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TREASON.

The Sydney-based fund manager already operates a $170 million private equity fund focused on resources and is currently undertaking a capital raising to start a second private equity fund.

Next week it will also launch a global resources hedge fund and a long-only precious metals fund.

The group hopes to manage more than $1 billion in the coming year.

The hedge fund will primarily invest in resource and mining companies around the world with medium to high market capitalisation.

The existing private equity fund has invested in junior mining companies with projects already under way.

“We have been talking to the major pension funds and it is surprising that very few have a significant allocation to resources when you look at how important resources are,” Mr Farr-Jones said.

“My view is that they look to get their exposure through the major companies. Part of the demand in Australia is that we have come out of the global financial crisis as the best nation in the world and it’s well known that we are quarry for Asia.

“Those factors position Australia as attractive in the resources investment space.”

Mr Farr-Jones, who led the Wallabies to their 1991 World Cup victory, joined Taurus in an executive role last year after leaving the Australian operations of French investment bank Societe Generale, where he focused mainly on commodities financing.

The newly created “low risk” hedge fund will be headed by portfolio manager Mohendra Moodley, who joined Taurus last year.

He said the appetite from professional investors to buy into the booming “China story” showed no signs of ending.

“We have seen an increased interest from Europe and the US,” Mr Moodley said. “More investors are looking at coal and steel . . . the very products that are coming out of Australia.

“There has been a significant increase in the past six months for commodities.”

Mallesons partner Mark McFarlane, who advises Taurus, said a growing number of funds were coming to the market with a specific focus on the Australian and international resources industries.

“From the last half of 2009 and into 2010 we are seeing globally a number of commodities funds being set up,” Mr McFarlane said.

“A lot are being established by US and European fund managers, but from our own experience in Australia investors see Australia as having a well regulated financial services system and experience in the resources sector.”

In a long and detailed study Ronald Schuchard has picked up the gauntlet where Yeats had thrown it and tried to recover through letters, personal accounts, and contemporary articles the history of Yeats’s repeated attempts to have his poetry spoken or sung.  At the book’s heart is Yeats’s ten-year effort to have poetry spoken with careful intonation to a stringed instrument known as the psaltery, a subject on which Schuchard has already penned brief articles.  Its ten chapters however do roam further afield, with the thought of tracing a continuous line from early theatrical performances near the Yeats home in Bedford Park, west London, featuring a beautiful and exquisite verse-speaker called Florence Farr (soon the voice of Yeats’s psaltery performances) right through to an account of Yeats’s innovative radio broadcasts of poetry and music in the 1930s.  Indeed these outside chapters contain the most illuminating material, accounting for Yeats and Ezra Pound’s enthusiasm for the songs of Rabindrath Tagore, describing impressions of Yeats’s verse-speaking at Oxford, and allowing the influence of Farr’s speaking on the burgeoning Imagist movement for once to be seen in proper relief.

There is no doubt that this book represents an important contribution to Yeats studies, and opens up interesting avenues of scholarship when it comes to the story of modernist poetry.  No doubt too that it is meticulously researched, and written in a fine and engaging style, combining a handsome biographical sweep with an economic turning of minutiae – virtues we might expect from the co-editor, with John Kelly, of recent volumes in Oxford University Press’s ever-impressive series of Yeats letters.  That there is finally a frustrating vagueness at its heart is not by any means to dismiss its subject, which matters hugely, nor to impugn its scholarship: rather to acknowledge that writing about words and music is rarely done well.  ‘Beauty is difficult, Yeats’, Pound remembered Beardsley saying: trying to achieve it in poetry performed to music was doubly so, and writing perspicaciously about the results is perhaps scarcely less.  Here, lacunae in musical knowledge hamper the investigation, and because the documentary style eschews analysis of the central questions of tone and poetics raised by Yeats’s experiments, the reader is left with a valuable collection of sources without, quite, convincing narrative direction or real poise in either musical or literary judgment.

Much of this archive material has long lain open to scholars in Yeats’s own obliging scrapbooks of press cuttings, compiled with Lady Gregory and readily available in the National Library of Ireland.  The more remarkable then that so few have, until now, bothered to investigate the fascinating story these cuttings tell, with Yeats’s little-regarded gift for the orchestration of publicity nowhere in better evidence.  Pound one senses learned not only from Yeats’s extreme musical attention but from his political manoeuvring to create what Schuchard provocatively calls ‘the most visible poetic movement in the country’, its concerts in London packed with cognoscenti, provincial lecture tours bringing the ‘new art’ to the populace.  Still, whilst nudging Pound, Joyce, and Eliot to thoughtful creative responses, of Yeats’s experiments many like Bernard Shaw, not unaffected by jealousy of Farr, and even the sympathetic Arthur Symons were sceptical.  Musically literate but rather Wagnerian than avant-garde, critics like these have decisively influenced later generations, and unquestionably the received view of Yeats’s musical collaborations as simply absurd needed a serious corrective.  Schuchard to his credit consistently defends the validity of Yeats’s experiments, and their wider significance.  He does so, however, by appearing to claim their self-consistent integrity.  This fails to acknowledge how Yeats’s methods evolved through new influences (Nietzsche’s particularly pronounced) or show us how changing collaborations and aesthetics produced quite different results, even within one performance.  More seriously, in trying to assert their continuity with a fictional tradition of ‘bardic arts’, Schuchard fatally elides the differences between the widely varying approaches of poets, musicians, and performers through the ages.  Yeats claimed mischievously that ‘all poets from Homer up to date have read their poetry exactly as I read mine’; Schuchard, oddly, seems to take him at his word.  Fluffy generalizing about ‘bardic instincts’ and the ‘lost bardic arts of chanting and musical speech’ only perpetuates the deliberate vagueness that Yeats suffused about his project, and forgets that the poet, for one, barely used such terms after 1900.  Likewise the notion that poetry speaking might restore a ‘lost spiritual democracy’ is simply regurgitated, leaving the intriguing contradictions of an avant-garde, intimately quiet and expressive art of coteries and theatre societies (of which Schuchard has a sure grasp) being rolled out across the country in enormous halls unexplored.  Footnotes to the Collected Letters supply a pithy, ironic commentary too often absent here.

Neither is there any scrutiny of where Yeats’s projects of speaking to music fit into broader musical trends.  How the evolving speech sounds and word-music combinations of composers like Janaček, Peter Warlock, and in particular Schoenberg might relate is never discussed; the arrival of the American Harry Partch gets some coverage, but the lack of a larger musical perspective means Schuchard is often painfully oblique about decisive moments.  The making of the psaltery by the early music pioneer Arnold Dolmetsch as a chromatic instrument of paired octaves tuned in semitones entirely determined the course of the experiments, yet this is just announced, with no motivations or alternatives considered.  As built the psaltery flatly contradicts Schuchard’s unlikely identification of Dolmetsch as the adviser Yeats mentions who ‘thought quarter-tones and less intervals the especial mark of speech’; nor is it credible such a scrupulous editor of music manuscripts advised Yeats to notate the chanting in wavy lines.  A serious lack of musical authority matters because without such rigorous analysis a real grasp of what was actually going on always eludes us.

Finally the book makes little attempt to sound reverberations in Yeats’s own poetry: charitably this is left for others to do.  The one poem explicitly written for Farr to intone (‘The Players Ask for a Blessing on the Psalteries and on Themselves’) is among the worst Yeats ever wrote, and it would have been interesting to hear critical judgement on how Yeats’s collaborations affected his verse, which is ultimately what will matter to the modern reader.  It is a shame that such a sumptuously produced and proportioned book, full of photographs and score-reproductions, misses the opportunity to rescue a Yeats shrouded in mist and subject him to cold-eyed scrutiny.  The book’s achievement will be in bringing some little-considered areas of Yeats’s aesthetic into public light, and picturing the preoccupations of an age.  Patches of cloud and cloudy analysis prevent it from being definitive.

Ronald Schuchard, The Last Minstrels: Yeats and the Revival of the Bardic Arts. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xxvi + 447pp.  £55.00. ISBN 978 0 19 923000 6.

[To see this article in print see Notes and Queries 56, no.4 Dec 2009]

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Today we launched our Give Sea Otters a Voice Fund, and are asking for holiday donations to send sea otters to Washington DC.

Technically we’re not going to send the actual sea otters to DC–don’t worry! In addition to being a major ESA infringement, I don’t think angry, jet lagged sea otters would be all that effective at working Congress and public officials (although they would certainly make an impression). It’s lucky they have us then, to go in their place and advocate on their behalf.

I’ve been to Washington to talk about sea otters before, and it makes a difference. The last time I was there in 2008 I met with Congressman Farr to talk about the sea otter bill. Shortly after we saw substantive changes that provided more clear mandates to take action to help sea otters. Electronic communications, phone calls and letters are all powerful advocacy tools–but sometimes the opportunity to have a one on one meeting is what it takes to really move forward.

A lot will be decided in DC this coming year that will impact sea otters. The Senate is sitting on the sea otter bill, and we want to make sure it doesn’t get lost amongst the other big issues of the day. We’ll be talking to officials about the no otter zone too–thanks to our current lawsuit we’re hopeful that 2010 will see real progress in bringing the failed program to an end.

Ocean Policy is a hot topic right now–and there are a lot if pressing, worthy issues to be concerned about. It’s important to make sure that sea otters don’t get lost in the fray though. They’re too important, and protections afford to them can do too much to allow them to slip away.

We’ll be calling on members and friends for help throughout these efforts–so stay tuned. One thing you can do to help today is contribute to the fund! Visit our webpage to donate today–and kick your holidays off knowing that you helped us help otters!

Donate today!

You have to wonder how many businesses are saying goodbye to Obamination with their feet – or will soon start as his policies begin to take hold.

Emerson Electric Votes With Its Feet, Saying The Goverment Is Destoying American Manufacturing

By Richard McCormack
richard@manufacturingnews.com

One of the country’s most important industrial companies says the United States is not a good place to manufacture and it will continue moving its assets offshore.

The federal government is “doing everything in [its] manpower [and] capability to destroy U.S. manufacturing,” says David Farr, chairman and CEO of Emerson Electric Co., in a presentation at the Baird 2009 Industrial Conference in Chicago Ill., on Nov. 11. In comments reported by Bloomberg, Farr added that companies will continue adding jobs in China and India because they are “places where people want the products and where the governments welcome you to actually do something. I am not going to hire anybody in the United States. I’m moving. They are doing everything possible to destroy jobs.”

In his Powerpoint presentation available on the Emerson Electric Web site, Farr notes that the federal government is damaging prospects for U.S. economic growth with a $1.41 trillion federal deficit (10 percent of GDP); $12 trillion in government debt that will grow to $20 trillion in 10 years; a policy of printing money; a “non-targeted $800-billion stimulus”; bailouts for Wall Street and the automobile companies; the prospect for cap and trade legislation; a “government takeover” of health care to the tune of more than $1 trillion; increasing taxes and regulations; and a “lack of U.S. $ support” for manufacturing. The global stimulus “soon will fade,” says Farr.

If I wanted to destroy a nation economically from within, I would do precisely as Obama is doing.  I would create a climate of confusion and uncertainty by preventing businesses from knowing what the future will hold for them so that they could not plan.  I would constantly threaten them with policies that will necessarily provide them with disincentives to hire new employees or expand their operations.  I would burden them with higher taxes and more onerous regulations.  And I would make essential resources (such as energy) more expensive.

And then I would simply sit back and watch that economy crawl into a hole.

You might like socialism just fine, but many of the companies that actually employ workers and produce the profits that keep government revenues flowing, don’t like it at all.

Award recipients (left to right) - Deputy Benjamin Farr; Deputy Eric Hart; Sheriff J. D. "Danny" Diggs; Deputy First-Class Jason Houston; Deputy James Hazelwood

They include: Deputy James Hazelwood, 37 DUI arrests; Deputy Henry Reichle, III, 19 DUI arrests; Deputy First-Class Jason Houston, 18 DUI arrests; Deputy Benjamin Farr, 16 DUI arrests and Deputy Eric Hart who had seven DUI arrests

“Drunk driving is a serious concern and I am very proud of the enforcement efforts shown by these deputies to make our streets and community safer,” Sheriff J. D. “Danny” Diggs said at the ceremony.

Volunteer spirit soars

To the editor:

The Town of Long Lake would like to thank all the volunteers that helped out this 2009 summer season in Long Lake and Raquette Lake.

Thank you to the Red Hats and Flower Beautification Committee that planted in the barrels around Long Lake and a thank you to the Long Lake Town Board and CAP-21 and the volunteers who helped hang and maintain the hanging flower baskets in Raquette Lake.

Also a huge thank you to all those individuals who helped keep the Long Lake Teen Center at Mt. Sabattis thriving three nights a week during the summer season. Thanks to: Jud Graham, Anita and Jim Brundage, Joe San Antonio from Hamilton County Trailblazers, Steve Signell, Julia Pierce, Molly Irvine, Kelly Brown, Victoria Sandiford, Theresa Taylor, Ceci Bush, Kate Parent, Emily Farr, Kristen Lance and Shane Holmes.

Also thank you to The Cellar, The Long Lake Ladies Kazoo Band, Eunice and Walter Hartmann, Jacquie and Mike Rivette, Mike and Nancy Hosley, Ruth Howe and the Eastern Star and the participants in Long Lake’s Road Rally for their contributions. The generous donations offset the costs of food, snacks and equipment needed to get the Teen Center off the ground.

The teens enjoyed recreational basketball games, tennis, volleyball, foosball, badminton, Pictionary and charades. The kids also made jewelry, learned about geo-caching and had a safe place to go. We look forward to continuing the Teen Center next season.

We appreciate the vibrancy and community spirit of Raquette Lake and Long Lake and are so pleased to have had a successful summer. We certainly look forward to keeping that volunteer spirit alive in the upcoming winter months!

We couldn’t have done it without you. Thank you for your help.

Alexandra V. Roalsvig, director

Long Lake Parks, Recreation & Tourism Dept.

A few weeks ago I posted the bad news that the Sea Otter Research and Recovery Act had been pulled from the floor before the vote. Well it’s coming back! We have been told that the bill is likely to get back on the calendar the week of the 27th–and it’s essential that we have enough support to get it passed. Under suspension caldander rules, this is a 2/3 majority vote.

We need help making sure it has that support!

There are a few ways you can help us:

1) Call your Representative’s office and tell them you want them to support this bill

2) Send a message to your Representative; you can do this easily on our Action Alert page, or send your own personalized message. You can find your Representative’s contact information easily at this directory.

3) Make some calls! We have a list of moderate Republicans whose vote is likely to make a big difference. If you want to make some calls, send me a message and I will let you know whose vote is the most important. You can contact me directly at allison at otterproject dot org.

4) Spread the word! The more Congress hears about sea otters, the more likely the bill is to pass.

Thank you!!

In response to yesterday’s post, Barbara asked what we can do–certainly something we were all wondering here at the office.

I spoke with a legislative aid at Congressman Farr’s office today, and they are equally bummed out that the bill got pulled. The good news is, the bill itself is not the problem–it’s suffering from partisan political squabbling. The bad news is, this is difficult to fix.

What we CAN do is try to garner support for the bill, so when it makes it back onto the calendar, it will get the votes it needs to pass. We’re waiting to find out whose support is key, and we’ll be looking for help–if you’re interested in getting the call to arms, your best bet is to join our mailing list for Otter Yelps, our action alerts (go to the right side bar). In addition to online actions (quick and painless!) we will include suggested ways to help such as a more personalized letter, as well as phone calls to key Congressional offices.

Stay tuned and thanks for the support!

Protection for otters is good for kelp and more

The Sea Otter Research and Recovery Act (currently going by H.R. 556) was on the House suspension calender for today. This is basically the Congressional equivelent of a consent list, for non-controversial bills that are expected to pass with little fan fare.

Unfortunately, fan fare ensued when Republican House members balked at the bill. Their reasoning was that they would prefer to see a bill that focuses on the entire California coastal eco-system, rather than just sea otters.

I know this sounds logical–who doesn’t want to see the entire California coastal eco-system restored and conserved? We sure do. But the political reality is that a bill of that scope is unlikely to acheive its purpose, if it even makes it out of Congress alive.

A sea otter bill might sound incredibly specific and narrow in focus–but it’s not. Sea otters are a keystone species, which means that protections and assistance to sea otters provides umbrella protections throughout the ecosystem. It’s kind of like a pay-it-forward approach to marine conservation; improve the conditions for sea otters, and you get a lot more bang for your coastal ecosystem conservation buck.

Congressman Farr is a smart guy–I’m pretty sure that that’s why he introduced this bill in the first place; not JUST because sea otters are cute.

This isn’t the end of the line–but some work will need to be done to get this bill passed.

 Notes for Ruth L Farr:
Ruth is from previous marriage and stepdaughter of Lloyd Brown, confirmed by 1930 Census
Grass Lake Twp, Jackson, Michigan

 Notes for Ross W Farr:
Ross is the stepson of Lloyd Brown as Vila was married before she married Lloyd. Confirmed by
1930 Census Grass Lake Twp, Jackson, Michiga

 Notes for Edwin A Farr:
Edwin is a stepson of Lloyd Brown, his mother Vila was married before. Confirmed 1930 census
Grass Lake Twp, Jackson County, Michigan

The highlight of the disc is the third of the three etudes, which has an immediacy, and some unexpected developments.  But a lot of the rest of it is simply perfectly pleasant noodling around – the sort of thing that tends to infest the slow movements of percussion concertos because the marimba has at least some sustaining power.   Not dreadful, but not something you want extended stretches of

Następnego dnia wybraliśmy się do Strathdearn, jakieś 15km na południe od Inverness, a stamtad do Glen Kyllachy gdzie zrobiliśmy krótki postój. Zatrzymaliśmy się tylko dlatego, że było pięknie i musieliśmy choć na chwilkę wyjść z samochodu, żeby poczuć ciszę i zimę na własne uszy i nosy…

Następny postój był parę kilometrów w górę, w górach Monadhliath. To niezwykle pusty i dziki obszar, mimo, że tak blisko miasta, gdzie nie rośnie nic poza wrzosem i wiatrakami. Mam na myśli elektrownie wiatrowe, bo niestety mamy je tutaj w Hajlandach. Piszę “niestety”, bo umieszcza się je zazwyczaj w rejonach odległych od ludzkich osad i głównych dróg, a akurat takie miejsca my wybieramy na wędrówki i spacery, żeby pobyć z przyrodą, bez cywilizacji i człowieka… Wiem – takie elektrownie daja “zieloną/czystą” energię, tyle że ja nie lubię ich widoku… dlatego budzą we mnie wciąż mieszane uczucia.

Wracając do gór – są tam stworzenia, którym wiatraki najwyraźniej nie przeszkadzają: są to pardwy szkockie (Red Grouse). I nie dość, że je widzieliśmy, to widzieliśmy je pierwszy raz w życiu i do tego udało mi się sfotografować tego pięknego ptaka! Zdążyłam zrobić dwa zdjęcia, zanim pardwica (w sensie pani pardwa) zorientowała się, że gapi się na nią czwórka ludzi i odleciała z furkotem. Przedstawiam wam Panią Pardwę

to zdjęcie wklejam tylko po to, żebyście wiedzieli o jakich wiatrakach piszę

i jak one wyglądają w górach; ja nie lubię tego widoku

A teraz kilka zdjęć rodzinnych:

ja czyli Autorka bloga  

Rodzice czyli Goście

Michał czyli Mąż, Kierowca i Przewodnik

Cienie wymienionych powyżej

oraz Mini Pieprz czyli Mały Samochód

W drodze powrotnej przez góry taki oto otworzył nam się widok z przełęczy – na Inverness pokryte mgłą (znow harr…), masyw Ben Wyvis, a wszystko razem oświetlonew zachodzącym słońcem:

W dolinie zatrzymaliśmy się jeszcze na chwilkę nad Loch Farr. Niewielkie jezioro położone w lesie było skute lodem, przezroczystym przy brzegach. A teraz wczujcie się w atmosferę: wieczór, panuje niezwykła cisza, żadnych odgłosów cywilizacji, w okolicy ani śladu człowieka (z wyjątkiem naszej czwórki) i nagle słyszymy hałas – jakby ktoś zrzucał na lód  metalowe beczki albo kłody drewna. A potem głębokie trzaski w oddali i przejmujący jęk… biegnący po lodzie z ostatnim tonem rozbrzmiewającym tuż koło naszych stóp. !!!!! Pierwsze moje skojarzenie – drwale w lesie zrzucają kłody. Ale tu żadnych drwali, ani żywego ducha! Aha – duchy jakoweś – to było moje drugie skojarzenie. Prawie zarzęłam wierzyć złośliwe w szkockie leśne duszki (fairies), kiedy usłyszałm jak Ojciec wykrzykuje: “Słyszycie? Jezioro śpiewa!”. To lód pękał na jeziorze. Podobno o tej porze dnia tworzą sie niezwykłe naprężenia na lodzie, szczególnie kiedy jest słonecznie, a potem nagle pod wieczór spada temperatura, no i lód pękając wydaje najróżniejsze odgłosy. A nawet śpiewa…

A trio of memorable performances keep it afloat: an Oscar-nominated Bogart in one of his best turns as the embattled Queeg; Jose Ferrer, who almost steals the picture as a whip-smart defense lawyer; and finally, Fred MacMurray, superb in the unsympathetic part of a cowardly Lieutenant.

I have been preaching the gospel of “The Petrified Forest” for years.It is the one Bogart movie one can actually forget they’re watching Bogart.I actually hated Humphrey Bogart for a short while after I watched this movie for the first time.He is that good in this role.

I also like Across the Pacific very much, not to mention the superb High Sierra, They Drive by Night (a minor role for Bogie but it did have the wonderful Ida Lupino, his co-star in High Sierra) and The Big Sleep — wow, what a beautifully realized version of the book, even if it’s baffling.

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-farr/the-best-bogart-movies-by_b_153855.html

不過係衰在食 resource 會多d
唔係好夠 ram 的話
開個 launchy box 果陣要等一等…

佢仲有 Linux port ga wor
雖然 gnome 個 Alt + F2 都算方便
但用慣左
所以我0係 Ubuntu 都有裝 Launchy XD

FARR (Find And Run Robot)
番工部 notebook 用緊
呢個 launcher 好似愈黎愈多人知
佢比 launchy 係用少d ram 既 (actually, option 裏面有三款 memory mode 揀)
佢有個 scoring system
一直用落去的話
用開既 app 會愈黎愈高分
會愈黎愈準確

同埋佢係做 live directory searching
launchy 係做 pre-indexing
兩者既分別在於 search 既時間係幾時
farr 係你打野既時候做埋 search
launchy 係預先 set 每隔一段時間做 indexing 先
呢樣野好似 farr 好d
就算佢即時 search 都好快
launchy 就要 keep 住 indexing 先可以 update 個 list

但 farr 有樣煩既
雖然都唔駛 $$ 既
佢要你做 free register
否則的話
每次 boot 入 windows 都會見倒佢叫你 register 既格仔…

兩個都有用緊
兩個都各有所長
唔知用邊個好
可能 keep 住咁樣用兩個 XD
有冇人用其他 launcher ?

Sverige är ett fantastiskt land.

Medans det finns personer som blir dömda för att brutit emot lagen så blir andra hyllade och prisade för att ha gjort det.

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Flyktinggömmare Dorazio årets svensk

Anita Dorazio från Lidingö, pionjär på att gömma flyktingar, blir årets svensk utnämnd av tidningen Fokus.

Juryns motivering lyder: “Anita Dorazio får priset för sitt uthålliga, engagerade och målmedvetna arbete för flyktingars rättighet/…/ hon har bidragit till en drägligare tillvaro för många utsatta flyktingar”.

Dorazio företräder FARR – Flykting- och Asylkomitte’ernas Riksråd – och har arbetat för flyktingar i 40 år. Hon har tidigare fått utnämningar för sitt ideella arbete, bland annat Eidh-Ekbladpriset.

Vad är för ett land som vi lever i? Hur resonerar och tänker folk egentligen?

Samtidigt bevisar ju detta att det är helt och fullt i sin ordning att bryta emot svensk lag om man gör det i “rätt” syfte eller om ens entiska bakgrund är ifrån något land där kulturen inte på något sätt över huvudtaget liknar vår egen.

Denna Anita lär ju knappast vara svensk, eftersom hennes efternamn inte är svenskklingande.

Oavsett på vilket sätt som man bryter emot den svenska lagen så är det i alla fall förbjudet, men detta skiter uppenbarligen både Anita Dorazio och tidningen Fokus fullständigt i.

Enligt lagen är det nämligen ett brott att gömma människor som ska utvisas.

Det är också ett brott att uppmana till brott, vilket tidningen Fokus har gjort sig skyldig till eftersom den har belönat en lagöverträdelse.

Ja, om alla människor i Sverige skulle bryta emot svensk lag på varenda punkt som går så skulle vi få rena vilda västern.

Men det är ju tydligt att det finns folk som vill det också, det visar ju både tidningen Fokus och Anita Dorazio.

När det gäller fröken Anita själv så är hon tydligen stolt över att hon har brytit emot Svea Rikes lag.

Dessutom är titeln Årets svensk väldigt missvisande i hennes fall, å andra sidan är det ju inte första gången som en invandrare får en titel som inte stämmer överens med hans eller hennes etnicitet oavsett i vilket västerländskt land som det sker.

När det gäller tidningen och hon själv så borde båda ställas inför rätta, eftersom båda i och med sitt agerande har gjort sig skyldiga till brott.

Men visst ja, vi lever ju i Sverige, och här är det tydligen emot lagen att följa lagen.

Se bara på t ex våra politiker och poliser.

För när inte ens de som stiftar vårt lands lagar och regler själva följer dem, varför ska då andra göra det?

We really like this labels releases, and especially the approach they are taking in support of NextAid. Below is a summary of the label and also some info on upcoming releases that are currently doing the rounds on the Fluid playlist…

Summer Rain Recordings, established in the summer of 2007, is a record label with a difference. Every artist signed to the label donates a minimum of 5% of their royalties for every release to NextAid, or a charity of their choice, and we match their percentage donation from the label profits from the release.
ioda, our distributor, also donate 25% of their fees for each of our releases to next aid too.
As well as a fine selection of fresh new music from new artists, you will find guest releases from more established artists who wish to give something back in the form of royalty donations to charity.

About NextAid:

Every purchase of our music helps NextAid to raise funds for their pilot project, the building of an ecological community center and children’s residential village in Dennilton, South Africa. Now complete are 10 structures of the 25 slated for construction by summer 2010. The center will serve as a safe home for 50 children orphaned by AIDS, a multi-purpose center for the larger community, a hub for economic enterprise, and an example of innovative solutions for future projects throughout Africa.

Upcoming Releases:

Auditory Canvas – Earth EP

Release Date: 24th December 2008

Catalog Number: SRR-048

100% of all sales proceeds are being donated to charity.

Lush, intricate melodies, fused with glitched breaks and percussion describe this new release from Auditory Canvas. Each track is inspired by the state of our planet, with some tracks containing excerpts from a talk given by Severn Cullis-Suzuki on our interactions with the environment.
Get Green Soothe is a track dedicated to very close friends at bohocrush.com, who played a big part in the inspirations for this EP.

D.S.S. – Internal Conflict EP

Release Date: 24th December 2008

Catalog Number: SRR-050

10% of all sales proceeds are being donated to NextAid.org

Internal Conflict is D.S.S.’ second EP on Summer Rain, and builds on the strength of the first with a new collection of deep, melodic journeys entwined with discreet percussion. Perfect for relaxing and creative inspiration.

Farr – Silent Sorrow EP

Release Date: 24th December 2008

Catalog Number: SRR-047

10% of all sales proceeds are being donated to NextAid.org

Indonesian artist Farr delivers his first release with Summer Rain – a collection of beautiful, textured soundscapes, and haunting melodies that both relax and inspire the mind. Farr’s sound is often reminiscent of artists such as Tycho, whilst retaining his own sound and identity.

Proof of Concept – Product of Experience EP

Release Date: 24th December 2008

Catalog Number: SRR-044

5% of all sales proceeds are being donated to NextAid.org

Growing on the strength of his first release, the long awaited second EP from Proof of Concept brings you a fresh batch of what he does best, Nu Jazz style strings and breaks reminiscent of artists such as The Cinematic Orchestra but with a unique identity that only Proof of Concept can deliver.

Spleen – Where We All Fit In EP

Release Date: 24th December 2008

Catalog Number: SRR-045

5% of all sales proceeds are being donated to NextAid.org

Spleen’s second release on Summer Rain continues the journey where he left off on 6 Moons Ago EP, with more haunting, intricate melodies, and minimal percussion to soothe and stimulate the mind. Whilst unique in its own right, his music is often reminiscent of artists such as The Album Leaf and other great ambient grooves.

WARLoZ – Love into Ether EP

Release Date: 24th December 2008

Catalog Number: SRR-049

5% of all sales proceeds are being donated to NextAid.org

The second release from Warloz grows on the strength of his last EP, Sequenced Life, with intricate, haunting melodies, fused with IDM breaks and percussion, that showcase Warloz’ unique style of writing, a perfect soundtrack for a wandering mind.

www.summerrainrecordings.net
www.nextaid.org