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This speech was given by Paul Hardy, DLA Piper's Brexit Director, to the Legal Research Foundation in Auckland on 10 July 2017
The political consequences of the referendum
On 23 June 2016, the UK voted by a 52:48 majority to leave the European Union. A day later David Cameron resigned as Prime Minister. The country was plunged into a state of political uncertainty, which, in reality, has yet to pass.
Theresa May was selected by the Conservative Party as their new leader, after her rivals fell, one by one, along the way. It was at times comical. One contender had to fall on her sword after praying in aid her motherhood as a competitive edge over Theresa May. The prospect of a Boris premiership was brought up short by an Et tu Brute? moment of the highest Shakespearean drama. Michael Gove, a friend from Oxford dining club days, fellow arch-Brexiteer and chief cheerleader in the Boris camp, at the last minute stood against him. Boris withdrew. No one was quite sure why. Michael Gove's ploy was thoroughly deprecated by the rank and file of the Conservative Party, and he was quickly eliminated in the first round of voting.
This left the way clear for Theresa May, best known for being a safe, and unusually long-serving, pair of hands at the Home Office. Oh, and incidentally she voted against Brexit.
Theresa May cleared out the Cameron Cabinet, and set about the task of constructing Government policy on Brexit—a task made less easy by the fact that George Osborne had banned the Civil Service from planning for such an eventuality. A Brexit team in the Cabinet Office soon became a new Department of State, the Department for Exiting the European Union, led by David Davis. A new Department for Trade was also established. This was the first indication that the Government was intending not to remain within the EU's Customs Union, within which trade policy is vested in the EU itself, but to become an independent trading nation.
By late Autumn, the Prime Minister was able to say that the UK would trigger Article 50 in early 2017. The Government's policy on Brexit would not become clearer, however, until then.
Let us now turn to the rules for leaving the EU under both EU and UK law.
Withdrawing from the EU under EU law
Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union
Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union (the TEU), incorporated into the TEU in 2009 by the Lisbon Treaty, sets out the rules on withdrawing from the EU. Whilst the predominant legal opinion before its incorporation was that an EU Member State could secede from the EU, Article 50 makes this plain as a matter of EU law, rather than international law. It was a significant thing for the EU to include such a provision in its Treaties, given its founding principle of closer integration.
Paragraph 1 of Article 50 states that: Any Member State may decide to withdraw from the Union in accordance with its own constitutional requirements. This, then, sets out an EU Member State's unilateral right to secede from the EU under EU law.
Paragraph 2 of Article 50 states that: A Member State which decides to withdraw shall notify the European Council of its intention. In the light of the guidelines provided by the European Council, the Union shall negotiate and conclude an agreement with that State, setting out the arrangements for its withdrawal, taking account of the framework for its future relationship with the Union. According to paragraph 2, the process of withdrawal is triggered when the withdrawing State notifies the European Council, consisting of EU heads of State, of its intention to withdraw. There is no time limit for the notification – the UK delayed nine months. Once notified, the European Council adopts guidelines which set the ambit within which the negotiations are to be conducted by the EU's Commission, with oversight by the Council (of Ministers). The objective of the negotiations is an agreement with the withdrawing State which sets out the mechanics of the withdrawal, but which also takes into account "the framework" of a future relationship.
Paragraph 3 states that: The Treaties shall cease to apply to the State in question from the date of entry into force of the withdrawal agreement or, failing that, two years after the notification referred to in paragraph 2, unless the European Council, in agreement with the Member State concerned, unanimously decides to extend this period. The words "the Treaties shall cease to apply to the State in question" are stark. EU law is based on a "hierarchy of norms", at the top of which sit the EU Treaties. All EU legislation, the competence of all of its institutions and agencies, the legal force of all of its acts, derive from the Treaties. Once they cease to apply to an EU Member State, it follows that every other aspect of EU competence and law, including the enforcement powers of the Commission and the jurisdiction of the Court of Justice of the EU, come to an end.
In terms of timing, paragraph 3 makes clear that the Treaties can cease to apply on three alternative dates:
- Two years after the date of notification; unless
- The withdrawal agreement comes into force beforehand; or unless
- The two-year period is extended by unanimous agreement of the EU Member States, excluding the withdrawing State.
The two-year deadline was, in fact, inserted into Article 50 to show that the right to withdraw was unilateral: the withdrawing Member State did not, ultimately, need the consent of the other EU Member States. The drafters of Article 50 always foresaw, however, the two-year period being extended, it being an unrealistically short time given the scope and complexity of EU integration. But for political reasons on both sides of the Channel the two-year deadline has become fixed: in the UK because of a wish to see the referendum result implemented quickly; and on the EU side because there are elections to the European Parliament in May 2019, and the appointment of a new Commission in 2020.
As the enormity of the task of withdrawal becomes clearer, attention may yet focus on the possibility of extending this deadline; or, at the least, having transitional measures in place for the period between Brexit and the coming into force of a new UK-EU trade agreement.
Much attention, or more accurately hope, has focussed on whether the process of withdrawing from the EU can be reversed. It is perhaps an obvious question to ask, but Article 50 is silent on it. Views differ on whether that silence can be interpreted as implied consent or prohibition. In my own view, I think it can be interpreted as applied consent. The fact that there is no explicit prohibition is significant. By contrast, paragraph 4 of Article 50 specifies how a State re-joins after it has withdrawn (it has to go through the application procedure of any candidate country). It is relevant too that the Court of Justice of the EU takes a purposive approach to interpreting the Treaties. The overarching Treaty objective of "ever closer union" would weigh heavily in favour of a State being allowed to remain if it wished, rather than being forced to proceed on a course to withdrawal, only then to have to re-apply as a candidate country (See the views of Sir David Edward QC and Professor Derrick Wyatt QC, paragraph 10 of the Lords Report: The Process of Withdrawing from the EU).
If (and it's a very big if) the UK held a further referendum as a result of which it decided to stay in the EU, it follows that I do not think a legal objection would stop the UK from remaining in the EU. The EU's decision would primarily be a political one.
Note well, however, that the UK's exit from the EU is determined by EU law – Article 50 – not by UK law, nor by UK politics. There could be a series of elections in the UK before March 2019, but none will effect a reversal of Brexit unless a UK Government considers it has a popular mandate to go to the EU and say it's all been a big mistake. I wouldn't bet on that happening.
Withdrawing from the EU under UK law
I turn now to consider how the UK's membership of the EU was given effect in national law in 1972, and the effect this has had on the Government's right to notify the EU of its intention to withdraw under paragraph 1 of Article 50.
The European Communities Act 1972
The UK is a "dualist" State. In dualist states, as many of you will know, a treaty ratified by the Government does not alter the laws of the State unless and until it is incorporated into national law by legislation. In the absence of incorporating legislation, national courts have no power to enforce the rights and obligations in the treaty in question.
In 1972, the UK Parliament gave effect to the UK's rights and duties under the former Community and now EU Treaties in national law through the European Communities Act 1972 (the ECA).
The ECA is a very clever piece of legislation: it was able to give effect to EU legal doctrines such as direct effect and supremacy without offending against the constitutional requirements of a dualist State, as well as to future-proof itself through ambulatory means to take account of developments in EU law.
It is worth dwelling on the key provisions of the ECA, because of their relevance to the Miller litigation.
By virtue of section 2(1) of the ECA, provisions of EU law that are directly applicable or have direct effect, such as all EU Regulations or certain Articles of the EU Treaties, are automatically (without further enactment) incorporated and binding in national law without the need for a further Act of Parliament. Section 2(1) applies to EU law now and as it develops in the future (from time to time) either by Treaty revision (created by) or interpretation by the Court of Justice of the EU (arising under).
Section 2(2), by contrast, applies to measures of EU law that are neither directly applicable nor have direct effect. This provision makes it possible to give effect in national law to such measures by secondary, or delegated, legislation, such as statutory instruments. Importantly, such secondary legislation can amend an Act of Parliament (section 2(4)) since the delegated legislative power includes the power to make such provision as might be made by Act of Parliament.
Section 2(4) and 3(1) give effect to the doctrine of the supremacy of EU law over national law. Where EU law is in doubt, it requires UK courts to refer the question to the Court of Justice of the EU. As a consequence, all primary legislation enacted by Parliament after the entry into force of the ECA has to be construed by the courts subject to the requirements of EU law. This obliges the courts to dis-apply legislation which is inconsistent with EU law, which is what happened in the celebrated (Factortame case Factortame (No 1) [1990] 2 AC 85; Factortame (No 2) [1991] 1 AC 603): Part II of the Merchant Shipping Act 1988 was held by the House of Lords to be inconsistent with EU law and therefore dis-applied. The same principle was followed by the House of Lords in dis-applying discriminatory provisions in the Employment Protection (Consolidated) Act 1978 (R v Secretary of State for Transport, ex p. Equal Opportunities Commission [1995] 1 AC 1).
The power given to national courts under section 2(4) is remarkable. By dis-applying provisions of primary legislation, the court refused on these two occasions to give effect to an Act—the will—of Parliament. It is also unique: it is only by virtue of the ECA that the courts have this power. Under the Human Rights Act, for example, the courts have the power to make a declaration of incompatibility, on which Parliament decides whether to act, but not to dis-apply the offending statutory provision. More recently, in a case called Benkharbouche (Benkharbouche (Respondent) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Appellant) [2015] EWCA Civ 33), the Court of Appeal dis-applied the State Immunity Act 1978 in respect of claims by two employees of the Libyan embassy in London which fell within the scope of EU law. It also made a declaration of incompatibility under the Human Rights Act, but it was the disapplication of the State Immunity Act that was by far the more powerful remedy. The case was appealed to the Supreme Court, which heard it in June. Judgment is awaited.
So, in sum, the ECA provides individuals not only with a wide array of rights under EU law, but also the power to enforce them. The scheme of the ECA was a significant factor in deciding the outcome of the Miller litigation, which I now consider.
The Miller litigation
The Royal Prerogative
The power of the UK Government to ratify, or withdraw from, a treaty is one which traditionally falls within the Royal Prerogative. Royal Prerogative powers are, in crude outline, a remnant of the absolute powers of the monarch that were not vested in Parliament after the Bill of Rights and the Acts of Settlement and Union, and have not been vested in Parliament ever since. They are exercised by the Government mainly in the field of foreign relations, without consultation with, or consent from, Parliament. Because they are conventional, rather than statutory, powers.
The UK Parliament enjoys legislative sovereignty, or supremacy, meaning that it can make and unmake any law it chooses. This, as you will know, is cardinal principle of the UK's constitution. As a consequence, it has long been established by case law (For example, Attorney-General v De Keyser's Royal Hotel Ltd [1920] AC 508; Burmah Oil Co (Burma Trading) Ltd v Lord Advocate [1965] AC 75, 101; and R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, Ex p Fire Brigades Union [1995] 2 AC 513, 552) that the exercise of the Royal Prerogative cannot override or alter legislation made by Parliament. To do so would be to interfere with Parliament's legislative sovereignty.
Background to the appeal to the Supreme Court
Gina Miller, a fund manager in London, together with others, questioned whether the UK Government's right to notify the EU of its intention to withdraw from the EU could legitimately be made under Royal Prerogative powers. Her contention was that the ECA had conferred rights on individuals that would be removed by service of the Article 50 notice, in breach of the principle of Parliamentary sovereignty.
She wisely instructed David Pannick QC, a leading public lawyer, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and member of the House of Lords, to act on her behalf.
The remedy she sought was a declaration from the Divisional Court that the Article 50 notice could only be served with prior authorisation of an Act of Parliament.
The Divisional Court agreed, making the declaration. It concluded that the Government could not act under the Royal Prerogative where it would result in a change in domestic law. In this case, the rights under the ECA, and other EU implementing legislation, would be changed. It was not therefore open to the Government to withdraw from the EU Treaties, and therefore to serve the Article 50 notice, without statutory authorisation.
The Government appealed the case to the Supreme Court, which gave judgment in January this year R (on the application of Miller and another) (Respondents) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union (Appellant) [2017] UKSC 5 (Miller).
The Supreme Court judgment
It is perhaps important to bear in mind that, for reasons of public perception, the Government did not argue in these appeals that the notification process under Article 50 was reversible. It feared being accused in the Conservative press of not wishing to implement the referendum result. It also feared giving the court an opportunity to refer the case to the Court of Justice of the EU for a binding interpretation of Article 50—perhaps the ultimate irony for a country seeking to end the jurisdiction over it of the Court of Justice. The Government not only accepted that serving notice to withdraw from the EU was not reversible, but also that it would inevitably affect the rights granted to individuals through the UK's membership of the EU, given domestic effect by the ECA.
These, in my view, were significant concessions. If the Government had argued that the notification process was reversible, it would have been harder to establish a legal nexus between the exercise of Royal Prerogative powers and the loss of individual rights. It would have reinforced that accessing to, and withdrawing from, an international treaty, including an EU treaty, sounds in international law, rather than national law.
In a majority judgment of 8-3, the Supreme Court held that an Act of Parliament was required to authorise ministers to give notice of the decision of the UK to withdraw from the EU. It gave the following reasons, the first two of which departed from the ratio in the Divisional Court judgment:
- Section 2 of the ECA "authorised a dynamic process" by which EU law becomes a source of UK law and takes precedence over all domestic sources of UK law, including statutes. So long as the ECA remained in force its effect was to constitute EU law as "an independent and overriding source of domestic law". It operated as a partial transfer of law-making powers, an assignment of legislative competences, by Parliament to EU institutions, unless and until Parliament decided otherwise. The constitutional effect of the ECA was "unprecedented": it provided for "a new constitutional process for making law in the United Kingdom".
- Withdrawal from the EU made a "fundamental legal change" to the UK's constitutional arrangements, by cutting off the source of EU law. Such a fundamental legal change would be the inevitable effect of the Article 50 notice being served. The UK constitution required such fundamental legal changes to be effected by Parliamentary legislation.
- The fact that withdrawal from the EU would remove existing rights under the ECA also rendered it impermissible for the Government to withdraw from the EU Treaties under the Royal Prerogative. This was an "additional, albeit related ground" for the requirement of an Act of Parliament.
It is worth recording the dissenting judgment of Lord Reed.
- Lord Reed, with whom Lord Carnwath and Lord Hughes agreed, took the opposite view. He considered that "EU law was not itself an independent source of domestic law, but depended for its effect in domestic law on the 1972 Act". Furthermore, the effect which Parliament had given to EU law under the ECA—in other words the rights and obligations which flowed from the ECA—was conditional on the application of the EU treaties to the UK and therefore on the UK's membership of the EU. It was clear that the ECA did not impose any requirement on the UK to remain a member of the EU. It did not therefore affect the Government's exercise of Royal Prerogative powers in respect of UK membership.
Article 50 and devolution
The Supreme Court was also asked to consider whether serving notice to withdraw from the EU under Article 50 would require the prior consent, through legislation, of the Devolved Legislatures in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
It decided that, whilst the devolution Acts were passed by Parliament on the assumption that the UK would be a member of the EU, they did not require the UK to remain a member. Relations with the EU and other foreign affairs matters were reserved to UK Government and Parliament, not to the devolved institutions. That said, withdrawal from the EU would alter the competence of the devolved institutions, and remove their responsibilities to comply with EU law.
The Advocate General for Scotland and the Counsel General for Wales argued, additionally, that the Sewel Convention prevented the Government from triggering Article 50 without the consent of the Scottish Parliament.
The Sewel Convention is a convention of the devolution settlement by which the UK Parliament will not normally legislate with regard to devolved matters without the consent of the Devolved Parliaments. It was incorporated into both the 2016 Scotland Act and the 2017 Wales Act.
The Supreme Court unanimously found that the Sewel Convention was a political instrument, rather than a legal one. As such, the courts were "neither the parents nor the guardians of political conventions; they were merely observers." They could recognise the operation of a political convention in the context of deciding a legal questions "but they could not give legal rulings on its operation or scope, because those matters were determined within the political world."
The fact that the convention had been put on a statutory footing did not change this analysis. The UK Parliament "was not seeking to convert the Sewel Convention into a rule which can be interpreted, let alone enforced, by the courts; rather, it was recognising the convention for what it was, namely a political convention, and was effectively declaring that it is a permanent feature of the relevant devolution settlement."
The conclusion of the majority of the Supreme Court that EU law was an independent source of UK law was pivotal to its reasoning, and unexpected. It seems to me that it risks being inconsistent with the constitutional requirements of dualist States, namely that it is national legislation which gives effect to Treaty obligations under national law, rather than the other way around. Consider the way in which the judges' views are expressed in the following statements:
"In one sense, of course, it can be said that the 1972 Act is the source of EU law, in that, without that Act, EU law would have no domestic status. But in a more fundamental sense and, we consider, a more realistic sense, where EU law applies in the United Kingdom, it is the EU institutions which are the relevant source of that law."
Professor Mark Elliot, a professor of public law at the University of Cambridge, makes the point well in his article on Miller on his blog site Public Law for Everyone:
"It is hard to see in what sense the EU's legislative and constitutional apparatus can be an 'independent source' of UK law if the source of EU law's validity in the UK is itself UK law (in the form of the ECA). The EU regime may be independently capable of generating law — and so be a source of law — viewed from an EU perspective, but it does not follow that the same is true from a UK constitutional perspective" (Analysis / The Supreme Court's Judgment in Miller)."
I rather agree with this view, and take some consolation in the fact that it is the view expressed in the minority judgment.
Precedent effect?
In terms of the precedent of the Miller for the Royal Prerogative powers of the UK Government to withdraw from a treaty, I suggest the main conclusion to draw is that the Supreme Court's judgment reaffirms, albeit on an incidental basis, the decision of the Divisional Court that Royal Prerogative power cannot be exercised if it affects, amends or overrides legislation, because of the sovereignty of Parliament.
The Supreme Court's ratio in deciding that EU law amounts to an independent source of UK law is sui generis, specific to the nature of membership of the EU and the mechanisms of the ECA, and so of narrower relevance as a precedent for the curtailment of Royal Prerogative powers to make and unmake treaties.
I would add as a final remark that court's unanimous view on the justiciability of a political convention is a helpful clarification, and of wider relevance, particularly where a political convention has been incorporated in statute.
Implementing Miller
The European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Act 2017 came into force on 17 March 2017. The Prime Minister sent the UK's notification of withdrawal on 29 March 2017.
Implementing Brexit
Let me turn now, very briefly, to the Brexit legislation announced by the Prime Minister in the Queen's Speech on 21 June.
The Great Repeal Bill
The Great Repeal Bill, now simply called the Repeal Bill, will be laid in Parliament this week.
i) Three objectives
It has three objectives:
- Repeal: The ECA which gives domestic effect to directly applicable EU law and provides a legal basis for the domestication of other EU law, will be repealed.
- Convert: Directly applicable EU law will be converted into domestic law, while EU law already domesticated under powers granted by the ECA will be preserved, the ECA's repeal notwithstanding. This will give rise to a body of 'EU-derived law' that will, from Brexit Day, exist in the UK solely as UK law.
- Correct: The Repeal Bill will equip UK Ministers and devolved Ministers with delegated powers to 'correct' EU-derived domestic law and other relevant domestic law in order to ensure that EU-derived domestic law is workable in the UK post-Brexit.
ii) Replacing the ECA as the basis for the application of EU law in the UK
The Repeal Bill will be a procedural statute: it will provide the mechanism by which EU law is converted, but not the details on how each law will be converted. It will convert EU law by:
- Providing a new legal base for directly applicable EU legislation (EU Treaties, Regulations and Decisions) to apply in the UK, replacing section 2(1) ECA
- roviding a new legal base for indirectly applicable EU legislation (EU Directives), the majority of which are based on the parent power in section 2(2) ECA
- Containing delegated powers which will allow the Government to amend primary legislation and secondary legislation by means of secondary legislation
iii) Case law of the Court of Justice of the EU
The case law of the Court of Justice of the EU, up to the date of Brexit, will be binding on UK courts post-Brexit in the interpretation of what the Government calls "EU-derived law". It will have the same authority as a judgment of the Supreme Court, which can only be departed from in exceptional circumstances:
"This approach maximises legal certainty at the point of departure, but the intention is not to fossilise the past decisions of the CJEU forever. As such, we propose that the Bill will provide that historic CJEU case law be given the same binding, or precedent, status in our courts as decisions of our own Supreme Court." (Government White Paper, Legislating for the United Kingdom's Withdrawal from the European Union, para 2.16)
iv) Supremacy of EU law
Where a conflict arises between EU-derived law and new primary legislation passed by Parliament after the UK's exit from the EU, then newer legislation will take precedence over the EU-derived law. In this way, the Repeal Bill will end the general supremacy of EU law. But if, after Brexit, a conflict arises between two pre-Brexit laws, one of which is an EU-derived law and the other not, then the EU-derived law will continue to take precedence over the other pre-exit law.
v) Scope of delegated powers
Delegated powers can be constitutionally and legally controversial. Constitutionally because they can allow Government to change primary legislation by means of secondary legislation (Henry VIII powers), thereby circumventing the full-scale Parliamentary scrutiny which accompanies the passage of primary legislation through Parliament. Legally because, unless narrowly defined, they give Government wide powers to change policy with little scope for effective judicial review. The Lords Constitution Committee put it this way:
"The challenge facing Parliament—and on which we focus in this report—is how to grant the Government relatively wide delegated powers for the purpose of converting EU law into UK law, while ensuring that they cannot also be used simply to implement new policies desired by the Government in areas which were formerly within EU competence.
"We consider that Parliament should address this challenge in two distinct ways. First, by limiting the scope of the delegated powers granted under the Great Repeal Bill, and second, by putting in place processes to ensure that Parliament has on-going control over the exercise of those powers." (Summary, The Great Repeal Bill and Delegated Powers)
The Government has said in response that it "will ensure that the power will not be available where the Government wishes to make a policy change which is not designed to deal with deficiencies in preserved EU-derived law arising out of our exit from the EU." (Government White Paper, Legislating for the United Kingdom's Withdrawal from the European Union, para 3.17) The Government has said it does not want to change the way in which delegated legislation is scrutinised by Parliament; but Parliament may have other ideas. Come what may, you can expect the powers of delegation in the Repeal Bill to be minutely scrutinised, particularly in the Lords, with a prospect of Government defeats if the view is reached that they are illegal or unconstitutional.
In addition, delegated legislation, unlike primary legislation, can be struck down by the courts. It is possible that delegated legislation that is perceived to make adverse amendments to the regulation off a commercial sector could be legally challenged in judicial review proceedings. The Government will have to set the scope of any delegated legislation with this risk in mind.
Seven other Brexit Bills
The Queens Speech promised not just the Repeal Bill, but Bills on trade, customs, immigration, agriculture, fisheries, data protection, and international sanctions. The package of Brexit legislation shows that the UK is on course to leave both the Customs Union and the Single Market. Why else am Immigration, Customs and Trade Bill? A further indication of this is the appointment of Crawford Falconer as the Chief Trade Negotiation Adviser and Second Permanent Secretary at the Department for International Trade. It is good to know that our new trade policy is in the most experienced of hands.
It is an ambitious legislative package, and there is a real of serial amendments and defeat on the hundreds of votes that will be required to get it through both Houses. There is, in other words, no certainty that the Government will succeed.
New Devolved competences
Many of the EU policies be returned to the UK fall within the competencies of the Devolved Nations, particularly agriculture, fisheries and environmental protection. It will be interesting to see how the devolution of these policies is put into effect in Brexit legislation. There will be tension between the need to respect the Devolved Settlements right to formulate policy in their own fashion, and a Whitehall desire to have a UK single market in, for example, agriculture. This will also have a bearing on what terms the UK can offer preferential access to its markets in trade deals.
Those keen to see what type of UK might emerge from the tortuous path to its exit from the EU should keep a close eye on the passage of all these Bills. It promises to be a roller-coaster ride, and one which has to be completed in eighteen months.
EU negotiations
At the same time, the Government is negotiating a deal on its withdrawal from the EU. There will be little time to put in place replacement relationships for the hundreds of areas in which the UK currently cooperate with the EU before March 2019. Transitional measures covering the period from Brexit to the entry into force of a new UK-EU trade deal will, in my view, be critical.
Parliament will get a "take-it-or-leave-it" vote on the final deal. Beware, however: this is of political significance but of no legal consequence. The two-year cut-off in Article 50 applies whether Parliament approves the deal or not. Come 29 March 2015, the EU Treaties "cease to have effect" in the UK.
Thank you very much indeed for your time.


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I'd swear this was a feature on an earlier version of the Madsonic app for Android, and not sure if it was on iPhone or not, but I'd like to see a feature re-introduced where I can hit the "pause" button on my wired headphones twice in rapid succession to skip to the next song in my playlist. Or 3 times to rewind to the beginning of the current song.
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5 Sweet & Healthy Treat Ideas for Kids' Classrooms
A friend told me recently that she was stumped by her kids' classroom treat rules. No more cupcakes, no cookies, no candy. All that is well and good — she was all for healthy eating — but between the tight sugar rules and the peanut ban, she wanted help brainstorming what to make when it was her turn to bring snacks for the class. Here are a few low-sugar, relatively healthy ideas — and I'd love to hear yours! Have you come up with any creative healthy treats for your kids' classroom?
These are just a few ideas for things on the sweet side, pulled from our own archives. This isn't even including savory snacks like cheese and toasted chickpeas.
• 1 Blood Orange Jelly Smiles – Little jellies, right in the orange peels, with no added sugar. Just jellify the orange juice and pour it back in. Kids love these!
• 2 4-Ingredient Banana Oat Bars – These chewy banana bars are easy and fast, and they use only the banana for sweetness.
• 3 Magic Banana Ice Cream – And keeping with that banana theme for a minute, what about 1-ingredient banana ice cream? Bring in little cups — a fun sweet treat that's all fruit.
• 4 Fruit-on-the-Bottom Yogurt Cups – What about fruit-on-the-bottom yogurt cups, made with low-sugar jam or just fruit? Put in 1/2-pint jars — cute and easy.
• 5 Oranges and Dates – Cut dates up into little pieces and serve them with orange slices. Not exactly low-sugar, but it's natural!
What else have you taken to the kids' classroom lately?
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new david bowie single and album
- podge, orangejuice, and MarwoodW this'd this
...it reminds me quite a lot of Robert Wyatt. Both in the timbre of his voice and the melody. Sounds cool though on a brief listen.nicknackno this'd this
Lovely stuff
There's more of a crack/tremble in his voice now, rather like latterday Scott Walker, though unlike Scott he still seems to take himself seriously (this shouldn't be interpreted as a criticism of SW btw). The last minute or so is absolutely beautiful.Wooly31, Pale-eyedBadger, sunstroke_house, Tiresias42, ThisTemporaryLife, and JaguarPirate this'd this
Yeah, it's nice
I'm just really happy to have him here, tbh - when I were a lad in the 90s we got a different Bowie album of wildly varying quality every year to two years, so his absence has been a bit heartbreaking, especially with all the health rumours. Even if this was his last record then I think something nice and statesmanlike to end things on seems a bit more appropriate than Reality.
really like it
oddly reminds me of the new Nick Cave track.
and maybe it's because I've been reading it, but I can't help but think the lyrics are inspired by WIll Self's Psychogeography
Anyway, if you haven't heard it yet, listen here: http://www.davidbowie.com/the-next-day
- justanothersheeldz, avl06, Antelope, Coja, and crashingthrough this'd this
This track is not that amazing
but it's fantastic to know that he's well enough to make a new record.
don't really like it on the first listen
but I am glad he is well and recording and PERHAPS will tour, would love to go see him.
It feels so weird to listen to something new from him
I honestly thought he was done; when Toy leaked I figured that was him trying to give fans some closure, so to speak. This has been an amazing surprise to wake up to. The sly old (diamond) dog - on his birthday, too!
Three lads at work this morning during tea break:
"First song in 10 years? He's been dead since 1974"
"Aye, Ziggy Startdust, after that its no worth bothering about"
"Only ever made 3 albums - Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, Aladin Sane, that's all ye need"
All 3 - "Aye!"
All three of them are 50+ and yet seem to have grasped the act of trolling quite well. What a bunch of lads!
that's probably the approximate view of the majority of people
who are that age and have an opinion on the matter one way or another
They're not far wrong
pick up The Man Who Sold The World and you're there ;-)
(That said, this new single is really good).
I dunno, they're pretty wrong.
My only hard and fast rule to stick to with Bowie is avoid anything released between Let's Dance and Outside. That's a 5 album run in a discography of nearly 30.
Mind you, I wouldn't call 'Hours...' or Reality classics, but they're not bad by any stretch.
0:51 of this new song
chubby little loserwecancreate this'd this
don't really know that much Bowie bar the famous stuff
but i think this is a really excellent song, very interested in hearing the album.
its alright.
Think he needs to get back on the cocaine to be honest.Huggy_Bear this'd this
That's a great idea
for a man with a heart problem.
Painfully dull.
Seems about on a par with other Bowie stuff since Earthling.SarcasticFringehead this'd this
Ok - I SERIOUSLY had a dream where I was chatting to Bowie about
his defecto retirement last night.
Yeah I know how disparaging I am when people start harping on about dreams but ...
Anyway Anschul is right - listen without the vid. It's still not.... great .... but I'm glad he's about.
- Royter-Hatfood this'd this
announced in the same week as a new Pynchon novel?
my hopes for new MBV are slightly upped again. Also, this new song's pretty good - I had no idea what to expect.
- anal_schwarzenegger and _TheBeautifulOnes_ this'd this
I like it
unfortunately I ruined i though by listening to that steaming turd of a new Suede song straight afterwards
unbelievably bad.
He's an embarrassment on legs.
After his Vandellas cover with Jagger, and his pathetic 90s attempts to remain cool, he's managed to outdo himself with this bad CGI Rosie and Jim impression.
Ok he's got a few good records, but this man has put out innumerable volumes of pure shit.
- Gorkys_Forever this'd this
This was about as good as I could have hoped.
When Blur put up Under the Westway last year, I'd put that up there as one of their best singles.
The guy is a god
He OWNED the 70s. A bona-fide classic album every year of that decade. So, doesn't bother me that this song isn't too great or that the last 30 years have been patchy as hell. He can do what the fuck he wants.lustforlife, oceanRain, cliquester, RockyORourke, Infinite_Jest, SCROTUM, DeadJames, and MarwoodW this'd this
100 times this
And also he puts on amazing live shows. Glastonbury 2000, when he was sick with a sore throat and still pulled off a great set.
Saw him in Wellington New Zealand in 2004, during a freak summer storm that had closed every single route into the city and blown over most of the trees on the hill just behind the stadium, and he was there onstage in driving rain, gales blowing into his face, giving everything, saying "shall I keep going? I can take it if you can". When he could have just cut his set and walked off, because who cares about NZ anyway when you're a multi-millionaire rock star. Absolute class._TheBeautifulOnes_ and subjective this'd this
Agreed, but
The 80's were an amazing time for him as well, even if you don't rate his records the way he adapted and led everyone into that 80's sound of Let's Dance, etc was as remarkable as his formative years.
All the boys wanted to be Bowie :D
Let's Dance was amazing
I would argue that it's his best album. And I would win the argument.
Buying Let's Dance for tuppance on vinyl last year
was one of my best investments. Absolutely rinsed the fuck out of it. Was living with one other guy and my girlfriend at the time and every time he would return home I'd stick the title track on the turntable and blast it up just to annoy/make him laugh. I'm still not sure if it really pissed him off or not.
I like it
Sound pretty perfect for this point of his career (in similar vain to Johnny Cash).
Does anyone know anymore about the health rumours? The most concrete I've ever heard was that he definitely had a heart attack. He looks pretty old in that video, although not really seeing his hair doesn't help!
there's a bit near the end when you see him properly
looks alright, looks about 66
- Tiresias42, gonad, and SCROTUM this'd this
This is shite
It's 2013, Dave. There's no excuse for that production.ma0sm this'd this
Apparently this is the cover of his new album
Knocked it up on MS Paint, eh?subjective this'd this
Aye, must be
I saw someone else posting it up, but they seemed to think it's real. Think that interview gives it away...
no, thats genuine.
Jonathan Barnbrook has done the last three Bowie covers.
- Cementimental this'd this
Love this bit
– What is the font you used for the main title?
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It's a NEW font...that looks so much like Arial you'd have to be some kind of mouthbreathing font-geek not to assume it was Arial. Good work.andyvine and poptimusgrime this'd this
Incredibly bad
Hard-Fi levels of pseudo-cleverness. Except this is DAVID FUCKIN' BOWIE.
Let's face it, this whole thing is going to be a disaster
That stuff about how the title references Macbeth is the best Pseud's Corner entry I've seen for years.
And the font? It's fucking Helvetica man, get over it.chris-budget this'd this
Yeah i saw that on the Bowie fb page
Total shit
it's always going to be a problem
when someone who has a legacy like his (ok someone with a very good legacy, count the number even close to him on one hand) that any new stuff is going to be hard to measure up. It's no instant 5 star classic song but it's lovely, it seems sombre like Heathen but maybe nicer produced. I think his last two albums were perfectly fine too so looking forward to it.
I do also admit that I'll often give songs with a slightly reflective feel over a career with genuine history some more love that out of context doesn't quite deserve.
Bring me the Disco King seemed his bowing out song quite abit, wonder if this album will be a bit less depressing.
Artists in their mid-late 60s can go in a few directions.
Some good, some bad. I love what Scott Walker is doing, of course... but Tom Waits. Leonard Cohen. Bob Dylan. Paul McCartney. Those guys know how to age well without needing to go batty.
This new Bowie record seems to be in the same vein. Dignified, enjoyable music. Obviously not in the same class as his 70s work, but seemingly resigned from trying to be radio-ready or trendy. That was the problem, if anything, with his work post-Scary Monsters.
pretty good
terrible video
Played it to my 9 year old daughter
she said 'preferred his earlier stuff'
I like it and I like my friend Fil's review/description on facebook:
"a tragic political lament for humanity is the new song by david bowie, like a contemporary pop "the waste land". i write that fully acknowledging that most people will respond that it is a disappointment. it is the most decent act a legend popstar can do today
..... "just walking the dead""
and i recognised the projected face art installation malarky and wasn't all LOL WHUT
but i lose indie points for not remembering the artist's name
It's ok, but I don't know if I can really stomach all this misty-eyed nostalgia business
I think the video would've been better if Iggy suddenly jumped in the studio halfway through and took all his clothes off but NO that didn't happen
- crashingthrough, pip_, andyvine, poptimusgrime, JaguarPirate, and _TheBeautifulOnes_ this'd this
Now that everyone's over the fact that he's not dead
can we all agree that this is pretty mediocre?badmanreturns this'd this
I find it strange that people are saying how happy they are that he's well enough to record music
when this sounds like he's in his death throes.
It took a couple of listens
and a little more volume on the dial, but this song is really doing it for me.SenorDingDong this'd this
I'm a fanatic
Hate to type this out. I don't love it. It's OK.
Still, I'm a fanatic. Will be first on my block to own album! :)
Like it, sad, reflective, aching...
The whole nearly dying and disappearing for ten years is a PR masterstroke too(joke)..
Great track
....and a break from the over produced pap that is all over the mainstream these days
- _TheBeautifulOnes_ this'd this
superb JAGing
details pls
thanks :)
Quick CDr I knocked up for my Ireland tour starting later this week. Misc old and new recordings, I'll stick it on bandcamp too soon.
+ total budget homemade CDr version avaliable at my shows
amazingpoptimusgrime this'd this
but what is that new font you are using?????
If this wasn't by Bowie,
If it was some new guy on the scene, I guarantee 100% that none of you would like it.
It's absolute dogshit.
this song could not have been written by 'some new guy on the scene'. much of the love directed to this track is for Bowie himself, for his journey. the general outpouring of appreciation is representative of that. does this song compare to his 70's heyday? no. is it going to change my life or give the world a brand new Ziggy-sized hard-on? highly unlikely. but, what it does do, very nicely indeed, is add another chapter to one of the greatest discographies in pop music. and that is plenty good enough for me.
How good does this need to be?
How good does this album need to be to make its release worthwhile? I didn't think David needed to make a comeback at all, so I'll settle for nothing less than 9/10.
This is one of my most anticipated albums of the year, read more waffle here, danke:
Still vehemently fucking hate this
I've only heard it twice. Knowing that it exists is driving me insane with hatred.
saw poptimusgrime reply
opened thread
not disappointed


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30 in 30: Sharks Need Backup Goalie, More Offenseby Staff Writer / San Jose Sharks
Last season, the San Jose Sharks clinched their ninth consecutive berth in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, but the sailing was not always smooth. After a scorching January, the Sharks hit an offensive rough patch that threatened their postseason chances. The slump was so severe management was forced to shuffle the lineup and address long-term questions during the busiest point of the season.
This offseason, general manager Doug Wilson has continued implementing his "reset/refresh" philosophy in an attempt to avoid the emergency surgery of last season. Has Wilson done enough to steer the Sharks toward running their playoff streak to 10 in 2013-14?
According to the website OnTheForecheck.com, the Sharks will cover more miles than any team in the NHL competing in a realigned Pacific Division. Their goaltender, Antti Niemi, is world-class, but he's looking for a backup. The Sharks shone on special teams last season but struggled at full strength, and the defense again may be asked to carry a big load.
Here is a look at the six biggest questions facing San Jose as it enters 2013-14:
1. Who will back up Antti Niemi? -- San Jose relied heavily on Niemi last season in goal; the Finn started 43 of 48 games and earned his first Vezina Trophy nomination. But he will be in more need of relief over an 82-game season, and his backup the past two seasons, Thomas Greiss, was picked up by the Phoenix Coyotes in free agency.
That leaves the competition for the spot open, with Alex Stalock the most likely candidate. San Jose drafted Stalock in 2005, and he was off to a promising start before a skate blade sliced a nerve behind his knee in early 2011. Stalock missed an entire year but has made a full recovery, and his strong season in 2012-13 with Worcester of the American Hockey League earned him a one-year, two-way contract this summer.
The Minnesota-Duluth product will have some familiar competition, Finnish goalie Harri Sateri. The pair split time in Worcester -- Sateri played in 39 games to Stalock's 38 -- and though Stalock's numbers were better, some argue Sateri possesses more natural ability. Wilson made it clear these would be the two battling for the backup job when training camp opens in September.
2. Can the Sharks produce in 5-on-5 situations? -- Despite San Jose's offensive struggles last season -- the Sharks were 24th in the League with 2.42 goals per game -- the team ranked among the NHL's best on special teams. The Sharks converted on the power play 20.1 percent of the time and killed penalties at 85.0 percent -- each in the top seven League-wide -- thanks to a suffocating forecheck and gifted scorers Logan Couture, Joe Pavelski and Patrick Marleau. That man-advantage prowess only served to emphasize San Jose's even-strength futility. The Sharks were 18th in the League in 5-on-5 goals for/against, conceding a goal for every one scored at full-strength.
Wilson was determined to address this problem during the offseason, and believes he did so by re-signing Raffi Torres and trading for Tyler Kennedy. Wilson said those two, as well as prospect Tomas Hertl, can inject some offense into the lower forward lines.
"Our capability in scoring a lot of goals and getting offense from the back end, we'll hopefully start how we finished the season," Wilson said. "We should be a very good 5-on-5 team, we should get offense from a lot of different lines, so yes, that's something we're conscious of building."
3. Can the Sharks reclaim their Pacific Division title? -- For four consecutive seasons, from 2007-08 to 2010-11, the Sharks finished atop the Pacific standings. Now, with the division growing increasingly competitive, it's been two straight seasons out of the top spot. In 2011-12, when the Sharks finished second to the Phoenix Coyotes, the third-place Los Angeles Kings won the Stanley Cup. Last season, the Sharks experienced their worst divisional finish since 2002-03, when they were third, behind the Anaheim Ducks and Kings.
With realignment adding the Calgary Flames, Edmonton Oilers and Vancouver Canucks to the Pacific and subtracting the Dallas Stars, the climb becomes more treacherous for the Sharks. Niemi has won a Stanley Cup, coach Todd McLellan has proven he can scale that mountain, and Couture and Pavelski likely will earn their big contracts. But the Sharks were top-heavy on offense last season -- when they were effective at all -- and questions remain about Wilson's quartet of new forwards. San Jose certainly is a postseason player, but conquering a seven-team division will be a different beast.
4. Is Raffi Torres worth the risk? -- Though many around the League might disagree, for Wilson the answer to this question is a resounding yes. Wilson brought Torres, considered by many a liability for his history of penalties and suspensions, in at the NHL Trade Deadline. He scored twice and had four assists in 11 regular-season games, showing glimpses of the offensive ability that made him the fifth pick in the 2000 NHL Draft. He fit well into the Sharks' attacking style with his aggressive forechecking, and Wilson said he jelled immediately with teammates off the ice.
In the postseason, Torres received a suspension in Game 1 of the Western Conference Semifinals for an illegal hit to the head of Kings forward Jarret Stoll. Wilson remained undeterred, however, and re-signed Torres to a three-year contract and touted him to NHL.com as a key part of his "reset/refresh" philosophy.
"We've gone through the process of determining what's acceptable and what's not acceptable," Wilson said. "He made a big difference in our hockey team. He played extremely well, and when we lost him in the L.A. series it had a big impact on us."
5. Can San Jose maintain the pace at SAP Center? -- Last season the Sharks had a 17-2-5 home record, third-best in the League, at HP Pavilion, now known as SAP Center at San Jose. A key turning point in the season came from March 27-April 5, when San Jose went undefeated in a season-long six-game homestand.
San Jose's dominance on home ice played a significant role in its ninth straight postseason berth. The Sharks went unbeaten at home in the playoffs, using Niemi and a smothering defense to hold opponents to nine goals while posting a 5-0-0 record. In a 2013-14 season during which realignment will force San Jose to travel 57,612 miles -- by far the most in the League -- taking care of business at home will be paramount.
"It's really important, even with our playoff success, how strong we are at home," Wilson said. "We have a great fan base, the building is sold out and the energy in this building -- you want to make sure you control your own turf."
6. Can San Jose's defense continue to shut down opponents? -- In March, Wilson and McLellan decided to move Brent Burns from defense to forward. The move shook up the blue line and removed perhaps San Jose's most dynamic defenseman, but the Sharks plugged Matt Irwin into Burns' position and continued as if nothing happened. San Jose was sixth in goals-allowed per game last season, and the penalty kill improved from second-worst in 2011-12 to sixth-best in 2012-13.
At 25, Irwin is one piece of the youth movement taking place on the blue line. The Sharks' top pairing of Marc-Edouard Vlasic and Justin Braun, which most recently shut down the Sedin twins in San Jose's sweep of the Vancouver Canucks in the first round of the playoffs, each is 26. Jason Demers, who played 22 games last season as San Jose's seventh defensemen, is 25. And it is likely more young players, NHL-ready prospects Nick Petrecki, Matt Tennyson and Taylor Doherty, will see time on the third pairing or as seventh defensemen in 2013-14. With a deep, talented stable of defensemen and a star goalie, San Jose should remain among the League's elite units.
Author: Davis Harper | NHL.com Staff Writer


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I'm off for my first flying lesson. Can't be that hard.
If he wants a lesson or two on my industry he can always give me a call. Could do a trade maybe. Anyone know his number?
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"Me too....sday!!" (Cause it sounds like me tuesday) SHes weird i know..
And sometimes my friends all like
"KIIIIIIBA!!! Kiba Kiba Kiba Kiba KIba!!!" When she sees a big rock.
I guess my friends are weird..
Drinking Diet Water
agree with angelangel:) my parents do that too!!!!! my mom`s like
"when i was your age....i never had ipods or televisions. only one person in the hometown had a television and we go to their place to watch it."
(their hometowns are really small. there`s about 20-30 families living there.it`s the country side so yeah.)
"i didn`t have these things. i had to cook, and go into the rice field! the sun`s always shining on us and we had to do work everyday just to feed the entire family"
i loveee super juniorr <3
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Whenever my mom's annoyed with me she starts the sentence with "when I was your age..." that starts to get annoying after a while.
Agree.. or ur friend start.. "remember back then....
or started with "i used to be... when ..."
they actually dosent repeat themselves but my mom always say's, "Dont talk back at me!"
but sometimes im the one whos actually annoys them... i always ask "How did you guyz met?" lol im a curious girl >.<
Kpop is love <3
Something my dad says when people ask for something, "hold out one hand and sh** in the other and see which one gets full first."
Big Brother is Watching You.
Eating peanut will make you smart. Geez!
mmm my mom usually makes this weird sound with her mouth when she is nervious or mad or frustrated... it hate it!!! it makes me nervious
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There is a girl in my social circle who always has to confirm whatever she says with, "Ye hear me? Ye hear me? Ye hear me?" Well, to be accurate, "Yehearmeyahearmeyehearme?" Weird as fuck.
aahh that reminds me of a girl in my school.
morning announcements: "The tickets for tonights events are sold out. Did you hear me? Sold out. I repeat; SOLD OUT! So don't ask for tickets because they are sold out. SOLD OUT!!"
after school: "Would all performers for tonight's even meet in the atrium now. Atrium now. All performers meet in the atrium now!! NOW! In case you didn't hear me, I repeat: GO. TO. THE. ATRIUM.....NOW!!!"
when my dad gets mad and me he calls me pumkin ._.
My dad just says I have a bone to pick with you when he has found out that I have done something wrong. That pissis me off.
I will reply to messages when I can lol.
my father and mother they are suck with me
and my friends I get from them many problems this meaning i'm lonely in my real life I see this is better ^^,
anyway I hating both...
watching my god=Anime ^,')y
My brother when to school in england and a realy common term there is init... initMy brother when to school in england and a realy common term there is init... thats not propper english its cokeny slang when he says things like Init brov to say somthing as simple as yes it makes me want to scream. sort of like Aye in canada do people realy have so much troubble figuring out what to say that they need a filler word like Aye or Init or Like or my islands specialty Umm
Also my grandmother was jamaican and she never realy learned to speak english clearly onle of her favrit frases (think of this in a thick jamacian accent)
Wach ya yardi boy gona do wich ya pea braind self. Gech ya self of ya arrs and move ya badday or ill feed ya to the batty boys.
Translation: What are you stupid children doing get moving or ill give you to gay people
not excat translation but as close as you can get LOL
My mother is..well in nice words a stoner. She can be really funny but sometimes she's..embarassing.
When I first got married she told me my marraige was doomed...and she tried giving me sexual advice. Okay, Im close to my mom but NOT there!
''do you have a girlfriend?"
get an arranged marriage


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April 17, 2012 | Lake Lure, NC
Swimming 500 meters may seem like a good way to avoid a shark attack, biking 16.5 miles may seem like a good way to save gas and running five kilometers may seem like a good way to beat a bear attack, but to the triathlon team it is just another day, another race.
The triathlon team competed at the collegiate community sprint triathlon at Lake Lure, N.C., with both the men's and women's team coming in second overall and David Fritz coming in first overall.
Fritz's time was 1:08:14, with a swim time of 7 minutes, 50 seconds, bike time of 39 minutes, 49 seconds and a run time of 19 minutes, 4 seconds.
Women's team member Blakely Harris placed highest for Liberty, coming in fifth place. Harris' time was 1:18:21, with a 9 minute, 29 second swim, 46 minute, 32 second bike and a 19 minute, 56 second run.
Head coach Beth Frackleton emphasized that this event was a "tune-up" because most of the season is in the fall semester, and after winter, everyone is a little stiff and needs time to prepare.
"I think it went very well. Obviously, finishing second shows we're in the top of our division and still looking very competitive," Frackleton said.
The team has qualified for nationals and will continue training over the next few weeks preceding the event which is to be held in Tuscaloosa, Ala. in mid-April.
"We're going to be a lot more competitive at nationals," Frackleton said.
The triathlon team consists of 16 athletes that train in running, swimming and biking to prepare for competitions. They are currently ranked second in men's and third in women's in the mid-Atlantic division.


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Three up, three down: Pirates plundering competition
UP: Pirates
Pittsburgh had the best record in the big leagues in June (17-9) thanks to a 16-5 stretch to end the month, which saw the Pirates become the first big league team to win 50 games and jump past Cincinnati and St. Louis into first place in the National League Central. It hasn't gone unnoticed. While the Pirates home attendance ranks 14th in the NL, ahead of only Miami, they have averaged 36,961 for their last six home games -- a 14,943 per game increase from the first 35. Pedro Alvarez is only hitting .241, but he has gone 15-for-27 with five home runs and 10 RBIs during the Pirates' nine-game winning streak, the team's longest since a 10-gamer in 2004.
UP: Pirates
Pittsburgh had the best record in the big leagues in June (17-9) thanks to a 16-5 stretch to end the month, which saw the Pirates become the first big league team to win 50 games and jump past Cincinnati and St. Louis into first place in the National League Central. It hasn't gone unnoticed. While the Pirates home attendance ranks 14th in the NL, ahead of only Miami, they have averaged 36,961 for their last six home games -- a 14,943 per game increase from the first 35. Pedro Alvarez is only hitting .241, but he has gone 15-for-27 with five home runs and 10 RBIs during the Pirates' nine-game winning streak, the team's longest since a 10-gamer in 2004.
The Pirates took a gamble on Francisco Liriano, and confidence in Gerrit Cole paid off. Liriano went 4-1 with a 2.27 ERA during the team's 21-game surge, and Cole, the former No. 1 Draft pick, is 4-0 since his June 11 debut. Liriano opened the season on the disabled list for the sixth time in his career -- this time, with a break in his right arm suffered during the holidays. The lefty, however, is making good on the incentive-laden two-year deal he signed as a free agent in the offseason. He is 7-3 with a 2.23 ERA since his season debut on May 11.
DOWN: American League Central
It was a tough week for the division. The five teams were a combined 7-18 against teams from outside the AL Central, including division-leading Detroit being swept in three games by the Angels and losing two of three to Tampa Bay. Cleveland was the only member with a winning record (6-2), but that came at the expense of a four-game sweep of the AL Central-rival White Sox. That also allowed the Indians to pull within percentage points of division-leader Detroit. Minnesota split four games with Kansas City but was swept in a two-game series against Miami. The AL Central is 118-130 against teams from outside its division this year. Cleveland (27-25) is the only team in the division with a winning record against outside competition. The division even has a losing record (29-34) in Interleague Play, while the AL West is 33-31 vs. NL teams and the AL East is 32-19.
UP: Dodgers
Yasiel Puig is getting all the attention, but he's not flying solo in Los Angeles. The Dodgers have won eight of their last nine games, and while they remain in last place in the NL West, they are only four games behind first-place Arizona, having cut 5 1/2 games off the deficit in the last nine games. Puig has hit .400 in the Dodgers' nine-game climb into contention, but so has Hanley Ramirez, who came off the disabled list and rejoined the lineup June 4. What's more, Ramirez has hit four home runs and has 10 RBIs in the nine games, tied for tops in the NL in both categories during that stretch. Of course, the Dodgers' ascension isn't all their own doing. They have taken advantage of an Arizona team that has lost six of its last seven games, and 14 of its last 22. Arizona hasn't had a starting pitcher win a game since Wade Miley on June 5, the day before the slide began. Arizona starters are 0-10 in those 22 games with an NL-high 5.15 ERA, having worked 122 1/3 innings, second fewest in NL to Milwaukee (117 1/3).
DOWN: Yankees
Bad got worse for the Yankees. In first place by a game on May 25, they have lost 21 of 33 since, including five of six in the last week, which ended with the team's third five-game losing streak in the last 33 games. They have fallen into fourth place in the AL East, 6 1/2 games back of division-leading Boston. They've used seven starting pitchers during that stretch with little help for a rotation that has a 9-18 record and 4.57 ERA in the 33 games. The only multiple winners on the staff are CC Sabathia (4-3 with a 5.08 ERA) and David Phelps (2-3 with a 6.84 ERA). But it's the offense that has really undermined the Yankee effort. They match Houston for a big league-worst .224 batting average since May 25, but the Astros have scored 115 runs. That's 13 more than the Yankees, who have scored fewer runs than any team in the bigs. Is it just a coincidence that the slide began the day Curtis Granderson went on the disabled list for the second time this season, suffering a broken left foot? Vernon Well has hit .137 with 22 strikeouts in 95 at-bats since then, and Mark Teixeira was hitting .151 with 19 strikeouts in 53 at-bats before he gave into the wrist injury that sidelined him to open the season and opted to undergo surgery.
UP: Rangers
The Rangers have climbed back on top in the AL West. After suffering a six-game losing streak, they have rebounded to win 10 of their last 13 games, and they have put the run together against quality teams. They began by taking three of four from Oakland -- which has slipped into second place in the division -- swept St. Louis and then took two of three at the Yankees and at home against the Reds. And this week, they host Seattle and Houston, each in a three-game series. They are a combined 12-4 against the two, including taking five of six from the Astros. Nelson Cruz has asserted himself offensively, hitting .333 with four home runs and 17 RBIs. The only other regular hitting better than .265 in the last two weeks is Leonys Martin, who has hit .381 with 11 runs scored and four RBIs in 12 games.
DOWN: Giants
The Giants salvaged the final game of a visit to Colorado on Sunday, snapping a six-game losing streak that has seen them fade into fourth place in the NL West, just a game ahead of the last-place Dodgers. The offense has gone south. A 3.99 ERA in the seven games isn't eye-popping, but it's not all that bad. But with an offense that averaged a worst-in-baseball 2.4 runs during those eight games, there wasn't much margin for pitching error. Buster Posey did his part, hitting .440 with four home runs in the eight games. Meanwhile, Pablo Sandoval was hitting .130, Brandon Crawford .125 and the center fielder duo of Gregor Blanco and Juan Perez were a combined .143. And now the Giants head to Cincinnati for a four-game visit.
Tracy Ringolsby is a columnist for MLB.com.


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The following people were arrested on felony charges by law enforcement agencies in Davidson County, and, unless noted otherwise, were either placed in the Davidson County Detention Center or released from custody and are scheduled to appear in Lexington District Court on the date given:
• Robert Edward Hill, 50, of 4475 Piney Farlow Road, Trinity, was charged with felony possession of Schedule I controlled substance (MDMA) and felony possession with the intent to sell or distribute a Schedule I controlled substance, $10,000 secured bond, June 12, Thomasville.
• Brad Martin Clapp, 34, of 308 Long Avenue, Graham, was charged with felony breaking and entering, misdemeanor larceny after breaking and entering, felony possession of stolen goods, misdemeanor possession of stolen motor vehicle and misdemeanor resisting public officer, $25,000 secured bond, July 3, Thomasville.
• Demetrius Lennard Brown Jr., 21, of 1923 Wickham Court, High Point, was charged with felony possession of marijuana, felony possession with the intent to sell or distribute marijuana and misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia, $25,000 secured bond, June 26, Thomasville.
• Scarlet Rena Strunk, 43, of 7314 Midway School Road, Thomasville, was charged with felony possession of cocaine and misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia, $7,500 secured bond, June 26, Thomasville.
• Tonya Dawn Powers, 162 E. Third St., Denton, was charged with felony possession of cocaine, misdemeanor simple possession of schedule II controlled substance (Carisoprodol) and misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia, $10,000 secured bond, June 26, Thomasville.
• Jessica Danielle Gobble, 24, of 3799 S. N.C. Highway 150, Lot 29, was charged with two counts of felony breaking and entering, two counts felony larceny after breaking and entering, two counts of felony obtaining property under false pretense and misdemeanor injury to real property, $50,000 secured bond, June 25.
• John Stephen Szwalla, 21, of 250 B and B Trail, was charged with felony attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon and felony larceny of a motor vehicle, $10,000 secured bond, June 10.
The following larcenies more than $1,000 were reported to the Davidson County Sheriff's Office and the Lexington Police Department:
• Copper wire worth $3,000 was reported stolen from Winston-Salem South Bound Railroad between May 15 and 8:05 a.m. Friday.
• A car motor valued at $2,500, an exhaust system valued at $600 and a toolbox valued at $200 was reported stolen from a home on Allred Road between May 10 and 10:30 a.m. Friday.
• Two laptop computers valued at $500 apiece, one PlayStation 3 gaming system valued at $200, a Kindle Fire valued at $300, 30 DVDs valued at $600 and 20 PlayStation games valued at $1,000 were reported stolen from a home on West Lexington Avenue Extension in northeastern Davidson County.


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By popular request — a deluge of 10 emails — here's more (Allan Malamud) mud in your eye:
•We have a tie for biggest sports-related hypocrites of the year: Nevada state officials and the National Football League.
Nevada's Gaming Control Board banned fantasy football in the state, saying it was not a game of skill, as the fantasy leagues claim, but a game of luck, and was, thereby, gambling.
Of course, they are right.
But golly, how much of that decision was based on a righteous judgment about doing the right thing and how much was based on the fear that too much gambling action was being diverted from the state's bread-and-butter casinos?
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The music form is: Intro – Presentation Theme – Full Theme – Ending
Is up to you if you want to loop the music or let the end "open" because of the harmony.


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WASHINGTON — The White House decision to shutter its doors to official tours this month sparked anger among Colorado's Republicans Wednesday who said the administration is playing politics and being unnecessarily punitive to regular people who just want to see the sites of D.C.
Citing federal budget cuts in the "sequester," the White House said earlier this week it wasn't going to open its doors to the throng of tourists who typically descend on Washington in March and April.
Colorado's congressional offices say March is the busiest time of year for White House visit requests.
Staffers spent much of Wednesday calling and e-mailing hundreds of Coloradans who have requested tours to tell them it won't be possible.
"It's disappointing that the President is playing politics with Americans' family vacations by unnecessarily stopping White House tours to increase the sting of his sequester," said Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, whose office has had to cancel 50 or 60 requests for tours. "For many people, making a trip out to Washington is a once in a lifetime opportunity with only one chance to see the White House. Now the president has taken that from them to make a political point."
Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Aurora, tweeted out mid-day that 600 people who had tours requested won't be going. Sen. Michael Bennet's office said it had about 75 requests for March.
Last week, $85 billion in automatic federal spending cuts were triggered across all agencies in the federal government.
Because the cuts were off the top — and not targeted at specific potentially wasteful federal programs — many cabinet secretaries are furloughing employees.
The U.S. Secret Service told reporters earlier this week the cuts meant they can't man the White House during its busy season because they can't pay any overtime.
"Due to sequestration, Uniformed Division Officers normally assigned to conducting public tours will be reassigned to other security posts at the White House and all tours will be canceled," spokesman Max Milien said in a statement. "This staffing measure will reduce overtime costs overall and may ultimately reduce the number of potential furloughs necessary by our agency."
But Rep. Doug Lamborn is skeptical.
The Colorado Springs Republican put in a formal request with the Congressional Research Service asking for the total cost of the self-guided tours to the public.
Lamborn said in an e-mail that so far his office hasn't had to cancel any tours, "but that is not the point."
"The larger issue here is that the White House is choosing to take actions to inconvenience and even hurt as many Americans as possible under sequestration," he said. "I am increasingly concerned that President Obama is playing politics with these across-the-board cuts to inflict as much pain as possible to gain some sort of perceived political advantage."
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Calibration controls are only available through the Service Menu, and getting into that is not documented to the user since it's meant for the technicians only, and there are settings in there that can damage your display.Google for your model and service menu, most are readily documented. Once you get in there you will also need to google for the control layouts and find all the controls you need for calibration. Then get a HD Calibration tool DVD, I use Avia.
The vast majority of sets are not able to be calibrated to the degree of a good monitor. And yes, altering SM controls can void a warranty if done by a non-factory tech. Buying a TV with the expectation of using it as a calibrated monitor is a risky venture. No, eyeballing calibration via a DVD will not be as accurate as an colorimeter, but it's really close if you are good at it. Some ISF techs do have meters to do the job too.
It's worth it, for CRT sets, as it takes hours to make the adjustments in most cases, involving focusing the guns and using specialty tools. For flat panels, it's sometimes worth it if your time is very short.Simply call around to your local techs and ask them if they use a spectro tool or just a calibration disc, if you don't want just the disc version. For the intended purpose of the devices, the DVD way is perfectly fine, but for critical color work, I can see where you would want more. I would bet that if you spent the $40 or so on a DVD tool and gave it a shot, you would find yourself very happy doing it yourself - it's not hard.
Some of the newer sets actually have a decent color management system in the user menus. But even on the ones that don't, making adjustments in the service menu is pretty low risk and can greatly improve the display's accuracy. Go to AVSForum and you should be able out lots of info about your set.That said I don't think trying to get your HDTV to look just like your workstation's display is a very realistic goal. Even if you could, you'd probably find the result to be pretty disappointing when watching TV and movies.You don't really want to use typical PC profiling software. A better approach is to use something like SpectraCal's CalMAN which supports a variety of colorimeters and spectros. There's also an open-source package called HCFR. This thread at AVSForum might be a good place to start for background info on calibrating home theater displays: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=852536BTW the notion that you're going to void your warranty by going into the service menu is poppycock. They probably can't tell if you've been in there unless you really screwed something up, and even if they could tell, they can't deny you warranty service unless they can prove that the changes you made actually damaged the deviced or caused it to fail. I've always used the service menu to calibrate grayscale on my HDTV's, and it makes a big difference. Fortunately most of the other controls I need are in the user menu.


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Johnny Depp & Amber Heard Are One Engaging Pair at Met Ball 2014!
Johnny Depp and Amber Heard hold hands while walking the red carpet at the 2014 Met Gala held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday (May 5) in New York City.
The engaged couple was the definition of old school Hollywood glamour at the annual star-studded event. Don't they look so good together?!
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Saturday, June 19, 2010
Follow Friday - Geneal Italia
With this in mind, I want to feature this week's blog that I am following called Geneal Italia which is written by Daniela Massolo who lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is the granddaughter of Italian immigrants from the Piedmont area of Italy.
Daniela is fairly new to blogging (like me) but you can see she is not new to researching her roots so why not stop by and say hello?
3 comments :
- The Persian said...
I know, I never had any idea either! We must have tons of relatives down there we don't even know about.
- June 20, 2010 at 6:00 AM
- genbriand said...
Hi, Nuccia.
The great real pole of attraction was Buenos Aires at the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century. It was not the same in other South American countries. Italians were going either to New York or to Buenos Aires. In 1895, more than a 60% of the population in Argentina was European, immigrants, and a 50% of them were italians. At that time in Argentina an average salary was superior to a salary in USA, and that was the main reason. Working a couple of years, anybody could buy a lot and to build a house. For better information about Buenos Aires at the end of the 19th century, you can check this page in my family website:
You also can hear a tango from 1895 on that page.
Best Regards
Pablo Briand
Miami Beach, Florida
- June 21, 2010 at 12:43 AM
- nuccia said...
Thank you Pablo. I will check out your website.
- June 21, 2010 at 2:16 AM


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