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About the RA
Living artists. Leading art.
We exist to promote art and artists – a mission we pursue through exhibitions, education and debate.
Who we are
What makes us different?
We are an Academy. We have much in common with museums and other galleries, but we have a broader role – to promote not just the appreciation and understanding of art, but also its practice.
We are artist-led. Our artists represent many different perspectives, but we all share a deep commitment to art and a strong belief in the contribution that artists make to the world.
We are an independent charity. Unlike most of our peers we do not receive revenue funding from government and so we are reliant upon the support of visitors, donors, sponsors, and the loyal Friends of the Royal Academy to continue our work.
Led by artists
Royal Academicians
Just as our founders intended, we are still led by many of the greatest artists and architects of the day.
Known as Royal Academicians, they are all practising artists who help to steer our vision and support our activities.
From teaching in the RA Schools to deciding on our exhibitions programme, they are at the heart of everything we do.
A school of contemporary fine art
Educating artists of the future
We are home to Britain's first art school, the RA Schools.
Our three-year postgraduate course is one of the most competitive in the country, and we are proud to offer free tuition to all who study here.
The RA Schools has trained some of the UK's finest artists, from William Blake to 2013 Turner Prize-nominee Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
Our success lies in a constantly evolving programme which attracts some of the most sought-after teaching staff, visiting artists and thinkers in the world.
World-class exhibitions
Variety, excellence and originality
The diversity of our exhibitions programme sets us apart. From ancient sculptures to modern-day masterpieces and large-scale installations, we are the original home of the blockbuster.
Between 2010-13, five of the world's top ten exhibitions with the highest daily attendance were held at the RA, including David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture, The Real Van Gogh and Anish Kapoor RA. In 2015, nearly 400,000 visitors came to see Ai Weiwei. Recent blockbusters have included Painting the Modern Garden, Abstract Expressionism and Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932.
As well as the household names, we love to help you discover your new favourite artists. The Sackler Wing and our Burlington Gardens galleries provide the perfect space to do this, from American abstract artist Richard Diebenkorn, to the undiscovered Renaissance genius Giovanni Battista Moroni.
Academicians play an important role in our exhibitions, from setting the programme to presenting their own work.
Summer Exhibition
What will you discover?
"There shall be an Annual Exhibition of Paintings, Sculptures and Designs, which shall be open to all Artists of distinguished Merit."
This quote, from our Instrument of Foundation, captures what the Summer Exhibition is all about: opening our galleries up to the finest artistic talents of the day, selected purely on merit.
It is the world's largest open entry exhibition, and has taken place every year since 1769.
Each year, we have thousands of entries in all styles and media. These are narrowed down by a team of Royal Academicians to around 1,000 works for the final show.
This British institution is a highlight of the social calendar. Its many traditions include a celebratory parade down Piccadilly before the doors open to the public, and the serving of restorative beef tea during the hanging.
The RA Collection
A compelling story of British art and artists
All Royal Academicians give a work to our Collection when elected, creating a treasure trove of British art. Over the decades we have amassed everything from masterpieces by Constable, historic objects like Queen Victoria's paintbox and modern-day creations by some of our finest artists.
We're incredibly proud of our Collection, and we display works from it around our buildings. You can look forward to seeing even more of it from May 2018 in the New RA, which will include an RA Collection Gallery along with several other new spaces for displaying our art.
Our Collection includes the first fine art library in Britain, where our staff look after thousands of historic volumes, monographs, books on British art, prints, photographs and drawings.
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- Artists and architects have run the RA for 250 years.
Our Collection is a record of them.
Working with the community
Reaching new audiences
Not everyone has access to art, so our Learning team work hard to forge partnerships in the wider community which introduce more and more people to what we do here. We currently work with organisations including Action Space, St Christopher's Hospice, Capital Arts, Crisis, Leonard Cheshire Disability, Portugal Prints, Soho Community Centre and Vital Regeneration.
We run a monthly Art Club for homeless and vulnerable adults, that include visits to RA exhibitions, discussion about art and art-making sessions in a variety of mediums. These are in partnership with St Mungo's Broadway, The Passage, The Connection at St Martin in the Fields, Westminster Drugs, Arlington House Studio 5, and Seymour Art Collective. We are always thinking of new ways to inspire visitors we meet through our partnerships, whether it be workshops, discussions, tours or special events.
The New RA
Opening 19 May 2018
It's an exciting time for us. To celebrate our 250th anniversary in 2018, we're making major improvements to our facilities.
On 19 May 2018 the New RA will open, with a link between our Piccadilly and Burlington Gardens galleries, a new 260-seat lecture theatre, and an expanded RA Schools giving our students more space to create. The extensive renovation of all our historic buildings will allow their original features to shine through. We're also reaching out to new audiences, both onsite and online.
Our story
A company of artists
On a winter's day in 1768, architect Sir William Chambers visited the king, George III. He brought with him a petition signed by 36 artists and architects including himself, all of whom were seeking permission to 'establish a society for promoting the Arts of Design'. What's more, they also proposed an annual exhibition and a School of Design. Lucky for us, the King said yes. And so the Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal Academy Schools, and what you know today as the Summer Exhibition, were born. They set up home in Pall Mall, renting a gallery that was just 30 feet long.
The first Academicians
A multicultural bunch, of the 36 founding Members, four were Italian, one was French, one Swiss and one American. Among the number were two women, Mary Moser and Angelica Kauffmann.
Above, you can see Johan Zoffany's famous portrait of the founders, set in the Life Drawing Room of Old Somerset House. It was completed in 1772 and includes our first president Sir Joshua Reynolds, seen in a black suit left of centre. Zoffany probably hoped his painting would please the King, and he was successful: the King bought it for 500 guineas, or about £65,000 in today's money.
Moving home
In 1775, Sir William Chambers won the commission to design the new Somerset House. It would become, among other things, our new home and first official residence. The Exhibition Room was a thing of beauty, 32 feet high and situated at the top of a steep winding staircase, it was described by literary critic Joseph Baretti as "undoubtedly at the date, the finest gallery for displaying pictures so far built".
In the 1830s, we moved to Trafalgar Square to share premises with the newly-founded National Gallery. However, with space at a premium, we were on the move again in 1867 to Burlington House, where we remain to this day. Fortunately, our President at the time, Francis Grant, drove a hard bargain and secured our new home for an annual rent of £1 for 999 years.
Our story
An American in London
The story of our second President is a fascinating one. Benjamin West was born in Pennsylvania in 1738 and grew up in a world where art was little known. But with pioneering spirit, he travelled to Europe for his education and found success in Rome.
Later arriving in England, he became a close friend of the King and his 'History Painter'. He never returned to America but is considered the founding father of the American school of painting. He was so popular that he was elected President by his fellow members with just one opposing vote. He also had a first-rate eye for talent and once comforted a down-hearted young Constable after he'd had a work rejected by the Academy with these words, "Don't be disheartened young man, we shall hear more of you again; you must have loved nature before you could have painted this."
Women at the RA
We have a somewhat chequered history when it comes to equality of the sexes. Although Mary Moser and Angelica Kauffman flew the flag for women in 1768, it took another 168 years before another woman was elected as a full Academician, Laura Knight in 1936.
In 1879, the Council of the day came to the conclusion that our original Instrument of Foundation did not allow for women RAs. Eventually, they relented and passed a resolution to make women eligible, but only on the condition of restricted privileges. A few years later in 1913, we invoked the wrath of the suffragettes and a demonstration was held in the galleries. One woman slashed a portrait of Henry James by Sargent while another hacked at a painting by George Clausen. Catastrophe was also narrowly averted when one protestor attempted to start a fire in the toilets.
The child prodigy
The beginning of the Victorian period saw us admit our youngest ever student to the RA Schools, the ten year old John Everett Millais in 1839. He was immediately given the rather unoriginal nickname 'The Child'.
He went on to become one of the most successful artists of the 19th century and a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The Brotherhood hoped to emulate the art of late medieval and early Renaissance Europe, characterised by intricate detail, bright colours and truth to nature. Although the movement's activity lasted little more than five years, its influence on British art continues to this day.
In 1896, Millais was elected President of the RA, but sadly, it was doomed to be a short tenure. He was in poor health at the time, and just six months after his election he was buried in Painters' Corner of St Paul's Cathedral.
Our story
The first blockbusters
One of our founding principles was to hold an annual exhibition that anyone could enter, and anyone could visit. Today, it's called the Summer Exhibition and it has taken place every year since 1769, including during both World Wars.
From the late 19th century, we began to hold international loan exhibitions. One in particular that went down in history was our Italian Art exhibition in 1930. The galleries were flooded with masterpieces, including Botticelli's Birth of Venus, Raphael's La Donna Velata and Donatello's David – but it didn't pass without controversy. Highly politicised, it was attended by Mussolini as a way of furthering the cause of Fascism.
Reimagining London
Our doors remained open during World War Two, just as they had during the First World War, but our President at the time, Edwin Lutyens, had some radical ideas about how London should be rebuilt after the conflict. Some of the schemes proposed in the RA Planning Committee's London Replanned report, included a road bridge across the Thames that would obliterate Charing Cross Station, an enormous roundabout behind St Martin-in-the-Fields and the demolition of the existing Opera House in Covent Garden to make way for a new music and dramatic centre.
Lutyens' ideas may have been unpopular with most, but our next President, Alfred Munnings, didn't do much better in endearing himself to his colleagues or the public…
Famous last words
Alfred Munnings took office in 1944. He became infamous when during one RA dinner, he drunkenly began to berate modern art and aspects of the Academy itself. After slating Picasso, he moved on to London County Council, who he criticised for exhibiting modern sculpture in Battersea Park, and the Tate for showing Matisse. To make matters worse, the whole tirade was being broadcast live by the BBC.
Munnings had already decided to resign before he made the speech – and made sure he went out with a bang.
Our story
Making new Friends
The 1970s saw a period of renewal, with the election of one of our most enterprising Presidents, Sir Hugh Casson. Casson had always been one to embrace change and in 1948, he had been appointed Director of Architecture at the Festival of Britain. Relishing the challenge, he set out to celebrate peace and modernity through working with other young architects, 39-year-old Leslie Martin for example, who designed the modernist Royal Festival Hall. Casson's role in the Festival of Britain was a huge success and he was knighted in 1952.
As President of the RA, he began our Friends of the RA membership scheme in 1977, the first of its kind in Europe. Our Friends now number over 90,000. They come to all our exhibitions for free, enjoy all day access to the Keeper's House, are invited to special events and are sent RA Magazine three times a year. They're some of our most loyal supporters: we'd be lost without them.
A new view of the RA
In 1991, we opened The Sackler Wing, designed by Royal Academicians Norman Foster and Spencer de Grey.
With its sleek glass staircase and light-filled atrium, The Sackler Wing introduced elegant new gallery spaces to replace the Victorian Diploma Galleries and is a sensitive union of old and new. The landing before you enter these galleries is also where you will find Michelangelo's Taddei Tondo, his only marble sculpture in the UK and one of the most treasured works in our Collection.
Foster himself has spoken of how the design of our Sackler Wing helped lay the groundwork for later projects, including the Great Court at the British Museum, demonstrating "a clear philosophy about how you make modern intervention in historical structures" and create "a meaningful relationship between old and new".
An Academy for the 21st century
In 1998, we bought 6 Burlington Gardens, a beautiful listed building originally designed by Sir James Pennethorne RA for the University of London in the 19th century. Since 2012, we have hosted exciting contemporary shows in these new galleries, showcasing the work of our Academicians from Richard Rogers to Allen Jones.
For our anniversary in 2018 we're linking Burlington House with Burlington Gardens, opening up the RA as never before, transforming our historic buildings – and inviting Friends and visitors old and new to celebrate with us.
From 19 May 2018, you will also find a 260-seat lecture theatre, our first dedicated learning centre and totally refurbished gallery spaces, one of which will be devoted to our historic Collection.
Year in review 2016/2017
Digital report
In 2016-2017, preparations for the RA's 250th birthday were in full swing. Scroll through the year's biggest stories and highlights from across the Academy in this interactive digital report.
Our Annual Reporting and Accounts
You can find out more detailed information about every aspect of the Royal Academy by reading our Annual Report.
Download our 2016/17 Annual Report
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Download our 2015/16 Annual Report
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Download our 2014/15 Annual Report
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We also report on our Gender Pay Gap.
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Hall of Fame announces Frick Award finalists
Ten iconic voices are vying for the ultimate prize of distinction in their field.
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum on Wednesday announced the 10 finalists for the Ford C. Frick Award, which is given to baseball broadcasters of long and meritorious service.
A broadcaster cannot be considered for the Frick Award unless he's called big league games for at least 10 years, and nine of the 10 finalists have worked for two decades in the same market. Last year's winner, the late Tom Cheek, called 27 consecutive seasons for the Blue Jays.
The 10 finalists are: Joe Castiglione, Jacques Doucet, Ken Harrelson, Bill King, Duane Kuiper, Eric Nadel, Eduardo Ortega, Mike Shannon, Dewayne Staats and Pete van Wieren. The winner will be announced at the Winter Meetings and then be feted as part of the Hall of Fame's induction weekend.
This year's pool of candidates featured 160 qualified broadcasters from the "High Tide" era, which consists of men who called games from the mid-1980s to the present day. The finalists were culled from online balloting at the Hall of Fame's Facebook site during the month of September.
More than 20,000 votes were cast, and three men -- Doucet, King and Kuiper -- separated themselves from the pack in balloting. The other seven finalists were chosen by a Hall of Fame research committee. Eight of the 10 finalists -- except for King and van Wieren -- are still active.
The final voting for the Frick Award will be conducted by a 20-man electorate that includes the 16 living Frick Award recipients and a distinguished panel of five broadcast historians and columnists.
All but one of the finalists are still living. King, who passed away in 2005, called 25 consecutive seasons (1981-2005) as the lead play-by-play voice on the radio for Oakland A's games.
And in this group, that kind of dedication is the norm. The 74-year-old Shannon, who played nine years for St. Louis, has called Cardinals games on the radio for 42 years. Castiglione has called big league games for 33 years, the past 30 as the lead radio voice in Boston.
Van Wieren, an Atlanta institution, began calling Braves games in 1976 and didn't leave the team's airwaves until 2008. Nadel has spent the past 35 seasons with the Rangers, the longest tenure in franchise history, and he's spent the last 21 as the club's lead play-by-play voice.
Kuiper, meanwhile, has called games for 28 seasons, and all but one of them has been spent covering the Giants. Harrelson, known for his passionate advocacy of the White Sox, has spent 27 years in Chicago and previously did broadcast work for the Red Sox and Yankees.
Staats has called big league games for 36 years, and he's spent 16 years in the Tampa Bay market, and Ortega has handled Spanish-language MLB broadcasts for 27 seasons. Doucet has even outlasted his team, serving 34 years calling Expos games and returning to the booth last year in Toronto.
All these men, giants in their field, will be vying for an honor named after one of the legends of the game. Ford C. Frick, a Hall-of-Fame executive, worked as a sportswriter and broadcaster before later impacting the game as MLB Commissioner and president of the National League.


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A man came by my home to lay laminate down. We sat and talked.
He told me he has been married for 47 years, and he and his wife have two girls, 31 and 38, both of whom still live at home. The Laminate Man, 72, had that aura of a person who sits in a coffee shop all day long and banters on about the Leafs and Harper's crazy refugee laws.
But after a while of shmoozing I could see there was a lot going on inside this man's soul. The Laminate Man was a very intelligent man, quite able to articulate ideas in a most cogent fashion. Before he spoke, he considered his thoughts carefully. He was an old school sort of fellow, self-denigrating and the like, somewhat tired, but along with that came a firm understanding of life and a powerful drive to succeed.
When the laminate installer was a kid, he lost his dad. At 14, he had to support the family and it was then he began installing floors. Today, his knees are shot and he says, "It's hard to stand during davening."
I asked the Laminate Man if he resented having to go to work. He said, "It's what I had to do. There was no choice."
While the Laminate Man appeared to be one of those who struggled through life always searching for a level of success, it seemed to me he had found it. Think about it. He was 14 years old when he left school. He went to work and he supported the family. That is a success. He did it. He pulled it off. He held up his loved ones, at 14, the way we adults do today.
While we talked, I watched the Laminate Man. In my imagination, the Laminate Man was wearing a three-piece suit, sitting steadfastly at my dining room table speaking to me the way very wealthy people do – with that royal assurance one only gets from brokering the big deal.
I looked closely at him and projected another life on to him. I pretended he had finished his education and launched a company, one with a large staff with back office people and a sales force. I saw him as a corporate mogul, a multi-millionaire who was invited to expensive functions and honoured for his philanthropy and tikkun olam.
As I looked, I wondered about the paths we take in life and why we do. The Laminate Man's name is not on the cornerstone of a hospital in downtown Toronto, and he is not called to comment on issues having to do with State of Israel. His road was different. It changed on a dime, because the Laminate Man's father died early on; because he was forced to leave school and become a tiny bread-winner. He should have been playing ball.
What would his life had been had his father lived?
We work hard, find a groove at some point and strive to bring meaning to our family, our community, the world and sometimes even ourselves. But all of this is predicated on the path we took, not the one we didn't. What would our lives be if they had taken one fundamentally different turn; if life-changing news arrived uninvited one morning?
Vincent van Gogh said he celebrated all the pictures he created and mourned those he was never able to. That is the Laminate Man.


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Track history: New Hampshire International Speedway (original name), the first superspeedway started in the U.S. since 1969, broke ground on August 13, 1989 and was ready for racing the next year. It is a 1.058-mile asphalt oval with 12-degree banking in the turns. The 1,500-foot frontstretch and backstretch are banked two degrees. The seating for 55,000 fans in the grandstands on opening day has been increased to its current 95,000 capacity.The NASCAR Nationwide Series held its first race, the Budweiser 300, on July 15, 1990. Tommy Ellis drove the No. 99 Goo Goo Clusters Buick to the victory in that event. For the next three years, the Nationwide Series was joined by CART and IRL at the Loudon track. The speedway hosted its first NASCAR Cup race in July 1993. In the mid-to-late 1990's, several improvements were made at the facility. A 1.6 mile road course was added for motorcycles and sports cars. Four helipads, an expanded Corporate Hospitality area, VIP suites, an additional 52 bay garage and more grandstands were built. More parking and a five-lane access road were constructed.In early 2008, Speedway Motorsports, Inc. acquired the track and officially changed the name to New Hampshire Motor Speedway.Track Quick Facts (courtesy NASCAR Media):Last five winners: Denny Hamlin 9/23/12, Kasey Kahne 7/15/12, Tony Stewart 9/25/11, Ryan Newman 7/17/11 and Clint Bowyer 9/19/10.First Cup start here (Active drivers): Jeff Burton 7/11/93, Joe Nemechek 7/11/93, Joey Logano 9/14/08, Kelly Bires 7/15/12 and Mike Olsen 9/23/12.First Cup pole: Patrick Carpentier 6/29/08 and Brad Keselowski 9/19/10.First Cup win: Joe Nemechek 9/19/99, Robby Gordon 11/23/01, Ryan Newman 9/15/02, Clint Bowyer 9/16/07 and Joey Logano 6/27/09.July 11, 1993: After driving the No. 6 Valvoline Ford to a 126.871 mph qualifying lap, Mark Martin started on the pole for the first Loudon NASCAR Cup race, the Slick 50 300. He led 29 of the 300 laps and finished second. Rusty Wallace started the No. 2 Miller Genuine Draft Pontiac 33rd in the lineup, got to the front to lead 106 laps and earned the victory.July 15, 2012: Kasey Kahne won the Lenox Industrial Tools 301 from second in the lineup. It was the No. 5 Chevrolet driver's second victory in 2012 and his first in 17 starts at Loudon. Drivers leading five or more laps: No. 24 Jeff Gordon 5 laps, finished sixth; Winner Kahne led 66 laps; Pole-sitter No. 18 Kyle Busch led 72 laps, finished 16th and No. 11 Denny Hamlin led the most laps (150 of 301) and finished second.September 23, 2012: Denny Hamlin won the Sylvania 300, his 22nd victory in 251 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races. This is the No. 11 Toyota driver's fifth victory and 14th top-10 finish in 2012. It is his second victory and 10th top-10 finish in 14 races at Loudon. Drivers leading five or more laps: No. 55 Brian Vickers five laps, finished ninth; Pole-sitter No. 24 Jeff Gordon seven laps, finished third; No. 14 Tony Stewart 38 laps, finished seventh; No. 18 Kyle Busch 48 laps, finished 28th and Race-winner Hamlin led the most laps (193 of 300).Fantasy games won't allow you to pick all track favorites so Mid-Pack Attack is here to help. A mid-packer may not win the race but has as good a shot at a top 20 finish as track favorites Jeff Gordon, Denny Hamlin, Jimmie Johnson, Brad Keselowski and Tony Stewart. There were 43 cars on the preliminary entry list for this weekend's Cup race. Here are our picks for Sunday's Camping World RV Sales 301 in Loudon, New Hampshire.Mid-Pack picks
Brian Vickers' career statistics at Loudon are not impressive. In 15 Sprint Cup starts at the track he has a 20.3 average finish. But, since he started his part-time ride with Michael Waltrip Racing in 2012, he finished 15th and ninth at NHMS. He spent about 2/3 of the time running in the top 15 in those races. In 2013, aside from his wreck at Kentucky (credited with a 31st place), Vickers has been holding up his share in the No. 55 Toyota with good runs. He scored an eighth at Bristol, an 11th at Martinsville and a 13th at Sonoma. We think Vickers is a good choice for another 15th or better on Sunday.As noted above in Track Facts, Jeff Burton made his Sprint Cup Series debut at Loudon on July 11, 1993. One of only four drivers entered this week who have started all 36 NSCS races at the track, he leads the series with four NHMS wins. During his most recent win (September 2000), Burton led all 300 laps. No driver has led 100% of the laps in a Cup race at any track since. That was over a dozen years ago, but the No. 31 Chevrolet SS driver's worst finish in the last seven races here was a 21st place last July. The other six resulted in a 16th place or better. You could say Burton has a decent shot at a top-20 on Sunday.Our border-line "cheesy pick" of the week (he's 16th in the points) goes to Ryan Newman. In the last 10 races at the "Magic Mile", he had a few finishes south of 25th place but he also scored one win, two poles and six top-10 finishes. After the Dover race (five races ago) Newman was 20th in the points. He finished fifth at Pocono, 18th at Michigan, 15th at Sonoma, 14th at Kentucky and a 10th place last week in the Daytona night race. He's on a mission to claim a spot in the 12-driver Chase for the Sprint Cup. A repeat of his two 10th place finishes scored here in 2012 will bring the No. 39 Chevrolet SS driver a lot closer to that goal.In his first five starts at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, AJ Allmendinger couldn't buy a good finish. His best was a 25th. The last four finishes were just the opposite; 10th, 10th, 12th and 21st. It looks like he figured out the flat track. AJ made only eight starts so far this season. Aside from getting caught up a Big One last week at Daytona and a mechanical problem at Pocono, he finished in the top-20 in five of the other six races. We're expecting him to bring the No. 51 Chevrolet SS home somewhere in that range this week as well.


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My 24th (cripes) birthday. My sister's family was up for a visit, thus allowing my nephew Jimmy to indulge in what today is termed "photobombing." Judging by our photo collection, he may have invented it, or at the very least been an avid early adopter. My mother looks on expectantly, anticipating my cries of delight. I have no idea if this was her gift, or even what it was*. I appear pleased, at any rate. This is undoubtedly the goofiest photo I've ever submitted to Shorpy; I won't blame Dave if he relegates it to no-man's land. A Polaroid. *UPDATE: Gift is the 3M Bookshelf board game "Stocks & Bonds."
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Legendary Silicon Valley angel investor Ron Conway is raising a new fund for his investment firm SV Angel, according to an SEC filing.
So far, he's raised $12 million out of $40 million planned. He should have no problem raising the remaining $28 million. Conway is a legend in the Valley, deeply connected to every corner of the technology industry, thanks to his prolific funding of startups.
Conway was making "angel" investments long before angel investing was cool. He has been doing it for so long, and so prolifically, that he has revolutionized the angel business: A look at his investments since 2005 reveals his SV Angel fund alone has put money into at least 228 companies.
Conway's prolific method of investing may strike outsiders as odd, but it's clearly working for him and his companies and a whole generation of Valley entrepreneurs. It has made him money, and landed him right at the nexus of Silicon Valley's power players. It has also made him one of the most powerful--and feared--players in the Valley.
Conway is so powerful and so feared, in fact, that almost no one we spoke to about him was willing to go on the record. Most people we spoke to were scared that Conway would retaliate against them -- and ruin them. One person observed that Conway isn't called "The Godfather" for nothing.
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Ron Conway's angel investing has been portrayed, at times by himself, as an act of near charity. He says he's doing it for the entrepreneurs, not to make money.
Last year, when a group of angel investors were said to be colluding to keep valuations low, Conway rebuked the other angels in an impassioned email where he wrote, "I invest because I love helping entrepreneurs and watching them learn and succeed."
He also said of his fellow angel investors, "In my opinion your motives are driven by self serving factors around ego satisfaction and 'making a buck'. My motives and values are very different."
But, for all of his rah-rah, feel-good talk, Conway is a bare-knuckled bruiser who will bully, and intimidate, fellow investors and his own entrepreneurs if they cross him, or do something he doesn't like.
BusinessWeek recently reported that a former Twitter employee who refused to sell his shares in Twitter to Conway's Twitter fund felt threatened by Conway. While that employee and Conway have since cleared up their issues, the former Twitter employee wasn't the only person who's felt threatened for doing something Conway didn't like.
After covering the Twitter story, we heard from multiple entrepreneurs and investors about Conway. Much of what we heard was complimentary: There's a reason he's a legend, and people clamor to get investments from him. But alongside the glowing reviews was an undercurrent of fear. Some people think he has too much power. And some people say he abuses it.
What emerged was a portrait of an intimidating man who has more power in Silicon Valley than many outsiders know and many insiders feel comfortable with. What also emerged is that, as with many powerful people, Conway's influence comes from a combination of positive forces and negative ones. Many people in the Valley want Conway's help. Many people are also so scared of him that they won't risk crossing him.
As one source put it, "When people call Ron, 'The Godfather of Silicon Valley,' they don't know how true that is."
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EVERETT — The Boeing Co. began production Wednesday of the first U.S. Air Force KC-46A tanker, loading the aircraft's wing spar into a jig at the Paine Field factory.
The step comes just weeks before Air Force officials are expected to sign off on the tanker's final design, the next major milestone as Boeing gears up to deliver the first KC-46A aerial-refueling tanker in 2016.
"The Air Force is really excited and pleased that our No. 1 modernization priority has begun fabrication and entered the factory at Everett," Maj. Gen. John Thompson, U.S. Air Force program executive officer for tankers, said in a statement.
Over the next 14 years, Boeing is to deliver 179 tankers to the Air Force, having won the contract in 2011. The KC-46 is based on the commercial 767-200 Extended Range jet, also assembled in Everett.
On Wednesday, Boeing workers slid the wing spar, the main structural component of the wing, into a jig on the 767 production line. The spar is 82 feet, 5 inches long. Company employees also are preparing the line for assembly of the KC-46 tanker's aft and forward body structures.
Boeing plans to roll this first KC-46 out of the factory in January. Employees at Boeing Field will install military systems on the aircraft next June, with the first flight of the completed airplane set for early 2015.
"We're proud to support the U.S. Air Force with a production line that emphasizes quality, efficiency and safety," Scott Campbell, general manager of the 767 Program, said in a statement.
Boeing will provide 18 tankers to the Air Force by 2017 under a fixed-cost contract. The company would deliver 179 by 2027 if the Air Force exercises all options, a step that will largely be based on how well Boeing performs during the initial stage of the contract.
The Air Force sought for nearly a decade, beginning in 2001, to replace its fleet of KC-135 tankers, which are 50 years old on average. Boeing beat out EADS, the European parent of Airbus, in 2011 for the contract, which is worth as much as $35 billion.
An Airbus executive recently suggested Boeing is struggling with weight problems with the tanker, an issue that could give EADS another chance at supplying the Air Force with tankers. Boeing said the tanker remains on track.
For Boeing, the tanker contract means decades of work, keeping alive an ailing 767 line. The commercial 767 had just 59 orders remaining in May.
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I must be getting braver. I joined a local gym a couple of weeks ago near to my house - I was thinking about how to hide my cameras around this place, but its impossible. So then I had a great new idea - why not just hide myself in a changing cubicle and film guys through the gap in the door? I tried it out last weekend and it went great. I was very scared though, if I get caught Ill be in lots of trouble. But this first guy I filmed is amazing and more than makes up for the risk. Hes got huge balls. Check him out, hes very hot!


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A depressive disorder is a whole-body illness, involving the body, mood, and thoughts, and affects the way a person eats and sleeps, feels about himself or herself, and thinks about things. It is not the same as being unhappy or in a blue mood. Nor is it a sign of personal weakness or a condition that can be willed or wished away. People with a depressive illness cannot merely "pull themselves together" and get better.
Without treatment, symptoms can last for weeks, months, or years. Appropriate treatment, however, can help most people who suffer from depression. During any one year period, nearly 19 million American adults suffer from depressive illness. Yet, treatment can alleviate symptoms in nearly 80 percent of cases.
Women experience depression about twice as often as men. Many hormonal factors may contribute to the increased rate of depression in women - particularly such factors as menstrual cycle changes, premenstrual syndrome (PMS), pregnancy, miscarriage, postpartum period, perimenopause, and menopause. Many women also face additional stresses such as responsibilities both at work and home, single parenthood, and caring for children and aging parents.
Many women are also particularly vulnerable after the birth of a baby. The hormonal and physical changes, as well as the added responsibility of a new life, can be factors that lead to postpartum depression in some women. While transient "blues" are common in new mothers, a full-blown depressive episode is not a normal occurrence and requires active intervention. Treatment by a sympathetic physician and the family's emotional support for the new mother are prime considerations in aiding her to recover her physical and mental well-being and her ability to care for and enjoy the infant.
Depressive disorders come in different forms, as do other illnesses, such as heart disease. Three of the most prevalent types of depressive disorders include the following:
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Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer electronic cash system that is completely decentralized, without the need for a central server or trusted parties. Users hold the crypto keys to their own money and transact directly with each other, with the help of a P2P network to check for double-spending.
Forban is a P2P file sharing application for link-local and local area networks. Forban works independently from the Internet and uses only the local area capabilities to announce, discover, search, or share files. Forban relies on HTTP and is opportunistic, meaning that it replicates any files of interest seen in its proximity. The Forban protocols are minimalistic to ease the production of other implementations.
uhub is a high performance peer-to-peer hub for the ADC network. Its low memory footprint allows it to handle several thousand users on high-end servers, or a small private hub on embedded hardware. It uses the ADC protocol, and is compatible with DC++, jUCy, and other ADC clients.
TomP2P is a P2P-based high performance key-value pair storage library. Each peer has a table (either disk-based or memory-based) to store its values. A single value can be queried or updated with a secondary key. The underlying communication framework uses Java NIO to handle many concurrent connections.
filegive easily sends or receives files point-to-point, with authentication and ciphering, and the other side only needs a Web browser. No third party server is involved in the transfer. It can use common NAT traversal protocols like uPnP and NAT-PMP, manually forwarded ports, or a public ssh server.
pwnat, pronounced "poe-nat", is a tool that allows any number of clients behind NAT gateways to communicate with a server behind a separate NAT with no port forwarding and no DMZ setup on any routers in order to directly communicate with each other. The server does not need to know anything about the clients trying to connect, nor does it need to communicate with any other hosts in order to initiate the communication. Simply put, this is a proxy server that works behind a NAT, even when the client is behind a NAT. There is no middle man, no proxy, no third party, no UPnP required, no spoofing, and no DNS tricks. More importantly, the client can then connect to any host or port on any remote host or to a fixed host and port decided by the server.
KTorrent is a BitTorrent application that allows you to download and share files using the BitTorrent protocol. Key features include queuing of torrents, global and per-torrent speed limits, previewing of certain file types, importing of partially or fully downloaded files, file prioritization for multi-file torrents, selective downloading for multi-file torrents, kick/ban peers with an additional IP Filter dialog for list/edit purposes, UDP tracker support, support for private trackers and torrents, support for µTorrent's peer exchange, support for protocol encryption (compatible with Azureus), support for creating tracker-less torrents, support for distributed hash tables (DHT), support for UPnP to automatically forward ports on a LAN with dynamic assigned hosts, support for webseeds, scripting support via Kross, and interprocess control via DBus interface.
Although widely used, currently popular peer-to-peer (P2P) applications offer no user privacy. By design, services like BitTorrent and Gnutella share data with anyone that asks for it, allowing a third-party to systematically monitor user behavior. As a result, using a P2P network means that your online activities become public knowledge. OneSwarm is a peer-to-peer tool that provides users with explicit control over their privacy by letting them determine how data is shared. Instead of sharing data indiscriminately, data shared with OneSwarm can be made public, shared with friends, shared with some friends but not others, and so forth.


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GCompris is an educational software suite with numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game-orientated, but nonetheless still educational. These include computer discovery (keyboard, mouse, different mouse gestures), algebra (table memory, enumeration, double entry table, mirror image), science (the canal lock, the water cycle, the submarine, electric simulation), geography (place the country on the map), games (chess, memory, connect 4, oware, sudoku), reading practice, and others (learn to tell time, puzzles of famous paintings, vector drawing, cartoon making, etc.). It currently offers in excess of 100 activities, and more are being developed.
GNOME Commander is a fast and powerful graphical file manager. It has a "two-pane" interface in the tradition of Norton and Midnight Commander. It features drag'n'drop, GNOME MIME types, FTP, SFTP, and WebDAV using the GnomeVFS FTP module, SAMBA access, the ability to extend the context menu with entries to call external applications or scripts on the selected items, quick device access buttons with automatic mounting and unmounting, a fast file viewer for text and images, a history of recently accessed folders, and folder bookmarks.
gPodder is a Podcast receiver/catcher written in Python and pyGTK. It manages podcast feeds for you, and automatically downloads all podcasts from as many feeds as you like. If you are interested in Podcast feeds, simply put the feed URLs into gPodder and it will download all episodes for you automatically. If there is a new episode, it will get it for you. It supports download resume, if the server supports it.
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Probably composed in 1595 or 1596, A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's early comedies but can be distinguished from his other works in this group by describing it specifically as the Bard's original wedding play. Most scholars believe that Shakespeare wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream as a light entertainment to accompany a marriage celebration; and while the identity of the historical couple for whom it was meant has never been conclusively established, there is good textual and background evidence available to support this claim. At the same time, unlike the vast majority of his works (including all of his comedies), in concocting this story Shakespeare did not rely directly upon existing plays, narrative poetry, historical chronicles or any other primary source materials, making it a truly original piece. Most critics agree that if a youthful Shakespeare was not at his best in this play, he certainly enjoyed himself in writing it.
The main plot of Midsummer is a complex contraption that involves two sets of couples (Hermia and Lysander, and Helena and Demetrius) whose romantic cross-purposes are complicated still further by their entrance into the play's fairyland woods where the King and Queen of the Fairies (Oberon and Titania) preside and the impish folk character of Puck or Robin Goodfellow plies his trade. Less subplot than a brilliant satirical device, another set of characters—Bottom the weaver and his bumptious band of "rude mechanicals"—stumble into the main doings when they go into the same enchanted woods to rehearse a play that is very loosely (and comically) based on the myth of Pyramus and Thisbe, their hilarious home-spun piece taking up Act V of Shakespeare's comedy.
A Midsummer Night's Dream contains some wonderfully lyrical expressions of lighter Shakespearean themes, most notably those of love, dreams, and the stuff of both, the creative imagination itself. Indeed, close scrutiny of the text by twentieth-century critics has led to a significant upward revision in the play's status, one that overlooks the silliness of its story and concentrates upon its unique lyrical qualities. If A Midsummer Night's Dream can be said to convey a message, it is that the creative imagination is in tune with the supernatural world and is best used to confer the blessings of Nature (writ large) upon mankind and marriage.


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Real Southern Biscuits
Hello all.
Growing up in the rural South, the women in my family (tennessee and alabama) made biscuits unconsciously. Talking, doing ten things and all the while flour was flying and hands moving without measuring, no fancy equipment, the most rudimentary supplies and out of their ovens came the lightest, soft as a cloud biscuits, apparently without having to think about it. Today, a 'southern biscuit' is a cakey thing like this - foodies everywhere call this a 'southern biscuit' -
- which is not what I (we) knew as a real Southern Biscuit. Maybe in places around the South that's a biscuit, but not in my experience. In my world a southern biscuit was identical to what you can get today at the Loveless Cafe -
See the difference? The top 'biscuit' is crusty and crumbly. This bottom photo is soft, has a little chew to it, light as a cloud inside, the outside buttery and smooth instead of rough and crumbly.
I should have paid attention as a young girl, and I did to pecan pies, apple pies, buttermilk cast iron fried chicken and collards and most especially to real Southern Corn Bread in a skillet, but the biscuit magic passed me by. Almost ten years now I've tried every recipe under the sun to duplicate the biscuits I remember that are exemplified by the Loveless biscuit above, but without success. I'm asking for help to understand the difference between these biscuits. I can make the top cakey, crumbly crunchy biscuit from 200 different recipes, but the bottom biscuit is eluding me. From White Lily flour to specialty flours from King Arthur to Bakewell Cream leaveners to all sorts of tricks and tips, they all turn out like #1.
Does anyone know the real, definitive, actual difference and how to achieve it?
Once I found this Forum I hoped some pros can point me in the right direction. Thanks to all and I'm excited to see what your answers will be. Remember, I'm not here to debate the merits between biscuit styles, or to try more recipes for the top biscuit. I'm after the bottom biscuit.
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Census of Population and Housing, 1960 Public Use Sample [United States]: One-In-One Thousand Sample (ICPSR 54)
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This data collection (one-in-one thousand person national sample), which contains individual-level data from the 1960 Census of Population and Housing, provides information on household and personal characteristics. Data on household characteristics include the structure of the house, housing quality, the head of the household, roomers, boarders or lodgers, the number of rooms, the number of persons per room, rent, the year moved into unit, tenure, commercial usage, farmland, the availability of telephones, television, bathtub or shower, flush toilet, heating equipment, sewage disposal, and the source of water. Demographic information includes sex, race, age, place of birth, education, employment, income, family unit membership, age at first marriage, number of times married, and veteran status.
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U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING, 1960 PUBLIC USE SAMPLE: ONE-IN-ONE THOUSAND SAMPLE. ICPSR version. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census [producer], 1973. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00054.v1
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St. Louis uses clutch hitting, starting pitching in current win streak
MILWAUKEE -- Much has been made of the "problems" facing the St. Louis Cardinals early in 2013.
There are 28 other franchises that would happily take these problems if only they could have the Cardinals' 19-11 record after 30 games.View Full Game Coverage
In any case, it is distinctly possible that the problems the Cardinals have had are in the process of being fixed, repaired, solved.
The Cardinals' 7-6 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday was their fifth straight win. It left them with the National League's best record, a record currently bettered only in the Majors by the Boston Red Sox.
Yes, the bullpen performance has often been uncertain. Yes, there has been underachievement by some of the mainstays in the St. Louis lineup. These have been problems, serious problems.
But they have all been overcome by what has been the best starting pitching in the big leagues by a landslide margin. And now, the offense is picking up. And the bullpen has been bolstered by the arrival of two young, extremely talented pitchers.
Saturday at Miller Park the Cardinals flipped the early season script. They hit their way out of difficulty. And they had clutch relief pitching help from a rookie in his second Major League game.
The Cards came from behind twice. Center fielder Jon Jay had a huge day, with a three-run home run and a game-winning hit in the ninth. First baseman Allen Craig homered. Daniel Descalso, in at second on a double switch, hit a two-run homer in the seventh. Manager Mike Matheny was 2-for-2 on productive double switches, with Shane Robinson, inserted in left, singling and scoring the winning run. Shortstop Pete Kozma saved at least two runs with a great play in the hole in the first inning.
Rookie pitcher Seth Maness was placed in a very difficult situation, a tie game in the bottom of the eighth with one out and two runners on. Presto, Maness delivers exactly what the Redbirds need, the double-play grounder that ends the inning. Maness had pitched the eighth the previous day, and retired three straight on groundouts.
"I feel privileged that they want me to give me the ball in those situations," Maness said Saturday.
As a bonus, he was the winning pitcher in his second big league game.
"It's awesome," Mannes said. "You can't really draw it up much better than that."
Ordinarily, you would have thought the winning pitcher would have been Cardinals starter and ace Adam Wainwright. Coming in, he had a career 1.93 ERA against Milwaukee, the best mark by any active pitcher who had thrown 50 or more innings against the Brewers.
Wainwright had the rare off day, giving up five runs in 5 1/3 innings, leaving more pitches over the plate than he normally would. Wainwright and the other four St. Louis starters had been carrying this team early, but the offense got him off the hook in this one. Wainwright successfully found the humor in this.
"It wouldn't have been any fun for the rest of the team if I'd gone out and dominated and thrown a shutout," Wainwright said with a smile. "Maness got to get his first win. Jon Jay and Allen Craig and Daniel Descalso got to be heroes. So I thought it was pretty unselfish of me."
There was no shortage of heroes for the Redbirds on Saturday. The persistence, individually and collectively, was impressive.
"I think that kind of resilience that we saw really kind of defined [this] club last year," Matheny said. "I think we're starting to see some of those tendencies. "
From the other side of the argument, the Brewers had been on a 12-4 stretch before this series started. They had just scored 26 runs in three games against Pittsburgh. But they are 0-3 against their Central Division rivals in this series.
"They're outplaying us," manager Ron Roenicke said. "There's no doubt. Every person on their team, when they put him in there, they do a good job."
The arrival of Maness and Carlos Martinez has given the bullpen a new look and greater depth. Martinez made his debut Friday night, pitching the seventh, giving up nothing more than an infield hit and hitting 97 with his fastball.
"They definitely give us a few more options," Matheny said of his new relievers. "They both came in with just real good dispositions. Carlos came off the field and wanted to start hugging people. You could just tell how excited he really was. A kid coming straight out of Double-A, you can understand why. He's high energy and high emotion, anyway. It's fun to be a part of that, just witness that. And then, witness his stuff, too. Pretty easy electricity he was throwing up there.
"I didn't have any concern at all that [Maness] would be able to come in and make the pitches. That's what he does. He's a pitch-maker. He's a pitcher. What a great job, gets a big double play in the eighth."
The outlook for the Cardinals is better than it was before the arrival of Martinez and Maness. And it is improving further as the St. Louis offense begins to hit its stride.
"Look at our offense. And we're going to keep pitching," Wainwright said. "What a deadly team, if we keep pitching and start whacking the ball around like we know we can."
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The first is a collection of short stories called Runaway by Alice Munro. I had not read anything by her before and certainly had no idea that this Canadian author was about to win the Nobel Prize. These quiet stories were a fascinating introduction to her writing. They drew me in and have stayed with me, begging me to return and reread them. The women in these stories have made decisions that involve changing or leaving a situation or relationship. Sometimes this is done impulsively, in a way that feels that the character is deliberately acting in an unfamiliar way to force change. Sometimes they make choices more thoughtfully to break out of a stifling situation. Their choices are inevitably fateful and there is no way to retrace and go back. While providing a strong sense of place, the stories are set primarily in Ontario and British Columbia, they feel familiar and ordinary, and have the sensibility of a quiet meditation on life and fate, like one would find in a Dutch still life painting.
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The third book, Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage, is a children's book with a memorable young protagonist, Miss Moses LoBeau, rising sixth grader. She is exactly the sort of plucky girl, funny and confident, that one would hope to meet in a quirky, small North Carolina town. Her luck began when she was a newborn and washed ashore during a hurricane. She lands in a town full of singular Southern characters where everyone knows everyone else's business, and iced tea is the lubricant for every social situation. But her charmed life in Tupelo Landing is turned upside down when a murder investigation comes to town. Mo is not one to leave things to the professionals and is soon leading her own investigation to solve the crime, which threatens to take away the people she loves best. But this a children's book after all and the story unfolds with a light touch, even when it brushes up with harder subjects such as loss and domestic violence. The reader comes to appreciate that Mo's luck is truly a result of her resourcefulness, can do attitude and the strength of the community she loves.


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FS#744 - QCAD 3.0.5 instable ...
Opened by Husky (Husky) - Thursday, 10 January 2013, 03:31 GMT+2
Last edited by Andrew (andrew) - Friday, 18 January 2013, 21:45 GMT+2
The 3.0.5 Version is very instable - crashes many times in an hour
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I'm aware of this. The quality of the underlying Qt libraries is degrading unfortunately. It might have to do with all the recent transitions it has gone through. I will likely have to roll back to Qt 4.7 for the next snap shop / release.
I recommend to use the latest stable release 3.0.0 for now and not use the snapshot releases under Windows. Other platforms are not affected as far as I know.
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The snapshot release packages for 3.0.6 are now online. These should run stable again since they're linked against Qt 4.7.4.


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FS#1011 - Y,R Works only some of the time!
Opened by Herb (huf2000) - Saturday, 18 January 2014, 08:35 GMT+2
Last edited by Andrew (andrew) - Tuesday, 17 November 2015, 10:21 GMT+2
On a 2011 MacBook Air, the Y,R key combination for deleting layers barely works. It does in fact delete a layer occasionally, and oddly it appears to go in spurts. But it does not consistently work which significantly reduces its usefulness.
While on the matter, the reason to use YR is mostly because there is no bulk way to select a bunch of layers and delete them! This is a real pain if needing to separate layers apart (becomes some CAM programs will only accept one layer per file. We need a way to select a bunch of layers, and just delete the whole lot at one time.
Tuesday, 17 November 2015, 10:21 GMT+2
Reason for closing: Works for me
Hi Herb,
"We need a way to select a bunch of layers, and just delete the whole lot at one time"
There is already a way:
How about:
Select Layer (T,L), Mode "Add to the current selection",
Start to select your "delete" candidates ...
Purge unused Layer (Y,P),
@Husky, your correct if you want to work with entities and layers...but I think Herb is asking for a solution to highlight more than one layer at a time and then to delete the whole lot!
@Herb, do you mean empty layers only or any layer empty or not?
If you mean any used or unused layers then I agree with you, the option to select multiple layers all in one go would be a bonus.
Herb: Thanks for your report. Please post bug reports and feature requests as separate tasks. A feature request inside a bug report will likely be lost and not get any attention. Thanks.