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Definition of the noun abstemiousness
What does abstemiousness mean as a name of something?
noun - plural: abstemiousnesses
- restricted to bare necessities
- lexical domain: Attributes - nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
- more generic words: exiguity / leanness / meagerness / meagreness / poorness / scantiness / scantness = the quality of being meager
- moderation in eating and drinking
- lexical domain: Attributes - nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
- more generic words: moderation / temperance = the trait of avoiding excesses
- attribute: abstemious = sparing in consumption of especially food and drink
Alternative definition of the noun abstemiousness
- The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than [term, temperance].
Printed dictionaries and other books with definitions for abstemiousness
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Report (1854)
by Rhode Island. Office of Commissioner of Education, Henry Barnard
Abstemiousness is the stern condition of prolonged enjoyment, — a condition that balks desire at the very moment when it ...
Annual Report (1848)
by Massachusetts. Dept. of Education
Abstemiousness is the stern condition of prolonged enjoyment,-——a condition that balks desire at the very moment when it is most craving. Did the fields teem, and the forests bend, and the streams flow, with the most exquisite delicacies, ...
Diet in Sickness and in Health (1895)
by Alice Marion Hart
— By this time one feels not disinclined for breakfast ; but rigid abstemiousness is the rule of life DIABETES.
The People's Dictionary and Every-day Encyclopedia (1883)
Comprising All the Information Needed Upon Any Subject in Daily Use : a Hand-book for Everybody for Each Day in the Year
Abstemiousness, «. A sparing use of food. Aiisterge, v. t. To cleanse by wiping. Abstergent, a. Having a cleansing quality. Abstersion, n. The act of cleansing. Abstersive, a. Serving to cleanse. Abstinence, n. A refraining from food. Abstinent, a.
The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis].
by Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington)
Habit, undoubtedly has its influence in enabling them to support this extraordinary abstemiousness, by preventing the dilatation of the stomach, otherwise common to the human constitution ; whilst the extreme heat of the climate destroys in a ...
Encyclopaedia of Psychological Astrology
Abstemiousness; Excess.
The Educational Encyclopedia of Common Things (1903)
Containing Useful Facts to Supply the Daily Need of All Classes of People by Richard Linthicum
Abstemiousness. GREETING—salutation. Guitar—affliction, sorrow. Joy. GRIEVANCE—hardship, uneasiness. To CRIEVE—mDum, lament, sorrow, bewail.
Lexicon to the English poetical works of John Milton (1907)
by Laura Emma Lockwood
abstemiousness, self- restraint : P. L. ix. 924 ; personi- fied : C. 709. Abstract, vb. tr. to withdraw, remove, separate : P. L. ix. 463. part. adj. abstract, having the mind withdrawn from the contemplation of present objects : P. L. vin.
The Ladies' Lexicon and Parlour Companion (1870)
Containing Nearly Every Word in the English Language and Exhibiting the Plurals of Nouns and the Participles of Verbs ... Adapted to the Use of ... Schools by William Grimshaw
abstemiousness adv. abstemiously. ABSTER' GENT, ABSTER'SIVE. adj. Of a cleansing quality. s. ab- stersion. ABSTINENCE. s . Act of abstain ing. adj. abstinent adv. abstinently. ABSTRACT. v. To take from ; to ...
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29 October, 2014 at 5:20 am
Costs of requesting oral hearing after provisional assessment
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If a party is unhappy with the outcome of a provisional assessment they have the automatic right to request an oral hearing. The large disincentive is that if they fail to achieve an improvement in their favour of 20% or more of the provisionally assessed amount that party will pay the costs of and incidental to that hearing.
I suspect that many have interpreted the rule to mean that if a party does achieve an improvement of 20% or more than they will recover their costs of the oral hearing. However, is that what the rule actually says? The wording of CPR 47.15(10) is:
"Any party which has requested an oral hearing, will pay the costs of and incidental to that hearing unless –
(a) it achieves an adjustment in its own favour by 20% or more of the sum provisionally assessed; or
(b) the court otherwise orders."
CPR 47.15(10)(b) appears to be drafted widely enough such that the court has a discretion not to order the party who requested the hearing, but failed to achieve the 20% threshold, to pay for the costs of the hearing.
However, what costs, and by virtue of which rule, is a party who requested a hearing and achieved a 20% improvement entitled to?
27 October, 2014 at 5:33 am
Guidance on the new proportionality test
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The new Senior Costs Judge Master Gordon-Saker recently suggested there was no need for further guidance on the new proportionality test. He said:
"It is said that we will need guidance on how to apply the new test. I disagree. The guidance is already there. It is likely that somebody will in some case or another seek to appeal the approach that has been taken. But I would suggest that there is no reason to suppose that the court hearing the appeal will do other than restate the guidance that has already been given by Jackson LJ in his final report:
… I propose that in an assessment of costs on the standard basis, proportionality should prevail over reasonableness and the proportionality test should be applied on a global basis. The court should first make an assessment of reasonable costs, having regard to the individual items in the bill, the time reasonably spent on those items and the other factors listed in CPR rule 44.5(3). The court should then stand back and consider whether the total figure is proportionate. If the total figure is not proportionate, the court should make an appropriate reduction. There is already a precedent for this approach in relation to the assessment of legal aid costs in criminal proceedings: see R v Supreme Court Taxing Office ex p John Singh and Co [1997] 1 Costs LR 49."
This is to be contrasted with the views of Professor Dominic Regan, writing in the New Law Journal, that:
"it is going to cost a lot of money by way of test cases to determine the new, sensible approach to proportionate costs"
So, which view is correct?
In one sense, I would suggest they are both wrong.
A more detailed analysis of this issue can be seen here, but the problem boils down to the fact the new test is probably unworkable. On the one hand, guidance is clearly needed as to how the court should approach the issue of proportionality where, for example, a routine claim settles for £50,000 and the "reasonable" costs are assessed at £200,000. What should the court reduce this to applying the new proportionality test? If the answer to this is obvious from the guidance already given, I have yet to hear a costs judge or costs practitioner explain it to me. Without further guidance there will be the most extreme and absurd inconsistency from court to court and judge to judge. This goes far beyond any issue of judicial discretion. Justice requires a level of predictability and certainty that cannot happen without further guidance.
However, what meaningful guidance can the Court of Appeal provide that does not amount to some type of fixed tariff or a percentage of the damages recovered? To introduce this across the board would go far further than anything Lord Justice Jackson recommended.
We are thus faced with the situation where further guidance is urgently needed but there is nothing meaningful which can be said which does not lead down an entirely unintended route.
24 October, 2014 at 5:43 am
Understanding costs orders
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£17,000 bill of costs served in relation to appeal. Notice of Commencement relies on a court order and attaches a copy of the same. The costs provision of the order reads:
"No order as to costs"
You couldn't make it up.
Perhaps when the new "automatic" bill drafting software is introduced it will also be able to interpret what costs orders mean.
20 October, 2014 at 6:21 am
Fixed costs on the multi-track
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Lord Justice Jackson's recent suggestion that fixed costs should be extended to disputes worth up to £250,000 was, according to the Association of Costs Lawyers' e-bulletin, accompanied by the comment:
"I appreciate that, in complex and value [sic] cases, fixed costs still won't work. Here, the only way to control costs in advance would be to continue with costs budgeting and costs management"
This is presumably meant to mean no more than cases over £250,000 should be exempt from fixed costs because they are, by their nature, complex and higher value matters where the costs are more variable from case-to-case.
The ACL e-bulletin commented this was "an observation that many costs lawyers will be relieved to hear". I'm sure they will both be very happy. Realistically, £250,000+ cases must make up a very small proportion of the cases that most costs lawyers deal with day-to-day.
Further, nice as it would be to have some work remaining to see me through to retirement, once fixed costs are extended up to £250,000 there seems limited logic to stopping at that stage.
Fixed costs are not meant to produce a "reasonable" figure on a case-by-case basis. A fixed fee will always be too much or too little when compared to the number of hours spent. Fixed costs, at best, are designed to produce an average figure that is reasonable across a basket of cases (although it might need to be topped up on a solicitor/own client basis).
Fixed costs on the fast-track has some logic and justification. Although fast-track cases have varying (relative) degrees of complexity, by their nature, a judge must have decided each case is straightforward enough to be heard in one day. There is a relative cap on the complexity of such cases. Fixed costs for such claims will contain a margin of error as to how close the figures are compared to the time spent, but there should be a limit to the level of discrepancy.
However, once you start to introduce fixed costs for claims up to £250,000, any attempt at producing figures that correspond to the actual work undertaken is clearly abandoned. The figure will be an arbitrary payment to the other side, often likely to be too much or too little by £10,000s.
There are good arguments for and against introducing an extension to £250,000. But if the arguments in favour prevail, there is no obvious reason why fixed costs should not be introduced for all litigation regardless of value. A £250,000 cap has as little to recommend it as the old £2,000,000 (now £10,000,000) cap for costs budgeting.
17 October, 2014 at 6:21 am
Automatically generated bills of costs
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The Jackson Final Report stated the purpose of the planned new case management software, for which the new J-Codes have recently been approved, was so the software included the ability to "automatically generate schedules for summary assessment or bills for detailed assessment as and when required".
I'm currently dealing with a bill where the costs order was:
"The First Defendant shall pay 37.5% of the Claimant's generic costs and disbursements of the action until the Second Defendant was added to the proceedings (19 November 2013) and the First Defendant shall pay 75% of the Claimant's costs and disbursements as incurred solely against the First Defendant from 19 November onwards."
I look forward to seeing the automatically generated bill that properly reflects that order.
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15 October, 2014 at 6:38 am
Recoverability of costs of negotiating costs
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A recent post discussed the Court of Appeal's decision in Tasleem v Beverley [2013] EWCA Civ 1805 and apparent suggestion (flying in the face of an earlier Court of Appeal decision) that issuing Part 8 costs-only proceedings was not part of the detailed assessment proceedings (with the apparent consequence that such costs would fall outside the £1,500 cap for provisional assessment). The crucial passage was:
"The bringing of Part 8 costs-only proceedings is not the commencement of, or part of, the detailed assessment proceedings, albeit it is a necessary preliminary to that process if there are no underlying proceedings in existence."
This leads on to a secondary issue of work done in relation to negotiating costs prior to Part 8 proceedings being issued.
The earlier Court of Appeal decision in Crosbie v Munroe [2003] EWCA Civ 350, [2003] 1 WLR 2033 was simple and logical. There were two types of costs:
1. Those costs incurred in relation to the substantive claim.
2. Those costs incurred quantifying the costs of the substantive claim. This would cover all work post-settlement of the substantive claim negotiating costs, dealing with Part 8 proceedings and through the assessment process. Brooke LJ explained at paragraph 34:
"By this route it is easy to see that even when Part 8 proceedings have to be commenced in order to obtain a court order for detailed assessment, the 'costs of the proceedings' within the meaning of CPR 47.19 still relate only to the costs leading up to the disposal (on this occasion by agreement) of the substantive claim. They are 'the proceedings which gave rise to the assessment proceedings', and the assessment proceedings cover the whole period of negotiations about the amount of costs payable through the Part 8 proceedings to the ultimate disposal of those proceedings, whether by agreement or court order."
It all seemed neat and straightforward until Tasleem v Beverley.
Some of the difficulties are created by the confusingly worded CPR and Practice Directions.
CPR 46.6(1) (mirroring the pre-Jackson wording) states:
"Detailed assessment proceedings are commenced by the receiving party serving on the paying party –
(a) notice of commencement in the relevant practice form; and
(b) a copy of the bill of costs."
That would appear to support the Tasleem thinking that issuing Part 8 proceedings is not part of the assessment proceedings, simply a necessary preliminary step. On this analysis, service of the N252 commences the detailed assessment proceedings and work done before this falls outside the process (and therefore outside the provisional assessment cap).
On the other hand, PD 47 para.5.19 (again mirroring the pre-Jackson wording):
"The bill of costs must not contain any claims in respect of costs or court fees which relate solely to the detailed assessment proceedings other than costs claimed for preparing and checking the bill."
Implicit in this is the fact that the costs of drafting the bill are part of the detailed assessment proceeding, even if it is permissible to include these in the bill. Clearly a bill must be drafted before an N252 is served and the only court fee that might normally be incurred before a bill is drafted is the Part 8 issue fee. This of course was the reason CPR 47.15(5) had to be amended from:
"The court will not award more than £1,500 to any party in respect of the costs of the provisional assessment."
to the current:
"In proceedings which do not go beyond provisional assessment, the maximum amount the court will award to any party as costs of the assessment (other than the costs of drafting the bill of costs) is £1,500 together with any VAT thereon and any court fees paid by that party."
If the costs of drafting a bill were not costs of the assessment the issue would never have arisen. Self-evidently, a bill will always be drafted before it is served with an N252.
The importance of the distinction between whether work does or does not fall within the detailed assessment proceedings is heightened by the fact so many cases are now subject to provisional assessment.
Take the following example. A claim settles prior to proceedings being issued with the defendant agreeing to pay the claimant's costs. The claimant serves a draft bill. The defendant serves draft points of dispute. The claimant serves draft replies. Negotiations continue for several months. Negotiations break down and the claimant issues Part 8 proceedings. Following an order for costs being made, the bill is formally served. Can it seriously be argued that all work done up until that point falls outside the detailed assessment proceedings (because it pre-dates service of the N252) and therefore both parties have effectively managed to totally escape the £1,500 cap? If it does, CPR 47.15(5) needs to be rapidly redrafted (third time lucky?).
A further oddity thrown up by Tasleem is to be found at paragraph 13:
"We have not called upon Mr Mallalieu [for the Claimants} to respond on behalf of the respondents to this appeal, but in his written arguments it is clear that he does not quarrel with the proposition that when there is an underlying claim followed by a notice of commencement of detailed assessment proceedings and a default costs certificate, the recoverable costs are limited to those in the default costs certificate. In such a case, the costs specified in it are apt to cover the additional costs the receiving parties incurred by using the procedure, subject only to the cap of the fixed costs regime."
If that is correct, consider the following situation. Proceedings are issued in relation to the substantive claim which settles, with the defendant being liable for the claimant's costs. A bill is informally served. Several months of heated negotiations are then entered into over costs. Negotiations break down and a bill is formally served. The defendant fails to file points of dispute and the claimant obtains a default costs certificate. Are the claimant's costs really limited to those shown on the "default costs certificate"? Is nothing recoverable for the months of negotiations?
The Court of Appeal has created various problems entirely unnecessarily. It would have been much simpler to conclude, adopting a purposive approach to interpretation of the rule the court was being asked to consider, that the fixed fees under CPR 47.11 were intended to cover the costs of applying for a default costs certificate alone. It would not then have been necessary to try to treat the issuing of Part 8 proceedings as falling outside the assessment process (clearly contrary to Crosbie).
The Court of Appeal will no doubt shortly be asked to sort out the mess they have created, unless the rules committee gets there first.
13 October, 2014 at 5:51 am
J-Codes and bills of costs
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There appears to be some confusion over the role the new J-Codes will play and whether it will be compulsory to use case management software that incorporates the J-Codes. I am therefore grateful to Alexander Hutton QC, who sits on the committee responsible for developing the new bill of costs format, for the following comments:
"It is not mandatory to use the J-Codes now, nor is it planned that it shall ever be so. Many one-man/woman band solicitors and certainly many litigants in person may be unlikely ever to do so. All that is planned is that there will be a model bill of costs in the relevant Practice Direction just like there is now but which will be our committee's recommended bill based on the J-Code time recording system (although it will be able to construct from scratch not having used the J-Codes, just as now). It will however be much easier to prepare a bill like this having time recorded by the J-Codes, as it will not involve reinventing the wheel by a costs draftsman drafting a bill from scratch, but instead using the time recording system itself to generate both a Precedent H form and a bill of costs, and where the bill can easily be compared to whatever was allowed in the approved budget in relation to each phase.
That is the plan. It is obviously up to others if and when that plan comes in. While the senior judiciary have approved the J-Codes in principle, they have no official status at the moment in the rules. If and when the model bill of costs is changed in the rules to ours (and obviously that is up to others ultimately), then those who have been using the J-Codes from now will have a much easier time of it. But ultimately, at this stage, all we have done is publish them and it is up to others to use them or not as they see fit."
10 October, 2014 at 6:33 am
Hourly rate indemnity principle problems
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A recent post commented on the potential problems caused by CCFAs which define "basic charges" along the following or similar lines:
"charges for work done by or on behalf of Smith and Jones Solicitors, calculated on the basis of the hourly rates allowable for the work in the court in which the claim in question is conducted or would be conducted if proceedings were to be issued"
I suggested "allowable" was meant refer to the Guideline Hourly Rates for the relevant court and that treating "allowable" as meaning whatever hourly rates it might be possible to persuade a judge to allow at the conclusion of the case would create all kinds of indemnity principle problems.
Of the various comments posted in response Jacques Hughes (whose contributions are always most welcome) stated:
"Why would the broader interpretation of 'allowable' create indemnity principle problems? 'Work will be paid for by the hour at a rate to be determined by the court' gives rise to no issues of uncertainty, any more than, say, a lease which provides that rents will be determined annually by a nominated surveyor"
I therefore thought it might be worth expanding on my thoughts.
As no more than an aside, given leases are presumably not subject to the indemnity principle, no such issue would arise with the wording of a lease drafted in such a manner. I would suggest that a lease that said no more than the rents would be those rents "allowable", without further qualification, almost certainly would cause problems.
If such CCFAs are meant to mean "Work will be paid for by the hour at a rate to be determined by the court", why do they not say that? At best this is sloppy drafting. However, if that is what they are meant to mean, there is a clear indemnity principle problem.
A bill of costs must be accompanied by a signed certificate confirming the accuracy of the bill, which has always been treated to mean that there has been no breach of the indemnity principle. If the appropriate hourly rate is to be determined by the Court at some future date, how can a bill be prepared, with accompanying certificate of accuracy, claiming a rate in excess of Guideline Rates? Or at Guideline Rates? Or below Guideline Rates? The hourly rates, on this reading of the CCFA, are entirely up in the air and yet to be determined. A properly drafted bill would need to leave all the figures for profit costs blank and simply detail the hours worked. Equally, it would never be possible to apply for a default costs certificate when dealing with such a bill. Unless and until the bill was assessed by a costs judge the amounts payable (under the agreement) would be unknown.
A second indemnity principle problem arises from the case of Customs and Excise v Vaz (1995) STC14 which made it clear that if the agreement between the client and solicitor is that the client is under no obligation to pay save and to the extent that the solicitor obtains costs from the other side, then, in fact, the client is under no obligation to pay at all and, pursuant to the indemnity principle, the solicitor cannot recover from the losing party. CFA Lites were first introduced by Reg 3A of the Conditional Fee Agreements Regulations 2000 (as amended), being an agreement in which the client was:
"liable to pay his legal representative's fees and expenses only to the extent that sums are recovered in respect of the relevant proceedings, whether by way of costs or otherwise"
Under such an agreement, it would be permissible to set the hourly rate in the CFA at, say, £500 but in the event the Court only awarded £200, and that was the sum recovered from the other side, the client's liability would be accordingly limited. This creates no indemnity principle problem as the client was potentially liable for £500 per hour, subject to that rate being recovered. Equally, if the Court allows £200 per hour but the paying party only coughs up half that amount, the client's liability would be limited to £100 per hour. However, both these situations are quite different to a CFA specifying no rate at all.
A further difficulty with arguing that "allowable" is meant to mean 'work will be paid for by the hour at a rate to be determined by the court" is the inclusion of the wording "calculated on the basis of the hourly rates allowable for the work in the court in which the claim … would be conducted if proceedings were to be issued".
This clearly envisages a case settling pre-issue but a certain rate still being payable. If "allowable" in this context does not mean Guideline Rates, what does the reference to the court in which the claim "would be conducted if proceedings were to be issued" mean? This is particularly stark where the claim would have been conducted in the High Court if issued but where any assessment would be done in the Senior Courts Costs Office. Other than summary assessments, the High Court rarely assesses costs. What the SCCO may or may not allow is irrelevant if the reference is to the court in which the claim itself would have been conducted if issued.
I have no doubt that the intention of those who drafted such CCFAs was indeed to set the rates by reference to Guideline Rates. Now clever specialist costs counsel are required to try to escape the natural consequences.
6 October, 2014 at 6:11 am
Extension of fixed costs
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Lord Justice Jackson has called for the development of a fixed costs scheme for all claims with a value of up to £250,000. Kerry Underwood's blog helpfully sets out a summary of how this might work and concludes:
"The potential massive losers here are barristers"
Barristers? Sorry? There is one much more important group I can think of that might be losers if this were to happen (and I'm not just talking about costs officers in the Senior Courts Costs Office).
Interestingly, the recent major extension of fixed costs in the fast-track and the end to recoverability of success fee and ATE premiums has already ended much of the clamour for further major costs reforms from claimants and defendants. Once the main run-off of pre-Jackson cases has gone through the system, one would have expected pressure from the judiciary for further change to also end if it was not for one thing: costs budgeting and costs management (or is that two things?).
The new Senior Costs Judge Master Gordon-Saker recently launched a strongly worded attack on the lack of training for judges in costs budgeting. He reported how, at a recent Jackson training session he attended, the group of judges he was with were asked to estimate the costs of a five day professional negligence case at the High Court. The results were estimates varying from £30,000 to £150,000.
We may well see the situation that the nightmare unleashed by the ill-thought-out introduction of costs budgeting will, within a year or two, cause the judiciary (and possibly practitioners alike) to conclude a massive extension of fixed fees is the only solution to the mess that has been created. Indeed, Lord Justice Jackson highlighted one of the advantages of the extension of fixed costs to be:
"Such a scheme may be particularly welcome now, because it will dispense with the need for costs management and costs budgeting in cases valued at less than £250,000."
Some possible alternatives include:
1. Suspending costs budgeting until there is a new bill of costs format that mirrors costs budgeting phases.
2. A comprehensive survey of costs budgets approved to date to see whether there is any consistency in amounts allowed (or logic to the figures) and whether the amounts allowed are likely to have any downward pressure on the overall costs that may be awarded at the conclusion. The whole purpose of costs budgeting was to control costs. To the best of my knowledge, no attempt has been made to determine (from proper evidence rather than anecdote or self-selecting survey) whether this is achieving that aim.
3. Intensive costs management training for judges (surely a minimum of one week) with no judge allowed to make costs management orders until that training has been completed and the judges understanding properly assessed.
4. A clear and sensible timetable put in place for the exchange and filing of budgets so 1000s of these documents do not continue to be prepared that then serve no useful purpose (either because the matter settles before a costs management hearing or the court decides not to make a costs management order) other than wasting the parties' time and money.
5. Scrapping costs budgeting for cases where estimated costs do not exceed £100,000. Replace then with costs estimates (giving a global figure) from which the court can make a costs management order. It is wishful thinking on the part of costs budgeting evangelists that a phase-by-phase budget for such cases is likely to produce a more rational, reasoned or fair overall figure than a global costs estimate. This would save an enormous amount of time and expense to the parties and the courts, both at the time of making the costs management order and at any subsequent detailed assessment hearing avoiding arguing over phase-by-phase issues.
No doubt the rules committee would welcome any other helpful suggestions.
3 October, 2014 at 6:03 am
Growth in legal costs work
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Many costs firms appear to be busy expanding and recruiting. However, one recent comment on a post stated:
"I know of at least 6 north west cost drafting firms who are making redundancies."
There is perhaps no mystery to these two apparently conflicting accounts at this stage in the post-Jackson cycle. Costs budgeting, etc has increased the need for experienced law costs draftsmen and Costs Lawyers for higher-end costs work where we have yet to see a significant reduction of work caused by other elements of the Jackson reforms. However, the impact of an expansion of fixed costs work at the lower-end should now have begun to kick-in and impact on work volumes for some firms. It is therefore perfectly possible that some firms are currently expanding at the same time as others are shrinking.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The role of female talk show hosts in late-night TV broadcast network history, all 50-plus years of it, can be summed up in two words: Joan Rivers. It takes just another two -- Arsenio Hall -- to do the same for minorities.
There's no indication that's going to change in the latest round of musical chairs involving "Tonight" and "Late Night." All the NBC, ABC and CBS showcase jobs at 11:30 p.m. Eastern and later appear likely to remain securely in white men's hands.
Jay Leno is handing off to Jimmy Fallon, with speculation tagging Seth Meyers as his likely successor. Meanwhile, David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel, Craig Ferguson and Carson Daly are sitting pretty, without the faintest drumbeat of a pair of advancing high heels to signal a threat.
There have been alternatives bandied about -- Chelsea Handler, black comedian-writer Aisha Tyler -- but no hints they or others are getting traction.
"In real life it seems to me that women have definitely shown themselves to be able to carry on a conversation," said Merrill Markoe, the Emmy Award-winning writer who helped David Letterman create "Late Night" at NBC. "Women have exhibited an interest in talking for centuries. I'm not sure how it is that no one has seemed to notice."
NBC did not respond to requests for comment on the issue. But if belles du jour Tina Fey and Amy Poehler can excel at TV sitcoms and movies and teach Ricky Gervais a thing or two (or three) about hosting the Golden Globes, could they be queens of the night with their own talk shows? Or maybe a Hispanic or Asian-American man could have a turn. We may miss out on a "Jimmy Kimmel Live" clip of a heavyset woman lifting her T-shirt, and the host then warning us, "I need to take a break. I'm going to throw up," but we might get other thrills.
Women and minorities have conquered other traditionally white male-dominated arenas, on and off TV -- think anchorwoman Diane Sawyer, President Barack Obama -- but in late-night even daring cable is content with the homogenized likes of Conan O'Brien, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, with such occasional dashes as E!'s Handler, BET's Mo'Nique and TBS' now-gone George Lopez thrown in.
Rivers, who became host of Fox's "The Late Show" in 1986 after filling in as the sole regular guest host on Johnny Carson's "Tonight," calls the lack of female hosts "beyond" frustrating.
Blame the broadcast industry's resistance toward change and the risk of failure, she said: "Everybody is running so scared, and has always run scared."
And executives can find reasons, or excuses, for keeping the status quo.
"They had surveys at NBC, and the surveys were that women would rather watch a man at night, which is what they're always throwing up in your face," Rivers said.
That's an argument that's still made, privately, in the industry: Women want to hear their pre-bedtime monologue jokes from a man, while Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres and Katie Couric are welcome in daytime.
It's true that women make up a majority of the audience for every network late-night show. ABC's Kimmel, for instance, is averaging 1.4 million female viewers and 770,000 male viewers this season, while Leno is watched by 1.9 million women and 1.5 million men, according to Nielsen Co. ratings.
But "Chelsea Lately" casts doubt on the notion of women snubbing women. Of Handler's 650,000 viewers, about 65 percent are female -- a higher percentage of women than any male network host except Kimmel, who's about even with that number.
While networks also have to worry about drawing male viewers, especially the advertiser-coveted younger ones, the hard truth is that battle is being lost to edgier cable hosts -- Stewart, Colbert and O'Brien all have majority-male audiences -- and to the video games and online distractions that consume their attention.
The networks have other reasons to reconsider their white-guys-only strategy, according to an analysis of Nielsen data: They are losing out on minority viewers, Hispanics in particular.
Of the total 3.44 million viewers averaged by "Tonight" for the season through March 24, there were 188,000 Hispanics. That's about 5 percent of the total audience, compared to the nearly 17 percent Latino slice of the U.S. population.
The other late-night shows show similar degrees of disconnect with Hispanics, although some can boast healthy black viewership.
"Guess what? America's becoming more diverse," said Darnell Montez Hunt, a University of California, Los Angeles, professor who studies race and media. Late-night shows "could grow a larger and diverse audience by making different choices behind the camera and in front of the camera."


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Berkley, Elizabeth 1972-
Publication Timeline
Most widely held works about Elizabeth Berkley
Most widely held works by Elizabeth Berkley
The First Wives Club by Oliver Goldsmith ( Visual )
1 edition published in 1996 in English and held by 626 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Three mid-life Manhattanites have more than a longtime friendship in common. After years of helping their hubbies climb the corporate ladder of success, each has been dumped for a newer, curvier model. The trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts--in the wallet!
Ask Elizabeth : real answers to everything you secretly wanted to ask about love, friends, your body-- and life in general by Elizabeth Berkley ( Book )
2 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 601 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Written in the spirit of a group diary, Ask Elizabeth addresses the emotional lives of teen girls based on the most frequently asked questions from workshops presented by Elizabeth Berkley
Roger Dodger ( Visual )
6 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 435 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Takes a look at the male ego and the art of manipulating women. Roger, a sharp-witted Manhattan advertising copywriter can talk his way into any skirt, which is exactly why his nephew, Nick, pays him a visit. With Nick's virginity at stake, Roger takes him out for a one-night crash course in seduction, only to realize he still has something to learn about women himself
S. Darko a Donnie Darko tale ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2009 in English and held by 276 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The story picks up seven years after the first film when little sister Samantha Darko and her best friend Corey are now 18 and on a roadtrip to Los Angeles when they are plagued by bizarre visions
White wolves II Legend of the wild ( Visual )
8 editions published between 1995 and 2007 in English and held by 257 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Given the chance to clear up their school records, a group of misfit teens reluctantly venture into the wilderness to help a young naturalist save the vanishing wolves
Showgirls by Paul Verhoeven ( Visual )
34 editions published between 1995 and 2012 in 6 languages and held by 257 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Nomi Malone has what it takes to make it as a Las Vegas showgirl-- what she doesn't have is a way in. To survive, she accepts the only job available: lap dancing at a seedy club. And when she meets Cristal, Vegas' reigning showgirl, Nomi wants everything she has-- including her boyfriend. And as Nomi dives deeper into the world she so desperately desires, a rivalry between the two women heats up. The battle for the spotlight becomes so fiercely competitive that it drives Nomi to deperate lengths-- and devious heights-- for fame in Sin City."--Container
Lucky Christmas ( Visual )
3 editions published between 2011 and 2012 in English and held by 209 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Holly Ceroni, a single mom trying to get back on her feet, is crushed when she learns her winning lottery ticket is in the glove compartment of her recently stolen car. Mike Ronowski, the construction worker behind Holly's missing property, goes along with a plan to befriend Holly and coerce her into giving him half her winnings. Mike unexpectedly falls for Holly and learns there are more important things than money just in time for the holidays
Saved by the bell ( Visual )
2 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 106 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Follows the antics and adventures of seven high school friends
The real blonde by Tom DiCillo ( Visual )
2 editions published between 1998 and 2012 in German and English and held by 54 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This hilarious look at ambitious young entertainment and fashion industry denizens and the gulf between their dreams and reality centers on an idealistic and perpetually out of work actor and his live-in girlfriend
Saved by the bell ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2007 in English and held by 49 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Wedding in Las Vegas: Kelly and Zack are finally tying the knot, but not before a few major problems. On the way to the alter, the guys land in jail, the girl's car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, Kelly accuses Zack of cheating on her, and Zack loses all the wedding money
Meet market ( Visual )
2 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 40 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Lonely aspirants on the LA dating scene hook up at their local grocery store, where they can see and be seen by some of their dubiously eligible fellow singles, all the while hoping for that one magical relationship that will finally click. Unfortunately, they discover, some people should come with warning labels
Hallmark Channel holiday collection ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2013 in English and held by 36 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Trading Christmas: Emily Springer is disappointed in her daughter, Heather, won't make the cross-country trip from Harvard to visit at Christmas. Emily decides to surprise Heather and trades houses with Charles Brewster, a college professor. Emily is the one who is surprised when she finds out her daughter left for Florida with her boyfriend and has only Charles' brother for company. In this holiday tale about twists of fate, Emily and Charles find love at the most unexpected time
Taxman ( Visual )
10 editions published between 1998 and 2008 in English and Spanish and held by 34 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A New York tax investigator (Pantoliano) and a NYPD patrolman (Wade Dominguez) go deep into the underworld of the Russian mafia to track down millions of dollars in tax fraud and find themselves swept into a vortex of mystery, intrigue and murder
The music teacher an opera by Allen Shawn ( Recording )
2 editions published in 2008 in English and held by 31 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The shipment ( Visual )
5 editions published between 2002 and 2003 in English and held by 27 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Crazy Joe has just smuggled a huge shipment of Mexican Viagra into the U.S, but there's one problem: it was stolen from the New York mob. When the city mobsters take to cattle country, they are surrounded by dim-witted farmhands, gun-toting good old boys, and a wise guy's wife who can't keep her hands off the sheriff
Detonator ( Visual )
5 editions published between 2003 and 2004 in English and Spanish and held by 27 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A serial bomber has L.A. paralyzed with fear. A postal inspector is convinced it's a campaign of revenge. The authorities don't believe him, but he's determined to put an end to the rampage. With every second, time is running out
Control factor ( Visual )
6 editions published between 2003 and 2004 in 3 languages and held by 25 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Your thoughts are not your own in the wickedly paranoic thrill-ride, CONTROL FACTOR. Lance Bishop ... is an unsuspecting insurance salesman whose life is suddenly torn inside-out when a disheveled stranger attempts to murder him. Soon a powerful voice in Lance's head is repeatedly ordering him to kill his devoted wife Karen ... Questioning his own sanity, Lance discovers the voice is part of a top-secret mind-control project-and no one is safe. With a time bomb ticking in his mind, it's up to Lance and a small band of risky renegades to stop the widespread plan for domination in this action-packed, heart stopping race for the free will of the nation."--Container
Saved by the bell ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2004 in English and held by 22 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Follows the antics and adventures of six high school friends
Armitage III, the third poly-matrix ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2004 in English and held by 15 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Naomi Armitage tries to stop the massacre of the "Thirds", as it is a fight for her own survival, while she is partnered with a human that despises robots
Saved by the bell ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2013 in English and held by 13 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Follow your six favorite teenagers and Mr. Belding through the Zack and Kelly breakup, Jessie's father's wedding to a younger woman, and summer jobs at the Beach Club! And watch the group react to the newest transfer to Bayside High, Tori"--Container
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Actors Brothers and sisters California--Los Angeles Child actors Copy writers Courage Dating (Social customs) Delusions Diamond, Dustin, Divorced women End of the world (Astronomy) England--London Fate and fatalism Gosselaar, Mark-Paul, Hawaii High school students Holidays Hotels Jealousy Juvenile delinquents Lopez, Mario, Lost articles Lottery winners Manners and customs Man-woman relationships Meteorite craters Models (Persons) Nevada--Las Vegas New York (State)--New York New York (State)--New York--Manhattan Railroads--Commuting traffic Revenge Seduction Single mothers Space and time Stripteasers Supermarkets Teenage girls Teenage girls--Psychology Teenage girls--Social life and customs Teenagers Television comedies United States Vacations Visions Weddings Wilderness survival Women dancers Women entertainers Young women
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Mount Snow Condo Rental Photos and Description
- 2 BR, 2 BA, Sleeps 6.
Seasons is THE trailside walk-on/ski-off condo village. This is the best location at Mt Snow, at the foot of the Seasons lift, near the Sundance baselodge, right next to the Seasons Sports Center! Outside this newly updated 2nd floor unit is a private ski locker for your equipment. Inside, a spacious open-plan accommodation for 6 people including a fully equipped kitchen. Eat at the breakfast bar or in the formal dining room. Enjoy cable on the new flat screen TV, VCR, DVD and stereo. Relax by a cozy fire in the fieldstone fireplace - free firewood is provided close by. The master bedroom features a king size bed, TV with cable, DVD and private bath. A second full bath serves the twin bedroom (also with TV/cable) and the queen size pullout sofa in the living room. Unit has a washer/dryer and free local phone calls.
In the next building is the amazing Sports Center with indoor and outdoor swimming pools, tennis courts, hot tub, internet, sauna, exercise room, ping-pong, & foosball
Slopeside!: In winter, you're a 2 minute walk from the first Mount Snow lift. No waiting for a ride, for the rest of your group to get ready, or for an elusive shuttle! You'll be so close you can come and go as you please! Ski home to warm up and eat a hearty lunch in your own condo, and be back to the slopes in a jiffy for the afternoon. In the evening, you and your family may enjoy a game of ping pong before relaxing in the hot tub, sauna, and indoor pool at the fabulous Seasons Amenities Center right next door to your building (small use fee). In summer, the Amenities Center has a heated outdoor pool and tennis with free equipment loan. Or perhaps you'd rather pop in a DVD and curl up in front of a blazing fire in your own very impressive fieldstone fireplace. You'll also find an excellent selection of intact (!) family games right in your condo.
However you decide to spend your time, you're guaranteed to enjoy your stay!
Other Fun Activities: Enjoy beautiful mountain views at the 18-hole championship Mount Snow Golf course. Nearby Lake Whittingham offers canoe and kayak rentals and a scenic cruise.
We've long enjoyed a visit to the nearby Adams Family Farm including a daytime or evening sleigh ride (hayride in the fall) to a lovely cottage in the woods where steaming hot cocoa is served and someone always takes on the challenge of playing the working player piano. The Farm includes an extensive petting zoo for the kiddies and a shop with charming Vermont products.
The town of West Dover offers many excellent restaurants, several video stores, and a cinema showing 3 or 4 first-run movies at all times. Fifteen minutes away is Wilmington, a classic Vermont town with churches, shops selling Vermont crafts and antiques, additional fine and family restaurants, as well as a Shaws supermarket and the TrueValue 'hardware' store which is really a general store.
Newly Updated Second Floor Unit: Unlike many Seasons on Mount Snow condo units for rent, this one is five steps up from ground level rather than partly underground. This means bigger windows, lots of light, and a spacious feel.
The unit was completely repainted, carpeted, and wallpapered in 2008. Bathrooms, window treatments, and bedding were just updated in 2006 or 2007!
Linens are included with all rentals and the unit contains an abundance of extra pillows and blankets, in addition to the new comforters and shams on the beds.
This well-maintained condo will provide your family with the perfect home-away-from-home for a fun and memorable vacation or a romantic getaway for two!
- Suitability:
- Long-term Renters Welcome
- children welcome
- non smoking only
- pets not allowed
- suitable for elderly or infirm
- wheelchair inaccessible


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One of the most important features and luxuries in your home is your septic tank. Therefore, it is important to have it maintained and serviced regularly so that it can continue to operate correctly without giving you problems. Prince George septic tank cleaning involves having the system pumped to remove any blockage problems from an accumulation of waste. This process will enhance the life of your septic tank as it will not have to work as hard once the blockage has been removed.
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text: 5 December 2012 Source With the month of December representing the end of a wild boar hunt in the forest of Vincennes, we return to the Limbourgs and the Duc de Berry. The dungeon and square towers rising above the trees are those of the home in which the Duke was born on the eve of December: November 30, 1340. The forests of Vincennes attracted many kings of France. Louis VII built a hunting lodge there; Philippe Auguste undertook the construction of a small château enlarged by Saint Louis, who, as we know, liked to dispense popular justice under one of its oaks. This is the wood we see represented here in the russet tones of a waning autumn. The boar has been run down and speared by the huntsman on the left, and hounds are tearing it apart. At the right a hunter blows the mort on his small horn. The dogs' desperate eagerness is rendered with astonishing realism: their positions, the gestures of their paws, their greedy expressions, all have been observed and noted with care. These are bloodhounds, boarhounds, hounds whose breeding an expert would recognize immediately.


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Bring your own laptop to work
Gartner predicts (with 0.6 probability--so maybe, maybe not) that by 2008 ten percent of companies will require employee-purchased laptops.
Larry Dignan and other IT industry experts, blogging at the intersection of business and technology, deliver daily news and analysis on vital enterprise trends.
Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic.
Rachel King is a staff writer for ZDNet based in San Francisco.
Zack Whittaker writes for ZDNet, CNET, and CBS News. He is based in New York City.
Gartner predicts (with 0.6 probability--so maybe, maybe not) that by 2008 ten percent of companies will require employee-purchased laptops.
During Wednesday's main attraction here at Gartner Symposium in Orlando, FL -- a keynote Q&A session with Microsoft's Steve Ballmer -- the CEO of the Redmond, WA-based company gave some details on how Microsoft plans to win the hearts and minds of buyers who are thinking about going with Linux instead of Windows. A copy of the entire 45 minute interview can be downloaded (it's 21 MB) by clicking here.
Who does the following scenario describe: An online Web site grabs a bunch of content created by others and puts ads on it in an effort to generate cash. Content owners are angry at being exploited.
No citizen or government agency should be compelled to buy any vendor's products in order to have access to public records.
In this latest episode of the Dan & David Show, David has an update on the Microsoft vs. the Commonwealth of Massachusetts debate over whether Office file formats are open enough to be included in the state's Enterprise Technical Reference Model (check out David's investigative report).
Following up on my questions earlier in the day, Steve Ballmer cleared some of the fog around how Microsoft plans to innovate in services and iterate at Web speed (compete with Google and others treading on his company's turf) during an interview at Gartner's Symposium ITxpo with analysts Tim Bittman and Dave Cearley [video clip here].
I ran into Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer briefly prior to his keynote at Gartner's Symposium ITxpo, wearing a bright red sweater, and walking by himself—no entourage, PR handlers or flock of CIOs and conference attendees surrounding him. I've known Ballmer since my early days in tech journalism, and he has always been approachable.
While the cognoscenti call it Web 2.0, Gartner calls the next phase of the modern Internet (beginning circa 1995) the "second revolution.
CNN's current top headline story (Living in a wireless world: Too much of a good thing?) explores the downside of being wirelessly tethered to our offices on a 24/7 basis.
HP CEO Mark Hurd talks fast, walks fast and he's a man in a hurry to fix HP, and the clock is ticking. During a Symposium ITxpo Q&A with Gartner analysts Carl Claunch and Leslie Fiering, Hurd gave his usual pitch, focusing on the fundamentals and execution pitch, doubling down on core enterprise areas—servers, storage and management software [watch a video clip].


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Memorial Day Mass & Reception - Santa Rosa
This Memorial Day visit the resting place of fallen veterans and decorate their burial place with the American flag. The Knights of Columbus will provide beautiful American Flags winding up the hill to create a stunning and very inspirational Patriot's Hill. Please join Calvary Catholic Cemetery for a Mass and reception as they honor their beloved deceased for Memorial Day.
Monday, 27 May, 2013
Location: Calvary Catholic Cemetery
2930 Bennett Valley Road
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
Santa Rosa, CA 95404


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In the past year, GCE has continued to grow its senior care and healthcare business aggressively and has begun developing a complete clinical nutrition team that is expected to be fully ready by summer 2014.
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Entries tagged with: Common
Ken Thomson (Asphalt Orchestra mem.) @ LPR (more by Andrew Frisicano)
tonight in NYC
* Kanye West @ Cipriani
* Carimi @ Brower Park
* The Fabulous Thunderbirds @ BB Kings
* Los Salseros del Hudson @ Wagner Park
* John Scofield Trio @ Madion Square Park
* Alberta Cross, Phonograph @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Asphalt Orchestra @ Lincoln Center's Broadway Plaza
* Cirque Du Rock: Gotham Underworld @ Highline Ballroom
* Tyshawn Sorey, Todd Neufield, Thomas Morgan @ The Stone
* The Pedrito Martinez Project @ Central Park Summerstage
* Yardwork, Beach Fossils, Sam Buck Rosen @ Death By Audio
* Chris Isaak, Michelle Branch, Dorian Spencer @ Beacon Theatre
* Portugal the Man, The Love Language, Hesta Prynn @ Mercury Lounge
* Lincoln Center OoD w/ Amir el Saffar Ensemble & Dave Brubeck Quartet @ Damrosch Park
* Music & Reading Series w/ Rachel Cohen, Brandon Stosuy, Colin Stetson, Buke & Gass @ Joe's Pub
Lots of free outdoor music tonight, so hopefully the weather holds out. One event so far, Fame at the McCarren Park SummerScreen, has been rescheduled for August 26th. (Wild at Heart, last week's cancellation, happens August 19th.) Carimi is at Brower Park. The Pedrito Martinez Project plays the Central Park Summerstage with a screening of I Am Cuba. Los Salseros del Hudson play Wagner Park. John Scofield Trio is at Madion Square Park.
Lincoln Center's Out of Doors Festival kicks off tonight with Amir el Saffar & Dave Brubeck and their respective bands at the Damrosch Park Bandshell. Catch Bang on a Can's Asphalt Orchestra, who will be playing at outdoor locations through Sunday, tonight at the Lincoln Center's Broadway Plaza.
All of the above events are free, as is Alberta Cross and Phonograph at the Brooklyn Bowl.
Tyshawn Sorey plays at The Stone with Todd Neufield and Thomas Morgan -- together they form the trio on Sorey's forthcoming album, Koan.
Happy Ending Music & Reading Series hosts Rachel Cohen, Brandon Stosuy, Colin Stetson, Buke & Gass and more at Joe's Pub.
Portugal. The Man plays a sold-out Mercury Lounge show with The Love Language and Hesta Prynn. They'll be back in October too.
See a pair of Deerhoof videos, including the new "Jagged Fruit," below. They come to NYC on September 15th.
Kid Cudi's "Make Her Say" featuring Kanye West & Common is below too. Tonight...
CASIO G-Shock will celebrate their advancements in wristwatch technology, outline the future evolution of the Casio family of timepieces and unveil an entirely new collection of limited edition collaborative pieces.Common has a show coming up at Terminal 5.
The star-studded evening kicks off with a press conference highlighting these milestones. Cipriani 55 Wall Street will be transformed into the ultimate showplace for both the brand and for Kanye West, who will cap the night off with an exclusive performance.
Cipriani * 55 Wall Street (Between Wall and William Street): Press conference at 6:30PM, expected celebrity arrival
Los Campesinos! played Webster Hall last night. Video from that below.
What else?
The Roots playing Hennessy shows w/ Common & guests (Terminal 5), played Diesel show @ Webster Hall (pics)
photos by Bao Nguyen
The Roots @ Webster Hall - 7/30/09
"Hennessy announces the fourth annual edition of the acclaimed Hennessy Artistry series, curated and headlined by hip-hop impresario Common, with The Roots also appearing as the house band.Four Hennessey dates have been announced, one of which will take place at Terminal 5 in NYC on October 7th. I'm not sure how you get tickets at the moment, but it will probably involve doing something at Hennessey's website.
Hosted exclusively by Hennessy, each show will feature a unique blend of performers and collaborators ranging from up-and-coming talent to cameos by iconic special guests.
Says Common: "Hennessy is the master of blending, and Artistry, is all about artistic blends of music genre, culture and style. The lineup is coming together nicely. The Roots and I are really collaborating to create a musical blend of talent that will do Artistry justice. We are planning some surprises as well, it should be quite an experience and I am thrilled to be a part of it.""
You can also catch The Roots as house band each weeknight on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon (which Arctic Monkeys play tonight - 8/4), and on a regular basis with special guests at the Highline Ballroom.
Last week (7/30) The Roots played a Diesel-sponsored show where they were joined on the Webster Hall stage by Lykke Li (who played All Points West on Sunday). All Hennessey dates, a Hennessey trailer, and the rest of the Roots pics from Webster Hall, below....
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Conor Oberst @ Coachella 2009 (more by Darren Kim)
tonight in NYC
* The Roots @ Highline Ballroom
* Riverboat Gamblers @ Knitting Factory
* Ratatat, Tussle, Black Pus @ Terminal 5
* The Dripping Tap, Renminbi @ Santos Party House
* Drink Up Buttercup, Phil and the Osophers @ Bruar Falls
* Hot Panda, Youth Group, Thought So, Monika H Band @ Pianos
* Virgin Forest, The Foundry Field Recordings, Inoculist @ Cake Shop
* FNU Ronnies, Drunkdriver, Pop. 1280, The Golden Error @ Silent Barn
* Starfucker, Guidance Counselor, New Numbers, Faces on Film @ Mercury Lounge
* Hal Willner, Sean Lennon, Yuka Honda, Steve Buscemi, Richard Hell, Chloe Webb @ Issue Project Room
It seems like a while since we heard from The Foundry Field Recordings. Catch them tonight at Cake Shop, Wednesday in Philly, Thursday at Union Hall, and Friday at Pianos. All dates at their MySpace.
Fiasco is playing Silent Barn tomorrow.
Starfucker also plays Union Hall tomorrow.
The Lollapalooza lineup was announced.
Conor Oberst is playing a show in NYC on July 4th.
Bon Iver and Common were reviewed by the Breakfast at Sulimays crew. Video below...
Bon Iver performed with a high school jazz band. Video below...
What else?
by Black Bubblegum
Nas @ Rock The Bells 2008 in Jones Beach (more by villageslum.com)
OK, so it's not as much a big bang as last year (A Tribe Called Quest reunion) or the one before (Rage Against The Machine reunion), but Rock The Bells 2009 does have some interesting artists on the lineup. Besides a welcome reunion (Reflection Eternal) (Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek), one suspect one (House of Pain) and some great repeat offenders (Nas, RZA, Raekwon, MOP, Sage Francis, Slum Village), this year's Rock The Bells also boasts an Outkast (Big Boi), a windy city fave (Common), and a true sicko (Necro). The full lineup is:
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Kanye West, Common, Erykah Badu, Kid Cudi, Consequence & friends @ Fader Fort (SXSW 2009) - pics, setlist
words & photos by Faith-Ann Young
True - it was the worst kept secret and the most corporate plumping event of all of SXSW (if Kayne would have worn grillz sporting the The Levi's® logo, it would have completed his Levi's® outfit) - but that doesn't mean Saturday night's show at the Fader Fort wasn't one of the best (3/21). Kayne West acted like a grand circus ringmaster - introducing his whole G.O.O.D. record label crew including Consequence, GLC, and his prized diamond rapper all-star Kid Cudi. Then, just when you got sick of Kayne's world, in came fellow Chi-towner Common sweating out "Universal Mind Control." And then, like Mary Poppins on uppers, Kayne smiled and pulled out yet another prized gem from backstage: the gorgeous divine Erykah Badu (who is a Texas native and was wearing full-sequined silver pants- the combination of which got a hot scream from the crowd). To close out, like a big, super-talented brat pack, the entire G.O.O.D. crew came back on stage and danced around to songs from West's 808s. Whether you love him or hate him, Kayne sure knows how to party (or promote).
More pictures and the entire setlist below...
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Melpo Mene @ Mercury Lounge (more by Faith Ann Young)
today in NYC
* Murphy's Law @ Trash
* NY Eye and Ear Festival
* Melpo Mene @ Cake Shop
* DJ Bob Mould @ Highline
* Ghostland Observatory @ Terminal 5
* Rhett Miller & Mia Riddle @ Maxwell's
* Hull, Ancient Sky & Apeshit @ Union Pool
* The Spinto Band & Oxford Collapse @ Maxwell's
* The Virgins & Lissy Trullie @ Bowery Ballroom
* The Butthole Surfers & Black Dice @ Warsaw
* Will Sheff & Charles Bissell @ Sound Fix Records
* Ramesh (of Voxtrot) @ The Studio at Webster Hall
* Nat Baldwin, Zs & Skeletons @ Less Artists More Condos
* Bon Iver & The Tallest Man On Earth @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Kieran Hebden (Four Tet) & Steve Reid @ (le) poisson rouge
* Takka Takka, Loney Dear, Melpo Mene & Alina Simone @ The Bell House
* Team Robespierre, LiveFastDie, Terrible Twos & Tournament @ Cake Shop
* Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers, Atarah Valentine & Lingering Doubt @ Santos
* The Mae Shi, Screaming Females, Hearts of Darknesses @ Silent Barn
* Antipop Consortium, The Bomb Squad, Dragons of Zynth, Chin Chin @ Knit
Ike Turner died today in 2007.
Common performed "Universal Mind Control" on Kimmel last night. Video below...
What else?
Common @ ACL 2007
N.E.R.D. and Common are going on tour together. Together they play Roseland Ballroom in NYC on Oct 4th. Tickets are on sale.
I saw N.E.R.D. when they played SXSW in Austin this year. They definitely put on a good show. N.E.R.D. is also playing Austin again in September - at the ACL festtival. Common played ACL last year. I took some pictures at this one, but never posted them. Common is also good live. All tour dates and some more of those ACL2007 pictures below....
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by Black Bubblegum
DOWNLOAD: Brother Ali - Truth Is (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Brother Ali - Original King (MP3)
"People think I'm in the independent category by choice."
Brother Ali is a minority, but not in the ways you might expect. First, he's a white rapper in a genre filled with mostly black artists. Second, Brother Ali is an albino.Brother Ali came up in the same midwest hip hop scene that birthed fellow indie b-boy and Rhymesayers co-owner Slug, making a name for himself through his self-produced and self-released debut Rites Of Passage. On the strength of Rites, Ali signed to Rhymesayers and dropped Shadows On The Sun, followed by the Champion EP and ultimately The Undisputed Truth in 2007. He's not strictly a "booth" rhymer either. He battled and triumphed over freestyle champ and Rhymesayers MC Eyedea at Scribble 2000, and he has logged more than 500 shows on four continents.
Ali, who was born Jason Newman, converted to Islam when he was 15. He says that he felt like an outsider among white people, and has never identified with the word "white."
"I was taken in, early on, by black folks," he says. "Those are the people who taught me the things that I needed to know to survive being who and what I am." [NPR]
Brother Ali will be back in NYC to play a free show at South Street Seaport on Friday, August 1st (8 pm) with notorious DJ Crew The Rub (7 pm). We cornered Ali for a moment before that show as he dropped two pennies on working with Rhymesayers go-to guy Ant, the follow-up to The Undisputed Truth, and why he thinks 50 Cent is ill.
BrooklynVegan: Ant has produced each of your last few records. Is there something about Ant's production that you feel complements your own style/flow? Are there any plans on working with any other producers and if so, who?
Brother Ali: Ant and I have been working together for several years and he's one of my closest friends. Not only do I love his beats but we share a similar outlook on music and life. He's a true producer in the sense that he sees elements of the people he works with as human beings and creates musical beds that allow those things to come out in the work. He has an ability to read people and help them present themselves in a really raw and personal way. There are other producers that I like and respect but I just can't believe that I could have the same creative chemistry with someone I don't really know.
interview continued below...
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* Todd Barry on Conan
* last Invite Them Up EVER
* Henry Rollins is speaking at Warsaw
* Big Head Todd & The Monsters is playing Bowery Ballroom
* Liam Finn is playing w/ Pela & Apollo Sunshine @ Music Hall
* The Acorn is playing w/ Bowerbirds & Phosphorescent @ Union Hall
* Marc Ribot, Sean Lennon & Yuka Honda are playing Knitting Factory
Q-Tip, KRS-One, Common and Furious Five played that private Smirnoff event which was in NYC last night. That's where the three photos above are from (courtesy of Ryan Muir/Metromix).
Human Giant (who recently cancelled some shows) released a new video from their upcoming season 2 on MTV. That's below. What else?
...or so says the press release....
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DOWNLOAD: Bright Eyes - Coat Check Dream Song (Live) (MP3)
The last release date in November means slim pickings for music fans. This is not truly a bad thing, because as the number of worthwhile music releases dwindles, music bloggers and journalists have time to work on and post their "best of 2007" lists.
Through the Wilderness: A Tribute to Madonna features tracks by Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Lavender Diamond, and Giant Drag, and is the lone disc I will be searching out tomorrow.
The other disc I can recommend is also a compilation, Causes I. The disc's proceeds benefit relief efforts in Darfur, and artists who submitted exclusive tracks include Bright Eyes, Spoon, Animal Collective and many more.
Are you picking up any new releases this week? Have I left any noteworthy albums off the list below?
Continue reading "Largehearted Boy's Interesting CD Releases This Week"
I already posted some of these dates, but that was when they were just Common shows. A Tribe Called Quest's Q-Tip has a new album coming out in early 2008 - it's called The Renaissance. He's also a character in the video game NBA 2K8, and is on the soundtrack. All tour dates below...
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While Book Eaters was going down up on the Upper West Side, Black August was getting down over in Times Square....
Mos Def, Common & Talib Kweli @ Nokia Theatre, NYC - Aug 26, 2007 (CRED)
Hey NYU, you have a lot of catching up to do. The five colleges who most demand Talib to play a show at their school, win that show (I hope after that the show is free at least - doesn't say, so I assume not). California is currently kicking butt.
Common's new album Finding Forever is out this week. Tom Breihan doesn't even hate the cover. A video Common on Kimmel, plus some tour dates, below....
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DOWNLOAD Phat Kat (Production J Dilla) - 'Nasty Ain't It?' (MP3)
DOWNLOAD Copperpot ft KRS One - Come Back Home (MP3)
Quirky producer Copperpot will release his new WYLA? album on August 7th. Check out the first single above, and stream Common - "The People" (prod. by Kanye West). Not sure about the cover he picked for the new album though.
Common @ Central Park Summerstage, NYC - June 8, 2007 (CRED)
- 50 Cent's album is delayed and may never come out.
- Speaking of delayed albums, Saigon speaks his mind on Atlantic Records, album delays and his mentor Just Blaze.
- Speaking of mentors, Lupe Fiasco's mentor and business partner was sentenced to 44 years in jail for some drug offenses.
- Speaking of drug offenses, read this unearthed and hilarious NORE interview.
- Speaking of interviews go read this one with Zilla Rocca of Clean Guns
- Check out AC's review of the EL-P Filmore show.
- Check out the tracklist for T.I.'s upcoming album.
- Hip Hop pioneer Marley Marl suffered a heart attack June 5, but is ok.
- A review of the June 5th Method Man & Gza show at Webster Hall HERE.
Continue reading "Wes' sorta-Weekly Hip Hop News Roundup (June 15, 2007)"