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UP government’s decision to raise the cane procurement prices will inflate sugar prices further say experts
The prices of sugar are set to increase following Uttar Pradesh (UP) government’s decision to hike rates for sugarcanes to Rs240 per quintal from Rs205-Rs210 per quintal. Its effect can be seen in the markets sugar prices at retail level moving up by about Rs3-Rs4 per kg. UP is the second largest sugar producing state in India.
“The cane procurement prices have been increased by the UP government. This will directly affect the retail prices for sugar. From the current level, sugar prices are expected to rise further,” says Sageraj Bariya, managing partner, Equitorials research firm.
Currently the ex-mill price in UP is around Rs29 per kg. In Mumbai’s Vashi market, the prices are currently trading at Rs2-3 higher as compared to a month ago. Yesterday, in the Vashi’s wholesale market, M-grade sugar was quoted at Rs33 per Kg and S-grade was Rs32 per Kg.
There is a dispute going on between the farmers and government over the pricing policy for sugarcane. Last month, the Maharashtra government in agreement with farmers declared three different rates for sugarcane. Accordingly sugar factories across the state will buy sugarcane between Rs1,800 to Rs2,050, depending on the area. In Maharashtra co-operative sugar factories, mostly controlled by politicians, dominate the sugar industry.
The UP government increased the state advised price (SAP) by Rs35-40 per quintal of sugarcane to Rs235-240 per quintal for different varieties, against which the sugar industry in UP has filed a petition at the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court, requesting it to quash the minimum buying price.
Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA), general secretary Shyamlal Gupta told Moneylife that, “Election is approaching and the cane pricing policy has been increased to Rs240 per quintal from the earlier Rs210 per quintal. It is a clear strategy of the government. This will affect the sugar mills from the state, and would eventually lead to arrears and defaults in bank loan payment. Our petition is pending with the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court.”
“The ex-mill prices should be at least increased to Rs3,400-Rs3,500 per quintal if the mills have to sustain. This naturally means that the retail price will go up by around Rs3-4 per Kg,” Mr Gupta added.
For the current year, India’s sugar production is estimated to 26 million tonne, around 2 million tonne higher compared to last year. The consumption is pegged at 22.5 million tonne. On 22nd November, the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) approved export of one million tonnes of sugar under the Open General License (OGL) scheme.
In its second quarterly results Balarampur Chini, leading player in the sugar industry, noted that, “As we enter into 2011-12 sugar season, we anticipate the price pressure to ease on the domestic front due to export potential thereby facilitating improved performance by the sector as a whole. Exports gain significance in the current operating scenario when the SAP for cane has increased making it un-remunerative for sugar mills to convert cane to sugar at the current realizations.”
Mr Gupta says that, “The long term solution for this problem is to link the sugar cane prices to the prices of sugar realisation.”
While there appears to be mess in terms of fixed policy for sugarcane prices across the country, world over, sugarcane prices are linked with sugar prices. Major sugar producing countries like Brazil, Australia and Thailand share or pay 70% of the sugar prices to farmers as price for sugarcane.


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I square foot garden, which is a whole other sad topic that I thought I beaten when I moved my corn and squash (along with pole beans) to the south side of my yard against my house.
True, the plants are 2-3 x's bigger than the past two years that I attempted them in my raised beds, but my yields are still low. I've had a neighbor and a few friends exclaim their jealousy of how much is growing, I'm embarrassed to say that really, I don't think they're doing that great.
I have 2 groups of corn, one with 5 rows the other with 6. The rows are 4ft long with pole beans in the middle of each sq ft. In between the two sections of corn are 2 acorn squash, 1 sugar pie pumpkin and 1 volunteer melon of some kind. The pumpkin plant is HUGE with tons of male flowers but I've never seen the female flowers open and the fruit shrivels up and falls off. The two squash plants are huge with gorgeous big leaves and ONE slightly-larger-than-a-softball squash growing on each. These also have the same flower thing as the pumpkin. Out of my 11 rows of corn I have THREE ears growing and all the plants have tassels out. Do they really grow after the tassels have extended out?!? How would they get fertilized? And out of about 18 pole beans (of two varieties) I have ONE plant that I can see with flowers on it and that plant has TWO pods growing.
Is anyone else having problems like this? Or with the SFG method (as I also have problems in my 96 sq ft of raised beds)? Is there a time of day that I should be looking for the best opportunity to hand pollinate? Is there anything I can do about the corn?
The worst year of gardening yields for me was the year I tried SFG. It was horrendous. Out of 6 tomato plants we got 5 tomatoes. Seriously, 5 tomatoes.
I've also tried the 3 sisters (beans, squash and corn) with little luck. Squash and corn are extremely heavy feeders so you really have to fertilize them a lot when growing them so close to each other. Now I just plant them in adjacent plots giving them each plenty of space.
Usually the corn will send up it's flowers before the tassels show up so just be patient. In the meantime fertilize everything really well.
Hi Alica: I've been sfg for about 20 years with out too many problems and very good success. I gave up on corn, though, because it takes up too much space, even with the 3 sisters method. I think that part of your problem may be a serious lack of bees or other polinators. I have had to hand polinate in the past, and find that late morning or early afternoon works the best. I use a small paint brush. Try to see when your bees are most active and use that as a guideline to self polinate.
Some of the secret to using the SFG method is planting companion plants in the available spaces between the larger plants and using different harvesting times. For example, I plant lettuce, spinach and radished in the areas between my tomatoes and peppers because the lettuce can be harvested first, long before the tomatoes or peppers grow big enough to take over that space. The sf method really does work with a little advanced planning. Don't give up hope!
A lot of people all over the country are having problems this year. One issue is the heat, another is the drought (depending on where you live.) There are a couple of things that might help you.
I do a lot of gardening in raised beds and pots, and the one thing that I've found that helps is to keep putting compost on them. Just sidedress the plants every few months or so, especially when it's hot. It takes up to five years to get the soil in a raised bed really good enough to do much, but in the meantime you can grow things like beans or icicle radishes that will help build it up.
Another thing to consider is how much sun is your garden getting? Here in Texas, we've discovered that the phrase "in full sun" is a curse. LOL. Most of my garden is in shade part of the day, and it's doing much better. Actually, my best plants are those in pots, under the shade of a pecan tree. I grow peppers, eggplants, basil, etc. in pots in addition to my raised beds.
One last thought---if you aren't getting good pollination, consider planting some native plants that will attract pollinators to your garden. I just posted an article by a friend of mine from north TX on my garden blog that talks about her pollinator garden. Take a look at it and get a few ideas.
Hope this helps! Happy trails from HOT Texas! bobbi c.

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Last week I began this series with a Net Assessment of the World, in which I focused on the growing destabilization of the Eurasian land mass. This week I continue the series, which will ultimately analyze each region in detail, with an analysis of Europe. I start here, rather than in the Middle East, because while the increasing successes of the Islamic State are significant, the region itself is secondary to Europe in the broader perspective. The Middle East matters, but Europe is as economically productive as the United States and, for the past 500 years, has been the force that has reshaped the world. The Middle East matters a great deal; European crises can destabilize the world. What happens between Greece and Germany, for example, can have consequences in multiple directions. Therefore, since we have to start somewhere, let me start with Europe.
Europe is undergoing two interconnected crises. The first is the crisis of the European Union. The bloc began as a system of economic integration, but it was also intended to be more than that: It was to be an institution that would create Europeans. The national distinctions between European nations is real and has proved destabilizing, since Europe has been filled with nations with diverging interests and historical grudges. The EU project did not intend to abolish these nations; the distinctions and tensions were too deep. Rather it was intended to overlay national identities with a European identity. There would be nations and they would retain ultimate sovereignty, but the citizens of these nations would increasingly come to see themselves as Europeans. That European identity would both create a common culture and diminish the particularity of states. The inducement to all of Europe was prosperity and peace. The European Union would create ongoing prosperity, which would eliminate the danger of conflict. The challenge to Europe in this sense was that prosperity is at best cyclical, and it is regional. Europe is struggling with integration because without general prosperity, the seduction of Europeans away from the parochial allure of nations will fail. Therefore, the crisis of the European Union, focused on the European Peninsula, is one of the destabilizing forces.
I use the term European Peninsula to denote the region that lies to the west of a line drawn from St. Petersburg to Rostov-on-Don, becoming increasingly narrow until it reaches Iberia and the Atlantic Ocean. France, Germany and Italy are on the peninsula, with its river systems of the Danube and Rhine. To the line’s east is Russia. Whereas the peninsula is intimately connected with the oceans and is therefore engaged in global trade, Russia is landlocked. It is very much land constrained, with its distant ports on the Pacific, the Turkish straits its only outlet to the Mediterranean, and its Baltic and Arctic access hampered by ice and weather. On the peninsula, particularly as you move west, no one is more than a few hundred miles from the sea. Russia, reliant upon land transportation, which is more difficult and expensive than maritime trade, tends to be substantially poorer than the peninsula.
The second crisis rests in the strategic structure of Europe and is less tractable than the first. Leaving aside the outlying islands and other peninsulas that make up Europe, the Continent’s primordial issue is the relationship between the largely unified but poorer mainland, dominated by Russia, and the wealthier but much more fragmented peninsula. Between Russia and the peninsula lies a borderland that at times as has been under the control of Russia or a peninsular power or, more often, divided. This borderland is occasionally independent and sovereign, but this is rare. More often, even in sovereignty, it is embedded in the spheres of influence of other countries. The borderland has two tiers: the first and furthest east is Belarus, Ukraine and portions of the Balkans, while the second consists of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. After World War II, Russia’s power extended to the second tier and beyond. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, these countries became sovereign, and the influence of the peninsula moved eastward as two peninsular institutions, the European Union and NATO, absorbed the second tier. As this happened, and the Baltics were included with the second tier, Belarus and particularly Ukraine became the dividing line and buffer.
Two things must be noted here. First, it was the existence of the European Union that gave the peninsula a framework for eastward expansion. NATO, in many ways, became moribund as it lost its rationale after the Cold War. However, in the years after Soviet collapse, the European Union was dynamic and seemed destined to unite the peninsula. As Soviet power collapsed and European power seemed to expand, the European Union provided a united framework for expansion and an attractive option for newly sovereign nations in the borderland.
Second, Russia was in a state of systemic shock in the 1990s. It was a period of chaos, characterized by the complete loss of both controls and plans. It was almost as though Russia was unconscious. From the European and American points of view, this was the new normal in Russia. In fact, it was inevitable that this was merely a transitory state. The single institution that historically had held Russia together was the secret police. In a poor country with minimal communications and transportation, the ability of the center to control the periphery is limited. The institution of an efficient security system would be indispensable if Russia were to avoid fragmentation. From the Czars onward, this is what held Russia together. It followed that when the first shock of collapse passed, the security apparatus would reassert itself and stabilize Russia. It was not the personality of Vladimir Putin that mattered; if not for him, another leader would have emerged and halted the disintegration of the Russian economy and polity.
This process inevitably led Russia to restructure itself, within the limits of its diminished power. The effort included an attempt to both stabilize the country’s economy and reassert its geopolitical interests, first in the Caucasus and then in Ukraine. Without a buffer in the eastern peninsula, Russia lacks strategic depth, and it has only been this strategic depth that has saved it from peninsular invasions in the past. Therefore, any attempt to stabilize Russia would necessitate a look westward to the borderlands, where the second tier was completely lost and even the Baltics had become part of the peninsular system, and an interpretation of eastern expansion as an existential threat to Russia.
The European Union’s position was that the Continent’s growing integration was completely benign. That might well have been the subjective intention of the Europeans, but the Russians saw something they had never seen before: integrated institutions, with ambitions among some members to become a federation of nation-states that might go well beyond economics. There had been sufficiently ample discussion of European defense systems and federation to cause concern in Moscow. Without buffers, a united Europe with a shifted intent might well pose an existential threat to Russia. This was particularly the case because the United States held a vague alliance with the Europeans and shared the fear of Russia’s power re-emerging.
Russia’s Resurgence and Europe’s Crisis
In 2008, two critical things happened. First, and less important, was the Russian war with Georgia that demonstrated—more than reality might require—the re-emergence of Russia as a significant and capable regional power. Second, and more important, the economic crisis triggered by the American sub-prime mortgage crisis led to the gradual fragmentation of European unity, causing a massive divergence of interests. The eastern movement of European influence, supported by the United States, continued in spite of the crisis. The Russians were forced to counter and were less concerned about the consequences.
The European crisis was simple, at its core. Germany had the fourth-largest economy in the world. It derived over 50 percent of its income from exports, half of which went to the European free trade zone. In addition, using its substantial influence, the euro maximized the interest of the European economy as a whole. Given the size of the German economy, it is only a slight overstatement to assert that its economic needs defined Europe’s economy. The euro helped stabilize and sustain German growth, as did the regulations created by Brussels. This limited entrepreneurial behavior in countries where low wages ought to have been the impetus for growth. Instead, these countries became opportunities for German investment.
All of this was bearable before 2008, because since EU members signed the Treaty of Maastricht in 1992, which led to a common currency, they had seen a period of extraordinary prosperity. A rising tide floats all ships. But in 2008, a routine financial crisis (from the standpoint of a century) tore apart the fabric of the peninsula. During any economic crisis, the most important question is who shall bear the burden, the creditors or debtors? Broadly speaking, Europe split along these lines. Germany was the peninsula’s major creditor. Southern Europe was its major debtor. Leaving aside the moral posturing over who committed what injustice against whom, the Germans insisted on austerity. International institutions, including the International Monetary Fund, aligned with Germany.
The interests of the European Peninsula diverged into four parts: those of Germanic Europe (Germany, Austria and, to some extent, the Czech Republic); Mediterranean Europe; the eastern frontier of the European Union; and the rest of northern Europe.
Germany has an overwhelming interest in the European Union and its free trade zone. It is an inherently weak nation, as are all countries that are dependent on exports. Germany’s well-being depends on its ability to sell its products. If blocked by an economic downturn among its customers or political impediments to exports, Germany faces a declining economy that can create domestic social crises. Germany must do everything it can to discipline the European Union without motivating its members to leave. (The issue is not leaving the euro, but placing limits on German exports.) Thus Germanic Europe is walking a fine line. It is an economic engine of Europe, but also extremely insecure. Given the fragmentation in the European Union, it must reach out to others, particularly Russia, for alternatives. Russia is not an alternative in itself, but in a bad situation it could be part of a solution if Germany could craft one. This is, of course, a worst-case scenario, but the worst case is often the reality in Europe in the long run.
Southern Europe is seeking a path that will allow it to escape catastrophic austerity in a Europe that seems unable to generate significant economic growth. If that does not save Southern European nations, they must decide, in simplest terms, whether they are better off defaulting on debt than paying it. While Germany is currently inclined not to force them to this point, it is emerging on its own. This is the fundamental reality of Europe: Germany wants to save the free trade zone, but without absorbing Europe’s bad debts. Southern Europe needs to shift its burden and will eventually reconsider the viability of free trade, though it has not yet done so. Just as there are limits on agricultural trade, why not create the same environment that the Germans enjoyed in the 1950s, when they were able to protect themselves from American industrial exports, thereby growing their industry with minimal competition?
Central and Eastern European countries are in a complex position with the European Union, since they are generally members that are not in the eurozone. But for most of them, the question of Russia’s power and intentions is more important than the Greek crisis. For the east, there is an awareness that Europe never did progress to a common foreign and defense policy and that the European Union cannot defend them against Russia. They are also aware that NATO cannot defend them, except with American involvement, which is coming in very measured and slow increases.
Then there is the fourth part of Europe, particularly France, which is supposed to be Germany’s equal in the European Union but has fallen behind in recent decades, as it did in the 19th century. France is as much part of Southern Europe as Greece, along with high unemployment in the south. And along with the Southern Europeans, who are facing problems in the Mediterranean and North Africa alongside their economic woes, France is not drawn east, nor is it comfortable with German policies, but it is being drawn in multiple directions on economic and strategic issues.
A Continent Divided
A continent drawn in multiple directions is the best description of the European Union, and one that gives the Russians some relief. The collapse of oil prices and Russia’s inability to turn oil income into a diverse and sustainable economy are inherently limiting factors on Russia’s power. In Ukraine, the Russians are experiencing the twin problems of a failure of intelligence and the limits of their military forces. Their intelligence failed to detect or manage events in Ukraine, from anticipating the fall of the government to understanding that there would be no general uprising in eastern Ukraine. Russia’s military never invaded anything, albeit that Russia controlled and, to some degree, still controls warring militias. Russia was present in Crimea by treaty, and its minimal forces and operations in the east revealed both its aggressive intent and the limits of its power. The Russians did not do well in that campaign, nor in my view could they mount a successful invasion of Ukraine as a whole, given their limits on logistics and other capabilities.
But the Russians were saved by the fragmentation of the peninsula. The eastern Europeans wanted some definitive action from Europe. None came. Sanctions created pain, but they did not define Russia’s strategic policy. Thus, to the extent that the borderland has a patron, it is not Europe but the United States. The Germans have no desire to fundamentally alienate Russia over Ukraine. The French are torn in multiple directions and the Southern Europeans have no interest in non-EU issues aside from Muslim immigration. (This latter challenge, which solves problems of labor shortages but creates problems of immigration and some risk of terrorism, is important and a topic to which I will return in the future. Muslim immigration, however, does not threaten Europe’s fundamental architecture, the elucidation of which is the purpose of a net assessment.)
The Net Assessment of Europe is that the Continent’s basic geographical split remains in place, and Russia still holds the weaker position. However, its relative strength has increased with the rise of divergent interests within the European Union, and its primary concern regarding the Continent is not Europe but the United States. Therefore, the crisis in the European Union will define the broader situation in Russia, and that fundamental crisis appears insoluble within the current framework of discussion. The discussion will move from debt and repayment to the creation of a sustainable European Union in which Germany may not get to export all it wants but must accept limits on its prosperity relative to its partners. Since politics makes that unlikely, the fragmentation of the peninsula will increase, and with it, Russia’s relative power will rise, drawing in the United States.

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The personal sith assault fighter of Darth Malgus,the sith emperor during the times of the Old Republic.The Death Striker is a one man fighter specialized for special fighter assaults and made for a deadly impact,fitted with four laser cannons at the nose,plus an ION-cannon on each wing.It is also equipped with lightsaber storage.This MOC was made specialy for the United Star Wars Contest's Old Republic Category.Thanks for viewing!
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The rear,I think it turn out great,the design is really neat.
Storage for Malgus' lightsaber.
Darth Malgus climbs into the cockpit.
The cockpit's inside without Malgus sitting in it.Designed to look Sith like with trans-red bricks.
Another view of the cockpit.
The ship is equipped with two pairs of blaster cannons.The fighter features a deadly ION cannon under the tip of each wing!
The ship also has two pairs of dangerous blaster cannons!
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Negril, Jamaica, is the laid-back destination known for its black cliffs, white sand beaches and commitment to rest and relaxation. Discovered as a vacation hot spot in the 1950s, Negril is now a place to spend the day shopping or sunning and the nights at one of the town's many nightclubs. Plan your next vacation to this Caribbean island with one of the many vacations packages designed for families, couples and singles.
Through Air Jamaica, travelers can book all-inclusive vacations with a choice of three resorts: Riu Negril, Hedonism II and Sunset At The Palms Resort & Spa. The Riu Negril package offers all-inclusive meals with 24-hour dining options. Daily activities include scuba diving and windsurfing. You can spend evenings strolling the beach or dancing at the Pacha Nightclub. This resort is designed for families. Hedonism II is an adults-only resort that is sexy and legendary. Meals and amenities are inclusive, and guests will enjoy the glass-bottom hot tub, many dining options and five bars and lounges on site. Sunset at The Palms is a couple’s paradise, and all meals and amenities are included. Guests enjoy a swim-up bar, tennis, spa services and endless white sand beaches. Three lounges and bars are on site.
Vacations for Adults
The on-line booking site All-Inclusive.com offers vacation packages at eight different hotels and resorts on Negril, including well-known couples resorts The Cave and Couples Negil. The Cave is an exotic resort made up of individual cottages and set above ancient volcanic caves. Meals are all-inclusive. Couples Negril is an all-inclusive resort designed for weddings and romantic adventures, where guests can enjoy fabulous Caribbean food as well as outdoor water activities including water skiing and scuba diving. Golf and tennis also are available.
Ultimate Island Luxury
The Sandals Resorts are world renowned for luxury and excellence in service and amenities, and The Sandals Negril is no exception. Located on Seven Mile Beach, the Sandals offers premium dining at six restaurants, unlimited brand drinks and unlimited water sports. Rooms and suites are available with private patios just steps from the ocean. Your resort experience begins right at Montego International Airport where your included transfer will be waiting for you. Choose from additional activities, including a dune buggy safari, an ATV safari and a dolphin encounter.
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Lost amid the jubilation over the repeal of the so-called "Consent Decree" is the effect that last week's settlement of the Corman-McCord lawsuit against the NCAA will have upon possible criminal charges against certain NCAA officials. As I previously noted in a blog post last November, members of the Mark Emmert Gang look pretty damn guilty of the crimes of theft by extortion and criminal conspiracy to commit theft by extortion as defined by the Pennsylvania Crimes Code. Pursuant to its own by-laws, the NCAA did not have the legal authority to impose sanctions, yet threatened to impose the death penalty or other sanctions against Penn State anyway unless Penn State forked over a significant sum of money and forfeited property rights. This looks like a pretty cut and dried case of theft by extortion to me and most other lawyers I have talked to, including some prosecutors. By contrast, if Penn State had actually broken NCAA rules, giving the NCAA the right to impose appropriate sanctions, then the NCAA's actions would be part and parcel of good faith negotiations with Penn State. Thus, there would be no crime.
With Senator Jake Corman and Treasurer Rob McCord's lawsuit against the NCAA now in the discovery phase, emails have been uncovered, which are very embarrassing to the NCAA. It now appears that NCAA officials privately acknowledged in internal emails that the NCAA did not have the authority to sanction Penn State. This conclusion is not at all surprising, given the fact that the university had not broken any NCAA rules, and in the past, criminal matters had always been handled exclusively by the criminal justice system.

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- 100 gm anchovy fillets, rinsed and patted dry
- 1 sheet (375gm) butter puff pastry
- 2 tsp finely chopped thyme
- To serve: basil and goat’s curd
- 1Preheat oven to 230C. Pound anchovy fillets with a mortar and pestle to a coarse paste and set aside.
- 2Roll out puff pastry on a lightly floured surface to 36cm square. Spread with anchovy paste, then cut in half. Cover and refrigerate one piece and cut the other half into six 15cm x 6cm rectangles. Roll up each rectangle lengthways to form a cylinder, brush edges with water and seal. Cut in half and place cut-side down on a baking tray lined with baking paper, pressing lightly to flatten. Cover and refrigerate. Repeat with remaining pastry, then bake both batches until puffs are puffed and starting to turn golden (5-10 minutes), then reduce heat to 170C and bake until golden and crisp (5-10 minutes). Set aside to cool slightly, then serve with basil leaves and goat’s curd.
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Produced by T Bone Burnett Utilising Groundbreaking Patented Technology to create a one-of-one Ionic original disc.
Christie’s will auction Bob Dylan’s first new studio recording of “Blowin’ in the Wind” since 1962, from a special session with multi-Grammy winning producer T Bone Burnett, on the recently announced groundbreaking Ionic Original disc. The first recording to utilise his patented technology from Burnett’s company, NeoFidelity, Inc., this unique lot will be offered in The Exceptional Sale on July 7 as a highlight within Classic Week London (estimate: £600,000-1,000,000).
A first in music history: this opportunity to acquire a new recording of Bob Dylan’s seminal song is a landmark moment and Burnett notes that the technology used to create the Ionic Original disc “advances the art of recorded sound and marks the first breakthrough in analog sound reproduction in more than 70 years, achieving dramatic improvements in listening experience and durability.”
The auction of this historic lot – in Bob Dylan’s 60th anniversary year as a recording artist – presents a unique opportunity for international collectors, music fans, historians, aficionados and audiophiles.
“Christie’s is excited to be offering this unique recording of Bob Dylan’s ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’, one of the most important songs written in the last century, on this groundbreaking new ‘Ionic Original’ format. I very much share T Bone Burnett’s passion for the sonic excellence of analog sound and it is fitting that this important development is being offered as a stand-out lot in The Exceptional Sale, London on 7 July 2022.”Peter Klarnet, Christie’s Senior Specialist, Americana, Books and Manuscripts
“Sixty years after Bob first wrote and recorded ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’, he is giving us a new recording of his song; one that is both deeply relevant for our times and resonant with decades of the artist’s life and experience. We’re grateful to Christie’s for their belief in the ‘Ionic Original’ and for presenting Bob’s masterful recording to the world in a unique and meaningful way.”T Bone Burnett, Founder of NeoFidelity Inc. and multi-Grammy-winning producer
Blowin’ In The Wind
This year marks not only the 60th anniversary of Bob Dylan as a recording artist, but of one of the most iconic and profound songs written in the last century, “Blowin’ in the Wind.” Debuted on the diminutive stage of Gerde’s Folk City in Greenwich Village in April 1962, Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind” was an instant classic, and is today woven firmly into the fabric of American culture.
Dylan first recorded the song for Columbia on 9 July 1962 for his second album, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. He entered the studio again in 2021 to re-record the song with his friend, Joseph Henry ‘T Bone’ Burnett III, the Grammy and Oscar winning composer, musician and producer.
Unlike Dylan’s 1963 release which achieved platinum status, only a single copy of this new recording of “Blowin’ in the Wind” will be offered on the groundbreaking new audio medium: Ionic Original.
The cultural impact of “Blowin’ in the Wind” cannot be overstated. Covered by hundreds of artists since the words and music first appeared in print in May 1962, the song not only brought Bob Dylan to the world stage, it gave new voice to the burgeoning social movements of the 1960s.
T Bone Burnett
Multiple Grammy and Oscar winner Joseph Henry ‘T Bone’ Burnett is a producer, musician and songwriter. Burnett most recently released Acoustic Space, the first full-length instalment in The Invisible Light trilogy, an experimental song cycle which explores the idea that society has been subject to a programming pandemic which is causing us to lose our ability to differentiate fact from fiction.
Burnett also composed and produced the music for critically acclaimed HBO series True Detective, and his film work includes the five-time Grammy winning soundtrack for O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Big Lebowski, Cold Mountain, The Hunger Games, Crazy Heart and Walk The Line, among others. He has collaborated with numerous artists including Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello and Roy Orbison, and won Album of the Year and Record of the Year Grammy Awards for Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ Raising Sand.

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Rooney is said to be fully committed to Manchester United
The club last week came out and denied that any transfer bid had been made after reports of a £27million bid emerged, while a fee of closer to £100m has been mooted.
And now the Sunday People are claiming that Rooney has turned down two offers from clubs in China.
His agent Paul Stretford is said to have been approached by two different CSL outfits but rejected both of them.
And with the club on course to miss out on Champions League football once again this season, Van Gaal job is hanging by a thread.
And Mourinho is understood to be keen on keeping Rooney next season although he also wants to spend a considerable amount of money building a squad around him.
The Portuguese manager was in Milan last night watching his former club Inter take on Sampdoria.
He also had a meeting with the club’s directors, one of whom let slip afterwards that the ‘Special One’ will be in Manchester next year.


Apr 25, 2013, 2:08 AM EST
The San Jose Sharks are still playing for home ice advantage in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, but head coach Todd McLellan chose to start back-up Thomas Greiss in net against the Phoenix Coyotes.
“I don’t think Nemo needs the rest. Thomas needs the work,” McLellan told the San Jose Mercury News prior to the game.
“If something – knock on wood – happens to Nemo, we’re going to kick ourselves in the butt for not having played Thomas. So Thomas is going to play.”
The Coyotes jumped out to a quick 2-0 lead, then hung on for the win. For Greiss, it was his first start since March 6.
“[Greiss] really did well for not having played for so long. He had a very strong game,” Sharks defenseman Dan Boyle told NHL.com. “We just let each other down in that first period.”
The Sharks are fifth in the Western Conference standings with 57 points. They’re tied in points with the L.A. Kings and both teams have played 47 games, however the defending Stanley Cup champions hold the tiebreaker right now with more regulation-overtime wins.
Behind them with the sixth seed in the conference is St. Louis. The Blues have 56 points and two games remaining.
- Oilers squander three-goal lead, lose 18th time in 19 games 3
- Pickard makes one last bid to stay, beats Wings in nine-round SO 0
- Video: Bartkowski delivers controversial hit to Gionta, fights Foligno 16
- Giroux line takes Leafs ‘to school’ in Flyers’ 7-4 victory 17
- Wolverine Pacioretty gets two assists just two days after being hospitalized 17
- Ovechkin scores beauty as Caps shutout Devils 8
- Seriously? Stress fracture sidelines Columbus’ Jenner for 1-2 months 6
- Julien chides Bruins’ offense for too many cute plays 40
- Sens roll over Ducks, who ‘weren’t ready’ 11
- Flyers’ Mason tweaked back, will miss weekend games 10


The suppliers at the fruit company must be ramping up production on the iPhone 5 parts, because the leaked components are coming out almost every day now.
A few days ago, there was a dock assembly and rear casing leaked. Now we have something new to show you! Watch the video comparison after the break!
A new video has been uploaded, which compares the components of Apple’s upcoming iPhone with the iPhone 4S components. By watching the video, you get a close-up look at the dock connector, front panel and other internal pieces of the next-generation iPhone.
iPhone 5 VS iPhone 4S Internal Parts Comparison
The credit for sharing the video goes to MacRumors, which was made and uploaded by the repair firm SmartPhone Medic. The footage gives us a better view of the iPhone 5 parts that have been leaking out for months. However, there’s no new information about the handset in the video. The components match up well with the previous leakers. It’s all there! The taller display, the smaller port and the relocated FaceTime camera! This should be enough evidence for you guys.
However, we still have to wait on the more interesting parts of the upcoming iPhone 5. Still the processor that will power Apple’s next handset is unknown, along with the Ram or the size of the camera sensor. Perhaps, the device will be revealed with a few exciting features that no one knows about.
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A wild cherry that grows prolifically throughout Montana, the Chokecherry got tis name because it doesn’t sweeten until after a frost. Montanans have used it for years to make their favorite syrup and jelly. This tradition inspired our winemaker to marry this familiar flavor with local honey and to create a true Montana mead and the winner of our first gold medal. Serve slightly chilled.
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Part of our Signature Range from the Victoria Armstrong collection.
Made from creamy earthenware with a lovely standing Westie black silhouette this hanging bauble is a stunning ornament. Ideal as a year-round display but also makes a lovely addition to the Christmas tree.
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It's not a regular occurrence that you realize that you have to buy a replacement Catalytic Converter for your vehicle. Anyone who owns a Mercedes-Benz knows that when it comes to fixing their vehicle only the highest quality replacement parts will do. Car aficionados appreciate the a reliable name built into each Mercedes-Benz, and understand that only the best replacement C63 AMG parts will suffice when your car or truck needs fixing. Mercedes-Benz car, truck, or SUV enthusiasts have come to expect a certain level of performance when driving their C63 AMG around town.
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text: Over the past week after I ended my weird period of off and on bleeding. I'm still bloated and getting nauseous sometimes and my boobs hurt sometimes. I have mild cramping and lower back pain. Feels like my stomach feels hard or is it just being bloated that it feels like that. Should I retest myself? I have taken one over a week ago and it came out negative that was when I was bleeding though. I'm not sure if that matters or not. I just don't know what's going on. So confused. I am sexually active.

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SAT Subject US History Practice Question 890: Answer and Explanation
61. The Virginia House of Burgesses and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut were similar in that both
A. provided for direct democracy.
B. provided for representative democracy.
C. symbolized the independent spirit that existed in the American colonies.
D. provided for universal male suffrage.
E. were independent of the British government.
Correct Answer: B
The Virginia House of Burgesses and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut involved the elections of representatives to carry on government. Thus, they were examples of representative democracy, not direct democracy (A). These assemblies followed the English traditions that the colonists were accustomed to, not uniquely American impulses (C). These documents did not provide for universal manhood suffrage (D). They were established with the approval of the British government (E).

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Time-resolved tracking of the atrioventricular plane displacement in long-axis cine images with residual neural networks
Gonzales RA., Onofrey J., Lamy J., Seemann F., Heiberg E., Peters DC.
Diastolic dysfunction is assessed by measurement of mitral annular (MA) early diastolic velocity (e’), commonly performed in echocardiography. Similar measurements can be obtained with valvular plane tracking in MRI long-axis cines. These measurements have been validated and have good reproducibility, yet manual MA points annotations are required. In this work we present a machine learning convolutional neural network with a residual architecture for automatic annotation of MA points in MRI long-axis cine images of the 2 and 4-chamber views. The landmark tracking allowed a fast and accurate evaluation of diastolic parameters improving the clinical applicability of MRI for diastolic assessment.


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There are No WMD's And There Needs to be an Investigation
Mon Jan 26 03:56:50 2004
To Not Hold Impeachment Hearings on Bush and Cheney is a Dereliction of Duty to
the American Nation. Their "Made Man" to Find WMD's Says There are No WMD's And
There Needs to be an Investigation. - BUZZFLASH
Kay Doubts Presence of Illicit Iraq Arms
by SCOTT LINDLAW, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - The outgoing chief U.S. weapons inspector says his inability to
find illicit arms in Iraq (news - web sites) raises serious questions about
Last year, David Kay had confidently predicted weapons would be found. But after
nine months of searching, he said Sunday: "I don't think they exist."
"It's an issue of the capabilities of one's intelligence service to collect
valid, truthful information," Kay said on National Public Radio.
Asked whether President Bush (news - web sites) owed the nation an explanation
for the discrepancies between his warnings and Kay's findings, Kay said: "I
actually think the intelligence community owes the president, rather than the
president owing the American people."
The CIA (news - web sites) would not comment on Kay's remarks, though one
official, speaking on condition of anonymity, noted that Kay himself was vocal
in predicting he would find weapons.
Kay said his predictions were not "coming back to haunt me in the sense that I
am embarrassed. They are coming back to haunt me in the sense of `Why could we
all be so wrong?'"
The White House stuck by its assertions that illicit weapons will be found in
But Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), a Democratic presidential
candidate, said Kay's comments reinforced his belief that the Bush
administration had exaggerated the threat Iraq posed.
"It confirms what I have said for a long period of time, that we were misled —
misled not only in the intelligence, but misled in the way that the president
took us to war," Kerry said on "Fox News Sunday." "I think there's been an
enormous amount of exaggeration, stretching, deception."
Kay's comments also drew an I-told-you-so response from Hans Blix, the former
chief U.N. inspector whose work was heavily criticized by Kay and came to end
when the United States went to war with Iraq.
The United States should have known the intelligence was flawed last year when
leads followed up by U.N. inspectors didn't produce any results.
"I was beginning to wonder what was going on. Weren't they wondering too?" He
told The Associated Press by telephone. "If you find yourself on a train that's
going in the wrong direction, its best to get off at the next stop."
Kay told The New York Times in a later interview for Monday's editions that U.S.
intelligence agencies did not realize Iraqi scientists presented Saddam with
fanciful plans for weapons programs and then used the money he authorized for
"The whole thing shifted from directed programs to a corrupted process," Kay
told the Times. "The regime was no longer in control; it was like a death
spiral. Saddam was self-directing projects that were not vetted by anyone else.
The scientists were able to fake programs."
Kay said Iraq did try to restart its nuclear weapons program in 2000 and 2001,
but that evidence suggests it would have taken years to rebuild after being
largely abandoned in the 1990s.
He said it is now clear that the CIA's basic problem was that the agency lacked
its own spies in Iraq who could provide credible information, but that he does
not believe analysts were pressed by the administration to make their reports
conform to a White House agenda.
Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he
was surprised Kay "did not find some semblance of" banned chemical, biological
or nuclear weapons in Iraq. Roberts said a report on Iraq intelligence, to be
delivered to his panel Wednesday, should help clarify the CIA's prewar
"It appears now that that intelligence — there's a lot of questions about it,"
Roberts said Sunday on CNN's "Late Edition."
In October 2002, Bush said Iraq had "a massive stockpile of biological weapons
that has never been accounted for and is capable of killing millions." In his
television address two days before launching the invasion, Bush said U.S. troops
would enter Iraq "to eliminate weapons of mass destruction," or WMD.
Kay returned permanently from Iraq last month, having found no such weapons, nor
missiles with longer range than Saddam was allowed under international
But on Sunday, Kay reiterated his conclusion that Saddam had "a large number of
WMD program-related activities." And, he said, Iraq's leaders had intended to
continue those activities but had not decided whether to begin producing such
weapons at the time of the January invasion.
Kay also said chaos in postwar Iraq made it impossible to know with certainty
whether Iraq had had banned weapons.
And, he said, there is evidence that Iraq was moving a steady stream of goods
shipments to Syria, but it is difficult to determine whether the cargoes
included weapons, in part because Syria has refused to cooperate in this part of
the weapons investigation.
Kay said he resigned Friday because the Pentagon (news - web sites) began
peeling away his staff of weapons searchers as the military struggled to put
down the Iraqi insurgency last fall.
Kay hopes to draw on his experiences to write a book on weapons intelligence.
Associated Press writers Katherine Pfleger in Washington and Dafna Linzer in
Bern, Switzerland, contributed to this report.
Intelligence services 'must answer for Iraq WMD claims'
Iraq's WMD: the big lie?
The justification for war
With the resignation of David Kay from the Iraq Survey Group, the pressure could
not be greater on Blair to explain where he got the idea that Iraq had weapons
of mass destruction. By Neil Mackay
YOU’D be forgiven for thinking that David Kay was personally out to get Tony
Blair. On Wednesday, when the Hutton report is published, the question everyone
will want to know is did Blair and his Cabinet lie about the threat of Saddam’s
weapons of mass destruction (WMD)?
The answer according to Kay, who resigned last week as head of the Iraq Survey
Group, which had the job of finding WMD, is that there aren’t any, and none have
been manufactured since 1991. For Blair, his statement was the equivalent of
slashing a boxer’s achilles tendons minutes before he gets into the ring for the
fight of his life.
What Kay has concluded after nine futile months seems to tally with the overall
gist of Andrew Gilligan’s broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme when he
reported that the government had “sexed up” the case for war. So the key
question now is: was Blair given unreliable and over-egged information by the
intelligence services, or rather did he have the intelligence services “sex-up”
or selectively cherry-pick information to suit his case for war?
In answer to this question, the Sunday Herald has heard from dozens of senior
members of the intelligence community who passed their views on to us through a
highly-respected go-between involved with British intelligence.
The views include those from:
# The Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS), which helped supply intelligence for
Blair’s disputed September 2002 WMD dossier;
# The Joint Intelligence Organisation, which includes John Scarlett, the
chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) – the body which liaises
between the intelligence services and the government and which was supposed to
have sole control of the drafting of the dossier – and the JIC’s support staff;
# And MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service, the main agency responsible for
gathering the intelligence which went into the dossier.
The Sunday Herald has been told that the reason the intelligence community wants
to speak out now is to get their defence in first before the expected attack
They know that Lord Hutton will apportion blame to the Ministry of Defence,
Number 10, Blair’s former spin-doctor-in-chief Alastair Campbell, the BBC, its
reporter Andrew Gilligan and even Dr David Kelly. And when that happens, the
politicians, keen to save their jobs and reputations, will try to blame the
intelligence community for giving them duff information.
This is not a mea culpa from the intelligence community, instead it is a warning
that they are not prepared to be the whipping boy for the failure to prove the
case for war, the death of David Kelly and the quagmire that the government is
now in over the lack of WMD in Iraq.
The key points the intelligence community now wants placing on the record are:
Firstly, there was a problem with Iraq, particularly over the interpretation of
the WMD issue. Many said they had been openly sceptical about the presence of
WMD in Iraq for years. There was a systematic failure, they believe, in the way
intelligence was interpreted. This was because they were under pressure to
provide the government with what it wanted, namely that Iraq possessed WMD and
that it posed a clear and present danger.
Secondly, they say intelligence was “cherry-picked” about Iraq: that damning
intelligence against Iraq was selectively chosen, whilst intelligence
assessments, which might have worked against the build-up to war, were
sidelined. The government was looking for anything that would cast Iraq in a
Thirdly, they claim that a political agenda had crept into the work of the
intelligence community and they found themselves in the position of taking
orders from politicians. When asked if direct lies were told to the British
public, the answer was that the intelligence they supplied was one- sided and
produced on demand to politicians.
Fourthly, the intelligence community got into the habit of making worst-case
scenarios and these were used to make factual claims by politicians. The
intelligence community accepts that intelligence was used for political ends.
But they also understand that intelligence is not supposed to help politicians
justify their actions as that distorts the nature of what intelligence work is
While they believe they are not in the firing line over Hutton, they also
realise that they are going to have to think long and hard about the future of
British intelligence. They stressed that they accepted that there would be
changes in the way British intelligence operates, adding that they wanted
changes in order to maintain their integrity.
The intelligence officers seemed justified in getting their first strike in
when, on Friday night, Donald Anderson, a Labour loyalist and chair of the
foreign affairs committee, attacked British intelligence in the wake of the
resignation of David Kay. Anderson admitted that it looked “increasingly
forlorn” that any WMD stockpiles would be found . When asked, however, if he
thought this was a failure by politicians or by the intelligence services, he
said: “I think more likely the latter. Remember that both the President and the
Prime Minister relied on the intelligence that was available. And indeed the
world community appeared to accept this because in the UN Security Council
resolution 1441 on November 8 it was accepted that Saddam Hussein was a danger
to world peace, he was ordered effectively to co-operate, he did not co-operate
and it seems now rather puzzling that if it be the case, as it is likely, that
there was no such weapons available, that he did not put his hands up
immediately. This does raise very important questions about the quality of that
Does it raise a question about the intelligence service or does it actually
raise questions about the politicians who were forcing the intelligence services
to jump through hoops and spin the facts on matters of national and
international security? What the large group of intelligence officers who passed
their feelings to the Sunday Herald say is not entirely new. It is potentially
crippling for Blair given the timing of their comments, but the concept that
politicians were ordering that intelligence be twisted for political ends
regarding Iraq has been aired before.
In fact, in June last year the Sunday Herald revealed that Britain ran a covert
“dirty tricks”operation designed specifically to produce misleading intelligence
that Saddam had WMD in order to give the UK an excuse to wage war on Iraq.
Scott Ritter, the former UN chief weapons inspector and US military intelligence
officer, said that Operation Rockingham was established by the Defence
Intelligence Staff – a part of the intelligence service involved in the
compilation of the September 2002 dossier on Iraqi WMD – within the Ministry of
Defence in 1991. It was set up to “cherry-pick” intelligence proving an active
Iraqi WMD programme and to ignore and quash intelligence which indicated that
Saddam’s stockpiles had been destroyed or wound down.
When Kay resigned on Friday, he left with this parting shot: “I don’t think they
(WMD) existed. What everyone was talking about is stockpiles produced after the
end of the last Gulf War and I don’t think there was a large-scale production
programme in the 1990s.”
The day before, US Vice-President Dick Cheney was still claiming that Saddam had
been a legitimate threat. “We know … that prior to our going in that [Saddam]
had spent time and effort acquiring mobile biological weapons labs,” Cheney
said, reiterating a long-discredited claim that military trailers found in Iraq
were mobile bio-weapons labs. In fact, the labs were, according to British
weapons experts who examined them, used for producing hydrogen to fill artillery
The man appointed by the CIA to replace Kay, Charles Duelfer, a former UN
weapons inspector, said earlier this month that he did not believe banned
weapons would ever be found. Still the British and US administrations are
sticking to their claims. White House spokesman, Scott McClellan, said: “We
remain confident that the Iraq Survey Group will uncover the truth about
Saddam’s regime, the regime’s weapons of mass destruction.”
A spokesman for Tony Blair said: “It is important people are patient and we let
the Iraq Survey Group do its work. There is still more work to be done and we
await the findings of that. But our position is unchanged.”
Few are buying these claims. John Rockefeller, the senior Democrat on the Senate
intelligence committee, said: “It increasingly appears that our intelligence was
wrong about Iraq’s weapons, and the administration compounded that mistake by
exaggerating the nuclear threat and Iraq’s ties to al-Qaeda. As a result, the
United States is paying a very heavy price.”
Shadow foreign secretary Michael Ancram says Kay’s resignation and comments
“raise very serious questions about the Prime Minister and why he told us what
he did last year and after the war about WMD. It is important if we are to be
able to rely … on the word of the prime minister in relation to intelligence,
that we now find out what the basis of his comments were, and we need a public
inquiry to do that.” The LibDem foreign affairs spokesman Menzies Campbell
added: “It is pretty extraordinary that first Hans Blix … David Kay and now
David Kay’s successor have all effectively said the same thing. There needs to
be an inquiry to consider whether we went to war on a flawed prospectus.”
So, just as Hutton is about to announce the findings of his investigation, there
is a rising clamour for yet another inquiry – this time not dealing with the
death of just one whistle-blowing government scientist, but rather with the
deaths of thousands of Iraqi men, women and children and hundreds of American
and British troops.
FOUR QUESTIONS HUTTON MUST ANSWER
1 Did the government ‘sex up’ the September 24 dossier justifying war against
We know the document was changed by John Scarlett, chairman of the Joint
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International Protocols: Read , Know...Truth Henry Ford, Mon Jan 26 11:27
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A bunch of gurrier tennants are attempting a land grab:
120 council tenants in Dublin have been refused permission to buy their homes from Dublin City Council.
They had stood to make a profit of nearly €350,000 each.
The apartments are at O'Rahilly House in Ringsend.
The tenants are expected to appeal to the Supreme Court.
Is it not enough that they are housed virtually for free, use valuable city centre land, drag down the value of surrounding properties ? Now the thieving class is back to its old tricks.
All around it would be far better if these non-working indigents were transplanted to cheaper green-field blocks. This would free up valuable inner city space for people that work & create tax revenue. This would lift the overall country further.
In times of economic depression & high unemployment this wasn't such an issue, indeed the cost of building was higher in Dublin city centre in the '80s than the cost of land ! Now with workers tending young familes spending 3 hours per day commuting whilst the lazy lords live in high value city centre dwellings it is extremely unfair.

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Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5’s Secret Nazi Hunter by Robert Hutton
Delighted to share my thoughts on the story of the MI5 agent at the very heart of Operation Fifth Column, which was the covert WWII operation that was to flush out Nazi sympathisers on British Soil.
Just a few words on what the book is about: June 1940 and Britain stands alone as Hitler eyes his next prize across the channel. Codenamed ‘Jack King’ Eric Roberts who was a former Bank Clerk from Epsom in Surrey. He was recruited into MI5 and then went on to become Hitler’s man in London. This whole operation has only recently come to light. In Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5’s Secret Wartime Nazi Hunter Robert Hutton goes on to tell the story through newly declassified documents and private family archives.
The enemy within during the war was a fear at the heart of the government getting to know who they were and then infiltrate them was key to identifying the key players and also the spies who would pass on information to their spy masters in Berlin.
Author Robert Hutton must be congratulated for his well-researched book that is an incredible read that delves deep into this story of Eric Roberts.
It is hard to imagine that even when that dreadful Oswald Mosely was taken out circulation that there ordinary Britons willing to work for the Nazis and put this country at real risk of invasion.
Eric Roberts hailed from Cornwall and was spotted by spymaster Maxwell Knight. Roberts was nothing short of brave as he set about infiltrating British Union of Fascists at any time he could have caught out and then what? It was later that he rose through the ranks. This an ordinary bank clerk. Nothing short of remarkable.
As the war went on, it was decided the best way to play them was to set up their own ‘Fifth Column’ and so it was the under the name of ‘Jack King’ Eric Roberts played his best part.
‘Jack King’ was to play the Nazi’s man in London pretending to be the link and the key to the very heart of Nazi Germany. Hard to imagine that here in Briton as men and women risking their lives to destroy the Nazis that there were those who believed in the Nazi cause and wanted see their own country defeated. These were the vile anti-Semitic Nazi sympathisers that Eric was infiltrating. This was dangerous work at any time he could have been found out and almost certain death awaited. It was indeed that ‘Jack’ already being eyed as an MI5 spy and her name was Marita Perigoe who was in her own right an extremely dangerous woman who was very suspicious of ‘Jack King’ These were the people plotting against their own country passing vital information to the Gestapo but plotting Churchill’s downfall. These were the enemy within and needed to be brought to justice but at the end of the war were they indeed brought to justice. There are some surprising findings and facts that even opened my eyes while reading this riveting account.
At the end of the story the country owed Eric Roberts a great deal but did he get the rewards he deserved. I won’t reveal that here as I think this is one book that finally opens the story of a man with a smile that opened doors and revealed many secrets.
Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5’s Secret Nazi Hunter by Robert Hutton was published by W&N and was published on 6th September 2018 and is available through Waterstones, Amazon and through your local independent bookshop.
The Reading Cure: How Books Restored my Appetite by Laura Freeman
Laura Freeman is a freelance writer and has written for magazines and newspapers such as The Spectator, Standpoint, The Times, TLS, and Slightly Foxed to name but a few. Laura has recently released her first book and what a read this really turned out to be. Not hard to see why I have always enjoyed reading Laura’s writing. The Reading Cure: How Books Restored my Appetite is a memoir. Laura at the age of fourteen was diagnosed anorexia and his is her story, a journey of how books and reading helped her on her road to recovery.
I know at first hand as a family member suffered from anorexia for many years with little or no help apart from the love of her family around her. For Laura Freeman like all who have suffered from anorexia, they come to loathe themselves and will avoid eating and any situations that will involve food. For more than fifteen years Freeman has been a recovering from this dreadful illness. There was one part of Freeman’s life that she continued to enjoy and that was her love of literature and through reading she discovered food and learned to start enjoying food through the pages of her favorite books.
The journey to recovery is never an easy journey to take and not always a successful one as she writes in her memoir, Laura’s mother fought very hard to keep her out of a clinic and looked after her while on bedrest at home. she read Siegfried Sassoon’s Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man and this tells of him devouring boiled eggs and cocoa. So this was the beginning of the road to recovery for Laura Freeman. Then she progressed onto Dickens and we all know of how well food is talked of in Dicken’s novels. From here she clearly could see that there was a better life to be had.
Freeman writes just beautifully and it is inspiring. She openly talks of her younger life and how her anorexia started and the chaos that her life became, her descriptions of food are just bountiful that you can almost taste the fare on offer. Freeman’s joy of literature and reading is there to be enjoyed and to rejoice at. The optimism of how she copes on her journey is just breathtaking. This is her story of hunger and also obsession, there is happiness here to. The Reading Cure is a brave account of her recovery. Books and reading can cure. Here is the proof if it was ever needed moving and evocative. Delighted to recommend The Reading Cure by Laura Freeman.
Thank you to Rebecca Fincham and Weidenfeld & Nicolson for the advanced review copy of The Reading Cure: How Books Restored my Appetite by Laura Freeman.
The Reading Cure: How Books Restored my Appetite by Laura Freeman is published by and was published on and is available through Waterstones, Amazon and all good bookshops.
The Life and Death of Sophie Stark by Anna North
Review Date: 22 November 2015
Author: Anna North
Release Date: 11 February 2016
Publishers: W&N Publishers
ISBN –10: 1474601251
ISBN – 13: 978-1474601252
Available in Paperback, Kindle and audio
The Last Word Review
Anna North has written one of the books of 2016. It is haunting, gripping at every turn of a page
Not officially released in paperback format until February 2016 so I am grateful to Sam Eades at Orion Books for an advanced review copy ahead of publication.
The first thing that you get from The Life and Death of Sophie Stark is the cover. There is something chilling about this. A foretaste of what is to come.
Anna North has written a chilling novel about a peculiar woman and that is basically what she is here. This is written by six people who know her best. Each through their own perspective. When she was younger she spent most of her childhood alone or in the company of her brother. At college she took an interest in directing movies and this is where she became successful. But success has its pitfalls only Sophie knows all too well.
When as book is written through the perspectives of other people there is a chance that the reader can become distant from the actual story itself, but Anna North has written this so skilfully and exquisite that I struggle to find the words to tell you just how good this really is.
Each of their stories is told in reasonably short chapters which I found really helps keep the story moving along. When you look at the people who tell their story, you get a glimpse of the genius that is Sophie but one that is on the very edge of sanity and so close to an abys basically one very cold young woman.
While writing about The Life and Death of Sophie Stark I am reminded of a long dark tunnel with the occasional glimpse of light that shines through. Sophie had a troubled childhood with her father dying and a mother that in a sense went missing. There is sense that this story may at times drag the reader into a dark recess but this is the beauty of this story it is dark at times. A story that talks of stalking and retribution. Sophie’s obsession is Daniel so she starts filming him and so it begins, retribution. So it does not end there as Sophie embarks on making documentaries of those close to her. I found Sophie not only cold but totally selfish, single minded to the point that she did not care about feelings and not caring about anyone, they were there to be used in her pursuit of excellence. Don’t get me wrong here, Sophie has enormous talent by the bucket full, even those telling the stories will tell you this through their words.
Word of warning Sophie was not born Sophie. All that changed as you will find out for yourselves when you read The Life and Death of Sophie Stark and you will want to read novel by Anna North. There is so much in this book that I would recommend that reading groups seriously consider adding it to their list of books to read and discuss. Everyone will have an opinion about Sophie and the characters she uses. All human with the frailties of human life all struggling with every day’s trials and tribulations but it is the way they have been beautifully portrayed by the author makes this such a haunting and gripping read.
Do not miss this one.
Meet the Author
Anna North graduated from the Iowa Writers Workshop in 2009, having received a Teaching-Writing Fellowship and a Michener/Copernicus Society Fellowship. Her fiction has appeared in Nautilus, Glimmer Train, the anthology Robot Uprisings, and the Atlantic Monthly, where it was nominated for a National Magazine Award. Her nonfiction has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Paris Review Daily, Jezebel, BuzzFeed, and Salon, and she is now a staff editor at the New York Times. Her first novel, America Pacifica, was published in 2011 by Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown, and her second novel, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark, is forthcoming from Blue Rider Press in May 2015. She grew up in Los Angeles, and lives in Brooklyn.