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- Cathy Kelley looks at the recent Twitter beef between Nikki Bella and Mr. Money In the Bank Baron Corbin in this new video. As noted, Nikki indicated on Twitter that she will be ringside for the WWE SummerSlam pay-per-view in Brooklyn to watch Corbin face her fiance John Cena. Cathy also looks at some social media shots with Corbin, Mojo Rawley and Finn Balor.
Here is part of the review from Detroit News, which takes a shot at Rollins' big screen debut:
One of the pleasures of "The Expendables 3" � and there really weren't that many � was seeing Wesley Snipes back in action on the big screen.
Snipes, who recently spent several years behind bars due to some pesky tax paying malfunctions, still looks great on screen and moves with an action hero's agility. He could perhaps be a star again, "The Expendables" seemed to say, if only someone would give him the right vehicle.
"Armed Response" is not that vehicle. This is low-budget, action-horror trash that belongs in the gutter. It was made by WWE Studios, which routinely pumps out shlock films so their talent roster can dabble in film work between ring bouts. (This one co-stars former heavyweight champ Seth Rollins, who is much stiffer on camera than he is in the squared circle.)
- We previously posted a video on WWE NXT Superstar Sarah Logan to hype her role in The Mae Young Classic. "Road Dogg" Brian James re-tweeted the video this week and said he wants her to be called up to the SmackDown brand, which he works on. You can see his tweet and the video below:
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76679042187065746692018-08-18T08:32:40.725-07:00rdb notesintermittent, inconsequentialRogerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7667904218706574669.post-62956511378980474142018-07-12T09:51:00.000-07:002018-07-12T09:51:16.181-07:00The Worst Things About AberystwythI've made an alphabetical list of the worst things about Aberystwyth.

 Arriva Trains Wales rail-replacement buses
 Beach litter
 Closure of the Post Office
 Cycling Cefn Llan (up or down)
 Jellyfish
 Mobile phone coverage
 Municipal treatment of the Carnegie library building
 No artificial snow ski slope
 North Parade traffic system
 Parking enforcement by Parking Eye
 Seagulls
 Some weather
 Tesco
 The Cambrian News is not daily
 UKIP
 It's good that 100 words suffice. In fact, I have 2 words unused.
Bum bum.Rogerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7667904218706574669.post-7323606111269016162018-07-05T13:55:00.000-07:002018-07-05T14:51:21.649-07:00Not the Lambeth WalkAn impromptu stroll through Camden after a visit to the (highly recommended) Crick Institute. A Camden stroll is not a Lambeth walk.
It's a strange land: you pass through Somers Town where the population are fighting a rearguard action against a tribe of bastards. At least they have a [suitably fortified] laundrette

Tripmisleader will tell you that Camden High Road is humming. Which it is, but I can think of lots of annoying things that hum. What passes for useful in 2018 certainly doesn't include tasty looking pubs like the Hope and Anchor

(although do pay heed to the figure surmounting the frontage), or the Princess Beatrice

which has lost its name to one of those silly quasi-enigmatic titles that are supposed to make it attractive.
Coming clean, I have to confess that I knew there was a Burton to be found here:

Whether Santander get the credit for wrecking the street level decoration, or whether they inherited it from some earlier generation of vandals, I do not know. But Monty's original and beautiful octagonal panelled doors survive (bottom left), so good. Rogerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7667904218706574669.post-27296838747983056222018-05-09T04:43:00.000-07:002018-05-09T04:43:23.333-07:00Ddoe roedden ni Cadair IdrisWell, last Monday actually, not yesterday.
A notable trip because

 We've lived down the road from Cadiar for more than 7 years and driven past it umpteen times, saying "One day ... ".
 It's astounding and everyone says so. To my inadequate mind much more spectacular and fun than Yr Wyddfa [Snowdon], not least because it doesn't have a tacky tearoom on top [it's at the bottom, and very welcome too].
 Sundry undiagnosed neuropathic nuisances meant I had not walked any distance for about a year so there was some fear in pursuing this idea at all.

We took the Minffordd path which is billed as the "least hard". A fabulously steep ascent through woodland until after maybe 1.5 hours you reach Llyn Cau:

and from here you can see the peak, and realise how far there is to go. Some of the subsequent ascent was also fabulously steep.
Unsurprisingly, from the peak the Llyn is visible. There is something satisfying about seeing from where you have come.

The ascent was slow but achievable. The descent was exceptionally punishing, but that is all to do with knees in their 64th year. Hey ho.
To own up, we didn't make Pengadair, the actual peak. That would have been another two hours of intense up/down gradient, but what we did was just fine. And - two days later - the evidence is that my legs and feet do still work.Rogerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7667904218706574669.post-13432985928460048022018-02-23T08:37:00.000-08:002018-02-23T08:40:36.492-08:00Terminalia 2018Collected pictures may be seen.
A partyof 25 or so gathered to celebrate Terminalia in Aberystywth. This attendance was more than 6 times greater than last year's hardy numbers. As the Frau remarked - "Bugger me Rog, carry on like this and you'll need to do a risk assessment next year".

We trod the path of the walls, and noted several places where arguably stones from the original might be seen. Some highlights:

King Garage is sadly now out of business.
A psychogeographic moment: As we crossed Pier Street, I pointed out a little-known alleyway up which some ancient fisherman's cottages still stand, very much on the line of the wall. "I live in one of those", vouchsafed one of our number.
A plaque commemorates the position of the main gate. A member of the party was heard to call "Does anyone remember the old Police Station?"
Our route followed Chalybeate Street (etymology explained in the fuller account of the walls), on which Geraint Furnishings sells magic carpets. We didn't have time to stop, but I'll be back.
A street name that captures it all: Dan Dre is "under the town" in Welsh, meaning just outside the wall. Mill Street refers to a later mill that re-used the wall ditch as a leat. The most recent mill building still stands.
A second psychogeographic moment: the hated and unwelcome Tesco have desecrated the townscape to build an entrance worthy of a prison.
. Fuller, and probably duller, details of the wall can be read.Rogerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7667904218706574669.post-83518905977546097172018-01-08T07:00:00.001-08:002018-01-08T09:24:52.152-08:00In Percy Pilcher's wingstepsSome time ago, in Leeds, I went to a jolly interesting talk by a sociologist. I'm ashamed to say I have forgotten his name, title, and all other useful details. His broad topic was Louis le Prince (one of my heroes) and his claim to be the first to succeed with moving pictures. The speaker did a good job of telling the story (and detailed that bastard Edison's malign, interfering influence).
He then moved on to some very interesting meta-issues: so, the word "first" can often be a tough one to define: First to make a film? First to screen it? First to screen it publicly? First to make apparatus that could be re-used and generalised? First with a process? And so it is little wonder that there are several, often equally valid, claims to being "first". But he also noted that step changes in engineering and science often emerge because the time was ripe: moving pictures, television, control of fission - there is a long list that had numerous parties pursuing the goal contemporaneously, so it's no surprise if more than one crosses the finishing line pretty much at the same time. Sometimes these teams are competing, sometimes they are ignorant of each other.
So no surprises that powered flight also had a number of keen folk after the prize. There's not much argument that the Wright Brothers were indeed first with their short flight in December 1903, although the fact that it was so short made some question its use. But there were indeed a number of competing claims - the time for powered flight had come.
And presumably no surprises that there were a lot of others of whom we probably haven't heard who tried and missed the cut completely, which brings me to my point. On a Sylvester excursion with the In-laws, we are guided to the Percy Pilcher memorial:

Percy Sinclair
Pilcher
1867-1899

 The British aviation pioneer who
conducted extensive trials with full
sized hang gliders of his own design
and construction from 1896-99
He made successful towed flights
in his hawk glider from this site
during 1896-97.
Percy was just one of those who was having a go, but didn't come close enough to be remembered in many history books. His story is fully told elsewhereso I won't retell it here. There's a rather good BBC documentaryon him that you can view.
There's a psychogeographic twist to it: the memorial had been in the middle of a golf course (like most things in Kent) which closed recently so that certain reptiles could make more money. This necessitated the moving of the memorial (which is still, however, on the hill from which Pilcher flew) - hence the very new looking railings and barbed wire. This means that in going to view the memorial, you can see what a golf course looks like when it is neglected for 12, 24, 36 months. How thin the veneer of civilisation.

 BBC productionRogerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7667904218706574669.post-18698352058103315532017-10-29T06:04:00.000-07:002017-10-29T07:52:12.891-07:00An October anabasisThere is a campaign to record all the SY23 postboxes since the LBSG records can sometimes be unreliable. An October opportunity gave a bike-borne chance to pinpoint some of the remoter instances up toward Cwmsymlog, but the highlight was without doubt the Victorian lamp box at Banc Y Darren.

But, as ever, it's what you find on the way.

At the outset, the mesospheric radar station at Capel Dewi. Photos abound.
Our country was once thronged with public phone boxes, but these have all now been moved 20 yards sidewaysinto somebody's garden.
It can be difficult to know quite what to think about abandoned cottages. I think there is an old sundial high on the south wall of this one - it doesn't work any more, even when the sun shines.
Strangely, a man was hanging in effigy nearby.
The whole area was a mining hellhole, of course. Many miners' cottages survive as twee country residences.
 So do the chapels. I liked this egregious extension on this one, where the gateway survives.
To Penbontrhydybeddau, where there was a super Welsh signpost ...
 ... and a splendid shelter in the playground [sic].
 And thence to Cwmsymlog, intended destination and one of the country's premier silver sources in its day. It proved impossible to find the purported postbox, but there was ample compensation in the industrial remains and the disused chapel. Other highlights were a remote beehive and a tankerwhose driver was lost. I mean really lost.
Homeward through Penrhyn: how pretty is their Neuadd?
Via Gogerddan, where the university are protecting their newts, and making sure that nobody occupies four eminently usable houses.
 In all, 7 boxes sighted. Rogerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7667904218706574669.post-81605942466379621742017-09-21T04:05:00.001-07:002017-09-21T04:05:36.496-07:00OswestryAn ad hoc trip to Oswestry (Croesowallt), which spun some interesting surprises.

There is no rail station in Oswestry, but there were once two, separated by 50 yards. It was a big rail town, now teeming with relics.
Apparently people have been doing this to coffee for years, but I had never seen it before.
The Michelin Man lives on in Oswestry.
What's in the container?
Wow! A custom built post box used for torching love letters.
Little Chef's become scarce, but there is a fine example in Oswestry, keeping up the best of their traditions.
Rogerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7667904218706574669.post-80708992288364158332017-07-18T02:04:00.000-07:002017-07-18T02:06:12.505-07:00The Hartpury bee shelterA deviant route from Aberystwyth (Welsh: mouth of the wiggly river) to Wokingham ('Wocca's people's home') can take you past the Hartpury Bee Shelter. It's down a road beside Hartpury church, some way from the village.

Not perhaps a 21st century approach to bee husbandry, but how fascinating - a rack of skeps with beekeepers "looking out" for swarms to capture and re-skep.

I met two beekeepers there on the same mission - they told me something about foundation that perhaps is best not published.
The church is an ancient gem. In the graveyard is buried, lavishly tended, a victim of the 1999 Ladbroke Grove train crash, which was really a very sad thing to behold. Rogerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7667904218706574669.post-61441638901516442992017-06-13T01:36:00.000-07:002017-06-13T01:36:36.691-07:00Discreet history in CataloniaDuring an extended stay in Catalonia in and around several sites heavily involved in the Civil War, we found memorials few and understated (although, to my eye, Catalonian sympathies were pretty clear). In the scale of things, that ghastly business is all still fairly recent so it is not hard to understand sensitivities.
There is a relatively recent programme of establishing memorials. The Girona cemeteryhas an imposing long metal memorial naming an unhappy number of local-born Republicans who are somewhere in unmarked graves, most being post-war executions - it's less than 10 years old. There's stuff about this to be read.
We went on an outing to the old France/Spain frontier between Portbou and Cerbère, which commands stunning views and offers various ghostly ex-border buildings. Low-key signage pointed us to some display materials on the refugee plight in 1939, a surviving Francoist memorial (these are very rare - it was pleasantly defaced with red paint), and a 2016 Catalan plaque commemorating the International Brigades.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.
John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, 1624
(I sang a bit of The Red Flag, but it seemed a little inadequate).Rogerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7667904218706574669.post-35219018426450738102017-05-01T23:55:00.000-07:002017-05-01T23:57:15.117-07:00The Celtic ChallengeI think the Celtic Challengemust be one of the most undersung endurance tests I have witnessed. Open boats (Celtic longboats) are rowed by crews of 4 and cox from Arklow to Aberystwyth; journey time is between 18 and 30 hours, with teams of 12 spelling the boat duties. The sea is cold and quickly becomes rough. Additionally, it is dark at night.

Vartry coming through the harbour trap, to Irish delight

The race is run every 2 years: weather cancelled the 2016 event which was postponed until this year. About 15 crews left Arklow on Coastguard advice at noon, Friday 28th. Tracking software predicted the winner arriving at Aber harbour at 6am on Saturday, and I actually thought about getting up to see this happen. But then I thought "stuff it", which was good as overnight the weather had been unkind and the prediction had become 10am.

Aber coming through the harbour trap

First over the line was the Irish Vartry crew, with Aber men coming in just 30 minutes later, both boats receiving enormous applause. The very unkind conditions caused all but one of the other crews to retire: third in was a women's boat.

Brave boys and girls embark on a mid-ocean rescue trip

It is, of course, event of the year (well, every other year) for the longboat clubs and so very well known in some communities. But Aberystwyth town makes little of it: no sign of the BBC, S4C, Cambrian News, or even the ubiquitous Keith Morris. Well, I'm doing my bit.
Other picturesexist.Rogerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7667904218706574669.post-80019747304122111152017-04-12T04:56:00.000-07:002017-04-12T04:56:05.496-07:00PAU Canolfan Chwaraeon/Sports CentreThree helpful people staff the reception desk.
Me: Do the lockers take the new pound coin?
Person 1: Yes.
Person 2: I don't know.
Person 3: The man from the company came and did something to all the locks a few weeks ago. So they might.Rogerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7667904218706574669.post-16473909195546556902017-01-26T09:14:00.000-08:002017-01-26T09:14:09.401-08:00Great Expectations of Newcastle EmlynIt was one of those days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
Newcastle Emlyn - Castellnewydd Emlyn yn Gymraeg - means "new castle"; "Emlyn" was one of the seven cantrefi of Dyfed. It has a castle alright, but to my untutored eye it doesn't look so new.

The GWR once ran a rail spur into Newcastle Emlyn, closed to passengers in the 50s and freight in the 70s. There is effectively no trace of it in the town, unless you look really hard.
There are many food outlets to be found; I used the Number 11 coffee shop in the morning (a splendid 1950s experience, and you can get free Wifi from the Barclays branch opposite). For luncheon, whereat pie and chips, Tŷ Croeso1.
It's easy to see what Newcastle was once like, although I think most of that is [nearly] history. Of especial note was the charity shop devoted to whippet rescue (bugger labradors and dalmatians, eh?).

Very nearby is Henllan, where there was a WWii Italian POW camp. Many lovely traces of this can be found, although I suspect the buildings were probably admin. (inhabited by British persons) rather than cell blocks (inhabited by Italian persons) for the simple reason that they are still standing.

I still seek an opportunity to enter the block that was painted up as a chapel by one of the Italians.
 Likewise nearby is Caws Cenarth where you can spectate on the making of award winning cheese. A jolly good outing!

Other pictures exist.
No post boxes of note were seen.
 1. Later, The Harbourmaster in Aberaeron for apple crumble.↩Rogerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7667904218706574669.post-53634047881280080022016-11-20T09:24:00.000-08:002016-11-20T09:30:30.406-08:00John Roberts, Telynor Cymru: parti pen blywydd 200 oedJohn Roberts, Telynor Cymruwas born 200 years ago and there was a celebration at Gregynog.

The fun kicked off in St David's (now de-consecrated) cemetery where he is buried. Robin Huw Bowen and Meinir Olwen (who came especially from France) appeared with two triple harps: affairs were supervised by an agreeable Rector

and there were many of Roberts' descendants in attendance, of whom Peter Ingram gave an address. The Rector spoke mostly in Welsh, and Ingram mostly in Romany, so I nodded knowledgeably throughout and felt very cosmopolitan.
There were umpteen events at Gregynog: I went to Ingram's hour of stand-up gypsy comedy that was very jolly, culminating in a performance by a real Patagonianguitarist/singer, who looked Spanish and sang in Welsh. Or it might have been Spalsh. Or Wanish.
Highlight was the evening concert with five [count them] triple harps, abetted by flute, fiddle and double bass. Bowen told us lots about the instrument (Telyn deires yn cymreig), its history and Roberts' connections and importance. He noted its beautiful curves and observed that the pedal ["English"] harp looked like a broken down old nag in comparison. They also fetched out Roberts' own harp from Llandrindod museum, which I have now heard played!

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Next day the rain abated and I walked down to Caersws for the train: en route, this rather forgotten memorial to dead young men appeared:

Further photos exist.Rogerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7667904218706574669.post-44779041088825026682016-10-30T07:34:00.002-07:002016-10-30T09:03:33.120-07:00Anna Meredith (Get It Loud In Libraries), via Bevington StreetTo Liverpool, to see Anna Meredith, with Spike. I struggle and fail to think of a weirder gig I have been to.
Ms Meredith appeared punctually with her band. These were Man 1 (tuba and classroom glockenspiel), Man 2 [hatted] (percussion), Man 3 (guitar, wow!) and Lady 2 (cello, wow! bis). Ms Meredith played keyboard [sic], clarinet, classroom glockenspiel and snare drums. There were also 2 Apple computers that seemed to be important to the overall effect. Ms Meredith often played her snares very loudly, often choosing moments when the Hatted Man was also choosing to play loud - we liked this. There is a poorly captured videoof one of these instants. Passim there was animated back projection illustrating the themes of Varmints. My photographic record of this failed utterly, so just take my word that it was marvellous.
The attendance was about 45, including guest list, which either tells you that they're a bunch of philistines on Merseyside, or that I am, for once, well ahead of the curve. Being shy, retiring types we hugged the back wall until, having played Nautilus, Ms Meredith instructed us all to come to the stage. We obeyed (but most of us were less responsive to her instructions to dance). Ergo, Spike and I stood about 1m from her, and had we blown kisses at either the drummer or cellist, they would have noticed immediately (we didn't). I took lots of photos; mercifully, most of them were crap but here is a not unflattering one of Ms Meredith:

When the tuba player came onstage, he was carrying what looked like a binbag which he proceed to put on - it then turned out to be a very hip garment. During the cellist's solo he sat upstage right and I captured this picture which makes that clear (I think).

This picture also illustrates the shadow effects at stage back, exploited fully by the happy fat dancer we met, and by me rather less successfully in another short video (best seen sans audio).
These people were consummate musicians who played with a production quality very rarely heard live (although KC manage it). Both guitarist and cellist had at least 13 fingers (each) since there is no other way they could play with that complexity that fast. The drummer's skill with very quiet bits matched his skills with loud bits, the use of a tuba instead of a bass was inspired, and Ms Meredith's compositional skills with those complex interlocking rhythms leaves me unable meaningfully to compare her to anyone else.
The gig was part of Get It Loud In Libraries which is an absolutely inspired concept. So if the gig wasn't striking enough already, we were in a library.
I'd travel a long way on Trennau Arriva Cymru to see her again
Earlier, we had travelled to view the near derelict Bevington Streetcouncil housing, of which more anon.Rogerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7667904218706574669.post-38669601932205460022016-09-05T14:12:00.000-07:002016-09-05T14:15:47.766-07:00Bengal, Burtons, Lizards and Heroes: another King Crimson reviewKevin was very disparaging about Hemel Hempstead, but he had overlooked two things:

It is en route from Aylesbury (see below) to Luton Airport. Aylesbury comes from the Old English Æglesburgh, while Domesday has Luton as Loitone, although the name is Saxon, sure as Eier are oeufs.
It sports a very little-known Burton with beautiful window lights.

The building is seriously negelected, but the side door and entrance tiling are wholly original!

Hemel [sic] as a name is probably Anglo-Saxon in origin, but Domesday has it as Hemel-Amstede.
Spike and I attended Aylesbury as Mr Fripp had chosen to repeat last year's successwith two more gigs - the only ones in the UK for 2016. For a review of the gig, you can usefully just read last year's, but of special note this year:

As part of my ongoing peace-keeping mission, we visited the Golden Bengal Indian Restaurant, which is the most sexist food outlet in Aylesbury, and probably the world. The first floor topography is a dream.
The outstanding Waterside Theatre had put tickets on sale to locals 4 hours before Internet availability: thus Lorna (reportedly the only woman in the queue) got us tickets one row from the stage. Yes, he still uses the same 3 drummers, positioned stage-front.
The set-list had evolved, and we got many acres of Lizard: I never expected to hear Night: her sable dome scattered with diamonds, ...  sung live again.
I should have seen this coming, but Mr Jacszyk sang Heroes as part of the encore, a tune which Mr Fripp of course knows quite well. I believe I saw his somewhat wizened face crack into a small smile during this, but I could be wrong. The reworked C21 S.M. concluded an exciting evening.
Still no Cat Food or Ladies of the Road (maybe next year?), but I did find a surprise Burton!

From Luton to Duibhlind, Ériu, to conduct one of my periodic labours for the Irish Research Council. There are several Burton buildings in Dublin, and known examples in Waterford and Cork. Dublin also has an interesting factory built for Burton but never used, now sporting the Mercedes Benz crest. It's right next to the tramway!

Further pictorial evidenceis available.Rogerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7667904218706574669.post-76097376884452225972016-07-29T05:02:00.000-07:002016-07-29T05:02:01.763-07:00Conveyancing in the UKI'm gonna buy a field and erect a wire fence and public seating around it.
I'm gonna buy some lions.
When the lions are really really hungry, I'm gonna feed them solicitors and estate agents.

Book early to avoid disappointment.

Rogerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7667904218706574669.post-39538086429818875372016-06-26T01:01:00.000-07:002016-06-26T06:36:04.420-07:00Coal holes, KX, Kent, Brexit and Welsh deprivation As you will know, Aberystwyth is surprisingly well provided in unusual and interesting architecture and street furniture. Notably, the number of surviving coal-hole lids is high: as soon as I am released from the wage-labour that is the National Plant Phenomics Centre I shall be conducting a survey of them.
A recent reunion trip with Patrick and John took me to Llundain, a rather run-down capital city of one of Europe's [slowly] developing nations, and it was a surprise to discover that there too, there were street views of interest. A number of coal lids can be found between Tavistock Square and Kings Cross:

Kings Cross was interesting - just imagine something with the functionality of Aberystwyth railway station, but without any of the creature comforts or facilities that the Welsh terminus has to offer. We were amused to note that the resited Platform 9.75 was so popular that it had an official queue and was staffed by a specially trained human being.

Yn ddiweddarach, ymwelais i â'r wyrion, who were in fine fettle. Visiting the site of the 2017 nuptials, we saw LBSG 1016815 (a lovely 2087/2), and a very fine wartime relic (arguably more attractive than the chosen tithe barn, but perhaps not everyone would agree on this).

In other news, more than half of those who could be arsed to vote turned out to be dumbfoundingly stupid; unbelievably this was also true in yr hen wlad fy nhadau. (Roedd Ceredigion gan amlaf yn synhwyrol). Merthyr and other Valley areas were already adrift of most deprivation leagues, but you ain't seen nothing yet!Rogerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7667904218706574669.post-64393435767113933422016-06-15T00:26:00.000-07:002016-06-15T15:02:26.394-07:00Tempers snap in CeredigionNever known for their peace-making tendencies, Euro-friendly inhabitants of Ceredigion snapped into vigilante action yesterday.
Outraged beyond measure by a morning wireless interview with Trevor Kavanagh, Editor [sic] of the Sun newspaper [sic] on the topic of the upcoming under-publicised Euro-referendum, they took the only action open to them to redress the balance of political debate by defacing the Aberystwyth flagpoles - a brave move given the well known attitude of British justice to defacing of public materials.
Large numbers of outraged residents, masked and disguised, braved the June weather, flanked by protective troupes of Russian football hooligans on bicycles. Armed with labels and sellotape, they made a clean sweep of the poles, interfering with English labels to align them with the Sun's view of future political geography. Politically moderate dog-walkers attempting to reason with them were mercilessly beaten by the Russians; their broken bodies were thrown onto the beach to be pecked to death by seagulls awaiting the morning opening of Y Blwch Sglodion.

As the sun rose [sic] over the turbulent town, the evidence of night-time criminality was all too evident. Morning bar-kickers clustered around the poles aghast at the lengths the activists had gone to. At Coffee #1 on Portland Street, HQ of the Ceredigion Brexit [sic] campaign, the endless queue patiently waiting for insipid scalding coffee was alive with debate on the best mode of retaliation. Oliver Cromwell's well known slighting of Aberystwyth castle will seem as nothing compared to the ruins Aberystwyth will become as a result of these daring acts as tempers rise.
Rogerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7667904218706574669.post-85976433456363716972016-03-10T23:50:00.000-08:002016-03-10T23:50:43.421-08:00Camulodunum: land of Burton, Butterfly and Schrödinger's dogCamulodunum, or "Colchester" as it is known to the Anglo-Saxons, offers much in its vicinity. For example:

A little-known Burton.
A visit to Boyle Père.
Notification of a new publication.
A visit to Leisureworld. I thought they were a lazy lot in Camulodunum while I was holding my own in the pool fast lane, until a 10yo Knell ringer appeared and left me for standing at all strokes. Then her slightly older brother appeared and started butterfly training. I went to the pub.
Clacton Pier which is longer than Aberystwyth Pier, but naffer (no, really).
Colchester Arts Centre, whereat you sometimes see Andy Zaltzman the interactive stand-up comedian with hair like this. He coined a nice joke about Schrödinger's dog in response to my question.
Rogerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7667904218706574669.post-35217182999466367002016-01-11T08:30:00.000-08:002016-01-11T08:30:45.769-08:00Time - He's waiting in the wingsThe BBC write: The Vatican's chief spokesman on cultural matters, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, tweeted lyrics to Space Oddity in tribute to Bowie while Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said he was "very very saddened to hear of his death".
Well how on Earth will they react when I go?Rogerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7667904218706574669.post-71625832489826220522016-01-08T14:19:00.001-08:002016-01-08T14:19:21.743-08:00Exeter City FC versus Liverpool FC - match reportThe highlight of this game - overlooking the score - was the close-up of the ball.
Tisdale had bought a permanent marker and inscribed ECFC on it in case Benteke thought about nicking it.Rogerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7667904218706574669.post-14765627129211418272015-12-01T12:42:00.000-08:002016-12-27T02:47:34.636-08:00Llawr Sglefrio Caersŵs [Caersws Ice Rink]
Gwerddon yn yr anialwch iâ Cymreig (An oasis in the Welsh ice desert)

Leaflets have been everywhere in Aberystwyth advertising the new Caersws Ice Rink. We decided to go one night with our Dutch cleaner Grietje1as they had a promotion offering half-price entry and a free advocaat for Dutch people. All the way there on the train we practised our Dutch, so that when we got to the entrance Grietje could do the talking, and all we had to do was stand behind her nodding, and saying things like Verkoopt u postzegels?, Hottentottententententoonstellingsterrein and Deze mevrouw betaalt alles to each other. This worked depressingly easily, and we all got discount entry and enjoyed our advocaats (although this last bit was challenging).

The rink is a good bit of entrepreneurial innovation by Powys County Council. Recognising the rapidly declining benefits of solar investment, and the precarious state of the County's schools, a large solar farm and medium-sized primary school (Ysgol Walter Watkins) were flattened to make way for the new development, thereby killing two birds with one stone (or lladd dwy frân â'r un ergyd as it is said in Welsh). Early ambitious plans to employ Daniel Libeskind as architect dissolved in acrimonious and rather vulgar arguments about how much you pay for the design of a frozen puddle; the resulting structure, while not perhaps a likely award winner, blends well into the countryside backdrop. The rink is one of the geographically best placed in Wales (see below), with comparatively good public transport in the form of buses and trains, while the Llangollen canal is only 30 miles distant, and Birmingham Airport can be reached in less than three hours.
Unusually, the designers did not use the normal "flat" ice approach, opting instead for a scale model of the nearby Pumlumon range in the Cambrian mountains, presenting the skater with ravines and crevasses aplenty.

Possibly intimidating for beginners, this certainly adds to the fun! An interesting economy measure is to have "one size fits all" skates for hire which can take a little time to get used to. Grietje has twice won the under-12 section of the 200Km Elfstedentocht,

 the second time in a Scooby-Doo costume, and so it was no surprise that she brought her own skates. She also brought her Scooby outfit and it took some persuasion on our part to stop her putting it on. She eventually succumbed to reason, and the promise of being allowed to wear it on the journey home to mingle unobserved with the "last train" drinkers returning from Machynlleth to Aber.
Not much expense has been spared within. In addition to the novel ice design, there is a creche, bar and cafe. Unfortunately these were closed for refurbishment during our visit, so a review is not possible. (Grietje was actually rather miffed by this as we had promised her stroopwafel:

 We tried to placate her with a one-day old marmite sandwich, but she just stamped her foot and shouted "Dat lijkt niet op voedsel" - all very embarrassing). There is a notice at the rink explaining that customer toilets will be installed in a few months time, but meanwhile there are facilities in the nearby Buck Hotel, although the landlord takes a dim view of skaters using them unless you also buy a drink or two. During our visit, most gentlemen just popped round the side of the building, which seems quite convenient.
So there it is for all your skaters, whether experienced, learners or just would-be's: the brand new Caersws ice rink is easy to reach, novel in many ways, and well appointed. Arrivarun trains (in both directions) at least every two hours and there are several buses. This is an attraction to rival Aberystwyth's new bandstand.
Dutch nights are the first Tuesday of every month - Veel geluk/Pob lwc!
 1. Some of the names in this article have been changed.
There are two other ice rinks in Wales:

 Ice Arena Wales, Cardiff
 Deeside Leisure Centre, Chester
Rogerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7667904218706574669.post-36252272665512986082015-09-02T04:34:00.000-07:002015-09-02T09:33:51.282-07:00A 2015 face recognition challenge
Robert Fripp in Aylesbury, 1st September 2015: a review

Face recognition technologyhas come a long way, but given my own face, the best of systems would have matched at least half of the capacity audience at the Aylesbury Waterside last Tuesday evening. Yes, King Crimson were playing.
 At 7.40, 7 people, dressed as for a funeral, came onstage and played, ultimately leaving at 9.40 to have a cup of cocoa and an early night. Rather like GYBE they chose not to say anything, but they did turn on the lights so we could see (and count) them. Mr Fripp played thousands of notes, the odd one of which that now and then - heard in isolation - could maybe have been played by someone else, but not many.
It was difficult on entering the auditorium not to notice three very large drum kits prominent at the front of the stage. Hmmm. As it turned out, they produced greater width than depth in the percussion, and were both a visual and auditory spectacle. These chaps knew what they were doing: impeccable and utterly faultless timing. We especially enjoyed the section where each drummer had three sticks in each hand - perhaps they each had three foot pedals going as well, it was hard to tell.
The mellotron defines a musical era. Of course, the electronics to produce that sound would now fit in something half the size of a box of Swan Vestas, and this was duly done in Aylesbury. When I saw Mr Fripp in Exeter in 1972, the stage was dominated by two mellotrons which took up slightly less space than three drum kits - a slight shame that this spectacle has fallen into history.
After exceptional applause and a delay befitting their egos, KC played a long encore. Local boy Jakko Jacszyk had a convincing Lake-a-like voice and the irony of playing In the Court ... was not lost on us. Nor yet was the über-irony of playing C21 S.M. 15 years into the century. Then the house lights came up, and I repaired to the King's Head with Spike and Matthias, where I forebore to sing word perfect versions of Cat Food or Ladies of the Road, both of which Mr Fripp had carelessly overlooked to exhume.
When I saw Mr Fripp in York in 1974, he maintained as always his silent still position at the rear of the stage while the orchestrated mayhem took place in front of him. Near the end of the show, he condescended to come to the front and gaze at us, saying "You do realise, if I were a guitarist from Slade you'd be throwing underwear at me by now"; then he reassumed his position and said no more. Amusingly, I travelled through Wolverhampton to see yesterday's gig.
As previously advertised I'm going to see them again in Birmingham on Monday week. Cannot wait. Rogerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7667904218706574669.post-4868243325494011822015-07-26T02:06:00.000-07:002015-07-26T06:06:56.411-07:00The Ilala: paradise afloat on Lake MalawiPlanning my trip to Malawi, I found a description of the Ilala. "Oh Roger", said Kevin, "just look at the dents - you've got to go for a ride on that".
We went for a ride on it, alright! Space really does not permit a full description of the Ilala experience, but here are just a few of the highlights.

Booking for this (up to) 5 day trip is not something you do in advance - queue up with the others. There is a range of accommodations available and we took advice by going to the top of the list: the Owner's Cabin. Beds! En suite! More on this later.
The Ilala has lifeboats and lifejackets, so is very safe. More on this later.

We quickly found a map of the route:

Some parts of this map were accurate.
On board catering had First and Second Class saloons: clearly, we were in First. No complaints about the menu, which turned out to be surprisingly accurate. "English breakfast" includes - of course - salad.

Shipboard entertainment was endless but informal. A group of South Africans boarded at Nkhotakota and asked the bemused bar steward (when he surfaced) for the deck quoits. I rather thought they were taking the Michael, until they explained that on their last Ilala voyage in the mid-80s, Deck Quoits had indeed been available.

The Ilala is a ferry, not a pleasure cruiser. This doesn't make "pleasure" against the rules of course - especially when watching it stop at intermediate points, at most of which there is no jetty, or water enough for tying up at shore. So it creeps up on the shore, stops engines, blows about in the wind a lot, and drops the lifeboats to ferry people to and fro. I do mean drops; also, the ferrying includes bikes, large sacks of maize, job lots of plastic buckets, etc etc. When it's breezy, this in Europe would be regarded as a high-risk activity, but in Africa it's routine for the regular travellers, and high entertainment for us.

The picture shows the boats part loaded: they are very clearly marked "22 persons", and we think this number is intended as a minimum as we usually saw more than 30, plus attendant baggage.
When you're on a trip like this, you keep thinking "Well, I've never done that on a boat before." Quite a long list. "Having a bath on a boat" was a first, so we wasted no time in using the bathroom, which contained a lot more plumbing than is normal.

The toilet flush [sic] was actually a tap mechanism; the bath taps did not work; the shower (out of view, above the bath) delivered a stream of tepid fluid. Bendigegig!
One of the Europeans to join us at Nkhotakota was an 18-yo from Cambridge; as a result of his trip planners reading the Ilala schedule [sic], he had arrived at Chipoka 4 hours after it departed, having taxied there straight from arrival at Lilongwe airport after an overnight flight. So he had to drive (= be driven) up the lakeshore in hot pursuit [pun]. Consequently he had gone 48 hours without sleep - let me tell you this makes people look pretty grim, and probably explains his confusion about the sun rising in the east - "But we're in the southern hemisphere - shouldn't it rise in the west now?".
Anyway, hats off to the fellow, who was en route to Mozambique on a summer placement leading choirs (meaning he had some hours of travel remaining).
Let's gloss over my exit from the Ilala, which involved discovery of a loose plank at the bottom of the lifeboat when jumping down laden with my rucksack. 15 days on, the ankle is nearly healed.

So goodbye Ilala.
(My African spies tell me it broke down at Chipoka last week - rather sorry to have missed this part of the experience.)
Rogerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7667904218706574669.post-88716018009636315412015-07-22T02:44:00.000-07:002015-07-22T02:44:31.921-07:00Computer science without computers, in AfricaSomebody else has written far more wisely on this than I ever could.

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God wants us to sing.
We live in a singing culture. We sing carols at Christmas time, "Happy Birthday" at parties (although I'm not quite sure why), and "Auld Lang Syne" to bring in the new year (another mystery to me). Rabid crowds scream out "We will, we will rock you!" at basketball games. During the Civil Rights movement of the '60s, the strains of "We Shall Overcome" reverberated across the country. And concert-goers find it hard not to sing along when their favorite artists perform their favorite songs.
At different times, the songs we sing can comfort, calm, excite and unify us. That's why throughout history, singing has been a vital part of our lives.
But why do Christians sing? Do you ever wonder if God even likes our singing? He obviously has better things to do than listen to our out-of-tune voices belting out the same praise songs over and over. Right?
Apparently not. The Bible mentions singing over 400 times, including 50 direct commands to sing God's praise. And because God is infinitely wise and good, His commands are always for His glory and our benefit.
I read once that when a non-singer becomes a Christian, he or she becomes a singer. That doesn't mean we instantly get a beautiful, multi-range, in-tune voice. It means that we've been given a song to sing that we never knew before. And now it's our joy to sing it as loud and as often as we can. It's the song of the redeemed for our Redeemer. It's the only song that we can really call "The Song That Never Ends."
But if you're like me, you've probably been in meetings where you're singing on the outside but totally distracted on the inside. The songs don't seem to be going anywhere, least of all to heaven. But God wants us to sing, and He wants us to understand why. If we don't, we'll miss out on its benefits. More importantly, we'll fail to give God the glory He deserves. So, here are three reasons why God wants us to make singing together a priority.
The first purpose of singing is more about words than music. Colossians 3:16 commands us to "let the word of Christ dwell in us richly" as we sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs to one another. It seems there's a connection between singing and letting the Word of Christ dwell in us. Or any words, for that matter.
Scientists have discovered that we use different portions of our brain to process music and speaking. A few years ago that came home to me powerfully when our church taught a series on Galatians. To help people remember the book, we produced a CD of verses from Galatians set to music. Later, I received an e-mail from a woman in our church whose husband lost his memory due to a stroke. She asked him simple questions, and he couldn't answer them. Where do you work? I don't know. Who is the governor of our state? I don't know. But when she mentioned "Galatians CD," he instantly began singing songs from the CD, even though he had no memory of studying the book as a church. Music helps us remember words we might otherwise forget.
Not many people can quote the sermons of John Wesley from the 18th century. But almost everyone knows the words to "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing," written by his brother, Charles. He ended up writing over 6500 hymns for the express purpose of helping people remember the doctrines he and his brother taught.
God knows the power of song to help us remember His Word. As the Israelites were about to enter the promised land, God told Moses to teach them a song so that "when many evils and troubles have come upon them, this song shall confront them as a witness (for it will live unforgotten in the mouths of their offspring)" (Deuteronomy 31:21).
We remember what we sing. And there's nothing more important to remember than the Word of Christ. That "Word" is the amazing news of God sending His Son to redeem a people for His glory. The entire Bible is filled with the Word of Christ. Our songs should be, too.
The feelings that music produce will fade, but the living and active Word of God will continue to work in our hearts, renew our minds and strengthen our faith. Praise makes our times together profound; music makes them memorable.
That's why the words we sing matter. We remember them. Songs are more than opportunities to express our emotions to God. They're a way of "teaching and admonishing one another" (Colossians 3:16). Songs can correct wrong thoughts about God, display the glories of Christ more clearly, and help us remember what we so easily forget.
As one man put it, "We are what we sing."
Music is an emotional language. It's meant to affect and move us. And nothing should move us more than the grace God has shown us in delivering us from condemnation through the sacrifice of His own Son. We have been raised with Christ. We have died to sin, and our life is now hidden in Christ. We are holy and beloved, God's chosen ones! How can we not sing?
Drawing from Colossians 3:16 again, God wants us to sing with "thankfulness in our hearts." The "heart" here refers to our whole being. God isn't glorified by mumbled responses from lukewarm hearts. He wants us to be thankful.
It's possible to sing without much emotion, but it's unnatural. The Puritan pastor Jonathan Edwards once said, "The duty of singing praises to God seems to be given wholly to excite and express religious affections. There is no other reason why we should express ourselves to God in verse rather than in prose and with music, except that these things have a tendency to move our affections" (The Religious Affections, p. 44).
That's why we don't simply recite "Happy Birthday to you," and why Broadway musicals and opera have such a wide appeal. OK, maybe not opera.
Singing allows us to combine intellect with emotion, objective truth with our emotional response to it. And in Scripture, the emotion most often connected with singing is joy. That doesn't mean that we can never sing songs that acknowledge the human condition through confession, repentance or lament. But on this side of the empty tomb, we need to be constantly reminded that Jesus has crushed the powers of hell and now reigns as our victorious redeemer, King and champion.
One of the ways singing reflects God's glory is by expressing the unity Christ has made possible through His atoning death. Listen to how Paul uses musical terms as he prays for the Roman Christians:
May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. (Romans 15:5-6, emphasis mine)
In the next verse, he adds, "Therefore, welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God." As we sing the same biblical truths together, express our gratefulness for the Gospel, and declare our commitment to follow our King, we're bringing glory to the One who made it all possible.
Singing together also glorifies God because God himself sings. In fact, all three members of the Trinity create song. Zephaniah 3:17, speaking of the Father, reads: "He will quiet you with his love. He will rejoice over you with singing." Hebrews 2:12 quotes Psalm 22, where the Son of God sings the Father's praise in the midst of the congregation. In Ephesians 5:18-19 we're told that being filled with the Holy Spirit inspires songs in the heart of each believer. That's one reason why we often sense God's presence in a more pronounced way when we gather to sing His praises. The Holy Spirit is in our midst inspiring our songs!
Finally, praising God together in song is a foretaste of the eternal glory yet to come.
Revelation gives us a breathtaking picture of the singing around the throne by the heavenly creatures, the 24 elders, countless angels and the redeemed. The author of Hebrews tells us that when we meet together, we're already participating in that massive throng:
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect. (Hebrews 12:22-23)
So the next time you meet to worship God with your church, remember that you're doing more than warming up for the sermon or looking for an emotional high. Remember that you're joining in with all the hosts of heaven who are magnifying the Lamb who was slain.
We sing because Jesus Christ has given us a reason to sing. We sing together because through His once and for all sacrifice, Jesus has joined us together as a people. And we will sing forever because God's praise resounds in eternity.
I want to get as much practice in this life as I can. Don't you?
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2004-10-22 04:00:00 PDT Washington -- George W. Bush is the latest president to learn that wars tend to turn elections into referendums on the presidents who wage them and that Americans like a winner, not a president or his party's chosen successor who seem bogged down in an unwinnable conflict.
Polls show the Republican president in a close race with Democrat John Kerry heading into the Nov. 2 election in which the Iraq war remains a centerpiece issue. But those same polls indicate that voters haven't decided yet if they want to stick with Bush's strategy for the war or switch to Kerry, who in the tradition of rivals running against wartime presidents is vague about what he would do differently.
"History shows there is nothing sacrosanct about war presidents," historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. writes in his new book, "War and the American Presidency."
"It is evident that rally-round-the-president when the nation is at war is not especially the American tradition," added Schlesinger, a critic of Bush.
New research supports Schlesinger's contention that the U.S. military deaths in Iraq, which now have now surpassed 1,100, have cumulatively sapped Bush's popularity and put his re-election in doubt. Each 100 American deaths have cut Bush's job approval rating by 1.4 percentage points, said the paper by political scientists Richard Stoll of Rice University in Houston and Richard Eichenberg of Tufts University in Medford, Mass.
Using a statistical technique that separated out the impact of casualties from such other factors as the country's economy, the two said the war had become the determining factor for Bush's re-election.
"There's a gradual withering of support for a president when Americans are being killed," Stoll said in an interview.
"The near-time future may bring bad news to the American public about Iraq, and this may bode ill for the president's approval ratings and prospects for re-election," they wrote in their paper, which they plan to update before Nov. 2.
But historian Allan Lichtman of American University in Washington believes Bush will prevail.
"I still think Bush is going to win. The war is not going well, but he is still way ahead of Kerry among the public on the national security issue.
"Even with a dubious war, it's very difficult to knock out a president on national security. Either they win or they bail out. It's real simple."
What might be different for Bush is that he continually links the war in Iraq to the war against terrorism and the need to stay strong after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. That broadens the Iraq issue into a national security issue.
Difficulty in translating prosecution of a war into ballot box success has been especially true for war presidents in the 60 years since President Franklin D. Roosevelt won re-election in 1944 to a fourth term over Republican Thomas E. Dewey during World War II. Even that re-election was the closest of Roosevelt's four victories.
Roosevelt's successor, Harry Truman, was brought low by the Korean War and decided not to run again in 1952 after he lost the New Hampshire primary to Sen. Estes Kefauver. While some historians say Truman had indicated as early as 1950 that he wouldn't run again, others say the fact that he waited until after the March New Hampshire primary shows he would have run again except for the Korea stalemate.
The Democrats' eventual 1952 nominee, Illinois Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson, lost handily to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who promised vaguely, "I shall go to Korea."
Battered by Vietnam, President Lyndon B. Johnson dropped out of the 1968 race, after almost losing the New Hampshire Democratic primary to Sen. Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota. Johnson's hand-picked successor, Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, lost by a whisker to Richard M. Nixon. It turns out that both sides played campaign-season politics with stalled peace negotiations in Paris.
After decreasing the number of Americans in Southeast Asia from about 500, 000 to 20,000, Nixon won re-election in 1972 in a landslide, in part after announcing a peace settlement, that later collapsed, just before election day.
The 1968 and 1972 manipulations of a war for election success earned the scorn of historian Stephen Ambrose, author of a two-volume biography of Nixon.
"In both instances, administrations said or implied that peace was at hand. In each case, presidents knew the government of Vietnam had not agreed, and that North Vietnam had not agreed to accept anything less than victory."
President Bush's father lost his re-election bid in 1992, despite his success in the Persian Gulf War, in part because of a sour economy at home.
Further back in U.S. history, Abraham Lincoln won re-election in 1864 during the bloody Civil War, but historians generally thank Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman for taking Atlanta from the Confederates on Sept. 2, 1864, turning the tide in Lincoln's favor.
"Victories are good for sitting presidents. The trickle, trickle of casualties isn't very good for a sitting president," said Eric Rauchway, a historian at UC Davis.
"There's no hard and fast rule you can draw. But wars tend to suck the air out of any other part of the campaign," added Rauchway, author of "Murdering McKinley," the story of how the assassination of President William McKinley, who was easily re-elected in 1900 after winning the Spanish-American War, led to the reform presidency of his vice president, Theodore Roosevelt.
McKinley put Roosevelt, a hero of the war in Cuba, on his ticket partly to benefit from the popularity arising from the war's success.
In the 2004 election, Rauchway said, the continuing increase in Iraq casualties probably won't tilt the election.
"I suspect people have already factored it in" to their decision about who to vote for. "At this stage, people have noticed what they're going to notice about the war," he said.


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Kristen Stewart, 22, and Robert Pattinson, 26, have such amazing on-screen chemistry, so of course she doesn't want anyone else to play her man other than her real-life boyfriend!
While promoting Snow White and the Huntsman in Australia, Kristen was asked by MTV if she would want Rob to be cast in the SWATH sequel.
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We're so sad to say goodbye to the Twilight saga in November, but the possibility of Kristen and Rob starring in a new movie together is so exciting!
A Snow White in the Huntsman sequel is already in the works. according the film's director Rupert Sanders.
"I can tell you that I'm working on a sequel now and it's really exciting," Sanders told MTV. "We all had a great time doing this one, so onwards and upwards."
We really hope that Sanders' plan for the next installment includes Rob — hopefully Kristen can pull some strings for her boyfriend!
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Many students are beginning their careers as they graduate college this Spring. Recent graduates represent 2.9% of the total US workforce.
In 2013, about 4,361,380 graduates joined the labor market and a similar number will graduate this year. In what fields do these graduating candidates possess degrees?
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If your client is in removal proceedings and then departs the United States, what happens to the pending proceedings? After all, DHS is trying to get your client to leave and now it has. Can you just go to court, report your client's departure, and then ask the judge to terminate proceedings?
If you do that, you can expect the judge to deny your motion, as the BIA did in Matter of Sanchez-Herbert, 26 I&N Dec. 43 (BIA 2012). In that case, the respondent attended a master calendar hearing in 2007, and then received a series of continuances relating to a pending application for adjustment of status. Eventually, at a master calendar hearing in 2011, the respondent's counsel appeared in court to request termination of proceedings, and reported that the respondent had voluntarily departed the United States. The judge granted the motion, based on her determination that she no longer had jurisdiction over the respondent following his departure from the United States. The DHS counsel, who sought issuance of an in absentia order, appealed the judge's decision to terminate.
On appeal, the Board agreed with DHS, and found that the respondent does not need to be physically present in the United States in order for the judge to retain jurisdiction over the pending proceedings and conduct an in absentia hearing. In the Board's view, allowing a respondent to divest the immigration judge of jurisdiction by departing the United States would permit the respondent to "dictate the outcome of the proceedings and avoid the consequences of a formal order of removal" Sanchez-Herbert at 45. As a result, the record was remanded to the immigration judge to proceed with the DHS request for an in absentia order.
In light of this decision, what should you do if your client wants to depart the United States in advance of a scheduled hearing? Unless your client does not care about having an in absentia order, counsel your client to remain in the United States until you can work out a resolution of the case. For example, if your client simply wants voluntary departure, you can move to advance the hearing to a master calendar date and inform the judge in your motion that your client is seeking an earlier court date in order to request voluntary departure and then depart the United States.


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Greetings from sunny Tampa and the National Title I Conference!
hot topic this year at this conference and so it should be. In addition to my session, Families and Educators: A Joint Book Club Concept, there are at least five other presenters who are helping Title I teachers and other Title I staff attending to understand best practices and get a handle on this idea of authentically partnering with parents.
What I see happen too many times:
1) Educators and parents "in charge" (such as PTA/PTO leadership) don't take the time to talk to your average, every-day parent (the involved and the not involved). Making them a part of the solution is essential!
2) Professional educators trying to teach families how to do the "academic stuff" that those teachers are teaching children in the classroom (and that those teachers went to school multiple years to master). You may have some families interested in that, but I guarantee you are limiting your family engagement if you take that approach. Use your curriculum mapping to look for complementary practical "real-life" activities you can involve families in, rather than duplication of academic practice. You'll engage many more moms, dads, grandmas, uncles and community members AND children will hear the important message that LEARNING HAPPENS EVERYWHERE, NOT JUST AT SCHOOL.
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I'd love to hear from all of you out there (both attendees at this important conference and those who are "holding down the forts") on these questions:
1) What is the MOST EFFECTIVE family engagement activity/strategy you EVER saw work at your school? What made it successful?
2) Why do you think parents aren't involved with their children's learning?
You can add more insight by responding to a brief survey online. Its findings will be the beginning of a new book on this important subject . . .
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The drumbeats for war with Iran keep pounding, as you can read about here and here. There are some features of the campaign that are scarily (or maybe comically) reminiscent of 2002-2003 (as Glenn Greenwald documents here), but for now there's one key difference. Back in 2002, the neocon-heavy Bush administration led the charge to ...
The drumbeats for war with Iran keep pounding, as you can read about here and here. There are some features of the campaign that are scarily (or maybe comically) reminiscent of 2002-2003 (as Glenn Greenwald documents here), but for now there's one key difference. Back in 2002, the neocon-heavy Bush administration led the charge to sell the invasion of Iraq. Today, by contrast, the case for war is being made primarily by other countries (i.e., Israel), or by assorted think tanks, lobbying groups, and national security commentators in the United States. The Obama administration isn't leading the campaign, having correctly concluded that a war is neither necessary nor wise. In particular, they do not seem to have bought into the rampant threat inflation that forms the core of the hawks' case for war.
But today I want to focus on another remarkable feature of this situation: the absence of any sort of meaningful diplomacy between the United States and the country whose citizens we would be attacking and killing if we were to launch a strike. The United States had diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union from 1933 on, including the period when Joseph Stalin was murdering millions. We never broke relations with Moscow during the Cold War, even though the United States and USSR had thousands of nuclear warheads pointed at each other and were waging bloody proxy wars in Korea, Vietnam, Africa, the Middle East, and Africa. U.S. and Soviet leaders met repeatedly at summit meetings (some of them contentious), and U.S. and Soviet diplomats interacted more-or-less constantly on matters of mutual concern. The purpose of these various exchanges wasn't appeasement or even accommodation; we talked to them so that we could figure out what they thought, and so that we could explain our positions to them. It was important that each side know what the consequences of different courses of action might be, and sometimes that involved spelling it out for each other.
And what was the result? Not only were the two superpowers occasionally able to cooperate in mutually beneficial ways (i.e., managing crises, reducing nuclear risks, ending wars, etc.) but the United States eventually won the Cold War and presided over the Soviet Union's demise without triggering a direct U.S.-Soviet clash. Indeed, U.S. diplomats did a good job of picking Mikhail Gorbachev's pocket as the USSR imploded, in part because they had established a good working relationship with him. Furthermore, contacts between Russians and Americans seem to have helped thaw communist society, in part by teaching younger Soviet elites that the West was doing better and was not irrevocably hostile.
By contrast, the United States hasn't had diplomatic relations with Iran for over three decades. That is a longer hiatus than occurred after either the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 or the communist seizure of power in China in 1949. Only a tiny handful of U.S. officials have direct experience with their Iranian counterparts. Few Americans have extensive dealings with Iranians, save for Iranian exiles who often have their own agendas. We don't have a good sense of where the different Iranian factions are, what they think, or how they might respond to different U.S. policies. Yet we blindly assume that there is no recourse but to sanction and maybe bomb them.
The Obama administration likes to portray itself as having "extended a hand of friendship" to Iran, but it was a half-hearted effort at best. Even now, we seem unable to offer Iran a "yessable" proposition, and we merely repeat our long-standing position it simply comply with our demands. The administration has done a good job of rounding up international support for its position, but isn't it ironic that we've devoted far more time and energy to that task, instead of exploring whether there might be a mutually acceptable solution to the current impasse itself.
The bottom line: I find it bizarre that anyone is seriously contemplating waging war on a country about whom we know so little and with whom we barely engage. And why do we know so little? Because we are too scared, or proud, or politically paralyzed to even talk to them. This is not the behavior one expects of a confident, mature great power: it is the behavior of a government that is either afraid it will get tricked by devious Persians, or that is more worried about domestic criticism than foreign consequences.
Winston Churchill has become something of an iconic figure among U.S. hardliners, including many in the vanguard of the war party. But it was Churchill who famously remarked that "to jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war." Rather than unleashing the U.S. Air Force, in short, how about unleashing our diplomats instead?
Oh, wait. It's an election year. Never mind.