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I am having trouble with Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, word etc and not being able to change from Thai to English, I have all the language packs, all the settings to only English, I have tried changing the region to US and Thailand, and even tech support was of no help. But, Microsoft Office Access 2007 displays in English. I have tried everything, it's more of a principle now
It was in English before my tech support installed Microsoft Lync in my home computer. I even tried uninstalling Lync, no change! Microsoft Office Picture Manager is still the only one left in English! My tech support and Microsoft free tech support have been no help at all. It just seems like it is something very simple because all the settings are right and I have all the correct language packs etc.
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Hi 1960apache, welcome to Windows Seven Forums.
See if there is anything in these MS websites that might help you.
Configure Language Settings for Outlook Web App: Exchange 2010 Help
In the second one there is reference to the language used by the client website server, which could mean that if your email server provider doesn't support English then Outlook will use the servers language. That is my interpretation of the wording. It does refer to Outlook 2010 so that may be different to Outlook 2007 but it might help you a bit.
It might also be worth talking to your email provider as well.
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Re: Should really SMALL BUGS be reported?
Every bug should be reported.
By Philipp at Sat, 2002/10/05 - 5:00am
Re: Should really SMALL BUGS be reported?
I really don't report small bugs like this in the bugzilla. I think this will overload the developers with small things. Where is the better place to report bugs like this??
By Daniel Dantas at Sat, 2002/10/05 - 5:00am
Re: Should really SMALL BUGS be reported?
Bugzilla is still the best place (I'm a developer of KSpread):
2. Bugs get lost otherwise. Even if you write to a app specific mailing list, there is no tracking involved. I normally don't look on mails which are older than one week and even if I would look, I wouldn't know if they are fixed by someone else already.
3. To get involved into programming, for newbies it's often the first step to look into the bug tracking system. So some "easy" bugs help them getting involved. It wouldn't help them if there were only the hard things (this was the way I got involved: Fixing some small bugs).
4. Maybe someone fixed your bug due to a notice somewhere. Later another one mention it in the BT system, because he didn't know it is fixed. Now I as a developer see the bug, test it and find it's working. This is the most unpleasant situation for me, as I'm now not sure if it is a local problem, a distribution problem or whatever. So this will steal time, which I better have spent for other bugs.
4. Last but really not least: Hey, when I look into the BT system, I want to have some easy things as well. It's so much pleasant to write to the commit: Fixed bug #123. If there would be only the hard parts, I may get disappointed and look less frequently into the system. Even bughunting can be enjoyable if you at the end can fix some bugs and not only one per week.
So write them to the BT system, yes oneliners are really welcome too!
By Philipp at Mon, 2002/10/07 - 5:00am
Re: A wrong icon??
It's now gone.
By binner at Sat, 2002/10/05 - 5:00am
Offtopic, but what happened to the Kernel Cousin for KDE?
By AC at Sat, 2002/10/05 - 5:00am
Re: [OT] KC KDE?
a few month ago, there wasn't a problem of maintainer ?
By JC at Sat, 2002/10/05 - 5:00am
Sad news... KDE League found dead :(
I just heard the sad news on talk radio. KDE League Inc. nonprofit corporation was found dead. Even if you didn't understand how the League was really supporting KDE, there's no denying its contributions to the promotion and development of free software. Truly an Open Source Icon.
By kdeleague == dead at Sat, 2002/10/05 - 5:00am
Re: Sad news... KDE League found dead :(
By Anonymous at Sat, 2002/10/05 - 5:00am
Re: Sad news... KDE League found dead :(
Ah.Yet another insidious KDE mud throwing article from Linux and Main.
Looks definetly like an extreme right wing american patriots HQ.
By germain at Sat, 2002/10/05 - 5:00am
Re: Sad news... KDE League found dead :(
> Looks definetly like an extreme right wing american patriots HQ.
Man that's just upsetting garbage! It's bad enough I come home to read things from people I once thought were friends of KDE like that article. It has been no fun reading dep for a while and this was just not what I wanted to read. Then I read crap like this. Here's a news flash. The Quanta plus project is headed up by a middle aged guy with a ponytail who sells catnip... and could very well be called a right wing American patriot.
To people who don't like Americans I say get the chip off your shoulder, stop living in stereotype land and consider a journey thorugh history. What fascist dictator would be pushing you around if not for the good old US of A? And what does this have to do with KDE?
I have enough problems without bad news. I am trying to figure out how to sponsor a developer who has been working full time for months on open source projects with nearly no support. I'm trying to figure out why less than 0.01% of our user base will chip in a few dollars to help me pay for guys with incredible talent to work full time cheap. All the volunteer coders are just too busy with life to do much, so much for that open source myth.
Now I guess I should thank you for reminding me that to top it all of there are a number of people cheering the project that I love willing to hate me because of where I live. Thanks. I will forgo the urge to find out and denegrate your nationality as I find such behavior reprehensible. Maybe I should just say that I was always taught that it was un-American to speak ill of other people's nationalities. The US is a "melting pot" of nationalities... so your kinsmen are here and proud of both countries. Go figure.
By Eric Laffoon at Sun, 2002/10/06 - 5:00am
Re: Sad news... KDE League found dead :(
> To people who don't like Americans I say get the chip off your shoulder,
> Now I guess I should thank you for reminding me that to top it all of there
Why do you take it personal? I said "people at Linux and Main looks like right wing patriots".
France had 18% of people voting for a right wing extremist named Le Pen. If you say 'Le Pen is a right wing extremist', I'll agree wholeheartedly - I won't feel like you mean "all French are right wing extremists".
This webmaster just happen to put has headlines on a general 'Linux news' site insulting articles comparing explicitly the project you sherish as a HQ of Nazis, articles about good ol'times where, as a child, he was playing with weaponry and GI relics in a so-called 'bookshop', being taught "war stories" by the owner and his friends.
> And what does this have to do with KDE?
Agreed. This whole thread is OT.
By Germain Garand at Sun, 2002/10/06 - 5:00am
OT Thread - problem with the Dot?
Agreed, this whole thread is OT. Maybe there would be less OT threads if the ppl running dot.kde.org posted more news once in a while. Is the problem that people aren't submitting enough? Or are the people maintaining the site just unwilling to put up anything that isn't happy happy news of a release? I know that putting up articles about RedHat-KDE or LinuxandMain's story is a great way to ensure flame wars and trolls, but by not posting anything we just get flame wars and trolls underneath the articles that do get posted. The noise in threads like this one would probably be minimized if we had more news to talk about, and a more relevant place to argue about issues, if that is what people must do.
By anon at Mon, 2002/10/07 - 5:00am
Re: Sad news... KDE League found dead :(
>>What fascist dictator would be pushing you around if not for the good old US of A?
Who told you to "save" us ? The remaining of the reply was mostly acceptable, but this is not.
Re: Sad news... KDE League found dead :(
>>What fascist dictator would be pushing you around if not the good old US of A?
Re: Sad news... KDE League found dead :(
You would have preferred not to have been saved?
In fact, however, all of the free governments of Europe and the U.S.A. signed a treaty so, indeed, there was some asking going on Europeans' part.
I say this as a non-American and non-European. It is sad that so many Europeans and Americans hate each other.
By Ji at Tue, 2002/10/08 - 5:00am
KDE League found alive :) - LinuxAndMain dead :)
Now can we have an article discussing this mess instead of a thread in this article? At least there is an update on /. now. I used to think that all of the press Linux was getting recently was a good thing, but there have also been a few "journalists" who have been completely full of crap. They seem to want to just stir things up a bit with their speculation and lies. Too bad those sites are getting so desperate for hits that they resort to crap like this. Eventually nobody will take them seriously, much like that crap site MozillaQuest.
By Anonymous at Sat, 2002/10/05 - 5:00am
i know development of pixie is frozen because mosfet is gone (does someone knows details?) - just one question .. is someone able to compile pixie+030 on kde31b2? ... trying like hell here ...
By marco puszina at Sat, 2002/10/05 - 5:00am
Finally someone ported some screensavers ...
After wandering around in my freshly compiled KDE 3.0.8 i discovered some recent OpenGL-screensavers! yes, that's how to impress me, truly ... hopefully more of them are coming.
By Mathis Moder at Sun, 2002/10/06 - 5:00am
Re: Finally someone ported some screensavers ...
i found "Kflux", "Kblob" and "Keuphoria", since KDE3.1 Beta1.
By mononoke at Sun, 2002/10/06 - 5:00am
Am I the only one who dislikes the new "invitations" system of KRfb? I don't want to invite people to use my computer, I want it set up so *I* can use it remotely. I know that you can set this up through the control center, but I really liked the old way, where you started KRfb and you got that little icon in your tray (the tray sucks beyond suck, by the way, applets are much better, but I digress). Now I can't just run KRfb when I want to use VNC, I have to go through kcontrol and then when I don't have my icon maybe I'll forget that VNC is running, etc.
By KDE User at Sun, 2002/10/06 - 5:00am
Re: KRfb
This is not a use case that I wanted to solve with krfb. The main intention was to let other either friends with invitations, or administrators with real accounts, control the system.
Your use case is a different one, and I dont think it can be served well by krfb - there will be better solutions for this. Unless somebody adds a lot of stuff to XFree (and we forget the existance of other/older x11 servers), it will not be possible to have a much better performance with 'sharing' VNC servers. Nor will things like changing the cursor be possible. krfb is probably not the right solution for your problem.
Solutions are:
BTW it would quite easy to write an applet that controls krfb using dcop, if you really want to do this.
By Tim Jansen at Tue, 2002/10/08 - 5:00am
Re: KRfb
how do i forward this program so it has access to my extrernal ip so my friends can access this when i need help, or me form another loacation not on my network? if u have an answer either email me or reply. [email protected]
By JC at Sat, 2006/09/09 - 5:00am
Re: KRfb
you have to log into your router and foreward a port to your internal ip (ie 192.168.15.1)
vnc uses 5900 i think as the default http port so when your friends want to log in, they type in your EXTERNAL ip (64.xxx.xx.xx... or whatever your isp gave you) and add a :5900 at the end, and your router will re-direct that to your machine and the vnc will ask for auth.
... it all depends on your setup on the network at home...
By Jeffrey Jones at Tue, 2006/09/19 - 5:00am
What's wrong with the KDE apps page???
OK, I heard something about an hardware upgrade, but does that take weeks? And the following message (you get it when trying to connect to the server) is more emberassing than informative...
By Ralexx at Mon, 2002/10/07 - 5:00am
Re: What's wrong with the KDE apps page???
Problem with KDE-NETWORK on Solaris
Well I've been fighting the build process on my Solaris 9 Desktop for about a week
x kdenetwork-3.0.8/libkdenetwork/tests/data/codec_quoted-printable/wrap, 2521 bytes, 5 tape blocks
So next I try untarring it on a Linux machine then ftping it over to my Solaris box for the build. After I do that I run ./configure and that goes to completion. But when I run make, I get a bunch of Makefile errors like this:
make[2]: Leaving directory `/export/home/tsweets/kde/beta2/kdenetwork-3.0.8/doc'
First thing, who is packaging the source up? Can the Makefile problem be related? Remember I have already downloaded and built the entire KDE 3.1 Beta2 source except for KDE-ADDINS and KDE-BINDINGS.
BTW: Line 310 in the Makefile looks like -
By Tony Sweets at Wed, 2002/10/09 - 5:00am
Debian woody
When it will come back again?
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Ruz M'hubub (Libyan dish)
Lamb pieces (chops/chunks - 1 per person)
1 onion
2-3 whole garlic cloves (not the whole bulb as my mum once used )
1-2 fresh tomatoes
2 whole green Chilli peppers
whole spices of Cardamom, Cloves (3pieces), 1-2 Cinnamon sticks,
Ginger Root (fresh if you can get it),
1/2 tablespoon Black Peppercorns
2-3 Bay leaves
Ground spices:-
1 teaspoon Turmeric (optional),
1 teaspoon baharaat/hararaat/Garam masala
1 teaspoon Salt
Boil the meat with all of the above ingredients until tender then remove the meat from the water and brown in the oven and the strained water is used to boil the rice with.
NB most Libyan dishes using rice are made using Egyptian Rice.
The meat is then served on top of the rice and can be decorated with fried nuts
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Accompany with M'Sayr, Green Salad and or Tsatziki / Cucumber Raita (Yogurt,cucumber and mint).
Sahtain wa Aafia!
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by Biagio Bossone, Chairman of the Group of Lecce [1]
The crisis is deepening
After fifty or more days from general elections, Italy is still ensnared in big political uncertainties and its economic recession is worsening. Negative fiscal space and private sector retrenchment in the country continue to squeeze aggregate demand, amongst persistent indications of declining productivity and falling real incomes, and with prospects for more austerity to come. Corporate bankruptcies increase by the day, unemployment figures mount. Financial markets – thanks to the "Draghi put" – are still giving the country the benefit of the doubt, in the expectation that a new government will soon be formed and play down its economic policy cards. But how longer can this market pause last? And, above all, what could the cards of the new government be?
Am increasingly fragile Italy is not only a problem for the Italians: it is a major source of instability for European region, and the international economy as an obvious consequence. The rest of the eurozone, by the way, is far from doing well. Indeed, the crisis is deepening and from peripheral Europe is now spreading to core Europe, affecting France and threatening even Germany (Wood 2013a). Economic policy in the area is gripped by rules that are not designed to deal with economic stagnation, let alone depression. There should be a strong global collective interest for pushing Italy and the other weak economies in the EU to take rapid and bold action to stimulate domestic demand.
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The solution would be for euro members to use the Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) facility provided for under the statute of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) [2], to undertake overt money financing (OMF) of government debt in order to finance tax cuts or new spending programs. The idea of OMF has been recently revived by a number of well-known scholars, pundits, and policymakers [3].
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Euro members should urgently consider undertaking OMF to achieve aggregate domestic nominal income targets. It would be a eurozone coordinated-and-decentralized effort to conjugate monetary and fiscal policies tailored on country needs in view of preserving highly compromised regional stability and prosperity.
How they could do it
The ELA facility gives national central banks of the euro area the ability to support temporarily illiquid domestic institutions and markets over and above ESCB assistance, in exceptional circumstances and on a case-by-case basis. ELA is not an ESCB function, and the power to use it lies with the national central banks and does not derive from their membership in the ESCB. Existing legal documents make it clear that its scope, terms, and procedures need to be spelt out in national law and regulations (Buiter et al, 2011). Although the use of ELA by national central banks is not constrained by the rules governing ESCB operations, restrictions apply: prohibition of overdraft facilities for official bodies, of purchasing government bonds, and of carrying out tasks that go beyond those of a central bank (ECB, 2012a). ELA does not require explicit approval of the ESCB, yet it may be terminated by vote if it is deemed to run counter to the ESCB's mandate. Moreover, the same degree of independence is required for national central banks performing ELA functions as they enjoy in carrying out ESCB-related operations.
ELA has already been activated during the crisis [4]. However, its use should be reconsidered and broadened so as to make it truly a monetary tool available in cases of macroeconomic emergencies. ELA should be used in countries facing conditions of economic recession to finance government programs of spending or tax reduction through permanent purchases of newly issued public debt.. Much as Governor Draghi has defended his Outright Monetary Transactions as a way to safeguard "an appropriate monetary policy transmission and the singleness of the monetary policy" in the eurozone, the use of ELA could be justified as a way to make monetary policy effective and adapted to country circumstances during recessions, prolonged phases of stagnation or depression, with a view to preserving regional economic, monetary, and financial stability. The OMF should require submission by national governments of fiscal stimulus programs consistent with underlying economic conditions, to be executed under EU monitoring.
The steps they could take
Here are the basic steps:
- A government of the eurozone submits to its parliament and the Eurogroup a pre-defined fast-track public spending package or tax-reduction plan to be financed in deficit under ELA. The government also submits a program of structural reforms to be implemented during the use of ELA. The deficit financed under ELA is set with a view to delivering a pre-determined domestic nominal demand target
- After consideration of the approved government program, the ECSB endorses use of ELA for OMF purposes by the central bank of the submitting member country, and the central bank communicates to the government its readiness to finance an increase in the fiscal deficit through permanent purchases of newly issued debt under the ELA facility
- The government instructs its ministry of finance to issue special non-transferable government bonds to the central bank in exchange for newly issued euro under ELA. The new debt could either (i) bear interest, and the central bank would buy it and hold it in perpetuity, rolling over into new government debt the bonds on its balance sheet that reach maturity, and returning to the government the interests matured or (ii) be structured as special non-interest bearing and never-redeemable securities (Turner, 2013)
- The launch of the OMF is accompanied by a central bank's statement indicating that its purchases of newly issued debt will be permanent, and by a communication strategy exaplaining that the debt financed under ELA will not raise sustainability issues, since it may not be redeemed or sold to the market, it does not pay interests, and does not give rise to new government liabilities
- The ECB and the Eurogroup monitor the implementation of the government program.
What about central bank independence?
When we talk about overcoming phases of economic stagnation or depression, we definitely are in a radically different world than when we fight inflation. The institutional rules that fit one type of situation may need to be adapted in other situations, especially during macroeconomic emergencies. Research from McCullay and Pozsar (2013) recognizes this need, and shows that central bank-government coordination is the most appropriate policy response under conditions of economic stagnation or deflation As they conclude their study,
"[G]reater cooperation for a time between [central banks] and fiscal authorities is in no way inconsistent with the independence of the central banks, any more than cooperation between two independent nations in pursuit of a common objective (or for that matter, cooperation between central banks and fiscal authorities to finance war) is inconsistent with the principle of national sovereignty.
Bernanke B. (2003). "Some thoughts on monetary policy in Japan." Tokyo, May
Buiter W H, J Michels, and E Rahbari (2011), "ELA: an emperor without clothes." Global Economics View. Citigroup Global Markets, 21 January www.willembuiter.com/ela.pdf
EC (2013). "Business and Cosumer Surveys." European Commission, Economic and Financial Affairs, 27 March
ECB (2012a). Opinion of the European Central Bank of 24 January 2012 on a guarantee scheme for the liabilities of Italian banks and on the exchange of lira banknotes (CON/2012/4)
ECB (2012b). "Technical features of Outright Monetary Transactions." European Central Bank, Press release, 6 September www.ecb.int/press/pr/date/2012/html/pr120906_1.en.html
ESCB (2008). Protocol (no 4) On the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and of the European Central Bank. Official Journal of the European Union, 9 May
McCulley P and Z Pozsar (2013). "Helicopter money: or how I stopped worrying and love fiscal-monetary cooperation." Global Society of Fellows, 7 January.
Turner A (2013). "Debt, money and Mephistopheles: how do we get out of this mess." Cass Business School Lecture, 6 February
Vistesen C (2012). "Emergency Liquidity Assistance in the Eurozone: Draghi's irreversible euro put explained." Credit Writedowns, 9 August www.creditwritedowns.com/2012/08/emergency-liquidity-assistance-in-the-eurozone-draghis-irreversible-euro-put-explained.html
Wolf M (2013). "The case for helicopter money.' Financial Times, 12 February
Wood R (2013a). "Periphery economies: national governments must be prepared to provide stimulus." VoxEu, 4 March
Wood R (2013b). "Helicopter money is purely about initial stimulus." Financial Times Letters, 17 February
[1] I would like to thank Luigi Passamonti for his very useful insights and comments. Responsibility is only mine.
[2] Article 14.4 of the ESCB statute states that: "National central banks may perform functions other than those specified in this Statute unless the Governing Council finds, by a majority of two thirds of the votes cast, that these interfere with the objectives and tasks of the ESCB. Such functions shall be performed on the responsibility and liability of national central banks and shall not be regarded as being part of the functions of the ESCB." (ESCB 2008)
[3] See McCullay and Pozsar (2013), Wolf (2013), and Wood (2013b). Turner (2013) has compared OMF to the existing policy alternatives and has shown its superiority.
[4] In Vistesen's (2012) reconstruction, during the crisis ELA was used by the Bundesbank in 2008 to save Hypo Real Estate against €42 billion guarantee by the German government, and by the National Bank of Belgium in 2009 to bail out Fortis Bank with €54 billion on the eve of its collapse. It was also used in Ireland and Greece, although for a completely different purpose than the one originally intended for the facility. At the time of Vistesen's writing, Ireland reportedly had had a constant use of the facility since 2008 with the central bank providing anything between €40 and €60 billion since 2010, and Greece had resorted to ELA for about €55 billion. Such constant use of the facility was not envisioned under the ESCB statute, and suggests that ELA has been used during the crisis as a source of additional bailout funding.


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HTC Wildfire S mini-review (Vodafone network)
One fortunate side-effect of all the craziness going on at the expensive end of the smartphone spectrum is that more-affordable devices are starting to become faster and better. Last year's HTC Wildfire underwhelmed us a little, with its sub-par QVGA screen and relatively meager 384MB of RAM. But earlier this year HTC refreshed many of its mid-range products, and it's arguably the Wildfire that's received the biggest boost. The new HTC Wildfire S has a sharper, brighter screen, a faster CPU and more RAM than the original. And like the rest of HTC's "S" series, it ships with Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
The Wildfire S remains a budget handset, though, selling for £180 on Pay As You Go from Vodafone UK, as well as being offered for free on contract. Read on to find out what kind of smartphone experience HTC has managed to cram into its tiniest Android handset to date.


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Virtual College adds Paediatrics Course to National Patient Safety Training Suite
May 2014 sees the addition of the latest course to the National Patient Safety Training Suite; the National Curriculum for the Training of Healthcare Professionals Who Care for Children and Young People with Diabetes Mellitus. The course provides a foundation level of education to all healthcare professionals that care for children and young people with diabetes. The National Patient Safety Training Suite is a collection of online courses developed by Virtual College in partnership with NHS England. There are six courses in the suite; The Safe Use of Insulin, The Safe Use of Intravenous Insulin Infusions, The Safe Management of Hypoglycaemia, The Safe Use of Non-Insulin Therapies for Diabetes, the Safe Use of Pen Devices and the new Paediatrics course. A further seven safety training courses are currently in production and will be released during 2014, taking the total number of courses within the Patient Safety Training Suite to 13. All courses within the National Patient Safety Training Suite can be accessed free of charge by staff employed by organisations that subscribe to the online training. In 2010, the National Diabetes Inpatient Audit (NaDIA) highlighted the worrying scale of medication errors in inpatients in England, when it revealed a total of 37% of patients with diabetes had experienced at least one medication error and, in the space of four years, three fatalities had occurred. As a result, all NHS organisations and the independent sector were required to have a training programme in place for all healthcare staff (including medical staff) expected to prescribe, administer or handle insulin. Since 2010 more than 225,000 clinicians, carers and diabetes patients have completed one of the courses around the Safe Use of Insulin training, jointly funded by NHS Diabetes and Virtual College. Until March of this year structural changes to the NHS resulted in NHS Diabetes being subsumed into the new NHS England organisation resulting in cessation of funding. Virtual College continue to support training through the newly formed National Patient Safety Training Suite, providing a part-funded model with NHS England. Virtual College and others will be investing in the ongoing development of new online courses. Judith Clarkson, Director of Virtual College's Health and Social Care division said: "We are delighted with the results Virtual College has jointly achieved with NHS Diabetes / NHS England. There is clearly still a vast amount of enthusiasm and support within the NHS for the continuing National Patient Safety Suite and I am delighted it is providing a seamless transfer for NHS and other health organisations in continuing to treat patients with diabetes safely."


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When you enter the yard from the road (Njalsgade), you should continue straight… The entrance is on your left hand (Founders House is on top of a restaurant) and you have to climb a short, metallic staircase on the outside of the building and then go up the first floor once inside the building. You'll see us on your right when you enter…
If you happen to find yourself in front of an elevator (which is 19D according to the map and building number), stop! You have to turn around and having the elevator on your back, turn right and follow the curve of the building. The entrance is on the opposite side of the building. Hope it makes sense… 🙂
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So a few days ago there was a post on the shade room and Shya L'amour was poppin off to Lauryn Hill's "Doo Wop "That Thing song saying to Kick that man to curb it was empowering and her rapping sent chills up our spines she has that it factor that fire!
We saw this on the Expressive channel but it had already went viral elsewhere online because the post has a MIllion views and then all of sudden the IG video was removed!
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At the Largo campus of Everest University, helping you succeed in your career training goals is our top priority. It starts with quality instructors taken directly from their professional fields. Students join small work teams to better benefit from group discussions, gain specialized attention and get one-on-one guidance from instructors. Instruction is taught through hands-on training designed to impart a stronger grasp of the material. But most importantly, the Career Services team at the Largo campus works with students through the training process to graduation to guide them on utilizing search engines and job boards, writing stronger resumes, practicing interview techniques, and dressing for success through career-appropriate wardrobe guidance.
Institutional statistical data was gathered from the U.S. Department of Education - Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, 2009-2010.
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In 1980, Bob Marley traveled to Brazil on a scouting mission with Island Records' Chris Blackwell and the Wailers' Junior Marvin, in preparation of a world tour. A year later, he was dead.
But even though Marley never got to play Rio or São Paulo, the reggae man's musical influence had a serious impact on the people of Brazil, especially the members of O Rappa.
"I think [lead singer Marcelo Falcão] is the new Bob Marley," Jane's Addiction's Perry Farrell recently told Brazilian magazine Veja.
Blending reggae, rock, dub, and funk, O Rappa has been one of Brazil's biggest bands for over 20 years. However, the outfit's international following is just as impressive.
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After being blown away by an O Rappa set at Lollapalooza Brazil this past April, Farrell personally invited Falcão and his group to play Lollapalooza in Chicago on August 3, where they'll open the Bud Light main stage with a midday set.
Local fans, however, won't have to travel all the way to Windy City to catch O Rappa. Because two days after playing Grant Park, the Brazilian band will play its only other U.S. show, making its Miami debut at the Fillmore Miami Beach.
O Rappa. Presented by Rhythm Foundation. Sunday, August 5. Fillmore Miami Beach, 1700 Washington Ave., Miami Beach. The show starts at 8:30 p.m. and tickets cost $35 to $50 plus fees via livenation.com. All ages. Call 305-673-7300 or visit fillmoremb.com.
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While most market research interviewers won't describe their jobs as glamorous, they are still an integral part of the marketing process. In fact, you could say that without the hard work and dedication of research interviewers, market research wouldn't be nearly as helpful for a marketing director.
Market research interviewers are typically entry-level research positions that allow companies to get first-hand looks into how the public views a product, service or brand. Read on to discover how these individuals get opinions and use those opinions to inform marketing efforts.
Market research interviewers spend their days interviewing dozens of potential customers about their views on a product or brand. They identify target populations who would most likely buy a product, and gain an understanding of what it is they like about that product.
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They usually interview consumers through various means, such as cold calls, emails, online surveys, and face-to-face discussions. They don't only get a base opinion from a consumer, but also the "why" behind that opinion.
Market research interviewers collect data and submit it to research managers, who then sift through that data to find the meaningful elements. Other professionals they work with typically include:
Market research interviewer positions are typically entry-level, making them great positions for recent graduates or those looking to get involved in the industry. Researcher interviewers must enjoy talking with others, and are approachable enough to walk up potential interviewees and get their opinions.
Most market research interviewers earn bachelor's degrees in marketing before taking the position, but some companies will hire interviewers based on previous experience.
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- Prompt decisions from Child Protection for each child's situation
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- Additional dedicated and mature staff and missionaries
- Permanent staff for the third home to care for ten more children
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The Dutch photographer is noted for her portraits in which uncertain pose is contrasted with reserved or grave facial expressions, obvious role or costume with individual candour or unease. Dijkstra's work initially favoured severe frontal compositions, central, often symmetrical placement of subjects and discreet, recreational locations. Her large format camera gives the work a compelling focus or resolution that is hardly preserved in JPEGs, yet adds to the strict formality of occasion, the sense of stillness or rigidity, a restraint to figures. The work also reflects photography's concern with documentary norms, with sharply distinguishing form and content; at a time when digital options would appear to announce their immanent dissolution, when greater fiction is often preferred (see also Posts 12, 60 and 90).
Dijkstra's work emerged in the mid 90s, with a series of children on summer beaches (1992-6). The works provide a wide frame for a full-length figure, usually in swimming costume, standing with their back to an empty seaside. The figures are occasionally (and engagingly) grouped, but tend to stand alone, empty-handed, directly facing the camera, their slender limbs and physique accentuated by pose and costume. Early examples perhaps use additional, filling light, separating the figure from setting, highlighting the artifice and isolation. The emphasis on the body, the awkward poses thus assume prominence so that the portraits are of immaturity, a gangly patience, a palpably physical impetus to personality.
In this sense, they document typical and social specimens and appeal to photography's role in realism. This is largely in the service of science rather than art, of course, but in more unusual and imaginative categories, such as those of August Sander or Bernd and Hilla Becher, the documentary approach can prove surprisingly inventive (see also Post 41). The work of Thomas Ruff or Bernhard Fuchs for example, takes up a similar formal austerity inspired by just these sources.
But Dijkstra's careful formalities are a little conspicuous for just social record. The willowy, unformed figures also flag how bodily personality is conveyed, how directly potential is reflected there. The artist's preference for youth is largely a category of this. Significantly, a concurrent series poses nude mothers with newborn babies, presumably in a hospital setting, again at full-length, to measure their rounded torsos against small red infants. Mother and baby are seen as a nakedly bodily relation. And again, the distance of framing also suggests a remove for the photographer, a safe distance from issues.
Later works relax the distance, slightly compromise on the extent of the body. In a series at dance clubs (1995-6), the artist singles out young women, their distinctive fashions and demeanour, clearly influenced by the festivities. Here she uses videotapes as well as stills to record their wary reactions to her, but again compositions remain strict. Now individuals are not so much at the mercy of an immature body as conform to circumstances, are subdued or distracted by stimulants, comply in uniformity of dress and fashion. Following works such as a series of Portuguese matadors (2000) similarly record individual immersed in role; their dishevelled appearance immediately after bull fights, at odds with their deadpan, somewhat comic composure. A similar contrast operates in portraits of military figures (2002), but is less effective for the familiarity of role. The works verge on recruiting promotion.
In other works Dijkstra relaxes the strict frontality slightly, as in the series of 'Almerisas' (1996-2005), with its angled chair a subtle prop by which to gauge body size, comfort and composure. But the appeal to documentary rigour also carries constraints on category or subject. The isolated or unitary specimen excludes many vital aspects to roles and person, sooner or later relies on greater pictorial resources and involvement. But with this, the photographer then surrenders reassuring norms, some of the touchstones for objectivity and detachment.
For Dijkstra, her increasing subtlety to portraits must risk too much subtlety or triviality. In works such as Vondelpark, Amsterdam (2005) the artist returns to full-length figures and groups, but with new relaxation to pose and composition, a new confidence to the encounter. The work retains the theme of recreation or leisure, offers an almost idyllic setting and attractive subjects yet the meeting is markedly less ardent. Subjects regard the camera evenly, tolerantly, while the photographer is content to include the detritus, to let body and purpose sprawl. The picture no longer holds persons as firmly, but elicits a response to her need to greet and share, to fill a frame with poise.
Tuesday, 29 July 2008
7 comments:
- Jacques de Beaufort said...
dude, you gotta stop picking suck ass artists
descend into below the trend
a trend is nothing more than mass hysteria
have you no individuated self ?
- 1 August 2008 at 18:30
- CAP said...
What could be more individual than observing the hysteria of others? Than provoking it?
If you can't appreciate Dijkstra, the loss is yours.
- 3 August 2008 at 03:46
- Jacques de Beaufort said...
alright alright
I just get angry art the noblesse of this whole community sometimes
i guess because I'm a failure
- 4 August 2008 at 22:09
- CAP said...
No point beating yourself up about it.
No point rejecting what the opposition has, just because it's not yours.
Better to adopt it on your own terms. Take it away from them. Strengthen your own hand, weaken theirs.
- 6 August 2008 at 15:53
- Jacques de Beaufort said...
my worldview is too extreme to allow compromise
this is my flaw, not yours
dross is dross
but you do a great job writing about it...
I'm really only into a very small slice of the pie.
- 8 August 2008 at 17:55
- CAP said...
Boo hoo
Poor you.
- 8 August 2008 at 20:59
- Paul Pincus said...
she's a genius. it's kinda sorta a fact ; )
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Mississippi judge halts release of 21 prisoners Gov. Barbour pardoned
JACKSON — Attorney General Jim Hood says former Gov. Haley Barbour appears to have violated the state Constitution with many of the dozens of pardons he granted convicted criminals in his last days in office.
A Hinds County judge on Wednesday night halted the release of 21 prisoners Barbour ordered freed who had not yet been released.
Hood is asking the court to void improper pardons -- he's unsure how many there are exactly and has his staff and local prosecutors and law enforcement researching -- to halt the release of those still locked up and require those on the loose to show up and prove their cases.
Barbour granted clemency, including dozens of full pardons, to more than 200 convicted criminals in his last days in office, causing an uproar with victims' families, the public and lawmakers.
Barbour said in a statement Wednesday that he believes people have misunderstood why he gave reprieves to more than 200 inmates. Most received full pardons, while others received suspended sentences because of medical conditions.
"Approximately 90 percent of these individuals were no longer in custody, and a majority of them had been out for years," Barbour said. "The pardons were intended to allow them to find gainful employment or acquire professional licenses as well as hunt and vote. My decision about clemency was based upon the recommendation of the Parole Board in more than 90 percent of the cases. The 26 people released from custody due to clemency is just slightly more than one-tenth of 1 percent of those incarcerated.
"Half of the people who were incarcerated and released were placed on indefinite suspension due to medical reasons because their health care expenses while incarcerated were costing the state so much money. These individuals suffer from severe chronic illnesses, are on dialysis, in wheelchairs or are bedridden. They are not threats to society but if any of them commits an offense -- even a misdemeanor -- they'll be returned to custody to serve out their term.
The Mississippi Constitution says any inmate seeking a pardon must publish notice about his intentions for 30 days in a newspaper in or near the county where the person was convicted before a pardon is granted.
Hood said it appears numerous convicts did not meet the publishing requirement. He said some appear to have run ads for less than 30 days; some appeared to have not run any at all.
"Some are even just publishing now," Hood said. "The Constitution is clear -- no pardon until after 30 days Unfortunately Gov. Barbour didn't read the Constitution."
Hood said that five people released over the weekend -- four murderers and one robber -- are among those who did not meet the publishing requirement. Mississippi Department of Corrections spokeswoman Suzanne Singletary told the Associated Press the five inmates let out over the weekend are the only ones on Barbour's list who had been released as of Wednesday evening. She said about 21 inmates who received pardons or early release were still waiting to get out. Processing paperwork generally takes several days because, among other things, the department has to give victims 48 hours' notice before an inmate is released.
"We are looking at each pardon, but have already found cases where this requirement was not met," said Hood. "For the safety of all our residents and for the sanctity of our Constitution, we had to request the injunction. Each of these individuals will have a day in court to show that they have met the necessary requirements. If they have not, then we will ask the court" to void those pardons.
In a meeting with the media, Hood lambasted Barbour for his last-minute clemency orders.
"It is a shame and he ought to be ashamed," Hood said " It's a slap in the face to me as a prosecutor for over 20 years."
"This governor abused his office several times -- like his use of the state airplane -- but this is the worst thing I've ever seen He's turned more prisoners out than any governor I've ever heard of."
Hood said Barbour's former counsel refused to turn over records on the pardons, but that new Gov. Phil Bryant stepped in and made the records available.
Bryant spokesman Mick Bullock on Wednesday said: "Gov. Bryant's policy on pardoning of violent offenders will be only when clear evidence becomes available that the individual has been wrongly convicted. Further, Gov. Bryant has directed his staff to turn over to the attorney general all files related to the pardons issued recently by Gov. Haley Barbour."
Lawmakers -- from both side of the aisle -- are drafting or contemplating legislation to reduce the governor's clemency powers or reform the process. There have been similar efforts in recent years, but they say public outrage over Barbour's last-minute reprieves for so many criminals ensures something will pass.
"I am shocked and sickened and I can't even find the right adjective for how I feel," said state Sen. Billy Hudson, R-Hattiesburg. "I've already been to the legal office and have them working on a bill I can file -- it's probably going to take a constitutional amendment This needs to change."
Rep. Billy Broomfield, D-Moss Point, said: "(Barbour's clemency) is the most ludicrous thing I've ever seen somebody who is supposed to be responsible do. It's just a travesty of justice to have the governor release that many people back into society -- most with a clean slate so now they can carry a weapon and all other rights. The Legislature has, no question, got to address this."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
To read more, visit www.sunherald.com.


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About eight years ago, top executives of Starbucks Corp gathered in the company's massive headquarters here and set what seemed an unreachable goal: to become as well-known as Coca-Cola -- the best-known consumer brand of them all -- within a few decades.
While Starbucks still ranks only No. 93 on Business Week/Interbrand's Global Brands Scorecard, far behind leader Coke, it was the sixth fastest-growing brand in the top 100. The coffee purveyor has more than 7,500 stores around the globe, even venturing into the capital of cafe culture, Paris, this year.
"This has really happened far more rapidly than I ever imagined," Orin Smith, Starbucks' president and chief executive, said in a recent interview. "We're not even 10 years into that 25- or 30-year plan ... and yet we're on the playing field" when it comes to brand awareness.
Now, with some saying the advantages of expansion are almost played out, the coffee giant has a new plan: to leverage its hip image by offering its upscale clients other products and services they have made part of their lives.
"It's foolish to think a firm like Starbucks can continue to grow 25 percent per year forever," Greg Forsythe, senior vice president of Charles Schwab & Co Inc, wrote in a recent report to clients. "Most successful companies eventually satisfy the demand for their products, which limits future growth potential."
Starbucks officials say they're not there yet, and aren't nearly done expanding. This year alone, they plan to open 1,300 stores -- more than three a day -- many in international locations.
But they also realize they need to start capitalizing on that brand awareness they've built so quickly.
"Starbucks is a lifestyle brand -- it [conveys] a certain image about the way you live," Smith said.
He said he wants Starbucks to become a "cultural concierge" for customers in the future -- offering them not just a good cup of joe but all sorts of services and products befitting someone willing to shell out US$2 or more for a cup of flavored caffeine.
At the top of Smith's list of "concierge services," as he calls them, is music.
In March, Starbucks opened a first-of-its kind outlet in Santa Monica, California, called Hear Music, which is a music store with a small Starbucks attached to it. Hear Music customers can browse and listen to a catalog of hundreds of thousands of songs, select the ones they like and make customized CDs on the spot. A CD with five songs costs US$6.99; additional songs cost US$1 each.
Starbucks plans to open 10 more of the Hear Music stores in the Seattle area this fall, and if they're successful to add more nationwide.
It also plans to add similar CD-burning capabilities in thousands of its regular coffee shops. The company hasn't said where or when it will start adding the CD-burning systems, but it will probably be by the end of this year.
Another obvious way Starbucks is "leveraging its brand," as Smith puts it, is with its "hot spot" wireless Internet access service.
When it began adding the hot spots two years ago, Starbucks almost overnight became known as a connection point to the Web. Customers pay about US$10 a day for the service -- and undoubtedly buy plenty of coffee while they're surfing the Web or working.
With both the music and Internet services, Starbucks worked with partners to keep costs at a minimum.


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A Legislative Perspective on the Kentucky General Assembly with State Representative Rick Rand
FRANKFORT – For those who regularly follow the General Assembly, this past week in the Kentucky House of Representatives offered a little bit of nostalgia, given that several of the bills we voted on have been through the chamber before.
That's not unusual, of course. Some proposals in a legislative session may be hindered because of budget concerns, or because House and Senate priorities may differ, or because time may run out while more pressing issues are addressed. There is hope, though, that this is the year when a few of these perennial initiatives finally become law.
Perhaps the most prominent is raising the high school dropout age from 16 to 18, something both Governor and First Lady Beshear have long championed. The House approved it overwhelmingly on Thursday, as it has done several times before in recent years.
Those of us supporting it believe we need to change a rule set nearly a century ago, when the lack of a high school diploma was not the impediment in the workforce it is today. This change would put us among the more than 30 other states that have set their minimum dropout age at 17 or 18.
This also would significantly reduce the estimated 6,000 students who leave our high schools early each year, virtually guaranteeing they will not reach their full potential. One estimate shows their career earnings will be $300,000 less than a fellow classmate who graduates. They also are likely to cost the state more in the future because of higher expenses tied to corrections and such safety-net programs as Medicaid.
We in the House are committed to ensuring that, if this does become law, it will be a positive change for everyone when phased in beginning in 2017. One major factor in our favor is the high quality of alternative education programs tailored to those at-risk of dropping out.
Two other bills affecting our children also made it through the House on Thursday. One would expand the state's booster seat law so that the maximum limits would go from seven to eight years in age and 50 to 57 inches in height, while the other would call on our school cafeterias to do more to promote healthy food choices.
In other legislation familiar to House members, the chamber voted on Tuesday to make it easier for some Class "D" felons to re-enter society after they have completed their sentence. Class "D" is the lowest of the four levels of felony convictions.
This proposal would only be available if those applying maintain a clean felony record for at least five years after their punishment is complete and their original charge was not tied to child, elder or sexual abuse. The hope is that, by allowing this expungement, they would no longer be hindered in those cases, such as work, where a felony conviction could be a problem.
On Friday, the House voted unanimously to update the state's human trafficking laws, so that we can do more to protect victims forced into manual labor or prostitution. Authorities know of more than 100 victims in the last few years, but only about a fifth of these crimes have been prosecuted.
This bill would help change that by adding more training for law enforcement and making it easier to go after those engaged in human trafficking. Money seized in these cases would be used to provide treatment to victims, and they would also receive help from the state rather than face criminal charges themselves.
This week, the House is expected to help victims of another type of crime by extending domestic violence orders to dating couples, something virtually every other state already does. Currently, DVOs are limited to those who are married to or live with their abuser or who have a child with that person. The bill was approved by the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
Although not a factor in this year's legislative session, there was some good news for the state last week certainly worth mentioning. The first report came on Monday, when Governor Beshear announced that the tax amnesty program authorized last year had met its goal. He said more than 27,000 taxpayers had paid their back income taxes, and they came from every county in Kentucky and every other state. Altogether, this short-term program raised $56.9 million, or about $200,000 more than had been expected.
Two days later, Governor Beshear said that 2012 was a banner year for Kentucky's exports. Overall, we shipped $22 billion worth of products to 199 other nations, which was a 10 percent increase over 2011; that growth was also more than twice the national average.
The 30-day legislative session reaches its halfway point on Wednesday this week, so an already busy schedule promises to become even faster-paced in the month ahead. I appreciate those who have already let me know their thoughts or concerns, and hope more will join them in the days ahead.
If you would like to contact me, you can always write to me at Room 366B, Capitol Annex, 702 Capitol Avenue, Frankfort, KY 40601. My email address is email@example.com.
You can also leave a message for me or for any legislator at 800-372-7181. For those with a hearing impairment, the number is 800-896-0305. More information can be found on the General Assembly's website: www.lrc.ky.gov.
I hope to hear from you soon.


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My friend Ben Wikler, the Washington Director of Moveon.org (which is supporting Bernie Sanders), describes how one of the Iowa caucus precincts was decided:
[T]he first vote was roughly evenly split between Bernie and Hillary. (Nobody for O'Malley.) There are five delegates at stake, divided between the candidates in proportionate to their votes in the room. So it'll be two and two, with one delegate at stake.
The four undecideds go into a corner to hear pitches from supporters of either side. The rest of the crowd mills around; a few go to the bathroom; one or two don't come back.
Three people make up their mind for Bernie; one for Hillary. Back to seats.
Final vote. 61 for Bernie. For Hillary it's 59... 60... 61. Tie!
Recount. Slower this time. Still 61-61. Whoa.
So how do you break a tie? At this precinct, the answer is apparently: COIN FLIP.
Bernie's people call it: heads. Up goes the coin. Back down. Everyone clusters around to look.
Cheers go up on the Hillary side, frustration on Bernie side, and boom, that's it: three delegates for Hillary, two for Bernie, a bajillion fail points awarded to the people who left in the middle of the caucus, and we're off the Bernie victory party.
Ben caught it on video (if this video doesn't show up properly, click here):
Iowa Caucus precinct awards delegate to Clinton based on coin ...
Watch it happen: #IowaCaucus delegate awarded to Clinton based on coin flip in tied precinct. w/ MoveOn.org's Benjamin O'KeefePosted by Ben Wikler on Monday, February 1, 2016
Here's another video of the same coin flip, shown on C-SPAN. You can hear Ben Wikler say, "What?!" at about 0:25, and a couple seconds later he shows up just to the right of the woman who's explaining the procedure.
This also happened five other times. Hillary Clinton won all six coin tosses.
Megan McArdle comments:
Hillary Clinton is a terrible candidate. . . . That doesn't mean she won't eventually end up being president, but if she does, it will be despite her lackluster political skills, rather than because of them. The woman has had almost incumbent levels of support from her party, which paved the way for an easy coronation . . . and saw her come to a statistical tie with a self-avowed socialist.
Think about this: she started up 30 percent over Bernie Sanders, and ended up winning six precincts by a coin toss. Clinton seems to have a stronger base of support among Iowa coins than she does among Iowa caucus voters.
Pocket Change We Can Believe In!
A Facebook friend pointed out that the real problem seems to be that Sanders supporters are terrible at calling coin flips. Why, I can see the attack ad now . . .
(Narrator, speaking slowly with a tone of voice expressive of deep concern, over grainy black-and-white footage of slow-motion coin flips in Iowa auditoriums:) "The Bernie Sanders campaign . . . has consistently called coin flips wrong. How can we expect Bernie Sanders . . . to do what's right for America?"


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If you're a regular tanner chances are you will probably have one planned for your event! We all know how a tan can make us suit more colours, look more toned and make us feel more confident. However if you're not a keen tanner, stick to what you know and embrace your porcelain skin..whatever works to make you feel the most glamorous!


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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Just to let you know that Mike White passed away this weekend after a long illness.
Erstwhile British artist and one of my artistic heroes. Mike had worked on a variety of strips from the controversial Kids Rule OK, through Invasion, Disaster 1990, Ro-Busters, Mean Arena (a favourite of mine) and a fair few Future Shocks including some truly memorable ones with Alan Moore eg: Eureka and Bad Timing as well as the classic Time Twisters - The Reversible Man and Going Native. He also collaborated with Mr. Moore on a few stories featuring the incorrigible Abelard Snazz - The Double Decker Dome! He will probably be most fondly remembered by the general public for his long run on Roy of the Rovers. In recent years he had been drawing and painting historical illustrations for various book publishers through his long alliance with Temple Rogers Artist Agents.
I've had the honour to go drinking with Mike a few times and had always found him to be a lovely bloke - with a curmudgeonly streak - accompanied by a plethora of tales. He arrived in London during " The Swinging Sixties" and, by his accounts, he made the most of it - regaling me with tales of drinking Oliver Reed under the table and another, unmentionable tale, involving Felicity Kendal! It's my belief that he was in love with the theatre and felt compelled to pursue this as a career. I have no idea why he didn't but am glad that he chose the path he did - enriching so many lives with his artwork even if he himself believed he left no lasting impression unlike those talented "kids" Bolland and Gibbons. I like to think that, in our times drinking in the Lord Salisbury pub, I had persuaded him, just a tiny bit, that his work was, indeed, influential on, at least, my life.
He'll be missed. Next time you're at Orbital Comics in London pop around the corner to the Lord Salisbury and raise a drink for him from me.
The wonderful Lew Stringer has also posted a tribute on his site here:
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Vol. 808 – Cabaret & LPTW – Nov. 28, 2017
Broadway titan and Cabaret performer Karen Mason stops by with her husband, songwriter extraordinaire, Paul Rolnick. Each have a new album and tons of wisdom to share. Ira Lee Collings, 81 year old MAC Hanson Award winner for 2017 is here to explain his "Gay Geezer Power", and Kelli Lynn Harrison & Kimberly Loren Eaton discuss their involvement with the League of ProfessionalWomen's Professional Theatre League as well as their own careers and "origin stories."