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Six activists from conservation group Greenpeace boarded a coal carrier on the edge of the Great Barrier Reef Wednesday, calling for an end to exports of the fuel.
The group, from five major coal exporting and consuming nations in Asia-Pacific that are being targeted by Greenpeace, sailed out to the MV Meister to stage a protest on the bow urging an end to the "Age of Coal".
"Australia's coal exports are the nation's greatest contribution to climate change and plans are under way to roughly double the volume of coal we export," Greenpeace said in a statement.
"Yet every tonne of coal that is exported will return to us as climate change: bushfires, heatwaves and drought."
Australia is among the world's worst per capita polluters due to its reliance on coal-fired power stations and its exports of the fuel to Asia.
The Greenpeace members, who hail from Australia, India, the United States, China and New Zealand, took a boat to the coal freighter from the Rainbow Warrior and climbed aboard with a ladder to unfurl a banner.
After boarding the Panama-flagged MV Meister -- which was loaded with coal in Queensland and is bound for South Korea -- just outside the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, they vowed not to budge.
"We have no idea how it's going to play out at this stage," said protester Emma Giles from on board the Panama-flagged ship.
"Either the coastguard will come and get us, or we end up in Korea."
Australia's border police said they were alerted to the incident by maritime safety officials and had deployed a surveillance aircraft to investigate.
"Rescue Coordination Centre Australia received a call from the master of MV Meister who reported 21 crew on board and that all persons are safe and no acts of violence have occurred," a Customs spokeswoman told AFP.
"The master, however, expressed security concerns for his vessel and has contacted his company," she added.
"The six persons are currently still on board the MV Meister."
The reef's heritage status has come under scrutiny, with UNESCO last year warning it could be declared at risk if action was not taken to protect it from a gas and mining boom and increasing coastal development in the region.
Ports on the Barrier Reef coast currently export 156 million tonnes of coal per annum (mtpa) and there are plans to expand that to 953 mtpa within the next decade. By 2020 an estimated 7,000 ships will traverse the reef every year, up from 5,000 in 2010.
"In the clear absence of political leadership to address this problem, Greenpeace is stepping in to take immediate and peaceful action," the group said.


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In this clip from "Ron Paul: Liberty Defined," Dr. Paul describes how real positive change comes from understanding liberty and economics.
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The late Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park and State of Fear, along with a panel of distinguished scientists, examine the increasing politicization of science.
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Friedrich A. Hayek (1899-1992) left such a profound mark on economic and political thought that The New Yorker has called the 20th century, "The Hayek Century." After converting to free-market capitalism and classical liberalism in the 1920s, Hayek became one of socialism's and statism's staunchest critics. His 1944 bestseller, The Road to Serfdom, warned of central government planning's authoritarian, and even totalitarian, tendencies- and helped reignite worldwide interest in the philosophy and practice of freedom. Although Hayek's 1974 Nobel Prize in Economic Science brought renewed interest in his ideas, it wasn't until the collapse of the Soviet Bloc (which Hayek predicted) that his vast writings on economics, political philosophy, law, history, culture, and other fields became broadly recognized as essential to achieve a prosperous, humane and free society. Biographer Alan Ebenstein and economist Charles Baird shed light on Hayek's seminal legacy and the rebirth of freedom.
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Is global warming real, imminent, and a threat to human life? Have such predictions been established scientifically? The proposed Global Climate Treaty calls for extensive government controls to reduce fossil fuel use. Yet, there is no scientific consensus to support global-warming pessimism. Would the proposed massive 'carbon' taxes and other controls put our society- especially those most disadvantaged- at great risk? Based on his widely acclaimed book, renowned astrophysicist Fred Singer will separate fact from fiction in this raging global warming debate.
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To be eligible for nomination into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, an act must have released its first single or album at least 25 years prior to the year of nomination. This year's nominees had to release their first single no later than 1983.
One of the most influential guitarists in rock and roll, Jeff Beck, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, as a member of the Yardbirds. After his 18-month stint (1965-66) in that band, he formed the first edition of the Jeff Beck Group (1968-69, with Rod Stewart and Ron Wood). In the four decades since, Beck's work has encompassed deep explorations into instrumental jazz fusion, blues, a tribute to Gene Vincent, and much more, always underpinned by his hard-rock roots.
Chic's founding partnership of songwriter-producers Nile Rodgers (guitar) and Bernard Edwards (bass), abetted by future Power Station drummer Tony Thompson, rescued disco in 1977 with a combination of groove, soul and studio smarts. With their out-of-the-box chart smashes "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" and "Le Freak," Chic raised the bar and hooked a generation. Since then, artists such as Sugar Hill Gang and Diddy have turned to Chic for beats and samples. Rodgers and Edwards (before his death in 1996) followed their five years in Chic with careers as top-flight producers for an A-list of megastars.
When Elvis Presley sang "wear my ring around your neck" - it was Wanda Jackson's neck. And she still has the ring. The "First Lady of Rock and Roll" started recording in 1954, and was 18 when she graduated high school and played her first package tour with Elvis in 1955. He convinced her that rock and roll was the way, and she grabbed onto the rhythm like a dynamo. Wanda had the respect of Gene Vincent, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and every musician who ever shared the stage with the "Queen Of Rockabilly." A perennial star on tour in Europe and Japan, Wanda's career revived back home in the '90s, thanks to true believers like Elvis Costello.
After singing in high school doo-wop groups, Fort Greene, Brooklyn's Jerome Anthony Gourdine joined a quartet called the Chesters, which included tenor Ernest Wright, Jr. and baritone Clarence Collins. The fivesome signed to George Goldner's End Records in 1958 as the Imperials featuring Little Anthony. His boyish vocal (redolent of Frankie Lymon) clicked with "Tears On My Pillow" and "Shimmy, Shimmy, Ko-Ko-Bop," boosted by one of the most energetic stage shows around. Other hits included "I'm on the Outside (Looking In)," "Goin' Out of My Head," and "Hurt So Bad" that forever immortalized Little Anthony and the Imperials.
Rising from the Los Angeles metal underground in the early 1980s, Metallica quickly rose to become the most successful and acclaimed heavy metal band of their era - a position they've consistently held for over a quarter century. Founded by vocalist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich, the group discovered a potent formula by combining the thrash metal of Motorhead with the industrial sound of Killing Joke. By the late 1980s, mainstream tastes were shifting over to metal and Metallica found themselves with a string of hit singles and sold-out stadiums across the globe. This month the band released Death Magnetic, a metal tour de force in the same vein as their landmark 1980s work.
More than any other act, Run-D.M.C. took hip-hop from the streets of New York to the national stage. The group gets deserved credit for its combinations of rock and rap - from their early use of guitars on tracks such as "Rock Box" to their ground -breaking collaboration with Aerosmith on their 1986 cover of "Walk This Way." But even more important was how Run-D.M.C and the late Jam Master Jay set the template for modern hip-hop, from their everyday-teenager style to their blazing live shows to a catalogue of classic songs that few rappers have matched: "It's Tricky," "My Adidas," "Peter Piper," "It's Like That," "Sucker MC's" and many more.
The "Big Bang" that became punk, alternative, heavy metal, new wave, grunge, hardcore and industrial music, could very well have been the advent of Iggy and the Stooges in Ann Arbor in the late 1960's. Immediately embraced in New York, London and Los Angeles for the nuclear-powered simplicity of their music, the ironic nihilism of their lyrics, and the persona of Iggy himself, the Stooges have become icons in the history of modern music. And if there is a national anthem for the far side (the underside?) of our rock and roll universe, it is certainly "I Wanna Be Your Dog."
The six founding members of War - the late Papa Dee Allen and Charles Miller, survivors Harold Brown, B.B. Dickerson, Lonnie Jordan, and Howard Scott - were gigging around L.A. for nearly a decade before hooking up with Eric Burdon (ex-Animals) and Danish harmonica player Lee Oskar in 1969. Burdon and producer Jerry Goldstein named them War and they backed it up with a steamy Afro-Latin R&B groove that rocked their debut hit "Spill The Wine." Less than two years later, Burdon dropped out and War went their own way in 1971. A long string of Top 10 pop/R&B crossover hits established War's status through the '70s, always with a social message grounded by their distinctively breezy Southern California vibe.
In a class with Sam Cooke and James Brown, his two older mentors, Bobby Womack's career spans over 55 years, back to sibling group the Womack Brothers. Cooke signed and renamed them the Valentinos, whose first two Womack-penned R&B hits became signatures for the Rolling Stones ("It's All Over Now," their first #1 UK hit) and J. Geils Band ("Lookin' For A Love"). Womack is a triple-threat: prolific solo artist, landmark session guitarist (Sam Cooke At the Copa, Aretha Now, Lady Soul, Elvis Presley's "Suspicious Minds," Sly's "There's A Riot Goin' On," the Rolling Stones' "Harlem Shuffle," and many more), and master songwriter (Aretha's "Chain Of Fools," Wilson Picket's "I'm a Midnight Mover," Janis Joplin's "Trust Me," and countless others).
Five of the nine nominees will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The inductees will be announced in January 2009.
The 2009 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction program will include a weeklong series of events culminating with the Induction Ceremony on Saturday, April 4 at historic Public Hall in Cleveland. Advance ticket sales for the events will be made available to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum members and then to the public. For the latest information on inductee announcements, ticket packages, events, and other programs, fans can sign up for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame newsletter at www.rockhall.com/induction2009.
All inductees are ultimately represented in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a nonprofit organization that exists to educate visitors, fans and scholars from around the world about the history and continuing significance of rock and roll music. It carries out this mission both through its operation of a world-class museum that collects, preserves, exhibits and interprets this art form and through its library and archives as well as its educational programs.
The "Rock and Roll" Hall of Fame nominated Run-D.M.C.? Anybody else find that little strange?
Phreak89 - No more than Metallica, who totally sucks! Run DMC has done more for rock and roll than Metallica ever will. Rock and roll today carries so much hip hop sound, and that may not have happened if Run didn't blend the two. And at least Run didn't try to kill trading music like Lars and the gold-toilet-seat-lovin' boys in Metallica did.
However, Bobby Womack, WAR and Jeff Beck deserve it more than any others listed.
not as strange as the fact that the photo of jeff beck says "ryan adams" underneath it.
but really though, run DMC was the first hip hop act to ever blend "rock n roll" into their music. they were a huge influence in both rap and rock world becuase of it. walk this way, although maybe a little cheesy looking back, was a huge deal that had ramifications on music then and still to this day.
Any attempt to understand the bands they nominate every year will only lead to frustration. I find it stranger that the picture above is labeled as being Ryan Adams when I think it is Jeff Beck.
phreak, not entirely, they bridged rock and rap for the first culturally "successful" time wit Aerosmith back in 86. I highly doubt ridiculous Eminem would have sampled Aerosmith if it weren't for RUN D.M.C, same goes for any other rap artist who has used rock samples over the years.
come on jambase. that pic is of jeff beck, not ryan adams.... sloppy, i tell ya.
Metallica does not suck.
RUN DMC did have a bad ass song called "The King of Rock". This may have been what secured it for them. On the real, I think Run deserves this as much as anyone.
I thin run DMC should be in the HOF. But to say metallica doesn't deserve it is just plain ignorant and not taking an objective view....u may not like how they handle their business but for a decade they were the sound of metal ....U can't deny it....plus the new tour is selling out very quicky
sorry bnaylor, but yeah, Metallica does indeed suck shit through a straw... myu vote goes to jeff beck, no doubt. i mean come on people, he was in the fuckin yardbirds!!
chic? really? I can only think of one song that they did and it was made more popular by the sugarhill gang. And plus, they are more disco than anything and rock fans used to hate disco.
I get the idea, I'll accept Run-D.M.C.'s nomination. And I defiantly do agree that Metallic is no better than the greedy swine of the music business.
I'm wondering others thoughts on this: Have Yes, Jethro Tull, Genesis, Rush, ELP and King Crimson contributed nothing of importance to rock and roll? Each one of these bands has sold millions of albums and played to huge numbers of people during their careers. Shouldn't they be giving some props to some of the architects of progressive late sixties/early seventies rock before they start picking rap and r&b artists for their outsider influence alone? Granted, every artist on this list has merit, but there are just too many great rock bands who get overlooked again and again each year because they're not critics darlings. I'd hate to see some of these great bands get awarded posthumously when the opportunity to recognize them while they're still alive comes and goes every single year.
how awful of a list, if this be rock and roll than i sure do hate it
F Metallica, they are the money-hungry scum that destroyed music sharing for all.
kraftwerk hasn't been nominated either. And if its gunna be some rappers then why not Biggie
althogh i dislike metallica personally, they deserve to be in. but what about rush, the doobie bros, guess who, quicksilver, steve miller, jimmy buffett, little feat and quicksilver? And what abut jerry? i know the dead are in, but if other artists can be recoginzed for their solo material, then so should he. even though he hated the idea of a "hall of fame"
Does anyone know if there's any DJs in the hall yet? Fatboy Slim, Chemical Bros, Air?
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A band has to be out for 25 years to be eligible.
The RR Hall of Fame is a sham. No need to take any of this seriously. It is Jann Wenner's vanity project.
I wonder if WAR gets inducted if it will be the REAL WAR and not the single member with a bunch of unknowns. The REAL WAR (4 of 5 surviving members) has to use the name Lowrider Band because of some scumbag manager tricks that got pulled on them. The outfit that uses the name WAR is a bunch of thieves and undeserving of anything. Music biz sucks......
This is just sad. Phish should get in before Metallica.
i'm sorry for dumping on this place because it is in my home state & i wish i didn't have to -- but this place lost any last shred of credibility when they enshrined Madonna last year -- granted this year's entrants seem most deserving -- but madonna was never "rock n' roll", nor from R&R's roots & that's what the title of the place is for godsake -- btw, when the f' is leon russell getting in? -- this place had potential to be a truly amazing place for fans of this genre of music -- the 9/5/95 show @ cleveland stadium that opened the place up was fabulous -- try to track this one down if you can & you'll see what i mean.
ActualFactual: Not that it's at all warranted, but the most widely-held public impression of '70s prog-rock is that it was/is an artificial genre maintaining little value beyond that of pleasing the personal tastes of electro techy geeks and Star Trek fans.
I will recognize the hall of fame when they put true musicians in there. No Leon Russell that makes it a sham.
You don't actually have to be "rock 'n roll" anymore to get into their hall of fame. Madonna got in last year and it was all controversial but it opened hte doors for all sorts of music to get in. On another note, listen to "Ride the Lightning" or "Master of Puppets" and if you still think Metallica sucks you may want to check to see if you have lost your balls.
Or maybe you never had any to begin with? I don't know.
metallica is good at what they did, and r grreddy grimy pigs, but i do think they should be in. lets not forget how big Metallica was back in the day. Metallica not my style but i do agree.
So has anyone else heard about the Koka Booth amphitheater in Cary NC shutting down the Hall of Fame Benefit show right before Pete Townshend was going to play?? O yeah and they might be fining the people who put on the CHARITY SHOW because it ran till almost midnight....Jack Bruce's set cut by a good 6 songs...this could go on and on.. No one should ever go back to that venue until there is new ownership.
now THAT is a sham. and the stooges? no one cares that it took this long for them to get nominated? and actualfactual, i cannot even believe how bunk this list is if every one of those bands is not already on it. next they're gonna tell me the allmans' and jimi and led zeppelin didn't actually make the cut either.
what a world we live in.
and yea where's biggie?
oh and one more thing, as much as you all hate metallica, you must once again have to try to respect music with regards to it's context.. and, (not to sound too vh1 on ya, but) at one point, metallica did rule most of the world. it's like saying nirvana had no affect on music today.
jeff beck has been in there, with the yardbirds.....read the article...much moreso the history.
Metallica was great, new albums from load on, not so much, for any of you to say black album was not GREAT is nuts.
good luck to em, jeff deffinatly deserves it again
As a guitarist, Jeff Beck is a HUGE influence, not only on myself but pretty much every other guitarist I know. Blow by Blow is epic! As funky as Headhunters, but with more guitar...check out Thelonious. Also, agree with the general consensus of Metallica acting like nazis towards their fanbase but yet being extremely influential regarding their impact on heavy metal music. Much better selections this year than last-- Madonna and Melencamp=AWFUL
The "Rock and Roll" Hall of Fame is a big pile of shit. Madonna belongs in a pop hof but has no business there as she is nowhere near rock n roll. Drum machines with no guitar is not rock n roll and neither is "sampling" because you lack the talent to make your own fucking music, which is the world run-dmc "opened up" with Walk This Way. When Rush and King Crimson are put in a rap hof this might make sense. I don't see that happening. This place was worth visiting several years ago but has lost all credibility with their recent inductees while snubbing great bands that actually played ROCK. What's next, soccer players in the baseball hof because they don't have the balls to put the all-time hits leader (Pete Rose) in?
Jeff Beck is supersick at the guitar as everyone already knows. Check out Truth and Blow by Blow to get a feel for how good he is. What about the Red Hot Chili Peppers not getting a nomination, they have been around for 25 years.
The R&R hall of fame is a sham with no credibilty. & even so, Biggie over Run DMC = please tell me your kidding. you now have as much crediblity as the hall.
To everybody who always complains about this topic....don't you think R & R Hall of Fame knows a little more...? Leave the ones alone you disagree with and praise the ones you like!
that's a pretty weak list.
Jeff Beck and Metallica are the only two who deserve it.
futhepharmer for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2009! I'll be rolling up in my hoopty limo! It's All Good!
Have to agree with ActualFactual! Prog Rock is like a stepchild when it comes to RHOF. Who's will be voted in before YES, King Crimson, Rush or Genesis next year, N'Sync? The RHOF has become a joke by the standards of real musicians and roots music fans. Sorry but its all about dollars anymore and Rolling Stone Magazine is spearheading this garbage. F$@% Rolling Stone!
don't you think R & R Hall of Fame knows a little more...? HAHAHAHAHA Thanks for that one, I needed that this morning


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Pinochle is a classic card game in which you must play different tricks in order to gain points. The game is played with a 48 card deck by at least 3 persons. More people can play the game but they must set up partnerships.
The Pinochle app for the Mac OS X, enables you to play the game from the comfort of your desktop, against virtual players. However, this version of the game is using only the 9, 10, jacks, queens, kings and aces cards.
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One of the members is Francisca, who is a vendor of blankets, sheets, pots, and other products. She comments that she sacrifices a lot for her job since she needs to cover long distances in order to sell her products. However, she tells us that she is very proud of what she does since it's a dignified and honorable job. She is seeking a loan from this foundation and from Kiva so that she may purchase sheets, blankets, and other products in order to have more variety to offer to her clients.
Una de las miembros es la señora Francisca, quien se dedica al macate(venta ambulante) de frazadas, sabanas, ollas y demás tipos de productos. Ella comenta que su trabajo es muy sacrificado, ya que tiene que recorrer grandes distancias para ofrecer sus productos, pero nos cuenta que esta muy orgullosa de lo que hace, pues es un trabajo digno y honrado.
Ella solicita la ayuda de la fundación y de Kiva para la compra de sabanas, frazadas y demás productos, con lo que tendrá más variedad que ofrecer a sus clientes.
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About Fundación ParaguayaFundación Paraguaya is a financially self-sustaining social enterprise that promotes entrepreneurship in urban and rural areas through microfinance, education programs, and more. Its focus on agriculture has helped many farmers boost their crop yields. And a number of other borrowers have taken out loans to start and grow social businesses that have helped deliver eyeglasses, medicines and other helpful services in their local communities.
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Four Lancaster County residents were arrested earlier this month on federal warrants for interstate fencing of stolen property, a Lancaster County Sheriff's Office press release said.
U.S. Secret Service agents and sheriff's deputies arrested Jimmy Lee Montgomery, 67, of 1866 Willie Usher Road, Harold Scott McDonald, 30, of 1976 Wisdom Road, and Thomas Brice McManus, 64, and his wife, Sharon Steel McManus, 65, of 3129 Rocky River Road, on Sept. 4.
KERSHAW – Boantown is temporarily bone dry.
While no one is really sure why, the entire town of Kershaw is out of water.
Town administrator Tony Starnes said the phones in town hall started ringing just after 3 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17, with water customers reporting the issue.
"Either we don't have any water or any water pressure," he said. "Right now, we aren't really sure."
The town gets its water from the Lancaster County Water and Sewer District (LCWSD).
At least one person was flown from the scene of an accident on Great Falls Highway (S.C. 200) on Wednesday, Sept. 16.
The accident happened about 4:30 p.m. when a mini van and sedan crashed head-on near the intersection of JB Denton Road and the Rum Creek Bridge. The accident closed down the highway temporarily as crews treated the injured and cleared the accident scene.
See Friday's Lancaster News for details.
On Friday, Sept. 18, all across America local ceremonies will take place to honor our missing service members and their families with a focus on continuing the commitment to account, as fully as possible, for those listed as q prisoner of war (POW) or missing in action (MIA).
Indian Land and Pleasant Valley residents will be hearing a lot about petitions for a special tax district for law enforcement over the next few weeks as proponents seek signatures to impose a $75 per dwelling tax on Indian Land for "enhanced law enforcement."
Tight play highlighted the annual Rotary Golf tournament at the Lancaster Golf Club on Thursday, Sept. 10.
The foursome of Jalen Perry, Kenny Faulkenberry, Wayne Joyner and Quinton Rodgers captured the win with a birdie on No. 18 when the tourney went to a sudden-death playoff.
The tournament, which drew 17 teams, featured three teams with a 60 each after 18 holes.
The card playoff began on No. 15 and went to No. 18.
RICHBURG – Four Lancaster County high school football players reaped top honors at the week three meeting of the Tri-County Football Coaches Association on Tuesday, Sept. 15 at the Front Porch High School in Richburg.
Andrew Jackson and Indian Land each had two winners in the awards for Division II schools, Class A, AA and AAA members.
Andrew Jackson, which rolled to a 35-13 road win over Great Falls, was led by Heath Gandy and Dylan Baker.
The Lancaster Lady Bruins volleyball team swept York Prep, a charter school out of York, on Thursday, Sept. 10.
The Lady Bruins rolled 3-0 – 25-21, 25-12 and 25-17.
Hayden Thorne led the LHS kills with eight and Keyotta Garris added six. Zaria Woods added five.
Ashley Abbott had 15 digs. Stevie Sweeney posted nine assists and Amari Jefferson added six assists.
The Junior Lady Junior Bruins also prevailed, 2-1.
The LHS varsity is 6-1 after taking wins over Indian Land, Buford and Andrew Jackson.
Lancaster Super Speedway featured some amazing racing for the Huey Knight Benefit race on Saturday, Sept. 12.
The night was special as during intermission before the main events started, LSS Speedway inducted three new members of the Lancaster Super Speedway Hall Of Fame.
A county clash and two teams looking to stay unbeaten highlight Lancaster County high school football week four.
Host Buford and Andrew Jackson will tangle for the 38th time at BHS's Jackets' Stadium.
Lancaster and Indian Land, each unbeaten this season at 3-0, will seek to extend their streaks in home games Friday night.
Lancaster hosts Camden, while Indian Land, embarking on region play, will entertain winless Cheraw High School.
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The Pope and the General Election have been huge stories, but in the world of media in recent weeks there has been a quite different topic of conversation - the curious case of the director-general who bit a producer. The story of how Mark Thompson, the BBC director-general, after reading the Daily Star horoscope, bit producer Anthony Massey on the arm 17 years ago was dismissed by the BBC last month as a bit of "high jinks" and "horseplay". But no proper explanation has ever been forthcoming of why it happened and there were also rumours at the time - circulating in the BBC - that Thompson once also vented his anger on a video editor by grabbing him by the throat.
The Pope and the General Election have been huge stories, but in the world of media in recent weeks there has been a quite different topic of conversation - the curious case of the director-general who bit a producer. The story of how Mark Thompson, the BBC director-general, after reading the Daily Star horoscope, bit producer Anthony Massey on the arm 17 years ago was dismissed by the BBC last month as a bit of "high jinks" and "horseplay". But no proper explanation has ever been forthcoming of why it happened and there were also rumours at the time - circulating in the BBC - that Thompson once also vented his anger on a video editor by grabbing him by the throat.
As Thompson approaches the first anniversary of his appointment, he explains, for the first time, the extraordinary bite. "I was editor of the Nine O'Clock News with Massey, who was duty home intake editor," he says. "I asked him to send a crew to cover some story I wanted to do that night. He refused. I pretended to snap at him [Thompson makes a snapping gesture by way of demonstration]. Unbelievably, I connected with his arm."
You didn't mean to bite him? "Of course not," says the man who has spent most of his career working at the BBC; he spent more than two years running Channel 4.
Is there any truth in the rumour that he once tried to throttle a video editor who displeased him during his days in BBC News? "No" Thompson replies emphatically. None at all? "No. This was in the papers at the time when the famous biting thing happened." The BBC wrote to the papers last month saying that the "throttling" incident was false and defamatory, and warning them against repeating the untrue allegation.
"For what its worth," adds Thompson spontaneously, "I have never struck a colleague in anger or ever had a complaint made against me, or, even in some more general sense, had a complaint made against me for harassment. The famous biting was a ludicrous joke that went wrong years ago in the newsroom," he says, in a comment intended to draw a line under a bizarre incident and rumours that have resurfaced at this time of maximum controversy for the BBC director-general.
In the face of what some have chose to call biting job cuts, the staff of News 24, the BBC's continuous television news service, has started working to contract and staff unions at the BBC have begun balloting their members on the possibility of taking industrial action to back up their opposition to the compulsory redundancies. A 24-hour strike later next month, which could seriously disrupt live programmes, is seen as a distinct possibility. Greg Dyke, the former BBC director-general, weighed into the argument on Friday in a radio interview by speaking of "a climate of fear" at the BBC and adding that if he had still been at the Corporation, he would not be "making 15 per cent of the staff redundant. It's not necessary".
Thompson has explained his plans in detail in staff presentations and made speeches outlining his strategy, but there is still a strong sense of puzzlement among many people at the BBC.
The big question that is being asked time and time again is, "Why?" How come the director-general is promising more programmes and higher-quality programmes, while at the same time planning to get rid of more than 2,000 production staff members - the very people who make the programmes? All departments face budgets that are now likely to average around 13.5 per cent during the next three years, rather than the initial target of 15 per cent. "The cuts have come before the vision," a hard-pressed television executive admits. "Shouldn't it be the other way round?"
Thompson says: "The BBC, whichever way you cut it, faces very big challenges, but also opportunities, over the next 10 years. The Green Paper [on the future of the Corporation] lays out an agenda for the BBC, which includes building digital Britain, as well as increasing quality and reducing repeats." He believes that the BBC can play a similar kind of leadership role in the second phase of the digital revolution - taking the country fully digital by 2012 - as it did in the first phase by launching new digital services such as News 24, BBC Three and BBC Four.
The BBC he inherited after his appointment on May 21, Thompson explains, was already facing an additional £155m in savings during the next two years under previous agreements with the Government. Indeed, departments had already been told that they were likely to be set targets to save between 5 per cent and 6 per cent during that period.
In the past few years, the Corporation's licence fee has been linked to inflation plus 1.5 per cent a year, and lots of new services launched. "The reality is that very few people outside the BBC and, I have to say, not many people inside the BBC felt that value for money had been particularly a priority over the last few years," says Thompson. The remark could be taken as a side-swipe at his big-spending predecessor Dyke, although he insists that he is not really criticising anybody.
The choice, he says he faced, was to go for the £155m savings target over 18 months to two years and then embark on a second wave of cuts to pay for the new programming the Government expects. Then there was the likelihood of having to make yet further cuts if the BBC receives a "challenging" licence fee settlement for the year 2007 and beyond.
The Green Paper backed the basic structure of the BBC and proposed a new 10-year Royal Charter, but said nothing about what the size of the licence fee should be. That is a matter for debate this summer and autumn.
"So, we decided to look, in as tough-minded a way as we could, at every aspect of what the BBC does to see whether we could really address the value-for-money issue in one go ourselves, before the Government and others started looking at it and started dictating what we might do," says Thompson.
The reality the process has produced includes a £320m-savings target over three years, with 2,500 posts going in professional services, such as human resources and finance - half from redundancies and half to be sourced outside the BBC.
Significant parts of the BBC, such as sport, children's broadcasting and a large part of Radio Five Live will move to Manchester to make the Corporation less metropolitan.
Last week, the BBC said 18 organisations had expressed interest as the sale of BBC Broadcast - the subsidiary specialising in transmitting and promoting digital services - gets under way, and BBC Resources, which brings together everything from studios and outside broadcasts to the camera crew, is to be sold in some form.
But it is the programme-making cuts which have caused most controversy. The BBC's factual and learning departments, for example, are to lose 424 posts, or 21 per cent, while news is losing 420 posts, or 12 per cent, of staff members, and the Nations and Regions departments of the BBC will have to lose 735 posts.
Thompson says he has talked to a lot of people in the private and public sector, and believes that the BBC, like any other organisation, should expect to make "a number of per cent" of productivity savings every year without sacrificing quality.
But the Thompson proposals were not initially accepted by the BBC governors, who asked that they should be independently verified. "They always accepted from the outset the philosophy and the framework of the plan, but they wanted to satisfy themselves that the value for money plans made sense in detail," says Thompson.
PA Consulting was called in, and, according to Thompson, verified that the plans were "sensible and achievable", and struck roughly the right balance between "ambition and achievability". "We were looking to make sure that the plans went far enough, but also that they didn't go too far," Thompson insists. The BBC unions are now trying to get access to the background papers behind the governors' decision under the Freedom of Information Act, as part of their campaign against enforced cuts.
The BBC director-general argues that, over the decades, but particularly in the 1980s and 1990s, the BBC has progressively looked for savings in its existing services to help pay for new services. Despite the launch of an unprecedented number of new digital channels, Thompson says the overall head count of the BBC still went down. "As we release money and begin to invest it in new services there may well be some new posts created," Thompson forecasts.
"The object is not to get the maximum number of job losses. If we can achieve everything we need to achieve with fewer job losses, no one will be happier than me," he says.
The numbers could come down, but this is unlikely to happen before the third year of the cuts, and only if there is a good match between the skills of those losing their jobs then and new services being launched. The plans to start broadcasting high-definition television, for example, are unlikely to help people losing their jobs in the London newsroom. Thompson is, nevertheless, convinced that he has got things round the right way to make absolutely sure the savings can be achieved before launching new services.
"It is difficult for BBC staff to believe in jam tomorrow when what they feel is pain today - that I accept in human terms is difficult," says Thompson, who presided over a 30 per cent staff cut at Channel 4. "It is difficult to believe in future investment when what you see in front of you is job losses. It would be a lot easier for me if I had one popular thing after another to say to BBC staff."
The BBC can at least start pointing at some of the jam being spread already. Last week, the BBC said it was investing an extra £61m in improving the quality of its television, radio and online services, with £21m being earmarked for television.
The BBC director-general claims he has not encountered personal antagonism as a result of his radical vision, although he admits he has been involved in a number of "feisty conversations about what has been going on". He is talking in his rather spartan office in the BBC's Media Village at White City. The only book in sight on his coffee table is Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore, a rather dark novel with a brutal murder and rainstorms of fish falling from the sky.
The previous visitor to his glass cubicle was Jane Root, the former controller of BBC2 now working for Discovery Communications in the US. Thompson laughs away any significance in the meeting and simply says they are old friends. He emphasises that the BBC is now launching a nine-month study with its top creative staff to produce a new creative vision for the future. But isn't that another example of putting the cart before the horse - first the cuts and then the creative vision?
"Of course, there are always possible reasons for delay and putting off the evil moment," says Thompson. "My judgement was that we should do everything we could to get the BBC ready for the next Charter by the time the Charter started (2007), and although this has meant a difficult and unstable time at the BBC without any question, I thought it was best to get, in my view, an unavoidable process and plans under way."
It is clear that his experience of "the cold winds of change" in the private sector at Channel 4 has changed how Thompson approaches things. Tougher as a result? "Possibly yes, but also I have a strong sense that the future is arriving pretty quickly now and if things need to happen, they need to happen pretty quickly," he replies.
Some staff members complain that too much of the BBC's resources are now being diverted away from mainstream programme-making and into areas such as online archives, empowerment websites and music-review charts. Thompson will have none of it and insists that the BBC has to respond to the changing needs of its audience.
"There were plenty of people in the BBC in the 1990s saying, 'What's all this about the web? What are we doing?'," he says. "If right now we were a BBC without the web, without children's networks, without News 24, I think we would be scuppered actually. I really do."
What about complaints that it is largely "the workers" at the BBC that are having to absorb most of the pain, and management has emerged largely unscathed? "Where we can, we are trying to ... streamline the management system. We have merged the strategy and policy departments. I expect significant reductions in the layers and structures of the BBC as part of this process, and that means fewer managers."
In fact, for a variety of reasons, there has been considerable change at the top of the BBC, partly caused by moves to the private sector by such people as BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey and now the director of sport Peter Salmon.
Despite an obviously demanding year for the new BBC director-general, which could get tougher still, Thompson is very optimistic about the state of BBC programme-making.
The award-winning Ten O'Clock News is, he believes, as good as the BBC's main evening news bulletin has ever been. News 24 has "come of age" and is consistently getting higher audiences than Sky News for the first time. Heggessey had begun to redefine "what mass audience public service might look like", with hits such as Strictly Come Dancing.
Thompson also underlines the success of BBC Three shows such as Little Britain and Casanova, which then go on to BBC1 or BBC2, and points with pleasure to a new BBC Four satire on the way. The Thick of It is a political sitcom taking a mordant look at the world of Whitehall and will definitely not be shown this side of the General Election.
Although it is undoubtedly been a difficult year for Thompson, he has no regrets about deciding to leave Channel 4 for the BBC. "It feels like the right decision to me, although it has been a very tough year for everyone and quite a tough year for me, actually," he says. "I am sure it was the right thing for me to do. I do believe in a really strong and independent BBC in the long term and I think there is a lot I can do to help create that."
Not all the 6,000 BBC staff he has quite deliberately bitten hard during the past few months would necessarily have such a sanguine view.


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Re: Weather 'tis nobler
Well, not quite. Here in Switzerland the civilised part of the ranges are in very hospitable climates during the summer months. Very much so, as the tourist industry relies on it.
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Well, not quite. Here in Switzerland the civilised part of the ranges are in very hospitable climates during the summer months. Very much so, as the tourist industry relies on it.
The only reason Swisspost open your mail for you, is the "customs inspections". Aka - daylight robbery fees.
Assuming they're using multrotors, the specs will look very similar to the system I'm testing:
- 6kg payload
- 3-4km range
- 15 mins flight time
- multiple levels of redundancy
The drone is the easy part though. The hard part will be Swiss FOCA regulations which forbid - even for the army - BLoS. If you can't fly BLos, there's no real point using the drone.
In Switzerland, they do.
Because it takes almost next to nothing to make a drone fall out the sky. And fall they do - there's no such thing as a glide slope for multi rotors.
...just kicked someone's ass.
Actually, my Spektrum DX8 mortally wounded a TBS Discovery last month, by decided than all channels should be 1000pwm until I rebooted it.
However, I did follow all the common sense precautions, which meant the only thing even remotely troubled or injured by this was my wallet.
Re: fixed frequencies...I doubt this will happen. Even though it should.
Your views are equally echoed in the field as well btw, with a universal "This'll ruin it for the rest of us" theme. None of us want this.
The real operators know that flying over crowds is the number one no-no. Many will turn down work as a consequence. Unfortunately, not all operators turn the work down...
Pre-flight checks etc are all common sense when you're rig costs nearly $15,000 (even before you add the RED epic). Venue checks as well.
Your suggestion about weight and size limits is plausible, but there is much to argue here. What weight is safe? <1kg? 2kg? 4k? These are all being discussed by the various aviation authorities. But the big question is:
When does a "hobby toy" become a "commercial drone"? A DJI Phantom can be both. And this is the problem.
On 5.8ghz, you'll be lucky to get 3-4km even with clear LoS, even with a 13dbi at the rx end. Yes, you'd get 20mile range if you're 5km up due to lack of atmosphere, but while one end of the link is at sea level, your range is very small on 5.8.
Better with a 900mhz or 1.2/1.3ghz rig, but the antenna shape will destroy all advances made by the clever airframe design.
Not all of them btw.
The ones with any sense (or deal with client data or client funds) are steering well clear.
When mounting the ArduPilot, remember the vibration damping. Anything +/-5 on the Z axis will throw off the Baro and gyro accuracy. And mount the compass as far away from any electronics as possible.
http://www.diydrones.com is a good source of anti vibe techniques - four corners of MoonGel or Zeal is the most effective "singlle solution, direct mount" approach. To improve your gryo accuracy (which I suspect will be important given the proposed speeds), I'd recommend the zeal route.
"Backside Illumination"
Because some el reg Apple articles sound like the sun shines out of Apple's...
What's a watch?
Not worn one in 30 years. Don't miss it. Won't miss these either.
Is it just me, or does the tyranical approach to product secrecy of Jobs seem better than this "lets leak stuff constantly for months pre-launch as a form of hype" current approach?
The products might be hit and miss, but at least Jobs knew to put on a show. At the moment everyone is a bit *meh*.
Apple's fingerless gloves will cost more...
Ok, I'll admit to be being a fan of some (not all) Apple products, but I'm becoming less and less so, given the frankly drug-addled design decisions it's been making recently.
Gold and Silver options? 64bit processing? Fisher price UI? *this* is what Apple identified that it's customers want??? What f*ing market research were they doing??? Christ, take one look at your competitors Apple, and you can see what the market wants...
For the first time in ages, I will not be upgrading my iphone. Time to look for something a bit classier, with a bigger screen, more useful gadgets and more storage.
oh man - tech overload for a mere mortal brain like mine. But in a good way.
I don't think it's anything we didn't already know.
It's sheer scale and bare-faced audacity of it all that's rather alarming.
Then the new iFolly is released, you rush out to purchase a new status, and suddenly this observation becomes void. Funny That!
That's a sweeping assumption on your behalf, and you missed by a country mile.
Actually I came to the IP5 as an experiment after a Galaxy note. Naturally the fandroids will downvote this as a failing on my behalf, rather than - god forbid - find fault with the Note. But that's a very long post for another time.
Time to get some of that "innovation" into useability Apple, rather than tinkering with the form factor so much it's now hard to produce. Time to admit you misread the market, and get back to what people want.
Though in their defence - my iphone 5 is hardly slow in my usage model, so one does wonder why we need nearly 2ghz of quad core in a phone?
Interestingly, this is now my preferred option for a remote target tracking processor on a quad, instead of the Pi.
1. because of the dedicated 5V in, which is an easy wire in job to the BEC. Running USB convertors adds weight and complexity, and then you probably still need to run a BEC anyway if you running greater than 4S. Also means the bridges/capes will not brown out the processor either.
2. The extra CPU cycles will be useful, and the H264 is not required.
Only downside is the lack of 3G/LTE bridges/capes (that I can see)
a) Fisher price is cheaper
b) Fisher price is still cool (Have you seen the Space shuttle??? Cool....)
c) watches? Coffee grinders yes, watches no
You probably forgot to include vehicle depreciation in your calculation, but then again...the prices are so ridiculous now, that even that can be factored in and still be cheaper.
UK railways are the worst in Europe, for how much we pay. FFS - with a flat rate 50% discount card (which everyone can get, and can be for almost *any* journey), even rail travel in Switzerland is cheaper.
Where is all the money going? Or what's wrong? Can anybody enlighten me?
Probably to Edinburgh, to pay for that beacon of efficiency, the trams.
You lucky bastards.
It's the model of efficiency compared to the Edinburgh trams, and they're not even running yet.
This is less efficient and will cost me more
Ha, ha, that's not inefficient. If you want a true masterclasss in creating an epic clusterfuck of an "efficient transport system", travel 40 miles east to witness the glorious Edinburgh trams. An epic failure on so many levels it defines all logical explanation.
Ive been on it.
*They'd* have to pay *me* to travel on it again.
You need some "salt" with that too. More specifically...beer.
That will turn it from english into something truly uninteligible to any sober person, but will make perfect sense to anyone who's consumed the right amount of "salt".
Neither was creeping around a level in Doom on 9% health trying to find a health pack
Pfft - ya big Jessie. Come back when you can do the boss level on 3%...
Remember when using the "contains highly technical content" icon meant you'd see an interesting post?
Remember when el Reg could review an Android tablet with some fuckwad immediately sneering about a twelve year old version that ran Windows XP?
Pepperidge farm remembers
See also "Control centre".
Or "Center", as we will likely be forced to use, given our US-based companies' preference for forcing their mutant offspring of a language onto us.
Tip for Apple/MS/Oracle/etc...when I set my language preferences to "UK" in the OS, I expect your apps to honour that decision.
"over-informed journalists"...you mean there's more than one??? I thought informed journo's were a myth...
...current beta, you can hide both of those in a folder, which you could stick on the last page of apps ..
But that's what we do now! And it's a surprisingly full folder....
No, we want full delete or hide capabilties, not a variety of the "Apple's Junk" folder.
Ropes are so passé.
Rockets. That's what you want.
Or even better...a vertical maglev. (aka...rail gun!)
He broke both his legs and probably never got in a lift again but otherwise was completely unharmed
It would have made a better story if you mentioned "He broke both his legs and probably never got in a lift again but otherwise walked away completely unharmed"
If you've ever broken a leg, you'd probably realise that "completely unharmed" is somewhat underestimating your injuries.
Geller. Because while the science lags behind expectations, they still have to make shit up and sell it to the public as real.
Double taps and triple shots. The bane of Pre. Ej. sufferers everywhere.
QI = Questionable Integrity
Nukes only work against stuff with substance.
But since SCO has no substance...
There will be a PC version on goodluckbuy or alibaba next week. Probably.
I don't think it really matters what you estimate.
At the end of the day, *all* of the prices will be in the "Are you sitting down for this one, sir?" territory.
..so it's a cross between R2D2 and a G4 Cube.
...or doing all his MS patching...for the MS machines he pretends he doesn't have, naturally.
Personally, I don't see the problem with this.
If I'm gonna spunk many thousands on fast, massive storage etc for 4K processing - possibly a number of times more expensive than the Mac itself - I want it to be transportable away from Apple if I choose to do so. If the external connectivity cable/controller is as fast as an internal one, going external shouldn't be a problem, gives more flexibility, and it makes the array portable.
The only advantage of going internal would be access to the PCIe bus for storage, but the costs of scaling this sort of capacity would be prohibitive for 4K, so you'll look to localised editing anyway, but the raw stored on an array.
The only wrinkle is the video cards. Red Rocket is indeed out, but we'll just have to see how well the Fire Pro's do. I notice the brief wording doesn't highlight whether realtime 4K playback is possible. If it is, then the *new" 4K editors won't need to fork out on a RED. RED might even introduce a new breakout box if it can't do full playback. But by far the biggest issue is the non-standard video card form factor. Of all the new "lock in" technologies in the new Pro, this is the worst. Shame on you apple...
I want your contacts, passwords etc. to get them from your iphone I need to:
- break into your house or office
- take photos of your iphone charger
- go home, replicate charge as close as possible
- devise the internals, and a bit of malware to get uploaded
- break into your house or office again
- replace charger with mine
- hope you don't notice that your charger has been replaced. Or that your house was broken into. Twice.
Chances of exploit: Slim...?
Much easier to write/buy an exploit for the software platform based on open source and has the largest market share, surely...
...an MS article, and EADON is out in force.
His posts are like popcorn for the soul.
And yet I am right.
...just like Robert Metcalfe (3COM) was.
At least he managed to avoid slating Microsoft and using FAIL in the last sentence. Maybe he'll be able to graduate to secondary school in September afterall...
What would have been better is that all the robots are kept in sync over TCP/IP, which meant that all would be in tune, but none of them were actually in time.
Use a BT homehub, and frankly some of them will be on a different verse of the song, the network would be so crap.
It's telling that I don't know who you're referring to - Google or the politicians.


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After a thoroughly miserable week of Jew-bashing from almost all corners, here's some light relief.
Amir Mizroch has compiled his "top 10 reasons not to be antisemitic".
My personal favourite is point seven on the list... but the whole top ten is worth a look if you need some cheering up this lunchtime.
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