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The truth on the Navy carrier debacle? Industry got away with murder
The Ministry of Defence is in the pillory again today, being corporately pelted for the recent unedifying sequence of events in which the Coalition government decided in 2010 to fit the Royal Navy's new aircraft carriers with catapults - and then abruptly changed its mind in 2012, reverting to the former plan which will see them …
Chocolate Teapot
Good grief. It's a good thing no one actually wants to start a war with the UK, isn't it? The only actual military activity we've had this century has been offensive actions against middle-eastern countries who couldn't retaliate if they tried. If someone with an actual modern military had designs on these isles, there's not a lot we could do about it, if this debacle is any indication.
I count myself fortunate to live in a place and time where this is not actually a realistic problem, and the money really is the only issue.
Re: Chocolate Teapot
Well... except Argentina, of course.
Re: Chocolate Teapot
HMS Dauntless could "take out all of South America's fighter aircraft let alone Argentina's".
Re: Chocolate Teapot
The Argentinian foreign minister said yesterday that the Falklands would be under their control "within 20 years".
Re: Chocolate Teapot
Re. Dauntless. It could only fire if fired upon. And by then it may well be too late. Remember the Sheffield? They thought they'd be able to spot the launch of the aircraft that fired the weapon that hit that ship.
Possible missions:
Bombing Argentina
Bombing North Korea
F18's should be ok with that stuff.
Re: Chocolate Teapot
The main reason that Sheffield didn't spot the aircraft was, IIRC, that the appropriate radar was turned off at the time as it was interfering with vital comms taking place at the time.
One can but hope that there are no such EMC issues with Dauntless and other new vessels.....
Re: Chocolate Teapot
exactly, lack of AWACS during the falklands was one of the biggest contributors to ship loss, they simply could not see the attack planes until they were too close. Even the old fairy gannets could of saved many lifes (mind you if the old ark royal was there even in 1970's spec the conflict would of been very different).
Fast forward 30 years and now we have aircraft carriers with no AWACS again. what could possibly go wrong?
I wouldn't worry too much about argentina/falklands they are just being bolshy as they know there is no milatary response and so are trying to get oil rights through bully boy tactics. Don't see why Cameron and co don't send a UN election team in with 3 options 1:same as now 2: fully Falklands independence and 3: Argentine ownership, watch the results for 3 be miniscule.
Re: Chocolate Teapot
Lucky then that we have the good old US of A to defend us!! lol
For those people living on the other side of the Atlantic and who are perhaps not overly familiar with it - this is an example of what we in the UK know as sarcasm!
Re: Chocolate Teapot
As long as we don't insist Facebook delete our preferences.
It's going to be tricky to have a trade war with America if they own all our weapons.
Or possbly much simpler if they are selling us billion $$ aircraft which we can then refuse to buy?
Re: Chocolate Teapot
Good job then that Argentina found a way round all these millitary procurement mistakes as they have made no major investment in the armed forces since the Falklands War, hve not replaced lost aircraft, most their navy (including the CV) is now effectively scrap, and their armed forces makes ours large while also being positioned for the potential restart of a number of border wars.
Re: Chocolate Teapot
PEACE ... through mutually inadequate firepower!!
Re: Chocolate Teapot
No doubt, like the American Aegis cruisers, HMS Dauntless could also "take out" any scheduled airline flights that passed nearby.
Seriously, though, Dauntless doesn't look much like a warship. What if the Argentines were to send out a ship with some old-fashioned guns and just blow her to pieces? HMS Sheffield was sunk by an Exocet missile that didn't even detonate. Just imagine what would happen to those seagoing porcelain curios if they got hit by a shell or bomb that actually exploded?
Re: Chocolate Teapot
"PEACE ... through mutually inadequate firepower!!"
Mutually Inadequate and Low Firepower.
Re: Chocolate Teapot
A carrier would have been damn useful for Libya, and may well yet be for Algeria.
Helicopter, because, y'know
Re: Chocolate Teapot
http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/graphics/icons/comment/wtf_32.png Come on chaps the bloody model we built worked just fine , no one, including his Lordship, said it would work in the real world. That's what you get for using Argentinian subs ( my pun ) No wonder Hornblower took a powder with his teapot
Re: Chocolate Teapot
With their 30 year old military technology?
The Argies don't have the money now, they're still using the same kit that they were in 82.
Re: Chocolate Teapot
Well at least they've still got it.
Why on earth did we ever get rid of the Sea Harriers? Or the "through-deck cruisers"? No wonder the Argies are rattling their castanets.
I was lucky enough to be on the Invincible from her commissioning until September 1981 - what a wonderful ship she was, and the Harriers were jaw-dropping. The pilots were the best of the best, and surprisingly friendly to this pimply, useless, star-struck midshipman.
A few months after I left they were off to the Falklands, some not to return. Very brave and able people, and kit we should never have sold off in a million years.
Re: Chocolate Teapot
The story I remember is that the computer on the Sheffield did a reboot as the attack was getting under way, and then another ship came along and got in the way of Sheffield doing anything at a vital moment.
Computers probably continue with that annoying habit today.
Depending on missiles for defence was the in thing at the time , but the crews very soon set up machine guns anchored to the railings to give adequate close in fire power.
PS . The Americans had the same philosophy in Vietnam , while the MIGs had cannon.
The American pilots were at a disadvantage from my memory of events at that time.
I will make a prediction-(a safe one) That the next shootout will not go as any of the planners have planned it .
Like all wars, it won't get faught the way the planners/stratigists etc stated it would.
Icon - for the tears that will flow.
Re: Chocolate Teapot
Apparently the 4 ? "not very good" Typhoons based in the Falklands, could take out the whole air force of the Spanish colony trying to claim islands as theirs.
Re: Chocolate Teapot
"Apparently the 4 ? "not very good" Typhoons based in the Falklands, could take out the whole air force of the Spanish colony trying to claim islands as theirs."
The antipathy towards the Typhoon is not that it isn't a good fighter. It is simply that it is incredibly expensive, arrived donkeys years after the mission it was designed for disappeared, and notwithstanding British attempts to fit it for strike roles, was designed from the very beginninng purely as an air superiority fighter. In this role on the Falklands I'd expect it to work a treat, but equally expect that the Argentines would never chance any of their small and antique air force against them.
Re: Chocolate Teapot
"What if the Argentines were to send out a ship with some old-fashioned guns and just blow her to pieces?"
The RN's most effective anti-ship weapon is a submarine; we miraculously actually have some quite capable of dealing with the kind of gunboat you describe.
Re: Chocolate Teapot
"we miraculously actually have some "
What you meant was "miraculously we still actually have some, but our government are working to fix that"
It's this bit that worries me the most:
General Atomics tacked on still more, Mr Gray tells us:
"Additional aircraft launch and recovery equipment was required, on top of the cats and traps, which had not been included in the original estimate. The cost of going through the FMS [Foreign Military Sales] purchasing route and some inflation adjustments were further components."
Wait... what?
You're telling me that some absolute f**king CRETIN in the MoD put together a quote for adding cats'n'traps to our "adaptable" carriers, and didn't include all the aircraft launch and recovery kit? Do these things not get reviewed before going out? Or is there just some YTS, work-experience kid pulling these reports together?
Re: It's this bit that worries me the most:
It'll be more like a builders estimate: "Build bathroom with all fixtures and fittings: £5k" sounds reasonable so you sign. Turns out walls, ceiling floor, sink,toilet and plumbing weren't explicitly mentioned so extra £15k needed.
The poor sod at the MOD who signed for this was probably under the illusion that all the bits were included in the contract but not having thirty years writing contracts with invisible gaping holes in didn't know. If he had known he would have been paid to move to the other side of the contract. If his contract with the MOD states he cant work for the opposition for x years he will get gardening leave in Eden to get him out of the way.
This, to a large degree, is how government IT has worked since PFI etc has been around and I doubt its any different elsewhere.
Re: It's this bit that worries me the most:
I would love to rip your post to pieces Tom 7, but instead I'm crying into my coffee as it is so unbelievably true, it's heart breaking that these sort of people are in charge of spending our tax money. Incompetent isn't a word they are familiar with.
Re: It's this bit that worries me the most:
I disagree. They're not incompetent, on the contrary they're very competent, they simply do not have the taxpayers' best interests at heart and are effectively playing for the other side. When called out for it, they feign incompetence because the average voter is more likely to forgive (or at any rate ignore) that than deliberate betrayal.
Or at least, that's what every bit of evidence seems to suggest.
Re: It's this bit that worries me the most:
The folks in the MoD are all planning their move to BAE, so it's in their interests to send work BAE's way and to fatten them up nicely.
Remember the carrier contract when the government next says we have to lay off thousands of soldiers, police, NHS workers and the like - for 'austerity'.
Re: It's this bit that worries me the most:
I think it's a 50:50 split, there are those that have the intelligence to play the game for when they move jobs but there are also those that simply are useless and out of their depth when they are given these tasks, the reality being is that they can't turn the task down because there is no-one else around that can do it either, generally a complete lack of skills across the whole department. I know of the latter as I have met and worked with some of them (most of the time you could've describe my state as despair).
Re: It's this bit that worries me the most:
What I find surprising is the way so many ordinary people take it for granted that politicians have their (the voters') best interests at heart. Why on earth should they? Why do we expect politicians to be the only honest, altruistic, selfless people in a world that has more and more been based on money, power, and self-interest?
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Worked on MoD jobs, Basic ladybird book essentials being neglected in contract writing is not a surprise.
Re: It's this bit that worries me the most:
"The poor sod at the MOD who signed for this was probably under the illusion that all the bits were included in the contract but not having thirty years writing contracts with invisible gaping holes in didn't know. I"
Well that explains 1 of them.
What about the other 19999 who work in Bristol for MoD procurement?
Re: It's this bit that worries me the most:
But the cough, cough "defence" industry is a scam anyway.
The education dept smudges up the fact that the 3 biggest global industries are weapons, drugs and sex, and the kids ought to be coming out of that factory farming production line as junkies, pimps, prostitutes etc., dealing in drugs and guns.
But add in a few layers of remoteness - and this is what the banks and weapons dealers /manufacturers and the oil companies and the registered and unregistered drug companies are all doing.....
Their greed and desperation - and the lying and the scams.
And the taxpayers MUST now foot the bill...
Remembering the mantra of the last 20 US presidents.. "We do not want war..." + "Spreading peace and democracy to the middle east".... "by sharing the American way of life, and our values, our love of god and our fellow man with the rest of the world." - and only invading those countries with oil and minerals, or those that stand against us, or have democratically elected governments that refuse to toe our line - which we use the CIA to orchestrate fake uprisings against, so we can install our own puppet governments into.
The MOD, the government, the banks and the contractors are all in on the same scams...
And the taxpayer funds it.
Re: It's this bit that worries me the most:
The contract for the carriers never included the option to convert to CATOBAR in future. That was a random politicians lie. The issue was brought up in Parliment and it was admitted that no such adaptability option in the contract and it would have been impractical to allow it.
Once the decision to produce a STOVL Carrier was made it was set in stone and was only changed because another politician wanted to appear smarter than the last lot.
The French confirmed the high cost of conversion when they rejected the option to buy one of the carriers.
I wrote to my MP about all this.
Asking that it was about time that the relationship between the MOD and BAE was investigated by the serious fraud squad.
The reply from Peter Luff was most upset that I had raised the possibility of fraud and money wasting.
According to him 89% of BAe's programmes are on budget and 71% are on schedule.
Room for improvement I'd say.
My own MP when sending me the reply back mentioned that "you may be disappointed with it!"
Re: I wrote to my MP about all this.
Interesting that he used the unit of "Programmes". So of ten arbitrary programmes, the nine that cost £1m each are OK and the one that cost £2b is over budget and delayed.
All in the interpretation of the
lies statistics.
Re: Jason 7 - Confusing
Are you from Worcestershire (ie is he your MP)
How many MPs?
I thought Peter Luff was retiring. Was quite a good MP though. Better than the fox hunting obsessed, post office closer we used to have next door, even worse, some people I work with had Waquie Jaquie.
Re: Jason 7 - Confusing
No I'm in Norwich, Simon Wright is my MP.
You write to your MP, they then pass it on to the MP/minister/dept responsible and then you get a response back.
I have to say the responses you get back do appear to have had some thought. Not just canned replies.
BAE 89% on budget --- after being paid for features that are not delivered
It might be the case that 89% of BAE's programmes are on budget, but this may be a meaningless statistic if in reality the tax payer is paying massively inflated prices for features (such as "adaptability") that are not actually being delivered.
To some, the "89% on-budget" claim is not very surprising in a context where contracts and sign-off conditions are being negotiated and approved by a body and/or individuals that seem to align themselves more with the interests of the contract holder than those actually paying the bill.
This the problem with high-level complicity in corruption and fraud; it's just too easy to manipulate the official statistics etc. so that outwardly everything seems sufficient fine to rebuff casual enquiries, and divert attention (AKA "doing an Obi Wan").
Re: BAE 89% on budget --- after being paid for features that are not delivered
Is the MoD/BAE definition of 'on budget' along the same lines as First Great Western's definition of 'on time'?
Re: BAE 89% on budget --- after being paid for features that are not delivered
"Is the MoD/BAE definition of 'on budget' along the same lines as First Great Western's definition of 'on time'?"
Obviously not.
That is far too restrictive.
Re: I wrote to my MP about all this.
I agree completely that this sounds like serious fraud. If the MP's won't refer the matter how about that online petition thing they set up...? I think we've got enough techies and net-addicts to get some grass roots support for signatures going...?
What if all that money had been spent on actually useful civilian stuff like ..... Ooh, I don't know. Power plants (including various renewable technologies and a mix of different variations on nuclear, with an eye on what works and what doesn't); strategically-located recycling centres; high speed railways; repairs to our ageing water supply and sewage networks; social housing and the NHS?
Re: Hmm@A J Stiles
"What if all that money had been spent on actually useful civilian stuff like.... "
You want government more spending than they already do? Maybe you haven't spotted that the budget deficit is running at £120bn a year, and that we are already pi55ing away billions on the bottomless pit of our shambolic health service and welfare programme, and (in the near future) on unrequired high speed rail programmes. The gigantic fail that is energy policy is already (likewise) pi55ing billions up the wall on crummy renewables, for which your energy bills are going up and will continue to do so, and the water companies are investing around £5bn a year in asset renewals - if you want more roads dug up then you'll have to see water bills start increasing significantly above inflation When this was done after privatisation (to fund investment) it wasn't at all popular.
Going back to government, take that £120bn that Gormless George is borrowing annually , and it equates to the government borrowing half a billion quid each and every working day to fritter on stuff that mostly doesn't benefit me, or gives me a very low benefit - you mileage may vary, of course. In that context the criminal incompetence on display in all defence procurement is small beer, I'm afraid.
Re: Hmm
You don't get much High Spend Rail for even the massively over inflated cost of this crapulous carrier.
Re: Hmm@A J Stiles
No, I'm saying: Spend the money on civilian projects instead of military willy-waving. In times of budget defecit, civilians must come first. Even if the entire army, navy and air force wind up on the dole, it'll still be cheaper that way.
Re: Hmm@A J Stiles
That's what I thought you meant. My point was that even if you cancelled the entire defence budget of £40bn, the government would still be spending £80bn a year more than it gets in income (plus £10bn for welfare and foregone employment taxes currently recycled from the defence budget), and even that isn't sustainable.
I agree that we'd save a lot of money if we adopted a Swiss style approach to defence, of simply being able to defend our domestic territory in the British Isles by a very large armed reserve force. Whether that makes sense I'm not sure - we'd have to renounce territorial claims to the Falklands, Antarctica, and any territory that is remote from the UK. We'd have no part in well-intentioned international missions such as Kosovo, Sierra Leone or Libya. We'd have no transport or military skills to contribute to international disaster relief. We'd have no ability to contribute to international missions such as combating piracy off East Africa.
The "little britain" mob would probably like this a lot. On the other hand, is it right to go all pacifist for a country that is easily in the ten largest economies in the world, is hugely influential politically, and deeply involved in global trade? If France and the UK hadn't stuck their necks out over Libya, it would have been another Syria, there would be continued fighting even now, and probably 100,000 civilians dead (as Russia and China have allowed to happen in Syria). I don't anticipate any gratitude from the Libyan people, but surely as one of the world's largest and most advanced economies, there's a time when you have to do the right thing, and part of that is building the capability in advance of the need?
Re: @Ledswinger Hmm@A J Stiles
After all, we are continually hearing about the "100,000 dead" in Syria. (Without any remotely credible sources, however).
But what about the million-plus dead in Iraq? (Plus at least as many wounded or crippled, and 4-5 times as many driven from their homes and, in many cases, their country).
At least ten times the butcher's bill. But because it was our peaceful, democratic, free-enterprise governments that did it, the subject is simply not mentioned in polite company.
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Head of volunteer nursing group says Octomom doesn't care about her children, and more. Octomom fires back by firing the volunteer nursing group, says they bring a negative energy to her home.
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I think that is a silly observation about strippers. What, are they all stupid,
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If there were no paying clientele, there would be no strippers, obviously.
But even if she does really love kids, that's the same thing said by demented women who steal children from hospital nurseries.
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Local police have spent $4,000 in octuplet-related overtime.
Octomom finally figures out: "I've screwed up my life".
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Yeah, she screwed up, all right, but for one reason that absolutely no one has ever mentioned: She wanted a WR! What better way for her to get instant fame than to try and break the WR for a single birth to multiple infants, and have those babies survive longer than any other?
From what I've read and heard, she took fertility drugs without end! Why else would she do that if she weren't intent on doing something that would put her in the spotlight in a big way? It was all to tie or break the WR for multiple births, with all the babies surviving for at least a year. Seven was the record beforehand.
Of the women who have given birth to octuplets before Nadya Suleman, not all of their children survived beyond a month. Nadya's children are the first to survive that long and then some, but I think she was actually aiming for 9, or even 10 (which would have been a first), regardless of the possibility that she might have lost one or more of her babies. Three women each had 9, but none of the babies survived.
This is going to sound amusing, in a situation that is really no laughing matter, but if she was using fertility drugs to have at least 8 babies at once, doesn't that count as a performance-enhancing situation, which should technically disqualify her from Guinness?
And all because she wanted the WR for longest-surviving octuplets, or nonuplets. She thought a WR alone would launch her into stardom. Too bad she was hardly in a financial position to even think about having more children. And that is why she has earned nothing but ridicule. So much for the WR.
Octomom's doc booted from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, which does not affect his ability to practice 'medicine'.
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According to The New Orleans Times-Picayune, LSU's basketball coaching search is picking up steam. Athletic director Joe Alleva — the paper claimed yesterday afternoon — has already spoken with North Texas coach and former Tiger Johnny Jones (pictured at left), with New Mexico State coach Reggie Theus, with Harvard coach Tommy Amaker.
The paper initially reported that Pitt's Jamie Dixon had also met with Alleva. But that claim prompted Pittsburgh officials to deny that the Panthers coach had met with LSU's AD in Atlanta yesterday. Dixon was in fact in his office on the Pitt campus.
The article at The Times-Picayune's website now states that "a previous report on Nola.com that Alleva met with University of Pittsburgh Coach Jamie Dixon was inaccurate."
Stuff happens. Sources aren't always 100% accurate. We're not picking on the paper, just trying to spread the word that LSU did not meet with Pitt's Dixon.
In fact, Alleva himself told The Baton Rouge Advoctate that he did not meet with Pitt's coach. But he did admit to speaking with Jones:
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Right on the heels of my last post about the importance of maintaining digital consistency between Twitter, Facebook and your team website; then along comes the news that the upgraded Twitter platform or #newtwitter will pretty much wipe out any customized background image in place.
A good article on it here.
There is little doubt that the upgrade will be bringing with it a slew of very useful features (analytics, multi-media, redesigned interface…) but it looks as though one thing that will be lost is the ability to upload a customized background. Many, many marketers have leveraged this opportunity in the past and I have frequently driven home the message myself that teams need to use this space to extend their marketing reach here…
So – you are going to lose your custom background sometime soon. It's a rolling/random upgrade so you never know when exactly, but it will be sometime between tomorrow and the next few weeks. Better get prepared…
- Do nothing… wait and see what it looks like
- Some background will remain, but not very much
- Prepare an interim background
- Use at least team colors
- Try some designs that utilize the border
This is going to happen soon – so don't get caught off guard. This is a constantly changing space… it is important to quickly seize opportunities but also, perhaps even more importantly, to react swiftly and respond to changes.
If you have some new solutions in place – please let me know!
UPDATE (September 24, 2010):
I was just upgraded to the new Twitter. Here's a screen shot. The black background is the space you will have to work with…
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Scenically poised on the east coast of the South Island, Timaru is the gateway to New Zealand's most majestic mountains, including its highest peak Mt Cook. Timaru has recaptured much of its Edwardian heritage with vibrant plantings of roses and trees, and a pedestrian-friendly landscape of paved areas, seating and vantage points from which to enjoy the city's setting between ocean and alps. Tour the Trevor Griffiths Rose Garden and stroll the striking piazza, with its stunning views across Caroline Bay, complemented by the numerous café-bars and restaurants.
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A splendid overview of the countryside, this delightful tour presents the artistic village of Geraldine, magnificent Rangitata Valley and endless panoramic views.
It's a picturesque drive inland to Geraldine, an artistic village nestled among rolling hills and farmland. Upon arrival, enjoy some free time to explore the art galleries and museums. If you're mechanically minded, you'll find the Vintage Car & Machinery Museum fascinating, especially the exhibit devoted to the world's only 1929 Spartan biplane. Foodies will love the village's al fresco cafés and shops carrying locally produced cheeses and fruit preserves. Stepping into the Giant Jersey, you will find the world's largest sweater mounted on the wall and a stunning piece of metal tapestry made out of two million pieces of steel. For a glimpse into Geraldine's past, stroll the Historic Town Trail.
Continuing on, the South Island's glorious natural beauty is on display as you drive further north into the Rangitata Valley, an area so visually stunning that it served as a backdrop for several Oscar-winning "Lord of the Rings" movies. This is classic New Zealand sheep country, as you'll discover during a brief stop at the Tin Shed, a wonderfully unusual store that was once a grain shed. You'll have time here to shop for fine woolen goods ranging from sweaters to blankets and then amble through the farmyard, where you'll see alpacas, native kunekune pigs and, of course, sheep.
Returning to the pier, you'll pass through Washdyke, supposedly named because it was once a center for sheep dipping, and then along the lively Caroline bay beachfront before ending at the pier.
Please note: Walking on this tour is mainly at the guests' discretion during the stops. There are some uneven and natural surfaces and a few inclines to negotiate. The tour is not available to wheelchair guests and those with mobility concerns are cautioned to carefully evaluate their personal level of stamina and ability. Weather appropriate clothing; sun cap; sunglasses and flat, comfortable walking shoes are recommended. The order of the sites viewed or visited can vary.
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Earth Eleven sank into despair as Bitway Ozrock unleashed his nightmarish Soul, Ixaal, which easily scored a goal against Earth Eleven's Soul defense. The worse was to come as Ixal Fleet activated their Soul-rampaging hissatsu tactic, Berserk Ray which caused all Earth Eleven's Souls to go berserk and resulted in two own goals against Earth Eleven! At the nick of time, Sarjes Rugu and Acrous Obies, in their Pixie forms, appeared and shattered Berserk Ray with their powers! More surprises came as suddenly a group of Gurdon's Anti-Machine Faction members descended along with Shitennou, who were saved by the Anti-Machine Faction members and returned to aid Earth Eleven! More were to come as the the captains of the previous teams Earth Eleven faced, Kazerma Woorg, Powai Pichori, Arbega Gordon, and the son of Banda Koloogyu, Banda Koloogyu Jr came to help as well! With Shinsuke and Zanakurou also joining, Galaxy Eleven replaced Earth Eleven during the second half against Ixal Fleet. Galaxy Eleven played well with Arbega able to protect the goal with Gouryuu, but his arms were injured in the process and Shinsuke took up the role of defending the galaxy's goalpost! The match that decided on the galaxy's fate raged on...
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The call comes at 4:33 p.m. on a Monday.
"Arnold's cigar dinner is tonight, at his restaurant. I know it's last minute, but if you can come, I can get you a seat at his table."
The caller is James Stankard, Arnold Schwarzenegger's major-domo. Schwarzenegger has been busy with various ventures, including filming Eraser, which figures to be his big summer hit, and this is the first time since I'd put in a bid to see him several weeks earlier that he has some time.
Almost four hours later, I find myself standing in the middle of a milling crowd as Schwarzenegger walks into Schatzi on Main, the restaurant he owns in Santa Monica, California, two blocks from the Pacific Ocean.
He's wearing a gray T-shirt, khaki slacks, a brown leather jacket and that big, familiar, gap-toothed smile. Because he was a world champion bodybuilder--five times "Mr. Universe" and seven times "Mr. Olympia"--long before he was an international box office star, I'd expected his physical presence to fill the room, much as Muhammed Ali once did and Wilt Chamberlain still does. But Schwarzenegger has none of that awesome physical presence. Nor, for that matter, does he--on first sighting--have that magnetic, galvanizing star appeal that automatically stops conversation and turns all eyes toward him. He makes no grand entrance. There is neither hush nor buzz. He's just there. Just Arnold. Just one of maybe 200 guys standing around with a cigar in his hand.
He's 6-foot-2, 212 pounds--about 36 pounds below his competitive bodybuilding weight--but apart from his bulging biceps and thick neck, he almost looks small, or at least not uncommonly large. Maybe that's because one subconsciously expects him to look as dominating in person as he does on-screen, where he seems even bigger and more menacing than he really is.
As Schwarzenegger makes his way across the room, we meet and shake hands--he's not a bone-cruncher--and when we reach his table, he introduces me to several of our seatmates and says, warmly, "You sit here, next to me."
Schwarzenegger's nephew, Patrick Kennedy, newly out of law school, is on the other side of me. Across from him is Stan Winston, a four-time Academy Award winner for makeup and special effects (Alien, Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park). Others at our table include Schwarzenegger's agent, Lou Pitt; actor Luke Perry, formerly of television's "Beverly Hills 90210"; and Keith Barish, one of the founding partners (as is Schwarzenegger) of Planet Hollywood, which is about to go public with a $170 million stock offering.
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Schwarzenegger was born on July 30, 1947, in the tiny Austrian hill town of Thal-by-Graz (pop. 800), where his father was a village cop and the family house had neither telephone nor television. But unlike many who come from humble beginnings and strike it rich in Hollywood, Schwarzenegger has neither forgotten nor forsaken his roots, and seated directly across from him at Schatzi tonight are two of his oldest friends from his bodybuilding days, Franco Columbu and Rolf Moeller. Schwarzenegger even paid tribute to Columbu with an inside joke in Last Action Hero, giving him an on-screen credit--"A Franco Columbu Film"--on the movie-within-a-movie in that big-budget epic.
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Thursday, March 01, 200712:00 PM - 1:30 PM4276 Bunche Hall UCLA CampusLos Angeles, CA 90095
Although all five of his predecessors have held the title, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is Indonesia's first directly elected president. Chosen in 2004, he expects to serve until the next scheduled election in 2009. How effective has he been, in comparison with his predecessors and given the formal and informal constraints of the new presidential democracy? Is Indonesian democracy becoming more or less stable under his administration?
R. William Liddle is Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University and a specialist on Southeast Asian, particularly Indonesian, politics. He has conducted research in Indonesia on many occasions since the early 1960s, and has been a Fulbright researcher and lecturer in both Indonesia and Singapore. He writes for the international and Indonesian media, including The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal and Asian Wall Street Journal, Far Eastern Economic Review, Jakarta dailies Kompas, Koran Tempo, Media Indonesia, Republika and the national Indonesian newsweekly Tempo. He has appeared on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Fox News, CNN, All Things Considered and Talk of the Nation on National Public Radio, and on many BBC, Voice of America, Australian, Canadian, Dutch and Indonesian television and radio programs.
Professor Liddle's recent scholarly publications include: "Leadership, Party and Religion: Explaining Voting Behavior in Indonesia," Comparative Political Studies, forthcoming 2007 (with Saiful Mujani); "Political Leadership and Civilian Supremacy in Third Wave Democracies: Comparing South Korea and Indonesia," Pacific Affairs, summer 2006 (with Yong Cheol Kim and Salim Said); "Indonesia in 2005: A New Multi-Party Presidential Democracy," Asian Survey, January/February 2006 (with Saiful Mujani); "Year One of the Yudhoyono-Kalla Duumvirate," Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, December 2005; and "Indonesia's Approaching Elections: Politics, Islam, and Public Opinion," Journal of Democracy, January 2004 (with Saiful Mujani). His recent Indonesian-language writings have been collected in Revolusi Dari Luar, Jakarta: Nalar, 2005; and Islam, Politik, dan Modernisasi, Jakarta: Sinar Harapan, 1997.
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The hope, said Bobby Israel, a member of the credit union's board of directors and building committee, is to have the new building set up and everything in working order in time for a soft opening this week, possibly as soon as Tuesday.
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AOD is a local credit union with roots at the Anniston Army Depot — once known as Anniston Ordnance Depot, thus AOD — where it was at one time located in a single office, according to Israel. The credit union has grown from its depot location to include five other branches at Bynum, on Greenbrier-Dear Road, in Lenlock, Oxford and now Jacksonville.
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'There's tremendous pleasure to be had from the music's sheer charm…and even more from its outbursts of exuberance. Unless you're on a strict musical diet that allows no dessert, this release, like its predecessor, will lift your spirits' (Fanfare, USA)
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Andantino sostenuto [6'23]
Allegro moderato [9'20]
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Allegro moderato [5'49]
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Hyperion's record of the month for April is the much-anticipated second instalment of Howard Shelley's premiere recordings of Henri Herz's piano concertos.
Herz never tried to be a 'great' artist, though he was often judged against such criteria; he was an entertainer. Of course the concerto lends itself perfectly to this role and his eight concertos are full of charm, almost operatic melody and scintillating virtuosity. Needless to say Howard Shelley, who has made such exceptional recordings of the concertos of Hummel and Moscheles, is just the man for the job. If we can accept that music need not be profound to be enjoyed we should join the international music press in welcoming this revival of these works, the pop music of their time.
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Heinrich Herz was born in Vienna on 6 January 1803 (some sources say 1806), the son of a musician who gave him his first lessons. After further studies in Coblenz with the organist father of the pianist–composer Franz Hünten, Herz entered the Paris Conservatoire. His teachers here were Louis Pradère, Anton Reicha and Victor Dourlen. In his first year, Herz carried off first prize for piano playing. A visit to Paris in 1821 by the great pianist, composer and pedagogue Ignaz Moscheles proved a strong influence on his own style.
Having become a Parisian, Heinrich became Henri. For the rest of his life the French capital remained the base from which he conducted a hugely successful career as a pianist, composer, teacher, inventor and piano manufacturer. From the early 1820s and for the next decade, Herz enjoyed a reputation that is hard to reconcile with the current neglect of his music and low critical reputation. Neither Liszt, Chopin, Thalberg nor any other pianist—with the exceptions of Moscheles and Kalkbrenner—rivalled Herz as the most fashionable and sensational pianist of the day. His music commanded three or four times the price of his nearest rivals, none of whom outsold him until the 1840s. As Sir George Grove observed: 'Herz found out what the public liked and what would pay, and this he gave to them.' Besides eight piano concertos, he wrote for the instrument in every recognizable form including an immense number of variations, more than 200 opus numbers in all. 'Is Herz prejudiced', asked Mendelssohn, 'when he says the Parisians can understand nothing but variations?'
Schumann was beside himself at Herz's success and lost no opportunity to poke fun at him in the pages of his Neue Zeitschrift für Musik. The pages of the Revue et Gazette Musicale, owned by Herz's sometime publisher Moritz Schlesinger, never referred to Herz except in the most slighting terms. The composer had, it is thought, asked for more money than the wily Schlesinger was willing to pay and the two conducted a lengthy feud. Schlesinger even fought a duel with a fiery Herz loyalist, wounded him and was subsequently fined fifty francs for defamation.
Herz might have restricted himself to playing little but his own music, yet there is no doubt of his prowess as a pianist, underlined by the hugely demanding solo parts of the present concertos written to exploit his particular gifts. He was praised not only for his bravura and power of execution but also for 'that special kind of sensuously charming touch which differentiated the Parisian school from the brilliant playing of the Viennese and the emotional style of the English' (Oscar Bie).
In the late 1830s, Herz teamed up with a Parisian piano manufacturer named Klepfa. The venture failed but, despite losing a large amount of money, Herz established a piano factory of his own with instruments that incorporated his valuable improvements on Erard's revolutionary double-escapement action. He also built a concert hall on the premises in the Rue de la Victoire and though, in the beginning, some performers tried to rent it on condition that they did not have to play a Herz piano, by 1844 the business was a success, producing 400 instruments a year.
In 1845, in order to obtain more capital and recoup some of his earlier losses, Herz undertook the first American tour by an important European pianist, paving the way for Thalberg, Gottschalk (American-born but Paris-trained) and Anton Rubinstein. His journey, entertainingly described in his Mes Voyages en Amérique (published in Paris in 1866), took him through the United States, Mexico and the West Indies. By the time he returned home in 1851 Herz was a wealthy man. He was able to expand his piano factory, winning first prize with one of his instruments at the 1855 Exposition Universelle. In 1874 he relinquished his post as professor of piano at the Paris Conservatoire, one he had held since 1842. He died in 1888.
For a more detailed account of Herz's career, see volume 35 of The Romantic Piano Concerto (Hyperion CDA67465), featuring Herz's piano concertos Nos 1, 7 and 8.
Herz's concertos are about as far away from those of Beethoven, Schumann and the rest of the German school as it is possible to be. Teutonic dominance of European classical music since the mid-nineteenth century has, very largely, been responsible for the view that profundity and solemnity is somehow worthier than and preferable to joyful exuberance and high-spirited display. Long before Herz had died, his music had been dismissed as superficial and irrelevant. That is a shame, for hearing these three piano concertos is to enjoy scintillating piano-writing, melodic fecundity and imaginative orchestration. They remind us that good, even great, music can possess the simple function of entertaining and lifting the spirits. It does not always have to be an invitation for navel gazing or 'lending dignity to our own sense of self-pity' (Kenneth Tynan).
Herz made his first visit to London in 1833 playing at the Philharmonic, Hanover Square, on 10 June, giving a concert in which he played duets with Moscheles and Cramer. He returned two years later for the premiere of his Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor Op 87 (1835), dedicated to the Philharmonic Society of London.
The first movement (Allegro moderato) might seem like a heady mixture of Hummel, Chopin, Moscheles, Mendelssohn and Kalkbrenner. But no. It is all and none of these. This is Herz, King of the Parisian school of elegance and dexterity, writing to wow the public with sensational acrobatics and graceful melodies—and making the most of the newly extended keyboard. The dominating key is D minor though in the course of its nearly fifteen minutes duration we take in F major (for the first statement of its lovely second subject), A flat major, F minor (for the unexpected central cantabile, con dolore section), G sharp minor, B flat major (briefly) and finally D major. The tempo and character of the music change just as frequently.
Herz follows this with a theme of striking simplicity for his Andantino sostenuto (to be played cantabile con amore), a lullaby reminiscent of some Scottish air. It is brutally interrupted by the piano's outburst of fortissimo double octaves before a fermata and a transition from F major to D major for the opening theme again, this time decorated with the piano's leggiero pianissimo demisemiquavers. The modulation to the home key is preceded by a left-hand octave tremolo using the bottom C of the keyboard—three octaves below middle C—a rarity for this period. The theme's final treatment has the upper part of the right hand playing the melody, the lower part simultaneously playing a trill, while the left hand crosses over to play arpeggiated figures as high as top F (three octaves above middle C).
The route-map of the concerto's Allegro finale (con fuoco ed appassionato) is as surprising as it is original, a potpourri that can hardly fail to bring a smile to the lips. The strident octave first subject in D minor is followed by a fugal section for strings only leading to a delightful third subject in A major (dolce e scherzando) to be played lusingando (caressingly). What next? A march of course!—orchestra only, brillante e sonore, triangle and percussion to the fore, as if straight out of a Meyerbeer opera. The soloist leads us thrillingly back to the first subject, then to a repeat of the fugue (this time in F sharp minor and with the piano's contribution) and a return to the scherzando subject (in D major) which, after a brilliant transition passage, leads to the coda using the march again.
Though shorter than the Third Concerto and more conservative in its structure, Herz's Piano Concerto No 4 in E major Op 131 (1843) holds many surprises and unconventional passages. The pivotal material for the first movement (Allegro moderato) is the jaunty and infuriatingly catchy second subject introduced by the strings and woodwind in the lengthy exposition. It is subjected to a number of treatments during which Herz allows the soloist little time to pause for breath. The moment for this comes after a passage of trills and suspended harmonies of which Hummel would have been proud. This would seem to lead inevitably to the movement's conclusion. Instead Herz proceeds with a transitional eight ritenuto bars, underlined by hushed timpani rolls, to a solo passage in G major marked Lento e senza tempo, come una improvisazione.
After a cadenza, this in turn takes us without pause to the slow movement in C major—Andante cantabile in 9/8—and another of Herz's simple, delectable melodies. The second part of this theme (in E flat major) disturbs the tranquil waters with surging scales and arpeggios. Having repeated the process with a further procession of busy leggiero and espressivo passagework, the music drifts to a gentle conclusion.
To follow that, Herz offers a lively 2/4 'Russian Rondo accompanied by a clochette' in E minor. Its irresistible course is contrasted not by a lyrical theme as in the archetypal Romantic concerto but by a sprightly repeated-note dance tune. Some brilliantly effective writing for the soloist leads to a tutti and a lusingando (again) bridge in which the clochette re-introduces the rondo theme. When the dance theme returns it is in E major, the key in which the work ends triumphantly.
Herz may fall back on his bag of pianistic tricks, but he is nothing if not unpredictable in the way in which he chooses to use them. In the even briefer Piano Concerto No 5 in F minor Op 180 (1854) the opening of the first movement (Allegro moderato), far from being an attention-grabbing exposition, is a hesitant, rhapsodic prelude. The soloist's initial theme has a close affinity with that of the last movement (could it be that Herz wrote the finale first?). We are almost halfway through the movement when another of the composer's heartfelt melodies appears, leading to a beguiling scherzo subject, soon abandoned for a curt transformation of the expressive melody into the material for the fiery coda.
Clarinets, trumpets, trombones and kettle drum are silent for the Andantino that follows, the stage set by a chorus for horns and bassoon. The piano's theme is an enchanting operatic cantilena (or so it sounds) which moves from its home key of E major to a central section in C sharp minor before returning for the cantilena to be taken up by a solo cello and flute in unison. All appears to be heading towards a serene conclusion. The final two bars disabuse the dreamy listener. Herz clearly had a sense of humour.
The finale (Allegro agitato) is a lively rondo in 6/8 which has a graceful second theme in the same metre but in the relative major. This is developed with some brilliant passagework (the trombones are put to work) before the main theme again, and a repeat of the second subject, now in F major. Without a pause, this tune is played in 2/4. Herz is surely going to conclude proceedings in this way. But no. He reverts back to 6/8 and, still in F major, uses the Rondo theme for a sprint to the finish.
Jeremy Nicholas © 2006
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The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol. 63 – Godard
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The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol. 37 – Nápravník & Blumenfeld
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