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Turning on to watch last night’s audition show, you may have already chosen your favourites, the ones that you would want to watch again, the acts that you are routing for.  Then it may seem, BGT have been saving some of the best till last. They throw in a few more big…well little Windows 7 Key, big contenders.

First up this week, was the amusing and likeable organ player, Graham Blackledge from Preston.

Organ playing aside, Graham has that unique quality of being funny without really doing a lot, or perhaps even realising that he is being funny. While introducing himself Windows 7 serial key, before even starting to play Windows XP Key, the audience had warmed to him and his quirky personality. 

Once the organ started to play, his talent shone out. Great musician, but I do slightly agree with judge David, when he asked Graham if he had ever thought of doing stand up comedy. 

As he walked successfully away from the stage, after getting through, he asked his partner if he had embarrassed her…far from it mate, far from it.

A montage of acts followed, with a group of students aged 9-14 called Nu Sxool being the stand out. So did they teach us a dance lesson? 

They were very good and Simon called them the St. Trinian’s of dance. 

Another act in the montage that I would like to see more of is Be Minor (or Be Pop as they are now called). The four young girl singers have something about them and I really hope they get through to the semi finals. I think they are ones to watch, and the judges agreed with me by calling them “the best girl group we have seen so far” 

Good luck girls.

Young singer Molly Rainford kept the high standard going with a phenomenal version of Jennifer Hudson’s ‘One Night Only’ 

Alesha called her “little Mariah Carey” and David said she was “faultless” 

Molly sailed through to the next round and if she is this good at just 11, imagine her in a few years. Awesome.

The rest of the show was a selection of acts, some mildly memorable, some a little bit painful…., including the scary Geisha Davis who doesn’t have a ‘ghost’ of a chance of winning.

Last up and the star of the show, was nine year old, Malakai Paul from North London.

There was a glitch when he started crying half way through his song and had to stop, but a combination of his mum and Alesha Dixon, soon got him back on track and a star was born.

The audience, judges, public and me included all loved him and if he can combat the nerves, then a place in the final surely beckons.

The judges summed up his performance with four words…you are a star.

The semi final acts will be picked next Saturday, with the first live show airing at 8pm on Sunday….Good luck everyone

Right, I’m off to see if Be Pop need a fifth singer…

In our era of no-choice austerity, we are often told that politicians are obliged to make tough decisions, but some governments are setting new standards in callousness and inhumanity in their attempts to put their country’s finances in order.

Take the decision by the Spanish government to deny medical treatment to ‘illegal’ immigrants.

Under the new law, which comes into force in September, immigrants without residence papers and work permits will no longer receive medical treatment, except in emergency cases.

The main reason for this disgraceful decision replica watches, as always, is financial: the ruling Partido Popular believes that the state will be able to save between 500 to 1,000 million euros per year by denying medical treatment to an estimated 153,000 foreigners who it believes are not entitled to by virtue of their illegality.

From September onwards, immigrants ‘non-registered or not authorised as residents in Spain’ will be left without a public health card, and will be forced to rely on medical treatment from charities and NGOs. This legislation is part of a swathe of austerity-driven changes to the Spanish national health system, which includes new charges on medicines and drugs.

Within this context, there is a strong element of crowd-pleasing populism in the PP’s exclusion of the country’s sin papeles (immigrants without papers) from universal health benefits.

Before the crisis, many employers made use of the constant pool of legal and illegal immigrant workers who came to Spain to work in services, agriculture and the construction industry, or as maids and domestic servants in middle and upper class households.

Now Spain’s economy is crumbling by the day, and illegal immigrants are a surplus population at the bottom layer of Spain’s tottering pyramid – and an easy target for a government looking to balance its budget through whatever means it can find.

Even though the law has not yet come into force, there have already been some bleak examples of what these distinctions between legal and illegal can mean. In Valencia, last week a Chinese sin papel named Ladi Fan was charged by a local hospital for a life-saving operation that she received last year.

Ms Fan was diagnosed with rectal cancer in December and the subsequent operation successful removed the tumor. But last week she received a bill for the very precise sum of 20.797, 39 euros from the regional government of Valencia for the treatment she received.

It would be interesting to know how the hospital reached such a precise calculation of how much Fan’s life was worth – since this is in fact what these mathematics are ultimately referring to.

Even more to the point replica watches, it would be interesting to know how the hospital concerned thought that an unemployed migrant without papers in a civil partnership with an unemployed Spanish waiter could pay such a sum. Had it not been for her partner, who gave his own name and address and signed the papers enabling her treatment, she might not have received any treatment at all.

A local health centre has managed to register Fan so that she does not have to pay the 90 euros a week for an ileostomy bottle, even though she has no permit of resisdence. In September, she could lose that too.

To its credit the Catalan health services have refused to implement this law, on the grounds of solidarity and public health. But the implicit message in the new legislation is that the lives of illegal migrants are worth less than others, and that financial calculations have entirely taken place over elementary human considerations.

This philosophy is not unique to Spain. In the UK in 2008 the Labour government deported the Ghanian woman Ama Sumani who was on lifesaving dialysis treatment, because she had overstayed her visa. Sumani died soon afterwards. Last year, the Home Office came very close to deporting Rania Abdechakour replica watches, a five-year-old quadriplegic with cerebral palsy back to her native Algeria.

Now UKBA is currently seeking to deport Roseline Akhalu, a Nigerian student who overstayed her visa and is receiving lifesaving immunosuppresant drugs for kidney failure that are not available in Nigeria.

In countries where cuts are being inflicted on the whole population, decisions like these reflect a new determination to enforce the distinction between legal and illegal people, national citizens and foreigners, that is leading to a generalised race to the bottom.

Governments may think such decisions are a sign of toughness and rigour, and they will always please those who regard immigrants – whether legal or not – as unworthy intruders, parasites and ‘ health tourists’.

But to deny medical treatment to people who need it because of their immigration status is another sign of how barbarous even supposedly civilised societies can become, when crucial matters of life and death are reduced to how much things cost, and how much – or how little – some people’s lives are worth.

There’s an old saw in my hometown, the place I fled at 18 and returned to at 48, that perfectly illustrates the way too many people I see around me here view themselves as powerless victims: As a crab tries to claw its way out of a bucket of crabs, one crabber says to another, “Better put a lid on those crabs or they’ll get out.” The other crabber replies, “Naw Tattoo Machine Supply, those are Norwich crabs. If one tries to climb out, the others will pull it back.” It’s odd and sad to see people who have raised children, survived marriages and divorces, lost and found jobs, and managed to pull through the recession — and who still have no sense whatsoever of their own power.

I know it takes courage to embrace your sexuality as a natural part of your experience of being a unique individual. Even in 2012 it’s a brave thing to publicly say, “I have HIV.” Being open and saying such things in a place where you aren’t surrounded by other gay or HIV-positive people adds to the challenge. It can take tremendous willpower to haul ourselves up and out of the crab buckets others want to keep us in — and that we create in our own minds. It may require us to leave an insular hometown for a big, accepting city. It might also mean shedding the protective skin of the gay ghetto to live as an empowered person in a place where we are most definitely in the minority.

Whatever our crab bucket happens to be, there are pincers snapping at us — the put-downs, the predictions of failure, and the myriad other ways disempowered victims try to shame others into becoming like themselves, stuck in self-fulfilling prophecies. So how do we finally break free of the crab buckets, real and imagined? LGBT people can start by claiming our awesome history, finding strength in our connection to the men and women before us who refused to be held back by or reduced to their sexual orientation or HIV status.

One example of our brave forebears that I like to cite, maybe because I am of Greek ancestry, is the Sacred Band of Thebes. This elite fighting force in third-century B.C. Greece comprised 300 men, 150 pairs, selected for the Band because they were homosexual couples. The military leaders rightly believed that lovers would fight valiantly to defend and protect their manly pride in front of each other. The Sacred Band were undefeated in battle for decades, until the armies of Alexander the Great and his father, King Philip of Macedon, killed them in the great battle at Cheronia. Philip erected an enormous stone lion to serve as the dead soldiers’ mausoleum and honor their bravery. In the early 1970s What Is The Best Tattoo Machine, just after the Stonewall riot of 1969, gay activists in New York sometimes referred to themselves as an “army of lovers.” The Sacred Band of Thebes were often referred to as an army of lovers. There’s power in flipping shame on its head, in claiming your part in a long Tattoo Ink Colors, proud lineage that includes the Sacred Band of Thebes.

People who don’t approach life from the standpoint of victims tend to take good care of their health. They know they have a choice in what they eat and whether they exercise, that no one can force them to eat poorly or not exercise if they don’t allow it. They nurture their bodies and their minds, surround themselves with others who bring out the best in them, practice safer sex because it’s a natural way to respect and protect themselves and their partners and to take the fear out of intimacy and pleasure.

When we claim the power of our heritage, behave like people who know our own resilience and strength because we have had to exercise it simply to survive, nothing in the world can pull us back down into anyone’s crab bucket.

OMAHA, Neb. – Mitt Romney often carves time out for local news interviews before campaign events, but he grew visibly annoyed with the questions reporters asked him Wednesday just outside Denver.

During one of several local news interviews he conducted prior to a campaign event in Colorado, Romney was asked, among other topics, about gay marriage and legalizing medical marijuana, questions that prompted him to reprimand the reporter.

“Aren’t there issues of significance that you’d like to talk about?” Romney asked the CBS affiliate in Denver when asked about legalizing the drug.

The reporter interjected, “This is a significant issue in Colorado.”

“The economy, the growth of jobs, the need to put people back to work, the challenges of Iran, we’ve got enormous issues that we face, but go ahead, you want to talk about medical marijuana Tattoos Ink,” Romney said.

Romney laughed about the run-in this morning during an interview on Fox radio.

“She asked two or three questions about same-sex marriage and civil unions and then medical marijuana and I finally laughed and said, ‘You know, there are some really big issues out there like if Iran is going to get a nuclear weapon, how to change leadership in Syria, and what it’s going to take to get this economy going again,’” he said. “‘Don’t you want to ask about those?’ So we finally got around to that.”

Romney spokesman Rick Gorka said of the testy Denver interview, “National unemployment has been over 8 percent for a record 39 months, and Governor Romney is focused on talking to voters about his solutions to get the economy back on track.”

There are things Romney wants to talk about – the economy and President Obama’s stewardship of it – and there are things he’d rather not. And the campaign and the candidate go to great lengths to control when he gets questions and whether they’re coming from the national press corps, local reporters or conservative talk-show hosts.

Rarely a day goes by when the former Massachusetts governor and presumptive GOP presidential nominee does not call into a talk radio program or sit down with a local reporter. But news conferences with the traveling group of reporters that chart his every move are far less frequent.

This is certainly not the first time Romney, 65, has rebuffed reporters for asking questions. At a campaign event in October in New Hampshire, a reporter who kept asking Romney whether he believed Eric Holder should resign got a talking to by the candidate.

“Here’s the story. Hold on. I do media avails. And I answer questions that are important questions in the length that I want to do it. But what I don’t do is in a group like this stop and rattle off questions as we walk along because that way you don’t hear the full answer I’d like to give,” Romney said.

And Romney said something similar in March to told a reporter who asked about his adviser’s comments that compared his campaign to an Etch A Sketch. “I’m not doing a press conference right now, OK?” Romney said, turning to address the reporters who had sneaked into the rope line at the Maryland event.

Romney later did appear in front of reporters to answer that one question, refusing to take more questions from reporters and then growing annoyed again when reporters told him a news conference typically involves more than one question.

“Actually, this wasn’t an avail, it was a chance to respond to a question I didn’t get a chance to respond to,” Romney said, before ducking out of the room.

While Romney has not made himself overly available to the media, holding news conferences sporadically, there have been a few notable times where he has agreed to take questions asked of him on the rope line and out of his preferred media conference setting.

In late March, when news broke about the Trayvon Martin killing, Romney at first told reporters that he had already commented on the topic on a radio station, and wouldn’t do so again for cameras. When those reporters argued that an on-camera statement would really be best for the television networks, Romney could be seen consulting with his communications staff behind his parked motorcade.

Romney then re-appeared, an advance staffer handing him a microphone and the candidate allowing reporters to ask the question about Martin and giving himself the opportunity to go on the record – on camera – on the controversial case.

Romney called the killing a tragedy Custom Tattoo Machine, but then walked away when reporters asked whether he thought the Department of Justice get involved in the case.

And last month, when reporters asked staff members whether the candidate would respond to the controversy surrounding women being allowed to join the Augusta National Golf Club, they were allowed to approach the rope line, where Romney was expecting the question. As the music that traditionally is blasted to the degree that little is heard of Romney’s interactions with supporters he greets was lowered, Romney looked straight at the cameras and answered the question.

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On what is actually my favorite show, as in most greatly enjoyed, Doctor Who, there is a hand-waving phrase to cover the shifty plot twists inherent in the saga of the antically enigmatic traveler through time and space known as the Doctor. “Wibbley-wobbley, timey-wimey.” As in Replica BCBG Dresses, the flux capacitor went thataway and moving right along.

To that phrase, for the latest episode of Mad Men, add trippy-wippy.

The episode shifts through time and perspective, like, oh, say, Pulp Fiction, and only one of the three stories in (not so) “Far Away Places” centers on an LSD trip.

The Doctor explains how time actually works.

As always, there be spoilers ahead. Incidentally, you can see all my Mad Men pieces, going back to 2009, here in The Mad Men File.

The hairpin plot twists so evident in last week’s episode continue in this one, as does the sense of suddenly (seemingly?) impending doom.

First, and probably least interestingly, to Don and Megan Draper.

A few weeks back I wrote that Don and Megan have a pattern of bickering and making up, sardonically noting that it’s something that will never get old for them (or the audience). Meaning I found it to be getting old for me.

It looks like it may at last be getting old for them, too.

Don decided to take Megan away from work on an extended excursion to sample the delights of orange sherbet at a Howard Johnson’s. Stuff ensues and an angry Don takes off, only to quickly return to find that Megan has taken off, leaving only her cool shades behind. He waits and calls and flips out in insecurity, finally thinking to return home to their swanky pad in Manhattan only to find that she is there and has chained the door. They then come close to having a horrific physical fight only for Don to dissolve into grief like a little boy, holding on to Megan as if she is his mother.

This latest episode reveals, not surprisingly, that Don is pretty domineering and Megan, who made a hard to forgive jab at Don about his mother, is pretty childish.

Don’s sudden decision to marry Megan at the end of last season seemed spurred, at least in large measure, by how great she was with his kids, especially troubled daughter Sally, during their vacation to the California future world known as Disneyland. (It’s already turned out to be “a small world after all” here in California, if not quite as cheery multi-culti as the song, but we’re still working on getting that monorail, er, bullet train.) But this season, when it seemed like Betty might have cancer, he’s expressed serious doubt about Megan as their mother.

Much as I like Megan, Don would probably have been better off with the much more mature and better educated Dr. Faye, whom he throw over at the end of Season 4. She’s not a natural with kids, but that doesn’t seem like a big factor now, as it did at the time.

Megan, of course, in her youth does represent a fresh and uncomplicated future. But the future frequently gets complicated when it becomes the present. And Megan isn’t just an alluring symbol, she’s a person with her own will and mind. To her credit, she wants to work and learn the ad game, and not just be yanked away at Don’s whim.

By the end of the episode, Don and Megan have made up and returned to their glossy united front in public. But now they know for sure they have deeper issues.

Roger and Jane Sterling are a couple that not only knows they have deeper issues, they’re very well practiced at avoiding them, and one another.

It was a very deft touch to have Roger Sterling be the first Mad Men leading character to use psychedelic drugs. It’s counter-intuitive, but actually makes great sense, given his ingrained hedonism.

And using the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds, one of the greatest albums of the ’60s (the Beatles put out Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967 in part to try to best it), as soundtrack material was inspired.

While “I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times” by the brilliant Brian Wilson, whom I’ve met and is something of a casualty of the era, seems too on-the-nose for this character who clings to the style and values of a now twice bygone era, i.e., the ’50s, it actually comes with telling irony. For it is Roger who achieves the breakthrough LSD was intended to produce.

He and Jane had various amusing trippy perceptions during their own electric kool-aid acid test, lovingly and lengthily recounted elsewhere, but it was the dapper Roger who achieved both clarity and calm resolution in the end.

Their marriage is over.

Is Roger going to bring this sort of calm incisiveness — which might otherwise have required years of Zen meditation — to bear in, and on, the future? Thus making him a man who is decidedly made for these new times? Stay tuned.

In the last episode, it was Pete Campbell who, after ascending, suddenly seemed on the verge of destruction.

This week’s episode presents Peggy Olson as the new candidate. Was this a very abrupt plot development, too?

After blowing off likable but rather clingy boyfriend Abe, who tells the workaholic he’s tired of her treating him like “a focus group,” Peggy presents another very bad pitch for Heinz, one which makes the hilariously lousy “dancing baked beans” from the beginning of the season seem inspired. Then, acting like she’s Don Draper, she tries to intimidate the client into accepting the campaign, which naturally does not work. In fact, Heinz gets Pete to pull Peggy from the account altogether.

Things go from bad to worse when Peggy spins out to boozing it up in the office, then plays hooky by ducking out to see Born Free — the cloying hit movie about lions in colonial Africa — in the middle of the day. There, after warning a pot smoker that he can get in trouble, she does a 180 from censorious to licentious and starts smoking dope herself. She then responds to her fellow smoker’s romantic advances by giving him a hand job.

Okay then.

When Bert Cooper confronts Don for being too checked out from his work, saying he’s essentially leaving the creative department in the hands of “a little girl” and placing the agency in jeopardy as a result Cheap Christian Audigier Clothes, that’s obviously unfair and sexist. But the original name partner of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce has a point. Peggy is only 26, talented, but not very well-educated as a high school grad who went to secretarial school. She doesn’t have Don’s knowledge, experience, or style.

It’s 1966. Even a truly accomplished female character would struggle in this highly sexist era.

While Mad Men is becoming decidedly stranger, it’s still no X-Files. And Peggy Olson is no Dana Scully.

Yet the show has taken on something of a scifi cast, with Ken Cosgrove an accomplished scifi writer on the side and Roger and Jane fatefully deciding to technologize their perceptions.

Which brings us to Michael Ginsberg, an intriguing and studiedly odd new character whose role in all this is still emerging. He tells Peggy that the man who came to use their copy machine is his adoptive, not biological father, and that he, Michael, is a Holocaust survivor, born in a concentration camp. This has been so traumatic for him that he thinks of himself as coming from Mars. Peggy asks if there are other Martians among them. (In New York, as if she had to ask.) Michael doesn’t know.

He evidently feels like a stranger in a strange land, to coin a phrase. (That’s a little joke.)

And there we are at chapter’s end.

Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey, trippy-wippy.

What makes the zigs and zags of Doctor Who work is that the show is fun. Yes, it’s sometimes tragic and there’s frequently a dark edge to it. But the humor is always humming in the background and the characters are likable and sometimes lovable.

While I appreciate all the characters on Mad Men, there aren’t many likable characters. As Megan said, tellingly, to Peggy early this season: “What is wrong with you people? You’re all so cynical. You don’t smile, you smirk.”

But they are interesting.

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Read Part 1 of Shafer’s screed against the shield law. 

Media companies are lobbying in favor of a shield law

The federal shield legislation being considered by the Senate (S. 2035) wouldn’t have protected Matthew Cooper and Judy Miller had it been law in the summer of 2005. And Department of Justice guidelines (PDF) already afford members of the press similar protection from federal subpoenas. So why are the major media companies and press associations so thrilled about seeing the law passed? Why is today’s Washington Post editorializing so solemnly in favor of it? (See “We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Shield Law, Part 1.”)

It’s not as though the oft-cited “chilling effect” has silenced whistle-blowers and leakers of classified information, making the law’s passage paramount. Recent news stories exposing dubious NSA surveillance, the data sifting of financial information by the government, secret CIA prisons, a secret stealth satellite program Replica Herve Leger gown, and torture at Abu Ghraib, just to name a few, present a press that’s anything but cowed by the prospect of government subpoenas. The law is “a solution in search of a problem,” as then-Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty put it at a 2006 Senate hearing.

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As I argued in Part 1 of this diatribe BCBG Dresses sale, the current legal ambiguities and discretionary guidelines may actually benefit the press Buy Christian Audigier Clothing, while codifying the subpoena machinery into law may work against those interests. For instance, in a sharply reasoned Washington Post op-ed last year advocating the defeat of the shield legislation Buy DKNY Clothing, former special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald writes that a “threshold question lawmakers should ask is whether reporters will obey the law if it is enacted.” Accusing some journalists of wanting their law and promising to defy it, too, he continues:

They should ask because the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press calls for a shield law while urging journalists to defy the law when a court upholds a subpoena for source information. Any shield bill should require that a person seeking its protection first provide the subpoenaed information under seal to the court, to be released only if the court orders the information disclosed.

One great difficulty in crafting shield laws is deciding who is eligible for their protections and who is not. The Senate bill applies to individuals and companies (and their employees) engaged in journalism. “[T]he term ‘journalism’ means the regular gathering Cheap Missoni Dresses, preparing Buy Christian Audigier Clothing, collecting, photographing, recording, writing, editing, reporting, or publishing of news or information that concerns local, national, or international events or other matters of public interest for dissemination to the public,” the bill states.

Although the language doesn’t sound onerous, journalists from Third World and former Soviet bloc countries know all about the dangers of letting governments define who is a journalist. I’m not paranoid enough to believe that the clause in this bill will automatically lead to the mandatory licensing of journalists by the federal government, but it is an excellent foundation upon which to build such a card-issuing ministry of journalism.

Would a court decide under this law that Michael Moore’s practice of journalism is “regular” enough to qualify him as a journalist? Or what about a blogger who set up his page two minutes ago? Or what about a commentator on a 900 telephone line? You laugh, but the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals decided in 1998 that a professional wrestling commentator on a 900 line didn’t qualify for protection under the Pennsylvania state shield law because, in part, his “primary goal is to provide advertisement and entertainment—not to gather news or disseminate information.” In other words, “license denied.”

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