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In Knoxville, Tenn. last week one woman died of spinal meningitis and an other victim developed the disease. They were the 21st case and 15th death from spinal meningitis there this year. In rural Knox County, outside Knoxville, five cases have been discovered; one died. In other east Tennessee counties doctors have reported several sporadic cases. The situation last week caused Dr. Fray Owen Pearson, Knoxville's young epidemiologist, to cry: "Alarmingly serious. . . . Take care of your bodies and health. . . . Keep your children away from public places and crowds and always away from the funerals of...
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Sorry for being whiney. I'd still like to know where the gotchas are if someone knows that. Joshua b. Jore ; http://www.greentechnologist.org ; 10012 11010 11022 10202 1012 2122 11020 10202 10202 11002 1020 1012 11102 11102 11102 1201 11001 11002 10211 11020 10202 10202 11002 11021 1201 11010 11020 10211 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 11:57:39 -0500 (CDT) From: Joshua b. Jore <josh(at)greentechnologist(dot)org> Cc: PgSQL Novice ML <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org> Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Why sequential scan when there's a supporting index? On 25 May 2002, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 03:52, Andrew McMillan wrote: > > On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 02:25, Ron Johnson wrote: > > For my personal view I'm OK with the current behaviour. It has > > tradeoffs, and this is one of the negatives, but although I find myself > > doing this interactively quite often I only very rarely find myself > > doing it inside an application. > > IMO, when a "proprietary" DBA (like me) hears that that statement > does table scans, s/he will be stunned, and wonder what other > "gotchas" are lurking out there awaiting someone who wants to > query enterprise-sized tables. I was wondering the same thing. I read the html manual, O'Reilly's Practical PostgreSQL, Sam's PostgreSQL Developer's Handbook and have browsed http://techdocs.postgresql.org. I also lurk on this list and ocasionally ask and answer questions. Where in all that information am I supposed to pick up that 'SELECT max(foo) FROM quux' should be written as 'SELECT foo FROM quux ORDER BY foo LIMIT 1'. That's really unintuitive and if this info isn't in the docs I've read so far, I'm not sure where it is. Am I supposed to read the source for comments as well? So mostly I just want to know where these suggested work arounds are documented. Is there a particular set of keywords that work for searching the hacker's list? I'm at a loss as to where to get this (obviously) valuable info. Pointers would be appreciated,
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COLUMBUS -- Ohioans aren't very fond at the moment of President Obama or his signature health care law, giving both low ratings in a survey released Wednesday by the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
Among 1,361 registered voters questioned over the past week, only 34 percent approved of the president's work in office, with 61 percent saying the opposite.
Fifty-seven percent of Ohioans said Obama was "not honest and trustworthy."
And 59 percent said they opposed the affordable care act, commonly referred to as Obamacare, with 45 percent saying they expected their health care to be worse a year from now.
"President Barack Obama's popularity is at a record low in Ohio and the first time his approval rating has fallen below 40 percent in the state," Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the polling institute, said in a released statement. "This is a state considered to be a national bellwether where he got 51 percent of the vote just 12 months ago."
Quinnipiac regularly gauges Ohioans' views on candidates and issues. Its latest poll has a margin of error of about 3 percentage points.
Among Quinnipiac's other findings, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is outpacing half a dozen potential Republican candidates in the 2016 presidential election, including Gov. John Kasich, by eight or more percentage points.
But she was neck and neck (42 percent-41 percent) among Ohioans when pitted against New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
"Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie are the 2016 leaders to Ohio voters, locked in a statistical tie," Brown said. "Ms. Clinton easily defeats a bevy of other potential GOP aspirants. Interestingly, when voters are asked whether she would make a good president, more say yes than say they would vote for her. Conversely, Vice President Joseph Biden is not presidential material in the eyes of Ohioans. Only 28 percent think he would be a good president."
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'Kick' box office collections, although great, are sliding a little bit and with Akshay Kumar-Tamannaah starrer 'Entertainment' releasing tomorrow, the negative impact may get stronger.
The Salman Khan-starrer has been doing excellent business at the box office and many have seen it as an indication of greater things to come, but this has been built on the fact that there was no competition in cinemas - no major Bollywood release happened in last 2 weeks.
But there's a chance that the film may fail in its quest to topple 'Dhoom 3' as 'Kick' collections in week 2 took a sudden dip - Friday Rs 9.22 crore, Saturday Rs 10.62 crore, Sunday Rs 14.18 crore, Monday Rs 5.08 crore, Tuesday Rs 4.21 crore, Wednesday Rs 3.91 crore.
Nevertheless, predictions have already been made that 'Kick' will definitely challenge Dhoom 3's humongous box office collections record.
In fact, 'Kick' and 'Dhoom 3' are almost head-to-head in the first week, with Salman bhai's film actually beating Aamir Khan's flick on two days (check data below).
Trade analyst Taran Adarsh, in a tweet, has pegged 'Kick' box office collections at Rs 211.31 crore net, till Wednesday.
Kick has also done fabulous business in overseas markets like UK, US/Canada and UAE. With box office collections of $ 10.25 million (Rs 62.85 crore), the film is already the highest grosser of 2014 in overseas territory. Kick's overseas tally will go up significantly with many screens yet to report figures.
'Kick' box office collections (worldwide) stand at Rs 274.16 crore. It has already surpassed '3 Idiots' in box office collections and is now the fourth biggest grosser of all-time, behind 'Dhoom 3', 'Krrish 3' and 'Chennai Express' as per the domestic business is concerned.
Kick's success also makes Salman Khan the first Bollywood actor to have seven Rs 100 crore movies to his credit. It has also made director Sajid Nadiadwala the only debutant to hit a double century in Bollywood.
Kick, also starring Jacqueline Fernandez, Randeep Hooda and Nawazuddin Siddiqui minted a whopping Rs 50 crore in two days of its release. It opened to mixed response from critics but earned nearly Rs 27 crore on the opening day. The first weekend collections beat all of Salmans previous records except 'Ek Tha Tiger' (Rs 32.93 crore).
Comparison: 'Dhoom 3' vs 'Kick' (box office collections)
Dhoom 3
Day 1 (Friday): Rs 36.22 crore
Day 2 (Saturday): Rs 33.36 crore
Day 3 (Sunday): Rs 38.03 crore
Day 4 (Monday ): Rs 21.71 crore
Day 5 (Tuesday): Rs 20.14 crore
Day 6 (Wednesday): Rs 25.52 crore
Day 7 (Thursday): Rs 14.01 crore
End of Week 1: Rs 188.99 crore
Day 1 (Friday): Rs 26.40 crore
Day 2 (Saturday): Rs 27.15 crore
Day 3 (Sunday): Rs 30.18 crore
Day 4 (Monday ): Rs 14.41 crore
Day 5 (Tuesday): Rs 28.89 crore
Day 6 (Wednesday): Rs 21.66 crore
Day 7 (Thursday): Rs 15.4 crore
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Daytona Helmet
This was a cake made for very close friends annual Daytona Party. With the help of their son, who is very good friends with Justin Allgaier and on his Nationwide team sent me photos of Justin's helmet, with Justin's approval. I tried to recreate his helmet. All the sponser logo's were hand painted as well as this years Daytona logo. Justin loved the cake and thought it was spot on.


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The untold story of Arabs
Dubai: It's a secret that almost went down with the Titanic: How scores of Arabs perished or survived the ship's tragic maiden voyage and sinking in 1912.
But the secret is being partially told a century after Titanic's watery demise thanks to some researchers and to the Palestinian-American journalist and writer Ray Hanania, who today feel so disappointed for not answering that question in the first half of the last century which was a "bigger tragedy than Titanic itself".
"Their stories should have been told then to the whole world," Hanania said. But almost 85 years after the accident, he himself started narrating their untold stories.
Hanania's interest with Arabs on board the Titanic goes back to 1997, when he was forced into watching the epic movie Titanic with his wife. While watching the blockbuster movie directed by Oscar-winner James Cameron, Hanania attention was drawn to a dialogue in a scene.
As passengers in the third-class cabins were fighting to get clear of steerage, there was a cry of "yalla" — or "come on" in Arabic.
"For an Arab-American, any thing [related to an] Arab hits you really hard," Hanania told Gulf News.
"For many in the theatre it meant nothing, but to me it meant — Wow! There were Arabs on board and how come I never heard about them before, since I have spent my entire life searching the role of Arab people not only in US but also in the Western culture," he said.
'Yalla moment'
Until that moment, it was the only reference that "woke me up", he said.
Hanania was content with what he had seen or heard while watching the movie. A second reference struck him shortly.
"When I was leaving the theatre, I saw names displayed of each and every person who was on board the Titanic. I looked at the names and could right away easily recognise 79 [Arabic] names," he added.
Hanania scrutinised the list over and over again before concluding that there were at least 80 Arabs among the ill-fated passengers. He watched the movie several times to make sure he had not missed anything and analysed the two-second "yalla" moment in the nearly three-and-half hour movie.
He was "shocked", "disappointed" and "amazed" since no researchers had earlier mentioned anything about the Arab passengers.
"To me, it was a bigger tragedy than sinking [of the ship]. It was more tragic because I thought [part of] the Arab culture was lost. We lost something. We lost the opportunity to get our story. How many Arabs on board the Titanic were heroes? How many Arabs went out of their way to save people? We never heard any of that," Hanania said. "That story more than any other story connects the Arab people with the American people," he added. If any proof of Arabs on board the Titanic had been revealed in the 1950s or 1960s, there would have been a bigger chance that survivors, their descendants or relatives would have been interviewed. Today, it seems a "huge" task to conduct research of this magnitude.
But, Hanania said, everybody wanted to avoid the "hassle" of talking about the Arab passengers in modern history, especially after the 9/11 terror attacks in the US. Since the revelation that Arab passengers had been on board the Titanic, several jokes and comments have been made on the findings. One of comment was "…that's why it [Titanic] sunk", and "…'the terrorists' are to blame for the sinking of the ship", Hanania said.
A year after the Titanic movie was released, Hanania — whose family migrated to the US early last century — did a lot of research using books and newspaper articles before documenting his findings.
In his column Arabs on Titanic: We Share the Pain But Not the Glory written in 1998, Hanania reviewed every name on the passenger, crew and business lists and could identify 79 names that were of Arab heritage. The ship had 2,224 passengers and crew who sailed the maiden voyage. There were only 706 survivors. Judith Geller, in her book Titanic: Women and Children First published in October 1998, writes that there "officially were 154 Syrians on board the Titanic and 29 were saved: four men, five children and 20 women". She cited newspaper accounts which suggested that the small village of Kfar Mishki in the Bekaa Valley of Eastern Lebanon was "devastated by the loss of at least 13 of its inhabitants". The village has a majority of Roman Orthodox Lebanese.
Easier to emigrate
Hanania said it is difficult to "identify precisely" the origin of the Arab passengers, and how many came from where exactly. Also, all people arriving at the United States from the Levant were called "Syrians". However, many people on the ship were Christian Arabs and Hanania has an explanation for that.
"It was much easier for a Christian Arab to immigrate to another country than an Arab Muslim because the Christian Arab would immigrate with the sponsorship of a church. It [the church] would have helped them getting paperwork, visa, etc."
After Hanania's article was posted on the internet, along with the names of the 79 Arabs on the ship, he said he received many emails from people saying they were relatives and descendants of the Arabs on board the Titanic. Their relatives' names were "very strong American sounding or western sounding names".
The western sounding names are another factor for not being able to exactly specify the number of Arab passengers.
According to Hanania it would have been "nice" to talk to the descendants of the passengers, but the purpose of telling their story was not as clear as of today.
Now, when Arab-Americans look back, they realise they want to, "tell the American people, we suffered just like you. We died on the Titanic just like you. We were immigrants just like you. They would look at us, and say Oh, you are just like us."
Priceless loss
More than 1,500 lives were lost in what is described as one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century.
But priceless items and personal property also sunk into the deep waters of the Atlantic Ocean that fateful night. A priceless copy of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the poems of the great philosopher, poet, writer and scientist who emerged from the Muslim world in the eleventh century, was among these items, according to Ray Hanania. A Jewish New York investor had purchased it and it was being shipped to that investor on the Titanic in the mail section, said Hanania. "The book had 1,051 semi-precious stones set in 18-carat gold, 5,000 separate pieces of coloured leathers and 100 square feet of 22-carat gold leaf in the tooling," he wrote in an article published in 1998.
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just before two days ago, I was watching the movie on one of the arab channels, and I can't go by with out noticing the "Yalla" in one of the scenes, I was amazed for what I have read about it and it's importance to us (Arabs) to be part of this tragedy. Thank you for pulling out this kind of information and well done


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Nelly Furtado's Twitter Account Also Hacked
Hot on the heels of Lady Gaga's Twitter account being hacked, singer Nelly Furtado has also fallen victim to hacking. Where as Gaga was "offering" an iPad2 to all of her followers in the spirit of the season, Furtado's fake tweet, which has since been removed from her feed, offered Mac Book laptops. You know what they say: If it's too good to be true, it probably is.


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Efficacy of Sambucol in the Treatment of Influenza
The recruitment status of this study is unknown. The completion date has passed and the status has not been verified in more than two years.
Verified October 2007 by Hadassah Medical Organization.
Recruitment status was: Active, not recruiting
Recruitment status was: Active, not recruiting
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The trial will examine the efficacy of sambucol in the treatment of influenza. The primary efficacy endpoint will be the length of time to resolution of influenza illness.The double blind trial will be conducted at the Personnel Clinic, and at the Clinical virology Unit, Hadassah University Hospital, and will include 100 patients with laboratory-confirmed influenza infection, 50 in the sambucol and 50 in the placebo study arm.
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- Patients with renal failure.
- Patients who received the recent influenza vaccine.
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Study finds no link between MS and blocked veins: Saskatchewan advocates weigh in
REGINA – For patients and their families living with multiple sclerosis, every new study brings a high or a low to an already unpredictable disease.
"It is another roller coaster for people living with the disease," said Erin Kuan, president of the MS Society of Canada, Saskatchewan Division
A study from the University of Calgary compares ultrasound reports of 120 MS patients and 60 others. It finds that there's no link between chronic cerebral venous insufficiency – or CCSVI – and MS, casting doubt on a highly publicized 2009 report.
"There have been other studies that have looked at this as well and simply not been able to replicate the findings that came from Dr. Zamboni in Italy," said Dr. Michael Hill, professor in the department of clinical neurosciences and one of the researchers on the study. "I wouldn't recommend anybody having angioplasty."
Dr. Paolo Zamboni's research led to liberation therapy, which would open blocked neck veins. Since then, hundreds of patients, including some from Saskatchewan, have travelled to have the treatment done.
According to the MS Society, Saskatchewan has one of the highest rates of the disease in the world, with 3,500 to 5,000 living people with MS.
Patients who have had liberation therapy swear by its effectiveness.
"The best way I can describe it is before it was dark and now it's light. I have hope with this awful disease," said Michelle Walsh, who was diagnosed with MS four years ago and underwent liberation therapy in Bulgaria in 2010.
"I've been feeling so good that we had another baby last year. He was born happy and healthy," said Walsh.
A few years ago, the ministry of health had committed $2.2-million to send Saskatchewan patients to Albany, New York for liberation therapy; however, those trials were cancelled last year.
The ministry recently announced it will put together a panel of people to decide what to do with the money.
"Individuals with research expertise, patients, families, caregivers. More details on that panel will be forthcoming in the coming weeks," said Deb Jordan, executive director of acute and emergency services at the Ministry of Health.


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My very good friend Cat has just moved in to a new apartment after a whole month of painstakingly pushing the contractor, carpenter, mason, just ANYBODY who has anything to do with the apartment to do their job, and it is finally completed! And I had the honor to visit the apartment one fine day, to admire the newly scrubbed floors, the plush and comfortable sofa, the newly installed kitchen cabinets (which still smelled of wood!), the pretty bedroom set and the sturdy dining table.
The place definitely spelled cozy if anything at all. It makes one feel just at home by sitting on the couch and watching Astro. *LOL*
The bedroom was nicely decorated with very straightforward furniture without being too elaborate. It is a good move to place just the basic requirement to avoid making the room too clustered. (I'm NOT saying your room is small OK 😛 )
I can imagine a lot of good nights' sleep with this comfortable bed! =)
There was a time earlier when Cat was complaining about her kitchen cabinet being too dark and gloomy. She made me imagine that the whole kitchen was just dark and wooden looking. Fortunately, she made it sound worse than it was. 😛 In fact, I did not think it was such a bad design after all. I just like the horizontal woodgrain on the cabinet, coupled with the modern-looking handle. Somehow the combination makes the cabinet look very presentable, in my humble opinion. And oh, I just love the kitchen solid top! It's so smooth to the touch!
Now the last part of the apartment is what I'm most amazed with… Introducing the revolutionary, state-of-the-art, contemporary (I just couldn't resist overdoing the suspense) *drum rolls* … AV room! Also known as the audio-visual room, in case you did not know.
Call me naive but I have never experienced a mini 'cineplex' within a house. The experience was just surreal. The whole room was windowless and fully padded and carpeted. There was a 7.1 sound system, and not to mention the 100″ projector screen. Watching a movie in this room is definitely MUCH better than watching movie in the cinema, I would say. For starters, you won't have to put up with annoying ringing tones, or with people who talk too loud, or with people who just visit the washroom nonstop and keep blocking your view. PLUS, you have the liberty to stop and pause whenever you want to! Anything beats that?


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Air Partner is fully-listed on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol "AIR".
Air Partner's year end is 31 January.
The recent share price performance can be viewed here on the company's website.
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1989: Air Partner flotation on the Unlisted Securities Market, the forerunner of AIM
1995: Full market listing on the London Stock Exchange
Air Partner is listed on the London Stock Exchange, in the FTSE sector Travel and Leisure, in the Airlines sub-sector. Air Partner is in the FTSE Fledgling index.
The management team at Air Partner is highly experienced in its sector. Mark Briffa, CEO, has been in aviation for more than 30 years and Neil Morris, CFO, was on the aviation team at Deloitte for 11 years. Moreover, the non-executive directors have significant aviation experience. The biographies of the Board and senior management are available in the Annual Report, which can be found here on the company website.
The Group's total remuneration packages are designed to be competitive in order to attract, retain and motivate high quality individuals throughout the business. Our packages aim to recruit talented executives and senior managers capable of effectively delivering on the Group's strategy and driving business outcomes through their teams, thereby enhancing long term shareholder value. The full remuneration policy and rewards is set out in the Annual Report, which is available here on the company website.
The majority of Air Partner's shares are held by UK institutional asset management firms on behalf of their clients. The company also has a number of private client shareholders. Details on our major shareholders can be found in the Annual Report, which is available here on the company website.
Being a plc works well for Air Partner – it supports our financial strength, provides access to capital, ensures governance and transparency, and helps us attract and retain talent. Many of our customers see it as another differentiator from our competitors and welcome it.
We are a unique business, providing a range of aviation services across multiple sectors and geographies. Accordingly, comparisons are difficult, as are generalisations, as different divisions will tend to compete with different companies'. That said, we are the largest listed charter broker and compete with some many other charter brokers – the Worldwide Association of Air Charter Professionals website provides a list of other air charter brokers.
The aviation charter market is highly fragmented and verifiable data on the size of the market is not readily available. Air Partner's own analysis estimates that the company, which is the largest publically listed air charter broker, has approximately 1% of the global market – so there is plenty of room for growth.
No, Air Partner does not own any aircraft; we have an approved list of aircraft that we charter on behalf of our clients, ensuring that the best and most appropriate aircraft is used for any particular mission our clients are embarking on. Air Partner's approved list is continually screened, assessed and benchmarked to ensure every aircraft meets all our stringent tests, as well as all third party requirements and independent assessments.
We are very careful about client confidentiality and do not disclose client details, however, some of our clients have approved or publically recognise Air Partner's role, such as six of the G8 Group of governments. Some of the world's largest businesses also regularly use our services across the aviation, energy, investment, automotive and travel sectors, as well as many smaller firms seeking to maximise management time, and high net worth individuals seeking the privacy and flexibility of private aviation. Air Partner is passionate about service and we seek to provide all our clients with outstanding customer service, regardless of size or status.
While much of our business is one-off by nature and has low visibility, many of our clients do repeat order with us. Air Partner actively seeks to grow the forward visibility of its earnings, as testified by the development of the Emergency Planning Division, the growing JetCard product and the recent acquisition of Cabot Aviation Services.
Our busiest months tend to be over the summer, with winter being quieter, although this trend can be affected by significant one-off projects and events such as natural disasters, which can distort normal seasonality. Moreover, Air Partner is actively seeking to smooth its revenues through further diversification, as demonstrated by the recent growth in the Emergency Planning Division, the growing JetCard product and the acquisition of Cabot Aviation Services.
Air Partner has a combination of offices and sales presence in almost 20 countries spanning Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia.
The split of revenues by geography and client can change but in the financial year to 31 January 2015, the UK accounted for 44% of revenue, Europe 43%, the US 11% and ROW 1%. On a divisional level, the Commercial Jet division is the largest, accounting for 60% of revenue, with Private Jets 27% and Freight 13%.
Commercial Jets: Charters airliners from 20 to 500 people. Typically used for product launches, sport teams and conferences. Typical clients include: automotive, entertainment, pharmaceuticals and governments.
Private Jets: Flies less than 20 people. Offers a bespoke service or a JetCard product, which is a prepaid card entitling access to private jet use. Typical clients include: Finance houses, film and entertainment, corporates, governments and high net worth individuals.
Freight: Charters aircraft from Learjets to the giant Antonov 225 for bespoke movement of cargo. Air Partner's Time Critical product provides a door to door time definite service. Typical clients include: Goverments, automotive, engineering and energy.
In addition, other services we offer include:
Emergency Planning: Air Partner plans, manages and executes air evacuations worldwide for governments, corporates and energy companies.
Tour Ops: Air Partner works with tour operators of all sizes to help boost capacity during peak times or provide capacity for the duration of their programmes.
Travel: Air Partner organises scheduled flight bookings for individual and group travel. This bespoke service is designed to provide clients with the most efficient and cost-effective solutions for their travel requirements, such as transfers, car hire and hotel bookings, for either individuals, groups or whole organisations.
Cabot Aviation Services: Cabot Aviation is Air Partner's leading aircraft remarketing division which acts as an agent and broker to airlines and other aircraft owners, such as banks, operating lessors, manufacturers, insolvency practitioners and high net worth individuals to find solutions to their fleet requirements either by arranging a sale, a purchase or a lease of aircraft.
Air Partner believes that the charter of aviation services is the most efficient, flexible and best value way to access private aviation. Air Partner's clients are able to enjoy all the benefits and advantages of private aviation without the capital expenditure, fleet constraints or poor utilisation associated with ownership or fractional schemes; simply put – it's smarter to charter.
Air Partner consistently monitors and seeks to optimise its cost base. The Group's largest cost is personnel and by focusing on strategic recruitment, training, use of information technology and the management of talent we are able to optimise and seek efficiencies across our team.
We keep a careful eye on the oil price, but given the inherent cost of private aviation, and the must-go or urgent nature of much of our clients' flying, the oil price does not necessarily or typically affect a client's decision to use Air Partner.
No we don't hedge. Typically we back to back all our contracts, so our clients pay us before they fly and the price we are paid is factored in. We seek to charge clients in the currency of the country in which the costs are incurred, creating a natural hedge.
Air Partner sets out the key risks to its business in the Annual Report – which is available here on the company's website.
Although we do not operate aircraft directly, we work with our clients, our suppliers and our service partners to monitor and review the impact of our operations. Many clients are conscious of, and would like to reduce, the environmental impact of their flights and we are happy to recommend aircraft which have a lower fuel burn profile, although this is not always available (particularly for large freight flights). We can calculate automatically the carbon footprint of every flight and can provide clients with the data they need to make realistic decisions about both costs and emissions. We also include optional carbon offset costs as standard in our proposals. The number of tonnes offset can only be decided upon by our clients. The amount of carbon offset has shown a significant increase over the last three years but this remains a very small proportion in terms of the number of flights undertaken each year. Air Partner also offers a Carbon Neutral JetCard for frequent fliers.
Air Partner has a proud dividend history and seeks to pay regular dividends at the half and full year, typically raising the dividend by circa 10% per annum. Air Partner has very low operational gearing and does not need extensive dividend cover.
The KPIs are set out in the Annual Report, which is available here on the company website. Recent KPIs include: revenue, gross profit, underlying PBT, net cash, staff voluntary churn, underlying basic EPS, EPS, dividend per share, ROE and TSR.


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Thank you
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Welcome back after such a lovely summer holiday. I hope you have all had a fantastic summer and are ready for a busy year ahead.
This half term we have some really exciting activities ahead of us! Year 5 is going to be a really interesting place to be over the next 7 weeks.
Our topic this half term is going to be World War 2. I have to say I am very excited to be teaching this subject as we have lots of fun experiences ahead of us. Including our school trip to Eden Camp (dates to follow).
We will be looking at life in Britain in the 1940's, creating our own air raid shelters, becoming evacuees. We will also be finding out about how life in Europe was changed dramatically focusing on Anne Frank and her diary.
With that in mind if you are able to save any shoe boxes or any other resources which would help us recreate our own air raid shelter, could you please bring them into school for us to use.
Our P.E days will be on a Monday and a Thursday. A reminder that all children need to have P.E kit to participate in P.E for health and safety reasons. We would also advise children with earrings to either remove them during P.E lessons or covered with a plaster.
Our P.E kit policy is for children to wear a white top and black shorts for indoors and as the weather is still ok we will also be going outside for PE which means you will also need a pair of trainers and jogging bottoms to ensure the children stay warm.
Our homework chart is available to download for you to see a hard copy at home. Homework will be sent back out on a Friday and due in from Wednesday to Thursday.
We will continue to be using Mathletics and we have recently brought into school Reading eggs which is a brilliant tool for literacy. The children will be shown how to use the program this week and then they will be able to use this also at home.
The link for Mathletics is; http://uk.mathletics.com/signin/
The children will be sent home their log in details this weekend so they are able to access this at home.
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National Pride month is almost over, but there are still a few things you can do to prove how gay you are. For example, Dallas' first-ever gay darts tourney starts this weekend, and it's not too late to late-register. And The Real L Word makes a Dallas appearance for ladies' night out at Winston's Supperclub on Sunday … which, I guess, is technically not June anymore, but still ….
July 4 falls awkwardly mid-week this year, but you can still head up to Addison for Kaboom Town on Tuesday night, or go out to see The Amazing Spider-Man, which opens Tuesday and promises to be one of the summer's box office hits; the movie is not bad, either — look for a review next week.
Before Spider-Man, two of the gayest mainstream movies in recent memory — Magic Mike and Ted — open today. Despite a lot of baggage, both are worth seeing, for different reasons: For Magic Mike, it's the beefcake; for Ted, it's the dumb laughs.
It is hot out there, but Shakespeare Dallas' production of Coriolanus, pictured left, might actually be worth the sweat: It's sprightly directed by Rene Moreno, giving cogence, energy and some eye candy to heat-stroked audiences. Twelfth Night, showing in repertory? Not so much. Shakespeare lends itself to exaggeration, but director Raphael Parry always pushes it too far, for a hammy comedy that lacks elegance. (It didn't help that on the night I went, massive sound problems made the show almost unwatachable.) Check the schedule, and definitely target the Coriolanus shows.
If you prefer your theater experiences indoors, Dallas Theater Center's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat opens tonight at the Wyly, and Theatre 3's regional premiere of Avenue Q starts Monday.
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The sweeping tale of three generations of an English family with roots in London and the wilds of Cornwall, and of a cherished painting that has passed from generation to generation and now threatens to tear the family apart.
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We are sailing on Friday out of Miami and have a room booked in Ft Lauderdale the night before. What should we expect in terms of traffic driving to the port and how long should it take to get there from near the airport in Ft. Lauderdale? Any particular time of day that is better than other times?
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1. Re: Still need to do full backup after using data guard?Sunny kichloo Feb 26, 2013 9:49 AM (in response to Jackliusr)Better to take backup of primary database.
also check this
2. Re: Still need to do full backup after using data guard?Chanchal Wankhade Feb 26, 2013 9:56 AM (in response to Jackliusr)Hi,
What you are trying to ask is not clear. can you tell what you want in more details.
3. Re: Still need to do full backup after using data guard?CKPT Feb 26, 2013 10:25 AM (in response to Jackliusr)
Jackliusr wrote:Preferred to have full backup daily.
In our system, there is a physical standby database in data guard configuration. Is there still a need to do full backup and incremental backup?
May be you can perform failover of your standby, in case there is no availability on primary database. Then do you think the standby system stability is same as primary and can give same performance?
standby location can be too far and this is only if in case of disaster.
Another case, lets suppose your standby is behind than primary for 4-5 days due to some issues. At the same time your production crashed then you may have chance to loose 4-5 days fo data. So recommended to have full backup always from primary database.
If you are checking stability of standby database daily and able to check your data by opening properly and you wont prefer to RMAN backup, Then it is fine. But it is highly recommended to have RMAN backup.
BTW, You can have RMAN full backup on standby, if you want to avoid resources to use on primary


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Stanley Tucci, Felicity Blunt have a formal wedding
Actor Stanley Tucci didn't exactly get married over the weekend, but he and his new wife Felicity Blunt did have a big ol' party to celebrate their secret wedding. See? Even if you got married months ago, people still want to have the reception.
People says Steve Buscemi was best man and Oliver Platt was a groomsman, while literary agent Felicity had actress sister Emily Blunt as her bridesmaid for the recreation on Saturday in London's Middle Temple Hall. John Krasinski (Emily's husband), Meryl Streep, Patricia Clarkson, Julianne Moore, Colin Firth and Kenneth Cole all were there, the mag says.
Tucci and Blunt admitted in August they had gotten married privately months prior to this. The Saturday ceremony was followed by a reception at L'Anima, featuring a stack of cheese wheels as a cake. This is happy news for the Lovely Bones and Hunger Games actor, whose first wife Kate, with whom he has three children, died of breast cancer in 2009.
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La Jolla lifeguard tower rife with cost overruns
Baby bird, seal-pupping, and bad waste pump blamed for budget surprises
Matt Potter 4 p.m., Sept. 21
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"If you want that much ketchup, why don't you go to Costco?" I asked my father on the phone.
"You're missing the point," he said. Now that his daughters are mostly self-sufficient and he lives alone, he can afford bits of luxury. Dad's taste for discounts goes beyond a pressing need to save; he's gotten so good at getting deals it's become a rewarding hobby for him. He enjoys the perpetual challenge of getting more out of everything in life for less. For doing something he loves as much as volunteering at the airport (once a week he helps people find their way to wherever they're going in San Diego), he gets free tickets to SeaWorld and free parking right by the escalator.
Dad enters every contest he can to win free tickets (whether or not he's heard of the movie, show, or concert). This offers him the double joy of getting something for nothing and trying new things he might not have otherwise known about. I used to think Dad was cheating himself. But searching every corner of the globe for good deals -- from silk ties for a dollar in Korea, to shell necklaces in Hawaii for his daughters -- it turns out he's been living a rich and rewarding life...at a discount.
"Hey, Dad," I said, before letting him get off the phone, "is there any way we can get a deal like that for Heinz ketchup?"
"I'll look into it," he said. I'm sure he will.


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[17:00] <photomatt_wrk> let's get started I suppose :)
[17:00] <Podz> <meetup>
[17:01] <relle> http://codex.wordpress.org/Fundraising_and_Promotions
[17:01] <relle> WE NEED HELP - sign up and get involved.
[17:01] <stevecooley> my brother's asking me if there's any talk of the Atom API in the xmlrpc.php processor?
[17:02] * Joins: Twidget
[17:02] <Twidget> dang! I miss much?
[17:02] <shep|lappy> no
[17:02] <photomatt_wrk> stevecooley: add that to the agenda - http://codex.wordpress.org/IRC_Meetups
[17:02] <photomatt_wrk> relle: could you talk a bit about what that group is doing?
[17:03] <relle> We are coordinating the media coverage and promotions of WordPress.
[17:03] <stevecooley> oh. Cool. thanks
[17:03] <relle> We're making a list of PR resources to hit up when events happen and need publicity.
[17:03] <relle> Ideas and plans are being generated for fundraising and other kinds of awareness raising events.
[17:03] <relle> It's a lot of work but a lot of fun.
[17:03] <relle> Helping to promote WordPress.
[17:04] <relle> If you have any experience in PR, please help.
[17:04] <photomatt_wrk> what is typically involved in helping out that group?
[17:04] <relle> We need people to handle the day to day stuff and then...
[17:04] <relle> take on events and such.
[17:04] <westi> jefte: it should be possible but.. will need some nifty rules.. DrBacchus maybe of more help than me when he's around
[17:04] <relle> Right now we're doing a lot of research to build up a "library" of reviews and info on WordPress
[17:04] <westi> sri wrong channel
[17:05] <Podz> "media" - ?
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[17:05] <relle> We're planning to write press releases for all kinds of wordpress stuff like an announcement I hope photomatt will make later.
[17:05] <relle> About the forums.
[17:05] <relle> And coordinating between the different groups like forums, codex, hackers, etc.
[17:05] <relle> For instance, we're working on Backup Week which connects forum and codex.
[17:05] <relle> We need grunt work, stamp licking, emailing, research and leadership for events.
[17:06] <relle> Recruitors, coordinators, everything.
[17:06] <michel_v> "WordPress is just getting started to move from a one man show to a serious non-profit volunteer organziation."
[17:06] <relle> bingo
[17:06] <michel_v> I have serious issues with parts of that statement, but I'll just shut up and lurk
[17:06] <relle> There is a LOT of stuff going on and we need volunteers to spread the wealth of energy.
[17:07] <relle> For a long time, matt has been the "bill gates" visible person for WordPress.
[17:07] <relle> So?
[17:07] <relle> The different volunteer groups have all kinds of activities they need to do and we all need to work together to help promote them.
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[17:07] <shep|lappy> relle: bad analogy
[17:07] <relle> We build teams.
[17:07] <shep|lappy> we LIKE matt
[17:07] <relle> And I like Bill.
[17:07] <relle> Grew up not far from him.
[17:07] <shep|lappy> you just want his money
[17:08] <shep|lappy> :P
[17:08] <relle> Anyway, we need representatives of the different groups to help us help them.
[17:08] <relle> We need help from those working on 1.6 to get information on promoting it.
[17:08] <photomatt_wrk> so I guess in conclusion, if you or someone you know would be interested in that sort of work, please point them at that page and contact relle
[17:08] <relle> All of this is normal stuff so we need help.
[17:08] <relle> Yep.
[17:08] <relle> http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups
[17:09] <relle> I've already mentioned it but we need a lot of HELP in the forums starting Friday for the next week.
[17:09] <relle> Podz, want to talk about it?
[17:09] <Twidget> Maybe this is stupid, I dunno, but any way to get in good with the Linux people? Cross-promotion or something?
[17:09] <Podz> the guides are done, all shall be cool :) (It's cannot be worse than a release !)
[17:09] <relle> Twidget: contact me later about that.
[17:09] <Twidget> k
[17:10] <relle> Hackers recently discussed some good things about backups that have been directed to the forum group.
[17:10] <relle> Their perspectives should help volunteers answer some questions about it.
[17:10] <relle> It's exciting.
[17:10] <relle> and the plugin?
[17:11] <Twidget> God, I hate the wireless in hotels
[17:11] <relle> podz?
[17:12] <Podz> skippy's work ? It's excellent
[17:12] <photomatt_wrk> is there any reason we emphasize 5 pages of instructions over a 1-step plugin?
[17:12] <michel_v> Twidget: there are packagers for most linux distros
[17:12] <relle> Because the plugin doesn't always work.
[17:12] <relle> People are afraid of them.
[17:12] <Morydd> teach a man to fish... etc.
[17:12] <relle> And some people want to do it manually.
[17:12] <jalenack> has the meetup started yet?
[17:12] <michel_v> Twidget: the need in this area is for more communication with them or help with their releases when a new WP version is out
[17:12] <Podz> skipy's plugin should do the job, but no harm in telling others using phpmyadmin
[17:13] <relle> skippy and ringmaster have been working OVERTIME on this to get the bugs out.
[17:13] <relle> It's almost ready.
[17:13] <photomatt_wrk> cool
[17:13] <relle> For those who don't know, it is a plugin to provide a backup that will allow downloading to server, email or desktop
[17:13] <relle> It's one click PLUS
[17:13] <stevecooley> that sounds awesome
[17:13] <relle> But my site breaks it every time so we're still testing.
[17:13] <relle> ;-)
[17:13] <mdawaffe> http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/07/12/wordpress-database-backup/
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[17:14] <shep|lappy> works great on my 2 blogs
[17:14] <relle> We NEED YOUR HELP.
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[17:14] <shep|lappy> i'm enjoying it greatly
[17:14] <Twidget> I'll chat with relle more later, since she asked me to, I just meant that they're a great bunch of folks to have enthused about your software package, and you definitely want them on your side
[17:14] <relle> We still need help to promote WordPress.
[17:14] <relle> WordPress Backups
[17:14] <relle> Sorry.
[17:14] <stevecooley> "my two blogs" - a new sitcom coming this fall to UPN!
[17:14] <relle> Please post informatoin on your site and help us keep the topic alive over the next week.
[17:14] <shep|lappy> :P
[17:15] <relle> NEXT: Maintainer needed for the Theme Viewer
[17:15] <shep|lappy> meaning?
[17:15] <Podz> shadow has been in touch
[17:15] <relle> photomatt_wrk: ?
[17:15] <shep|lappy> someone to add new themes when they are released?
[17:15] <relle> macmanx said no.
[17:15] > i've an idea for promote WordPress Backup Week...
[17:15] <Podz> He may do it ... but we may have to plead a little :)
[17:16] <photomatt_wrk> basically we have shadow's theme viewer, currently hosted at themes.wordpress.net
[17:16] <photomatt_wrk> we either need to take it down or keep it up to date
[17:16] <mdawaffe> http://themes.wordpress.net/theme-viewer.php
[17:16] <Podz> traffic ?
[17:16] <Podz> does it get much ?
[17:16] <shep|lappy> i say keep it up, and up to date
[17:16] <Morydd> what's up with wp-themes.org?
[17:17] <photomatt_wrk> I can check it out now
[17:17] <shep|lappy> i think its something that is very useful
[17:17] <Podz> who owns wp-themes ?
[17:17] <mdawaffe> shep|lappy: I think everyone wants it up, but someone needs to be in charge of it
[17:17] <relle> I believe the responsibilities lie in accepting submissions of themes and then posting them on the site. If they don't work, they are dead and maybe the maintainer will email the author but NO FIXING.
[17:17] <relle> only maintaining.
[17:17] <Podz> it's still a job
[17:17] <shep|lappy> relle: that sounds good
[17:18] <photomatt_wrk> the site is also very slow, maybe it needs some code work as well
[17:18] <relle> So you want it?
[17:18] <relle> shep|lappy: you don't have time.
[17:18] <shep|lappy> i know i don't
[17:18] <shep|lappy> but that *shouldn't* take too much time
[17:18] <shep|lappy> if no fixing is involved
[17:18] <photomatt_wrk> okay stats
[17:19] <photomatt_wrk> in june it did 900k pages
[17:19] <relle> It's not been heavily promoted.
[17:19] <relle> And it DOES need code work.
[17:19] * westi is now known as westi|gone
[17:19] <photomatt_wrk> that number seems high
[17:20] <shep|lappy> is that counting everytime a theme is chosen?
[17:20] <relle> So shep|lappy are you taking responsiblity for it?
[17:20] <shep|lappy> if there is codework involved, no
[17:20] <photomatt_wrk> looks like only around 20k visitors, but each of those visitors turned a ton of pages
[17:20] * shep|lappy is not a coder
[17:20] <shep|lappy> hit me up in a month, and i may be able to
[17:21] <stevecooley> is the concept that screen grabs don't adequately describe the experience?
[17:21] <shep|lappy> as of now, i'm swamped
[17:21] <relle> We have a lot of such positions needed. Is there any way to feature a Help Wanted in the dev blog like every two weeks with a list of positions open?
[17:21] <relle> stevecooley: yes
[17:21] <photomatt_wrk> I think a help-wanted post is a good idea
[17:21] <photomatt_wrk> we have mostly the same people in these meetups, and we're all doing things already
[17:21] <relle> True
[17:22] <Morydd> is wp-themes.org defunct? and why is themes at .net rather than .org?
[17:22] <Podz> wp-themes - not belong to matt ?
[17:22] <Podz> .org I mean
[17:22] <photomatt_wrk> I have that
[17:23] <Podz> ah .. must be mixed up
[17:23] <jalenack> Firas and I are starting to work on a new WP extensions site.. like wp-plugins.net .. with downloading from the admin panel
[17:24] <photomatt_wrk> keep us updated with how it's going
[17:24] <relle> So I'll help you put together a help wanted list for the dev blog, photomatt_wrk
[17:24] <photomatt_wrk> Let's move on to the next item
[17:24] <jalenack> ok
[17:24] <relle> one last backtrack
[17:24] <mdawaffe> photomatt_wrk: is theme preview and automagic still a long term goal of wp-themes.org?
[17:24] <relle> PotterSys: you had an idea for backup?
[17:24] > yes, a little idea about promoting backup week
[17:24] <relle> go
[17:24] <relle> tell us.
[17:25] > do you remember Make Poverty History web whiteband?
[17:25] <relle> yeah
[17:25] > i think we would do something like that
[17:25] > to all sites that have been backuped
[17:25] <Morydd> guess I don't get an answer then?
[17:25] <relle> jonimueller is working on buttons and banners.
[17:25] <shep|lappy> or have it link to codex page for backups
[17:26] <relle> I think that is a great idea.
[17:26] <relle> I'll get you info to help joni if you want and we can put that into the process.
[17:26] <Twidget> I dunno about that
[17:26] > ok, i'm on winter holiday right now :)
[17:27] <Twidget> I mean... you'll have the WordPress banners on WordPress blogs...
[17:27] > and do something like site tracking
[17:27] <Twidget> The banner worked because it went up everywhere
[17:27] <relle> I think as an optional thing, it would be fun. People can take them down when they like. Show support.
[17:28] * skeltoac is now known as skeltoac|away
[17:28] <Twidget> A WP banner on WP blogs would be like preaching to the choir
[17:28] <shep|lappy> not everyone who uses WP backsup though
[17:28] <relle> No argument but non-WordPress users also visit WordPress sites.
[17:28] <shep|lappy> i could tell you a handfull of people at the top of my head who don't
[17:28] <Twidget> Maybe many different badges to choose from
[17:28] <relle> There are a bunch that joni has worked on.
[17:28] <Twidget> or this: a toe-to-toe with MT
[17:29] <relle> They will be announced on the forum on Friday.
[17:29] <jefte> that kind of widespread marketing should not be done until the WordPress logo and identity are set in stone
[17:29] <Twidget> that too
[17:29] <shep|lappy> i don't think this should be so much about promoting WP right now as much as promoting backing up
[17:29] <photomatt_wrk> the new logo isn't different enough to confuse people when we change
[17:29] <relle> Then get involved with the PR team and we can talk about it there.
[17:30] <photomatt_wrk> it's just an evolution
[17:30] <shep|lappy> and i think that was pottersys' idea
[17:30] <jefte> photomatt_wrk: is the logo ready for primetime? if so, I'm for promoting site badges or banners
[17:30] <photomatt_wrk> we're held up on the site design to go with it
[17:30] <relle> NO Wordpress logo is on the backup buttons.
[17:30] <shep|lappy> so
[17:30] <jefte> its not about confusing, you just don't to dilute the brand
[17:30] <jefte> *sp
[17:30] <relle> This is the first draft: http://babygotblog.com/2005/07/18/babygotbackup/
[17:30] <Twidget> I don't mean to diss out, PotterSys, I'm just thinking it's a little... myopic
[17:31] <Twidget> diss you, er
[17:31] <relle> I don't think the few people that will have fun with this and put them on their site is going to impact WordPress in ANY way.
[17:31] <relle> This is a little fun gimmick.
[17:32] <shep|lappy> right
[17:32] <relle> It is NOT a major advertising campaign.
[17:32] <jefte> In a grass roots effort like this, it is major
[17:32] <relle> Next year, if we do it again, we can plan three to six months in advance and make it a serious campaign.
[17:32] <shep|lappy> like i said, this is more promoting backups rather than WP as a whole
[17:32] <photomatt_wrk> So we'll have a graphic and code people can put on their sites to promote the backup week
[17:32] <photomatt_wrk> ideally a little chunk of javascript
[17:32] <relle> And it needs to be done by tomorrow!
[17:32] <photomatt_wrk> we can host that on static.wordpress.org to make it easy
[17:34] <relle> This is why putting together the PR team is so important.
[17:34] <relle> all of these details can get figured out and planned for.
[17:34] <relle> Very good points and we need that kind of input.
[17:34] <photomatt_wrk> okay next we have " Status of latest Forum software updates"
[17:34] <relle> Thanks, PotterSys
[17:34] <relle> mdawaffe?
[17:34] > de nada :)
[17:34] <mdawaffe> Pagination almost everywhere (though it's a little odd on Profile pages)
[17:34] <photomatt_wrk> the functionality has been updated, I still need to update the stylesheets to match
[17:35] <mdawaffe> Menu on Profile pages for further info/admininstration
[17:35] <mdawaffe> tag feeds
[17:35] <mdawaffe> what else?
[17:35] <Podz> superstickies ?
[17:35] <mdawaffe> Podz: ?
[17:36] <Podz> a sticky right now is in one forum. looks no different on main page. supersticky could be colored, sticky on main page
[17:37] <photomatt_wrk> Podz: that's more a template change, that we could do in special situations
[17:37] <photomatt_wrk> I don't think that's worth having in the software
[17:37] <Podz> for things lik no codex, maybe new versions. Rare use, but useful all the same
[17:37] <Podz> k
[17:37] <photomatt_wrk> when you think that's required, please let me know
[17:37] <Podz> np
[17:37] <photomatt_wrk> " Dashboard feed situation? - Why isn't it working? Or is it?"
[17:37] <photomatt_wrk> should be working
[17:38] <rcbulldog> Is article expiration on the list anywhere?
[17:38] <mdawaffe> no planet feed
[17:38] <Podz> it's not working here
[17:38] <mdawaffe> dev blog comes through fine, though
[17:38] <photomatt_wrk> hmm, it looks like a bug in the software
[17:39] <photomatt_wrk> caused by my post where it says Dawn & Drew
[17:39] <photomatt_wrk> short term, I'll change that title
[17:39] <photomatt_wrk> longer term, we should switch to FeedWordPress instead of this funky python thing we're using
[17:39] <photomatt_wrk> fixed, moving on...
[17:40] <photomatt_wrk> I see the IRC topic is brought up again, is anyone actually interested in discussing that?
[17:40] <relle> Granting voice to regular users who are helpful, a way to show who is knowlegable and trustworthy in #wordpress
[17:40] <photomatt_wrk> I think it's been run into the ground already
[17:40] Auto Away deactivated, manual Away set:?10 Putting some kerosene
[17:40] <Morydd> really?
[17:40] <relle> Well, they wanted a voice and didn't get one.
[17:40] <relle> so to speak.
[17:40] <photomatt_wrk> no, everyone has the same voice
[17:40] <photomatt_wrk> it's the exact same situation as on the forums
[17:40] <photomatt_wrk> and I don't think we should do it for the same reason we decided not to create different classes of people on the forums
[17:41] <relle> At the last meeting it was decided that they would get together and bring questions to the meeting on what they wanted on the Codex and within the chat.
[17:41] <shep|lappy> because we are communists?
[17:41] <photomatt_wrk> open source = communism? ;)
[17:41] <relle> Excuse me? There ARE different levels on the forum already?
[17:41] <shep|lappy> :P
[17:41] <relle> And the volunteers are debating having a "label" for their status.
[17:41] <relle> And it isn't status but honor.
[17:41] <tunicwriter> Uh, yeah, heh. "Support Maven" seems to be a different level to me...
[17:41] <Podz> that debate seems to have died
[17:41] <stevecooley> Funny, you called them "volunteers"... seems like a good label to me
[17:41] <photomatt_wrk> relle: on the forums there's an administrative levels, which is required for maintenance
[17:42] <relle> And I think "volunteers" is a great name for those who volunteer actively on the forum.
[17:42] <photomatt_wrk> it's 1 or 2 people, not a whole bunch and there's no voting process or anything
[17:42] <relle> It's recognition.
[17:42] <photomatt_wrk> the bare minimum needed
[17:42] <photomatt_wrk> on IRC we don't need administrative people policing things
[17:42] <photomatt_wrk> freenode handles that
[17:42] <shep|lappy> agreed
[17:42] <tunicwriter> Voice has no administrative powers...
[17:43] <relle> Anyway, the volunteers group is working that out for themselves and I'm sure you will honor whatever they come up with to recognize their volunteer status.
[17:43] Back:? Away for 3mins 5secs
[17:43] Away Deactivated:?4 Auto Away reactivated
[17:43] <Morydd> yet your argument for relegating IRC to be a secondary support resource was that the policing wasn't happening.
[17:43] <photomatt_wrk> so it's a meaningless title handed out to show who our "favorite" members are?
[17:43] <photomatt_wrk> we might as well make people dukes
[17:43] <photomatt_wrk> or knights
[17:43] <Morydd> or mavens
[17:43] <stevecooley> haha
[17:43] <mdawaffe> photomatt KWP
[17:43] <tunicwriter> No, it's a title like one you gave to Skippy and Podz.
[17:44] <relle> On the forum, giving the active volunteers a title of volunteer honors their time, lets everyone know the forum is RUN by volunteers.
[17:44] <Podz> I nominated Skippy, Not Matt
[17:44] <tunicwriter> Unless you gave them that title because they're your favorite members, then my argument is null.
[17:44] <mdawaffe> tunicwriter: that title is only for administrative purposes
[17:44] <mdawaffe> content control only
[17:44] <relle> Still, it's up to the forum volunteers to come with their own methods as a group.
[17:44] <shep|lappy> i'm out kids
[17:44] <tunicwriter> It's still there, and people email and call, even, Podz for support, though he doesn't want it, and he's looked to for support.
[17:44] <photomatt_wrk> I don't think *anyone* would argue Podz needs admin powers on the forums
[17:44] <shep|lappy> was someone logging this?
[17:44] <mdawaffe> (and it's not a title so much as a function)
[17:45] * Joins: skeltoac
[17:45] <Morydd> then why should it be displayed at all?
[17:45] * Quits: shep|lappy ("(? www.nnscript.de ::? NoNameScript 3.81 ::? www.?XLhost.de? )?"?)
[17:45] <Podz> I don't see the point of +v on here simply because how do we decide ? We've got so many different people who are good at different things
[17:45] > i'm logging by default
[17:45] <Morydd> also on the forum you can click on "member" or "maven" and see the history to see how people have contributed.
[17:46] <photomatt_wrk> to summarize
[17:46] <mdawaffe> Morydd: because it's good to know who the moderators are so if you see something offenseive, you can direct the right people to it
[17:46] <photomatt_wrk> on IRC to give people titles would create a class distinction between people in the chat
[17:46] <Morydd> and "Mavens" doesn't?
[17:46] <photomatt_wrk> and we would need a complicated and PITA process to decide who gets titles and not
[17:46] <photomatt_wrk> and people who didn't have titles would be pissy
[17:46] <Morydd> all of which are potentially true of the "mavens" title
[17:47] <mdawaffe> Maven = Moderator. Perhaps the name is poor.
[17:47] <stevecooley> "Maven" makes me think of "Mavis Bacon teaches typing" box covers
[17:47] <Morydd> maven, moderator, duke... they're all titles, distinctions separating them from the "members"
[17:48] <tunicwriter> They should be distinguished from regular members.
[17:48] <photomatt_wrk> I'm not going to grant people voice on #wordpress, if people want to start an alternate channel where everyone is segregated somehow into ranks and classes that's fine
[17:48] <Tom39|work> Amen.
[17:48] <Podz> Morydd:: at least if something like editing / closing / deleting happens on the forums, you know it is one of only 5 people. How else would you know ? Do we grant all ?
[17:48] <tunicwriter> It's not segregation, it's pointing to people who can help others, which is what the channel is usually used for. But do what you want. It's not my project.
[17:49] * Parts: Twidget ("I've left"?)
[17:49] <Morydd> so much for "WordPress is just getting started to move from a one man show to a serious non-profit volunteer organziation."
[17:49] <relle> Okay, I'd like to sum this up. For now, the #wordpress channel stays as it is. It's working and those who want more of a voice in the organization will attend meetings and get more involved.
[17:50] <relle> and for the forums, when the forum volunteers come up with their plan, photomatt_wrk will respect their wishes.
[17:50] <relle> Titles are not something to be hated.
[17:50] <relle> They are signs of respect.
[17:50] <Morydd> In other words... IRC doesn't matter.
[17:50] <relle> No.
[17:50] <tunicwriter> Then what the hell about us IRC volunteers?
[17:51] <relle> If they can form as a group to come up with a plan and submit it, then it will be considered.
[17:51] <relle> This is just talk.
[17:51] <photomatt_wrk> that's a good point as well
[17:51] <relle> Does anyone have a solid plan in writing?
[17:51] <relle> You have a page on the Codex.
[17:51] <relle> Get a group together.
[17:51] <Morydd> anyone here read what I wrote before?
[17:51] <relle> Make a plan
[17:51] <relle> Write it down.
[17:51] <photomatt_wrk> How about... when we get poll functionality on wordpress.org we can put the IRC voice issue to a poll
[17:51] <relle> many times.
[17:51] <tunicwriter> I'm sorry, but I don't spend time helping people on here for my health, and I don't expect a title because I don't deserve it, but soooo many people on here help out so much, sometimes spending hours of their time helping people. Why not recognize them?
[17:51] <photomatt_wrk> whatever the IRC users decide will happen
[17:51] <photomatt_wrk> but right now I feel like we're hearing a noisy minority
[17:52] <relle> tunicwriter: we're trying to.
[17:52] <relle> agreed
[17:52] <Morydd> Open Source software is a noisy minorty.
[17:52] <tunicwriter> IRC support iis a minority...
[17:52] <relle> IRC support is valuable and extremely worthwhile.
[17:52] <skeltoac> I am happy to help without a "badge". Recognition comes with time.
[17:52] <photomatt_wrk> I guess we'll find out in the poll
[17:53] <relle> NEXT?
[17:53] <photomatt_wrk> moving on
[17:53] <photomatt_wrk> " Status of new site and server."
[17:53] <relle> Codex: status of new site and server?
[17:54] <photomatt_wrk> for the Codex to work on the new hosting arrangement they need to make some changes to their software, which we have to wait for their next scheduled rollout for
[17:54] * Quits: skeltoac|away (Connection timed out?)
[17:54] <mdawaffe> (btw - refresh your agenda)
[17:54] <photomatt_wrk> however right now it's on dedicated hardware I paid for and seems to be running very well
[17:54] <photomatt_wrk> the image uploading has also been fixed
[17:54] <relle> GREAT.
[17:55] <photomatt_wrk> when it's ready to go I'll make a DB snapshot that day and we'll switch it over
[17:55] <photomatt_wrk> it should only be a transition period of less than an hour
[17:55] <relle> All of us on the documentation team are thrilled to finally have the Codex stable. Thank you.
[17:55] <photomatt_wrk> " MediaWiki + bbPress = possible?"
[17:55] <mdawaffe> robla?
[17:55] <relle> http://codex.wordpress.org/User:RobLa/bbPress_Auth_for_MediaWiki
[17:55] <robla> yes. there's a few things in the spec that need clearing up
[17:56] <photomatt_wrk> that looks good, the only problem is the codex and forums are on different servers
[17:56] * mdawaffe chuckles
[17:56] <robla> k...I'll set it up to connect to two different dbs
[17:57] <photomatt_wrk> that sounds good
[17:57] <robla> photomatt_wrk: thanks for the mail on monday...that cleared up some things
[17:57] <photomatt_wrk> however will it need to connect on every page load?
[17:57] <photomatt_wrk> the servers are geographically disperse
[17:58] <robla> it'll take advantage of whatever connection caching is going on
[17:58] <photomatt_wrk> okay
[17:58] <photomatt_wrk> I guess let's see how it performs, then fix it if it isn't up to snuff
[17:58] <relle> I'm probably jumping the gun but Jalenack and ringmaster have been working on a cool plugin
[17:58] <relle> It adds a search to the Admin Panels for Codex and Forums
[17:58] <jalenack> yeah, let me pastebin the new version
[17:59] <relle> It's AWESOME.
[17:59] <jalenack> its completely different
[17:59] <jalenack> better i mean ;)
[17:59] <photomatt_wrk> A saw a screenshot of that on owen's site
[17:59] <relle> The idea of "Search First" will take on a new meaning.
[17:59] <jalenack> http://phpfi.com/70802
[17:59] <relle> The more we connect the two dots, but better quality of support we give users.
[17:59] * Quits: factoryjoe (Remote closed the connection?)
[18:00] <photomatt_wrk> can't wait to see where that goes
[18:00] <photomatt_wrk> finally, let's talk about the atom API
[18:00] <relle> Atom API: status?
[18:00] <photomatt_wrk> currently, we don't support it
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[18:00] <photomatt_wrk> the thinking was... wait until it's finished so we don't have to do the work twice
[18:00] <photomatt_wrk> it's almost finished
[18:01] <relle> Will it be added as a patch?
[18:01] <photomatt_wrk> we should start looking into implementing it, though I suspect it will be a bit of a pain
[18:01] <deeje> what kind of issues do you anticipate?
[18:01] <photomatt_wrk> mostly in the authentication part
[18:02] <deeje> ah
[18:02] <stevecooley> does the metaweblog API code show any kind of pathway for the atom code to be written?
[18:02] <michel_v> the atom API needs some thinking in the authentication part
[18:03] <photomatt_wrk> stevecooley: we have functions on the backend that everything resolves to
[18:03] <photomatt_wrk> so new_post is the same no matter what the interface
[18:03] <photomatt_wrk> all the work is in creating the interface
[18:03] <stevecooley> ok, I see
[18:03] * Parts: jefte
[18:03] <photomatt_wrk> the good news is, 95% of tools support metaweblog API already, and we also support the MT extensions
[18:04] <photomatt_wrk> we may also want to consider our own extensions for things like custom fields
[18:04] <deeje> yes, that's true
[18:04] <deeje> the specs for the metaweblog API aren't crystal clear though, so implementing them froma client perspective is especially challenging
[18:04] <deeje> lots of tools have done it
[18:04] <stevecooley> with varying degrees of success
[18:05] <michel_v> last time I checked, only hosted stuff supported the Atom API
[18:05] <photomatt_wrk> michel_v: also the main supporters were hosted services
[18:05] <michel_v> Blogger, TypePad, what else? they use HTTP Digest auth, IIRC. that kind of auth requires access to a clear version of the password
[18:06] <photomatt_wrk> which we can't do because we store the password encrypted in the DB
[18:06] <michel_v> there's a very very old message of mine on the atom ML raising the concern for authentication with salted passwords
[18:06] <michel_v> and basically the replies were "not our problem"
[18:06] <photomatt_wrk> it looks like how MT is going to work around it is by having a separate password for RPC access that they store plain-text
[18:06] <photomatt_wrk> however that raises exactly the same problem with why we haven't stored passwords in plain text in the first place
[18:07] <michel_v> that is excruciatingly ugly. Mark Pilgrim had HTTP versions of SOAP security stuff
[18:07] <deeje> perhaps the issue can be revisited on the APP WG?
[18:07] <michel_v> sadly, one that could have worked, missed the Encryption-type thingie element in the HTTP version
[18:07] <stevecooley> the what?
[18:07] <photomatt_wrk> actually I misspoke earlier, the syndication format is almost done, the API is still being worked on
[18:07] <deeje> correct
[18:08] <photomatt_wrk> michel_v: would you be willing to look into what challenges implementing the API would cause us, and we can summarize that in a publicized blog post to the API WG?
[18:08] <photomatt_wrk> not just us, any program in a non-hosted environment
[18:09] <photomatt_wrk> if your previous messages were ignored, we can publicize it more to generate buzz
[18:09] <michel_v> sure
[18:09] <michel_v> I just need more research in the way of plausible authentication schemes
[18:09] <photomatt_wrk> we don't need to present a solution, just state the problem
[18:09] <michel_v> because it would be cool to find one that worked, but uncool to find one that isn't implemented :p
[18:10] <michel_v> well, one possible solution would be to use classic/digest http auth, but make clients know which encryption method to use
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[18:10] <photomatt_wrk> it's like in congress the minority party never needs to present a better plan, just point out problems with the current one
[18:10] <michel_v> so they would do Digest auth for example, but they would know that for WP they need to use md5 on the password before doing the auth
[18:11] <photomatt_wrk> so we could compare a double hashed value
[18:11] <tunicwriter> photomatt_wrk: that's a sign of a bad system... not a good way to go about things.
[18:11] <photomatt_wrk> michel_v: do you have a user page on the codex?
[18:12] <michel_v> I don't think I have. I'm allergic to mediawiki :)
[18:12] <photomatt_wrk> it'd be excellent to follow the progress of the document and invite comments
[18:12] <photomatt_wrk> do you have a preferred method?
[18:12] <michel_v> I think I'll become productive very soon though. I'm gonna buy a used ~900 Mhz G4
[18:12] <relle> photomatt_wrk: Is it time to ask about the big announcement you have to make about the forum count?
[18:12] <michel_v> at last, OSX's text editors ...at home
[18:14] <photomatt_wrk> michel_v: cool, I'll bring it up on the hackers list, from the discussion there we can have someone synthesize a codex page
[18:14] <photomatt_wrk> we can end up the meeting with two announcements
[18:14] <mdawaffe> michel_v: (what's your editor of choice?)
[18:14] <photomatt_wrk> first, wordpress.org passed 25,000 registered users
[18:15] <relle> WEEEEEE
[18:15] <michel_v> mdawaffe: I alternate between textmate and bbedit
[18:15] <photomatt_wrk> and second, we're a "platinum sponsor" of the BBS - http://www.blogbusinesssummit.com/sponsors.htm
[18:15] <relle> congrats.
[18:15] <photomatt_wrk> right under microsoft and boeing
[18:15] <mdawaffe> photomatt_wrk: you should give schwag to user 31337 when he/she rolls around
[18:15] <mdawaffe> michel_v: (cool)
[18:15] <mdawaffe> sweet
[18:15] <relle> UNDER?
[18:15] <skeltoac> Awesome, Matt!
[18:15] <michel_v> heh, where's 6A in the sponsors' list? ;)
[18:16] <relle> WOW.
[18:16] <photomatt_wrk> there will be a significant discount for WP users as well
[18:16] <photomatt_wrk> notable that last year WP wasn't *even mentioned* at this conference
[18:16] <relle> WordPress is under a company I used to work for and a company I lived next door to.
[18:16] <relle> WOW.
[18:16] <photomatt_wrk> I'll blog about the discount when the details are worked out
[18:16] <jalenack> sweet
[18:17] <relle> Congrats to you and everyone.
[18:17] <relle> This is wonderful.
[18:17] <photomatt_wrk> final announcement
[18:17] <relle> PR Team - time to promote this!!!! WEEE
[18:17] Auto away:? 30mins of no action
[18:17] Auto Away deactivated, manual Away set:?10 Auto Away:? 30mins of no action
[18:17] Auto away is active
[18:17] <photomatt_wrk> Ryan is actually in northern CA this week
[18:17] <photomatt_wrk> ironically he's going to be in town the same time I'm going to be in Dallas
[18:17] <photomatt_wrk> but we're doing a meetup this Saturday, if anyone is in the area
[18:18] <photomatt_wrk> will also be blogged about shortly
[18:18] <photomatt_wrk> and unless anyone else has important announcements, that's a wrap
[18:18] * Parts: deeje
[18:18] <michel_v> maybe I need to find other WPers in Paris to organise a WP meetup there
[18:18] <relle> <end meetup>


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Two separate firms will ship LNG - gas cooled down to liquid form to make it easier to transport - from all over the world through Milford Haven.
Officials from the port authority told a meeting that LNG's safety record was "exceptionally good".
But some of the Pembrokeshire residents present said they remained unconvinced.
Ships carrying LNG will start arriving at Milford Haven by the end of 2007.
'Manage risks'
The LNG will then be fed into the UK gas supply.
Construction of two LNG terminals at the port is already under way and would turn Milford Haven into a major centre for importing up to £4bn of LNG over the next 15 years.
Those opposed to the scheme have raised fears over what would happen if there was a shipping collision or leak and LNG escaped into the environment.
But harbour master Mark Andrews told the meeting in Neyland on Thursday evening: "I would be a fool to say nothing could happen, but what we have to do is manage the risks to a tolerable level.
"LNG does have an exceptionally good proven safety record of over 45,000 voyages without any major loss of cargo.
"There has never been any member of the public injured or killed by a release of LNG from any vessel."
Milford Haven will see around 600 LNG dockings each year under the plans.
Port Authority chief executive Ted Sangster told the 50-plus residents present at the meeting that the authority had "done a large number of risk assessments".
He added that the authority had consulted leading experts in the field and listed a raft of safety measures that would be in place.
These include widening the channel through dredging and escorting every ship with tugs.
But he said the port authority would not release all the papers used in developing the risk assessments.
Scrutinise papers
"We've come to a view that there's no benefit to passing over vast volumes of documents because our experience is they are misused and misrepresented," he said.
Campaign group Safe Haven, which has opposed the scheme, had asked for these to be made public and for an independent party to scrutinise the papers.
Safe Haven member David Robertson: "If we can't see a risk assessment there must be something to hide.
"I just think the people of Pembrokeshire deserve to have all the papers."
He added that he believed the Port Authority had failed to address in public what would happen if LNG did escape into the environment.
Llansteffan resident Frank Cornock said he had gone to the meeting to try to make up his own mind.
He said: "The country needs a gas supply, the government has to have it.
"It's going to be in Pembrokeshire, unfortunately we just have to have it here."


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Nigel Kennedy (Violin, Conductor)
Born: December 28, 1956 - Brighton, East Sussex, England
The English violinist and violist (and sometimes conductor), Nigel Kennedy and comes from a musical lineage. His grandfather was Lauri Kennedy, a British-born musician and principal cellist with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, who played with Fritz Kreisler, Jascha Heifetz, Arthur Rubinstein and others. His grandmother was Dorothy Kennedy, a pianist, who accompanied John McCormack and taught Enrico Caruso's children. Lauri and Dorothy settled in Australia where their son, the cellist John Kennedy, was born. At the age of 24 he moved to England and joined the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, later becoming the principal cellist of Sir Thomas Beecham's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. While in England, John developed a relationship with an English pianist, Scylla Stoner, with whom he eventually toured with in 1952 as part of the Llewellyn-Kennedy Piano Trio (with the violinist Ernest Llewellyn; Stoner was billed as "Scylla Kennedy" although she and John never married). However, John ultimately left Stoner and returned to Australia, unaware she was pregnant by him at the time. John remained unaware of the existence of his son, Nigel Kennedy, for many years afterward, meeting him for the first time when Nigel was 11. Nigel Kennedy has about 30 close relatives in Australia, whom he visits whenever he tours there.
A boy prodigy, as a 10-year-old Nigel Kennedy would pick out Fats Waller tunes on the piano after hearing his stepfather's jazz records. A pupil at the Yehudi Menuhin School of Music himself, Kennedy later studied at the Juilliard School in New York with Dorothy DeLay.
At the age of 16, Nigel Kennedy was invited by Stéphane Grappelli to appear with him at New York's Carnegie Hall, under the threat from his teachers at the Juilliard that it would ruin his classical career. He made his recording debut in 1984 with the Edward Elgar Violin Concerto. Kennedy's recording of Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons with the English Chamber Orchestra in 1989 sold over 2 million copies and earned a place as one of the best-selling classical works ever. The album remained top of the UK classical charts for over a year with sales equivalent to one copy sold every 30 seconds. He has also performed and recorded most of the major violin concerti.
After numerous performances for The Prince's Trust, the Royal Variety Performance and private performances at St. James's Palace and Buckingham Palace, he released his biography Always Playing in 1991. Nigel Kennedy then took the controversial and highly publicised decision to withdraw completely from public performance, at which point he made the album "Music In Color" with Stephen Duffy. He made a triumphant return to the international concert platform to critical acclaim five years later. In 1997, he received an award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music at the BRIT Awards, and in 2001 received the 'Male Artist of the Year' award.
In 1999 Sony Classical released "The Kennedy Experience", which featured improvisational recordings of Jimi Hendrix compositions. According to a BBC interview with Nigel Kennedy, the violinist stated that the recording is "an album of music inspired by Jimi Hendrix. It is an extended instrumental work in six movements, each movement a classical interpretation of a Hendrix song". On the recording, Kennedy is accompanied by seven other musicians, and the lineup includes two cellos, an oboe, two guitars, a Dobro, flute, and double bass. With cellist Lynn Harrell, he has recorded an album of duets.
In late 2005, Bigel Kennedy went to New York to record his first album for the jazz label Blue Note Records. Other musicians on the album were Ron Carter on double bass, Jack DeJohnette on drums; and saxophonist Joe Lovano. Kennedy has since stated that "from now on, at least 50 per cent of my endeavour is going to be in the jazz field". He has also recorded The Doors Concerto (with Jaz Coleman), a violin based orchestral version of many Doors songs, including "Strange Days", "LA Woman", "The End", and "Riders On The Storm". He has been exploring Klezmer music with the Polish jazz band Kroke. The band consists of musicians "who have been knocking around with Kennedy for five years. ... [Kennedy explains], 'I met them all separately at jam sessions in the jazz club near where I live in Cracow, ... I thought: that's the drummer I want, that's the bass player, and so on. They've all got their own projects.'"
On November 27, 2000, Nigel Kennedy joined rock group The Who at the Royal Albert Hall to play the violin solo on the song "Baba O'Riley", released three years later on the album Live at the Royal Albert Hall. Kennedy has played on several tracks by British singer/songwriter Kate Bush, who was a guest on Kennedy's episode of This Is Your Life. He was featured on two of Sarah Brightman's songs for her 2003 album "Harem".
Kennedy appointed a new manager, Terri Robson, and returned to the Proms after an absence of 21 years, performing E. Elgar's Violin Concerto and a late-night Prom with the Nigel Kennedy Quintet. He also plays the viola, and has recorded Sir William Walton's Viola Concerto.
Kennedy's persona is seen by some as abrasive and limiting to his career, citing as an example his use of a 'Mockney' accent instead of the Received Pronunciation he had when he was interviewed as a child in 1964 on the BBC's Town and Around. Until 2006 he had expressed his intention of not appearing on the classical London concert scene with a London orchestra, seen by some as arrogance and stated by Kennedy in terms of frustrated perfectionism. Kennedy expresses a preference for the immediate appeal of live performance, and often records entire works or movements in single 'takes' to preserve this sense in his recordings. He also introduces improvisatory elements in his performances, as in his Jimi Hendrix-inspired cadenza to the Beethoven Violin Concerto and his jazz and fusion recordings.
When not touring, Kennedy divides his time between residences in Malvern, Worcestershire (where his ex-partner and son Sark live); and London and Kraków where he lives with his Polish second wife, Agnieszka. In the late 1980s, Kennedy was romantically involved with singer/guitarist Brix Smith.
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Another String- The (un)official Nigel Kennedy Fanclub
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