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Mel Smith: Comedy has lost a brilliant talent
Watch him playing it straight opposite Gerald the Gorilla; Mel Smith changed the way comedy could be performed and it hasn't been the same since
Watching the glorious anarchy of Not The Nine O'Clock News as a child, I would never have guessed that Mel Smith would turn out to be the quiet one. Rowan Atkinson went off to become Blackadder, Pamela Stephenson to Strictly (via a Psychology doctorate), and Griff Rhys Jones became one of those people who lurks around BBC2 much of the time, near a boat.
But Mel Smith was something different. He was one of the first truly naturalistic sketch performers: watch him playing it straight in 1980 opposite Gerald the Gorilla (played by Atkinson). The premise is ludicrous, but Smith performs it with exactly the same seriousness he brought to Stephen Poliakoff's Dancing On The Edge, earlier this year. He changed the way sketch comedy could be performed.
It hasn't been the same since.
At the same time, he carved out an impressive directorial career. Bean might not be to everyone's taste, but it was enormously successful: the budget was £18m, and it took over £250m worldwide. Although, for me, it's The Tall Guy which has always stuck in my mind: who else but Mel Smith could have directed the musical number from Elephant!, which is the highlight of the film? I can still be reduced to speechless laughter, 20 years after I first saw it, just by thinking of the phrase: "Somewhere up in heaven, there's an angel with big ears."
He bridged the gap between the UK and Hollywood film industries with incredible ease. He could write something as ridiculous as Morons From Outer Space, then appear alongside Christopher Guest and Cary Elwes two years later in the peerless The Princess Bride. His performance as the Albino is one of many perfect cameos in that film: the way he turns a nod into a headshake is a thing of true comic beauty. And then, of course, he was the voice of Father Christmas in the TV adaptation of Raymond Briggs' story.
To say that Mel Smith will be much missed is an understatement. He was immensely encouraging to new writers: Graham Linehan has been quick to point out that Smith gave Linehan and Arthur Mathews (the creators of Father Ted) their first break. Meanwhile, the production company that Smith co-founded with Rhys Jones, Talkback, has become one of the most successful programme-makers in the UK.
He was a wonderful stage actor too: audiences saw him as Churchill in Allegiance at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2006, opposite Michael Fassbender. He threatened to cause the local councillors considerable trauma by flouting the cigarette ban, but in the end, he kept his cigar unlit. I hope the BBC takes the opportunity to repeat some of his work (not least the hugely under-rated Colin's Sandwich), to remind us just how diverse and brilliant Smith really was.
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A Book of Migrations is a postcolonial revision of conventional travel literature. In her passage through Ireland, Rebecca Solnit portrays in microcosm a history made of great human tides of invasion, colonization, emigration, nomadism and tourism. Her observations carve a new3 route through Ireland's history, literature and landscape.
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The chairmen and chief executives gathered around the lunch table had been through numerous corporate shocks, fines and crises. And, after stamping out the embers of the firestorms at the companies they had run, they lived to tell the tale. Which was just as well, because the appointed topic of conversation as the wine was being poured was the business of reputation.
There's a lot of this going on at the moment. Maybe it's the banks' tarnished images, BP's life after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, G4S's Olympic high jump, tax-avoiding Amazon or rip-off gas companies, but corporations seem more concerned than ever at getting it right in the eyes of shareholders, customers and governments.
Patience has been tested and the stakes raised. Politicians use corporations' woes to score points without bothering to discover the facts, they complained. Fines for misdemeanours are getting bigger. Consumers, once blind to or unconcerned by what goes on at board level, are wising up. Who knows, Starbucks might even lose custom from those who would prefer their caffeine fix to contribute to the nation's tax take.
But the reputation of big business isn't the only thing on the line at the moment, as brands built over years are trashed in minutes on Twitter. Next week, the Government's good name is back on the line as George Osborne must deliver his hardest financial statement to date.
As the captains of industry pulled on their overcoats, the question of what Osborne can do for them elicited pulled faces and deep sighs. An integrated package of measures to give business a helping hand? Stability in the tax regime instead of tinkering? Put baldly, how about something to get the economy going?
You can feel the exasperation inside government too, as initiatives such as the back-to-work scheme and the rollout of broadband make slow progress and forecasters take an axe to growth predictions.
It isn't enough to blame the eurozone. Osborne has won plaudits for luring Mark Carney from Canada but he has much to do to show the economy is on track before the new Bank of England Governor arrives next July.
Remember March: behind the good stuff, such as the sliding rate of corporation tax designed to persuade companies to install their headquarters here, his Budget was an unappetising stew of bitty measures. A pasty tax, caravan charges, fuel duty rises — few of them were road-tested, and fewer still stuck. No wonder bosses pull a face at the prospect of more of the same.
From the micro to the macro. It's hard to see a bigger headline coming out of Wednesday's autumn statement than progress on the deficit reduction programme on which this Government has nailed its reputation.
Will the Office for Budget Responsibility say the Chancellor is still on track to meet his fiscal rules, that is, the elimination of the country's structural deficit by the end of this Parliament? It's looking very tough indeed.
Weak, if any, growth and sluggish tax receipts point to more cuts in welfare spending to help Osborne balance the books. That is, unless there is some Gordon Brown-style sleight of hand to be pulled off involving all that money sloshing around from the quantitative easing programme.
For the sake of his reputation, he has to be prudent and he has to look fair. Convincing the electorate we're all in this together last time around, when he reduced the top-rate of income tax from 50 per cent to 45 per cent, didn't exactly wash.
Below the big numbers, Osborne must highlight that the rich are paying their way. If that doesn't come through income tax, then there are a limited number of other routes left open. The idea of cutting the annual tax-free allowance of £50,000 on pension contributions to £30,000 or £40,000, saving something between £600 million and £1.8 billion for the Exchequer, was discussed on these pages last week. It remains on the table.
The other main route to people's pocket is through their cars and their homes. For Londoners, that means a hike in tax on houses worth more than £2 million, or even higher charges for residential properties that are transferred into companies by overseas buyers. Jet-setting workers should get clearer rules about what constitutes being a UK resident for tax purposes, while tax avoiders face yet another crackdown.
What about for business? Something to kickstart infrastructure spending including house-building. A government guarantee for the newly-promised Business Bank. Maybe more loans promised for entrepreneurs.
Despite the economy, it is possible to look on the bright side too. Could Vince Cable's Green Investment Bank, which opened for business in Edinburgh yesterday, really foster green shoots in areas where Britain is already strong, such as renewable energy? And, at the Evening Standard's Business Connections event on Tuesday night, entrepreneur James Caan painted an upbeat picture of young entrepreneurs seeking a helping hand, not a handout, to become established — whatever the outlook.
Reputation is an elusive thing. If the government changed tomorrow, what would Osborne and David Cameron be remembered for? Strife in Europe and a struggling economy, even though at least one of those issues was inherited.
Where the biggest companies are concerned, honesty and consistency are becoming watchwords for all their dealings — even if some have yet to work out how to practise what they preach to peers. Osborne's followers, and his critics, deserve the frankest of deliveries from the Despatch Box next Wednesday. If that involves breaking a few rules to get the British economy motoring again, so be it.
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A lifeboat from the state ferry Spokane had difficulty bringing the man on board, so he held onto the boat as it towed him to shore, according to Laboda.
The capsized boat was a 21-foot crabbing vessel, she said.
The boat's operator told rescue crews he launched at the Port of Kingston Marina and was heading to fishing grounds when the boat began taking on water at the stern. He tried to bring the boat back to the marina, according to Laboda, when water appeared to destabilize the vessel and it rolled over, throwing the passengers into Puget Sound.
Firefighters anchored the hull to keep it from moving with the tides, Laboda said.
Its owner, with the help of several private vessels, tried for several hours to right the vessel.
Laboda said he would try again in the evening when tides were more favorable.
Coast Guard and state ecology officials responded to the accident, but there was no evidence of a fuel leak, she said, and the capsized boat did not create a navigation hazard.
The woman was examined for hypothermia but declined to be taken to a hospital, said Laboda, who did not provide the boaters' names because of privacy concerns.
The three on the capsized boat were fortunate the ferry and local firefighters were close to the accident. Water temperatures are likely in the 45- to 50-degree range, she said.
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The top 10 cities in America with the highest gun-related homicides per 100,000 are as follows:
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Do you notice a pattern with these cities? These are all leftist Democrat controlled cities that are cesspools of America. Do you notice something else with these cities? 8 of the 10 cities are in states (or in DC's case territory) that voted for Obama this past November.
How about the top ten cities with the highest gun related deaths by 100,000 people?
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Again, see if you notice a pattern here. All these cities are leftist Democrat cesspool (most of the same cities from top gun related homicides), and 7 of the 10 cities are located in states that voted for Obama.
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Molly, I hardly knew ye.
The untimely death of Molly Ivins last week, after a long battle with breast cancer, has provoked a surge of impassioned eulogies — yes, that would be the appropriate use of the term "surge."
Ivins was first and foremost a journalist, in the highest and best sense of the word. She spent the time, did the digging. She had a remarkable gift for words, a command of English coupled with her flamboyant Texas wit. She directed her reportorial skill at the powerful, holding to account the elected and the self-appointed. She first questioned authority, then skewered it.
I had the good fortune to meet Molly, but on too few occasions. I went to Austin, Texas, for the 50th anniversary celebration of The Texas Observer, the plucky, progressive news magazine that was Molly's journalistic home for so long. Texas' former governor, Ann Richards, was there. Richards, a Democrat, was not immune to Molly's practiced barbs. The governor said of the writer:
"I know it's been a shock to all of us, but over the last 10 or 15 years our girl Molly Ivins has learned to dress, run a comb through her hair now and then and give a fairly decent speech. A truly remarkable woman who goes around America making speeches and telling lies about me. And I welcome her attentions any time. May God bless this woman who has more survivor blood in her veins than anyone I have ever known."
Richards preceded Molly in death by cancer by just a few months.
Molly's legacy rings out, clarion calls to action from the beyond. After she was diagnosed with cancer in 1999, she implored her readers: "Get. The. Damn. Mammogram. Now." The American Cancer Society predicts that there will be more than 40,000 breast cancer deaths in the U.S. in 2007. Death rates are declining, although detection and survival rates are lower for women of color. Improvements can be attributed in part to women following Molly's advice: "Get. The. Damn. Mammogram. Now."
In her final column, titled "Stand Up Against the Surge," Molly wrote:
"We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. Raise hell. ... We need people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding, 'Stop it, now!' "
Her hallmark was to call it as she saw it, and on Iraq she was clear: "It is not a matter of whether we will lose or we are losing. We have lost." She took Sen. John McCain to task for supporting the "surge." The coordinated acts of civil disobedience at his Senate offices in Washington, D.C., and in Arizona on Feb. 5 were a fitting tribute to Molly. Meanwhile, houston.indymedia.org announced the formation of The Molly Ivins Brigade, to protest the war with pots and pans.
I asked Molly about The Texas Observer. "As we watch the concentration of ownership of mass media," she said, "it's more and more important to keep these little independent voices alive. I think that's where the hope of journalism lies."
Fighting cancer. Fighting to stop the war. Fighting fiercely to protect independent media institutions such as The Texas Observer. Molly, while I hardly knew ye, we know you by your good works. Molly has died, but the fight goes on. She asked that donations be made to the non-profit Texas Observer, texasobserver.org. In this time of the Clear Channeling of America, it is pennies well spent.
The final performer at The Texas Observer anniversary event was the venerable Willie Nelson, whose sonorous voice and trenchant lyrics have become synonymous with Texas. He sang:
"Fly on, fly on past the speed of sound ...
Leave me if you need to
I will still remember
Angel flying too close to the ground."
Molly has made her sound in the world. Now it's up to us to bang those pots and pans.
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Drewry's Earnings Index for dirty tankers plunged by 66% to 14.2 during the month. This pulled the wider Tanker Earnings Index down by 52%.
Weakness in eastern demand due to the Chinese New Year holidays kept chartering activity in the Arabian Gulf relatively quiet. Similarly, despite increased demand from the Caribbean, activity in West Africa declined. This was largely because of weak European demand as a result of refinery maintenance and reduced shipments to eastern markets.
Rates for VLCCs on the benchmark Arabian Gulf-Far East route declined by 10 points to WS33. Similarly, Suezmax rates on the West Africa-U.S. Gulf route declined by 12%, leading to a sharp dip in earnings because of rising bunker costs. The shale oil boom in the US has reduced U.S. import demand for sweet crudes from Africa, in turn depressing Suezmax transatlantic trade.
Drewry predicts that the demand for VLCCs will primarily be driven by imports from the Far East in the near term. Although Asian countries receive most of their crude oil from the Arabian Gulf, the increased demand for light sweet crude, particularly from China might support the growth in chartering activity in West Africa.
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text: This may shock a few folks but about this time 100 days from now the race will be concluding. There will be thousands of runners back in their room, milling about or otherwise contemplating the morning. There will be those who are happy - happy that they made the end, happy that they had a PR, survived the race while suffering a chronic injury that made the day feel long. There will be those who are relieved relieved because they had a late season set of misgivings that called into question their decision to run an event and can now take a deep breath now that they have finished. There will be those who are camped out in the med tent yes injuries can and do occur on race day. Most folks will fall into one of the above camps, but not all. There will be those who are energized energized by the fact that they can now do anything. The power of running a marathon is tremendous. It can and will be a life changing event for many who will spring into a new found life of healthy and fit living. There will be those who are sad sad because the race is now over and there is a loss of purpose in the first days following a big event. Take time now to keep a log of thoughts and feelings. Think about next actions before the race though do not act until the post race feelings calm down. Having a plan in place in December will help refocus you on a path forward. There will be those who are sore sore in every fiber of their body. All runners will have some soreness, take time to warm down post run and make it a habit. You body will thank you for stretching and the continuous movement post race. Finally, there will be those who are disappointed disappointed because they were injured, ill or otherwise not able to complete the mission. These are the folks who we all tend to forget and ones I want to make sure that you know you are not forgotten. Whether you suffered bad luck, bad food or just could not make it click 100 days from now, you are all still winners. Think about where you were 4 months back and where you are on Sunday January 12. You have made huge strides to getting to the end. Who would have thought a 6 mile run would feel short? You had the courage to start and you are ahead of many of the naysayers who will want to judge you. Do not let them into your head. They are the ones who failed to get off the couch, thought the path too steep or could not commit to the challenge. Hold you head up HIGH. Remember, did not finish is far superior to did not start. Most folks are running distances greater than 10 miles now and while tough everytime you add a mile or two, it will seriously get easier with time. Remember, smile and have fun while training. It will help relieve tension in the body and actually make moving a little easier Train Hard and Live Clean.


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Duckworth now heading HubHealth
by MBJ Staff
Published: November 2,2009
HubHealth of South Mississippi announced the appointment of Mechelle Duckworth as chief executive officer of its 180-member independent physician association, which serves the greater Pinebelt area. Duckworth, a native of Collins, most recently served as vice president of physician practices at Wesley Medical Center. She also worked as assistant controller at the hospital and then as chief financial officer of Wesley Physician Services. Duckworth began her career in healthcare at The Women's Clinic of McComb and McComb OB-GYN Associates.
Duckworth received her bachelor of science in accounting from the School of Business at William Carey University. She brings with her over 20 years of experience in accounting and business operations.
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The dos and donts of applying for a job (infographic)
Every stage of applying for a new job is nerve-wracking, but at least give yourself a chance by getting your CV right.
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Dr Hugh Cormican, co-founder of Andor Technology, receiving the Innovation Founder of the Year Award from Steve Orr, director of NISP CONNECT.
A £18m investment is leading Andor Technology to create 166 new jobs that focus on innovation.
The Belfast company, which specialises in imaging equipment for the medical and scientific market, manufactures high-performance cameras used in the research of cancer and Alzheimer's disease.
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