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The full tables for the YouGov/Sunday Times poll are now up here. The improved Conservative position in voting intention was echoed by improved ratings for David Cameron – his approval rating is now neutral, with 47% thinking he is doing well, 47% badly (the first time he's been out of negative territory since January).
On the specific budget questions, people were pretty evenly split on whether the budget made the right or wrong decisions for the country (34% thought it was right, 37% wrong) but tend to think it would be bad for them personally – 41% though it was wrong for them, only 25% right.
Only 15% said it made them more confident about the future, compared to 43% saying it made them less confident. There isn't actually much change to overall economic confidence compared to last week (last week only 11% expected their financial position to get better over the next 12 months, now only 10% do), but people are generally a lot more pessimistic than last year about whether the government's policies will help. Most people (59%) think unemployment will increase in the next year or two, 57% think inflation won't come down, 59% think poverty will increase. Only 27% think the government's measures will make the economy grow faster in the long run…
That said, people still trust Cameron and Osborne to run the economy more than they do Miliband and Balls (39% for Cameron & Osborne, 30% for Miliband & Balls).
On the cuts, 29% think the cuts are right (25%), or not deep enough (4%). 29% think the size of the cuts is correct, but they are being done too fast. 15% think the cuts are too large, and there should be tax rises instead, 14% that neither large cuts nor tax rises are necessary.
Amongst Conservative supporters, 70% think cuts are right or too small, 23% think they are right but too fast, only 3% think they are too large. Amongst Labour supporters only 3% think they are right or too small, 32% think they are right but too fast, 30% would prefer smaller cuts and more tax rises, 27% don't think either large cuts or tax rises are necessary.
On the specific issue of petrol prices, the majority of people (54%) put the blame for high prices on the government for the high level of tax, followed by 21% who blame the instability in the Middle East. Comparatively few people (11%) blame oil companies themselves.
Turning to the issue of Libya 50% now think David Cameron has responded well to the situation in Libya, 35% badly. This is considerably up on last week when 37% thought he was doing well and 44% badly. 45% now think we are right to take action in Libya, 35% wrong. 30% of people think it would be legitimate to deploy ground troops in Libya. Of course, that's not the same as actually doing it – only 23% think it is worth risking the lives of British servicemen.
Note that while YouGov are consistently showing more people supporting than opposing the action in Libya, ComRes are still showing the opposite, this week they found 35% in support and 45% opposed. One of the reasons for the difference is probably the wording – ComRes ask if it is right for the UK to take action, YouGov ask if it is right for the UK, USA and France to take action. Another one may be question order – YouGov ask the right or wrong question about Libya by itself, ComRes ask it as part of a grid along with the other four questions they ask on Libya, with the order rotated – hence the majority of people would answer the question about British armed forces risking death or injury before answering the question about whether the action is right or wrong.
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Poll of Polls on Libya last time was 40% for.. 39.5% against..
42.5% for.. 40% against…
So those opposing very slightly up 0.5%..
Those supporting up 2.5%
I like it when we get differently worded polls on the same subject so close together.
It's a timely reminder of just how manipulable the voters are, and just how careful we have to be about trying to ascertain their views (and indeed just how poorly thought out those "views" often are).
I think the clincher here is the "UK" vs "UK, USA, France" dimension. People's approval for this action seems to be very closely tied to the legitimacy it has from the UN and the spread of countries backing it. There isn't much appetite for UK adventurism, but still plenty of belief in the international community stepping in, even if they are stepping in to the "internal" affairs of other countries.
Yep-I think that's it.
As it should be too.
Also , as towns are freed from Gadaffi seige, and the stories hit the news, I think support is gained.
It is no surprise to me that doctors have been at the heart of these uprisings-in Cairo & Benghazi-yesterday in Adjabyia-also now in Syria.
And there stories are bound to attract support.
So it is Libya and not the Budget/Economy that is boosting government approval.
29% support current cuts or greater
29% support cuts but at a slower pace
29% do not support cuts
Split down the middle or what?
But that's 2:1 in favour of "these cuts are too deep and too fast".
And on another question, 35% "support the need for the government's cuts" and 56% oppose (including 11% prepared to demonstrate).
So EM on fairly solid ground when declaring to the massed crowd yesterday that "We stand today not as the minority, but as the voice of the mainstream majority in this country."
So much depends on one's own viewpoint. Those figures could just as easily be interpreted as meaning that 58% are in favour of cuts, thereby putting the protestors in a minority. I didn't notice many protestors chanting
"What do we want?" "Cuts!"
"When do we want them?" "Later!"
These polls showing the gap narrowing or even being reversed are very significant.
I would surmise that the public are venting their frustrations about the cuts most of the time, but they know only too well why they are necessary and this shows when budgets are delivered, and most probably it will show by 2015.
Woodsman, there's a strong tendency, when people are given three options in a poll, to plump for the centre ground.
Emotionally, I don't think that most of yesterday's demonstrators were motivated by a desire to see cuts take place over 6 years, rather than 4.
Woodsman: "But that's 2:1 in favour of "these cuts are too deep and too fast"."
It's also 2:1 in favour of the cuts so far announced, though a third would like these cuts administered less quickly. You can view these poll results with multiple "personalities". Which is the right way is probably a blend of all possibilities.
"So EM on fairly solid ground when declaring to the massed crowd yesterday that "We stand today not as the minority, but as the voice of the mainstream majority in this country."
I think you're right and that's why I think that the Coalition supporters are actually misreading what took place yesterday and, in so doing, are making a political mistake. Not necessarily a short term mistake, and they may actually get some favourable instant poll reactions, but certainly a long term one. Now, a lot of the instant criticism of Miliband and attempted debunking of the yesterday's march has been wholly predictable partisan knee-jerk stuff, probably prepared and written before it took place. The "rubbishers" have been assisted by some of the usual anarchist nonsense that went on at the fringes yesterday and have dutifully regurgitated the Coalition line of attack on the cuts. They're all Labour's fault, who have no alternative plan of their own, and they have to be done at the speed and in the manner that is now being implemented. There is no alternative. So far so party political and so well rehearsed. Ditto Labour's rebuttal and, to that extent, the debate is sterile, soundbite-ridden and depressing.
What we saw yesterday however was genuinely interesting and I can see why the Coalitionists have moved so quickly to try and debunk it. This vast, diverse and genuinely multi-faceted group of people weren't at all the usual suspects and bogeymen so beloved of right wing demonology. They looked, felt and sounded like the Britain I know, love and encounter virtually every day of my life. Decent, public spirited and, to a very large extent, the very sort of people who make our local communities tick. They weren't trade union activists protecting a narrow vested interest; the concerns they were voicing go to the very heart of what makes our society decent. Care for the sick, the old, the young, the unemployed, the voiceless and powerless.
Ed Miliband may not have soared any great oratorical heights yesterday, and may take some short term hits from the Coalitionists in Parliament and in the press but, in the long term, he's pinned his colours to exactly the right mast in my view. The political capital may be a long way down the winding road he must now navigate for himself and the party he leads, but I'm convinced it will be there for him one day.
Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters have al-Qaeda links – Telegraph http://t.co/HM6SqCu
The current weekly averages (36-42-10/-24) are almost exactly the same as the weekly averages on the same dates in Feb (37-43-10/-24) and Jan (37-43-10/-23). All we have seen in the last 2 months are temporary moves in response to the prevailing news agenda. A lack of movement in the polls fits with the levelling off of the LD vote share since the turn of the year.
It seems absolutely clear to me that all we are seeing is variation around a consistent position according to the news headlines. There was a great deal of uncertainty about what was going to happen, tied in with a general feeling of doom-and-gloom from the Japan earthquake-tsunami-meltdown news. Things are settling down, and we are returning to where we were beforehand.
"hence the majority of people would answer the question about British armed forces risking death or injury before answering the question about whether the action is right or wrong."
Surely if the 4 questions are rotated, then it will be 50:50 which question comes first?
@ Éoin
You are wasting your time putting up the link to the Telegraph. Those who support the 'rebels' either aren't going to read it; or if they do read it, they aren't going to aknowledge having read it.
Amber, Correctamundo :) BTW Rans Lanuf/Brega have fallen into rebel hands.
My point being that whether you are part of the 58% anti-cut/cut slower brigade or the 56% opposed to some/all of the government cuts, in England you only have Labour and the Greens to represent your viewpoint and it is this that EM seeks to tap into.
" thegreenbenches
Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters have al-Qaeda links – Telegraph http://t.co/HM6SqCu"
Now this is truly worrying. Says a lot about Cameron judgement!!
It is understandable that those in the public sector who fear they may lose their jobs protest. However, I suspect that most people will view the Union/Labour led demonstrations as politically motivated and the militant groups that cause so much costly damage will further undermine the legitimate and non political protesters' cause.
On the TV politics programme today the were politicians from the three main parties and both the LD and Tories attacked Labour for saying they would cut and yet refusing to back any cuts proposed by the Coalition. What impact will such discussions have when two politicians can squeeze the third. In 2010 GB talked up the LDs in the three way debate, and this possibly damaged DC. EM could find that he is subject to a two pronged attack from NC and DC.
It is interesting that the Tory share of the vote has not as yet dropped below the GE. If they can maintain this in the bad years and then the economic situation upturns they could easily pick up 5 or 6 points and romp home. Furthermore the LDs that are punishing their Party now for perceived wrongs may well return to the fold if things look up, making Labour's support possibly worse than in 2010.
Returning to one of the issues discussed on the previous thread – that of Ed Miliband's speech to yesterday's anti-cuts rally – may I make these points:
Some have suggested that his poor oratory may have damaged him. In fact, it is unlikely that his appearance will make a significant net difference either way, especially in the short term.
By way of comparison, one of Neil Kinnock's worst ever parliamentary performances came during the debate on the Westland crisis in the spring of 1986. He bombed so badly that it was widely regarded to have let Thatcher off the hook. Yet it did not cause even a tiny blip in the polls, and Labour went on to win a convincing victory in the by-election that was held in the previously Tory-held seat of Fulham on April 10.
However, Kinnock's poor debating performance on that occasion probably did, over a long period of time, contribute with other mistakes to the public perception that he was not up to the job of being premier.
It is possible that a similar process is happening with Ed Miliband. At the moment the polls probably tend to reflect people's verdict on the incumbent government rather than the (lack of) credibility of the opposition, but as the next general election approaches voters will start to focus more on the viability of the alternative.
Of course, being a good orator is not everything, and it is possible that EM may be able to make up for his shortfall in this area by projecting himself as having other strengths (e.g. being seen to be a 'safe pair of hands').
A Labour supporter on the previous thread also made reference to the fact that yesterday's march attracted a quarter of a million people from different walks of life who would have been impressed that EM had addressed them. But remember there are 60 million people in the UK – which means that only about one in 240 attended the demo. Rallies like yesterday's – no matter how large they may be – do not necessarily reflect public opinion. Rather, they tend to reflect the determination of the already politically committed.
On November 24 1981 London saw what had been, up to that point, its largest ever demonstration. It was on behalf of CND. Yet only two days earlier, the unilateralist Labour Party came a poor third in the Croydon North West by-election (a seat they had come within a few percentage points of winning in the previous 1979 general election). The moral is: big demos do not necessarily equate to large ground swells of electoral support.
As a Labour member I am still glad that EM addressed yesterday's rally, if only because it would be good for party morale and help to close the book on some aspects of the new Labour years. But please, let's not kid ourselves that it was a game changer (in either direction).
NB: Croydon North West was the first parliamentary by-election victory for the fledgling Liberal/SDP Alliance. Did anyone on this blog realise that yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the SDP's launch (March 26 1981)? Try googling that date for a refresher. The social democrats' successor party, the Lib Dems, are performing badly in the polls but personally I think they should stop panicking and think about how they can forge a new electoral base (one that is left wing on civil liberty issues but right wing on economic matters). However, that's a debate for another thread.
@ hENRY
they could easily pick up 5 or 6 points and romp home
They could also produce a euroscptic manifesto offering for example a referendum on the ECHR if not the EU. This could easlly cream off 3% of the current 6% UKIP vote. Of course if they are again the largest party but without an overall majority they could again form a coalition with the LD's and conveniently drop these promises as part of the price of coalition.
Observer, I would not attribute such lunacy to one character. Neo-Cons/Neo-Libs and the Liberal Left are equally guilty.
@John Fletcher
"the current 6% UKIP vote"
Except that this doesn't exist. All current polls show Con/Lab/LD with a similar vote share to the last election, at which UKIP polled 3.1%. Defections to UKIP at by-elections is no indication of how a general election will go.
Where I would agree, however, is that under AV UKIP second preferences will favour the Tories.
@ Robin
Exact percentages aside, it is difficult to argue that currently, especially with the problems within the eurozone and the stupid decisions of the ECHR, a more Eurosceptic stance would not hoover up some more votes from UKIP without harming the existing vote.
Some estimates suggest that the Tories lost up to 30 seats last time because of the UKIP vote.
"it is difficult to argue that… a more Eurosceptic stance would not hoover up some more votes from UKIP without harming the existing vote."
You might not agree with such arguments, but it doesn't make them either difficult or wrong.
There is a substantial Europhile section of Tory support. The extrent to which they might or might not be dissuaded from voting Tory by UKIP-friendly policies is difficult to judge, but it is far from clear that there would be no downside for the Tories. A manifesto based on Daily Mail distortions of the facts would be wide open to ridicule.
@ Observer
I think Libya could become a big problem for David Cameron later in his premiership.
For now, the Tories appear to have lost objectivity. They appear to be actively supporting the 'rebels' – pace Dr Fox's interview with the BBC where he seemed very pleased about the 'rebels' having taken control of some of the oil towns & ports.
Libya may turn into another war for oil, possibly against the 'rebels', were it to transpire that the military coalition handed East Libya to al-Qaeda supporters.
@ robin
A manifesto based on Daily Mail distortions of the facts would be wide open to ridicule.
All they have to do is offer a referendum. Its difficult to argue against giving the people a say, particularly when opinion polls suggest that the bulk of the population are eurosceptic themselves.
@ John Fletcher
David Cameron promised you a referendum on Europe. And he promised Nick Clegg a referendum on AV.
UKIP are not getting their referendum but Nick is getting his. Why are UKIP supporters going to give their AV support to the Tories? The Tories prefer the Europe friendly Dems to UKIP, John.
An action or effort subsequently hijacked by a violent minority for their own ends.
Those that criticise EM for speaking at yesterday's demonstration might just as well criticise military intervention in Libya for the same reason.
The majority of the population are eurosceptic (see the results in today's YouGov about the European parliament). This is hardly surprising given the way most of the British establishment has used it for decades as a convenient scapegoat for anything that has gone wrong – irrespective of whether this is true or not (or even if it has the slightest connection with the matter in hand).
However the last thing that any of them actually want is for the UK to pull out. Not only would they lose their useful whipping boy, an awful lot of what big business (in and out of the City) does depends on membership. Could Mr Murdoch send his profits to hide in Luxembourg any more?
Equally well, reform to make the institutions more efficient and less corrupt is against the establishment interest. Not only might the improved EU show them up (imagine if it had German efficiency and Italian style, rather than the other way around), many of the solutions best carried out at multinational level (banking reform comes to mind) might actually happen. Far better to allow things to go on with reform dictated by the slowest member (often the UK); for even if the results may be bad for the country, they keep the establishment in the manner to which they are accustomed.
So the anti-EU grandstanding will continue, but if anyone thinks that there will be any effective change, they are being naive.
Amber Star
David Cameron promised you a referendum on Europe. And he promised Nick Clegg a referendum on AV.
DC promised a referendum on the Treaty, subject to no ratification before his election, which is why ratification was rushed in.
@ Henry
My team have gone from +11 to +3 in the polls. It's Sunday & I am having a chuckle at the idea of the Tories saying, "Britain is open for business but we're closing the door on Europe."
Cut me some slack. ;-)
Roger Mexico
However the last thing that any of them actually want is for the UK to pull out
I agree however my point is not about the rights and wrongs of Europe but tactics (some might say cynical tatics) the tories might use to remain the largest party after the GE, if not win outright.
By including some form of referendum on Europe in their manifesto they can probably, at little or no expense to their existing vote, pick up quite a bit of the UKIP vote as well.
If they have to form a coalition again then they can drop it and claim it is the price of coalition.
If they win outright then they simply hold the referendum and then enter into (protracted) negotiations to implement the decision.
If asked during the election why they did not do any of this over the term of this parliament than they simply again claim it as the price of coaltion.
I can't see a downside for them
@ amberstar
"Britain is open for business but we're closing the door on Europe."
Remain part of a free trade zone and ditch the rest. ECHR, CAP etc etc etc
Simples :D
"Its difficult to argue against giving the people a say"
The people already have their say, every 5 years in a general election. Proposing a referendum would rightly be seen as being in favour of such a lunatic change, but trying to dodge the responsibility for implementing it.
"But please, let's not kid ourselves that it was a game changer (in either direction)."
I don't think I've seen anybody claiming that yesterday's march and rally was a game-changer and I certainly didn't do so in the post to which you referred. Politics very rarely comes up with isolated events that are game-changers; the weather usually changes gradually and, quite often, imperceptibly as impressions and perceptions form over lengthy periods of time. In fact, I can think of very few single events in British politics that have of themselves changed the political weather. The Falkland War, possibly, Black Wednesday, almost certainly and the first Leadership TV Debate in 2010, without doubt. After that list, I'm struggling.
However, what yesterday's events signalled was the first glimpse into how opposition to the Coalition Governments economic policy may be coalescing around hitherto disparate groups of people who, up to now, have rarely found common cause. That's its real political significance in the long term and, in my view, therein lies the unique opportunity for a Labour Leader who now finds himself, maybe even unwittingly so, at the head of a nascent and extremely interesting political movement.
Anybody who thought yesterday's march and rally was some re-creation of bygone Trade Union single issue marches that were pre-occupied with the protection of a vested interest ( eg "Kill the Bill" March in 1971) is seriously misreading what yesterday was about. What I think I saw in Hyde Park yesterday was a vast congregation of individuals and their families, from all over Britain, campaigning to protect public services that they felt crucial for the preservation of a decent and fair society. That is a cause and issue that could well change the game when the cuts start to bite. Miliband was right to associate himself with it and to lend it his support.
Whether his speech was any good, at this stage, is a matter of supreme unimportance!!
@ John Fletcher
Remain part of a free trade zone and ditch the rest. ECHR, CAP etc etc etc
When did Germany & France give us that option, John?
I think simples would quickly become complicateds, if the UK tried to take that approach.
Oil to start flowing again from Eastern Libya within a week.
Qatar has agreed to market it.
THe Interim Government :-
h ttp://ntclibya.org/english/
says proceeds will go into an escrow account until the whole country is liberated. They will take out loans to finance Free Libya till then.
( Reuters)
These guys are on the ball.
To the extent that Libyan output was a factor in oil price spikes, this should have a beneficial effect on inflation.
Robin, it's the difference between rotating and randomising statements.
Randomising, 50% will see it before, 50% after.
Rotating there are only five arrangements of the questions
So 80% of respondents will see question 5 before question 1.
@ Crossbat – "campaigning to protect public services that they felt crucial for the preservation of a decent and fair society. That is a cause and issue that could well change the game when the cuts start to bite. Miliband was right to associate himself with it and to lend it his support."
Well said indeed Nick. It's also why EM linked the heart and cause of yesterday's protest to other protest movements such as universal suffrage and anti-apartheid imo.
@ John Fletcher/Amber Star
Like Godwin's Law, should there not be a new law to invoke whenever the spirit of the Meerkats are drawn upon in support of an argument? What should it be called though? ;-)
"it's the difference between rotating and randomising statements."
Ah, I understand. Then again, I don't. It seems a bizarre way of permuting questions – as you pointed out, it precisely does *not* achieve what I presume to be the supposed purpose of the exercise, to avoid (or to identify) bias due to the order in which questions are asked.
@ Colin
Oil to start flowing again from Eastern Libya within a week.
Qatar has agreed to market it.
Excellent, so the 'humanitarian' aims of the mission have been achieved (aka the oil is flowing), everything is business as usual & we can stop bombing & killing people. Good to know.
Sadly no.
THe people of Ajdabyia have told eloquently of their humanitarian plight under Gadaffi's seige, and murderous snipers.
The first thing that the liberators did was turn the water supply back on-Gadaffi's men had switched it off.
At present the residents of Misrata are being shelled by Gadaffi for saying they don't want him.
So there is still plenty of suffering to stop yet.
Of course Gadaffi could stop it instantly by complying with 1973.
The sooner he sods off to Chad the sooner the Libyans can choose a government, and our military can come home.
At least oil revenues are going to be in a bank account marked "Libyan People" now rather than " Property of the Gadaffi Gang" ;-)
"Where I would agree, however, is that under AV UKIP second preferences will favour the Tories."
I'm not so sure. There are plenty of natural Labour voters (such as Gordon Brown's 'bigoted woman') who are concerned about such things as unfettered Eastern European immigration. If they think about their vote, they might well vote UKIP in European elections at least.
The idea that UKIP popular support is made up of swivel-eyed Tory backwoodsmen is at best only partially true.
The worst-case scenario becomes reality for Frau Merkel. According to both exit polls, in Baden-Wurttemberg State Election incumbent center-right coalition gets 43% (38 CDU + 5 FDP) and Red-Green alliance 48% and OM. (Green 24,5 and Red 23,5). Very probably the first Green-led government in a German State, the second more powerful center-right stronghold after Bavaria, which had never seen a center-left administration before.
In Rhenania-Palatinate, Red+Green are beyond the 50% mark (36 + 16) and Liberals are evicted from Parliament. (CDU 35 + FDP 4). Deception also for the Left party (Linke), failing to enter either parliament. It seems that the anti-Merkel vote concentrates on Red-Green alliance, with major gains for Greens and relatively good results for Reds after the 2009 GE debacle.
Gute Nacht, Frau Merkel!
Anthony have we any more AV referendum poll results to chew over? It might be interesting to see if these track in one direction with the rise in support for the coalition.
Clearly the 1p off petrol was resonant with the electorate and I was wrong, wrong, wrong….
I think its inevitable that the 'rioters' will take the lead on the story of the demonstration…they always do…but it isn't without its significance that maybe towards half a million peple thought it was worth coming out to register their feelings…
I still think, probablty also wrongly, that it's way too early for the public to have made its mind up one way or the other about the cuts because practically they're still other peoples' cuts…. still…theoretical cuts…
Similarly, the politics of cutting benefits may be nasty but there's nothing necessarliy wrong with its politics….these people weren't voting or at least voting for the coalition before all this started.
Polls don't define the logic of political argument merely reflect its salience amongst the voters…and that often means the winning argument isn't necessarliy the right or best argument.
After all my life it still astonishes me that it's widely beleived that making richer, privileged people richer and more privileged will enable us all to own a share of their lifestyle.
It's been one of the most interesting myths of my political lifetime and its endurance despite evdience to the contrary is an astonishing reflection upon the best educated society mankind is ever meant to have made….
But then again, looking at it another way, the things human beings chose to believe in and give money and time to… often beleifs without verifiable evidence …are no more outlandish than this particular commonplace.
If to everything there's a season and a time appointed….our government will surely effect to forget to remember that all political careers are doomed to end in failure…but all parties are filled with optimists who beleive this will not be true for them…..as stock markets are full of those who beleive there'll never be another crash!
I was at yesterday's march and I would firstly say that I think the breadth of people involved should be a bit of a worry to the coalition and secondly that the police did a great job, and that is in part a testament to the collaboration between police and the TUC. I was only on the march and not down Oxford Street or Picadilly though so can't really comment on that. It was all very jolly! :D
I really like Ed…I must admit I found his speech a wee bit cringey, but I really don't think that's important. That he attended IS incredibly significant, probably the most significant thing. What a difference to Blair! It felt so un-New Labour! What that all means I don't know. Yesterday was not a game changer, but it was, I think, a bit of a turning point and spells out exactly how much, and how quickly, the political landscape could well change.
@ Woodsman: You are right. A soon at the meerkats are invoked, its time to change the subject.
The blues are now looking competent as they are focusing on core issues and not trying to change 57 different policy areas at the same time.
@Nick ok. " What a difference to Blair. The whole thing felt so un-New Labour". As a mild red sympathiser I find this statement worrying. That to me reads like: 'Back in the comfort zone of enjoying opposition'
@ Nick OK
I was at yesterday's march and I would firstly say that I think the breadth of people involved should be a bit of a worry to the coalition
Not at all. March of the usual suspects looking after their vested interest IMO.
@ John Fletcher
'Not at all. March of the usual suspects looking after their vested interest IMO.'
The same aphorism might easily be apply to the coalition as to its opponents….
@ Johnmurphy
The same aphorism might easily be apply to the coalition as to its opponents
Of course it can. This is politics not altruism :D
John Fletcher
I'm not sure that promising an In/Out EU referendum is a trick the Tories can pull at the next election. In perception they will be seen to have form in refusing to call the referendum they previously promised (actually on terms of the Lisbon Treaty of course).
However they also come up against the problem in reality. Because the Lib Dems said if there was going to be a referendum, they wanted it to be on EU membership itself. So the Conservatives can hardly claim that they wanted to put it to the people last time but the Lib Dems stopped them.
Though these problems pale before those that actually reviving the EU debate would cause within the Conservative Party. At the moment they can all unite behind the policy of 'talk loudly and carry a twig' – indeed can exploit it. However a referendum campaign and its aftermath (whatever the result) would reopen old wounds and cause lots of new ones. 'Be careful of what you wish for' is a cliche because it's true.
And it's certain that any exit negotiations would be a great excuse for the French and the Germans to give les Rosbifs a good going over. Partly in revenge for forty years of whinging and partly to discourage anyone else from getting ideas, but also to encourage as many firms to flee the UK as possible.
As far as the ECHR (technically different from the EU of course), the irony about it is that the complaints have only happened since the decisions have been made in the British courts after the Convention was incorporated into British law. Everyone is now demanding that the Convention be replaced by a BRITISH Convention (I think a YouGov poll showed only 4% support for abolition and no replacement) – though no one is saying how it should differ from the European one. And the decisions could then be made by BRITISH judges. Er just like at present.
The truth is that the attitude of most of those complaining seems to be that they should have unlimited human rights themselves and people they disapprove of shouldn't have any. It is rather difficult to enshrine this as a universal principle; at least in a universe with more than one person in it. Trying to promote such a policy as anything more than mood music will lead to it being examined properly and being shown to be stupid at best and sinister at worst.
John Fletcher
Given that Nick OK was at the march and you weren't, it's a bit much to overrule him and claim it was just 'the usual suspects'. ;)
Actually one of the interesting points from today's YouGov was that 5% of all respondents are claiming Yes, I have taken part in protests or
demonstrations against the cuts. And that includes 2% of all Tory voters (4% of Lib Dems; 8% of Labour).


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As week two of our family cohabitation in a small space nears an end, we are certainly talking more but we are also getting increasingly edgy. It has been a challenge being this cooped up coupled with the stress of mortgage brokers and realtors. It does however pay to shop around. Today I was fortunate to find a mortgage representative who explained the process to me from start to finish, did not sugar coat it, and talked to me like I had a brain. This has been the exception rather than the rule, the mortgage arena filled with guys who even after all these years, gave me the feeling that I was just a woman after all. They lost my business.
We have found a place that we like and we are going back tomorrow to see it once again, take some pictures and measurements. Then we will make the offer and hope for the best. This has been without a doubt, one of the most exhausting things I have ever been through, my own fault entirely for being so impulsive and last minute. There must have been a reason for that impulse, one that lead me, one week before we moved, to throw caution to the wind and inquire about buying rather than renting. Still I hope I never have to go through this again.
Through all of the progress, I have to admit i hear a little voice in my head asking me what I am doing, as I have reached a point in my life where I had hoped to do other things. I guess one always needs a place to live in any case. Once settled I hope to get back to myself and center, this chaos making it difficult to connect to the things that nourish and sustain me. Some no doubt are walking with me through all of it but I am too clouded to hear their footsteps.
My journey to find home continues as does the roller coaster ride that goes with it. Soon I hope we will be near the end of that ride and I can return to those things I found within myself one autumn day, and sit quietly pondering this last turn in the road.

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Project Server 2007 Performance Testing White Paper and Performance Lab Kit
Apologies for the recent radio silence – a very hectic schedule has unfortunately left little time for blogging. But fear not, I have been storing all blog-worthy news and announcements like nuts for the winter, and now present them for your reading pleasure!
First up is the fantastic Project Server 2007 Performance Testing White Paper and Performance Lab Kit, produced by Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS).
These performance lab results clearly demonstrates Project Server 2007's ability to scale to meet the demand of large enterprise deployments.
The white paper answers the following often asked questions:
- Key metrics for performance
- Test scenarios (open, save, publish projects, submit timesheet, submit task updates, etc...)
- Test results for:
- -Access PWA Home Page
- -Submit Task Updates, Approve Task Updates
- Submit Timesheets, Approve Timesheets
- Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 Performance Testing (white paper)
This white paper contains a description of an actual performance tuning lab for Microsoft Office Project Server 2007.
The first chapter ("Running a Project Server 2007 Performance Test Lab"), describes how to run performance tests against Microsoft Project Server 2007 deployment by using Visual Studio Team System 2008 and a set of community-based tools built for the purpose. The second chapter ("Test Environment"), documents the specifics of the lab environment that was used for the tests we ran for collecting data for this white paper. The third chapter ("Test Results"), describes in detail the test scenarios that were conducted, and it summarizes the data collected for every scenario.
- Project Server 2007 Performance Lab Kit (Visual Studio solutions published on MSDN Code Gallery)
The Project Server 2007 Performance Lab Kit contains two Visual Studio solutions/tools to help you test your farm environment for capacity planning purposes: the "EPMTestTools" and the "EPM Stress Test" solution.


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ISLAMABAD: The government has set a target to get rid of the circular debt by December 2020, Prime Minister Imran Khan was told in a meeting held on Monday to ascertain the progress on reforms introduced in the power sector.
According to media, the premier was briefed in detail about ongoing reforms in the power sector to remove impediments in power transmission, measures to curb power theft and cope with the issue of circular debt.
Officials from the Ministry of Power told the premier that during 2017-18, the circular debt had increased by Rs450 billion which would be brought down to Rs293 billion during the current year and Rs96bn by 2019-20. However, the issue of circular debt would be completely overcome by end of next year.
The prime minister was informed that a fresh policy for power production through alternate energy resources with a time horizon of 25 years had been formulated to cope with power supply and demand.
Under the policy, 20 per cent of total electricity would be produced from alternate resources by 2025 which would be enhanced to 30pc by 2030.
The officials also said the drive to curb power theft and recovery of dues had brought in positive outcomes. Within four months, the additional power dues worth Rs48 billion had been recovered that would touch Rs80 billion mark by December and Rs190 billion till June 2020.
The officials informed the prime minister that losses caused by theft, technical and transmission issues were given special attention and steps taken to reduce these losses are coming to fruition.
As a step to curb power theft, 27,000 First Information Reports had been registered against those involved while 4,225 people had been arrested including 433 officials from the power sector. Moreover, another 1,467 officials had been charge-sheeted.
During the briefing, it was informed that production capacity at the power system had been enhanced by 3,000 megawatt through addressing 15 major shortcomings.
It was assured that no loadshedding would be done on 80pc feeders across the country during Ramazan due to improved distribution and transmission system. For rest of 20pc feeders, a load management plan had been formulated in accordance with the losses where the ratio of power theft was above 80pc. However, it has been ensured to provide uninterrupted power supply during Sehr and Iftar timings.
Briefing on the petroleum sector, the authorities concerned said that policy for exploration and production was being amended and a shale policy was also on cards. Moreover, the premier was also notified that the work on bifurcation of exploration and production was also being done.
The prime minister was told that 40 blocks had been identified for exploration and production and international road shows would be conducted to attract technically-equipped foreign firms so that the country's oil and gas reserves could be extracted.
The meeting was attended by Minister for Power Omar Ayub Khan, Finance Adviser Abdul Hafeez Sheikh, Special Adviser to PM on Petroleum Nadeem Babar, Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan, Nadeem Afzal Chan, Yousuf Baig Mirza, Irfan Ali and other senior officers, a PM Office statement said.


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PLAID CYMRU parliamentary leader Elfyn Llwyd MP wants members to back Ieuan Wyn Jones's bid to become leader of the party's group in the National Assembly.
This follows the unanimous endorsement given to Mr Jones by the Meirionnydd Nant Conwy constituency committee at which both Mr. Llwyd and local AM Lord Elis-Thomas were present.
Mr Llwyd said, "I am urging party members to support Ieuan Wyn Jones and to give him a clear victory in the forthcoming election for the leadership of the party's group in the National Assembly.
"Such a victory for Ieuan is vital for our future as a serious political party. He is the best person to undertake the leadership role in the Assembly by virtue of his ability and experience.
"I worked closely with Ieuan for nine years in Westminster and saw his political skills at first hand. The Assembly group desperately needs those skills at this time, particularly as we need to consolidate our current position as the main opposition party in the Assembly.
Ieuan is the right person to lead the battle to turn the Assembly into a real Parliament for Wales. Rhodri Morgan and Labour in Wales don't have the political will to do it, and Plaid Cymru must have an experienced person at the helm to drive it forward."
Another leadership contender, Rhodri Glyn Thomas, said the group needed a more oppositionist role.
New Labour's "conservative agenda" was damaging Wales, and the failure of the Government to make any impact since the Assembly was set up was damaging the credibility of the devolution process, he said.


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This report presents another phase of a study on evaluation of paint stripes and glass beads. The results from the previous phases of this study indicated that large-scale, experimental evaluation of a 1.65 refractive-index bead and a large-gradation, 1.52 refractive-index bead was warranted. Poor embedment of beads, however, precluded the evaluation because the quick-drying paint used did not allow beads to be properly embedded. After progressive thinning of the paint with solvent, adequate bead embedment was obtained. Drying time, of course, was longer.
Attempts were made to obtain good embedment without extending the drying time. This included testing of a paint having a lower viscosity and by trials at lower temperatures and thinner applications. These efforts were not successful. A survey of other states indicated that over half of the 42 respondents were having a problem similar to that being experienced in Kentucky.
Report Date
Report Number
No. 504
Digital Object Identifier
The contents of this report reflect the views of the authors who are responsible for the facts and the accuracy of the data presented herein. The contents do not necessarily reflect the official views or policies of the Bureau of Highways. The report does not represent a standard, specification, or regulation.
Repository Citation
Pigman, Jerry G. and Agent, Kenneth R., "Evaluation of Paint Stripe Beads" (1978). Kentucky Transportation Center Research Report. 833.


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Lacoste Mens Crew Neck Short Sleeve T Shirt
- Plain
- T-shirt
- 98% Cotton 2% Elastane
- Warm Iron
- Machine Wash 30°C
- Not suitable for dry clean
- Grey
This 100% cotton t-shirt is great for adventures in the sun and lazy days indoors. An eye-catching Design adds a stylish touch to this wardrobe staple.
Lacoste Men's Crew Neck T Shirt - Short Sleeve - Grey
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Thanagar (aka Hawkworld) was the homeworld of the humanoid Thanagarian race, noted for the discovery of gravity-defying Nth Metal.
The planet was in orbit around the star known as Polaris (in the Polaris star system).
Background Information
On the parallel-universe of Earth-One, Thanagar was a highly advanced science-based world, with no problems of poverty, or civil or political unrest.
It was run by a single government called the Ruling Council and there wasn't any need for a police force. That is until an alien race called the Manhawks, who instigate the practice of stealing for the thrill of it, invaded. As a result, Paran Katar established the "Hawk-Police" (or "Wingmen"). Amongst the first Wingmen was Paran's son, Katar Hol. Order was restored, but not completely, as several (if not more) Thanagarians had adopted the concept of crime.
Katar and his wife Shayera Hol, also a member of the force, later arrived on Earth pursuing a shapeshifting villain named Byth. Katar and Shayera decided to remain on Earth and study human police methods. They became superheroes as Hawkman and Hawkwoman.[2]
The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure (1967)
- Opening theme
Legends of the Superheroes (1979)
- The Roast (mentioned only)
- The first appearance of Thanagar was in Brave and the Bold, Vol. 1 #34 (March, 1961).[3]
- In was creators by Gardner Fox and Joe Kubert.
- ↑ As seen in the opening theme of The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure (1967).
- ↑ This based on the Silver Age, pre-Crisis continuity.
- ↑ Go to DC Database for more on Brave and the Bold, Vol. 1 #34 (March, 1961).
External Links
- Thanagar at the DC Database
- Thanagar at Wikipedia


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Centenary Tribute to Anna May Wong (1905 - 1961)
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily." - Marlene Dietrich as Shanghai Lily in Shanghai Express
One of them is yellow, and the other one is white. But both their souls are rotten." - Lawrence Grant as Reverend Carmichael in Shanghai Express
How can we be be [such villains] with a civilisation that's so many times older than that of the West?" - Anna May Wong on Chinese on the Hollywood screen
Anna May Wong was Hollywood's first Chinese movie star, making films from 1919 to 1960. She starred most famously opposite Marlene Dietrich in Joseph von Sternberg's Shanghai Express in 1932, and was an early evil daughter of Fu Manchu in the 1931 film, Daughter of the Dragon. Other co-stars included Douglas Fairbanks, George Raft, Warner Oland, Sessue Hayakawa, Jameson Thomas and a young Laurence Olivier in The Circle of Chalk on the London stage,
An active supporter of the Chinese war effort against the brutal Japanese occupation from the 1930s into World War 2, she visited China and wrote a series of articles on her experience there for the New York Herald Tribune. Her disillusionment with the Hollywood system, where mixed race love scenes were banned and screen depictions of Chinese degrading, led to engagements in Europe where she found respect and acceptance. With decent film roles drying up in the 1950s, she worked in television, appearing in shows such as Wyatt Earp, Mike Hammer and The Barbara Stanwyck Show, as well as her own detective series, The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong. She had hoped to make a comeback in the musical feature film, The Flower Drum Song, but she died at home in Los Angeles in January 1961 of a heart attack aged 56.
Glimpsed on a rare British television screening of Shanghai Express when I was a child, she was a vital sign for me that Chinese artists could make a valuable contribution to Western culture.
(c) Photo by Sukey Parnell, June 2004Anna May Wong Must Die!


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July 20, 1990, Section A, Page 8Buy Reprints
He's a phantom, a reclusive loner with a mop of dark hair and hypnotic eyes who for the most part has gone though life without a trace.
It is only in a blizzard of lawsuits and court cases that have been his obsession for the past 20 years that Walter Leroy Moody Jr. seems to come to life.
As investigators intensify their focus on Mr. Moody in connection with the bombs that killed a Federal judge and a civil rights lawyer last December, they are left with a dominating question. They must decide whether Mr. Moody has spent his life doggedly pursuing the legal rights available to any citizen or whether his incessant involvement with the courts is part of an obsessive pattern behind the mail bombs.
Mr. Moody has not been indicted in connection with the case and has denied any involvement.
Mr. Moody, who was indicted last week on 13 charges stemming from his appeals of a 1972 conviction in the explosion of a pipe bomb that is unrelated to the recent mail bombs, has made much of his life a legal marathon. Most of it came before the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, where Judge Robert S. Vance was killed by a bomb sent to his home outside Birmingham, Ala.
A second bomb was defused at the court's offices here. A third killed Robert Robinson, a civil rights lawyer in Savannah, Ga., and a fourth was defused after being sent to the office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Jacksonville, Fla. #20 Years of Suits and Appeals Mr. Moody has spent almost 20 of his 56 years coming up with new grounds to appeal his 1972 conviction, for possessing a bomb that exploded in his first wife's hands, wounding her severely. The current charges of obstruction of justice, bribery and tampering with witnesses stem from what prosecutors allege was a scheme to fabricate an alibi in that case.
When an attempted murder charge against him in 1983 ended in a hung jury, he sued the three men he was accused of trying to kill, two sheriff's officials and a prosecutor, charging they maliciously prosecuted him.
And since becoming a suspect in the bomb case, he has filed a barrage of motions and legal actions, including challenges to search warrants and a criminal mischief complaint he filed against F.B.I. agents investigating him.
The shadowy picture of Mr. Moody mirrors a case with outlines and motives remaining so murky that despite what seemed to be a racial motivation behind the bombings, investigators are not sure now whether race played any part in them.
''This is not a situation where they know who did it, and it's just a matter of finding them,'' said Bruce Harvey, a recent lawyer for Mr. Moody, who withdrew from the case on Wednesday, citing an inability to reach a satisfactory financial arrangement with him. ''It's a real whodunit at this point.'' But Mr. Moody has become the clear focus of the investigation. His picture has been circulated to hardware dealers who could have sold materials used in making a bomb, and he has been put in a lineup.
When a judge in Macon, Ga., ordered Mr. Moody held without bail last Friday on the perjury and obstruction charges on July 13, he released Mr. Moody's current wife, Susan McBride Moody, 28 years old, on $250,000 bail with orders that she not be in touch her husband. Investigators in the recent bombings said they hoped that by confining Mr. Moody, other witnesses, including Mrs. Moody, would be more cooperative.
Born on March 24, 1934, Mr. Moody grew up in the small central Georgia town of Fort Valley. His father, Walter Leroy Moody Sr., like his own father before him, was an autombile mechanic and is still remembered as a skillful and honest businessman.
The oldest of three children, Mr. Moody seems to have inherited his father's mechanical ability. He spent much of his youth building model airplanes and much of his adult life tinkering with engines and machinery.
But in a small town where everyone knew everyone, Mr. Moody went his own way.
'Roy Was Always a Loner'
''Roy was always a loner,'' said his brother, Bobby Moody, a 43-year-old who raises cattle in Greenwood, S.C. ''I wouldn't have any idea who to tell you who might know him well.''
Mr. Moody graduated from high school in 1953 and enlisted in the Army, serving as a message traffic analyst, a specialist trained to analyze an enemy's transmission by radio, teletype or Morse code. He entered the Army reserves in 1956, and after three years in the reserves, he joined the Air Force for two years.
Mr. Moody had considered going into medicine, but when he resumed his education after the service, he was in and out of school and in and out of relationships. Dr. Thomas M. Hall, a psychiatrist who treated him in 1967, supplied a deposition in connection with the 1972 bombing case that characterized him as harboring violent thoughts, and the doctor testified that he was ''constantly afraid'' Mr. Moody could get into a situation that would end up in ''some sort of destruction toward society.''
Little of Note, Then a Bomb
Still, there was little extraordinary about Mr. Moody's life before May 7, 1972.
That is when his first wife, Hazel, opened a package she found in their kitchen. It turned out to be a homemade bomb that exploded in her face, tearing up her hand, thigh and shoulder, sending scrap metal into her eye, and eventually requiring six operations.
Mr. Moody was arrested, and the authorities charged him with making the bomb and intending to send it with an extortion note to an Atlanta auto dealer who had repossessed his car. On Oct. 19, 1972, he was acquitted of building the bomb but convicted of possessing it. He was sentenced to five years in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. After the conviction on the bomb charge, he and his wife were divorced.
Paroled after serving three years, he resumed attending school, including classes toward a law degree, and he remarried and found a new line of work. In the late 1970's, he founded The Associated Writers Guild of America, incorporated as a nonprofit business, to help train aspiring writers. In advertisements placed around the country, it offered to print writers' works for a fee in a book called ''Authors to Watch.''
The Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan Atlanta said its file on Mr. Moody's company had been among the most active in its history, with inquiries from 48 states and numerous complaints from people who said they paid money to his company but got nothing in return. At one point, officials say, his business was generating as many as 150 inquiries a day.
In 1983, postal inspectors recommended prosecuting Mr. Moody for mail fraud, but the United States Attorney never did so. In June, postal officials took action to close the business, but Mr. Moody is appealing their order.
An Incident in the Keys
In another business venture, Mr. Moody began Superior Sail Drives Inc., a company that claimed to be developing a revolutionary rotary boat engine and propeller.
On a frigid, windy day in December 1982, he set out with three employees in a 25-foot sloop to take underwater photographs of the propeller.
According to statements all three men made to the police, Mr. Moody abandoned them two miles off Grassy Key, Fla. They told the police he refused to pick them up or throw them life preservers, pried their fingers off a ladder to the boat when they tried to climb back in and threw an anchor at one, hitting him in the head. Only when another boat came into the area were they rescued.
The men later learned that Mr. Moody had taken out $750,000 in life insurance on each man, payable to the company, in which Mr. Moody was the only shareholder.
Mr. Moody said in statements to the police and in court that the throttle of the boat had jammed and he lost control of it. He said he sent out distress calls and was responsible for attracting the attention of the other boat.
Mr. Moody was charged with three counts of attempted murder. The trial ended in a hung jury, and prosecutors decided not to retry the case.
On Dec. 16, 1986, one day before the four-year statute of limitations expired, Mr. Moody filed a Federal lawsuit against the three former employees, the sheriff's deputy who arrested him, the county sheriff and the prosecutor in the case, alleging malicious prosecution. He asked for $1,550,000 in actual damages and the same amount in punitive damages. The case was appealed to the 11th Circuit and was heard by a panel that included Judge Vance, who made comments that indicated skepticism about Mr. Moody's case, a lawyer in the suit said. The case is pending.
Still, investigators say that if Mr. Moody fits most elements of their profile of the mail bomb assailant, one thing about him does not fit the case at all.
Mr. Moody has no history of racial animus, and both his brother and Michael Bergin, a former Moody lawyer who married a black woman, said they believed that if race was behind the mail bombs, they would be surprised if Mr. Moody was involved.
The attack on Mr. Robinson, a bomb that failed to explode at the Jacksonville office of the N.A.A.C.P. and racially abusive letters taking credit for the attacks seemed to indicate a racial element to the bombs.
A Theory of a Diversion
So investigators are pondering this theory: if Mr. Moody is behind the bombs, he may have wanted to attack the court and used the racial attacks and letters only as a diversion to turn attention elsewhere.
With Mr. Moody in jail in connection with last week's indictment, the painstaking and often frustrating investigation is continuing. The arrest, however, may have temporarily derailed Mr. Moody's most recent business venture.
After asking a judge to seal all records of the case to protect his privacy, Mr. Moody was planning to sell T-shirts and a movie script based on his notoriety as the mail bomb suspect. ''They shouldn't be able to get away with that!'' says a brochure he put together for his new enterprise, which also offers free memberships in his writers' guild.
''It may be time for you to let your voice be heard,'' the brochure continues. ''Order several shirts today!''


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back to Koss
back to measurements
NO SMOOTHING is applied to the shown plots. Most measurement sites have some smoothing applied which 'irons flat' sharp peaks and 'wiggles'. I do not use smoothing because some info about sound quality is lost when plots are smoothed.
Aside from a small correction of the microphone itself also some correction in the lowest frequencies is applied to the plots to compensate for the perceived loss of bass when using headphones. This is described HERE in more detail.
A 'horizontal' frequency response curve on the shown frequency response plots on this website thus indicates a perceived 'flat' tonal signature.
ALL measurements are made with a good SEAL on a flatbed measurement rig.
The shape of your head, bone structure, pad size, pad 'softness, (compliance), hair or no hair and or wearing glasses may (drastically) change the frequency response of some headphones, so… your personal experience may differ substantially from these plots.
Frequency response (tonal balance) is the most sound-determining aspect of headphones. A horizontal line shows audible neutral response in the plots on this website. Deviations in different severities at different frequency bands have an effect on the sound character.
The bigger the deviation the stronger the effect.
Below an aid to help determining the sound character of headphones with relation to the frequency response.
Koss KSC75
The Koss KSC-75 is the cheaper (half the price) brother of the KSC-35. It has a different (cheaper) look but a much better earclip. The earclip is a bit thicker but is made of silicon rubber with a metal wire in it that, unlike the KSC35, can be bent in order to adjust the fit and clamping force on the ear. The frequency plot of a stock KSC75 earphone is shown below. Just like the KSC35 very smooth from 30Hz to 3kHz but a bit elevated in the bass area and dropping off above 13kHz. The sharp dip at 7 kHz the KSC35 shows isn't there. This might have something to do with the titanium flashed coating or the membrane. Some channel imbalance above 5kHz. left, right
The CSD of the KSC75 (shown below), however, is not as good as that of the KSC35 and shows more 'ringing' between 2kHz and 5kHz. The KSC35 is simply somewhat 'cleaner' in the treble area while the frequency range of the KSC75 is somewhat better as a trade-off.
This headphone is also often 'coin modded'. The difference between a stock and coin modded KSC75 is shown below. The coin mod is discussed above in the KSC35 section.
Of course it would be interesting to see the differences between the KSC35, KSC75 and PortaPro in one plot. What is obvious is that there are more similarities than differences from 20Hz to 2kHz. These drivers all behave differently above that point and the green plot of the KSC75 shows what the titanium coating brings. Both the KSC35 and PortaPro (as well as SportaPro) have untreated membranes.
When some smoothing is applied (most plots on other websites are smoothed) the sharp dips and peaks are 'removed' and the similarities between the PortaPro and KSC35 are more obvious. 1/6 octave smoothing is applied. The sharp peaks and dips in the plot above do, however, add some value and generally the bigger the peaks and dips the 'coarser' sounding the highs will be.
Both the KSC35, PortaPro as well as the cheaper KSC75 are excellent earphones and I even dare to state that the KSC75 is excellent value and very enjoyable. a HUGE step up from any 'stock' earbud supplied with portable players. Highly recommended for on the go. When jogging or riding a bicycle both have some problems with 'wind' going past them which drowns the sound when playing softly. The KSC75 can be easily adjusted to the ears and do not get in the way with glasses resting on the ear. The lack of pressure on the ear guarantees you can wear these for LONG periods. It cannot play loud very well though and starts to distort audibly at higher levels.
Grille removal effect and Kramer mod measured.
Some owners remove the grille all together and replace it with metal mesh (so you cannot touch the fragile membrane).
The question is if replacing the original grille with an open mesh is a smart thing to do. One would think Koss engineers would have done so instead of creating a grille with a certain cut-out pattern in it.
First up the driver with the grille removed. Quarter modded foam in front of it versus stock KSC75 with quarter modded foam pad. The part below 1kHz is lowered because less pressure can be exerted on the driver against the rig. If more pressure would be used the foam will be touching the driver. More pressure results in relatively less lows (the part below 1kHz)
As you can see the lows are a lot less present and we see a peak around 4kHz where there used to be a slight dip. There is more treble extension though. A +10dB peak around 4kHz isn't desirable. The lack of lows is (partly ?) caused by the fact that the driver is now closer to the ear. A very open metal grille may prevent that loss in bass in which case the drop in lows may in fact not be there. The peak around 4kHz will stay. This would basically mean the KSC75 would sound considerably brighter. This mod may have better results with the KSC35 / PortaPro as those drivers (no titanium coating) have much less treble energy. Haven't tested that.
Most people will have heard of the Kramer mod. This involves removing the plastic grille in front of the driver and drilling more holes in them.
On the left a 'Kramer modded' grille, on the right original grille, measurements below.
It should be noted that differences below 1kHz may also come from slightly different pressure exerted on the earpieces. As can be seen in the PortaPro section the differences seem to mainly address the extension in the highs which is also observed in the plot below.
The improvement is more or less inbetween the stock and no-grille configuration. You get a little more clarity and slightly less lows (could also be because of slightly more compressed pads) and more highs extension. Kramer does recommend to use thicker pads in which case the driver is somewhat further from ear resulting in relatively more lows. This is shown below. Stock KSC75 versus Kramer modded KSC75 with slightly thicker foam pads.
The result is slightly warmer signature with a tad less energy around 3kHz and slightly more extended in the highs (air around instruments).
The Kramer mod (with original foam pads) may be a very good idea for KSC35 and PortaPro owners as you get more clarity in return. For the KSC75, which by itself has more 'presence' than the KSC35/PortaPro may best be left alone or have the Kramer mod done and some thicker (more comfortable ?) pads used.
The KSC75 has a varying impedance. This results in a different frequency response when driven with a low (0.5Ω) output resistance amplifier and high (120Ω) resistance amplifier. The 2 plots have been level matched (120Ω = 9.1 dB raised) to show the differences in tonal balance.
The bass levels are raised when the KSC75 is connected to a higher output resistance amplifier. When connected to a 10Ω output resistance amplifier the 'boost' will be well below 1dB so probably inaudible.
newer version
Recently (sept 2018) I got 2 recently manufactured KSC75's in and measured (and listened) to them. Well, one of them is the KSC75 and the other is teh Massdrop KSC7X.
It looks like the newer versions behave slightly different from the older versions. Before one states.. the new ones aren't burnt in yet I have to disagree. One of the newer KSC75's had been used for quite some time where KSC7X was new.
In the plots below only the used 'new' one is compared to an older KSC75 (about 10 years old).
The newer and older version look exactly the same inside and outside.
Below an older KSC75 and a current one (2018) both have been used a lot of hours.
Bass extension seems to be the biggest change. At -3dB (opposite 1kHz) the old one is 35Hz the newer version 55Hz.
Below the corresponding CSD's
These do not differ that much in behavior above 500Hz. Both have substantial ringing at around 4kHz.
When looking at the spectrum plots (which dig a little deeper in dB and longer in time) wecan see that the older KSC75 (above) is somewhat better damped around 4khz than the newer version (below)
When comparing the step response there is a difference in bass extension between these 2 (also seen in the FR plots). The older KSC75 has better bass extension and seems better damped in the higher frequencies than the newer (but used) KSC75.
This leads me to believe that maybe the materials or titanium flash coating has changed a bit over the years with the newer materials being stiffer or due to many years of aging the older membrane is a bit less stiff.
In my personal opinion I found that my impression of the older KSC75 is that it did not change over the years. The newer one sounds slightly less in the bass department.
distortion measurements
Above the distortion measurements of the older KSC75.
Below the distortion measurements of the newer KSC75.
Basically they are very similar. Higher (clipping alike) distortion in the lower frequencies. There are some differences though. The newer version seems to have lower higher harmonic distortion levels above 150Hz but has higher 2nd harmonic distortion below 200Hz.
A well known problem of the KSC75 is that it starts to distort quickly at a bit higher than 'normal levels'. The 90dB at 1kHz is clearly a much higher level than 'normal' so below the distortion plot (newer KSC75) but measured at 80dB SPL.
The distortion below 200Hz has gotten a LOT smaller and this is what the distortion is under normal usage. The 'rise' of the higher harmonics is not 'real' and caused by the increase of system and ambient noises.
The 2nd harmonic distortion is probably lower than 0.1% in the middle frequencies. This is the measurement floor of the used microphone/amp.
Comparison between various Koss models
Below a (smoothed) plot to better show tonal balance differences between various models of this driver. KSC75 old, KSC75 new, used, KSC7X new, KSC35 (old), PortaPro (old) and PortaPro (2016)
The most recent models seem to have less bass extension. The PortaPro have more bass extension but behave differently in the treble area.
Pads are a problem with these headphones. They start to decay as soon as one starts using them. After a few years they lost all springyness and fall apart.
On e-bay one can find cheap replacements and even find 'better' pleather options for these headphones. Below some plots made with the same driver (new KSC75) but fitted with various pads.
Needless to say the tonal balance differs substantially with different pads. The pleather pads (green and blue) make the KSC75 gain 15dB in efficiency but make these headphones sound really dark. Usable for telephone answerring duties but not hi-fi as all details and treble is gone.
The red trace is made with the stock pads, the purple trace with cheap Chinese 'replacement' pads.
I recommend to buy the original pads.
The KSC75 is a good sounding ear-clip headphone that sounds quite balanced. It has its issues.
Not being able to play very loud. Bass extension is not that great. Ringing at 4kHz.
It's price and overall sound quality (for that price) and comfort are pro's
The newer versions (> 2018) have measurably less bass and don't sound as good.


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ASUS On Linux & Warranties
Since the announcement that Best Buy started carrying the ASUS Eee PC 900A in their stores at a new US$299 price point (down to US$280 just yesterday), I've been keeping my eye on the market's reaction. Whilst researching, I ran across several interesting posts that tie into the "Linux will void my warranty" FUD pattern. Apparently, there have been two concerns over the warranty for this line of netbooks.
The first has to do with a sticker that appeared on the bottom of some units indicating that opening the unit will void the warranty. This is unthinkable – even a simple RAM upgrade, which many folks do immediately upon purchasing an Eee PC, requires opening the access panel on the bottom. Indeed, ASUS agrees and has publically clarified that this is not the case.
The second concern, and one that I find more interesting with respect to the FUD pattern, is that ASUS will only support the default Xandros flavor of Linux. Reportedly, "Asus is not responsible for software misconfiguration, such as troubleshooting an alternative operating system." It does not state that running another Linux flavor or MS Windows will void the warranty (in fact, the posting makes that explicitly clear), but it does show that ASUS is limited in the service they can provide if the OS is replaced. This is not much different than what HP's warranty conditions state.
Who Would Linux Hire?
As Microsoft is chided by the media and in the blogosphere about its decision to hire comedian Jerry Seinfeld as the new Vista spokesperson, I ponder just who the Linux community would hire as their representative. Assume for a moment that the community (a) actually had an interest in hiring a celebrity to "sell" the OS in the mass market and (b) could raise the money to pay the bill, who who it be?
Smart alec as I tend to be, the first comedian that comes to mind is Rodney Dangerfield, whose "No Respect" humor may speak to the feelings of current Linux users. There's one small logistical problem to overcome – Dangerfield died in 2004.
How about Jeff Foxworthy? Tempting, but it would be too easy to digress into Windows-slamming. If your uptime utility doubles as an egg timer, you might be a Windows user…etc. etc.
Bill Engvall? Same problem. Flash up a screen cap of the BSOD – "here's your sign!"
I think I've decided that comedians were not the way to go afterall. A more serious actor may work out better.
Ah, Jack Nicholson! Now there's a prospect! Just think of the taglines. "You can't handle the truth!" "Where does he get those wonderful toys?" "You make me want to be a better man." (Ok, not so sure about that last one.)
Well, enough pondering…time to get back to reality. If you have any suggestions, we'd love to hear them.
NEWS: Linux Developers Make A Living
In January, I wrote at length about the perception that Linux is not 'officially' supported. Yesterday, Linux-Watch released some figures that demonstrate how much of work toward the development of the Linux kernel has been contributed by paid professionals hired by large, profit-seeking corporations. Yes, I said paid professionals.
Two great quotes from Linux Foundation Marketing Director, Amanda McPherson, can be found in the last few paragraphs, both in relation to the unthinkable notion that profit-seeking companies would expend resources (money, time, people) improving something that they do not exclusively own and cannot sell. She notes that a savings from shared R&D costs do ultimately impact the bottom line (i.e. profit increases due to a decrease in expense, not an increase in revenue). I suspect that she wouldn't be mentioning this if the cost savings weren't (or weren't expected to be) material.
McPherson also notes that "it's difficult for most people to get their minds around competitive mass collaboration." Indeed, this is what the freedom afforded by Linux is all about. People (and companies) contribute not for humanitarian reasons, but because they expect a benefit. Work together to create the best platform, openly usable by everyone, and if it still doesn't meet your needs perfectly, you are free to change it accordingly. Everyone wins. No compromises.
NEWS: UltraEdit for Linux!
IDM's UltraEdit is arguably the world's best text editor…for Windows. I first used it in 2002 as part of a basic programming tool set provided by my client at the time. I was hooked, and started to use it on other engagements. I even started 'selling' it to my colleagues, showing them how it could solve various problems. One of my colleagues, a statistician, had to routinely convert large data files of various formats (fixed-width, CSV, etc.). He did much of this by hand (i.e. in Notepad and/or Excel) until I showed him how to convert files painlessly in UltraEdit. He bought a license the same day.
Alas, my conversion to Linux several years ago forced me to abandon UltraEdit. For me, the most useful feature was the column mode (also called 'block' mode) and I could not find any GUI text editor that could replace that function. I use Vim most of the time now, which does have the 'visual' block mode, but learning the keystrokes and writing macros to do all of the things UltraEdit can do in single button-clicks is much too time-consuming for my busy schedule to allow. I tried running it under Wine (please don't ask which versions of either – I don't remember now), and it seemed like most things worked, but not the column mode. Crash and burn.
Still in denial, I check the UltraEdit user forums from time to time, and what did I see just a few days ago? A post written by someone on the IDM team claiming that they are indeed working on a port of UltraEdit to Linux! It is currently called UEx and is expected to hit the market in late 2008. Joy of joys!
P.S. To find the post, go to the UltraEdit website and navigate to the User Forums under the Support menu. In the UltraEdit General Discussion category, use your browser to search for the text, "UltraEdit for Linux". The post was written by "penntap" on December 12, 2007, which showed up on page 9 when I found it.
FUD Alert! Wal-Mart, Everex & Linux
Monday, the Associated Press released a story on Wal-Mart's decision to discontinue the line of Everex Green gPCs in their brick-and-mortar stores. It appears that the retail giant has discovered that the demand for low-cost ($199USD) computers is much higher online than in the stores, so they decided to make the offering a web-only one, freeing up valuable floor and shelf space for other products that do sell well in the stores.
I have several news readers on my iGoogle homepage, and watched yesterday as the headline made it through each. I was intrigued by the way the story mutated as the day progressed. For example, the first headline I saw was from Yahoo! News, " Wal-Mart ends test of Linux in stores". LinuxInsider didn't alter the story much, but the title was different, "Wal-Mart Yanks Linux PCs From Store Shelves". The tone of the new title is not as objective, but slightly more disparaging. It gets deeper. According to Linux Loop, though Wal-Mart hasn't given up on Linux completely, they have failed to "really give Linux a fair chance". Actually, a search for Everex on the Wal-Mart website shows that the gPC is making way for the gPC2 and the Cloudbook and gBook laptops, all of which offer gOS Linux.
The worst headline I crossed was from Wired, "Middle America Hates Linux, Wal-Mart Discovers". Following the link, the article title actually read, "Middle America 'Rejects' Wal-Mart Linux Experiment". The link was obviously a teaser. Regardless, the article had a sarcastic tone, quite a departure from the original story. The main theme shifted from Wal-Mart customers are not buying gPCs from brick-and-mortar stores to Middle-America hates Linux. Come on now, get serious!
Here's a reality check. Love 'em or hate 'em, Wal-Mart knows a thing or two about inventory and logistics. The company has a grossly-adequate volume of sales data to assist in pricing decisions. With unprecedented buying power, there is little left to squeeze out of suppliers. The magnitude and capabilities of the company's logistics network are nothing short of breathtaking. Honestly, when the company's spokeswoman says that "this really wasn't what our [brick-and mortar store] customers were looking for," I tend to believe her.
I'm certainly glad that the article pointed out the difference in demand between the online shoppers and the rest of us (hence, the qualification added to the quote above). To state it explicitly, the Everex Green gPC is not what offline Wal-Mart customers demanded – this pairing of product to market segment is key to understanding the decision that Wal-Mart made. It does not mean that nobody wants the gPC. It only means that selling the gPC in Wal-Mart stores is suboptimal in the current market. There are many varied reasons why this is true, but without more specific data, any attempt on my part to explain them would be purely speculative. Besides, it appears that ThinkGOS is already providing some explanations, media damage control which will undoubtedly get less press than the original story.
Personally, when I go to Wal-Mart, I am usually picking up groceries, lawn or car maintenance products, Christmas decorations or parts to repair the plumbing in the bathroom. I do not buy music there as I do not support censorship, and I do not typically think of Wal-Mart when making major computer system purchase decisions. It doesn't necessarily stem from their offerings (which are big name brands) or their price (which I do find just a tad bit higher for some electronics items) – Wal-Mart just doesn't scream "computer store" to me. I doubt I am alone in this.
Finally, I'd like to add that while the bulk of this article concerns Wal-Mart and Everex, and to an extent Linux, the AP still felt it was necessary to give Microsoft billing in the very first line (not that Redmond minds the much-needed free advertising, of course)! The AP just wants to make sure that everyone knows that this was a Linux-only phenomenon and rest assured that sales of machines loaded with Microsoft Corp's Windows operating system were in no way impacted. Thanks y'all! A link to www.linux.com or to Wikipedia would have been sufficient.
IBM to Fully Support Ubuntu with Lotus: Death of Ubuntu?
by Kevin Guertin
IBM believes Linux is finally ready for the corporate desktop.
In an announcement this week at the Lotusphere 2008 conference in Orlando, IBM said that it will provide full support for Ubuntu Linux with Lotus Notes 8.5 and Lotus Symphony using its Open Collaboration Client software, which is based on open standards.
Antony Satyadas, chief competitive marketing officer for IBM Lotus, said the Ubuntu support for Notes and Symphony were a direct response to demand from customers. Lotus Notes 8.0.1 has limited support for Ubuntu Linux, but customers have asked for broader capabilities, he said.
Based on Slashdot comments from users, this isn't such a great announcement. Some go as far as saying that it will be the death of Ubuntu. Canonical, on the other hand, has said that the availability of Notes and Symphony for use with Ubuntu will be a win for customers everywhere.
Although I've never used Lotus (and don't plan to), apparently over 100,000 business users are interested in moving to Ubuntu Linux on the desktop. That number is a good chunk. If it helps to squash FUD, I'm all for it. Especially for Linux on the business desktop.
What do you think? Will this really be the Death of Ubuntu or will it definitely help solidify Linux/Ubuntu in the corporate world?
Newsreel: Crazies, Myths & Name Changes
For those who have asked for a break from the FUD and focus on why Linux is a great OS, I thought you might enjoy this short article from Linux Journal about why people are crazy about Linux. I find the author's personal reasons for using Linux (listed just after the bulleted list) are similar to mine, especially the simplicity of text-based config files.
Also, here's one from the downloadsquad regarding Linux myths. A few of these sound vaguely familiar.
Finally, some proposed name changes to Ubuntu derivatives have made the news. It is generally good practice to avoid changing the names of established products, especially more than once. The author hit the nail on the head… it's confusing. It also impairs brand loyalty.
FUD Alert! Cheap Laptop Prices Misleading
An article from the Business Standard entitled "Cheap laptop price tags can mislead users" (by D'Monte & Shinde, Mumbai, India, January 24, 2008) warns consumers about the pitfalls of buying a cheap laptop in today's market. It doesn't focus on suboptimal hardware offerings, or limited expandability, or the defect-rate of cheap components, or even the impact of pre-loaded bloatware on the unit's usefulness. I expected any or all of these when I first clicked on the link. Instead, it focuses on the OS cost component and how Linux is being used to bait customers on price point.
The authors (almost) immediately write Linux off in the fourth paragraph, citing the general lack of support for the OS (FUD Pattern #2), commercial offerings of Red Hat and Novell excepted. Once again, the business-centric concept of "good support" – evidenced by a toll-free phone number and a paid staff – is reinforced in the mind of the reader. This simple statement effectively obscures the wealth of online Linux support information and gives the OS a second-rate appearance at best. It also sets the stage for the remainder of the article, a discussion of the popularity of Microsoft's products in India and the unfortunate piracy rate. The only disparaging remark about Linux after the fourth paragraph is that the affordable Vista Starter Edition has successfully displaced Linux on most new cheap-laptop orders.
On a side note, essentially all of the initial comments support Linux, several even calling FUD. I was impressed with these fourteen opinions…so strong and impassioned, so consistent in thought… so written by only five distinct users. I get the impression that the comment input-box was too small and that two comments had to be spread over eleven submissions. Still, many good points were made in these rants.
FUD Alert! Vista Security Report Card
I saw this article summarized on Slashdot this morning. Headline: Microsoft Claims 'Vista Has Fewer Flaws Than Other First-Year OSes.' According to the article, Vista released 17 security bulletins and fixed 36 vulnerabilities in the first year, which is a big improvement over XP's hit counts of 30 and 65 respectively. The article continues by comparing these figures to the first-year vulnerability numbers for Red Hat (360), Ubuntu (224) and Mac OS X (116). One security specialist is quoted, stating that these numbers "prove that [Vista] is quantitatively more secure." He then chastises other OS vendors for their negligence in QA and security testing.
When you read this article, does it make you doubt the security of Linux and OS X? That's the intended message, no?
I find this article misleading for a few reasons:
- Vista numbers are based on actions Microsoft decided to take: release bulletins and fix vulnerabilities. There is an element of subjectivity here.
- The article discloses that 30 Vista vulnerabilities remain, which brings the number of known vulnerabilities to 66. Sometimes, 'known' translates into 'disclosed'.
- An assumption is made that the writing of Vista and the compilation of a Linux distro are comparable activities. They are not, and the vulnerabilities associated with these activities likely have different statistical distributions.
- The scope and risk of the vulnerabilities fixed are not discussed. Microsoft may have fixed 17 big problems, where as Ubuntu fixed 224 small ones. For all we know, the cumulative effect could be equal.
The security specialist states that Vista underwent more testing than the other OSes. He makes no reference to the relative quality of that testing. "More" doesn't mean "better." And what does "more" mean anyway? Was the testing measured in dollars spent? Number of testers? Number of test cases?
An analysis of the actual report would probably provide more clarity. Moreover, independent verification of the numbers would boost the integrity of the conclusions drawn. The validity of the actual results, however, does not change the intent of those who report on them. FUD, I say!


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As a marketer, I've been trained to segment audiences based on a variety of variables (i.e. age, gender, behaviors) and to deliver tailored messages to each audience based upon what we believe to be their desired goal, objective or experience. This concept is extending beyond marketing and advertising as companies look to provide employees with a workplace experience that meets their expectations and needs. In today's on-demand world, technology plays a big role in that employee experience as we have come to expect access to tools to help us manage our professional lives as easily as we do our personal lives.
Here is where I come into the blog series in which Mollie Lombardi of Aptitude Research, Ben Eubanks of Lighthouse Research and Advisory and I will examine employee experience from three unique perspectives. I will be exploring the impact technology – specifically, Human Capital Management (HCM) technology – has on the experience of three key audiences: business leaders, HR administrators and employees. Our Co-CEO, Randy Cooper, touched upon this recently during a recent episode of HR Happy Hour with Steve Boese when discussing how HCM systems have changed as the intended user shifted. Here is Randy's take on the role HR systems have played in the employee experience over time.
First-generation (1.0 HCM) – designed with the HR administrator in mind, 99% of the population in a company didn't use these early systems
Second-generation (2.0 HCM) – these best-of-breed solutions were more focused on engaging employees but they were limited to specific areas (i.e. talent management)
Third-generation (3.0 HCM) – holistic HR systems designed to be used by 99% of the organization are starting to emerge
A 99% adoption rate is an ambitious goal for any type of technology; to achieve this objective, employers and solution providers must understand what each of our three key employee segments wants or expects from HR technology. For the purposes of this blog, let's stick to a high-level overview.
Employees – want intuitive tools to help them manage administrative tasks (i.e. request time off, update personal information, enroll in benefits) quickly and easily
HR Administrators – want a system that automates administrative tasks and empowers employees with self-service so they can become more of a "gatekeeper" and less of a "doer" (think configurable workflows; employee and manager self-service; single database)
HR/Business Leaders – reporting, reporting, reporting and more reporting that provides insight into organizational trends and behaviors to help make more informed decisions
As Mollie pointed out in her blog, individual experiences can be vastly different even when the object (or person or event) providing the experience is the same. When implementing any technology, it is important to consider how different employee segments will use the technology so you understand the effect it can have on their overall employee experience. This will ensure you will know what you need to create a better employee experience through the technology you select. In the next blog in our series, Ben will dig a little deeper into how HR can accomplish this task.


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Podcasts are the current craze to get information and engage in the world even when we're all alone in our cars or at home. They bring us into the lives of some really interesting people with great information and thoughtful opinions about tons of different topics; and it's all right at our fingertips any time of day.
What I love about podcasts is that you don't have to be nationally famous to be heard. All you need is a mic, a computer, and something to talk about and you can get your message out. So it's no wonder that we're seeing an upswing in locally created content, and some really great stuff at that. So, if you're interested in learning more about Richmond, our people and places, culture, and news, I've made a list of my favorites that keep me entertained and informed about our beautiful city on a daily basis.
This podcast with Ross Catrow is short and sweet and gives a daily rundown of Richmond news, as well as information about what's happening locally. It's a quick listen during your commute, or just whenever you want to catch up on what's going on around town.
I am loving this podcast with Kelli Lemon where she actually has coffee and chats with some of the most interesting folks in RVA to find out who they are, what they do, and how they got there. This includes local chefs, professors, tattoo artists, social media personalities, business owners, community leaders, and everyone in between. If you're a lover of all things local, like I am, this is the perfect start to your week!
If you're a music lover, specifically local and regional artists and bands, this is a must listen. Host Jay Smack offers interviews, live performances, and music from in and around Richmond and covers all different genres. He's currently in his 23rd season of the podcast (WOW!) and episodes last anywhere from half and hour to an hour with a new one on tap weekly.
Richmond is known for our food, so naturally there's a podcast dedicated to just that. So, local foodies, this one's for you. Richmond Famous "explores food, culture and community" in RVA with hosts Nicole Lang and Laura Sant. They interview local restaurateurs, craft brewers, wine experts, bakers, etc. to talk about their businesses, what they love about Richmond, and what they bring to our city.
Young House Love Has a Podcast:
Locals and design fanatics alike know exactly who John and Sherry Petersik are. These Richmonders have a cult following and hundreds of thousands of social media and blog subscribers–and now, they have a podcast too. These two are so much fun to listen to. The show is always light-hearted and silly and they have no problem talking about their mistakes, things they argue about, along with giving great design advice and real solutions to our everyday home issues. I binge episodes while I'm cooking and usually have a notepad on hand to jot down tips that I don't want to forget. Highly recommended.
The concept of this podcast is so interesting that it sucked me in automatically. Basically, they talk to influencers and public figures in Richmond about the two sides to their personality, the personal and the public, to find out how those two sides work together to make them who they are as people. They've talked to Mayor Levar Stoney, fellow podcasters (mentioned above), Kelli Lemon and Ross Catrow, as well as business owners, superintendents, professionals, the Chief of Police, and many more. The conversations are really interesting and absolutely worth the listen.


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It's our second week after the break, and everyone on team HWYRT is already BUSY. Peter continues to make progress in PT, Bryan runs yet another race, and the race schedules are full for Artist-in-Residence Andrea Bonney Gould and Social Media Guru Anna Brooks. Then, Bryan is the man on the mountain at the Under Armour Mountain Running Series at Killington, Vermont, where he interviews Run 4 All Women ambassador Becca, NP Boston tribe member Natasha, and the far-traveling members of the London Brunch Running Club (from England) and the District Running Collective (from Washington D.C.).
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"Best of 2019" Episode 131: The Preacher and Cultural Christianity
This week on Preaching and Preachers, Dean Inserra joins me in a discussion on the preacher and cultural Christianity. Dean Inserra is the founding and lead pastor of City Church in Tallahassee, FL, where he leads the vision and preaching. He is also an advisory member of the ERLC.Guest(s): Dean Inserra
Some of the topics discussed in today's episode are:
- A brief discussion about Dean's ministry at City Church
- Why Dean wrote The Unsaved Christian: Reaching Cultural Christianity with the Gospel
- A definition of cultural Christianity
- The current state of cultural Christianity
- The thesis of The Unsaved Christian: Reaching Cultural Christianity with the Gospel
- How to spot and engage with cultural Christians
- How cultural Christianity affects the local church
- What a cultural Christian looks like
- The role of affluence in cultural Christianity
- How pastors can best reach cultural Christians
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