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Dick Morris triangulates Dick Morris; A Media Matters for America Analysis of Rewriting History
Written by Jamison Foser
FOX News Managing Editor and Chief Washington Correspondent Brit Hume, anchor of Special Report with Brit Hume, has said of Dick Morris -- the onetime adviser to Bill Clinton turned FOX News Channel contributor -- "[S]ometimes he says things that you think are inspired from another planet. ... If you're a political analyst, being wrong is a drawback." Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, has said, "He's frequently wrong." And a Boston Globe review of Morris's 1999 book, The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century, noted that "Morris's contradictions and factual errors too often make a hash of what is supposed to be his argument." [USA Today, 8/16/00; The Boston Globe, 7/20/99]
All that was before Morris's latest book, Rewriting History, hit the shelves today. The book is published by Regan Books, an imprint of Rupert Murdoch's HarperCollins Publishers. Murdoch, of course, also owns FOX News Channel. Rewriting History's dust jacket promises "a rebuttal to Hillary's bestselling autobiography," Living History, and Morris recently boasted on FOX News Channel's Hannity & Colmes that his book contained "a hundred and eight-six distortions, omissions, exaggerations or lies." Presumably, he meant that he had identified 186 distortions, omissions, exaggerations or lies in Clinton's book, although Morris's book does not deliver. [FOX News Channel, Hannity & Colmes, 4/19/04]
Rewriting History is number 6 on Amazon.com's "Bestsellers" list as of the afternoon of May 4.
The book's title is dead-on -- clear, straightforward, and an accurate reflection of what is to come; but from there, things go downhill in a hurry. A Media Matters for America review finds that, over the course of his 265 pages, Morris contradicts himself, makes factually inaccurate claims, and occasionally seems to make up stories out of whole cloth.
Dick Morris Says: | ... But Dick Morris Also Says: |
Hillary Clinton's Speeches "Usually a Disappointment": "When Bill Clinton speaks to an audience, he famously taps into the emotions of each and every listener. Hillary, on the other hand, never seems to live up to her billing. After the excitement of her dramatic arrival by motorcade has passed, her speech itself is usually a disappointment. ... [S]he rarely gets an emotional response from a crowd." [Morris, Rewriting History, p. 8] |
"Hillary Was Magnificent!": "Whatever the controversy before she went, Hillary's trip to China was her most important success of Clinton's first term. Her speech, a clarion call for justice for women throughout the world, not only electrified the conference, but it served as a broad and encompassing statement of women's rights as human beings. ... Hillary was magnificent!" [Morris, Rewriting History, p. 130] 1996 Speech "Was a Great Success": "Her [1996 Democratic National Convention] speech was a great success. It moved her husband up two points in that night's postspeech tracking poll -- the yardstick for virtue in those days. It was a great kickoff to the campaign." [Morris, Rewriting History, p. 140] |
"She Gives No Indication of Having Learned From the Fiasco of Health Care Reform": "In all of Living History there is almost no suggestion of personal growth. She gives no indication of having learned from the fiasco of health care reform." [Morris, Rewriting History, p. 62] |
"Hillary has ... Shown Signs of Growth ... After the Health Care Fiasco, for Example": "Hillary has, at times, shown signs of growth: After the health care fiasco, for example, she backed away from further attempts at broad-scale, utopian reforms." [Morris, Rewriting History, p. 62 (just four paragraphs later!)] "She Seems to Have Learned Her Lesson": "Her left-ward tilt in the health care reform days was a thing of the past. She seemed to have learned her lesson." [Morris, Rewriting History, p. 97] |
"Car Tax" Caused 1994 Defeats; Blaming Health Care Reform is "Revisionist History": "Reality check: My polling at the time showed that the Democrats lost mainly because they imposed a five-cent increase in the tax on gasoline. ... While revisionist history tends to credit future House Speaker Newt Gingrich's Contract with America for the GOP's ascendancy, and to blame health care reform for the Democrats' defeat, at the time it was clear to us that health care reform was a secondary issue. Once again, it was a car tax that had brought Bill Clinton down." [Morris, Rewriting History, p. 95] |
Republicans Won "In Part" by Attacking Health Care Plans: "But after the Republicans won the 1994 elections -- in part by excoriating Hillary's health care proposals -- the first lady gradually lost her influence, just as she had in the mid-1980s." [Morris, Rewriting History, p. 192] Democrats "Might Well Have Held onto Congress" in 1994 If Not for Health Care Reform Decision: "In 1994, she opted for nothing. But notwithstanding her resistance to the Dole Bill, in Living History Hillary takes credit for the passage of the Kennedy-Kassebaum legislation two years later. But she doesn't mention that workers would have had the right to take their health benefits to their new jobs much earlier if Hillary herself hadn't been so stubborn about her own initiative -- and the Democrats might well have held onto Congress in the bargain." [Morris, Rewriting History, p. 121] |
Dick Morris Says: | The Truth Is: |
Morris: Clinton Changed Eye Color: "As we all know, Hillary has changed her hair, her eye color, her dress, and her face more frequently than a professional model." [Morris, Rewriting History, p. 5] "Even her eyes were transformed, courtesy of brilliant turquoise contact lenses." [Morris, Rewriting History, p. 36] |
Morris's source? Matt Drudge. |
Morris: Clinton "Wondered ... If a Person Could Be 'Both a Republican and a Christian'": "Hillary has a Manichean view of issues, splitting the political world into dueling forces of good and evil. ... Behind every disagreement lurks an enemy. And not just an enemy, but the embodiment of evil. It is this Hillary who once wondered, incredibly, 'if a person could be both a Republican and a Christian.'" [Morris, Rewriting History, p. 22] |
The Truth: Clinton Was Joking: The article Morris cites in his endnote reads, "She noted how hurt she has been by conservatives who proclaim that it is impossible to be both a Christian and a Democrat, then joked, 'I have to confess that it's crossed my mind that you could not be a Republican and a Christian from time to time.'" [Washington Post, 2/7/97; emphasis added] |
Morris: Gore "Claimed to Be the Father of the Internet": "When Al Gore claimed to be the father of the Internet, or that his marriage was the basis for Love Story, his exaggerations tripped him up." [Morris, Rewriting History, p. 13] |
The Truth: No, He Didn't: Princeton University Professor Sean Wilentz (among many, many others) has debunked this myth: "On March 9, 1999, questioned by CNN's Wolf Blitzer ... Gore remarked: 'During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.' ... Upon viewing the Blitzer interview, though, a lazy reporter from Wired magazine picked up the story, sarcastically mischaracterized Gore in the Web pages of Wired News as claiming he was 'the father of the Internet,' and pointed out that research leading to the Internet began as early as the late 1960s. 'Vice President Gore tells a reporter the Internet was his idea,' Wired News concluded, inaccurately, adding the kicker, 'Nice try, Al.'" [Wilentz, The American Prospect, 9/25/00-10/9/00] |
Morris: Distorts Clinton Quote; Claims She Ignores Criticism: "Often, she seems deliberately to overlook what people are saying about her in order to discuss what some say about people like her. In her memoir, she has a deft way of describing the strategy: 'I adopted my own mantra: Take criticism seriously but not personally.' In other words, disassociate yourself from any and all criticism. The attacks are never about her; there's no need to take them personally, because there's nothing wrong with her. ... And, because all criticism is about her class, not her, she neither listens to it nor learns from it." [Morris, Rewriting History, p.57-58; italics in original, bold added] |
The Truth: Clinton Explicitly Said She Tries to Learn From Criticism: "I adopted my own mantra: Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you. Easier said than done." [Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History, p.110; bold added] |
Morris: Morris: Claimed Clinton Accused Attackers of Prejudice: "Citing Richard Nixon's paraphrase of Cardinal de Richelieu's famous quotation, Hillary accused her attackers of harboring the prejudice that 'Intellect in a woman is unbecoming.'" [Morris, Rewriting History, p.59] |
The Truth: Clinton Quoted Nixon, Didn't "Accuse" Anyone of Anything: "Former President Nixon's political instincts remained finely tuned, and he commented on our campaign in an interview during a visit to Washington in early February. 'If the wife comes through as being too strong and too intelligent,' he remarked, 'it makes the husband look like a wimp.' He then went on to note that voters tended to agree with Cardinal de Richelieu's assessment: 'intellect in a woman is unbecoming.'" [Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History, p. 106] Clinton's Quote of Nixon Was Accurate, Fair: Nixon was originally quoted in The New York Times: "Mr. Nixon suggested that the Clinton campaign would have to be careful about how it uses Hillary Clinton, because in general, 'If the wife comes through as being too strong and too intelligent, it makes the husband look like a wimp.' Mr. Nixon praised Barbara Bush as a model of a wife who has her own opinions without upstaging her husband, and suggested that many Americans are still put off by a male politician who does not seem to be as strong as his wife. The former President allowed that, unfortunately, some voters agree with Cardinal de Richelieu, who said, 'Intellect in a woman is unbecoming.'" [New York Times, 2/6/92] |
Morris: "Hillary Actually Compares Herself to Nelson Mandela": "On occasion, Hillary's ability to see herself as a martyr sacrificed for the greater good rises to the sublime. In Living History, Hillary actually compares herself with Nelson Mandela, somehow finding a moral equivalence between the Whitewater investigations and the decades of persecution Mandela suffered because of apartheid. During her May 1994 visit to South Africa, she describes how Mandela, at a speech, singled out 'three of his former jailers ... who had treated him with respect during his imprisonment. He asked them to stand so he could introduce them to the crowd.' ... Now, let's get some perspective here: Nelson Mandela endured decades in jail for the crime of trying to free his people. Hillary Clinton endured the scolding of the Wall Street Journal editorial page for her role in the White House Travel Office debacle. Hillary subsequently noted that if Mandela could forgive, then she could at least try to. So refined a sense of victimization is rare indeed." [Morris, Rewriting History, p. 61, italics in original, bold added] |
The Truth: No, She Doesn't - and Morris Skipped Nearly 250 Pages of Clinton's Book to Paint Misleading Picture: Needless to say, Clinton didn't "actually compare herself to Nelson Mandela" -- she simply said that if Mandela could forgive people, she should try. That's not a comparison, or an effort to equate her tormentors with his, and it would take a deliberate misreading to reach the conclusion Morris reaches. Also, in the Morris quote to the left, Morris is quoting and referring to page 235 of Living History -- until, that is, he writes "Hillary subsequently noted" -- at that point, he's skipped ahead nearly 250 pages, to page 480. By doing so, Morris is able to imply that Clinton's comment about trying to forgive is in reference to The Wall Street Journal and the "Travel Office debacle." It isn't: she is referring to her husband's relationship with Monica Lewinsky and Republican attacks on the Clintons' personal lives. |
Morris: Doesn't Believe Clinton Was a Yankees Fan: "[A]s a lifelong New Yorker - and obsessive Yankees fan - myself, I know this much: In the hundreds of conversations I had with Bill and Hillary Clinton during our years working together, she never showed the slightest interest in what I now learn was our mutually favorite team." [Morris, Rewriting History, p.66] |
The Truth: She Was: Picture 40 in Living History shows Hillary Clinton wearing a New York Yankees hat in 1992 -- eight years before her Senate campaign. And in 1994, The Washington Post reported, "Mrs. Clinton ... as a kid was a 'big-time' fan of the Chicago Cubs and New York Yankees and 'understudied' Ernie Banks and Mickey Mantle." [Clinton, Living History; Washington Post, 9/12/94] |
Morris: Few Presidents Have Ever Lost a Campaign: "Only a handful of our presidents had ever lost a race before becoming president." [Morris, Rewriting History, p. 77] |
The Truth: Nearly All Recent Presidents Have Suffered a Loss: Following is a partial list of U.S. presidents who had lost a campaign before becoming president, in reverse chronological order: George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson ... in other words, seven of the last eight -- and the exception (Gerald Ford) wasn't elected president. |
Morris: Republicans Attacked Hillary Over Whitewater at 1992 Convention: "During the 1992 Republican National Convention, speaker after speaker lambasted Hillary, attacking her for Whitewater, her career conflicts of interest, and her seeming scorn for stay-at-home moms." [Morris, Rewriting History, p. 88] |
The Truth: No, They Didn't: If speakers at the 1992 Republican National Convention mentioned Whitewater at all, it escaped the media's notice: a Nexis search for "Clinton and Whitewater" and covering the weeks during and after the convention yield no indication that any speaker mentioned the land deal. This shouldn't be surprising; the failed land deal had garnered very little media attention by the time of the convention. |
Morris: "Much of the Clinton [Administration] Program Stalled in Congress": "Despite some successes, like ratification of NAFTA and the passage of a good, strong anti-crime bill that led directly to the subsequent drop in violent crime, much of the Clinton program stalled in Congress [during President Clinton's first year in office.]" [Morris, Rewriting History, p. 94-95] |
The Truth: No, It Didn't: Mortimer Zuckerman wrote of Clinton's first year in office, "[M]ost Americans believe he can get things done. They believe it because it's true: Clinton's legislative program, which includes such major successes as reducing the deficit and passing NAFTA, rates as the most successful in the first year for a president since Dwight D. Eisenhower." [Zuckerman,US News & World Report, 1/31/94] |
Morris: Morris's Brilliant Plan Not to Advertise in New York or DC Kept "Elitist" NY, DC Media Unaware of 1995 Ad Campaign: "[T]he president was afraid to advertise because he said it would look too political. ... 'We'll keep it secret,' I said. ... 'We won't advertise in New York City or in Washington, D.C. That's where all the reporters live,' I replied. ... Here we were, speaking to half the nation an average of three times a week for a year, and the New York-Washington media was so introverted and elitist that it never noticed!" [Morris, Rewriting History, p. 132-133] |
The Truth: No, It Didn't -- Possibly Because Morris Talked to Reporters About It: "President Clinton effectively begins his re-election campaign on Tuesday, broadcasting $2.4 million worth of television advertisements in nearly two dozen markets nationwide. The White House spokesman, Michael D. McCurry, previewed the three 30-second advertisements -- all of which focus on crime -- for reporters at the White House today. ... The glossy ads, one of which features the President speaking in the Oval Office, were produced ... at the urging of Dick Morris?" [The New York Times, 6/27/95] "After President Clinton left a Rose Garden ceremony to veto a Republican spending bill 10 days ago, he slipped into the White House to film what amounts to the first two Clinton television ads of the political season, directed by his new favorite adviser, Republican consultant Dick Morris." [Washington Post, 6/18/95] "Presidential aides say the television campaign serves several purposes at once. ... 'Paid media is the only way that we can get the frequency of repetition of the message for those who don't normally follow politics in a nonpolitical season to get what's at stake, and that's really why we're running the ads,' said Dick Morris, the political strategist for Mr. Clinton who was the chief proponent of the television campaign." [The New York Times, 10/17/95] |
Morris: There "Was Never Any Official Investigation" of Clinton's Commodities Trades: "In Living History, Hillary writes that her trading gains were 'examined ad infinitum after Bill became President,' ... just to be clear about the record: There never was any official investigation of her trades - only the work of enterprising investigative reporters." [Morris, Rewriting History, p. 152] |
The Truth: Yes, There Was: Newsweek, 7/8/96: "House Republican leaders seem determined to keep the heat on Hillary Clinton. Moderate House Agriculture Committee chairman Pat Roberts last week requested records relating to Mrs. Clinton's 1978 and '79 commodities trades from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange -- but only under pressure, Hill sources say. At a leadership meeting in late June attended by Speaker Newt Gingrich, the sources say, Roberts was told he had 48 hours to open an investigation of the $100,000 windfall Mrs. Clinton made trading cattle futures -- 'or else.' A spokesman for Roberts said he launched the probe after a leadership meeting but denied he was initially reluctant to do so. The White House says it released the relevant records in 1994." |
Morris: Any Competent Prosecutor Would Know Whitewater Was "Rotten": "The clear message: Regardless of the final, inconclusive verdict, any competent prosecutor would have smelled something rotten in Whitewater." [Morris, Rewriting History, p. 160] |
The Truth: Three Prosecutors Had a Chance to Indict; Three Chose Not To: It's often said that a decent prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich. Neither Robert Fiske nor Ken Starr nor Robert Ray thought they could indict either Clinton for anything in any way related to Whitewater. |
Morris: Clintons Invited Gene Eriquez to State Dinner Because They Wrongly Thought He Was Hispanic: "At one White House state dinner honoring President Zedillo of Mexico in 1995, I was introduced to quite a number of prominent Hispanic and Mexican Americans and Mexican public officials. After dinner, I noticed our friends Gene and Marta Eriquez and went to talk to them. At the time Gene was the mayor of Danbury, Connecticut, the town next to ours ? Gene asked if I had arranged the invitation, but I hadn't. Gene laughed. 'I think they must think I'm Hispanic,' he said. 'That happens a lot with my name.'" [Morris, Rewriting History, p. 231] |
The Truth: Eriquez Wasn't On Guest List: While Morris was on the guest list for the 1995 state dinner honoring President Zedillo, Eriquez is not. Nor is anyone with a name resembling his. Nor is anyone identified as mayor of Danbury, Connecticut. [AP, 10/11/95; The Washington Times, 10/11/95; The Washington Post, 10/11/95] |


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Saturday 3 November 2012
Zaatar - friendly middles eastern bakery cafe
Like Catherine, I was interested in the work at the cafe on the corner of Sydney Road and Munro Street. This was soon after Zorbas closed and then another cafe barely opened before it closed in the same location. Once opened Zaatar looked particularly appealing at night time. Every time I walk by during the day, it full of cheerful customers. The owners are the children of Chafic Choueiri, who ran Brunswick's beloved A1 Bakery, so perhaps it is no surprise that they have hit the ground running.
On my first visit, with my mum and Sylvia, I ordered the three mezza with a dip and salad. It was very nice, though not quite what I expected. I found the blob of dip on the plate odd and the mezza (I think I had cheese pastries and a falafel) were nice but small. The salad was excellent. Fresh, zingy and full of vegetables. I think I had thought there might be some bread with the dip.
It is a tribute to the staff that on this occasion, I had my order forgotten and yet the service was still friendly and warm. On most of my visits, they have been very prompt with the order, and they were very pleasant when they forgot.
Today Sylvia had the cheese and vegemite pie. I had a mouthful and went to the counter to refill my glass of water. When I told the waitresses that the vegemite made me thirsty, they suggested I take a whole bottle of water back to my table. Actually I prefer the cheese pies, above, that Sylvia had on our previous visit. The vegemite is a bit overpowering in these pies. But I appreciate the nod to Aussie customs.
On our previous visit I had a falafel zoccacia. Zaatars is essentially a bakery cafe. They do great fresh bread. The zaatar pizza is a bargain at $1 each. It is a delicious and quite substantial warm serve of middle eastern bread spread generously with zaatar spice mix. Zaatar is a blend of thyme, sesame seed, organo, sumac, salt and other spices. According to the entertaining blurb on the website it makes you smart and strong.
The Zoccacia is a zaatar pizza that is filled and folded over like a foccacia. The falafel zoccacia had falafel, tomato, onion, sumac, spinach, humus. While I agree with Catherine that the falafel patties aren't a patch on those at Half Moon Cafe, put them in a zoccacia and you have something special and very very filling. E has enjoyed both the haloumi zoccacia and the kafta zoccacia on different visits.
Today I decided to have the zaatar pizza and salad. I looked at the bowl sizes and chose the large bowl. It didn't look that big. I had the tabouli, the cabbage salad and the fattoush (served with crisp pita bread chips and zaatar). They were full of nicely dressed vegies but I could only made to eat half the bowl. Next time I will choose the small bowl. The zaatar pizza was lovely.
Sylvia's favourite part of Zaatar is the sweet display. That is, when she is not asking me to buy her a packet of biscuits and demanding to sit on the stools at the bench looking out the window. I love the baklava. It is sweet and moist with nuts and flaky pastry. Sylvia can't resist the melting moments - vividly coloured shortbread biscuits sandwiched together with icing. I love the colours but they aren't my sort of thing. Though I was almost tempted today when they had blue ones.
Zaatar is fast becoming a favourite place for us to go for weekend lunch. The food is cheap and delicious. I love the welcoming and light-filled space. Look inwards and you see the photo wall of middle eastern doors. Look the other way and enjoy the view out the large windows onto the street. The staff are friendly and always love Sylvia. If you are in the area, I highly recommend a visit.
Zaatar Middle Eastern Food
365 Sydney Rd, by the corner of Munro Street
Coburg, 3058, VIC
03 9939 9494
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I'm pretty sure I love middle eastern food so much because of the great bread. :) This sounds like an awesome place!
ReplyDeleteCheese and vegemite pie! I've been known to eat teaspoons of vegemite straight, so I think I'd like that very much.
ReplyDeleteLook at those lurid sweets! (I think like you I might prefer the pastry anyway.) We passed only once in a car, but I'm keen to make a proper trip to visit Zaatar soon.
ReplyDeleteWow - how on earth do they get Melting Moments to be that colour I wonder? (I have melting moment on my list of things to bake today, safe to say mine will be the boring plain ones lol). Sounds like another great cafe find ;0)
ReplyDeleteWhat a great cafe - I like the variety that is missing at so many 'standard' Australian cafes. The zoccacia is a great concept and your salad looks wonderful. I think it's a good sign when large salads are too filling and small salads just right!
ReplyDeleteYay! I'm so glad you are enjoying Zaatar - they are such lovely people there, and the food always tastes so fresh and zingy.
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The PGA of America is the home to some of the most important events in golf, such as the PGA Golf Championship, the Senior PGA Golf Championship, The PGA Grand Slam of Golf and The Ryder Cup. PGA Golf tournament includes many extraordinary golf players, but only one stood out for Global Syn-Turf (GST), a leader in artificial synthetic grass industry. In 1985 PGA Golf leaderboard named Bernhard Langer the Master of Golf Champions. Bernhard Langer, a professional golfer from Germany, won his first of two major PGA Golf Championships that held in 11-14 April 85' at age of 27. Langer scored with two strokes ahead of runners-up Steve Ballesteros, Raymond Floyd, and Curtis Strange. That year PGA golf leaderboard showed a 69 (-3) on Saturday put Floyd in the lead after 54 holes at 212 (-4); Strange was a stroke back, followed by Langer and Ballesteros at 214 (-2). Despite an opening round 80, Strange led by three strokes with six holes to play in the final round, but bogeyed the 13th, 15th, and 18th holes and finished two strokes back. According to the Register-Guard associated press, "It was 'a dream come true," for Langer, who surged from four strokes back with nine holes to play. He claimed his first American title and became only the third foreign player to do the green jacket that goes to the Masters champions." The 1985 PGA golf leaderboard recorded that Langer won by two shots with a 282 total, 6-under-par on the Augusta National Golf Club course. "I was looking at the leader boards and I thought it was going to be another case where I played well and came in second again," Langer said to the associated press. In the final round, the leaderboard recorded Langer rolling in four birdie putts in the 13 to 18-foot range, finishing the four-stroke deficit and wining by two. He won by using two different putting techniques, conventional from distances of 20 feet or more and a cross-handled grip from inside 20 feet. On July 27, 2014 the Senior Open Championship at Royal Porthcawl Golf Club reworded a victory cup for a closing round of 67 (-4) that Langer win by a staggering 13 shots from Colin Montgomerie. As the Golf Leaderboard reported that Langer shot a final-round 67 for a four-round total of 266 (-18). He broke the Champions Tour record for margin of victory that had been held for 17 years by Hale Irwin. Langer's final round victory march, taking the lead of Wales' first Senior Major Championship to 43 put scoring 503, which is the second highest in the history of the championship. With Langer's incredibly winning total made even more remarkable given that only four other players broke par for the Senior Open Championship. In his interview after the match, Langer stated that "This [was ] unusual," which earned him a place in next year's Open Championship at St. Andrews. He continued, "I've won a tournament by 17, the World Championship under 25 years, but this just doesn't happen, not with the competition you're facing.... So it's been an amazing week for me." With the excitement and satisfaction he continued to his next match competition in Blaine that is holed by 3M Championship. At Global Syn-Turf, the world's leading synthetic grass manufacturers will continue watching the PGA Golf Leaderboard for Langer's success in PGA Golf tournaments.Congratulations Bernhard Langer - 2014 Senior Open Champion!
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Golf Players Making Marks as Business Tycoons
Golf has been always the best place to build business relationships. The latest research shows that a great percent of business is made on golf courses. Professional golf players seem to enjoy their business perspectives right after they hit their retirement age. While most of us wait for retirement to play golf, golf pros swing a club to retire into a large business. Gary Player:The Black Knight Gary Player was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1935 in the poor family of gold miner and housekeeper. He lost his mother when he was eight. Gary played his first game at the age of fourteen, at 23 won British Open, and at 29 became the only non-American to win all four majors after he won the 1965 U.S. Open. To say, Gary Player has a productive life is to say nothing. Ranking third in total professional wins, Gary Player has nine major championships of the PGA tour and three Senior British Open Championships on the European Senior Tour. He and his wife, Vivienne Verwey, has six children and 21 grandchildren. But his success in golf didn't forbid him to continue expansion in life. Gary Player is a great example of how a person of a substantial character can build a thriving business off it. Nicknamed "The Black Knight," Mr. Fitness, International Ambassador of Golf, Player was awarded the Bob Jones Award in 1966, which stands for the highest honor by U.S. Golf Association. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974. As Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player started by designing golf courses. It led him to his brand of merchandising, apparel and wine, events, publishing, real estate development. He founded the Player Foundation to focus on education for underprivileged all around the world. Funds partly came from games he played with corporate VIPs. Gary Player designs course not just in United States. He planned 325 courses in 35 countries by 2014. Today, when golf as an industry dries up in States, he has secured his contracts in Middle East, China and India. In his interview with Forbes, Player said: "A lot of golf architects are saying when things are rosy and cozy, 'Well I'm not going to go to China or India and design courses, are you crazy? Now all of a sudden all there are no golf courses in America. Well, they're thinking otherwise. But it's a little bit late. It's a little bit late because 80 percent of the golf designers have gone out of business." Gary's son, Marc Player said that the golf course design business generated $23 million in 2013. His real estate ventures and licensing deals make $5 million. And $8 million come from corporate sponsors, Rolex, Callaway and SAP. At 77 years old, Gary is making more money from his businesses than the $14 million in PGA and Senior Tour profits he gained over 60-year career. Jack Nicklaus: The Golden Bear Jack Nicklaus was born in North Palm Beach, Florida in the family of pharmacist Charlie Nicklaus and his wife, Helen. Jack started up with golf at the age of 10 and joined Scioto Country Club the same year. The initial idea was to heal a volleyball injury. At 13, he broke 70 records at the club for the first time and was qualified into U.S. Junior Amateur. Jack fulfilled his father's wish and attended Ohio State college with a major in pharmacy. To survive and to support his family, Jack took college programs to study insurance, and was making his living in the insurance field until his professional golf career took off. Jack Nicklaus won total 18 career major championships over the last 25 years. But as practice shows, golfers change their careers more often than any other type of athletes. Golf is a sport for rich and powerful. According to Jack, the competitive game was a part of his business life. "Most people work all their lives so they can eventually stop and go play golf," he says. "I played golf my whole life and when I stopped, I went to work." The architecture and design of golf courses are still a profitable business. Nicklaus Design, has designed more than 380 course in 36 different countries. Swinging toward the golf course design seems to be a natural course of action for every talented and ambitious golf player since times of George Crump and AW Tillinghast. He also runs Nicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation, and the golf merchandise enterprise, which includes golf balls venture and beverages. In is interview with Forbes, Jack said that his intention is not to become rich, but to provide well for his family. "It was never important to me to be the wealthiest person," Nicklaus said to journalists. Arnold Palmer: The King Arnold Palmer built his fortune on licensing agreements and iced tea. He was always regarded as one of the greatest players in the history. Older than Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player, Arnold is 85 years old (he was born in September 1929). Legendary super-start, "The King" with his unmistakable charm and swing, seven-time major champion's fame is bigger than ever. And not just because his outstanding performance in golf. In 1972, Palmer with his partner, Ed Seay, opened Palmer Course Design company. They have designed over 200 course around the globe. Since 1971, Palmer owned Latrobe Country Clubs, where his father was head professional and greenskeeper. Arizona's "Arnold Palmer" beverage venture didn't start up as easy. But in 2012 with no special advertising, his company made almost $200 million in sales. First time in the history, Palmer was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014. He was honored the Congressional Gold Medal in 2009. Greg Norman: The Great White Shark Greg Norman has also built a successful business on course design and a shark logo. He was born in 1955 in Queensland, Australia. Called "The Great White Shark" Norman won over 85 international tournaments. His father was an electrical engineer, and his mother was the daughter of the carpenter and a fine golfer herself. Norman began playing golf at 15, and turned professions in 1976, at the age of twenty-one. Norman was the first person in PGA Tour history to gain $10 million from the game. He has been a spokesman for several companies, including General Motors-Holden. As a fact, Commodore model was named after Norman. As much as Norman was a tragic figure in American golf history, his losses were increasing his popularity in general. Martial art fan, he takes his philosophy from the putting greens to his business career. Norman's dream to become a major brand like Ralph Lauren turned to make $2 million stake in the golf clubs manufacturing Cobra. It jumps into $40 million five years later, Norman, under the umbrella of Great White Shark enterprises, designs golf courses, sells clothing and wine, meat. He builds resorts and runs investment funds. It is a mixture of partnerships, own ventures and licensed products, distributed internationally. Norman rests his biggest opportunities in China where he is named the official adviser to the Chinese Olympic golf team. They call his "Dabai Sha" (big shark). His wines become more popular among Chinese. According to Forbes, Norman has more fun in big business play than he ever had in golf. He doesn't talk much about it. He takes pictures of his head inside 1,400-pound African crocodile and spends summer hunting and fishing at his ranch in Colorado. It says a lot about Greg Norman. Golf was a great starting point in his life. It seems that he is more of a team player than a single shot.
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SRINAGAR, India – Pakistani soldiers crossed the cease-fire line in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir on Tuesday and attacked an Indian army patrol, killing two Indian soldiers before retreating back into Pakistani-controlled territory, an Indian army official said.
The violence was the second in three days in Kashmir, where a cease-fire has largely held between the two nuclear-armed rivals for a decade. Deaths in military exchanges are now extremely rare, and the earlier incident created no signs of escalating tensions.
However, the countries have fought two full-scale wars over the disputed region and diplomatic nervousness is never far from the surface.
S. Chawla, an Indian army spokesman, said the Pakistani soldiers crossed into Indian-controlled Kashmir near the town of Mendhar, about 110 miles (175 kilometers) from Srinagar, the region's main city, taking advantage of thick fog.
Pakistani military officials could not be immediately reached for comment.
Kashmir is claimed in its entirety by both India and Pakistan, but divided between them.


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I saw a post recently about the tempdb being overly large and causing issues for a user. The person was having issues shrinking the files and wasn't sure what to do. Someone else responded that snapshot isolation might be an issue and I found that interesting. I hadn't thought about tempdb being a place where snapshot isolation drops things but it does. This entry in BOL says:
"The tempdb database must have enough space for the version store."
What this seems to imply is that if your database uses row versioning it takes up space in tempdb, which might limit your ability to shrink tempdb. There's another entry (Row Versioning Resource Usage) that seems to confirm this in that there are possible conditions where tempdb space might not be freed.
Not sure if this is something many people encounter, especially as I don't see many people shrinking tempdb often, but it's a good piece of trivia to keep in mind.


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Archive/File: pub/orgs/american/aryan-nations/david-lane-profile Last-Modified: 1996/01/05 Law Enforcement Bulletin, Issue #14 Winter 1995 A periodic update from the Anti-Defamation League Page 6 ------ Extremist Profile: DAVID LANE ----------------------------- David E. Lane, a racial agitator, anti-Jewish activist, former Ku Klux Klansman, ex-neo-Nazi, and radical-right revolutionary, is serving a combined 190-year sentence for racketeering and conspiracy, and for violating the civil rights of Denver radio personality Alan Berg, who was murdered outside his home in 1984. Although he is incarcerated in the federal prison in Florence, Colorado, with no hope of eligibility for parole until 2037, Lane remains a voice that is heard in the hate movement; his writings are published in several leading extremist periodicals. Now 55, Lane was one of 10 members of the Far Right revolutionary gang known as The Order who were convicted of racketeering and conspiracy in 1985; their goal was to launch a race war against blacks and Jews and to establish a separate white nation in the western U.S. Since going to prison, Lane's writings have appeared in extremist publications such as the neo-Nazi tabloid "The New Order," in "WAR", organ of the California-based White Aryan Resistance, and in "The Klansman", published by The Invisible Empire Ku Klux Klan (see also story below)<*>, founded in 1975 by David Duke. An "Aryan" Leader In late 1981, Lane became Colorado State Organizer of Aryan Nations, a violence-prone hate group headquartered in Hayden Lake, Idaho. The group's insignia resembles a swastika, and it has called upon "Aryan Warriors" to oppose "the lying murdering Jews." In 1982, Lane left Denver to live in the Hayden Lake compound, where he served as the Aryan Nations "propaganda minister." In 1983, Lane returned to Colorado to take charge of the Colorado "headquarters" of the White American Political Association, or WAPA, a California-based white supremacist group founded by Tom Metzger and now known as WAR. It was at this time that Lane joined extremist leader Robert Mathews in The Order. Subsequently, Lane reportedly operated a covert message center in Boise, Idaho, for participants in a July 1984 Brinks armored-car robbery in Ukiah, California, which netted The Order $3.6 million. Caught and Convicted Lane was apprehended by the FBI on March 30, 1985 in North Carolina. In a trial held in Seattle, Lane was convicted on December 30, 1985, with nine other members of The Order, for racketeering. He received a 40-year sentence. In October 1986, Lane was moved from a medium security federal prison in Indiana, to a maximum security penitentiary in Illinois, because of his continued extremist activities behind bards. In 1991, Lane was relocated to the prison in Leavenworth, Kansas, and in 1994 to the prison in Florence, Colorado. In April 1987, Lane was indicted with three others on charges of violating Alan Berg's civil rights resulting from the June 18, 1984, machine-gun slaying; Lane was accused of driving the getaway car. Found guilty in November 1987, Lane was sentenced the following month to a 150-year prison term with no parole eligibility until the first 50 years have been served. Philosopher of Hate Lane's racist activities have continued in jail. Many of Lane's writings conclude with what he terms "the 14 words." The are: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children." In a 1992 interview in "WAR," Lane stated: [W]e must use all our abilities and resources in a calculated and ever ruthless manner. Whether you choose literature distribution, armed resistance, financially supporting others, or some other method of struggle, do it with wisdom, determination and perseverance. Asked for his advice to others, he replied, "Disciplined fanaticism!" Clearly, Lane's incendiary rhetoric of hate carries the potential for inspiring violence far beyond the confines of his cell. <*> See pub/orgs/american/kkk/adl-klan-disarray
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text: Disney's latest musical Frozen has officially started performances on Broadway! The new tuner based on the celebrated animated motion picture is delighting audiences at the St. James Theatre, and we have no doubt that it will continue thrilling crowds for years to come. In addition to the film's beloved songs, Oscar-winning songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez have crafted a bouquet of thrilling new tunes for the Broadway musical. One of them is "Monster," a stirring number sung by Elsa, played by Broadway powerhouse Caissie Levy. "'Monster' is sort of the second-act 'Let It Go,'" Levy told Broadway.com. "It's a huge, belt-y, rockstar moment. Lyrically, it also gives us a lot more information about what's going on for Elsa on the back end of the story. Dramatically, it's a really great moment for her." Watch super talent Levy sing the new song below and head to the St. James Theatre soon to experience Frozen in person.


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WHAT WE WERE SAYING ABOUT I-TUNES AND INDIES: This from Bloodshot, via Morag:
As the music business heads off into uncharted territory we are feeling the effects first hand as stores close, media consolidates and users have noqualms about stealing music from the web. After a fun business trip to Apple HQ in California, we have decided to cast our lot with Apple's new iTunes store. By the end of the summer (hopefully) you'll be able to download individual tracks or albums from nearly every Bloodshot artist (including comps). We'll let you know when our catalog is ready to go.
Saturday, June 21, 2003
OTHER MUSIC BLOGS ARE AVAILABLE: A quick mention for BangSheet, which - though it would probably deny this - is kind of like a MetaFilter for music, in a way. Give it a try and see.
ADVERT SOUNDTRACKS WRECK MY HEAD: How many more fucking adverts are going to use "keep young and beautiful/ it's your duty to be beautiful/ keep young and beautiful/ if you want to be loved" on the soundtrack for their make up/ diet food/ jogging pants? Don't they know that it's already been on the soundtrack of seventy-nine thousand adverts? Even if it wasn't an irritating song and being used without any understanding of what the song was (they use it as if they think that it was a serious song they're injecting with an element of parody, oblivious to it originally being a pisstake of the sort of people who use beauty products/ keep fit regimes - i.e. the very people they're trying to sell to) it's become such a commonplace, they should just steer clear of it for about seventeen years at least. By which time we'll all be dead and it won't matter.
Friday, June 20, 2003
INTERESTING LEGAL QUERY OF OUR TIMES: If Shane from the So Solids is still planning to go ahead with his legal action against the government for actions which linked his day job with guns and drugs in people's minds, could he also bring legal action against G-Man and Asher D for doing the same thing?
Asher D, of course, fronted up a 'guns off the street' campaign (the public penance part of his sentence), when he suggested "some of the guys have been through theirs. But we want people to know that's not what we are doing now. If we get one gun off the street then that's a good thing." Of course Shane was no longer doing gun stuff, as he'd thrown his away the previous November. If only he'd had the presence of mind to tell the cops that when he tossed the weapon into the garbage, he was making a difference by taking just one gun off the street...
SPOT THE STRAW, SPOT THE DROWNER: Oakenfold to remix Madonna - "let go of my leg, dammit, you'll drag us both down."
In other news, we read in Metro that Madonna is returning to having blonde hair because she had her greatest success when she was blonde. That'll be it, Maddy, your blue stilton records aren't selling at the moment because you're a bottle brunette; it's got nothing to do with the contents being as inviting as the Jeffrey Archer Parole Party.
Thursday, June 19, 2003
STILL, HE'S GOT THE RENT BOY GIG TO FALL BACK ON: So, apparently, Pete's permanently out of the Libertines, or so someone claiming to be him has told one of their fansites:
Further to this.. I suppose replies will be forthcoming, so I will try and respond in advance to notions I have of your responses.
I can see it from their point of view, I have proven unreliable and let people down. Gary, John and Carl have worked like martres and I just expect to show up when I choose. They have made a stand and I can't just swan up and plug in and scream it all out anymore. I don't want to be in that position anymore, I dont want to have all of 'em relying on my whims, and the thoughtlessness of my relatives dropping off one by one.
I am not comfortable with the line up and over the months have repeatedly (if a little cowardly in my subtleness) tried to explain to Gary and John that I don't want to be in a band with them. My capriciousness deters them from taking me seriously but that is the way it is. My new songs are all I have, along with my liberty, and everything has to be just right from now on in. I need to start singing my new songs, and I want to play with other people.
the recent responses from Libertines fans have made me a little bored and aweary. I think a sensitive, more open minded crowd of ears awaits me and yes, I'll watch my back.
So, there it is then - a frankly baffling decision on the part of the rump Libertines; it's like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs deciding they could do without Karen O, or, erm, Alex Ferguson happily consigning David Beckham to Eurodrudgery (yeah, you thought you'd have avoided that topic here, didn't you?). Sure, they can probably find someone who plays as well - maybe better - but fans don't cling to bands or teams because of their techincal proficiency. It's the personality that engages, and you can have a band or a team where the character is all closed out, where the automaton-rating is high. But it won't be something to take to your heart, to cherish, to dream of running away to join in the middle of the night when the police helicopter has woken you up again.
The Libertines should look at Hurricane Number One, The Healers, The Seahorses - even the post-Limahl KajaGooGoo. There are hundreds of bands that are projects where the musically gifted have tried to do without the awkward, angelic bugger. Almost all of them are turgid and life-affiriming only in the sense that you don't know you're born until you try to get through a fourteenth grim guitar solo.
ALL THESE SINGER SONGWRITERS BLEND INTO ONE: Michelle Branch is pissed off with people thinking she's Vaness Carlton: "You don't know how many times I walk down the street and people go, 'Oh, my God! I love you're [sic] video where you're playing the piano,'" Branch told Blender. "I know that's not their fault. I'm sure Vanessa Carlton gets the same thing."
Yes, Vanessa Carlton probably does get people saying that they love her piano-video all the time, too. [Sidenote: If they do love that video, they're either insane or lying.] What Vanessa probably doesn't get is people saying 'I love that thing you do where... uh... ', which is presumably what they'd be saying if they thought she was Michelle Branch, an artist so flat and cookie-cut in terms of personality passers-by would be hard put to pick her out of a line-up featuring her, a branch from an oak tree, the branch line to Ormskirk, a branch of Lloyds TSB and a light brunch consisting of two eggs over easy and french toast.
THATS WHAT WE NEED... ANOTHER NEW CHART: Channel Five reshuffles chart programming again, having jumped from Pepsi/National to Smash Hits, they're now going to launch the Flaunt Chart Show, based on text votes for, um, the Flaunt channel. So, that's not a chart that's going to be easily manipulated by PR girls with tired thumbs, then.
NOW THE REST OF THE WORLD...: Apple continue spread of the only downloads that count, wooing indie labels onto itunes with level playing field offers.
YES, WE GET THE POINT NOW: "I like booze me!" trills Charlotte Church again and again "Ooh, I'm a naughty girl and I kiss boys and sometimes argue with my Mummy." Yes, we know. You keep saying. Here's a hint , Charlie: you've already managed to successfully shed the image of the pious little choir girl. You might want to now work on repositioning yourself somewhere other than 'dimwitted, boring brat.'
KEVIN ROWLAND BUCKLES AND GIVES IN: Who'd have thought that Dexys would ever reform?. But they are, you know. I'm sure it's nothing to do with the gap between sales of Kevin Rowland solo records and tickets for the Here And Now tour.
CRAIG DAVID REMEMBERS PRIOR ENGAGEMENT, MUMBLES APOLOGIES: "It's all about the fans, I want to be close to them. I am besieged by artists who want to be on my tour." Those are the words of Mariah Carey (although they're lifted from The Sun, which, being edited by Rebekah Wade means that maybe someone had been paid to make them up). Unfortunately, the fans don't seem to want to be close to her, as tickets are moving as fast as the largest corpse carrying heavy shopping with a ball and chain on its bony ankle. And Craig David has dumped the whole effort like an eccles cake filled with wasps ("had to pull out of dates - rearranged in the hope that people might turn up this time - because it clashes with other commitments")
Wednesday, June 18, 2003
WHAT THE POP PAPERS SAY: Cobbled together in coffee-breaks edition from Newcastle:
MediaGuardian predicts the sweeping in of Clear Channel to grip its fingers around the UK radio industry. While we suspect that this is in its plans, we're a little surprised at the evidence the paper offers - that CC has just opened a big headquarters in London. Yes, this may be the bridgehead for a sweep throughout the UK taking over Viking and Fox FM, you've also got remember that CC are already one of the market leaders in European outdoor advertising (bus shelters and such) and own venues and have a thriving promotion business. So it's not impossible they could fill the executive washrooms without the need to snap up Classic FM as well.
Besides, where would be the harm if they did? The man from Clear Channel stresses that the company isn't the sort to take over a radio station and alter it beyond recognition - "we're aware of the needs of the local market." That'll be why all those North Mexican listeners keep getting travel news for San Diego, then.
Also in the Guardian: Moby is interviewed. We could say things, but we're feeling too weak right now. Eminem sacrificing a doll version of him isn't enough. We need show trials, witch burnings, all of that. Talking of Eminem…
Eminem! Dre! 50 Cent! All grimming out of the cover, although the presence of the ludicrous 50 pence is akin to having George W on Mount Rushmore. And Eminem is wearing a dopey hat that makes him look like he's got the wig Dave Grohl wore for his cross-dressy bit in the Learn To Fly video. Only without even that much gorm.
Page three has been given over to a sort of contents page - "inside your packed NME" promises the top, hoping nobody will notice that it's so packed they've had to fill a page with trailers for stuff a few pages on.
News: Pete Doherty missed a Libertines gig - capital case made
the new Muse album will be "harder" than expected (translation: our label wants us to go after the Scuzz/Kerrang market with a vengeance)
Kaish from the So Solids claimed that the wrongful arrest wrecked his career - because without it, he would have had a great solo future ahead of him, like, erm, those other boys from So Solid, like, um…
Chris Martin has written a song about Gwyneth Paltrow - it goes "like Moses has power over the sea, so you've got power over me" - so she parts you, does she, Chris?
Apparently 'I fucked Jack White' tshirts are the must-have item this summer. Everyone's wearing them. Except Meg, who's presumably got one with the word "really" on it too. And "Our mother doesn't know" as well, perhaps.
Justin Frischmann's vocals on Pleasure's Don't Look The Other Way is being released on July 7th. We suggest you start queuing now. Unless, of course, you buy your records over the internet, in which case you might want to sit logged-on for all time until you can buy it.
Stellastar have signed a major deal with RCA. Only not in Britain, they'll still be cool and on 20/20 there. We'd assumed the level of useless flyposters they'd been given showed the shadowy influence of a major label anyway, to be honest.
Ross from Futurehead isn't scared of you, and isn't scared of ghosts - told he was playing Newcastle's notoriously spooky Opera House, he snapped "Fuck the undead - we are punk rock." Hmmm. But seeing as most remaining punks are zombies now, and you're playing a bloody opera house, we're not entirely sure who's spooking who.
It looks like the lazy filling of two pages with a whole bunch of numbers in BIG TYPE is to be a regular feature - anyway, this week's is quite interesting, as it has the first day sales figures for the New Radiohead Album, Hail To The Thief - 44,000 copies in the UK alone. Now, record industry, will you believe us that downloading doesn't actually harm sales?
Neither does stretching, apparently - some woman's paid out GBP1,610 for Ronan Keating's old knickers, which are garments that must have been under something of a strain, don't you think?
Stuart Braithwaite of the Mogwai chooses CD tracks - The Cure, Sonic Youth and - hurrah! - Spaceman3's Revolution.
If your mum and dad were trapped in marriage for twenty years not because they loved each other, but because they were in need of the comfort, would you write a song about it? Cause that's what Luke Steele from the the Sleepy Jackson did, with 'Acid in my heart'
Travel broadens the mind. Unless the first stage is on the Mersey Ferry, of course: James Skelly of the Coral gets a trip to Japan, and comes back complaining about the food - "all day, all we could eat was fish biscuits" he bemoans - apparently unaware that some of the cheaper Digestives and Custard Creams in Liverpool shops are made with "marine oil" - i.e. squished fish. Fact.
The Dre/Eminem/Fifty spread shrinks like a salted slug when you look at it - the Eminem piece originally appeared in the New York Times Magazine (not written by Jason Blair), Dr Dre isn't actually "playing at the weekend" so you're left with 50 per cent (yes, we're killing ourselves, too) to carry the feature. He's a great example, you know: "My son is six, and when he watches someone getting shot [on TV] now he says 'switch it off - it aint real, you've been shot nine times and you're still alive" - perhaps the first ever case of real-life violence desensitising kids to violence on TV?
Radio 4 (the band0 are angry - why? Because "Aids is not on TV, it's not in the news. This country has a short attention span." While possibly true, Google News finds about 2000 references to Aids + America at the moment. While no longer the number one disease of the month, surely HIV is only an Elton John interview away from the headlines?
Electric 6 - fire - "a record to be used and abused", 6
Gossip - movement - "drama, passion and fun", 8
Liam Lynch - fake songs - "self-indulgent piffle", 3
Sotw - Yeah yeah yeahs - Pin - "trashy, sexy, cool"
Siobahn Donaghy - Overrated - "sugababes gone rock"
Yeah yeah yeahs - Camden barfly - "a head fucking rock band"
And finally, in response to a complaint that a page given over to Jack White in his swimming costume was a bit lightweight, the nme bristles and says "ah, but is' fun." Maybe, but the problem wasn't that it was published at all, but that it was given a whole page. And lead the news section at that. Five years ago, it would have been a small pic on the Public NME page. And therein lies the problem, and therein.
SEXING UP STORIES - A WORKING EXAMPLE: Dull story about cheque fraud? Desperate for a bit more attention? Why not sex it up? The only connection between the fraudster and Lionel Richie in this story is that the fraud guy claimed to have worked on his boat, but... hey, so long as we make it clear that Lionel had connection with him at all later on, why not bring him in?
Tuesday, June 17, 2003
UN PEACEKEEPERS NEEDED: The security team at Glastonbury can only look at Hultsfred heavy-handedness and dream: conga-dancers arrested because - seriously - the fear that hijinks could develop into lawlessness.
NO, BOB, NO: Bod Geldof reckons that his political activity have cost him his musical credibility. Oh, yeah? Sure it wasn't that Vegetarians of Love album? Or, perhaps, the desperation to please suggested by album covers like this:
Nah... it'd be feeding starving africans, mate. You're right. Look at how Bono's career's gone - can hardly get his records into the Woolies mark-down racks.
WEASEL GOES THE POPTONES: Alan Mcgee has bought Poptones back off the shareholders (didn't they include the queen?) for one pound, thereby valuing his entire record label at less than list price of a The Legend! seven inch single.
Monday, June 16, 2003
RONAN KEATING IN CANCER SCARE: Except, erm, he didn't have it. We'd have gone with 'Ronan keating touches bollocks' as a headline ourselves.
NO ASTORIA LA VISTA, BABY: Encouraging news from London, where the Footloose-style local old folks at Westminster City Council have withdrawn their appeal against the Astoria. Westminster - the people who brought you the selling-off-graveyards-for-a-penny, gerrymandering-housing-policies and dumping-poor-people-in-asbestos-filled-flats-even-though-they-knew-they-were-harmful scandals had thought that their misdeeds were entertaining enough for locals and there was no need for fancy-dan affectations like discotechques and so on. However, they've now come to their senses.
While we're on a venuewatch, the wavy-lined mouths at the recently deceased Liverpool Lomax will be presumably turned down further to see their old venue, the L2, about to reopen as... a big dance and live venue. Luckily, the place seems to be perfect for it as the previous tennants spent a small fortune converting it into a great place for live music and dancing, before they decided to move to somewhere else for whatever reason. The real problem is that the venue is a sister site to the Birmingham and Glasgow Academys, and so they're going to call it the Academy. Unfortunately, the Liverpool University venue recently hooked up with the Manchester Uni operation and rebranded itself... the Academy. Apparently it's not going to be confusing because one will be called "[sponsors name] Academy Liverpool" and the other Liverpool Academy. A taxi driver said, yesterday, "sorry mate, didn't realise you wanted the other one - it's another fiver away..."
We wait for wisdom to prevail.
AN EARLY LEAD: Last week, we announced the shallowest music competition in history - the only one that doesn't pretend to be interested in the music at all. So far - we suspect because people thought it was all a joke - we've only had one entry and, frustratingly, she's actually a really good artist as well as pretty damn cute. So, meet Sixx:
She comes with an endorsement from Pink, and we did consider disqualifying her on the grounds that she's equally wonderful with your eyes shut. But we shan't. You can hear her stuff at sixxonline.com.
At the moment, she's going to win by default. If you think you can stop her, email your entry now to email@example.com. Remember, this is the only Best Unknown Act contest that considers entrants purely on looks and not on musical ability; and it's open to girls, boys and bands.
Sunday, June 15, 2003
HEADS INTO THE FUTURE: Our Radiohead correspondent Aaron's been back in touch, with the following musing:
As a long time Radiohead fan, I'm really interested to know what the band are going to do after their record deal ends (this'll happen pretty soon).
The whole band have had an anti-industry stance for years now. Back in the day, Colin went on the BBC's Newsnight to advocate file sharing and napster. Just two weeks ago, Thom said the band would be "completely unrecognizable in two years". But then, three weekends ago, MTV were allowed to record a Radiohead show in London - then again, Thom mouthed off about their presence the whole way through the gig.
So, what I want to know is, will Radiohead follow through at the end of their record contract, and become the first, mainstream, popular music act to say goodbye to the record labels and run things the way they want, using the net..? I sure hope so, because, they're big enough the change the way things are done, as the lyrics/tabs issue shows.
The other thing, of course, is that the band seem less bothered by the whole flogging of records aspects of the music industry to be that worried about the risks of taking such a step. Bush tried to do this a few years ago, and came a bit of a cropper in the process; mainly because at that time there hadn't been the massive popularisation of music downloads brought about by Metallica's Napster campaign. But now things have shifted a lot.
BYE MUM: Jewel sacks Manager Mom, gives her face-saving, useless royal style charity role.
POP DIRECT INTO YOUR BITS: last night there was a snatch of Brian Molko's appearance on V Graham Norton - because of the Big Brother Borg they don't repeat the whole shows at the moment, so we only got a small part; Graham had a voice-activated vibrating gizmo which a girl got to put on (over her jeans, I should point out) and Brian sang Nancy Boy ('because it's kind of appropriate') directly into her.
Norton: Did you like that?
Girl: [still buzzing; coyly] Might have...
Punchline involving the phrase 'so that's a Placebo effect' to follow.
AND WE MISSED ANOTHER: This is what happens when you spend a week before you post something - yeah, we know, instant web publishing, ain't it grand, yadda yadda.
Anyway, Simon Tyers has pointed us in the direction of Warner Chapell's U-turn on the Radiohead lyric and tab fansites.
What's fascinating here is that the pressure seems to have come from Radiohead themselves for the W-C climbdown - would the muscle of a band whose potential future sales don't contribute so much to the bottom line have the same effect, we wonder? - and that they aren't just going to leave the sites alone, but instead introduce one-year, free-use licences.
However, this is almost the closest we've got to a record company confessing that limited availabilty of free stuff doesn't, actually, impact on their sales. We're making a note of that, using a pretty, glittery gel pen.
WE MISSED ONE: And it was the oddest of the lot - Dave Gilmour, CBE. But then he does do a lot of good work for charity.


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