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ABSTRACT: Learner attitudes and motivation have a significant influence on learning outcome. There is little literature exploring this in simulation based learning. This presentation reports a qualitative research study which reveals the relationship between motivation, relevance and realism in simulation based medical education. A deeper understanding of these factors will inform course designers as they consider both the processes of simulation based learning as well as seeking robust evidence for effectiveness. Seven group interviews were carried out with doctors from a range of medical specialty and career stages. A thematic analysis identified key themes which emerged in relation to learner motivation. A significant finding was the importance participants placed on realism in their motivation, closely related to their perception of relevance. Participants describe physical, semantical and phenomenal realism as important in their intention to participate in simulation based learning. Participants described motivating factors such as opportunity for deliberate practise, the provision of good quality feedback, the opportunity for team-working and self-observation. An interesting finding was that participants described de-motivating factors to engagement such as such as peer scrutiny and fear of embarrassment: "I don't want to look like an idiot".
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Paul Stone and Patrick Krolick never planned on selling pizzas--they wanted to open a sub shop--but Andrew Jenkins talked them into selling both. Jenkins owned DJ's Pizza on Packard near Platt, a business that had been in his family since 1968, and when he heard Stone and Krolick wanted to open a sub shop, he convinced them that pizza plus subs was the way to go. Stone and Krolick bought DJ's in June, changed the name to City's Pizza & Subs, and opened for business in July.
Krolick, forty-one, and Stone, thirty-nine, know Jenkins from way back. DJ's was next door to Banfield's Bar and Grill, where Krolick worked as a bartender and manager from 1990 to 1999 before leaving to work for Fastenal, a national distributor of construction and industrial supplies. Stone worked at Banfield's in the same capacity from 1993 until this spring. All three were friends (Stone and Krolick met in the sixth grade), so they had no reservations about doing business together. And Jenkins' business philosophy dovetailed with that of his two friends, both of whom studied business in college, with Krolick going on to get his MBA.
"DJ's was a family business," Krolick says. "[Andrew] wanted to keep that kind of mentality. And certainly that's our goal, to keep it more of a traditional family kind of pizzeria and sub shop. We're both Ann Arbor kids. Our families are from the area. And we really want to grow the business around Ann Arbor, keep that kind of hometown feel to it."
Andrew's dad, Dean Jenkins, opened what was originally a Domino's Pizza franchise in 1967, but he left Domino's a year later and renamed it DJ's, after his own initials. And while Andrew, forty-seven, didn't buy out his dad until 2000, he grew up in the business. "I worked here...half my life," he says. "I started at five years old." This year, he was finally ready to sell the business and retire. He says
he had three or four interested buyers, but he approached Stone and Krolick because they "had the go and the best chance at continuing at what we sold at DJ's Pizza."
Stone and Krolick are using all of the Jenkinses' original pizza recipes, from the sauce to the dough, both made fresh daily on the premises. But they're adding a selection of cold subs made with fresh deli meats and cheeses--DJ's sold only oven-baked subs. "We want to be not only a great pizza place, but a great sub shop," Krolick says. "You can't eat pizza all the time."
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There are two significant exceptions to the city-themed names. The Stoney, a ham, roast beef, turkey, and provolone cheese sub, is named after Stone, because that's his favorite. Krolick also has a namesake sandwich: the Krodaddy, a roast beef and provolone sub with white horseradish sauce. City's also offers salads, chicken wings, and other appetizers. It seats half a dozen, but most people call and order for pickup or delivery.
Stone is excited about their new venture. "I grew up in the neighborhood around here, just about a mile down the street," he says. "This was my parents' and my neighborhood pizza. Fridays we'd come up here and get a DJ's pizza. It's come full circle. I'd never have thought when I was six, seven years old coming up here to get a pizza. I'd own the exact same pizzeria." He laughs. "Go figure."
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There is now a very real chance this matter will have to go to the courts to be resolved and Cricket Australia (CA) is likely to be called to answer questions about its involvement.
Ritchie, who is represented by fellow former Test player Bruce Francis, has been shocked by the fallout from his apparent ban from speaking at Cricket Australia functions.
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The saga started after a South African journalist, Telford Vice, described one of three speeches Ritchie gave in the time surrounding the Brisbane Test as 'a racist rant' because Ritchie retold an old anecdote from the 1980s involving Kepler Wessels, which involved the word 'kaffir'.
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Downloading music for free sounds fine, he says. But this means musicians do not get paid. That is why digital rights are so important. He says he has not produced the last word on policy on this yet.
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simon hayes budgenhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-3889194365210287012016-08-29T13:17:00.001+00:002016-08-29T13:17:35.661+00:00The X Factor - it's like a total amateur contestThe X-Factor. It's back, apparently. And busily giving a leg-up to acts who wouldn't stand a chance going through normal channels.

A group called Yes Lad did well in the opening weekend of the season.

I don't know this because I watched it - I know it because their, erm, agents sent me an email to tell me.

Two things.

First: what the hell is a group in a singing contest doing with agents already?

Secondly: Yes Lad isn't the name of a band. It sounds like a rejected Arthur Mullard catchphrase.

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Following on from Edsel's Deluxe CD releases on 16th September, Demon Records will release a special 20th Anniversary Edition of Marion's debut album 'This World and Body' on 180g Red Vinyl on 4th November 2016, which is now available to pre-order."
I'm not sure the best place to plug your reissues is a post about your lead singer being incarcerated because he burned his girlfriend's clothes when she refused to answer his calls, but I suppose more people will have visited the Marion website as a result of this news than would have come in the last year.

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We were worrying over nothing, I'm sure.

It'll all be going swimmingly:

It was supposed to be Eurovision's big announcement about exactly where next year's contest will be, but it went a bit wrong.

The 2017 competition is in Ukraine but the host city is yet to be decided.

Fans were told it would be revealed on Youtube Live at 2pm, Thursday, but it didn't happen.

Eurovision organisers said they needed to cancel until further notice and there was no immediate explanation as to what was going on.
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"I remember I used to date this movie star in the '90s and we were listening to KROQ," she continued. "Of six songs in a row, five of them were about me. I told him that, and he was, 'No, they aren't!' I was, 'Yeah, they are. I dated every one of those guys, dude.' He was like, 'You're such a slut!'"
You'd hope at this point that Courtney kicked the "movie star" in the nuts at the suggestion that having had a lot of songs written about her was "slutty"; the only thing you can really say it proves is that Love has a type.

But this is the 1990s, which wasn't the happiest of times for Courtney, so it's possible she's misremembering the story, or - perhaps more plausibly - that she's remembering something she thought happened. It's possible she was playing a Hole CD when this happened rather than listening to the radio.

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Shrewed move, making the promise for the start of a Bank Holiday Weekend...

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In the midst of the current leadership election, the party is beset by the political version of Do You Remember Bagpuss - purges, entryism, jokes about Derek Hatton's suits. I'm half expecting to switch on the Ten O'Clock News to catch a package where Jamie Theakston, Kate Thornton and Stuart Maconie try to remember the lyrics to The Red Flag.

Ah, but purges are awkward things, and apparently a Labour Party member has been suspended for the oddest of reasons. At least according to the Daily Mail:

Labour has suspended a new member from the party and denied a vote in the leadership election after she posted about her love of rock band Foo Fighters on Facebook.

Catherine Starr, a supporter of Jeremy Corbyn, was shocked to receive a letter from the party's General Secretary Iain McNicol telling her that following a vetting procedure she was being refused full membership as she had 'shared inappropriate content on Facebook'.

It said this related to a post on March 5 when she had shared a clip of Dave Grohl's band and wrote 'I f****** love the Foo Fighters'.
We should approach this all with a level of caution - we're living in a weird period of politics where you can't even trust an old man sitting in a vestibule, and this is the Daily Mail whose last honest piece of reporting on the Labour Party was "Kinnock resigns".

To be honest, it's not clear that Starr was suspended over a Foo Fighters post - the Mail does concede she'd been sharing other prime content that day:

That day Mrs Starr, 33, had also shared a friend's inoffensive poster about animal free cosmetics and a cartoon about veganism.
You know how much the Mail loves animal rights, right?

It is possible that the NEC has some ongoing beef with the Foo Fighters. Or maybe they see "Foo Fighters" as some sort of code for those who have recently joined the Labour Party for nefarious purposes.

It's much more likely that a party which has raised the bar on disarray to a level which would be offputting to Ekateríni Stefanídi have made an honest mis... okay, a dishonest mistake. They probably got the day of the offending post wrong, or the name of the offending poster wrong, or maybe confused the Foo Fighters and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.

The party hasn't responded to the story yet, but almost certainly will deny it, admit it but say the details are wrong, look crossly over its spectacles at us, and pretend to never have heard of the Foo Fighters. All at the same time.

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simon hayes budgenhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-73059043017800645712016-08-21T10:13:00.000+00:002016-08-21T10:13:18.437+00:00Svenagliobit: Lou PearlmanHere's a sentence that might bring you up short:

Figures from the pop music world have paid tribute to Lou Pearlman, the founder of Backstreet Boys and Nsync, who has died in prison aged 62 while serving a 25-year sentence for a $300m (£229m) fraud.
Yes, the death of Lou Pearlman, without whom we'd not have had Backstreet Boys on NSYNC, has got those who owe him everything trying to thank him while not upsetting those from whom he took everything.

The Nsync singer Lance Bass tweeted: "Word is that #LouPearlman has passed away. He might not have been a stand up businessman, but I wouldn't be doing what I love today without his influence. RIP Lou."

The US singer Aaron Carter also paid his respects on Twitter:

#LouPearlman my old manager died in prison... Rip Lou not the best business guy really at all but he did discover me karma is real
"Not the best business guy" is how you'd describe someone who tries to sell hamburgers at a vegan festival. Pearlman was a disgraceful con merchant - and even Bass' "not a stand-up business man" doesn't really come close to how huge his deception was:

According to the Florida Office of Financial Regulation, at the time of Pearlman's investigation he owed his investors $96 million, but had less than $15,000 in the bank. The investigation found that Pearlman's records neglected to show the more than $38 million he had withdrawn for himself and his companies.
You can see why Bass - one of the minority of people who shook Pearlman's hand and came away with the same number of fingers he started with - would be trying to look on the positive.

He ended up in such disgrace that when the Hollywood Review met with Pearlman in jail, you could hear Simon Cowell walking away backwards from a claim to kinship:

So yes, he is well aware of record-breaking pop juggernaut One Direction and boasts, "I know if I was out there, we'd give One Direction a run for their money." He reminisces about his "friendly rivalry" in the '90s with that band's puppeteer, Simon Cowell. (Responds a spokesperson for Cowell: "Simon hardly knows him. They were only ever introduced once, and there wasn't any kind of friendly rivalry.")
And that's before you even get to the rumours of sexual abuse, most deeply investigated by Vanity Fair in 2007:

In the November issue of Vanity Fair, Pearlman, for the first time publicly, is described by several former singers, aspiring singers and their parents as a lecher, who used the same deceptive charms to cop cheap feels off teenage boys as he did to allegedly bilk 1,400 investors out of more than $300 million.
Talking to The Hollywood Reporter from prison, Pearlman offered a watertight defence:

He adds that fellow inmates have come to know the real Pearlman through the years and never hassle him about the molestation charges: "They realize that none of that can be true."
'The guys on B Wing don't think I'm a nonce, so how could I be?'

The only trouble with this is that while he's saying he's not a sexual abuser, he also denies having run a ponzi scheme too. In fact, the only thing faster than Simon Cowell trying to distance himself from Pearlman is Pearlman trying to distance himself from the likes of Bernie Madoff. Pearlman insists that he was different because he had a way of making money to repay those he fleeced.

Which is puzzling, as a lot of people invested in a fleet of airplanes which turned out to exist solely as photos in a glossy booklet.

Lou Pearlman was 62. He'd been due to stay inside until 2029.

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simon hayes budgenhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-74087560153163327172016-08-20T11:35:00.002+00:002016-08-20T11:35:20.371+00:00Standon ordersLast month was Standon Calling, and we went to the first day.

There's a bit of a problem, though.

Not with the festival itself - well programmed, lovely location, friendly staff. The Hives were an amazing amount of fun, and they goaded Suede on to giving a brilliant performance.

The problem, though, is with the cashless nature of the festival.

Your wristband becomes your wallet; once inside the festival ground all transactions flow through the little RFID chip on your arm.

I can see the attractions - you don't have to worry about accidentally dropping all your cash into an unpleasant toilet; you shouldn't have your money pinched; it makes waiting behind people as they fumble in their pocket for a card that hasn't been maxed out a thing in the past.

The trouble is, this is a bit of a fiction: unless you're turning up at the festival, Lenin-style, in a sealed train, you're still going to need to have cash and cards on you to buy pasties and petrol en route.

And while removing the payment point as a potential focus for clusterfucks developing, that's not really the cause of slow moving queues at festivals. Sure, paying is a breeze, but you still have to wait ten minutes for a coffee between bands while a family of ten take their time choosing between three types of waffle topping.

There's also something a little philosophically worrying about the idea that you're entering a place where every piece of business transacted on the site is channelled through the hosts.

In action, though, it definitely worked - "here, you have given me a tub of delicious macaroni cheese, in return point your little device at my wrist" is a pleasingly friction-free transaction.

The background organisation, though, wasn't as friction-free.

First, there's the problem of having to preload the wristband. This has to be done in advance, which means I'm having to surrender the liquidity in that amount to Standon.

In other words, the cash that gets locked into the wristband is no longer available to me to spend as I wish - if between preloading and the festival day, I need to suddenly purchase a papermaiche swan with that money, I am unable to.

This might sound like the sort of point that barely matters outside of GCSE economics, but it's important because attendees have no choice but to take part in this scheme.

There's a structural problem, too, of knowing how much to put on the wristband. You don't want to overload it - because you're losing that liquidity - but you also want to have enough to ensure that you're not going to have to face queues at the places in the festival where you can add more money to the band. (Yeah, you can do that - apparently, although the festival is totally cashless, there are sheds where sterling somehow still works.)

We were going for a day, and figured that between the pair of us we'd probably spend about thirty quid. (I've more or less stopped drinking alcohol, and try to avoid buying 'stuff' that is going to need to be carried in the front row. Also, I'm incredibly cheap.)

Here's a problem, though - if we were using money, or cards linked to our joint accounts, it's not a problem if one of us bobs to the bar or the macaroni cheese stall to get food or drink. That notional money flows easily between us. Not so with wristbands, where the money is linked to our actual physical presence. I can't say 'go get yourself a drink at the bar', I have to be at the bar to buy you a drink.

Still, at least you can have a decent stab at preloading the amount you need, right?

Not so much.

Because you preload in £25 increments.

Somehow, a system which allows you to pay £1.50 for a cup of coffee without a problem doesn't allow you to decide exactly how much you wish to spend.

Between the two of us, then, we're expecting to spend about thirty quid on the day. But we're forced to hand over fifty to Standon, in advance, to hold.

What if you underestimate what you load? Well, yes, you can go to the queues to top up - awkward if you're halfway through buying a pizza when you realise you're out of funds.

Helpfully, though, there's an autotop up facility. When you preload, you can choose to allow the organisers to notice when you are low on wristband cash, and take a fresh payment to allow you to carry on spending.

The minimum amount you can allow this to happen with is twenty quid; but you can choose an option to allow sixty quid a time to be moved from your bank outside the site, onto your wrist. To sweeten the deal, if you click on this option, Standon will give you money to spend in the bar.

And if you're as cynical as I am, you'll be thinking "when people are bribing you with beer to do something, that's got to be something you're not going to want to do, right?"

You're allowing a business to dip into your bank account or credit card and help itself to money at will.

But why would that be a problem?

Everything's regulated by terms and conditions, isn't it?

This is where it gets really murky. There is a link on the page about cashless on the Standon website to terms and conditions, and when you hand the cash over, you have to agree to those t&cs.

Trouble is, the terms and conditions are useless. (I've saved a copy of them for when the website changes.)

They're terms about the ticket registration, not about the cashless transactions. Sure, they're mentioned:

Cashless payment service (see further under 4.3.1.)
There is no clause 4.3.1, and section 4 is about intellectual property, not cashless transactions.

Amusingly, the intellectual property clause forbids saving any content from the website - which, in effect, bars you from saving a copy of the terms and conditions you've signed up to for future reference.

When I asked about the cashless terms and conditions, Standon pointed me back to the page that pointed at the pdf:

@norock full terms and conditions link from https://t.co/Dg2GKqBRKF relate to the cashless system at Standon Calling 2016
— Standon Calling (@StandonCalling) July 28, 2016

Except the pdf expressly says that it doesn't:

The present Terms of Service govern the use of the website [www.standon-calling.com] and all of its sub-sites (hereinafter "Website"), housing that "online ticket registration service". The present Terms of Service do not govern the RFID-services themselves, that may be subject of specific terms and conditions as determined by Standon Calling and / or third parties.

No explanation of who is holding your money, or where it is. No rights to reclaim. No indication of how much all the infrastructure is costing, or any fees levied on transactions. If I have a dispute with a trader, do I take it up with them or with Standon, or the PlayPass company who is running the system? What happens when the festival is over and I want my unspent money back?

It's pretty shabby way of handling people's money. And with 10,000 people attending, even if they're all as cautious as me and only load the barest minimum amount, that's quarter of a million quid we're talking about, being put somewhere, with no proper contract. The truth is, there's going to be a lot more cash involved.

And what of the unspent money? Inevitably, this is a circus, too.

Although your wristband is linked to your account, and your account is linked to the bank which you used to load the wristband with, and they've managed to track your transactions as you move around the site, somehow this data falls apart when you leave the site.

You have to reclaim the money. Rather than it being returned automatically.

And you can't reclaim it as soon as you're done. You have to wait.

Then you fill in a form, and wait again.

And... inevitably, eleven days after putting in a request for my own money to be given back to me, in comes an email:

Hi Everyone,

Alex here, Founder and Director of Standon Calling festival.

As you may know it is now fourteen days since we launched refund requests for any outstanding balance on your 2016 festival wristband.

We had hoped to begin payments today. Unfortunately, and with regret, this timeline has had to change. We will now process all requested refund payments by Friday 26th August.

I would like to offer my sincere apologies to those awaiting their refund. I understand this has been a frustrating process.

Overwhelmingly, feedback on the 2016 cashless experience at the festival has been positive. It is a shame then for you to experience this delay on your refunds.

Be assured we are working with Barclays to process refunds as efficiently as possible. We have learnt lessons from this experience and I am committed to an improved refund system in 2017.
Assuming that this new timetable is stuck to, that's a month after the festival. Four weeks to get back money that you had no choice but to pass to Standon on trust.

It would have been nice for some sort of explanation as to why there's this delay - there didn't seem to be a problem with the system when it was being used to turn wristbands into gin at the bar and - presumably - the cash was being held in a separate, secure account and not just sloshing about in the general Standon accounts, right? Right?

If only there were some terms and conditions governing this, but - that's right - there weren't any.

Now, it's only a few quid, and I'm not exactly sweating on it. But there's a principle here, that Standon are telling customers they're going to look after money for them, that it's a better experience - and then when asked to stump up the refunds, they're patting their pockets like Terry-Thomas when the restaurant bill comes round.

When I started going to festivals, I was at a time in my life when a shopping trip meant adding every penny in a running tally in my head. The ticket was a luxury, but I figured that the experience was worth it and if it meant a couple of weeks on No Frills beans, that'd be fine.

If getting home I discovered that the money I needed to buy the beans, though, was being held for no apparent reason in the account of the organisers, I think I'd have the right to be very pissed off indeed.

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simon hayes budgenhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-31399337150859488282016-07-31T11:13:00.002+00:002016-07-31T11:13:39.740+00:00This week just goneThe most-read July stories:

1. Lily Allen's barbecue chums
2. Louise Mensch turns the Bataclan into terrorporn
3. The entitlement of Bring Me The Horizon
4. Bookmarks: Bow Wow Wow
5. RIP: Alan Vega
6. Franz Ferdinand lose a member
7. Viv Albertine unerases the punk women
8. Pop papers: The NME has a cause
9. Bob Geldof doesn't like your trousers
10. The Rolling Stones don't like Trump either

These were out last week:

Martha - Blisters In The Pit Of My Heart

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Lou Rhodes - theyesandeye

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Faun Fables - Born Of The Sun

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"Hang about... why are we paying Keith double?"

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"Keith, we're not going to make you leave the band. But..."

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simon hayes budgenhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-44586388240398104022016-07-24T11:41:00.000+00:002016-07-24T11:41:04.320+00:00This week just goneLast week's interesting releases:

Jack & Amanda Palmer - You Got Me Singing

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Nonkeen - Oddments Of The Gamble

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Various - Eleven Into Fifteen

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simon hayes budgenhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-21526340855767967912016-07-22T17:33:00.002+00:002016-07-22T17:33:37.236+00:00The Stones distance themselves from TrumpYou can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes
You might just find
You've used something you had no right to in the first place

The Rolling Stones do not endorse Donald Trump. You Can't Always Get What You Want was used without the band's permission.
— The Rolling Stones (@RollingStones) July 22, 2016

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simon hayes budgenhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-11863426309375771392016-07-22T17:32:00.000+00:002016-07-22T17:32:06.798+00:00What the pop papers say: New life through BrexitYeah, we've all been wondering what the point of the NME actually is since it went free - but, over the last couple of weeks, it's started to look like the magazine might have found a purpose.

Unfortunately, it's the decision to leave Europe taken in the referendum. Obviously, given a choice between the death of the NME and the death of the European Dream, we'd plump for saving the one with the Ode To Joy soundtrack over the one parping out the Be Here Now re-release.

Still, it's great to see the NME with a little fire back in its belly. This week's issue is part-cri de cœur, part call to arms - a how-to-cope with the new reality. The advice is, to be honest, the sort of thing that Tumblr users have been sharing for the last month anyway - join a party; "trust your generation", write to your MP. The NME isn't suggesting we build barricades or stockpile molotovs.

In fact, it genuinely suggests sorting out your saving account and thinking about getting together a deposit for a house.

And if that isn't enough to give the sense that this is your Dad trying to help you out, there's the way the issue is presented: The cover line is "Anarchy In The UK".

It's a coverline that doesn't make any sense in its own right - why would a magazine talking about anarchy be promoting savings accounts and political party memberships?

But worse, it's slapping a lazy, Summer of '77 model onto 2016. Is that really the best we can do? The answer to Farage and May is Rotten and McClaren? It's not like the NME responded to the rise of Thatcher with calls for a revival of the Blitz spirit, although the time gap is the same.

So, yes: two cheers that the NME has got a cause, and that it's fighting a good fight. But what it desperately lacks is a way to connect cause to culture. If it can find whatever The Clash would be if they formed this year, it might come together.

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simon hayes budgenhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-36869543580846400442016-07-22T16:46:00.002+00:002016-07-22T16:46:48.448+00:00Bob Geldof doesn't like your clothesBob Geldof. Remember when he was a punk?

He almost certainly doesn't.

Bob Geldof upset fans at a festival when he launched into a rant about Brexit and wearing clothes from Primark.https://t.co/E4QZHcPmX7
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) July 22, 2016

There's something touching about Bob Geldof, a 64 year-old multimillionaire, instructing people how they should dress for a "rock and roll concert", as if he was Billy Fury in his pomp.

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simon hayes budgenhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-69759200615599048252016-07-17T09:56:00.001+00:002016-07-17T09:56:42.860+00:00Suicideobit: Alan VegaAs 2016 continues to cut a swathe through the talented, another name to add to the list: Alan Vega has died.

The family issued a statement via Henry Rollins' website. Which is way more stylish than announcing it via Facebook:

Hello. Henry here. I am afraid I have some unfortunate news. Below is the family approved statement.

We will have a special show tomorrow on KCRW, celebrating the great man's work. Thank you for reading and thank you for respecting the family's privacy at this difficult time.

July 17 1618 Hrs. PST

With profound sadness and a stillness that only news like this can bring, we regret to inform you that the great artist and creative force, Alan Vega has passed away.

Alan passed peacefully in his sleep last night, July 16. He was 78 years of age.

Alan was not only relentlessly creative, writing music and painting until the end, he was also startlingly unique. Along with Martin Rev, in the early 1970's, they formed the two person avant band known as Suicide. Almost immediately, their incredible and unclassifiable music went against every possible grain. Their confrontational live performances, light-years before Punk Rock, are the stuff of legend. Their first, self-titled album is one of the single most challenging and noteworthy achievements in American music.

Alan Vega was the quintessential artist on every imaginable level. His entire life was devoted to outputting what his vision commanded of him.

One of the greatest aspects of Alan Vega was his unflinching adherence to the demands of his art. He only did what he wanted. Simply put, he lived to create. After decades of constant output, the world seemed to catch up with Alan and he was acknowledged as the groundbreaking creative individual he had been from the very start.

Alan's life is a lesson of what it is to truly live for art. The work, the incredible amount of time required, the courage to keep seeing it and the strength to bring it forth—this was Alan Vega.

Alan is survived by his amazing family, wife Liz and son Dante. His incredible body of work, spanning five decades, will be with us forever.
Last year, Rollins, Vega and Martin Rev took part in an In Conversation event, where the time Suicide played with The Clash in Glasgow came up:

MR: The Clash was a riot every single night and that was straight after supporting Elvis Costello, which was also a riot every single night on the continent. But The Clash was a UK tour, the climax of which was Glasgow. And, as probably many of you know - or know from your parents - at that point Glasgow was one of the poorest cities in the world, if not the poorest. They said, 'If you can survive Glasgow, you can survive anything' and they were right. It was a riot. Hatchets were thrown.

AV: It's true!

MR: We found it embedded in a bass drum; an actual hatchet. A fucking axe head.

AV: They threw an axe at me! They threw an axe at me!

Elizabeth Lamere: And nobody believed you… [LAUGHS]

MR: The money that was thrown could be lethal, too. For the guys who cleaned up afterwards it was pretty good though…

AV: See, we started with The Specials. Two bands opened on that Clash tour. I liked them by the way... they were all fucked up [LAUGHS]. They were great, really great. So they got The Specials and then out comes Suicide and it was 'BOOOO!!! BOOOOO!!!' We got booed to shit and had to work our way up from there… upwards, or sideways or downwards. I don't even know. And The Clash were great and always on the drum riser before the show. I loved them.

MR: But you have to remember that The Clash got the same thing. It was the height of punk, so to show your affection you used to spit and throw things. The Clash went on and if you were watching the band - and that was the band that everybody had paid to see - you saw all kinds of shit. And Glasgow was hardcore. Very serious.

AV: But at the front was a bunch of fucking Nazis. Every kind of available filth in the world. And at the back were the poor guys who liked rock & roll and they were exquisite. Go to the back!

MR: And they were fighting each other. The punks, the nazis and the skinheads. They all had their own personal thing. The only unifying factor was that they all hated us.
Here's the band playing without a hail of phlegm and tanners. Wonderfully, it's not clear exactly when and the poster doesn't seem sure if its CBGBs or Max's in Kansas City.

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simon hayes budgenhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-21076807973799254252016-07-17T09:44:00.003+00:002016-07-17T09:44:53.815+00:00This week just goneOut a week ago now:

The Julie Ruin - Hit Reset

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Shura - Nothing's Real

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Roisin Murphy - Take Her Up To Monto

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Avalanches - Wildflower

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The Amorettes - White Hot Heat

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simon hayes budgenhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-17930690024958086922016-07-16T10:20:00.001+00:002016-07-16T10:34:02.168+00:00Bookmarks: Bow Wow WowLouder Than Bombs has caught up with Annabella Lwin, who you'll recall as the thirteen year-old McLaren bounced to the front of Bow Wow Wow:

Well I tweet here and there…I don't know if I'm an official tweeter. I'm excited to be part of a new generation. A lot has changed obviously. It's a good thing. It just keeps evolving. There's an old saying, I don't know where it came from, but it's "Don't put your daughter on the stage Mrs. Worthington", and that's when i kind of realized what that meant, through all these years. going from being a novice, to being in a band, to doing what I do now actually.

It definitely is not what it used to be when I started out. I think it's become more homogenized. I don't know if music is going to get better or worse, let's put it that way. Everybody's doing music in their living room now. The Reality TV world, they tried to look behind the door like "The Wizard of Oz", but it's a bit of a disappointment, isn't it?

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simon hayes budgenhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-8724389744691801262016-07-16T10:20:00.000+00:002016-07-16T10:24:25.242+00:00Punk's not dicks: Viv Albertine unerases the womenThere's a punk exhibition at the British Library right now. You might think it perhaps curious that an anti-establishment movement is being celebrated by the establishment, but the process of assimilation has ensured that a familiar narrative has been smoothed over the spikes of punk.

Not least that women have been dropped from the narrative. Viv Albertine - at the library for an event to mark the exhibition - wasn't having that...

At her talk last night @viv_albertine was so incensed at the exhibition signage's female erasure she amended it 👌👏 pic.twitter.com/x0LD2uem7F
— Gareth Ware (@musicismyradar) July 15, 2016

Update: it turns out it wasn't Viv who did it:

@laurasnapes actually she didn't: a young woman came up to us and announced she'd done it
— Jon Savage (@JonSavage1966) July 16, 2016

Update: it turns out it was Viv who did it:

@JonSavage1966 @laurasnapes - I did do it
— Viv Albertine (@viv_albertine) July 16, 2016

So, erm, hope that's clear.

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simon hayes budgenhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-73656257671365273282016-07-16T10:13:00.002+00:002016-07-16T10:13:38.760+00:00Bookmarks: Simon ScottHeadphone Commute have caught up with sound artist (and Slowdive drummer) Simon Scott, and takes a peek at his kit:

Can you please share some aspects of sound design in your work?
I always begin by using a field recordings to compose and create. Since 2010 it's been consistently The Fens in Cambridgeshire where I'm surrounded by a subterranean landscape that fascinates me, and I generally work with these audio segments in MaxMSP. It's endless in terms of compositional possibility so I've stuck to The Fens as a sound source and I actually don't want too many options so I haven't started using some of my field recordings from further afield yet. Right now I like the framework I've built for myself in Max and the limitations of just using environmental recordings from my small corner of the world, but I sometimes do need to simply just compose if I am working on a score or other project that isn't a solo record.

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simon hayes budgenhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-21076498002477186282016-07-16T10:11:00.000+00:002016-07-16T10:11:05.581+00:00Buskers beat the Metro banBusker in Washington, DC, have had a tough time of it in the last couple of years. Transit police have been moving them on from their pitches with more-than-required firmness.

Also more than legal firmness, too. Alex Young had already faced down the Metro transit authority and had the courts put a stop to the practice; this week he went back to court and won his costs. Which by that time, had got up to USD50,000.

The Metro had made things worse for themselves by trying to argue down the costs:

Jeffrey Louis Light, a private civil rights attorney who represented Young in conjunction with the Rutherford Institute, a Charlottesville group that advocates for civil liberties, said Metro's decision to contest the fees increased them by about $20,000 as the issue was drawn out in court.

"They're a business," said Light, who will take home $33,447.10 in the case at hourly rates of up to $661. "They need to make sensible business decisions. This is not one of them."
Jeffrey had a further burn for the transportation authority:

"They spent time arguing over whether this guy should have his guitar case open, and for what?" he said.
The head of the Metro, Paul J. Wiedefeld, is currently learning the chords from The Boxer in order to cover the costs.

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simon hayes budgenhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-66786434227536509692016-07-16T09:03:00.000+00:002016-07-16T09:03:03.149+00:00Mensch & Murdoch turn Bataclan into terrorpornWhen terrible things happen to people, it's not unusual for the authorities to withhold some of the worst details. It's done out of respect for the dead, and out of concern for their families.

So it was with the slaughter in the Bataclan - the public was told of the murder; the bestial nature of what happened inside the venue was alluded to. But the fine detail - the horrific fine detail - wasn't made public.

There was no need - if you felt you required something more than 'people murdered because they were at a gig' before you felt it was unacceptable, before you were horrified, you might have a problem yourself.

At this point, enter Heat St. You probably haven't heard of Heat St - it's Rupert Murdoch's version of the Drudge Report, with Louise Mensch as the drudge.

You might wonder why, with a media empire stretching from the Wall Street Journal in the first circle down to The Sun and Fox News in the seventh needs a tattle-based website. It looks like the main motivation is a way to get "things" "out there" without tarnishing his mainstream brands.

And, yeah, if it's something that could tarnish a brand like the New York Post, you can imagine the sort of content they're publishing.

Hence, it was the natural home for an "exclusive" detailing what happened to people inside the Bataclan. Doubtless, Mensch and Murdoch would defend the publication in some vague 'it is important to know what we are dealing with'.

And it is.

But who didn't already know? Why hadn't already imagined the detail? Where is the audience going 'when I thought it was just shooting the people sitting in the area reserved for the disabled and laughing, I was going to cut ISIS some slack but this feels like they went too far?'

There's nobody who needs this terrorporn.

It's funny that the sort of people who wail 'you're playing into their hands' when the BBC forget to add "so-called" in front of "Islamic State" are quite happy to re-up ISIS propaganda and to burnish their reputation when it might get a few extra clicks for a website.

There are monsters everywhere. Why would you work with them?

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1. Liveblog: The Brits
2. Record Shop Day brings about The Avalanche's closure
3. Half Man Half Biscuit cycle trip
4. Liveblog: Eurovision
5. James Blunt tries to say the right thing
6. David Cameron's Rita Ora briefings
7. Russia aren't happy about Eurovision
8. Radio X listeners love Oasis
9. Illness causes Prince to break a journey
10. Beyonce makes the right wingers' heads hurt

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Various - C87

Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle - Colvin & Earle

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The best beer place in Bruges
beastiefan2k (245) HdG (past: NYC, KS, Rain City), Maryland | June 4, 2008
Visited on a Tuesday, little street of to the side. mj covers it below. Lots of sour stuff, nothing rare, but usually aged. Seems like there is a lot of stuff not on the menu, as I saw people having the Cuvee de Ranke and I asked for it as well but it was not in the menu. Little food dishes are decent. Small and cozy feel, cool old bottles over the bar. Daisy seemed cool. While I was there there were 2 US brew writers who met with 2 local brewers and we chatted up 2 profs from Alabama, that made the visit a lot more interesting. But in general it was not as superb beer wise as other legendary beer cafes.
jfb (137) Freising, Germany | March 20, 2012
Not the most atmospheric bar in Bruges, but theres always a free table in the back room and its probably got the best beer menu of the lot. Prices are appropriate (6 Euros for a bottle of Earthmonk) and the service is quite friendly. Asked if they had a few coasters for a friends collection and the waitor came back with about two hundred in a plastic bag. A nice bar to spend an evening or two.
nate2g (1094) Boomtown!, Australia | March 22, 2011
Full of happy souls indulging on many fine brews. The pub bursts with character and is welcoming even when crowded. A nice focus on lambic, which I stuck to. The staff were friendly and chatty, and keen to discuss beer with less knowledgeable visitors, even though they got asked the same questions over again. Well run beer bar.
IPFreely (143) Sanborn, New York | September 27, 2007
This was a tough little place to track down. I visited shortly after they opened, which meant it wasnt crowded at all. It was pretty small and I can imagine this place getting packed quickly. Great beer list, good service. This is an excellent bar.
bhensonb (560) Woodland, California | May 27, 2008
Met Daisy. Had beers. Spoke with locals. Except for the excessive smoking, it hardly gets better anywhere.
MIBRomeo (142) Wisconsin | May 18, 2008
nice place... good selection of Belgians, great glassware, good service, nice beer, just off the main drag through this odd little town.
Beergeek1967 (8) Oostende, Belgium | May 3, 2012
Wat in de Kulminator niet te bieden was, was in het Beertje wel, vrindelijk en korrekt, dank U.
Lothore (75) California | June 1, 2014
Located in a non-descript yet beautiful alley in Bruges, this establishment seemed like a little bar that could have existed in or near this form at least a hundred years ago. They had a wonderful beer list and an expansive selection of glassware to serve them in. I grabbed a small table and people watched. It seemed as if most of the people here were tourists but there were a few groups of locals at the bar seeming to enjoy themselves. Really enjoyed this place and it seemed to fit in with the whole Bruges aesthetic.
fkoolen (23) Maastricht, Netherlands | July 28, 2014
Cosy, wooden and nicely decorated pub with staff that has a huge knowledge about their Belgian beers. Very recommendable.
Iznogud (300) , Croatia | August 17, 2015
Cozy bar with a local feel to it. Draught selection is very limited, but bottle selection is quite nice. Prices were good. Wouldnt call it world class, but it is a nice bar which Id like to visit again if I find myself in Brugge.


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2016-06-08 02:56:19 (41 comments; 1 reshares; 21 +1s; )
Yes, I know it isn't technically over yet. California's votes still have to be counted. DC hasn't voted yet. And, of course, the superdelegates haven't voted either and won't do so until the convention.
But the idea that the superdelegates can be convinced to switch their support from Clinton to Sanders is, if you ask me, a bit of a Hail Mary. In a system which favours the insider, Hillary is the consummate insider while Sanders has spent a bit too long in the political wilderness to be hugely effective in convincing superdelegates to switch their support.
I'm sorry, I like Sanders but if I were a betting man, my money would be on Clinton.
Most reshares: 7
2016-07-07 02:34:49 (20 comments; 7 reshares; 29 +1s; )
This is not the first time that the West seems to have shrugged off massacres in predominantly Muslim countries. But the relative indifference after so many deaths caused by the very groups that have plagued the West is more than a matter of hurt feelings.
One of the primary goals of the Islamic State and other radical Islamist groups is to drive a wedge between Sunni Muslims and the wider world, to fuel alienation as a recruiting tool. And when that world appears to show less empathy for the victims of attacks in Muslim nations, who have borne the brunt of the Islamic State's massacres and predatory rule, it seems to prove their point.
"Why isn't #PrayForIraq trending?" Razan Hasan of Baghdad posted on Twitter. "Oh yeah no one cares about us."
Most plusones: 79
2016-05-03 02:51:35 (40 comments; 7 reshares; 79 +1s; )
Apparently, the Taliban feels they are too good for McDonald's.
Yes, I know McDonald's and its food but we will never eat it. We don't even consider it as a food. This isn't our food ... We live in the rough, tough mountainous areas and need energy and power to fight against the enemy
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2016-08-25 09:33:26 (5 comments; 0 reshares; 5 +1s; )
I have a number of people in my circles asking how... just how... Filipinos could elect a man like Rodrigo Duterte who's basically pledged to kill suspected drug addicts and dealers whether or not they're guilty.
It sounds ludicrous from the perspective of privileged outsiders like me (or, I suspect, like the people in my circles). So let's hear it from a field researcher in the Philippines.
But why killings? Why can't there be support for humane ways of being "tough" on crime?
Part of the reason has to do with a criminal justice system that has failed over the years. Arresting, prosecuting and imprisoning drug pushers is so slow, so bureaucratic and so prone to corruption that it has discredited the democratic virtue of due process.
What is the point of putting drug dealers behind bars if everyone knows the maximum-security prison has become a fiefd... more »
2016-08-20 08:48:17 (3 comments; 1 reshares; 15 +1s; )
Human creativity
Liberated from the tyranny of rigorously enforced health and safety regulations, this gentleman found a creative solution to the problem of transporting large tires when equipped with only a small motorcycle.
2016-08-17 02:44:57 (6 comments; 0 reshares; 13 +1s; )
h/t +Emlyn O'Regan
I agree wholeheartedly with this. I dislike phone calls with a passion. Whenever the phone rings, my pulse races, I feel my core temperature rise, and my first instinct is to switch the phone off so that the damned ringing/vibrating will go away. Because I am always doing something or thinking about something and phone calls interrupt my train of thought.
2016-08-15 16:35:09 (3 comments; 0 reshares; 6 +1s; )
+Kooi Hwei Lee +Gene C
In my humble and unbiased opinion, the author has it completely right.
Bottom line: The food in Penang makes the food in KL look like glorified leftovers for the tenants at the Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
2016-08-12 14:11:46 (0 comments; 0 reshares; 3 +1s; )
h/t +John Hardy not a Turnbull fan
The Thai government originally claimed that the bombs were set by local criminal elements but that's a bit of a tall order considering the coordinated nature of the bombings.
This is horrific.
2016-08-11 02:02:52 (2 comments; 0 reshares; 7 +1s; )
No no, there isn't any sexual assault going on in Nauru according to Peter Dutton. That's all a cry for attention from people desperate to get into Australia by any means necessary.
The self-harming and the self-immolation? That's just a sign people are so desperate to get out of their situation that they'd love to get in to Australia as a charred corpse.
2016-08-07 15:56:49 (6 comments; 0 reshares; 6 +1s; )
Pokemon Go's only been out in Malaysia for a day or two and already the religious bodies are talking about making it haram for Muslims because it is a threat to the public order and might sway their faith in Islam (or something)
2016-08-07 01:33:12 (3 comments; 3 reshares; 14 +1s; )
The broader lesson to be drawn is not to shy away from confronting the dominance of the political system under the management of the two major parties. Rather, challenges to it need to be issued with a full awareness of their possible consequences. This includes the recognition that far right victories not only impose terrible suffering on the most vulnerable segments of society but also function as a powerful weapon in the hands of the establishment center, which, now in opposition can posture as the "reasonable" alternative. A Trump presidency, should it materialize, will undermine the burgeoning movement centered around the Sanders campaign, particularly if it is perceived as having minimized the dangers posed by the far right.
2016-08-03 09:17:17 (2 comments; 0 reshares; 11 +1s; )
Bersih 5 is on
So, once again, people will be taking to the streets to protest the way the country is being run. And, once again, the events are going to unfold in pretty much a predictable way.
1. Before the rally, some hitherto unheard of "ultra" group is going to warn people from attending the rally because there will be a counter-rally and "things could get bloody." Of course, one day or so before the rally, they'll cancel the counter-rally.
2. The day of the rally will see thousands of people turning central Kuala Lumpur into a giant parking lot. Accountants, lawyers, bankers, engineers (mostly of Chinese descent) will flood the city relishing the opportunity for epic photo ops.
3. Online, Facebook profiles will turn a sea of yellow (and the rare red). Instagram will be flooded with "live pics" as many of the rally... more »
2016-08-02 07:46:49 (1 comments; 0 reshares; 6 +1s; )
I saw this news article and did a double take. Apparently, Malaysian military secrets are so juicy that even non-human higher order primates are tempted to steal them.
2016-07-29 17:03:18 (3 comments; 1 reshares; 8 +1s; )
Four years ago, I learned for the first time that American dining etiquette calls for the "zig zag" method in which one cuts the food with the knife in the right hand and then transfers the fork to the right hand to spear the food.
Today I learned the economic reason for this. TL;DR, in colonial America, there was a shortage of forks and Americans had to make do with a spoon and a rounded knife to eat with. The spoon was used in the left hand to steady food while cutting (with the rounded knife) and then the spoon was transferred to the right hand to enable more efficient eating.
2016-07-28 07:36:50 (1 comments; 1 reshares; 12 +1s; )
h/t +John Hardy not a Turnbull fan
I expect this is an apt portrayal of the US presidential elections according to how supporters of democratic socialism (on the left) and libertarianism (on the right) see it..
2016-07-23 13:47:15 (0 comments; 1 reshares; 11 +1s; )
Didn't see this one coming.
Overall support for marijuana legalisation is at 55% yes and 33% no but the real surprising statistic is that, for the first time, Republicans have come out in support of legalisation 45% to 42%.
2016-07-21 03:37:55 (4 comments; 3 reshares; 14 +1s; )
Liberated from a private share.
I find this a most uplifting tale. Unlike the protagonist of a certain fictional series, this Turkish prosecutor did not let death end his watch. He found the time and the dedication to continue in his prosecuting duties and to plot a coup despite the mild inconvenience of having been deceased for 2 months. How he found the activation energy to do this I will never know. But I for one am inspired to try harder in my work from this example.
2016-07-20 17:14:54 (5 comments; 1 reshares; 10 +1s; )
Fantastic. Why is this person still single?
2016-07-15 14:16:44 (2 comments; 2 reshares; 8 +1s; )
In a world with many bad things going on, it's nice to share a feel good story once in a while...
2016-07-15 02:40:37 (3 comments; 0 reshares; 3 +1s; )
80 dead (so far) on a Bastille Day attack. No words....
2016-07-14 15:36:57 (2 comments; 0 reshares; 5 +1s; )
There's a lot of talk about Boris Johnson being made Foreign Secretary and how he's going to have to face up to the consequences of what he's done.
But, among his many duties, he will also be in charge of the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service, a.k.a. MI6. Which means, in effect, he's in charge of Britain's top spies.
I'll let that sink in.......
2016-07-13 16:40:10 (0 comments; 1 reshares; 5 +1s; )
Exeunt David Cameron..
2016-07-11 17:05:30 (7 comments; 0 reshares; 5 +1s; )
Britain is set to get a new Prime Minister in a day or so in Theresa May who made her career by consistently voting for war in Iraq, while opposing human rights legislation at home, and voting against regulations aimed at preventing climate change.
2016-07-07 02:34:49 (20 comments; 7 reshares; 29 +1s; )
This is not the first time that the West seems to have shrugged off massacres in predominantly Muslim countries. But the relative indifference after so many deaths caused by the very groups that have plagued the West is more than a matter of hurt feelings.
One of the primary goals of the Islamic State and other radical Islamist groups is to drive a wedge between Sunni Muslims and the wider world, to fuel alienation as a recruiting tool. And when that world appears to show less empathy for the victims of attacks in Muslim nations, who have borne the brunt of the Islamic State's massacres and predatory rule, it seems to prove their point.
"Why isn't #PrayForIraq trending?" Razan Hasan of Baghdad posted on Twitter. "Oh yeah no one cares about us."
2016-07-05 15:40:32 (10 comments; 0 reshares; 7 +1s; )
No reasonable prosecutor would pursue a case, according to the article. But Hillary was, of course, being "extremely careless". Tsk tsk.
2016-07-01 16:14:39 (2 comments; 0 reshares; 4 +1s; )
Yes, let us use Brexit as an opportunity to scrap those pesky labour market regulations, emissions trading regulations, and indeed regulations of all sorts. Let Britain join in free trade deals like the TPP. Let Brexit usher in a new, golden age of deregulation!
2016-07-01 15:40:49 (6 comments; 1 reshares; 4 +1s; )
What interests me about these 1993 commercials from AT&T is that some of the things they advertise as "possible in the future" look quite outdated from the perspective of 2016. Who needs phone booths nowadays?
2016-07-01 06:52:58 (10 comments; 0 reshares; 7 +1s; )
Taking a break from all the Brexit posts, we have today the thoroughly endearing example of the new president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, urging the killing of drug addicts (not just traffickers) on his inauguration day.
If you know of any addicts, go ahead and kill them yourself as getting their parents to do it would be too painful.
2016-06-27 02:06:44 (6 comments; 0 reshares; 10 +1s; )
The NHS probably won't be getting the promised £350 million a week, immigration will probably not be drastically cut, and now an admission that there is no post-Brexit plan.
I can kind of... sort of... understand if you believed that taking Britain out of the EU is justifiable. But to push for a Brexit without a proper plan on what to do if it does happen is just the most appalling cynicism.
2016-06-26 16:11:19 (14 comments; 1 reshares; 15 +1s; )
h/t +Joanna Jane Doe
Depending on how events unfold in the weeks and months ahead, there is a non-trivial chance that this will end up being a real thing.
2016-06-25 15:20:29 (18 comments; 3 reshares; 7 +1s; )
A second referendum is not impossible
Key point here is that the Brexit referendum so far is merely "advisory" and isn't legally binding. Technically, neither David Cameron nor his successor needs to push the red button. Granted, it would be politically very tough to walk back from the line...
2016-06-25 13:50:37 (9 comments; 0 reshares; 7 +1s; )
David Cameron being the irresponsible prat as always. Because the idea of cleaning up the mess he made is beneath him.
2016-06-24 10:04:39 (4 comments; 1 reshares; 8 +1s; )
It definitely didn't take Nigel Farage long to walk back one of the key promises of the Exit campaign: that there would be an extra £350 mn a week for the NHS.
2016-06-24 06:55:09 (5 comments; 3 reshares; 11 +1s; )
A part of me wishes that David Cameron would do the right thing now, refuse to invoke Article 50, refuse to honour the results of the referendum, recall Parliament and put it to a Commons vote. Declare something like "the future of the United Kingdom is too important to be left to the decision of a fickle electorate". He might as well do it too, either way his future as PM has become untenable and he will likely be the most reviled PM since Neville Chamberlain.
It's entirely possible that we're seeing the end of the United Kingdom as we know it. There is likely to be considerable movement towards the calling of a second Scottish independence referendum and, in the event that polling suggests strong support for leaving, I see no reason why Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP won't push for it.
2016-06-24 02:17:07 (15 comments; 0 reshares; 7 +1s; )
Traders say they haven't seen such dramatic moves since the financial crisis of 2008.
Oh dear me, Britain, what have you done?
2016-06-12 15:26:10 (0 comments; 2 reshares; 5 +1s; )
How the 1% spend it. +Tom Moncho probably relevant to your interests.
2016-06-08 02:56:19 (41 comments; 1 reshares; 21 +1s; )
Yes, I know it isn't technically over yet. California's votes still have to be counted. DC hasn't voted yet. And, of course, the superdelegates haven't voted either and won't do so until the convention.
But the idea that the superdelegates can be convinced to switch their support from Clinton to Sanders is, if you ask me, a bit of a Hail Mary. In a system which favours the insider, Hillary is the consummate insider while Sanders has spent a bit too long in the political wilderness to be hugely effective in convincing superdelegates to switch their support.
I'm sorry, I like Sanders but if I were a betting man, my money would be on Clinton.
2016-06-05 10:23:29 (4 comments; 0 reshares; 11 +1s; )
What does cloud Margaret Thatcher portend? Ominous times ahead, I fear...
2016-05-31 14:00:19 (2 comments; 1 reshares; 30 +1s; )
This paragraph, taken from this New Yorker article*, is the best summary of the differences between the UK and the US I've seen in a long time.
* http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/25/sharon-horgan-the-brutal-romantic-behind-catastrophe
2016-05-18 04:12:57 (5 comments; 0 reshares; 16 +1s; )
I always thought that, except for very specific circumstances, governments cannot stop their citizens from leaving and re-entering the country. I checked and saw it right there in Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Which, of course, Malaysia has not signed...
So, seeing this is a public post, I would like to applaud the Malaysian government on their wisdom of barring people who are critical of the government from travelling out of the country.
2016-05-12 05:47:30 (5 comments; 1 reshares; 11 +1s; )
Just when you think he's hit rock bottom...
2016-05-09 02:11:55 (10 comments; 0 reshares; 9 +1s; )
The front runner in the Philippines presidential elections boasts about Viagra-fuelled affairs, joked about raping a missionary, openly encourages extrajudicial killings, and talks about conducting mass executions if he is elected president.
And you thought Donald Trump was over the top...
2016-05-03 02:51:35 (40 comments; 7 reshares; 79 +1s; )
Apparently, the Taliban feels they are too good for McDonald's.
Yes, I know McDonald's and its food but we will never eat it. We don't even consider it as a food. This isn't our food ... We live in the rough, tough mountainous areas and need energy and power to fight against the enemy
2016-04-21 04:09:29 (5 comments; 0 reshares; 6 +1s; )
The greatest spectator sport
It's now mathematically impossible for Ted Cruz to gather around enough delegates to win the nomination outright. But Ted Cruz really really wants to be the nominee so Ted Cruz will probably do what Ted Cruz does best: fuck shit up.
Although Ted Cruz can't win outright, he can work hard to deny Donald Trump the 1,237 delegates he needs to be the party's nominee. Hell, he could work with Kasich to form the "Grand Alliance to Restore the Constitution" (conservatives aren't known for their aversion to hyperbole) to this effect.
In a contested convention, previously bound delegates become unbound in successive rounds until a definitive nominee is found. At this point, wheeling and dealing becomes the order of the day and candidates compete to make "promises" to delegates to win their support. Trump (and Cruz... more »
2016-04-20 09:39:03 (34 comments; 0 reshares; 11 +1s; )
I like Bernie Sanders just as much as about 80% of the people in my stream but, at some point, he is going to have win and win big in the remaining states. Hillary Clinton's win in the New York primary gives her 31 more delegates than Bernie Sanders (so far), which effectively wipes out the gains that Bernie got from Hawaii, Alaska, and Idaho collectively (i.e. 3 of the last 7 states he won).
2016-04-13 09:40:39 (2 comments; 3 reshares; 20 +1s; )
Now this is worthy of a reshare. h/t +Richard Durham
2016-04-12 07:51:28 (12 comments; 2 reshares; 23 +1s; )
The newest "crusade" by the Royal Malaysian Police.... poppy seed cakes. Seriously. Are there no other crimes in Malaysia that deserve more police attention?
2016-04-12 02:05:09 (4 comments; 2 reshares; 11 +1s; )
Must be a nice problem for the arms industry to have..
2016-04-10 16:00:00 (21 comments; 1 reshares; 8 +1s; )
Poor David Cameron simply cannot catch a break. Trying to answer questions about the financial benefits he gained from an offshore trust, he released his tax returns. Now fresh questions are being asked about a £200,000 "gift" from his mum.
2016-04-08 06:21:48 (15 comments; 0 reshares; 17 +1s; )
I think it's time to stick a fork in David Cameron. He seems to be just about done already...
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The Repo Handbook (Anglais) Relié – 13 mai 2010
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"The most authoritative source on the repo market. Other texts I have seen totally lack Professor Choudhry's clarity of exposure and really important taste for technical detail." ---Matteo Regesta, Interest Rate Strategist, BNP Paribas, London
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The Repo Handbook, 2nd edition presents an overview of repo vehicles and markets with sufficient depth for those seeking detailed explanations. In three parts it demonstrates how these secured loans fit into global capital markets and why they account for up to 50% of daily settlement activity in non-US government bonds worldwide. This new edition replaces old examples and introduces new developments, such as structured finance repo and associated topics such as Basel II regulatory rules. In addition, 12 of 18 chapters feature new sections and 4 have been substantially rewritten. The UK gilt and US Treasury repo markets are explored through worked examples, and there are new sections on funding arbitrage trades, risk exposures, and regulatory capital. It also places repo in context within bank asset-liability management and trading techniques, illustrating repo use across a wide range of applications in the global money markets. Rarely mentioned in the financial press because of the simple, straightforward nature of the instrument, repo was often the only funding source available to banks during the last quarter of 2008 and the first in 2009. This book, written by a trader, will draw new attention to this valuable and efficient funding and investment product.
* Describes repo instruments, which appeal to market participants because of their simplicity and malleability
* Explains the institutional treatment of repos, especially in terms of risk, accounting, tax and legal issues, and equity repo
* Details the government bond basis, implied repo rate, and basis trading
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It seems more appropriate to recognize that the principles of the money markets and repo and the mathematics of these markets are universal and timeless as is Marcia Stigum's work.
"Mr. Gagan Singh" writes several negative reviews of other books, but positive reviews of Mr. Choudhry's books. "Mr. Gagan Singh" wrote negative reviews of Ms. Stigum's "The Money Market" and alternately hails from NY, the USA, Capetown or from wherever next this chameleon chooses to hail as the reviews change.
"Matthew Bartlett" is another alias used on two book reviews of Fabozzi's "Collateralized Debt Obligations" book. One of the "Matthew Bartlett" reviews is signed "Moorad Choudhry" and praises the book with 5-stars, but the other review is unsigned and gives the book a one-star review. This is a serious identity crisis.
Ms. Stigum's work on the U.S. markets allows one to allows one to deduce the dynamics - and equips one to solve the mathematics - of the global money markets deserves high honors.
The unsportsmanlike behavior doesn't end there, since it seems that commercially successful books with titles that most closely match Mr. Choudrhy's upcoming releases have multiple one-star and two-star reviews from apparently the same reviewer and from seeming pseudonyms and free internet accounts.
How can one profitably trade from repo, i.e. know what assets will trade 'special'? After all, repo existed well before the GFC but to understand how to make real money from this market does not come down to simply working with your central bank. For this reason I needed to know more, and it is always best to ask someone who has worked in this market.
I have read Moorad Choudhry's "Bond and Money Markets" and "Bank Asset Liability Management" books (both of which I highly recommend), so knowing his experience and clear explanations, with real market examples (i.e. there are a lot of bloomberg screen dumps in all his books) made it an easy choice to purchase this repo book over others.
The "Repo Handbook" starts with a market background of bonds and money markets and evolves into the functions of repo, covering trading, hedging and it's involvement with ALM. I personally prefer the trading examples as I feel one can understand Repo's uses as a market, rather than just reading a few formulas.
Once again Choudhry has written a very practical and essential book for today's market.
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