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Last Monday, ITV News broadcast the first pictures from inside Karen Matthews' home since her nine-year-old daughter Shannon was found after being missing for 24 days. What made this footage remarkable was that it was shot by the Matthews family themselves and was the culmination of a painstaking process of winning their trust. I hope the pictures provided an accurate reflection of the family.
During the long search for Shannon, I and the rest of our small team had spent much time drinking tea and getting to know Karen Matthews' friends and family, and we took a decision to give them camcorders in the hope that they might later provide us with pictures that we otherwise could not have got.
Shannon was found on Friday 24 March, and the news came through first with a text message, then with whispered rumours from members of the Find Shannon Campaign, and then with a flurry of phone calls. Thanks to the relationship we had nurtured, the Matthews family trusted me, our cameraman, Keith Edwards, and the producer, Matt Williams. They could have simply thrown us out and closed the door, but they let us film some very personal moments. That night, we were able to tell the story in pictures, not just words.
But then the shutters came down, and the camcorders came into their own. The big celebratory family party was due to take place on Saturday night at their home in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, but by Saturday morning a police officer was on guard outside the front door and family liaison officers were apparently advising the family to restrict their involvement with the media.
The effect of this strategy was that Karen and her family were only filmed in the street, looking understandably anxious, surrounded by cameras. It seemed an inaccurate portrayal of their real mood.
Our intention was to try to get more exclusive pictures for the Monday evening's bulletins, so we got a message to the family suggesting that they use the camcorder that ITV News had given to Karen several days earlier, and film the celebrations inside the house themselves – to record their own version of events. Of course, we were concerned whether they would use the camera effectively and honestly – but they had trusted us before, and this time we had to trust them.
When the big party happened on Saturday night, the media was shut out on the street. But indoors, the family were filming it all, even taking shots through the windows of the TV cameras and reporters camped outside.
It was a tense atmosphere when we got the camera back on Monday afternoon. There were some especially nervous moments, such as wondering, as we pressed eject, whether the tape was still inside. We were unsure whether there would be any useable footage at all. In all honesty, it was far from perfect, not least because I had left the night-vision switch on when I gave them the camcorder, turning everything a shade of green.
The filming was a little wobbly, too; this kind of camera work can never replace that of a professional camera operator. But what you did get was the family relaxed and being themselves. It was real. If we had been allowed in with a TV camera, I wonder whether the pictures would have been as genuine: the presence of a TV crew would arguably have distorted the atmosphere.
Trying to portray Shannon's family as honestly as possible was particularly important to us, given the raging debate surrounding the story. Questions had been asked about the fairness of the media in its coverage of a missing nine-year-old girl from a council estate. I hoped ITV News' contribution would be to give the viewer an honest picture of Shannon's world. The audience could then make their own judgments based on what they had seen. For me, television is at its best when it takes you into other people's lives, and I think giving someone a camcorder can help do that, bringing the audience into their world.
That's not to say there aren't real issues with such journalistic techniques. By handing over a camera to a member of the public closely involved in a major story, we handed over some control over what was filmed. They decided what to record – although we retained editorial control over what was broadcast. But then, clearly, on this occasion, the alternative was to have no footage at all. The challenge to us, as journalists, was getting the right balance between gaining the trust of Karen Matthews' family and keeping the trust of the viewers.
There was another issue, too. The camcorder video included many children. Despite the family having filmed it themselves, we took the decision to blur the faces of the youngsters. They didn't ask us to do that. We gave them a camera but we didn't give up our judgment.
Shannon Matthews' story is not simple, but then reality isn't simple. She comes from a council estate where life is hard for many people and where there are quite a number of "dysfunctional families". But then, whose family isn't dysfunctional? It's a close community, where everyone leaves their door unlocked, but also a place where many people suffer from poverty and low self-esteem. I hope that our coverage helped viewers to understand a little more about their lives, instead of just criticising them. But ultimately, that's up to the viewers.
Keir Simmons is a reporter for ITV News
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Since this was the first in-season visit for Sandland at Arizona State his experience was different this time around.
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The 6-6 250-pound Beau Sandland has been pursued by the Sun Devils for several months now, and the coaching staff took advantage of their face to face time to reinforce that message with the Pierce College tight end.
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"I have a great relationship with them and obviously the more you talk to the same people and you're around them a lot, the more you feel comfortable with them. The more I'm coming down here the more this place seems favorable to me."
Sandland announced earlier this month that he plans to release his Top 5 schools on November 1st. When we asked him if it was fair to assume that Arizona State would be on that list, he replied: "Yes."
In terms of future official visits, Sandland who already visited Ole Miss in September (a school he later dropped from consideration) was uncommitted about Tempe being one of those destinations because of his already deep familiarity with the school.
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Libertarian, who ran on strongly to finish second behind Ruler Of The World in the Derby at Epsom on Saturday, is likely to face the winner again later this month in the Irish Derby at The Curragh, a track which should suit his proven stamina.
"I'm absolutely delighted with how he's come out of the race," Karl Burke, the husband and assistant to Libertarian's trainer, Elaine, said on Sunday. "He has eaten up and trotted out this morning. He's in better shape than I could have ever hoped.
"When you finish as fast as he did, immediately after the race you think you have been unlucky but we went back and watched the replay and the winner has quickened up really smartly three furlongs out and we weren't able to. Our horse took the track as well as we could have expected. He got a bit unbalanced round Tattenham Corner and it maybe cost him a length."
Both Ruler Of The World and Libertarian were unraced as two-year-olds and both have significant scope for improvement as their careers develop.
"You can blame the track and whatever else but on the day we were beaten fair and square," Burke said. "That's not to say on another day things could be different and we certainly wouldn't be scared to take him on again.
"I'd say there is a strong possibility he'll be supplemented for the Irish Derby, if all is well between now and then. Our horse only turned three on 13 May and there is every chance he could be an even better horse in a month's time, so we'll probably head to Ireland for the rematch."
Libertarian is also the ante-post favourite for the St Leger at Doncaster in September with some bookmakers, and Burke, whose stable is in north Yorkshire, confirmed that the colt will definitely be entered for the final Classic of the season.
Jim Bolger, the trainer of the beaten Derby favourite Dawn Approach, said on Sunday that it will be at least a fortnight before a decision is taken on the 2,000 Guineas winner's next race.
"He got a bang leaving the stalls and I think that set him alight," Bolger said.
"With the slow pace, Kevin [Manning, Dawn Approach's jockey] wasn't able to get him settled. The race was set up for him to win it, had he settled. It didn't happen. We have got to get him home and see how he is, so it will be a couple of weeks [until a target can be set]."
Bolger was speaking at Chantilly racecourse in France, where Loch Garman, his runner in the Prix du Jockey Club (French Derby) finished unplaced behind the impressive winner Intello.
Galileo Rock, third home at Epsom on Saturday, is also a possible runner in the Irish Derby and St Leger. "It was a good performance and he vindicated what we thought he would do," David Wachman, the colt's trainer, said. "He's in the Irish Derby and all those races and we'll just see how he is. There's no rush to make any definite plans."
Aidan O'Brien, the trainer of Ruler Of The World, also saddled Battle Of Marengo to finish fourth in the Derby, while his six-year-old St Nicholas Abbey took the Group One Coronation Cup on the same card. As a result, O'Brien has displaced Richard Hannon as the favourite for the trainers' championship with Coral.
The bookmaker quotes O'Brien at 4-5 (from 13-8) to win the title for the first time since 2008, while Hannon, who took the title in 2010 and 2011, is 6-4 (from 5-4). Saeed bin Suroor, who is now responsible for nearly 400 horses owned by Godolphin having taken over the operation's Moulton Paddocks yard from its disgraced former trainer Mahmood al-Zarooni, is a 14-1 chance, and it is 16-1 bar.


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The prize for worst music awards goes to...
With major artists turning their backs on the music industry and going it alone via crowdfunding, the ARIAs have never been more irrelevant, writes Thomas Hyland.
Thrown a lifeline by Channel Nine's digital channel GO, the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) awards will once again be broadcast to a waning audience on December 1. The question is, how long can the facade continue?
When the awards began in 1987, the 'recording industry' was still very much in control - bankrolling records and tours for artists who were happy (or rather forced) not to bite the hand that scantily fed them. By and large, being independent meant not being heard in an industry in which audibility is paramount.
But what relevance is there for an award that stems from an industry now devoid of its power and confused by its place?
In 2013, to be drafted amongst the list of hopefuls is to receive a feather in your marketing cap at the risk of a mark on your credibility chest. And in a country so small and rife with the tall-poppy plague, that's a very real threat.
In the 27 years since the ARIAs began, the industry has changed so drastically that nowadays to be an artist affiliated with the awards is to neglect your own power.
The truth is that no artist needs what the ARIAs have to offer, and more and more it seems to be case that no artist wants it either. Two years ago, Drones frontman and songwriter Gareth Liddiard gave an interview with the Australian media following his first solo ARIA award nomination. When asked about the feat, he responded:
It's just for wankers, snorting coke and getting drunk. It's just not on my radar and I'm just not interested. The ARIAs don't really mean anything to me.
For an artist in Australia, this is not a unique position, but it's remarkably refreshing to hear it from someone nominated.
It's not a secret that the ARIAs aren't rewarding art; they're referencing sales. As the popular culture turns and means of making a buck sways, one positive side to unit sales being on the rapid decline is the shift in emphasis onto truly amazing Australian music.
The industry may have once had the money and membership to make it the podium from which an artist could be seen and heard, it's relationship to modern Australian artists' careers has never been so insignificant.
If advances in capital were the last hope for the industry in its efforts to retain power over artists, it's platforms like Kickstarter and Pozible that cut it once again at the knees.
Mainstream artists like Ben Lee or Jae Laffer (the Panics) were once seen as the darlings of the industry model the ARIAs represents, but their move to crowd-funding makes it clear that to cease aligning yourself with the industry is more than just a statement.
As Benji Madden dances straight from his Vodafone or KFC duties to present another ARIA award to an ex-Australian Idol winner, what is desperately clear by now is that the ARIAs needs artists more than artists need it.
An award that gives money based upon artistic merit has clear value to the artist, and by extension, the public. In this respect, there is hope for the ARIAs cooler younger brother, the Australian Music Prize (AMP).
But in 2013, the ARIAs still represents a machine in reverse. The microphone is back in the hands of artists who are no longer forced to grit their teeth and feign high regard. The message will only get clearer.
For the sake of popular art in Australia, we must retire the ARIAs before it gets any worse - before Karl Stefanovic hosts it or it morphs into a life-pumping machine speaking only to Idol contestants, past, present and future.
As the industry turns it will be those on the inside, or those scared on the outside, that find it a shame. The remaining musicians will do their best to go steadily about their business - making art.
Thomas Hyland is Melbourne-based creative producer, musician and filmmaker. View his full profile here.
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16 Oct 2013 3:23:32pm
"It's just for wankers, snorting coke and getting drunk. It's just not on my radar and I'm just not interested"
A statement of our times that has resonance far beyond its target - if the rest of the band's lyrical output is as wise and prescient as this I predict they have a long and bright future. Bravo Mr Liddiard, bravo.
16 Oct 2013 8:08:30pm
Drunk, coke snorting wankers have served rock well for the last 50 years.
Being a rockstar is seen as an unhealthy lifestyle choice these days. Hence the boring crop of "Rock stars" we have today. Rockstars have never been the same since Freddie Mercury left us! No fun!
17 Oct 2013 2:05:14am
Woody, my point was that drunk, coke-snorting wankers are to be found in many more places than you might first think. Freddie was an absolute amateur compared to some of the talent floating around today in suit and tie.
16 Oct 2013 3:27:00pm
The Australian music *industry* has always been largely irrelevant to good Australian music.
The best Australian music comes from artists who beat their own path, while the 'industry' does what it always has done - churn out derivative knock-offs of whatever they think is big overseas.
16 Oct 2013 3:47:16pm
Wait, there was a time when the Aria awards were actually significant? Not in my lifetime!
16 Oct 2013 10:40:13pm
Oh dude, if Dave Graney's "King of Pop" victory in 1996 didn't mean anything to you then that's sad.
But it was a rare highlight I'll admit. Much Barnesy, much Farnesy and far too much Australian Idol.
17 Oct 2013 2:25:20pm
As hard as it is to believe now I remember when commercial radio stations didn't bother to play any Powderfinger music... until the band started to win Arias. I think that was a time when the Arias played an important role.
The main credit doesn't go to the awards though, thank god for Triple J and the ABC's Recovery Program in the 90s for showing great Aussie music at a time when it wasn't popular to do so.
Lawn Beetle:
16 Oct 2013 3:57:03pm
For me a timely article, after suffering through a 'talent' show that my elderly dad had on the box when I visited recently - but he watches anything anytime, in one eye and out the other. I could not believe the rubbish that the purported 'judges' issued forth from their knowledgeable self righteous mouths. The talent consisted of squeaky voiced gyrating try hards trying to faithfully reproduce the popular musical offerings of some other squeaky voiced gyrating try hard. If this is all the music industry has to offer the masses then good riddance to it, I myself go to much effort to dig up the names of the mostly unknown profound musical talent Australia has, working away at their craft and producing music of exceptional quality with out the hangers on. I always try to pay them directly for their art, I like it that they can take more benefit for their work these days.
Kangaroo Edward:
16 Oct 2013 4:27:43pm
As much as I think Jessica Mauboy is a world class professional, for me the ARIAS died when she pronounced the word debut as "debutt".
16 Oct 2013 4:49:01pm
What music industry?
Musician are being offered two unattractive choices:
Begging via Kickstarter and Pozible
Death by a thousand twerks.
17 Oct 2013 10:08:03am
I think the problem with the music industry is that there are a lot of really brilliant, passionate musicians out there who are all competing against each other. The natural state of such a system is that very few people make much money.
The only reason there are hugely rich musicians is that record lables have been able to selectively promote a handful of them.
16 Oct 2013 5:04:43pm
Totally agree. The ARIA's are a joke & the Australian music industry is a joke. The once great industry is now riddled with D-Grade karaoke singers who found their 15 mins of fame on the Voice/X Factor/Idol judged by an even lower grade bunch of has-been, wannabe judges.
One lives in hope that the industry will once again populate with real musicians & artists that can give it back some credibility.
16 Oct 2013 7:51:03pm
Records are have become unneeded. Thats great.
The internet is available and live music is better than any copy. Either way there is no point in a CD.
17 Oct 2013 9:26:03am
I buy CDs all the time.
Its a fools game to pay the same money as a CD for a lossy digital download.
17 Oct 2013 10:47:42am
CDs stopped being a 'lossy' digital artefact?
17 Oct 2013 11:50:19am
Until 24 bit recordings are widespread, then yes.
Vinyl is also lossy, to blow your mind.
17 Oct 2013 9:25:18am
What a load of bollocks Tom.
How many bands have you been to see this month? Ive seen a few and they were Australian, and the standard was incredible.
You sound like every out of touch former music fan.
Get off your arse and actually see whats out there before declaring the industry is dead.
17 Oct 2013 12:21:15pm
Yep! Nail on the head. Get to a gig people! Jeez..... The industry of independent artists is well and truly alive if you ask me. Keep the ARIA's though, I prefer the masses to remain stupid and ignorant before they get wind of how much truly awesome music (particularly metal) is out there playing at the moment. There is place for vacant pop music and by retaining the ARIA format it stays clear of anything that is worthy of appreciation. Good music is an artform that needs to be protected from this lot.......
16 Oct 2013 5:04:48pm
The industry first started going into decline when greed superceded art.
16 Oct 2013 10:31:33pm
So, sometime in 10 000 BC, then?
17 Oct 2013 10:03:51am
I suspect it would have been some time in the interwar period.
Record players were being improved and had become firmly established. In the 20s jazz music began to take over classical music. Then in the 30's big names and labels really started to dominate.
16 Oct 2013 5:04:54pm
Who cares? Anyone who worries about quality knows that the Arias are little more than a self-indulgent exercise in rewarding prolefeed; a national embarrassment best overlooked and (if possible) forgotten.
16 Oct 2013 5:18:45pm
Most of the popular stuff is indeed junk, but I doubt that the unpopular music is 'truly amazing Australian music', otherwise it would be popular. Music that is both truly artistic and popular died about 20 years ago. There are of course exceptions like 'Somebody'. This punter prefers Pink Floyd.
17 Oct 2013 9:27:02am
No, you just got old and out of touch.
I doubt you have any idea of the current state of music.
I love Floyd too, but I still find about 20 new bands a year that still blow me away.
16 Oct 2013 5:39:31pm
I actually DID watch the ARIA Music Awards telecast in 1987 ..... for about the first 30mins and then in total boredom, switched to ... whatwasit ... the sitcom Cheers on the other Channel, I think.
The ARIAs show was even more painful to watch than that other boring & pompous awards show ...whatsitcalled ..... the Logies or something.
I've always thought that strapping down a terrorist and forcing him to watch Neighbours, the ARIAs and the Logies would be infinitely worse than the Yank's Extraordinary Rendition.
Oh, man! Faced with that kinda torture I would be prepared to tell you absolutely ......... ANYTHING!
16 Oct 2013 5:48:33pm
I have to agree with Gareth Liddiard. I attended the ARIAs several years ago and sat at a music industry table. I was amazed at how many of those at the table left to go to the bathroom "to powder their noses"!.....and or relate stories to me of their various occasions of being stoned. Mainly "also ran" Australian singers and would-be managers....largely living in the past and vainly hoping for the future.
16 Oct 2013 6:04:04pm
In January last year, I heard an inspirational speech, presented by Jay Sielman, head of the Blues Foundation (USA). Jay told of his frustration at returning from yet another begging bowl trip that had yielded nothing. He decided, rather than beg, the Blues Foundation was going to adopt a policy of "Go It Alone". Since that date, the Blues Foundation has raised enough money to purchase their own premises and are well the way to establishing a Blues Hall of Fame Museum. I flew black to Melbourne, and our little Blues Society, determined to follow suit. And we have. Our audiences are up, our finances are healthy, the energy and creativity of the scene is exemplary. (And no, we don't use any Crowdsourcing sites etc). Just building a scene with creativity and energy. Music is about building scenes - an artist without a scene is like a bird with one wing. Building a scene is difficult - but there is no other worthwhile way.
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16 Oct 2013 7:28:44pm
We all have more sophisticated recording studios in our laptops than EMI had in any of its facilities 10-15 years ago. We can publish online and publicise tours likewise. The recording industry is simply obsolete but refuses to acknowledge it.
17 Oct 2013 9:29:42am
Not even close.
If you think a crappy audio interface can compete with a purpose built tuned room with a floating floor, a NEVE desk, and the years of experience of a talented engineer, then I doubt you would know a good recording if you heard one.
Digital is starting to sound really good, but to compare the average bedroom producers output from that of a world class studio is just laughable.
17 Oct 2013 12:27:55pm
But the cost of those studios is far more than the benefit provided to the home producer, at least in dollar terms. As the off-the-shelf technology gets better and easier to use, top of the line studios lose their relevence. This relevence becomes even more diminished as more and more people choose to listen to data-compressed sound files through inexpensive headphones.
16 Oct 2013 8:37:57pm
Well agreed. I have been in & around the music creativity scene for about 20 years & have never seen the grassroots area of music creation so vibrant & healthy. Without the stranglehold of the music labels its not only better today, its also cheaper & more accessible to record & publish your own music more than ever before. In the past your success in recorded song production was ever dependent on the narrow tastes of the few (record label execs) or just an expensive private pursuit. nowdays #1 songs are produced in the humble bedroom. Power to the people & like the decline of old power, the corporate music labels hate it all. Yeah F..... the aria awards.
Baker Boy:
16 Oct 2013 8:42:04pm
It will be whatever it will be and was always thus.
I am old enough to still remember when Cold Chisel smashed up the stage at the TV Week music awards. Ah the irony!
BTW your "my taste is far superior to your taste" argument is a tad snobby.
16 Oct 2013 10:32:30pm
It was the Countdown awards, actually :)
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16 Oct 2013 9:34:23pm
In fact, the 'industry' is the new kid on the block. Great bands like Skyhooks, the Oils and Redgum were all the biggest crowd-pullers of their day. All of them were anti-industry; overtly, deliberately and proudly.
16 Oct 2013 9:47:01pm
Who are all these amazingly talented Australian artists everyone is talking about? And I don't mean the ones triple j big-up every two minutes - cause they aren't.
17 Oct 2013 9:24:57am
I agree. I keep hearing about these amazing bands, but at best they release one catchy song then disappear.
where are this generations great rock bands?
17 Oct 2013 11:24:56am
They're working in cafes and call centres because they don't make enough money from their independently released 99cent iTunes singles.
17 Oct 2013 9:30:57am
Go see the Bamboos, and Clary Browne and the Rackettes.
Two R&B/Funk bands considered in the top of their profession.
17 Oct 2013 9:22:57am
Awards ceremonies are completely irrelevant to music fans.
They are a promotion vehicle for the industry, nothing more. They are not there to show you the best talent of the last year, only what is the most marketable.
I like a lot of the artists that have won Arias, but I couldnt think of anything more pointless than watching an awards ceremony.
17 Oct 2013 9:23:22am
okay at the risk of being one of those boring 'music was better in my generation' types, I need to ask.
if its never been easier for good music to reach an audience, where is it?
where are this generations Nirvana that breaks through the usual schlock on sheer talent and changes everything?
where are the great bands of the 60s/70s/80s/90s etc?
I understand the music labels simply follow fashion, but those bands must surely be out there, yet despite it being so easy to get your sound out to the fans now where are they?
17 Oct 2013 11:34:29am
Believe it or not, the 'great bands' of past decades were the product of the Record Label marketing machines.
Those bands had access to stylists, promoters, managers, graphic designers, media, radio playlists, top producers and recording facilities.
They had record labels spending tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of dollars on music videos and live performances and millions on concerts.
Labels are not creative enterprises. They never have been. They are marketing machines.
Independent artists working in a cafe or bottle shop, releasing singles on iTunes can't afford even $5000 for a basic music video, let alone $20,000+ for a video on par with what the labels can produce.
Many independent artists can get young filmmakers and graphic designers to make promo material for free, but then, they're just exploiting other creatives the same way that they complain record labels exploit them.
17 Oct 2013 11:47:50am
They are out there, and in greater number.
The big change is that the filters have broken. Radio used to be about bringing good music to people and making money by advertising.
They gave up the music part and its %100 about advertising revenue. So they no longer care about the music they play.
You have to go to Spotify and the music blogs to find the music now.
17 Oct 2013 12:35:57pm
While it is easier to get your sound out to fans, it is also easier for everyone else to do the same. Gone are the times where it is assumed that the best talent gets the most appropriate audience (if that was ever the case), but now the best talent has equal 'channel-space' to attract a potential audience as anyone else. If one assumes that the talent-challenged far outnumber the talented, then a quick survey of the available music is going to reflect that.
17 Oct 2013 11:44:32am
ARIAs lost all credibility when it was handed to the Ten network several years ago and they immediately turned it into an Australian Idol-like event, the worst awards show I have ever seen. It has never recovered from that disaster and should immediately be put out of its misery.
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Dear Statalisters,
I need to calculate the scores for two of the three equations of my model (the parameter of the third equation is constrained). I've tried both "ml score scores_*, missing" and "predict double score1 score2 score3, scores". For both I get the same error message:
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This might be caused by missing values in the predicted index (--predict indexx, xb - works) but the missing option might take care of that. Does anyone know how to find the scores?
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23 January 2014 by Lucy
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"Remembering is often what keeps us from repeating mistakes and other peoples memories can inform and instruct us, without forcing us to undergo the often painful experiences ourselves". This quote is from a letter sent to me after a visitor came to Sudley House during the commemorations of the Battle of the Atlantic. Heather Harrison was visiting in the hope that she could discover more about her mothers "small part in all of this", and hoped that we could help her find some details about the time her mother spent working and living here in Sudley House. Read more…
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Liverpool liner SS Ceramic sunk on 6 December 1942.
At first families back home in Liverpool were oblivious to the horror that had befallen their loved ones.
On November 23 1942 my grandmother watched from Crosby beach as Liverpool liner SS Ceramic left the River Mersey. Her husband Fred was aboard working as a steward. Clutching her three-month-old baby, Annie Felton waved the ship off, unaware that this would be the very final farewell.
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It is a problem that, for the past year, has preoccupied Lucy Yeomans, the 31-year-old editor of Harpers and Queen. She admits that when she took over from Fiona Macpherson 12 issues ago, the magazine had an image problem: "It used to lag behind society," she says - historically targeting "the Home Counties ladies who lunch, aged 40 to 45". When, for instance, she asked the model Honor Fraser to pose for the cover, she was told that Harpers was "not her image". It was time to fight perceptions.
"I wanted to make a magazine that would define the New Establishment," she explains. As such, Harpers had to focus on "society with a small s" - the opinion-formers in whatever field, rather than those connected by family ties or money. "This group doesn't have a name - they're individuals," she says; people such as Barbara Amiel or Sam Taylor-Wood, "who do not just look stylish, but are also bright and smart and have an eclectic approach to life. The magazine is aimed at people like me - I want to know about parties, but I love fashion, the arts and current affairs."
She has introduced more fashion, and claims to have made Harpers "a lot trendier", moving the readers' age profile closer to 35 - whatever their class background. "The elite is more eclectic than it has ever been," Yeomans says. "It's not one class group, it's people who have influence. We want people at the cutting edge of society." Certainly, the advertisers seem happy: the February issue has 52 pages of display ads, from Armani to Tiffany, and 106 are promised for March, the biggest since March 1987. Harpers now claims "the highest AB profile of any magazine in Britain", with readers on an average income of £47,191.
But Yeomans's blatantly commercial approach makes some question whether Harpers has become just another celebrity-filled vehicle for fashion brands. Clive Aslet, editor of Country Life, has seen Harpers change. "It used to have a very strong identity, but that's been rather rubbed off," he says. "It's become much blander, to suit the advertisers - there's much more money around now from luxury-goods firms. In the ancient days it was quirky, sharp and spiky, with lots of unexpected things. Now it's much like everything else." By contrast, Tatler, Aslet believes, has retained a stronger, if more mercenary, identity - "it's targeting young rich people".
Geordie Greig, Tatler's editor, confirms-that his magazine is "undergoing-record profitability". Tatler may slightly lag behind Harpers' circulation - its audited total is 80,628 copies, compared with 88,059 for Harpers - but Greig claims a qualitative difference with his rival. "Half our readers are under 40, whereas Harpers and Queen are (still) basically the 50-plus, the Aga-saga Tetbury reader," he says. He accepts that Yeomans - once his deputy - "has made some improvements to Harpers. But if you read my interviews when I got this job, you'll find she's parroting the same things."
How, though, can the "posh" magazines (a word banned by Yeomans in Harpers) continue to prosper in New Labour's supposedly classless meritocracy? "Ben Elliot (Camilla Parker Bowles's nephew) might talk in mockney, but that doesn't mean he isn't from a grandish family," Greig says. "Look at the credits for EastEnders - there are three double-barrels in there. It's just that people are less concerned with that nowadays."
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The City of Marietta has begun the first phase of its 500 tree planting project. This week alone, 230 trees were installed in the downtown district of the Cobb County seat. Marietta's tree committee, city staff, and some outside experts banded together to determine where the trees would be planted.
The city identified approximately 10 general locations in Marietta that were lacking in adequate canopy cover.
The current plantings are part of a greater master plan the city and community developed two years ago. The master plan targets the main entrance corridors to Marietta, such as the 120 loop where there aren't many existing trees in proximity to the road. The second phase includes installing replacement trees where there are already over-mature trees, such as Church and Cherokee streets, and Kennesaw Avenue.
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CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. (AP) — A West Warwick man has been ordered held without bail on a murder charge in the Mother's Day stabbing death of his estranged wife.
Police say Robert Bethea had been under a no-contact order that was supposed to keep him away from 41-year-old Shelina Morenio.
Moreino's body was found Sunday inside her Central Falls apartment after Bethea called police to say he had stabbed her and neighbors reported hearing screams from the couple's 8-year-old daughter.
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Thomas: Calls
I always slept so well on a hotel bed. And yet, it was hard to wake up sometimes, after drinking so much the night before. The fatigue was heavy upon me. A headache floated around my skull, and a parchedness trespassed between my lips.
A breeze twisted through the open window, tussling at my hair. I could still smell women's perfume against the bedsheets. Part of me was still dreaming, until–
Bzztzztzztzzzt—bzztzztzzt! a cellphone droned a dull vibration against the nightstand, Bzztzztzztzzzt—bzztzztzzt!
Irritated, I rolled over, twisting the sheets against the empty silhouette of where a woman had been last night. I was not awake enough to remember her name and I was pretty sure my phone was set to ring, not vibrate.
"Ughhugh," I grunted, really hoping she'd pick up that damn phone of hers already!
In my hung-over state, it sounded like a jackhammer against concrete. I moved a hand across the bed to nudge her awake. That was when I realized she wasn't in bed anymore.
I wanted to chuck it out the window. I turned my head, opened my eyes a little bit, and saw the bare surface of the table where her purse had been the night before. It took me a second to process.
Bzztzztzztzzzt—bzzklncktklnck! my cellphone, not hers, clattered against my keys after inching its way across the uneven glass surface of the night stand. It had been my phone all along, causing this ruckus. I must have set it to vibrate last night, too inebriated to commit that to memory.
It sounded like a train wreck making rampant love to a busy construction site. I thought my ears would bleed. Reluctance gripped me. My eyes shot open, in pain. I rolled over again, reaching for it on the night stand.
Bzztbz— "Hello?" I had pressed the speak button and held the phone to my ear. My voice was undeniably groggy.
"Is this Mr. Thomas Rose?" asks a woman, her voice carrying a thick Louisiana accent. It was nobody I recognized from the company.
I offer her a guttural clearing of my throat, then, "This is he; speaking. May I ask who's calling?"
"Yes, Mr. Rose. My name is Doctor Andrews. I work at the hospital where your daughter was born. And I believe you left a large sum of money in an envelope with a note, in my office, with my name on it."
"Was the note not sufficient to explain things?" I asked her, as kindly as I could without yet having my morning coffee.
Dr. Andrews erupted, incredulous and angry. "Neither I nor any of my colleagues will be threatened or bribed, is that understood, Mr. Rose?!"
"You tested her blood, did you not?" I asked, keeping my voice calm and even.
"The lab tested both of them, yes," she acknowledged. "Mother and daughter. I was given the results."
"And...?" I was growing impatient with this woman. I fought the temptation to get out of bed and make my way over to the coffee machine, where a lukewarm brew still sat. I could smell it.
"And everything was normal, Mr. Rose," she told me.
"Are you sure?"
"Right as rain," she told me.
There things were not what I expected Doctor Andrews to say, and if she were to say anything along these lines I wouldn't expect it to sound so sincere. I was certain: she believed that everything was normal. That meant I had left that money there for nothing.
"Which company owns the hospital?" I asked.
"HCA owns most of the building, but we work in partnership with Winter's Rose Incorporated. They own and operate most of the labs, including the blood lab and the pharmacy."
And for a moment, I was relieved. I even sighed. Winter's Rose Incorporated: the company. Someone on my side was already one step ahead of me, saving my ass from exposing—
I disconnected the call. I could feel my blood pressure rising.
It was the only conclusion I could make: Todd Winters had his first inkling of what she was. He was the only other person I could think of in the company who could and would pull strings like that. How he knew to do so... I could only fathom. I was staring at the wall, trying to process the full extent of what this meant, when the hotel room phone rang. Still in bed, I picked up the phone, "Hello?"
"Mr. Rose? Reception. Your wife is here to see you."
Great, just what I need, I thought to myself. Divorce papers to sign! "Send her up in five minutes," I instructed the desk clerk.
"Certainly," replied the young woman.
I hung up the phone. Then I picked up my cellphone again and changed the call notifier to actually ring instead of vibrate. With a stretch, I got out of bed, naked, and went over to the coffee maker and microwave before getting dressed.
There was no sign of the woman I had taken to bed last night.


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Chapter 1
My bright red hair bounced on the right side of my face and the heels of my black suede boots clicked as I made my way through the corridor. My navy blue skirt fluttered as the wind blew through the rocky arches. I fixed my white shirt before stepping into my 1st period English class. All the kids looked at me as I stood in front of the class.
The teacher looked at me, he was wiry with salt and pepper hair. "Ah! Here you are miss Anderson," He walked over to me. "Class this is Amethyst Anderson, she's a new student so everybody make her feel welcome. Miss Anderson, my name is Mr. Johnson, you may take a seat wherever you like."
I smiled at the class, the boys whistled at me as I walked down one of the aisles. A boy grabbed my hand making me turn toward him. "Hey girl, I got a seat for ya'," He patted his lap. "Right here." The boys around him laughed at his immature joke.
I rolled my eyes and walked past him and sat down behind a girl with blonde hair with blue, purple and pink highlights. She turned around and looked at me. "Hi, my name's Kacee," she said. She was a bit chubby and had on a black shirt with Abercrombie & Fitch on it and pink skinny jeans and black high heels. She looked like the kind of girl that if you crossed her, she would spread a rumor that your a slut.
I smiled a bit at her. "My name is Amethyst."
"Why don't you sit by us at lunch, Amethyst." She turned around as if I had said yes.
I looked at the board thinking about if I should or not. I mean, I didn't have anywhere else to sit so I might as well sit by her. I shrugged and paid attention to Mr. Johnson's boring lecture about punctuation.


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Demon with JTAG and online retail NAND?
I know dual NANDs are compatible to use with RGH to go online but what about JTAG. Since the fuse cannot be blown is it possible to load a retail NAND on the demon and use the onboard NAND for the JTAG image? Or is JTAG and online NAND not possible?
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Re: Demon with JTAG and online retail NAND?
Okay that's no help. I know i can install it and its supported. I know i can have two JTAG or custom NAND images but what about a retail.
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Re: Demon with JTAG and online retail NAND?
This has been asked many times, I beleive the answer was no.. The Efuses will be blown preventing the JTAG hack to function...Having trouble with your finances? Want to make a little extra income each month? Ask me how, I'll help you out. Also this is 90% visual so if you are very close minded and want to try it, open up, live a little and take some risks lol
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Re: Demon with JTAG and online retail NAND?
not possible lol....
you need your recent >7371 retail image on the onboard nand....in order to do that you need your efuses blown -> no jtag.
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Re: Demon with JTAG and online retail NAND?
They're correct the dual nand JTAG will not go online because of the fusechecks. Really although the demon is compatible it is not for live use with a JTAG and never will be.
Rep and Thanks and stuff would be cool as well!!
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Re: Demon with JTAG and online retail NAND?
My guess is that someones guna have a jtag, install demon, update their demon(retail nand) to use live, BAM, no more jtag. now they have to buy a coolrunner for RGH, simple marketing ploy =). I mean its a simple enough design to make compatible with old installs. Its not guna cost them anything to make it compatible.
Just my speculation. I could be way off lol (most likely).
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Later that afternoon a lavender and vervain paste was heating in the small pot that hung over the fire. Dawn sat beside the bed with a brand new fighting staff sat against the wall and a book that he held open carefully trying not to bend the spine. Beside him Gabriel tossed and turned in his sleep the fever had lessened slightly since the morning but even so every time the prince groaned or moved Dawn looked up to check on him but when Gabriel spoke Dawn jumped.
"Good book?" his voice was gentle, Dawn nodded. "What is it?"
"Beginners guide to magick" Dawn said showing him the cover Gabriel nodded. "I thought about what you said a few days ago"
"I'm glad" Gabriel smiled "what else did you get?"
"Lavender, vervain, sea salt, saffron and a bag of mixed healing herbs" Dawn said "it came to three…" Dawn stopped as Gabriel raised his hand.
"I don't care." He said "and that?" he pointed at the staff that sat near the bedroom door the black steel caps at each end shone in the light from the fire.
"You suggested I get a weapon sire" Gabriel sat up.
"So I did" he smiled. "Can I see?" Dawn stood and retrieved the mahogany staff handing the six foot weapon to the prince. Gabriel sat examining it carefully.
"You have a good eye" Gabriel said passing it back Dawn smiled. "Will you engrave the caps?"
"I have nothing to put on them" Dawn sighed "I don't know my family crest"
"Then you get my seal on it" Gabriel said matter-of-factly "if you want it"
"I can?" Dawn asked hopefully.
"of course" Gabriel smiled "and I will put it on before it goes into battle its bad luck to have no symbol or badge on a weapon" Dawn looked at the plain caps a lump in his throat Gabriel put a too hot hand on Dawn's face, lifting his chin. "And you are my man at arms its you're right"
"In training" Dawn said.
"No you have the job"
"But I haven't done anything to deserve that"
"You did today" Gabriel said letting him go "you looked after me under considerable protest and I trusted you with a years wages of a worker and you came back with more than I expected. You have a weapon you're familiar with and a means of beginning to better yourself" Dawn still didn't speak instead he nodded and looked at his staff.
"The herbs are ready" he muttered.
"For what?" Gabriel frowned "I don't want tea"
"No, I asked at the local healers and said a friend of mine had an infected wound they wanted me to bring you in but I said no. so they asked a few questions about your health in general and gave me instructions on how to make a paste that's applied then bandaged."
"Very well" Gabriel smiled "you really go all out don't you?"
"It was nothing sire"
"Dawn please use my name"
"Sorry Gabriel, it's a habit" Dawn said busying himself at the fire after placing his staff against the wall again. "I always had to address the seniors at the orphanage like that and old habits and all that" Gabriel nodded.
"Okay" he said "I'll do you a deal try and stop but don't worry too much but stop apologizing and stop thinking that I'm going to bite your head of if you say what's on your mind." Dawn looked up at him forgetting that he'd just lifted the pot off the fire, the heat travelled swiftly through the cloth around his hand and he yelped and dropped it the few inches to the floor. He clutched his burnt hand swearing quietly.
"Are you okay?" Gabriel asked worriedly, he swung his legs out of bed and stood up the world lurched and he sat back down again is vision swimming.
"I'm fine" Dawn said looking at the swiftly reddening welt across his palm. "You?"
"A bit light-headed" Gabriel said gripping the edge of the bed.
"Lets get this done" Dawn said spooning the green-brown pulp from the pot onto a clean piece of linen. Standing up he moved to the bed.
"It'll be easier if you were laying on your front sire."


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Far Worse Things to ComeMature
There are far worse things to come
I feel a chill creeping up my spine
The suffering has just begun
And we're running out of time
Although we still have a chance to escape...
Do you know which way we're supposed to go?
I look around, but the signs won't show
So how are we suppose to know?
On this path we have chosen
I can't help but feel like we're lost
It's as if we've been forsaken
It's as we've been double-crossed
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My Characters Are Me
Every time I invent a character, he has to have some similarity to me, or else I can't write well with him. I put all my emotions on the character. If I'm sad, my character is sad. If I'm angry, so is my character. Etc. etc.
For instance, one time someone told me I was blind towards everything, and then I got the idea to write as a blind person. But I didn't feel write about how I was writing, so I closed my eyes for at least two hours, without opening them. Not to scratch them, or anything. I was at school too! So walking to classes was difficult. I had people lead me to class, and everything. It made it SOOO much easier to write.
That's why I write. It's sort of a release, but more like, I'm putting my burdens on my character, so I don't have to worry about it.


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3 Days in Singapore
Sizzling Singapore
All you need to know for that short stopover
This place used to be quite good but other than the house specialty tofu, the rest, claypot frogleg porridge and Hor Fun is so so only. Coupled with not so good service, probably not going to be back very soon...
Patrons mostly come here for live frog legs porridge which are reasonably priced. Other items in the menu also worth trying. Food not too bad.
This restaurant used to be my favourite whenever we want to eat salted egg crab.
The last time I ate, the service was really sucks!
The PRC staff urges us to buy those expensive thing that we refused to order.
In the end, they add up a lot of things in our bill, such as coconut, fish, etc.
I called...
It helped that we had a local friend to endorse this place as it was a bit difficult to locate on our own. Still, the rewarding sight and taste of the chili crabs and the cooked frog would make the trip all worthwhile. It's a must try!
Good food, good price, and little bit chilly, and friendly staffs
buy 2 get 1 free, buy 3 fet 2 free, buy 4 get 3 free.... nice~~
Frog Porridge is value-for-money, although the one at Lor 9 tastes better.
it's own specialty is nice. but food is slightly expensive than normal neighbourhood zi-char!
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