Missing Manic Street Preachers
guitarist and lyricist Richey Edwards has been declared as presumed
dead, a spokeswoman for the band has said.
The musician from Blackwood, south Wales, disappeared nearly 14 years ago.
Despite alleged sightings all over the world many believe
Edwards, whose car was found near the Severn Bridge, took his own life
at the age of 27.
His parents Graham and Sherry Edwards have been granted a court order for him to be declared presumed dead.
Edwards' father said he did not wish to comment on the matter.
RICHEY EDWARDS FACTFILE
BORN: 22 December 1967, Blackwood, south Wales
EARLY LIFE: Went to Oakdale Comprehensive with future band members and studied for a political science degree at Swansea University
MANICS: Joined after designing the cover for
the band's first single Suicide Alley in 1989. He was also their van
driver, 'Minister of Information' and later guitarist and lyricist
CONTROVERSY: Carved 4 REAL into his arm with a razor blade in an interview with the NME's Steve Lamacq in 1991
ILLNESS: Spent time in hospital in Wales and a rehab centre for treatment for alcoholism and anorexia in 1993/94
LAST SEEN: 1 February 1995 in the Embassy
Hotel, London checking out at 7am. His car was found at services near
the Severn Bridge on 17 February
The band's publicist Terri Hall said the move was "hugely emotional"
for remaining band members James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire and Sean
Moore.
The band are unavailable for comment as they are currently abroad, she said.
She told the Mail on Sunday: "This is the parents' choice and the band is happy to go with what the parents decide is best.
"We all dream Richey will come back one day. You hope he is still around somewhere.
"But it is no longer a realistic hope and if this offers some kind of closure then the band will be content with that."
Edwards, whose unused lyrics for the band are set to be used in
new Manics material due for release next year, was last seen in London
on 1 February 1995.
It is believed Edwards returned to his Cardiff flat, but then drove to the original Severn Bridge where his car was later found.
Too many companies are now abusing this word, typically these are
companies offering internet services.
An example would be of Company A offering mobile/home broadband with
unlimited usage. Then in the terms & conditions there will be a
clause that restricts the customer to download only 1Gb of data per
month.
This is NOT unlimited.
Unlimited is defined as being: not limited, infinite or unrestricted.
If no current law prevents this, then one should be made to cover this grey area.
---------------------------
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Ban the use of the word 'Unlimited' if the subject in question is limited.
Root6 Technology has added Dolby Digital Plus to the post-production deliverables on its ContentAgent repurposing platform.
Dolby Digital Plus is a next-generation audio technology for high-definition programming and media.
ContentAgent support will allow extremely low bit rate multichannel sound to be delivered via the web.
The
content repurposing platform currently transcodes a host of other
commonly used audio formats including MP3, AC3, AAC, WAV, BWAV and AIFF.
ContentAgent
product manager Kevin King said: "We are already fulfilling client
demand for multi channel audio as part of an automated workflow and
it's clear that further advances such as Dolby Digital Plus will play
an increasingly important role in the HD content experience."
"Dolby
Digital Plus combines the efficiency to meet future broadcast demands
with the power and flexibility to realize the full audio potential of
the upcoming high-definition experience.
"Built on Dolby Digital,
the multichannel audio standard for DVD and HD broadcasts worldwide,
Dolby Digital Plus was designed for the delivery formats of the future,
but remains fully compatible with all current A/V receivers. With Dolby
Digital Plus, you get even higher quality audio, more channels, and
greater flexibility."
ContentAgent is used by production
companies and broadcasters – including ITV and Pinewood Studios - to
re-purpose and convert video and audio content for programmes, archives
and online.
Well this was the humble pie I was talking about here. Being the Product Manager for ContentAgent this is a really exciting time to making encoding tools for Television and Film industry ----
Root6 Technology will use IBC to unveil an updated version of its
Content Agent system that works with files from the Red One camera.
The re-purposing and content management technology will now have the ability to transcode raw Red R3D files and low-res proxies.
This will allow the automatic creation of digital dailies as well as offline editing, HD finishing and 4k mastering.
The
new dailies workflow development can be fully automated, outputting to
ftp, email, web, RSS or interactive DVD. It is due to be shown for the
first time at IBC.
Associated metadata can be burnt-in or
included as part of an XML file. In the case of DVDs, workflows can be
constructed to produce individually branded copies for a director, DoP
or cameraman.
Root6 Technology managing director Marcus
Hume-Humphreys said: "Making the Red codec available on Content Agent
ensures that the dailies community will have the flexibility to create
and automate its workflow, producing appropriate and cost effective
deliverables."
Root6 Technology is a division of reseller and systems integrator Root6.
No I know how King
Canute felt as the sea rose up, for years I complained and laughed saying it was vaporware, a public relations fantasy, a monumental advertiser lead dream. I mocked and laughed at people even suggesting it would work that the vision would see the light of day but alas it came.
‘No one is so powerful that he can stop the march of time’ There comes a point in your life and you see something that makes you want to raise up, march for the cause, demonstrate against a goverment or join a rebellion you take up the arms and march and nothing is going to stop you. Once you have seen the light and crossed the line there is no going back as it was once said "When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away. "
I've only eaten humble pie a few times in my life but the announce I'm going to have to make on this blog next week will mean I'm stuff full for a long time. Look out for the ContentAgent press releases they are going to be very filling. "Madam, if a thing is possible, consider
it done; the impossible? That will be done." Charles Alexandre de Calonne 1734 - 1802
This was the scene that greeted me at Mile End this morning well I say greeted I did have to let 4 trains go past before I took this shot. In all I had to let 6 trains go past before I could get on one. Ok normally if there are problems on the line etc ok. But there were no problems reported on the London Underground Website or by Transport for London. It seem more and more often I'm having to wait longer and longer for a train. I haven't changed my time i get in the morning it just seems that more and more people are getting the tube.
I like to be in on time and after a 45minute commute its always a push to do it these days. You can leave earlier and still have a 15 or a 20 minute wait to be able to get on a train. Oh well what to do.
Well here I am sitting under a tree in the park just about to start
reading war and peace on my iPhone. I thought I make my first ebook a
challenge. Stanza is a great app and very useable.
Having just walked via speaker corner and taken a few picture. I never thought I'd get accuse of being one of her majesty finest by some random
preacher. Oh well something to aspire to.
By the way Love No Longer Lives Here by Autoclav1.1.hasn't not been off the
Zune all week. Awesome album All ForYou is an amazing track. You really need to
check it out.
Yes well i did it and as soon as I got back from the USA i went out and
got myself my Iphone upgrade. I got to say they have done a lovely job
of the UI and the App Store is great even if a bit battery draining at
times. All together I'm impressed and i love the idea that I can now
use my work exchange and my home exchange server and my odd gmail
address on the same phone....What that, you say I cannot, but why Apple
why? You can only have one exchange account on the Iphone on dear this
will not do you mean i have to live with the same silly restrictions
that ActiveSync has on the Windows Mobile platform, oh mother to betsy.
Well I suppose we can use IMAP and get around that but workaround...tut
tut...
Then today I notice something on the tube on
the way in normally on my way into work I answer some emails delete
some spam etc and generally get on with work. On my windows mobile
phone you can work, delete move things around and when you next log in
to the server it updates all the cached
local changes with the exchange server.
Well
working this morning I tried to move some spam to
trash while on the underground, and up pops a error
message
which I thought was strange why couldn't it
move the message then I twigged that it must need network coverage to
move the message. I tried when I was above ground and yes it
worked...How strange and stupid that it can't cache what you want and
update when you next sync.
You can see i simulated
being underground in the picture above by turning
the phone into airplane mode. I can't believe that the Iphone can't
work the same as the WMobile and be able to delete and move message on
the fly wioth no coverage and cache the results locally till you nexrt
connect.
Well i thought i'd bring this up with Apple, so I
rang and spoke to someone who told me
"that on the iphone it is
different and even with exchange this has to be in
coverage."
Different I said....very
different...
So this got me curious
about what i can do underground and what will and won't work as i want
to use the iphone for work rather than the
WMobile and travelling underground in London is daily occurance.
So what
happens if we try and move a message from folder to folder with no
coverage....indeed it greys out the move to folder icon if you have no
coverage
to move the file. COOL the lady on the phone said we needed coverage so
they have greyed it out so i know i can't do it. OK Therefore under
that rule and keeping withing the
rules it should grey out/disable the Delete function so we don't get a
error message by doing something stupid that we know will fail.
Sound like common sense to me but then would
caching the changes and then syncing them up when you next push, like
the Windoze Mobiles do.
Well it looks like you can't
work with a Iphone with exchange anywhere there isn't complete wifi or
3G coverage. So if your thinking using it to travel to work in London,
lets hope you take the overground. But Kev, Kev......It works in San Fransisco, sorry mate.....I'll pass on the Kool Aid this time.
People in LA really don't like standing near each other while waiting for the bus. Look at the equal spacing between them, is this a LA 'my personal space' rule.
time to pack my bags as its time for the monkey boy to head across the pond, back to LA and then down to Texas, which should be fun as when i looked this morning it was 36C or 96F for our imperic cousins and I just love the sun. so expect the normal on off posting. stay safe
in the mean time, enjoy this poster from my trip to South Africa
Well I'm just back from South Africa, so I thought I've give you a little bit of video I shot there on my Leica D-Lux3. Its making me hunger of a nice steak.
Hello from Johannesburg in South Africa, well its just about time to leave back for the UK. Africa as always has had it share of surprises...nothing like the local Police going on strike and closing down the freeways with tyres and the government police coming in and having a shoot out. Always entertaining. Nothing but good clean fun. See you all in Blighty
Looks like it was a bad landlord try to make the issue bigger than it was, it was only about they pub and not soho as a whole
------ You recently signed a petition asking the Prime Minister to "resist
the ban on outside drinking and maintain the liberal culture of
Soho."
A formal response to the petition will be sent to you, and posted
online, once the petition has closed.
In the meantime, you may wish to
know that Westminster Council has released a statement on the subject of the
petition as follows:
Contrary to internet rumours, Westminster has no
plans to ban outside drinking in Soho or in the city as a whole. This is an
inaccurate and misleading rumour.
Indeed, the council is actively
trying to promote responsible alfresco-style dining and drinking in certain
parts of the city by creating calm oases away from the hustle and bustle of
the main streets.
We are, however, reviewing the licence for The
Endurance pub in Berwick Street following a long history of complaints from
nearby residents about noise from drinkers outside the premises. The Council
has previously tried to work with this pub to resolve this problem and we
regret that this review is now necessary.
The review by the council's
licensing committee is due to take place on June 26, 2008. We want everyone
to be able to come to Westminster and have a good time, but we need to ensure
that the interests of residents are protected and licensees must work with us
to this end.
Well a great night was had by all, thank you everyone for turning up, no doubt numerous pictures will appear on facebook and the like but I'll put some of my shots on flickr. click on the link to view.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to resist the ban on outside drinking and maintain the liberal culture of Soho.
This petition as been created by the licensee's of
Soho. If you live, work or just visit Soho, and you are familiar with The
Endurance Pub and want to support us against Westminster Councils objective for
a complete ban on outside drinking and socializing then please sign our
petition. It is the councils intention to enforce a complete ban on outside
drinking in all licensed premises.
Submitted by Alan Drew of Hope & Glory Public Houses LTD – Deadline to sign up by: 12 November 2008 –
Well haven't we been busy, below is a graph of the traffic that my blog has attracted since I started it back in June 2006 . It seems I now topping out my bandwidth and my blog was shut down by my providers for going over one gigabyte of transfer usage a month. Looks like I 'll be moving service or transferring my package soon.
Went to see the La clippers vs Memphis grizzlies last night, La won which was good but a weird game. most people more intrested on getting on TV than watching the game and the thought of drinking Budweiser again....eeeekkkkk
Just spend the weekend in Las Vegas, it was great as always just wish it could have been longer. Its amazing how much you miss people and how many memories come flooding back. But I'm writing this in Burbank, CA for a week of work which is always fun.....No doubt i'll have more pictures on the blog in a bit.
Well I've just got Thames Water to fit me a water meter, as I spend so much time away I thought it would help the old bank balance and the planet if I got one fitted.
Well its all in a name they say, Virgin Megastore rebrand as Zavvi....some time ago I blogged about the extreme poor customer service that I recieved from Parcel2go you can read the article on this link, http://blog.kking.co.uk/blog/_archives/2006/12/18/2582255.html well it seems they are going for a bit of a rebranding excerise and rebranding as Border HQ or borderhq.com if you like a web address. This I found out when I recieved an email from BorderHQ.com they email is below
From: c.jones@borderhq.com To: CC:
a.adams@parcel2go.com Subject: BorderHQ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:36:57
+0000
Dear
Anneka Mercer (cc’d above) has
asked me to contact you as Parcel2Go.com are terminating their USA address
service and offering their customers a free move to www.BorderHQ.com who will take over this service. This is
due to the huge increase in subscriptions and the need for dedicated customer
services and to help ensure service quality is as good as it can be.
As a
current customer of Parcel2Go.com with part of a year’s subscription still left,
Parcel2Go.com has negotiated a deal whereby you will receive a full year’s
standard subscription with BorderHQ.com at no cost to yourself. You will be
given a free Lite membership worth £19.99 and also BorderHQ.com will fix the
renewal fee to £9.99 for a further year should you choose to renew. If you
increased your membership level in the following year then £9.99 would be
deducted from your renewal fee. See http://www.borderhq.com/levels.aspx for details of the
membership levels
BorderHQ.com will be opening up a log in area where you
can view any receipts and you can manage your own shipments online.
Also
full time customer services advisors such as myself are at hand to help with any
problems you may have. Please email me if you want me to set this up but
please take note that Parcel2Go.com will be terminating its USA address services
within 28 days and you will be unable to continue to use this service with
Parcel2Go.com
Kindest Regards
Chris Jones
BorderHQ.com
e:
c.jones@BorderHQ.com
Well thats a bit of a turn up for the books Parcel2go terminating their service and going to a new company well maybe this company will be different. Well I hoped until I did a DNS lookup at www.dnsstuff.com and checked out who registered the website and shock horror Parcel2go and Border HQ have the same mailing address and low and behold its our old friend Anneka Mercer, know from such services as not returning your calls and being know as far as I was concerned "the biggest stumbling block at Parcel2go" when I had dealings with them. So a completely new company is it under the worst person I dealt with at Parcel2go, well BorderHQ better get themselves sorted at they don't seem to have registered under the Data Protection Act to hold peoples details and also Parcel2go or FAM Logistics as they like to be know seem to be giving peoples personal data away to new companies willynilly. Oh I feel a wheeze coming on. Watch this space.
The DNS results for Border HQ Ltd..
Registrant: Border HQ Limited Coe House Coe Street Bolton, Greater Manchester BL3 6BU GB
Domain name: BORDERHQ.COM
Administrative Contact: Mercer, Anneka ****@borderhq.com Coe House Coe Street Bolton, Greater Manchester BL3 6BU GB +448708033812 Technical Contact: Mercer, Anneka ****@borderhq.com Coe House Coe Street Bolton, Greater Manchester BL3 6BU GB +448708033812
Registration Service Provider: UK Reg, *******@fasthosts.co.uk +44 1452 541252 +44 1452 538485 (fax) http://www.ukreg.com/
Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC. Record last updated on 13-Jan-2008. Record expires on 06-Sep-2008. Record created on 06-Sep-2007.
Registrar Domain Name Help Center: http://domainhelp.tucows.com
Domain servers in listed order: NS3.LIVEDNS.CO.UK NS1.LIVEDNS.CO.UK NS2.LIVEDNS.CO.UK
Name & Registered Office: BORDERHQ LTD
COE HOUSE, COE STREET
BOLTON
ENGLAND
BL3 6BU Company No. 06361240
Status: Active Date of Incorporation: 05/09/2007
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Company Type: Private Limited Company Nature of Business (SIC(03)):
None Supplied
Accounting Reference Date: 30/09 Last Accounts Made Up To: (NO ACCOUNTS FILED) Next Accounts Due: 05/07/2009 Last Return Made Up To: Next Return Due: 03/10/2008
Previous Names:
No previous name information has been recorded over the last 20 years.
The list in the Register of data controllers for FAM LOGISTICS LTD
Registration Number: Z8622554
Date Registered: 28 May 2004 Registration Expires: 27 May 2008
Data Controller: FAM LOGISTICS LTD
Address:
COE HOUSE COE STREET BOLTON BL3 6BU
Other Names:
PARCEL2GO.COM
This register entry describes, in very general terms, the personal data being processed by:
FAM LOGISTICS LTD
This register entry contains personal data held for 3 purpose(s)
Purpose 1
Staff Administration
Purpose Description:
Appointments
or removals, pay, discipline, superannuation, work management or other
personnel matters in relation to the staff of the data controller.
Data subjects are:
Staff including volunteers, agents, temporary and casual workers
Data classes are:
Personal Details Family, Lifestyle and Social Circumstances Education and Training Details Employment Details Financial Details Racial or Ethnic Origin Trade Union Membership Physical or Mental Health or Condition
Sources (S) and Disclosures (D)(1984 Act). Recipients (1998 Act):
Data subjects themselves Relatives, guardians or other persons associated with the data subject Current, past or prospective employers of the data subject Education, training establishments and examining bodies Suppliers, providers of goods or services Financial organisations and advisers Trade, employer associations and professional bodies Central Government Employment and recruitment agencies
Transfers:
None outside the European Economic Area
Purpose 2
Advertising, Marketing & Public Relations
Purpose Description:
Advertising
or marketing the business of the data controller, activity, goods or
services and promoting public relations in connection with that
business or activity, or those goods or services.
Data subjects are:
Customers and clients
Data classes are:
Personal Details Family, Lifestyle and Social Circumstances Financial Details Goods or Services Provided
Sources (S) and Disclosures (D)(1984 Act). Recipients (1998 Act):
Data subjects themselves
Transfers:
None outside the European Economic Area
Purpose 3
Accounts & Records
Purpose Description:
Keeping
accounts related to any business or other activity carried on by the
data controller, or deciding whether to accept any person as a customer
or supplier, or keeping records of purchases, sales or other
transactions for the purpose of ensuring that the requisite payments
and deliveries are made or services provided by him or to him in
respect of those transactions, or for the purpose of making financial
or management forecasts to assist him in the conduct of any such
business or activity
Data subjects are:
Customers and clients
Data classes are:
Personal Details Family, Lifestyle and Social Circumstances Goods or Services Provided
Sources (S) and Disclosures (D)(1984 Act). Recipients (1998 Act):
Data subjects themselves Suppliers, providers of goods or services Ombudsmen and regulatory authorities
i seem to have a few unread messages after being away fo a few days...lets hope its just the iphone messing me about and not really that many otherwise I'm going to have to get through a lot of Viagra emails.
