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Michael Kliger, president of Mytheresa.com was one of the guests
Future-minded visions rule at Fashion’s CEO Roundtable
by Maria Cristina Pavarini — November 16, 2015
The specialist Italian trade magazine Fashion, part of the DFV Group, recently held its first CEO Roundtable on Digital Fashion in Milan. The event brought together top managers from key companies operating in the international digital and e-commerce markets, as well as entrepreneurs with a shared background and vision about the most effective strategies luxury brands should focus on to increase their visibility and generate more business around the globe.
Participants included Claudio Marenzi, Sistema Moda Italia; Roberto Liscia, president, Consorzio Netcomm; Eraldo Poletto, CEO, Furla; Michael Kliger, president, Mytheresa.com; Marco Di Dio Roccazzella, equity partner, Valuelab; Anton Magnani, CEO, Sutor Mantellassi; Enrico Roselli, CEO, La Martina Europe; David Schneider, CEO, Zalando, Maurizio Alberti, managing director, Teradata.
The event was moderated by Marc Sondermann, Editor-in-chief at Fashion magazine.
David Schneider, CEO of Zalando during his intervention
David Schneider, CEO, Zalando, explained the evolutionary steps the global market place might be facing soon according to his visionary speech. “Much has changed in the last five years with the booming of smartphones and their use, for instance, through social networking and e-shopping,” he explained. “The customer’s behavior has changed enormously recently. People are not surfing anymore and instead interact through apps, websites and social networks,” he added. “On the one hand, the consumer can get content and interact with friends on most of the different social networks. Everyone does it in a very personal way, different from how others do it. In addition, every player is stepping into some different fields: publishers are launching e-commerce activities, while brands are becoming publishers by adding content to their e-shops. Nobody knows where all this will end up. My idea for the future could be: “Why not offer each one its own personal fashion feed? And why not create platforms allowing brands to get connected directly with customers?” This would allow companies to tell their story. And this model could work especially well through the mobile environment. I think it’s time to re-imagine things back from when we were five-year-old – when this whole revolution started. Doing so would let us start a new one again.”
Marc Sondermann, Editor-in-chief at Fashion magazine
According to many speakers the client is king, or, better “queen,” as Michael Kliger, president Mytheresa.com, said: “In our company we speak much about our female customers and our deep love for them. We invest a lot in order to establish the best relationship with them. Today 96% of the calls we receive must be answered in no less than 2 to 3 seconds. You can’t let such customers wait. 99% of orders we receive today need to be shipped the same day. We also spend a lot on teaching our personnel how to do great parcels... We are still retailers and it’s all about that, even if we can always become better. When it comes to service it’s all a matter of taking care of details. It is like when you stay at a hotel. You don’t want to see the service. You just want to have the best room, all tidy and perfect. The same is with our work. It doesn’t matter if you receive your parcel with a drone or some other way. You simply want to have it in your hands. And when a customer spends €8 million for a bag or €4 million for a dress, everything has to be perfect.”
The internet has helped to break down many barriers, according to Eraldo Poletto, CEO, Furla: “The web has given the opportunity to bring down many barriers and let your company – even if smaller than huge giant ones – be more visible and compete directly with major players. By opening our store in Ginza and involving a local blogger, for instance, we got 600,000 likes in 20 days.”
Roberto Liscia, president, Consorzio Netcom, presented a study that indicates the size of the worldwide e-commerce market. Out of a total worldwide population of 7.3 billion people, 3 billion have Internet access and 1.2 billion purchase goods via the Web. The overall worldwide value of e-commerce was at about US$1.840 trillion in 2014. Pacific Asia plays a major role since it accounts for US$740 billion. Europe comes next with US$545 billion and then North America with e-commerce sales of US$495 billion. Latin/South America Latina accounts for US$39 billion, and the Middle East and Africa coming to US$21 billion. The UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Austria lead Europe with the highest e-commerce revenues.
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Michael Kliger
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[James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Joyce was to modern literature what Picasso was to modern art: he scrambled up the old formulas and blazed a new trail for others to follow. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark novel which perfected his stream of consciousness technique and combined nearly every literary device available in a modern re-telling of The Odyssey. His intellectualism and grasp of a wide range of philosophy, theology, and foreign languages enabled him to stretch the English language to its limits and, some critics believe, beyond them. Joyce's work has been an important influence on writers and scholars, such as Samuel Beckett, Salman Rushdie, John Updike, and Joseph Campbell. This classic short is republished here for your reading pleasure by Storystar admin.]
Eight years before he had seen his friend off at the North Wall and wished him God-speed. Gallaher had got on. You could tell that at once by his travelled air, his well-cut tweed suit, and fearless accent. Few fellows had talents like his, and fewer still could remain unspoiled by such success. Gallaher's heart was in the right place and he had deserved to win. It was something to have a friend like that.
Little Chandler's thoughts ever since lunch-time had been of his meeting with Gallaher, of Gallaher's invitation, and of the great city London where Gallaher lived. He was called Little Chandler because, though he was but slightly under the average stature, he gave one the idea of being a little man. His hands were white and small, his frame was fragile, his voice was quiet and his manners were refined. He took the greatest care of his fair silken hair and moustache, and used perfume discreetly on his handkerchief. The half-moons of his nails were perfect, and when he smiled you caught a glimpse of a row of childish white teeth.
As he sat at his desk in the King's Inns he thought what changes those eight years had brought. The friend whom he had known under a shabby and necessitous guise had become a brilliant figure on the London Press. He turned often from his tiresome writing to gaze out of the office window. The glow of a late autumn sunset covered the grass plots and walks. It cast a shower of kindly golden dust on the untidy nurses and decrepit old men who drowsed on the benches; it flickered upon all the moving figures - on the children who ran screaming along the gravel paths and on everyone who passed through the gardens. He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad. A gentle melancholy took possession of him. He felt how useless it was to struggle against fortune, this being the burden of wisdom which the ages had bequeathed to him.
He remembered the books of poetry upon his shelves at home. He had bought them in his bachelor days and many an evening, as he sat in the little room off the hall, he had been tempted to take one down from the bookshelf and read out something to his wife. But shyness had always held him back; and so the books had remained on their shelves. At times he repeated lines to himself and this consoled him.
When his hour had struck he stood up and took leave of his desk and of his fellow-clerks punctiliously. He emerged from under the feudal arch of the King's Inns, a neat modest figure, and walked swiftly down Henrietta Street. The golden sunset was waning and the air had grown sharp. A horde of grimy children populated the street. They stood or ran in the roadway, or crawled up the steps before the gaping doors, or squatted like mice upon the thresholds. Little Chandler gave them no thought. He picked his way deftly through all that minute vermin-like life and under the shadow of the gaunt spectral mansions in which the old nobility of Dublin had roistered. No memory of the past touched him, for his mind was full of a present joy.
He had never been in Corless's, but he knew the value of the name. He knew that people went there after the theatre to eat oysters and drink liqueurs; and he had heard that the waiters there spoke French and German. Walking swiftly by at night he had seen cabs drawn up before the door and richly-dressed ladies, escorted by cavaliers, alight and enter quickly. They wore noisy dresses and many wraps. Their faces were powdered and they caught up their dresses, when they touched earth, like alarmed Atalantas. He had always passed without turning his head to look. It was his habit to walk swiftly in the street even by day, and whenever he found himself in the city late at night he hurried on his way apprehensively and excitedly. Sometimes, however, he courted the causes of his fear. He chose the darkest and narrowest streets and, as he walked boldly forward, the silence that was spread about his footsteps troubled him; the wandering, silent figures troubled him; and at times a sound of low fugitive laughter made him tremble like a leaf.
He turned to the right towards Capel Street. Ignatius Gallaher on the London Press! Who would have thought it possible eight years before? Still, now that he reviewed the past, Little Chandler could remember many signs of future greatness in his friend. People used to say that Ignatius Gallaher was wild. Of course, he did mix with a rakish set of fellows at that time; drank freely and borrowed money on all sides. In the end he had got mixed up in some shady affair, some money transaction: at least, that was one version of his flight. But nobody denied him talent. There was always a certain... something in Ignatius Gallaher that impressed you in spite of yourself. Even when he was out at elbows and at his wits' end for money he kept up a bold face. Little Chandler remembered (and the remembrance brought a slight flush of pride to his cheek) one of Ignatius Gallaher's sayings when he was in a tight corner:
`Half-time now, boys,' he used to say light-heartedly. `Where's my considering cap?'
That was Ignatius Gallaher all out; and, damn it, you couldn't but admire him for it.
Little Chandler quickened his pace. For the first time in his life he felt himself superior to the people he passed. For the first time his soul revolted against the dull inelegance of Capel Street. There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin. As he crossed Grattan Bridge he looked down the river towards the lower quays and pitied the poor stunted houses. They seemed to him a band of tramps, huddled together along the river-banks, their old coats covered with dust and soot, stupefied by the panorama of sunset and waiting for the first chill of night to bid them arise, shake themselves and begone. He wondered whether he could write a poem to express his idea. Perhaps Gallaher might be able to get it into some London paper for him. Could he write something original? He was not sure what idea he wished to express, but the thought that a poetic moment had touched him, took life within him like an infant hope. He stepped onward bravely.
Every step brought him nearer to London, farther from his own sober inartistic life. A light began to tremble on the horizon of his mind. He was not so old - thirty-two. His temperament might be said to be just at the point of maturity. There were so many different moods and impressions that he wished to express in verse. He felt them within him. He tried to weigh his soul to see if it was a poet's soul. Melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament, he thought, but it was a melancholy tempered by recurrences of faith and resignation and simple joy. If he could give expression to it in a book of poems perhaps men would listen. He would never be popular: he saw that. He could not sway the crowd, but he might appeal to a little circle of kindred minds. The English critics, perhaps, would recognize him as one of the Celtic school by reason of the melancholy tone of his poems; besides that, he would put in allusions. He began to invent sentences and phrases from the notice which his book would get. `Mr Chandler has the gift of easy and graceful verse'... `A wistful sadness pervades these poems'... `The Celtic note'. It was a pity his name was not more Irish-looking. Perhaps it would be better to insert his mother's name before the surname: Thomas Malone Chandler; or better still: T. Malone Chandler. He would speak to Gallaher about it.
He pursued his reverie so ardently that he passed his street and had to turn back. As he came near Corless's his former agitation began to overmaster him and he halted before the door in indecision. Finally he opened the door and entered.
The light and noise of the bar held him at the doorway for a few moments. He looked about him, but his sight was confused by the shining of many red and green wine-glasses. The bar seemed to him to be full of people and he felt that the people were observing him curiously. He glanced quickly to right and left (frowning slightly to make his errand appear serious), but when his sight cleared a little he saw that nobody had turned to look at him: and there, Sure enough, was Ignatius Gallaher leaning with his back against the counter and his feet planted far apart.
`Hallo, Tommy, old hero, here you are! What is it to be? What will you have? I'm taking whisky: better stuff than we get across the water. Soda? Lithia? No mineral? I'm the same. Spoils the flavour... Here, garon, bring us two halves of malt whisky, like a good fellow... Well, and how have you been pulling along since I saw you last? Dear God, how old we're getting! Do you see any signs of aging in me - eh, what? A little grey and thin on the top - what?'
Ignatius Gallaher took off his hat and displayed a large closely-cropped head. His face was heavy, pale, and clean-shaven. His eyes, which were of bluish slate-colour, relieved his unhealthy pallor and shone out plainly above the vivid orange tie he wore. Between these rival features the lips appeared very long and shapeless and colourless. He bent his head and felt with two sympathetic fingers the thin hair at the crown. Little Chandler shook his head as a denial. Ignatius Gallaher put on his hat again.
`It pulls you down,' he said. `Press life. Always hurry and scurry, looking for copy and sometimes not finding it: and then, always to have something new in your stuff. Damn proofs and printers, I say, for a few days. I'm deuced glad, I can tell you, to get back to the old country. Does a fellow good, a bit of a holiday. I feel a ton better since I landed again in dear, dirty Dublin... Here you are, Tommy. Water? Say when.'
Little Chandler allowed his whisky to be very much diluted.
`You don't know what's good for you, my boy,' said Ignatius Gallaher. `I drink mine neat.'
`I drink very little as a rule,' said Little Chandler modestly. `An odd half-one or so when I meet any of the old crowd: that's all.'
`Ah well,' said Ignatius Gallaher cheerfully, `here's to us and to old times and old acquaintance.'
They clinked glasses and drank the toast.
`I met some of the old gang today,' said Ignatius Gallaher. `O'Hara seems to be in a bad way. What's he doing?'
`Nothing,' said Little Chandler. `He's gone to the dogs.'
`But Hogan has a good sit, hasn't he?'
`Yes, he's in the Land Commission.'
`I met him one night in London and he seemed to be very flush... Poor O'Hara! Booze, I suppose?'
`Other things, too,' said Little Chandler shortly.
Ignatius Gallaher laughed.
`Tommy,' he said, `I see you haven't changed an atom. You're the very same serious person that used to lecture me on Sunday mornings when I had a sore head and a fur on my tongue. You'd want to knock about a bit in the world. Have you never been anywhere even for a trip?'
`I've been to the Isle of Man,' said Little Chandler.
`The Isle of Man!' he said. `Go to London or Paris: Paris, for choice. That'd do you good.'
`Have you seen Paris?'
`I should think I have! I've knocked about there a little.'
`And is it really so beautiful as they say?' asked Little Chandler.
He sipped a little of his drink while Ignatius Gallaher finished his boldly.
`Beautiful?' said Ignatius Gallaher, pausing on the word and on the flavour of his drink. `It's not so beautiful, you know. Of course it is beautiful... But it's the life of Paris; that's the thing. Ah, there's no city like Paris for gaiety, movement, excitement... '
Little Chandler finished his whisky and, after some trouble, succeeded in catching the barman's eye. He ordered the same again.
`I've been to the Moulin Rouge,' Ignatius Gallaher continued when the barman had removed their glasses, `and I've been to all the Bohemian cafe's. Hot stuff! Not for a pious chap like you, Tommy.'
Little Chandler said nothing until the barman returned with two glasses: then he touched his friend's glass lightly and reciprocated the former toast. He was beginning to feel somewhat disillusioned. Gallaher's accent and way of expressing himself did not please him. There was something vulgar in his friend which he had not observed before. But perhaps it was only the result of living in London amid the bustle and competition of the Press. The old personal charm was still there under this new gaudy manner. And, after all, Gallaher had lived, he had seen the world. Little Chandler looked at his friend enviously.
`Everything in Paris is gay,' said Ignatius Gallaher. `They believe in enjoying life - and don't you think they're right? If you want to enjoy yourself properly you must go to Paris. And, mind you, they've a great feeling for the Irish there. When they heard I was from Ireland they were ready to eat me, man.'
Little Chandler took four or five sips from his glass.
`Tell me,' he said, `is it true that Paris is so... immoral as they say?'
Ignatius Gallaher made a catholic gesture with his right arm.
`Every place is immoral,' he said. `Of course you do find spicy bits in Paris. Go to one of the students' balls, for instance. That's lively, if you like, when the cocottes begin to let themselves loose. You know what they are, I suppose?'
`I've heard of them,' said Little Chandler.
Ignatius Gallaher drank off his whisky and shook his head.
`Ah,' he said, `you may say what you like. There's no woman like the Parisienne - for style, for go.'
`Then it is an immoral city,' said Little Chandler, with timid insistence - `I mean, compared with London or Dublin?'
`London!' said Ignatius Gallaher. `It's six of one and half a dozen of the other. You ask Hogan, my boy. I showed him a bit about London when he was over there. He'd open your eye... I say, Tommy, don't make punch of that whisky: liquor up.'
`No, really.'
`O, come on, another one won't do you any harm. What is it? The same again, I suppose?'
`Well... all right.'
`Francois, the same again... Will you smoke, Tommy?'
Ignatius Gallaher produced his cigar-case. The two friends lit their cigars and puffed at them in silence until their drinks were served.
`I'll tell you my opinion,' said Ignatius Gallaher, emerging after some time from the clouds of smoke in which he had taken refuge, `it's a rum world. Talk of immorality! I've heard of cases - what am I saying? - I've known them: cases of... immorality... '
Ignatius Gallaher puffed thoughtfully at his cigar and then, in a calm historian's tone, he proceeded to sketch for his friend some pictures of the corruption which was rife abroad. He summarized the vices of many capitals and seemed inclined to award the palm to Berlin. Some things he could not vouch for (his friends had told him), but of others he had had personal experience. He spared neither rank nor caste. He revealed many of the secrets of religious houses on the Continent and described some of the practices which were fashionable in high society, and ended by telling, with details, a story about an English duchess - a story which he knew to be true. Little chandler was astonished.
`Ah, well,' said Ignatius Gallaher, `here we are in old jog-along Dublin where nothing is known of such things.'
`How dull you must find it,' said Little Chandler, `after all the other places you've seen!'
`Well,' said Ignatius Gallaher, `it's a relaxation to come over here, you know. And, after all, it's the old country, as they say, isn't it? You can't help having a certain feeling for it. That's human nature... But tell me something about yourself. Hogan told me you had... tasted the joys of connubial bliss. Two years ago, wasn't it?'
Little Chandler blushed and smiled.
`Yes,' he said. `I was married last May twelve months.'
`I hope it's not too late in the day to offer my best wishes,' said Ignatius Gallaher. `I didn't know your address or I'd have done so at the time.'
He extended his hand, which Little Chandler took.
`Well, Tommy,' he said, `I wish you and yours every joy in life, old chap, and tons of money, and may you never die till I shoot you. And that's the wish of a sincere friend, an old friend. You know that?'
`I know that,' said Little Chandler.
`Any youngsters?' said Ignatius Gallaher.
Little Chandler blushed again.
`We have one child,' he said.
`Son or daughter?'
`A little boy.'
Ignatius Gallaher slapped his friend sonorously on the back.
`Bravo,' he said, `I wouldn't doubt you, Tommy.'
Little Chandler smiled, looked confusedly at his glass and bit his lower lip with three childishly white front teeth.
`I hope you'll spend an evening with us,' he said, `before you go back. My wife will be delighted to meet you. We can have a little music and--'
`Thanks awfully, old chap,' said Ignatius Gallaher, `I'm sorry we didn't meet earlier. But I must leave tomorrow night.'
`Tonight, perhaps... ?`
`I'm awfully sorry, old man. You see I'm over here with another fellow, clever young chap he is too, and we arranged to go to a little card-party. Only for that... '
`O, in that case... '
`But who knows?' said Ignatius Gallaher considerately. `Next year I may take a little skip over here now that I've broken the ice. It's only a pleasure deferred.'
`Very well,' said Little Chandler, `the next time you come we must have an evening together. That's agreed now, isn't it?'
`Yes, that's agreed,' said Ignatius Gallaher. `Next year if I come, parole d'honneur.'
`And to clinch the bargain,' said Little Chandler, `we'll just have one more now.'
Ignatius Gallaher took out a large gold watch and looked at it.
`Is it to be the last?' he Said. `Because, you know, I have an a.p.'
`O, yes, positively,' said Little Chandler.
`Very well, then,' said Ignatius Gallaher, `let us have another one as a deoc an doirus - that's good vernacular for a small whisky, I believe.'
Little Chandler ordered the drinks. The blush which had risen to his face a few moments before was establishing itself. A trifle made him blush at any time: and now he felt warm and excited. Three small whiskies had gone to his head and Gallaher's strong cigar had confused his mind, for he was a delicate and abstinent person. The adventure of meeting Gallaher after eight years, of finding himself with Gallaher in Corless's surrounded by lights and noise, of listening to Gallaher's stories and of sharing for a brief space Gallaher's vagrant and triumphant life, upset the equipoise of his sensitive nature. He felt acutely the contrast between his own life and his friend's, and it seemed to him unjust. Gallaher was his inferior in birth and education. He was sure that he could do something better than his friend had ever done, or could ever do, something higher than mere tawdry journalism if he only got the chance. What was it that stood in his way? His unfortunate timidity! He wished to vindicate himself in some way, to assert his manhood. He saw behind Gallaher's refusal of his invitation. Gallaher was only patronizing him by his friendliness just as he was patronizing Ireland by his visit.
The barman brought their drinks. Little Chandler pushed one glass towards his friend and took up the other boldly.
`Who knows?' he said, as they lifted their glasses. `When you come next year I may have the pleasure of wishing long life and happiness to Mr. and Mrs. Ignatius Gallaher.'
Ignatius Gallaher in the act of drinking closed one eye expressively over the rim of his glass. When he had drunk he smacked his lips decisively, set down his glass and said:
`No blooming fear of that, my boy. I'm going to have my fling first and see a bit of life and the world before I put my head in the sack - if I ever do.'
`Some day you will,' said Little Chandler calmly.
Ignatius Gallaher turned his orange tie and slate-blue eyes full upon his friend.
`You think so?' he said.
`You'll put your head in the sack,' repeated Little Chandler stoutly, `like everyone else if you can find the girl.'
He had slightly emphasized his tone, and he was aware that he had betrayed himself; but, though the colour had heightened in his cheek, he did not flinch from his friends' gaze. Ignatius Gallaher watched him for a few moments and then said:
`If ever it occurs, you may bet your bottom dollar there'll be no mooning and spooning about it. I mean to marry money. She'll have a good fat account at the bank or she won't do for me.'
Little Chandler shook his head.
`Why, man alive,' said Ignatius Gallaher, vehemently, `do you know what it is? I've only to say the word and tomorrow I can have the woman and the cash. You don't believe it? Well, I know it. There are hundreds - what am I saying? - thousands of rich Germans and Jews, rotten with money, that'd only be too glad... You wait a while, my boy. See if I don't play my cards properly. When I go about a thing I mean business, I tell you. You just wait.'
He tossed his glass to his mouth, finished his drink and laughed loudly. Then he looked thoughtfully before him and said in a calmer tone:
`But I'm in no hurry. They can wait. I don't fancy tying myself up to one woman, you know.'
He imitated with his mouth the act of tasting and made a wry face.
`Must get a bit stale, I should think,' he said.
Little Chandler sat in the room off the hall, holding a child in his arms. To save money they kept no servant, but Annie's young sister Monica came for an hour or so in the morning and an hour or So in the evening to help. But Monica had gone home long ago. It was a quarter to nine. Little Chandler had come home late for tea and, moreover, he had forgotten to bring Annie home the parcel of coffee from Bewley's. Of course she was in a bad humour and gave him short answers. She said she would do without any tea, but when it came near the time at which the shop at the corner closed she decided to go out herself for a quarter of a pound of tea and two pounds of sugar. She put the sleeping child deftly in his arms and said:
`Here. Don't waken him.'
A little lamp with a white china shade stood upon the table and its light fell over a photograph which was enclosed in a frame of crumpled horn. It was Annie's photograph. Little Chandler looked at it, pausing at the thin tight lips. She wore the pale blue summer blouse which he had brought her home as a present one Saturday. It had cost him ten and elevenpence; but what an agony of nervousness it had cost him! How he had suffered that day, waiting at the shop door until the shop was empty, standing at the counter and trying to appear at his ease while the girl piled ladies' blouses before him, paying at the desk and forgetting to take up the odd penny of his change, being called back by the cashier, and finally, striving to hide his blushes as he left the shop by examining the parcel to see if it was Securely tied. When he brought the blouse home Annie kissed him and said it was very pretty and stylish; but when she heard the price she threw the blouse on the table and said it was a regular swindle to charge ten and elevenpence for it. At first she wanted to take it back, but when she tried it on she was delighted with it, especially with the make of the sleeves, and kissed him and said he was very good to think of her.
Hm!...
He looked coldly into the eyes of the photograph and they answered coldly. Certainly they were pretty and the face itself was pretty. But he found something mean in it. Why was it so unconscious and ladylike? The composure of the eyes irritated him. They repelled him and defied him: there was no passion in them, no rapture. He thought of what Gallaher had said about rich Jewesses. Those dark Oriental eyes, he thought, how full they are of passion, of voluptuous longing!... Why had he married the eyes in the photograph?
He caught himself up at the question and glanced nervously round the room. He found something mean in the pretty furniture which he had bought for his house on the hire system. Annie had chosen it herself and it reminded him of her. It too was prim and pretty. A dull resentment against his life awoke within him. Could he not escape from his little house? Was it too late for him to try to live bravely like Gallaher? Could he go to London? There was the furniture still to be paid for. If he could only write a book and get it published, that might open the way for him.
A volume of Byron's poems lay before him on the table. He opened it cautiously with his left hand lest he should waken the child and began to read the first poem in the book:
Hushed are the winds and still the evening gloom, Not e'en a Zephyr wanders through the grove, Whilst I return to view my Margaret's tomb And scatter flowers on the dust I love.
He paused. He felt the rhythm of the verse about him in the room. How melancholy it was! Could he, too, write like that, express the melancholy of his soul in verse? There were so many things he wanted to describe: his sensation of a few hours before on Grattan Bridge, for example. If he could get back again into that mood...
The child awoke and began to cry. He turned from the page and tried to hush it: but it would not be hushed. He began to rock it to and fro in his arms, but its wailing cry grew keener. He rocked it faster while his eyes began to read the second stanza:
Within this narrow cell reclines her clay, That clay where once...
It was useless. He couldn't read. He couldn't do anything. The wailing of the child pierced the drum of his ear. It was useless, useless! He was a prisoner for life. His arms trembled with anger and suddenly bending to the child's face he shouted:
`Stop!'
The child stopped for an instant, had a spasm of fright and began to scream. He jumped up from his chair and walked hastily up and down the room with the child in his arms. It began to sob piteously, losing its breath for four or five seconds, and then bursting out anew. The thin walls of the room echoed the sound. He tried to soothe it, but it sobbed more convulsively. He looked at the contracted and quivering face of the child and began to be alarmed. He counted seven sobs without a break between them and caught the child to his breast in fright. If it died!...
The door was burst open and a young woman ran in, panting.
`What is it? What is it?' she cried.
The child, hearing its mother's voice, broke out into a paroxysm of sobbing.
`It's nothing, Annie... it's nothing... He began to cry... '
She flung her parcels on the floor and snatched the child from him.
`What have you done to him?' she cried, glaring into his face.
Little Chandler sustained for one moment the gaze of her eyes and his heart closed together as he met the hatred in them. He began to stammer:
`It's nothing... He... he... began to cry... I couldn't... I didn't do anything... What?'
Giving no heed to him she began to walk up and down the room, clasping the child tightly in her arms and murmuring:
`My little man! My little mannie! Was 'ou frightened, love?'... There now, love! There now!... Lambabaun! Mamma's little lamb of the world!... There now!'
Little Chandler felt his cheeks suffused with shame and he stood back out of the lamplight. He listened while the paroxysm of the child's sobbing grew less and less; and tears of remorse started to his eyes.
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Solar Energy for Rural Development
Elias Ntungwe Ngalame
01.02.2019. , Elias Ntungwe Ngalame
Electricity-hungry Cameroon boosts solar energy in push for rural power
Adrienne Ngonou's 25-seat restaurant used to open from 8 am to 5 pm, shutting it doors as the sun began to go down. But these days it's open until 11 pm - and her profits have tripled.
"We now sell both during the day and late in the night because of the constant electricity supply," she said. "Two years ago, this was not possible."
Ngonou's new power source is a government-provided solar array that supplies power to about 300 homes, businesses and other institutions in Mfou, a town of about 10,000 people east of Yaounde, Cameroon's capital.
Earlier the area relied in part on grid power, which has been unreliable as more erratic rainfall and droughts linked to climate change hit the county's hydropower dams, which supply the majority of its energy.
But the $13,000 battery-backed solar grid, installed in 2017, has given the area it serves 24-hour reliable power - and is now being replicated in other power-hungry parts of Cameroon, as the government tries to plug a stubborn energy gap and shore up its energy system against climate change, officials say.
Mfou's solar system was part of a deal between Cameroon's government and China's Huawei telecommunications company, which also installs solar installations, to supply solar energy to more than 160 villages, largely in rural areas, they say.
SOLAR'S SMALL SHARE
So far solar power - much of it small-scale and often installed by non-governmental organisations - provides only about 1 percent of Cameroon's energy needs, according to 2017 government figures.
Energy expansion plans for Cameroon have focused largely on fossil fuel plants and hydropower expansion, mostly funded by China.
But now Cameroon's President Paul Biya "has thrown his hefty political weight in support of renewable energy and this has brought a new stimulating perspective," Martine Akame Mesumbe, director of gas exploitation at the Ministry of Water and Energy, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
The government hopes to boost Cameroon's electricity access in rural areas as part of its "Vision 2035" development plan, aimed at expanding the economy and slashing poverty to 10 percent.
So far that expansion has been hampered by a lack of power, experts say. According to a 2018 World Bank report, just half of Cameroon's people have access to electricity, with 80 percent of the supply concentrated in urban areas.
Rural electrification is just 17 percent, it said.
As part of its push to change that, the government now aims to reach 1,000 communities - about 250,000 people in total - with solar power by the end of 2020, according to Mesumbe.
Altogether it hopes to get electricity, from a variety of sources, to 40 percent of rural Cameroonians by 2020.
"This could drive significant economic change in rural Cameroon," Mesumbe said.
More than $120 million in funding for the push is coming from a Bank of China loan for renewable energy projects, he said.
MAINTENANCE?
Communities now hooked up to solar panels - like those in Mfou - say they are happy to have a cleaner and less costly source of energy.
"It is a cheaper alternative to diesel generators and wood energy ... used in the past to power small businesses," said Roger Belinga, the mayor of Mfou.
Jarome Angwi, a beer vendor in the town, said solar energy to power his refrigerator and premises costs just a fifth of what he used to pay for diesel.
Local officials say they hope access to electricity will help keep young people from deserting rural areas for jobs in Cameroon's cities.
In Mfou, "even some of those who left are already coming back" since the solar panels were installed, Belinga said.
Whether the new solar systems will be maintained, however, remains a question. Local authorities in some towns said they lack the funds to train local solar technicians.
"Many local councils do not have the financial resources to sustain these projects. They need financial support from government," Rose Ngassa, the mayor of Tombel, in southwest Cameroon, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview in Yaounde.
But national government officials say an ongoing political decentralisation push in Cameroon - including an expected 70 percent boost in cash transferred to local authorities in 2019 - should give local councils more money to invest in and maintain solar energy systems.
Greater use of solar power could also help cut worrying deforestation rates in Cameroon, home to part of Africa's Congo Basin forests, environmentalist say.
"The cutting of trees for wood and charcoal used for cooking and heating will now reduce in many villages with the coming of solar energy," said Augustine Njamnshi, the Cameroon-based coordinator of the African Coalition for Sustainable Energy.
Reporting by Elias Ntungwe Ngalame ; editing by Laurie Goering.
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Politicians, police search for answers in airport shooting
By Anthony Man
Federal, state and local officials discussed security in and around airports at a roundtable
Critical policy questions that arose in the early hours after the Jan. 6 shooting rampage at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport remained unanswered Tuesday as Broward's top elected officials huddled with law enforcement and aviation experts.
• Should travelers be allowed to check firearms on the planes on which they travel? If so, should they be allowed to pick them up at baggage claim or go through a more secure process to retrieve their weapons?
• Should ammunition be allowed in checked baggage on planes, or should firearm owners be forced to ship it separately or buy it at their destinations?
• Should the secure areas at airports that require identification and screening be expanded? If not, is more money required to station more police in the unsecured areas, such as baggage claim?
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• Should the U.S. have a single standard for evaluating the mental health of people who might prove dangerous?
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U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, whose district includes the airport; Broward Mayor Barbara Sharief, representing her fellow county commissioners; and Broward Sheriff Scott Israel, whose agency provides law enforcement at the county-owned airport, said those were among the subjects discussed at a roundtable at the sheriff's headquarters.
Media representatives were allowed in briefly to take pictures of the 17 political, law enforcement and aviation leaders around a large conference table. The discussion, which lasted almost two hours, was private. The principals later met with reporters to describe their thinking.
Israel described the session as "very productive. We talked about so many salient issues."
Wasserman Schultz said she wouldn't "just start rapid filing legislation" in Washington. Instead, she plans to take "a step-by-step approach. This is not about grandstanding or making knee-jerk decisions."
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Wasserman Schultz said many of her constituents "have expressed great surprise" that people can travel with firearms in checked bags and said it is "a question that needs to be addressed."
"I really need to understand why we aren't banning firearms in the belly of an airplane. And ammunition. Ammunition is explosive. That to me is dangerous in and of itself," she said.
Sharief said the ability of people to check weapons is a subject that warrants "some serious consideration."
Israel has long been outspoken on the widespread availability of weapons. "I'm for anything that makes it harder or more difficult to have guns in airports, or schools, or anywhere else," he said.
But, as for continuing to allow checked weapons, Israel said, "That's a great question. I really haven't given that part much thought."
The sheriff suggested that wouldn't have prevented the shooting that killed five and injured six. "If a person is predisposed to commit mass murder in a cowardly reprehensible fashion, if they can't do it in an airport, they're going to find somewhere else to do it," he said. "If he wasn't able to get on a plane and come to Fort Lauderdale, I believe he would have done it in Alaska or someplace else."
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Gary Rasicot, chief of operations at the Transportation Security Administration, said the question of checking weapons is not decision for his agency. He said it would be up to Congress to make that call.
The accused shooter, Esteban Santiago, had undergone a mental health evaluation in Alaska, where he was living before traveling to Fort Lauderdale. "Obviously this individual had some very serious challenges. Even though he had been logged into the mental health system, they hadn't been caught," Wasserman Schultz said.
Santiago was a National Guardsman who had been deployed to Iraq. Wasserman Schultz said she would be paying special attention to mental health treatment in the Veterans Administration in a new role she has in the new Congress. Last week, she was named top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee's subcommittee on military construction, veterans affairs and related agencies.
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Among the other issues discussed, Wasserman Schultz said, were problems people faced when they had to flee the terminal, often leaving behind identification and "communications problems that arose."
Israel said it might be good to have more locations where large groups of people could be bussed after such an incident, as opposed to sending everyone to one place — Port Everglades on the day of the shooting.
Israel said unsecured places, such as baggage claim at the airport, may need to be more protected. "Maybe we need to make these targets a little harder" to attack. He also suggested a change in terminology: "We've got to stop using the term active shooter. It's actually active killer."
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News GRIP: Combat Racing speeding onto Xbox Game Pass at launch
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Game: GRIP: Combat Racing
Platform: PC, PS4, Switch, XBox One
Publisher: Wired Productions
The upcoming arcade racer GRIP: Combat Racing will be available to play on Microsoft’s gaming subscription service, the Xbox Game Pass, at launch.
GRIP is a fast-paced combat racer which takes more than a few cues from the PlayStation 1 classic Rollcage, therefore, you can expect to get to grips with gravity-defying physics, fast-paced gameplay and a potent arsenal of weaponry. GRIP also features destructible environments and vehicle customisation to complete an impressively sized package.
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“We’re delighted to have partnered with our friends at Microsoft to unleash GRIP: Combat Racing on Xbox Games Pass,” said Leo Zullo, Managing Director at Wired Productions. “Knowing players across the globe are readying themselves to link up for countless multiplayer showdowns on tracks (and walls!) as they unleash a deluge of missiles, is a mouth-watering prospect.”
GRIP: Combat Racing features a healthy tally of 22 tracks, 15 armoured cars, and no less than 9 weapons and power-ups. The title is expected to launch on November 6 for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, and Switch.
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News Wreckfest on PS4 & Xbox One delayed to 2019
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News DiRT Rally 2.0 images showcase Argentina, New Zealand & Circuit Trois-Rivières
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News Team VVV exclusive: V-Rally 4 buggy gameplay
We’ve featured Rally, Extreme-Khana, and V-Rallycross, today is the turn of exclusive buggy racing gameplay from the upcoming off-road racer V-Rally 4. Sticking with our Thrustmaster Sparco R383 Rally Rim and triple screen setup, we take on a buggy discipline race this time from the bumper camera perspective. The short course takes us through rivers, […]
News Project CARS 3 confirmed to be in development
Slightly Mad Studios is currently working on Project CARS 3, according to the developer’s CEO. In a post on the GTPlanet forums, Slightly Mad’s Ian Bell confirmed a sequel to Project CARS 2 is on the way, though no release date time-frames were cited. Bell also claims Project CARS 3 will be an ambitious title, […]
News Sony has confirmed it will not be at E3 2020
Sony famously did not attend E3 2019 citing there weren’t many games to show off to the public due to nearing the end of the console generation. Although at the time this was a surprising revelation, it was somewhat understandable as Sony’s State of Play showcase events could cover a handful of titles to keep […]
News Table Top Racing: World Tour releases on Android devices
Table Top Racing returns to the Android platform some six years after its original debut with the release of Table Top Racing: World Tour available now for $4.99, £4.99, €5.49. Table Top Racing: World Tour is essentially an upgraded version of the Switch release Table Top Racing: World Tour – Nitro Edition, that dropped in […]
News Sony CEO: “GT Sport with PS5 controller is a completely different experience”
Sony Interactive Entertainment’s President and CEO Jim Ryan recently conducted an interview with Business Insider Japan (translated by Gematsu) where he teased some interesting tidbits for the upcoming PlayStation 5 console. Ryan mentions the differences between the current PlayStation 4 and the upcoming PlayStation 5 (due this holiday period) with the conversation turning towards the exciting prospect […]
News GT Sport’s latest update fixes recent penalty system issues
Gran Turismo Sport has undergone its very latest update. Rather than the usual large updates we’ve seen recently involving new GT League events, new cars and the occasional new track, this update is very small but perhaps even more important. Gran Turismo Sport’s penalty system has been a source of frustration for as long as […]
News Latest tongue-in-cheek Supercross 3 trailer highlights new features
Italian-based development team Milestone has released a new trailer for Monster Energy Supercross – The Official Videogame 3 which showcases the game’s new features. Entitled “Be One Of Us” the tongue-in-cheek trailer highlights the new features of the officially licensed two-wheeled racer through the medium of song. The trailer mentions the addition of a new […]
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Interviews Fordzilla Esports launch UK auditions & Emmanuel Lubrani Interview
Last week Ford invited Team VVV to the launch announcement of the new UK division of their ever-expanding Fordzilla Esports Team. Ford revealed their UK Captain ‘Leah’ as well as giving us a general overview of their plans as they enter the competitive world of Esports. Ford has been around video games for many years […]
Interviews Art of Rally gameplay and developer interview
Art of Rally is an upcoming retro-inspired top-down racer from the makers of Absolute Drift. Art of Rally will be a more predictable and forgiving experience than its predecessor, however, don’t get too comfortable as you will not be afforded the luxury of a co-driver. Instead, you’ll have to react to the ever-changing road conditions which […]
Previews Circuit Superstars preview
Circuit Superstars is an indie racing title which has really held our attention since its inception thanks to the unusual combination of adorable visuals coupled with a realistic physics package. We recently attended EGX and gots hands-on with the charming racer which was showcased in both single-player and four-player split-screen guises. With semi-realistic vehicle handling, […]
Previews GRID preview: pure gameplay
GRID, the very latest title in the long-running racing series from Codemasters, is due to release on October 11 across the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. We were lucky enough to get hands-on with a preview version of the racer recently, and following on from our first gameplay video where we shared our first […]
Reviews Need for Speed Heat review
It’s fair to say that the Need for Speed titles this generation have been largely underwhelming. We got a little excited when we learned the series was taking a year off in 2014 (for the first time in years) with the promise of a reboot. Sadly Need for Speed 2015 was a mostly soulless game […]
Reviews GRID review
You can trace the origins of GRID back to the TOCA: Race Driver series which first hit the shelves back in 2002. TOCA: Race Driver started the tradition of giving players a range of different racing disciplines that they can dip in and out of. Race Driver: GRID continued this ethos in 2008 and went […]
Features The 2019 Esports WRC Championship experience
Last weekend saw the world finals of the 2019 Esports WRC Championship take place in Wales, right next to the paddock of this year’s Wales Rally GB. Team VVV were invited along to see proceedings and get an insight into how an event such as this is run as well as take in the general […]
Features Tractor Racing and Farming Simulator 2019
Last week I took a trip to Yorkshire to check out Farming Simulator 19 and experience various farm related activities. On the lead-up to this excursion I was dreading the weather, imagining it would be a dreary, wet and freezing November day. But fortunately, the sun was shining, and this strange period of unusually warm […]
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News DiRT Rally 2.0 World Championship to launch in September
Codemasters has today confirmed that the DiRT Rally 2.0 World Championship will begin on September 10. In partnership with Motorsport Network, the competitive gaming Championship is open to all players across the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles as well as on the PC platform. The DiRT Rally 2.0 World Championship heats will be played […]
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Coastal Sports Teams Concerned Rising Oceans Will Flood Stadiums
Candlestick Park in San Francisco/1965. Ocean has not risen. Wikimedia Commons.
Posted By: Rick Maese via Washington Post October 23, 2019
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The problem is that sea levels are not rising and there is no evidence that they will start to rise in the future. The amount of water on planet earth has been static since creation, suffering only from minor redistribution due to hydrological cycles.
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Oakland Calif. — The infield is made of asphalt right now. So are the dugouts, the outfield and the stands. Someday this might be home to a baseball stadium, but today Howard Terminal is little more than a parking lot for 16-wheelers, populated by far more sea gulls than baseball fans.
Dave Kaval, the Oakland Athletics’ team president, walks from the gigantic cranes on the water’s edge to what soon might be the site of home plate. It smells like diesel fuel, not peanuts or Cracker Jacks. He no longer sees this 55-acre plot of land as a desolate storage space along the San Francisco Bay. He can’t afford to focus on what he sees here today or dwell on what the ballpark might look like when it opens its doors. He has to figure out how a stadium still might be serviceable decades down the road.
“We’re hopeful we’re going to build a ballpark that’s like a Fenway or Wrigley,” he said, “that will last 100 years.”
To do that, the A’s are having to confront a growing list of challenges, many that might not fully present themselves for years to come. The team is determined to build on the water, which on the surface might seem ill-advised. After all, the water surrounding the proposed construction site is expected to rise in the coming decades. That means Kaval faces a cascading series of problems that many teams and leagues operating in coastal cities are just starting to confront:
How do you maintain operations in areas vulnerable to climate change? How do you sustain facilities and retain fans? How do you make it all economically viable when threats such as sea level rise are inevitable?
Economists warn that climate change will have a major financial impact around the globe, and one working paper published last month stated that the United States could lose up to 10.5 percent of its gross domestic product by 2100 if emissions of greenhouse gases are not significantly cut. The economic impact similarly will be felt across the sports universe, one that could measure in the billions of dollars.
There has been no formal study done, but Allen Hershkowitz, an environment scientist who helped found Sport and Sustainability International, notes that teams and leagues will have to account for the physical impact on the venues but also losses from the disruption of business. Some locations will be prone to flooding, some to drought and still others to extreme heat, he says, and many will have to make serious adjustments in the years to come.
It’s a global issue, of course, and cities from Shanghai to Mumbai are bracing for rising sea levels. While the sports world might represent only a fraction of the industry and culture endangered by climate change, the games people love to play and watch are also among the most visible, not to mention vulnerable — touching cities and venues that have hosted some of the world’s biggest sporting events.
Many of this country’s favorite sports are contested near water. If sea levels someday were to rise five or six feet — regarded by many in the scientific community as an extreme projection that might be more likely next century — consider just some of the areas and sports facilities in the United States that probably would experience flooding: TD Garden in Boston, Citi Field in New York, MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, Petco Park in San Diego, Del Mar Racetrack in California, Oracle Park in San Francisco, plus numerous college facilities, high school fields and golf courses that dot the nation’s coastline — not to mention much of South Florida.
The Athletics’ ambitious stadium proposal highlights many of the problems posed by rising sea levels and some of the creative solutions teams and leagues might consider to address them. In targeting a site that the city of Oakland says sits six feet above sea level, Kaval said the team had no choice but to acknowledge the potential impacts of climate change.
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Keyboard shortcut for Full Screen in Word 2007
by Susan Harkins in Microsoft Office , in Software on June 19, 2010, 5:04 AM PST
Word 2007 has no built-in command for Full Screen, but you can use this keyboard shortcut instead.
In January, I wrote about Word 2007's version of Full Screen. Unfortunately, it isn't a true Full Screen, so I advised you to add the old Full Screen command to the Quick Access Toolbar in Finding Full Screen view in Word 2007. It seemed like a reasonable alternative.
There's good news though--I recently learned of a keyboard shortcut that displays a traditional Full Screen in Word 2007. Press [Alt]+V, then U. There's nothing on screen but your document. To return to normal view, just press [Esc].
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Own Who You Are: Lessons from the Rachel Dolezal Storm
Donning an artificial identify undermines those who still battle oppression
By Courtenay Edelhart
June 22, 2015 • 10:07 AM
Most of America was scratching its head in wonder when news broke that Spokane, Wash., former NAACP President Rachel Dolezal is apparently a white woman who has been disguising herself as black for years.
I wasn’t. There are probably many more impostors lurking in communities of color. If anything, I’m surprised it took so long for one to get outed.
I’m one of three moderators of a social media group forum for Jews of color (JOC). Our members are screened prior to admission (easily a full-time job) because Jews of color who request membership are hugely outnumbered by white people demanding entry, including about a quarter of applicants who aren’t even Jewish. It is an arduous task, mainly focused on weeding out those who would potentially be trolls, and others who feel it is their duty to keep an “eye” on what Jews of color are doing. Some, who are upfront about their identity and are genuinely seeking to add to dialogue on Jewish diversity, I let in. Certainly the relative or spouse of a JOC would have a window into the unique issues we face and have insightful contributions to discussions of race and religion. Obvious allies—a white Jew on the board of their local NAACP or National Council of La Raza—are given access, too.
But then there are the white people who insist, adamantly, that they aren’t white. When I gently suggest maybe this isn’t the group for them, they argue with me despite having fair skin and no relatives or ancestors of non-European origin. After they fail to make their tortured case for admission (“But I feel like a Jew of color”), they become enraged, accusing me of reverse racism.
At the risk of being inundated with hate mail, I’m just going to say it: White people, (white Jews included), you are white. It is what it is. White skin is white skin.
Yes, yes, I know many would argue that race is a social construct with no biological relevance. Mainstream anthropologists agree humanity was born in Africa, so in some sense everyone has a drop of black blood somewhere. And the United States has bounced all over the place in its racial classification of Ashkenazim and Sephardim. But, again, white is white.
Based on what Dolezal has said in the media, one might discern that she believes the social construct of race is artificial. Her actions, however, suggest that she likely believes it to be an asset in the age of affirmative action and President Barack Obama. Given her career trajectory—NAACP leadership and a teaching post in the Africana Studies Program at Eastern Washington University—Dolezal may have anticipated some professional gain in lying.
Yet none of the positions she held carried with them a prerequisite of African ancestry . There are far more whites than blacks in academia; the NAACP has been multiracial all the way back to its 1909 co-founding by a black and white coalition of activists; and the historically black Howard University admitted Dolezal when she still presented as a white woman.
Race isn’t a figment of society’s imagination, and racism remains very real. Membership in the black race didn’t do any favors for John Crawford III and Tamir Rice, innocent black American males fatally shot because they were perceived as threatening while handling toy guns. Racism must have felt very real to Damas Pakada, the unarmed Ethiopian-Israeli soldier beaten by police while wearing his Israel Defense Forces uniform. And it felt real to me when a white, Jewish landlord nearly ripped my gold Mogen David off my neck in the process of denying my application for an apartment.
Maybe Dolezal believed looking black was the only way to effectively fight for black causes and gain acceptance by the black community. But any student of history knows that’s not true.
Black America has rarely, if ever, rebuked respectful white admirers and allies. We revere and study brave white abolitionists and conductors on the underground railroad, just as Jews celebrate the righteous Christians who hid European Jews during the Holocaust. The Dolezal fiasco is at best unnecessary—and at worst—harmful.
When white people artificially don a black identity, they undermine the credibility of the actual black people still battling oppression. They also send the message that you have to be black to care about black culture and economic and political empowerment. (Don’t even get me started on the Vanilla Ices and Iggy Azaleas of the world, who slip into a cartoonish, stereotypical persona by equating black identity with poor grammar. These characters insult the very people they admire enough to emulate.)
But what’s tragic about the apparently growing trend of whites denying being white is the undercurrent that there’s something wrong with being white. There isn’t.
I’m the biracial daughter of a black mother and a white father. I love, honor, and respect my white relatives as they are. They don’t have to be something they’re not to win me over or earn “I’m not racist” street cred.
This strange white denying trend should be particularly distasteful to Jews, given our history of having to hide being Jewish during times of persecution. If anyone, anywhere, should understand the importance and the privilege of being oneself, it should be Jews.
So own who you are. Be proud. And don’t be offended when I say I’m proud to be both black and Jewish, because I’m not giving up either one.
Related: Am I Like Rachel Dolezal?
Courtenay Edelhart is a journalist, Reform Jew and single mother by choice via adoption. She lives in Bakersfield, California, with two children, an obnoxious Chihuahua, and assorted dying houseplants.
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Kyle Edmund wins amid rain delays at Auckland
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — Kyle Edmund outlasted wildcard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-4, 2-6, 6-3 on Tuesday in a first-round match at the ASB Classic which stretched over almost 7-1/2 hours because of rain delays.
The pair had barely begun the center court contest at noon when steady rain forced them from the court for almost four hours. They returned sporadically through the afternoon and into the evening before Edmund, ranked 69th, finally clinched his win near 7:30 p.m.
Edmund had been dominant in the first set as Davidovich Fokina, ranked 85th and regarded as one of the potential next generation of stars on the ATP Tour, struggled to find him rhythm.
Davidovich Fokina found his way into the match in a second set punctuated by rain breaks, hitting hard from the baseline to match Edmund's power.
The match was still in the balance when the pair went back in the early evening at the start of the third set and Edmund immediately captured the vital break. He then held on, sometimes under extreme pressure, to seal victory on his second match pint.
Davidovich Fokina revealed a wide array of shots from delicate drop shots to lobs and powerful forehands down the line. But he made a number of errors on pressure points which cost him the match.
"I had to fight a lot, dig in on a lot of points," Edmund said. "But I'm happy. I don't think I did too much wrong. He upped his level a lot, became very aggressive in the second and the third sets but it's good to get a win under my belt.
"When you have a break like we did, he was finishing very well and getting on top. But coming out of that break you've got to stay on it and to break him at 1-0, he made unforced errors. There were small margins out there and it helped me a lot."
Vasek Pospisil beat Jaoa Sousa 6-4, 6-2 in the only other first-round match completed early Tuesday.
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Florida workers comp rates could drop by 13 percent next year
Workers compensation rates could decrease by about 13 percent next year if state regulators approve. Pictured is a workers compensation poster from 2003. [Tampa Tribune, 2003]
By Malena Carollo
Published Aug. 28, 2018
If state regulators approve, workers compensation rates in Florida will go down 13.4 percent beginning next year.
The National Council on Compensation Insurance proposed the drop Tuesday to the state Office of Insurance Regulation. The main reason for the hefty dip, the council said, is that claims for the program are being filed less frequently now than they have been in previous years. Fewer claims reflect a smaller overall need.
"There are enough fewer new injured workers claiming injury than requiring those wages and medical benefits to decrease the cost," said Robert Wilson, president and CEO of WorkersCompensation.com, an information clearinghouse.
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The decrease won't affect the amount the amount that is paid out on claims, Wilson said. Instead, it will decrease the amount that employers, who bear the cost of such claims, will have to pay.
According to the council, the recent drop in claims has more than offset any upward pressure on rates so far from two 2016 Supreme Court decisions involving workers compensation — Castellanos v. Next Door Company and Westphal v. City of St. Petersburg.
The Castellanos case did away with previously-instituted caps on attorney fees. The caps were implemented in 2003 to clamp down on an increase in litigation brought about by the previous system, which allowed attorneys to collect a percentage of the benefits awarded to their clients. In the Westphal decision, the limit for temporary total disability limits — previously 104 weeks — was found unconstitutional and was raised to 260 weeks.
"NCCI believes the Castellanos and Westphal decisions are now exerting upward pressure on system costs, and they will continue to influence Florida workers compensation insurance rates," the council said in its proposal.
Both, Wilson said, were expected to push rates up, but thus far haven't had a significant impact. According to the council, the full effects of the cases will not be known for a few years.
Contact Malena Carollo at mcarollo@tampabay.com or (727) 892-2249. Follow @malenacarollo.
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Taking down a legend was more than Thurman could handle. This time.
Clearwater’s Keith Thurman comes up a little short while fighting Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas on Saturday night.
Manny Pacquiao, right, lands a punch against Keith Thurman in the 10th round of a welterweight title fight Saturday, July 20, 2019, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
By John Romano
If you had taken a snapshot of the spectators gathered around the ring, you’d see a mix of wild emotions.
Their eyes are wide and their mouths agape. They seem astounded, thrilled or horrified at the knockdown in the first round of the year’s biggest prizefight.
The lone exception is the man sitting on his rear in the middle of the ring.
Keith Thurman is smiling. He looks mildly bemused.
It was almost as if that was the one outcome he had never considered. And maybe that’s what happens when a quest for immortality runs into the real thing.
Clearwater’s Thurman survived the first-round knockdown by Manny Pacquiao Saturday night in Las Vegas, but he never quite solved the boxing legend’s speed, footwork and smarts.
The 40-year-old Pacquiao, a senator in the Philippines, went on to win a split decision (115-112, 115-112, 113-114) that will momentarily alter, but not necessarily derail, Thurman’s ascension in boxing lore.
Thurman was beaten, no doubt about that. He was dominated early in the fight, rallied in the middle rounds, but didn’t finish strongly enough to pull off the upset.
And he knew it, too. Thurman, 30, may have lifted his right arm above his head in a victory salute after the final bell, but he was gracious and complimentary once the judges’ cards were read.
And so, for now, Thurman is a boxer without a motto. He no longer gets to point to a zero – the symbol of a once unblemished 29-0 record – as the essential truth of his superiority.
“I’ve always said I’m not afraid to let my 0 go, if you can beat me – beat me,’’ Thurman later wrote on Twitter. “Manny Pacquiao beat me tonight. Hats off to the Senator on a great performance.’’
Was Thurman embarrassed by Pacquiao? Hardly. He landed more punches (210 to 195), more power punches (192 to 113) and a higher percentage of punches (37 to 28).
The problem is he never hurt Pacquiao. Or, if he did, Pacquiao never gave it away.
Showing uncommon quickness for a boxer with so much mileage (his record is now 67-7-2), Pacquiao moved in and out, and side to side to bloody Thurman’s nose and keep the younger man off balance.
The knockdown was a perfect example.
Thurman had been the aggressor in the first two minutes and was on his way to winning the opening round when Pacquiao got him moving backward with three rapid jabs. He followed with a left to the body and then a right cross that caught Thurman by surprise and put him on the canvas.
Take away that flurry and Thurman probably wins the round 10-9 instead of losing 10-8. It’s silly to think the fight would have gone exactly the same way but, to give an idea of how close it really was, that single difference would have changed those 115-112 scorecards to 114-114.
Thurman’s momentum in the middle rounds was also thwarted by a single punch. Pacquiao connected with a body shot in the 10th round that made Thurman wince and remove his mouth guard.
All in all, it was a learning experience for Thurman who was the favorite when betting lines opened earlier in the year but was an underdog by fight time. Pacquiao never gave the appearance of a man in trouble. He took his shots when available and made Thurman look as if he was unsure of himself.
Pacquiao will now probably fight the winner of the Errol Spence-Shawn Porter bout in September, or maybe even lure Floyd Mayweather out of retirement for another mega-fight.
Thurman will have to bide his time. He could use another fight or two to increase his sharpness after his injuries in 2017-18, and then wait for the right opportunity for another big-name challenger.
In the meantime, this fight set him up financially. The guaranteed purse was $10 million for Pacquiao and $2.5 million for Thurman, but Forbes reports that the final numbers will be closer to $20 million for Pacquiao and $8 million for Thurman.
He had spent the week taking digs at Pacquiao in a clear attempt to promote the fight, but when it was over Thurman was the portrait of grace while being interviewed by the pay per view broadcast team.
“I wish I had a little bit more output to go toe to toe. I felt like he was getting a little bit tired but he did have experience in the ring,’’ Thurman said. “My conditioning, my output, was just behind Manny Pacquiao. It was a great night of boxing. I would love the rematch. It is what it is, baby.
“You get blessings and lessons. Tonight was a blessing and a lesson. Thank you everybody, thank you Manny Pacquiao.’’
John Romano can be reached at jromano@tampabay.com. Follow @romano_tbtimes.
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NJ Native Making Waves on Daily SIRIUS Radio and ESPN TV Shows
By KATHY CRYAN
Rich Davis and Steve Covino Rich Davis and Steve Covino Credits: Steve Covino
Union native and radio and television personality Steve Covino. Union native and radio and television personality Steve Covino. Credits: Steve Covino
Radio and television personality Steve Covino during his Union High School football days. Radio and television personality Steve Covino during his Union High School football days. Credits: Steve Covino
Steve Covino with his daughter Melody. Steve Covino with his daughter Melody. Credits: Steve Covino
Covino & Rich's "Now or Never" show airs on ESPN. Covino & Rich's "Now or Never" show airs on ESPN. Credits: Steve Covino
Steve Covino Steve Covino Credits: Steve Covino
Radio and television personality Steve Covino during his Union High School baseball days. Radio and television personality Steve Covino during his Union High School baseball days. Credits: Steve Covino
Steve Covino at Montclair State University's college radio station, 90.3 WMSC Steve Covino at Montclair State University's college radio station, 90.3 WMSC Credits: Steve Covino
Radio and television personality Steve Covino during his Union Little League days. Radio and television personality Steve Covino during his Union Little League days. Credits: Steve Covino
UNION, NJ – A successful radio and television host is proud to trace the perspectives he shares on his daily shows to his roots in Union.
Steve Covino is one half of the Covino & Rich daily radio show on SIRIUS XM and shares hosting duty with Rich Davis on a late night ESPN show.
Covino, 43, was born in Newark, but raised in Union, and attended Hamilton Elementary School, Central 6 (now Jefferson School), Kawameeh Middle School and Union High School, playing baseball and football. He graduated in 1994. Covino attended Montclair State University, where he studied broadcast communications. He graduated with honors in 1998.
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“I loved music and played sports my entire life,” said Covino. Covino said while attending Montclair State he scored an internship with 92.3 K-ROCK, where he then was hired. “I did everything from drive the station vehicle in promotions to producing/cohosting and eventually my own on-air shifts which led me to Sirius Satellite Radio in 2002,” Covino said.
Covino said from 2002-2004, he was working double time at K-ROCK while hosting on the SIRIUS Rock Channel (Octane). He got his big break in 2004 when Sirius hired him full time as a talk show host on a new Channel called "Maxim Radio", bringing the Men’s Lifestyle magazine to life talking about entertainment, sports, music, technology, relationships and pop culture. “All of my favorite things,” said Covino.
Covino then teamed up with Rich Davis (formerly from Z100). “We are now one of the longest running radio shows on what’s now SIRIUS XM, going on year 16.” Covino describes the radio show as “a show about pop culture and life from our perspective, like hanging with your friends at the bar while getting feedback from listeners from all over the country” with frequent celebrity guests.
As a team, Covino & Rich has hosted various events. In Indianapolis while hosting a Superbowl Party in 2012, Covino said executives from SNY (Sports Net NY) watched their interviews with sports figures, from Deion Sanders to Antonio Brown. “But it was our interview with Tim Tebow that caught their attention,” he said. A year later, Covino & Rich were hired by Curt Gowdy Jr. to do ‘something different’. They began Covino & Rich Live every weeknight from Times Square. They spent two years at SNY while continuing their radio show at SIRIUS XM.
In 2015, Covino & Rich moved to the west coast for SIRIUS XM. After two years, they began weekends and fill-ins on ESPN Radio, which led to their television show in 2019, "Now or Never". “Our TV show is sports and pop culture from a fans perspective,” said Covino. “It’s a fun, light-hearted show giving a little "Covino & Rich" twist to the stories in sports and social media.”
Covino, who now lives in Los Angeles, said his views and opinions stem from growing up in Union, especially his humor, attitude and view on life. “My family and friends and the people I grew up with are a bunch of characters, so I'm happy to have brought our lifestyle to light on a national platform and hope I'm doing it proud.”
About his career, Covino says, ”balancing both Covino & Rich on SIRIUS XM and “Now or Never” on ESPN has been our toughest, yet most rewarding challenge yet.” He said he and Davis host the Covino & Rich show every weekday morning (on SIRIUS XM Faction Talk 103) and “Now or Never” every week night. “The split schedule is tough to navigate because it only leaves me a little window to be the best dad I could be, so more than ever before I try to make the most of my weekends to enjoy quality time and relax with friends, family and my daughter, Melody”.
“I love connecting with people from all over the country and throwing my thoughts out there, seeing what sticks and making people laugh,” said Covino. “I love a good interview where we get to see a different side of someone, and get the opportunity to ask lifestyle questions nobody else is asking. I live for a good joke , reference or one-liner."
Reminiscencing about growing up in Union, Covino recalls getting his haircut at Luigi's and drinks at Sports Section (now El Chingon). He is the oldest of five kids of parents Steve and Tensia, who still live in Union. He has three sisters, Grace, Dawn and Jen, and a brother, Tommy.
“My parents are loving, hard-working people who gave us the best childhood,” Covino said. “They taught us that family was first while work was a close second. Everyone in town was welcome at my house growing up.” He said he and his friends could always be found battling it out playing basketball or in the middle of a heated wiffle ball battle match with his Uncle Joe (now a Union police officer) and his friends. “My mother and Uncle Joe instilled a love of music, which I have to this day and which is why we named my daughter Melody,” he said. “Melody has more talent at 10-years old than I ever had and I love being her dad. She’s my everything and my motivation”.
Regarding the future, Covino says he hopes to enjoy more time with the people that matter. “I'm a family guy at heart,” he says. “I'm willing to take on any challenges that this industry gives me so that it gives me more longevity to keep doing my radio show until I retire. If I ever retire!”
Covino says the future is also sure to bring more talk about his life, relationships and experiences, from growing up in Union Little League to his visits back home to see his family. “Union helped make me who I am...and the rest of the country seems to be entertained by it.”
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ELIZABETH, NJ — A Westfield man caught with over 4,000 child pornography files was sentenced Friday to 10 years in state prison, authorities said.
Gregory L. Brown, 38, a resident of John Street, previously pled guilty to one count of first-degree possession of child pornography with the intent to distribute, the statement from acting Union County Prosecutor Lyndsay V. Ruotolo said.
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ELIZABETH, NJ — A Westfield man caught with over 4,000 child pornography files was sentenced Friday ...
Clark Library Starting 'Family Thursdays' Designed for Working Parents
By TAPINTO CLARK STAFF
CLARK, NJ - Working parents may finally have an opportunity to share library programming with their families. Clark Library Director Megan Kociolek recently announced the introduction of 'Family Thursdays.'
According to Kociolek the twice monthly programs were developed with working families in mind and are designed for people of any age. For more information about library programs visit ...
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CLARK, NJ - What language do dogs and cats speak? Maybe they speak Spanish. “Gatos y perros tienen hambre,” means “Cats and dogs are hungry." The Arthur L. Johnson Spanish Honor Society is sponsoring a pet drive in for the Plainfield Area Humane Society from January 21 through 24.
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EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ – For those readers who love the winter, and that means cold weather and snow, your time is finally about to arrive. It just will not be with the storm that is forecast for this Saturday. All models now agree that with the dominating low pressure system taking up initial residence near the Great Lakes, it will mean too much warm air in most of New Jersey regions to allow for ...
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VIDEO: Army Reservist Patrick Moore Returns Home to Fanwood, Surprises Kids at School One
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FANWOOD/SCOTCH PLAINS, NJ -- We've seen heartwarming videos on social media of service men and women returning from abroad and surprising their children when they return home. On Wednesday, Jan. 15, it was one of our very own neighbors, Capt. Patrick Moore, a U.S. Army reservist, who received hugs from the children he had not seen in a year.
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Beware 50 mph Wind Gusts Expected in Clark Thursday: Weather Service
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CLARK, NJ — Drivers should beware of windy weather forecast for Thursday, the National Weather Service said.
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Union County Baseball Association “Hot Stove” Awards Dinner Coming to Clark Features Mookie Wilson
CLARK, NJ – The Union County Baseball Association announced its 84th Annual Hot Stove League Awards Dinner. The event, set for Sunday, February 9 at the Gran Centurions represents the start of the local baseball season for players and fans alike.
According to UCBA President Jim Iozzi, this year’s Union County Baseball Hall of Fame inductees include:
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CLARK, NJ – The Union County Baseball Association announced its 84th Annual Hot Stove League Awards ...
In Ranking of Places to Retire: New Jersey Ranks 4th from Bottom
NEW JERSEY -- A new ranking of 2020’s Best States to Retire by personal-finance website WalletHub rated New Jersey fourth from the bottom among. To determine the rankings, WalletHub compared the 50 states across 47 key metrics. The data set ranges from adjusted cost of living to weather to quality of public hospitals.
Deciding when and where to retire are among life's most important decisions, ...
NEW JERSEY -- A new ranking of 2020’s Best States to Retire by personal-finance website WalletHub ...
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News Briefs: Elections board schedules hearing on Fremont ordinance
Saturday Briefs: Fremont's Party in the Park and Fremont's Got Talent at Walsh Park; OSS District to hold farm tire recycling;
News Briefs: Elections board schedules hearing on Fremont ordinance Saturday Briefs: Fremont's Party in the Park and Fremont's Got Talent at Walsh Park; OSS District to hold farm tire recycling; Check out this story on thenews-messenger.com: https://www.thenews-messenger.com/story/news/2019/08/02/news-briefs-elections-board-schedules-hearing-fremont-ordinance/1887340001/
Staff reports Published 12:29 p.m. ET Aug. 2, 2019
News briefs for June 27, 2019. (Photo: File)
Elections board schedules hearing on Fremont ordinance
FREMONT - The Sandusky County Board of Elections will have a protest hearing regarding the referendum petition filed of Fremont Ordinance 2019-3961, at 8:30 a.m. Aug. 13.
A regular board meeting will take place immediately following. The hearing and meeting will take place at the Sandusky County Board of Elections, 2020 Countryside Drive.
Fremont's Party in the Park at Walsh
FREMONT - Fremont Exchange Club has expanded Fremont’s Got Talent and created “Fremont’s Party in the Park” to raise money for community causes. This music festival will include food, a beer tent and entertainment. Parking at Walsh Park is $10 a carload, $2 admission at the gate. Additional parking will be at Rodger Young, with shuttles available for tips. Use the bike trail bridge to cross the river.
Entertainment lineup is: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Fremont’s Got Talent Preliminaries; 2 to 3 p.m., Fremont’s Got Talent Final 5; 3:15 to 3:45 p.m., Fremont Ross Drum Line; 4 p.m., Proskyneo; 6 p.m., Ohio Revival; 8 p.m., Not Fast Enuff; and 10 p.m. to midnight, Eric Sowers Band.
For details, call 419-332-4470.
Veterans commission changes meeting dates
OAK HARBOR - The Ottawa County Veterans Service Commission will change its regular August meeting dates to 4:30 p.m. Aug.15 and Aug. 29. The meetings will be at the Veterans Memorial Building. The Ottawa County Veterans Office is at 8444 W. Ohio 163 and can be reached at 419-898-2089 or co.ottawa.oh.us/veterans.
OSS district to offer farm tire recycling
FREMONT - The agricultural community can recycle unwanted farm tires through a collection sponsored by the Ottawa, Sandusky, Seneca Joint Solid Waste District. This collection is open to farm owners and operators in the three county area (including Bellevue and Fostoria residents). No dealers or ag businesses will be permitted.
Registration is required and begins 8 a.m. Aug. 12 and ends 4:30 p.m. Aug. 23. Prior to calling, know the number of tires by type/size to be recycled.
Callers will be provided with a date and time for tire delivery and confirm cost.
To determine the size of a tire, measure the tire from the ground to the top of the tire. Bring proper identification to the collection site.
Register by calling 419-334-7222 or toll free at 888-850-7224.
Tires up to 36 inches including implement tires, wagon tires, skid loader tires, most front tires and 4-wheeler tires will be accepted at a cost of $1 per tire. The District will accept farm tires 37 inches to 60 inches (most rear tractor and semi tires) at $10 per tire. Farm tires 61 inche and larger including large rear tractor tires and all combine tires (regardless of diameter) will also be accepted at $15 per tire. Tires with rims will be accepted. Tubes are not excepted.
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Middle East companies ready to pounce on oil refining growth
Written by Sara Stefanini on 27 September 2018
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The oil industry’s historically forgotten business - petroleum refining and processing - is stepping into the limelight as the outlook for upstream exploration and production remains uncertain, writes Sara Stefanini.
And Middle Eastern companies, in particular, are preparing to pounce on the downstream pickup.
Forecasts show that the growth in global oil demand is slipping, as efforts to limit climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions lead to cleaner alternatives such as renewable energy and electric vehicles. Likewise, some predict that the rise in need for refined oil products will slow.
However, the International Energy Agency (IEA) does not see an imminent peak in oil demand just yet. That said, it expects the growth to slip to around 1 million barrels per day by 2023, from 1.4 million now.
Global refining capacity is also set to increase up to 2023, according to an IEA report published in March. The biggest rise is coming from the Middle East, where national oil companies are venturing into international markets, it said.
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Petrochemicals, in particular, are projected to be the fastest-growing source of the increase in oil demand in the coming years, the IEA said. It is driven by economic growth, as rising incomes in developing countries push up demand for consumer goods such as food preservatives, fertilisers and lubricants for automotive and industrial operations.
BP, similarly, expects global demand for liquid fuels to go up by around 13 million barrels per day up to 2040, if climate policies and clean technologies continue their recent progress. The growth will wane and plateau towards the end of the period, the oil major said in its 2018 energy outlook report.
The downstream industry’s rise began with the collapse in crude oil prices from 2014. Refineries use crude oil to produce petrochemicals, diesel and jet fuel, heating oil and other products, so the cheaper the feedstock, the wider the profit margins.
As a result of low oil prices up to late 2017, integrated oil majors such as Royal Dutch Shell, Total and Exxon Mobil saw their refining business jump while exploration and production suffered. Investments in new oil and gas supply projects around the world slumped by about 25 percent in 2015 and 2016, and remained flat in 2017, according to the IEA.
But while crude oil prices surged again this year, the outlook is still choppy.
Oil production is expected to grow in the coming years, keeping prices in check in the lower $70s per barrel, according to the US Energy Information Administration. Much of the movement this year and next, however, will depend on whether OPEC countries continue to limit their production, as Iranian exports decline under new US sanctions.
Meanwhile, oil demand growth is slipping, however slowly. The risk management consultancy DNV GL is less bullish than the IEA, predicting that it will peak in 2023.
This uncertainty bodes well for the downstream oil business — especially in emerging economies. European refining has declined over the past decade, triggered by the financial crisis and higher crude oil prices up to 2014, according to S&P Global Platts. As a result, new and more modern refineries in the Middle East, India, the US and elsewhere are cutting into European refinery margins.
With growth in mind, there is a marked realisation in the industry that it needs to keep up to date with technological advances.
National oil companies in the United Arab Emirates, in particular, are looking to form joint ventures with international oil companies to share and expand on skills, knowledge and technology.
The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has a long-running plastics joint venture with Austrian polyethylene and polypropylene producer Borealis, called Borouge. The partnership continues to expand its projects: Borouge announced plans in September to build its fifth polypropylene plant in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi, and is investing in China to tap into a projected growth in plastics demand.
ADNOC also struck a deal with Moroccan phosphate maker OCP Group in May to look at creating a global joint venture to produce fertilisers. The same month, the Pakistan-Abu Dhabi joint venture Pak-Arab Refinery awarded a contract for the development of Pakistan’s largest refinery project.
For Middle Eastern exporters, a free trade agreement between the European Union and Gulf countries would make petrochemicals exports even more profitable. For now, however, the liberalisation of trade between the two remains a far-off hope. The EU and Gulf Cooperation Council started negotiating the deal in 1990, but effectively halted talks in 2008.
In the meantime, Abu Dhabi is shifting its attention downstream, including at the Abu Dhabi International Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC) this November.
The event will host a series of technical sessions looking at how to drive a circular economy in the downstream sector, and how state-controlled and private oil companies can meet new rules for environmental and sustainable operations. Speakers include representatives from Brazil’s Petrobras, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Bahrain Petroleum, ADNOC, Spain’s Repsol and Italy’s Eni.
Sara Stefanini is a London-based freelance journalist focused on energy, climate change and environment
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The zing of za'atar
By Jennifer BainTravel Editor
Wed., Aug. 15, 2007timer2 min. read
Life at the Lebanese Bakery in Scarborough revolves around an intoxicating Middle Eastern spice blend called za'atar.
Imagine wild thyme from Lebanon combined with sesame seeds, salt and sour ground sumac. Stirred into canola oil, this earthy flavour explosion becomes the topping for the bakery's most popular item – za'atar manakish.
Simply translated, this is freshly made pita dough, smeared with the herbed oil and baked to order.
"Za'atar is like a doughnut in Lebanon," proclaims baker/owner Elias Elchami. "Here everybody goes for doughnuts. In the Middle East, especially Lebanon, everybody goes for za'atar. It's very famous and it's usually a breakfast."
Outside, eye-catching signs proclaim this "house of healthy foods" specializes in pizzas and pies. But Elchami admits this is a rough translation meant to make the manakish concept more accessible.
(There are multiple spellings for za'atar and manakish. We've picked the most common ones. Za'atar, by the way, rhymes with matter.)
Elchami claims to have introduced manakish here in 1992 with a Mississauga bakery called Ali Baba. It's now called Golden Dough and is one of a handful of Middle Eastern bakeries specializing in manakish.
Haddad Bakery in Downsview is a favourite. Lebanese sisters Norma and Mariam Hajjar make just a few manakish (including za'atar) to order while running a tiny grocery store in an industrial strip mall.
The polar opposite to Haddad is Paramount Foods in Mississauga, with separate counters to order manakish, sweets, meals and ice cream, plus plentiful seating.
A few falafel joints and pizzerias around town have za'atar manakish. The za'atar croissants at Arz Fine Foods are to die for.
Sultan's Tent, a Moroccan restaurant in downtown Toronto, serves za'atar-spiced olive oil as a dip for bread, and bathes olives in za'atar-citrus marinade. Chef Jordan Slade's za'atar butter tops steaks. The restaurant uses Syrian za'atar made of ground coriander, ground cumin, ground anise seed, ground fennel, ground lemon peel, toasted sesame and wild thyme.
Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Israel, Turkey and Jordan create za'atar with different spices, proportions, colours and levels of coarseness.
"Za'atar, when you bake it, people smell it and want to grab it," advises Elchami. He makes 33 kinds of manakish (about $1.75 to $4.75) at his 10-seat bakery. (His za'atar wrap takes things one step higher with fresh tomatoes, green olives, onions and mint leaves.)
"I found out everybody loves this food," Elchami says happily.
"It's good for the memory. I eat it every day. I have around me meat, cheese – but I eat za'atar."
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All Fabulous
EVANS ABOVE
Chris Evans launches CarFest with £250k charity giveaway honouring NHS heroes from The Sun’s Who Cares Wins awards
Gemma Mullin
Emma Pietras
20 Nov 2019, 8:09
Updated: 21 Nov 2019, 11:41
CHRIS Evans surprised everyday NHS heroes with a charity cash giveaway live on air this morning.
The star gave out £250k to charities and nominees from The Sun's Who Cares Wins health awards during his Virgin Radio Breakfast Show.
Chris Evans today surprised NHS heroes honoured at The Sun's Who Cares Wins health awards, by handing out thousands of pounds live on air
In total the DJ handed out quarter of a million, with a staggering £196k of that going to Sun NHS heroes.
He told listeners: "Thank you for all the money we're dishing out this morning.
"It's not our money it's your money, so thank you. We've got £250k going to Starlight, the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust, we've got money going to the nominees from The Sun's Who Cares Wins awards.
"I've never done a show like it."
Among those receiving donations was five-year-old Ronnie Musselwhite and his parents Christine Jenkins and Ben Musselwhite, from Crawley, West Sussex.
Ronnie Musselwhite, The Sun's Unsung Hero, was given a cheque for £5,000 for The Emily Ash trustCredit: Darren Fletcher - The Sun
They were presented with a cheque for £5,000 for The Emily Ash Trust, which helps children and teenagers suffering from cancer.
The charity supported the family after Ronnie's sister Ebonie was diagnosed with leukaemia.
Ronnie, who won the Young Hero gong at The Sun’s Who Cares Wins health awards last month, bravely offered to give Ebonie a bone marrow transplant last year.
The operation was a success but tragically the leukaemia came back elsewhere. Ebonie, eight nominated her brother for the award before her death in June.
Christine, 40, said: "The charity supported us right from the very start, from Ebonie's diagnosis and is continuing to help us.
"They gave Ebonie an iPad, which meant so much when she was stuck in hospital in isolation.
"We can't thank Chris and the CarFest team enough for this donation. It's going to help so many other children."
Chris roped in James Martin, Beverley Knight, Sharleen Spiteri and his wife Natasha Shishmanian to help hand out the cheques to NHS heroes including twins Jensen and Reuben Powell and their parentsCredit: Darren Fletcher - The Sun
Ben Slack, who set up the Swan Song Project and was nominated for the Unsung Hero award at The Sun's Who Cares Wins awards, also received a donation.
He was given £25k to help the charity, which helps the dying and their loved ones write their own songs in their final days.
The 29-year-old set up The Swan Song project in 2016 after his grandmother passed away.
Speaking about the donation, Ben, 29, told The Sun: "I was runner up for the Unsung Hero award at the Who Cares Wins awards and I've just been presented with a cheque for £25,000.
"I'm a bit overwhelmed really, it's a really strange experience but I'm just so happy and excited as this is going to make a huge difference to the project.
"The plan is that the money will help continue the project as our funds were nearly running out.
Ben said he was "overwhelmed" by the £25,000 donation his charity was givenCredit: Olivia West - The Sun
"It's also going to allow us to employ someone else to help with the expansion and we're even looking at getting our own studio to run more sessions from.
"It's hard describe, this all feels very surreal in a way - it's very hard to put into words."
Catherine Benfield, who nominated her for the Mental Health hero award, was also handed £10,000 from Chris and Car Fest for the charities OCD Action and OCD UK.
She said: “I’ve just received a cheque for £10,000 for OCD Action and the OCD UK charities.
"I am in complete shock – I came here just really glad OCD was getting some exposure and my brain hasn’t quite computed how much that is and just how much it’s going to do for the charities."
Catherine Benfield (right) pictured with Kim French, who nominated her for the Mental Health hero awardCredit: Oliver Dixon - The Sun
Charity cash giveaway: The full list
THESE are the everyday NHS heroes and nominees from The Sun’s Who Cares Wins Awards 2019 - that were handed thousands of pounds on the Chris Evans show today.
Ben Slack - The Swan Song Project
Unsung Hero nominee
Donation: £25k
The Swan Song Project gives people facing end of life and those surrounding them the opportunity to write and record their own original song.
Isabella Field - Haven House Children’s Hospice
Young Hero runner up
Donation: £6k
Isabella’s sister Molly Field passed away at Haven House Children’s Hospice. Since her family have been helping raise funds for the hospice to say thanks.
Catherine Benfield - OCD Action/OCD UK
Mental Health Hero nominee
Catherine has battled with OCD almost all her life and decided to set up OCD UK as a resource to help other people.
Dr Matthew Boulter - SNAP at John Radcliffe Hospital
The Best Doctor winner
Dr Boulter is a GP at St Clare Medical Centre in Penzance, Cornwall, and as well as working full time he also volunteers as a lifeboat doctor and a military reservist.
Tommy Cawston - Matt Hampson Foundation
Best Health Charity winner
Former English rugby union player Matt Hampson was left paralysed after a scrum collapsed during a training session in 2005. He can now only breathe with the help of a ventilator but, despite his own health battles, he set up his charity the Matt Hampson Foundation to provide advice, support, relief and/or treatment for anyone suffering serious injury or disability.
Rosa Monckton - Team Domenica
Best Health Charity runner-up
Team Domenica is a social enterprise charity, with the vision that people with learning disabilities are valued in the workplace, to reach their full potential and feel included as members of society.
Professor Kypros Nicolaides - The Fetal Medicine Foundation
Best Neonatal Specialist winner
Professor Kypros Nicolaide, who is based at King’s College London, performed pioneering keyhole surgery for spina bifida on Sherrie Sharp’s unborn son Jaxson. His cheque will go to the Fetal Medicine Foundation, which aims to improve the health of pregnant women and their babies through research and training in fetal medicine.
Ben West - Sam West Foundation
Mental Health Hero winner
Ben lost his younger brother Sam to suicide in January 2018 when he was just 15. His family wanted to help other people and set up the Sam West Foundation, which helps schools train at least one teacher with mental health training.
Nick Evans and Ruth Lowe - The Children’s Ward at the Princess Royal Hospital, Telford
Ultimate Lifesaver winners
Porters Ruth and Nick saved the life of Sarah and Mike Clifford’s seven-week-old baby Logan. He stopped breathing as they walked through the main entrance of The Princess Royal Hospital in Telford to visit a sick relative.
Jane Parke - SNAP
Best Midwife winner
Jane helped deliver the youngest surviving twin boys in Britain when they were born at 22 weeks last year. She flew 190 miles with their mum Jennie Powell to a specialist neonatal unit at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, which has its own charity SNAP (Special Needs And Parents).
Natasha Allergy Research Foundation (NARF)
Christina Newbury Memorial Award
The foundation was set up by the family of Natasha Ednan-Laperouse who died after suffering an allergic reaction to a Pret A Manger baguette on a flight to France in 2016.
Since her death, her family, parents Nadm and Tanya and brother Alex have successfully campaigned for better food labelling and Natasha’s Law will come into force next year.
She added: "Both charities have youth projects – a lot of children have OCD, they don’t get diagnosed for a very long time, so it’s really a safe haven for people to go to if they’re young and have OCD.
"Very often people don’t understand OCD and very often helplines are the only way people can get the help they so desperately need and that’s going to go towards that as well, it’s going to be a lifeline for people with OCD."
Other NHS heroes who received donations on air included Natasha Ednan-Laperouse's parents for their charity in their late daughter's name - the Natasha Allergy Research Foundation.
The couple, who won the Christina Newbury Memorial Award, received £10k to support the foundation as it funds pioneering allergy research and helps and cures people with allergies.
Tanya and Nadim set up the charity after their daughter Natasha died at the age of 15 after suffering an allergic reaction while on a flight to Nice in 2016.
Credit: Oliver Dixon - The Sun
Natasha Ednan-Laperouse's parents received £10k to support The Natasha Allergy Research Foundation
A runner up of the Young Hero award Isabella Field also received £6,000 to go towards Haven House Children's Hospital.
It comes after years of tireless fundraising for Haven House where her sister passed away.
Chris' donations came as he launched CarFest 2020 with an indoor festival complete with mini kids sports cars and hay bales at the Virgin studios, on Level 17 of the News Building.
The 53-year-old called in celeb friends, co-founder of CarFest Sharleen Spiteri, chef James Martin and Beverley Knight to help present the show.
Chris also spoke about CarFest and the donations on This Morning on ITV earlier today.
CarFest, the brainchild of the DJ, was launched in 2012 and has since raised a staggering £16million for Children In Need and other charities.
Chris, a supporter of The Sun's health awards, was so touched by the incredible stories at this year's event, he has decided to giveaway some of the £250k in profits to those honoured - and the worthy causes they represent.
Chris decided to giveaway some of the £250k in profits from CarFest to those honoured at The Sun's health awardsCredit: Darren Fletcher - The Sun
Chris was among the stars who presented awards at the star-studded Health Awards last monthCredit: Darren Fletcher - The Sun
CarFest, a music and motoring festival, takes place over two weekends in Cheshire and Hampshire and 25 per cent of ticket sales are donated to good causes.
This year the festival will support five charities, as well as its partner Children In Need.
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Other charities that will benefit from this year's proceeds include Ellen Macarthur Cancer Trust, Rainbow Trust, Starlight Children's Foundation, Teenage Cancer Trust and Children In Need.
Meanwhile, after The Sun's health awards last month, Chris revealed he had a further £250,000 to giveaway.
He told listeners at the time: "This year we had £2.5million in the kitty, we've given away £2.25million, which means we have £250,000 left which I have to allocate.
"I think there might be enough charities that were there last night justifiably to dish out that money to."
Tickets for CarFest 2020 will be on sale from 8am today via the CarFest website.
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Refinery fix to drop gas prices by 20-50 cents
Michigan motorists already seeing decreasing gas prices
Refinery fix to drop gas prices by 20-50 cents Michigan motorists already seeing decreasing gas prices Check out this story on thetimesherald.com: http://bwne.ws/1Ei51M3
Detroit Free Press Published 2:46 p.m. ET Aug. 25, 2015
Michiganders are seeing gas prices drop, as news today that issues at BP’s Whiting, Ind., refinery, have been resolved. They could decrease as much as 20-50 cents per gallon.(Photo: JESSICA J. TREVINO)
Gas prices across the Midwest are dropping now that the refinery troubles in Indiana that caused costs at the pump to spike earlier this month are fixed.
Motorists in Michigan and other Great Lakes states can expect to see prices plummet 20 to 50 cents a gallon over the next two weeks, according to Patrick DeHaan, GasBuddy.com senior petroleum analyst.
"As gas stations buy cheaper gasoline, they will pass savings along to motorists, but they will also attempt to recoup margin losses sustained from the unprecedented spike in wholesale prices that occurred two weeks ago," he said in a statement today.
The average gas price in Michigan today, as of 2:20 p.m., was $2.741, according to the Web site. That's down from $2.812 Monday and $2.984 last week.
The largest crude distillation unit at BP's refinery in Whiting, Ind., broke down; it handles more than half of the refinery's capacity. That caused gas price in metro Detroit to skyrocket more than 50 cents in a week.
BP announced today that the facility was back on track.
"BP has safely restarted a large crude distillation unit that had been shut down since Aug. 8 for unscheduled repair work. Restart of this unit is increasing the refinery's fuel production, with output ramping up over time. The rest of the refinery continues to operate safely. In the meantime, the company continues to meet its contractual fuel supply obligations," the company said in a statement today.
Less than a week before the refinery shutdown, GasBuddy.com predicted that fuel prices would drop to $1.99 or below by Christmas in 20 states, including Michigan. DeHaan told the Free Press in an e-mail that he still expects that to happen.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration's Web site ranks the Whiting refinery seventh largest in the United States and biggest in the Midwest.
Contact Zlati Meyer: 313-223-4439 or zmeyer@freepress.com. Follow her on Twitter @ZlatiMeyer
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Chris March, Fashion Designer and ‘Project Runway’ Season 4 Contestant, Dies at 56
March also designed outfits for Madonna, Lady Gaga, and Beyonce
Lawrence Yee | September 6, 2019 @ 2:45 PM Last Updated: September 6, 2019 @ 2:51 PM
Photo credit: Chris March/GoFundMe
Chris March, a popular fashion designer who appeared on the Bravo series “Project Runway” and crafted costumes for artists including Madonna, Lady Gaga, and Beyonce died Thursday, a person close to March confirmed. He was 56.
March finished in 4th place in Season 4 of the design competition show and 12th place in the fourth season of “Project Runway: All-Stars.” He had his Bravo own spin-off, “Mad Fashion,” which followed his career as a working fashion designer.
He worked on numerous Broadway productions and San Francisco’s popular Beach Blanket Babylon cabaret show. March was known for his avant-garde and bold designs, including using real human hair.
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In 2010, Meryl Streep enlisted March to design her Oscar and Golden Globe dresses.
March had suffered a debilitating fall in June 2017 that almost killed him. Following the accident, he was paralyzed in both legs as well as his right arm and hand.
On his GoFundMe page, March explained he was struggling with rehabilitation and its costs.
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“I have recently run into several setbacks in my recovery, the biggest one being that my medical insurance went up over 500% at the beginning of 2019,” he wrote. “I am also in need of leg braces, specialized physical therapy, a hearing aid, and a new living arrangement. Where I am now is unbearable and makes me anxious and depressed every day. I have considered suicide many times. I have tried my best to make strides.”
In a Facebook tribute, his friend Anna Batsakes wrote, “Despite these limitations, Chris worked diligently to remain positive about his life and future. He was a creative, brilliant, loving man and a loyal friend.”
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New LG Smart TVs Use Old Palm WebOS for Sleeker Interface
By Sean Captain 2014-01-06T17:50:00Z
LG aims to make smart TV menus less baffling by resurrecting the defunct smartphone operating system once praised for its multitasking prowess.
(Image credit: The new WebOS interface shows details on several viewing options at once. Credit: LG)
Like sedimentary rock, so-called smart TV interfaces have developed by a process of accretion — adding menus and apps willy-nilly as more functions and services become available.
At the CES tech conference in Las Vegas, the big TV makers are all unveiling revamped smart TVs to address the interface mess. But LG's approach is unique: It's resurrecting the defunct Palm WebOS smartphone operating system to power its TVs.
WebOS, the last gasp of once-dominant smartphone maker Palm, was praised by pundits, but not by enough customers, for its sleek design and ability to switch easily between running apps. (The multitasking menu in Apple's iOS 7 operating system is virtually an homage to WebOS.) LG is applying some of that logic to its TV interface.
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In place of the old grid of apps, LG's new interface devotes the most space to what each viewer is currently engaged with — such as cover art for a movie like "Lord of The Rings" that has been selected to watch. The individual video services, such as Hulu, Netflix or HBO GO, appear as tabs in a stylized bar called the Launcher at the bottom of the screen.
The viewer can click on each tab to switch from service to service, without having to back out to a main menu grid and then dig down again as on many smart TV and set-top box interfaces.
The bar also shows what's coming in from devices outside the TV, such as a Blu-ray movie queued up in a PlayStation console. The TV software can identify the devices plugged in to its HDMI ports and automatically labels them, such as Xbox One, PlayStation 3, and so on. Users can edit the descriptions if they wish.
The tabs are also dynamic, able to show what is on the particular service. For example, if someone switches from a movie that is playing on Netflix to see what is on Hulu Plus, the movie still runs in a small window in the Netflix tab on the bar.
Sam Chang, the head of LG's Silicon Valley Lab, which developed the interface, told us that the interface aims to be more like the old experience of flipping through channels, which many TV watchers still like to do.
(Image credit: Content options appear as tabs at the bottom of the screen instead of in a grid of icons. Credit: LG)
Speaking of channels, cable and satellite TV content are included in the interface as well. When users set up the TV, they also specify their pay-TV provider (if they have one), and the set can access the program schedule to present that in the smart TV interface.
To complete the loop, the TV's remote sends signals not just to the set, but also to the cable or satellite box to switch to the TV channel selected. As for recorded shows, LG told us that the TVs "can't yet detect what's on a DVR."
LG's Universal search
But LG is trying to steer people away from thinking about apps and channels. A universal search function (one of the innovations of WebOS) looks for a particular show or movie someone is interested in across pay-TV and all online services (including Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Vudu, Crackle and YouTube) and presents the options. That spares viewers the arduous task of digging into each app and pay-TV program guide to find what they want.
This is similar to the idea behind Google TV — smart TV software that LG has long run on some models, and will continue to run on some of its TVs going forward. But few consumers fell in love with Google TV, which had so many functions that it required a keyboard to use. LG is carrying over the universal search concept without including all the confusing accouterments.
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Universal search is not new. Roku has it on its set-top boxes and now on the new Roku TVs that debuted at CES (though only for online services, not for broadcast TV). Other TV makers also plan to roll such a search function out at CES. And it's available in apps such as NextGuide.
All content options are shown, even from devices such as game consoles.
LG's TVs also have a recommendation engine — sort of. Unlike Netflix, which studies people's viewing habits in order to make informed suggestions of what individual viewers may like, LG's recommendations are based on whatever movies and shows are popular, what's new and some editorial input from the company. It's more like a content-highlight service than a real recommendation feature.
However, LG told Tom's Guide that it is "looking at" a more comprehensive search function. Some recent findings by tech bloggers hint that LG may have been testing the service for some time.
What about privacy with LG smart TVs?
In late November, two British tech bloggers found that certain LG smart TVs were collecting information and trying to send it back to LG, even after a privacy setting had been set to prevent that.
Among the information sent back to LG's servers was not only what people watched on the TVs, but the names of files on USB sticks plugged into the sets, as well as names of files in public folders on computers and other devices on the same home network as the TVs.
No working server was at the address to which the TVs were attempting to send the file names, and LG stated that it had never actually received any data about the files from its customers' TVs.
According to LG, all that its smart TVs transmit over the Internet is what the company calls "viewing information": the channel or app currently being watched, the time it's being watched and more.
In response to the news about the file names being collected, LG said that this function was the result of a software glitch and that it would issue a software upgrade to disable the function in its smart TVs. (It also promised to fix the privacy settings so users could opt out of having any data collected.)
At the time, an LG representative told Tom's Guide by email that, "While the file names are not stored, the transmission of such file names was part of a new feature being readied to search for data from the Internet (metadata) related to the program being watched in order to deliver a better viewing experience."
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That test may have been for the new WebOS-based TVs that LG is introducing, and an indication that the collection of viewing information may be for a better recommendation function. Such data collection wouldn't be unprecedented. Netflix has tracked viewing habits for years to make recommendations, often to the delight of customers.
LG may alternatively be collecting data to better serve targeted ads. Unlike most smart TV interfaces, LG's features advertisements. (This policy may continue on the new models, LG told us.)
Data collection will be opt-in, Chang told us. During set-up of the TV, each new customer can view LG's terms of service. If the customer decides to decline the agreement that allows data collection, the customer won't be able to use the universal search function, which happens on LG's servers, not on the TV, nor LG's current, non-personalized recommendation engine. But all the apps will still work, Chang said.
Even when LG's service does collect data, the identity of the TV viewer remains anonymous, LG claims.
"We don't collect any information that's PID — personally identifiable data," Chang said.
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Thiruvananthapuram is one of the finest tourist destinations in Kerala, which itself is known worldwide to be one of the most beautiful regions of India. Apart from offering an extensive number of thrilling activities to the visitors here, which range from sightseeing to shopping and from sun bathing to ayurvedic healing, Thiruvananthapuram happens to be a perfect getaway to numerous regional attractions. These popular venues in the region intrinsically include the beautiful hill stations near Thiruvananthapuram, the magnificent destination of Munnar being one of these.
Charms of Munnar
Located within a short driving distance of about 6 hours from Thiruvananthpuram, the charming hill station of Munnar is snuggled into the thriving greeneries of the Western Ghats embodying an opulence of nature’s abundant charisma. Distance on road from Thiruvananthapuram to Munnar is just 265 kilometres and thus an exciting road trip is the ideal means of travelling to Munnar from Thiruvananthapuram.
The place where the three meandering rivers Madhurapuzha, Kundaly and Nallathanni unite, the spectacular charms of Munnar flourish to awe every visitor here. As the holidaymakers draw nearer to the town of Munnar approaching it gradually along a winding road, breathtaking views of the plush green setting amidst which Munnar is nestled, begin to enthrall them. The abundance of exquisite flora and fauna captivate all visiting Munnar, these species being found profusely across all the major wildlife sanctuaries and national parks in and around. The Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary, Kurinjimala Sanctuary, Amaravati Reserve Forest, Pampadum Shola National Park, Eravikulam National Park, Palani Hills National Park and the Anamudi Shola National Park are the most popular of these nature reserves situated in propinquity to Munnar. Many unique forms of wildlife, which include a number of endangered species, dwell in the area in and around these nature reserves.
The exotic species here comprise the elephant, the Sambar, the Nilgiri langur, the Nilgiri Wood-pigeon, the Nilgiri Thar and the Gaur, the Grizzled Giant Squirrel. The fascinating sight of the Neelakurinji shrub, which gets flowers just once in every 12 years, endows the Nilgiri Hills with its name. It is a visual treat for all the beholders to watch the landscaped hills in Munnar swathed with the gorgeous Neelakurinji flowers. Strolling down the beautiful winding lanes across the green plantations that are seen adorning the entire setting is the most ideal means of exploring the profusion of interesting flora and fauna in this region.
Activities in Munnar
Family one-day tours, adventurous jeep safaris across the green woods, trekking along the unnamed trails, exploration of the diverse wildlife forms at the nature reserves and a relaxing ayurvedic spa massage – are some of the innumerable exciting activities to be enjoyed in this magnificent paradise for the nature lovers. Visiting the tea estates and some other interesting destinations that leave memories for a lifetime include a trip inside the premises of Aranya Naturals, which is also known widely as the Shrishti Welfare Centre. Aranya Naturals is an endeavour from Tata in the paper making industry especially with the involvement of the differently able persons.
These people with a lasting smile on their face greet guests and show them the entire procedure of making paper naturally and dyeing them without the use of artificial colours. A visit to the green thickening tea gardens in Munnar such as the Kolukkumalai Tea Estate, on either side of the hilly paths is also one of the most unique experiences to be cherished for a long time. As the sightseers approach towards Munnar they can also stop for a visit to the Kerala Farm, a spectacular destination where exotic spices are seen thriving in and around. Vanilla, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, pepper, hing, sambhar and cocoa are grown as well as sold at the Kerala Farm.
The Echo Point, the Mattupetty Dam and the cascading seasonal waterfalls found at the turns of the twisting roads are some of the most popular sites in Munnar that are undoubtedly worth visiting. Joining a cookery class in Munnar for unveiling the secrets of the exotic Kerala cuisine that features a tempting array of regional dishes is also a perfect means to indulge in leisure and fun.
Accommodation in Munnar
Elevation of Munnar ranges from about 4,760 feet to 8,842 feet and it is an expansive vibrant sheet of greenery that drapes the entire background. Climate in Munnar remains charming all round the year, which makes a trip to Munnar enjoyable during any season of the year. Luxurious resorts featuring a comprehensive array of updated conveniences amidst the most fascinating beauties of nature are found at various parts of the town set up on sprawling green hills and meadows.
Aranyaka Resort, Blackberry Hills Retreat & Spa, KTDC Tea County, Camp Noel, Misty Mountain Resort, Devonshire Greens, Deshadan Mountain Resorts, Emmel Dwellings, Tea Valley Resort, The Tall Trees, Bella Vista Resort, Westwood Riverside Garden Resorts, The Silver Tips Munnar, Clouds Valley Leisure Hotel and Grand Plaza Munnar are some of the finest options for accommodation in Munnar. These popular resorts in Munnar allows a sightseer to explore the natural resources abundant in the region as well as appreciate the highest level of hospitality provided to the guests at these pleasant homestays.
How to Reach Munnar from Thiruvananthapuram
Since there is no direct train from Thiruvananthapuram to Munnar, one has to take a train till Mulanthuruthy; from there one can hire cab or taxi to reach Munnar. It takes around 5-7 hours to reach Munnar from Thiruvananthapuram.
Only one State Transport Bus runs between Thiruvananthapuram and Munnar, which takes around 9 hours to reach the hill station form Thiruvananthapuram.
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by Jackie Craven
Jackie Craven, Doctor of Arts in Writing, has over 20 years of experience writing about architecture and the arts. She is the author of two books on home decor and sustainable design and a collection of art-themed poetry.
Danish architect Jørn Utzon (1918-2008) is well-known for iconic exterior forms, like the Sydney Opera House, but what about the insides? Here we see his interest in light, the mixture of natural materials with natural light, and an "intense interest in Islamic architecture." The 2003 Pritzker Jury wrote that "He has always been ahead of his time," and his swirling concrete forms — reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright's later architecture — upholds that belief. Utzon created modern forms before computers could tell builders how the design could be done. Nonetheless, architecture happened. Join us for a short photo tour of Utzon's interiors, including foyers and sanctuaries open to the public for all to enjoy.
The Sydney Opera House, 1973
Inside the Sydney Opera House.
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Utzon's design for the Sydney Opera House in Australia seemed to defy the rules of architecture, engineering, and aesthetics when it was chosen in a 1957 international competition. Today, this Modern Expressionist building is one of the most famous and most photographed structures of the modern era. Why? It's complicated, inside and out, and within the mathematically intense engineering is a beauty as natural as a seashell. As organic as a sail on Sydney Harbor. Without a doubt, this controversial complex is Jørn Utzon's masterpiece, yet most of the interior space was constructed without his supervision.
Bagsvaerd Church, 1976
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Jørn Utzon was inspired by the passage of clouds when he designed this serene church just north of Copenhagen, Denmark. The folds in the sanctuary's ceiling roll over the congregation's benches like billowing masses, natural light breaking through the skylights and clerestory-like fenestration. Note that the organ pipes — traditional church detail — can be hidden behind cabinet-like doors, changing the interior space to appear more secular or to modify the acoustics, which continues to be a complaint at the Sydney venue.
Kingo Housing Project, Helsingor, Denmark, 1957
Kingo Houses by Jørn Utzon, 1957.
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Jørn Utzon said that arrangement of the dwellings in this low-income housing project resembled "flowers on the branch of cherry tree, each turning toward the sun." This was the first of two courtyard housing projects, the second being in Fredensborg. Both Utzon projects rise above the mid-century suburban developments found in America at the time. Instead of the commercial marketing of property and home-ownership, Utzon's vision included elements of the organic architecture promoted by Frank Lloyd Wright. Utzon met Wright in 1949 and was clearly influenced by blending of indoors with outdoors. Utzon went further, however, by designing the community, thoughtfully placing each dwelling within the landscape in what the Pritzker Jury would call "handsome, humane housing."
Utzon's Home, Hellebaek, Denmark, 1952
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In this seemingly simple patio Jørn Utzon designed as a home for his family, we see the architectural elements that first inspired him as an architect — the platform, the privacy wall, the natural building elements, the views of nature. "The range of his projects is vast," claims the Pritzker Jury. Yet, it's not difficult to see similarities in all of the architectural designs of the 2003 Pritzker Laureate.
The Utzon Center, 2008
The Utzon Center in Aalborg, Denmark, Designed by Jørn Utzon and Inaugurated in May 2008. Bang Clemme Film & Openhouse/utzoncenter.dk
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Not your average country music tribute: 'Bacon Grease and The Lost Song' at Julia Martin Gallery
“Bacon Grease and The Lost Song,” on view through Nov. 30 at Julia Martin Gallery, offers an intimate homage to country music that’s far from cliché.
Not your average country music tribute: 'Bacon Grease and The Lost Song' at Julia Martin Gallery “Bacon Grease and The Lost Song,” on view through Nov. 30 at Julia Martin Gallery, offers an intimate homage to country music that’s far from cliché. Check out this story on Tennessean.com: https://www.tennessean.com/story/life/arts/2019/11/01/julia-martin-exhibit-a-tribute-to-country-music/4099839002/
Melinda Baker, Special to Nashville Tennessean / USA TODAY NETWORK — TENNESSEE Published 5:00 a.m. CT Nov. 1, 2019
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Jon Langford, “Bible Black,” 2008, acrylic mixed media on wood, 24”x18.” On view through Nov. 30 at Julia Martin Gallery as part of “Bacon Grease and The Lost Song.” Image courtesy of the artist
Jon Langford, “Death of Country Music,” 2008, acrylic mixed media on wood, 24x18.” On view through Nov. 30 at Julia Martin Gallery as part of "Bacon Grease and the Lost Song." Image courtesy of the artist
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Wayne White, "Dolly," oil and acrylic on paper, 10.75” x 8.75.” On view through Nov. 30 at Julia Martin Gallery as part of "Bacon Grease and the Lost Song." Image courtesy of Julia Martin Gallery
Wayne White, "George Jones," oil and acrylic on paper, 13.25” x 9.5". On view through Nov. 30 at Julia Martin Gallery as part of "Bacon Grease and the Lost Song." Image courtesy of Julia Martin Gallery
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“Bacon Grease and The Lost Song,” on view through Nov. 30 at Julia Martin Gallery (JMG), offers an intimate homage to country music that’s far from cliché. Curated by Daniel Lonow, manager of the Country Music Hall of Fame’s Haley Gallery, the exhibition brings together the art of Wayne White and Jon Langford, two renowned artists who share a love of classic country music.
For decades, both artists have channeled that love into their own highly distinctive mixed-media portraits of icons like Hank Williams, Dolly Parton, Bill Monroe and Tammy Wynette, among others. The small, WeHo gallery space is filled with more than 30 of White and Langford’s recent pieces, and they are as personal and gritty as the twangy songs that put “Music City” on the map.
“I wanted to put together a show that celebrates Nashville's roots and traditions in a way that isn’t guitar art,” Lonow says. "Jon and Wayne are preserving the legacy of those who made this city what it is and bringing it into the fine art world, which isn’t often associated with country music.”
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Artist Wayne White (Photo: Christos Katsiaoun)
A disciple of old country music
Born just outside of Chattanooga and based in L.A., White is many things: puppeteer, art director, illustrator, painter, banjo player. He is well known for his puppet and set design work on children’s shows like “Pee-wee’s Playhouse.” He’s also celebrated in the art world for his sardonic “word paintings.” In recent years, he’s focused more on his portraits of country musicians he reveres, work he’s worshipfully made throughout his career.
“I’ve been a disciple of old '40s, '50s and '60s country music since I was in high school,” says White. “I love drawing pictures of Hank Williams, George Jones, Ernest Tubb, Loretta Lynn, Minnie Pearl and all those legends. It’s a big part of what I do.”
White’s drawings and mixed-media watercolor portraits are delicate and colorful. His subjects are caricatured and often set against empty fields of bright pigment. In one painting, Tammy Wynette sits on a yellow couch staring pensively at the viewer as abstracted shapes and scribbled lines swirl around her. In another, June Carter appears stiff and doll-like, frozen mid-dance step on a blank white page with cryptic letter-M’s hovering above. His images feel distant and fleeting, like echoes from the past.
“I love illustrating the intimate, looked-over human moments,” he says. “The small scale draws you in. I do it as an excuse to experiment with line and color, with looking and interpreting. I also do it out of love for these musicians.”
Artist and musician Jon Langford (Photo: Dean Crindau)
Country music is 'kind of punk'
Originally from Wales and based in Chicago, Langford is an acclaimed musician and visual artist. He founded the seminal U.K. punk band the Mekons and has worked with many other bands, including The Three Johns and the Waco Brothers. He’s also designed album and book covers, beer labels for Dogfish Head Brewery, and is well-known for his portraits of country music icons.
“Country music is great at confronting reality,” Langford says. “There’s a directness to the music of Merle Haggard, George Jones, Patsy Cline and visionaries like that. They went against the stereotypes of what they were supposed to be and weren’t crippled by depressing conservativism. I love that. It’s kind of punk.”
Using a combination of painting and printmaking techniques, Langford’s intricate, multilayered paintings demonstrate his extraordinary draftsmanship and exude age with their scarred surfaces and faded hues. His subjects look as poised and emblematic as they would on concert posters, but their facades have been drained of color and blemished with marks and scrapes. Poignant text swirls around them and recurring motifs of skulls and floral embellishments point to Langford’s fondness for Day of the Dead art. He says it all started with the nicotine-stained photos of country stars he saw hanging at Tootsies Orchid Lounge while on tour of the U.S. in 1988.
“I was a musician who’d come out on the wrong end of some major deals, and saw all the photos of famous country musicians at that fulcrum moment in the music business, when you’re smiling and signing contracts. You’re so hopeful of the future. Meanwhile, we harbored this kind of jaded nostalgia for our own moment. Those pictures were inspirations. Everything golden had become yellowed from 50 years of cigarette smoke. I wanted to tell those stories and emulate the erosion of what happened to these legends’ careers and lives. I still use that yellow color. It’s very powerful.”
What: “Bacon Grease and The Lost Song”
Where: 444 Humphreys St.
When: through Nov. 30
Hours: noon-6 p.m. Thursday-Saturday; by appointment Wednesdays
Other: On Saturday, November 2, 6 p.m.-9 p.m. JMG will host a special art crawl event in conjunction with the show, featuring musical performances by John Langford and his Nashville Superstar band, featuring Paul Burch and Pete Finney.
More arts coverage: Frist Art Museum presents sweeping exhibition of art by Native American women
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How long has Thales Defense & Security, Inc. been in existence?
Thales Defense & Security, Inc. was incorporated as Racal Communications, Inc. in 1964. In 2000, Racal became part of Thomson-CSF, and, in 2001, as part of a global change, the company’s name became Thales Communications, Inc. As a result of acquisitions and intra-Thales mergers, the company expanded in 2013, increasing its technology base and product portfolio. In October 2013, the company changed its name to Thales Defense & Security, Inc.
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Dealer snared after visiting police station to report ‘stolen cash’
Lewis Reid: Dealer snared after visiting police station to report ‘stolen cash’
Bridge of Weir man Lewis Reid
A DRUG dealer who supplied pills that killed a teenage girl has been jailed after he was caught with cocaine by savvy police officers.
Lewis Reid, of Kilbarchan Road, Bridge of Weir, had gone to Paisley police station to report that he had lost £700 of his drug money – and thought it had been stolen.
But officers became suspicious and checked his car, which was parked at the Lagoon Leisure Centre.
During the search, they recovered cocaine and scales covered in white powder.
Reid, 22, was locked up for 10 months when he appeared in the dock at Paisley Sheriff Court earlier this month for sentencing.
The court was told Reid visited the police station shortly before 7am on the day in question.
He claimed he had lost or had a stash of cash stolen while his car was parked outside a supermarket at the Silverburn shopping mall.
But cops pulled him aside after he began acting erratically.
They found bags containing cocaine and gear for separating and measuring hits when they spotted his car after leaving the station.
Reid admitted his guilt over the case in February this year, just weeks after admitting a revenge porn offence involving an ex-girlfriend.
He had shared a video of her showering on the social media app Snapchat – with the caption ‘4 laughs.’
Reid was supposed to be sentenced over the drugs case in March but failed to turn up at court and a warrant was issued for his arrest.
Earlier this month, he returned to the dock to be sentenced for the drugs case, originally failing to appear for sentencing and breaching a Community Payback Order imposed on him over the revenge porn offence.
Sheriff James Spy told him: “You’ve been overtaken by other events and I intend to simply draw a line under these matters.”
He jailed Reid for six months for the drugs case and a further four months for the revenge porn offence and ordered the sentences to be consecutive, meaning a combined total of 10 months’ jail time.
The “other events” the sheriff referred to includes a Kilmarnock Sheriff Court case where it emerged Reid had sold the ecstasy that killed 16-year-old Chelsea Bruce.
The court heard that Ms Bruce took drugs at a house in Springburn before falling unconscious and being taken by ambulance to Glasgow Royal Infirmary, where she died.
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5 GENDERS: THE STORY OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN TWO-SPIRITS
Posted on July 6, 2016 March 11, 2019 by The Numinous
Prior to Christian intervention, fluid gender identities of the Native American Two Spirits were seen as a gift from the gods, says Pearson McKinney…
Celebrated Lakota Two Spirit Osh-Tisch (left) with his wife.
It wasn’t until Europeans took over North America that natives adopted the ideas of gender roles. For Native Americans, there was no set of rules that men and women had to abide by in order to be considered a “normal” member of their tribe.
In fact, people who had both female and male characteristics were viewed as gifted by nature, and therefore, able to see both sides of everything. According to Duane Brayboy, writing in Indian Country Today, all native communities acknowledged the following gender roles: “Female, Male, Two Spirit Female, Two Spirit Male and Transgendered.”
He goes on to describe how: “Each tribe has their own specific term, but there was a need for a universal term that the general population could understand. The Navajo refer to two spirits as nádleehí (one who is transformed); among the Lakota is winkté (indicative of a male who has a compulsion to behave as a female), niizh manidoowag (two spirit); in Ojibwe, hemaneh (half man, half woman), to name a few.”
As the purpose of ‘Two Spirit’ is to be used as a universal term in the English language, it is not always translatable with the same meaning in native languages. For example, in the Iroquois Cherokee language, there is no way to translate the term, but the Cherokee do have gender variance terms for ‘women who feel like men’ and vice versa.”
The Two Spirit culture of Native Americans was one of the first things Europeans worked to destroy and cover up. According to people like American artist George Catlin, the Two Spirit tradition had to be eradicated before it could go into history books. Catlin said the tradition: “must be extinguished before it can be more fully recorded.”
And as Brayboy also notes: “Spanish Catholic monks destroyed most of the Aztec codices to eradicate traditional Native beliefs and history, including those that told of the Two Spirit tradition.” As a result, Native Americans were forced to dress and act according to newly designated gender roles.
One of the most celebrated Two Spirits in recorded history was a Lakota warrior fiercely named Finds Them And Kills Them. Osh-Tisch (see main image) was born a male and married a female, but adorned himself in women’s clothing and lived daily life as a female. On June 17 1876, Finds Them And Kills Them earned his stripes when he rescued a fellow tribesman during the Battle of Rosebud Creek, an act of fearless bravery.
It’s an example of how in Native American cultures, people were valued for their contributions to the tribe, regardless of the gender attributes they exhibited. Parents did not assign gender roles to children either, and children’s clothing tended to be gender neutral. There were no ideas or ideals about how a person should love; it was simply a natural act that occurred without judgment.
Without a negative stigma attached to being a Two Spirit, there were also no inner-tribal incidents of retaliation or violence toward the chosen people simply due to the fact they identified as the opposite or both genders. If anything; “Traditional Native Americans closely associate Two Spirited people with having a high functioning intellect (possibly from a life of self-questioning), keen artistic skills and an exceptional capacity for compassion,” writes Brayboy.
We’wha (1849-1896), of the Zuni nation. We’wha was biologically male and engendered with a female spirit.
Once outside religious influences brought serious prejudice against “gender diversity,” openly alternative or androgynous people were forced into to one of two choices. They could either live in hiding, and in fear of being found out, or they could end their lives. Many of whom did just that.
Imagine a world where people allowed others to live freely as the people nature intended them to be, without harm, without persecution, without shame. Imagine a world where we are truly free.
This article originally appeared on Bipartisan Report. For further reading visit Indian Country Today.
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COSMIC FASHION + BEAUTY NEWS: JULY 2016
Posted on July 5, 2016 November 4, 2018 by Gabriela Herstik
Material girl, mystical world indeed—Gabriela Herstik rounds up all that’s cosmic in fashion and beauty for July 2016.
Rihanna in Rick Owens
In RiRi’s latest music video, “Sledgehammer,” we’re taken on a journey to a distant planet somewhere far away in the cosmos—where eyebrows are optional and Rick Owens is a necessity. Rihanna dons a burnt orange, draped Rick Owens masterpiece, face tattoos, textured silver cuffs and a matching choker, and the perfect black lips (which you can copy with this Kat Von Dee lipstick.) Who knew, but if anyone can play up the role of galactic fashion alien goddess, it’s Rihanna—proving this Pisces babe to be a truly mystical mama (who’d look perfect on a Starchild Tarot card).
Vivienne Westwood MAN SS17
Aries powerhouse and activist Dame Vivienne Westwood has done it again, creating a genderfluid collection for MAN Spring/Summer 2017. In true Westwood fashion, there were drop crotch velvet trousers in plush scarlet, reworked netted blouses, heart chakra cut-outs, with plenty of layering in the house’s signature stripes. Westwood has always been on the forefront of what’s political in fashion—hello, mother of punk—and, of course, the runway show started with a video message in support of Julian Assange, as he begins his fifth year in unlawful confinement. Who says fashion is all fluff, anyway?
Willow Smith for Chanel
Willow Smith, alien enthusiast and soon-to-be power woman, has been named face of Chanel for the brand’s Fall 2016 eyewear campaign. Smith looks exquisite in the campaign (below) in Chanel shades, an evil eye chain (with plenty of diamonds) and a septum piercing. High fashion is still (!!!) finding its way to being truly inclusive, so signing Smith is a statement to say the least. Last time dreads were featured in a Chanel campaign, it was on a white woman.
SWETE
Is a new leisurewear label from Parsons-trained, London-based, Aussie designer Emily Nam. Easy-to-wear pieces include t-shirts, sweaters, sweatpants, dresses and skirts, inspired by 1990s street culture and woven with a social mission to boot. All cotton is Australian certified organic, which means grown without the use of pesticides, herbicides and chemical fertilizers, while Nam only works with suppliers who pay their employees a fair wage. And with a campaign featuring British artist Phoebe Collings-James (above), what’s not to love?
Concrete Minerals Black Magic Collection
100% cruelty-free, vegan and American made, Concrete Minerals has us under their spell—especially since their “Black Magic” collection, which features names like Séance, Bitches Brew and Arsenic, is a everything a witchy woman could want in a mineral eyeshadow. The iridescent shades in hues of cranberry, rose and violet, are super pigmented and made without any preservatives, and are begging to be worn with your layered quartz necklace and cat eye. Bonus—stare into the pots of for long enough and it’s like looking at an ethereal planet somewhere in a galaxy far away…
The next frontier for celebrity makeup artist and all around bad bitch Jeffree Star is…makeup. Namely his line of cruelty free, Los Angeles-made eye, lip and face products, which are almost consistently sold out already. Perhaps the most noteworthy of his products is his Velour Liquid Lipstick, with names such as Scorpio (a muted lavender/violet), Gemini (a soft brick red) and Dominatrix (a deep chocolate brown). And for a truly otherworldly glow, check out Skin Frost—a highlighter that provides the perfect pixie/ mermaid/alien sheen. On it.
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POLITICAL CLIMATE CHANGE: A COSMIC OVERVIEW
Posted on June 29, 2016 March 11, 2019 by The Numinous
We’re living through a time of intense political climate change, as reflected in the Cosmos. Five of our favorite mystics unpack the signs of the times…and weigh in on the way ahead. Artwork: Sammy Slabbinck
Here on The Numinous, astrology is not a tool for “predicting” future events, or explaining things away while abdicating our role in shaping how our lives play out—both individually, and as a society.
Rather, we see astrology as a language of symbols that speaks to our collective human experience on Earth, offering valuable perspective and allowing us to examine the bigger picture—especially useful at times when emotions are running high, clouding our judgement and making it difficult to choose the next right course of action.
As in the case of Britain’s recent referendum to leave the EU, the shock results of which have seen a nation spiral into panic and chaos. Made all the more vertigo-inducing against a backdrop of unrelenting terrorist attacks, and an emotionally fraught US election campaign.
Last month, in an eerie foreshadowing of the central issues to Brexit, New York magazine described the Clinton-Trump race as: “kind of a civil war. It’s a referendum on the country’s feelings about inclusion, about women, people of color, and their increasing influence…how it edges out the white men who have long held an exclusive grip on power.”
In short, it’s safe to say we are living through a period of intense political climate change—as written in the current movements of the celestial bodies. Skeptical? Since the political polls leading up to the Brexit referendum were woefully misleading (echoing the last general election in the UK), the wisdom offered by our resident astrologers below—including commentary on what will be needed of us moving forward—feels as relevent as anything the political scientists have got to say…
PLUTO IN CAPRICORN by Ash Bonelli
We are in unstable times, and have been financially since 2008 when Pluto, the planet of wealth/power, moved into the structural sign of Capricorn—and the extent of financial corruption in the world began to come to light. We’re currently half way through this cycle—during which we have seen a growing divide between rich and poor with the emergence of a super-elite, as well as major differences in values between the generations. (NB. “Even eerier? The last time Pluto was in Capricorn was 1762-1778, the exact time when the U.S. was fighting for its independence from England. It was also during this transit that Thomas Jefferson sounded the rallying cry for “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” and helped author the U.S. Constitution.” – Ophira Edut)
SATURN SQUARE NEPTUNE by Ameila Quint
The Saturn-Neptune square, currently occurring November 2015 through September 2016, is shifting cultural philosophies on a global scale. To give you the big picture, this alignment has caused ideological clashes for centuries in a looping cycle that goes back as far as the Salem Witch Trials and the Crusades!
Saturn is in Sagittarius, the sign of foreign affairs, expatriates, and immigration—all issues at the heart of the Brexit referendum. Sagittarius also rules expansion, so we’re being called to open our hearts and minds to new ways of relating and thinking. Unfortunately, this change won’t come easy with tough Saturn in play.
On the other hand, Neptune is in Pisces, his home sign. This magnifies the energies of compassion, healing, and spirituality. It’s a call from the Universe to ask, on a societal level, what you believe and why. The Brexit referendum did just that. It’s also interesting that Saturn and Neptune are both associated with karma in their own way, because the reverberations of this vote have certainly been karmic in scope.
JUPITER TRINE PLUTO by Ophira Edut
The announcement of Brexit also coincided with the June 26 barrier-breaking Jupiter-Pluto trine, a rare meet-up between global connector Jupiter and powerhouse Pluto. Trines are generally positive and harmonious—but they can also cause things to move quickly, and this massive upheaval happened in the blink of an eye, or so it seemed.
Jupiter is an excitable, optimistic planet that can quickly overshoot its mark. The hopeful populists did not wake up the morning after Brexit economically or politically empowered, but rather, to a currency that plunged to its lowest value in 31 years overnight.
Jupiter is also the “armchair philosopher” of the cosmos, whose starry-eyed visions don’t necessarily translate into reality. Stateside, we hear echoes of Trump’s “Make America great again” slogan. Um, perspective please? If anything, Trump—with his Plutonian land grabs and abuses of power—is making America hate again. And that’s the last thing this world needs now.
MARS DIRECT by Hannah Ariel
With warrior planet Mars about to go direct in controlling Scorpio (June 30th 2016) our urge to define, defend and protect boundaries is intensified to extremes. Mars in Scorpio demands that our actions reflect our integrity—and as it resumes direct motion, what we “yes” and “no” to becomes an act of personal empowerment.
This is a period of cutting ties, creating new bonds, and ultimately realizing from whence we draw our power—and what we must do with this power once we feel we have it. Scorpio rules creation and re-creation, so there is nothing being destroyed at this time that cannot be re-created.
THE UNIVERSAL 9 YEAR by Felicia Bender
In numerology, 2016 is a Universal 9 year—the number of completion, of letting go, transition, and transformation. It is a year of surrender, in it’s truest sense—a positive, intuitive way of living, that grows we learn to develop trust.
Trust that’s needed in a time where old paradigms are crumbling, dissolving, going up in flames or coming up for serious review. We can see this everywhere, from Trumpmania, mass violence, and displaced refugees, to the spotlight on rape culture, and the Brexit referendum—to name just a few boiling points. Numerologically, this is right on time.
This is the end of a cycle, and we can’t move into the next phase without a sobering and stark look at what has been (since the cycle began in 2008—the last universal 1 year) and where we’re at. The task at hand is to then let go of all that’s no longer serving all of us. This isn’t easy. It’s terrifying. It incites anger and fear and every other possible emotion.
“We can use this Saturn/Neptune square for the overall good. We must work on building a solid foundation (Saturn) that is created from a place of justice for all (Neptune). A place where everyone has their needs met. A society where equality becomes commonplace. But it will take time, patience, respect and dedication to achieve these Neptunian dreams.” – Ash Bonelli
“Saturn rules authorities while Neptune rules visionaries, and these groups were very much square to each other in the Brexit polling results. Still, the only way to make this transit work is to find a balance. In this case, this means steadying dogma with compassion, and laws meant to protect with laws that truly heal.” – Amelia Quint
“If anything, Brexit and Donald Trump’s shocking success is exposing an inconvenient truth: Despite the gains of social policies such as marriage equality, there’s a hate-filled Orlando shooter, a Brock Turner getting a tiny slap on the wrist in the Stanford rape case, millions of scared and small-minded people who would rather tank their economy than allow a Muslim or a Mexican to cross “their” (in some cases stolen) borders. We can’t sweep this under the rug or look the other way much longer…which, while also inconvenient, is a wakeup call we can’t ignore.” – Ophira Edut
“The key? Understand that what must fall away must do so without a net, leaving behind a liminal space—a gap. Understanding that we must make friends with this vortex of uncertainty while the old is cleared and the new is being created. And despite all of our impulses otherwise, we must enter into this space with optimism and a sense of excitement, because here is the opportunity of a lifetime to create something new on a massive scale. This process is not for wimps. It’s easier to criticize and despair. Yet it’s our challenge and our charge to visualize and create a now and a future that is more evolved and humanitarian across the board.” – Felicia Bender
“Stay tuned for how this plays out, as the Sun in Cancer will come into its yearly opposition to Pluto in Capricorn July 1st, reminding us that what brings us comfort can also at times hinder out ability to grow. No matter how much is perceived to be at stake these days, the astrology of the times reminds us that it’s all for the sake of transformation.” – Hannah Ariel
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COSMIC CULTURE FOR MAY 2016
Posted on April 30, 2016 March 11, 2019 by Amelia Quint
Check out Amelia Quint’s round-up of cosmic culture for May 2016, bringing you the most mystical new releases in music, film, and literature…
Queen Bey
:: MUSIC ::
If you haven’t watched or listened to Lemonade yet, you’re missing out on one of the most powerful musical events of our generation. More than an album or documentary alone, Lemonade is a work of feminist, activist art. Fueled by the blues and righteous anger, Queen Bey’s Moon – Uranus – Lilith in Scorpio conjunction roars louder than ever. Lucky Jupiter is transiting her Virgo sun in the selfless twelfth house, immaculate timing for her to give the world such an amazing gift.
Lemonade is available now on iTunes, Amazon, and Tidal.
Already a mainstay in the electronic music world, Maya Jane Cole’s NSFW brand of genderfluid, sexually charged charisma has her poised for mainstream success. Peaches’ new album, Rub Remixed, was created entirely by female and female-identifying producers – how’s that for divine feminine? Her Sun, Moon, Venus, and Neptune are aligned in magnetic Scorpio, and she has Mercury retrograde in Sagittarius, a placement known both for its poetic potential and ability to shock.
Rub Remixed is set for release on May 27.
:: TELEVISION ::
Don’t waste your precious energy on TV this month, as May is heartbreakingly devoid of any high-vibe premieres. Instead, take the time you’d spend binge-watching Netflix and pay respects to the incredible artists that have recently passed beyond the veil.
Watch Prince as he debuts his signature purple style and Jimi Hendrix worthy guitar riffs in Purple Rain, or David Bowie in his iconic turn as the Goblin King in Labyrinth. Light a candle, listen to their music, or perhaps write something of your own. Ask yourself: “What legacy do I want to leave behind in this world when I move on to the next?”
:: FILM ::
An adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s critically acclaimed novel, this dystopian thriller follows the tenants of a luxury high-rise apartment building as they descend into Lord of the Flies-esque tribalism. The novel is a cutting critique of materialism and excess in modern society – must know themes for any modern mystic. If the Kubrick inspired poster is any indication (A Clockwork Orange, anyone?), this is going to be good.
High Rise is scheduled for US release on May 13.
What witch can resist the charms of Lewis Carroll? In this sequel to the live-action 2010 film, wild card Gemini Johnny Depp reprises his role as the Mad Hatter, along with many other original cast members including Helena Bonham Carter and Anne Hathaway. In keeping with the ancestors theme, Alan Rickman is featured here as the voice of the Blue Caterpillar. Go for the memories of Professor Snape, stay for what’s sure to be an magical escape.
Alice Through the Looking Glass is scheduled for US release on May 27.
You can read our full review of The Witch in last month’s Cosmic Culture post, but great news…
The Witch will be available on DVD on May 17. Yes, please!
:: BOOKS ::
THE INNER FIX: BE STRONGER, HAPPIER AND BRAVER
Addictive Daughter
In the first book from Persia Lawson and Joey Bradford, the YouTube self-help divas known collectively as Addictive Daughter share their personal strategies for navigating life in an overstimulating world. With practical videos like “The Trick to Manifesting Your Ideal Lover”, “Why It’s Okay to Be Jealous of Your Friends”, and “How to Stop Anxiety & Panic Attacks in an Instant,” their written advice is sure to be as entertaining as it is enlightening.
The Inner Fix will be available on May 19 via Yellow Kite Books.
365 TAROT SPELLS: CREATING THE MAGIC IN EACH DAY
365 Tarot Spells
Are you a tarot lover who wants to learn magick? This book is for you! In Sasha Graham’s follow-up to 365 Tarot Spreads, she offers a spell for every day of the year based on the archetypes of the tarot. According to the book description, each spell has a list of ingredients, visualization, meditation, affirmation, and card layout — oh my! With enchantments for money, career, creativity, love, and more, Graham definitely has your magical needs covered.
365 Tarot Spells will be available May 8 via Llewellyn Worldwide.
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COSMIC CULTURE FOR APRIL
Posted on March 30, 2016 March 11, 2019 by Amelia Quint
Check out Amelia Quint’s round-up of cosmic culture for April, bringing you the most mystical new releases in music, film, and literature…
If you’re experiencing an inner underworld journey, channel Ishtar and listen to Chelsea Wolfe’s Abyss. According to Consequence of Sound, the album is a metaphor for descending into the subconscious. It’s also inspired by her experience with sleep paralysis – a condition that causes vivid, disturbing hallucinations on a nightly basis. That sense of the numinous comes across in her stark black and white artwork, ethereal personal style, and fuzz-driven music.
Chelsea Wolfe kicks off her tour in Las Vegas on April 24 with dates across the United States through June 7.
It’s Aries season, which means it’s the perfect time to roll down the windows, turn up the music, and take a ride. That’s what you’ll want to do when you hear Desert Mountain Tribe’s feisty, psychedelic brand of rock and roll. With titles like “Interstellar,” “Heaven and Hell,” “Leave It Behind,” and “Feel The Light,” it’s definitely cosmic in scope.
Their new album, Either That Or The Moon, is set to release April 3, and the band is touring the United States all month.
Hulu’s new character drama, starring Aaron Paul of Breaking Bad fame, follows a husband and wife’s relationship as they are seduced into a fictional upstate New York cult. Trigger warning: the show’s tagline, “to belong you must believe,” may feel eerily familiar to those who have had negative experiences with organized religion or exclusionary spiritualities; however, it poses important questions that we, as mystics, need to address.
The Path debuts on Hulu March 30.
THE UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT
If you’re looking for high vibe Netflix bender material, look no further. Relentlessly optimistic, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is the ultimate in positive entertainment. If you’ve been living in a bunker for the last year, the show follows Kimmy as she navigates life in New York after escaping a doomsday cult. Her unflappable spirit in the face of trauma – and everyday disappointments – will inspire you to keep going. The completely on-point social commentary and hilarious banter are the icing on the cake.
Season 2 premieres on Netflix April 15.
Put away your Gilbert Grape memes – Leo finally got his Oscar (with additional thanks to the moon and Mars in his sign of Scorpio on the big night). The intense Scorpio energy of his chart also helped him pull off a gripping performance as frontiersman Hugh Glass in 2015’s award season sweetheart, The Revenant. In the film, DiCaprio as Glass faces down a grizzly bear and, ultimately, nature itself. Is it allegory or coincidence? You decide.
The Revenant will be available on DVD and Blu-Ray on April 19.
I’d be in remiss if I didn’t recommend Robert Eggers’s The Witch, a stunning (and disturbing) depiction of a Puritan family who become cursed by a witch living in a nearby wood. It’s certainly not perfect, but the film is rich in folklore and got a surprising amount right about modern witchcraft – including psychic attacks, wild nature, and sacred sex. You can read my full review here.
The Witch was released on February 19, but is still in many theaters due to popular demand.
#HIGHERSELFIE
Can spirituality and social media coexist? In their new book, #HIGHERSELFIE, UK life coaches Lucy Sheridan and Jo Westwood say yes! Together they investigate why astrology, tarot, crystals and everything Now Age is taking over the blogosphere. Billed as a spiritual manifesto for Gen Y, the authors also offer up straightforward advice on how to avoid the “compare and despair” trap, let sh*t go, and generally stay on your ultralight beam.
#HIGHERSELFIE will be released via Hay House UK on April 5.
BECOMING WISE
In Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living , Krista Tippett mines her experience as host of NPR’s On Being for spiritual lessons on the nature of existence. Her list of awards and credentials are impressive, but what’s even more so is the philosophical conversation she’s distilled into this book. She gathers powerful teachings from “across disciplines and denominations” into a 21st-century meditation on truth, beauty, and love.
Becoming Wise will be released via Penguin Press on April 5.
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COMFORTABLY NUMB: AN AMNESTY ON COOL
Posted on February 28, 2016 March 11, 2019 by Kate Atkinson
Enough with the hiding your real self behind your artfully composed selfies. It’s time to call an amnesty on cool, says Comfortably Numb columnist Kate Atkinson.
I want to declare an amnesty on modern cool – realizing this is one of the most uncool statements I could write, and more than aware that several people will probably be cringing reading this. If you are, call me anti-millennial and grind away. But if you’d have hoped we’d left it behind in high school, it seems like “cool” is an extremely contagious epidemic no thanks to the digital revolution.
What exactly is cool anyway? It’s an intangible phenomena that you can’t really touch, a state of being that defines the way you walk and talk, what you wear, the music you listen to, where you’re eating, and whether something is on trend – that is, worthy of likes on Instagram. It’s visceral. You can just feel it. And when it comes to true self-expression, I have to say, the modern version is a straight-jacket.
I also want to preface this story with the fact that while, yes, I do have tattoos, by no means am I an expert on cool. I was on the debating team at school – enough said. But I have got up close and personal enough with this insidious contagion to know how it works, and the more I examine its motives, it’s beginning to feel like cool is the root of an identity crisis that’s plaguing our generation.
A girlfriend put it perfectly when I asked what it means to be cool: “it’s the desire to be accepted, the need for validation, the urge to seem radical, despite longing to fit in.” And so it goes. Oh, the dichotomy of being human. Our narcissistic tendencies AND our insecurities are fuelled by cool, especially at a time when platforms for inclusion and exclusion are at an all time high.
Are you aspiring to be an “influencer?” This breed is all about being seen and accepted, “liked” on the interweb. For them, Instagram is basically a digi-friendly version of the high school cheerleading team. Things are sold to us now by “seeding” them with cool people. Brands, celebrities, and destinations are made by their manufactured “cool factor.” What I want to know is, what happened to under-the-radar cool of yesteryear?
In his 2013 book “The Cool School”Glenn O’Brien talks about the new tastemakers. But his cool “squad” were, put simply, incredibly creative weirdos. Homeless Jazz beatniks, bohos and roaming beat poets. Anyone who made people uncomfortable basically. Something tells me that they wouldn’t be invited to Kim and Kanye’s dinner party.
We live in an age of such style over substance that it’s incredibly hard to rage against the machine and do your own thing. In fact, a study commissioned by smartphone maker HTC late last year revealed that 52% of the approximately 1000 Brits surveyed admitted to posting images of possessions and items with an intention of making their “friends” jealous. What the hey?
Wasn’t this cool thing supposed to be people going against the grain? Rather than just sticking up photo-shopped images captioned: “I ate, I pooped, I wore Celine!” Now pardon my French, but WTF? If this isn’t numbing what’s going on in our down and dirty daily human reality, I don’t know what is.
Because cool these days is about hiding the “sad” half of your life and projecting the best bits. Ambivalence is also key – pretending not to care, even (especially) if you do. Which is basically saying to your soul that your true hopes and aspirations count for nothing unless they fit with whatever’s trending this month. And yet, as the late Philip Seymour Hoffman’s character puts it in cult classic Almost Famous: “The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool.”
A moment please to consider this: when the cool castles in the sky come crashing down around you and you’re left with the reality of your life, who out of your carefully curated online “tribe” will actually be there to help cushion the fall? Because what you’re really doing when you shield the real you with a glossy veneer of cool, is construct a bulletproof force field that deflects true intimacy.
So beside a total social media detox and cancelling our memberships to Soho House, how can we wake up from this aspirational bullshit existence that we’re creating for ourselves? By taking the time to get conscious to how we while away our days, and creating meaning in every interaction. By walking our talk, with our roots firmly entrenched in reality.
It sounds so obvious, but social media is the great distractor when it comes to following your own expressive intuition….and it’s there for seeking approval when you do actually create something. The old greats weren’t preoccupied with showcasing their creativity, they just did it.
It’s a mythic delusion and a safety net to communicate and earn accolades in this way – as well as a way to mask what’s actually going on. Surely giving away change on the subway is also worth a few “likes” – so why aren’t we posting on Instagram about that? “Saw a nice guy dish out change today on the subway – what a dude!” Shouldn’t he be the real “influencer?”
These stories DO come up on social media – and when they do it’s meaningful, the positive slant on modern technology. But too often, they’re engulfed in a stream of exclusivity: “I ate this, my bae wears that” – with resulting countless digital high fives and @s to follow.
I know my feed rarely delves beyond the aesthetics. And yes, fashion week happens, and friends stay in epic mansions. There are days at the beach with the clearest water ever. Again, I am not counting myself out of ANY of this malarchy, I am as partial to a well-posed selfie as the rest of us. But the lack of reality is what’s wrong with this whole picture, and it’s beginning to be all I can see.
Can’t somebody invent “Unstagram” for the days you’re feeling a bit off? For when you get dumped, you spent the last two days in tracksuit from Target, or you have an embarrassing medical problem?
Because you know what’s really cool? Being real. Not some projection of me me, me, me, I’m so fabulous, watch me eat, watch me sleep! Watch me break my arm! Look at me tagging historical references to show how tapped in and culturally aware I am.
Are we really this dumb? Is there no end to our ridiculous need for validation? This is the worst kind of cool that there is, and what’s more, this culture of exclusion is not social by any means. It’s actually scientifically proven to be making people chronically depressed.
So in a recent discussion with a friend on a rather significant life choice that involved making a potentially un-cool move, when she advised me to: “Fuck cool” – I decided I whole-heartedly concur.
NOT by Ernest Hemmingway
You are not your age,
Nor the size of clothes you wear,
You are not a weight,
Or the color of your hair.
You are not your name,
Or the dimples in your cheeks,
You are all the books you read,
And all the words you speak,
You are your croaky morning voice,
And the smiles you try to hide,
You’re the sweetness in your laughter,
And every tear you’ve cried,
You’re the songs you sing so loudly,
When you know you’re all alone,
You’re the places that you’ve been to,
And the one that you call home,
You’re the things that you believe in,
And the people that you love,
You’re the photos in your bedroom,
And the future you dream of,
You’re made of so much beauty,
But it seems that you forgot,
When you decided that you were defined,
By all the things you’re not.
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UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA: INSIDE THE MIND OF THAT SPIRITUAL DUDE
Posted on November 3, 2015 November 4, 2018 by Gabriela Herstik
Because we never feature enough Numi dudes! Gabriela Herstik gets Unknown Mortal Orchestra front man Ruban Neilson’s take on love, the Universe, and everything. Image: Dusdin Condren
Best known for being the third eye of psychedelic pop rock band Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Ruban Nielson has more to offer the world than just some groovy tunes. Ruban’s experience grounding his soulful nature in day-to-day life has shaped many things, including his relationships – UMO’s latest full length, “Multi-Love,” is a synthy trip about his experiments with polyamory. We talked to the man himself about his constant commitment to channelling something beyond himself – and how it helps make some good dancin’ music.
On Spirituality
“I don’t really worry about whether I’m spiritual or not because it’s a mysterious part of life and categories mess it up for me. Music is my concrete connection to forces outside myself, whether this means community, history, spirit, the subconscious, or some concept of God – that isn’t my place to define. But through music I know there’s more than my ‘self’ because I get gifts from that place in the form of songs, or the ability to perform beyond what I thought I could.”
On Astrology
“I’m a Pisces, but the first day so I’m a cusper with Aquarius. I’m also a Cancer Moon. I feel like a pretty typical Pisces. Astrology is fun. I like talking about it with people and trying to find patterns. But I take it with a grain of salt like most things.”
“Being in love is so important to me. I spend most of my time thinking about love, although I’ll never know anything about it. I’m always just drowning and I prefer it that way.”
On Culture
“I have my own personal ideas about being Hawaiian. Most people don’t know what a Polynesian is and that’s both frustrating and useful. I think my genetics shape my music quite a bit. I think my music puts my heart on display, and Hawaiians are known to be very hot-headed and deeply emotional.”
On Yurts
“The shape of a yurt is beautiful and living in a yurt was cool. It was a certain time in my life. I miss it sometimes but my life doesn’t fit in a yurt any more, haha.”
On The Unknown
“Aliens of all kinds definitely exist. You can ask any mathematician. Magick is real too. It’s all around us in the form of branding; symbols and suggestions used to manipulate reality. It’s a pity it’s come to that. As for spirit guides and ghosts, I’m not going to try to categorize things that no-one really understands. There are a lot of levels to reality though, I’m certain of that.”
On Wearing Mala Beads
“I guess I do.”
Rockin’ some Mala beads 12 weeks ago on Instagram
On Mantras
“I do work with mantras. They change a lot.”
On Inner Peace and Zen
“I play music. I’m always looking to be possessed by this very happy and invincible version of myself.”
On Living Your Truth
“I’m really lucky. These days I’m really able to pursue my music and live the way I want to live. I don’t sleep much but I get to be the person I dreamed I could be and I get to be moving and creating all the time. That’s the way I want to be.”
Get tour dates and more for Unknown Mortal Orchestra at Unknownmortalorchestra.com
Posted in The Now AgeTagged Aliens, Astrology, Creativity, Culture, Dancing, Gabriela Herstik, God, Hawaiian, Interview, love, Magick, Mala Beads, Mantra, Material Girl Mystical World, Multi-Love, Music, Numinous, Pisces, Polyamory, Polynesian, Q&A, Reality, Relationships, Ruban Nielson, Ruby Warrington, Sex, Spirituality, The Numinous, Truth, UMO, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Yurt, Zen
THE TEMPLE OF VENUS IS OPEN!
Posted on July 8, 2015 November 4, 2018 by Ruby Warrington
Last night saw the launch of The Temple of Venus, a Numinous community art project in collaboration with energy healer and artist Elyssa Jakim – and we want you to get involved! Image: Victoria Keen Goddess Tribe series
Welcome to the #summeroflove, Numis! We’re beyond excited to announce The Temple of Venus, a community art project dedicated to the Goddess of beauty, love, and abundance.
Based in Williamsburg, BK, and created in partnership with energy healer and artist Elyssa Jakim, the Temple is an interactive altar celebrating our community, the power of love, and the energies of the divine feminine. And the CRAZY serendipity leading up to the launch makes us feel like Venus herself basically MADE US DO IT.
Housed in a private residence (in what is actually called the “Venus” building!) and open to all, we are inviting healers, seekers and modern mystics to contribute their offerings and wisdom throughout this two-month period, creating an ever-evolving container charged with positive vibes.
Open from 7/7 through August 19, the planet Venus will also retrograde in artistic, playful Leo for the second half of the project – creating a cosmic portal for healing our attitudes to love, money and beauty through creativity.
The altar room itself will be a space for meditation, prayer, contemplation and healing, while a second space will be available for larger group gatherings and workshops. And if you just want to come make an offering to Venus and soak up the healing energies, the space will also be open for drop-in appointments each Wednesday between the hours of 3 and 5pm. International offerings by mail or Skype are also welcome!
Any donations collected will go towards the maintenance of the space, after which all funds will be gifted to The Doula Project.
Want more info? Contact us: [email protected], or connect with us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter with your questions and suggestions.
All events will be listed at Thenuminous.net/events – here’s a taster of what’s lined up to date:
7/10: Reiki 1 workshop with Elyssa Jakim
7/15: Be Here Now(ish) screening and open discussion
7/18: Tarot readings with Lindsay Mack
7/31: Full Moon Sacred Drum Circle with Wild Soul Healing
8/12: Flower Crown making workshop with Aurora Botanica
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MATERIAL GIRL, MYSTICAL WORLD: RAW VEGAN BLONDE
Posted on December 19, 2014 November 5, 2018 by Ruby Warrington
Amber Locke, a.k.a. @rawveganblonde has gained a cut following for her beautiful and unique farmers’ market art. We meet the woman behind the phenomenon, and ask her…what vegetable would you be?
The artist at work…
How long have you been a Raw Vegan Blonde, and what drew you to the lifestyle?
I’ve always been blonde, but only discovered the concept of raw food about 18 months ago! I first read about it on the blog of Ralph Lauren model Valentina Zelyaeva and decided to try it out as an experiment, but I was so blown away with how amazing it made me feel after just a few days, I carried on.
Eating raw gives me incredible energy, improved mental clarity and a general feeling of calmness, harmony and well-being. I’ve become far more in tune with my body and very aware of how what I eat can dramatically affect how I feel both emotionally and physically.
What makes you so passionate about vegetables?
For me it’s the fact that fruit and veg not only taste amazing, they’re visually fascinating and have the power to nourish and heal our bodies too. They really are super foods.
Zucchini Shadows print, £180 from Ambaliving.com
And why do you think they’re so beautiful to you?
I love the beauty of natural elements, and I’m constantly amazed and delighted by their different shapes, colours, textures, and character. So my designs aim to showcase their unique qualities and reflect the changing seasons of the year, as well as being a celebration of living a healthy lifestyle.
If you were a fruit or a vegetable, which would you be and why?
I think I’d probably be a candy beetroot. They look pretty much like a normal beetroot on the outside, but when you slice them, they reveal their amazing pink and white striped flesh and it never ceases to make me smile.
What’s the most out there plant-based experience you’ve had to date?
I’m not sure I’ve had an ‘out there’ experience…but I always get a sense of something greater at work when I’m composing my designs. I sometimes stand back and wonder how I did it.
:: M A T E R I A L G I R L ::
I love Hermes and although I only own a few pieces (mainly leather goods and scarves) they all have special memories and are so exquisitely made they will last a lifetime.
Hermes Zebra Pegasus scarf, $1175
I’m addicted to Belstaff boots as they’re so comfy, look great and fit my narrow shins well! I have several pairs and wear them almost all year round.
My fragrance
I’ve worn ‘Un Jardin Sur Le Nil’ by Hermes for years. I think the top notes are green mango but I love it as the smell reminds me of tomato leaves which are one on my favourite fragrances along with orange blossom. I’m still pursuing my quest to find the perfect orange blossom perfume and the closest I’ve come across so far is by Jo Malone and I wear this sometimes in the Summer.
Un Jardin Sur Le Nil by Hermes, $131
I don’t wear much jewellery apart from my boyfriend’s old Breitling watch which I love as it’s so big and chunky on my wrist, and an antique silver fob chain given to me by my Mother which I wear as a charm bracelet.
My pampering
A trip to the hairdressers! I recently took the plunge and had 10” chopped off by the brilliant team at Richard Ward Salon in London, their colourist David Viner is a legend too!
I live in a quirky house in a small countryside village. Its part Tudor, part Georgian, part Victorian and part Medieval so it’s a real mix of architectural styles.
I love to eat a mainly raw diet so my kitchen is always full of fresh fruit and vegetables and I eat this way at least 90% of the week. I love green smoothies, as well as my beloved high-speed ‘Blendtec’ blender makes them super smooth, rich and creamy.
Blendtec blender, $649.95
:: M Y S T I C A L W O R L D ::
My awakening
I have a very simple morning ritual; I drink a large glass of water (warm water and lemon if I have time) then take a walk with my dog before making a big green juice for my boyfriend and I. We’re really into stronger flavoured spicy juices now the weather has turned colder so I use a lot of ginger, lemongrass, whole lemons and sometimes a bit of green chilli for an extra kick.
I’m a Capricorn
My mantra
I don’t really have a mantra as such but I love the line in the Baz Luhrmann song ‘Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)’ which goes: ‘Enjoy your body… it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own’. I think so many people live unhappily with their body but if you can learn to love it and feed, nourish and exercise it properly the rewards of such team work can be incredible.
My healer
I think a balanced diet of fresh, natural food can be a great healer – physically, medicinally and emotionally.
Hermes-esque print, £180, Ambaliving.com
I’m fascinated by food so for me it’s any book related to the subject (I have hundreds!) and I really love searching out vintage cookbooks and out of print titles.
My transformation
Trying out a raw food diet was a big transformation for me as I had no idea eating this way had the ability to make you feel so good. I think it should be renamed the ‘Happiness Diet’ as it’s almost like nature’s happy pill.
I love to share my passion for fruit and vegetables (through my designs and recipes) and if that encourages or inspires others to eat more of them then that makes me very happy!
Purchase one of Amber’s limited edition prints at Ambaliving.com, and follow her on Instagram @rawveganblonde
Posted in LifestyleTagged Amber Locke, Art, Cooking, Culture, Food, Green Juice, Happiness, Instagram, Interview, Kale, Material Girl Mystical World, Numinous, Raw Food, Raw Vegan Blonde, The Numinous, Vegan, Vegetable Art
SXSW SPIRIT GUIDE: 36-HOURS IN AUSTIN
Posted on March 7, 2014 November 5, 2018 by Ruby Warrington
Yee-haw, here comes the annual music and culture mash-up that is Austin’s SXSW festival. But there’s a whole other side to the town that’s more hippie than hipster (in a good way). Here’s our recipe for a weekend of self-discovery and spiritual hi-jinx in the Portland of the South…
9AM BLACK SWAN YOGA
The girls who run this donation based studio ($10-$15 suggested, $7 minimum) made a grainy, black and white freaking yogic music video as the intro to their website. All classes – Beginner, Power, Sweaty and Flow – take place in a 90-degree heated room, and if you can’t get to one of the four Austin locations there are even online classes to do. We suggest kicking off your Austin tour with the 9am Power class taught by Adam M at the Downtown studio. Set to a soundtrack of hip-hop, reggae, and, um, tango; “The idea is that we’re working ‘towards’ being the best version of ourselves and having some fun doing it,” he says.
Blackswanyoga.com
11AM JUICELAND
Now it’s obviously juice o’clock, and with seven locations dotted throughout Austin this is the place to get your greens on. We say go straight for the hard stuff and make your selection from the “Next Level” menu. How about a Cold Shower (cucumber, parsley, mint, watermelon, lime, salt) to cool you down after that hot yoga session? Or if you really need waking up, the Xtra Holla Pain Yo! (jalepeno, garlic, carrot, orange, cilantro, lime, salt) should do the trick. They also do smoothies and soups, and there’s a vegan, gluten free “Functionally Good Food” menu too.
Juiceland.com
12 NOON THE HERB BAR
You’re invited to switch off your mobile phone before you enter this magical mystery emporium, which, open since 1986, looks like Bilbo Baggins hobbit cave with its little red door almost buried behind the ivy bush that covers the front of the building. Inside, you’ll find everything from herbal tea blends and massage oils to locally produced natural beauty products and remedies, astro paraphernalia, crystals, prayer flags and wind chimes, all served up by super-friendly owner Twila Dawn Willis. Yep, it’s basically Numi retail heaven.
Theherbbar.com
1PM UNCOMMON OBJECTS
There’s plenty more magic to be found at this Austin stalwart, but rather than try to describe the kind of treasures a root around this sprawling space might uncover, we repeat for you their manifesto; “We relish the time worn and well loved. We are crazy about genuine patina. We cherish folk arts and parlor crafts from around the world. We reflect the melting pot that is the American experience. We adore ingenious repair. We honor beauty found in unexpected places. We are inspired by the joy found in serendipity.” And seriously, where else are you going to find a skate board that doubles up as a ouija?
Uncommonobjects.com
2PM MR NATURAL
There’s A LOT of amazing vegetarian food in Austin, but we’re sending you to this meat-free take on a traditional Tex Mex joint for a couple of reasons. 1) It comes highly recommended from Twila at the Herb Bar. 2) They do an ENTIRE GLUTEN FREE MENU. 3) There’s an yoga studio attached where they offer a ‘spiritual Hatha’ practise. And, maybe most importantly, 4) They produce a huge assortment of insane wheat / sugar / dairy / etc free cakes and pastries out of the on-site bakery.
MrNatural-austin.com
5PM SPARTAN
This ridiculously hip lifestyle boutique is essentially what the Numinous would be if we had a store (now there’s an idea…) Owner Currie Person has curated THE chicest collection of spiritually aware fashion, jewellery and homewares, while some new arrivals for spring include a crazy cool tie-dye leather bag from Creatures of Comfort, a selection of vintage Andean blanket rugs, this set of Bing Bang skull studs and the great felt hat by Janessa Leone pictured here.
Spartan-shop.com
8PM CHEER-UP CHARLIE’S
With kombucha on tap and the MOST delicious vegan food truck parked out back, this indoor-outdoor bar / live music venue is a one-stop healthy hedonism shop. They also serve fresh pressed juice cocktails, while a parachute canopy covering the patio creates an other-worldly, that-bar-from-Star Wars kinda vibe. Oh, and check out the rad décor on the dance floor! Who needs ‘shrooms with all this trippy black light s*** going on?
Cheerupcharlies.com
12.30AM STARRY EYES
If you can drag yourself away from the fun times at Charlie’s (see above), Starry Eyes – described as “an occult tale of ambition, possession and the true cost of fame,” is being screened as part of the official SXSW schedule. Following the (mis)fortunes of a wannabe actress in Hollywood, after a series of strange auditions she lands the lead in a new film from a mysterious production company. “But with this opportunity comes bizarre ramifications that will transform her both mentally and physically…” Yikes!
SXSW.com
10AM BARTON SPRINGS POOL
This man-made pool in Austin’s Zilker Park is filled from the water of the Main Barton Spring, the fourth largest natural spring in Texas. Open for year ‘round outdoor swimming, long before the pool was built the springs were considered sacred and were used for purification rituals by tribesmen of the local Tonkawa tribe. So where better to refresh your Sunday morning head?
Austintex.gov
11am JYOTISH ASTROLOGY WITH ANNE BEVERSDORF
This renowned Austin astrologer goes back and forth between traditional Western and Vedic astrological systems during a reading, cross-checking information to give a totally in-depth, 360-reading. Coming to astrology as a healing modality, “My goal is to open doors for a deep flowering of your innermost Self in relation to the world. My peace is in hearing that YOU have found meaning in both joys and sorrows,” she says.
Stariel.com
1PM WHOLE FOODS RAW VEGAN FOOD BAR
Not only does Austin have one of the biggest Whole Foods in the world (or at least what feels like it, this is the home of their HQ after all), there’s also a WHOLE counter of the infamous salad bar dedicated to vegan (and mainly raw) cuisine. Well, hello broccoli cashew crunch, chickpea chix salad, pumpkin seed cheese, and raw German chocolate cake. Oh, or how about a raw flax seed tortilla was topped with kale and avocado, spicy cashew cheese, mock sour cream, cilantro and pico de gallo? Yes please.
Wholefoodsmarket.com
3PM GARDEN OF THE ANCIENTS
A 15-minute drive out of town, this “herb emporium and nursery” carries over 300 medicinal and culinary herbs, while the store itself is set among the creeping vines of a sprawling working herb and vegetable garden. They also grown a large selection of “ethnobotanical”, or medicinal, plants, including Daturas and Morning Glories, Wild Dagga, Baby Hawaiian Woodrose, Wormwood, Skullcap, Wild Lettuce, Wild Tobacco and the legendary San Pedro cactus. Properly witchy stuff.
Gardenoftheancients.com
5PM CUSTOM CRYSTAL DESIGN SESSION WITH FORREST LEE
Fort Worth native Forrest Lee has been creating his beautiful Healing Vortex Crystal Wraps since 2009, when he was gifted his first crystal – “with intense compassion from a dear brother in a hard time” – with life changing results. Now, “my goal is to spread healing and compassion by igniting that heart flame in each human. The crystals help remind us of our divinity,” he says, and a custom design session with Forrest is the best way to find the crystal that will work the hardest for YOU.
Facebook.com/healingvortex.crystalwraps
7PM BANGERS
Time to balance today’s air and water energy activities with some low down and earthy SAUSAGE. Bangers is Austin’s famous “sausage house & beer garden” – and, yes, their veggie options (beet and goat cheese or veggie BLT) get a huge thumbs up from us. The veggie ranchero brunch and sides (jalepeno cream corn with onion gratin anyone?) are also ridiculous, and all washed down with libations from the gluten free beer menu (yep, you read that right!)
Bangersaustin.com
9PM SOUND HEALING WITH TINA RODRIGUEZ
This incredible local healing artist, who works with crystal bowls as well as the sound of her own sweet voice, hosts regular group sessions and is available for one-to-one healing. As the rest of the SXSW revellers rock out to the closing sets of the festival, send your spirit soaring high on her beautiful cosmic vibes.
Facebook.com/tinalasirena
For full listings of what’s up at SXSW go to the festival website.
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By Alyssa Gregory
“Location! Location! Location!” That’s the old real estate adage about what magically drives the market for brokers and homeowners alike. Obviously, there are other factors that affect the industry, but it can’t be denied, location plays a significant role. And the same can be said for most business enterprises regardless of size or niche.
In today’s climate with remote workers and digital nomads on the rise, location may seem to have lost its influence on starting a business. But according to the Small Business Administration and the Tax Foundation, a startup has definite advantages opening its doors in certain U.S. states compared to others. And those advantages can make the difference from years of early struggling to years of substantial growth.
Based on accessible financing, cost of office space, workforce availability, taxes and entrepreneur-friendly climate, here are some of the best states to start a business in each region of the U.S.
Region: North/Northeast
New Hampshire: Enterprising innovators who don’t mind the long New England winters find New Hampshire business-friendly and welcoming when it comes to the lack of a state sales tax and an abundance of government resources.
Another advantage of the Granite State is its quality of life rating, which is an equally important factor if you’re thinking of relocating to start a business. New Hampshire residents also enjoy an above average per capita personal income, which translates into more discretionary spending to support new and expanding businesses.
However, if that customer base isn’t large enough for you, entrepreneurs have the added bonus of operating in close proximity to other New England states with a high population of college-educated residents earning above-average incomes.
North Carolina: It shouldn’t be too much of a surprise that the state home to the infamous research and tech mecca, “The Triangle,” tops the list for the best states to start a business, according to Forbes magazine.
When you combine the draws of low corporate and property taxes with a labor force trained to keep an eye out for the new kid on the startup block, North Carolina has a lot to offer entrepreneurs seeking their next venture opportunity. The high number of universities and colleges—the University of North Carolina has 17 campuses alone—certainly helps in finding the right candidates for your company. Ranked 11th in 2018’s best business tax climate, the Tarheel State’s low cost of living only bolsters its ranking among the nation’s top 10 for best business survival rates.
Region: Southwest
Texas: Always a leader on the best states to start a business list, Texas may have been beat by North Carolina overall this year, but it certainly didn’t move to the number three spot without a fight. Whether it’s the lack of a corporate tax, the high population of college-educated residents, or the ever-growing list of tech, energy and medical enterprises filing for business licenses each year, startups are right to see the Lone Star State as an ideal choice for their businesses.
From Houston to San Antonio to Austin, which won healthiest small business climate in the South for three years in a row, entrepreneurs have their pick of startup-friendly locations to begin their next endeavor.
Region: West
Utah: Small business owners seeking the pristine vistas of Utah will also find a state with low corporate taxes and the nation’s highest percentage of approved small business loans.
Like North Carolina, the Beehive State has a large college-educated workforce and encourages tech and research-related startups to take advantage of digital and biomedical partnerships available between the private sector and universities.
Whether in Provo, Salt Lake City, or any number of the smaller urban and suburban communities, entrepreneurs will benefit greatly in the state ranked 5th for best business costs in the nation.
Region: Midwest
Montana: Thoughts of Montana often conjure up images of mountains, buffalos and horse ranches, but now you can include the small business owner in that rustic backdrop as well. With the fourth highest rate of entrepreneurs in the country, Montana knows the value businesses, both large and small, bring to the state.
The cost of commercial office space fetches a mere $20 per square foot, and the fees necessary to launch a business are some of the lowest in the nation. Add to that a workforce with a high percentage holding college degrees, and one of the few U.S. states with no sales tax, and it’s easy to understand why so many entrepreneurs are drawn to Big Sky Country.
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Starting a new business is a daunting task regardless of where you lay your foundation. But residing in a state that encourages entrepreneurship by offering a streamlined registration and licensing system, a low or no corporate tax rate, a college-educated workforce, and greater opportunities for financing can go a long way in helping stabilize those early years when most businesses fail.
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The BGF have given support to the Inspire VCUK Youth Racing Team based across the North West of England.
Reports and photos courtesy of Inspire Racing Team
National Youth Circuit Championship
10th July Redbridge Cycle Centre – London
The Youth A boys was the final event of the day and the weather cleared for the gruelling 90 minutes in hot conditions, cheered eagerly on by a very large group of spectators.
As expected the early pace was hard from the gun with a series of attacks and counter attacks. The most significant starting as a bunch of four and soon swelling to six, looked like it might hold as it contained one of the hot favourites, Lewis Askey.
These six riders worked well until a number of riders tried to escape the main peloton acting as a bridge and the break was brought back, due in no small part to a solid presence from the Isle of Man riders packing the front end of the peloton. Nothing then stuck until 35 minutes remained when Sean Flynn of Edinburgh RC struck out on his own.
With several climbs of the infamous Hoggenberg left in the race and a strengthening headwind, it seemed unlikely that Flynn could solo to victory but he was soon to be joined by Joshua Sandman and the two together instantly looked much more cohesive and likely to succeed.
They quickly opened what turned out to be a winning margin and though the peloton gradually clawed the break back the chase always looked fractious rather than controlled with several riders sitting in no-man’s land between break and peloton.
In the main bunch Askey & Tulett were doing large amounts of work in trying to close down reducing the gap before the two escapees finally managed to get over the climb for the final time, Flynn getting away on the final few metres of the hill to take the prestigious win.
Throughout the race both Lewis and Dan were confidently positioned near the front of the peloton and both had attempts at getting away in breaks at various times. They felt fortunate not to be involved in any of the late crashes, especially when considering the large field size of 120 riders. On the final effort up the hill and over the finish line Lewis rolled over in 21st place and Daniel in 29th. Both inside the top quarter of the field so very well done to both.
Phoenix CC Club 10mile TT – Rainford 7th June
This week we had Daniel Gibson riding in the Phoenix CC Club 10mile TT at Rainford. Guess who set off 1 minute behind Daniel? Well good old Sir Bradley Wiggins rocked up, unannounced, and rode the local event. It took Bradley around 5miles to catch Daniel and at the finish, Wiggins recorded 19:15 whilst Daniel posted a PB of 21:33 to finish 5th overall.
Lewis Hartley rode in the local Preston Evening Time Trial to record a PB (for this course) and a blistering time of 21:11.
Cory Edmondson, Nathan Hawthorn and Lewis all rode the Clitheroe Future Stars Town Centre Criterium last Friday. The race offered a tough ½ hr of riding involving a climb towards the castle and a fast technical descent with quite a few potholes on the circuit.
The lads all rode very well at the front of affairs throughout with Nathan, Cory and Lewis all finishing in the top 10 and just off the podium.
Dolan Series Race 3 – 16th April 2016
Last weekend the Inspire VCUK Racing Team travelled to Southport to compete in the North West Regional Circuit Race Championships.The race was 45 laps around Victoria Park, the longest race at Southport for some time.A cold morning greeted the riders for an early afternoon race with 34 riders taking to the grid.The team rode exceptionally well and showed themselves throughout. It was clear that our team was really the only team willing to take the race on. All the lads put down individual efforts to try and split the race and get riders up the road, only for the race to be neutralised by several other riders wanting to wait for a bunch finish. Daniel, Nathan and Lewis all rode solo efforts for several laps only to be reeled in by the IOM grupetto. It was good to see team mates trying to control the bunch whilst VCUK riders were up the road. In the final corner of the last lap Nathan was forced onto the grass and had to settle for 15th place after a strong ride throughout. Lewis was disappointed only to take 6th having been sandwiched between riders in the sprint. Cory and Dan rolled home in 9th and 12th respectively.
For full report please click link below.
Hetton-Le-Hole National Series – 17th April 2016
Sunday 17th April – two of the team travelled to Hetton-Le-Hole in the North East of England for the first National Series Youth Race.
2016 Youth Tour of Scotland – 1st April 2016
At the beginning of April, the Inspire VCUK Racing Team travelled to Perth in Scotland to participate in the best youth stage race in the UK – the Scottish Cycling Youth Tour of Scotland.
The Lewis Balyckyi GLASDON Crit Series 2016
The team is supporting the new race series that commenced on March 31st in memory of Lewis Balyckyi. The series is named in memory of Lewis who was tragically killed in a road traffic accident in 2011. Since then The Lewis Balyckyi Trust charity has been established by Kevin and Jacqui Balyckyi. There are 18 rounds and the series will finish at the end of July.
For further details please visit the following websites
http://balyckyicrits.org.uk/
http://www.lbtf.org/
Belgium Weekend 22nd March 2016
Cannock Chase MTB CX Race and NLTTA Combined Clubs 10TT 11th March 2016
Team Training Camp 1st March 2016 Bodelwyddan North Wales
27th January 2016 NWCCA – Beacon Park – Round 13
14th January 2016 National Cyclocross Championships – Shrewsbury
28th December NWCCA – Round 12 – Macclesfield
18th December 2015 National Trophy – Round 5 – Bradford
Sunday the 6th December Northern Area Championships held at Heaton Park in Manchester
Congratulations to Lewis on becoming THE NORTHERN AREA CYCLO CROSS CHAMPION 2015/16
By Martin Holden under Cyclocross
Round 10 of the NWCCA league was at the infamous Geoff Bewley Memorial CX hosted by Liverpool Century RC at Otterspool park, Liverpool a great setting on the banks of the river Mersey.
The day started off with a mist in the air and small showers which left the course very boggy in some places.
The whistle blew at 10:45 am with around 40 riders frantically clipping in and racing uphill towards the pits to enter the course for the remaining laps.
A group of early leaders formed containing two Inspire VCUK riders: Lewis Hartley and Cory Edmondson, alongside Sol Kerfoot-Robson and Isaac Peatfield.
Part way through the opening lap, as the riders entered the upper part of the course, Lewis lost his back wheel on a particularly slippery corner and then Isaac crashed over Lewis with Cory also struggling to get past. This enabled Sol to escape and forge a good lead on the rest who were in hot pursuit.
Lewis soon got back into the race with Cory and Isaac on his tail and by the time the riders had reached the pits on the 2nd lap, Lewis had caught Sol and overtaken the leader who subsequently retired from the race.
This left Isaac and Cory battling out the remaining laps for 2nd and 3rd places, with Nathan Hawthorn and Daniel Gibson not too far behind either.
Unfortunately, Tom Ashcroft, our fifth rider in this race had a very early mechanical which caused his rear derailleur to separate from the frame and his race was over almost as soon as it started!
In the end, Lewis took a convincing victory, with Isaac just taking 2nd place from Cory who finished 3rd to round off the podium.
Nathan finishing 35 seconds down on the leader in 4th and Dan Gibson, who had earlier crashed, finished 38 seconds down in 8th.
Another good day out for the Inspire VCUK Racing Team!
NWCCA – Round 9 – Cartmel
Written by Martin Holden
On Saturday the Inspire VCUK Racing Team had Cory Edmondson and Nathan Hawthorn racing in Cartmel and it proved to be one of the wettest days of the season so far!
A great start to the race with Cory, Nathan and Isaac Peatfield (Bolton Hotwheels) making up an early leading group on a particularly short course for the youths that included long wet grassy sections that travelled downhill to some hurdles and then back up the hill through the woods.
Cory and Isaac broke away quite early leaving all the other riders in their wake and then took turns to lead the race.
Coming out of the woods on the second lap Cory failed to appear and Isaac was way out in front on his own. When Nathan passed the pits we then learned that Cory had suffered a mechanical and was being held up trying to free his jammed chain!
Eventually Cory came into sight but was out of contention for the win as Isaac had now built a considerable lead ahead of Nathan and Tyler Koch.
Lap by lap and bunny hopping the hurdles Cory was putting In a fantastic fight back whilst Nathan putting down an excellent performance to maintain his 2nd position.
In the end, it was Isaac Peatfield that deservedly took the win, followed by a fantastic 2nd place for our own Nathan Hawthorn, with Tyler Koch rounding out the podium in 3rd place.
A disappointed Cory rolled home in 4th but lived to fight another day!
National Trophy – Round 3 – Durham
On Sunday the riders faced a particularly muddy course as the venue at Durham had been used the previous day for a regional event.
The National Trophy youth race kicked off at mid-day with close to 50 top class youth A riders in the event. Cory set off a couple of rows back having gained points in earlier rounds. Lewis set off at the very back of the field having not participated in the series so far.
Once the whistle had been blown the riders accelerated away along a flat grassy strip next to the river. Lewis clipped in quick and was able to make good progress through the field before being held up a little on the tough muddy and claggy top section around the pits.
After a couple of laps Lewis was lying in 15th place, some way behind the leader Euan Cameran but closing on Matt Taylor and Oliver Draffon. After getting right up to Matt, Lewis took a pit change and then Matt took off and again leaving Lewis quite a bit of work to do to catch up.
Meanwhile Cory was struggling with the conditions and whilst he started the race OK, he seemed to be drifting back as the laps passed. Cory does not thrive in the mud and this was not his best display but no doubt we will see improvements at this tough level of racing as the season continues.
In the end Lewis finished a commendable 12th and at National level, this is a good result, especially when you start at the back. Some of the muddy sections also need a certain amount of brute force which Lewis is currently lacking. Cory eventually finished 28th.
Another good weekend for learning how to ride CX bikes fast!
NWCCA – Round 7 – Northwich
The day began very wet, with the first muddy course beckoning.
For RD7 the Inspire VCUK Racing Team had Cory Edmondson, Nathan Hawthorn and Daniel Gibson on the starting grid.
The Edmondson family only made the race with minuets to spare after “vehicle issues” so no time to try the course or even warm up for young Cory!
The race started with 29 riders and a very fast start commenced with Cory in the lead, but the race came to an abrupt stand still minutes later after it was noticed that the course had not been marked out properly!
A while later (20 mins or so) and feeling rather chilly from being held up, the riders finally got going and again a very good start from Cory who once again led the race with Isaac Peatfield on his wheel.
The course was wet and muddy in the true style of a winter CX racing with lots of single track woodland and then open fields.
Cory and Isaac opened a large gap on the rest of the riders but Cory was unable to despatch Isaac who seemed very strong today. Cory rode most of the race with Isaac on his wheel but did force him on to the front towards the end of the race.
In the final straight, Cory then took the lead before entering the technical finish area and was able to cross the line for first place, his first victory of the season!
Having a great race himself was Daniel, who battled hard all day to cross the line in 3rd place, his highest finish ever in a CX race – brilliant.
National Trophy – Round 2 Derby
A contrast from the previous day with the sun shining but a little chilly from the clear sky at night.
Cory Edmondson was the only VCUK rider to travel to Derby for the second round of the national trophy.
The course was relatively dry which is rather unusual and unexpected for the Derby venue.
Around sixty national level riders were gridded and once the whistle sounded they pelted down the tarmac at high speed before hitting the green stuff.
Cory had a great start and was placed around 10th.
Ben Tulett took the early lead after bunny hopping the hurdles and immediately opening up a significant gap from Lewis Askey and Toby Barnes.
Euan Cameron was looking strong and chased the leaders throughout the race but never really threatened the top three.
Ben Healy, Jenson Young and Craig Rogers were a few of the riders that followed close behind.
A group with Charlie Craig and Matty Taylor were just ahead of Cory and at one point it looked as if he would join up but he never quite managed to bridge across.
The course became quite slippery with off-camber sections and rideable steps but only a handful of riders manged to negotiate the steps.
NWCCA – Landgate and Moss Quarries – Rossendale RC
Written by Martin Holden October 13th 2015
On Sunday the 11th of October, three of the team travelled to East Lancashire for Round Three of the North West Cyclo Cross Association League.
For this event the Inspire VCUK Racing Team were represented by Daniel Gibson, Nathan Hawthorn and Lewis Hartley. The venue is literally in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by quarries (and gypsies) on the top of an exposed moor.
The dry weather has continued through into October and so the ground was again bone dry. The day started cold with a slight wind chill making it feel particularly autumnal high on the moor. The moderate field of 33 riders took to the grid and set off for the 30 minute race at 10:50am.
From the gun Charlie Craig looked to be on good form, joined by Lewis Hartley for the first couple of laps. Lewis was keeping up OK but wasn’t looking as good as previous weeks to be fair.
Whilst negotiating an off-camber, Lewis’s rear wheel slipped out and his chain shipped off the cassette. This mechanical issue cost Lewis a significant gap to Charlie as he struggled to unjam the chain from between the cassette and frame. By the time he got going, it was game over in terms of contesting the win but that was far from guaranteed anyway looking at the pace Charlie was setting at the front of the race!
Nathan and Daniel settled into the race quickly and looked comfortable riding in 4th and 5th positions. In between was Isaac Peatfield, trying to stay with Lewis, and riding very well.
As the race came to a close, Charlie had gained a good half lap on the riders behind and took the win with ease. Lewis also rode home solo in 2nd place although he still maintained his 100% record for the league points!
National Trophy – Round 1 – Southampton
Written Martin Holden October 13th 2015
The first round of the National Trophy took place on Sunday 11th October on the South Coast of England in Southampton.
Cory Edmondson travelled to the event as the only Inspire VCUK representative. The report that came back noted a fantastic venue and super weather…so worth the long journey.
As you would expect, the U16 boys race started very fast with Cory getting away safely with eventual winner Toby Barnes and former national champion Euan Cameron. Other strong riders joined the leading group soon after, including Ben Tulett and Lewis Askey.
As the race progressed the front group fractured up one of the short ascents and around eight riders, including Craig Rogers, Soloman Kerfoot-Robson and Euan Cameron formed a new leading group with Cory not far behind in a second group.
At the mid-point of the race, Cory was lying in 16th position but as the race began to settle down he took the initiative to move up and by the time he reached the chequered flag Cory had managed to move up 3 places to finish in a commendable 13th place. The winner was Toby Barnes, followed by team mate Lewis Askey in 2nd place and Ben Tulett in 3rd.
NWCCA – Westmorland Showground – Round 4
Written by Martin Holden 8th October 2015
This weekend provided the first double header of the season with the boys riding on Saturday at Heaton Park in RD3, followed by races in the South Lakes at the Westmorland Showground on Sunday (RD4).
This is the first time the venue has been used by the NWCCA and on reflection it was just perfect…in fact, it was that good that we will be recommending it for future Trophy events. There was ample parking, changing facilities, and superb terrain for making a real spectacle in CX racing.
Nathan, Cory and Lewis were joined by around thirty youth riders who assembled at the entrance to the park to begin their race. An air horn was used to signal the start on a gravel track that passed through the finish area before veering off uphill and on to the green stuff.
Cory sprinted off the line once the race was underway, full of rage from the previous day, and pulled away immediately with Lewis and Nathan at his side. These three then proceeded to grow their lead through the initial stages of the race.
On the bottom of one of the descents, Lewis entered the corner at full pelt with Cory and Nathan on his wheel. Cory later remarked that Lewis rode into the corner way too fast and when he tried to follow he ended up in the tape with Nathan – that’s racing I suppose – who dares wins!
None of the Inspire VCUK riders were at their best to be truthful…having picked up sore throats in the week and suffering with the early stages of a cold. So to be in the lead and dominant in their second race of the weekend was impressive.
By the time the riders were on their final lap, Lewis had gained an unassailable lead, lapping most of the field, whilst Cory and Nathan were battling it out for the 2nd place. Unfortunately Nathan punctured just before the pits and was forced on to a mountain bike, thereby having to settle for third.
NWCCA – Heaton Park, Manchester – Round 3
On Saturday the 3rd October, the team assembled in Heaton Park for Round Three of the North West Cyclo Cross Association League. This venue is on the edge of Manchester and offers a very large expanse of Victorian greenbelt ideal for this type of racing. The venue will also be used later in the season for the North of England Championship but no doubt more rain will have fallen by then!
The day began quite foggy, cold and damp with signs of Autumn certainly on show. The riders went through their usual warm-up ritual and then assembled on the start line at 10:45am for a 30 minute race.
On paper, the field looked reasonably strong with the attendance of Olympic Apprentices Craig Rogers and Soloman-Kerfoot Robson, alongside Matty Taylor from PH-MAS Cycling (winner of several Yorkshire points races this season) and Charlie Craig, a talented 1st year A and son of Nick Craig, the prolific national title holder and Scott Ambassador.
From the Inspire VCUK Race Team we had Lewis Hartley (winner of Rounds 1 & 2) alongside Cory Edmondson, Nathan Hawthorn and Daniel Gibson.
By all accounts, the race set off very fast and up a slight rise before heading to an off-camber / tree section ending with a set of steps. As the riders approached the steps, Lewis was able to move up to the front of the pack and then began the application of pressure to those behind. Just before the steps there was a small catastrophe for Cory when his chain snapped. This required a short run to the pits in order to swap bikes before he could re-join the proceedings some way behind the leaders.
Meanwhile, a strong leading group of five riders was setting the pace as they appeared in sight over a small summit in the distant mist. This summit was just after some hurdles which Lewis was able to bunny-hop and gain time on his rivals. The group re-formed on the descent but this kind of pressure is always helpful.
Mid-way through the race an incident occurred where Craig Rogers lost some grip on a damp grassy corner. Craig slid into Matty Taylor and both had problems getting going as their bikes became tangled. Sol, Lewis and Charlie carried on regardless and this was the point when the race was lit up. Lewis attacked just after the hurdles and managed to gain a considerable gap on his rivals over a very short space of time and then continued at full gas for a good lap to cement his lead in the race.
Not far behind the action was Nathan Hawthorn and Dan Gibson, both riding exceptionally well for the VCUK, riding as a pair for 5th and 6th position. After the earlier collision Craig Rogers was now riding in 7th position.
Great Orme Road Race September 27th, 2015
Following the trip to Southport on Saturday, the team packed things up and travelled straight down to Llandudno, in North Wales, for the infamous Great Orme Road Races on Sunday morning.
Unfortunately Luke Cheetham was unable to travel on as he was feeling the effects of a cold and decided it would be better to rest up.
We arrived in Llandudno late afternoon with glorious weather that was forecast for several days ahead! After checking in at the hostel, it was decided to take a road trip around the Great Orme circuit so that all the riders could familiarise themselves for the following morning.
It was an early start on Sunday as the racing started at 9am. After signing on the riders rode along the promenade to the bottom of the Great Orme road where they then began their 20minute traditional warm up on the rollers, making sure their legs and lungs were ready for the race ahead.
Tom Ashcroft decided to ride up in this event using his dispensation from B to A category. This enabled the Inspire VCUK Racing Team to have six riders in the race: Halley Woods, Dan Gibson, Lewis Hartley, Cory Edmondson, Nathan Hawthorn, and Tom.
Around forty riders started the Youth A race which entailed 3 laps of the six kilometre Marine Drive cliff edge circuit. The race started at the bottom of the climb near the Grand Hotel and after around 3km reached the highest point on the circuit which was then followed by a 2km fast descent and 1km flat section to reach the end of 1 lap.
The first part of the climb was neutralised (not sure why) but once the flag dropped the pace ramped up and attacks commenced. Devon Round was one rider from MSW who really put the power down going up the steepest sections of the climb.
As the peloton passed the finish line after lap 1, Lewis and Halley were comfortable at the head of the fractured bunch with Dan also in the same group. A little further back in separate groups was Cory, then Nathan and then Tom. To be fair, Cory and Nathan had both experienced some mechanical issues and were doing very well considering. It was also great to see Tom, the youngest rider in the race, battling up the climb against much older and more experienced riders.
On the final lap, Lewis was leading the riders up the climb setting a fast pace and looking very comfortable as riders continued to get shelled out the back. There were several riders, including the eventual winner, who were actually dropped up the climb but managed to re-attach on the descent.
The finish is a frantic one, as the riders pass the Grand Hotel the course dips slightly before rising for around 200 metres before reaching the timing mat. The race speed was over 30mph as the riders began their sprint for the line. It was Jack Ford from Holmfirth CC who took the win followed closely by Brad Dransfield from the Kirklees Academy and then Huw Owen from Energy Cycles in third. In the same group was Halley Woods in 6th and Lewis who was pipped into 8th, both very commendable results for 1st year riders.
Dan, Cory, Nathan and Tom rolled over from 15th to 27th place, each having their own stories to tell!
North West Youth League – Round 6 September 26th
The whole team gathered at Victoria Park in Southport for the 6thand final round of the North West Youth league. Beautiful sunny weather greeted the riders and this is how it would stay for the remainder of the day.
As with all the previous rounds of the youth league, there was to be 2 races, a shorter ‘sprint’ race and the longer race.
Tom Ashcroft was the first up to represent the team in the short race for Youth B boys. In a 4 lap race that saw the bunch stay together from beginning to end, it came down to a sprint finish, with Tom finishing in 4th place.
The short 5 lap race for the youth A boys saw new team riders, Cory Edmondson and Nathan Hawthorn making their debut alongside the current team of Lewis Hartley, Dan Gibson, Halley Woods and Luke Cheetham. As in the previous race, the bunch set off together. After 1 lap Dan and Nathan attempted a break but were soon brought back to the bunch. This is how it would remain until the bell lap, when, with 3 corners to go, Halley and Nathan broke free from the bunch, which was then expertly controlled by Lewis, Cory, Dan and Luke to allow the two at the front to get a gap. Nathan took the win for the team, with Halley a very close 2nd. In the bunch sprint, Cory was 4th, Dan 6th, Luke 9th and Lewis 11th. A fantastic and well worked team race.
After lunch came the longer races. Tom Ashcroft was up first again in the 15 laps race for Youth B boys. As in the shorter race the bunch set off together, and it stayed this way until lap 8, when Isaac Peatfield of Bolton Hotwheels broke away. The bunch looked happy to let him go, until Tom decided it was time to chase down this solo attack, which resulted in Isaac being swallowed back up into the bunch. With 3 laps to go, Isaac got away once again, and he held this all the way to the finish line. Tom put in a great sprint to lead the main bunch over the line and claim an excellent 2nd place.
The long race for the Youth A boys would see them undertake 25 laps of the course. The majority of this race involved the bunch remaining together, with only one solo attack from Elliot Reed of Salt Ayre occurring on lap 2, but he would be quickly brought back to the bunch. It would stay like this all the way to the bell lap, which could only mean one thing – a bunch sprint finish. In a fast and furious sprint for the line, Huw Owen from Energy Cycles took the win, with Nathan taking 2nd for team. Halley was 4th, Lewis 7th, Dan 9th, Cory 10th and Luke 11th.
Now all 6 rounds of the Youth league were complete, there was the matter of the overall standings.
Tom Ashcroft finished 7th overall in the Youth B boys. In the Youth A boys, there was a podium for the team with Nathan taking 2nd place overall. Halley was 5th, Luke 6th, Lewis 7th, Dan 11th and Cory 23rd (having only undertaken 2 rounds out of 6). A fantastic effort from everyone.
It’s the transfer season!!
Yes, this is the time of year when riders/managers decide if they are staying with the team or departing to pastures new.
Through mutual consent, it has been decided that Halley Woods will leave the team and we have wished him good luck for next year.
Arriving into the team are two youth A riders from Cycle Sport Pendle (East Lancashire).
Nathan Hawthorn, prolific winner in regional level criteriums, bags of potential with a good bunch kick.
Cory Edmondson, very good CX rider, developing road rider, also with bags of potential going forward.
These new riders will bolster our team for 2016 with the aim to prepare for 2017/18 junior road racing. Both riders have begun riding for the team with immediate effect.
NWCCA Round 2: Horwich Humdinger, Leverhulme Park, Bolton 19/09/15
Last weekend brought Round 2 of the 2015/16 Cyclo-Cross season, and after a successful Round 1, Lewis was keen to put down another strong performance. Horwich CC have a reputation for laying down the very best of Cyclo Cross courses and they did not disappoint this time. The course utilised the entire park and was designed for powerful riders accustomed to road racing! The course included several very long and flat “power” sections, providing an opportunity for riders to put the power down and stretch the opposition.
The weather on the day was very good, starting with a morning mist and heavy dew that developed into bright sun and dry grass. No mud to be seen anywhere! Over thirty youth riders lined up on the main field in anticipation of the starting whistle and once it blew, the riders accelerated away into the far reaches of the park.
Lewis did not have a particularly strong start this week, struggling to clip in and then having to make his way to the front of the pack. As the riders approached the pits for the first time, three had managed to gap the rest of the field: again Cory Edmondson was in the mix alongside Charlie Craig, with Lewis leading the way.
It was Lewis who seemed to be on the front for most of the race, with the other two contented to ride at his wheel. Occasionally Charlie came through to do a strong turn to see if he had the strength to gain some ground but as the race entered the final lap it became clear that these three were staying together to fight for the victory.
As the riders entered the final 500m, they had to negotiate a wooded segment and they also approached some lapped riders. This is when Cory made his move, taking Lewis by surprise and beginning his charge for the line. Lewis reacted immediately, and Charlie was in close quarters and the three were really fighting hard to win.
At the very finish of the race was a switch back and Cory took the shorter and perceived faster line but Lewis had other ideas, rounding the corner on the outside and snatching victory with a super cool power drift!
NWCCA Round 1
Hoghton Tower, Red Rose Olympic
Last weekend brought the opening of the 2015/16 Cyclo-Cross season, a form of racing undertaken in winter months that is great for maintaining fitness as the weather deteriorates, and also helps riders to develop good bike skills that may well come in useful at later stages in their road careers.
The first race in the North West Cyclo Cross Association (NWCCA) league was held at Hoghton Tower, nestled between Blackburn and Preston. The grounds of this stately home provided a splendid location for the first event organised by the Red Rose Olympic Cycling Club. Over forty riders lined up on the inclined driveway facing up towards the grade 1 listed tower, originally built in 1109AD, quite an impressive way to begin a race.
As the flag dropped and the riders blasted up the driveway it was Cory Edmondson from Cycle Sport Pendle who took up the lead by the time the riders reach the tower. After half a lap, two riders had joined Cory at the front of the race: Lewis Hartley from the VCUK Inspire Racing Team and Craig Rogers from Birkenhead North End.
These three were all keen to put a marker down in the first event and it didn’t take long for short sharp attacks to come from Lewis and Craig, which put Cory under pressure who was eventually distanced. As the laps passed by it became clear that Lewis had the edge on the technical aspects of the course, managing to gap Craig but also allowing him to get back on for a few laps before making a really hard dig in the latter half of the race to forge an unassailable lead.
By the time Lewis passed the finish line for the penultimate time and the lap bell rung out, he knew he had the win in the bag, bar any punctures or mechanicals, and was able to ride to a comfortable victory.
On Saturday, Halley Woods and Lewis Hartley rode at the Steven Burke Hub in Barrowford, taking 2nd and 4th place respectively in the youth A race, before going on to ride in the senior event for additional training!
North West Youth League
On Sunday, Halley Woods, Daniel Gibson, Luke Cheetham and Tom Ashcroft all rode at Tameside in the North West Youth League.
In the Long Youth A Race, Luke came 4th, Daniel 6th and Halley 8th.
In the Short Youth A Race Daniel was 4th, Halley 5th and Luke 12th.
Tom Ashcroft won the Short Youth B Race and was 2nd in the Long Race.
Preston Arena
Meanwhile, Lewis Hartley competed in the Category 2/3/4 senior race at Preston Arena on Sunday morning, competing against one of our sponsors Tim Lawson from Secret Training CC. Tim managed to finish in 3rd place for the podium whilst Lewis sprinted home to 7th, having done a considerable amount of work during the race.
Ben Gautrey Challenge 2015
On Sunday 16th August, the VCUK Inspire Racing Team, along with members of the VCUK junior and women’s team, assembled at the historic and peaceful setting of Meols Hall in Southport to participate in the fourth annual Ben Gautrey Cycle Challenge. Over 150 riders joined together to participate in the fund raising event held in memory of Ben.
The vision of ‘The Foundation’ is to support Young Motor Bike Riders’ who take the same route into Racing that Ben did. ‘The Foundation’ will support Sport from grass root level and will promote the Sports in which Ben was so passionate about (cycling being one of those sports!)
The Benjamin Gautrey Foundation has been generous in their support of our team in 2015. This event enabled our riders to meet the founder of the BGF: Lorraine Blake (Ben’s mother) and say thanks for the assistance we have received. As a team, we like to give something back to our supporters and sponsors.
The event was organised by the foundation in collaboration with Dave Williams of DHWAgencies (official distributors in the UK and Ireland for Kuota, Spinergy and Giessegi clothing) www.dhwagencies.com
The Challenge events include either a flat 30km or a more challenging 50km route starting and finishing at Meols Hall. Both anti clockwise routes take in some of the quietest roads in the area which riders of any ability will enjoy.
The VCUK riders undertook the 50km route, with a slight detour, and on the day rode a round 75km. Even though Southport is quite flat the route took in some decent climbs further in land which the younger lads battled up and raced down.
Time Trialling and Hill Climbing
Wigan Wheelers Charity 10 Mile Time Trial (15th August 2015)
Last Saturday, Lewis Hartley travelled up to the South Lakes to participate in the Wigan Wheelers Charity 10 Mile Time Trial on the L1015 Levens course. Lewis managed to record a PB of 22 minutes and 34 seconds, averaging around 26.6MPH.The event was won by Lewis’s older brother Adam Hartley who rides for the VCUK Junior Team with a time of 19 minutes and 51 seconds, averaging over 30MPH.
PETTS Hill Climb Finale – Snow Hill Scorton (18th August 2015)
On Tuesday this week, Lewis Hartley pedalled over to Scorton (local café territory) to participate in the PETTS (Preston Evening Time Trials) hill climb event.
This event is traditionally the last in a series of evening time trials and the only hill climb in the series. This year it was held on the locally notorious Snow Hill climb that runs up past the Apple Store in Scorton. Lewis managed to ride up the climb with a PB of 3 minutes and 18 seconds, finishing in the top 10.
Litherland Finale
The Litherland Closed Circuit Racing League concluded this week with the final event being held on Wednesday the 19th August.
Both Daniel Gibson and Tom Ashcroft have regularly attended these weekly events, with Daniel competing for the Youth A title and Tom the Youth B. After 20 rounds, Daniel managed to finish 2nd in the league with Daniel Salcedo being crowned the winner from Southport Cycling Club.
During this campaign Daniel managed to win on 4 separate occasions and competed hard every time he turned up.
In the Youth B campaign, young Tom “the Assassin” Ashcroft totally dominated affairs, winning 12 events and taking the league title. After securing the title, Tom began riding up in the Youth A races (with dispensation) and impressively won the final three rounds of the A category races even though he is technically a youth B rider.
Inspire Racing Team Blog 20th July
Lewis and Luke competed in the latest round of the North West Youth League, this time at the Palatine Circuit in Blackpool.
Results – North West Youth League Round 4
A Boys Race 1
1 Daniel Salcedo Southport CC
2 George Wharton Salt Ayre Cog Set
3 Nathan Hawthorn Cycle Sport Pendle
4 Elliot Reed Salt Ayre Cog Set
5 Eddie Townend Pedalsport Cycling Club
6 Huw Owen Energy Cycles Junior Road Team
7 Sam Iddon Bolton Hot Wheels CC
8 Benjamin Barlow Salt Ayre Cog Set
9 Lewis Hartley Inspire VCUK Racing Team
10 Alistair Leivers Blackpool Youth Cycle Association
7 Alistair Leivers Blackpool Youth Cycle Association
10 Lewis Hartley Inspire VCUK Racing Team
11 Luke Cheetham Inspire VCUK Racing Team
Meanwhile Daniel Gibson jetted off to the Pyrenees last week on a cycling holiday/training camp – report to follow.
Inspire Racing Team Blog 29th June
North West Youth League – Round 3
On Saturday, the whole team assembled in Colne (Barrowford) at the Steven Burke Cycling Hub, for Round 3 of the North West Youth League. The weather was very good and there seemed to be a good turnout. In a contrast to previous rounds, a large contingent of Irish Academy riders had travelled over for this event using it as a basis for selection for some future stage races.
Personal blog from Tom Ashcroft on the Youth B Race:
In the first race, I was in the top 5 all the way around for the four fast laps of the winding circuit. On the last bend I unfortunately got pushed out, which made me sit up, I then rolled home for 9th place.
In the second race, a rider broke away from the peloton with 11 laps to go, his team mate was slowing our peloton down so it made it a lot harder to close the big gap considering only a few were willing to work through and try and close the gap. The other riders sat on. Unfortunately we didn’t catch the rider that broke away. In the last lap the mayhem on the last corner before the sprint caused me to lose a lot of places and placed me 11th. I finished 8th overall on the day.
Personal blog from Daniel Gibson on the Youth A Race:
The first race was a short 5km race that went off very quick from the start. There were extra riders due to 11 Irish riders coming over for an experience of English racing. After two laps there was a crash which all of our riders got caught behind and a group of 11 went off the front. We worked and managed to get them back and in the end I came out with 8th place with the rest of the team not far behind.
Lewis Smashes Out PB’s
This week saw Lewis Hartley break his 10 mile time trial personal best not once but twice. On Wednesday, Lewis rode in the Kent Valley RC Club 10TT held on the Levens course, in the South Lakes. The weather was good, with very little wind and warm conditions. Lewis rode “fixed gear” using his ADR track bike set up with the BC youth gear restriction (49 x 15T) or 88inches in old money. His previous PB from 2014 was 23:15, but on Wednesday, he managed to go under 23minutes with 22:45. His older brother, Adam Hartley, a 1st year junior riding for the VCUK PH-MAS Junior Cycling Team, won the event with 19:48 gaining a new PB himself.
Later in the week, Lewis headed back up to Levens to ride the Lancaster CC 10TT. This event was an open event meaning ‘open to anyone’, and over 100 riders had entered the time trial in advance. On Saturday the weather was still good but the wind had picked up and that was the most significant difference from Wednesday. Lewis rode the same bike but was still very determined to ride fast, and ambitious to go faster still. He managed to record a time of 22:38, gaining a new PB.
Inspire Racing Team Blog 20th May
Scunthorpe Youth Omnium
Luke and Halley travelled over to Scunthorpe to take on the third round of the National Youth Omnium series in very windy conditions on the near 500 metre open air velodrome. The weather was kind with clear skies allowing a day of uninterrupted racing.
The organisers had elected to change the running order, putting the Youth A riders on first to try and give them an early finish as a number of the second year riders had exams the following day, meaning a mad dash to get ready for the first event, the 2 lap Time Trial. Luke was off in the second heat and struggled to get up to speed after starting in a raging headwind. Halley was in the last heat and fared better.
The second event was the Elimination Race, more commonly known as the Devil, where the last rider over the line each lap is pulled out of the race. Halley managed to hold on to finish just outside the top ten with Luke finishing sixth.
The Scratch race was a fast and furious affair, being run off at an average speed of over 40kph despite several neutralised laps following a couple of nasty crashes. Halley and Luke managed to avoid the crashes and Halley launched a great attack when the race restarted with 2 laps left and was unlucky to get caught with half a lap to go. The final outcome was both of the boys finishing safely in the bunch.
The Match sprints were only run off for the first 18 riders so Luke just missed out on this. Halley held his own in his race to hold his overall position going into the final event of the day, the Points Race.
Again fast and furious racing was the order of the day with a few attacks gaining some points before being reeled back in. Halley managed to pick up 2 points in one of the sprints while Luke stayed safely in the bunch but never managed to get amongst the points on the sprint laps.
Litherland Youth A Circuit Race
Saturday saw the full Team back in action at the second round of the North West Youth series with Dan, Halley and Luke being joined by Lewis making a return to racing following a short break with a slight knee injury.
The racing followed the usual format with a short race in the morning followed by a longer race after lunch.
The lead group continued to increase the pace and with two laps to go Dan, then Halley, and finally Luke lost contact and formed into a three man chasing group. The race was won by Theo Hartley with Luke, Halley and Dan coming in 5th, 6th and 7th respectively with Lewis not putting too much stress on his knee and finishing comfortably with the chasing riders.
Inspire Racing Team Blog 6th May
Isle of Man Youth Tour 2015
On Friday the 1st May, the boys took a day off school in order to get to the Isle of Man to participate in the National Youth Circuit Stage Race, held over the bank holiday weekend. Seventy of the best riders from across the UK are entered in the event, making for a tough weekend, especially for those riders in their first year of racing in this category.nThey arrived at Liverpool docks to board the Steam Packet Ferry on Friday morning with great weather and arrived on the island mid-afternoon.
The first stage was on Friday evening: an individual time trial (ITT) on Douglas promenade over 1.29km. The riders took to the start ramp at 7:46pm and managed the following times & positions:
Halley Woods 1:52 – 16th
Dan Gibson 1:55 – 39th
Luke Cheetham 1:59 – 54th
Lewis Hartley 2:03 – 62nd
The winning time in the Youth A category was 1 minute and 46 seconds by Fred Wright of VC Londres.
On Saturday the lads travelled up to Ellerslie for the 36.2km (5 lap) road race that includes a particularly tough climb and very fast descent. The team woke up to some horrendous weather conditions, with early morning temperatures at only 2 degrees. With the race not due to start until late afternoon everyone was hopeful of some drier spells. Unfortunately, the rain continued to pour all day long! Owing to the conditions, the race was cut short (to 3 laps) even before the riders took to the line. This was a wise decision considering that many of the junior riders had experienced symptoms of hypothermia in the mornings racing at Peel.
The race started fast with the bunch splitting immediately due to the climb and the wind. The race was consistently fast throughout all the uphill and downhill sections with the leading riders trying to put as much time into the others as they could. By the time the lead group began the climb for the fourth time, there was only a handful of contenders left who battled it out for the podium positions. It was the notorious Daniel Tullett who managed to take the stage win, ahead of Connor Davies and Fred Wright. The riders managed to complete the race safely, further down the field and were just grateful to cross the line and get back to the race HQ for hot drinks and warm clothes.
On Sunday, the 3rd and final stage of this year’s tour took place on the promenade at Ramsey. Unfortunately Lewis was forced to take a decision to retire before the stage due to his persistent knee discomfort. However on a more positive note the rain cleared up and the sun came out to shine by the time the race started in the late afternoon. The course at Ramsey is around 2km straight up and down the prom. However it’s made difficult by a strong headwind on the way back in and tight hairpin bends at each end.
The race started at a frantic pace and our riders suffered an early set back at the first bend as they got caught up in a group of around 20 riders who were slowed up by a fallen rider. Although the team chased back on and re-joined the main bunch, they suffered from their early effort and would later fall off the back as the riders slowed up into each hairpin bend and smashed their way out in single file.
Halley finished the race 45th with Luke and Dan just a little further back. Our riders were left to reflect on a race that was much harder for them than it needed to be due to early positioning. The stage was won by Fred Wright of VC Londres who also narrowly snatched GC victory from Dan Tullett and Rhys Briton.
North West Youth Circuit Championships
The boys took part in the recent North West Youth Circuit Championships in Southport and team rider, Dan Gibson was asked to write a short report of his experiences.
Over to Dan…
“The race started out like every race does, fast and dangerous with people taking risks on every corner just to move up one place in the lead group and after a few Laps the inevitable happened. There was a crash on the chicane just after the finishing line but thankfully none of our riders came down but Lewis was badly held up by it.
The rest of us kept our noses near the front until me and Luke got shelled out but Halley was keeping near the front and looking strong. Then, Halley unluckily came off on a very wet hairpin and was unable to finish the race, very bad luck.
Everyone raced hard and gave everything they could, and it was a race which I was glad to finish.”
Omnium Weekend Report
Last weekend, three of the Inspire VCUK riders had a track focussed weekend as they competed in the annual British Cycling Omnium Northern qualification contest.
On Saturday the 9th May the team (minus Lewis) rode in the Knowsley Youth Omnium which consists of five different track events: time trial, scratch, devil, keirin and points races.
First up was a 1 lap time trial, in windy conditions on an outdoor velodrome. Daniel Gibson and Luke Cheetham finished 26th and 28th respectively, whilst Halley was unfortunate to pull his foot out of his pedal to roll home at the very back of the field.
The second race was the scratch race, all our riders animated the race and finished in the bunch along with a lot of high calibre riders.
Next was the devil, and by far the most dangerous race with a few people in the bunch not looking before changing their line, or trying to get through gaps that just were not there!
The last race of the day was the points and with nothing to lose, Daniel attacked with a lap to go, giving it everything, but was caught on the back straight by the chasing pack.
On Sunday the 10th May, the same lads travelled over to the National Cycling Centre Velodrome in Manchester for round two of three.
The format was the same as the day before with each rider competing in five events. Being indoors, the time trial was not affected by weather and the lads were used to racing on the boards.
In the 1km TT, the boys had similar results to Day 1 with Halley finishing in 22nd place, with Daniel and Luke not far behind (mid to latter half of field).
In the remaining races, Halley showed he had more to give with two top 10 placings in the scratch and points races with only his TT really setting him back to 21st overall (mid-field score).
Daniel and Luke both consistently finished inside the top 20 for the remaining races with only their TT’s really hampering their overall result.
Inspire Racing Team Blog 22nd April
British Cycling Youth Circuit Series – Round 1 – Hetton Lyons
This weekend, the Inspire VCUK Race Team travelled up to Hetton, in the North East, for the first race of the BC National Circuit Series.
Inspire VCUK rider Luke Cheetham provided us with this short report:
“The race was 33 laps of a long and twisty circuit consisting of a small climb and descent before an uphill sprint. There was a field of 80 high quality riders competing in the Youth A Race.
The race started fast. It was a tight bunch with everybody trying to stay close to the front. Throughout the race lots of riders were getting dropped due to the high pace and longer distance.
A few attacks went off the front but all were reeled back in until with around 10 laps to go an attack went that would stick. The riders in this final attack stayed away for the remainder of the race with the bunch being too slow to react with their chasing.
Unfortunately there was a bad crash during the bunch sprint that brought down two Inspire VCUK riders. However all the riders in the crash were ok with only collateral damage enabling them to cross the line and finish the race.
Inspire Racing Team Blog
Yealand Conyers Youth Training Camp
The Inspire VCUK Racing Team held their second youth training camp of the season, this time North of Lancaster. The camp began on the Saturday morning at the Salt Ayre Closed Road Circuit, where the riders took to the grid for the first round of the North West Youth League circuit race series.
The league is held over several rounds through the season at various NW circuits. Each round contests 2 races: a short sprinter race and a longer endurance race.
The first race was 4 laps, so almost over with the blink of an eye. This race was won by Alistair Leivers of BYCA, with Jim Brown in 2nd place and Will King 3rd. Luke and Halley both managed a top 10 (7th & 9th) and Lewis just behind in 14th.
For the second race over 18 laps, the boys all looked good in the bunch and all attempted to move up to the front of the race. Halley made a good attempt to break away but was later reeled in by the pack and, on the final lap; Luke attacked at the bell for a brave attempt at a solo win but was caught by the time the riders appeared from the trees. In the end, the race was won by Yorkshire rider Jim Brown with all our boys finishing comfortably in the bunch.
After the race, the boys packed their overnight kit into some weekend support vehicles and then rode from Lancaster to Yealand Conyers (15 mile) via Morecambe and Carnforth.
For the overnight stay our riders were joined by a team from Salt Ayre Cogset and a team from Furness Flyers. Jordan Stansworth from the Achieve Cycling Team also joined up for the weekend. A great bunch of lads!
On arrival at the hostel, the riders first prepared sleeping arrangements and organised their kit for the evening ahead and for a long ride on Sunday. After this it was dinner duties with the riders cooking their own dinner consisting of chicken with pasta in an Italian sauce, followed by rice pudding. The riders hydrated with Love Beets Juice during dinner. After dinner, the riders were handed over to Jennifer Lace for a 1 hour workshop before settling down to watch an inspirational movie to end the evening.
In the morning they awoke to rain pelting the roads outside and unfortunately the weather forecast was very accurate! Breakfast was prepared in the morning with help from the riders and comprised beans/toast, porridge, bananas with everyone feeling a little tentative about the ride ahead.
A short brief was delivered to the riders at 8:50 and they left the digs at 9am in the pouring rain, heading out towards not so “Sunny Bank” near Capernwray. The original plan was to ride around 70 miles to Ingleton, Hawes, Sedbergh, before returning over Barbon Fells to Kirby Lonsdale and then Yealand. With the weather as it was, there was no way this ride could proceed as planned. The outside temperature was 4 degrees and riders were getting soaked to the skin very quickly. By the time they reach Ingleton it had already been decided to cut the ride short and the route was diverted back to Kirby, with some riders already opting to hitch a lift in the support vehicle as they could not feel their fingers.
At the finish Luke and Dan showed a lot of character to carry on and finish the route back to Yealand, along with Sam, Elliot, Chris and Jordan. At the same time, the riders that did climb in the car had no choice – it would have been daft for them to carry on and risk hypothermia!
A great weekend was had by all that included elements of racing, training, team building, education and relaxation.
Youth Tour of Scotland 2015 – Race Report April
Early April and the Inspire VCUK Racing Team travelled north of the border for the annual Youth Tour of Scotland stage race. The event is held over 3 days using a mixture of closed countryside roads and a superb city centre circuit in the centre of Perth.
Stage 1 on Saturday afternoon, was a 9 lap road race on closed roads, featuring a KOM climb and a fast rolling and technical descent to the finish. The 60km race was contested by 80 of the best riders from across the UK and also national team from Ireland and a strong contingent from the Isle of Man. The boys rode really well in this race, maintaining good positions in the peloton and managing to stay in the front group from start to finish.
As the race gathered pace on the final lap, it was pleasing to see all of our riders still in the lead group and ready to contest the sprint. As the group descended, the pace was hotting up, with Halley leading the charge and Theo Hartley on his wheel!
Luke managed to use his technical nouse to finish really strongly in 11th place and Halley finished in mid-twentieth close to our guest rider Matty Taylor with Lewis rolling over the line in 31st position, after narrowly avoided a collision.
This involved a short journey into nearby Perth City Centre to contest two criteriums. The council had increased its offering from previous years by allowing the circuit to be used all day long on Easter Sunday! The weather was improving hour-by-hour, with bright sunshine, zero wind and probably the warmest spot in the UK. The bunch of eighty riders lining up for the start of the first criterium.
The races were run over 40minutes and the first race was very fast. Our riders are learning to deal with this fast and furious style of racing and in particular the need to stay up near the front. This will take time to understand and put into practice and it was evident during the first race that all of our riders were positioned too far back. Luke had the strongest start but a minor skirmish caused his chain to jump off and by the time he fixed the problem he was ½ a minute down on the leaders and very disappointed!
Later in the race, the intensity became too much for Lewis who is currently experiencing some knee pain when racing/training over longer distances. Lewis was forced to back off a little to avoid aggravating the injury too much before he seeks some specialist treatment. Halley and Matty battled on in the race and finished in the leading group.
In race 2, Luke again started strongly and was looking really comfortable towards the front of the peloton, keen to make the second race more successful than the outcome of the first. Halley, Matty and Lewis all started well and looked good.
After around 30 minutes, Lewis again backed off and rather than making big efforts out of the corners, he chose to use lower gears and spin his legs to save his knee for the next day.
Unfortunately, towards the end of the race, after 20 laps, a serious crash occurred on the finish straight with two riders having to be stretchered off the course and taken to A&E. We heard later that both riders had not sustained serious injury and are recovering well but owing to a risk assessment of the course and judgement from the Chief Commissaire, it was decided to abandon the 2nd race.
So on to the final stage on Easter Monday, this time close to the HQ – in and around the school grounds. The final stage involved 16 laps of a 2.55km course equalling 40km in total. The course is very technical with elements comparable to the Paris-Roubaix!
The course also includes a short but steep climb to the start / finish area which when tackled 16 times becomes pretty hard on the legs!
All our riders had different levels of success and misfortune on all the stages. For this stage, Luke got caught behind a crash and found himself at the very back of the bunch as they started the climb. By the top a gap had opened and Luke was unable to stop the elastic snapping, probably following his efforts on Saturday and Sunday. To his credit, he battled on for the rest of the race and never gave up!
Shortly after Luke’s misfortune, Matty had a mechanical failure with his electric gears which prevented him from changing into lower gears. This was really bad luck as he had performed so well over all of the previous stages and he reckoned that the final stage was the one that really suited his ability, being a well versed CX rider with good technical ability and good climbing ability.
Nearer the front of the race was Halley and Lewis, both hanging on in there as they counted down the laps.
At the finish, Lewis and Halley crossed the line in 33rd and 34th place and in the leading group. The teams positions after the final stage were: Halley 23rd, Lewis 30th, Matty 37th and Luke 46th.
Dolan series – Southport – Race 3
For the third and final round of the Dolan Series, the Inspire VCUK Racing Team had a full complement of riders returning to Southport: Daniel Gibson, Luke Cheetham, Lewis Hartley and Halley Woods.
It was that wet that the races were delayed and the course had to be swept to remove a deluge of water on the circuit. The course eventually began drying up with the brisk wind and a single and relatively short race eventually got under way early in the afternoon. The fifteen lap race set off at the usual frenetic pace with our riders choosing to ride towards the back of the field.
On a tight course with lots of corners it is always difficult to move up in a fast race and our riders started to pay the price for their choices. Their race day coach, Jerrod Hartley, was doing his best to encourage the lads to move up but with such a short race and starting at the back, the lads were always going to find this tough.
In the final third of the race, Halley, Lewis and Luke had all made progress in getting nearer the front, which was encouraging.
In the end, the team ended up with Halley in 8th, Luke 9th, Lewis 13th and Dan a little further back in 19th.The best thing about the day, however, was not the results but other less tangible outcomes such as the fact that the riders left the race in good spirit having had a great day together and also having learned more about bike racing – corning and positioning in the bunch!
A return to Southport for Round 2 of the Dolan Series for Daniel Gibson, Luke Cheetham and Lewis Hartley and the weather was almost perfect -a touch cold but bright sunshine and not much wind.
Race#1: VCUK riders kept in touch at the front of the pack right up to the bell lap but half way round the final lap, on the tightest acute corner, a crash occurred involving a few cyclists. The incident was near the front of the pack and unfortunately all of VCUK riders were held up for the finish, missing out on the opportunity to be placed in the top 10.
For Race#2: This was the long race of the day, the boys performed very well. Lewis was always near the front of the bunch, looking for opportunities to break away or policing the strongest riders in the bunch. Dan was also very determined to finish with the leaders, expressing a “pain face” throughout the race.
Luke found the second race a tough affair, probably wondering if he should have started the race with the remnants of a cold. He battled on and finished the race in a small group of riders that found the race equally challenging.
So at the end of the day Lewis finished in 10th spot, with Daniel 14th and Luke 24th from a very strong field of 36 riders.
This was the first outing for the Inspire VCUK Racing Team. Although this was an individual event with every rider out for themselves, there was a real sense of excitement and camaraderie among the team.
The Dolan Series is a really challenging event and the series is made up of races on three consecutive weekends, starting on 14th March, with each event having a short race of 8 laps and a longer race of 25 laps.
Dan Gibson unluckily came down a few laps in, after a touch of wheels, and suffered some nasty road rash. Thankfully Dan was able to finish and recover for the next race and Lewis, Luke and Halley managed to stay out of trouble. Lewis did particularly well finishing 7th and beating many of the second year ‘A’ riders in a sprint.
The second race is much longer but still started quite fast and the pace saw the main field spilt into a few different groups quite quickly. All of the Inspire VCUK riders kept up with the pace for the first half dozen laps or so and there were times when they were riding in a line directly behind one another when they rode like a team. As the race wore on Halley struggled to hold the back of the bunch out of a corner and was dropped and Luke later suffered a similar fate. However, they both showed strong desire and strength to continue working together and finished the race in a smaller group of riders behind the front group. Dan and Lewis did fantastically well and managed to finish with the front group of riders sprinting for the line and just behind the race winners.
NLTTA Combined Clubs 10TT
Late February / early March sees the start of the time trial season and as members of the NLTTA (North Lancashire Time Trial Association) the Inspire VCUK team took to the line with Lewis Hartley as their sole rider in the combined clubs 10 mile event.
The course was the L105 in Brock and is a loop that encompasses both standard straight road riding with technical twisty Lancashire lanes, often with long stretches exposed to the cross and head winds that anyone who rides around there will be familiar with.
There were 127 finishers out of a starting list of 147 riders and we are delighted that Lewis finished a very credible 36th:
Rossendale Hilly Sporting Course Time Trial – March
Lewis Hartley competed in the 10.3 mile hilly time trial organised by Rossendale Road Club. The race was based in Bolton-by-Bowland and the first rider was off at 2pm prompt.
111 riders were entered on the start sheet but with the weather being tough, wet and windy only 92 riders actually completed the course.
Lewis finished 23rd for the Inspire VCUK Racing Team with a time of 27:27 which also gave him 3rd place Junior overall.
Inspire VCUK Bike Fit
At this time of the year, when riders are about to embark on another road / time trial season, it is important that riders check that their positions are optimised on their bikes.
Lewis Hartley travelled to National Cycling Centre (NCC) in Manchester to visit the Inspire VCUK Racing Team’s professional bike fit and cycling injury specialist: Richard Salisbury who operates his business Pedal Precision from within the NCC.
A good bike fit will insure that the rider is in a comfortable posture on the bike so that they can ride in a relaxed position for long periods of time, without developing injuries to the knees or spine.
The whole process involves a number of checks including examining a rider’s basic physiology, to understand if a rider has any unusual features such as different leg lengths.
Additionally a camera and laptop are used to check positions from various projections to make sure that the rider is comfortable both with saddle height and lay-back through the pedal stroke and also with reach to the handlebars.
Being a bike rider himself and also being qualified in the field of Sports Injury, Richard is very well placed to deliver this service and as a team, we feel very privileged to have Pedal Precision as a sponsor.
Team Training Camp – Rhyl – February 2015
The team headed to Rhyl for some pre-season training incorporating a variety of activities. They travelled to North Wales early on the Saturday and began training with a morning road ride of over 60k followed by circuit training to develop skills and tactics in the afternoon.
Sunday was a day for heading in to the mountains and after a good breakfast they changed into winter gear to face the fog that was lingering around. This eventually cleared and the sun shone which improved everyone’s mood as they began the biggest climb of the day. There was still plenty of snow at the road side going up to Sportsman Inn and there was some spectacular scenery of Snowdonia.
The boys really worked well as a unit and have now started to appreciate the opportunity they have as they start their Youth racing season.
NWCCA Prize Presentation Evening
Lewis Hartley attended the NWCCA Prize Presentation Evening for the 2014/2015 Cyclo Cross Season on 23rd January as an age category league winner. Lewis won the youth league which encompasses riders aged 13 – 16.
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The Great British Bake-Off: Pastry Week
It's rather odd watching The Great British Bake-Off knowing that changes are afoot of screen and that sadly this will be the last series that we'll hear Mel and Sue's iconic one-liners. In fact I feel that Channel 4 needs to cast the next host of The Bake-Off wisely and try to find someone who isn't cracking rubbish jokes every so often. I particularly enjoyed the hosting duo's nods to Nordic Noir during the opening Danish pastry round including telling the bakers to make a killing. It's a shame that Mel and Sue are leaving the show as I felt that they warmed up what was an uncharacteristically dull episode of the Bake-Off with the final eight contestants all seemingly having an off week.
Signature Bake - Breakfast Pastries
The phrase breakfast pastry was an interesting one as I'm not sure how many people get out of bed and immediately wolf down an apple and cinnamon Danish or a pecan and walnut swirl. In fact I applaud Tom for being the only baker to actually theme his breakfast pastries by adding breakfast cereals. Unfortunately the fact that Tom used granola squares and a very familiar brand of 'wheat biscuits' meant that the final product he presented to the judges was deemed to be incredibly dry. One of the things it'll be interesting to see when the show comes to Channel 4 is if the hosts still have to use phrases like wheat biscuits rather than just call them Weetabix like everyone else. Most of the other bakers were playing it safe with the traditional maple, pecan, apple and cinnamon varieties although a few went of the beaten track. Selasi presented a tropical theme to both of his pastries whilst Benjamina added candied bacon to her pecan and maple swirls. However Candice was the only baker to present a savoury pastry which was filled with mushroom and pancetta. The risk paid off and Candice garnered a large amount of praise for Mary and Paul for her savoury pastries whilst Mel stole half a dozen of them to take home to her family who apparently love a savoury puff. The critiques on this first round were quite underwhelming with almost all of the bakers producing one fantastic pastry and one that didn't quite hit the spot. The curse of star baker reared its ugly head with both Benjamina and Tom presenting the weakest offerings during this first round. Meanwhile Jane was the only baker to garner universal praise for her breakfast pastries which to be fair did look amazing.
Technical Challenge - Bakewell Tart
When Mary Berry demands sheer perfection you know you're in trouble and her recipe formed the basis of what I would consider to be one of the easier technical challenges. Selasi offered up a rather ageist comment early on saying that it would be the older contestants who'd have more of an advantage in this challenge. To be fair Val cracked on at such a pace that she missed the first page of the recipe and just decided to go off on her own making the same Bakewell tart she had for years. The biggest catastrophe during the technical belonged to Andrew who, wondering why his tart wasn't baking, was shocked discover that the oven wasn't actually turned on. This led to him getting his tart out of the oven late and as a result struggled to ice any part of it. Oddly though, Andrew's creation only landed him second from bottom with Rav bringing up the rear for the third week in a row. Meanwhile Val was placed seventh as her decision to go it alone resulted in that biggest of all sins - the soggy bottom! On the other side of the coin both Candice and Jane continued to do well garnering the top two spots going into the showstopper.
Showstopper - Amuse-Bouche
This final challenge saw the bakers try to tackle that trickiest of all the pastries; filo as they made what were meant to be 48 tiny bites of perfection. That is unless you're Val whose mincemeat parcels and goat's cheese and onion cups were apparently going to be 'Yorkshire gobful' sized. Going into this round Rav was convinced he was going home but tried his best to impress with Chinese prawn tartlets and spiced white chocolate samosas. In fact his filo pastry did look to be one of the best in the tent especially when compared to Val's, which Sue likened to something out of a John Carpenter film. I personally felt that Candice may be setting herself up for a fall by attempting to be too fancy as she combined sausage, black pudding and apple into bitesize apple-shaped pieces. Once again Tom was pushing the boat out for his savoury offering by coating sirloin steak in cocoa something that felt like a last chance gamble. Tom's final product did really split the judges with Mary praising both of his offerings whilst Paul criticised everything put in front of him including the chocolate steak which he described as bitter. Both Benjamina and Rav redeemed themselves especially in the latter's case as he garnered some of the biggest positives he's received so far in the competition. Whilst the flavour of Jane's amuse-bouche was praised, her sweet offerings were criticised for their size as they presented a challenge for anyone who wanted to eat them in one go. This cleared the way for Candice to win the weekend as her savoury apples looked to be a hit all round as were her banoffeewhisky cups. But it was Val who seemed to have gone wrong on in every aspect even to the extent that Mary felt that she'd made shortcrust rather than filo pastry and I feel at this point the writing was on the wall for one of the nation's favourite bakers.
Star Baker: Candice was a deserved winner in my eyes as those apple balls just looked absolutely delicious.
Eliminated: Val finally went however her closing speech brought a little tear to my eye and there's no denying that we've definitely lost one of this series' biggest characters.
Next to Go: While his showstopper definitely saved him this time, I think that Paul now has his eyes firmly set on Rav and I don't think it'll be long till he leaves the tent.
It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: Andrew sitting down in front of his oven before checking that it was actually, you know, on.
Innuendo of the Week: I should really rename this the Candice award as she was at it again during her showstopper as she told us 'it's good to get your hands in and give your sausages a good squeeze'.
Next Time: According to its slogan 'anything that grows, goes' in the intriguing Botanical Week.
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Bonik Barta, BIDS award three entrepreneurs
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The Bonik Barta and the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) yesterday honoured three bright entrepreneurs for their contribution to the economy.
Planning Minister MA Mannan and Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi handed out the Talented Entrepreneurs Award 2019 to Md Abul Kalam Azad, chairman of Azizu Recycling and E-Waste Company, Habibur Rahman Jewel, chief executive officer of Moonlight Pet Flakes Industry, and Md Mahmudul Hasan, chairman of Rokomari.com, an online book shop.
This was the sixth edition of the awards held at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon hotel. Each winner was given a crest and a cheque worth Tk 3 lakh.
KAS Murshid, director general of the BIDS, and Dewan Hanif Mahmud, editor of the Bonik Barta, spoke at the event, which was also attended by leaders of various chambers and trade bodies and heads of financial institutions, corporate bodies and civil society organisations.
Rokomari.com began its journey in 2012 as an online book store and has about two lakh titles in stock currently. The platform typically delivers 1,000-2,000 books a day.
Apart from selling books across the country, Rokomari.com sells books to readers in as many as 40 countries. It employs 130 people permanently and another 70 temporarily.
After receiving immense response from customers, the platform has expanded its wings and now sells CDs, DVDs, sports jerseys, and stationary items etc.
Azad established Azizu Recycling and E-Waste Company in 2012 with a motto to promote a green Bangladesh. The factory, which is located in Fatulla under Narayanganj district, is engaged in e-waste management and recycling.
Now the company's annual turnover stands at around Tk 36 crore. Moonlight Pet Flakes Industry began its journey in 2011 with a vision to recycle plastic bottles that degrade the environment. Now the company exports to India and China.
Mahtab Uddin Ahmed, chief executive officer and managing director of Robi Axiata, the platinum sponsor of the event, and Khwaja Shahriar, managing director of LankaBangla Finance, also spoke.
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Punk+ (Special Edition)
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Special Edition includes a 10×7.5" hand printed archival silver gelatin print of THE CLASH in 1976 signed and numbered by Sheila Rock limited to 300 copies worldwide.
The anti-fashion phenomenon that transformed contemporary culture.
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Sheila Rock's conversations with Chrissie Hynde, Tony James, Don Letts, Jeanette Lee, Glen Matlock, Chris Salewicz, Jon Savage, Steven Severin, Paul Simonon, Jah Wobble and more, provide an illuminating commentary on the punk phenomenon. As she observes "Punk was all about changing and surviving".
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Drew Morris, sports writer| March 2, 2011
In a few weeks, some students and teachers will fill out the once-a-year March Madness tournament brackets as a form of competition. Some might even bet money on particular teams in each round and who will win the tournament. This brings the question, however: how does KHS treat gambling?
The handbook assigns gambling the same consequence as harassment: 1-3 day in-school suspension for the first offense. According to the KHS Inappropriate Behavior policy, bets on outcomes of games, assignments, contests and activities, regardless of stakes involved, are not allowed. However, if anyone at KHS gambles, they rarely get caught, or they do it off of school grounds.
“Out of the 10 years I have been here, a couple of kids got caught rolling dice in the bathroom,” Jeff Townsend, athletics director, said. “That’s the only time I have heard about anyone getting in trouble for gambling.”
According to Mike Wade, assistant principal, the gambling rule being a level three offense is necessary. He believes it was drawn up to prevent worse offenses that are level four or five.
“If I were to bet on a game for $100, I lose and I do not pay the person back, the person might want to pick a fight,” Wade said. “That person committed a more severe offense, and I could file for assault. That type of gambling leads to problems.”
The handbook does not, however, clarify if consequences will be given to a teacher if they were to gamble. According to Randy Kriewall, math teacher, teachers have participated in a NCAA March Madness pool and filled out brackets for money, but he does not have a problem with it. Kriewall admits he used to be involved in the pool and stopped five years ago because he lost interest.
“I participated just for the fun,” Kriewall, former KHS basketball coach, said. “Back when I was coaching, I loved watching and following college basketball. I would fill out four or five brackets, but now I will fill one out just to amuse myself and not make bets.”
Kriewall believes adults are at a different maturity level than students, so the rule should not punish teachers for betting on March Madness. Adults can take on the responsibility of gambling and controlling their urges. Students could make unnecessary bets, and if they were to lose the bet, they could struggle to pay it back. That could lead to violence for not paying off the bet. Plus, other problems such as skipping class could erupt due to gambling.
“It’s the school’s job to protect the kids from situations like that,” Kriewall said. “The intent of the rule is to protect the weaker students who can be taken advantage of. The school has to think about the least common denominator.”
According to a male teacher, betting on a once-a-year event for a small amount of money does not seem to be a problem. He thinks betting $25 on a team winning the NCAA tournament should be acceptable. It depends on how many times anyone, including teachers, gambles that should determine the consequences.
“I have nothing against it, but everyone has an addiction,” the male teacher said. “If you put yourself in the situation where you might get in trouble, then keep out.”
Townsend believes if a student does anything to distract others during school, then a rule should made to prohibit that particular action, including gambling. In his opinion, teachers should not be included in the rule because they can make small bets on certain events such as the March Madness pool, keep out of trouble and do not disrupt the education of students. However, he does think the level three offense is an outdated and old rule.
“Our administration is smart enough to know if someone was running a gambling ring,” Townsend said. “Someone can get in trouble for handing out [March Madness] brackets to make picks not involving money during school, but it’s hard to believe they will get suspended for it. It’s common sense.”
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'xXx: Return Of Xander Cage' (2017) Movie Review
xXx: Return of Xander Cage is nonsense garbage. But holy shit if it isn’t the most entertaining nonsense garbage I’ve seen in some time. Sit down, strap in, and prepare turn the person in the next seat and ask, “what?” repeatedly. All while wearing an irrepressible idiot grin from ear to ear.
In reality, I think the only person who wanted another xXx movie to happen was star Vin Diesel. The 2002 original certainly has a bit of a cult-ish following, but the Ice Cube-fronted 2005 sequel, xXx: State of the Union gets little such love. But that’s part of the magic that is Vin Diesel. Somehow, through sheer force of will and can-do attitude, he manages to get projects off the ground when no one else in the world cares. I have to admire the determination.
I was not screaming for this movie. Even with my proclivities for action trash, I’m not a fan of it’s X-Games-inspired predecessor that thinks it’s way too cool for school but was dated before it hit theaters. That said, xXx: Return of Xander Cage is a majestic blinding flash of absurdity; of WTF, physics-defying, nonsensical mayhem. It’s glorious. There were scenes where all I could do was slow clap. There’s a moment where I threw my hands up as if in triumphant victory. I didn’t stop smiling or giggling for the 107-minute runtime.
xXx tries to be edgy—the stench of desperation overpowers as it practically begs the audience to think it’s cool. In direct opposition, xXx: Return of Xander Cage knows precisely the movie it is and the movie it wants to be. It’s claptrap action chaos. Instead of a plot, F. Scott Frazier’s script stacks up one manic scene on top of another, in a kind of “let’s throw out the craziest shit we can think of, physically possible or not, and see what happens.”
It feels like the movie sprang to life from a night of drunken one-upsmanship and escalating dares between Frazier, Vin Diesel, and director D.J. Caruso. Like Frazier shouting, “I bet you can’t make a dude ski through the jungle.” And Caruso responding, “I bet I can, motherfucker.” I can’t picture another way this movie was created, and I love it.
I hate it when people say you need to turn off your brain to enjoy a movie, but in the case of xXx: Return of Xander Cage, think about it too hard and you may pull something. It’s like the cinematic personification of that lunkhead in high school who rammed his skull into a locker at full speed to make his buddies laugh. It’s dumb as shit, but in a remarkably endearing way.
When the unimaginatively named device, “Pandora’s Box,” falls into the wrong hands, satellites start dropping from the sky. The only person who can possibly save the day is extreme sports enthusiast Xander Cage (Vin Diesel), who, as it turns out, isn’t actually dead—you probably guessed that from the title of the movie. He assembles his team of ne’er-do-wells and hooligans (as well as his trusty fur coat) and sets out to stop the bad guys and hump every sexy lady he sees. Unfortunately for all of us, the villains don’t have a dope ass name like Anarchy 99 this time. Could have done better on that front, after all, what’s a cadre of international baddies without a catchy moniker?
There’s a sniper named Adele (Ruby Rose), who uses her skills to “even the odds” against big game hunters; Nicks (Kris Wu), who is best described as what I call a tactical DJ; a madman named Tennyson Torch (Game of Thrones’ Rory McCann), who’s primary skillset seems to be crashing cars for no reason; uptight tech nerd Becky (Nina Dobrev), who may or may not have a sex swing; and an NSA goon, Jane Marke, played by Toni Collette, who has a gleefully campy time as the shady government spook. On the other side are Xiang (the legendary Donnie Yen), Serena (Bollywood star Deepika Padukone), Hawk (UFC middleweight champ Michael Bisping), and Talon (general badass Tony Jaa, who I’m fairly certain is just playing human rooster, all the way to his twitch head movements and bleached out faux hawk).
xXx: Return of Xander Cage obviously builds its foundation on the action, stitched together by minimally coherent plot gymnastics. It’s more the complete absurdity of the on screen spectacle that sells the action rather than the mechanical achievement. It’s sound, but on a purely technical level, it’s rather unremarkable.
The content is what makes the action stand out. Okay, we want a chase scene where they surf on motorcycles or have a zero gravity fist fight as a cargo jet plummets to the ground. And Caruso and company make this happen without regard for plausibility, reality, science, or any of those other pesky elements that get in the way. On a fundamental level, the action peaks with Donnie Yen, who has a handful of badass fight scenes. xXx 3 generally underutilizes Tony Jaa and Michael Bisping, which is a shame.
Admittedly, xXx: Return of Xander Cage sags in the middle. It’s simply impossible to maintain the initial velocity, and the momentum flags as the script pauses to cram in ill-timed character beats; flip-flopping, thinly motivated shifts in allegiance; or when Vin Diesel takes a moment to opine on the current state of the world. Oh great, Xander and Serena have a three-minute conversation about their tattoos, awesome—though we do finally get the backstory on Xander’s sweet flaming nipple tattoo, so there’s that.
xXx: Return of Xander Cage isn’t for everyone, but it has a specific niche—fans of Andy Sidaris films like Hard Ticket to Hawaii should take note, this may well become your new jam. But those in the mood for campy, winking, bonkers action mayhem, look no further. [Grade: B+]
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See All the Best Photos from Misha Nonoo and Michael Hess's Romantic Italian Wedding
Guests at today's celebration include the Duchess of Sussex and Ivanka Trump.
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This afternoon, fashion designer Misha Nonoo and her fiancé, oil heir Michael Hess, are tying the knot in a romantic wedding ceremony in Rome, surrounded by family, friends, and more than one famous face. Nonoo is close friends with the Duchess of Sussex, who attended the celebration alongside her husband Prince Harry, just a few days before they are scheduled to travel to South Africa to kick off their tour of the region.
"There is no way that Meghan wouldn’t be at Misha’s wedding—no way at all," a source told Page Six.
But the royals aren't the only recognizable names in attendance at the party. Ivanka Trump, Princess Eugenie, and Princess Beatrice were all there as well, making for quite the interesting guest list.
From the guests arriving at Cinecittà, the film studio where the likes of Rossellini and Fellini shot movies, to the first look at the bride on her wedding day, read on for all the best photos from the wedding. (We'll continue to update as additional photos become available to publish.)
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle just arrived at Nonoo's venue. Meghan appears to be wearing a sheer black dress, a look she paired with a loose up-do and gold earrings. The royal couple is in Italy just days before they embark on a royal tour of Africa in which they will both visit South Africa, and Harry will spend time in Botswana, Malawi, and Angola. This will be their first tour as a family of three. Baby Archie is expected to accompany them to Cape Town, but he was not seen at the wedding celebration today.
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Here's another shot of the Sussexes, which shows a bit more of Meghan's dress.
There were several royals on the guest list at Nonoo's wedding. Here is the bride riding alongside Princess Eugenie ahead of the ceremony.
Eugenie's sister Princess Beatrice was spotted in the crowd arriving at the ceremony, wearing a lovely gold headband.
First Daughter Ivanka Trump was also at the wedding. She wore a peach gown to the nuptials.
The guests weren't all members of royal or political families. Katy Perry and her fiancé Orlando Bloom were there as well.
As were late night host James Corden and his wife Julia Carey.
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Portugal is a small country, but there are many wonderful places to see within it. The landscape offers so much variety, from sandy beaches and grassy meadows to dense forests and mountains.
One of the best ways to see a lot in a relatively short period of time is to take a driving tour of Portugal. Rent a car at the airport in Lisbon and plan at least five days to explore these eight stops. Of course, taking more time would allow for even more stops.
Here’s a rough itinerary that starts in Lisbon and ends in Porto. You’ll be able to see much of what this lovely country has to offer.
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1. Lisbon
Wherever you come from, chances are you’ll land at Lisbon’s Portela Airport, so that’s where you’ll begin your journey. The largest city in Portugal as well as the country’s capital, Lisbon offers everything you would expect and more. Plan to spend at least two nights in town to give yourself enough time to enjoy the flavors and vibe of the city.
It’s better not to drive around Lisbon, which is loaded with cars, pedestrians, and traffic. A great idea is to take a taxi or rideshare to your hotel and then back to the airport to get your rental when you’re ready to start your driving tour. Many hotels also offer a free shuttle to the airport, so you might take advantage of that.
For your stay in Lisbon, choose a place that suits your style. The ritzy area around Avenida da Liberdade is relaxed and filled with high-end hotels and shops, while the fun and funky Baixa District downtown is right in the center of the action. We stayed at Brown’s Central Hotel, a colorful spot within walking distance of many of Lisbon’s sights and bites.
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For a great overview of the city’s major attractions, choose one of the hop-on, hop-off bus tours. There are different bus companies and multiple routes, so you can pick one that covers all of your interests -- then you’ll know where to spend more time.
The food in Lisbon is amazing, but be sure to avoid the tourist traps. Instead, head to one of the local spots on the side streets.
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2. Cascais
From Lisbon, drive to the coast to check out the beachside town of Cascais. Only about 30 minutes from Lisbon, Cascais was once a fishing town and getaway for Portuguese royalty. Today, it’s a seaside resort full of hotels, shopping, mansions, museums, and more.
The waterfront promenade offers many attractions. Don’t be surprised to see people walking and bicycling at all hours when the weather is good.
You can explore the older part of town with its traditional houses and cobblestone streets to get a sense of Cascais’s history. There are several art galleries and museums, including the beloved Museu Condes de Castro Guimaraes, housed in what was once a nobleman’s summer home.
Take time to sip a drink and have a bite at one of the many cafes by the ocean.
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3. Sintra
A hilly town with colorful buildings, Sintra looks like something out of a fairy-tale. The National Palace and Pena Palace, regal structures rising from the steep hills, are the main attractions. Other palaces, a Moorish castle, and grand mansions complete the picturesque scene. Several parks, the convent, and the museums, especially the Archaeological Museum of Sao Miguel de Odrinhas, are also worth your time.
It can get quite busy in Sintra, especially during the warm-weather months when busloads of tourists come to marvel at its beauty. One way to avoid the crowds is to get there early before the hubbub begins and park in one of the designated spots along the roadside.
If you don’t want to exert yourself too much, park near the center of town for shopping and easy strolling. You can also take a tourist bus to the hilly spots and save some time.
Sintra has earned UNESCO Cultural Landscape status for good reason. Just wandering the streets imparts a sense of wonder. For a real fairy-tale ending, you can book a carriage ride through Pena Park.
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4. Peniche
Portugal has plenty of beautiful coastline, and visiting a seaside town like Peniche provides a great way to enjoy both the beach scene and the amazing seafood available there.
The beaches of Peniche are first-rate and have become popular for surfing, offering mighty tubes and hosting many international competitions. Peniche also boasts a clifftop fort, now a national monument, that used to guard the area, which was and still is a major fishing port.
An industrial town that has not put on a shiny veneer for tourists, Peniche is a seafood lover’s dream. The meals on your plate are as fresh as can be -- after all, the ingredients come from just a few feet away. Check out Avenida do Mar and Largo da Ribeira for the city’s most popular dining areas.
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5. Obidos
Ancient walled cities stir the imagination and create a sense of mystery and delight, and the medieval town of Obidos is no exception. This jewel of central Portugal is as romantic as can be; long ago, King Denis gave the city to his queen as a wedding present. The enchanting town is full of winding narrow roads and brightly trimmed buildings. Of course, it also has a castle, which now houses an elegant Pousada, or luxury heritage hotel.
Bibliophiles will love Obidos, since it’s a UNESCO Creative City of Literature and a place where books are held in high esteem. In addition to hosting FOLIO, an international literary festival, Obidos is home to numerous unique bookstores. There’s even a hotel, The Literary Man, where guests are not only encouraged to curl up with a good book -- they are surrounded by volumes from which to choose.
Because picturesque Obidos is a walled city, you’ll want to park your car in the lot by the entrance. The small tourist building nearby has maps and information to help you make the most of your time in this charming area.
6. Santarem
You’ll head inland from Obidos on the way to the historic town of Santarem. Inhabited by everyone from the Greeks and Romans to the Visigoths and Moors, Santarem has some spectacular architecture, including one of the largest collections of Gothic churches in the country. Enjoy a stroll through the town’s beautiful gardens and parks, including the Portas do Sol Gardens, for wonderful views of the Tagus River.
In the heart of the Ribatejo agricultural region, Santarem is also noteworthy for its gastronomy. There is a beautiful tiled public market, currently under renovation, that will be ready to visit next year. And the town holds an annual Gastronomia de Santarem festival to showcase and celebrate the best restaurants and traditional regional dishes Santarem has to offer.
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7. Coimbra
Portugal’s former capital of Coimbra is home to the oldest university in Portugal. Located on land previously occupied by a palace, the school offers views of the ruins of a Roman aqueduct. The baroque library and large bell tower are popular attractions with visitors from around the world. Coimbra also boasts a beautiful botanical garden.
Fado, the music of love and longing that’s so much a part of Portuguese culture, gets favorable treatment in Coimbra, where artists perform the music without meal service, which can often detract from the experience. Fado ao Centro is a great place for daily concerts.
Be sure to take a drive around Coimbra itself to appreciate the gorgeous scenery, including beautiful river, city, and countryside views.
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8. Porto
The second-largest city in Portugal, Porto defines the northern region of the country. Porto is a very hilly town, so when you visit, park your car in a local lot and plan to walk everywhere.
Start in central Porto, where you’ll find the Clerigos Tower and Praca da Liberdade. There is a wealth of shops, museums, restaurants, markets, and attractions in this vibrant city. Know that -- unless you’re spending several days here -- you won’t see everything, so stick to those things that interest you most.
The Sao Bento Railway Station has stunning tile mosaics, as does the Capela das Almas on Rua Santa Catarina, which also happens to be one of the best shopping streets in Porto.
Harry Potter fans will recognize the gorgeous Livraria Lello, the bookstore that inspired J. K. Rowling’s descriptions of Hogwarts. Unfortunately, the experience of the bookstore can be marred by hordes of tourists jamming in to take photos. There is a small fee for admission that can be used toward the price of a book. Our advice is to get there before the shop opens to beat the crowds; otherwise, stroll by later to see if you can get a glimpse of the marvelous place toward the end of the day.
Another spot well worth seeing is the gorgeous Belle Epoque-era Majestic Cafe, where you can grab a coffee and a pastry in the morning.
If you allow yourself to linger in Porto, check out the colorful Ribeira neighborhood on the banks of the Douro River or stop for a tasting at one of the many port wine cellars for a treat that will keep Porto forever in your heart.
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Peter Weber Named Season 24 Bachelor
By Emily Longeretta
Pilot Peter for the win! Peter Weber, who came in third place on Hannah Brown‘s season of The Bachelorette, will be the season 24 Bachelor, Chris Harrison announced on the Bachelor in Paradise reunion special on Tuesday, September 17.
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The reality star expressed how “emotional” and “grateful” he was for the opportunity. He also mentioned his parents as examples of the kind of love he wants to find.
Weber noted that Brown’s commitment to remaining “100 percent unapologetically herself” from night one until the final rose inspired him to pursue the same goal during his turn as the lead. While he acknowledged that he could make the wrong decision on his journey, he vowed to follow and trust his heart.
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The California native later pointed out that he grew up minutes from Bachelor Mansion and used to try to sneak in.
Weber, 28, had been “the producers’ front-runner all along,” an insider told Us Weekly in August. He was a fan favorite during Brown’s season and earned even more attention when the former Bachelorette revealed the two had sex multiple times in a windmill during his fantasy suite date.
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“I was a little dishonest about something,” the Alabama native, 24, told the audience during the Bachelorette finale in July. “Since it’s out there. I did say there was something Peter and I did twice. It was actually four times.”
After his elimination, Weber admitted that if ABC offered him the leading role, he’d jump at the opportunity.
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“I would love that,” he told Rachel Lindsay and Ali Fedotowsky on the “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast at the time. “I’ve been through this experience, I know it works. I’ve fallen in love … So yes, if I was offered, 100 percent.”
The Bachelor will premiere on ABC in 2020.
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Sheila Kirkpatrick Massar to be Honored at Rodeo Club Banquet
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Massar feels as though she has always had an eye for hats. Her father was a rodeo announcer and she would often travel around with him to rodeos. At the age of about 10, Massar started shaping hats on her own.
She gained more experience shaping hats while she worked at a sporting goods store. From there, she went on to work for a custom hatter in Billings, Mont. for a year and a half. Massar later moved to Wisdom, Mont. and opened Kirkpatrick Custom Hatters in 1983.
Massar operated her hat company until the mid 1990’s when the duties of the ranch required her to take a step back from hat building. Her hiatus didn’t last long because by 1999 she was back to building one of a kind custom hats. She opened Montana Mad Hatters in Twin Bridges, Mont. and operated it successfully for several years. Her daughter, Ericka Kirkpatrick, continues to operate the business today.
Massar, who was inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame in 1992, has had the opportunity to build hats for a list of reputable people including actors Cheryl Ladd (Kris Munroe on Charlie’s Angels) and Tim Scott (Pea Eye on Lonesome Dove), country-western singer Hank Williams Jr and T.V. personality Willard Scott. The state of Montana even commissioned Massar to build a hat for U.S. President George H.W. Bush.
“The cowboy hat is a symbol for the rodeo culture and Sheila makes some of the best hats around,” UMW Head Rodeo Coach, Kody Lahaye, stated.
Even though famous people have worn Massar’s creations, she holds dear the fact that cowboy hats are a necessary tool for many hard working men and women. Knowing that, Massar reasonably prices her hats so her quality workmanship can be worn and appreciated by all.
“My dad taught me to never forget where you come from. I am most proud of having the honor to make cowboy hats for the cowboys and cowgirls who continue to keep alive our western heritage,” Massar stated.
Massar has been a longtime supporter of the Montana Western Rodeo Program, donating hats to their annual banquet nearly every year since the celebration began. Currently, Montana Mad Hatters donates two hats annually to Montana Western, one is auctioned off at the Rodeo Club Banquet, and the other will be up for bid during Montana Western’s Annual Colt Sale.
Masser is incredibly humbled to be honored by the UMW Rodeo Team. She attests that she does it for the students saying “I’m very excited to see the kids that come out of the Montana Western Rodeo Program. I really believe in them.”
“It is the support of individuals like Sheila that have made the rodeo program into what it is today. The Montana Western Rodeo Team, as well as myself, would like to thank Sheila for her continued support over the years,” said Lahaye.
To learn more about the Rodeo Club Banquet or to purchase tickets, please call the UMW Foundation at 683-7306.
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Michael Funk begins selling organic produce out of the back of his Volkswagen van. Soon after, he creates Mountain People’s Warehouse in Auburn, CA, vowing “To Boldly Go Where No Distributor Has Gone Before.” It grew to become the largest full line natural foods distributor in the Western U.S.
Norman Cloutier opens Cornucopia Natural Foods in Rhode Island. It got its start as a small retail store, but Cloutier converted it to a warehouse to begin wholesale distribution. Cornucopia grew and acquired several other regional distributors, including Rainbow Natural Foods. Rainbow began in 1973 as a small cooperative in downtown Denver and eventually became a national retailer and distributor.
After many years of substantial growth in the East, Cornucopia merged with Mountain People’s Warehouse. The two companies formed UNFI to better serve customers and operate more efficiently.
Stow Mills of Massachusetts joins UNFI. A regional distributor, Stow Mills’ history is woven into the history of Llama, Toucan & Crow. In 1973, the natural foods store Good Life in Vermont had trouble receiving deliveries from distributors in Boston and New York. Bob Swanson, a clerk at the store, started driving to New York each week to pick up the store’s order. Other stores soon asked Bob to pick up their orders and from there Llama, Toucan & Crow was born. The company expanded and eventually bought Stow Mills and began to operate under the Stow Mills name.
Hershey Import Company, a roaster and packager for nuts, seeds, dried fruit and snacks, is added to UNFI. The company led the way in trends like trail mixes and yogurt-covered items. In 2009, Hershey Import Company changed its name to Woodstock Farms Manufacturing.
Source Organic, a brokerage joining organic producers with retailers and wholesalers, joins the UNFI Family by merging with Albert’s Organics.
Regional distributor Blooming Prairie joins UNFI. Blooming Prairie began with three part-timers and a network of volunteers. They hitchhiked to Minneapolis, then rented a truck to pick up orders from People’s Warehouse to fulfill orders. By 2002, Blooming Prairie was the leading Midwest distributor of organic and natural products.
Northeast Cooperatives, a natural foods distributor in the Northeast and Midwest is acquired, bringing with it an expanded customer base and new channels of distribution
Select Nutrition Distributors is added to the UNFI Family. Since 1977, the company, then known as Super Nutrition, has offered a large selection of vitamins, supplements, sports nutrition and personal care products – many of which are organic, non-GMO, gluten-free, vegan, kosher or paraben free.
Roots ‘N Fruits Cooperative joins UNFI by merging with Albert’s Organics. The company was a privately-owned natural foods distributor of organic produce and perishables in the upper Midwest.
UNFI acquires Millbrook Distribution Services, giving current customers a larger selection of specialty food products and giving Millbrook’s customers more natural and organic choices.
SunOpta Distribution Group, Canada’s first coast-to-coast natural and organic food distributor, is added to UNFI. SunOpta is now known as UNFI Canada.
UNFI Canada acquires B.K. Sethi Distribution, specializing in a unique variety of Asian, Indian, Hispanic and Caribbean food.
Pacific Organic Produce is added to the UNFI Family by merging with Albert’s Organics.
Its Purity Organic label markets organic produce. Disley Food Services joins the UNFI Family by merging with UNFI Canada. It specializes in dairy and deli products for food service and retail customers.
Honest Green is added to UNFI, giving customers the opportunity to build their eCommerce business in the natural product market.
UNFI is named one of the World’s Most Admired Companies by Fortune; one of the Top Green Providers by Food Logistics and one of the Healthiest Employers by Providence Business News.
Trudeau Distributing Company joins UNFI. The company, well-known for excellent customer service, distributes a full line of specialty gourmet meats, frozen, dairy, bakery, deli, seafood and grocery products throughout the Midwest.
UNFI is named the Healthiest Large Employer in Rhode Island by Providence Business News.
UNFI acquires Tony’s Fine Foods, bringing a wide selection of fresh products like specialty protein, cheeses, deli and bakery items. Tony’s has 80 years of experience in fresh and expertise in sourcing and curating everyday, unique and seasonal products.
Haddon House joins UNFI. Known for their top-notch customer service, Haddon has 60+ years of expertise distributing gourmet and ethnic foods.
Nor-Cal Produce joins UNFI. Nor-Cal is a fresh distributor of conventional and organic produce, and floral, with 44 years of experience.
Global Organic joins the UNFI Family under Albert's Organics. Global Organic distributes organic produce, mostly from local farms in the Southeast.
Gourmet Guru becomes part of the UNFI Family. Gourmet Guru distributes and merchandises fresh and organic food - and is focused on new and emerging brands.
UNFI is named a Top Green Provider by Food Logistics.
Recognized as one of the most effectively managed U.S. companies, UNFI was named in the Management Top 250 list by the Wall Street Journal in December.
UNFI completes transformative acquisition of SUPERVALU, creating North America’s Premier Food Wholesaler. This transaction accelerates UNFI's "Build out the Store" growth strategy by immediately enhancing our product range, equipping us to bring an attractive, comprehensive product portfolio to an expanded universe of customers.
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The Difference Between Ventricular Fibrillation and Cardiac Arrest
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Ventricular fibrillation causes cardiac arrest, but not all cardiac arrest is caused by ventricular fibrillation.
Cardiac arrest is the term that describes when a heart stops pumping blood around. When a victim's heart stops pumping blood and he or she stops breathing (which usually happens within a few seconds of the heart-stopping), the victim is considered clinically dead. If the victim's heart doesn't start again or CPR isn't started within 5 minutes of cardiac arrest, brain damage is almost guaranteed.
Ventricular fibrillation is a form of heart rhythm disturbance (dysrhythmia) that causes cardiac arrest. During ventricular fibrillation, the heart stops beating normally and simply begins quivering uncontrollably. No blood is pushed through because there is no squeezing action.
Believe it or not, if you have to go into cardiac arrest, ventricular fibrillation is the best-case scenario. Ventricular fibrillation responds very well to electric shock, which stops the quivering and lets the heart's normal electrical activity start over. That's why we call those shock boxes defibrillators.
Other Lethal Dysrhythmias
Ventricular fibrillation (v-fib) is not the only dysrhythmia or arrhythmia that causes cardiac arrest. There are several.
Ventricular tachycardia (v-tach is treated similarly to v-fib. The difference is that ventricular tachycardia continues to make the heartbeat regularly, but it goes so fast that the heart never gets a chance to fill with blood. There's not an opportunity to build up the pressure, so the blood stops flowing.
Asystole is the term for a lack of any sort of heartbeat at all. On an EKG machine, asystole is a simple, flat line. Asystole is the worst-case scenario because it means there is absolutely no electrical activity in the heart for rescuers to work with. At least with v-fib or v-tach, the heart can be shocked, which stops it from moving for a second and gives it a chance to start over. Think of defibrillation as a reboot for your heart. It doesn't always work, but when it does, it's pretty amazing.
Agonal rhythm is a term for the last attempts of the heart to try beating. It's treated no differently than asystole (rescuers attempt to wake the heart up using a combination of CPR and drugs known to make the heart irritable again).
U.S. National Library of Medicine, MedlinePlus. Cerebral hypoxia. Updated July 29, 2018.
American Heart Association. Ventricullar fibrillation. Updated September 30, 2016.
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Posted on August 24, 2015 February 24, 2017 by Fraser Cain
How Do Stars Go Rogue?
Rogue stars are moving so quickly they’re leaving the Milky Way, and never coming back. How in the Universe could this happen?
Stars are built with the lightest elements in the Universe, hydrogen and helium, but they contain an incomprehensible amount of mass. Our Sun is made of 2 x 10^30 kgs of stuff. That’s a 2 followed by 30 zeros. That’s 330,000 times more stuff than the Earth.
You would think it’d be a bit of challenge to throw around something that massive, but there are events in the Universe which are so catastrophic, they can kick a star so hard in the pills that it hits galactic escape velocity.
Rogue, or hypervelocity stars are moving so quickly they’re leaving the Milky Way, and never coming back. They’ve got a one-way ticket to galactic voidsville. The velocity needed depends on the location, you’d need to be traveling close to 500 kilometers per second. That’s more than twice the speed the Solar System is going as it orbits the centre of the Milky Way.
There are a few ways you can generate enough kick to fire a star right out of the park. They tend to be some of the most extreme events and locations in the Universe. Like Supernovae, and their big brothers, gamma ray bursts.
Supernovae occur when a massive star runs out of hydrogen, keeps fusing up the periodic table of elements until it reaches iron. Because iron doesn’t allow it to generate any energy, the star’s gravity collapses it. In a fraction of a second, the star detonates, and anything nearby is incinerated. But what if you happen to be in a binary orbit with a star that suddenly vaporizes in a supernova explosion?
That companion star is flung outward with tremendous velocity, like it was fired from a sling, clocking up to 1,200 km/s. That’s enough velocity to escape the pull of the Milky Way. Huzzah! Onward, to adventure! Ahh, crap… please do not be pointed at the Earth?
This artist’s impression shows the dust and gas around the double star system GG Tauri-A.
Another way to blast a star out of the Milky Way is by flying it too close to Kevin, the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy.
And for the bonus round, astronomers recently discovered stars rocketing away from the galactic core as fast as 900 km/s. It’s believed that these travelers were actually part of a binary system. Their partner was consumed by the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, and the other is whipped out of the galaxy in a gravitational jai halai scoop.
Interestingly, the most common way to get flung out of your galaxy occurs in a galactic collision. Check out this animation of two galaxies banging together. See the spray of stars flung out in long tidal tails? Billions of stars will get ejected when the Milky Way hammers noodle first into Andromeda.
A recent study suggests half the stars in the Universe are rogue stars, with no galaxies of their own. Either kicked out of their host galaxy, or possibly formed from a cloud of hydrogen gas, flying out in the void. They are also particularly dangerous to Carol Danvers.
Considering the enormous mass of a star, it’s pretty amazing that there are events so catastrophic they can kick entire stars right out of our own galaxy.
What do you think life would be like orbiting a hypervelocity star? Tell us your thoughts in the comments below.
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10 Replies to “How Do Stars Go Rogue?”
BlackWolfStanding says:
Stars only live so long. So chances are if the star is not heading towards any galaxy in our local group, it would burn out before reaching anything else. But the experience would be awesome. Watching our galaxy fade away and finally seeing what the heck the Great Attractor is.
FarAwayLongAgo says:
An interesting aspect of these super speedy halo stars, in some interstellar travel future, is that a spacecraft might get a good speed boost out of it by a close gravitational assist flyby. There are some really very fast stars out there, as in this paper:
“occasionally with velocities 10^5 km/s (one third the speed of light)”
If the Sun suddenly became such a beast and we saw it happen, heading towards us, it would already be 1/3 of the way upon us. Because of the light travel time lag. That’s fast.
JukKluk says:
I cannot imagine the loneliness of an alien race that discovers that its star is a rogue and that they are so far out in the intergalactic medium that even at light speed they are a million years from anywhere. Just how crushing would that be do you think?
The only bonus would be the view.
It doesn’t matter. Our nearest star is so far far away that it isn’t even visible to the naked eye at night and was discovered only in 1915, by Robert Innes. We *are* alone in an empty hole of nothingness, imagine that. Of course there’s other stuff around, but it is all the way out there beyond our reach.
Smokey says:
Of course our “nearest” star is only ~8.5 light minutes away, so I assume you’re referring to Proxima Centauri, which is not very much closer than Alpha Centauri (4.24 LY vs. 4.37 LY according to the Wikis). Its lack of visibility in our sky has much more to do with its small, dim self than its distance: A & B Centauri are both very much visible to the naked eye, despite A being not much larger or brighter than our own Sun (Sol & Rigil Kentaurus are both G-class stars), and if B were to suddenly lose its brighter primary it would still be the 21st brightest star in our sky, despite being only 90% Sol’s mass, and considerably dimmer in the visible wavelengths. Bottom line: Proxima is hard to see because it’s a runt, not because it’s far away.
The issue of reach is a separate one entirely. One can rationally argue that all it would take to get humans to the Centauri system within their lifetimes — I say nothing of their families and friends left behind, relativistic (yet still sub-light) speeds being what they are — is the profligate expenditure of money, effort and natural resources, as the technology already exists, at least in prototype & principle. A combination of solar sails, nuclear propulsion, and ion drive systems all (in theory) could get a crew of explorers to that system within a few decades by the crew’s reckoning, despite the ~4 light year gap.
Granted, this is all speculation, and it would probably be a bad idea to even try at this exact point in time, the rough equivalent technologically speaking of circumnavigating the Earth’s oceans in a bathtub. And yet even at this level, we really aren’t THAT far off from the eventual outriggers, caravels, brigantines and steamships (by comparison w/said bathtub) that will begin to make the effort worthwhile to the few brave, crazy, egotistical and utterly necessary First Starfarers.
But as J. pointed out, we are very lucky in terms of our placement in space, for were we millions of LY away — instead of the Sol-centric dozen LY bubble which currently nets us quite a selection of star systems — even the metaphorical equivalent of an Apollo program (as related to my bathtub example) would not be enough to make the rest of the universe even remotely reachable. Barring the development of inter-dimensional travel or the like, such a civilization would in fact be truly, utterly alone — a lone house on a tree-less island in the midst of an endless sea.
By comparison, we’re more like two-year olds in a fenced yard who have just figured out that we actually maybe COULD go next door by opening the latch on the gate… if only we could reeeeach the latch….
Proxima is as dim as most stars are. But if one were near it, it would look like a giant object melted to plasma by the continuous nuclear war inside of it (because that’s what it is). Blindening to watch. And that we cannot see because of the huge distance. With microlensing astronomers have even found planets around such stars which they cannot even see. Btw, many astronomers would’ve loved living outside of a galaxy. Alot of work is today put into adjusting observations for gas, dust, radiation and gravity around us inside of this busy galactic arm.
Interstellar travel is impossible for humans. I’ve watched the talks online of a couple of conferences about interstellar travel (google Icarus or 100 year starship) and although these knowledgeable people have the best will and hopes, they say that we don’t know how to do it, even with unlimited budget. Even fusion propulsion might not cut it. As someone put it: “-We need more than one visit by the tooth fairy.”
I think that life from Earth will go interstellar pretty soon. But it is too impractical for humans as we know them to do it.
I guess we would have to settle on a definition for the term “near;” from 1AU the star would appear a bit brighter than our full Moon, or about as bright as Sol appears now to the Voyager probes. Even compared to other red dwarf stars it’s considered dim, being big and bright only in relative comparison to objects like brown dwarfs or gas giants.
As for the rest, I’m a bit more optimistic, preferring to think of such travel as “implausible” rather than “impossible.” Still, either way, interstellar travel remains unreal for the time being, and “impractical” is certainly a true assessment at this point no matter how hopefully one looks at it.
“What do you think life would be like orbiting a hypervelocity star?”
In the words of Carl Sagan (who was referring to the view from a planet orbiting a halo star, rather than a “rogue star” per se): “Not a sunrise, but a galaxy-rise; the dawning of a hundred billion Suns.”
Of course the sun is mostly made of plasma, not atoms such as hydrogen and helium. Living in the solar system of a rogue star would be like living anywhere else. Who would notice the movement?
Wow, with warp drive we traveled to Proxima Centauri in only a few weeks. Unfortunately our drive is down; however, we know there is a viable planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A only about a tenth of a light year away. Practically next door. We got rockets and enough fuel to get up to 30,000 mph and coast there. Whew. It will only take a little over 2100 years to get there. What are we waiting for?
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RAF Kirknewton ‘super barracks’ costed at £400m
Ministry of Defence plans to sweeten the blow of defence cutbacks are planning to erect a giant new army barracks on the site of a former RAF base at Kirknewton.
The base, which according to the Scotsman will cost £400m to erect, will be partially funded via the sell-off of the Armies Redford and Dreghorn barracks, alongside its Craigiehall headquarters.
It is expected that these sites will raise around £70m but doubts remain about the viability of the plan however given a £38bn shortfall in military spending and demands from the Scottish Government that the sites be given over to affordable housing.
Concerns have also been raised over an apparent lack of married quarters in the new base, with soldiers who have tied the knot being forced to commute in from the nearest available suitable accommodation – currently in Edinburgh.
Defence Secretary Liam Fox is pushing plans for the ‘multi-role brigade’, one of five around the UK, as part of a bid to accommodate thousands of returning service personnel currently stationed in Germany.
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Democrats blast Trump for tweeting conspiracy theory linking Epstein death to Bill Clinton
BEDMINSTER, N.J. – Democratic presidential candidates blasted President Donald Trump on Sunday for re-tweeting a no-evidence conspiracy theory seeking to link Jeffrey Epstein's death to predecessor Bill Clinton.
“This is another example of our President using this position of public trust to attack his political enemies with unfounded conspiracy theories," Democratic candidate Beto O'Rourke said on CNN's "State of the Union."
Another presidential candidate, Cory Booker, told CNN that Trump is "whipping people up into anger and worse" and added that “this is a very dangerous president that we have right now."
There is no evidence at all linking Clinton to Epstein's death Saturday by suicide, yet Trump on Saturday night re-tweeted the comments of a Twitter user named Terrence K. Williams:
"Died of SUICIDE on 24/7 SUICIDE WATCH ? Yeah right! How does that happen #JefferyEpstein had information on Bill Clinton & now he’s dead I see #TrumpBodyCount trending but we know who did this! RT if you’re not Surprised."
Epstein, the financier who had been facing federal sex trafficking charges, was not on suicide watch when he was found dead in his jail cell early Saturday, officials said.
Other conspiracy theorists on the Internet are trying to link Epstein's death to Trump, but there is no evidence of that either.
Like Clinton, Trump was once friends with Epstein.
Social media users condemned Trump for basically accusing Clinton of murder.
"Let’s not mince words here: The President of the United States is a nut job," tweeted attorney George Conway, who is married to Trump presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway.
Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Kellyanne Conway explained Trump's re-tweet by saying he "just wants everything to be investigated."
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LE CERCLE DE CARPEAUX
Brian Zeger, Evan Hughes, Susan Graham, Layla Claire
To augment their exhibit "The Passions of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux", The Metropolitan Museum of Art presented an all-French recital of vocal music by the 19th c. sculptor's friends and contemporaries--Georges Bizet, Camille Saint-Saëns, Ernest Chausson, Alfred Bachelet, Charles Gounod, Hector Berlioz, Ambroise Thomas, Gabriel Fauré and Léo Delibes.
Judging by the large crowd who applauded wildly after each and every song, we gather that the audience comprised more lovers of art than lovers of chanson. Perhaps they were drawn by the fame of the incomparable mezzo Susan Graham; we have a feeling that after hearing this fulfilling recital they will be just as likely to be drawn to recitals by the two phenomenally gifted younger singers--soprano Layla Clair and bass-baritone Evan Hughes. The beloved Brian Zeger, who wears many hats, here wore his "collaborative pianist" hat, accompanying all three artists with grace and style.
At what point do we abandon the term "rising star" or "young artist" and acknowledge their arrival to full stardom. It seems to us that these two artists have arrived. They both captivated the audience with their vocal gifts, dramatic artistry and the ability to communicate to the audience the essence of each song.
Ms. Claire, who just had a phenomenal success in Toronto as Fiordiligi in Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte, opened the program with a set of songs by Bizet. The seasonal "Chanson dAvril" was the perfect choice. Ms. Claire has a gorgeous instrument and employs it astutely with great attention to variety of dynamics and phrasing. Our favorite was the Iberian-perfumed "Guitare" which allowed her to show off some gorgeous melismatic singing. Mr. Zeger's piano made the most of the rocking currents in "Douce mer".
Mr. Hughes possesses a warm and generous voice that can be stimulating or soothing and a lively onstage personality that seems to want to tell a story and to tell it well. In the set of songs by Monsieur Saint-Saëns, the rhythmically energetic "Le pas d'armes du Roi Jean" provided an opportunity for the interpolation of a verse of sad quietude. "Tristesse" showed a depth of melancholic feeling. But our favorite was the humorous "Suzette et Sazon" in which our singer is torn between two women. We enjoyed the rapid piano figures in "Tournoiement".
Ms. Graham next graced the stage with three delights; there is nothing to add to the wealth of praise she has received for her charming way of addressing the audience or her fine voice or interpretive skills. But it needs to be said that singing "on the book" impairs the connection with the audience. Every time the singer glances at the score or turns a page there is an interruption of contact. We are more inclined to forgive this practice when a singer is a last-minute substitution and has not had time to learn the material.
That being said, we did enjoy the rapid-fire "Dance macabre" by Mr. Saint-Saëns which has been heard elsewhere as a violin solo. Mr. Zeger made the most of the fluttering butterfly wings in Chausson's "Les papillons".
Mr. Hughes returned with some early songs by Fauré and we delighted in two songs in which one could feel the movement of water; "Barcarolle" impressed as a lovely partnership between singer and pianist and "Les berceaux" was filled with significance as the sailors of ships rocking in the harbor are pulled back from their adventures by the rocking of their childrens' cradles.
In a set of Gounod songs, Ms. Claire was at her best issuing a charming invitation to run barefoot through the dewy grass in "Viens! Les gazons sont verts". The familiar "Sérénade" was given a tender but flirtatious reading with lots of trilling and melismatic singing to delight the ear.
Ms. Graham closed the program with the gorgeously melodic "Connais-tu le pays?" from Thomas' Mignon and Marguerite's lament from Le damnation de Faust--"D'amour, l'ardente flamme". We were hoping that what she called "the operatic portion of the program" would be "off the book"; sadly, it was not.
The welcome encore was "The flower song" from Léo Delibes' Lakme. We are not among those who listen to commercials so we never tire of this tuneful duet, here sung by Ms. Claire and Ms. Graham. It was brilliant.
The recital has ended, the melody lingers on and the sculpture exhibit can be seen until May 26th. It was organized by a partnership with the Musée d'Orsay. Any excursion into the 19th c. is a welcome one for our eyes and ears.
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Labels: Alfred Bachelet, Ambroise Thomas, Camille Saint-Saëns, Charles Gounod Léo Delibes, Ernest Chausson, Evan Hughes, Gabriel Faure, Georges Bizet, Hector Berlioz, Susan Graham Layla Claire
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Wales weather
What the Met Office says about '800-mile wide storm' that is heading towards Wales
There is going to be rain, but there is good news looking ahead
Cathy OwenBreaking News Editor
We have just experienced one of the coldest early May bank holidays on record - and now there are reports of a storm heading towards Wales.
A front from the Atlantic is set to move in overnight on Tuesday into Wednesday, bringing with it wet and breezy conditions.
But the Met Office has said it will not be a named storm and the weather should take a turn for the better by the weekend.
There have been reports that the weather forecasting service is preparing severe weather warnings, but forecaster Richard Miles said it is unlikely to be Storm Idris and should pass through Wales fairly quickly.
He has warned, however, of frosty nights for the next couple of days.
"There is a low pressure system heading towards the UK, but it is quite normal for the time of year," said Richard.
"There will be heavy showers and a strong breeze on Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. On Wednesday, there will be showers and sunshine through the day and under the cloud it will feel quite cold."
Highs of between 9 and 14C are forecast for Cardiff, around 11C in Holyhead, and 14C in Wrexham.
Channel 4 weather presenter Liam Dutton warned that "widespread rain" is expected in the next 36 hours, with between 10 and 15mm of rain in most parts of the UK.
He added: "There will be brisk and gusty winds too, especially for coasts and hills. It will be some welcome rain for farmers and growers."
Rain forecast for Wales on Wednesday
Richard Miles added that better weather was on the way with high pressure taking dominance over the weekend.
But it will remain cold overnight, with frost in some areas.
He said: "After some days of unsettled weather, it should start to settle down by the weekend, with Sunday being the best day when it could reach between 17 and 18C.
"There will be overnight frosts in some areas, especially on Thursday night when there could be lows of -1C."
Warning of frosty nights for gardeners and farmers (Image: Daily Post Wales)
The good news is that beyond the weekend, it will stay "relatively settled" to the end of next week.
Richard added: "There is a good chance of drier, more settled weather to at least Friday."
Brief Met Office summary of weather from tonight until Saturday:
Showers will ease during the evening but cloud will increase from the south. Heavy and persistent rain will arrive during the early hours and a brisk breeze will develop. Minimum temperature 7 °C.
Persistent rain will quickly clear away to the northeast but after a short respite, heavy and slow-moving showers will spread from the south, perhaps including hail and thunder. Maximum temperature 13 °C.
Outlook for Thursday to Saturday:
Further heavy showers are likely on Thursday with a chance of rain later on Friday. Saturday look like being drier and brighter, though still on the cool side of average.
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How the world is making a living on one of Cardiff's most famous roads
Cardiff's City Road is packed with a variety of businesses
Aamir MohammedReporter
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If there is one shortcoming in the nominative determinism of Cardiff’s City Road it is only that it is too narrow a description.
For it is arguably not just a city in microcosm but also a whole globe packed into a bustling, thriving street that hums with traffic as the smell of grilled meat wafts through the air early on a summer evening.
People from all over the world have settled in this road where a short walk can see you get a haircut from a long-established Italian business owner, sip authentic chai or taste fabulous Indian, Turkish or Japanese cuisine, and shop for everything from furniture to sex toys.
City Road is more than a road within a city – it is a snapshot of the world along a single street. This is how people from around the globe make a living in one of Cardiff’s most famous locations.
Cardiff's City Road (Image: Mark Lewis)
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BeFit owner Baheddin Madi (Image: Mark Lewis)
Baheddin Madi, 41, grew up in Libya. He had his own oil company but was forced to flee his home town due to a civil war. He arrived in Cardiff as a refugee in 2011.
Baheddin worked as a security guard in Cardiff. Unhappy about his weight but interested in bodybuilding, he decided to set up BeFit Kitchen, a healthy food and supplement shop.
"I had a really good life in Libya. I was forced to flee due to a civil war but I had a successful oil company.
"I have always worked hard since I arrived in Cardiff and have done things the right way. I wanted to set up my own business because I don't think there's anywhere healthy to eat on this road.
"You've got pizzas, kebabs but these foods aren't good for you. I opened this shop to provide something different as I was always looking for healthy food options for myself."
The shop provides a healthy food option (Image: Mark Lewis)
The shop provides meal plans, healthy breakfasts, smoothies and supplements.
Baheddin said: "The best thing about Cardiff is the different types of people you see. Everyone is made to feel welcome and that's great.
"I'm a refugee and I'm proud. It shows where hard work can get you."
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Chaiiwala
(Image: Mark Lewis)
Something new to the Cardiff tea and coffee scene is Chaiiwala. It is the first branch in Cardiff and serves authentic Karak Chai, coffee and desserts.
Karak Chai originates from the Indian subcontinent and has gained worldwide popularity. It's a bend of black tea, milk, sugar and spices boiled in a pan.
Co-owner Awais Tahir, 29, from Birmingham, is from a Pakistani background. He says the diversity of Cardiff attracted them to the city.
Awais Tahir (Image: Mark Lewis)
"I'm living here at the moment and I've loved it so far. Everyone is so welcome and friendly and we have a variety of customers.
"We chose Cardiff as a location as we wanted to provide something different here. So far, everyone has loved the tea and the Indian breakfasts.
"The thing I've noticed so far about Cardiff is how friendly everyone is. We have families who come here, young people, old people, it's a place for everyone."
Awais previously worked in the mobile phone industry but hopes to extend his business in Cardiff.
He added: "I've loved every moment here so far. Everyone has been great and I love Cardiff. Lets see where the journey takes us."
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Mateen Shirazi (Image: Mark Lewis)
Born and raised in Afghanistan, Mateen Shirzai and his father Nazir arrived in Cardiff in 2001.
Nazir was a vet in his home country but came to Wales hoping for a better life.
He and his son started off by selling furniture on the weekends at Splott Market before making enough to open their own shop.
Mateen, 26, said: "It was tough for my dad when we started but we have had amazing growth since then.
"Having my own business makes me very proud. We've had Cardiff City footballers shop with us. We cater for everyone.
"My dad had to study further qualifications when we came to this country and so it was tough."
Mateen said he travels a lot but nothing feels like home as much as Cardiff.
He added: "I go on holiday a few times a year but nothing feels like Cardiff. Everyone is so polite here and City Road is becoming more and more known to people across the UK.
"Loads of people from outside of Cardiff tell me they are coming to City Road. Everything is here, food, barbers and much more. You can literally find whatever you want."
Toni Viconti (Image: Mark Lewis)
One of the longest standing businesses on City Road is hairdressers Visconti.
Toni Visconti, 57, arrived in Cardiff from Italy, and took over a hair salon in 1994.
He has watched the road develop and recalls times when there were just a handful of shops open.
He said: "I'd say Cardiff has changed a lot. Back in those days there were only a few shops, but they were all local shops.
"We had a butchers, a barber and a few other shops but there weren't this many restaurants. I don't know if it has changed for the better.
"Some people like it some people don't. I know people who don't like coming here any more."
Despite the change of scenery on the road, Toni believes it has its positives and negatives.
"It's nice in some ways to see the diversity. Years ago these shops weren't here. I'm proud to be an established business here though.
"I'm surviving thanks to my regular clients."
Faith Attwell (Image: Andrew James)
At the end of City Road is an adult toy store.
Owner Faith Attwell has been trading on the busy road since 2005, but has been running the business since 1999.
She has seen the road develop and has seen businesses come and go but said she supports the diversity.
Passion on City Road (Image: South Wales Echo)
The 49-year-old, who was born in Penarth, said: "I chose City Road because it was a busy road and saw the potential in opening up here. We weren't really able to advertise and there wasn't Facebook then so we used magazines to advertise instead.
"There were lots of furniture and fabric shops and a few small pubs. There was a pub across the road where we used to go to after work for a pint but that has shut down now.
"It wasn't really a big thing when we opened as adult stores have a lot more publicity now. We used to get a majority of female customers but that has switched now as we get lots of men coming in and getting things for their partners or themselves."
Faith said the diversity on the road is something that should be celebrated.
"You can eat from anywhere in the world here and that can't be a bad thing," she said.
Inside Passion (Image: South Wales Echo)
"There used to be a Polish superstore on the corner of this block and that helped my business too as we started to have a lot of Polish customers.
"City Road is something that should be celebrated, it has a rich history and there is lots going on here."
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*If you wish to make a complaint anonymously we'll still record the complaint but we won't be able to investigate as the law requires officers to assess the impact that noise has on the person who has complained.
The most important thing you can do before contacting us is to try and contact your neighbour or the business yourself, explaining the issue and how it's affecting you.
Most importantly ask if they can do something about it. You'll probably find that in most instances they might be completely unaware that they are causing such a problem.
If this tact doesn't work then please report the issue to using our online form
If you're a Golden Gates Housing Trust (GGHT) tenant please use their online form.
What we do following a request for service
Your complaint will be allocated to a specific officer and you will be given their name and contact telephone number to be used throughout the duration of the opened case.
You'll also receive an acknowledgement of your complaint and a diary sheet for you to record the disturbances you'll experience over the coming weeks.
We'll provide full guidance on how to fill out the record sheet as it's really important that the sheet is filled out accurately, as this may be used as evidence in possible legal action.
Once the diary sheet has been completed your designated officer will review the completed diary and may contact the source of the problem, visit your property to try and witness the noise or install noise monitoring equipment. If the information provided in the diary is insufficient the officer will contact you to review the best course of action.
If your designated officer is satisfied that the noise is a statutory nuisance then they'll issue a notice. Failure to comply with this notice is a criminal offence that may lead to seizure of noise making equipment and potentially lead to prosecution.
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If we've investigated and can't establish that a nuisance exists you can take your own action to the local Magistrates' court under section 82 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.
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The Week in Reviews, Op. 149: Elmar Oliveira, Joshua Bell, Rachel Barton Pine
September 19, 2016, 1:46 PM · In an effort to promote the coverage of live violin performance, Violinist.com each week presents links to reviews of notable concerts and recitals around the world.
Elmar Oliveira premiered a new violin concerto by Richard Sortomme, with Savannah Philharmonic.
Do Savannah: "The concerto’s themes echoed influence from Arnold Schoenberg to Felix Mendelssohn to John Cage, a cacophony of strange beauty...Oliveira brilliantly manufactured a host of sounds and tones ranging the length of the violin’s reach. Lonely, broken solos of strumming oscillated with excursions into a high range of staccato notes were as refreshing as they were nearly painful at times."
Elmar Oliveira.
Joshua Bell performed Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Tchaikovsky with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Lubbock Symphony Orchestra.
The Buffalo News: "Bell has his own unique approach. It is a kind of understated directness. He doesn’t overthink the music. He calls it as he sees it, is the impression I get."
Atlanta Journal Constitution: "Bell can grip a melodic line in the most solid and ineluctable way, but, particularly when the orchestra is silent and the sound carried by the violin alone, he can hold the musical thread loosely, nearly letting it slip away in quiet, deliciously slow, high notes that send the mind in mazelike loops."
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: "Bell’s performance of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major was of such phenomenal and individual quality that the orchestra could have reserved the hall for hours of curtain calls..."
Medicine Opera: "Bell plays the violin like Usain Bolt runs the 200 meter sprint. His whole body is involved and the result is spectacular."
Rachel Barton Pine performed Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2 with the West Virginia Symphony.
Charleston Gazette-Mail: "Barton Pine’s playing was dynamic, never forced, but richly colored and incisive."
James Ehnes performed the Beethoven with the Regina Symphony Orchestra and the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra.
Regina Leader-Post: "Ehnes was mesmerizing — it was impossible to take your eyes off him. He demanded your undivided attention and his expertise made sure he got exactly that."
Winnipeg Free Press: "Every concert that features the award-winning artist feels like a homecoming, with his rapt listeners welcoming him to the stage with loud cheers and foot stomps as though a red-hot rock star."
Anton Miller performed the Barber with the Lincoln [Neb.] Symphony Orchestra.
Lincoln Journal Star: "Miller’s approach was one of seasoned concentration in a display of his solid technique and reasoned emotional approach to Barber’s American masterpiece."
Interview with Elmar Oliveira
Rachel Barton Pine's 'Testament' to the Music of Bach
Interview with James Ehnes: Four Seasons and No Apologies
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WE LOVE SOAPS TV 1.21 Jo Weil
On Episode 1.21 of WE LOVE SOAPS TV, Damon L. Jacobs goes on location to the "Gays of Our Lives" weekend event in New York City on March 27, and interviews FORBIDDEN LOVE (VERBOTENE LIEBE) star Jo Weil (Oliver).
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FTLNewsFeed March 31, 2010 at 9:35 AM
HBO and another company bought the American rights to the Christian & Olli story line. Shirley Ozment (FB her) is trying to start a writing campaign to get Jo and Thore a part on the show - even if its just a guest appearance. :D
Roger Newcomb March 31, 2010 at 9:46 AM
I wish HBO all the luck in the world but if it's the Christian and Olli story, I hope it actually seems like a variation of it instead of in name only. Although part of me thinks there's no way to duplicate it so starting from scratch might be better.
But YES to Jo and Thore appearing on the show!
Thanks for the great interview!
To answer one question, there isn't a sponsor for the show. Das Erste is a publicly owned television channel so they show very little commercials (20 minutes per day all in all and only on weekdays). The people who pay for the show is the viewing public through the fees every German household who owns a TV set has to pay.
The broadcaster is mandated by law to educate the German public so promoting tolerance towards homosexuality is very important to them. Incidentally in 1987, their hit show Lindenstraße featured the first gay kiss on a German TV show.
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Bus driver tells of assaults and abuse
Bernadette Doyle at the wheel of the Bus Eireann bus from Wexford to Dublin Airport
A female bus driver with Bus Eireann has spoken out over the regular verbal and physical abuse she says she suffers while driving her route between Wexford and Dublin airport. Bernadette Doyle has stated that in the past year she has been robbed, assaulted and had a tooth knocked out and has been subjected to racial abuse on a near weekly basis.
https://www.wexfordpeople.ie/news/bus-driver-tells-of-assaults-and-abuse-38803627.html
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Although she grew up in London, Bernadette's mother is originally from Wexford and she returned to Ireland to live in Crossabeg back in 2009. Having driven buses in the UK for a number of years, she began working with Bus Eireann and regularly covers the route to Dublin airport, often travelling late at night.
On Thursday, Bernadette shared a video which shows the extent of some of the abuse she says she's suffering on a regular basis. On this occasion, a man got on her Wexford-bound bus at around 12.30 a.m. on Thursday morning and subjected her to a torrent of abuse.
He refused to leave the bus when asked and delayed passengers for a total of around 35 minutes until gardaí were called. 'Back to England with you, you f***ing Brexit looking motherf***er. Get the f*** out of this country, you c***!' the irate man shouted, referencing Ms Doyle's accent.
He then turned on passengers who asked him to stop delaying the bus and leave.
'I've lived in this country 36 years of my life,' he said.
'I've travelled up and down to Wexford for 20 of them years. Ok? So snap the f*** out of it. I know Irish people. This man and that woman are not Irish and you are not either, so don't f***ing tell me about Ireland, okay?'
Upon realising he was being filmed, the man turns to the camera and says: ''Oh please stick this sh** up on YouTube. It deserves to be up there. Hey, YouTube, Bus Eireann are f***ing c***s!'
Ms Doyle says that were it not for a colleague of hers, another driver who she was dropping back to Arklow, things could have been a lot worse.
'This is an extremely regular occurrence,' said Bernadette.
'I was assaulted back in May and had a tooth knocked out. I was robbed in February. I'm subjected to racial abuse on a near weekly basis and called a "tan" and told to "go home".'
Gardaí are said to be working on the assault case from May. In another incident, Bernadette tells of an irate passenger attempting to grab the steering wheel of her bus while she was driving at 80 km/h between Ferns and Enniscorthy.
'Bus Eireann haven't really done much about it,' she said.
'They haven't even contacted me. There's an emergency button on the bus which I had pressed on this occasion, but we had to ring the gardaí ourselves and wait nearly 35 minutes for them to turn up and take the man off the bus.'
'The union has called for protective screens to be introduced as a security measure for drivers, but I don't think there's been any response.'
Ms Doyle says that she is not the only one subjected to such abuse and that a colleague of hers from Sudan is also regularly subjected to appalling racism.
Following this most recent incident, gardaí eventually arrived on the scene and arrested the man, who had significantly delayed the dozen passengers on board.
Despite being subjected to such frequent abuse, Ms Doyle remains relatively upbeat and doesn't appear to let it get her down too much.
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'But I don't know if I'll go any further with it. My phone was damaged and he did grab my arm, but I don't know if it's worth the hassle.'
'You wouldn't actually believe the amount of abuse that drivers are subjected to though.'
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Updated: 11:58 PM EDT Sep 13, 2018
A U.S. flag flying at a decommissioned lighthouse showed the fierce winds of Hurricane Florence as it approached the coast.A live web camera for Frying Pan Tower, located about 34 miles from the North Carolina coast, showed the flag flapping in shreds Thursday as the storm moved in.National Hurricane Center staff have warned that the behemoth storm has tropical storm-force winds 195 miles from the hurricane's center.The tower, previously used by the Coast Guard, has been turned into a bed and breakfast, and the ocean camera even has its own Twitter account.
A U.S. flag flying at a decommissioned lighthouse showed the fierce winds of Hurricane Florence as it approached the coast.
A live web camera for Frying Pan Tower, located about 34 miles from the North Carolina coast, showed the flag flapping in shreds Thursday as the storm moved in.
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Florence continues pouring widespread, heavy rains as it moves Northeast
National Hurricane Center staff have warned that the behemoth storm has tropical storm-force winds 195 miles from the hurricane's center.
The tower, previously used by the Coast Guard, has been turned into a bed and breakfast, and the ocean camera even has its own Twitter account.
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Bimbisāra
King of Magadha and patron of the Buddha.
He ascended the throne at the age of fifteen and reigned in Rājagaha for fifty two years. The Buddha was five years older than Bimbisāra, and it was not until fifteen years after his accession that Bimbisāra heard the Buddha preach and was converted by him. It is said (Mhv.ii.25ff.; Dpv. iii.50ff ) that the two were friends in their youth owing to the friendship which existed between their fathers. Bimbisāra's father was called Bhāti (MT.137; Dpv. iii.52); according to Tibetan sources (Rockhill, op. cit., 16) he was called Mahāpaduma and his Mother Bimbī.
But according to the Pabbajā Sutta (Sn.vs.405ff.; also J.i.66 and DhA.i.85; also Rockhill, p. 27) the first meeting between the Buddha and Bimbisāra took place in Rājagaha under the Pandavapabbata, only after the Buddha's Renunciation. The king, seeing the young ascetic pass below the palace windows, sent messengers after him. On learning, that he was resting after his meal, Bimbisāra followed him and offered him a place in his court. This the Buddha refused, revealing his identity. The Commentary adds (SnA..ii.386) that Bimbisāra wished him success in his quest and asked him to visit first Rājagaha as soon as he had attained Enlightenment. It was in fulfilment of this promise that the Buddha visited Rājagaha immediately after his conversion of the Tebhātika Jatilā. He stayed at the Supatittha cetiya in Latthivanuyyāna, whither Bimbisāra, accompanied by twelve nahutas of householders, went to pay to him his respects. The Buddha preached to them, and eleven nahutas, with Bimbisāra at their head, became sotāpannas. On the following day the Buddha and hiss large retinue of monks accepted the hospitality of Bimbisāra. Sakka, in the guise of a young man, preceded them to the palace, singing songs of glory of the Buddha. At the conclusion of the meal, Bimbisāra poured water from a golden jar on the Buddha's hand and dedicated Veluvana for the use of him and of his monks (Vin.i.35ff).
It was this gift of Veluvana, which formed the model for Devānampiyatissa's gift of the Mahāmeghavana to Mahinda (Mhv.Xv.17). The gift of Veluvana was one of the incidents sculptured in the Relic chamber of the Mahā Thūpa (Mhv.Xxx.80). It may have been in Veluvana that the king built for the monks a storeyed house, fully plastered (Vin.ii.154). With the attainment of sopātatti, the king declared that all the five ambitions of his life had been fulfilled: that he might become king, that the Buddha might visit his realm, that he might wait on the Buddha, that the Buddha might teach him the doctrine, that he might understand it (Vin.i.36). According to BuA. (p. 18f.) the king became a Sotāpanna after listening to the Mahā-Nārada Jātaka.
From this moment up till the time of his death, a period of thirty seven years, Bimbisāra did all in his power to help on the new religion and to further its growth. He set an example to his subjects in the practice of the precepts by taking the uposatha vows on six days, of each month (PvA.209).
Bimbisāra's chief queen was Kosaladevī (q.v.), daughter of Mahākosala and sister of Pasenadi. On the day of her marriage she received, as part of her dowry, a village in Kāsi, for her bath money. Her son was Ajātasattu (also J. iii.121). Bimbisāra had other wives as well; Khemā, who, at first, would not even visit the Buddha till enticed by Bimbisāra's descriptions of the beauties of Veluvana; and the courtesan Padumavatī, who was brought from Ujjenī, with the help of a Yakkha, so that Rājagaha might not lack a Nagarasobhinī. Both these later became nuns. Padumavatī's son was Abhaya. Bimbisāra had another son by Ambapālī, known as Vimala Kondañña, and two others, by different wives, known as Sīlava and Jayasena. A daughter, Cundi, is also mentioned.
Bimbisāra's death, according to the Commentaries, was a sad one (E.g., DA.i.135 ff.; see also Vin.ii.190f). Soothsayers had predicted, before the birth of Ajātasattu, that he would bring about the death of his father, for which reason his mother had wished to bring about an abortion. But Bimbisāra would not hear of this, and when the boy was born, treated him with the greatest affection (for details see Ajātasattu). When the prince came of age, Devadatta, by an exhibition of his iddhi-power, won him over to his side and persuaded him to encompass the death of his father, Bimbisāra's patronage of the Buddha being the greatest obstacle in the path of Devadatta. The plot was discovered, and Bimbisāra's ministers advised him to kill Ajātasattu, Devadatta and their associates. But Bimbisāra sent for Ajātasattu and, on hearing that he desired power, abdicated in his favour. Devadatta chided Ajātasattu for a fool. "You are like a man who puts a skin over a drum in which is a rat," and he urged on Ajātasattu the need for the destruction of Bimbisāra.
But no weapon could injure Bimbisāra (probably because he was a Sotāpanna, he also had the power of judging the status of anyone by his voice – e.g., in the case of Kumbhaghosa, DhA.i.233), it was therefore decided that he should be starved to death, and with this end in view he was imprisoned in a hot house (tāpanageha) with orders that none but the mother of Ajātasattu should visit him. On her visits she took with her a golden vessel filled with food which she concealed in her clothes. When this was discovered she took food in her head dress (molī), and, later, she was obliged to take what food she could conceal in her footgear. But all these ways were discovered, and then the queen visited Bimbisāra after having bathed in scented water and smeared her person with catumadhura (the four kinds of sweets). The king licked her person and that was his only sustenance. In the end the visits of the queen were forbidden; but the king continued to live by walking about his cell meditating. Ajātasattu, hearing of this, sent barbers to cut open his feet, fill the wounds with salt and vinegar, and burn them with coals. It is said that when the barbers appeared Bimbisāra thought his son had relented and had sent them to shave him and cut his hair. But on learning their real purpose, he showed not the least resentment and let them do their work, much against their will. (In a previous birth he had walked about in the courtyard of a cetiya with shoes on, hence this punishment!) Soon after, Bimbisāra died, and was reborn in the Cātummahārājika world as a Yakkha named Janavasabbha, in the retinue of Vessavana. The Janavasabha Sutta records an account of a visit paid by Janavasabha to the Buddha some time after.
A son was born to Ajātasattu on the day of Bimbisāra's death. The joy be experienced at the birth of his son made him realize something of the affection his own father must have felt for him, and he questioned his mother. She told him stories of his childhood, and he repented, rather belatedly, of his folly and cruelty. Soon after, his mother died of grief, and her death gave rise to the protracted war between Ajātasattu and Pasenadi, as mentioned elsewhere (J.ii.237, 403).
The books contain no mention of any special sermons preached by the Buddha to Bimbisāra nor of any questions asked by him of the Buddha.
When he heard that the Buddha intended to perform a miracle, although he had ordered his disciples to refrain from doing so, Bimbisāra had doubts about the propriety of this and questioned the Buddha who set his doubts at rest (DhA.iii.204; J. iii.263f.). It was also at the request of Bimbisāra that the Buddha established the custom of the monks assembling on the first, eighth, fourteenth and fifteenth days of each month (Vin.i.101f.).
Perhaps, like Anāthapindika, his equal in devotion to the Buddha, he refrained from giving the Buddha extra trouble, or perhaps the affairs of his kingdom, which was three hundred leagues in extent, did not permit him enough leisure for frequent visits to the Buddha. (DhA.iii.205; the kingdom included eighty thousand villages, gāma, Vin.i.179).
It is said that he once visited four monks - Godhika, Subāhu, Valliya and Uttiya - and invited them to spend the rainy season at Rājagaha. He built for them four huts, but forgot to have them roofed, with the result that the gods withheld the rains until the king remembered the omission (ThagA.ii.125). He similarly forgot his promise to give Pilindavaccha a park keeper, if the Buddha would sanction such a gift. Five hundred days later he remembered his promise and to make amends, gave five hundred park keepers with a special village for their residence, called ārāmikagāma or Pilindagāma (Vin.i.207f.).
Bimbisāra's affection for the Buddha was unbounded. When the Licchavis sent Mahāli, who was a member of Bimbisāra's retinue, to beg the Buddha to visit Vesāli, Bimbisāra did not himself try to persuade the Buddha to do so, but when the Buddha agreed to go he repaired the whole road from Rājagaha to the Ganges - a distance of five leagues - for the Buddha to walk upon; he erected a rest house at the end of each league, and spread flowers of five different colours knee deep along the whole way. Two parasols were provided for the Buddha and one for each monk. The king himself accompanied the Buddha in order to look after him, offering him flowers and perfume and all requisites throughout the journey, which lasted five days. Arrived at the river, he fastened two boats together decked with flowers and jewels and followed the Buddha's boat into the water up to his neck. When the Buddha had gone, the king set up an encampment on the river bank, awaiting his return; he then escorted him back to Rājagaha with similar pomp and ceremony (DhA.iii.438 ff).
Great cordiality existed between Bimbisāra and Pasenadi. They were connected by marriage, each having married a sister of the other. Pasenadi once visited Bimbisāra in order to obtain from him a person of unbounded wealth (amitabhoga) for his kingdom. Bimbisāra had five such - Jotiya, Jatila, Mendaka, Punnaka and Kākavaliya; but Pasenadi had none. The request was granted, and Mendaka's son, Dhanañjaya, was sent back to Kosala with Pasenadi (DhA.i.385f.; AA.i.220). Some of these were richer than Bimbisāra - e.g., Jotiya (q.v.), whose house was built entirely of jewels while the king's palace was of wood; but the king showed no jealousy (DhA.iv.211).
Bimbisāra also maintained friendly relations with other kings, such as Pukkasāti, king of Takkasilā, Candappajjota, king of Ujjenī, to whom he sent his own physician Jīvaka to tend in his illness - and Rudrāyana of Roruka (Dvy.545).
Among the ministers and personal retinue of Bimbisāra are mentioned Sona-Kolvisa, the flower gatherer Sumana who supplied the king with eight measures of jasmine flowers, the minister Koliya, the treasurer Kumbbaghosaka and his physician Jīvaka. The last named was discovered for him by the prince Abhaya when he was suffering from a fistula. The king's garments were stained with blood and his queens mocked him. Jīvaka cured the king with one single anointing; the king offered him the ornaments of the five hundred women of the palace, and when he refused to take these, he was appointed physician to the king, the women of the seraglio and the fraternity of monks under the Buddha (Vin.i.272f).
When Dhammadinnā wished to leave the world, Bimbisāra gave her, at her husband's request, a golden palanquin and allowed her to go round the city in procession (MA.i.516).
Bimbisāra is generally referred to as Seniya Bimbisāra. The Commentaries explain Seniya as meaning "possessed of a large following" or as "belonging to the Seniyagotta," and Bimbisāra as meaning "of a golden colour," bimbī meaning gold (e.g., UdA.104). According to Tibetan sources, Bimbī was the name of his mother, and from this his own name was derived; but another reason was that he was radiant like the morning sun (Rockhill 16, See also MA.i.292).
In the time of Phussa Buddha, when the Buddha's three step brothers, sons of King Jayasena, obtained their father's leave to entertain the Buddha for three months, Bimbisāra, then head of a certain district, looked after all the arrangements. His associates in this task were born as petas, and he gave alms to the Buddha in their name in order to relieve their sufferings.
See Tirokudda Sutta, also PvA.21ff.; for his intercession on behalf of another pets. see PvA.89.
During his lifetime, Bimbisāra was considered the happiest of men, but the Buddha declared (e.g., M.i.95) that he himself was far happier than the king.
The kahāpana in use in Rājagaha during Bimbisāra's time was the standard of money adopted by the Buddha in the formation of those rules into which the matter of money entered (Sp.ii.297).
Bimbisāra had a white banner and one of his epithets was Pandaraketu (Thag.vs.64; ThagA.i.147). Nothing is said about his future destiny, but he is represented in the Janavasabha Sutta (D.ii.206) as expressing the wish to become a Sakadāgāmī, and this wish may have been fulfilled.
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Partnership with General Association of Asia Pacific Sports Federations (GAAPSF) 16 June 2018
General Association of Asia Pacific Sports Federations (GAAPSF) previously called SportAccord Asia-Pacific Headquarters (SAAPH) is a non-profit international sports organisation. It was incorporated on 20th November 2014 in Macau as a organization with legal personality and changed name on 18th February, 2018.
GAAPSF was initiated by Mr. Yu Zaiqing、 Mr. Ma Wenguang、and Dr.Che Kuong Hon. With the approval from SportAccord, the Asia-Pacific Headquarters uses the name of SportAccord, later changed to GAAPSF and began to operate as an official international sport organization after its incorporation in Macau.
And since then, GAAPSF signed co-operation agreements with quite a number of international, continental and national sports associations and federations. In addition, GAAPSF also gained the permission and registered with the Ministry of Public Security of the People’s Republic of China to launch events in China and set up its office in Beijing with activities covering China and Asia-Pacific region.
The Core value of GAAPSF is: To establish the Asia-Pacific sports centre; To enhance world peace through the promotion of sport.
Objectives: To promote friendships and sport exchanges among countries and districts of the Asia-Pacific region.
Aim: To assist the International Olympic Committee and sports organizations around the world to promote and popularize the activities of sport. To enhance the world’s sport development paradigm with sport culture as the soul, sport economy as the drive, sport education as the platform, traditional sports as the essence, sport for all as the foundation and modern sports as the models.
Vision: To become the leader in sport industry and in the development of sport in China and Asia-Pacific region.
The address of GAAPSF: No.1 Building, Longtanhu Sports Industry Area, 19 Zuoanmennei Ave., Dongcheng District, Beijing, China.
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SUNDAY, Nov. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Moderate exercise during pregnancy may boost your baby's brain development, according to new research.
The study involving 18 moms-to-be and their babies found that "at 10 days, the children have a more mature brain when their mothers exercised during the pregnancy," said study researcher Elise Labonte-LeMoyne, a Ph.D. candidate in kinesiology at the University of Montreal.
Other studies have found health benefits for newborns and older children whose mothers worked out during pregnancy, the researcher said. And while animal studies have shown that exercise during pregnancy alters the fetal brain, she believes this is the first study to look at exercise's effect on human brain development.
For the study, which was scheduled for presentation Sunday at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in San Diego, the researchers randomly assigned 10 pregnant women to an exercise group and eight to an inactive group at the start of their second trimester. The active group was told to engage in at least 20 minutes of cardiovascular exercise three times a week at a moderate intensity -- meaning it should lead to at least a slight shortness of breath. They typically walked, jogged, swam or cycled, Labonte-LeMoyne said.
On average, the workout group clocked 117 minutes of exercise a week; the sedentary group 12 minutes weekly. Using an EEG, which records the brain's electrical activity, the researchers measured the newborns' brain activity while sleeping when 8 to 12 days old. They focused on the ability of the brain to recognize a new sound, Labonte-LeMoyne said, noting this reflects brain maturity.
The babies whose mothers exercised showed a slight advantage, the investigators found. "The brain is more efficient; it can recognize the sound with less effort," she explained.
The differences may translate to a language advantage later in life, she speculated. The researchers are continuing to track the children's development until age 1 to see if the advantage remains.
It's possible that exercise speeds up a process known as synaptic pruning, whereby extra nerve cells and connections are eliminated, helping brain development, Labonte-LeMoyne said.
The study findings didn't surprise Dr. Raul Artal, professor and chair of obstetrics and gynecology and women's health at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. He has long touted the value of exercise for healthy pregnant women.
"It's known that babies respond to stimuli in utero," he said. The new research reinforces the belief that "pregnancy is not a state of confinement or indulgement," Artal added.
"It has been documented that pregnant women who lead a normal life, exercise and eat judiciously have better pregnancy outcomes," Artal said, while a sedentary lifestyle, obesity and some diseases can hurt the unborn baby.
The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists states that women with uncomplicated pregnancies who are recreational and competitive athletes can remain active during pregnancy, modifying their routine when medically necessary. Women who were inactive before getting pregnant or who have medical or pregnancy-related complications should be evaluated first by their doctor, the guidelines say.
Research presented at meetings is considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed medical journal.
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Atos Consulting further strengthens its Financial Services & Healthcare teams
WEBWIRE – Thursday, September 28, 2006
London, 28 September 2006 - Atos Consulting, the business consulting arm of Atos Origin, has today announced the appointment of three partners, further strengthening its UK consulting team. Peter Richardson and Richard Love have been appointed as Partners in the growing Financial Services team, with a particular focus on Insurance, and Lesley McLay joins the Healthcare team.
The appointments were made as part of Atos Consulting’s plans to further expand and strengthen its UK business consulting practice, and underline the management team’s commitment to grow its base of experienced senior consultants.
Peter Richardson has nearly 25 years experience in the insurance sector, and his previous clients include Aegon, AIG, Aon, AXA, CSA, Norwich Union and Winterthur. He has led numerous delivery and consultancy assignments for leading insurers, which included change management, strategic and marketing consultancy and IT management.
Richard Love has over 15 years of consulting experience in the financial services sector. He has led numerous assignments specialising in risk, customer management and large change management programmes for banks and insurance companies. His focus at Atos Consulting will be on driving new business and on developing the Atos Consulting FS offering.
Lesley McLay joins Atos Consulting with over 20 yeas health experience. Her focus has been delivery of consultancy to National and Local NHS Organisations and she will continue that development within Atos. Prior to her consultancy career she held a number of NHS Board Director posts, one of which being Operations and Nursing Director for NHS 24 in Scotland.
Commenting on the new appointments, Mike Hobday, Head of Atos Consulting (UK), said:
“We are delighted to announce these appointments, which further bolsters our UK consulting team. The breadth and depth of experience of our new joiners, plus the credentials they bring with them, is testament to the calibre of consultants we are recruiting and retaining in the UK. We look forward to working with them in each of their specialist areas and building their expertise into our offering.”
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Identity Group Hails "Burst Capacity" from Wide Format Inca OnsetX1
‘The output ability of the OnsetX1 has increased capacity by four times in a single shift’
Hanover Park IL USA – WEBWIRE – Tuesday, December 17, 2019
The OnsetX1 has dramatically changed our business
The UV flatbed Inca OnsetX1 from Fujifilm with white ink transforms operations at Identity Group, a Brunswick, Maine-based manufacturer of visual décor, signs and office products.
“With the OnsetX1 we are able to quickly increase our wide format capacity,” said Josh Wolfgram, vice president of operations, visual décor division, Identity Group. “We now have many more output options, including a variety of substrates we can print on, such as styrene, plastics, corrugated, foam core, expanded PVCs, acrylics, and also wood. The OnsetX1 allows us to stand out from the crowd with its burst capacity; allowing us increased capabilities to meet the ever-evolving needs of our clients.”
Featuring a maximum throughput of 4,300 square feet per hour equating to 80 5’ x 10’ beds per hour, the OnsetX1 is ideal for companies like Identity Group producing a mix of fast-turnaround retail graphics and both short-term and long-term visual décor.
“We can support our client base of national retailers and grocery store chains more efficiently and on a much larger scale,” says Brett Wolfgram, vice president, visual décor division, Identity Group. “Prior to the OnsetX1, production was taking us weeks, and now we are completing high-end jobs in a matter of days. Our previous wide format capacity was around 175 bed loads a day, and now with the OnsetX1 we are upwards of 1,000 bed loads per day.”
“The OnsetX1 has dramatically changed our business,” said Matt Thornton, vice president, sales, visual décor division, Identity Group. “Our organization is committed to providing innovative technology to our clients, and the OnsetX1 has enhanced the sales process. Our ability to create dynamic, colorful, and vibrant signage and décor elements is critical to sustaining a successful business.”
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Fujifilm’s Uvijet inks offer excellent adhesion and flexibility, and are developed for a wide range of substrates specifically for use in the Onset Series of printers.
“We tested Fujifilm’s Uvijet OX ink very thoroughly, on a number of substrates,” said Paul Glynn, operations manager, visual décor division, Identity Group. “It had to be bendable and flexible too, as many of the items we output will be heat bent or folded, or in some way significantly flexed through their use. The OX ink performs impressively and consistently in all aspects.”
“The OX ink offers great adhesion,” says Josh. “With its good finishing ability, we find it resistant to the solvent weld we use in the fabrication process; it does not smudge or smear.”
White ink is key to Identity Group’s offerings
“Coverage with Fujifilm’s white ink is amazing, as we do not see any banding, or any overlaps,” adds Dallas Reed, OnsetX1 press operator, Identity Group.
“The white ink on our OnsetX1 is critical for our operation,” said Glynn. “We output on a lot of clear substrates, and high quality solid areas and various transparencies of white ink, with excellent adhesion to plastic film, are imperative.”
In addition to the OnsetX1, Identity Group’s line-up of wide format equipment includes an Acuity Select HSX2, as well as an Acuity Select HS. Prior to installing the OnsetX1 it was common for these two “workhorse” flatbed presses to run up to twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
“The output ability of the OnsetX1 has increased capacity by four times in a single shift,” says Josh. “The two Acuity presses currently provide additional capacity for shorter run projects.”
Furthermore, Identity Group’s RIP software is the Fujifilm edition of the ColorGATE Production Server; and the organization also achieved G7 Certification with support from Fujifilm.
The Inca OnsetX1 is distributed exclusively in North America by Fujifilm.
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July 2018 to present: Reporter, WINK News. Previously worked as a resident reporter at WVVA in Bluefield, W.Va.; at ABC 7 Chicago as a news planning intern; at Dateline NBC as a story development intern; and at the Northwestern University’s Medill Justice Project as a multimedia investigative reporter.
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Rival GOP hopefuls in Kansas Senate race both talk to Trump
by: JOHN HANNA and ALAN FRAM, Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Rival Kansas Senate candidates Kris Kobach and Rep. Roger Marshall have talked to President Donald Trump, with Marshall looking to boost his chances of defeating Trump’s earliest prominent supporter in the state.
Marshall’s campaign confirmed that the western Kansas congressman met Monday with Trump in the Oval Office. His campaign said in a statement Tuesday only that, “It was a positive meeting.”
Kobach told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Trump called him Monday from Air Force One to talk to him about the Senate race and immigration issues. Kobach has advised Trump regularly about immigration issues since Trump’s campaign for president in 2016.
A White House official also said both conversations occurred, though the official said Kobach reached Trump by phone. Marshall also met with the president’s political team last week.
Kobach said he doesn’t read too much into Marshall’s meeting with the president.
Marshall votes almost all the time with Trump in Congress and has been a vocal critic of the impeachment proceedings against Trump. However, Kobach publicly endorsed Trump ahead of Kansas’ 2016 presidential caucuses — well before any other top-level state officials — and served as vice-chairman of a short-lived presidential commission on election fraud.
“I speak with the president more frequently than I speak with anyone else in the White House,” Kobach said. “I assume that Marshall is hoping that the president endorses him or at least doesn’t endorse me, but I don’t read anything beyond that.”
Trump endorsed Kobach the day before the 2018 GOP primary in the Kansas governor’s race, and Kobach narrowly defeated then-Gov. Jeff Colyer. But Kobach, the former Kansas secretary of state, has built a national profile by advocating stricter immigration policies, and he alienates many moderate voters. He lost the governor’s race to Democrat Laura Kelly.
Trump has told advisers that he likes Kobach but is aware of his liabilities, according to an administration official not authorized to publicly discuss private conversations. Trump and Kobach are aligned on hard-line immigration policies. The president had not yet determined how involved he will be in the primary race.
Kobach and Marshall are running for the seat held by four-term Republican Sen. Pat Roberts, who is not seeking re-election. Some Republicans fear that if Kobach is nominated, Democrats will have an opening to win their first Senate race in Kansas since 1932, putting a normally safe seat in play.
The leading Democratic candidate, state Sen. Barbara Bollier, a retired Kansas City-area anesthesiologist, has said she raised more than $1 million by the end of last year, a sizeable sum in a low-cost media state like Kansas.
Other GOP candidates in the race include Kansas Senate President Susan Wagle and Dave Lindstrom, a Kansas City-area businessman and former Kansas City Chiefs football player.
Kobach’s and Marshall’s conversations with Trump occurred the same day Kansas political icon and former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, the 1996 GOP nominee for president, endorsed Marshall. Dole praised Marshall as “dedicated to preserving common-sense Kansas values.”
Two GOP operatives said they believed Dole was acting as a free agent and said his endorsement was not a signal that national Republicans were preparing to line up behind Marshall. They said party leaders were still evaluating the GOP’s primary field, including watching fundraising. The people spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
One GOP strategist said Republicans in Washington are still deciding which candidate to back, examining such things as their fundraising and the excitement they generate among voters. The operative, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the thinking of leading Republicans, said Kobach’s loss in the governor’s race and current polling is “disqualifying” for his candidacy.
The operative said they’re open to Marshall or other candidates already in or not in the race. The operative also said that while some Republicans still nurture “hopes and dreams” that U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a former Kansas congressman, will reconsidernot running, his decision seems pretty definitive.
Marshall called Dole “a mentor, adviser, sounding board and a constant source of encouragement.”
Kobach touted endorsements from two gun-rights group, the National Association for Gun Rights over the weekend and Gun Owners of America on Tuesday. Kobach said endorsements from individuals are “ambiguous” in their reasoning, while an endorsement from an advocacy group “sends a much clearer message” to voters.
Fram reported from Washington. Associated Press reporter Jonathan Lemire also contributed from New York.
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I hope that I'm not simply defined by 'The X-Files,' and I hope I have more work that is important to do.
I think I've been asked a lot more than most TV producers to go on-camera. But I just do what I do and don't think about the package.
There's always the pressure to make the movie good.
He is a leader among leaders.
I have to be careful with surfing. It's still an addiction to me. It's all I want to do, and that's the big dilemma I have with it.
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Police seek SUV driver in crash with tractor
Clark County authorities seek SUV driver in fatal crash with farm tractor
Police seek SUV driver in crash with tractor Clark County authorities seek SUV driver in fatal crash with farm tractor Check out this story on wisfarmer.com: https://www.wisfarmer.com/story/news/state/2017/10/18/police-seek-suv-driver-crash-tractor/774919001/
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A woman is dead and Clark County Sheriff's Department deputies are looking for a man after a fatal crash involving a tractor and an SUV Friday.(Photo: Photo courtesy Clark County Sheriff's Department)
HIXON - A warrant has been issued for the driver of an SUV that collided with a farm tractor on Oct. 13, causing a crash that led to his passenger's death.
The crash happened about 40 miles northwest of Marshfield as the tractor driver, Mark H. Frost, 56, of rural Withee, was pulling a manure spreader on Bridge Road and tried to turn onto Clark Avenue in Hixon, according to the Clark County Sheriff's Department.
SUV driver Jacob K. Person, 31, tried to pass the tractor from behind, hit the driver's side tractor tire and rolled several times, throwing the SUV's passenger, 31-year-old Tasha A. Ley, according to the sheriff's department.
An SUV rolled several times after hitting a tractor Friday in the Clark County town of Hixon. The female passenger was ejected and died from her injuries. (Photo: Photo courtesy Clark County Sheriff's Department.)
Ley and Person were taken to Marshfield Medical Center, where doctors pronounced Ley dead. Both are from the Stanley area.
Person was released from the hospital and Clark County deputies are looking for him on suspected charges of homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle, according to the sheriff's department. No charges had been filed Monday afternoon.
Jacob Person (Photo: Photo courtesy Clark County Sheriff's Department)
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Posted: Mon 8:04 AM, Jan 25, 2010 |
Updated: Mon 12:46 PM, Jan 25, 2010
Traffic has returned to normal on U.S. 70 in Havelock after traffic lights at a busy intersection were knocked down.
It happened at the intersection of U.S. 70 and Roosevelt Boulevard.
Crews had to shut down all four lanes while they re-strung the downed stoplights. The work was finished and the road reopened around 12:30 p.m.
City officials in Havelock are urging drivers to stay away from the intersection of US 70 and Roosevelt Blvd. The traffic lights are down on the street, and both westbound lanes are blocked. Crews are working to repair the lights. However, the high winds could make that repair take several hours, officials say.
Traffic detours will put westbound traffic right on Cunningham, left on NC Hwy 101(Fontana), then right onto US Hwy 70 Westbound.
Eastbound traffic will need to make a left onto Fontana (NC Hwy 101), right onto Cunningham, and left onto US Hwy 70 Eastbound.
A bad wreck caused other traffic troubles Monday morning. A tractor trailer jackknifed on US 70 near Grantham Rd., east of New Bern in the James City area. The Highway Patrol says the truck apparently tried to turn, but its tail end got stuck in a ditch. Troopers say the ground is so wet, the wheels may have gotten stuck in the soft ground.
The wreck closed down the westbound lanes of US 70, which take traffic into New Bern. The Highway Patrol says the scene was cleared at 8:30 a.m.; traffic is back to normal.
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'Man Made' views the transgender experience through a bodybuilding lens
Director T Cooper tells CNN about making "Man Made," a documentary about four transgender men preparing for the only trans bodybuilding competition in the world.
Posted: Nov 13, 2019 4:00 PM
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"Man Made" looks at the transgender experience through what seems like a highly specific lens: The only bodybuilding competition for transgender participants. But focusing on competitors at different stages, facing a variety of issues, offers a complex, nuanced view, in a way that does a lot of heavy lifting for a small film.
Setting these various coming-out journeys against this backdrop provides a means of considering traditional images of masculinity, and in the case of bodybuilding, the enormous amounts of hard work that goes into achieving them.
The exposed nature of the sport also serves as a metaphor for the way these men, assigned and raised female, bare themselves emotionally. The release is timed to Transgender Awareness Week.
Director T Cooper spent a long time documenting his subjects, following them as they prepare for the competition. Through their stories, the conversation widens to include not only the four competitors but those around them.
Rese Weaver, for example, is dealing with being periodically homeless, an ordeal that's magnified by being trans; Mason Caminiti acknowledges that he's still self-conscious enough that he won't be naked in front of his wife; Dominic Chilko, adopted, seeks out his birth mother; and Kennie Story grapples with a complicated relationship as he prepares to begin taking testosterone, causing his girlfriend, a lesbian, to question what kind of future they can have together.
Bodybuilding is thus merely the framework against which these stories unfold. We also get to know their families, which have responded to having a trans son or brother with varying levels of comfort and acceptance. Kennie's mom is deeply religious, but says -- while still using female pronouns -- "I love her. That trumps everything."
Along the way, there are discussions about coming out, as well as the heightened dangers and threats of violence that trans people face, including a tragedy that strikes close to home.
The build-up to the competition, known as Trans FitCon, actually feels a trifle anticlimactic; still, the anti-trans protests that surround the event underscore the bigger picture and ongoing struggle for acceptance -- one that will continue, as "Man Made" makes clear, after the posing ends.
"Man Made" is available on VOD platforms iTunes, Google Play, Amazon and Vimeo. Transgender Awareness Week begins on Nov. 13.
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Cariboo Chilcotin MLA Donna Barnett said 2019 was full of triumphs and tough challenges. (Monica Lamb-Yorski photo - Williams Lake Tribune)
MLA Barnett weighs the pros and cons of 2019
The Cariboo-Chilcotin Liberal MLA continues to work hard for the region
Monica Lamb-Yorski
Dec. 30, 2019 6:00 a.m.
When asked to outline the positive and negative aspects of 2019, Cariboo-Chilcotin MLA Donna Barnett 2019 provided her own insights, saying she is proud of the resiliency of the people who live and work in the region.
Here is Barnett’s list and comments.
Positive accomplishments in 2019
1. Two major highway improvement projects were completed near Williams Lake — Highway 97 four-laning near Williams Lake Indian Band and the Toop and Carson intersection.
They were completed after what took many years from when it was first approved by then Liberal Minister Todd Stone.
2. The new Northern Seawolf ferry for Bella Coola was finally put in service and is providing a better future for the area.
3. Final approval to go ahead with Cariboo Memorial Hospital’s redevelopment planning, although she cannot wait to see shovels in the ground.
4. There were no wildfires.
5. The crime rate is down.
6. Announcement of the Indigenous Court for Williams Lake is good news. She said when she was mayor of 100 Mile House, she was involved with restorative justice and through that experience learned in some cases incarcerating people does not seem to be the answer.
7. Funding from Community Futures Cariboo Chilcotin to businesses and organizations to help with moving forward after the wildfires was a great help.
Negatives and challenges in 2019
1. With the downturn of the forest industry, Barnett said she has talked to many people who are lost.
They’ve looked into programs being offered, but for some there has not been any help. Businesses are hurting, she said and the sad part is the province has such a long way to go.
“The government is w0rking on another forestry plan but so far there seems to be no answers.”
How land use will be determined moving forward is also causing uncertainty, Barnett said.
“I am all about reconciliation but it has to be transparent and have everyone involved and engaged. We all work and live together and that includes what our landscape is going to look like in the future.”
2. Lack of nurses, care aids, home support and daycare workers is a “huge” problem for the region and Barnett said Thompson Rivers University Williams Lake campus needs to expand its courses to open up more seats for students.
“We have people living in Williams Lake who would take the course if they could in their hometown.”
3. Closure of Mount Polley last May was a big blow that hit through the whole region.
4. Flooding impacted ranchers in the Big Creek area and many have been left to figure it out on their own, Barnett said. “There’s been a bit of funding, but it has been inadequate.”
5. While the cost of living keeps going up, people are happy about not having to pay for MSP, but that is now being picked up by industry, businesses and local governments who have been hit hard. The cost, she added, ends up going up for consumers as a result.
Looking toward 2020, Barnett said she hopes the federal and provincial government will get back to the table to settle the softwood lumber agreement.
“It should be a high priority for both governments.”
She also hopes there will be wildfires in 2020, but instead the fire will be lit under government to look at its own taxation.
“I have to commend local governments that are holding to a zero tax increase.”
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Cost of living in New York (Brooklyn) NY, prices and what it is like to live for an Expat, quality of life / hardship, and compare cost of living for Expatriates as at January 2020.
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Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs.
The economy of Brooklyn includes services, retailing and construction. Half of Brooklyn's residents work outside of the area, most in Manhattan.
The population of New York (Brooklyn) NY is 2.6 Million (2019 est.), and the inflation rate (CPI) is 2.1% for the United States as at November 2019.
The Xpatulator Hypothetical Tax for USA is based on the current personal income tax rates using the Single Federal income tax 2019 marginal rates for individuals which are progressive up to 37%. In addition there are State and Local Taxes which vary across the USA. For Xpatulator Hypothetical Tax purposes we have used a combined average of State and Local Taxes of 6.5%. The combined maximum progressive Xpatulator Hypothetical Tax rate is therefore 43.5% based on Federal (37%) + State and Local Taxes (6.5%).
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What is the cost of living in New York (Brooklyn) NY?
The cost of living for expatriates in New York (Brooklyn) NY as at January 2020 is very high in comparison to other places in the world. We have collected prices for the same items, world wide, based on Expat spending norms, in or closest to the location, and converted them to $USD so that we can compare the cost of 13 different baskets in 780 global locations. For each basket, compared to New York, the equivalent cost in New York (Brooklyn) NY is as follows:
1) Alcohol and/or Tobacco: for items such as beer, spirits, wine and tobacco related products such as cigarettes. A basket costing USD$1000 in New York costs USD$1110. Average price in a store for a midrange bottle of wine is USD$19.50, domestic/local beer (500ml) USD$3.47, imported/international beer (330ml) USD$4.77 and a pack of 20 cigarettes is USD$18.53.
2) Clothing: for items such as business, casual and children's clothing and footwear. A basket costing USD$1000 in New York costs USD$1030. Average price for an international brand of mens jeans is USD$57, a quality international brand of running shoes USD$78, mens leather shoes suitable for office wear USD$105 while a medium size international summer dress from a global chain store is USD$39.
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7) Healthcare: for general heath care, doctor visits, hospital stays, non-prescription medicine, and medical insurance. A basket costing USD$1000 in New York costs USD$1000. Average healthcare cost for a private practice Doctor visit for an uninsured patient is USD$81, and a private hospital stay per day including nursing care, medications, diagnostic tests, food, and related costs is USD$2,484.
11) Recreation & Culture: for items such as books, cinema, sport and theatre tickets. A basket costing USD$500 in New York costs USD$510. Average price for a latest release international cinema ticket (average of on and off peak where applicable) for one adult is USD$19.50, and an international fitness, recreation or sports club membership cost for one adult is USD$69 per month.
12) Restaurants Meals Out and Hotels: for items such as hotel daily room rates, meals and beverages in a restaurant, and take away food and beverages. A basket costing USD$1000 in New York costs USD$1020. Average cappuccino price (regular, medium) is USD$5.43, coke/pepsi (330ml) USD$2.48, burger meal (international franchise or similar) USD$11.70, and a mid-range international restaurant meal for 2 USD$91.00.
13) Transport: for items such as fuel (petrol/gasoline), car hire, public transport, vehicle purchase and maintenance. A basket costing USD$1000 in New York costs USD$1000. Average average price over the last year for highest available octane petrol / gasoline (1L) is USD$0.78, while the benchmark car sedan purchase price including taxes/duties for a compact / small / economy vehicle (1.4 L) is USD$21,575.
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New York (Brooklyn) NY is 40% more expensive than Houston TX for groceries, 174.6% more expensive for household costs than Kuala Lumpur, and 66% more expensive for transport costs than Dubai.
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The votes are in, see who is headed to the November ballot and who will face a runoff
Sarah Ulmer
Tuesday, June 5, was the Mississippi primary for one U.S. Senate Seat and two House seats. Here are the results:
In the Democratic primary it looks like a runoff is in the future for Howard Sherman and David Baria. Baria had been leading in the polls until the end there when Sherman took the top only, retaining only .7% more of the vote than Baria.
In the Republican primary Senator Roger Wicker took the win by a landslide 82.6% of the vote over Richard Boyanton’s 17.4%.
U.S House
In District 1 both the Democratic and Republican candidates ran unopposed, ensuring their names will be on the ballot in November. For the Democrats it’s Randy Watkins, and for the Republicans it’s incumbent Trent Kelly.
Also, in District 2, Democratic incumbent Bennie Thompson ran opposed. No republicans ran on the primary ticket.
However it’s a different story for the 3rd District. In total there were six Republican candidates and two Democratic candidates. Results from the Democratic primary between Rep. Michael Evans and Michael Aycox showed Evans took the win with 69.7% of the vote.
However, for the Republican primary it looks like a runoff will be held between front runners Michael Guest and Whit Hughes. After the votes were totaled, Guest won with just over 45% of the vote and Hughes behind him at 21%.
In District 4 Democratic candidate Jeramy Anderson ran unopposed ensuring his name will be on the November ballot and Republican incumbent Steven Palazzo beat E. Brian Rose with 70.5% of the vote over Brian’s 29.5%.
The runoff election will be held June 26.
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Sarah Ulmer is the Capitol Correspondent for Y'all Politics and covers the political news in the Mississippi Legislature and among Mississippi elected officials. She can be reached at sarah@yallpolitics.com
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The Best Heist Movies, Ranked
These flicks best rep the art of stealing money, and they do it in style.
You know the formula. A team of thieves has its eyes on a lucrative, difficult-to-steal prize. And they've cooked up an elaborate scheme that can't go wrong. Yet it always does, and plans must change on the fly.
With booty in hand, one of two things typically happens. Either our anti-heroes skate away filthy rich, or things go terribly wrong and everyone winds up dead or in jail.
Welcome to the modern-day heist film, a genre that's been thrilling audiences since the 1950s.
In choosing the movies that best rep the art of stealing money, we've stayed away from basic bank robbery, stick-em-up stories in favor of thefts with more intricate and/or novel plots. Also, the heist(s) should be central to the story (as great as it is, the Lufthansa heist is not the primary focus of “Goodfellas”). As for the take, it matters, but not as much as style and invention.
25) “Heist”
Director: David Mamet
The heist score: An airplane shipment of gold bars
Blackmailed into pulling one last job before he sails off into the retirement sunset, career thief Gene Hackman and his crew plan the daring heist of a Swiss cargo plane full of gold. Everything that could possibly go wrong does.
The plot's twists and double crosses come fast, and with a David Mamet-penned script, so does the snappy dialogue. In the end, the flick falls a hair short of the heist genre's exciting heights, but it's enjoyable enough and Hackman delivers as usual.
24) “The Bank Job”
Director:Roger Donaldson
The heist score:An unspecified amount of cash, plus compromising photos of British Princess Margaret to be used as blackmail
Based on the true story of 1971's so-called "Baker Street robbery," the job finds down-on-his-luck London car salesman Jason Statham recruiting a gang to underground-tunnel their way into a Lloyd's Bank vault.
Fun plot twists and crackerjack action vault this flick over formulaic heist fare. And you'll be Googling the fascinating real-life heist as soon as the credits roll.
23) “The Score”
Director:Frank Oz
The heist score:A jewel-encrusted sceptre with an estimated value of $30-million
Max (Marlon Brando, in his final film role) pressures longtime partner in crime, safecracker Nick (Robert DeNiro), into pulling off one final heist — the high-concept theft of an antique gold sceptre from the mega-secure Montreal Customs House.
It's a formulaic genre picture all the way, but the acting leads (including Edward Norton) deliver the goods and the payoff satisfies.
22) “Point Break”
Director:Kathryn Bigelow
The heist score: Amount unspecified
"I am an FBI agent!"
Why yes, of course you are, Keanu Reeves. And fans of this modern cult classic are forever grateful for one of the most memorable so-bad-it's-great acting performances in movie history.
Also along for the action-packed ride? Patrick Swayze, who co-stars as the quasi-mystical Bodhi, leader of a SoCal surfer gang that moonlights as the Ex-Presidents – bank heist specialists wearing latex masks of former chiefs like Nixon and Reagan. Two robberies occur on screen, but exact loot amounts aren't mentioned.
No worries, brah. Ease back and settle in for 2 hours of "one hundred percent pure adrenaline!"
21) “Sexy Beast”
Director:Jonathan Glazer
The heist score:A vault full of safe-deposit boxes
Only an actor as skilled as Ben Kingsley could go from famously playing prince-of-peace Gandhi in 1982 to portraying a violent, sociopathic criminal who helps set in motion the underwater heist of a London bank vault. At turns brutal, absurd, and downright bizarre, this film turns the heist genre on its head.
Should you see it? "Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!"
20) “Quick Change”
Directors: Howard Franklin, Bill Murray
The heist score: $1 million
A fed-up New Yorker named Grimm (Bill Murray) disguises himself as a circus clown and stages a clever Manhattan bank heist along with his accomplices: girlfriend Phyllis (Geena Davis) and dim-witted pal Loomis (Randy Quaid).
The comic caper works perfectly until the trio try to flee the city on a flight out of JFK, along the way encountering a series of misfortunes that make escape tougher than the actual robbery. A funny ride, it's a must for Murray fans who may have let this one slip under their radar.
19) Ocean's Thirteen
Director:Steven Soderbergh
The heist score:$250-million worth of diamonds, and ruining casino boss Willy Bank
After the smug, self-indulgent mess that is “Ocean's Twelve,” the third installment of the modern-day "Ocean's" franchise, “Ocean's Thirteen,” returns to the Las Vegas caper fun of director Soderbergh's 2001 flick.
This go-round, Al Pacino is aboard as unscrupulous casino/hotel boss Willy Bank, who is opening Ocean's crew's latest casino target, "The Bank."
18) “The Italian Job”
Director: Peter Collinson
The heist score: $4-million worth of gold bullion
Was Mike Myers' famed Austin Powers character partially based on Michael Caine's groovy playboy persona in this swingin' '60s' comic caper? "Yeeah, baby!"
Though beautifully shot in the Italian Alps and the city of Turin, where Caine's crew aims to rob an armored truck full of gold, the film tends to drag. So much so, the 2003 "Italian Job" remake starring Mark Wahlberg bests the original.
Regardless, one of the heist genre's pioneering flicks is well worth the Mini Cooper ride. And the ending is a literal cliffhanger.
17) “Logan Lucky”
The heist score:Unknown
Director Soderbergh, of "Ocean's" franchise fame, has called this comic caper "an anti-glam version of an Ocean's movie." Exit smooth operator George Clooney's high-tech heists of Vegas casinos. Enter unemployed construction worker Jimmy Logan (Channing Tatum) and his blue-collar family (Adam Driver, Riley Keough) hatching a plot to rob NASCAR's Charlotte Motor Speedway on the day of a big race.
Oddball characters, brisk pacing, and plenty of laughs push this caper across the finish line with winning colors.
16) “How to Steal a Million”
Director: William Wyler
The heist score: A Benvenuto Cellini sculpture valued at $1-million
In this featherweight yet crowd-pleasing heist, Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole team up to swipe a million-dollar sculpture from a Paris art museum. Despite heaps of mid-1960s' rom-com corniness, the clever caper's plot twists keep your eyes glued until the credits roll.
Speaking of which, watch for the great Charles Boyer playing a Parisian art dealer.
15) “Reservoir Dogs”
Director:Quentin Tarantino
The heist score:Diamonds worth an unspecified amount
Proving you can make a great heist movie without ever showing the actual heist on screen, Tarantino's directorial debut instead focuses on the planning and bloody aftermath of a jewel robbery gone fatally wrong.
Unabashedly taking style cues from pictures like Kurosawa's "Rashomon" and Kubrick's "The Killing" (later on this list), Tarantino's modern classic is a well-told story with a terrific cast, including Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, and 1940s' film noirstalwart Lawrence Tierney.
14) “The Asphalt Jungle”
Director:John Huston
The heist score:$500,000 to $1-million worth of jewelry (exact amount unspecified)
Before starring in Stanley Kubrick's classic "The Killing" (later on this list), Sterling Hayden teamed up for a cinematic heist with another none-too-shabby director: John Huston.
In an anonymous Midwestern town, Hayden joins a crew that pulls off a meticulously executed jewelry store robbery. Naturally, it's all downhill from there as the perfect crime collapses in betrayal among the thieves. Starkly realistic, this highly influential film noirinspired several movies on this list, including the No. 1 choice.
Director:F. Gary Gray
The heist score:$35 million in gold bullion
If there's any justice in Hollywood, the writers of the movie’s painfully cheesy dialogue will have their computers stolen. But otherwise this remake of the 1969 British movie of the same name edges the original as far as plotting and action.
In the updated “The Italian Job,” Mark Wahlberg and his crew, including Donald Sutherland and Edward Norton, execute an exciting gold robbery in Venice, Italy before there's a double-cross and the action moves to Los Angeles for a revenge heist featuring a trio of tricked-out BMW Mini Coopers that steal the show.
12) “Ocean's 11”
Director:Lewis Milestone
The heist score:Amount unspecified
Sure, the 2001 remake starring George Clooney is a better flick. But by no means should you dismiss the Rat Pack's original ring-a-ding scheme to simultaneously rob five Las Vegas casinos (for you trivia buffs, they're the Sahara, Riviera, Desert Inn, Sands and Flamingo) on New Year's Eve.
Not only is it a swingin' time capsule of the Vegas Strip circa 1960, you'll receive an education in old-school cool.
11) “Kelly's Heroes”
Director:Brian G. Hutton
A heist picture? A World War II action comedy? A subversive anti-war satire?
“Kelly's Heroes” is all three, wrapped up in a explosive caper that finds Clint Eastwood guiding a band of misfit World War II soldiers (Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Donald Sutherland) behind enemy lines to steal a cache of Nazi gold.
Also deserving of a prize are viewers who can explain how Sutherland's groovy 1960s' hippie character, Oddball, landed in 1944.
10) “A Fish Called Wanda”
Director:Charles Crichton
The heist score:13-million British pounds worth of diamonds
There's plenty of room for comedy in the heist genre, and leave it to Monty Python vet John Cleese to deliver the laughs in this nutty jewel-theft romp he wrote and starred in.
Along for the hijinks are Jamie Lee Curtis as a sexy con artist and Kevin Kline in an Oscar-winning performance as the pompous, belligerent Otto.
A British black comedy with gobbled goldfish and pet dog assassinations may not be everyone's cup of tea, but for many more this caper brings the funny.
9) “Jackie Brown”
The heist score:$500,000
This criminally underrated Tarantino reel finds down-on-her-luck flight attendant Jackie Brown (Pam Grier) busted for her role in a money smuggling scheme with an illegal gun runner (Samuel L. Jackson), who’s wanted by ATF agents.
Forced into a sting operation, Brown double-crosses them all in a suspenseful heist that doesn't rely on explosions or flying bullets for thrills, but rather goes down quietly and cleverly in a shopping mall.
Who knew Quentin had subtlety in him?
8) “The Thomas Crown Affair”
Director:Norman Jewison
The heist score:$2.6 million
Bored millionaire Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) masterminds a perfect crime, robbing a Boston bank without dirtying his own hands.
But not so fast.
The bank's insurance investigator, played by Faye Dunaway, is on to Crown, and you know what comes next: a cat-and-mouse game turned into one of those love affairs that rarely end happily ever after.
7) “Inside Man”
Director:Spike Lee
The heist score:A bank vault full of money. Or is it?
New York City detective Denzel Washington attempts to match wits with bank heist mastermind Clive Owen in Spike Lee's clever cat-and-mouse caper that's more complex than it appears (think "Dog Day Afternoon" meets "The Usual Suspects").
Lee seems incapable of making a movie under two hours, so the proceedings drag on a tad too long, but the puzzle's payoff is worth it.
6) “Topkapi”
Director:Jules Dassin
The heist score:An emerald-encrusted dagger that once belonged to Sultan Mahmud I
Maximilian Schell plays a cool-cat master thief who heads a crew with its heist sights set on a priceless, bejeweled dagger on display in Istanbul's Topkapi Palace museum.
A lighthearted caper, Topkapi has inspired many heist movie imitators, yet precious few can top its old-school, nail-biting robbery sequence.
In addition to the jewels, Peter Ustinov bagged Oscar gold for his supporting role as a bumbling, small-time hustler.
5) “The Usual Suspects”
Director:Bryan Singer
The heist score:$91-million cocaine shipment
It's been called overrated and too clever for its own good, but there's no denying you'll ever forget the plot twists and turns in this heist/whodunit flick that garnered Oscar gold for its screenwriter and the now radioactive Kevin Spacey (#MeToo).
4) “Heat”
Director:Michael Mann
The heist score:$1.6 million in bearer bonds and $12.2 million cash
Working from a solid script that avoids many heist movie clichés and focuses on the characters, Mann's absorbing crime flick has the distinction of being the first movie in which Robert De Niro (a career thief) and Al Pacino (the detective on his tail) share the screen together.
It's a taut tale that erupts when the final bank heist ends in a hail of bullets.
3) “Ocean's Eleven”
The heist score: $160 million
This reboot of the Rat Pack classic proves you can improve on the original.
In interviews, star George Clooney has rightly said he and his crew can never touch the effortless cool of Frank, Dino and Sammy, yet even diehard Sinatra devotees admit this elaborate, breezily paced Las Vegas heist (robbing the Bellagio casino's vault) is a far slicker, funnier ride.
2) “The Killing”
Director:Stanley Kubrick
The heist score:$2 million
Fresh out of prison, a thief (Sterling Hayden) plans to rob a horse race track's money-counting room on the day of a big race, and he's enlisted a team of shady conspirators to play various parts in his intricate scheme.
While that sounds like your typical heist movie, in the hands of director Kubrick, it's anything but.
The movie hops around chronologically, scenes are replayed from different character's perspectives, the camerawork is superb, and by the time this caper crosses the finish line, you'll realize where director Quentin Tarantino pilfered a lot of ideas for his 1992 heist flick “Reservoir Dogs.”
1) “Rififi”
The heist score:240-million francs worth of diamonds
Before director Dassin made “Topkapi” (see #6), he laid the blueprint for the modern heist picture with this French film noir that was banned by Paris police fearing real-life crooks would use it as an instruction manual.
Yes, you'll have to read English subtitles (the horror!), however not during the movie's famed, 28-minute centerpiece sequence: the meticulous, white-knuckle robbery of a jewelry store that plays in silence without dialogue or music.
In more than six decades, no other movie on this list has topped it, so here's your ultimate score.
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"Help to Buy" is a Government initiative which can assist people into home ownership. For many people this may provide the best opportunity of owning a home in the area in which they want to live and work.
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You can also download the Help to Buy guide [pdf | 550KB]. Please note that not all Help to Buy products are available in all areas.
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Shared ownership - new build and re-sales
Shared ownership is designed for those who cannot afford to purchase a property on the open market. This scheme allows you to purchase a percentage share of property and pay a subsidised rent on the remaining share to the housing association selling the property. This scheme can be available on new build and also second hand second hand properties, known as re-sale shared ownership. These are homes previously purchased through the scheme and now looking to be sold.
The Help to Buy equity loan scheme is designed to help you purchase specific new build properties priced up to £600,000 from participating registered developers with little as a 5% deposit. The Government lends you up to 20% of the cost of your new build home so you'll only need to provide a 5% cash deposit and a 75% mortgage to make up the rest. You also won't be charged loan fees on the 20% loan for the first five years of owning your home.
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Volume 10, Number 12—December 2004
Cryptosporidium felis and C. meleagridis in Persons with HIV, Portugal
To the Editor: Cryptosporidium, a pathogenic protozoan parasite with a worldwide distribution, causes diarrheal illness in humans and animals. The parasite can be transmitted from human to human through fecal-oral contact (household contact and nosocomial transmission), sexual contact, ingestion of contaminated food or water, and contact with infected animals. Molecular diagnostic methods indicate that Cryptosporidium parvum and C. hominis are the major causes of cryptosporidiosis in humans, and other Cryptosporidium species can be associated with human infection (1–5).
In Portugal, patients with AIDS have an 8% prevalence rate of cryptosporidiosis (6) with C. parvum and C. hominis as the etiologic agents, even though other Cryptosporidium species were found in these patients (3,7,8). This study characterizes clinical manifestations of infections with unusual two different Cryptosporidium species isolated from seven patients and demonstrates that these species can cause life-threatening disease.
Cryptosporidiosis was diagnosed in 40 patients from 1994 through 2002. All patients were serologically positive for HIV-1 and had diarrhea (at least two loose stools per day) when diagnosed with cryptosporidiosis. Demographic, clinical, and immunologic data were obtained from each patient’s records. Cryptosporidium oocysts were identified by light microscopy after concentration from fecal material by a modified water-ether sedimentation method followed by the modified Ziehl-Neelsen staining (7). The intensity of infection was quantified before molecular analysis by scoring the number of oocysts counted per microscopic field (under a 20x objective) of 50-µL volume of concentrated stool sample as + (1–5 oocysts), ++ (6–10 oocysts), +++ (11–15 oocysts), or ++++ (>15 oocysts). Genetic characterization of the isolates was based on polymerase chain reaction–restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of the small subunit rRNA gene (2,3).
The molecular analysis showed that 22 patients (55%) were infected with C. parvum, 11 (27.5%) were infected with C. hominis, 4 (10%) were infected with C. felis, and 3 (7.5%) were infected with C. meleagridis. Of the four patients infected with C. felis, three (75%) showed low (+) and one (25%) showed moderate (++) oocyst loads. All three (100%) patients infected with C. meleagridis showed low oocyst loads (+). In contrast, of the 22 patients infected with C. parvum, 9 (41%) showed low oocyst loads (+), 3 (14%) showed moderate oocyst loads (++), 3 (14%) showed high oocyst loads (+++), and 7 (32%) showed very high (++++) oocyst loads. Similarly, of the 11 patients infected with C. hominis, 2 (18%) had low oocyst loads (+), and 3 (27%) each had moderate (++), high (+++), or very high (++++) oocyst loads.
Five of the seven patients infected with C. felis and C. meleagridis were men and two were women; the median age of patients was 31 years (7–44). In this group of HIV-positive patients, three were heterosexual persons, two were homosexual persons, one was an intravenous drug user, and one acquired HIV infection through vertical transmission. Of the seven patients, all showed a range of clinical manifestations of infection, including transient diarrhea, chronic diarrhea, dehydration, and cachexia. Five (71%) of the patients spontaneously recovered, and two (29%) of the patients died. The median CD4+ count/mm3 was 20 (18–213).
All of the seven patients were prescribed antiretroviral therapy, but one of the patients did not adhere to the treatment. Two of the three patients infected with C. meleagridis died of cryptosporidiosis. Information on the risk factors for acquiring Cryptosporidium infection was available for one patient, the child infected with C. felis, who had contact with cats at home. No other potential intestinal pathogens were detected in the feces of these patients at the time of the cryptosporidiosis diagnosis.
Twenty-two of the 33 patients infected with C. parvum and C. hominis were men and 11 were women; the median age of patients was 32 years (7–58). Sixteen patients were intravenous drug users, 5 patients were heterosexual persons, 1 patient was a homosexual person, and 2 patients acquired HIV infection through vertical transmission; the remaining 9 patients had no HIV-exposure history information. Eighteen of the 22 patients infected with C. parvum showed a range of clinical manifestations of illness with transient diarrhea, chronic diarrhea, dehydration, and cachexia. Twelve (67%) of the patients spontaneously recovered, and 6 (33%) of the patients died. Information on CD4+ count/mm3 was available for 13 of the 22 patients with a median count of 20 (3–250). Information on the outcome of the patients infected with C. hominis was available for 10 of the 11 patients. All of the 10 patients showed a range of clinical manifestations of infection, including transient diarrhea, chronic diarrhea, dehydration, and cachexia. Seven (70%) of the patients spontaneously recovered, and 3 (30%) of the patients died. The median CD4+ count/mm3 was 20 (6–40).
Most reports on infections with unusual Cryptosporidium species in humans give a brief description of the genotyping results, leaving the clinical importance of these species uncertain. Unusual Cryptosporidium species can cause disease (symptomatic infection) and death. C. felis and C. meleagridis infections showed low oocyst shedding (all seven patients had low to moderate oocyst loads in samples). On the contrary, C. parvum produced similar clinical manifestations but showed higher oocyst shedding; 46% had high to very high parasite loads. C. hominis infections had parasite loads even higher than C. parvum infections; 54% of patients had high to very high parasite loads. In immunocompetent persons, C. hominis infections produce higher oocyst loads in feces than infections caused by C. parvum or zoonotic species (2,9).
The transmission route for the unusual Cryptosporidium species is unclear. Because human infection by unusual Cryptosporidium species is less common, the principal transmission route for these parasites is likely through direct contact with infected animals. In our study, one of the four immunocompromised patients with C. felis was a child who had been in close contact with cats at home. No data on animal contact were available for other patients infected with unusual Cryptosporidium species. Cats are found in many homes with no evidence of cryptosporidiosis; therefore, it is difficult to attribute the occasional human C. felis infection to contamination by cats. Careful epidemiologic studies are needed to elucidate the transmission route of human infections with unusual Cryptosporidium species.
This work was supported by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia / European Union / Fonds Social Européen / Fonds Européen de Développement Régional.
Olga Matos* , Margarida Alves*, Lihua Xiao†, Vitaliano Cama†, and Francisco Antunes*‡
Author affiliations: *Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Lisboa, Portugal; †Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; ‡Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisboa, Portugal
McLauchlin J, Amar C, Pedraza-Díaz S, Nichols GL. Molecular epidemiological analysis of Cryptosporidium spp. in the United Kingdom: results of genotyping Cryptosporidium spp. in 1,705 fecal samples from humans and 105 fecal samples from livestock animals. J Clin Microbiol. 2000;38:3984–90.PubMed
Xiao L, Bern C, Limor J, Sulaiman I, Roberts J, Checkley W, Identification of 5 types of Cryptosporidium parasites in children in Lima, Peru. J Infect Dis. 2001;183:492–7. DOIPubMed
Alves M, Matos O, Antunes F. Multilocus PCR-RFLP analysis of Cryptosporidium isolates from HIV-infected patients from Portugal. Ann Trop Med Parasitol. 2001;95:627–32. DOIPubMed
Guyot K, Follet-Dumoulin A, Lelièvre E, Sarfati C, Rabodonirina M, Nevez G, Molecular characterization of Cryptosporidium isolates obtained from humans in France. J Clin Microbiol. 2001;39:3472–80. DOIPubMed
Xiao L, Fayer R, Ryan U, Upton SJ. Cryptosporidium taxonomy: recent advances and implications for public health. Clin Microbiol Rev. 2004;17:72–97. DOIPubMed
Matos O, Tomás A, Aguiar P, Casemore D, Antunes F. Prevalence of cryptosporidiosis in AIDS patients with diarrhoea in Santa Maria Hospital, Lisbon. Folia Parasitol (Praha). 1998;45:163.PubMed
Alves M, Matos O, Spano F, Antunes F. PCR-RFLP analysis of Cryptosporidium parvum isolates from HIV-infected patients in Lisbon, Portugal. Ann Trop Med Parasitol. 2000;94:291–7. DOIPubMed
Alves M, Matos O, Fonseca IP, Delgado E, Lourenço AM, Antunes F. Multilocus genotyping of Cryptosporidium isolates from human HIV-infected and animal hosts. J Eukaryot Microbiol. 2001;Suppl:17S–8S. DOIPubMed
McLauchlin J, Pedraza-Díaz S, Amar-Hoetzeneder C, Nichols GL. Genetic characterization of Cryptosporidium stains from 218 patients with diarrhea diagnosed as having sporadic cryptosporidiosis. J Clin Microbiol. 1999;37:3153–8.PubMed
Table of Contents – Volume 10, Number 12—December 2004
Olga M. Matos, Unidade de Protozoários Oportunistas/VIH e outras Protozooses, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Rua da Junqueira 96, 1349-008 Lisboa, Portugal; fax: 00-351-213632105
December 2004expand
Matos O, Alves M, Xiao L, Cama V, Antunes F. Cryptosporidium felis and C. meleagridis in Persons with HIV, Portugal. Emerg Infect Dis. 2004;10(12):2256-2257. https://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1012.031068
Matos O, Alves M, Xiao L, et al. Cryptosporidium felis and C. meleagridis in Persons with HIV, Portugal. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2004;10(12):2256-2257. doi:10.3201/eid1012.031068.
Matos, O., Alves, M., Xiao, L., Cama, V., & Antunes, F. (2004). Cryptosporidium felis and C. meleagridis in Persons with HIV, Portugal. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 10(12), 2256-2257. https://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1012.031068.
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Here’s How Yummly, the Foodie’s Google, Could Conquer the Kitchen
Wade Roush
@soonishpodcast
Xconomy National —
If you wanted to build a central information hub for the kitchen—connecting consumers with recipe ideas, ingredient lists, shopping assistance, and cooking instructions—you’d probably break the problem down into a few steps.
First you’d build the world’s most powerful recipe search engine. Then you’d add filters to help people discover dishes they like, and avoid those they don’t. You’d offer personalized recommendations, and you’d let users build recipe collections and share their favorites. You’d build a mobile app so that your users can find recipes while they’re at the grocery store. You’d extract the ingredient lists from these recipes and turn them into convenient shopping lists, and you’d group the items into categories so that shoppers could find them more easily as they move through the aisles of their favorite stores.
Then you’d open up your data infrastructure, in order to become the default recipe-search service powering other startups’ food apps and sites. And you’d start making money along the way by rounding up food companies who want to advertise on your search-result pages.
But you’d have to be crazy to go down this particular path, because there’s a food-tech startup that’s already done all that. It’s called Yummly, and it’s poised to become one of the central information brokers—if not the central broker—for consumers who use digital tools to plan their cooking and shopping. (And who doesn’t these days?)
It’s not hyperbole to call Yummly the Google of food. Already, the four-year-old company, which is based in the heart of Silicon Valley and backed by a host of marquee venture and angel investors, attracts 10 million unique visitors per month to its search site. It makes the top iPhone recipe search app in the iTunes App Store. Every day more than 40,000 items get added to Yummly shopping lists, and people add more recipes to their Yummly collections than they do to their Pinterest pinboards. And behind the scenes, Yummly powers recipe-search features for hundreds of partners, including three of the top 10 Web search engines and hot startups like grocery delivery service Instacart.
The company isn’t nearly as familiar to consumers as older recipe-search brands like Epicurious and AllRecipes, and only in the last few months have the full scope of its ambitions become clear. But the advanced search technology at its core, together with its ace team of product designers and developers, give Yummly a good shot at becoming the key data middleman in the growing market where content, food, and commerce meet—roughly the same role companies like Pandora, Spotify, Rdio, and Gracenote are trying to play in the digital music world.
“What we’re trying to do is create the digital kitchen platform,” says Brian Witlin, Yummly’s head of mobile and platform technologies. “I believe Yummly is on track to owning the food-tech space.”
Yummly CEO Dave Feller (left) and head of mobile and platform technology Brian Witlin (right)
If you enjoy cooking, you own an iPhone, and you aren’t yet a Yummly user, downloading the free Yummly app, which hit the App Store last month, is the best way to get introduced to the platform. The app’s home page shows you an endlessly scrolling sequence of mouthwatering food closeups drawn from top recipe sites. (Yummly doesn’t publish recipes of its own; it’s a “meta-search” site that aggregates recipes from hundreds of other recipe sites and food blogs.)
If you tap one of the orange “Yum” buttons, that recipe will be added to your personal recipe box. And if you tap on the photo itself, you can see an ingredient list, nutrition facts, and cooking directions. Witlin’s team found a clever and seamless way to bring up the original Web page where each recipe was found—at Epicurious or Chow or Food Republic, say—without forcing you to switch to a mobile browser.
But that’s just the surface. The real power of the Yummly app kicks in when you use the app’s search filters. Say you’re looking for dishes to cook at Thanksgiving (or, this year, Thanksgivingukkah), but you’ve got special dietary requirements—perhaps you’re vegetarian, or lactose-intolerant, or you’ve got celiac syndrome. You can search for “Thanksgiving dishes” and then use the Preferences option to restrict the results just to vegetarian, diary-free, or gluten-free recipes.
In a hurry? You can also narrow down recipe results based on prep time—less than 30 minutes, say. There are also filters for cuisine (Cajun, Chinese, Indian, Italian, and 22 more), courses (appetizer, dessert, etc.), nutrition parameters (calories, carbs, fat, and cholesterol), and tastes (sliders let you adjust results according to how salty, savory, sour, bitter, sweet, or spicy each dish may be).
These elaborate search filters are at the very center of the vision behind Yummly, according to founder and CEO Dave Feller. From 2000 to 2004, Feller ran marketing and strategy at Half.com, the Philadelphia-based online marketplace for used books, music, movies, and games. When eBay bought Half.com in 2004, he moved west, but left the auction giant a couple of years later. “I wanted to do something with my passion, which was food,” Feller explains. “Yummly came about from my severe hatred of mustard and mayonnaise.”
Specifically, Feller liked to find new things to cook on the Web, but it was frustrating to him that no existing recipe search site gave him the ability to filter out recipes that contain mustard or mayo, to which he has a genuine aversion. And it occurred to him that probably he wasn’t alone.
“You could walk up to almost anybody and say, ‘Tell me five foods you don’t like,’ and they’d be able to rattle them off,” Feller says. “Everybody has some particular distaste for an ingredient, or a health condition that requires them to eat in a particular way. When nobody is solving for that, that’s an indication that there is a big opportunity.”
But solving the filtering problem in food search is a lot more complicated than you might think. After all, most general recipe sites don’t provide convenient flags like “vegan” or “gluten-free.” A few give calorie-count estimates, but you won’t find anything on AllRecipes or Epicurious about whether a dish is especially salty or spicy. And if you went to Google and typed in “potato salad recipes without mayonnaise,” all you’d get back is a list of Web pages containing those keywords. Conventional search engines can’t analyze recipes ingredient-by-ingredient, and they can’t handle the Boolean queries needed to reliably filter out offending recipes.
To make their idea for Yummly work, in other words, Feller and his co-founder Vadim Geshel had to bring structure to a content category that was miserably unstructured. They had to create a whole food ontology—a kind of scaffolding for knowledge—and then map hundreds of thousands of published recipes into that ontology. At the simplest level, this meant teaching the Yummly search engine that salmon is a type of fish, that a dish containing bread isn’t gluten-free, or that a recipe that calls for three tablespoons of chili powder is probably going to come out pretty spicy.
The Yummly home page
In a way, Yummly was tackling one corner of the much larger semantic search challenge that Google has been addressing through its Knowledge Graph project, which aims to provide users with direct answers to search queries, rather than page after page of links. But so far, food isn’t one of the areas Google has tried to incorporate into the Knowledge Graph—which leaves the field wide open for challengers like Yummly.
Feller and Geshel started Yummly in early 2009, and “we spent almost all of the first year on the underlying technology, understanding how to structure food data,” Feller says. But it’s only because the company made that big early investment that it’s now able to provide users with such fine-grained control over their recipe searches. Need a low-salt vegetarian lasagna recipe that you can cook in under 45 minutes? Try the Pesto Polenta Lasagna at AllRecipes. (You have no idea how hungry it’s making me to write all of this.)
Once the basic Web search engine was working and Yummly had proved that it could handle thousands of users without breaking, the startup went on to add more features like collections, personalized recommendations, the Yum button, and a system for showing targeted ads based on users’ ingredient preferences. Today, Yummly has 31 employees and has raised $7.85 million in venture backing, mostly from Harrison Metal Capital, Intel Capital, Physic Ventures, Unilever Corporate Ventures, Harvard Common Press, and First Round Capital (which was founded by Josh Kopelman, Feller’s old boss at Half.com).
Witlin joined Yummly this spring after stepping down as the CEO of Shopwell, a fascinating Ideo spinoff that I profiled at length in November 2010. Shopwell’s app made it easier for grocery shoppers to find foods that fit their nutritional needs. That was pretty good practice for Witlin’s move to Yummly, as it turned out.
Witlin’s first job was to unveil Yummly’s application programming interface, or API—that’s the technology outside developers can use to tap into Yummly’s search index and provide filtered results to their own users. Already, more than 2,300 developers have signed up to use the API, Witlin says. (In addition to targeted ads, charging commercial users for access to the API is one of the ways Yummly makes money.)
His next project was to lead the development of a Yummly app for the iPhone. A basic app was already under construction when he arrived, but Witlin decided his team should scrap it and start over. “Mobile was an area where the company had not focused, and I felt like we could combine the search technology and my expertise to launch something that was going to own the space and really kick ass,” Witlin says.
What made this tricky is that in the recipe-search and grocery-list category, there are already way too many cooks in the kitchen. There are thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of recipe manager, grocery list, and cookbook apps in Apple’s iTunes App Store—indeed, we’ve written about many of them here at Xperience. “We didn’t want to do just another me-too app,” Feller says. “We wanted something that could be the number-one recipe app.”
The app Yummly finally released in September is pretty traditional, if you just look its basic features—browsing recipes, building collections, and adding ingredients to a shopping list. But it has rocketed to the top of the app charts for two basic reasons: the powerful search filters, and the loving care put into the design of the app by Witlin’s team, especially lead mobile developer Yuri Yuryev, whom Witlin calls “an engineer and an artist in one.”
One small example illustrates Witlin and Yuryev’s almost Jobsian attention to detail. To make the browsing experience on the app’s home page more immersive, the team programmed the headline text on the edge-to-edge food photos to disappear when you’re flicking the images up and down. But when the photos slide to a stop, the text floats gently back into view.
“It took six weeks to get the parallax text to feel just right,” Witlin says. “The biggest risk we could take was not being noteworthy, so it was worth it to invest that last 10 percent to make the app really stand out.”
Next on the mobile team’s agenda is a Yummly app for the iPad, the device that users are more likely to take into the kitchen while they’re actually cooking. The company is also working to add more ways for big food brands to show ads based on the recipes users are browsing, both on the Yummly site and in the app. It’s also bringing in more API partners—its deal last month with Instacart being an especially interesting example. Instacart members can do a Yummly-powered recipe search from within the Instacart app, then automatically add all the ingredients in a chosen recipe to their Instacart shopping list for home delivery.
“One of the reasons we took the leap and launched a public API was that while we very much want to be the hub of the kitchen, we also want to be the hub of this ecosystem,” Feller says. “There are a lot of players in food tech, and we have the best underlying technology for recipes, which means we can power a lot of these apps.”
Beyond that, Yummly might even turn into something like the central data clearinghouse for an increasingly fragmented food economy. The rise of the locavore movement, farmer’s markets, and instant delivery services threatens the central role of the supermarket chains and their ubiquitous coupons and circulars, the traditional channels for driving consumer awareness of food brands. That, in turn, makes it harder than ever for food companies to connect with customers on the scale required to justify the cost of launching a new product. Over time, Yummly could become not just a discovery tool for home cooks, but also—because it knows what recipes users are putting into their collections, and what ingredients they’re putting on their shopping lists—a “big data” player providing food makers with detailed picture of trends in consumer demand.
Yummly’s focus on individual tastes and experiences also “has very specific implications for the future of the personalized Web,” says Adam Salomone, associate publisher at Harvard Common Press, which was among Yummly’s first investors. “You see it in Pandora music listening…The ability to filter out that which is irrelevant and surface the content that is most highly aligned with user interest. I don’t doubt we’ll see more of this kind of matching to come.”
“This data platform in food can be incredibly powerful going forward,” Witlin sums up. I agree—and I expect to see Yummly turning up as an ingredient in numerous food-tech products and deals.
Wade Roush is a freelance science and technology journalist and the producer and host of the podcast Soonish. Follow @soonishpodcast
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Netherlands, Germany Have Euro Disaster Plan - Possible Return to Guilder and Mark
by GoldCore
The Dutch and German governments were preparing emergency plans for a return to their national currencies at the height of the euro crisis it has emerged. These plans remain in place.
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The Dutch finance ministry prepared for a scenario in which the Netherlands could return to its former currency - the guilder. They hosted meetings with a team of legal, economic and foreign affairs experts to discuss the possibility of returning to the Dutch guilder in early 2012.
The Dutch finance minister during the period has confirmed that Germany also discussed such scenarios.
At the time the Euro was in crisis, Greece was on the verge of leaving or being pushed out of the Euro and the debt crisis was hitting Spain and Italy hard. The Greek prime minister Georgios Papandreou and his Italian counterpart Silvio Berlusconi had resigned and there were concerns that the eurozone debt crisis was spinning out of control - leading to contagion and the risk of a systemic collapse.
A TV documentary broke the story last Tuesday. The rumours were confirmed on Thursday by the current Dutch minister of finance, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, and the current President of the Eurogroup of finance ministers in a television interview which was covered by EU Observer and Bloomberg.
“It is true that [the ministry of] finance and the then government had also prepared themselves for the worst scenario”, said Dijsselbloem.
“Government leaders, including the Dutch government, have always said: we want to keep that eurozone together. But [the Dutch government] also looked at: what if that fails. And it prepared for that.”
While Dijsselbloem said there was no need to be “secretive” about the plans now, such discussions were shrouded in secrecy at the time to avoid spreading panic on the financial markets.
When asked about Germany, Dijsselbloem said he couldn’t say whether that country’s government had made similar preparations.
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However, Jan Kees de Jager, finance minister from February 2010 to November 2012, acknowledged that a team of legal experts, economists and foreign affairs specialists often met at his ministry on Fridays to discuss possible scenarios.
“The fact that in Europe multiple scenarios were discussed was something some countries found rather scary. They did not do that at all, strikingly enough”, said De Jager in the TV documentary.
“We were one of the few countries, together with Germany. We even had a team together that discussed scenarios, Germany-Netherlands.”
When the EU Observer requested confirmation from Germany, the German ministry of finance did not officially deny that it had drawn up similar plans, stating simply:
“We and our partners in the euro zone, including the Netherlands, were and still are determined to do everything possible to prevent a breakup of the eurozone.”
This is quite a revelation. At that time the German finance minister Wolfgang Schauble had said that the Euro could survive without Greece. Whether it could survive without the Dutch is another matter entirely.
A Euro without Holland and especially Germany is currently inconceivable. De Jager also states that other countries found the prospect of a Euro break-up frightening.
So much so that they buried their heads in the sand rather than deal with the situation facing them. It appears that no emergency contingency plans were made in the unfortunately named PIIGS nations - Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain.
One has to wonder if the plans would have been made public had a TV documentary not forced the Dutch government to confirm the claim.
It is interesting to note that it is these two countries, Germany and Netherlands, whose citizens have also been at the forefront of the gold repatriation movement currently sweeping across Europe - France's second largest party entered the fray this week.
In a climate with a lack of faith in fiat currencies, any return to a purely fiat guilder or mark would be risky in the absence of the confidence that gold backing provides.
Despite the implication that secrecy is no longer necessary because Europe is over the worst we believe the Dutch repatriation of 20% of it's sovereign gold from the U.S. indicates that the Dutch are still, wisely, preparing for the worst - whether that be a euro crisis or indeed a dollar crisis and an international monetary crisis.
Their stated reason for returning their 122 tonnes of gold to Netherland’s soil was to instil public confidence in the Dutch central bank.
The prospect of a Euro-break up is a frightening one. It would appear that most Eurozone nations are ill-prepared and indeed unprepared for.
As always we recommend investors act as their own central bank by taking delivery of bullion or keeping gold and silver in secure, allocated and segregated vaults in safer jurisdictions such as Switzerland and Singapore.
For investors and savers currently using the euro, it begs the important question do you have a euro failure contingency plan?
Indeed, for investors and savers internationally using other fiat currencies, it begs the important question do you have a currency failure contingency plan?
While the risks in peripheral European nations of reversion to their national currencies and currency devaluations have diminished – some risks still remain.
The risk is that individual national governments may elect to take this route rather than suffer deflationary economic collapse and Depressions. Alternatively, it could happen through contagion or a systemic event like the collapse of a large European bank, a la Lehman Brothers, that leads to a domino effect jettisoning a member state out of the monetary union.
It could also come about should the German people and politicians decide that the European monetary project is not worth saving or they decide that it cannot be saved and elect to return to the Deutsche mark.
All significantly indebted nations, so called PIIGS and non PIIGS such as Japan, the UK and the U.S. are at risk of currency devaluations.
Competitive currency devaluations or the debasement of currencies for competitive advantage and currency wars poses real risks to the long term stability and prosperity of all democracies in the world and to the finances and savings of people in all countries.
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A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids
"John McAfee: 'I Can Guarantee You, It Was Not the Russians'".
"FBI/DHS Joint Analysis Report: A Fatally Flawed Effort".
"It is both foolish and baseless to claim, as Crowdstrike does, that X-Agent is used solely by the Russian government when the source code is there for anyone to find and use at will.
If the White House had unclassified evidence that tied officials in the Russian government to the DNC attack, they would have presented it by now. The fact that they didn’t means either that the evidence doesn’t exist or that it is classified.
If it’s classified, an independent commission should review it because this entire assignment of blame against the Russian government is looking more and more like a domestic political operation run by the White House that relied heavily on questionable intelligence generated by a for-profit cybersecurity firm with a vested interest in selling “attribution-as-a-service”."
"Something About This Russia Story Stinks" (Taibbi):
"If the American security agencies had smoking-gun evidence that the Russians had an organized campaign to derail the U.S. presidential election and deliver the White House to Trump, then expelling a few dozen diplomats after the election seems like an oddly weak and ill-timed response."
"Moscow blasts CNN’s ‘false’ US school closure report". Just as Assange didn't say the right things to fit the 'narrative', so the Guardian fixed things by completely making things up, Putin didn't behave like Barry the petulant child, again breaking the 'narrative', so CNN helpfully made up a story which fits the 'narrative'. Did 'journalists' not learn that the Trump victory was a solid refutation of the 'narrative', and that people wouldn't be fooled any longer?
"U.S. officials have traced Russian hacking operation to Vermont electrical grid". This is getting to the 'precious bodily fluids' level.
"Trump Tweets Love For Putin 24 Hours After Obama Announces Sanctions". Clarifying stuff from the Joe McCarthy fan club. An no, they have no decency.
"Putin: Russia will not expel anyone in response to US sanctions". So once the US gets a grown-up President, everything can be reversed.
"Obama’s Sanctions against Moscow “Intended to Box In Donald Trump”. Evidence that Hacking of DNC Accusations are Fake".
"What The Russian Hacking Report DOESN’T Say". They were so careful in covering their asses on the allegations, possibly fearing a Trumpian refutation after the inauguration, that they didn't leave any reason for the sanctions.
"Hypocrites and Moderate Rebels": ". . . a particularly pietistic bit of perambulating humbug, one Samantha Power, the ambassador of the United States to the United Nations."
"There will be no partition of Syria".
"Horrific Details Emerge of the Aleppo Rebel’s Trade in Human Organs". The difficult decision of whether to eat them or sell them.
"Richard Spencer’s Mom-gate". Violent racist supremacist cage match - I say we should just step back and let them fight it out.
"Fake Jewish Philosopher Tells “Anti-Semites, Skin-Headed Intellectuals” to Leave France". A 'treasure'.
"BERLIN’S KNOWN WOLF: Prior Criminal Plot, Watched Before Christmas Attack – Germany Takes on So-Called Fake News Crisis". Lots of parallels to other 'terrorist' attacks.
"U.S. Embassy Turkey Openly Lies About U.S. YPG Support".
"The Guardian’s Summary of Julian Assange’s Interview Went Viral and Was Completely False" (Greenwald). Assange's actual statements didn't follow the 'narrative', so they just made shit up!
"The Pentagon’s $125 Billion Cover-Up". A relatively minor Pentagon cover-up.
How to build a Sunni proxy army
"Why the West is Helping ISIS Spread Hysteria Post-Berlin Attack" (Cartalucci). Simply superb! You might want to read it in conjunction with: "German intelligence agent drove alleged perpetrator in Christmas market attack to Berlin". Just another soldier of the Sunni proxy army being built in Europe.
"Exclusive: ISIS Puts Out Holiday Attack List Of U.S. Churches" (for background on vocativ, see "lisa goldman trying to conceal the fact that she is the new rita katz"). "Islamic State supporters call for more holiday attacks in Europe". The strategy of tension leads to more hatred and fear of local Muslims, leading to more hate attacks and bigoted talk and legislation from politicians (especially the 'nationalist' ones, who drag the 'reluctant' mainstream politicians along behind them), leading to the creation of more proxy army soldiers for the Yinon armies. Brilliant!
"German Police Detain Alleged Accomplice To Berlin Truck Attack Suspect". As with the consistent leaving behind of ID, so with numbers in cell phones:
"The man's telephone number was saved in the cellphone of Anis Amri, the main suspect behind the Dec. 19 truck attack who was killed in a shootout with police in a suburb of Milan early Friday."
"ISIS and al-Nusra Bombs and Shells—Made in US and Germany". "American and German Munitions Found In Aleppo by Russian Sappers".
"C&L's Good Guys Of The Year: #4 Kurt Eichenwald". As I keep saying, clarifying. There is no possible world where Kurt Eichenwald is a 'good guy'. and anybody who says so is definitely not at all good.
"Syria - Peace Talk Rumors And Parameters". This starting to remind me of Charlie Brown, Lucy, and the football, with Russia consistently giving the Americans the benefit of the doubt as honest players, and consistently being disappointed by Jew-controlled American perfidy.
"Testimony of the Destruction of Eastern Aleppo, Syria. Photographic Evidence". The human organ eaters and head loppers who did this are the sole heroes left to Americans. You should grimly reflect on where World Jewry has dragged your souls. The big propaganda push over alleged crimes by Assad and the Russians is an attempt by the Jew-controlled media to distract from the horrors of their Yinon army.
"Kerry slams Israeli settlement growth as a threat to peace process". Kerry, late all around, with the 'airing of grievances' so last week.
"George Soros Conjures Hitler In Attack On 'Ascendant Populists', Warns "Democracy Is Now In Crisis"". Right in the middle of his campaign to deligitimize Trump's election by putting American democracy in crisis! From a man whose first job was assisting his father in stealing from Jews, something Soros won't apologize for, as if he hadn't done it somebody else no doubt would have!
Israel has an interesting 'democracy', set up to give full power to the tiniest minority of settler supremacists, with the country's leadership based, not on voting, but by rigged 'coalition building' - Israel is a country that could desperately use first past the post, but then, of course, the settlers would lose their power - and the selective application of the criminal law if anyone fails to follow the script. "Netanyahu to be investigated for bribery, fraud — report". All Israeli leaders are chosen on the basis of how crooked they are to allow for this eventuality. Apparently, some feel that Bibi's recent frothing at the mouth at the Americans isn't good host management by the parasite, so a secret ongoing investigation comes to light to attempt to rein him in.
"Behind the real US strategic blunder in Syria". The least convincing thing ever written by Porter, just terrible, based on its missing the J-word.
"In Bahrain woman's slaying, accusations of royal involvement".
More wasted riyals: "Down the Alt-Right’s Syrian Rabbit Hole".
"MEDIA TRIPWIRE? Ping Pong Pizza Conspiracy Propels Internet Censorship Amid ‘Fake News’ Witch-Hunt". Pizzagate is ridiculous - the 'analysis' reminds me of numerology - but given the known history of child abuse rings in Washington, with intelligence agencies using blackmail to control politicians (the most obvious example being Epstein's Lolita Express to Orgy Island on behalf of the Mossad), it is inconceivable that some key players in the Clinton campaign weren't subject to such control. What is Erik Prince up to, and why? You get the strong whiff that Pizzagate is a controlling threat, that the real stuff would come out if people don't play their assigned roles.
"Christmas Surprise" (Shamir):
"The world will set itself free of Jewish hegemony, but this complicated transition calls for using one bunch of Jews against another one. Or so the politicians feel. However, the moment of freedom is approaching. As the US hegemony declines, the Jewish one follows it into decline. Trump won though the Jewish media, Masters of Discourse were against him. This lesson will be learned by politicians, and implemented.
Israeli behaviour contributed a lot to the change. The white people like fair play: they gave full rights to Jews and blacks though it was not to their advantage. But the Jews do not care for the fairness, just for the bottom line. Their mistreatment of Palestinians exceeded every limit of tolerance. They could relinquish Palestine altogether and live well on 78% of its territory they got by means fair and foul. They could have the Two States’ Solution, where Palestinian state has no control over its borders, skies, water or military, but still has a flag and a national anthem.
Or, if they want the whole land of Palestine, they should treat Palestinians fairly, give them rights in one state, instead of slowly planting more Jewish colonies on the stolen Palestinian land while claiming to pursue Two States track. But the Jews preferred to have their cake and eat it. Such a trick may work for a while, but not forever, and thus Zionists learned the limits of their power."
The lesson that should come from this is that, while you can't weaken Jewish power, you can manipulate things by cleverly pitting one group of Jewish machers against another, based on their differing views of the tactics of Jewish empire building.
The Clarification
"Why the CIA won’t want to go public with evidence of Russia’s hacking". The comments are so consistently negative that you have to wonder who the CIA thinks it is fooling with this crap.
"The Coup against Trump and His Military-Wall Street Defense" (Petras).
"Erdogan says he has evidence US-led coalition has given support to Isis". "Erdogan Says He Has "Confirmed Evidence" The US Supports ISIS". "Who is Supporting ISIS-Daesh in Syria? Erdogan or Obama?". Things have certainly changed.
Of course, 'Langley' stands up for his pals at Langley: "Erdogan-Putin Syria Bromance as Turkey accuses US of backing ISIL".
"The Celebrity Left is Still the Enemy". The Clarification.
"Syria Roundup: Aleppo Liberated - Turkey's Problems Increase".
"Putin's Hit Teams Of "Chechen Killers" Head For Syria".
"Last week, Politico said Mr Kissinger was one of the few Americans to meet frequently with Mr Putin, along with movie star Steven Seagal and ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, Mr Trump’s pick for the next secretary of state." The Trumpumverate.
"Corbyn hits back after Obama suggests Labour is disintegrating". And yet in terms of grassroots enthusiasm and sheer numbers, it looks like the most successful political party in the western world. Barry is completely incapable of recognizing what a successful political party would look like.
"False Media Reporting on Trump’s Request to State Dept for Info on Gender Equality Programs".
"Divergent Views: How Well Will Trump Get Along With His Own Cabinet?" This remains the key question in American politics.
Unusual sanity: "Fear in Berlin (or: They Do It With Mirrors)".
"New Zealand’s Settler Problem". The problem with this kind of hasbara argument, completely invisible to the Khazar supremacists who make it, is that it accepts the premise of the immorality of settler colonialism. The New Zealand settler problem can't be undone at this point, but the Israeli settler problem, utterly illegal under laws in place today, can be. Khazars keep making this fundamental rhetorical mistake because they assume that the laws of the goyim animals don't apply to them.
"Britain Pulled the Strings and Netanyahu Warned New Zealand It Was Declaring War: New Details on Israel's Battle Against the UN Vote". Bibi is making a big fuss about the smaller countries to hide all the bigger countries that voted for it and acted behind the scenes to ensure they could vote for it.
"Palestine 2017". The United States is still irredeemably Jewed-up, and thus doomed as the parasites suck it dry, but the encouraging thing is the courageous work by many around the world to force this resolution to happen.
"Mike Cernovich, DeploraBall and the Collapse of the Alt-Cuck (音声障害ゴリラはユダヤ人を養う？)". Not perhaps a big deal but there are obvious organized attempts to Jewify the alt-right. The fact that so much effort is being put in to this is a strong indication that BigJew still sees the alt-right as a threat to Jewish supremacism.
Tweet (Max Shanly):
"Communist Party have announced that George Michael was once a member of the Young Communist League. Amazing. https://www.facebook.com/rob.griffiths.77736/posts/10210705389167184?__mref=message_bubble …"
"Breitbart Is Leading a Smear Campaign Against a Scholar for Mocking White Supremacy, and His University Isn't Defending Him".
"Drexel University, Apparently Unfamiliar With White Supremacist Lingo, Censures Prof For “White Genocide” Tweet". "5,000 signatures to support George Ciccariello-Maher".
"Rising deaths among white middle-aged Americans could exceed Aids toll in US". "Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century". Caused by the policies of the credentialed neoliberals, who sometimes relax with a spot of 'satire'.
Is it meta-'satire' if you receive death threats for jokingly, and satirically, calling for a genocide that is actually happening?
Apparently, the archipelago still hasn't received the message from the most recent American election.
Watermelon and KFC
"Donald Trump as Zionist". Guess the one issue on which Kevin MacDonald is a 'cuck'. All based on obviously phony statistics of Republican support for Israel, and the new doctrine that Trump now has to kowtow to the very Republican operatives he so soundly defeated. Most comments are kind, but skeptical.
"Far-right Dutch politician condemns Obama for UN settlement resolution". I wonder how many shekels he got for that. That is not just a disparaging comment, I honestly want to know what the going rate is.
"Welcome to Greater Israel!" If Trump is planning to square the circle by granting the Jews whatever they want with respect to the Palestinians, but refusing to give them more Wars For The Jews, that will almost certainly fail, as the Jews have proven themselves masters at using false-flag 'terrorism' and lies from their Jew-controlled media to obtain wars.
"Demographics Are Not Destiny". The utter reliance on demographics is profoundly racist as you assume the groups you are relying on as guaranteed votes have absolutely no interests that they might want addressed. Once it is known that the group is being taken for granted, the demographics backfires. Two issues:
taking the group for granted as 'who else are they going to vote for?' (their answer is, at least, refusing to participate in the process, and. at worst, voting for the other party); and
assuming that all members of the group, by virtue of being in the group, have identical interests (the very definition of racism).
"Was Jill Stein wrong in this tweet?" No, and Mr Angry is far too careful in his examples.
""His Thoughts Are So Correct": Trump Releases "Very Nice Letter" He Received From Putin". Comment: "Who could possibly object to this show of goodwill between superpowers? Hmmmmm... I wonder. ((()))". ""Russia Did It" - The Last Stand Of Neoconservatism".
"Professor Stephen Cohen: Vladimir Putin is potentially America’s most valuable national security partner". Of course, the Americans use terrorism as an imperial weapon, so American officials naturally don't perceive their promotion, funding and organization of terrorists to be a good fit with Russia's attempts to prevent terrorism! For example.
"President Obama signs defense bill that could spur new space-based arms race". Another boondoggle, the American version of the Iron Dome.
"Aleppo: another false flag “Srebrenica,” perhaps barely, averted". The danger with all the lying propaganda is that they might take steps to create the imaginary atrocities they are suddenly obsessed with.
"Will The Real Tulsi Gabbard Please Stand Up... Please Stand Up". The attack means she is making the Democrat officialdom nervous. The comments are good ("Grow the F up, Howie Klein.").
"Harper: FBI 9/11 Probe Of Saudi Role A Decade Later". More American attempts at manipulating the Saudi royals with the 9/11 dance of the seven veils.
"NATO Ramps Up Ukraine War After Defeat in Syria". Late Barry abounds with pettiness.
"Drexel professor reprimanded for 'White Genocide' tweet claims it was satire". 'Can't you take a joke' comes up on all sides of the political spectrum. Fits nicely into the credentialed Clinton archipelago dwellers' contempt for the deplorables.
"Russian Envoy Assassination: Unanswered Questions". Related: "Berlin truck attack suspect Amri shot dead in Milan".
Pol Pot for President
"To Go the Way of the Great Auk: the Clintons and the Media" (my emphasis in red):
". . . the real nadir of media capitulation and bad faith was the response to the brutal murder of the Russian diplomat Andrei Karlov in Istanbul, on video, at an art opening. The western press spun this as a freedom fighter attacking the brutal Russian empire and defending Allepo. Almost nothing was said about the family of the slain Russian, or about terrorism. I guess terrorism doesn’t exist if its directed at the enemy du jour. The celebrations on the streets of Aleppo seemed to have been erased by western TV and print editors, too. And all of this is in line, of course, with Hillary Clinton’s (and her advisors) pathological and obsessive hatred of Putin. And with the Clinton imprint on mainstream media.
So, back to those white liberals. Every single person (save one) that I once knew in theatre and in Hollywood, are liberal and none of them really do much in the way of research or political reading. All of them are arch Democrats. And never before, I don’t think ever, has an election so starkly revealed the stratification of classes and sub classes, even, in the U.S. I have found a just amazing, almost surreal level of wilful and intentional blindness on the part of liberal america to the crimes of the Clintons, and to the basic corruption of the Democratic Party. One can say over and over and over and over and over that Clinton orchestrated a neo nazi fascist coup in Ukraine, a fascist junta in Honduras and an illegal assassination of a foreign leader in Libya. You can say this again and again and I guarantee you will get no response. The stunning silence of white liberal America to the crimes of the Clintons stands as the most profound element in the entire scenario of this election.
The propaganda against Russia, culminating in the truly grotesque coverage of Karlov’s murder, has been pitched at levels that I’ve personally never seen or heard before. And then there is a strange sort of cognitive dissonance regarding the *fake news* issue, launched, of course, by Obama. And this was the lame duck Obama, a figure that actually the public has not seen before, or seen very little. The urbane repressed buttoned down lawyer is being gradually peeled back and an oddly callused cruel figure emerges. A borderline sadist even. And while we know for certain that Hillary is a sadist, I think Obama is at least her equal. But of late Obama has exhibited a curious if not unsettling lack of proportion between his comments and his relaxed manner and style. It is the relaxation, one must say, of a sociopath. I don’t say this glibly. But during the fake news remarks I felt as if this must have been how detectives felt interviewing Ted Bundy. All smiles, winks, and good natured charm. But he was discussing a new open war on dissent. Obama initiated drone assassination and discussed it in the same tone as he discussed his vacations. In fact he joked about drone killing at the Correspondent’s Dinner a couple years back. There is, in this lame duck version of Obama, the sense of letting his character armoring slip just a little. And it reveals just another layer of armoring. There is such an empty core to this man that I think he made the perfect chameleon. He was the black Max Headroom. I am reminded of the Book of Job…Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue.
That the economy is now a disaster cannot be hidden. In fact, 90% of Obama’s new jobs were part time. Women were hardest hit during his eight years.Traditional fields for women workers in medicine and education were the biggest losers. Full time employment, the traditional 9 to 5 secure fixed job is all but extinct. There are fewer of those jobs today than during the great depression. But this is not anything that really affects the haute bourgeoisie, the affluent white liberals from Connecticut, Long Island, or Westchester County, or Bel Air, the Pacific Palisades, or Westwood. Or Menlo Park and Mill Valley. The educated classes. They don’t work day gigs. They don’t punch time clocks. They inherit and their family helps find them managerial positions or something akin. These are the people disproportionately visible in media. They don’t live paycheck to paycheck. And this is the point. The stratification of classes. And the markers for these class divides are becoming more fixed. If you use public transportation, for example, you are part of the lumpen masses these days. Nobody rides a bus to work at NBC or SONY pictures or Time Warner. Except maybe the kitchen staff.
Now, Trump is obviously, if we can judge from the last six months, a very thin skinned and rather terrified man. The son of a slum lord and a man who constantly seeks attention, and who wanted to be the biggest swinging dick in the house…well, once the Casino, now the White House. But he knows he’s not. And that can be a very dangerous personality flaw for someone with power. Trump’s eldest sons, Don Jr and Eric are perhaps the greatest indictment against Trump. I keep finding myself thinking of Roger Ballen’s famed photos of the Plattland farmers in South Africa; in particular Dressie & Cassie, the unfortunate twin brothers of the Transvaal. Don Jr and might well think, ‘there but for fortune’. But I digress.
The protests in the street, the agitation around counting ballots, and the open charges of treason — this is the stuff of a Capra movie on acid. It’s a strange dystopic vision. (And as ridiculous in its way as the catered sit in for gun control earlier this year, also courtesy of the Democratic Party leadership). And all in service of somehow getting Hillary Clinton elected. As, I guess, these people feel was ordained by a higher power, and hence their sense of the world coming apart at the seams. Why has god forsaken them, one can almost hear such screams in the night. Honestly, the degradation of electoral politics has hit bottom. It has to be clear, to even the most indoctrinated, that the voting system is broken. The problem is, for all the Diebald troubles and hacking claims and the electoral college; the real problem is simply basic inequality. Period. There are a fair number of people with relative wealth and there are a shit load of people with nothing. People who have no savings, and who live week to week, even with a family. People who pay rent, use food stamps if they can get them, and who if they get sick, stay sick. Or die. People who, if their children get seriously ill, will borrow themselves into lifetime debt to save their child. A debt they cant hope to ever crawl out from under. People who count pennies to buy their Copenhagen or Skoal — and weigh that against another tin of coffee. This is the America who didn’t vote. They didn’t because they are busy surviving. And the average liberal heaps scorn on these people as apathetic or selfish or whatever. The truth is, the average professional class white liberal has no fucking idea what poverty feels like. None. And the poor know what the affluent liberal does not. And that is that Hillary doesnt give anymore of a shit about them than the Donald."
The President the United States desperately needs is Pol Pot, with a massive reeducation plan to forciby remove the credentialed classes from the Clinton archipelago to farms in the rural hinterlands, and told to make a living, if they can, using only hand tools.
"Julian Assange: "Donald? It's a change anyway"" (my emphasis in red):
"What about Donald Trump? What is going to happen?
"If the question is how I personally feel about the situation, I am mixed: Hillary Clinton and the network around her imprisoned one of our alleged sources for 35 years, Chelsea Manning, tortured her according to the United Nations, in order to implicate me personally. According to our publications Hillary Clinton was the chief proponent and the architect of the war against Libya. It is clear that she pursued this war as a staging effort for her Presidential bid. It wasn't even a war for an ideological purpose. This war ended up producing the refugee crisis in Europe, changing the political colour of Europe, killing more than 40,000 people within a year in Libya, while the arms from Libya went to Mali and other places, boosting or causing civil wars, including the Syrian catastrophe. If someone and their network behave like that, then there are consequences. Internal and external opponents are generated. Now there is a separate question on what Donald Trump means".
What do you think he means?
"Hillary Clinton's election would have been a consolidation of power in the existing ruling class of the United States. Donald Trump is not a DC insider, he is part of the wealthy ruling elite of the United States, and he is gathering around him a spectrum of other rich people and several idiosyncratic personalities. They do not by themselves form an existing structure, so it is a weak structure which is displacing and destabilising the pre-existing central power network within DC. It is a new patronage structure which will evolve rapidly, but at the moment its looseness means there are opportunities for change in the United States: change for the worse and change for the better".
In these ten years of WikiLeaks, you and your organisation have experienced all sorts of attacks. What have you learned from this warfare?
"Power is mostly the illusion of power. The Pentagon demanded we destroy our publications. We kept publishing. Clinton denounced us and said we were an attack on the entire "international community". We kept publishing. I was put in prison and under house arrest. We kept publishing. We went head to head with the NSA getting Edward Snowden out of Hong Kong, we won and got him asylum. Clinton tried to destroy us and was herself destroyed. Elephants, it seems, can be brought down with string. Perhaps there are no elephants".
One of the first times we met I noticed a book on your table: "The Prince" by Machiavelli. What have you learned about power in 10 years of WikiLeaks?
"My conclusion is that most power structures are deeply incompetent, staffed by people who don't really believe in their institutions and that most power is the projection of the perception of power. And the more secretively it works, the more incompetent it is, because secrecy breeds incompetence, while openness breeds competence, because one can see and can compare actions and see which one is more competent. To keep up these appearances, institutional heads or political heads such as presidents spend most of the time trying to walk in front of the train and pretending that it is following them, but the direction is set by the tracks and by the engine of the train. Understanding that means that small and committed organisations can outmanoeuvre these institutional dinosaurs, like the State Department, the NSA or the CIA"."
"How I Came to Understand the CIA" (no longer able to control information, the CIA is a useless and very expensive anachronism):
"Luckily, with the Internet revolution, people aren’t bound by The Times and network news hacks like Safer anymore. They can listen to Russia Today or tune in to Counterpunch and get another side of the story. So Mark Crispin Miller at Open Road chose The Phoenix Program to be the first book they published. And it’s been reborn. Thanks to the advent of the e-book, we’ve reached an audience of concerned and knowledgeable people in a way that wasn’t possible 25 years ago.
It’s also because of these Internet developments that John Brennan, the current director of CIA, thought of reorganizing the CIA into “centers” that have their origin in the Phoenix program. Phoenix is the template for the war on terror and the homeland security boondoggle.
All these things are connected. It’s a vastly different world than it was in 1947 when the CIA was created, or in 1967 when the CIA created the Phoenix program, or in 1990 when my book came out. The nature of the American empire has changed, and what the empire needs from the CIA has changed. The CIA is allocated about $30 billion a year, so the organizational changes are massive undertakings."
"Aleppo: another false flag “Srebrenica,” perhaps barely, averted". It is as if they were screaming warnings about humanitarian disasters they were unable to cause!
"Whitemarsh Hall".
Implausible deniability
The term I was looking for regarding American denial of involvement in Ambassador Karlov's assassination: implausible deniability.
In case you we worried that Barry had to forego a single shekel over The Abstaining: "Behind the Scenes of the U.S. Decision Not to Veto the UNSC Resolution":
"The U.S. delegation to the UN made clear to all other UNSC delegations that any resolution that failed to reflect concerns over Palestinian incitement, violence, and terrorism would be subject to a U.S. veto."
"Netanyahu Summons U.S. Ambassador Over UN Vote on Settlements"!
The Shekelings
Interesting debate playing out between the Jews who shekel Barry, and the Jews who shekel Republicans. Always remember that Barry could never, ever, ever have been able to abstain on the settlement resolution without the backing of his own personal shekelers.
As usual, this is a debate within the Khazar community over tactics. The big debate is whether it is possible to consolidate theft from the Palestinians - using the settlement 'facts on the ground' as de facto annexation leading to eventual legal annexation - while simultaneously, using Wars For The Jews and Yinon, to build Greater Israel, the proposed Khazar empire from the Nile to the Euphrates. The Republican shekelers (e.g., Adelson) feel that you can and should do both, as G-d has decreed that the American host is to be drained by the Khazar parasites as quickly as possible while the opportunity presents itself. and that both channels, stealing land from the Palestinians and stealing land across the Middle East, should be followed simultaneously.
On the other hand, the Democrat shekelers fear the settlement movement will wreck the entire enterprise of building Greater Israel, as annexation of the Occupied Territories will force the Khazars to accept frozen set borders for Israel. Thus, the strong anti-settlement sentiment amongst even the craziest of 'American' Jews, even the concentration camp guard.
Adelson involvement has led to Friedman as proposed ambassador, and this Trump adelsonian meddling in the resolution process, which seems to have backfired greatly, and may even have built enough courage in Barry, and anger in his shekelers, to pull the trigger on abstaining.
There must have been wild machinations in the background leading to the resolution. Sisi is supposed to have been turned by Israel proffering anti-terrorist intelligence information (leading one to ask why they didn't provide it before), but you can be sure the real reason is that he was royally shekeled. Once Sisi was shekeled, Israel let down its guard, assuming the resolution was dead and buried.
Then some really, really brave - and I mean that seriously, as the Khazars could well murder people over this, as is their primitive custom - souls in Malaysia, New Zealand, Senegal and Venezuela worked in the background to resurrect the resolution. Bibi appears to have been completely blindsided, reduced to yelling at Barry, who hates Bibi.
The reaction is amazing.
Still, nothing has really changed. Tweet (The IMEU):
"Samantha Power says that despite UNSC vote, US still committed to Israel with $38 billion in military aid. How else could those $ be used?"
Conspiratorial ambiguity
"Traces covered: NATO Auditor found dead in Belgium". "Le fonctionnaire de l'Otan avait le pistolet dans la main droite alors qu'il est...gaucher!". "BREAKING: NATO Chief Auditor In Charge Of Counter Terrorism Funding Assassinated?".
"President Duterte of the Philippines for Dummies".
More wasted riyals: "How “Stop the War” and Patrick Cockburn justified atrocities in Aleppo".
"A Loser’s Malice: What’s Behind Obama’s Attacks on Putin". To be fair to Barry, outmaneuvered by Putin at every step, he has both arms and both legs tied behind his back by his grasping for shekels.
Conspiratorial ambiguity. Barry made an express promise of 'retaliation' - scare quotes, as it can hardly be retaliation if the Russians didn't do the phony 'hacking' story being used by World Jewry as the excuse for losing so they do not have to face calls to renovate, i.e., de-Zionize, the Democratic Party - but he can hardly take credit for the assassination of an ambassador. He wants to have it both ways - a clear warning understood by everybody with no evidence of direct American involvement. Thus the use of a stooge spouting terrorist phases linking him to CIA-run American terrorist proxy armies.
"Retaliation Promised: Russian Ambassador's Murder Justified, Even Praised Across the West". "New York Daily News column hails assassination of Russian ambassador".
"Liberation of Aleppo is the most serious setback for the US in 15 years".
"Envoy killed in a ‘parallel universe’".
"White Helmets: Fraudsters Serving Western Spy Agencies". Easily one of the most outrageous stories in the history of warmongering propaganda.
Another break from the Yinon orthodoxy: ""There were no green buses in Gaza" : Former UK ambassador to Syria debunks Aleppo propaganda (BBC)".
"The Bullets Of An Assassin: Nothing Is Beyond the Pale."
"Russia Hacking the Election the Inside Story". Funny that a Ukrainian started the Russian hacking story. See also: "The Anonymous Blacklist Promoted by the Washington Post Has Apparent Ties to Ukrainian Fascism and CIA Spying".
Shooting down yet another attempt at implicating the Russians: "Why I Still Don't Buy the Russian Hacking Story".
Tweet (Walid):
"Bana has no thoughts or opinions of her own&had nothing to do w/the tweets. Watch Fatemah give her all the answers.Child manipulation #Syria"
Tweet (Sarah Abdallah) (Homs and Tennessee are throwing off the same shackles/shekels, but not without a little propaganda push-back!):
"Breathtaking: Al-Hawash in the Valley of Christians, Homs. All over #Syria, Christmas celebrations brightly emerge where Al-Qaeda used to be"
"Christmas in Aleppo - Attention Joe Scarborough".
Tweet (trapdinawrpool):
"The US knowingly presented perjured evidence to gain his extradition from Canada"
The John Birch Society on the New York Times!: "N.Y. Times' Fake News That Electoral College Was Created to Protect Slavery". Related: "New York Times Will Vacate 8 Floors In Its HQ To Generate "Significant Rental Revenue"".
"Passenger removed from flight after confrontation with Ivanka Trump". No part of this story makes any sense, starting with Ivanka on JetBlue. Is this a Trump propaganda operation?
"This liberal Zinoist argument for ethnic cleaning was endorsed on Twitter yesterday by Kenneth Roth". This is straight-up violent racist group supremacism, exactly the same argument that a 'nationalist' or Nazi would make!
"Israel-Palestine tensions ripple through Democratic Party chair races". "Keith Ellison seeks to placate Israel lobby, by saying he is against BDS". The plan is to make him into a Zionist lapdog.
Crime blotter. "Seven Hedge-Fund Execs Arrested In Madoff-Like “ponzi Scheme”". "OxyContin goes global — “We’re only just getting started”". "Canada: Old Lady Made Homeless After Slimy Jew Stole Her Life Savings".
American desperation
"Berlin Truck Terror Suspect And The Curious Matter Of ID Papers Left Behind". This is from another formerly reliable site which has suffered a clarifying brain seizure due to the Trump win, but I can't argue with the conspiracy patterns.
"Berlin Christmas Market Incident a Likely False Flag".
"Russian Ambassador Killed Three Days After Obama Threat – Who Is Responsible?" "CIA Hawk Called for the US to Deliver a “Painful” Blow to Putin One Week Prior to Ambassador Being Assassinated".
"How The Military Excluded The White House From International Syria Negotiations". I believe this is completely wrong, and the Pentagon has consistently provided cover for Barry's neocon decisions by pretending to act in defiance of him (and, in fact, the Pentagon sometimes provides him an excuse to defy the orders of the people who run things, the Jewish billionaires). 'Thanks for the shekels, and I'd really like to give you what you demand, but you know I have no control over the generals . . . '. This kind of deception is the traditional role of the CIA. I would go so far as to say that the Pentagon is not happy at all in its role in Syria, but is just following orders from its Commander-in-Chief. I should think a coup d'etat, or acts of actual treason by the highest Pentagon officials, would be low on your list of explanations for American government behavior.
Historical background: "The implications of the Andrey Karlov assassination".
"Syria Ambassador Reveals Names Of Alleged Western/Saudi/GCC Intelligence Agents Trapped In East Aleppo".
"Donald Trump is holding a government casting call. He’s seeking ‘the look.’" Trump is till playing the media like a violin. I'm guessing that his excuse to Sheldon, along with a thank-you note for all the shekels, is that he couldn't make Bolton Secretary of State due to his moustache!
"Russia Missing from Trump’s Top Defense Priorities, According to DoD Memo". "Pentagon memo on Trump's priorities doesn't mention Russia: report". "Leaked Memo Reveals List Of Trump's Top Defense Priorities". Had Killary won, the priorities would have been exactly the opposite. You get a whiff of just how close we were to WWIII.
"What Jeff Sessions as attorney general will mean for the Iran Deal". Note that going nuts over Iran will have the exact opposite effect of the main thrust of MAGA, handing to other countries lucrative trade deals that Americans could have had, and all just to please 2% of the population!
Concise and excellent and right on point: "Freedom Rider: Syria, Russia and American Desperation" by Margaret Kimberley.
"Egyptian police arrest five people for using children to stage fake 'Aleppo' footage".
"Quick Thoughts: Sheila Carapico on The Current State and Future Prospects of War in Yemen".
"The NYT Portrays Aleppo's Liberation As Bad News".
Sounds about what I'd expect: "EXCLUSIVE: Facebook 'fact checker' who will arbitrate on 'fake news' is accused of defrauding website to pay for prostitutes - and its staff includes an escort-porn star and 'Vice Vixen domme'".
"Sources Tell Me… Fake News, Kuwait and the Trump DC Hotel". Tweet (Peter Van Buren):
"Any news piece based on a single anonymous source should come with a warning sticker. Maybe a coupon for a free J-school review seminar"
"Tom Arnold: I Have "Racist" Trump Outtakes From 'The Apprentice'" ('Hollywood' protecting Trump is impossible to believe):
"When it became clear that Trump had a realistic chance of taking the White House, Arnold claims Hillary Clinton as well as new Apprentice star Arnold Schwarzenegger's agent got involved and wanted the tapes released. "The Sunday before the election, I get a call from [Schwarzenegger] CAA agent, sitting next to [Clinton]. They said, 'I need you to release him saying the N-word.' I said, 'Well, now these people - two editors and an associate producer - are scared to death. They're scared of his people, they're scared of they'll never work again, there's a $5 million confidentiality agreement.' "
In October, weeks before polling day, Trump's campaign almost derailed after for the now-infamous Access Hollywood outtake of the GOP candidate and host Billy Bush engaging in "locker-room talk." Although the long-rumored Apprentice tapes never surfaced before Nov. 8, Arnold, who has known Trump for decades, said later in the interview that he doubts they would have made much difference. "I think if the people that like him saw him saying the N-word, he's sitting matter-of-factly in front of there has to be 30 people there, and he's matter-of-factly saying all of this stuff. So I think they would have liked him more, the people. For being politically incorrect.""
"Won't Someone Please Make Rudy Giuliani a Twitter Account?" Rudy's actual speeches are so batshit insane it is impossible to create a parody that lives up to the reality. Remember when the Jew-controlled media was trying to tout him for Secretary of State?
Well would you look at that
"Will Putin Use His Ambassador’s Assassination to Gain a Political Edge?" American propaganda spin on the Ziowahabbican assassination (the headline itself is telling). Putin pretty much nailed it. None of the bad guys are going to want to see a Russia/Turkey/Iran confab on anything, let alone their massive embarrassing defeat in Syria.
"Assassination of Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov was not terrorism, but retribution for Vladimir Putin’s war crimes" (see "New York Daily News and ISIS are happy about assassination of Russian ambassador Andrey Karlov"). Jewsplain of the year:
"After watching the death of Karlov, I could not help but remember the case of Ernst vom Rath, the Nazi ambassador to France, who was gunned down inside his consulate by a Jewish student in 1938."
"Every body these days is a "Syrian journalist/activist/human rights activist"".
"Journalist Eva Bartlett DESTROYS Mainstream Journalist Over Syria, Aleppo". "ALEPPO DIARIES: Bearing Witness to the Liberation of Hanano, East Aleppo, a Personal View by Vanessa Beeley". Again, 'fake news' through unconventional sources is wrecking all the shekels spent on spreading 'real news' through the Jew-controlled media.
"An al Qaeda Christmas: the Touching Tale of How Hate Figures Became American Heroes". The fact that al Qaeda and ISIS are now easily the two most important American allies in the whole world, not to mention the superhuman efforts of the Jew-controlled media to spin this given all the Wars For The Jews they mined out of blaming 9/11 on al Qaeda, is the most amazing story to come out of the surprisingly rapid collapse, at the hands of Zionist parasites, of the American empire.
"Some of Erdogan's statement on Russia in the last two years".
"The bodyguard of the Iranian foreign minister is watching the bodyguard of the Turkish foreign minister VERY CLOSELY". 'Turkish bodyguard' is the new term for a very, very bad bodyguard, Secret Service on JFK level.
Rudy Giuliani has gone full #PizzaGate! Preemptive strike against upcoming stories about him?
Tweet (Oliver Darcy):
"—@kurteichenwald said on GMA his Trump mental hospital tweet was part of series of jokes & intended to be “signal to a source” to talk w/him"
Tweet (Edward Snowden):
"Well would you look at that."
"The Dangerous Implications of the Assassination in Turkey":
"As for the assasination of the Russian ambassador that took place in Ankara, one can recall John Kirby’s threats to Russia that it was going to lose its citizens."
"A Few Initial Short Thoughts on the Murder of the Russian Ambassador to Ankara" (The Saker). The staging was notable - comment by Pasquale_J:
"Some initial thoughts, on watching the video:
1.) the cameraman makes good and sure his wide shot is in focus before beating his retreat, notwithstanding there’s a crazed gunman some five feet in front of him, and
2.) whatever security force there may be on site, in a full fifty seconds after multiple shots are fired not one of them takes the initiative to actually show up.
And for your bonus point, the gunman stands around for those fifty seconds, just waiting for someone to come and shoot him. Can you say “false flag”? Maybe not. But I could film a more believable “assassination” in my sleep."
"Witness to an assassination: AP photographer captures attack". The photographer acted as if he was under no danger while taking the striking propaganda photos.
"Russian ambassador's assassination in Turkey was organised by 'NATO secret services' and was 'a provocation and challenge to Moscow' claims Kremlin senator ".
Also, a comment by hym from the Vineyard's posting of this piece:
"The turkish mainstream news agencies point out that he was _not_ fired in the purge against the coup. He is working in the special forces and got a sick day off, booked a room in a hotel nearby the exhibition in the day of shooting and showed his well valid police ID to get around the security perimeter.
I am turkish, and I personally believe it was a joint operation of CIA and Gulenists. After the coup, the Gulenists virtually lost the capability to conduct another coup, and their new tactic is to perform assasinations and suicide attacks to the strategical positions which will render their joint cause with CIA beneficial. The purge could not eliminate all Gulenists from police, military and other government organizations, as they hide themselves quite well.
Evidences for the assassin Mevlut Mert Aydintas’ Gulenists link are that he got another sick day off on July 15 – the day of the Gulenist coup, went to a high school belonging to Gulenist movement and he was a suspect in a case regarding to rigging qualification exams for government positions. The Ankara represantative of Today’s Zaman newspaper (a propaganda machine of Gulenists) said on a December 16 tweet that from this day the ambassadors in Turkey have no security. I do not think it is quincidence."
From 'Langley':
"So it is likely that Altintas, who had served last winter in Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s own security detail . . . "
Even if the CIA didn't actually pay him, it was a Ziowahabbican assassination: "Russian Ambassador Assassinated: Retaliation, But by Whom?".
"George Clooney Is Developing a 'White Helmets' Movie About Heroic Syrian Rescuers". Of course he is.
"More Propaganda Than News Coming Out of Aleppo". He writes as if it is laziness or incompetence rather than an organized propaganda strategy.
"Syria - Killing Journos Enabled "Media Activist" Domination - Intended Effect?".
You might disagree with the political decision of having an electoral college, but there is high-level thinking behind it: "The Best Election Map Yet".
"Trump has reached the 270 threshold of electors needed to assume the Presidency in January, with the Electoral College's refusal to do their duty and stop the ascendancy of a foreign power to the Presidency."
This is the damnedest thing ever, a phony social media campaign by the Clinton staff in which they inject her with amphetamines and diamond dust, raise her from her ICU/hyperbaric chamber/coffin filled with unconsecrated ground, and send her out to be photographed interacting with actors who then post about their 'surprise' meeting: "In the Chappaqua woods, a search for Hillary Clinton" (my emphasis in red):
"Now it was different. Now it seemed like Hillary Clinton might appear at any moment, like she was just up ahead, just beyond those trees. Recently, a Chappaquaian named Andy and his two dogs, Lucas and Earl, were out walking and noticed that the leaves normally covering the path appeared to have been cleared by a leaf blower, the first time he had ever seen such a thing. In the distance, he saw two men sitting too stiffly on a bench.
“I said, ‘This is odd.’ It’s more like ‘Deliverance,’ ” he said, referring to the movie. “I tried to hustle up with the boys, and that night, my wife showed me the picture.”
A picture of Hillary Clinton in the woods. He had just missed her."
Streets full with dead bodies
"Stunning Photos Show Huge Crack in Antarctic Ice Shelf":
"In November, Antarctic air temperatures were 3.6 - 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than normal. Antarctic sea ice set a new record low, as did the Arctic. Antarctic sea ice was a staggering 699,000 square miles below the 1981 to 2010 average.
"Antarctic sea ice really went down the rabbit hole this time," said Ted Scambos, the lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet could collapse entirely within the next 100 years.
"The collapse would lead to a sea-level rise of nearly 10 feet, which would engulf major U.S. cities such as New York and Miami and displace 150 million people living on coasts worldwide," stated the Ohio State researchers.
NASA's Operation Icebridge flights were based this year at Punta Arenas, Chile. Next year, the agency plans to fly from McMurdo Station in Antarctica in order to survey new areas. But, future missions may be in doubt. President-elect Donald Trump has suggested eliminating all climate research conducted by NASA, leaving Antarctica and the rest of the planet in the "dark ages.""
"The Hacking Evidence Against Russia Is Extremely Weak". The basic point still being that any evidence can be, and would be, spoofed by any competent player in this world. The evidence we do have, which itself needs to be taken with a grain of salt, consistently points to insider leaks.
"The Rise of the Alt-Center". Not bad by Salon standards, and almost touches on the truth in mentioning Schumer (while, of course, not mentioning the Zionist conspiracy behind Schumer's trickery).
"Russia, NATO, Trump: The Shadow World". The New York Review of Books is Ground Zero in the world of credentialed bloviating, here turning the usual Democrat/Zionist anti-Putin smear job into a piece about five times too long with enough of a veneer of 'facts' and historical contextualizing to make it appear definitive. The technique is to nit-pick around the edges while tacitly taking the big standard-issue conspiracies as a given (see also the recent emptywheel analyses, it is an old rhetorical trick), the typical approach by the 'elite' commentariat in these clarifying times.
"Whistleblower John Kiriakou Critiques the CIA’s Behavior Following the 2016 U.S. Election". On the motives for the CIA's treasonous participation in the coup attempt, and the plight of Jeffrey Sterling.
"Brazilian President Temer Signs Constitutional Amendment Imposing 20 Years of Austerity". "How Brazil Got the Worst Austerity Program in the World".
"Trump Sets the Cat Among the Jewish Pigeons" (Shamir) (see the gloating "A New Strategy for Israeli Victory" by Daniel Pipes):
"For many years, liberal Israelis perpetrated a hoax (yes, I’ve said, hoax) of “struggling against occupation” and wishing to divide historical Palestine into two states, a Jewish state and a Palestinian state. Israeli officials negotiated for years and years with the US, with the quartet, with PA, and gave absolutely nothing in return for the time they gained. Millions of dollars, of European and American tax-payers were poured into soft life of these negotiators. How could the Israelis achieve this glorious (for them) result? Thanks to liberal progressive Israelis. Without liberal Israelis complicity, Jewish moderate nationalists of Bibi Netanyahu wouldn’t be able to slowly and at peace devour and digest Palestine piece by piece.
Every year they confiscate a few hundreds strategically located square miles, and plant there a few thousand of settlers. Step by step, they ate Palestine like mouse eats cheese. Now they are shocked that their charmed life will soon be over and their fraud is out.
Hard Jewish nationalists always wanted to annex the whole of Palestine. The moderates and the liberals thought it would implode the Jewish state, as in the new one state the Jews will hardly be in majority. There are various statistics and different assessments, but by the most optimistic (for Jews) count, they will present 50% of the population. The One state won’t be “Jewish” or it won’t be “Democratic”, is a usual answer. The hard nationalists answered that “we’ll see”. Let us get there, and we shall work it out.
The smart moderate bastards and their liberal crypto-supporters would answer: we’d love to, but America does not allow us to do it. And the US obediently provided the Israeli Jews with alibi: yes, we would not allow you to annex Palestine, yes, we want you to negotiate in order to reach Two States’ Solution. Now this is over, too.
If the Jews will annex Palestine, their long systematic fraud of “occupation” and “struggle against occupation” will be over. They will give Palestinians equal rights, including the right to vote for Knesset, and then there will be power-sharing, and other fruits of democracy. If they won’t give Palestinians equal rights, there will be something simple and clear to struggle for, namely for equal rights and against vestiges of apartheid."
"Israeli Squatters at Palestine’s Amona accept relocation to other Palestinian-owned Land". Watch - they'll retake the original stolen land after the move! Khazar kleptomaniacs.
"For the world to see: Anne Barnard and Liz Sly purposefully cover up the crimes of Syrian rebels".
"Sabotage Of East-Aleppo Evacuation Is Part Of A Plan".
Tweet (Lina Arabi) (and):
""Streets full with dead bodies" & the White Helmets didn't take a single pic. That's not the White Helmets I know."
Tweet (Lee Fang):
"It's going to be funny when it comes out the professional Dems posturing as "resistance" to Trump help him carry out the worst of his agenda"
Panic and agony
"Harvard Professor Admits His Efforts To Turn Electoral College Against Trump Have Failed Miserably". Lessig is just the reincarnation of Bill Kristol, with variations on the same stunts Kristol has tried, and failed, for months. Lessig is willing to ruin a lifetime's reputation on this long shot as BigJew really, really, really wants to block Trump. "Neocon Panic and Agony".
"We are all Palestinians" (Atzmon):
"By now we, and I mean all of us, except a few oligarchs, are all Palestinians. We are subject to the dirty games inflicted on us by the likes of Goldman Sachs, Soros, Saban, Adelson, and a few others. By now we are all subject to the tyranny of correctness that stops us from shouting out, loudly, that troubling truth which we all see."
"Western media’s epic fail on Craig Murray and the Russian hacking story":
"To be clear, if the Western media want to take issue with what Craig Murray is saying by either alleging that he has made it all up or that he was fooled by someone who is actually a Russian agent or is himself a Russian agent, then that is up to them. I would only repeat that Craig Murray is a person of acknowledged integrity and someone who as a former senior diplomat worked closely with the British intelligence services and has had extensive experience of handling classified material, and that he is in fact a stern critic of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin.
However the Western media has taken a completely different approach: silence. Though Craig Murray provided his information in interviews to the Guardian and the Daily Mail, the rest of the media, and indeed those same newspapers, has otherwise entirely ignored this story.
There is a point beyond which silence amounts to outright concealment and suppression of the truth.
Amidst all the accompanying media frenzy about Russian propaganda and ‘fake news’ the concealment of Craig Murray’s revelations is perhaps a telling sign of who the true purveyors of ‘fake news’ actually are."
Tweet (WikiLeaks):
"German spies now claim that WikiLeaks' BND files were not hacked by Russia after all and source is an insider. http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/wikileaks-dokumente-aus-nsa-ausschuss-quelle-im-bundestag-vermutet-14579135.html …"
"Welcome to Idlib: America's Model Syrian City".
There are a few key moments in history when you can watch an empire slipping away, and the de-terrorizing of Aleppo is one of them: "Bitter in Aleppo Defeat, US and EU Seek to Further Demonize Russia". Not coincidentally: "Philippines' Duterte to U.S. over aid: 'Bye-bye America'".
"When Bana Al-Abed Blocked @21WIRE on Twitter". "Anne Barnard teaches us--yet again--that reporting does not have to be based on verified information".
"BuzzFeed And The NYDN: Click-Bait Headlines, False Stories, And Virtually Nonexistent Retractions".
"‘If I write in line with Russian media, it’s because we both tell the truth’ – Eva Bartlett to RT". Snopes is going to be raking in the shekels!: "Victim Blaming".
"The Saddam interrogation: Ten years after the tyrant's execution, the CIA agent who grilled him reveals the shattering truth... that everything the US thought it knew was WRONG ":
"But in late 2007, I was summoned to give a detailed presentation to George W. Bush at the Oval Office. What kind of a man had Saddam been, he asked me?
I told him that he was disarming at first and used self-deprecating wit to put you at ease.
The President looked as if he was going to lose his cool. I quickly explained that the real Saddam was sarcastic, arrogant and sadistic, which seemed to calm Bush down.
He looked at Vice-President Dick Cheney and their eyes locked in a knowing way. As I was leaving, he joked: ‘You sure Saddam didn’t say where he put those vials of anthrax?’ Everyone laughed, but I thought his crack inappropriate. America had lost more than 4,000 troops.
Several months later, I was asked to go back to the White House. This time, the President looked annoyed and distracted and asked for a briefing on the Shia cleric called Muqtada al-Sadr, the leader of the Mahdi Army, then engaged in dangerous insurgency against the coalition. This was not on the agenda.
Trying to gain a few seconds, I said: ‘Well, that is the $64,000 question’ Bush looked at me and said: ‘Why don’t you make it the $74,000 question, or whatever your salary is, and answer?’ What an a***hole!"
"Theresa May's Personal Message to the Jews" (Atzmon):
"The only people who can defeat anti-Semitism are the Jews themselves. All they have to do is to drop their choseness and become ordinary people – in effect, stop being so special and join the human race."
"'Vanity Fair' editor sues Twitter troll for giving him a seizure". The comments note that he could have, and if this is a possibly serious problem should have, turned off animations in his browser settings. You have to wonder just how much embarrassment his employers can stand. From 2007: "The Perils of Journalism and Child Porn".
"It seems that Mossad terrorists struck in Tunisia".
People used to order kosher meals on airlines on the theory they wouldn't dare serve Jews the slop they serve the goyim: "'Muslim' meals could be used to profile passengers, airline tells authorities". I suppose if you order human liver they will not pay any attention to you.
Tweet (Christiane Amanpour)!:
"Shame on humanity, our world is paralysed, fighters carry on, who pays the indescribable price? Aleppo's suffering children/civilians."
"Asylum seekers who sheltered Snowden in Hong Kong at risk of being deported, lawyer warns".
More evidence of a deep problem with Democrats, which remains class hatred by the credentialed classes for the 'deplorables' whose votes are desperately needed: "Daily Kos Founder Gleefully Celebrates Coal Miners Losing Health Insurance".
"New Study Shows Anne Frank’s Family was Arrested During Fraud Investigation".
In these noble American days of drone bombing wedding parties and arming and celebrating human organ eaters, what bravery looks like: "Larry Colburn, Who Helped Stop My Lai Massacre, Dies at 67".
"George Soros Is Funding Facebook's "Third-Party Fact Checking" Organization Targeting "Fake News"". "US Gov’t, Oligarchs Behind Planned Fake News Flagging on Facebook". The censors are funded by what could be described as a caricature of a conspiracy theorist's fantasy of the real workings of the world.
"9 Reasons Why PolitiFact Is Unqualified to Label ‘Fake News’". Obviously partisan.
"Will Facebook's Fake News Warning Become a Badge of Honor?". I found it bizarre than any site so honored would strive to get off the 'fake news' list. Don't read anything that doesn't have a warning!
"That Time Tillerson Tried to Take on Hugo Chavez... And Lost". His $9 billion of revenge couldn't be any worse than what Barry is doing.
"Venezuela Brings Toys to Poor Kids, Gets Called ‘Grinch’ on CNN":
"CNN‘s “Grinch” report exemplifies a popular new technique: Twitter has become the lazy journalist’s favorite tool. With millions of users expressing millions of different opinions, ostensibly “neutral” news outlets can cite tweets that confirm their biases as putative “evidence” that the public feels a particular way on an issue–a way that almost always just so happens to reflect and serve powerful interests.
Random tweets from unknown users can hence be quoted as examples of anonymous “critics” who echo corporate and government propaganda and rehash conventional wisdom. CNN‘s reporting is a case study in how to further sling mud at an elected socialist government that has for years faced aggression from the United States."
"Snowden's 'Proper Channel' For Whistleblowing Being Booted From The NSA For Retaliating Against A Whistleblower":
"Also receiving a bit more substantiation are Snowden's claims that utilizing the proper channels within the NSA would have been fruitless -- something that has been pointed out by earlier whistleblowers, nearly all of whom have seen their careers ended and their lives turned upside down by government prosecutions for their actions."
"Justin Liverman – emergency appeal".
Bearing in mind that Snowden may be CIA, this is still interesting: "Snowden: “Russia Successfully Rigged US Elections In Favor Of Trump”".
"NSA Whistleblower Destroys Obama's Russia Narrative - "Hard Evidence Points To An Inside Leak, Not Hacking"". Snowden has noted that the NSA's Panopticon should have gathered evidence showing exactly who was responsible. Exactly as with the MH17 crash, the lack of evidence from the NSA is itself evidence that the Americans are hiding something which doesn't match their preferred narrative. "As Binney further notes, the only way the leaks could have avoided NSA detection is if they were never passed over fiber networks but rather downloaded to a thumb drive by someone with internal access to servers." Proving it is a leak, not a hack.
"Assange: Some leaks may have been Russian" (the headline, while not false, is obviously carefully crafted to mislead you). Assange is playing a bit of game here, as he came as close as possible to naming Seth Rich as the leaker while denying he was doing so, so his "“Craig Murray is not authorized to talk on behalf of WikiLeaks,” Assange said sternly.", and the timely tweet, should be read in the context of a bigger game. Binney's thumb drive theory is consistent with Murray's story.
"As a threshold matter, no national security agency is going to monitor an American registered to work as an agent for the Saudis. That’s all the more true if the agent has the last name Podesta." Seriously? Also, more clarifying Clintonista swill in the guise of sophisticated analysis: "There’s a section on the murdered DNC staffer, which I’m not going to focus on because I find it distasteful."
"Revealed: Who Gave Democratic Emails to Wikileaks".
"Politicized Intelligence Kneecapping Trump".
"The Cold War, Continued: Post-Election Russophobia".
"Iceland’s Former Minister Of The Interior Claims The FBI Tried To Frame Julian Assange".
"Syrian girl posting #Aleppo diary is real, investigator concludes". The 'evidence' comes, in what must be some kind of sick meta-joke, from Bellingcat! The CIA lifts itself up by its own suspenders.
"Scoundrel Time: Lessons in Patriotism and Journalism From a Master".
"Large Number of Turkish, Saudi (Israeli) Officers Deployed in Syria’s Aleppo City". Might just be Syrian government propaganda but it makes perfect sense that the state sponsors of terror would be watching their operation. Added: "BREAKING: At Least 14 US Coalition Military Officers Captured by Syrian Special Forces in East Aleppo Bunker".
"Aleppo Starts Uncovering Washington’s Evil Designs". I wonder if the CIA has a clean-up crew working furiously in Aleppo to destroy evidence.
"Leftists and Jihadis". If you read Pulse, and I don't recommend you do, you'll see that the Wahabbists are furious that the left doesn't buy their lies.
"Eva Bartlett on Syria: Responding to Buzzfeed". There are still real journalists, but you can be sure they don't work for something as meaningfully named as Buzzfeed.
"US Backed Terrorists in Aleppo Consumed Food Delivered From Abroad While Civilians Starved". This kind of thing always happens.
"Top Ten Western Lies About Liberation of Aleppo". "“Aleppo Atrocities” – The Western Mainstream Media’s Latest Psy-Op". "Celebrating the Liberation of Aleppo, Western Media Paints a Grim Picture without Mentioning that East Aleppo has Been Occupied by Al Qaeda For More than Four Years".
"The liberal hue and cry over the appointment of David Friedman as Trump's ambassador to Israel". Trump is unmasking the two-faced American policy on Israel, which has always been vehemently pro-settlements.
"Trump has a ‘magic moment’ in June 2017 to move the US embassy to Jerusalem, Israel lobbyist tells NY synagogue".
"Adelson and Saban were kingmakers, now they’re beggars". Grossly smashing international law is bad enough, but the 'donors' are going to need a massive false flag attack to start another War For The Jews.
"Bipartisan War". The usual background preparation for Wars For The Jews.
"PM asks Kazakhstan to back Israeli bid for Security Council seat".
"You Opened the Box…" (the 'donors' are turning the United States into a banana republic):
"Democrats, Republicans, and players such as the CIA will have four years to consider how this process of delegitimizing a President Elect could work more effectively next time. The people who support extra-Constitutional steps now because of Donald Trump will find those same step will be available in later elections, to use against a candidate they favor. Voting can potentially become only a preliminary gesture, with real struggle only starting after the election itself."
"Obama, The Divider in Chief, Invokes Reagan ‘Rolling Over in His Grave’ in Attempt to Shame Republicans into Hating Putin". Sad stuff from a guy counting the days until he can get his hands on those shekels!
"Putin’s Revenge". Part of the bizarre genre of American writing which is utterly oblivious to what the United States is actually doing. Note that the weirdly late Ziowahabbican propaganda on Aleppo blames the Syrian army and Russia for doing things actually done by the human organ eaters.
"A 20-year toll: 368 gymnasts allege sexual exploitation". Look over there, Russian athletes are doping!
"The humane and sensitive Western correspondents in Beirut won't be tweeting this". Also, have you read any news about the humane battle in Mosul recently? Or: "Journalist Iona Craig: The U.S. Could Stop Refueling Saudis & End Devastating War in Yemen Tomorrow".
"Assad is thriving on the west’s hesitation. The time for standing back is over". I had to laugh while reading this extraordinarily late call for boots on the ground. For all the riyals spent, the Saudis are not getting good value!
"German spies 'can't be trusted': Relations between the UK and Berlin intelligence chiefs hit after comments by London".
"Time is ripe for India-Iran-Russia energy tie-up".
"Samantha Bee Doesn’t Understand the Left’s Objection to Identity Politics" (my emphasis in red):
"Perhaps the biggest mistake Bee makes its equating the civil rights movement and identity politics. The civil rights movement was about a set of political objectives while identity politics is a set of tactics. Political movements can push for civil rights without framing their message in terms of identity politics, and identity politics can be used to pursue many different objectives aside from civil rights.
Identity politics talks about civil rights in terms of what specific groups of people are due, and it places those groups in opposition to one another in a zero-sum game. In identity politics we divide races, genders, religions, or ethnicities up into different groups. Some of these groups are identified as “oppressing” and others are identified as “the oppressed”. The oppressing groups are accused of enjoying privileges which they must give up to the oppressed. This means there is must be some fundamental transfer of status, wealth, or opportunity from privileged groups to oppressed groups. Consequently, people who are part of privileged groups are held in suspicion–these people are accused of defending and reproducing the systems of oppression which benefit them. When they express views that we don’t like, we can cast aspersions on those views by pointing out that they come from a member of a privileged group which has some stake in maintaining oppression. Those who participate in systems of oppression are said to be aggressive and practitioners of identity politics tend to morally condemn them, often by blaming and shaming them for their views and group identity.
It’s entirely possible to attempt to demand civil rights through identity politics. We can make these distinctions between oppressor and oppressed and use this as a basis to demand concessions from privileged groups. But this is not the only way to pursue a civil rights agenda.
We used to talk about civil rights in an entirely different way, from the perspective of citizenship. When we criticized racism, we criticized it on the grounds that it denied citizens rights and opportunities to which they ought to be entitled as citizens. Importantly, when we talked about what people are due as citizens, this cut across sub-national group identities. If all citizens are entitled to the vote, or to healthcare, or to education, or to some minimal living standard, we are committed to defending the rights and opportunities of everyone in our society regardless of what other groups they might identify with. Citizenship transcends narrow sectional identities.
When the left opposes identity politics, it does so not because it doesn’t care about civil rights, but because it wants to pursue those rights by appealing to what we are all owed as citizens rather than to what some groups are owed because of oppressed status. The language of citizenship transforms civil rights from a zero sum game into a positive sum game, in which we are expanding the benefits of citizenship for all of our people rather than transferring benefits from some privileged group to some oppressed group. This makes it easier to create broad, solidaristic coalitions in which civil rights are pursued concurrently with other kinds of benefits for groups identity politics regards as privileged. This spirit is embodied in the left wing politics of the 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s, in which civil rights were pursued alongside workers’ rights and the war on poverty. Much was accomplished during that period for all of our citizens, though there is still much left to do. It’s a lot easier to get white guys to buy-in when we encourage them to think of themselves as fellow citizens rather than as members of a privileged identity group which is being challenged, especially when we ensure that they benefit from our policies alongside everyone else.
In contrast, when the right opposes identity politics it is often practicing it, albeit in a different way. Many on the right believe that the civil rights movement largely eliminated group oppression, and they think the contemporary civil rights movement is engaged in what they call “reverse racism”, seeking to oppress and expropriate formerly privileged groups to reverse the relationship of privilege and oppression that has prevailed historically. Bee confuses this right wing politics, which denies the legitimacy of the grievances of disadvantaged groups, with the left wing effort to ground civil rights in a broader narrative of what it means to be a citizen.
The sad thing today is that identity politics has become so ubiquitous as a way of thinking about and pursuing social justice that it now appears many people, including Bee, are no longer capable of conceptualizing alternative frameworks for understanding political groupings."
"More Detroit Voting "Irregularities": 95 Poll Books "Missing" For Days; 5 Still Nowhere To Be Found". We stopped hearing about the recount when it started to uncover the wrong kind of fraud.
"On Dog Whistling".
"Ilhan Omar’s Hate Crime".
"Why the Nazis studied American race laws for inspiration". There is more than a bit of irony in the current obsession of the mainstream media with neo-Nazis in the alt-right.
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by Yu · Published 02/02/2017 · Last modified 07/26/2017
Dual Vector Space and Dual Basis, Some Equality
Let $V$ be a finite dimensional vector space over a field $k$ and let $V^*=\Hom(V, k)$ be the dual vector space of $V$.
Let $\{v_i\}_{i=1}^n$ be a basis of $V$ and let $\{v^i\}_{i=1}^n$ be the dual basis of $V^*$. Then prove that
\[x=\sum_{i=1}^nv^i(x)v_i\] for any vector $x\in V$.
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Quiz 3. Condition that Vectors are Linearly Dependent/ Orthogonal Vectors are Linearly Independent
(a) For what value(s) of $a$ is the following set $S$ linearly dependent?
\[ S=\left \{\,\begin{bmatrix}
1 \\
\end{bmatrix}, \begin{bmatrix}
a \\
-1 \\
a^2 \\
a^3
\end{bmatrix} \, \right\}.\]
(b) Let $\{\mathbf{v}_1, \mathbf{v}_2, \mathbf{v}_3\}$ be a set of nonzero vectors in $\R^m$ such that the dot product
\[\mathbf{v}_i\cdot \mathbf{v}_j=0\] when $i\neq j$.
Prove that the set is linearly independent.
Find a Nonsingular Matrix Satisfying Some Relation
Determine whether there exists a nonsingular matrix $A$ if
\[A^2=AB+2A,\] where $B$ is the following matrix.
If such a nonsingular matrix $A$ exists, find the inverse matrix $A^{-1}$.
(a) \[B=\begin{bmatrix}
-1 & 1 & -1 \\
0 &-1 &0 \\
1 & 2 & -2
\end{bmatrix}\]
(b) \[B=\begin{bmatrix}
\end{bmatrix}.\]
Determine Conditions on Scalars so that the Set of Vectors is Linearly Dependent
Determine conditions on the scalars $a, b$ so that the following set $S$ of vectors is linearly dependent.
S=\{\mathbf{v}_1, \mathbf{v}_2, \mathbf{v}_3\},
\[\mathbf{v}_1=\begin{bmatrix}
\end{bmatrix}, \mathbf{v}_2=\begin{bmatrix}
Sylow Subgroups of a Group of Order 33 is Normal Subgroups
Prove that any $p$-Sylow subgroup of a group $G$ of order $33$ is a normal subgroup of $G$.
Determine Linearly Independent or Linearly Dependent. Express as a Linear Combination
Determine whether the following set of vectors is linearly independent or linearly dependent. If the set is linearly dependent, express one vector in the set as a linear combination of the others.
\[\left\{\, \begin{bmatrix}
\end{bmatrix},
\begin{bmatrix}
\end{bmatrix}\, \right\}.\]
Linear Transformation, Basis For the Range, Rank, and Nullity, Not Injective
Let $V$ be the vector space of all $2\times 2$ real matrices and let $P_3$ be the vector space of all polynomials of degree $3$ or less with real coefficients.
Let $T: P_3 \to V$ be the linear transformation defined by
\[T(a_0+a_1x+a_2x^2+a_3x^3)=\begin{bmatrix}
a_0+a_2 & -a_0+a_3\\
a_1-a_2 & -a_1-a_3
\end{bmatrix}\] for any polynomial $a_0+a_1x+a_2x^2+a_3 \in P_3$.
Find a basis for the range of $T$, $\calR(T)$, and determine the rank of $T$, $\rk(T)$, and the nullity of $T$, $\nullity(T)$.
Also, prove that $T$ is not injective.
The Inverse Matrix of an Upper Triangular Matrix with Variables
Let $A$ be the following $3\times 3$ upper triangular matrix.
\[A=\begin{bmatrix}
1 & x & y \\
0 &1 &z \\
0 & 0 & 1
\end{bmatrix},\] where $x, y, z$ are some real numbers.
Determine whether the matrix $A$ is invertible or not. If it is invertible, then find the inverse matrix $A^{-1}$.
The Union of Two Subspaces is Not a Subspace in a Vector Space
Let $U$ and $V$ be subspaces of the vector space $\R^n$.
If neither $U$ nor $V$ is a subset of the other, then prove that the union $U \cup V$ is not a subspace of $\R^n$.
Quiz 2. The Vector Form For the General Solution / Transpose Matrices. Math 2568 Spring 2017.
(a) The given matrix is the augmented matrix for a system of linear equations.
Give the vector form for the general solution.
\[ \left[\begin{array}{rrrrr|r}
1 & 0 & -1 & 0 &-2 & 0 \\
0 & 1 & 2 & 0 & -1 & 0 \\
0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 0 \\
\end{array} \right].\]
(b) Let
1 & 2 & 3 \\
4 &5 &6
\end{bmatrix}, B=\begin{bmatrix}
\end{bmatrix}, C=\begin{bmatrix}
1 & 2\\
0& 6
\end{bmatrix}, \mathbf{v}=\begin{bmatrix}
\end{bmatrix}.\] Then compute and simplify the following expression.
\[\mathbf{v}^{\trans}\left( A^{\trans}-(A-B)^{\trans}\right)C.\]
Find All Matrices $B$ that Commutes With a Given Matrix $A$: $AB=BA$
\end{bmatrix}.\] Then
(a) Find all matrices
\[B=\begin{bmatrix}
x & y\\
z& w
\end{bmatrix}\] such that $AB=BA$.
(b) Use the results of part (a) to exhibit $2\times 2$ matrices $B$ and $C$ such that
\[AB=BA \text{ and } AC \neq CA.\]
If a Matrix $A$ is Singular, There Exists Nonzero $B$ such that the Product $AB$ is the Zero Matrix
Let $A$ be an $n\times n$ singular matrix.
Then prove that there exists a nonzero $n\times n$ matrix $B$ such that
\[AB=O,\] where $O$ is the $n\times n$ zero matrix.
Prove a Given Subset is a Subspace and Find a Basis and Dimension
\end{bmatrix}\] and consider the following subset $V$ of the 2-dimensional vector space $\R^2$.
\[V=\{\mathbf{x}\in \R^2 \mid A\mathbf{x}=5\mathbf{x}\}.\]
(a) Prove that the subset $V$ is a subspace of $\R^2$.
(b) Find a basis for $V$ and determine the dimension of $V$.
Eigenvalues of Real Skew-Symmetric Matrix are Zero or Purely Imaginary and the Rank is Even
Let $A$ be a real skew-symmetric matrix, that is, $A^{\trans}=-A$.
Then prove the following statements.
(a) Each eigenvalue of the real skew-symmetric matrix $A$ is either $0$ or a purely imaginary number.
(b) The rank of $A$ is even.
Eckmann–Hilton Argument: Group Operation is a Group Homomorphism
Let $G$ be a group with the identity element $e$ and suppose that we have a group homomorphism $\phi$ from the direct product $G \times G$ to $G$ satisfying
\[\phi(e, g)=g \text{ and } \phi(g, e)=g, \tag{*}\] for any $g\in G$.
Let $\mu: G\times G \to G$ be a map defined by
\[\mu(g, h)=gh.\] (That is, $\mu$ is the group operation on $G$.)
Then prove that $\phi=\mu$.
Also prove that the group $G$ is abelian.
Vector Form for the General Solution of a System of Linear Equations
Solve the following system of linear equations by transforming its augmented matrix to reduced echelon form (Gauss-Jordan elimination).
Find the vector form for the general solution.
x_1-x_3-3x_5&=1\\
3x_1+x_2-x_3+x_4-9x_5&=3\\
x_1-x_3+x_4-2x_5&=1.
Invertible Matrix Satisfying a Quadratic Polynomial
Let $A$ be an $n \times n$ matrix satisfying
\[A^2+c_1A+c_0I=O,\] where $c_0, c_1$ are scalars, $I$ is the $n\times n$ identity matrix, and $O$ is the $n\times n$ zero matrix.
Prove that if $c_0\neq 0$, then the matrix $A$ is invertible (nonsingular).
How about the converse? Namely, is it true that if $c_0=0$, then the matrix $A$ is not invertible?
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Idempotent Matrices. 2007 University of Tokyo Entrance Exam Problem
For a real number $a$, consider $2\times 2$ matrices $A, P, Q$ satisfying the following five conditions.
$A=aP+(a+1)Q$
$P^2=P$
$Q^2=Q$
$PQ=O$
$QP=O$,
where $O$ is the $2\times 2$ zero matrix.
Then do the following problems.
(a) Prove that $(P+Q)A=A$.
(b) Suppose $a$ is a positive real number and let
\[ A=\begin{bmatrix}
a & 0\\
1& a+1
\end{bmatrix}.\] Then find all matrices $P, Q$ satisfying conditions (1)-(5).
(c) Let $n$ be an integer greater than $1$. For any integer $k$, $2\leq k \leq n$, we define the matrix
\[A_k=\begin{bmatrix}
k & 0\\
1& k+1
\end{bmatrix}.\] Then calculate and simplify the matrix product
\[A_nA_{n-1}A_{n-2}\cdots A_2.\]
(Tokyo University Entrance Exam 2007)
There is Exactly One Ring Homomorphism From the Ring of Integers to Any Ring
Let $\Z$ be the ring of integers and let $R$ be a ring with unity.
Determine all the ring homomorphisms from $\Z$ to $R$.
by Yu · Published 01/19/2017
If matrix product $AB$ is a square, then is $BA$ a square matrix?
Let $A$ and $B$ are matrices such that the matrix product $AB$ is defined and $AB$ is a square matrix.
Is it true that the matrix product $BA$ is also defined and $BA$ is a square matrix? If it is true, then prove it. If not, find a counterexample.
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Soulcaliber V Review
June 3, 2012 / Zero posted in PS3, Virtual Realm, Xbox 360 / Comments Off
I have never been a big fan of Fighting Games. I’ve always placed the genre below Action Adventure, RPG, and FPS games in my own preferences. That said, I have always been exposed to them. Growing up, my brother was a pretty big fighting game fan. I can vividly remember growing up with Street Fighter, Tekken, and Virtua Fighter alongside Zelda, Sonic, and Mega Man. And I do enjoy some of those fighting games, though I’m certainly not the best at them.
Soulcaliber is definitely a series that has earned a place as one of my favorite fighting game series. While I’ve never had the chance to play the first game in the series, Soul Edge (AKA Soul Blade), my interest was almost instantly grabbed by the first Soulcaliber game for the Dreamcast. A fighting game which gave it’s characters weapons. This was what really caught my attention- a fighting game where every character didn’t simply punch and kick their way to victory. In addition to the new variety in fighting style, Soulcaliber also introduced (I believe) the 8-way run 3D environment.
It was those games which paved the way for a successful and generally very well-recieved series. So how does this, the Fith-numbered (eighth overall), game of that series hold up?
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Tag: Cloud Cult
Dreaming of an Impactful Music Movement
When you survey the indie music industry, it’s littered with instructions on how to get noticed, create exposure, make money, go viral, and so on. It’s all driven from the perspective of how to reach wider audience. The bigger, the better. I am glad they are there, and I personally …
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So we went through the albums that shaped my teenage and early adulthood years — now here come the stuff that shaped me as a grown-up. Note that these span longer years than the earlier eras, because as an adult my palate has already been formed and it became harder to …
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How Cloud Cult’s “There’s So Much Energy in Us” Reduces Me to Tears
At the end of the epic journey that is the Lightchasers album, Cloud Cult brings down the curtain with this anthem. What strikes me about this song is how it’s not about the crew’s success after a long and arduous journey. It’s about not finding what they were looking for and …
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Music Brings People Together
If you’ve been to a large rock concert, then you know the scene. People up on their feet, clapping together to the rhythm. The singer tells the audience to scream, and they do. Then s/he says “you gotta do better than that!” and the audience screams louder. We create communities …
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Cloud Cult “The Seeker” Review
If you were already a fan of Cloud Cult, The Seeker will make you love them even more. If you were not a fan, this may be perhaps the 2nd album (only after Light Chasers) I’d recommend, which means it’s still a great place to get acquainted with these heroes of the …
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Brixbrix's Field Guide to the Creatures of Ados
By Geoff Habiger & Coy Kissee
Got monsters? We do. You can, too, with Brixbrix's Field Guide to the Creatures of Ados!
Inside, you will find everything you need to test your players against over 50 new creatures, from aberrations to vermin, with 12 new dragons, 8 new undead (including undead plants), 4 new PC races, 4 new creature templates, and more!
Each entry is complete with a creature description, vital statistics and game rules, an example encounter featuring the new creature, and 3 adventure hooks (including pre-generated NPCs) in order to help you get these creatures into your game today!
Not only that, but we have included 16 new items, 5 new spells, and rules for alternate uses for existing spells, all based around these new creatures. What are you waiting for? Open it up and start playing today!
Brixbrix's Field Guide to the Creatures of Ados requires the use of the Dungeons & Dragons, 3.5 Edition rules to play and is tailored for the Ados: Land of Strife Campaign Setting although it can be used in any setting.
Purchase your copy today.
Crothian
EnWorld Staff Reviewer
This will be my second monster book in as many days. I usually try to space out books of a similar nature but this one and the last are pretty darn different for being monster books. This is a really good thing as it means some publishers are finally starting to break away from the boring Monster Manual format. It is the standard but a really boring read. If it did not have so many of the typical monster I like to use I would have left it behind a while ago. There are lots of monster books out there these days and it really takes something a little extra to break away and get noticed. Brixbrixs Field Guide to the Creatures of Ados is very much like Creatures of Freeport in that it gives a lot of information on the monster and includes adventure ideas for each one.
Brixbrixs Field Guide to the Creatures of Ados is a PDF by Tangent games. The book is two hundred and twenty pages long but there is a bit of wasted space in there. The monster take up two or three pages each with all their information and the next monster appears on the next page even if the previous monster only takes up a quarter of the page. It would have been better if they filled that space with art or something. I do like that each monster starts on a new page though. It makes it easy to just print out the monsters that I am going to use if I do not want to print out the whole book. The art in the book is not that great but they do have art for each creature. The book also has no book marks which are a problem for a book of this size.
The book has over fifty new creatures in it. The book organizes the creature by creature type. I think this is the first book that I have seen do that. Most obviously just list them alphabetically and there is one publisher listing theirs by challenge rating (Expeditious Retreat). Each monster starts on a new page. There is the stat block for the creature, a color picture of it, a section of the world map of Ados showing where the monster can be found, sample treasure, description of the creature, plot hooks for using it, and a sample encounter. I really like the map section showing where the creature can be found. This of course can only be done for monster books that are tied to a world but I really liked when I say Kenzer do this and I really like to see it here. Sections of the monster descriptions are in different color making them easy to locate. The sample treasure is on a green background, the description of the creature is on a tan background, the Sample encounter is on a purple background, and the plot hooks are on a blue background. Many of these are great time saving devices. The sample treasure is obviously useful and easy to use. The plot hooks are pretty creative and offer a variety of different ways to use the creature. There seems to be three plot hooks for creatures. The sample encounters are short but complete. They describe where and how the encounter takes place, have a shortened stat block of the creature, and are ready to be used with ease.
The book has some other things in it besides creatures. The first appendix has a template for Disciple of Pain. It is a template that changes monstrous humanoids into undead creatures that inflict pain on others. There is the messenger template that changes any animal into a magical messenger, spy, and translator. There is the Moon Shadow template for creatures that are devoted to the god of the underworld. There is the Soul Stealers, a template for animals that have been killed through indifference. It is another undead template. Each of the templates has a sample creature along with the full description.
There is an appendix that has the creature alphabetized. On the table it also includes creature type, where in the world it can be found (name of places), type of terrain it can be found in, subtype, challenge rating, and page number. Then there is a table that has the creature names alphabetized with name of the sample encounter and also the encounter level of that encounter as well as the page number. Lastly, there is a table that has those encounters organized by the encounter levels from lowest to highest.
The book has a few new items, their costs, and different services. There is a table for payment on exotic materials from some of the creatures. There are some new spells. One great thing they have done is define some new spell effects. They introduce a new creature type, the undead plant. And then they list all the spells from the core rules that can effect them and how the spell effects them if it is different from the standard spell effect. There are supplemental summoning tables and supplemental reincarnation tables. Lastly, there are quite a few NPCs presented.
This book has really good content, great organization, but not good presentation. There are a bunch of great creatures and useful information in this book. It serves well for the world it was designed for but also makes a good took box book allowing someone to pick and choose from the many different things presented in here. At first I was thinking the book was not going to be that good based on the look, layout and art. But as I read I quickly discovered that the writing and ideas are solid. The extra table in the back like the summoning table, the way spells work on the new creature types, the encounters, the plot hooks, and all the other little extras in here that other monster books simply do not have make this one of the better ones. The books is very DM friendly and quite simply a nice surprise.
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Preview the Disciple of Pain, the Wind Hunter, and the Nihowesu three of the new creatures in Brixbrix's Field Guide to the Creatures of Ados.
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Grub: Review and Strategy Guide
Grub is the latest release from San Francisco-based gaming company Pixowl. Think of it as a modern, iPhone-friendly version of the classic arcade game Snake. You remember Snake, right? The game where you slither in circles, gobbling-up as many white dots as possible while learning to navigate your constantly-elongating body? Well in Grub, the white dots have been replaced by shiny apples and coins and the "snake" has been replaced with a chubby Pixar-esque worm (or "grub", I guess). The added dimension here is that while you're learning to navigate the games wobbly controls, there are predators lurking around willing to heartlessly snatch you up like an unhatched robin egg.
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Learning to Squirm: Tips for Controlling Your Character
In Grub, you move your character by tilting your screen in the direction you want to go. The game offers users one of two screen-orientation options. The first is to have the screen flat and the second is to have the screen on an angle. Although the angled orientation feels more natural to the avid iPhone gamer, I found the flat orientation to be more controllable. However this is one of those options that differs with personal preference, so be sure to try out both methods and decide which one works best for you. You're also given the option to adjust the speed of your character ("fast" is depicted by hare and "slow" by a tortoise). Although its debatable whether slow and steady wins a race, it definitely wins a game of Grub. Slower controls help your character be much more agile, and in a game where a slight twitch might mean the difference between gobbling up a juicy apple and running head-first into a blood-thirty porcupine - it makes a big difference. Go slow.
Grub Gameplay Strategy
Each level begins by letting you know the score you need in the level to beat it and functions on the classic three star rating system: one star means you just passed and three stars means you're a professional. When playing the game, you're going to want to collect fresh apples, coins, and power-ups while avoiding rotten apples and predators. Apples come in green, gold, and brown. The gold apples are worth more points and the rotten apples will subtract points. Coins do not contribute to your overall score on the level, however you can use them to purchase power-ups and upgrades in the app's store.
You start the game with two available power-ups which should be collected when playing a level. The first is the magnet, which sucks up all the coins and apples within a certain radius of your character (you can use the coins to purchase an upgrade which increases this radius). The other power up are the Spikes. The spikes function much like the big corner dot in the classic pac-man game - flipping the switch on your predators and turning them into pray for a brief moment. Collecting spikes and taking out predators will help you boost your overall score by a lot, so the smart Grub player will make it a priority to collect spikes and take out enemies over collecting apples. Note that power-ups only last for a couple seconds and you can see how much time you have left by looking at the clock at the bottom-centre of your screen.
Money-Grubber: Collecting Extra Coins
Like many mobile games, Grub comes equipped with its own currency in the form of coins. Coins can be used to buy various upgrades to your power-ups in the games's store, such as longer-lasting spikes and magnets with a larger radius. Although they can be collected during game-play along with apples, you can also gain additional coins in the shop. You can access the shop by tapping on the hot-air balloon lurking back at the main menu.
On the coins tab, you'll see the option to get free coins by watching an ad or by signing up to receive ads. But if you really hate ads, you can always just purchase more coins in-store. You can also purchase additional lives in the store, since this is one of those games that makes you wait for more lives when you've run-out. You'll also be able to get extra coins by performing achievements. On the home screen, your achievements can be seen by tapping the house on the far-left. When you complete an achievement, go back to the house to collect the coins rewarded to you for completing the achievement.
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Portland Playhouse’s ‘Angels in America: Millennium Approaches’ – a live review
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Wade McCollum as Prior Walter (L) with Noah Jordan as Louis Ironson in the Portland Playhouse's 'Angels in America.' Photo by Owen Carey.
Tony Kushner’s epic play about the AIDS crisis in the 80s, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, is all about juxtapositions, and the Portland Playhouse does this expertly. We wonder if the tropes presented in this production remain relevant and Director Brian Weaver’s 8 person cast proves that it is. You can hear what Weaver and principal actor Wade McCollum have to say on the continued relevancy of the Angels, as well as AIDS in the 21st century, in an interview from last week.
On one side is the closeted and vicious Ray Cohn, played by Ebbe Roe Smith, lawyer for all the big names on the right, and on the other, Prior Walter (McCollum), an eloquent gay man whose partner, Louis (Noah Jordan), leaves him. Both are Cohn and Walter are dying of AIDS. But though Cohn is a classic villain and Walter a relatable (if not wholly classic) hero, both script and performances provide the nuance so imperative in this story. Ultimately, Cohn seems pitiable and Walter powerful.
Smith and McCollum portray these two opposites sincerely, though a bit opposite of other productions. For all the spite spewing from Cohn’s mouth Smith plays him as slightly understated, while McCollum swings Walter to the very pinnacle of intensity. This works surprisingly well to tenderize Cohn, which is more important when just doing Part 1 without Part 2. For McCollum, playing Walter was a chance to be the epitome of dramatic and very physical, moving, at times, like a dancer. To one not used to the intimacy the stage provides, or a play with magical realistic moments of Angels, this can seem overdone at first. But by the time Walter is weak and sick in his hospital bed it starts to make sense, creating a bridge between the fantastic and the quotidian elements of the play.
And though this ends up being a story largely about the inner pysches of men, the punctuation of female stage time is quite well done. Both Lorraine Bahr and Gretchen Corbett give good performances as multiple characters, including the angel, and Nikki Weaver plays a perfect Harper, balanced on the edge of insanity and sorrow with just the right amount of cute quirk appeal. Berwick Haynes is an affable Belize. And, both Noah Jordan as Louis Ironson and Chris Harder as Joe Pitt are sympathetic and flawed humans. More than just a foil to the good and evil they remind us all of our own fallibility.
Ultimately, discussion of Angels in America might lead one towards the conclusion that AIDS is still a relevant topic in American culture and politics, but it is the emotion portrayed in this production that will convince you to care that it is.
Written by Alley Hector ||Tue, Dec 13th 2011 at 09:11 AM || Tags: Angels in America, Brian Weaver, HIV, live review, politics, Portland Playhouse, review, theater, Wade McCollum || Category: Stage || One comment - (Comments are closed)
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Thoughts on California and the Next Generation
In the excitement over the historic election of Barack Obama it is important to reflect on the landscape-altering impact of this year’s California ballot initiatives. Boasting one of the most divisive socially conservative agendas in recent memory, this year’s ballot initiatives highlighted why the initiative process has become a virtual cesspool for plutocratic special interests. At least four initiatives were bankrolled by millionaires, political action committees disguised as tax exempt faith-based initiatives and out-of-state GOP power brokers.
Voters rightly rejected the stentorian law and order Runner Initiative or Prop 6, yet also nixed humane treatment of non-violent drug offenders and potential reductions in the prison population by voting against Proposition 5. Voters approved an increase in the county sales tax for highways and public transit and backed millions for a high speed rail bond measure that the progressive Labor/Strategy Center argued will have little benefit for transit dependent L.A. communities of color. And as the nation now knows, voters backed Prop 8—the controversial anti-same sex marriage initiative that got overwhelming support from blacks and Latinos—yet they also rejected Prop 4’s parental notification for abortion policy by a slim majority.
If we examine the generational divide that exists between youth and adults on social issues such as sexual orientation, young people consistently express more tolerant views of gays and lesbians in polls than do older respondents. Last week, during an election forum at predominantly black and Latino Gardena High School, students spoke out against Proposition 8, arguing that using religious dogma to strip gays and lesbians of their constitutional right to marry was dead wrong. The generational divide is part of the reason why the margins of victory for this initiative have decreased when compared with over 60% of the electorate that supported a similar initiative, Proposition 22, in 2000. Although many have criticized the anti-Prop 8 forces for not mobilizing enough among communities of color, I believe that black folk in particular had a moral obligation and responsibility to reject this initiative. First, out of solidarity with lesbian and gay parents, families and caregivers in our communities, and second out of solidarity with our history of having been violently denied marriage rights as slaves and as racial others. On the flip side, the specter of state control over the bodies and destinies of young women moved the electorate and elicited outrage from young people over Prop 4. Regardless of their religious or ideological orientation, most young people were sensitive to the grave implications of encroaching upon the bodies and right to self-determination of young women. When the students learned who funded the initiative most scorned the right of a handful of white male millionaires to police the futures of young women.
While Obama’s mobilization of the youth vote inspired folk who had never voted before to go to the polls, not everyone felt empowered. When I went around to senior classes with my Women’s Leadership Project students to register 18 year-old voters a couple of young men were apprehensive about registering, moping that their vote wouldn’t count, so why register. I had to give them a mini primer on the bloody history of voting rights in this country, the thousands who fought and died, weathered literacy tests, poll taxes, grandfather clauses and worse just to exercise their constitutional rights. In many regards this election has been a litmus test for that legacy of struggle. And while we celebrate Obama’s victory, the lessons from California remind us that it will only be through critically conscious engagement with the full diversity of our communities—challenging the anti-democratic ideology of religious fundamentalism—that black people will continue to be at the forefront of progressive social change in this country.
Sikivu Hutchinson is the editor of blackfemlens.org and a commentator for KPFK 90.7 FM.
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Foo Fighters and Guns N’ Roses join forces for epic performance
Matthew James, 2 years ago 0 1 min read
Foo Fighters surprised fans during their Firenze Rocks Festival set in Florence, Italy on Thursday when they invited members of Guns N’ Roses onstage to perform the latter’s Appetite for Destruction classic, “It’s So Easy.”
Footage of the performance shows Axl Rose and Dave Grohl sharing vocal duties, while Slash and Duff McKagan are seen jamming with the rest of the Foos in the background.
The performance comes ahead of Guns N’ Roses’ headline slot at the same festival tonight.
Despite previous bad blood between Axl Rose and Dave Grohl, the pair have enjoyed a close friendship in recent years.
In 2016, Grohl lent Rose his custom-built throne so that he could perform the first date of the ‘Not In This Lifetime’ tour with a broken leg. The throne was first used by Grohl after he broke his leg during a show in Sweden, forcing the band to cancel their Glastonbury headline set.
Rose reportedly said during the show: “I wanna thank Dave Grohl for this; it was very nice of him. I’ve got nothing to do with this.”
Meanwhile, the Foos will return to the UK next week for a huge stadium tour that sees them taking in shows at Manchester’s Etihad Stadium and the London Stadium.
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Buttons - Roller Rock from Kennedy on Vimeo.
'Hipper Than Thou', our free-to-the-public-sampler-CD will be released this Friday @ NOIR Fest III. The Buttons won't be making it out this weekend for the CD release , but Joey from The Buttons was awesome enough to tell us a little bit about them and give us the music video for their song 'Roller Rock', which is featured on 'Hipper Than Thou'. Check the interview below and the video above.
NOIRC: What was it like working with local Mike Kennedy to direct your video for Roller Rock? What was your favorite part of the experience, who came up with the concept?
BUTTONS: Amazing! We originally met with Mike to pitch a video idea after he saw us perform for the Alternative Media Expo After Party with Ballzack. We had this elaborate idea for one of our songs called 'Castletimes' that would include a bunch of our friends (and some relatives) but it turned out to involve too much pre and post production. Mike asked us about a song we played at the show that reminded him of an eerie roller skate jam and suggested shooting the video at a roller rink. We thought it was a great idea since it would require only one day of shooting, have automatic production value, and still include all of our friends. The whole video was a collaborative effort between many different people. Ballzack acted as a scout and got Skate Country on the Westbank as the location. In addition, we had a great group of friends who put together their own costumes and waited around for hours for each shot. The shoot couldn't have gone any smoother - Mike and his crew did an amazing job! I think getting a lot of creative and talented people involved was our favorite part of the experience. I hate videos where you watch some guys play their instruments in an empty warehouse stomping around in puddles while cutting to shots of them sitting in an apartment moping about some dime a dozen hipster girl. We wanted to do a fun video that captured a bit of the New Orleans spirit without having to set our synths in front of the St. Louis Cathedral.
NOIRC: You covered 'Southern Night', an Allen Toussaint song, where did that inspiration come from?
BUTTONS: We were inspired to cover the song mainly because of the ethereal quality of the vocals. Toussaint recorded the vocals through a Leslie speaker and creates a sound similar to vocals run through a vocoder (what we primarily use). I think it's impossible to top Toussaint's version but it was interesting adding our own spacey analog synth feel to the tune. It is hands down my favorite song ever. (Toussaint's version of course)
NOIRC: How would you describe your live performance, will you guys be playing live anytime soon?
BUTTONS: Live smoked out synth dance party! First of all I think it's important for people to understand that we are a live act. We're not sampling other peoples songs or standing around mixing prerecorded tracks off a computer, although its understandable why people might make that mistake. Our approach is similar to the early pioneers of analog synthesis (eg. Giorgio Moroder, Yellow Magic Orchestra) - It's two guys behind a mountain of analog gear playing live. We also bring out smoke machines and usually try to dress up for the occasion. The one thing we have always lacked is visuals, but we're in the process of putting together a large programmable LED button display that goes across the front of the stage and responds to the music we're playing. It should be ready for our next show that will be at The Republic Dec. 4th in conjunction with Throwback night!
NOIRC: What are your thoughts on the local young music scene in New Orleans?
BUTTONS: It's wonderful to see such an active local music scene again. Before Katrina it seemed the local music scene was on the threshold of something big, however after Katrina there was nothing left. Shows featuring local or national acts were few and far between and the promotion was non-existent. Now it seems the local music scene is finally catching up to where it left off and we are excited to be a part of it.
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suing the Fifth Estate for plagiarism
Bob McKeown has an obvious thesis. He claims, quite correctly, that Fox News has aided in the division of the United States into Red and Blue. He calls it “a very un-civil war”. Ironically he uses Al Franken and his Air America to confirm his thesis that Fox News is conservative (and thus quite evil). Yet, he ignores that by appealing to Franken he becomes unfaithful to his original thesis of media division of opinion as unfavorable.
I’d venture to guess that Bob took a lot of notes when he saw the Democratic Party funded documentary on Fox News: Outfoxed. All of the points were there. If I produced Outfoxed, I’d look into suing the Fifth Estate for plagiarism.
There is something quite ironic about the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation identifying media bias when the American news channel itself will compete directly with CBC for viewers.
Consider that these powerful positions are appointed by the government and that state media should of course be unbiased.
The CBC documentary on Fox News dreads a division of opinion in the news media concerning the stories that are reported, the facts which are selected, and the tone of the broadcast.
CBC will be the only game in town after they shut down your local newspaper
CBC is no longer just a radio and TV broadcaster. They are turning themselves into a major media machine ready to take on one and all in the new digital age. And they are using your tax dollars to do it.
The newest target — your local newspaper.
CBC and their supporters love to talk about how they are the public broadcaster, keeping the public airwaves open for Canadian stories.
That’s part of their justification for picking your pocket and mine to get their billion-dollar-per-year subsidy. But now that billion-dollar subsidy is being used to take on an industry that CBC was never meant to be part of — newspapers.
CBC.ca is more than a website, it is a newspaper, magazine and wire service all in one and it is completely free.
Consumers may like getting their news for free, but if things don’t change, then CBC will be the only game in town after they shut down your local newspaper.
Are YOU ok with this?
It took CBC six years to respond to an access to information request
It took CBC six years to respond to an access to information request on how the state broadcaster handles overtime payments.
A request was submitted in October 2007 asking for details on the top 20 overtime earners in both French and English CBC. A reply was received on September 5, 2013.
Access to information requests are supposed to be answered within 30 days.
The secret deal called for CBC to provide a documentary segment
Only in the wacky world of the government would it make sense for one government agency to pay a Crown corporation money to do the job that they are already funded to do.
But that's what happens here in official Ottawa.
Last year, Parks Canada was headed to Arctic waters to look for the sunken ships of the ill-fated Franklin expedition. Sounds like a great story, the kind lots of Canadians and lots of Canadian broadcasters would be interested in.
But Parks Canada struck a secret deal with CBC to grant it the exclusive rights to the search and then paid CBC to take those broadcast rights.
Broadcasters normally pay and pay big to get exclusive broadcast rights. From CBC paying millions of taxpayer dollars to get the rights to NHL hockey, to bidding wars for events such as the Olympics or Super Bowl, broadcasters pay for the right to air a program.
Unless Parks Canada is involved.
The secret deal called for CBC to provide a documentary segment for The National, segments for the nightly news on CBC English and French and web content in both languages.
In return, Parks Canada would pay CBC $65,000 cash, plus tax. They would also pay for travel, including $10,000 to transport one part of CBC's crew up north.
Why would they agree to do this?
CBC, with 22 lawyers, spent almost $900Gs on outside help to fight lawsuit
Despite having 22 lawyers on staff, CBC spent close to $900,000 on top-flight lawyers from an outside firm to fight a lawsuit that could have been settled with an apology.
CBC's legal costs to defend a lawsuit brought by filmmakers Claude Fournier and Marie-Jose Raymond topped $1 million. But new documents released by the state broadcaster show the legal firm Borden, Ladner, Gervais billed $871,769.03 for its services.
CBC eventually lost the lawsuit and paid the filmmakers $200,000 in damages, which drove the total cost well over $1 million.
The three-year legal ordeal could have been wrapped up if CBC executives had uttered a simple phrase: We're sorry.
Parks Canada struck a secret deal with CBC
Now this looks like CBC is being paid for news coverage, and quite frankly it is.
The CBC’s president, Hubert Lacroix, lost his temper ...
The CBC is throwing a tantrum — using your tax dollars.
They had a lawyer send a letter to us here at the Sun, complaining because we criticize their wasteful spending, their lack of accountability, and their bizarre broadcasting decisions, like their big foray into Internet porn.
The CBC’s president, Hubert Lacroix, lost his temper and wrote to the entire board of directors of Quebecor, the company that owns the Sun.
CBC president Hubert Lacroix admitted there was sexual harassment
CBC president Hubert Lacroix didn’t let facts get in the way of a good rant Tuesday at a House of Commons committee looking into sexual harassment at the state broadcaster.
Lacroix accused Lilley of attacking the broadcaster after he was given 1,454 documents under access to information that were mostly blacked out.
Lilley requested information on incidents of sexual harassment or inappropriate behaviour in Ottawa and Toronto dating back to January 2010.
At committee, Lacroix admitted there was one case of sexual harassment in one of the cities, but didn’t explain why the CBC redacted it.
CBC conflict of interest ...
One of the NDP's strongest advocates for the CBC is being paid tens of thousands of dollars a year by the state broadcaster while voting on the CBC's funding and debating its future.
Liberal and Conservative MPs now say NDP MP Andrew Cash should resign his position on the House of Commons heritage committee for violating conflict of interest rules.
CBC was the subject of 71 new complaints ...
CBC may not be adhering to the law and is still handing out blank pages on a frequent basis but that was good enough for the state broadcaster to get an A in a report card from federal information commissioner Suzanne Legault.
In her report two years ago, Legault gave CBC an F for their refusal to respond to requests in a timely manner. The Access to Information Act allows Canadians to pay $5 to find out details about government business. The law requires a response in 30 days, while CBC's average response time is 36 days.
CBC was the subject of 71 new complaints over the last year including 55 for refusal to disclose information. A recent request for information on a contract with Microsoft saw most information stripped out with CBC claiming it was against the economic interests of Canada to release it.
CBC - Breaking news or breaking rules?
Breaking news or breaking rules?
One of the public broadcaster's news vans was spotted parked in a disabled spot in downtown Toronto Monday.
Jim Murphy said he was in the Bay-Grosvenor Streets area around 9 a.m. Monday when he noticed the CBC van parked in a parking spot reserved for the disabled. It was located in front of the YMCA, on 20 Grosvenor St., he added.
Murphy said the location is frequently used by people who drop off passengers with disabilities.
The van was parked in the spot from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., according to Murphy.
It's in the public interest to have CBC undergo media scrutiny
It's in the public interest to have CBC undergo media scrutiny, Quebecor CEO Pierre Karl Peladeau told MPs at a House committee Thursday.
Peladeau said numerous requests put into the broadcaster by newsrooms in his media company were meant to hold it accountable for the $1.16 billion it gets from federal coffers.
"We believe our demands are not only legitimate and in the public interest, but that they are also in line with the law," he said.
Peladeau decried the delays over demands for search fees and complaints related to filed access requests that eventually resulted in little information actually being released by the CBC and its French-language equivalent, Radio-Canada.
As a taxpayer who funds CBC, what do you think?
"Sunshine List" for CBC employees ...
Conservative MP Brent Rathgeber's bill would create a "sunshine list" to make public which civil servants and CBC employees make more than $188,000 annually, and would allow the information commissioner to investigate complaints that the CBC is too secretive in its responses to Access to Information requests.
Good or Bad idea? This is YOUR tax money.
CBC president Hubert Lacroix didn’t let facts get in the way
Lacroix attacked two Sun News Network personalities — Byline host Brian Lilley and The Source host Ezra Levant — for “deliberately misleading” Canadians for reporting on sexual harassment at the publicly-funded CBC and host David Suzuki’s demands when he’s on speaking tours.
CBC demonstrates how "deeply out-of-touch the network has become."
The CBC has commissioned a study to determine whether its news is biased, the president of the public broadcaster told the Senate finance committee this week.
The announcement came as Conservative senators grilled him Wednesday demanding to see contracts proving CBC wasn't sharing polling data with the Liberal Party of Canada.
Sen. Doug Finley, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's former campaign manager, said it was "totally unacceptable" for CBC to use a pollster who had advised the Liberals to "bring on a culture war" based on information paid for by taxpayers.
Conservative Party spokesman Fred DeLorey said if CBC needs a study to determine the appropriateness of using a Liberal Party donor as a pollster, it demonstrates how "deeply out-of-touch the network has become."
Time for the CBC to leave the nest
The verdict is in: after 75 years of government handouts to the CBC, Canadians want to take the training wheels off, and let the state broadcaster fend for itself without its $1.1-billion annual cheque from taxpayers.
That's the word from a major new public opinion survey conducted by Abacus Data Inc. Funny enough, the hundreds of polls paid for by the CBC never asked those questions - or if they did, the results were never made public.
Abacus asked 1,003 Canadians to give their views about the best way to finance the CBC. Fifty-three per cent of Canadians said it should continue as a non-profit organization - it should sell ads if it can, and make the rest up through contributions from viewers. That's similar to the PBS model in the United States, a public broadcaster that has regular telethons where people who like their brand of programming (and politics) can prove it by cutting a cheque.
CBC tells Parliament 'no' ...
CBC has told parliamentarians, the people who vote for their $1.1-billion annual subsidy, that they cannot know how the state broadcaster spends its money.
At an appearance before the Senate finance committee last May, CBC president Hubert Lacroix was asked how much is spent on Newsworld, CBC's all-news channel.
Lacroix told Senator Fred Dickson those figures were confidential.
CBC has built an empire unto itself ... with our tax dollars!
Canadians vastly underestimate the amount of money the federal government gives to the CBC each year and most say it's too much money, according to a new poll done exclusively for QMI Agency.
More than 80% of a group surveyed by research firm Abacus Data did not know the CBC will get $1.1 billion from the federal government this year. Only one-quarter believe the CBC get only about one-tenth of what the broadcaster actually receives.
Most Canadians - 60% - also thought the CBC gets too much money, including a majority of participants who vote Conservative or NDP. Abacus Data conducted a poll online with 1,003 Canadians from Aug. 12 to 15.
"It seems like the CBC has built an empire unto itself within the expenditures of the federal government. Who are they accountable to? They're ultimately accountable to us, but they're not showing it," said Stephen Taylor, who works for National Citizens Coalition.
CBC employee Greg Weston is shocked!
CBC employee Greg Weston is shocked that other departments act just like CBC.
If Greg Weston thinks the Privy Council Office is bad at releasing documents through access to information then he should try filing requests for documents on his employer.
Weston, who spent years writing about government waste for Sun Media before getting his nose in at the trough at CBC, is expressing shock and outrage that “not an email, memo or even a sticky note” has been released by PCO in the Senate expense scandal.
“This is false. They (CBC) should retract this piece of shoddy journalism”
The opposition used what the Tories called a “false” news report Friday to accuse the Prime Minister’s Office of controlling a $1-million secret party slush fund and using it to pay off Sen. Mike Duffy’s ill-gotten housing expenses.
The Conservative Party, Tory MPs and the PMO categorically denied the existence of the stash the state-owned broadcaster said was administered by Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s former chief of staff, Nigel Wright.
“This is false. They (CBC) should retract this piece of shoddy journalism,” party spokesman Fred DeLorey said in a statement.
“All Conservative Party expenses are paid by one account, controlled by the Conservative Party. All funds are properly reported to Elections Canada and audited annually,” he said.
CBC shelled out $60Gs on 9 meetings -- many near its own headquarters
CBC's top executives spent more than $60,000 over six months holding meetings in luxury hotels and resorts and expensing such items as sparkling wine and limousine rides.
Documents released under Access to Information show the CBC spent at least $61,500 on nine meetings between January and June 2006.
The meetings were held according to CBC/Radio-Canada guidelines, CBC spokesman Marco Dube wrote in an e-mail. When face-to-face meetings are required, "off-site meetings are usually better to avoid disruptions."
Stays in expensive resorts topped the bill. More than $21,600 was spent sending 21 CBC and Radio-Canada human resources managers and senior executives to the ritzy Chateau Beauvallon in Mont-Tremblant, Que., for two days. The limo costs alone for one vice-president amounted to $1,009.94.
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The following presentation was given at the ICOMOS side event on the role climate change plays on cultural heritage and how to expand engagement of these issues.
Farming alongside of cultural and natural heritage conservation
Agriculture is a dynamic and constantly evolving industry, molded by a myriad of social, environmental, economic and cultural factors. Adapting our agricultural land management to a rapidly changing world may be a challenge, however it is an essential step towards protecting the natural and built assets of this world whilst providing food and fibre to meet our ever growing needs. Change will occur inevitability in rural communities and the surrounding environment, but what will differ is the acceptance to change, the ease of transition, and the direction of change.
Over the next few decades the greatest challenge faced by farmers will be increasing food production to feed the 9 billion by 2050 amidst unprecedented obstacles. The challenge of increasing agriculture production is affecting and transforming farming across the globe. Understanding climatic patterns, seeking ecosystem stability and achieving global food security are imperatives that are inextricably linked.
However, as input costs rise for farmers the profit margins decrease, land managers are ever backed into a corner of producing more from less, right now. Those that produce more yield, more profit, more efficiently are held up as success stories. There seems to be a focus on economics- a perverse desire to monetize everything- and to measure benefit or loss with currency symbols. But what is the price of the priceless? How do we put a dollar value on landscapes, on stories, on culture? The simple answer is that the intangible cannot be valued in a manner that our accountants would like them to be.
I have been fortunate enough to spend much of this year in Laos, Southeast Asia. Here I was working with farmers, researching their traditional agricultural practices and how they are being impacted by climate change. These famers have limited resources and as such low adaptive capacity to changing conditions. However, what was truly unexpected to me, was seeing how these farmers place great value on things that most western farmers do not.
The verdant green rice paddies of Laos are a patchwork of shallow ponds, scattered with ancient forest, and decorated by brightly clad women. Fish and ducks swim amongst the rice, fertilising the plants, and removing weeds and insects the natural way. Buffalo that toiled the soil are tethered on the banks lazily eating the stubble from last seasons harvest. And the first question you will always be asked on arriving at a rice paddy – “Isn’t it beautiful?”
It is not the yield or the profit that is of most importance- it is the beauty of a balanced ecosystem sustaining both human and non-human life. As well, the more modest agricultural program of the traditional Lao farmer enables time to be spent with family and friends exchanging stories and discussing events – a vital way of passing on cultural information in the largely non-literate older generation.
However, longer dry seasons and increasingly intense shorter wet seasons are playing an influence over the social cohesion of these communities. Interregional and international migration in developing countries is often understood as an outcome of economic growth in urban sectors and of relative poverty and socioeconomic change in rural areas. In Laos, there is a clear trend in labour migration, with young farm workers heading to urban centres and regional destinations for higher earning, easier, year-round employment. The migration of men in particular means that a gender shift in farm responsibilities sees women playing a more prominent role in managing both crops and animals, in addition to their traditional household responsibilities. With reduced labour availability farmers must sell their buffalo, a traditional symbol of status and prosperity, to buy hand-tractors. Without their buffalo they now need to apply synthetic fertilisers to raise soil fertility. Production constraints caused by an increasingly variable climate means farmers must encroach forest areas to achieve yield goals- traditionally a sacred place where the spirit world lived. Their natural and cultural heritage is being increasingly compromised.
Last week at the Conference of Youth I heard from a young Sami man who lives with his family and local community on the boarder of Finland and Norway. The whole way of life for these indigenous people is shifting, as climate change exacerbates the challenges this minority group faces. He told us that there is no language other than Sami to convey the techniques and practices involved in reindeer herding and salmon fishing. No words to describe the greenness of the moss or fragility of the ice- elements essential to the management of their land and animals. The father and son herding and hunting trips are a time to pass on the language and stories of his ancestors. The obstacles for his community are already great- where ecosystem and social disturbance is very real. And now there is the threat of culture loss- the fabric of his community.
As a fellow young farmer, I was deeply touched by his story. How can the next generation play a role in safeguarding these intangible assets?
Traditional farming practices
Traditional practices and knowledge need to be understood, harnessed and incorporated in farming systems of the future. The challenge is not to rediscover or adopt traditional agricultural systems that would lead to a drastic reduction of agricultural production incompatible with increasing food security requirements, but rather develop modern integrated systems that provide both environmental benefit and higher socioeconomic value- and still retain intangible cultural value. Therefore, involving local stakeholders in designing and implementing adaptation strategies for existing production systems is of utmost importance.
Farmers have such a strong affinity to the land and to those the land supports. They live and work with the natural environment, and recognise the importance of soil, water, biodiversity, and climate, in addition to the human influences.
One would be pressed to find an industry as varied and dynamic as that of agriculture. It is a complex web of interrelations and interdependence, with vast differences between farming systems throughout the world. Cultural heritage linking community cohesion in farming is strong is some regions, while less significant in others.
Achieving sustainable agricultural landscapes is a broad, perhaps audacious goal; yet, the need to improve current agricultural systems is undeniable. The challenge of producing more with less is becoming ever greater, and as such it is undeniable that farming systems must evolve.
Farming sustainably with cultural protection in mind requires good information, adaptability, support networks, and a holistic perspective. It involves a comprehensive, anticipatory approach. We need to understand what is vulnerable and valuable and how we can protect it. In farming systems this means working with, not against, the resources within the property boundaries and beyond- resources being the living and non-living. It is about not only maintaining natural assets, but enhancing them – the notion that these fragile environs can produce quality food and fibre without exhaustion or degradation when carefully managed. Managing the environment and production system in the optimal manner is the fundamental basis on which social resilience and cultural preservation can be achieved.
National Trust farms around the world are not only playing a vital role in protecting and conserving rural buildings, rare breeds, traditional skills and local biodiversity but also in developing innovative sustainable practices that reflect the changing environment of the twenty-first century. A tour around Hafod y Llan in northern Wales last week demonstrated to me just how new technologies, like renewable energy, can be sympathetically added to a landscape and enhance the farming operation alongside of it without compromising heritage values. A greater awareness and mindfulness developed from learning about past agricultural landscapes and practices, will allow change to be approached in a confident, cooperative manner, and in the context of clear values and a long-term vision.
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Kemba All-Big East .. but not Unanimous Pick
Here's the 2010-11 all-Big East team, as well as its all-rookie team. Kemba Walker makes first team all-Big East, while Shabazz Napier and Jeremy Lamb earned all-rookie honors.
Notre Dame's Ben Hansbrough was the only unanmimous first-team pick, which means someone actually didn't pick Walker for the first team. Incredible.
ALL-BIG EAST FIRST TEAM
Kemba Walker, Connecticut, G, Jr., 6-1, 172, Bronx, N.Y.
Austin Freeman, Georgetown, G, Sr., 6-3.5, 227, Mitchellville, Md.
*Ben Hansbrough, Notre Dame, G, Sr., 6-3, 206, Poplar Bluff, Mo.
Ashton Gibbs, Pittsburgh, G, Jr., 6-2, 190, Scotch Plains, N.J.
Marshon Brooks, Providence, G-F, Sr., 6-5, 200, Stone Mountain, Ga.
Dwight Hardy, St. John’s, G, Sr., 6-2, 195, Bronx, N.Y.
ALL-BIG EAST SECOND TEAM
Preston Knowles, Louisville, G, 6-1, 190, Winchester, Ky.
Darius Johnson-Odom, Marquette, G, Jr., 6-2, 215, Raleigh, N.C.
Brad Wanamaker, Pittsburgh, G, Sr., 6-4, 210, Philadelphia, Pa.
Rick Jackson, Syracuse, F, Sr., 6-9, 240, Philadelphia, Pa.
Corey Fisher, Villanova, G, Sr., 6-1, 200, Bronx, N.Y.
ALL-BIG EAST THIRD TEAM
Chris Wright, Georgetown, G, Sr., 6-1, 208, Washington, D.C.
Tim Abromaitis, Notre Dame, F, Sr., 6-8, 235, Unionville, Ct.
Jeremy Hazell, Seton Hall, G, Sr., 6-5, 188, Bronx, N.Y.
Kris Joseph, Syracuse, F, Jr., 6-7, 207, Montreal, Quebec
Corey Stokes, Villanova, G, Sr., 6-5, 220, Bayonne, N.J.
BIG EAST HONORABLE MENTION
Peyton Siva, Louisville, G, So., 5-11, 180, Seattle, Wash.
Jimmy Butler, Marquette, F, Sr., 6-7, 220, Tomball, Texas
Scoop Jardine, Syracuse, G, So., 6-2, 190, Philadelphia, Pa.
Kevin Jones, West Virginia, F, Jr., 6-8, 255, Mount Vernon, N.Y.
BIG EAST ALL-ROOKIE TEAM
Sean Kilpatrick, Cincinnati, G, Fr., 6-4, 215, White Plains, N.Y.
Jeremy Lamb, Connecticut, G-F, 6-5, 185, Norcross, Ga.
Shabazz Napier, Connecticut, G, Fr., 6-0, 170, Randolph, Mass.
*Cleveland Melvin, DePaul, F, Fr., 6-8, 210, Baltimore, Md.
Brandon Young, DePaul, G, Fr., 6-3, 175, Washington, D.C.
Gilvydas Biruta, Rutgers, F, Fr., 6-8, 230, Jonava, Lithuania
Labels: Jeremy Lamb, Kemba Walker, Shabazz Napier
posted by David Borges at 11:02 AM
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Just like books, music and visual art, film can divide people as well as unite them. Audiences, critics, public figures and many other groups frequently clash over movies' content and style.
What is graphic or offensive to one moviegoer may be interpreted as insightful or thought-provoking by another. It's worth remembering that, like all other forms of art, film should be approached with an open mind. Read on for some examples of films that have stirred controversy throughout the decades.
Oliver Stone is perhaps the cinematic king of controversy. According to one biography, his films have "embellished the truth with fanciful fiction." Stone became known as a conspiracy theorist with the 1991 release of JFK. This site takes Stone to task for "turning history upside down" with the inaccuracies in the film.
Stone again invited the controversy with Natural Born Killers, which remains extremely violent despite cuts to receive an R-rating from the MPAA. Read the Quentin Tarantino's original script. Some claim that the film's message is anti-violent.
Movie controversies are nothing new. According to Filmsite.org's summary, Birth of a Nation's controversy has lasted since its 1915 release for portraying the Ku Klux Klan in a heroic role. Most agree that the film, which depicts two families during the Civil War, is extremely important in a historical and cinematic sense. Attempts to ban the film were unsuccessful. This review gives more details about the fight.
When the 25-year-old Orson Welles made the film Citizen Kane, he incensed the powerful William Randolph Hearst with his brutal portrayal of the magnate's life. According to the PBS special "The Battle Over Citizen Kane," Hearst's defenders used intimidation, blackmail, newspaper smears and FBI investigations to shut the movie down. Citizen Kane went on to be considered one of the greatest movies of all time, topping the American Film Institute's Greatest Films list.
Released in 1988, this film was protested by most Christian denominations for portraying Jesus as a flawed man plagued by self-doubt. The film is adapted from a book by Nikos Kazantzakis, who was almost excommunicated from the Greek Orthodox Church as a result. The controversy even led Blockbuster Video to refuse to carry the title. This essay from DecentFilms.com explores the issue in more detail.
Kevin Smith's 1999 film Dogma is another that drew criticism from religious groups. Aside from the foul language common to Smith's films, Dogma features fallen angels who kill and rocker Alanis Morissette as God. Despite Smith's claim that the movie is "pro-faith," the film's premiere drew hundreds of protesters. The official site offers links to many reviews and related articles.
When this film, starring Edward Norton and Brad Pitt, premiered in 1999, most people either loved it or hated it. Some critics claimed that it was made up of disturbing, gratuitous violence. Others viewed it as a story of contemporary manhood, with Norton's character seeking meaning for his life in an alternative community that questions the values of society at large. Check out the diverse reviews at the Movie Review Query Engine. Go to the official site for sounds and more.
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OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (July 27, 2019) — After several thrilling semifinal games Saturday morning at the Scheels Overland Park Soccer Complex in Overland, Kan., all final matchups are set at the 2019 US Youth Soccer National Championships.
Two clubs have multiple teams in the finals, including Lou Fusz (MO) with three teams and Solar (TX-N) with two. The teams from those two clubs were among the victors on Saturday, which saw 11 games go to overtime, with seven of those matches needing kicks from the mark to decide which sides advanced to the finals.
Sunday's finals include the 19U Boys Championship, as Baltimore Celtic SC 00 (MD) and Lehigh Valley United 2000 Black (PA-E) compete for the James P. McGuire Cup, the oldest and most prestigious trophy in youth sports. The McGuire Cup final kicks off at 7 a.m. CT on Field 1 of the Scheels Overland Park Soccer Complex. Baltimore Celtic 00 will be looking to earn its third straight National title.
Several teams are one step closer to realizing the ultimate youth soccer dream after securing a spot in Sunday’s final matches with semifinal victories on Saturday morning. Three defending champions — Under-16 Boys LVSA 03 Silver (NV), Under-17 Boys Arlington SA 2002 Red (VA) and 19U Boys Baltimore Celtic SC 00 (MD) — are among the finalists in the 14U through 19U age groups and will have a chance to repeat as the National Champions on Sunday.
Libertyville FC 1974 Elite (IL) came back to defeat Nationals Union 05 Black (MI), 3-2, and punch its ticket into the 14U Boys final. Nationals Union took an early lead in the 10th minute when Joe Longo found the back of the net. Saul Valadez leveled the score midway through the half for Libertyville but Union reclaimed the lead just before the halftime whistle thanks to Aleksander Markovski. Libertyville equalized yet again as Zachary Hult finished a chance in the 51st minute. With the time running out in regulation time, Valdez notched his second goal of the game to give the Illinois side a, 3-2, advantage late. In the other semifinal, STA 2005 (NJ) and Raiders FC 2005 (IL) needed kicks from the mark to separate the two sides. After a scoreless period of regulation, it was more of the same during the overtime period. The game headed to kicks from the mark where it took 14 rounds to decide the winner. Daniel Farberov made the last kick for STA and then Ryan Eapen made a huge final save to send STA into the final.
Lou Fusz Geerling 05 (MO) will meet D'Feeters 05 Black (TX-N) in Sunday’s 14U Girls Championship final. The Missouri side advanced by defeating NJ Stallions 05 Fire (NJ), 2-0, in their semifinal matchup. Lou Fusz took an 18th minute lead when Megan Rogan ran up to a bouncing ball in the box and pinged a half volley into the right corner of the net. Jessica Dodd sealed the win with an insurance goal in the final minutes to send Lou Fusz through to the final. The Missouri side will meet D'Feeters 05 Black (TX-N) after the North Texas side advanced with a 1-0 (PK) win against Pipeline Spirit PreAcademy 05 (MD). Following a scoreless regulation and overtime, D’Feeters converted five attempts to Pipeline’s four in kicks from the mark to earn the victory.
Real Jersey FC (NJ) held off Downtown LVSC 04 Gold (NV) to earn a 3-2 win in their 15U Boys semifinal. The New Jersey side took a lead just before halftime when Milton Jones found the back of the net. It doubled that advantage just two minutes after the break when a corner kick was flicked on to Joseph Cino, who hammered his shot into the roof of the net. Nicholas Walker scored to pull LVSC within one, but Andrew Kitch quickly put Real Jersey up, 3-1, when he picked up the ball just inside of midfield and beat several defenders before sliding a shot inside the right post. Walker scored his second of the game to bring LVSC back within a goal, but Real Jersey held on for the 3-2 victory. Jersey will face PA Dominion 04 (PA-E) after the Eastern PA side won an overtime match, 2-0, over PPA KSA 04 Pro-Profile (GA). In the first overtime period, Beckett Wenger was brought down in the box to earn a penalty kick for PA Dominion, and Shane Velez converted the ensuring attempt inside the left post to put the PA side up, 1-0. Wenger sealed the win in the second overtime period when he got free down the left side and tucked a shot inside the near post to cap the 2-0 victory.
SC Waukesha 04 Blue (WI) will meet FC Revolution Dynamo (PA-E) in the 15U Girls 2019 National Championship final. SC Waukesha posted a, 2-0, shutout in the semifinals over LVSA 04 National League (NV). The two teams went scoreless until five minutes left in the first half when Elena Zuchowski scored to put SC Waukesha ahead just before halftime. In the 60th minute, SC Waukesha got an insurance goal from Kayla Budish to put them up by two goals and secure a spot in the finals. FC Revolution advanced to the finals, winning 4-3 in kicks from the mark against 04 Boise Thorns Elite (ID). The teams came out quick off the first whistle with three goals in the first 14 minutes of play. Avery McBride began the scoring by putting Boise ahead in just the seventh minute of the game. It was a short-lived lead as Taylor Mentzer scored the equalizer for FC Revolution just six minutes later and she scored her second goal of the game just one minute later to put them up by one goal. FC Revolution held on to the lead for the remainder of the first half and well into the second half until Hayden Wilsey answered in the 60th minute to send the game to overtime. After a scoreless overtime period, FC Revolution prevailed in kicks from the mark with a score of 4-3 to earn a spot in the championship match. SC Waukesha and FC Revolution finished in first and second place respectively in group play with SC Waukesha topping FC Revolution, 3-2, on the first day of group play.
LVSA 03 Silver (NV) will face off against Beadling 2003 South Red (PA-W) for the 16U Boys crown. LVSA advances after recording a 4-3 win over Syracuse Development Academy (NY-W) in kicks from the mark. Philip Phillips scored in the 16th minute to put Syracuse ahead, but LVSA’s Alan Lopez answered just two minutes later to knot the game at 1-1. In the 58th minute, David Ramirez put LVSA in the lead by one goal. Ethan Caruana scored with five minutes left in the game to send it to overtime. LVSA pulled out a 4-1 win in kicks from the mark following a scoreless overtime period. Beadling earned a hard-fought, 2-1, win against FC Dallas 03 Premier (TX-N) in its semifinal match. Emanuel Martinez put FC Dallas on the scoreboard just 10 minutes into the game. After holding on to the lead for the remainder of the first half, Joseph Fonagy netted the equalizer for Beadling in the 56th minute and scored the eventual game winning goal just six minutes later to push Beadling through to the finals. Beadling will look to turn its fortunes from last year where LVSA took the title.
Group B Runners-Up, Legends IE (CA-S) defeated Group A Winners, PSA National 03 (NJ), 1-0, to advance to the 16U Girls National Championships final. It was a scoreless game between the two-sides throughout regulation time and the game headed to overtime. It looked like the game was headed to kicks from the mark but Legends’ Elsie Romero scored the game winner in the 99th minute to send the Cal South side through to the final. In the other semifinal, Lou Fusz 03 Blue (MO) outlasted LVSA 03 National League (NV), 4-3, in overtime to punch its ticket into the final. After a scoreless first half, there was a flurry of goals between the two teams in the second half. Chloe Netzel started the scoring in the 46th minute and then added her second of the game in the 68th minute to push Lou Fusz to a 2-0 lead. LVSA clawed its way back to force overtime as Samantha Nieves and Jacqueline Hillegass both scored a late goal to level the sides. Lou Fusz pulled away in overtime with a goal from Bryanna Rutherford and then Netzel completed her hattrick to make it 4-2. LVSA’s Olivia Garcia pulled one back in the dying minutes but her team couldn’t complete the comeback as Lou Fusz holds on to advance to the 16U Girls National Championships final.
Arlington SA 2002 Red (VA) has a chance to defend its National title after it secured a 2-0 win over Baltimore Celtic 02 (MD) on Saturday. The Virginia side took a 17th-minute lead when James Canady found the back of the net. Arlington worked hard to defend its narrow lead until Joseph Core netted a second goal in the 76th minute to help seal the 2-0 win. Arlington will meet Solar Castro in the final after the North Texas side overcame an overtime deficit to defeat Michigan Jaguars 02 Green (MI), 4-3, in its 17U Boys semifinal. Johnathan Sauceda put Solar up twice in regulation, but Isaac Shiner and Mohamed Babale each provided answers for Michigan to send the match to overtime. Shiner netted his second goal of the match in the 106th minute to put the Jaguars in front. However, Harvey Castro equalized five minutes later when he freed himself at the top of the box to strike a right-footed blast under the bar. Jackson Castro scored a 116th-mintue winner when he deflected in a corner kick to give Solar the 4-3 victory.
Pipeline 02 Pre-Academy Spirit (MD )posted a, 3-2, win over Legends FC 02 Academy II (CA-S) in the semifinals. A goal by Pipeline’s Baylee DeSmit in the ninth minute of the game put them up early. Marissa Ortega scored for Legends FC in the final minute of the first half to send the game to the halftime knotted at one a piece. DeSmit scored her second of the game in the 66th minute to put the Maryland side back in the lead but Sydney Ervine found the answer in the 87th minute to tie the game for Legends FC. Pipeline’s Olivia Quaranta quickly answered with the game-winning goal in the final minute of the game to lockdown the victory. Cleveland FC 02 (OH-N) held on to a earn a 3-2 semifinal win over North Shore United 2002 Blue (WI). North Shore took an early lead in the eighth minute with a goal from Mae Sinclair. Cleveland FC went scoreless in the first half but answered just six minutes into the second half with a goal from Haley Anspach and two minutes later Cleveland went up by one goal with a score from Shelby Sallee. In the 63rd minute, Anspach scored her second goal of the game and eventual game winner for Cleveland. A late push by North Shore led to an own goal with five minutes left, but Cleveland fended off the attack for the victory. Cleveland defeated Pipeline in group play with a 6-2 victory. Pipeline will look for redemption against Cleveland FC in the 17U Girls championship match.
The 18U Boys championship game will be an all-Southern Regional matchup with Solar 01 Stricker (TX-N) against PPA KSA 01 Pro-Profile (GA). Solar advanced after besting FC Dallas 01 Premier (TX-N), 8-7, in kicks from the mark. FC Dallas jumped out to an early lead with a goal from Edward Knight III in just the seventh minute of the game. After carrying the 1-0 lead to halftime, Porter Pomykal added another goal to the scoreboard for FC Dallas just seven minutes into the second half. The two-goal lead was cut in half just seven minutes after Christian Naizer answered for Solar. Five minutes later, the equalizer was scored by Solar’s Kaleem Shabout and the game headed to overtime. Neither team was able to find the game-winning goal in overtime, sending it to kicks from the mark where Solar won, 8-7, to move on. PPA fell behind early against Sparta 01 Premier JK (UT) after Fabian Gonzalez Limones scored just 13 minutes into the game. Jerry Desdunes scored in the final minute of the first half for PPA to send the game to the half tied at one goal a side. Four minutes into the second half, Deedson Vixamar put PPA ahead by one score. Vixamar tallied another goal in the 72nd minute to extend the PPA lead and capped off his hat trick in the 86th minute as PPA topped Sparta, 4-1, en route to the National Championship match.
Premier Navy 2001 (MD) and 01 Lady Lobos Rush Premier (TN) each won their semifinals by two-goal margins to set up a matchup with each other in the 18U Girls final. Premier Navy took a lead on Celtic FC Premier JR (UT) late in first-half stoppage time when Nia Christopher received a pass in stride as she entered the penalty area. She shook from a defender to clear some space and powered a right-footed shot past the keeper. Madison Greenberg added a late insurance goal to seal a 2-0 victory for Premier Navy. The Lady Lobos’ win over La Roca PO (UT) featured more twists, as the Tennessee side earned a 4-2 victory. Elizabeth Slavinsky put Lobos up in the 13th minute before Sarah Wynn and Caroline Stringfellow scored for La Roca to put the Utah side up, 2-1. Sydney Ham immediately responded to equalize for Lobos, and Ashton Storey headed in a 66th-minute corner kick to put the Tennessee side in front. Slavinsky later added her second of the game to seal the 4-2 win.
Baltimore Celtic SC 00 (MD) has a chance to earn its third straight National Champion tomorrow against Eastern Regional foe Lehigh Valley United 2000 Black (PA-E). In a physical 90-minute fight for a spot in the finals, Baltimore pulled out a, 1-0, shutout over FC Dallas Youth 00 (TX-N). The lone goal of the game came from John Peterson with 10 minutes left in the first half to boost Baltimore to the championship match. Lehigh Valley claimed a, 3-1, win against LMSC Rats (PA-E) in an all Eastern Pennsylvania semifinal match. Dominic Flowers scored in the 14th minute to put Lehigh Valley up by one goal. Luke Brautigam scored in the 25th minute to extend the Lehigh Valley lead to two goals, while Hale Lombard netted a score one minute later. The LMSC deficit was cut to two goals in the 58th minute with a goal from Sean Touey. Lehigh Valley held on to the two-goal lead to advance and now has a chance to take down the reigning National Champions. Baltimore and Lehigh Valley met in group play where Lehigh Valley posted a, 2-0, shutout victory with goals from Carter Houlihan and Luke McMahon.
Lou Fusz Elam (MO) outlasted National League Red Winners, Campton United Red (IL) in kicks from the mark to punch its ticket to the 19U Girls National Championship final. Jessica Preusser put Lou Fusz up early, scoring in just the fifth minute of the match. Campton’s Hannah Rittenhouse leveled the score in the 23rd minute but Lou Fusz’s Samantha Courtois put her team back in the lead just two minute later. It looked like Lou Fusz would grab the win in regulation time, but Rittenhouse scored her second of the game and the game headed to overtime. After a scoreless overtime period, the game headed to kicks from the mark where Lou Fusz Elam triumphed, 3-2, from the spot. The other 19U Girls game also went to kicks from the mark after a six-goal thriller. After both teams were unable to find a goal in the first half, both teams went off for three each in the second. Celtic took a, 2-0, lead in the second half as Jamie Shepherd and Tara Warner each scored. MapleBrook’s Claire Odmark pulled one back for her team but Anna Pickering brought Celtic’s lead back to two just a couple of minutes later. MapleBrook fought back in the dying minutes of the game as Mia K Omar notched a goal and then Marie Sennes added a goal in the final seconds to send the game to overtime. Celtic outlasted MapleBrook, 4-2, from the spot to book its place in the 19U Girls final.
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Every county, every town, every family, was in agitation. --Macaulay.
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County court, a court whose jurisdiction is limited to county.
County palatine, a county distinguished by particular privileges; -- so called a palatio (from the palace), because the owner had originally royal powers, or the same powers, in the administration of justice, as the king had in his palace; but these powers are now abridged. The counties palatine, in England, are Lancaster, Chester, and Durham.
County rates, rates levied upon the county, and collected by the boards of guardians, for the purpose of defraying the expenses to which counties are liable, such as repairing bridges, jails, etc. [Eng.]
County seat, a county town. [U.S.]
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County town, the town of a county, where the county business is transacted; a shire town.
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people"
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Ok, I just bought Dissidia, and I'm having so much fun with it.
Though, my favorite character, Cecil, I can't play. I just can't get the hang of switching between his dark and light side. Though if I manage to get him to Paladin Cecil, he's totally playable for me.
<_< I'm not good with my dark side I guess.
DukeTogo
Tekkaman Blade is now in TvC.
Frank West, Zero (from Mega Man or Zero Akuma from Cyberbots), Joe the Condor from Gatchaman and Yatterman No. 2 are also said to be additions based on someone finding their names in the code for the Japanese site.
Capcom Project Manager Natsuki Shizawa dropped some hints on the Street Fighter IV blog that we’ll be getting an announcement regarding a sequel to the popular and revolutionary versus fighter in the not so distant future. Tokyo Game Show, anyone?
It’s rather early to do a full-on Street Fighter V sequel, so I’m expecting an expansion on IV, much like how we had SF2: Champion, Turbo and Super editions in the past.
Colour me excited, either way! I just hope they have enough material to warrant a new addition to this series. Ideally, I’d like to see a continuation of the storyline and ultimately the return of some missing favourites like T. Hawk & Dee Jay from Super and especially the self-proclaimed “God of Muay Thai” Adon from Alpha.
I'd like to mention that Melty Blood Actress Again is based on a visual novel called Tsukihime. Tsukihime has 5 different routes (girls) you can go through to reach your desired true ending. Melty Blood apparently follows none of those naturally, as its actually a continuation of a route that was axed (supposedly).
Yep. Tsukihime has certainly spawned a lot of media outside of the visual novel (two mangas and an anime, plus these fighting games). The games themselves, I find pretty fun. Kind of like a simpler Guilty Gear type of engine with even more quirky characters.
Check out the anime if you haven't, it's also pretty well done (even the English dub is surprisingly not horrible).
Curleh Mustache~
Quote from: dubq on September 19, 2009, 11:39:23 AM
If they do ANYTHING with Street Fighter (that's not obvious crap) I will be happy. People in the scene are still super pumped about SF4.
Frank West is a playable character in Tatsunoko vs Capcom on Wii!!
http://dubq.ca/?p=239
luke-o
Pack it in Frank you silly barstool!
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Quote from: fazzle on July 20, 2011, 01:04:10 AM
I will eat all of your dicks if Daniel Bryan ACTUALLY cashes in his MITB at Wrestlemania
7 months and counting...
"Dot Com" Matt Postin (heel)
Poster of the Year
http://www.capcom-unity.com/snow_infernus/blog/2009/09/15/capcom_vs_insert_idea_here
I say Capcom vs The Beatles
Super Street Fighter 4 first pics:
http://kotaku.com/5369357/are-these-super-street-fighter-iv-screens/gallery/
These better be an update and not another $60 release.
My thoughts exactly. It's only been about 7 months since SFIV came out on consoles.. there's no way they should be releasing a glorified expansion on disc/@retail.
Really? Of course they will be releasing this as a game.
C'mon, a guy can hope for something logical, can't he?
From escapistmagazine:
Gamespot has the full skinny: SSF4 will bump up the existing character roster of 25 by adding eight new fighters, three of whom have been revealed thus far. Juri is a new female character, a nimble Tae Kwon Do practitioner from Korea, whereas Super Street Fighter II combatants T. Hawk and Dee Jay will be making a return.
This, of course, leaves five unannounced characters, and while it's possible that some of them could be original fighters like Juri, it's probable that some of them will be fan favorites from other games as well. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Dudley and Ibuki from Street Fighter III, personally.
SSF4's pre-existing fighters will get an overhaul, too. New Ultra attacks will be added, and balance issues will be addressed based on feedback from the community and testers - so hopefully Sagat won't be quite so overpowered anymore. According to producer Yoshinori Ono, the game would include a superior online system (including a long-awaited lobby feature) but consequently would not be compatible with plain ol' SF4.
That, of course, is the crux of the matter - unlike, say, Fallout 3, this won't be a simple DLC update for people who already have Street Fighter IV. Super SF4 will be a retail-disc release, though it won't be a full-price game. While I'm glad to hear that it won't be sold at full price, any and all enthusiasm will be tempered depending on how much it will sell for.
After all, didn't gamers get tired of buying the same game over and over again back around the time Super Street Fighter II Turbo rolled around?
Any guess/wishes on who they should have as the remaining five?
Well, not being full price is at least meeting us halfway I guess.. and I guess it makes sense to be disc based for people who don't want to buy the first IV game and shell out more for an update.
As for the remaining five.. I'm hoping for Adon in there.
1 returning female since three in all seems like one too many. The rest dudes, 1-2 of whom will be new.
I'd like Karin, Mika, or Ingrid before Ibuki, honestly. Hugo, Dudley, Q, and Adon as possibilities/hopefuls otherwise.
It's going to be Ibuki. Wasn't she near the top for the voting in which characters would be added for the original home release? The contest that Rose, Fei Long, Cammy, and Sakura won? Or maybe just Cammy and Sakura.
So I seem to be totally engrossed during my spare time and time I'm not sleeping due to drugs, I've been playing BlazBlue that I got from a gift card from work. Such a fun game, and I totally love the soundtrack, I got it on my iPod (I FOUND IT~!), and its totally awesome. Haven't had this much fun with a fighter since MBACvb.
Still having problems learning all the different terminologies for fighting games and also still not responsive enough to keep it up with some of the more skilled players, like HeartNana (though I haven't played him in BB, only MBACvb), but I'm enjoying it never the less. I think the story mode helped with that.
My favorite character is Noel Vermillion. I'm still learning how to play her properly, but I'm getting better. Or so I've been told.
Nice - Flik! Are you PS3 or 360? I can't remember if I have you on my PSN list or not..
I've only got the PS3 version. I don't play a very good Noel unless I spam so don't expect much. It might also be the first game I purchase both systems. OH! If you want the soundtracks, I can send you those, I have them.
Edit: PSN id is ForTheGamer
Thanks dude, but I was one of the ultra-nerds who bought the special edition that comes with the soundtrack.
Quote from: dubq on October 09, 2009, 07:22:19 AM
Actually, I was speaking of all the soundtracks. There's 4 in total.
Lag Abusing Scrub
HeartNana beat me 10-0 in SC2 money matches at Evo. He's mean!
I really enjoyed BlazBlue the one time I played it. The presentation is very impressive - the graphics and soundtrack are really epic. I keep toying with the idea of buying it, but I just know I won't have time to play it.
18 days until Tekken 6! I'm so excited, the little I've played it has been so good. Anyone else planning to play it much?
Someone get this man a keyboard and about ten frames of lag!
Oh wow Jer you got to play him live? I would love to. And yeah, he's an absolute beast. Though there was a few times that I managed to actually beat him on MBACvb and I was really happy about that. Him and few others I made friends with had encouraged me to keep with it saying I do actually have talent, I just need to actually put the effort in to learn the character's whole skill set.
So I took that as a positive. Though I still suck right now.
Hehe yeah, we were both feeling nostalgic for SC2, so we played a couple sets at Evo. SC2 is my best game by far, but I got absolutely tooled. He was a superstar at that game, top 5 in the country easily. I got a prop in the Evo thread though, so I felt special, haha.
Just out of curiousity, what is MBACvb?
Proper name is Melty Blood Act Cadenza Version B. Its a series of fighting games based on the storyline ending of a path in Tsukihime (visual novel) that was never finished for the actual game.
Confused? That's nothing compared to the actual storyline... The game also just had its sequel (or like 5 revision really...) Melty Blood Actress Again, but got released for the arcade and PS2.
Yeah... I don't get why on the PS2 either.
PS2 is still going pretty strong in Japan.
Yeah, so I hear its beating out the 360. Which is quite sad.
And Jer that's awesome that you got that compliment like that. You played some of the best out there, and that's always a good thing.
...you know I know two names on there, and I've actually fought them. I didn't realize they were that well known...
Buy it for PS3 so I can come up and play it in a situation where there are two sticks.
Oh and buy another working stick. No more dodging the bad stick!
Quote from: ericmm on October 12, 2009, 01:28:44 AM
To whom and what are you refering to?
I might buy BlazBlue for the PS3. Of course, you could accomplish the exact same two stick goal by buying another stick for 360.
I do need to buy another stick. I was going to buy the wireless Tekken 6 stick, but I think it has the same crappy Hori buttons as the bad stick. I might have to finally give in and buy a RAP.
You need to buy a PS3. How are you going to play Tekken 6 on a 360 pad? I tried it, and it was a pain inducing experience.
But I have a 360 stick.
YOU can use the pad.
Now THAT'S the kind of handicap I can get behind!
Julia...
The 360 pad is too big a handicap for even Julia to overcome. When elbow comes out as u/f+1, you might as well just mash but-tons and hope for the best. Seriously, I had more luck playing SC4 on the bad stick when the broken but-ton was Guard than I had playing Tekken 6 with a 360 pad. It was horrible. I have nightmares about it.
12 days! Get hype!
Then stop building Humvees and bring your PS3 back to MD.
We can play a little til I break a controller in frustration. Then back to BlazBlue
There's so many Rockband songs too.
I can't find a video on the website, but it was on their podcast updates. But Zero from Mega Man X is confirmed for Tatsunoko vs Capcom.
On an off shoot, who do you they think they missed from the game?
And Joe the Condor. Still one more to be announced, but since the reveals are matching the rumors so far, it's an easy guess who it'll be.
Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All Stars - Joe the Condor gameplay
Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom Zero Gameplay
In the end, very surprised they didn't work in Speed Racer or... anyone more familiar to international audiences on the Tatsunoko side, but there's still TvC2.
Quote from: luke-o on October 16, 2009, 01:07:20 AM
Definitely Speed Racer and Phoenix Wright. That excuse for Wright that his attacks being on-screen letters spelled out in Japanese would be too long in English was just bullshit. Leave it in Japanese, then.
So, Tekken 6. What a disaster. Discuss.
SBofn
Shelton Benjamin outta fuckin' nowhere!
*No Gon.
Of course cage matches work. If they didn't work, everybody would still be in the cage.
--Michael Scott
Tekken 6's online play makes me want to cry. It's so terrible.
It's still the greatest game ever, though.
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COLTON RAPP – SENIOR – CLARION
Son of: Ron and Tracy Rapp
Sports Played: Football and Wrestling
2016-17 Highlights: Colton was the leading rusher for Clarion, which finished second in D9 2A in football while ranking fourth in District 9 with 1,651 yards and 16 touchdowns on 201 carries, an average of 8.2 yards per carry. He had nine 100-yard rushing games including a pair of 200-yard contests while rushing for a season-high 220 yards and two touchdowns on 13 carries in a win over Union/A-C Valley. On defense, Colton was the second-leading tackler for the Bobcats with 73 stops, including five tackles for a loss. In wrestling, an injury cut short what was shaping up to be a great season and kept him from postseason action but he still finished with a record of 23-5 at 160 pounds.
Post-High School Goals: Colton plans on attending college and majoring in Exercise Science. He would like to either play football or wrestle.
Q&A With Colton Rapp
CR: Wrestling
CR: Beating Brockway in the D9 semifinals last year in football.
CR: I play high school sports because I love to compete and win with my friends.
CR: Hang out with friends.
CR: Probably out west somewhere to check out the mountains and go on an elk hunt.
CR: My dad, he’s always kept my head in the right place and pointed me in the right direction.
CR: I like all the support from the alumni and the die hard bobcat fans out there.
CR: Wish it was a little bit bigger.
CR: What are your goals for the upcoming seasons? Win a district title in football and place at the state tournament in wrestling.
CR: My sister, Johnna, played volleyball and softball.
Player Profile: Taylor Geer, Keystone
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Trump: God’s Gift to the World’s Puny Men
by Daren Jonescu · September 7, 2018
One of the strange but predictable results of Donald Trump’s presidency is that in his ignorance he has found remarkably inventive ways to elevate and aggrandize some of the world’s most absurd and/or dangerous leaders. Leaving aside Vladimir Putin, Trump’s favorite bully, but a thug who was doing just fine without Trump’s help, the list of lousy men whose stock has risen under Trump promises to be one of the more disturbing legacies of his presidency.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, as laughably unqualified and ill-suited to his position as a man can be, is looking almost statesmanlike these days, as he holds his ground in trade negotiations with the world’s self-proclaimed greatest dealmaker, Donald Trump — negotiations that never had to happen in the first place, or at least not in such an adversarial manner. Trump has thus done the seemingly impossible: he has made the airheaded metrosexual Trudeau look competent, and even, dare I say it (the word dribbles stumblingly off the tongue)…strong.
Kim Jong-un, a mini-Trump if ever there was one — self-important heir to family money and power, hopeless celebrity-monger, insecure little man desperate for admiration and for someone to take him seriously — had been threatening his way right into complete isolation and indefensibility, even estranging himself from his country’s perennial supporters, China and Russia. He was becoming a global laughingstock precisely in proportion to his becoming a serious global threat. What he desperately needed, both to save his pudgy face and to drag himself back from the brink of complete desolation, was an infusion of something neither his father nor grandfather could ever quite muster: international legitimacy of the sort other communist slave states, such as the Soviet Union and China, were able to achieve.
The Soviets and the Maoists achieved such acceptance, and a seat at the table of respectable nations, through a combination of sheer military might and historically indefensible Western moral weakness. Kim, with nowhere near the level of military might needed to force the world to respect him, was, on the other hand, blessed with the other half of the equation in hitherto unimaginable measure. For if it’s historically indefensible Western moral weakness you’re after, you could not conjure up a more perfect vessel than Donald Trump.
Trump, for the sake of his Kim-like narcissistic self-idolatry, insisted on proving to the world he was not a warmonger by staging a reality TV celebrity confab with a sex-slaving-owning communist punk — something not even the pro-Maoist Barack Obama was stupid enough to do — thereby handing Kim prestige and international legitimacy on a silver platter. And if this wasn’t evil enough, Trump then went out of his way to insist, repeatedly, that Kim was a powerful and smart man, a great negotiator, beloved of his people, and even an honorable leader who could be trusted to uphold his end of a deal — a deal, in this case, which, because Trump is an idiot, essentially handed Kim everything he wanted, in language Kim may happily use to stall and make accusations of bad faith against the U.S. till kingdom come.
From an isolated, desperate, near self-annihilating little bowl of jelly whose only friend outside of the despotic world was Dennis Rodman, to a major player with inroads to the UN and a deal promising to restrain South Korea and the U.S. in his favor, signed by the U.S. President himself — and all he had to do was show up on a red carpet and spend a morning mugging for the cameras (his favorite thing to do anyway) while stifling the urge to laugh at Trump’s hair.
Trump has made Kim Jong-un look like a serious political player, a smart negotiator, and a legitimate world leader.
Emmanuel Macron is a silly milquetoast progressive, a former socialist party member, and founder of the pseudo-centrist party with the neo-Marxist name “La République en marche!” (“The Republic Forward!”) — and yes, that exclamation mark is actually part of its official name. He is France’s answer to Justin Trudeau: a young leftist climber who pretends to have no fixed principles as a matter of strategy, or an unprincipled climber who pretends to be a leftist as a matter of strategy.
Very early in the Trump presidency, Little Macron (to adapt a Trumpism from 2016) hosted the Orange McConnell for an official visit, during which he apparently made such a positive impression (not to mention the impressions he is alleged to have left on Trump’s tiny hands with vigorous handshakes) that he effectively became Trump’s unofficial point man in Europe. The relationship, frequently dubbed a “bromance” in those early days, also left Macron with bragging rights on being an insider regarding Trump’s likely long-term position shift on climate change, and the inspiration for Trump’s cockamamie idea, now abandoned, of a U.S. military parade like the one his French counterpart had.
Macron is out of his depth. His great accomplishment so far, aside from sinking in French polls at record speed, is making France’s gross epidemic of men urinating in the streets not only legal, but officially desirable, by means of the government flowerpots/peepots he has distributed around the most famous Parisian tourist attractions, so that men may now feel not only permitted but encouraged to expose themselves and urinate in public in broad daylight without a second thought. (No, I’m not kidding; do an internet search for “Uritrottoir.”)
But thanks to Trump’s vanity and need for an early European “ally,” this pee-brained socialist enjoyed an unearned early boost to his credibility and prestige.
The Chinese Communist Party’s capitalist turn of the past generation was always explicitly intended as a strategic transitional stage that would help the Maoist tyranny build its military and the infrastructure needed to support a billion people without collapsing into revolutionary suicide. Having achieved these goals in great measure, it is now time, as per the original blueprint, for China to begin its tragic segue back into the more full-on form of totalitarianism, taking advantage of the state’s new technological prowess as a mechanism of population control, replacing the Maoist period’s ubiquitous neighborhood spies with internet algorithms and digital banking that will be used to manipulate every individual into compliant behavior on the threat of being publicly shamed as an immoral citizen and being denied access to his money.
Xi Jinping is the Communist Party’s chosen man to lead the shift back toward complete state control. He was recently declared president for life, the obvious first sign that the transition back to hell is underway. There have been numerous recent reports of Christian churches being forced to remove all images of Jesus from the walls and replace them with posters of Xi, of internet Bible sales being outlawed, of the Chinese Catholic Church rejecting Vatican-appointed bishops in favor of Party-appointed ones, and of the Party hammering home the ominous message that Christians should stop looking to Jesus to help and protect them, and look to the Party instead.
China is closing up again, systematically tightening its grip on the daily lives and activities of over a billion indoctrinated, monitored, and continually propagandized human beings.
Meanwhile, Trump’s response to Xi’s ascension to President-for-Life was to quip that this was a great thing, and maybe the U.S. should try it. He has repeatedly touted his great relationship with the world’s most powerful communist dictator, and his childish tit-for-tat trade war hokum, aimed at U.S. allies more vigorously than at totalitarian thugs, essentially elevates China into the realm of ordinary relations by means of moral equivalency — right at the moment when a U.S. president should be using his bully pulpit to focus the world’s attention like a laser on China’s renewed Maoist era oppression, the extreme dangers of Orwellian digital tyranny, and the annihilation of what little freedom of conscience Chinese religious people had been granted over the past quarter century. Not only has Trump obscured and ignored all of those things, but in fact he makes it clear each day, through his own Mussolini-style bombast, that he could not care less about any of that.
Xi Jinping is taking China back to the darkest moment of its past (but with money and computers!), and Trump is giving him a complete pass, treating him as a friend in the North Korea charade and just another trade partner to be bullied into a magnificent Trump Deal through tariffs.
From ludicrous fops to tin pot dictators to administrative ogres with realistic dreams of enslaving almost a fifth of the world’s population — all men worthy of rejection, mockery, or the gravest condemnation. All men Donald Trump has spent the past year and a half helping to look good, or at least better than they deserve, through his sheer stupidity, egomania, and lack of principle.
Tags: Donald TrumpEmmanuel MacronJustin TrudeauKim Jong-UnXi Jinping
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