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The Middle East is a volatile and complex region. It is also an enormously important region for the contemporary world and a region that has made rich historical contributions to global culture and knowledge. It is vital that LSE study the Middle East, though doing so is almost inevitably challenging. And once again, we’ve had to face one of these challenges. In this case the outcome is relatively happy, but the issues raised are worth noting.
You may have seen the headlines: LSE cancelled a conference and an LSE researcher was turned away by security at the airport in Dubai. Here’s the background.
The LSE Middle East Centre joined with the American University of Sharjah in planning a conference on the Arab Spring and more generally movements for change in the Middle East. It’s worth noting the openness – and perhaps courage – of our partners, for to no surprise the topic is controversial in the region. A list of topics and speakers was shared with all organising partners as is normal practice. One of the papers proposed for the conference was on Bahrain.
However, just before the conference was to take place, authorities in the Palace of the Emir of Sharjah called the American University asking that the paper on Bahrain not be presented. Confronted with this, the LSE Middle East Centre withdrew from the conference, which was then cancelled. The researcher who had prepared the paper on Bahrain still flew to the Emirates because he already had a ticket and planned meetings in the UAE and other countries of the region to be reached by way of the airport in Dubai. This is how he came to be refused entry on 22 February. The Foreign Ministry of the Emirates released a statement saying that he had “consistently propagated views delegitimising the Bahraini monarchy” and that they regarded this reason enough for both stopping his presentation and keeping him out of the country. LSE rejects this.
Two things are worth noting in this story. First, LSE is adamant that political intervention to censor an academic event is unacceptable. We are committed to the freedom of scholars to carry out intellectual debates, even on sensitive issues. Second, the intervention did not come from LSE’s funder, the Emirates Foundation, or from its partner, the American University of Sharjah. The initial intervention came from a representative of the local government of the Emirate of Sharjah; follow-up came from the Foreign Ministry.
There is a disturbing tendency among some well-intentioned academics in rich Western countries to speak of governments elsewhere in the world as though they were monolithic. People who recognise that different ministers in the UK disagree speak of other countries as though “the government” must have one opinion. People who disagree deeply with UK or US policies like the invasion of Iraq do not assert that universities should cut off all relations with those governments. But when the problematic policies come from non-Western countries there is much more tendency to demand an end to financial or academic relationships.
Consider a different example, I was working in China when the government undertook violent suppression of the peaceful student democracy movement of 1989 – some of which I personally witnessed. I wrote a book about the movement and the violence of June 4 which remains banned in the mainland PRC (though circulated in unofficial translations). I condemn the action of the Chinese authorities on June 4 1989 and I call for them to change the official negative evaluation of the movement today. But I would not think of using this as a pretext to suggest that Western students should not study Chinese on language courses funded by the Chinese government, or that Western scholars should not teach at Chinese public universities, or that Western universities should not accept grants to support Chinese studies.
In fact, universities must be vigilant about the funding they receive and especially the specifics of the contracts they sign, and the obligations into which they enter. There is more risk of political interference where funders represent sovereign states. But the solution is not to avoid sovereign state funders (which of course include the UK’s ESRC and DfID and National Science Foundation of the US as well as funders around the world) but to make sure contracts specify appropriate terms protecting academic integrity, to work only with funders that have a track record of respecting such terms, and to refuse interference should it come.
Scholars in Middle Eastern studies face particularly intense challenges in deciding what funding to accept, and in determining the relationship between academic analysis and political comment. But some such challenges face researchers all over the world and any university seeking to develop global partnerships in order to enable its students and researchers to look at globalisation from many perspectives.
LSE has long had distinguished faculty members studying Middle East issues. Ernest Gellner and Fred Halliday are among the most famous examples. We are proud to have a range of strong Middle East scholars at LSE today and I hope we add more capacity to study and teach about the region. More generally I hope we make it central to our study of globalisation and international affairs to understand the different histories and current conditions and modes of engagement of all the world’s regions.
We work in the Middle East because it is an important part of the world and because we believe our work is generally a positive force for social change and intellectual advancement. But a condition of this is that there are certain lines one cannot cross. One of these is allowing political interference to determine the specific intellectual content of academic events. After an era of growing openness some officials of governments in the region let their anxieties lead them to block freedom of expression. This is precisely the sort of trend one would hope international academic activity might counter.

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Public health and safety will always be the topmost priority of the Bacolod City government, City Legal Officer Romeo Carlos Ting Jr. said on Sunday, February 12.
Ting was reacting to questions raised on why representatives of the Bacolod and Negros Occidental veterinary offices, Bureau of Animal Industry and the Department of Agriculture burned 240,000 table eggs estimated at P1.4 million that were intercepted at the BREDCO Port on February 5.
The destruction of the eggs was in accordance with the Joint Executive Order (EO) of Bacolod Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez and Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson to fight the threat of the Avian Influenza, commonly called bird flu, Ting said.
The governor on Sunday said “I understand the actions of the Bacolod City vet and BAI simply because there was no proof where the eggs came from. In fact the personnel of the delivery truck said that their destination was Iloilo, but instead dropped a number of eggs in Bacolod”.
“They even showed documents that they are in the business of pork. We should not distribute these eggs in our province simply because of its questionable origin. Avian Flu is still a concern,” he said.
Ting said through the city government’s shared commitment with the province, they have given their task forces the authority to conduct necessary precautionary measures to safeguard and protect the public from poultry products such as eggs from areas affected by the highly pathogenic bird flu.
For clearer context, upon checking at the BREDCO port, the shipper of the confiscated items presented a fake shipper’s permit that was also expired because it was dated January 16, Ting said.
The driver alleged that the eggs were from Bantayan, Cebu, but on the expired permit presented, it stated that the eggs came from D. Santillan Piggery Farm in Mancilang, Madridejos, Cebu and are bound for Tabunok Public Market, Talisay City, Cebu, he said.
The declared quantity of eggs was only 20,000 eggs, Ting added.
Ting said there was no way of confirming if the eggs came from an Avian Influenza free area since the shipper failed to present the following requirements:
- Veterinary Health Certificate;
- Certification issued by the Provincial Veterinarian certifying that the eggs were sourced from farms with no incidence of Avian Influenza for the past 14 days prior to shipment;
- Veterinary Shipping permit from the Bureau of Animal Industry;
- Negative Laboratory Test result for Avian Influenza of the source flock valid within 28 days from the date of sample collection; and
- Certificate of Acceptance (CA) issued by the Provincial Veterinary Office of Negros Occidental.
“We can’t risk the chances of these contraband items penetrating our markets. Though it often just affects birds, isolated cases of humans being infected with the HSN1 virus have already been reported,” Ting said.
“The poultry industry in the province of Negros Occidental holds a value close to P8 billion and we are one of the top poultry-producing provinces in the country, a clear testimony that dangerous cases like this must not be taken lightly nor be tolerated,” he added.
“The news is full of stories of how the bird flu greatly impacted the poultry industry not only in the country but globally, we can’t afford to place the livelihood of thousands of Negrosanon poultry raisers on the brink of harm”, Ting said.
Negros Occidental and Bacolod City remain Avian Influenza free, he said.
Victorias Mayor Javier Miguel Benitez on Friday, February 10, aired his dismay over the destruction of 240,000 eggs seized at the BREDCO Port.
Benitez, in a post on his Facebook page, said “Kanugon sang pagsunog sang 240,000 nga itlog o 8,000 trays worth P1.4 M sa Bacolod City. Tani may mas maayo nga solusyon para diri (It is a waste that 240,00 eggs or 8,000 trays worth P1.4 million in Bacolod City were burned. There should be a better solution to this).”*


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Mostafa Mohammad Khard , was porn in 1988 in Jeddah. I had a normal childhood like any other children. I love music, drawing adn sculpture making. I also have work experiments in photography and graphic design.
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For our third collaboration with the BNPP Masters tennis tournament in Paris, we created a multi-disciplinary collective to design and perform the ‘Indoorground’ contents and entertainments before and during the tournament.
During 6 months, beatmaker and Producer 20syl from C2C, street artist and beatmaker Grems and design collective ‘Trafik’ collaborated to create a series of exclusive contents:
-20syl composed exclusive tracks,
-Grems created the video promotion of the tournament,
-Trafik and Grems designed a neon installation interacting live with the beats from 20syl during a pre-tournament performance,
-the collective designed 8 pre-match video, light and musical performances,
-20syl and grems performed a 30 minute final pre-show.


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Beware the firm using “Big Data” to set fees
A recent flurry of Tweets reminded me that we still do a poor job of communicating why process improvement comes before Big Data (or small data) analytics in legal services delivery. Ever hopeful, I decided to take another stab at the topic.
The Customary Approach
We see stories from law firms announcing they will apply Big Data analytics to the history of fees they have charged for matters. The hope is that through statistical analysis of the data, they will find patterns that will guide them in setting future fees.
The premise sounds great. Assume a firm regularly handles middle-market corporate transactions. The firm goes to its time-keeping records and downloads all of the entries into a large file. Over the past five years the firm has handled 100 middle-market transactions. Now, through the wizardry of machine learning and natural language processing, it can mine that data. It can find patterns. For example, it could learn that the median time to draft the stock purchase agreement is 40 hours, with a standard deviation of 2.5. It can plot that data to get a distribution of time spent on drafting a stock purchase agreement. That distribution might look like this:
Big Data fee distribution before process improvement.
When the next middle-market deal comes along, the firm can evaluate the deal against the prototype middle-market deal and bid a price based on whether the new deal is above, below, or average. This sounds great — data at work.
The Not-So-Hidden Flaw
Let’s go back to those 100 transactions that make up the data set. Our first problem is the timekeeping entries. By process improvement standards, they are too coarse to use. We do not have a granular process map for preparing the stock purchase agreement (in fact, we do not know if the firm’s attorneys followed a standard process for preparing the document). We do not know the steps, the sequences, and the time spent on each step. Timekeeping entries — even detailed ones — do not provide anywhere near the data and granularity we need.
To understand what really happened during those 100 transactions, we need process maps and step-by-step data captures. To understand what this means, consider how many steps go into “drafting the stock purchase agreement.” In process improvement, we will look at each step and ask whether it adds waste or adds value. McKinsey & Co. estimates that 25% of steps in legal services delivery can be automated. Even casual studies of legal services delivery routinely show up to 50% of the steps are waste (my data comes in around 50%).
That means the timekeeping entries used in the data analysis provide a data distribution that is roughly 50% waste. Think of it as shifting the distribution to the right on the X axis to accommodate the waste
Big Data fee distribution comparing before and after process improvement.
The firm will quote fees based on its historical data, which includes lots of waste. The client pays for that waste. So, in reality, the client may pay a median price for an average deal, based on work that was 50% waste and 50% value. That is, the client is paying for a very inefficient process.
The Better Way
The problem with data analysis of processes that have not been improved creates ripples through the pricing system. There is a better way, and that means starting with the processes.
The firm should have mapped the processes (and there probably are many processes, given that no two lawyers work the same way) used to prepare the stock purchase agreement. The firm can then standardize on one process. Next, the firm can remove waste from the process (there are eight types of waste in lean thinking — and legal processes are drenched in these wastes).
With a waste-reduced standardized process, the firm can start by estimating the time it will take to prepare a draft stock purchase agreement using the new process (we can guess it will take 20 hours by assuming 50% of the prior process was waste). That should be the starting point for fee quotes. By collecting data on how long each step takes in the new process, the firm will generate a more accurate picture of the “cost” to prepare the agreement (assuming it calculates cost to the firm, not what it charges the client). From there, the firm could set a fixed fee (cost plus profit) and hope that market accepts the price. Or, it could charge based on time (which no client in its right mind should accept).
Mining Bad Data Is Not A Cure-All
Bad data is, well, bad data. Mining it does not make it better, it simply adds waste on waste. Think of all the things that go into timekeeping. One client wants entries phrased a certain way. Another does not like certain words. A third wants standardized entries. A fourth wants custom entries.
Timekeeping involves self-reporting, a notoriously inaccurate system. Timekeepers guess, the complete the entry forms well after the fact, and they don’t stare at the clock (I think that was about 3 hours).
Now ask what you really know about those 100 deals. What was exceptional about this one, unexceptional about that one? Was the draft stock purchase agreement unusual (and did your data mining adjust for that, and if so how?)? What process did the drafter follow — the “efficient” one or the “sloppy” one (assuming you can re-create either)? (For those of you who are budding data scientists, I’m asking if you normalized the data.)
Data has an unnatural allure. It is why lawyers are so tightly bound to the billable hour. It provides the illusion of certainty where no certainty exist. It seems like we have moved into the world of hard science because we use numbers, when in fact we have moved further away.
If you played sports, you may remember your coach telling you there were no shortcuts. You had to run laps, exercise, and drill to get better. If you learned to play an instrument, you heard a similar story. You have to practice skills, develop your technique, and go over the same piece of music again and again to get better.
Improving your craft is the same. You must study it, take it apart and put it back together, practice and perfect. Skipping ahead to “Big Data” doesn’t do it, it just covers a lack of work. Next time a firm says they set the fee using “Big Data,” ask to see their process maps, standard work, and metrics on time. If they can provide that information and it was the basis for the Big Data, you may be in good shape.
Editor’s Note: Published with permission of the author with first publication in Medium.

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These are some more of the clay beads I made for my projects in a recent workshop.
The first photo is of my newest necklace. I had an idea of adding the beads to silk ties, but somehow ended with an ordinary metal chain, although it is possible that it gets transformed again. The beauty of designing your own pieces is that you can alter them after a time when they get boring or are no longer attractive.
The other two are brooches. The diamond shaped one is going to get an additional layer of purple sequins because I feel it lacks something.
This is what they looked like before:


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Pope Francis expressed this Sunday (08.21.2022) his concern and pain over the situation in Nicaragua and called for “an open and sincere dialogue” so that “the foundations for a respectful and peaceful coexistence can be found” in the Central American country, where there is a political crisis that has affected the Catholic Church, after high-ranking church officials were arrested by order of President Daniel Ortega.
At the end of the Angelus prayer in Plaza San Pedro, the Argentine Jorge Mario Bergoglio did not directly mention the arrest, on Friday, of the bishop of the Diocese of Matagalpa and apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Estelí, Rolando Álvarez, an open opponent of the regime Ortega, but he did speak about the situation in Nicaragua, an issue he had not referred to to date.
“I closely follow with concern and pain the situation that has been created in Nicaragua that affects people and institutions, I would like to express my conviction and my desire that through an open and sincere dialogue the bases can be found for a respectful coexistence and peaceful,” said Francis, who also asked “through the intercession that the Purisima (as the Virgin is known in Nicaragua) inspire in the hearts of all parties such concrete will.”
Fifteen days besieged
Álvarez was arrested along with five priests, two seminarians and a cameraman, and transferred to his family residence in Managua, where he remains deprived of liberty, in the latest episode of the confrontation between the government and the Catholic Church. The Police specified that they made the decision to transfer Álvarez because he persisted in his “destabilizing and provocative” activities.
The 55-year-old priest was besieged for 15 days in the Matagalpa curia by the security forces, as part of an investigation for “organizing violent groups” and inciting “hate” to “destabilize the State of Nicaragua.” The bishop had denounced the closure by the authorities of five Catholic stations and had demanded that the Ortega government respect religious “freedom”.

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The study is worrisome, 25,000 male health professionals were followed for ten years. During that time researchers tracked which men developed melanoma, and whether they took Viagra.
As summer winds down, it’s a good time to start fighting your fall allergies before they hit.
Earaches can be painful for any child, and parents may worry about what medicine is best to give their kids.
The Duke University study in the Journal of Pediatrics suggests it could be a signal of emotional issues a small portion of picky eater children.
In this heat you’ll probably hear a lot of advice about how to keep cool and safe. Some of it is legit and some is pretty far off base.
Here’s a serious warning about cut-rate plastic surgery and its terrible consequences. CBS2’s Dr. Max Gomez recently spoke to one young woman about her agonizing ordeal.
The Obama administration is cracking down on artificial trans fats, calling them a threat to public health.
Some 5 million Americans are battling Alzheimer’s disease, and those numbers are expected to triple in the coming years. But there is now a simple at-home test to help spot telltale problems early.
To be able to read and learn effectively, both eyes have to work together as a team, Dr. Max Gomez reported.
Warm weather has arrived and people’s thoughts have turned to losing weight for bathing suit season.
The drug maker, Sprout, said 45 percent of women who took the drug experienced increased desire.
CBS2’s Dr. Max Gomez takes a look at the pros and cons of taking probiotics.
Peanut allergies have more than quadrupled in the past 13 years, but experts now don’t think we should, and must, avoid feeding peanuts to infants so they do not develop the allergies to the legumes.
The measles outbreak that started at Disneyland has now spread to 14 states and health officials in our area are doing all they can to keep the virus contained.
With a historic blizzard pounding the Tri-State Area Monday and Tuesday, there are a number of health concerns to be on the watch for – especially for anyone shoveling snow.


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SPRINGFIELD – Gay rights advocates celebrated Wednesday as the Illinois Legislature voted to legalize civil unions, although some wondered whether the measure that the governor is expected to sign will make it easier or harder to someday win approval of same-sex marriage.
The state Senate approved the legislation, 32-24, sending it to Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn. It passed despite complaints from some senators that civil unions threaten the sanctity of marriage or increase the cost of doing business in Illinois.
After Quinn signs the measure, gay and lesbian couples will be able to get official recognition from the state and gain many of the rights that accompany marriage – the power to decide medical treatment for an ailing partner, for instance. Illinois law will continue to limit marriage to one man and woman, and the federal government won’t recognize the civil unions at all.
Under the bill, both same sex and opposite-sex couples could enter into civil unions to receive the same benefits, protections and responsibilities under state law that are granted to spouses.
Five states already allow civil unions or their equivalent, according to the Human Rights Campaign. Five other states and Washington, D.C., let gay couples marry outright.
Some supporters of civil unions in Illinois hope they’ll be a step toward full marriage.
“The ultimate goal is not to be separate but equal,” said Jacob Meister, president of The Civil Rights Agenda, a gay rights organization. Meister said civil unions are a necessary compromise because they will provide important protections for gay couples.
But even advocates acknowledge it’s possible that by accepting civil unions now, they may be delaying movement toward being able to marry. The compromise could weaken any arguments that gay people are being treated unfairly by not being allowed to marry.
State Sens. Pam Althoff, R-McHenry, and Dan Duffy, R-Lake Barrington, both voted against the bill.
Althoff said she agreed same sex couples in civil unions should have similar rights as heterosexual married couples such as making medical decisions for one another or purchasing property together.
Althoff however was against the use of the word “marriage” in the bill, she said. The bill originally proposed in the regular session earlier this year, did not make reference to marriage.
“Enough of the individuals I represent in McHenry County have grave reservations and in some cases objections to recognizing gay marriage,” Althoff said.
“This could be interpreted by the courts as gay marriage,” Althoff added.
Duffy said he voted against the bill because of the possible costs civil unions would add to the state’s pension system.
Duffy, who is the minority spokesman for the Pensions and Investments Committee, did not receive any financial estimates on how much this would add to the state’s pension system, he said.
“No one gave me hard figures. I can’t support the bill if I don’t know how much it will cost,” Duffy said. “Can we afford this, and how much will it cost the taxpayer.”
“It’s not my place to tell people how to behave socially,” Duffy added.
The law won’t take effect until June 1, assuming Quinn signs it. Having it take effect immediately would have required approval by three-fifths of legislators.
• Northwest Herald reporter Joseph Bustos contributed to this article.

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Philips has begun to create quite a reputation for itself in the mobile phone industry but not in the normal, expected fields – those glitzy areas such as feature counts, big advanced screens, multitasking and the like. Philips likes to think ‘battery’. As part of its ever growing Xenium range, the company has just announced a new entry into the fold called the Philips Xenium X312 with a long life battery included that results in a stand-by rating of one month.
The handset’s other features are difficult to pin down. However, observers have commented how much this design resembles the Philips X320 so wonder if the new X312 might also include Bluetooth, a music player, FM radio, a 2-megapixel camera plus a microSD card slot, according to the Ubergizmo website.
The phone is initially to be sold into the Russian market, no other information has been revealed. We’ll pass on more details when we receive them.
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2 Life is the hour, that God has given To 'scape from hell, and fly to heaven; The day of grace, and mortals may Secure the blessings of the day.
3 There are no acts of pardon pass'd In the cold grave, to which we haste; But torment, horror, and despair
Shall meet remorseless sinners there.
4 Then, what our thoughts design to do, May we, with all our might, pursue; Since no device, nor work is found, Wisdom, nor grace beneath the ground.
HYMN LIII. C. M.
1 HEAR what the voice from heaven proclaims,
For all the pious dead;
Sweet is the savour of their names,
2 They die in Jesus, and are blest,
3 Far from this world of toil and strife,
The labours of their mortal life
1 DREAD Jehovah! God of nations,
2 Though our sins, our hearts confounding,
3 Hear, O God, the vows we render;
Thanksgiving for Victory.
1 ZION rejoice, and Judah sing,
The Lord assumes his throne:
2 The Great, the Wicked, and the Proud, From their high seats are hurl'd; Jehovah rides upon a cloud,
And thunders through the world.
3 He reigns upon th' eternal hills,
Empires are fix'd beneath his smiles,
4 Let tyrants make no more pretence
HYMN LVI. C. M.
1 FATHER, we wait to feel thy grace,
The Lord will his own table bless,
2 We touch, we taste the heav'nly bread, We drink the sacred cup;
With outward forms our sense is fed,
3 We shall appear before the throne
Dress'd in the garments of his Son,
4 We shall be strong to run the race,
1 COME let us lift our joyful eyes
And smile to see our Father there
2 Once 'twas a seat of dreadful wrath,
3 Rich were the drops of Jesus' blood
4 Now we may bow before his feet,
5 The peaceful gates of heav'nly bliss
High let us raise our notes of praise,
6 To Thee ten thousand thanks we bring. Great Advocate on high;
And glory to th' eternal King,
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The Professional Footballers Association have said they will stand with Manchester City forward Raheem Sterling after the England star was allegedly racially abused by Chelsea fans on Saturday.
In their statement the PFA said: “This weekend, following the video footage appearing to show a fan shouting racist abuse at Raheem Sterling, we have been in close contact with his agent, and extend our full support to Raheem.”
Sterling is often at the centre of media attention, he took to social media to summarise his overall thoughts on the situation and to slam the reporting of young footballers by certain national publications.
Investigations are ongoing to determine what was said by the Chelsea fan during their 2-0 victory over Manchester City at the weekend.
read BCOM’S statement here: BCOM’S statement on Raheem Sterling
Sterling took to Instagram where he had this to say:
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Good morning I just want to say , I am not normally the person to talk a lot but when I think I need my point to heard I will speak up. Regarding what was said at the Chelsea game as you can see by my reaction I just had to laugh because I don’t expect no better. For example you have two young players starting out there careers both play for the same team, both have done the right thing. Which is buy a new house for there mothers who have put in a lot of time and love into helping them get where they are, but look how the news papers get there message across for the young black player and then for the young white payer. I think this in unacceptable both innocent have not done a thing wrong but just by the way it has been worded. This young black kid is looked at in a bad light. Which helps fuel racism an aggressive behaviour, so for all the news papers that don’t understand why people are racist in this day and age all i have to say is have a second thought about fair publicity an give all players an equal chance.
The PFA have today release a full statement surrounding the Sterling incident.
They said: “The PFA condemn, in the strongest terms, the increase in racial abuse our members have been receiving from the terraces. We encourage all clubs to take the strongest possible action for fans found guilty of racially abusing players.
“Over the past two weeks, we have seen two alleged high-profile racist incidents happen from the stands at Premier League games. We stress to all clubs the importance of dealing with these incidents robustly. It is not acceptable for our members to find themselves subject to racist abuse, simply for showing up to work and performing for their team.
“We commend Raheem for his professionalism during the incident and the statement he made via Instagram on Sunday.
“We stand with him in calling for the press to consider the coverage of all footballers carefully, and to end their imbalanced coverage aimed at young, black players.
“We have been aware for a few months of the targeting Raheem faces in the press, it is evident that he is often singled out and treated more harshly than his colleagues. As such, these stories are fuelling racism within the game, as reports of racist abuse continue to rise.
“In November, anti-discrimination charity – and PFA funded partner – Kick It Out released figures that showed reports of discriminatory abuse within football were up 11 per cent last season (2017/18), the sixth successive annual rise. Of the 520 reported incidents, 53 per cent were racism related – a 22 per cent increase from the previous season.
“While it may be true that no racial slurs have been used in the press coverage received by Raheem and others, we are in no doubt that the negative narrative influences public opinion and emboldens racist rhetoric.”
Full Statement: PFA Statement on Raheem Sterling
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As UK-based Rycote is the industry-standard specialist in shock & wind protection for field production sound, I took their Softie Duo-Lyre Mount with pistol grip handle to the test with the Deity S-Mic 2. The microphone came with only a basic plastic mount that I suspected to transmit all the vibrations and bumps it could possibly suffer from common, daily usage.
When the S-Mic 2 was mounted onto its included plastic clamp, it was impossible to use the recorded audio without having to filter out the rumbling from unintentional cable movements. The included clamp had its advantages too. I learned that even a wooden shelf can cause vibration noise – when I clamped the mic with a Dinkum Systems clamp, the vibration noise from outside traffic was clearly audible.
That meant I had a good testing environment for Rycote’s Softie Duo-Lyre Mount. Traditional microphone mounts are usually equipped with rubber bands to isolate the mic from outside influences. As these bands make your mic wobble when you touch them, it’s visibly clear it’s not in direct touch with whatever it is it is mounted onto. That’s all but clear when you touch the Softie Duo-Lyre Mount. That has what look like hard plastic clamps mounted on a hard plastic holder and they’re quite stiff to the touch. So, if you didn’t know Rycote is the supplier of many of the world’s largest broadcasting companies, you wouldn’t consider the possibility that the system is capable of stopping those pesky sounds dead in their tracks. And yet, even it doesn’t look or feel that way, it does.
The Softie Duo-Lyre Mount with Pistol Grip handle has a suspension part with a clip that grabs microphones with a diameter of 19mm to 34mm. The clip has an anti-slip rubbery coating on the inside that firmly seated the S-Mic 2. The suspension parts – the Lyres that are quite stiff to the touch – the clip rests upon are meant to totally isolate the microphone from handling and cable-borne noises.
To optimise the latter, the Lyres and clip sit on top of a mount that has cable guides, with an extra cable guide at the top of the pistol grip and a soft rubbery clamp at the bottom of it that follows the shape of an XLR plug. To get a very thick XLR cable through these guides will probably not work, but Rycote sells a thin and short cable specifically for this purpose.
I used a regular 3mm thick Cordial REAN Silver cable and that proved to be just thin enough to guide it through the guides. That cable is 2.5m long, so I had to find a quick but firm way to fix it in place at the bottom of the grip. I used a piece of black high-density foam (cut from hard disk packaging material) and wrapped it around the cable. This holds it inside the cavity that is meant to seat the XLR plug. Finally, I fixed it in place with a velcro cable tier.
My contraption is obviously not very efficient when you need to switch cables often, but it does work and if you do it right, it doesn’t interfere with handling the mic in any way. Of course, the big question now was if the Softie would still succeed in blocking cable noise. And it actually did better than I could have imagined.
Even when the cable occasionally bumped into my body, the Rycote mount did not transmit that sound to the mic at all. Shaking the microphone from side to side by holding the pistol grip didn’t transmit any noise, either. You couldn’t even hear the shaking, except when the cable hit something hard, like the side of a table. The grip itself is comfortable to hold, even for longer periods of time, and the large star knob allows you to rotate the microphone an almost full 90 degrees.
Better yet, and quite surprisingly, the noise that I interpreted as reverb when the mic was mounted onto its standard plastic clip and clamped to a shelf, proved to be vibration noise that was mostly gone after mounting the mic on the Rycote mount. To mount the Softie Duo-Lyre Mount w/PG handle on a boom pole or – in my case – a Dinkum Systems clamp, there’s a brass 3/8” mounting thread at the bottom, so I could just mount the microphone as usual.
People who are going to use a boom pole with the pistol grip must take into account that it does add height, which is why Rycote has the Softie Duo-Lyre Mount without a handle as well.
If you buy a microphone that is only a bit better than the cheapest plastic junk device, don’t skimp on the mounting mechanism. The Softie Duo-Lyre Mount with the pistol grip handle costs around €73 while such mounts without a pistol grip are even less expensive.
Based on my experience, it’s money well spent, saving you time in post-production and ensuring you get the cleanest signal possible.


Over the last year, many, including myself, have called for an 8/29 Commission to get to the bottom of what truly happened with the New Orleans levee-breaches and resultant floods. No one has spear-headed this call like New Orleans-based grassroots organization, Levees.org.
Recently, in collaboration with a class of local high-school students, Levees.org founder Sandy Rosenthal made and posted on YouTube a satirical video criticizing the American Society of Civil Engineers' (ASCE) relationship with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers -- an issue, for the ASCE peer reviewed the Corps' investigation of the levee failures. The ASCE sent Rosenthal a cease-and-desist letter (and carbon copied the school's principle, too). Because Levees.org is truly grassroots, with no big-time funders filling their pockets, they pulled the video immediately. This past week, two law firms agreed to represent them in the case they do face legal action. Watch the video and you yourself can judge whether or not they're going over the line.
My question to America is this: If we can endeavor to get to the bottom of the doping controversy in professional baseball, can we not endeavor to get to the bottom of what really went wrong in New Orleans?
I'm curious -- who, other than Joe Lieberman, doesn't understand that uncovering truth helps us all? People we entrust with our public safety need to be held accountable. Levee safety isn't just a New Orleans issue, it's an American issue. Without a trusted investigation, distrust builds and festers. Disinformation spreads. We send the message that no one really cares if mistakes are made -- no matter the death toll.
Sen. Mitchell, your timing is perfect: once you wrap up the baseball stuff, would you consider moving on to New Orleans?
I am of the opinion that New Orleans could use outside observers known for their sterling judgment and integrity to come down and help out with truth-seeking, and dare I say, reconciliation. There are often yawning chasms between the way New Orleanians of different backgrounds understand what happened to themselves and to their city post-Katrina. Worse, there's even larger chasms between the way New Orleanians and the rest of the country understands the aftermath as well. I'd venture that for every person who understands how the levee breaches were responsible for the NOLA floods, there is another person who believes, or who is at least open to the idea that the breaches were caused by bombs -- bombs maliciously placed by whites protecting their parts of the city. Given the facts, a ridiculous idea -- but given the history, understandable as to how it could be believed. As George Mitchell knows, given his work in Ireland, this sort of distrust was not born on August 29, 2005. People who have struggled with and against each other for generations often need outside mediators to get to the bottom of contested truths.
The fact is, two years after the disaster, our shared understanding of the Katrina crises continues to be limited. I am friends with a secret service agent who has been extremely busy for the past two years protecting the never-ending procession of visitors to New Orleans, especially politicos. The politicos come down for what we've come to call a truncated "stations of the cross": a levee-break, a school, and the Lower Ninth Ward. Basically, all the suffering reduced down to three photo ops. What's left out is immense. Yes, the Lower Ninth suffered tremendously, but those residents weren't alone. Look at this map and you will see in a dramatic way that people died and suffered all over the region. Ignoring this fact only compounds the resentment and distrust among neighbors (and those in the diaspora), making reconciliation that much more difficult. Yet, the residents of the Lower Ninth (and activists who have taken up their cause) have every right to call for as much attention as possible to their tragedies, and to their continued plight, given the fact that they only seem to get meaningful help from benevolent outsiders.
So, here's to Pelosi having a chapter in her memoir devoted to how she helped Waxman pull off a proper 8/29 Investigation, and that together, we can come to greater shared understanding of what really went wrong -- instead of just perpetuating competing, contradictory stories we keep and share among our separate communities, while those in power keep their power, with little care for justice.


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But the DS version of IV is as much of a leap over its predecessor as the original game was back in 1991. Clearly, Matrix learned a great deal in the course of reinventing FFIII and has applied those lessons to its sequel. Many of the improvements are small, but they also make the game a better experience. Gameplay, for instance, has been moved to the top screen; the bottom screen is now reserved for a map. Town maps come fully-revealed, but the world and dungeon maps only fill in as you explore the game. Despite the relocated action, the option for stylus-driven control is still present -- dragging a touch pen around the screen will cause your characters to walk or run. And this way, the stylus never obscures the action.
There are technical improvements as well. Battle load times have been greatly reduced: while the transition to battle suffers from about one second of black screen, the delays on either side have been trimmed so that your party jumps into the fight almost immediately, making the game feel quite near as fast as the original SNES version. This is despite the fact, of course, that the FFIV battle system involves a party of five characters, the most seen in any Final Fantasy save XI. And characters don't suffer from over-animation -- actions are performed quickly with a minimum of camera panning and flashiness. Characters are only seen in close-up when casting magic, and even then, spell effects breeze by.
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FFIV even offers battle refinements over the source material. Some skills work differently now: Dark knight Cecil's Darkness skill no longer works as an area effect attack that expends hit points; rather, it works as a stat boost, lowering his defense for amplified attack strength, and costs a turn to activate. Little touches abound as well: surprise a group of enemies, for instance, and rather than being told that you have initiative, you can simply tell by the way Metal Gear-style exclamation points appear above their heads. (It's now a classic implementation, to be sure, but in this case, it's new, and it works.)
But it's the voices that stand out. For the first time, these characters -- long-time favorites for many gamers who owned a Super NES back in the day -- feature voices, at least in cinema sequences. It's surprising to hear Cecil and Kain speak, and certainly not unwelcome.
And it's simply a small part of a larger overhaul of the story: much of the game's original team has returned to restore the portions of the intended plotline that were originally cut due to cartridge memory space limitations. Likewise, FFIV will see similar improvements to gameplay. Certain characters will be able to execute combination attacks with one another, not unlike Chrono Trigger, and characters can be customized to make use of their peers skills -- which will undoubtedly be a huge help, given the constantly-rotating cast. Some of the more difficult portions of FFIV involve stretches where the party finds itself without a healer; hopefully the added flexibility of the DS version will smooth those portions over.
The playable TGS demo isn't precisely a true-to-the-game slice of adventure; it begins with Cecil and Kain setting forth from Baron Castle to the strains of the Final Fantasy "Prologue" theme, walking side by side down a line of honor guards before venturing into the field... where their party will be bolstered by Rose, young Rydia and Cid. Once they reach the Mist Cave, they find instead the Antlion Cave, where Edward lays wounded. At the bottom of the cave is the Antlion, who serves as the final encounter for this demo edition.
And, while a new version of FFIV might seem too much too soon (the GBA version is only two years old), this is no lazy rehash. It's a ground-up recreation of the game, making full use of the DS's hardware capabilities and bringing a 16-year-old game up to modern design standards. It should be a must-have for both die-hard fans and casual players alike when it arrives in the U.S. sometime next year.
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Disney Parks Blog – Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls – in this video you will meet the faces behind the voices heard at both Disneyland and Disney California Adventure parks. During a recent recording session, Bill Rogers and his wife Camille Dixon showed us how they create these very special Disneyland Resort announcements…. Read more


text: MOOHUS, a MOOARC design research lab, has completed a terrific project. It’s experimental home in Guerney named Portelet House. This family home conveniently overlooks the Portelet Harbour. It consists of three timber blocks perched on a hillside. The concept was carefully studied so that the residents can enjoy the beautiful views of the harbor from all the main rooms of the house. Overall color motif and materials are meant to blend in with its surroundings and the gorgeous beach.


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Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany tested using the direction of their voice to indicate the presence of food to dogs.
In the first study, the experimenter stood behind an opaque wooden barrier and placed food in one of two containers in front of the barrier. Twenty-four adult dogs of various breeds participted in the experiment. After hiding the food, the experimenter crouched behind the barrier, out of sight of the canine research subject, and turned his or her face toward the treat-filled container, saying, "Oh, look, look there, this is great!" In an average of 7.6 out of 12 tries, the dogs correctly went to the food-containing box. Researchers eliminated other possible cues and determined that the dogs could not accurately guess where the food was if the speaker directed their voice to the back of the room.
In the second study, researchers recruited 16 puppies, ages eight to 14 weeks, and subjected them to the same test. The puppies were slightly better at following the direction of a person's voice than the adult dogs, finding the food an average of 8.1 out of every 12 tries. The puppies often took a few tries to catch on, however, and the puppies that had experienced more socialization with humans did better than those with limited human interactions.
In conclusion, researchers believe that the skill of finding food via human voice is learned, though very quickly and through a minimal amount of human exposure.
Source: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology via Live Science, 2014. New Trick: Pups Can Follow Human Voices to Food. Live Science online, May 2014.
By Lindsay Beaton
While dogs and cats continue to reign supreme, the growth of the “other” pet space can’t be denied: 9.9 million homes own a bird, 6.2 million homes have a small pet (usually small mammals) and 5.7 million homes own a reptile.
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Blog: Bouncing ideas
Chris Brook-Carter | 19 May 2006
One of the great characteristics of the food industry is its ability to surprise in terms of what people will actually put in their mouths.
As with all things weird and wonderful, the Japanese seem to be at the forefront of pushing the boundaries of this subject – fish ice cream is a particular favourite of mine.
Earlier this month, for example, we covered how Japan’s most northern island of Hokkaido is now gaining a reputation for packaged sweets with the oddest flavours.
Newly launched Genghis Khan caramels come with 'added lamb' and promises ‘a marriage of the sweet and a good bouillon’. In the meantime, squid-flavoured caramels assure that they are produced using only the ‘finest squid ink’, while the island’s famous ramen soup is now immortalised in Ramen-flavoured candy.
But not too be outdone it now appears the Aussies are getting in on the act and considering the uses of wallaby milk.
“Wallabies, being an Australasian marsupial, are at the forefront of milk technology,” a press release on my desk announces.
But before you scoff read on. Apparently, thanks to an antimicrobial compound found in their breast milk, wallaby milk could have uses killing antibiotic resistant ‘superbugs’.
Researchers from the Department of Primary Industries (DPI) in Melbourne, Australia, have discovered that the super-potent compound – AGG01 – has the potential to fight off bacteria and fungus including e.coli and salmonella and a relative of the hospital superbug, MRSA.
Dr Ben Cocks who led the DPI research team, believes that “the compound found in wallaby milk has the potential to be commercially synthesised and may prove vital in the war against increasingly resistant and human disease.”
Chris Brook-Carter, group news editor and acting editor of just-food.com
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ROGERS PARK — A businessman’s request to lift a liquor moratorium on Howard Street has the endorsement of the alderman, paving the way for his grocery store to open in Rogers Park.
Ald. Maria Hadden (49th) said she supports lifting a liquor moratorium at 2033 W. Howard St., where Gaurav Patel wants to open Howard Street Fresh Market.
Howard Street Fresh Market would sell fresh groceries, packaged goods and household essentials. But in order to stay competitive with other local grocers, Patel said his business will need to offer sales of beer, wine and liquor.
Neighbors differed on lifting the liquor moratorium from Damen to Ridge avenues at a community meeting last month, but Hadden said her office received overwhelming support to overturn the ban. In a community survey, more than 86 percent of 196 respondents supported the move versus 13 percent who opposed, Hadden’s office said.
Patel has agreed to cap liquor sales at 20 percent of the grocery store’s overall business, and he will not sell malt liquor or fortified wine products. He will also donate 10 percent of annual store profits to a violence intervention program in the neighborhood and will provide internship opportunities for local high school kids, Hadden said in her weekly newsletter.
Exceeding the 20 percent sales cap could lead to a suspension of the business’ liquor license.
Patel initially pitched a liquor store for the location but overhauled his business to be a a grocery store after neighbors pushed back.
“I want to thank Mr. Patel for working closely with my office to develop a proposal that reflects the community’s values,” Hadden wrote in the newsletter. “Mr. Patel has taken the feedback and concerns to create a proposal that will help revitalization efforts along the Howard corridor.”
Lifting the liquor moratorium still needs to be approved by the City Council, and Patel must submit a “plan of operations” to the city for his liquor sales, said Leslie Perkins, Hadden’s chief of staff. The store could open in around six months.
Howard Street Fresh Market is meant to be a one-stop shop for neighbors looking to pick up items on their commutes, Patel said at a community meeting. It would have a meat counter, frozen section and an international foods section, as well as beer, wine and spirits.
“It’s people that come to get into the store to buy regular daily needs, they want a nice bottle of wine or six-pack of beer, they don’t have to go to Jewel-Osco and they can come to us,” he said.
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When thinking about the meteoric rise of UK music and the figures that have helped push the sound, Kenny Allstar stands tall at the forefront. Influenced by the big personas of DJs from both sides of the pond, the South-East London native has a unique ear for talent which he uses to continually search for the next big thing – earning him the epithet “The Voice of the Streets.”
Utilising the internet boom to host an array of underground mixtapes, many of which were debuts for now-renowned artists as well as providing exposure for lesser-known acts through several online platforms, Kenny forms part of the new-age DJs that are putting the scene on the map globally.
Coming up through community radio stations, with nearly a decade in the game his rise hasn’t compromised his integrity of wanting to give a platform to the youth. Mostly known for his online freestyle series’ like BBC 1Xtra’s Voice of the Streets or Mixtape Madness’ Mad About Bars – which have birthed some of the most iconic freestyles in the UK hip-hop and drill circuit – Kenny is seen as the peacemaker of drill, giving lifelong advice to the younger generation of artists and bringing the scene together.
Kenny Allstar visited Original Shift’s East London studio to discuss his come up, mental health, being the scene’s “Switzerland” as well as the efforts artists go to to promote positivity and give back to their community.
Original Shift: I heard that when you were younger you used to play along to 50 Cent songs on the keyboard. Is that true?
Kenny Allstar: Yeah yeah, it’s true. My mum has this theory that the toys your child plays with have an impact on what they’ll be in the future. I used to think that was just a weird mum saying. But I get it because a lot of the toys I got as a kid were play instruments. Back then you’d turn on the TV and all you heard was American music, especially in the early noughties. I used to see 50 Cent’s “In Da Club” come on and that melody is so iconic [hums the beat]. It’s one that anyone can hum to. I was just pretending and used to play melodies on the toy instruments to what I was hearing.
I read that you used to pay £2 to rap for 8 bars, was there a moment where you realised that you were better suited to DJing?
[Laughs] You know what, I can take a hint. I’m an energies man, so I can tell when something ain’t right. Don’t get it twisted, man can fling a few lyrics together, I wasn’t dead. But I had asthma, and especially in the early days of grime, cadence and delivery were important. You had a certain amount of seconds to spit, whether it was reload lyrics or whatever sums up your style – you only had 8 bars. So imagine me trying that. Sometimes I'll be talking on the radio and I lose my breath. But there were so many other talented rappers that were passionate about being an MC. Even in school, everyone used to spit in the playground or whatever. Everyone’s got an 8-bar. I can’t say that a rap career even started for me to say that I ended it. When mans are going to do the big 8-bar riddims, ones that everyone in the area knew, I wasn’t getting called [laughs]. You know when you don’t get called to the first team, you got two options, you either sit on the bench, or you change clubs right. So, I guess I changed clubs. I realised that I loved music back when I was playing instruments. I loved radio, so it was a smooth transition.
How did you get involved with Mixtape Madness?
Mixtape Madness was the first platform to give me a voice. I was filming hood videos, DJing at house parties and raves, doing a lot, but I knew I wanted to get more involved in the UK music scene. I tried to hit up loads of platforms and I sent countless emails. I tried my best. But ‘cos I didn’t have a CV or anything strong enough, no one gave me a look in except for Mixtape Madness. They saw what I was into, when doing the community radio stuff and they brought me in to do interviews. Artists that were going on the platform needed additional content and they felt like I would be a good voice for that. What also helped was that Mixtape Madness was a mixtape outlet platform. Between 2010-2013, pre-streaming, you’d go to them to download projects. I was also hosting mixtapes, ‘cos a lot of my influences were mixtape hosts and DJs with large voices. A lot of my mixtapes were naturally going on there, so it was another outlet for me to get me heard. That’s how we started. They always supported me, no matter what.
How did it help you expand and build your other avenues?
When I was doing my radio show at Reprezent, a community station, I knew it was time to build a platform because I was getting all these rappers coming in and I wasn’t documenting them. I’m talking about Stormzy, Ratlin, Naira Marley – these are artists that came on my show, but we weren't documenting them ‘cos we didn’t have the facilities or we weren’t forward-thinking enough.
I know if I could have got the content curation perfected earlier, maybe those Stormzy or J Hus freestyles would’ve been documented. I realised that I needed to start documenting this and who answered the call? Mixtape Madness. They sent a cameraman down who we know as Teeeezy, to film what went on to be the first Mad About Bars which was on my Saturday night show on Reprezent.
You have to take into consideration, I wasn’t on mainstream radio but Mixtape Madness recognised the importance of what we were doing ‘cos I always had the ear. The first MAB was AJ Tracey and that was because I knew he was cold. Did I know if he was gonna be as big as he is now? No one could have foreseen that, but I knew what sounded good. We did a few weeks at radio before realising that this is something we can expand on. The guys helped me put it in a position where we could have weekly releases with new artists every Sunday, which not many platforms were doing at the time. They’re integral not only to the success of Mad About Bars as a platform, but also my early entry to the game. That’s why we’re still running 6 years on. We’re still building.
“I’m an energies man, so I can tell when something ain’t right.”
What’s the story behind the breakthrough phone call from 1Xtra?
That was after I sent countless emails to 1Xtra and I finally got a response from George Ergatoudis’ assistant, who was the station controller. They put me on to someone called Rob Littlejohn and he shouted me to come in for a talk. Again, this was so early on that I didn’t have a radio blueprint that existed or any substance in the industry. We’re talking about me trying to get into a building that had some of the greatest broadcasters ever – MistaJam, Dotty, Charlie Sloth. Even just getting that call from Rob was the first indication that, “Alright cool, I’m doing enough to get conversations with the right people.” Either that or I’m pretty good at writing emails [laughs]. I spent so many years trying to get on 1Xtra, it took me just saying “Fuck it I got to make them look at me innit.” If they’re sleeping now, I’ll get the alarm clock out. I was only 17, I wasn’t really expecting to get there anytime soon.
But there was another important phone call too when I was getting my Friday night rap show. That was the mad ting, and that’s when Mad About Bars started. I moved from Reprezent to Radar at the time and I was doing simultaneous platforms which was unheard of. It was around the time Charlie and Semtex had left, so I knew there were openings. But even then, I wasn’t confident they would call me, I didn’t hold my breath. I got the call and it was Mark Strippel who was the head of 1Xtra at the time so I knew this was big. It was literally just as Semtex had left so I was like, “C’mon mate, it’s gotta be it” [laughs]. He didn’t mention any details, I knew he was calling me for this, but he’s not telling me on the phone. He was building so much anticipation. I remember my girl telling me not to drive to the meeting ‘cos of the anxiety and God forbid if I write myself off on the way. When I got to Cafe Nero I sat on a stool, because I didn’t even want to sit comfortably. He was like “We’ve been seeing what you’re doing and I’m happy to give you this opportunity to do Friday nights, 9-11.” Boom. That was crazy and I’ll never forget it ‘cos that’s how it all started. You live with those moments. I felt like I had been trying so hard, spending 5 or 6 years doing countless residencies and trying to find a place, and the one time you least expect it is when it comes.
Hard work pays off.
“...That was crazy and I’ll never forget it ‘cos that’s how it all started. You live with those moments.”
You mentioned that kids from your area don’t get opportunities. What did it mean for you to get that Friday night show?
It’s the truth. For us, BBC is something we watch on the TV. You can go to any country and get a BBC World service, for us, that’s the maddest thing ever. It’s rare. This is gonna test my radio knowledge – but I don’t remember a man from Lewisham that held a full-time show on the BBC either Radio 1 or 1Xtra. That was ground-breaking for me. It was an actual moment. It’s weird ‘cos I had a group of friends that were rocking with me, but I could tell there was a group of friends that were like, “You spend all this time on radio, but is radio still lit like that?” With those group of friends, it made me realise that if you think radio ain’t lit anymore, I bet you I can make you take interest in it. I had a point to prove making it on there. Just being from where I’m from and making it on the BBC, that meant a lot to me.
You’ve had a meteoric rise in your career over the years whereas your friends who are artists haven’t seen similar success yet. Has that caused you to lose a few relationships?
I mean… people need to understand I’m not perfect. Not every artist who is successful in the UK rap sphere has been on my platform. There are a lot of artists that have never done a freestyle or been in the studio with me, some have never even met me in person. Sometimes I feel like I get a bit too much credit. Just because I build multiple platforms for artists to come on, it doesn’t necessarily mean I’m the only route. There are so many other successful platforms, and if you’ve gone on any one of them, you’ve had a sick run already. If there are people that might not like me or feel hard done by it – all I can say is I’m not perfect. I wish I could make everyone happy but the reality is, I can’t. I’m blessed to have a platform where I can showcase talent, and it is my duty to do that, but if people wanna fall out of love with me, I just have to take it on the chin. Hopefully, down the line they can look back on conversations like this and understand that my heart is always there to help and that I tried. I’m not always gonna get it right. I’m an open book and I always say let’s have an open dialogue. Before going to the extent of saying “Fuck Kenny” or “Kenny ain’t putting on for his own people and ain’t representing” it’s important they try contacting me. Platforms are also businesses that need to be run like that. I hope there aren’t people that have lost faith in me, I hope it ain’t a thing. For up-and-coming artists, bro, I’m still young in this ting, a lot of people get that twisted. They don’t know that I’m not even 30 yet, I’ve been in the game for less than a decade. We’ve got a whole few decades of me trying to rectify these relationships and become better.
Have you ever found difficulty with artists on your show that might have beef with others? How do you remain impartial in all of that?
I’m Switzerland. It’s not my place to look at who’s areas have beef and take sides. We have to be unbiased in this music industry. But it all comes down to talent. Heat matters as well, ‘cos if you’re hot in your area and you're hot across London, naturally you come on these platforms to enhance your message. If anyone approaches anyone that runs a platform in that manner, it’s a loss in itself ‘cos there’s a group of people in the industry that have got to work with everybody. We gotta protect those people because they build platforms which means artists from your area, no matter what walk of life you’re from, can get their voice heard.
We’re aware of people who have issues with others and we keep them far away from each other, as you should. But no one has ever come to me and said “Why are you putting on that person from this area?” everyone knows Kenny is Switzerland, you come to me to get work done in a safe environment. We build. All the politics, you gotta miss me with that man. It’s not the right energy to have. You need to be on the tip of, “If you think he’s hard from there, let me show you what hard is.” It becomes a healthy competition, although you’re from two sides that don’t get along, on a non-violent musical level, you have a competition going on where you want to out-do each other – that’s what I stand for.
“I’m Switzerland. It’s not my place to look at who’s areas have beef and take sides. We have to be unbiased in this music industry. But it all comes down to talent.”
DJ Drama and Mykal Millions were references for your album Block Diaries. Was it a conscious decision to pull from both UK and US hosts?
It’s a bit of both. Early on, all we could see was American influences on TV. Jay Z, Nas, 50 Cent, they were the OGs man. These were our reference points of what success was in music. I’m a student of the game, I’m always learning, always trying to take it back to where hip-hop began from DJ Kool Herc to Grandmaster Flash. So when I knew that DJing was the route for me, I was gonna figure out the reference points. The DJs in America were always boasty with it, larger than life personalities, you couldn’t tell a DJ that another one in the next province is harder. They knew they were the best and owned it. The ones that I was looking to, whether it’s Funk Flex or DJ Clue, these man were hosting mixtapes – I used to bootleg some of them old tapes [laughs]. Anyone who was a DJ or mixtape host, these people wouldn’t only turn a body of work for an artist, they were part of everything. A lot of the mixtapes these DJs were a part of, they were executive producers. They would find the instrumentals and source them to the artist, take the track and some would scratch them in on top of hosting. That is art to me. When everyone was saying how great the rapper was, I was always thinking about the beat and the mix. Even when people like DJ Whoo Kid released Community Payback with Skepta or DJ Drama did the tape with Chip, that was dope to me.
Then the same way on the UK tapes, I knew there was a route for me ‘cos of how important they were. Between ‘08-’10 the mixtape boom was rife in South London, and who was doing it? SN1. What Giggs was doing was incredible because that was rap that narrated the life that a lot of us were really living and would see everyday. That was only happening up the road from me. Why they were sick is because the way we appreciated that with DJ Drama’s Gangsta Grillz series, they built their own. They had Mykal Million and Big Ryde. They were doing that at a time when I never thought anyone from the UK would appreciate it. Their influence on me was important because if I never heard these tapes, I wonder if I’d even have the confidence to host. When I look back at my catalogue, I don’t scream about it enough. I did the debut project for M Huncho Get out EP, are we forgetting that I did Drillers and Trappers for RV and Headie One? That was their first project and even Ms Banks’ first tape. These aren’t projects that I’ve just hosted or been a part of in the studio, we’ve done some big series’ in the mixtape world and I wouldn’t have had the confidence without the names you mentioned.
With the resurgence of grime and the blowing up of drill music, what are some of the biggest changes you’ve seen in the scene?
It’s a weird one, because the changes in music come from the listening patterns of the audience. If you go to a drill show, you’ve got a younger demographic and they’re living in a space dominated by content that comes at you every 15 seconds. Even as a DJ, I mix fast because I know the younger audience gets bored past a minute of a song. The changes that have come in are because of the way the music is being digested. The drill I used to play in ‘16/’17, the beats would still hit, the producers were putting together music that worked at the time and man were just going off. It felt more like a narration of what was going on for them. We didn’t have any catchy songs. I was playing a drill song from ‘17/’18 – I call that the golden years of the “no hook freestyles” – it wasn’t about the hooks, it was about man going off. It didn’t matter if it was streamed or not ‘cos back then, man weren’t making money off music anyway. Now platforms like Tik Tok and Reels have emerged, it’s become about having a moment and how to maximise profit off that. When an artist is getting paid so much from a viral hit, they’re thinking, “Well I’m getting paid, so I’m gonna make more viral hits.” It’s all about striking that balance, you can have a viral hit but on a project it has to be a body of work, and some artists are good at finding that.
Do you think that can sometimes hinder the creative side?
The money that has entered the industry is good and bad at the same time. As good as it is to see more of my brothers and sisters getting paid, it feels like some of the money that’s being thrown out there might come at a detriment to creativity. They’re signing deals where the label controls what they put out as opposed to what they wanna put out. I’ve seen that destroy a lot of careers, unfortunately. But the effort you had to go through to get a cheque before – put out a lot of projects, really knock on the door – ‘cos radio wasn’t playing drill. Now, every other song might have a drill melody. If you look over to the States from the days of Pop Smoke, God rest his soul, they’re embracing UK production which has allowed the sound to travel and do what it’s doing in Brooklyn. You’ve got guys in Chicago now jumping on UK drill-type beats when they were the originators! In the Bronx they’re making songs that are only 2 minutes long and heavy sample-driven records, it’s an example of making music for the generation now. They’re making the drill videos more fun as well, were back in the day it was a whole lot of crud [laughs].
I realised I have nothing to gain from this. I think at this age as well, I’m not trying to be fighting people on road. It’s embarrassing, like I’m too old for this. Every situation I’ve been in after that experience, I’m like “Yo enjoy it man, enjoy the win”. I’m still alive, just enjoy it bro. It’s definitely changed how I approach things and I can see things with calmness.
It’s got to the point where you won’t be able to discern where it’s actually from, it’s just going to be global drill.
Yeah you're right. We’re starting to see it naturally. One of the songs I got on repeat right now is “Reggae and Calypso” by Russ, Buni and YV. But you know what’s mad, that video is so Bronx.
I bet if you gave Kay Flock that beat he’ll jump all over it. That doesn’t sound like the drill we heard in 2017.
It was darker.
There are still artists that speak strongly but now we’re entering the generation where you get videos taken down and it’s affecting the money. When money is involved then the artists become a little more creative like using sound effects to get their point across. At the same time, it’s good because I try to encourage artists, especially on radio, to be creative with their content. In certain buildings, they won’t have it. I want everyone that comes from this scene to transcend across every world possible. First and foremost, if you’re in music you’re an artist, forget everything that you’ve done. If you decide to put on a microphone and record, you’re a musician and you have to be able to adapt in different spaces. I speak to a lot of artists and they don’t like being blocked, that’s why it’s important that every artist is able to adapt to whatever platform. Money can always be made but people at the top can also take it off our plates if we don’t “behave.”
Drill music has come under public scrutiny specifically around the glorification of violence. Do you think that music is the problem?
I get asked this question all the time. So much time gets spent asking if drill incites violence, but in every art form, there are going to be things that are deemed controversial. There are artists that go on to do ground-breaking things for their communities, more than the people that are judging them on the content of the music – and that’s facts. For me as a platform I need to keep giving voices to people who will turn their situation into a positive. If I turn around and say, “This artist’s content is too violent and so you’re not getting a voice,” what is that artist going to do tomorrow? Labels invest in drill because they bring in a lot of attention, and they know what content they’re invested in. I want to help make the artist better, and that’s what I do. When artists do their Mad About Bars I tell them, “Bro stay focused. You’re here because you have built a fan base, keep building and stay in the studio.” That’s where it starts, instead of stripping their voice, give them words of encouragement. One person can’t change what goes on. I don’t live in the estates that some of these guys are living in currently. I’m from that background, that’s why I can relate, but I’m not there going through what they’re going through. Some people have been through a lot, they’ve lost people, and I recognise that the heartbreak is beyond repair. Who am I to strip people from their ability to speak their mind?
I agree. Drill is perceived as the symptom, people need to look at the illness. These are artists talking about real-life experiences, should we not be more concerned about what’s going on in the communities?
That’s why I’m getting tired of answering that question. No one wants to go to the actual problem and where it starts, man. They look to people like us to build institutions, spaces and studios, when there is a whole government with funding that should be allocated to these sorts of things. It’s a scapegoat thing, like you’re the one promoting it so you’re the problem.
It’s easier than trying to work out why by the age of 10, members of certain communities have gone through more trauma than people five times their age.
We should be promoting the success stories in these communities, or at least just as much as we’re questioning the music. There are nuff millionaires in drill now. Let’s scream about that as well.
What are some of your favourite success stories?
There’s quite a few. I think from the drill scene, it’s more the people who have been able to turn their musical talents into businesses. When I look at someone like Russ who’s charted top 20 on his own label, over 20 million streams on Spotify alone and “Body” has been nominated for an Ivor Novello award. That’s ground-breaking. Even someone like DigDat for example, what he’s done and how he puts on people from his area and drops independent releases – these guys are thinking independently. I’m looking at these things as success stories. There’s the behind the scenes things that these artists do, which isn’t my business to disclose, but they’re helping their communities. Putting money into things that are tangible for young people to experience, that’s all I’m gonna say. Works are being done, and it’s beautiful to see. You can’t predict these things, because once upon a time people were telling me drill wasn’t gonna go mainstream. I was there – a lot of people said that it wasn’t going to work and now look, in 2022 everyone wants to do drill and link up with a drill producer. I even heard Mary J Blige on drill not too long ago [laughs].
Mary on drill? That’s wild.
That’s what I’m trying to say, they said this could’ve never happened. I’m just happy to be on the journey and be a part of this, because I enjoy doing what I do.


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