中国律师认为,these Japanese people also do that for national interest, they want to appear as responsible in front of the international community, show a Japan that complies with international rules and repects human rights, a Japan which is not just an economic power – that is not a problem.
On the program, I talked about this with a resident of the Diaoyu 和一个内地保钓人士聊起这点, and he was very disdainful: "The Japanese help us to make themselves feel better, not because they really want to help us." I suddenly didn't know how to respond, 因为如果形容对方用"小人之心度君子之腹"实在有点政治不正确,especially in the present context, this could be regarded as pro-Japanese, not patriotic.
激进的反日人士,往往会让我想起日本的那些右翼分子,因为思维方式很类似。每次去采访中国领导人访问日本,酒店还有一些活动场所的外围,总是会有几辆右翼组织的卡车,还有酒店附近右翼人士的集会。最惊险的一次,是在早稻田大学门口,我们好几家香港媒体在拍摄和做直播,几个右翼人士站到我们面前开始谩骂,阻碍我们的工作,最终惊动警察。为了避免事态恶化,警察劝我们先离开。这次近距离的接触发现了一个有趣的现象: 原来这些右翼人士里面,有不少中国人,那几个情绪最激烈的,都带着闽南口音,年纪都已经不轻。
In 2011, for the 70th anniversary of the Pacific war, the Japanese television station NHK called out to Japanese people for war testimonies, and when asked whether they would be willing to die for their country, young people all rejected the proposition in unison. Among their rejection was this sentence: "If a country wants people to die for it, then let it just die itself." Then, this began to spread on the Chinese web.
Because of the militarist past, many people agree with the attitude of the young Japanese, but if young people from China confidently gave the same reply, would it not be considered politically incorrect? And I even wonder whether we would hear such a voice?
For that reason, whether it's the Diaoyu or the Dokdo 独岛, not many Japanese people care. 但不关心这些,是不是就能证明他们不爱国?至少在日本,这不是一种衡量的标准,即便有球星抱怨以下,也只是一种声音而已。But on the surface at least, they're more concerned about what's happening next to them, and there are far more protests demanding a stop to nuclear development than there are right wing rallies.
The type of people determine the type of society; Japanese people are changing – what about the Chinese? Unfortunately, if you look at Chinese people from a distance, you only see distorted, heinous faces on the TV screen, which can only leave people stunned. Fortunately, when you're in the middle of it, you can see these people holding a sign in the middle of the crowd, high schools students from Guangzhou who will clean up the mess afterwards: these are the future of China.
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Cable giant Comcast, feeling the pressure from an expanded field of video and Internet access competitors, has decided to go ahead and buy NBC-Universal. The deal, which is all but done, makes Comcast one of the biggest media conglomerates (on par with Disney), and the proud owner of this:
CNBC via Engadget:
The deal between General Electric and Comcast over a majority stake in NBC Universal is complete, and there is nothing left to do but process paper, a source close to the merger told CNBC Tuesday.
A deal is expected to be completed on Thursday morning, as the companies await Vivendi to sign an agreement over the the sale of its 20 percent stake in the entity, which was valued Monday at $5.8 billion, the source said.
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The Best Dressed at the 2013 Met Gala
The soiree's theme? Punk couture! From Miley Cyrus' mesh to Anne Hathaway's shocking makeover, this year did not disappoint. See all the decadently fabulous looks right here.
Coco Rocha in Emanuel Ungaro by Fausto Puglisi
Coco Rocha is never one to blend in on the red carpet—especially at the Met Ball, The model rocked blunt shiny bangs and an appliqued leopard print number.
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