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And just like that, the CMT Here Tonight Tour is officially underway!
Had a great first run of shows for the Here Tonight CMT Tour! Come see us. It’s an awesome time!
Headliner Brett Young kicked off the tour over the weekend in Royal Oak, Michigan with Tyler Rich and Rachel Wammack. For Young, having Rich, a fellow Californian, out on the tour was nothing short of cosmic and meant to be.
“What’s so funny is Tyler and I didn’t realize that we had met back in California,” Young told CMT.com.
Although he’d not yet officially met Wammack, he knew she, too, was meant to be on the tour when she got one big seal of approval.
The tour is on a break this week to celebrate Thanksgiving, but tickets are still available for the next weekend of shows in North and South Carolina, and Florida.
If you’re looking to satisfy that card game, board game or comics itch, there’s no better place to scratch than at Heroes and Horrors Games. Heroes and Horrors offers board and card games, collectible card games, role-playing games, Warhammer, comics, manga, graphic novels, collectible figures and sci-fi and fantasy books. They take pride in possessing one of the largest collections of Magic the Gathering single cards in northern Colorado.
For specifics on game room availability, store hours or to have any other questions answered, visit http://www.heroesandhorrorsgames.com, call (970) 833-5128 or visit 1215-B Main St. in Windsor.
Heroes and Horrors Games was founded by Nicholas Kindt — an avid gamer himself and the one-man show running the operation. Kindt’s affinity for the world of cards, games and imagination started early on in life.
The store Kindt had been frequenting to play said games eventually went out of business, but he wasn’t ready to say au revoir to playing cards and the fellowship it produced. Kindt would game in Fort Collins or Longmont but grew tired of doing so after a while, spawning an interest in opening his own outfit.
“There was a void to be filled and Windsor seemed like a reasonably sized place to open a store. I didn’t want to open a store [in another city] and start competing with already established businesses,” Kindt explained.
Enter Heroes and Horrors Games, which opened in July of 2015. A litany of card games, board games and otherwise are offered, of course, but Heroes and Horrors also hosts live gaming sessions. One might say the crown jewel of these gaming sessions is Magic — a hobby Kindt got into as a direct result of playing Dungeons and Dragons and other card games with fellow gamers. Members of the Magic faction gather to test each other’s skills and try new card sets every Friday night at H&H Games.
Players don’t just show up to play Magic, though. There is a small group of Warhammer players that consistently shows up on Thursday nights and a couple groups of D&D players that collect on Wednesdays.
While Magic, Dungeons and Dragons and Warhammer are the main attractions for gaming sessions, Heroes and Horrors’ game room seats up to 24 players and is available for open play before the aforementioned groups meet.
Cards might be the name of the game at Heroes and Horrors, but Kindt posits that he has one of the broader selections of board games available – over 160 card and board games to be exact. Other gaming paraphernalia are in stock, too.
“We provide everything that everybody needs to play most games.” Going the extra mile, Heroes and Horrors even offers a subscription platform where customers can pick up their comics and never miss an issue.
While there isn’t a lot of time to actually play the games themselves now that he owns and runs his own store, Kindt doesn’t mind.
On the heels of announcing profitability, startup NetVibes is announcing a new feature today to help users monitor the realtime web. NetVibes is launching a personal dashboard monitoring platform, called Instant Dashboards. The new feature allows users to enter a keyword on NetVibes’ site to pull up an instant dashboard that automatically collects all of the latest photos, videos, news, feeds, search results, Twitter conversations and more around that topic. Instant dashboards are automatically updated in near real-time.
The dashboard is essentially a way for users to track content on the realtime web. For example, if I create a dashboard for Tiger Woods, NetVibes will aggregate videos from Google search, news from Google news, photos from Flickr, realtime search results from Yahoo, Tweets about Woods and more.
Users can browse content within their Instant Dashboard using the Netvibes Smart Reader, which lets people view real-time content in magazine-style widgets or in a flowing RSS reader. Dashboards can be personalized and users can also add more content from the Netvibes widget and content ecosystem, which includes a plethora of RSS feeds and widgets from social networks and content platforms.
NetVibes has transformed its product since its launch five years ago. The startup began with personalized homepages, became a distributed widget platform, changed CEOs (when founder Tariq Krim stepped down in 2008 to start Jolicloud), then started appealing to enterprises, brands, and advertisers with intranet offerings and social media dashboards.
And the startup just hit profitability on a net income basis, with revenue from enterprise offerings comprising most of sales. NetVibes offers an enterprise version of dashboards for PR and marketing professionals, which pulls together different monitoring and analytics tools (such as Google Trends, Compete, Yelp, Hootsuite, and Trendrr) all into one dashboard.
Netvibes Showcase from Netvibes on Vimeo.
Lawyers say thousands of Nigerian fishermen have rejected an offer of $50 million from Royal Dutch Shell for "some of the largest oil spills in history."
The offer comes as a British court Friday ruled the oil company can be legally liable for oil thefts if it fails to protect its pipeline infrastructure. Until now, Shell has paid compensation only for spills caused by equipment failure.
Some $35 million worth of oil is stolen daily in Nigeria.
Shell countered the judgment was favorable in limiting litigation to "an assessment of actual damages sustained" in spills, and said the judge ruled the company's arguments "correct in all the crucial points."
Leigh Day lawyers for 15,000 fishermen who lost their livelihoods in oil spills in 2008 and 2009 called Shell's offer laughable.
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3B: Bal 1, R. Martin (1).
HR: Bal 3, C. Mullins (1), M. Yastrzemski (1), A. Santander (2).
Errors: Bal 1, M. Cervenka (1).
Stolen Bases: TB 1, J. Cronenworth (1).
Caught Stealing: TB 1, W. Adames (1).
Adrien Barbier, AFP | People gather on the roof of a house submerged by floods in Buzi on March 20, 2019.
Correia told a news conference earlier on Wednesday that around 15,000 people, many of them very ill, still need to be rescued. "Our biggest fight is against the clock," he said, adding that 3,000 people had been rescued so far.
In neighbouring Zimbabwe, the death toll from Cyclone Idai jumped to 139. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), which is coordinating food drops, said 200,000 Zimbabweans would need urgent food aid for three months. In Malawi 56 people were confirmed dead.
Even when people are safely out of the floods, the situation is dire. Some 30 percent of the 88 government centres set up by the government for displaced people still have no food, Environment Minister Correia said.
The cyclone's torrential rains caused the Buzi River and the Pungue River, whose mouths are in the Beira area, to flood their banks. The scale of the flooding is huge - the UN satellite agency says floodwaters covered 2,165 square km (835 square miles) on March 20.
"Here in Beira, all the churches have collapsed from this cyclone... Oh my dear brothers, please pray for us," said Pastor Luis Semente. "Only God can restore this."
"More help is needed, and we are continuing to do all we can to bring in more resources and to reach more people,” said Jamie LeSueur, the IFRC's operations head in Mozambique.
The US military stands ready to help the cyclone rescue effort, a representative of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) said, according to the minutes of a humanitarian meeting held on Wednesday. China, a major investor in Mozambique, also expressed its willingness to help, Portugal's Lusa news agency reported.
One of the more distinctive things about the first Pokemon games—aside from nostalgia—is that we got to see the older, distinctive art style drawn by Ken Sugimori (Pokemon's art director). And thanks to artists like Tomycase, we can still have the pleasure of seeing new Pokemon in that older 'Sugimori style,' too.
What do you think, which style is better? The older one or the newer one? I like em both, personally, it just so happens that one of them is nostalgic.
You can check out more of Tomycases' work here, including other Pokemon drawn Sugimori style.
ST. LOUIS - The Fabulous Fox Theatre is gearing up to celebrate the 30th anniversary of its 1982 reopening.
Over the past three decades, the Fox has become the premier arts venue in St. Louis, the cornerstone of the Grand Center Arts District and a nationally recognized presenter of concerts and Broadway touring shows.
The Fabulous Fox Theatre opened in 1929 as a movie palace in William Fox's motion picture empire. After entertaining millions of people for nearly 50 years, the theater closed in 1978.
In 1981, the Fox was privately purchased by Fox Associates and underwent an incredible one-year restoration. The Fox reopened its doors with the musical "Barnum" on Sept. 7, 1982.
Since 1982, more than 16.5 million guests have passed through the brass doors of the Fabulous Fox to see Broadway shows, concerts, dance, family productions, gospel plays and classic movies, and to attend tours and private events, including weddings, graduations and proms. There have been 6,156 performances and 1,565 acts and productions presented.
Renovation and improvement projects have continued throughout the past 30 years, including the opening of the Fox Club, a luxurious box seat level in 1988; a $2 million, 20-foot stage addition in 1995; a major lobby renovation in 2000; the addition of a state-of-the-art video marquee in 2005; the installation of a new historically accurate vertical blade sign in 2008; and in 2011, the installation of a new energy-efficient air conditioning system, LED lighting and a new front facade.
Along with its ownership of the Fox Theatre, Fox Associates has experienced tremendous growth over the last 30 years. Fox Concerts books performances at the Fox and other venues, while Fox Event Services provides full in-house catering and event planning services.
Fox Theatricals was established in 1997 and has produced 23 Broadway plays, musicals, national tours and West End productions, including "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and "RED." Fox Theatricals has received 80 Tony Award nominations and won 24 Tony Awards.
Visit www.fabulousfox.com for more information.
A question that many of us would love to have answered is, Whatever happened to those original billions in Wall Street bailout money? Would we be wrong to say that some of that is going down the toilet?
It's hard to remember since there have been so many plans, but wasn't the money from Bailout No. 1 supposed to help the banking and mortgage crisis? Well, have you or any of your neighbors felt that your mortgage problems have gotten better since the banks got this money? Or maybe they decided to help us another way: Has your savings account interest gone up since they increased the amount of cash in their vaults? I don't think so.
F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said, "The rich are different from you and me." Ernest Hemingway replied, "Yes, they have more money." But now it's obvious that some of them also have more gall, chutzpah, ego, selfishness and imported area rugs.
Like the rest of us, the wizards of Wall Street saw how foolish the Not So Big Three automaker heads were when they flaunted their luxurious ways by flying to Washington the first time in their private jets. Yet Citigroup didn't cancel the order for its new $50 million jet until it was pressured by the Obama administration. Now that it canceled it, Citigroup might not get its deposit back. Do you feel as sorry for them as I do?
As billions flew into banking coffers courtesy of, well, us, millions flew right out of those coffers in the form of bonuses. That's right. Some bailed-out banks gave big bonuses to its bosses. I didn't watch every minute of the news during those early bailout days, but I don't think that's what the money was intended for.
Oh, there's something else that some of these greedy executives are -- clueless. What's missing in their brains that tells them it's OK for them to accept huge bonuses while others would consider it a bonus to just still have jobs?
Their rationalizations are succinct but absurd. In the case of the GEOs (Greedy Executive Officers), they claim that their company needs to attract the best people to do the best job, and those people sometimes like to be pampered.
John Thain is an executive who liked to be pampered. The recently fired GEO of Merrill Lynch & Co. spent $1.2 million last year to renovate his office. His office. While he was at his very beautiful desk, his company gave out an undisclosed amount of bonuses. These bonuses were paid after, you may recall, Merrill Lynch was rescued by Bank Of America, which was helped by – you guessed it – us.
But back to Thain's office. Among the things he had his company pay for were $87,000 area rugs, a $25,000 pedestal table, a $68,000 19th-century credenza, an $18,000 chair, a $16,000 custom coffee table and a $35,000 antique commode. It wasn't even a new toilet, but the guy spent 35 grand for it.
Once Thain was caught with his pants down, he said that he would pay the money back to the company. He added that considering the times, this expensive redecorating was a mistake in judgment.
Hiring Thain was the real mistake in judgment. He wasn't just fired because of his extravagant office tastes. He was let go because while he was in charge, Merrill Lynch lost more than $15 billion in one quarter. That's $5 billion a month or about $166 million a day. If he put in an eight-hour workday, he lost about $21 million an hour, $346,000 a minute or $5,787.04 a second. This business expert lost money probably faster than anyone can print it.
That's what's so aggravating about all this. These people who have been buying islands and giving their kids platinum pacifiers aren't necessarily geniuses. They are the same jerks that got us into the big financial mess in the first place.
Whoever came up with the idea of giving bonuses to people who do a bad job probably never filled up his car with gas by himself, never took out the garbage and never uttered the words, "Is this going on sale soon?" If these people had done a great job, their desire for money and luxurious things wouldn't seem so absurd. Let's put it this way: If any of them had made a profit instead of a loss of $15 billion in the fourth quarter of last year, they'd deserve to have any kind of toilet they want in their office. But I still think that 19th-century credenza is a bit much.
How Yom Kippur Fasts Became All About The Feasts : The Salt The Jewish holiday of reflection and hope tends to bring everyone to the heaping table of traditional foods when fasting is over, But celebrating with a huge feast was not always the case.
Yom Kippur break fasts are notoriously epic — all manner of smoked fishes and delicate pastries are piled high on the best china (or, if you're feeding dozens, paper plates). For many of those gathered around a table heaped with traditional Eastern European delicacies, engaging in the holiday meal is a way to connect with their Jewish roots.
On Yom Kippur — which begins Friday night — over half of American Jews will fast (according to a recent survey). Whether in temple or at their workday desk, many will use the opportunity to reflect on their individual and collective actions over the past year, and their hope for the coming year. After the sun sets, they'll break their fast. And a lot of people will really break their fast.
"The typical assort is a couple different kinds of smoked salmon, whitefish, herring, cream cheese," explains Niki Russ Federman, whose New York-based family "appetizing shop" (a traditional store that sells both fish and dairy), Russ & Daughters, has been supplying these foods for more than 100 years.
"Whitefish salad, egg salad, some pickles. Then you get all the breads, the sweets like babka —you can't have break fast without babka!" she says.
The high holidays — Yom Kippur, and the preceding New Year, Rosh Hashanah — are the busiest times of year for the shop. Federman estimates that they sell 2,000 dozen house-baked bagels, and they hand-slice about 8,000 pounds of smoked fish.
"It is the great equalizer for Jews," jokes Federman. "Whether you're very observant or not, people come together around the break fast."
But according to University of Rochester religion professor Nora Rubel, there's one problem with this idea of celebrating around a laden table: For Jews of Eastern European background, the table-groaning Yom Kippur break fast feast is a relatively recent development.
Rubel looked into the history of the break fast, and found that, with a few minor exceptions, Jewish cookbooks of the past century didn't feature Yom Kippur break fast menus until the '80s or '90s. At most, early cookbooks would make passing acknowledgements of light meals, maybe some herring or honey cake — if they mentioned the holiday at all.
Rubel theorizes that the break fast may have been minor, because the real food was just around the corner — during Sukkot, the Jewish harvest festival.
"Sukkot, which comes four days after, is all about feasting. You're supposed to eat in the sukkah [ceremonial hut], and people are constantly inviting you over."
But over time, the week-long Sukkot observance diminished. Rubel notes that the holiday has a few strikes against it. Its observance requires purchasing perishable produce and constructing an outdoor shed — as opposed to utilizing more manageable things like candlesticks or Seder plates, which can be re-used every year.
Not only have the celebratory meals of Sukkot faded from favor, the meaning and practice of Yom Kippur itself has also changed.
Bagels and lox from New York-based "appetizing shop" Russ & Daughters. "Especially when people aren't engaging in other parts of the practice, bagels and lox get elevated to something ritually symbolic. It's a lot of power to put on a bagel," says Leah Koenig, author of Little Book of Jewish Appetizers.
Rubel says that the Yom Kippur fast is "a period of feeling 'in it' with everybody. But a lot of people don't like going to services, because it's long and it's boring and you're hungry. And also alienating, if it's not something you do on a regular basis."
According to Rubel, the break fast makes the holiday more like other Jewish holidays, which tend to be food-centered. "And being with people. Judaism has never been a monastic religion," she laughs. "The major important prayers, you have to have ten people." Judaism is a religion practiced in congregation — and at the table.
"There is a sacred power to food that gets layered onto it," acknowledges Leah Koenig, author of Little Book of Jewish Appetizers. "Especially when people aren't engaging in other parts of the practice. Bagels and lox get elevated to something ritually symbolic. It's a lot of power to put on a bagel."
Koenig says a lot of break fasts focus on dairy-heavy dishes, pastries and smoked fishes. These rich brunch items can easily be made or assembled in advance, and satisfy a hunger for nostalgia, family and meaning — as well as missed fats and carbs.
At Russ & Daughters, fourth-generation owner Federman says that people start lining up on the sidewalk outside the shop at 5:30 in the morning the day before Yom Kippur. Sure, there are the people who forgot to call in their orders in advance. But Federman says that for some patrons, standing in line for a few hours is decidedly a choice.
"Being with people, buying their fish, selecting their babka — for them, this is how they feel Jewish," Federman says.
It's likely that some of those stocking up for break fast will be sitting at their desks the next day instead of at temple. But as they line the block, waiting for their whitefish, they can have their own moments of spiritual reflection, and feel a sense of connection with those around them who are doing the same.
Then, when break fast comes, they'll have one hell of a spread.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Spraying insecticides indoors offers children no additional protection from malaria when bed nets are used, a study said on Tuesday, as malaria cases and deaths worldwide continue to fall.
A study by medical journal The Lancet said donors should invest their limited resources on additional bed nets as the most cost-effective solution to tackling malaria, costing an average of $2.20 per person compared to $6.70 for insecticide.
“High bed net use is sufficient to protect people against malaria in areas that have low or moderate levels of malaria,” lead author Steve Lindsay said in a statement.
Malaria, a mosquito-borne parasitic disease, kills more than 600,000 people a year, and most victims are children under five living in the poorest parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
The study coincided with the launch of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) annual World Malaria Report, which said the number of global malaria deaths fell by 47 percent between 2000 and 2013, with malaria cases also steadily declining, due to improved access to testing, treatment and bed nets.
In Africa, the number of people infected fell to 128 million in 2013 from 173 million in 2000, despite a 43 percent increase in the African population living in malaria transmission areas.
Insect nets and indoor spraying of insecticide have been proven to reduce the number of malaria deaths, The Lancet said.
Last year almost half of people at risk of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa had access to bed nets, compared to just three percent in 2004, according to the WHO, while 55 million people, seven percent of the population at risk, lived in households that were regularly sprayed.
Yet there had been little research on whether combining these interventions would give better results.
The study said that clinical trials in Gambia, involving almost 8,000 children across 70 villages, showed that spraying insecticides indoors offered no additional protection from malaria when bed nets were used.
Where bed nets are unavailable or in short supply, indoor insecticide spraying should be considered, it said.