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Mollono.Bass: Exclusive Interview
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Last updated on December 8th, 2019 at 10:55 pm
We caught up with internationally renowned artist Mollono.Bass, as he prepares to drop his highly anticipated album entitled – Remix Collection V. Brimming with his atmospheric grooves, the fifth instalment in a tantalising LP series designed for a broad-spectrum appeal to party heads with musical sophistication. Here's what went down:
feeder.ro: Thanks for joining us at Feeder today, Molle! How's everything in your world?
Mollono.Bass: Ahoy… thanks for having me, my pleasure! Well, meteorologically speaking everything looks pretty grey up here in the North-East of Germany at the moment. But even though I miss the sun, I feel pretty good. The end of the year has its own vibe. I like the reflective, introspect mood. It's great for making new plans, to be creative in the studio without feeling like missing out on something outside… also a great time to answer interviews!
f: Let's chat about your Remix Collection V, which features an array of standout mixes – how long was the project in planning?
Mollono.Bass: For me, the remix collection is an ongoing project which has been an important part of my life as an artist for many years already. Re-interpreting the music of artists I like is a fascinating balancing act between being inspired and at the same giving expression to my own creative ideas. Whenever I download a sample package for a remix I feel very excited, almost like it's a Christmas present… The fifth part of my remix collection came together over the last year or so. I'm super happy to see it finally released!
f: A stunning soundscape across the opening 'Lighthouse' – can you tell us a little about how this re-work came about?
Mollono.Bass: I really like that one, as well – a very intense atmosphere in this track. I came across Whale vs. Elephant, the band who wrote the original track while looking for music for our festival. They sent this track as a demo and it was love at first listen. The idea to make a remix for it came immediately. Also, we invited the band to perform at our 3000Grad Festival and they played a fantastic concert. I think there's a lot of potential here, really great music!
f: How often do you look to release a Remix Collection & what most influences your track selection?
Mollono.Bass: As an artist, I was never comfortable with doing just one thing. That's why I have different projects, that's why I've been following different musical paths. Remixing other artists I like is one of these paths. And, as the saying goes, the path is the goal. That said, I do not have a fixed schedule for my remix collections, it's not that I set myself a deadline. But as it happens there are always new remixes piling up on my hard disk.
As for the selection, I guess the main criteria are: Music I like at the moment. Being involved in 3000Grad Records and Acker Records I listen to a lot of demos, plus I'm following the work of many producer friends. In this steady flow of fresh music, there's frequently a piece that really touches me, a track that instantly brings up ideas for a remix.
f: What's the scene like in your homeland currently?
Mollono.Bass: The scene in Germany is buzzing. There are more parties and festivals than ever. From North to South, from East to West, from underground to mainstream: There's so much going on that it became virtually impossible to keep track of everything – even when you're very well connected. Speaking for myself, I know about many great events and music labels who give expression to the incredibly vast and varied electronic music culture in this country. For my part, being from the North-East of Germany, I organize parties and festivals with my 3000Grad family for around 20 years already. I think it's still very exciting with lots of innovative developments happening and fresh talent popping up even after all these years.
f: How's your touring schedule looking, as we move into the winter season?
Mollono.Bass: Happy to say that it is pretty busy. We are touring with many artists from the 3000Grad collective this winter, for instance to Ritter Butzke / Berlin or Übel & Gefährlich / Hamburg. In February and March, I traditionally spend some time in beautiful Spain.<
f: And finally, what's next for Mollono.Bass – any new releases or news you can share with us?
Mollono.Bass: I have exciting news to share, indeed: My new Mollono.Bass album is taking shape, it's scheduled for 2020. Lots and lots of collaborations with musicians and producer friends, a super fun project so far!
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Labour for Indy?
With Theresa May flailing on Brexit and the UK government in crisis, the prospect of another general election is increasingly likely. In such a scenario, Scottish independence will inevitably return to the agenda. Labour's position on the issue remains firm, but is there scope for it to change? Jonathan Rimmer investigates by speaking to the party's small but growing pro-independence base…
When Richard Leonard was elected as Scottish Labour leader last year, campaign strategists were confident he could replicate Corbyn's success among young people. After all, this was a man cut from the same cloth, a Bennite socialist who wanted to reform the private rental sector, build council housing and abolish zero hour contracts. Leonard reiterated Corbyn's anti-austerity agenda after election polling showed more 18-24 year olds identified austerity, cuts and inequalities as the most important political issue than other age groups.
This message certainly seems to have cut through to some extent: Scottish Labour lead the SNP among 18-24 year olds, according to the most recent poll. However, the same demographic also continues to overwhelmingly back Scottish independence (66%), which Leonard unequivocally opposes to the point he's even pushed Corbyn to block any prospective referendum in the event he becomes Prime Minister.
Squaring this circle continues to be a strategic minefield and Leonard has been criticised by many activists on the Scottish Labour left for doubling down on his unionist credentials. However, it opens other questions: why do young pro-independence voters support a party with such a dogmatic position on the national question? And to what extent are such voices being heard within Scottish Labour's activist base?
Tam Wilson, an activist in Dundee's Constituency Labour Party, only joined the party at the start of this year. Like so many working class Scots, he was energised by the independence referendum and believed self-determination offered the opportunity to advance a "pro-worker vision". He says: "At that point [2014], Labour were doing some indefensible things. If someone told me Jeremy Corbyn would be the leader or that I'd end up joining the party, I would have laughed."
What changed? He continues: "My opinion in Scottish independence hasn't changed, but my priorities have. I would still vote Yes, but it got to the point where I saw what was happening in England and started to really think about the infrastructure of this country and how desperately it needed a Corbyn-led Labour government. I just feel like the class narrative has been taken out of the independence debate. I know many people still keep that going, but the general conversation around independence seems to lack a class narrative. I'm not here to make excuses for previous Labour politicians – I just wanted a space to talk about class politics."
For many Scots, of course, Labour's perceived indiscretions are unforgivable. The narrative goes that the mass exodus towards the SNP after the independence referendum along with subsequent unionist defections to the Conservatives left Labour a hollowed out husk. The Labour For Independence campaign was a prominent voice during the referendum, but it has long appeared dormant in terms of organisation. An estimated quarter to a third of Labour supporters voted Yes in 2014, but interestingly that figure hasn't dwindled. In total, 32.5% of 2017 Labour voters say they're inclined to vote Yes in a second referendum (once don't knows are removed), a statistic which has remained steady over the past year or two.
This isn't a surprising phenomenon – research by Democratic Audit concluded that "emotive nationalism does not explain Scotland's young 'Yes' voters. Has Labour reclaimed what Wilson describes as the "class narrative"? Edinburgh-based academic Rory Scothorne, who voted Yes but went against the grain in 2014 by switching from the SNP to Labour, thinks so. He says: "My own politics shifted towards class power and the fact there are political conflicts you can't resolve by moving power around. The SNP believe conflicts in society are between national groups. My thought was you could only build independence on the backs of independent, class-based organisations.
"A lot of the people I know on the Labour left voted Yes. On the other hand, a lot of older nationalists see Corbyn as just another example of people being drawn back to the British state by the siren song of the Labour party. I think people are sceptical of how transformative Corbyn can really be. If he said he understood the socialist argument for independence, there'd be articles the next day saying 'Corbyn supports socialist independence'. Nuance now just gets lost in the meat grinder of Scottish political discourse."
But how do Scottish Labour's young pro-independence activists reconcile their membership of a stridently pro-union organisation? Rory Steel of SNP Socialists describes Labour as a "centralising party with paternalistic elements" and suggests their "opposition to a second referendum stems from the foundations of the party to protect the British state and socialism in one country". Interestingly, none of the activists I speak to necessarily contradict this. One Labour member, who campaigned for Better Together and doesn't wish to be named, goes as far as saying "the party's policy is nonsense and we've learned absolutely nothing".
In September, Corbyn appeared to offer a less strident position, suggesting he'd "not rule out" consenting to an independence referendum if it was the will of the Scottish Parliament. Leonard appeared to contradict him by saying a future Labour manifesto should provide a mandate against one. Stella Rooney, a pro-independence Labour activist from Glasgow, says she's "totally embarrassed by the stance".
"As a socialist, I thought a Yes vote was to the benefit of the working class," she says. "I believe that you don't wait for others to organise themselves and I stand by that. It's terrible politics – Scottish Labour should have a position where if a majority of Scots want a second referendum, they should get one. There's a key difference between not supporting independence and that being your tradition and actively blocking it. The key thing about the referendum is it wasn't run by the SNP –campaigns were led by working class people. The party should talk to these people, not make it a conspiracy."
The members I speak to claim grassroots discussion about Labour's position on independence isn't at the top of the agenda, but you get the sense their support for Labour's programme is to some extent conditional on its respect for the principles of democracy. A more settled position may be urgently needed: as the British state crisis intensifies and Brexit continues to tear apart the Conservative party at the seams, figures in both Labour and the SNP are talking up the possibility of another general election. The Labour leadership have spoken of their aspiration to win back seats in Scotland, but the right to a second referendum would surely be an SNP red line in the event Corbyn is reliant on their support to enter office.
How realistic is such a scenario? Steel insists he'd be open to another cross-party leftist platform developing and that Labour activists "would be a major asset to the movement", but "those who do believe in independence need to be far more vocal". The long-held antipathy between the two parties means that isn't a simple prospect at this point, but Scothorne believes there's still for a scope for a Labour line that says "parliament has the right to decide… but we offer a complete upheaval of how the British state works".
Rooney agrees: "I think the first step is a unified left position on the right to hold an independence referendum," she says. "There's some ambivalence, but it's not just about the members. Labour doesn't just belong to its members – it belongs to the whole Labour movement and it belongs to the working class. How do we win people around? We should be open, have a presence in communities and actively support the work trade unions and Living Rent and others are doing without feeling the sole need to recruit people into Labour. And so if a majority of folk want a referendum on independence, we should have it. I believe that's democracy."
By Jonathan Rimmer
Leave a Reply to w.b. robertson Cancel reply
17th November 2018 at 12:47 pm
I'm sorry but Richard Leonard is not cut from the same cloth as Jeremy Corbyn. Corbyn has been a known figure in the Labour left for the best part of three decades and has played prominent roles in numerous social movements, most notably the anti-War movement of 2003. Corbyn's support is broad based whilst, Leonard on the other hand comes from a bureaucratic trades union background, which is obsessed with an old politics based on class, trades unions and workers. In a nutshell, he lacks Corbyn's authenticity. There is not the space to go into it here but Labour's class fundamentalism prevents them from understanding the national question, or contributing constructively to indy-debates. I'm sorry to be blunt but anyone who thinks that the centuries old British state could be reformed by Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party is delusional. At the high point of British trades unionism in the 1970s, Labour were incapable of reforming the state – what makes you think they could do it now?
Jonathan Rimmer says:
18th November 2018 at 4:58 pm
Hi Frank,
Just to clarify – this is a feature, not an opinion piece, and so the implication was that was senior figures on the Labour left's characterisation of Leonard. Personally, I'd agree on almost all of your points. I think Corbyn faces an extraordinary task given the crisis of the British state (see my last piece on Bella linked under More By This Author). I'm not a Labourite myself, although I do think some of the pro-independence left underestimate how far removed the Corbyn project is from even the most left wing Labourite traditions.
Chris Downie says:
What I feel pro-independence supporters (Labour or otherwise) need to challenge much, much more, is the glaring hypocrisy of many Labour politicians (Corbyn, McDonnell, even former members like Galloway) who actively support a United Ireland, yet remain resolutely against Scotland's right to self-determination. I see no logical reason for this position, yet it is prominent even at grassroots level among Labour (many of whom are Irish descent, none of whom oppose the Republic of Ireland's sovereignty).
Hamish Kirk says:
Richard Leonard – who went from an English Public School and from there to a Scottish University. Thence to a series of jobs with Trade Unions. What can I say about this carpetbagger ?
w.b. robertson says:
steady on when the accusation of "carpetbagger" surfaces….quite a few Scots politicians, past and present, – from all parties – might qualify!…
Andrew Morton says:
If Jeremy Corbyn wins a general election, no matter how much he may change things, as always, a Tory government will follow right on behind and undo it all again. Scotland will be back to square one once more.
The only way to guarantee policies which Scots want is to have our own, independent government. Anything else is just a waste of time.
Alexander Ritchie says:
Rory Steel says Labour is a centralising party…not so…not compared to the Scottish Government that has attempted to emasculate Local Authorities regarding education and centralised the Police force removing local accountability.
Furthermore the recent hatefest by Nationalists railing against trade unions exercising their right to challenge the Nationalist government's teacher pay offer and Nationalist led Glasgow local authority dragging its heels regarding equal pay, confirmed those of us on the left of the blind view that Nationalism offers. Changing chairs from WM to HR is no change. Only a Corbyn and Leonard Socialist view of GB and Scotland offers working classes any hope for the end of austerity and their future.
MBC says:
Labour created that problem in Glasgow and well you know it. Westmister holds the purse strings over Holyrood and well you know it, you client of the British state.
Ronald AlexanderMcDonald says:
As far as Scottish Independence is concerned, Corbyn is as much a British Nationalist as any extreme right wing rabid Tory is.
I'm sorry but that's nonsense and politically incorrect. Anyone with a basic understanding of radical socialist politics knows that most socialists equate nationalism with right wing politics and even fascism. Corbyn is no exception hence why he struggles with showing any signs of patriotism – note his obvious discomfort with singing the UK national anthem.
Ian Clark says:
Hardly nonsense Frank. Granted it was a bit much. But so is your comment about Jeremy's radical socialism. Mumbling the British national anthem doesn't quite cut it in my book. And neither does his support – by his presence – for the annual November celebration of the deaths of working class men and women in the service of the British ruling elites. I accept it's difficult balancing principle with the pragmatism required to attain power. But even allowing for that he's hardly radical. A genuine internationalist perhaps. But that still makes him a British nationalist, albeit one who has a far greater amount of socialism in his political make up than most of the rest of his party.
I'm sorry but the reason that 18-24 year olds might be inclined towards Labour is that they are inexperienced and have little grasp or understanding of politics. They hear the right noises coming out of Corbyn but don't understand that devolution severely constricts what the SNP government in Scotland can do. If they are not hearing the class narrative from the SNP it is because the SNP don't have control of the foghorn. The SNP have abolished the short assured tenancy and are tackling austerity and land reform. The young don't understand that Labour are a trap, that Scotland is always an afterthought in any jamd and nationalisation is just another word for English control of Scotland and our resources. Labour are never going to do anything for Scotland except turn Scots into needy clients of the British state.
Graham Ennis says:
OMG. What, these days, is the "Scottish working class?…..the structure of working people is now very stratified. The old industrial working class has been shattered, by Thatchers deliberate destruction of Scotlands industrial base. A large section of those with jobs in Scotland is skilled middle class. The latter tend to have liberal personal attitudes, but are conservative as to economics and the national question. The Labour party in Scotland is an accurate reflection of these attitudes and values. It is NOT a socialist party. Neither is the SNP, but it is radical on the idea of Independence. But on other issues, it is drifting steadily to the right. It has a Bourgoise leadership. It will NOT do land reform and other radical measures. It also will not do serious legal reforms, that would lead to radical changes in Scotland. There is no chance of a radical reformist Government at the moment. So I see no chance of major shifts in Scotland, towards a more progressive society. The SNP has now been colonised by careerist politicians. Yes, really. Craig Murry has written carefully about all this. Sadly, we are in a quandary. The best we can hope for is a basic Independence.
Nothing can be done without power. The SNP needs to be broad based to stay in power, even to wield the very limited powers given to us by devolution. It cannot do anything really radical or it will alienate its broader base and thus lose the very limited power it now wields.
Last month I was canvassing in Morningside for the SNP. This is just the kind of middle class area you refer to. I met one SNP and Yes voter who said he would no longer vote for independence or the SNP as Nicola Sturgeon was a communist. Seriously.
Labour delivered devolution for which I am eternally grateful. But having fulfilled their purpose they have nothing more to offer.
They are as irrelevant now as the SNP will be after independence.
Kenny Smith says:
Can't be said enough, Labour, Tories, two cheeks of the same arse. Any yes voter who would even consider giving/lending their vote to labour really need to have a deep think and a good read about how both have shat on Scotland from a great height. I personally should be labour through and through but I would rather be dipped in shit n rolled in breadcrumbs than vote for that lying shower. The Tories are horrid but they don't pretend to be anything else how dare labour stand and sing the red flag at conferences then watch them pick up robes in the house of lords. The only time I'll even consider voting labour is when we are independent and it's a proper Scottish party
Angus Baird says:
21st November 2018 at 7:28 pm
Even after independence, it will be the same trumpets in the party.
The same people that voted for Leonard as leader.


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$53M Pegasus Apartments Open Doors
LOS ANGELES-Called the largest adaptive reuse development in the city, the 322-unit conversion from offices to apartments is a project of L.A.'s Kor Realty Group.
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The $53 million complex, where Kor has already rented more than 100 apartments, is a 13-story residential tower at 612 Flower St. that is being managed and leased for Kor by Beverly Hills-based Kennedy Wilson. It was designed by Santa Monica-based Killefer Flammang Architects, which is the architect for a number of prominent Downtown office building conversions. Kor acquired the former Mobil office building, which had been vacant for more than 10 years, about two years ago. The conversion was completed over 10 months by general contractor Taisei Construction.
Greg Schem, president of Los Angeles-based Kor, tells GlobeSt.com that the company expects the building will be filled with renters by early next year at the current rate of lease-up, which is about 35 units per month. Schem says Kors plan going in is to hold the property for five years after stabilization. Rents at the Pegasus range from about $2 per sf to $2.25 per sf, with unit sizes ranging from about 600 to 1,350 sf. The Downtown Los Angeles apartment market is one of the tightest in Southern California, with a vacancy rate of approximately 2%, although that figure varies somewhat among the several submarkets within Downtown, such as the core financial district, the creative artists district and the old bank district.
The Pegasus combines what Kor describes as classic, late 1940s architecture with contemporary finishes and furnishings. Kor executives and city officials have slated a ceremony for July 31 at which Los Angeles Mayor Jim Hahn will present the developer with a proclamation naming the Pegasus as a building of historic significance.
Pegasus is located on an entire city block with frontage on Wilshire, Flower and Sixth. It's next to one of Downtown's newest and most popular gathering places, The Standard Hotel, and includes a mix of studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments. On-site features include a rooftop pool and gardens, a fitness center with skyline views, a full-time concierge and 24-hour courtesy patrol. Each unit has granite countertops in the kitchen; polished concrete flooring and Berber carpeting; a washer and dryer, microwave and dishwasher; and each unit is pre-wired for television and high-speed Internet access. Some of the units also have balconies and patios. The ground floor retail space is approximately 12,000 sf, which Kor will be renting to a high-end restaurant, mini market, bakery, coffee shop and other service retail businesses.
The Kor Realty Group has been one of the early developers in Downtown Los Angeles. Along with the Pegasus Apartments, other properties the company has developed include the Santa Fe building at Main and Sixth streets in the historic district, which are an existing building of 29 units and an attached office building that Kor plans to convert to apartments. When finished, the Santa Fe will include 132 units. The developer is also converting its existing Molino Lofts apartments at 1001 E. First St. into 75 condominiums. Among its other L.A. area apartment projects are 121 units in a five-story Hancock Park loft development with views of Wilshire Country Club, and 115 units getting under way just outside of Culver City on Venice Blvd. near Sony Pictures. Besides these projects, Schem tells GlobeSt.com that Kor could potentially built another 600 units at sites in other parts of Los Angeles where it is contemplating new projects.
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When Wedekind wrote Spring Awakening, a satirical drama about rigid sexual mores in the Wilhelminian empire in 1891, it was considered too racy for the stage and was not performed until fifteen years later in Berlin – with large sections cut by censors.
Of course, the Kaiser's censors have been out of work since the German empire ended in 1918, and director Michael Mayer and playwright Steven Sater certainly did not have to worry about them on Broadway; they have remained close to Wedekind's original script, even preserving the setting in 19th century Germany. A rock score by singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik and choreography by Bill T. Jones have updated the look and feel of the play for Broadway.
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Renee Ghert-Zand is a reporter and feature writer for The Times of Israel.
French actress Zabou Breitman as Ruth Halimi in '24 Days' (photo credit: Courtesy Menemsha Films)
The acclaimed French director Alexandre Arcady has made many films over his long career, but none, he said, was as difficult to bring to the screen as "24 Days: The True Story of the Ilan Halimi Affair."
The feature, which opens nationally in the United States on Friday, April 24, dramatizes the experiences of the French-Jewish (of Moroccan extraction) Halimi family during the three and a half weeks in early 2006 when their 23-year-old son Ilan was abducted, tortured and murdered by a suburban Paris gang fueled by anti-Semitism (27 individuals were arrested and tried in the case).
In a recent phone interview from his office in Paris, Arcady (himself a French Jew of Algerian descent) told The Times of Israel that he was moved to make a film based on a memoir written by Ruth Halimi, the victim's mother.
One sentence in the book struck Arcady as particularly important, and he has actress Zabou Breitman, who plays Ruth Halimi, utter it toward the end of the film.
"I want my son's death to sound an alarm," she says.
With hindsight, we know that Ilan Halimi's murder by the Gang of Barbarians, as the assailants were known, turned out — as Ruth Halimi feared — to be a watershed moment. It was the first of a string of violent and murderous attacks on Jews in France and other European countries over the past decade.
The murder of four Jews by an Islamist terrorist at Paris's HyperCacher supermarket last January had not yet happened by the time "24 Days" was completed, but other attacks had taken place, such as an Islamist's shooting to death four people (three of them children) at a Jewish school in Toulouse in March 2012.
Nonetheless, Arcady struggled to raise the funds necessary to make the film.
"It was hard to produce because the French justice system and people did not want to see it as an anti-Semitic crime," he said of the Halimi affair.
Indeed, the film shows the police botching their efforts to save the young cellphone salesman because they are slow to realize that the Barbarians are not common criminals who would likely refrain from killing their hostage. By contrast, Ruth Halimi said she knew that as soon as the ransom demands and threats started referring to Ilan as a "Jew" that they did not regard him as a human being and would kill him.
French film director Alexandre Arcady (YouTube screenshot)
As was made clear in "Jews & Money," the 2013 documentary film by Lewis Cohen about the kidnapping of Ilan Halimi, it took serious persuasion before the French court would recognize anti-Semitism as an aggravating circumstance in Halimi's murder.
"People simply did not want to be associated with this case, and that put me in a difficult position," said Arcady.
He said that French public television refused to provide support for the project, even though its funding guidelines call for the backing of films like "24 Days."
"They told me it would just be throwing fuel onto the flames if this film was made," Arcady said.
'[French Prime Minister] Manuel Valls told me, "Your film is a mirror that the French don't want to look into"'
Undeterred, Arcady managed to pull together the requisite finances. But after the film was released in France in 2014, some theater owners around the country refused to show it. According to the director, only 250,000 people — a very low number relative to the average French audience for a film — have seen "24 Days" in France. The intense drama, featuring a cast of well-known French actors, was shown on French television, but only on minor channels that do not reach most homes.
"[French Prime Minister] Manuel Valls told me, 'Your film is a mirror that the French don't want to look into,'" he said.
Revolted by the anti-Semitic crime and worried about the fact that it was primarily members of the Jewish community who came out to the streets to protest against it, Arcady felt he had to do something to perpetuate Halimi's memory.
"I would have regretted it if [Gang of Barbarians leader, Côte d'Ivoire-born French immigrant Youssouf] Fofana's name was more remembered than Ilan's," he said.
Family and friends attend a memorial ceremony by the grave of 23-year-old Ilan Halimi, at the Givat Shaul cemetery in Jerusalem. February 13, 2013. (photo credit: Tali Mayer/Flash90)
Arcady acknowledged that anti-Semitism continues to be a problem in France, and that anti-Semitic crimes there are increasingly more violent.
Yet he does not think the solution is for the Jews to emigrate.
"We are French citizens. The government is with us. It's a struggle we need to face, and we need to fight and not leave the territory open to anti-Semitism," he said.
"I don't want the Jews to desert France."
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Retired NFL Linebacker Kim Bokamper Selling 'Northern'-Style Florida Home
The footballer-turned-sportscaster is asking $1.149 million for the four-bedroom home in the exclusive Lago Mar community
By Beckie Strum
| Originally Published On November 26, 2019 | Mansion Global
The home spans 3,720 square feet.
Composite: Compass Florida; Getty Images
Former NFL linebacker and defensive end Kim Bokamper has put his South Florida home of more than three decades up for sale asking $1.149 million, Mansion Global has exclusively learned.
Mr. Bokamper, 65, who retired from a nine-year career with the Miami Dolphins in 1985 and then launched a successful career as a sportscaster and radio host, has owned the four-bedroom home in Plantation, Florida, since the late 1980s, when he and his late wife purchased it for around $400,000, according to property records.
The single-story brick house, with its steeply pitched roof, decorative Tudor-style mullion windows and a flourish of creeping vines, looks more like something you'd find in a New England town than in part of a country club outside of Fort Lauderdale—where the reigning Spanish-style aesthetic favors red-tile roofs and stucco.
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Inside, the house Mr. Bokamper's selling looks very unlike the one he bought 30 years ago.
"We've basically redone the whole house," he told Mansion Global. Some of the biggest changes include the kitchen, where the Bokampers knocked down a wall and raised the ceiling in order to open it up to the living room, a dramatic space with a vaulted ceiling and exposed brick accent wall.
The kitchen's redesign also included an array of top appliances, including a wine fridge and a convection oven, and trendy white slab stone countertops, images of the home show.
It has such a "northern" feel—including real hardwood floors and white-painted millwork—that local film crews looking to convey a colder climate have sought the house out.
"We've had multiple times where people have come in to shoot commercials," said Mr. Bokamper, who also runs a popular chain of self-titled sports bars around Fort Lauderdale.
An overhaul to the master suite has made the room the former linebacker's favorite refuge within the 3,720-square-foot house. He converted an adjacent study into the bedroom's walk-in closet and modernized the master bathroom with a spa-style shower and luxurious soaking tub.
Best of all, Mr. Bokamper said, the voluminous bedroom has direct access to the backyard terrace and pool, and bucolic lake views via glass double doors.
"That's become my go-to spot," he said.
The property is part of a gated 118-home community, Lago Mar Country Club, which centers around a golf course and clubhouse, said listing agent Dondi Hopkins of The Hopkins Team at Compass Florida.
The Seminole Tribe of Florida, which owns the Hard Rock International brand, happens to be in talks to buy Lago Mar, it was reported earlier this month. Details about the potential sale are scant.
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Lago Mar is popular among golf and tennis enthusiasts as well as families who want to send their kids to the exclusive American Heritage School nearby, Ms. Hopkins said.
Mr. Bokamper said he "hates to leave" a home he's lived in for so long, but has decided it would be more convenient to live on the eastern side of Fort Lauderdale, where he plans to snap up a new golf club home.
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Westside Motor Lodge
The march of intown gentrification continues with swath after swath of previously unused or blighted areas being repurposed into hip and dazzling new playgrounds. The newest entrant is the new Echo Street West project, a 19-acre reimagining of an area near Mercedes Benz Stadium and the historically Black neighborhood of English Avenue. The redo will soon include a bevy of live-work-play options including retail, office, restaurant and hotel along with multi-family housing and even an artist colony.
Within the burgeoning new mini-city comes the Westside Motor Lodge, a 3-acre campus that converted three vacant auto repair shops, four shipping containers and even an abandoned 1982 Mercedes Wagon into a restaurant, bar, cocktail lounge, event space, game room, beer garden, shuffleboard courts along with cabanas, fire pits and a food truck. And it's all near the Atlanta Beltline's westside trail so you're connected to other parts of town as well.
Attitude abounds—it's got that roadside motor lodge feel but also feels high-design with just enough bougie not to be pretentious. Elizabeth Feichter (formerly of Atlanta Food and Wine Festival) and Kelly Campbell of Southern Culinary and Creative (Gather 'round, Epicurean Atlanta) are behind the project so they understand how to put on a show and curate up some good stuff.
The restaurant offers up Southern comfort food fare like burgers, meat-and-three plates, hearty bowls and southern veggies like okra and collards. With a talented bar staff led by bar manager Kelsey Kenny and Kellie Thorn expect cocktails shaken, stirred and even on draft, loosely named for iconic rock songs. The event and retail space, Idlewild, occupies the other part of the building and features dart boards and lounge areas used for meetings, dart leagues, and pop-up shops. A game room with ping pong, foosball, and tabletop shuffleboard adds to the fun and live music comes off a stage created out of the three remaining shipping containers, with the courtyard beyond the beer garden featuring shuffleboard courts, cabanas and picnic tables, fire pits and Adirondack chairs, and space for a food truck.
The ambitiousness of the project is commendable—the indoor/outdoor sprawl of the compound will be in full splendor when the spring warmth returns but there are plenty of indoor escapes in the coming weeks to enjoy this new retreat on what was just recently a dead zone.


Team updates: BMC, Euskaltel-Euskadi, FDJ-BigMat and Orica-GreenEDGE
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At the beginning of the season, each member of the VeloVoices team selected one ProTeam to follow for the duration of 2012. Here's an update on how each squad is progressing before the start of the Tour de France.
WorldTour ranking: 9th, 432 points.
Major results:
Giro del Trentino: Team time trial – 1st. Taylor Phinney – one day in leader's jersey.
Flèche Wallonne: Philippe Gilbert – 3rd.
Giro della Roscana: Alessandro Ballan – 1st.
Giro d'Italia: Taylor Phinney – 1st in stage 1 ITT, three days in maglia rosa and white jersey. Marco Pinotti – 1st in stage 21 ITT.
Amgen Tour of California: Yannick Eljessen – most aggressive rider in stage 4. Six of the top ten places on GC were BMC riders, with Tejay van Garderen 4th overall.
Tour de Suisse: Mathias Frank – Best Swiss Rider. Martin Kohler – most aggressive rider in stage 4. Klaas Lodewyck – most aggressive rider in stage 5.
Critérium du Dauphiné: Cadel Evans – 3rd overall, 1st in stage 1, points classification winner.
The past two months for BMC seemed like a slow build for July with moments of brilliance. Philippe Gilbert didn't win any of the Ardennes Classics this year – his highest placement was the third podium spot for Flèche Wallonne but Alessandro Ballan took the Giro della Roscana, building on his good showing in the cobbled Classics. BMC also had a fairly successful Tour of California, with a most aggressive rider award for Yannick Eljessen in stage four and six of the top ten places in the final standings, with Tejay van Garderen fourth overall. This was good news for van Garderen, as he was injured by a falling branch and had to abandon the Tour of Romandie in April.
The Giro d'Italia was a very good race for BMC, with young Taylor Phinney keeping the spotlight trained on him and his team for the first week. Phinney took stage one and the first maglia rosa, a jersey he would keep, along with the white jersey, for the next three stages. Marco Pinotti closed the Giro in the manner that Phinney started it, by winning the final stage's ITT in Milan.
Cadel Evans and the team took on Bradley Wiggins and Sky at the Critérium du Dauphiné in what may prove to be a dress rehearsal for next week's Tour de France. Evans showed that his form was improving, often animating the stages with attacks and counterpunches, but the Sky team proved too strong. Evans did, however, win stage one of the race, the overall points jersey and ended on the third step on the podium. Here is what he told CyclingNews about his preparation for the Tour:
The main thing for most riders is just getting to a good level, a level you know you need to be at to race – avoiding injuries, health issues and so on. This year it's been a good progression for me into the Tour and in some ways, not having some race results, it keeps people's attention away from me. That also helps make life a little bit easier.
And finally, Mathias Frank, Martin Kohler and Klaas Lodewyck helped keep BMC's colours prominent in the Tour de Suisse with the overall award for Best Swiss Rider, and stage four and five's Most Aggressive Rider award respectively.
Euskaltel-Euskadi
WorldTour ranking: 12th, 374 pts.
Amstel Gold: Samuel Sanchez – 7th.
Vuelta a Castilla y Leon and Vuelta a la Rioja: Pablo Urtasun – 3rd overall in both.
Vuelta a Madrid: Mikel Landa – 4th in stage 2.
Volta a Catalunya: Samuel Sanchez – 2nd overall, won stage 6, 4th in stage 5.
Vuelta Ciclista Asturias: Jon Izagirre – won stage 2b.
Giro d'Italia: Mikel Nieve – 10th overall, 9th in stage 7, 8th in stage 19. Jon Izagirre – won stage 16.
Tour de Suisse: Mikel Nieve – 5th overall, 3rd in stage 2, 2nd in stage 8.
In what will definitely be their final season in their current format, the Carrots have been muy agresivo [very aggressive – Ed], animating every race they've taken part in. This has not been without consequences as a number, including leaders Sammy Sanchez and Igor Anton, have come to grief respectively in the Critérium du Dauphiné and Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
The good news is that the points are being spread around the team – although Sammy still accounts for 252 – with Mikel Nieve finishing well overall in both the Giro d'Italia and Tour de Suisse, while young sensation Jon Izagirre racked up his first – and it won't be his last – stage win in his maiden Grand Tour. Afterwards team manager Alvaro Gonzalez de Gladeano said:
The revelation of the team has been Jon Izagirre, not just for victory but for his consistency in helping Mikel Nieve in difficult times in the mountains. He's performed really well in the third week of his first Grand Tour and looks set to become one of the strong men in a three-week tour.
More good news as it appears Euskaltel are prepared to continue and even incease their sponsorship of the team. The Euskadi foundation will drop out of the picture though will still support the Orbea and Naturgas feeder and amateur squads. There have also been unconfirmed reports that Festina will return to the pro peloton as co-sponsor. All these additional funds have arrived just in the nick of time as Samuel Sanchez reportedly has three offers on the table while other teams have been sniffing around the team's young talent pool.
Sammy's sufficiently recovered from his fall in the Dauphiné and, with other team members, has been altitude training in the Sierra Nevadas in order to mount a robust defence of his King of the Mountains spotted jersey in the forthcoming Tour de France.
FDJ-BigMat
WorldTour ranking: 17th, 79 pts.
Circuit de Lorraine: Nacer Bouhanni – 1st overall, 1st in stage 1.
Critérium du Dauphiné: Arthur Vichot – 1st in stage 5.
Route du Sud: Arnaud Demare – 1st in stage 2.
Halle–Ingooigem: Nacer Bouhanni – 1st.
21-year-old Frenchman Nacer Bouhanni has continued his spectacular season by winning both the Circuit de Lorraine and Halle–Ingooigem, following on from a stage win at the Étoile de Bessèges earlier on in the season. There's a very distinct youthfulness about FDJ recently, with 23-year-old Arthur Vichot and 20-year-old future Classics star Arnaud Demare the other riders to collect wins since our last update.
Elsewhere, fan favourite and resident breakaway madman Jeremy Roy rode an exceptional time trial in the recent French national championships, where he finished in second place, just 13 seconds in arrears of eventual winner Sylvain Chavanel. Roy has spoken of how he's improved his time-trialling over the last few years:
I learned to better manage my effort, especially with the coaching staff and with power sensors that allow me to correct errors in the climbs where I should not get into the red. And it's a circle, the results breeds confidence and confidence can get results.
FDJ are one of the few teams yet to announce their Tour de France outfit, something expected to be announced after the French national road race later today. Ahead of that prestigious event, Roy has commented:
The team has two in-form sprinters and we will assume the role of favorites. In this race, all scenarios are possible. There may be a race with a lot of nervous attacks. Everyone will believe they can win, and if a good breakaway goes, we should not miss it.
With Pierrick Fedrigo and Sandy Casar likely joining Roy in the team, Marc Madiot will no doubt be sending the plucky trio into near-daily breakaway charges, in a bid to retain the Prix de la Combativité Roy won at last year's race.
WorldTour team ranking: 7th, 440 pts.
Flèche Wallonne: Michael Albasini – 2nd.
Tour of Turkey: Matt Goss – 2nd in stages 1, 2, 4 & 6.
Giro d'Italia: Matt Goss – won stage 3, 2nd in stages 2 & 5. Tomas Vaitkus – 3rd in stage 11.
Tour of California: Pieter Weening – 10th overall. Leigh Howard – 4th in stage 1, 3rd in stage 2.
Tour of Norway: Simon Clarke – 2nd overall, 2nd in stages 4 & 5. Aidis Kruopis – won stage 3.
Bayern Rundfahrt: Allan Davis – 2nd in stages 1 & 5.
Critérium du Dauphiné: Luke Durbridge – won stage 1 ITT. Pieter Weening – 11th overall, 5th in stage 7, 6th in stage 8.
Tour de Suisse: Michael Albasini – won stage 8, 3rd in stage 4, 4th in stage 6. Baden Cooke – 2nd in stage 3. Allan Davis – 3rd in stage 6.
Tour of Slovenia: Daryl Impey – won stage 2.
Orica-GreenEDGE's strong debut season continues as they have consolidated their position in the upper half of the team rankings. Former individual WorldTour leader Simon Gerrans was unable to add to his Milan-San Remo win through the remainder of the Classics season, finishing a disappointing 20th and 19th at Amstel Gold and Liège-Bastogne-Liège respectively. However, Volta a Catalunya winner Michael Albasini has continued to impress in uphill races, claiming second behind solo winner Joaquim Rodriguez at Flèche Wallonne and adding a breakaway mountain victory at his 'home' Tour de Suisse this month.
The team entered their first Grand Tour at May's Giro d'Italia with the aim of delivering stage victories, and lead sprinter Matt Goss duly obliged. Having warmed up with four second places (behind four different rivals) at the Tour of Turkey, Goss was edged out by Mark Cavendish on stage two in Italy before claiming victory the next day. He added another second place (again behind Cav) on stage five, before Lithuanian Tomas Vaitkus took third on stage 11.
Luke Durbridge claimed a notable victory in the short opening time trial of the Critérium du Dauphiné, while Daryl Impey and Aidis Kruopis have also taken stage wins in Slovenia and Norway respectively. Pieter Weening claimed good GC finishes at both the Tour of California (1oth) and the Dauphiné (11th). And the team have shown off their sprinting depth with a string of top three finishes from Aussies Simon Clarke, Allan Davis, Leigh Howard and Baden Cooke. Clarke also finished as runner-up in the general classification of the Tour of Norway, behind Sky's Edvald Boasson Hagen.
GreenEDGE will now look to repeat their Giro success by sending a sprint-focussed team to support Goss at the Tour de France.
Previous updates: April 13th, February 24th
Websites: BMC, Euskaltel-Euskadi, FDJ, GreenEDGE
Twitter: BMC, Euskaltel-Euskadi, FDJ, GreenEDGE
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Choquequirao: Lost City in the Clouds
Choquequirao is truly the lost city of the Incas and little sister to the more well known Machu Picchu. Whilst this site is new to the tourist map, Gary Ziegler has been exploring the area for over twenty years
The first rays of morning sunlight illuminate the great stone altar, streaming through a square opening over my head. "Inti camac sumac" chants the priest. Soaked in sweat, I fight the bindings holding me to the stone as the grinning, looming, scarlet-cloaked figure slowly brings down a gleaming, bloodstained bronze knife toward my heaving chest.
"Jefe, buenos dias - cafe" ?
Startled suddenly awake, I thankfully greet a smiling Pancho, our camp cook handing a cup of wake up coffee through the tent door. Whew! - I make a silent oath to myself to avoid the second round of Piscos that we had passed around the campfire last night.
We are on our way back to the mysterious and magnificent mountain Inca city that has been the focus of my research and explorations in the remote cloud-forested Andes of Peru for many years and numerous expeditions, Choquequirao.
I am travelling with an interesting group of ethno-botanists. Our objective is to identify plants and trees that may have been introduced by the Inca residents and may still live on in the tangled vegetation surrounding the recently cleared stone walls and buildings.
There is always something more to learn at the Inca's second Machu Picchu.
The Inca royal estate and ceremonial complex, Choquequirao is perched majestically at 9,800 feet of elevation on a cloud-forested ridge of a glaciated 17,700 foot peak. The traditionally sacred, Apurimac River, reportedly the longest headwater source of the Amazon, roars through a deep canyon some 5000 feet below. The site lies 61 miles west of Cusco in the rugged, remote Vilcabamba range of the Peruvian Andes, far distant from roads, trains and the tourist hordes that mob Choquequirao's famous sister estate, Machu Picchu.
Choquequirao remains one of the great, rewarding travel destinations of the Americas which still retains some of the excitement and discovery experience of the past.
It is a truly 'lost city' abandoned sometime around 1572 when the holdout last Inca ruler, Tupac Amaru was captured in the distant jungles, dragged back to Cusco and executed by Spanish colonial authorities. The ancient houses, temples, canals and walls were soon reclaimed by the silent, green, primeval forest only to be rediscovered and revealed in recent times. Located on the far, unpopulated and geographically hostile side of the immense Apurimac Canyon, the region remained disconnected from the farms, villages and roads of developing Peru.
It is little known that Yale professor Hiram Bingham, the now famous scientific discoverer of Machu Picchu in 1911, was inspired to launch his return to Peru and archaeological explorations after a visit to Choquequirao in 1909. Bingham visited Choquequirao twice, the second time with a crew of surveyors, cartographers and specialists to produce the first map and scientific description.
During the early 1990s, the Peruvian government took an interest, beginning a careful archaeological and restoration project that continues today. In 1995, a new trail and foot bridge crossing the Apurimac was completed giving more access to adventurous travellers and pack horse supported, small tour groups contributing to the income and employment of enterprising local families.
The previous year I had arrived for the first time with a filming expedition, reopening the long, multi-day trail across the rugged highlands from Machu Picchu with picks, shovels and machetes. Now twenty years later, I am returning yet again to contemplate Choquequirao's mysteries and matchless beauty, trekking in by the shorter, two day route from the road head near the community of Cachora.
"Choquequirao remains one of the great, rewarding travel destinations of the Americas which still retains some of the excitement and discovery experience of the past."
University of Colorado archeoastronomer, Kim Malville and I recently published my life's work in the Andes and our studies together of Choquequirao in a new book entitled Machu Picchu's Sacred Sister's, Choquequirao and Llactapata. The book focuses on similarities with Machu Picchu concluding that Choquequirao was modelled and geo-cosmically located after its older ceremonial sister.
Visiting Choquequirao
One of the rewards of visiting Choquequirao is that it has remained well off the beaten path. Only a few hundred visit during the dry season as compared to more than two thousand daily at Machu Picchu. Arriving by the shortest route requires two days of strenuous hiking.
Descending into the deep Apurimac then back up some 4,500 feet to reach the site is like crossing Arizona's Grand Canyon. One either carries a heavy backpack or hires local packers to bring the needed supplies with horses or mules. The best solution is to sign on with one of the Cusco based trekking agencies that regularly take small groups of 2-6 there during the dry season months of April into December.
It is possible to ride a horse most of the way but good horses are hard to come by. Most of the local packer stock is not up to standards of safety and dependability nor well cared for. Some trekking agencies are marginal. A good test is the cost. If it seems really cheap there is a reason. Carefully researching and checking references before signing on is recommended.
Travelling from Cusco, allow the better part of a day to arrive at Cachora. As of this writing, it takes five to six hours. The highway access regularly slides away with slow, repair-created detours and hosts increasing heavy truck traffic. Some of the route has returned to pot holes and extreme dust. No solution has appeared to solve these delays. Highways can't be built to hold on steep, unstable, Andean mountain slopes. Of course the Inca knew this and carefully placed their foot and pack llama-travelled roads up, down and around where modern roads won't work.
About the Author: Gary Ziegler (above) is a field archaeologist with a geology background. He is a mountaineer and explorer who has spent a lifetime finding and studying remote Inca sites in the Vilcabamba range of Peru's Southern Andes. Gary is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and of the Explorers Club. He has featured in documentary films for the BBC, Discovery Channel, Science and History Channels. In 2013, he was awarded the title 'Distinguished Lecturer' at NASA's Marshal Space Center. He has taught at Colorado College and Peru's national university, San Marcos. His home base is 4000 acre Bear Basin Ranch in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of Southern Colorado's Custer County where he is a former County Sheriff and a founder of the search and rescue unit.
Gary is also the founder of travel company Adventure Specialists which specialises in small, educational, adventure groups and trips focusing on Andean archaeology, discovery expeditions and adventures by foot and horseback.
Machu Picchu's Sacred Sisters: Choquequirao & Llactapata
by Gary Ziegler & J. McKim Malville
2nd edition, 2017
This book shows how Inca monumental sites were carefully planned and designed in accordance with astronomical alignments, and were precisely placed in relationship to sacred rivers, mountains, and celestial phenomena. It includes stories and notes from expedition journals, which are interspersed with soundly researched and referenced facts, data, and qualified interpretation. The result is a book that conveys the excitement and adventure of extreme archaeology in the cloud-forested Andes. It also includes trekking routes, field notes, and a guide to exploring Choquequirao.
Reviews of Gary's book,
This book is about more than these two fascinating sites. It gives a lively look at a rugged, spectacular, and highly important but little-known part of the Inca empire.
John Hemming, Former Director of the Royal Geographical Society
This book is one of the best studies to come out about the Machu Picchu region in years. Congratulations on doing such a meticulous study, and for the photos and plans that are a tremendous help to the reader, besides being of academic importance.
John Reinhard, Explorer in Residence at National Geographic and author of Machu Picchu: Exploring an Ancient Sacred Center
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LA Kings Robyn Regher Remained A Team Guy Throughout The 2014 Stanley Cup Final
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LA Kings defenseman Robyn Regehr, shown here with one of his two sons, during the on-ice celebration after the Kings won the 2014 Stanley Cup at Staples Center in Los Angeles on June 13, 2014.
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LOS ANGELES — On June 13, defenseman Alec Martinez scored at 14:43 of the second overtime period, leading the Los Angeles Kings to a 3-2 victory over the New York Rangers in Game 5 of the 2014 Stanley Cup Final at Staples Center in Los Angeles. The victory eliminated the Rangers in five games, and gave the Kings their second Stanley Cup Championship in three seasons.
Although it probably seemed like an eternity to the players, it did not take too much time before National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman handed the Stanley Cup to Kings captain Dustin Brown at center ice.
Unlike the first time he skated with the Stanley Cup when the Kings won it in 2012, this time, Brown took more time during his skate with hockey's Holy Grail, savoring his time with the most revered trophy in professional sports.
"It's definitely not because I had more energy, that's for sure," said Brown. "I knew where my family was sitting, so I made a curl that way. I have all my immediate family here—that's about twenty people. I'm just glad they're all here."
But many were watching closely to see who Brown handed the Cup to next, and he surprised very few when he passed it to veteran defenseman Robyn Regher.
"I've had the opportunity to lift the Stanley Cup twice, and I've had the opportunity to pass it off to someone who's never touched it twice," said Brown. "That's something that's special to me."
But the Kings have two players who had never won the Stanley Cup before, the other being veteran left wing Marian Gaborik. That presented Brown with a dilemma: who gets it first?
"The only real decision was [Gaborik] and Robyn," Brown explained. "Both are veteran guys looking for their first Cup. I know [Regehr] didn't play from that second series on, but he was a big part. He was healthy, ready to go, and he provided leadership in warm-ups."
"Either one of those guys could have [been the first], but at the end of the day, you go with a more veteran guy, Brown elaborated. "Again, I know he didn't play [in the Stanley Cup Final], but he's a big part off the ice and behind the scenes that a lot of people didn't see."
Backtracking just a bit…according to NHL traditions, after the captain skates with the Stanley Cup, the next in line are usually players who had never won that revered trophy before, like Gaborik and Regher.
"That's tradition," said center Jarret Stoll, who, like Brown, won the Cup with the Kings in 2012. "That's the type of guys we are. That's how it is. Robyn played his 1,000th [NHL regular season] game this year, and he just won a Stanley Cup tonight. What a feeling, what a great moment for him, his family."
"For Regehr, for him to play [over] 1,000 [regular season] games, for him to finally get [a Stanley Cup Championship], it's unbelievable," said Martinez. "I just couldn't be happier for guys like that."
Regehr then passed the Cup to Gaborik, who led all players in goals scored during the playoffs with 14.
"That's what you've got to do," Stoll noted. "Gaborik? Same thing. [He's] played a lot of regular season games and a lot of playoff games, but he'd never won a Cup."
Regher was blown away by Brown's gesture, even though he had an idea that he would get the Cup first.
"It was amazing," Regehr indicated. "I had a little bit of an idea. [Veteran defenseman] Matt [Greene] and some of the other veteran guys were talking about it before and [they] just said [to Brown], 'if you wanted to give it to Marian first…' but I guess they thought I was older than him, so I have a little more seniority."
"It felt great," Regher added. "For him to do that—I've been waiting 15 years for an opportunity and to get that chance is an awesome feeling."
"I got within a goal about ten years ago. To get back here again was just awesome."
Regher's enthusiasm and excitement about becoming a Stanley Cup Champion could have easily been put on hold by the fact that, as mentioned earlier, he did not play in the Stanley Cup Final.
But he never complained or sulked.
"There's all kinds of good roles within a team," he noted. "Some of them are big, some of them are small. For me, unfortunately, I hurt my knee in the first game against Anaheim [in the second round of the playoffs], so I got moved to a smaller role, but one I can still do a good job at, regardless, and try to make the most of. So I did that."
"I worked hard at trying to get back, but the guys who came in, Jeff Schultz and Matt Greene—these guys played amazing," he added. "They did a great job, and as a team, we got the job done. That's the most important thing."
As the saying goes, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."
"It would've been nice to play [in the Stanley Cup Final], but with the circumstances the way they were, also the guys who had a chance to step in and play they way that they did—Jeff Schultz had the opportunity and played very well in the Anaheim series," said Regher. "Matt Greene came in and played very, very well for us."
"That's what being a team is all about," added Regher. "When you get that opportunity as a player and you step in there, do the job and do it well—those guys did—it was just great to be part of this (winning the Stanley Cup) now. This is why [he and his family] came to L.A—the opportunity to win championships. That's all that matters."
Regehr certainly got that opportunity, despite not playing in the Stanley Cup Final.
"That's what it's all about," he emphasized. "It's about being involved with a championship winning team. Now I can check that box. I was talking to the guys who've done it before. It's something they'll cherish forever. They'll have those feelings and memories forever. It's something that's very exciting."
Raw Audio Interview
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Robyn Regher (2:51)
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Russian long-range aviation turns 106
Russian Liberal Democrats Do Not Consider West As Their Enemy Any More
Russia » Politics
The Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) announced that their programme contains no more provisions including anti-American, anti-Western and anti-NATO sentiments. Such a statement was made by LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky at the 8th party congress Thursday. Delivering a political report, Zhirinovsky announced transformation of the public political organisation Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia into a political party in accordance with the law on political parties adopted recently. At the same time, he believes that LDPR is born for the second time. According to Zhirinovsky, the new LDPR differs from the old one in the foreign-policy doctrine. Russia's place now is "in northern civilisation: the USA, Canada and the united Europe," he said. "After the September 11 events we became allies and a brilliant operation in Afghanistan testifies to the fact that we can jointly eliminate any beds of terrorism," Zhirinovsky stated. In this connection he expressed an opinion that LDPR does not consider the West to be its enemy any more.


The Society was founded in 1899 by a group of dedicated anglers who fished Stanley Reservoir in Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire. Today the Society has grown to be one of the more prominent fishing organisations in the UK with members, made up of seniors, ladies, juveniles, and disabled members from all over the country.
Our Waters
With a good selection of still waters and a number of river stretches to tackle we aim to cater for all types of angling. For canal anglers this year we can now offer three stretches for you to enjoy. The links below will take your to our full Waters List or our Google Map.
2023 membership is now available click the Join Us button below for full details.
Sotas 2022 AGM Report
Details can be found in the Members section of the website or Clicking Here
Proposed Work party dates
Dates and venues will be added once agreed by the Water Development Team. Dates will be uploaded onto this site with further details.
- Work Party Astbury Mere Sunday 8/1/23 - meeting for 8am start at the equipment container
Important Notice to all Members
As everyone is aware, with postal strikes and the oncoming of Christmas, the postal service is in a bit of disarray. They are prioritising parcels so our 2023 tickets are being processed very slowly to say the least. I would ask any members who are waiting to be patient. I would also like to add, that anyone who has not sent for their new ticket to be aware that they can pay and collect their new ticket at the clubs general meeting, which will be the 12th of January and the 9th of February, at the Victory WMC Smallthorne from 8pm.
Also as the 2022 ticket is not yet invalid, if you retain it and have a receipt for a 2023 ticket and are waiting for your new ticket, the club will allow you to fish from the 1st of January 2023.
I want all our bailiffs to be aware of this and show some common sense. Hopefully this situation will not last too long. Once normal services have been restored, we will revert back to "no ticket no fishing ".
K. Grocott
Fisheries Manager.
Anyone already on the waiting list and not offered a place for the current season must renew their General Membership ticket to retain their place on the list. Non members will be removed from the list.
National Celebration of Young People and Fishing 2022 w/e 17-18/09/22
This week-end saw over 300 young people taking part in this annual celebration event.
This will be the 3rd year that SOTAS junior members have been involved in the celebration. Since the SOTAS Academy was formed in 2021, the numbers have increased as follows :
2020 - 3, 2021 - 15, 2022 - 34
The celebration event follows much detailed planning and preparation aimed at making it fun and enjoyable for everyone taking part and for some quite a competitive element to the match.
Saturday saw 10 of our SOTAS Academy cadets ( 7 to 11 years ) battling it out on the Shropshire Union Canal in Staffordshire and putting in a brilliant performance
Individually one of our cadets , Oliver Flanagan finished in 4th place out of over 90 taking part with a weight of 1.48Kg
( Interestingly the top 3 places in the Cadets were won by the girls ).
Nathan Morris was not too far behind with a weight of 1.23kg.
Eliza Brook and Joel Wood were both awarded with most promising cadet awards with weights of 1.23Kg and 0.97Kg.
Team wise , out of 30 teams one of our SOTAS Cadets teams took 6th spot.
On the Sunday it was the turn of the SOTAS juniors ( 11 to 15 years ).
Over 190 fished the match on the Shropshire Union Canal in Shropshire
Individually, one of our SOTAS juniors , Poppy Bishop , finished in 5th place overall with a weight of 3.650Kg ( Poppy also finished 5th in 2021 ).
Our best weight from the boys came from Seth Leigh.
For the first time SOTAS also entered 3 teams from Saint Peter's Academy following a number of Let's Fish events organised with Craig Manifold.
In a new prize category for the Celebration event , Saint Peter's managed to win the Best School Trophy.
In conclusion , it has been an hectic week-end with some lifelong memories made along the way - everyone of the SOTAS Academy youngsters have stepped up to the occasion and have made the SOTAS coaches and their parents proud of their achievements.
Roll on next year 👍
Noel's Pool Memorial Match 10/09/2022
Today saw a landmark in our Club's history in terms of the number of youngsters attending a junior match.
22 fished which is the biggest number taking part in a SOTAS junior match in the past 50 years.
Because of the demand for this celebration match this had to be fished on 2 pools - Noel's Pool and North Road.
The overall winner was Brandon Sleem who weighed 8lb 15oz from peg 8 on North Road pool and becomes the 2nd person to win the Noels Memorial shield.
2nd place went to Louis Glenn with 5lb 7oz from peg 7 on Noel's Pool.
3rd place was Brandon Sumner with 4lb 6oz from peg 14 on Noels Pool.
The top cadet on the day was Oliver Flanaghan with 3lb 14oz from peg 6 on Noels Pool.
A big well done to everybody who took part.
Thanks to :
John Skidmore for kindly donating the Shield and for the prizes for the top 3 places.
Trentside Angling and Nathan's of Burslem for the tackle vouchers.
Angling Trust and Sport England for the Get Fishing Award Certificates and the 4 metre whips.
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Astbury Mere Waiting List Applications
Changes to Astbury Mere Carp Waiting List Rules :-
Only General Members of Stoke-on-Trent Angling Society will be eligible for acceptance onto the waiting list.
Anyone wishing to be considered for Astbury Mere Waiting List will first have to be a General Member of SOTAS then needs to download and complete the Application Form Click Here and email to stokeontrentanglingsociety@gmail.com or post to the address on the form and provide your current Membership Ticket Number. If approved their name will be added to the list on this page together with their position number.
Click Here to view Astbury Mere Waiting List website page.
New "Water Maps and Details"
A new set of detailed Society Waters Maps have been completed. As well as a map and directions they give details of stock and species and other useful information for each water You can view and download them by Clicking Here
New Astbury Common Record
Steven Cross as landed a new common carp record for Astbury Mere. Congratulations Steven. Anyone wishing to see the photo's Click Here or visit the blog page.
£1 Juvenile Ticket Retained for 2023
The £1 juvenile ticket has been retained for 2023 with a view to attracting more juveniles.
Special rules will apply i.e. child protection, fishing in the same peg with an adult, 3 rods max per peg.
It is hoped that this new initiative will provide a gateway into the sport for the young of today to become the anglers of tomorrow.
The mission of Stoke-on-Trent Angling Society is to manage, serve and promote angling. To assist members and participants in their various forms of involvement in angling. To adhere to all the laws of angling and to encourage and facilitate the involvement of as many people as possible in angling activities.
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NJ legal weed: Home grow is a no-go, but advocates push to change that
Long Branch will move cops, health services to Monmouth Medical — if they get the money
Dan Radel
LONG BRANCH - The city could be moving its police and health departments and its municipal court to Monmouth Medical Center.
But the details of exactly where and how it will be paid for are still fuzzy.
The impetus behind the move, according to the city's elected officials, is a growing need for space, along with shortfalls the city experienced in its response to the pandemic.
"The COVID-19 pandemic made us aware of the need to prepare our residents for new health emergencies. Our health department, in cooperation with Monmouth Medical Center, wants to enhance wellness programs to assist our residents with living healthier lifestyles," Mayor John Pallone said in a statement emailed to the Asbury Park Press.
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Pallone said the pandemic highlighted the digital divide in the city where many residents lack access or training to use a computer. The health center city officials are looking to create would serve as a health monitoring and telecommunications training center.
"This training center will allow us to bridge this digital divide," Pallone said.
The police department, which has been in the basement of City Hall since at least 1976, has 92 workers and has outgrown the space. Furthermore, it's not easily accessible for people with disabilities, City Administrator George Jackson said in an interview with the Asbury Park Press.
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The city currently leases space at 279 Broadway for its municipal court.
City officials along with Bill Armold, president of RWJBarnabas Health Southern Region, announced the preliminary plans last Friday, under which the hospital would donate unspecified buildings to the city at no cost. RWJBarnabas Health owns multiple hospitals, including Monmouth Medical Center.
Arnold said the hospital is undergoing renovations and upgrades. In a response to an Asbury Park Press inquiry, Arnold said RWJBarnabas Health is working with an architectural planner and is reviewing properties on the periphery of the campus between Lowden Court and Bath Avenue.
"Monmouth Medical Center has long maintained an outstanding relationship with the City of Long Branch and its police and health departments. RWJBarnabas Health is pleased to partner with the city and support (its) vision for the future of Long Branch," Arnold said.
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Monmouth Medical Center also is expanding its footprint outside of the city and has started construction on a four-story 82,000-square-foot medical and wellness facility at Monmouth Mall in Eatontown. That facility will house comprehensive women's services, pediatric services, wellness education and resources, a laboratory and blood drawing station and an Urgent Care Center. It's slated to open in October.
It is not clear if the opening of the Eatontown location will free up some of the buildings at the main Long Branch location.
The story continues after the photo gallery below.
Pallone said the city's taxpayers won't incur direct costs to get the buildings, and officials would look to tap into federal funds for additional cost savings to make necessary renovations.
The city received $12.5 million of the recently passed $1.9 trillion federal stimulus relief funds and will look to use what they can of that for this plan. The money has to be spent by 2024, according to federal guidelines.
Jackson also told the Press that if President Joe Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure plan passes, they'd look to secure funds from there as well.
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The city has not provided a timeline for this plan. Jackson said it would not take long for the transfer of titles once the properties are identified. He said it might be easier for the center to donate the buildings rather than market them.
Monmouth Medical Center, located between Second and Third avenues, is across the street from a NJ Transit train station. The neighborhood is a designated Transit Village, which allows the city to source state Department of Transportation grant money.
The city's plan, approved in 2016, calls for bicycle routes and mixed-use districts that encourage pedestrian activity and easy access to goods, services and mass transit.
Currently, the city is in the middle of streetscaping improvements on Third Avenue, and new residential units are going up at the site of the former Casey Jones restaurant near the train station and on Third.
When Jersey Shore native Dan Radel is not reporting the news, you can find him in a college classroom where he is a history professor. Reach him @danielradelapp; 732-643-4072; dradel@gannettnj.com.


Crazy Pedro's Late Night Pizza Party is Coming to Birmingham!
Did someone say pizza party?! 🥳
Get ready for the most outrageous pizza creations, served in a vibey street art-infused environment.
This summer, Crazy Pedro's is coming to Birmingham. They're set to open to their doors in a 4-storey venue in The Custard Factory, taking over a 5000sq ft.
Renowned for its headline-grabbing pizza creations such as Crème Eggs on pizza and Chippy Tea with curry sauce, the late-night party bar will be serving up 16" New York style pizzas all day with slices available until 3 am. The menu will also be home to its infamous 24" pizza, a whole 452 square inches worth of pizza goodness.
Crazy Pedro's specialises in all things tequila and mezcal, showcasing one of the largest agave collections in the UK, the Digbeth venue will serve up frozen Margaritas on tap 7 days a week.
Birmingham will be the fourth Crazy Pedro's venue in the UK for the Liars Group following hugely successful launches in Manchester, where there are two sites, and Liverpool, where the brand enjoys a cult following.
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Everything You Need to Know About Precious Australian Teal Sapphire
Teal sapphires are becoming increasingly popular in jewellery markets across the world, making them one of the top engagement ring trends of the past year. This unique gemstone exhibits two of nature's most captivating colours; deep ocean blue and vivacious green. Tibetan Buddhists believe teal signifies the infinity of the sea and the sky, while for the ancient Egyptians, it represented truth and faith.
Since Australian Teal Sapphires are relativity new to the market, there is very little information on this precious stone, so today we're diving into the world of teal sapphires!
What exactly is a teal sapphire?
This rare gem is a sibling stone to the classic blue sapphire. Prior to the discovery of teal sapphires, Montana sapphires were the main source. Fast forward to today, teal sapphires can be found in Australia, Cambodia, Madagascar, Nigeria and Thailand. They are ethically sourced due to mining restrictions.
Teal sapphires are created when the stone contains an equal mix of blue and green, with a hint of yellow. With the rarest and most valuable grade of teal sapphire made of a completely equal 50/50 blue-green combination.
Why do people consider teal sapphire special?
Teal sapphires are earthy, unique, and mystical. People consider this gemstone special due to its clarity. The first thing that one sees is inclusion - inclusion is anything that can be easily seen in the stone.
Sapphires are an incredibly durable gemstone, making them ideal for everyday wear. You will be glad to know that this Sapphire ranks 9 out of 10 on the Mohs mineral hardness scale. Meaning they're the second hardest, natural stone next to diamonds. You can be confident sapphire is sturdy enough to withstand a lifetime of wear.
Things to look out for before purchasing this gemstone:
To ensure the gem is real, you'll need to expose it to light. It should always have a teal, deep bluish-green or greenish-blue hue to it. In rare cases, your stone may have a colour-changing or colour shiting effect. If this ever occurs, then you make sure to invest in it, as it's a valuable gem.
Should have a perfect cut
Symmetry is everything when it comes to picking the perfect teal sapphire. Choose a stone that has been perfectly cut for the highest possible quality.
The cut of the stone has a significant impact on the beauty of the stone too. Research says that an oval cut is the most ideal shape to truly showcase the colours and shades. Whereas other cuts may make the stone appear darker.
Properly reflect light
Another important thing to look out for is that it should perfectly reflect the light. The teal should be sparkling or shining. Your stone should have large windows. You can refer to the centre of the stone as the window. When a stone has a window the light transmits right through it.
The gemstone's colour doesn't change when it's exposed to light. Although natural and artificial lights will have different effects on this stone. Natural lighting conditions make the gem look the best.
Have smooth surface
When looking at sapphires, you'll want to make sure it has a polished or smooth surface. A gemstone with bumps will not be pleasing to the eye or ideal. You won't want to add that to your jewellery collection.
So that's it for teal sapphires, hopefully, this article will help you find the stone of your dreams.
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Brighter than my future | Neon Cargo Trousers - Femme Luxe Refinery
I've been living in these lime green neon cargo trousers from Femme Luxe. I'm obsessed with them! If my (future) dog ever lost me, he can spot me from miles away. 💁🏻♀
All jokes aside, I've been waiting for the neon trend to make a comeback for ages. Do you remember back in the 2000s, there was a neon phase where everyone wore bright leg warmers and mesh tutu skirts? What a vibe. There's just something about neon that brings me so much joy.
These photo don't do the trousers any justice, they're so much brighter in person, it's actually brighter than my future. I love pairing cargo trousers with basic crop top or bodysuit to let the elasticated sections and pocket detailing truly stand out.
In this outfit, I've styled the trousers with Vans Old Skool Trainers for a casual look. But if you want to dress it up, pop on some strappy heels to give your look a touch of attitude.
Corset - Femme Luxe
Neon Cargo - Femme Luxe
*Disclaimer: Items gifted by Femme Luxe.
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The Best Sweaters to Gift This Winter-Holiday Season
Alexa, play Sweater Weather by The Neighbourhood.
Sweaters are arguably the most perfect holiday gift, right after socks of course. It's an absolute must-have for the chilly season and they're an extremely versatile item that can be gifted to women and men of all ages. There are plenty of styles to chose from - chunky knits, cardigans, button-ups, pullovers, turtle necks etc - which can make it tricky finding one you know someone is going to love.
To make your life and gift shopping experience easier, here are the best sweaters for women that make for fabulously cosy gifts this season.
If there is a special someone who really deserves to be spoiled, gift them a cashmere sweater. Cashmere is known as the "jewel of fabrics", the luxurious material is incredibly smooth and soft against the skin. It's one of the most premium and comfortable sweaters a person can wear to make their everyday a little more special.
Not only will getting them a high-end, quality sweater like this show much they mean to you, it's also a timeless staple that they can wear for many years.
Geometric / Print Sweater
A geometric sweater is fun and bold, it's perfect for someone with a lot of personality.
For those festive silly gatherings, you can't go wrong with an ugly Christmas sweater, especially when it's paired with a funny hat. It's bound to brighten up their face and wardrobe when they open your gift. If your gathering is the completely opposite end of the spectrum or if you prefer to play it safe, opt for a print such as strips that can be worn at any time of the year.
Sweater dresses technically count as a sweater, providing an extra option for sweater loving women everywhere!
Sweater dresses look fabulous on pretty much everyone. It can be worn casually or dressed up with a belt for an elegant look. Short sweater dresses are ideal for the younger ones, while an over the knee style is more suitable for the older ladies. These women sweater dresses are a special gift that will leave your loved one speechless!
Everyone can appreciate a thick sweater they can wrap around themselves like a blanket. Imagine curling up by the fire with a cup of hot chocolate wearing a blanket-like cardigan - unbeatable cosiness.
A cardigan is perfect for any age, they come in all different length and styles so you can easily find one that reflects the personal tastes of the person for whom you are buying the sweater.
Mock & Turtle Neck Sweater
Who said cozy sweaters have to be oversized and unflattering?
Mock and turtle neck sweaters are personally my favourite. The fit gives off chic girl boss vibes and its fab for keeping your neck warm for those of us who don't like wearing scarfs. Mock neck sweaters look more expensive than they actually cost too. So, if you're looking to impress a fashion easter on a budget, a mock neck or turtle next sweater is the way to go.


American Horror Story: 3x7
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