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Wes Durston was the star turn as Derbyshire thrashed Essex by 85 runs in their Clydesdale Bank 40 clash at Colchester.
His unbeaten 72 from 62 deliveries enabled the visitors to post a total of 253 for five, then he pulled off a brilliant catch at long-on to remove Ryan ten Doeschate.
The departure of ten Doeschate left Essex 138 for four and pointed the way to a swift decline of their pursuit as they were bowled out for 168 in the 33rd over.
Ten Doeschate was the first of seven wickets to fall in the space of seven overs for the addition of just 30 runs.
Durston's positive approach brought him eight fours and a six, and provided much-needed momentum to Derbyshire's innings after they had needed 24 overs to move into three figures.
He sparkled in a partnership of 71 in nine overs for the fourth wicket with Wayne Madsen, whose 35 came from 25 balls.
After Madsen was trapped leg before by David Masters, Durston and Graham Wagg cut loose to add an unbroken 59 for the sixth wicket from only 28 balls.
Wagg's contribution was 36 from 15 balls, with the aid of three sixes and three fours. Chris Wright was the bowler to suffer most; his final two overs cost 34.
Earlier, Chesney Hughes and Greg Smith shared a second-wicket stand of 69 for Derbyshire after Chris Rogers had been caught at slip in the first over of the match.
Hughes was eventually bowled by Danish Kaneria for 45 from 64 balls, while Smith, whose first 20 scoring strokes were all singles, drove ten Doeschate to mid-off when four short of his half-century. His innings spanned 66 deliveries.
When Essex replied, Mark Pettini and Ravi Bopara were threatening to move up a gear when they were dismissed in the 20s.
Grant Flower and Matt Walker put together a half-century stand for the third wicket, but once Walker was superbly run out for 32 by Smith's direct hit from backward square-leg Essex lost their way.
Robin Petersen and Jake Needham each picked up three wickets at a cost of 38 and 36 respectively, while Mark Footitt returned figures of 2-28 as Essex were left to reflect on a defeat which leaves a dent in their hopes of reaching the later stages of the competition.


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One of Chicago's brightest rising stars, singer/songwriter/guitarist MER, will be performing live in concert at House of Blues Chicago on Thursday, March 27th, 2014, at 7:00pm, along with The Truss, Mighty Fox, Fletcher Rockwell, MG Bailey, and presented by Shoeshine Boy Productions. MER has tirelessly supported local musicians through his music showcases at various venues around Chicago, including Schubas Tavern, while continuing to pursue his own exciting, ever-growing musical career. He recently visited the WGN Midday News with his band performing his power pop-rock single entitled "Heart Attack". "People are asking when the band is going to come out" he says. "People receive the energy and are excited about the singles. I believe in the live connection and that's why I love music. And, that's something that I really believe in; the connection to people through music."
The Truss, Michael C. Hayes - Acoustic Guitar/Lead Vox, Matt Hines - Lead Guitar/Backing Vox, Andrew Neel - Bass Guitar, and Maurice Jones - Drums, is a Chicago based band formed in late 2012. Their debut EP entitled "The Distance" was released November 12th, 2013, and was recorded at Lennon's Den Studio's with Colin Peterik (son of Jim Peterik, Survivor/Ides Of March). The band is currently working on their first full length album collaborating with producer Kevin Shirley (Journey, Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, Rush, Joe Bonamassa).
Mighty Fox, Mike Jansen - Vocals/Guitar, Markham Jenkins - Guitar, Johnny Walker - Bass, and Jon Lewchenko - Drums, is an up-and-coming Chicago based group. Their single entitled "Oceans" was released December 19th, 2013.
Fletcher Rockwell, Mike Nutt - Lead Vocals/Guitar, Charley Bredrup - Lead Guitar/Vocals, Tim Bredrup - Bass/Vocals, and Steve Pahl - Drums, is an American rock band from Chicago formed in 2009. The band has a self-titled full-length album "Fletcher Rockwell" released on May 7th, 2011 and are supporting their recent "Still Searching" EP released on March 7th, 2013.
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Viigo announced for SingTel's BlackBerry owners
SingTel, the leading Singaporean mobile operator, together with Viigo, Inc., a Canadian developer of software for smartphones, have announced that the Viigo value-added service will be soon available for BlackBerry users from Singapore.
With Viigo, BlackBerry owners can enjoy easy access to local news, weather forecasts, financial info and customized feeds, directly from their smartphone. The service also brings over 5,000 content-rich channels that include travel and entertainment information.
And there's more: Viigo can provide sports fans with coverage from major Singaporean events, including the Formula 1TM SingTel Singapore Grand Prix which will debut soon, on September 28.
SingTel will only offer Viigo to its postpaid customers, meaning that all those who use pre-paid services will have to sign a contract agreement with the carrier if they want to get the new application on their BlackBerries.
For the moment, SingTel's line-up of BlackBerry devices only includes models like the Curve 8320 and Pearl 8110, but the mobile operator has announced that RIM's new Bold 9000 smartphone will also be available for its users, starting the second half of September. So it seems that Viigo has chosen a good moment to show up over in Singapore.


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Uranium contamination in the Great Miami Aquifer—at the Fernald Preserve, Ohio, Site—is being removed from the groundwater through a pump-and-treatment operation, which until this year, involved the operation of 23 extraction wells. Figure 1 shows the footprint of the uranium plume and the 23 extraction wells. Concurrence and support from the U.S.
The foundation of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management's (LM) Goal 4, "Optimize the use of land and assets," is to establish environmentally sound and protective land uses on LM sites. LM believes there can be beneficial uses of land even though regulatory or other land-use restrictions may be needed. As part of Goal 4, LM will make its lands available for government, public, and private uses, provided such uses maintain cleanup efforts and are consistent with the site remedies, the tenets of sustainability, and the best resource-management practices.
More than 150 participants attended the 2014 Community Leaders Institute (CLI) in Montgomery, Alabama, on April 25 and 26. The event was sponsored by the Medical University of South Carolina; U.S. Department of Energy (DOE); Southeastern Virtual Institute for Health and Wellness; U.S. Department of Defense; the City of Montgomery; EcoLogic Services, Inc.; Project H.E.L.P.; Community Care Network; and Alabama State University.
In February 2014, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) and LM Support (LMS) contractor site managers, along with Navajo Nation technical staff, visited five reclaimed uranium-mine sites on tribal lands to share expertise in the use of technical approaches for controlling and mitigating erosion. Due to the geology of the desert southwest, where many LM disposal sites are located, and the area's extreme weather, erosion can be a serious issue that damages engineered structures such as roads, building foundations, and fences.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) completed its 2014 annual institutional controls (IC) assessment of the Mound site in Miamisburg, Ohio, and confirmed that the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) remedies remain effective. Annual, routine IC inspections are conducted at many LM sites. However, inspections at the Mound site are anything but routine, due to its unique nature.
Gary Studer, a longtime resident of the greater Cincinnati area, is a regular visitor to the Fernald Preserve in Ohio, enjoying activities like trail walks and bird watching.
On May 8 and 9, a joint federal agency collaboration was held to discuss financial and technical assistance to Wind River Tribes in Riverton, Wyoming. Requested by staff from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM), the meeting was held at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 8 offices in Denver, Colorado. Other federal agencies represented were the Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and U.S. Geological Survey.
The U.S. Congress directed the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), in consultation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of the Interior, to undertake a review of, and prepare a report on, abandoned uranium mines in the United States that provided uranium ore for U.S. atomic energy defense activities. In February 2014, the DOE Office of Legacy Management (LM) updated the public about its progress on the data and technical information developed to inform the Report to Congress on defense-related uranium mines.
When you hear about the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM), what comes to mind? Is it long-term surveillance and maintenance (LTS&M) activities such as conducting environmental monitoring, performing annual inspections, or maintaining protective remedies? Is it managing records and making them available to requesters? Is it managing legacy land and assets or emphasizing safety, reuse, and disposition?
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Photographer Sandra Miller, is a legally blind artist who lives in scenic Portland Oregon. Embarking on photographic world journeys with her husband Steve,she captures her engaging images of canines, both domestic and feral...homeless, or in the lap of luxury.
This photographic essay not only showcases some of Sandra's favorite canine encounters and memories, but is in itself is a beautiful personal journal to jot down your thoughts and memoires.
SOMEBODY'S DOG is a unique keepsake which not only serves as a subtle reminder of how fortunate our beloved companions are, but to also keep close to the heart, those countless "not so lucky" souls, at home and abroad.
EVERY dog ...is SOMEBODY'S DOG., even if only by way an image or a fleeting glance, etching a loving "home" for those special creatures in our memories forever.
As a legally blind photographer and artist, Sandra's style is unique in that she relies on her Canon DSLR cameras and a powerful arsenal of lenses to bring 'focus' back into her world, and provide reference material for her art and jewelry designs. Sandra can see only through a small tunnel in one eye, therefore carries the recognizable white blind cane to help find the bumps in the road ahead and give her the freedom to move around in public. People usually spot the 'pandarazzi' with her huge camera and cane and clear a wide path for this unconventional photographer. A conversation starter wherever she roams! The highlight of each travel day is when Sandra uploads her memory cards, spilling over with photo treasures, onto the computer. She is then able to discover details not seen with the naked eye on a magnified computer monitor.
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Crested Butte Mountain Resort made an unprecedented announcement Monday that the Colorado ski area would reopen on Saturday and Sunday. Crested Butte had initially closed for the season on April 6.
The resort plans to operate the Silver Queen Express chairlift from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day with access to 155 acres of intermediate and advanced terrain. The Silver Queen high-speed quad rises 2,072 vertical feet out of the base area. Tickets will be $20 for ages 13 and older, $10 for children ages 7 to 12, and free for ages 6 and under. Season passes for 2013-14 will be honored on the bonus weekend.
"We had an incredible season this year," said Ethan Mueller, vice president and general manager at the ski resort. "Looking at the amount of snow we still have on the mountain and in the valley, we thought of all years to reopen this would be a good one to give it a try. One more weekend of skiing will be a fun way to bring people to the mountain and to get excited for next season with our season pass price remaining flat to this year."
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Nike unveiled their uniforms for the NFL today. As you can see from the pictures the uniform didn't really change. The only thing I found which might have changed was the jersey color as it appears to be a different shade of aqua. Other than that there are no real big changes. The Seahawks where the only team to have a significant uniform change.
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How do you bounce back from a BBC fatwah, divorce and a faltering movie career? Well, try lanuching a political revolution to a dedazzled Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight, staging a gargantuan world stand-up tour and skewering celebrity culture in the wake of his GQ Men of the Year Awards dismissal. It may not be too long until we're seeing a few more Hollywood vehicles rolled out for Mr Brand. Apologies, Katy.
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Carnival's announcement today that wireless cell phone users can now use their phones onboard sets up a good news/bad news scenario. Sure, using your own phone beats trying to connect via sea at ridiculous $12.50 per minute rates. But will it encourage a proliferation of obnoxious chatterers in locales ranging from the dining room to the pool deck?
Regardless, the new technology will be welcome to most. Carnival has teamed up with Cingular Wireless and Maritime Telecommunications Network to establish the system, which enables users to send and receive calls as well as text and multimedia messages. International roaming fees will apply. The service, according to a Carnival spokesman, is available on "essentially all cell phones," not just those that are part of the Cingular network.
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Anne Marie Borneman, Ed.D, earned her Bachelor of Science degrees in Elementary and Special Education from Cabrini College in 1980, and her Master of Arts in Human Development (1987), and School Psychology Certification (1994), from Bryn Mawr College.
Saint Joseph's University awarded Anne Marie's doctorate in Educational Leadership in December of 2007.
Her dissertation, for which she earned the University's Nicholas S. Rashford, SJ, Award for Outstanding Dissertation, focused on Catholic urban schools in low-income neighborhoods of Philadelphia.
In May of 2012, Anne Marie addressed master's degree candidates at Cabrini College's graduate Commencement, and received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree.
In addition to certification in Special and Elementary Education, Anne Marie holds certifications as a Reading Specialist and as a School Psychologist.
For more than thirty years, Anne Marie has worked in schools—first as a special education classroom teacher, and more recently as a school psychologist—in both suburban and urban school settings.
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NEW ORLEANS — After Hurricane Katrina destroyed everything their family had worked to build since 1940, the owners of Young's Dry Cleaning teamed with local advertising agency CPR + Partners to completely redevelop their brand.
The resulting Young's campaign went on to be recognized in local and regional ad competitions organized by the American Advertising Federation. Next, the campaign stood toe to toe against the best advertising in the country, earning the Lakeview cleaners a 2012 national silver ADDY® award in the category of Mixed Media, Local Consumer.
The ADDY® Awards represent the true spirit of creative excellence by recognizing all forms of advertising across media of all types, creative by all sizes and entrants of all levels from anywhere in the world.
Since launching their new brand and advertising campaign less than two years ago, Young's free pick-up and delivery business has continued to steadily increase, according to the company.
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Goldman Sachs's Heir Apparent Lloyd Blankfein, Esq.
This morning a Law Blog reader told us that Lloyd Blankfein, the heir apparent to Goldman Sachs CEO-cum-Treasury Secretary nominee Hank Paulson, practiced law at Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine. This afternoon, a WSJ editor reminded us that the Journal ran a page-one profile on Blankfein in 2004 that detailed his legal career. Here's the relevant excerpt from the story by Susanne Craig (who today discussed the Paulson news with Peter Lattman — i.e,. the Law Blog — in this video clip):
Mr. Blankfein, the son of a U.S. mail sorter, was born in the Bronx section of New York City. After graduating from law school in 1978, he landed a job as a corporate tax lawyer at the firm of Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine in New York. Lawyer John Baity, who hired Mr. Blankfein during a campus-recruiting trip to Harvard in 1977, remembers him as a "solid B-plus student with a remarkable intellect."
According to the article, Mr. Blankfein spent most of the time at Donovan Leisure shuttling between Los Angeles and New York, representing the film industry in a dispute with the Internal Revenue Service. In those days, he used to smoke two to three packs of cigarettes a day. And on Friday nights he and fellow lawyer Greg Ho would sometimes jump in a rental car and head to Las Vegas to play blackjack. "If we don't show up Monday it's because we've hit the jackpot," read the memo the pair would leave on their boss's desk en route out of town, says Mr. Ho.
By 1981 Mr. Blankfein was on track to make partner at the law firm but decided instead to switch gears in what he calls a "pre-life crisis" and move to Wall Street. His then-fiancee and now-wife Laura cried when he told her he was leaving his comfortable job at Donavan Leisure to take a job as a gold salesman at J. Aron, a relatively unknown commodities-trading house.
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Sunset Junction Street Fair Denied Permit Again
LOS ANGELES – A city board on Wednesday voted unanimously to deny a permit for a long-running music festival, even after organizers said a corporate sponsor had stepped forward to cover the estimated costs for municipal services at the event.
It was the five-member Board of Public Works's second vote this week on the status of the Sunset Junction Street Fair, which on Monday was also denied a permit.
The organizers already owed the city $260,000 to cover the cost of extra police officers and other services at last year's festival. To merit reconsideration at Wednesday's meeting, they were told, they needed to produce $142,000, the estimated cost for this year's event.
A spokeswoman for the Board of Public Works said the permit had been denied. A spokeswoman for the Sunset Junction Alliance, the nonprofit that staged the three-decade-old event, issued a statement saying that the alliance had received a last-minute donation sufficient to cover the $142,000 bill. The donation came from Live Nation Entertainment Inc., the concert promotion giant, the spokeswoman said. A Live Nation spokesman couldn't immediately be reached.
The Sunset Junction website appeared to have gone offline shortly after Wednesday's board vote.
Some of the 100 acts booked to play Sunset Junction were in discussions with local nightclubs in search of other gigs over the weekend, according to various representatives.


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The Music and Performing Arts Collection at the National Museum of African American History and Culture represents African American artistic and cultural expression through music, dance, theater, radio, film and television along with other forms of popular entertainment. Through a collection of objects, costumes, musical instruments, photographs, films, business correspondence, sheet music and other memorabilia, the museum will tell the story of African American artistic achievement, innovation and creativity. It also will use arts and entertainment to explore social and cultural change as played out regionally, nationally and around the world.
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Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians
Bowen, Jose (Antonio)
Bowen, Jose (Antonio), pianist, composer, educator; b. Woodland, CA, 11 March 1962. The youngest of two, (Juan Carlos was born April 1, 1948), he spent time in Spain, Ireland, but mostly grew up in Fresno, California. His father, Wayne Bowen (b. 1923) was from Columbus, Ohio, and his mother, Celina Andux was born (1924) in Havana, Cuba. Neither was a musician.
After failing the required school music aptitude test (the Seashore test after Stanford Music Psychologist Carl Seashore), Jose was relegated to group recorder classes and eventually wrote a piece on a toy organ which won first prize in a local contest and was performed by the Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra. The conductor, Guy Taylor, encouraged the Bowens to buy a piano for their son and later taught him conducting (1977-79). Classical piano lessons with Alan Rea (1974-80) led to an interest in jazz learned entirely through records and studio and commercial work in Los Angeles.
A BS in Chemistry at Stanford (1980-84) intervened before Bowen returned to jazz, leading the jazz ensembles at Stanford (1982-88) and playing with Stan Getz, Bobby Shew, Bill Watrous and Hubert Laws. Gigs and recordings with his quartet and the KA Wonton Little Latin Big Band kept him in the Bay Area, while finishing Stanford an MA in composition (1988) and a PhD in Humanities and Musicology (1992). He moved to England in 1994to found the Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (C.H.A.R.M.) and began a jazz program at the University of Southampton, producing CDs with his Jazzmanix choir and his Southampton University Jazz Orchestra, and performing with Norma Winstone, Peter King, and Dave Brubeck. He also contributed compositions to England's National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO), England.
He was the first holder of the Caestecker Chair of Music in the Department of Art, Music and Theatre at Georgetown University and the Director of the Music Program at Georgetown University in Washington DC. He is now the Dean of the School of Fine Arts at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Bowen's interest in the relationship between the musical work and its performances has led to over 100 articles and reviews academic journals and books. A period as a music critic developed his interest in conductors and conducting and led to his editorship of the Cambridge Companion to Conducting.
Bowen conducts, performs and lectures in both Europe and the United States and his music has been heard on radio and TV broadcasts in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, and Uruguay.
His compositions and playing are featured on numerous recordings and include a suite for Hubert Laws and the Stanford String Quartet, a symphony (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Music), a film score, and a concerto for Jerry Garcia. His Jewish music (published by Transcontinental Music) is widely performed and includes a Jazz Shabbat Service (which has received over 50 performances). Other awards for his compositions include the Hubbell, Popular and Standard Awards (from ASCAP), the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts, the Bell T. Richie Prize, the Koret Israel Prize and awards from the Jewish Music Commission and the Guild of Temple Musicians.
Appearances and feature stories also include a wide range of media: BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service and BBC Television, NPR, Danish National Radio, The Times (London), New York Times, Washington Post, BBC Music Magazine, Times Higher Education Supplement, the Times Technical Supplements and many local papers: San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, Chicago Sun Times, Sunday Express (London) etc. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) in England and Founding Member of the National Recordings Preservation Board at the Library of Congress.
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship for University Teachers for his project The Conductor and the Score.
Set In Stone film score: National Educational Film Festival Award, World Archaeological Congress honoree. (University of California Extension, Center for Media and Independent Learning)
Beethoven's Blues (1988); A Jazz Shabbat Service (1990); Rachel Louis & Jose Bowen: Voice From the Annex (1991); The Garden (1999); A Klezmer Service for SATB choir, cantor, children's choir, violin, clarinet, tuba, drums, and keyboard (2001); A Jazz Shabbat for SATB choir, cantor, children's choir, and jazz sextet, recorded live at Georgetown University's Hallelujah Shabbat program in February 2003 (2003)
Recorded compositions:
"El Rey Pedro" on 47 Frith St., National Youth Jazz Orchestra, (1998); "Raging Hormones," "I Remember You" (by Victor Schertzinger and arranged by Bowen), and "Ballot Box" forthcoming on TBA, National Youth Jazz Orchestra (1998); "Raging Hormones" on Attitude, Southampton University Jazz Orchestra, (1999);
As sideperson:
Stanford Symphony Orchestra: Symphony No. 1 (Conductor) (1988); Stanford Jazz Band: Lime-Green Cadillac Blues (Producer, Director and Composer) (1987); K.A. Wonton Little Latin Big Band: Havana Nagila (Co-producer, Co-director, Composer and Pianist) (1992) Cory Cullinan: My Oyster (1996); Southampton University Jazz Orchestra and Jazzmanix: Jazz at Southampton (Producer, Musical Director, Composer) (1996), Reincarnation,(Musical Director, Composer) (1997); Hubert Laws and The Stanford String Quartet: Bathsheba and Her Suitors; San Francisco Symphony: Symbiosis-Elegy on Jerry Garcia (halted in progress)
Set in Stone, a 28-minute documentary on Stonehenge (1994)
(All compositions published by Jose Bowen Music, ASCAP unless otherwise noted. Additional performance histories are listed below.)
Jazz compositions:
Jazz Orchestra (selections from recent recorded work);
Boogie 1am (text by Langston Hughes, music by Dave Brubeck), arrangement for jazz choir and jazz orchestra;
Raging Hormones (forthcoming from London: Stanza Music and on CD from the National Youth Jazz Orchestra);
I Remember You (Victor Schertzinger) arrangement (London: Stanza Music, 1998 and forthcoming on CD from the National Youth Jazz Orchestra);
Salsalation! (El Rey Pedro) (London:Stanza Music, 1998), recorded on 47 Frith Street, National Youth Jazz Orchestra (1998) and on Reincarnation (1997);
Life Among the Box People, 1996, recorded on Reincarnation (1997) and forthcoming as Ballot Box on CD from the National Youth Jazz Orchestra;
7th Heaven, 1996, recorded on Reincarnation (1997);
Ghost, 1996, recorded on Reincarnation (1997);
Mr VC, 1996, recorded on Reincarnation (1997);
Funk in A, 1990, recorded on Jazz at Southampton (1996);
Lime Green Cadillac Blues, 1991, recorded on Jazz at Southampton (1996);
Large Jazz Works:
A Jazz Shabbat Service, Commissioned by Congregation Beth Am, Los Altos Hills. (1989) (over 40 complete performances);
An American Ballet, Commissioned by Zohar Dance Co. (Jose Bowen Music,
ASCAP, 1989) Performances: Palo Alto, CA: 1989, 1994;
Jazz Choir (selections from recent recorded work);
Hallelujah Shout, 1996;
Blessing (SATB) (New York: Transcontinental Music Publications, 1996);
Thank You Mr. Brubeck, 1995, recorded on Jazz at the Southampton (1996);
Southampton Anthem, 1995, recorded on Jazz at the Southampton (1996);
May the Words, 1990; recorded on Jazz at the Southampton (1996);
Publications (Musicology):
The Cambridge Companion to Conducting (editor) (Cambridge University Press, 2004) Contributors include Leon Botstein, David Cairns, Martyn Brabbins, Harold Farberman, Michael Haas, Sir Charles Mackerras, Vance George, Michelle Edwards, Joseph Silverstein, Michael Rose, Stephen Johnson, David Nice, David Mermelstein, Bernard Sherman, and Stephen Wright.
A Guide to Discography (editor) (University of California Press, in progress)
The Conductor and the Score: A History of the Relationship between Interpreter and Text from Beethoven to Wagner (in progress)
A Dictionary of Conductors (with Charles Barber) (University of California Press, forthcoming)
Journal articles and contributions to edited works:
"Performers Interpreting History: Finding 'Una voce poco fa'" (in progress)
"Introduction to Discography" Chapter 1 in A Guide to Discography, ed. Jose Bowen (University of California Press, forthcoming)
"Using Recordings in Research" Chapter 10 in in A Guide to Discography, ed. Jose Bowen (University of California Press, due December 2002)
"The Rise of Conducting" Chapter 6 in The Cambridge Companion to Conducting, ed. Jose Bowen (Cambridge University Press, in press)
"The Central European Tradition" Chapter 7 with Raymond Holden in The
Cambridge Companion to Conducting, ed. Jose Bowen (Cambridge University
Press, in press)
"The Missing Link: Franz Liszt the Conductor" Basler Jahrbuch fur Historische Musikpraxis Vol. 24, 2000 (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis: Basil, Switzerland, 2002), 125-150.
"Finding the Music in Musicology: Studying Music as Performance" in Rethinking Music, ed. Nicholas Cook and Mark Everist (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 428-455.
"Mendelssohn and Hegel: The Aesthetics of Musical Content" (Studi Musicali, 1999, No. 1), 243-277.
"Tempo Duration & Flexibility: Techniques in the Analysis of Performance" (Journal of Musicological Research, Vol 16, No. 2, July 1996), 111-156.
"Performance Practice versus Performance Analysis: Why Should Performers Study Performance?" (Performance Practice Review, Vol. 9, No.1, Spring, 1996),16-35.
"James Levine" and Seiji Ozawa" in Twentieth Century Conductors. ed. Gary A. Greene (Greenwood Press, in press)
"The History of Remembered Innovation: Tradition and Its Role in the Relationship Between Musical Works and Their Performances" (The Journal of Musicology, Vol. XI, No. 2, Spring 1993), 139-173.
"Mendelssohn, Berlioz and Wagner as Conductors: The Origins of 'Fidelity to the Composer'" (Performance Practice Review, Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring 1993), 77-88; (reprinted in the Journal of the Conductors Guild Vol. 18, No. 2, Summer/Fall 1997), 76-84.
"Can a Symphony Change? Establishing Methodology for the Historical Study of Performance Styles" in Bericht uber den Internationaler Kongressder Gesellschaft fur Musikforschung: Musik als Text Freiburg im Breisgau1993, 2 vols. Kassel, Basel, London & New York: Barenreiter, 1998), Volume 2, (Freie Referate 6: Interpretation), 160-172
"A Computer-Aided Study of Conducting" (in Computing in Musicology, Volume IX, 1993-94), 93-103.
Reviews and reports
"Study Session 8: Research in music performance: new methods and tools" in Musicology and her Sister Disciplines: Past Present and Future, IMS Congress Report ed. David Greer (Oxford University Press, 2000), 479-480.
David Epstein, Shaping Time: Music, the Brain and Performance, (New York: Schirmer Books, 1994) Music Theory Spectrum, Vol 20, No 2, 1998), 311-318.
Scott Burnham, Beethoven Hero, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1995 and Tia DeNora, Beethoven and the Construction of Genius: Musical Politics in Vienna, 1792-1803, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995) 19th-Century Music, Vol 22, No 1, (Summer, 1998), 91-99.
John Rink (editor), The Practice of Performance: Studies in Musical Interpretation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Vol 123, No 1, (1998), 127-140.
Michael Chanan, Musica Practica: The Social Practice of Western Music from Gregorian Chant to Postmodernism. London & New York: Verso, 1994. (Notes, June, 1996), 1156-1158.
Barry Millington and Stewart Spencer (editors),Wagner in Performance. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1992. (Performance Practice Review, Vol 7, No. 2, Fall 1994), 248-252.
"CD Reviews" in The San Jose Mercury News, 1993-1994
"CD Reviews" Column in The Peninsula Times Tribune, 1989 - 1993
"CD Notes" Column in The Stanford Daily, 1985-86
"Sample Formats for Discography" Chapter 11 in A Guide to Discography, ed. Jose Bowen (University of California Press, due December 2002)
"Citations for Recorded Music" Chapter 12 in A Guide to Discography, ed. Jose Bowen (University of California Press, due December 2002)
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Second Edn. 29 volumes, Ed. Stanley Sadie & John Tyrrell (London: Macmillian, 2000)
www.grovemusic.com) Area advisor on conducting with Dr. Charles Barber
Contact information:
Jose Antonio Bowen, Dean and Professor of Music
School of Fine Arts, Miami University
112 Hiestand Hall
Oxford, OH 45056
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Chicago Booth at World Economic ForumRichard Thaler and Raghuram Rajan among the speakers at Davos
Two professors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, as well as the University's President, will participate in the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, from 27-31 January, 2010.
Richard Thaler, Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics and Raghuram Rajan, Professor of Finance, will participate in several panels on subjects as wide-reaching as the consequences of the financial crisis and breast cancer.
The organizing theme for the 40th Annual Meeting of political and civic thought leaders, business people and academics is a call to action and has the theme: "Improve the State of the World: Rethink, Redesign and Rebuild."
President Robert J. Zimmer, recently named to the Global University Leaders Forum, will be discussing issues pertaining to universities around the world, including expansion into developing nations, creating a global university system, and issues involving Africa and the environment. This panel will be chaired by Richard Levin, President of Yale and will feature 25 of the top universities in the world. President Zimmer is a contributor to the following panels: "Weak Signals" and "Groundbreaking discoveries in science and technology."
Professor Thaler, acclaimed co-author of the best-selling Nudge, will talk about what went wrong with economics and how to fix it in "Rebuilding Economics" and "Bringing Sense to Irrational Markets." In "What Every Person Should know about Breast Cancer" Thaler will extrapolate on his recent article in the New York Times which outlined why false-positive mammograms mean it isn't necessarily a bad thing for women to be screened for cancer in their fifties instead of their forties.
Dr. Rajan, currently an economic advisor to the Prime Minister of India, will talk about the global economic outlook in "What is the 'New Normal' for Global Growth?" and "Redesigning the International Monetary System"
About the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is one of the leading business schools in the world, consistently ranking in the top ten and frequently in the top five. The school's faculty includes many renowned scholars and its graduates occupy key positions in the US and worldwide. The Chicago Approach to Management Education is distinguished by how it leverages fundamental knowledge, its rigor, and its practical application to business challenges.
The school offers full- and part-time MBA programmes, a PhD programme, open enrolment executive education and custom corporate education, with campuses in London, Chicago and Singapore. Current enrolment includes 1,100 full-time MBA students, 1,900 part-time MBA students of whom 90 are studying in London, and 110 PhD students. Six current or former faculty members are Nobel Prize winners in economics. Among the school's many successful alumni are James A. Rasulo, Senior Executive Vice President and CFO of The Walt Disney Company, Bart Becht, CEO, Reckitt Benckiser plc, Kateryna Chumchenko Yuschenko, First Lady of Ukraine and David Booth, founder and chief executive of Dimensional Fund Advisors, for whom the school was renamed in 2008. www.chicagobooth.edu
About the World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum is an independent, international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging leaders in partnerships to shape global, regional and industry agendas.
Incorporated as a foundation in 1971, and based in Geneva, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum is impartial and not-for-profit; it is tied to no political, partisan or national interests. www.weforum.org
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On Tuesday, notifications went out to the Paulding County Republican Examiner that U.S. Congressman Tom Graves (R-GA-14) will host a Veterans Benefits Fair for the 14th Congressional District veterans and their families.
The fair will feature representatives from several divisions of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), including service connected claims, disability compensation, dependent claims, loans, education, vocational rehabilitation, homeless outreach, suicide prevention, cemetery services, and medical centers.
Fair attendees will also be able to meet privately with Veterans Affairs VA representatives regarding questions or concerns and this event is free and open to the public.
The event will be held on Tuesday, May 6, 2014 from 10:00am to 12:00pm at the Paulding County Board of Commissioners Building, on the 2nd Floor at 240 Constitution Boulevard, in Dallas, Georgia.
The Veteran Affairs in Georgia offers Georgia veterans many benefits including tax exemptions, driving licenses, personal identification cards, license plates, veteran's education and training, and other special state provisions.
"My annual Veterans Benefits Fair aims to help veterans and their families learn about the benefits they have earned in the service of our country," said Rep. Graves. "It's also an opportunity to resolve issues in person with a Veterans Affairs representative and caseworkers on my congressional staff."
In related news, the Georgia Department of Driver Services (DDS) announced that it will now allow all Georgia military veterans, regardless of where they lived when they served, to request a veteran designated driver's license or identification card.
"Giving our veterans the recognition that they deserve is something every state should do. I am proud that Georgia now extends this honor to everyone who served – regardless of duty," said DDS Commissioner Rob Mikell. "It can be difficult for military veterans to prove they served in the military."
"We are grateful to our partners at the Department of Driver Services for championing this change," said Georgia Department of Veterans Service Commissioner Pete Wheeler. "Now every veteran, regardless of service, will be able to proudly carry a Georgia Veteran's Driver's License or ID Card."
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Action Alert: Tom Doidge-Harrison Describes Irish Waves at Risk
[Update 4/18/11 via Save the Waves & Surfer's Path: The fight continues to save Doolin Point and Crab Island. Despite the recent approval by the Clare County Council to build a pier that threatens the world-class waves of Crab Island and Doolin Point, the project now must acquire a foreshore license by the Department of the Environment, which is being applied for now. Please urge the Department of the Environment to rethink this project. Letters must arrive before the 21st of April, so don't wait. Send you letter today! Click for address and template.]
Having personally scoured six continents for places to challenge myself in the ocean, it has been the waves of County Clare on the pristine western shores of Ireland that have provided me with the experience and ability for my surfing exploits to put me in situations I could not have dreamt of fifteen years ago. It is this magical string of surfing breaks that have ultimately led to my involvement with Patagonia.
Editor's note: Two world-class waves in Ireland are currently under threat of development and need our voices. Patagonia surf ambassador Tom Doidge-Harrison describes the situation in today's post, and gives you two easy ways to help save the waves.
Sadly, this area may not remain quite so magical for long as two of its keystone breaks, Doolin Point and Crab Island, are currently under threat by a harbour development in Doolin, the heart of Irish surfing.
[Doolin on a clean 10ft SW swell. Crab Island and Doolin Point visible on the right. Crab appears to be holding, while Doolin Point is being washed through and the channel is closing out. I surfed this day, alone. I got one wave at Crab before breaking my nose on a beat down. Photo: Mitch Loan]
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Over the past decade, conservative ideology has come to dominate US domestic policy. Deep budget cuts for the middle class and poor, we are told, are good for America. We are also told that lower taxes for the rich is good for America. But, it seems, the more congress cuts from the working class and gives to the rich, the worse things get.
There is something fundamentally wrong with the entire concept of trickle-down economics. Why would anyone think that giving the wealthy more money benefits anyone but the wealthy?
Yet, Americans have been convinced to support candidates who openly admit that their top priority is to go to Washington, cut government programs, and redistribute more wealth to the already wealthy. For some reason, they think this will somehow make their lives better. But it makes no sense whatsoever. The money the government spends circulates throughout the economy. When that money is cut, the economy shrinks or stagnates.
Those who don't believe that government has the power to shape society and our personal economics are missing a very important point. How and when we are taxed matters. And government programs like college education grants, Social Security and Medicaid, are as important to our economic health as defense spending.
Some 57 million Americans receive Social Security checks every month. They are entitled to these payments because they had money for it deducted from their paychecks while they were working. For the most part, Social Security payments go straight back into the economy every month. They fuel businesses which then create jobs, pay for goods and services, and generate local sales taxes.
The same applies to other government spending. You can't just slash and cut billions in spending and expect nothing bad to happen. Budget cuts effect real people.
In fact, the US government is like massive money distribution machine, taking in taxes and then fanning them out at targeted recipients, whether they be oil companies, billionaires, or programs for low wage workers. And here is where the system is breaking down. The government spending that helped maintain a powerful middle class has shifted its targets from lower incomes to higher ones. Since the rich don't spend their money as freely as everyone else, there is less money circulating and thus a poorer overall economy.
You get what you vote for. And what Americans are saying with their votes is that they want less help paying for college, healthcare, their retirement plans, and just about everything else the government can do to make their lives better, and think billionaires should pay less taxes. If this were not the case, no Republican would ever get elected. This is what they preach, this is what they do, and this is exactly what they will continue to pursue on behalf of the people who fund their election campaigns with multimillion dollar donations.
In short, Americans are using their votes to ensure a lower standard of living for themselves, and are well on their way to achieving their goal.
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LOS ANGELES - The Arizona State University baseball team fell to No. 15 UCLA, 7-3, on Friday night at Jackie Robinson Stadium in Los Angeles.
The Sun Devils (13-11, 3-4) held a 3-1 lead going into the bottom of the second inning after freshman shortstop Colby Woodmansee led off the frame with his first career home run, but ASU was held scoreless for the final seven frames.
Starting left-hander Brett Lilek (3-2) took the loss after he allowed four runs, including three earned, on three hits and three walks in three innings, his shortest outing of the season. Sophomore right-hander Eric Melbostad conceded three runs on seven hits and struck out a pair in four innings of relief and redshirt freshman left-hander Nick Diamond threw a perfect eighth inning.
The Devils took an early two-run lead in the top of the first as they loaded the bases twice and sent eight batters to the plate. Sophomore center fielder Johnny Sewald singled to start the inning, junior second baseman Drew Stankiewicz took a four-pitch walk and junior first baseman Nate Causey knocked a base hit to center field before junior right fielder Jake Peevyhouse's grounder to second base was misplayed by the Bruins to allow both Sewald and Stankiewicz to score. UCLA countered in the bottom half with a leadoff walk and an RBI single by catcher Shane Zeile to pull within one, 2-1.
Woodmansee's solo home run over the left-field wall put ASU back ahead by a pair, 3-1, in the top of the second, but the Bruins struck twice in the bottom of the frame to tie the game at three runs apiece. They loaded the bases with no outs, and used an RBI groundout by shortstop Trent Chatterton and an RBI single by right fielder Christoph Bono to erase its early deficit.
UCLA took its first lead of the game, 4-3, in the bottom of the third on a sacrifice fly to left field by first baseman Pat Gallagher, added another run in the fifth on an RBI single to right field and notched a pair in the seventh on four singles to extend their lead to four.
UCLA starting right-hander James Kaprielian (4-3) struck out 12 in six innings to earn the win. He gave up three runs, including two earned, on six hits and two walks.
The Devils moved to 114-68 all-time against UCLA.
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The address of happiness apparently is just outside Boston, Massachusetts, specifically at the desk of writer David Paul Kirkpatrick. Kirkpatrick is the former Paramount President of Motion Pictures, plus the former Walt Disney Pictures and Touchstone Pictures President of Production. Add author of the lyrical new novella The Address of Happiness to the aforementioned tongue twister, and one forms a partial impression of the philosophical Kirkpatrick.
In an attempt to complete the picture of David Paul Kirkpatrick, the LA Animation Examiner poses a few pointed questions to him about the animation effect in his life and work:
LA ANIMATION EXAMINER: Besides your tenure as President of Production for Walt Disney Pictures and Touchstone Pictures, how has Disney, and Disney animation in particular, influenced your career?
DAVID PAUL KIRKPATRICK: You cannot be exposed to the craft and art of animation, as in my case, Little Mermaid and Lion King, without it rocking your world. Animation brings all of us back to the fundamentals of storytelling - the root, the mono-myth - of which both Joe Campbell and Carl Jung speak.
Animation returns you to childhood. There are heroes, villains, trials, resolutions, and transformations. Animation brings us back to the magic lantern, man's earliest attempts to light a wall with moving imagery. Those magic lantern silhouettes were of images of devils, sorcerers, and ghosts. When you get to the essence of great animation, you come back to the very heartbeat of life.
Pixar is the highest standard of that heartbeat today. One cannot look at the Toy Story franchise or Finding Nemo and not experience its "deep life" running through it.
LAAE: As some readers know, Walt Disney established California Institute of the Arts in 1961. Did your CalArts education encourage an appreciation for animation? How and why?
DPK: I was a child living in a small town in Ohio when I first communicated with Walt Disney. He wrote me a letter, because a little film I made on my backyard jungle gym made him laugh. Walt Disney was dying, and I made him a two-minute film to cheer him up. I edited it with tiny slivers of scotch tape! He wrote me a letter thanking me for making him laugh. Soon after, he passed away.
But in the letter, he said he was starting a school to train animators. The school could be as great as Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This school, however, would be on the West Coast, and it would be the arts, not science. It would be called California Institute of the Arts. It mirrored MIT on many levels.
When CalArts was just a twinkle in Walt Disney's eyes, television was making its authority known. Its programming required a huge amount of content. And Walt Disney's little studio could not keep up with the demand for animation. He started CalArts, so Disney Studios could act as a feeder conduit for animators. Before he died, Walt Disney installed Jules Engel, one of his key animation guys, to run the animation department at CalArts. Jules was one of the forces behind Fantasia.
And Walt Disney's dream came true: artists like Tim Burton, Pee Wee Herman, and Andrew Stanton emerged from CalArts. But the most significant graduate is probably John Lasseter, the founder of Pixar, who is now a top dog at Disney.
I have to say that the little book I just wrote, The Address of Happiness, which deals with love, time, earth and heaven would not have been written had it not been my experience with Jules Engel, Walt Disney and CalArts. If you look at the book, you can see the antecedents of Fantasia throughout The Address of Happiness. Music is a main character in the story, just as it is in Fantasia. Marlene, we all know that everything influences everything else. In fact, the Disney influence on The Address of Happiness is significant.
LAAE: What was the inspiration for your recent creation of the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based MIT Center for Future Storytelling?
DPK: We wanted to examine whether or not long-format storytelling - the two hour theatrical feature - could even survive in "snack culture," the world of bite-size viewing and reading. Our conclusion is that it can!
This is the seminal takeaway from the Center for Future Storytelling: storytelling must be advanced by the artist, not the technologist. James Cameron drove massive changes in film technology, because he needed a morphing, liquid villain for Terminator II; John Lasseter drove changes in the way we look at everything because of his need to push the format. His revolutionary short Tin Toy became the feature Toy Story.
LAAE: Your past is full of animation! Does your future hold any animated projects? If so, please tell all!
DPK: Yes, I am working on a feature project called The Dog. I am doing this in concert with Steven James Taylor, a gifted artist, who was part of the MIT Center for Future Storytelling. The Dog is the story of a family dog, from his birth to his death, almost entirely seen from the dog's perspective. It is also an homage to 100 years of animation, and it lovingly embraces all of the seminal animation touchstones involving animals, from Dumbo, to Bambi, to Finding Nemo.
LAAE: Your passion for mentoring is inspirational. What is your advice for aspiring professional storytellers?
DPK: You must practice, practice, and practice more. What does practice mean in storytelling? Reading the classics, watching the classics, immersing yourself in great storytelling, so that you can cultivate your own original voice. A great storyteller has a unique voice, and you can only become unique by understanding in your gut the work of those who have come before you.
Clearly, Kirkpatrick embraces the residence about which he writes in The Address of Happiness, and spinning tales transports him to the metaphorical street where he lives. To learn more about Kirkpatrick's bliss, go to http://theaddressofhappiness.com/


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Certain prohibitions in Part 10 of the Companies Act 2006 place restrictions on transactions with persons connected to directors. Under section 252 of the Companies Act 2006, a person is connected with a director if they are a member of the director's family (that is, the director's spouse, civil partner, any person with whom the director lives as a partner in an enduring family relationship, a child or stepchild of the director, a child or step-child of a director's partner (if living with the director and under the age of 18), or the director's parents). A company is connected with a director if the director (and persons connected with him) is interested in 20% or more of the equity share capital of the company, or can exercise more than 20% of the voting power at a general meeting of the company. There are similar provisions which serve to connect persons to a director in relation to trusts ( www.practicallaw.com/A37116) set up for the benefit of that director or his family, and in relation to partners of a director.
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Paul's recent piece on defamation in social media – in particular Twitter – has brought home to me the reality of free speech in England: it doesn't exist. What's more, if you're trying to keep on the right side of the law – however much of an ass it may appear (to unpractised eyes) to be – simply aiming to tell the truth isn't enough to work out what you can and what you shouldn't be saying and/or writing. As Paul points out, quite terrifyingly to my way of thinking:
The basic principle is that a statement is defamatory if it substantially affects, in an adverse manner, the attitude of other people to the complainant or has it has a tendency to do so. This definition is very broad ranging so many 'nasty' statements about another person come into the range of potentially defamatory statements. Note there is no need to show that the statement does actually affect what other people think of the complainant: it is enough that the words have a tendency to do that.
The terrifying bit then comes next:
Many true statements about a person are defamatory. So to say of a convicted murderer that he is a murderer is defamatory but true. If you, and you have the burden of proving this, can prove what you said was true then you MAY have a defence available of 'justification'. Can you prove it? See defences below!
It's that MAY that really terrifies me. What kind of a rule of thumb does that prove to be? How, with such an uncertain yardstick to hand, could one ever be sure one wasn't potentially breaking the law? And what implications might this have for democratic discourse in our politics?
Read the rest of his post, if you want to find out more. I've already linked to it on two previous occasions – it's obviously something that, at least in my case, is proving worthy of cogitation.
And to boot, this is clearly one case where the virtual world is toughening up on the real world. Throwaway language in a pub over a pint will have generated far worse things than the last month has thrown up on Twitter here in Britain. Yet I don't see too many such drinking chums finding themselves the object of the beady gaze of legal eagles looking to extract their pound of flesh – or wad of compensatory cash.
As I said some months ago, part of the problem may be Twitter's own business model (the bold is mine, today):
[…] It seems to me that the big issue with Twitter and the law lies precisely in a question of framing. And the framing has been done by agencies quite outside the common populace. So whilst we suffer the consequences of the confusion thus engendered, we really are not to blame for overstepping the multitude of marks.
Twitter, Facebook and all the rest set up their stalls with the idea that the casual throwaway over-the-garden-fence kind of conversation could be replicated online with virtual tools. Most of us thought, when we ventured onto such terrain, that we would have the freedom to extend our local village globally. The rules would remain the same – the right to irreverent, racist, sexist and beyond-the-pale remarks would continue to be a par for the course.
What we didn't realise at all was that our ephemeral occurrences were actually part of Twitter and Facebook's business models. There was absolutely no intention for the ephemeral to be treated as such.
We were indeed, long-term, the product not the customer.
These were not – as we had been led to believe – tools the common man and woman would use to exchange peer-to-peer information in the comfort of their privacy settings but, instead, tools the advertisers would use to communicate their latest sales pitches: tools which allowed such advertisers to get to know us so precisely that even our deepest prejudices would be laid bare for them to press the appropriate buttons.
So no wonder we're getting it all so very wrong – and feeling unhappy as a result. Twitter and Facebook are actually as resilient and permanent as an interrogation and signed interview sheet at your local police station.
As a result of this fundamental and conceptual confusion, then, deliberately perpetuated by the creators of the software constitutions in question, more and more ordinary people are going to find themselves at the very business end of double-barrelled legalese. In truth, if we examine a little more closely the subject of defamation under English law, we suddenly realise that the democratic state we thought we lived in is heavily weighted in favour of those who have mighty reputations to protect (the bold is mine):
English law allows actions for libel to be brought in the High Court for any published statements which are alleged to defame a named or identifiable individual (or individuals) in a manner which causes them loss in their trade or profession, or causes a reasonable person to think worse of him, her or them. Allowable defences are justification (i.e. the truth of the statement), fair comment (i.e. whether the statement was a view that a reasonable person could have held), and privilege (i.e. whether the statements were made in Parliament or in court, or whether they were fair reports of allegations in the public interest). An offer of amends is a barrier to litigation. A defamatory statement is presumed to be false, unless the defendant can prove its truth. Furthermore, to collect compensatory damages, a public official or public figure must prove actual malice (knowing falsity or reckless disregard for the truth). A private individual must only prove negligence (not exercising due care) to collect compensatory damages. In order to collect punitive damages, all individuals must prove actual malice.
English defamation law puts the burden of proof on the defendant, rather than the plaintiff, and is considered an impediment to free speech in much of the developed world. In many cases of libel tourism, plaintiffs sue in England to censor critical works when their home countries would reject the case outright. In the United States, the 2010 SPEECH Act makes foreign libel judgements unenforceable in US courts if they don't comply with US free speech law, largely in response to the English laws.[1]
To be honest, I never realised my homeland was quite so unfree. I never realised that any defendant could be considered guilty until proven innocent. I never realised that in what is the essence of a healthy democracy, the figure of fair comment could have such a stony ground of burdensome proof for those who are accused and considered automatically culpable until proven otherwise.
Little is left us, it would seem, as the veils of self-delusion fall from our eyes. I thought I lived in a country where everyone was nominally equal.
I do not get that feeling any more.
The only freedom, perhaps, that we now share altogether is the freedom to self-censor our public thoughts as we begin to remake our own shaky reputations.
Google, Facebook, Twitter and a whole host of social media tools have encouraged us quite aggressively over the past decade, with their most specific and intentioned software constitutions, to reveal and bare our innermost thoughts as they occur to us, reveal themselves to us and struggle to emerge.
English law, it would seem, will now begin to roll all that back.
What an awfully confusing world this has become for anyone trying to engage with their democracy.
Especially for those who try and do it with any kind of integrity.
In the light of encroaching libel actions various, and as a final thought tonight – that is to say, in a Columbo-esque parting shot kind of way! – maybe we should begin to conceptualise the idea of a huge class action against those social media corporations I've mentioned: corporations which sold us their social media tools as ephemeral expressions of our least careful thoughts – and yet did so with the ever-present intention to use them quite permanently. That people can now arguably be accused of libel and defamation is in part – just as arguably – due to these two-faced software environments. After all, if you deliberately encourage and make it attractive for people to republish or "like" the wildest assertions at the click of button, you are – are you not? – in some way to blame for the consequent behaviours.
You chose what to allow or not to allow when you defined your software objectives.
Shouldn't those who create a virtual environment from scratch also take some degree of ownership for the activities that take place as a result? It would, after all, be so easy to program in a pop-up screen which warned any tweeter of the potential legal dangers of a particular text in a particular legal jurisdiction. For as we have all been rather aggressively reminded over the past fortnight or so, content is being automatically monitored on behalf of plaintiffs-in-waiting. Which begs the question: if that can be done by content-scraping organisations on behalf of their own clients, why can't Twitter, Facebook, Google and the like engineer into their systems similar support – but at a preventative level which would serve to avoid any problems in the first place?
That they've chosen not to, for very clear business rationales (my opinion there, asserted out of very good faith!), surely makes them a degree more responsible for this mess we've beginning to find ourselves in.
At least, to the extent that they haven't done quite as much as they easily could have done to ameliorate a predictably complex set of social circumstances.
Given that the above-mentioned corporations are all nominally American in approach, mentality and ways of thinking, if nothing else this all goes to show us how difficult and challenging it can be to transplant at a global and online level behaviours which other legal jurisdictions take for granted.
I always thought when we spoke of oppressing freedom of speech that we were talking about developing countries in the Third World.
I now realise that there is a reason people call the United States the "Land of the Free". In many freedoms, they do clearly fall down on what their people deserve. But in speaking their minds, they clearly do not.
We here in England have a lot to learn.
Too much for us to properly learn it in my lifetime, I fear.


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In 1975 she got her big break on television with the BBC sitcom The Good Life, in which Kendal and Richard Briers played Tom and Barbara Good, a middle-class couple who decide to quit the rat-race and become self-sufficient, much to the consternation of their snooty, but well-meaning neighbours, played by Penelope Keith and Paul Eddington. When the series ended in 1978, she starred in several other BBC sitcoms, including Solo, The Mistress and Honey for Tea, but none were as successful.
Kendal's stage career blossomed during the 1980s and 1990s when she formed a close professional association with Sir Tom Stoppard, starring in the first productions of many of his plays, including The Real Thing (1982), Hapgood (1988), Arcadia (1993), and Indian Ink (1995). In 2002 Kendal starred in Charlotte Jones's play Humble Boy when it transferred from the National Theatre to the West End. In 2006 she starred in the West End play Amy's View by David Hare.
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