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Back in April of 2016, in the Rhineland-Palatinate region, German authorities arrested five men who were suspected of running a darknet drug market called "Chemical Love".
After raiding the Chemical Love warehouse they seized a staggering variation of drugs as well as collecting intelligence of a huge incoming consignment.
165 grams of crystal meth.
In Chemical Loves' German based warehouse investigators found over 2200 historic orders on their computer worth over 1.3million euros.
Later nearly 300 German polic e targeted 63 of Chemical Love's top customers and made raids on 68 locations and started over 1000 formal investigations into past customers.
In June three members of the Chemical Love team were sentenced to prison. The main suspect, going by "z100", was given a prison sentence of 14 years and 10 months. With the other two suspects receiving seven-year sentences.
The main suspect was ordered to pay 10 million euros to the German state in a deal similar to the UK's proceeds of crime act. The sum includes the profits the chemical love made and unusual the estimated value increase of the bitcoins they received as payments.
The Chemical love drug vendor shop was one of the largest darknet drug vending sites offering drugs in Germany. Fassel added that the criminals sold cocaine, cannabis, LSD, MDMA and ecstasy pills.
The judge declared the main suspect as a criminal mastermind and head of the operation, who had established prosperity with the drug business, even if he did not admit it. He had a "tendency to drugs", but the court doubted that this had driven him to action. According to the court documents, it was more likely that the man had decided to commit the crimes "because of his personality".


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Jul 13 LEGENDARY VOICE ACTING DIRECTOR ANDREA ROMANO
Last year at San Diego Comic Con 2018, while on assignment for Bleeding Cool , I had the chance to sit down a nd chat with some pretty big names in the Voice Acting universe and here is one of the biggest. Iconic Voice Director Andrea Romano has been bossing around the biggest names in voice acting for quite some time. As a voice talent Agent in the early 1980s, Andrea would record audition tapes for her clients, and sit in on recording sessions. The folks over at Hanna- Barbera thought she might be a good fit for Casting Director, and the rest is animation history. The Smurfs, Johnny Quest, Pound Puppies, the Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Teen Titans, Static Shock, Justice League, Spongebob Squarepants, and so many more.. But today, Andrea is discussing the remastering of Batman:The Animated Series (B:TAS), and what those early days in Gotham were really like.
B:TAS has been hailed by fans as the definitive portrayal of Batman, in any medium, almost since it first aired in late 1992 and the vibrant Andrea is a huge part of that depiction. Romano excitedly sits right down and jumps right in by telling us how it feels to celebrate the release of Batman:TAS on Blu Ray.
"Who would have thought, 27 years ago, when we said.'Let's make this Batman cartoon,', and we thought we had made something really good. We did. We wanted to make something that we wanted to watch.that we thought would be fun for ourselves."
Romano continues to explain,
" It is something that I am so proud of, and what is amazing is, it's still good. If you watch it now, it's still a good cartoon series. It evolved, it got better, we got better. The animation got better. The voice acting got better. My casting got better. Everything improved so that we all felt like we were growing and learning."
On taking her time to find just the right voice Romano tells us,
"The animation was going to be different, novel and new. I knew I had to find voices that were, I had to find actors first. If they had iconic voices, voices you could remember. Voices with character, as opposed to people doing character voices. Spongebob Squarepants is a character voice, but Kevin Conroy's Batman is a voice with character. It's just got a quality to it. Those are the kind of actors I like to bring in."
Andrea cites a few examples,
"like John Vernon, you know has this deep wonderful voice. Or Bob Hastings as the commissioner. Not because I could use them doing multiple voices on the show, but a great voice. Or Bobby Costanzo as Bullock. He was that guy, he was that Italian tough guy.
Andrea's reputation as a casting director is unparalleled and she is known for taking her time in choosing actors, sometimes considering over 200 voices for a part. We wanted to know if there was anyone that she wanted to cast, but did not get the chance.
Elizabeth Montgomery. Samantha, from Bewitched. I can't believe she came in. She had to wait a few minutes because I was running behind, recording somebody else. She was being recorded by herself, because her schedule was such. She was already quite sick I said I'm sorry Miss Montgomery. I'm sorry for keeping you waiting. 'Oh call me Lizzy' she said.. She couldn't have been nicer or sweeter, I mean oh my God, Samantha Stevens. Holy Moley!"
Enjoy the full video below. Romano can barely contain her excitement as she also talks about the infamous restrictions they had and what they could not show on television, how the imagination is oftens more scary than what's on screen, and how you cannot set out at the beginning to stamp any project as a legacy.
Since 2018, fans can finally enjoy a remastered Blu-ray release of Batman: The Animated Series from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. With 109 episodes, the movies Mask of the Phantasm and Batman and Mr. Freeze: Sub Zero, behind- the- scenes featurettes about the show, a collection of postcards depicting key moments from the series, and 3 Funko pops of Harley Quinn, Batman, and the Joker in their B:TAS costumes- this collection is sure to be a cornerstone of any true Batman fan's collection.
Jul 14 PODCASTING- SUPERMAN!
Jul 12 "MADNESS IN THE METHOD" SNEEK PEEK AT SDCC 2019
Jul 2 BRUCE TIMM TALKS JUSTICE LEAGUE V. FATAL FIVE
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The lips of the righteous nourish many….
"Yes", I said through gritted teeth. As we looked at the math problem together, I could see that my middle-schooler had not read the instructions nor put any effort into finding a solution. I launched into a tirade about these matters. We both went to bed tired and more than a little frustrated.
As I opened my Bible the next morning, James 1:5 hit me sharply in the heart: If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.
I had not given wisdom to my child generously nor without reproach. As we sat down to breakfast, I asked his forgiveness.
I am so thankful that God gives wisdom to me when I ask. But I am even more grateful that it doesn't come with a lecture on my unworthiness, reminders of my inabilities or references to my past disgraces. God does not become exasperated with me, but delights in my request, then gives generously. That generosity is simple, open, frank, and sincere.
I want to be a clear picture of Christ to my children, so this verse challenged me to think about the factors that drive me to "fault finding". It is often fatigue, but more commonly, I find that my own to-do list, my agenda, makes me impatient to their needs and requests. I fear that self makes me cling to my own agenda, and pride makes me feel that it is more important than anybody else's needs.
Thank you, Lord, for using the mirror of your Word and my precious child, to chisel away at the ungodliness in me. Use any tool, Lord!


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Highways and Road Development State Minister Ranjan Ramanayake yesterday said that he had been told to appear before the four-member committee today (22) at 10.00a.m over an allegation he made about certain lawmakers consuming cocaine.
The four-member committee was appointed by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and comprises of State Minister of Finance Eran Wickramaratne, Prof. Ashu Marasinghe, Presidents Counsel Nissanka Nanayakkara while the head of the committee is Public Enterprise and Kandyan Heritage Minister Lakshman Kiriella.
State Minister Ramanayake said he had been ordered to be present at parliament committee room-1 this morning.
"My claim about certain lawmakers consuming cocaine is true. There was no need for me to make false statements to gain attention. Some ministers whom I used to associate with very closely may now be angry with me. No matter what happens, I will reveal all the names I have with me to the committee," he said.
"I have already received many threats because of the revelation, but I don't care, he said. Earlier, I was removed from my Divulapitiya electorate for revealing details of sand racketeers, he added. (Indika Sri Aravinda)
Raj Friday, 22 February 2019 11:16 AM
Also get all the lists the he promised by saying "I'll reveal" I'll reveal tomorrow" I'll reveal next week" and so on.
mario Friday, 22 February 2019 11:50 AM
Our Old Fox will postpone this inquiry to avoid media attention
HP Friday, 22 February 2019 01:59 PM
Show your true colours man. Corner the drug takers
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Whoever said 'history never repeats itself' might have had a change of heart, had they attended Bertoia's March 9-10, 2019 Spring Signature Sale. Many who were there commented that the atmosphere felt like an auction of the go-go 1990s and early 2000s, when collectors would travel halfway around the world to bid on toys from fabled collections.
Over the last three years, Bertoia's has auctioned three major collections of Fernand Martin French clockwork toys, with Mohr's being the third. This has created an unusual windfall for collectors, since Martin toys are ordinarily in short supply in the international marketplace. At the March sale, the Mohr assemblage was led by a boxed L'Intrepide Jockey (Intrepid Jockey) on a hobby horse carrying a Mona Lisa painting under his arm, which sold for $12,000 against an estimate of $5,000-7,500. Following closely behind was a Cherif on Camel, which rode to $11,400 against a $3,500-5,500 estimate.
Other European tin toys of note included a Gunthermann 11-inch 'Bleriot' tin windup airplane – an early "pusher" style – which was bid to an astonishing $42,000 against an estimate of $1,200-1,800; and two Ferris wheels, both purchased via the internet. A 19-inch-high Doll et Cie., Ferris wheel with flags and composition figures, earned $16,800 ($6,000-9,000 estimate). Of unknown manufacture, a superb 19-inch Ferris wheel steam accessory with great turn of the century charm, realized $13,200.
Many train lots flew past their estimates. A Marklin Clockwork Congressional Limited gauge one set more than doubled its high estimate at $16,800; while a Marklin gauge two pair of American Eagle cars reached its destination at $12,000. Among the American trains, a Carlisle & Finch 2-inch-gauge nickel-finish electric locomotive fared best, at $10,200.
The Jackman collection of American banks offered collectors the opportunity to acquire many rarities in exceptional condition. One of few known examples of a "Cross" still bank, estimated at $2,000-3,000, prevailed at $7,200.
The prestigious German manufacturer Marklin produced imposing ocean liners and military vessels that were pricey a century ago and are incredibly expensive today. The top lot of the sale was a 25-inch-long live-steam Marklin cruiser Bremen, which sailed to $57,000 (estimate: $20,000-40,000). A 46-inch ocean liner Augusta Victoriamade by Marklin around 1910, with provenance from the venerable Malcolm Forbes collection, sold within estimate at $54,000; while a powerful 30-inch-long Marklin Torpedo Boat swept past its $15,000-25,000 estimate to dock at $42,000.
A selection of automata charmed bidders, especially Le Buffet Magique, which realized more than twice its high estimate at $9,000. Another nice surprise was the circa 1907 Teddy Roosevelt "Rough Rider" mohair bear in its original clothing, which ignited a bidding war that concluded at $13,200. It had been estimated at $600-1,000.
For more information, or to consign to a future Bertoia Auctions event, call (856) 692-1881, email toys@bertoiaauctions.com or visit www.bertoiaauctions.com.


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Jokowi offers Prabowo a piece of the pie
Foreign Policy - October 31, 2019
Aaron Connelly, Evan A. Laksmana – In late May, riots raged in parts of Jakarta following the announcement that incumbent Indonesian President Joko Widodo, better known as Jokowi, had been reelected to a second five-year term by nearly 17 million votes.
In the State Palace just over a mile away, Jokowi's advisors saw the hand of retired Lt. Gen. Prabowo Subianto, Jokowi's defeated challenger, in the protests. Prabowo, they allege, had instigated the riots in the hope of a popular uprising that would overthrow Jokowi and install Prabowo in his place.
If that was the plan, it did not work. The riots were quickly put down, and authorities charged some veterans close to Prabowo with treason and the illegal movement of weapons. At one point, the police notified Prabowo that he too might be the subject of a treason investigation.
Instead, just five months later, Jokowi has announced Prabowo as the defense minister in his second-term cabinet.
It is a decision without precedent in Indonesian political history – and one that could have extraordinary consequences for the world's third-largest democracy. Although Jokowi made the decision in the hopes that it would bring stability, it will likely offer just the opposite, and it could augur poorly for human rights and the rule of law.
Before he entered politics, Prabowo was one of Indonesia's most powerful generals as the commander of the Army Strategic Reserve Command and the son-in-law of the dictator Suharto. A graduate of advanced infantry and special forces courses at the U.S. military's Fort Benning and Fort Bragg, he was a favorite of American military advisors. Many anticipated he would one day command the military and even succeed his father-in-law. Nor did Prabowo merely marry into power. His own family comes from a Javanese aristocratic line that goes back centuries. Prabowo's grandfather founded Indonesia's central bank, and his father was a prominent economist and minister. As Prabowo's army career took off, his younger brother, Hashim, made a fortune in the private sector.
When protests threatened to bring down Suharto in 1998, Prabowo ordered a special forces team to kidnap various pro-democracy activists. He claims all those his troops kidnapped were returned unharmed – although more than a dozen other activists never came back. Suharto stepped down on May 21, 1998, allowing Vice President B.J. Habibie to succeed him.
The following day, after Prabowo was stripped of his command, he went to the palace with a number of his men. He says he voluntarily relinquished his weapon before seeing the new president; others present say he had to be disarmed. Prabowo says that he was merely pleading with Habibie to keep command of his troops. Habibie and his aides, fearing a coup attempt, refused these demands and left the palace. Prabowo claims he had no intention of seizing power.
Prabowo was dismissed from the military months later, following the recommendations of a board of senior generals. After a period in self-exile, Prabowo has spent the last decade seeking the presidency through his own political party, the Great Indonesia Movement, or Gerindra, which is built around his personality and populist rhetoric and supported primarily by his brother's fortune.
Prabowo's brand of economic nationalism and identity politics has appealed to voters. Gerindra has done well in the last two legislative elections in 2014 and 2019, each time securing just over 10 percent of the allocated seats in the national legislature. While Prabowo has lost two consecutive presidential elections, his party remains the third-largest in the People's Representative Council, after the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, affiliated with Jokowi, and the Golkar Party, which was once a cornerstone of Suharto's rule.
Jokowi, a mild-mannered, almost shy figure who rose from humble origins, appears at first to present a stark contrast to Prabowo. He first came to national attention as the successful mayor of his hometown of Surakarta. He was supported by Prabowo in his election as governor of Jakarta in 2012, only to turn on his sponsor by running against him for president in 2014. This year's rematch has cemented their rivalry and Indonesians' impression of the two as representing opposite poles of Indonesian politics: Jokowi supporters tend to be more pluralist, while Prabowo supporters are more conservative.
Yet Gerindra's inclusion in the cabinet does not represent a significant ideological concession on the president's part. Indonesian parties tend to cohere around patronage networks rather than a shared vision for the country. Whether a party or a legislator supports the president's program depends primarily on whether it stands to benefit from the program. With Gerindra in the cabinet – another party executive was appointed to the lucrative fisheries ministry – it will undoubtedly share some of the fruits of governance.
Jokowi hopes that prestige and patronage will be enough to secure Gerindra support for his legislative agenda of economic development through improvements to infrastructure and labor reforms. In the Indonesian system, where lawmaking rarely occurs without the concurrence of a supermajority of parties in the legislature, having Gerindra on his side could be the difference between success and failure.
That does not mean the president trusts Prabowo. He has named several other former generals and powerful figures to key positions to balance one another out and to contain Prabowo. Retired Gen. Fachrul Razi, appointed as minister for religious affairs, was a deputy military commander and a member of the disciplinary board that recommended Prabowo's discharge. Fachrul is a close associate and military academy classmate of retired Gen. Luhut Pandjaitan, the coordinating minister for maritime affairs and investment. Luhut, a close confidant and former business associate of Jokowi who sponsored his rise to the top of Indonesian politics, was a decorated special forces officer.
Jokowi also appointed Mohammad Mahfud, a constitutional law professor, as coordinating minister for political, legal, and security affairs, leading the broader security establishment including the defense ministry. Mahfud was a former defense minister and later served as chief justice of the Constitutional Court. The home minister, former National Police Chief Tito Karnavian, is deeply loyal to Jokowi, as is the current commander of the military, Air Chief Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto.
Jokowi's effort to create a balance among his ministers is a classic strategy practiced by the kings who once ruled Java, and typical of Jokowi, who hails from the cultural heart of the island. But it is also a huge risk.
Prabowo will be the most powerful defense minister since democratization. He is likely to continue to lead Gerindra and has long-standing and deep ties to the Army special forces, which he commanded from 1995 to 1998. He is surrounded by dozens of influential retired generals, such as Djoko Santoso and J.S. Prabowo – many are also part of Gerindra.
Prabowo is also a polarizing figure for the military establishment. On the one hand, some see him as a no nonsense, professional soldier's soldier with a deep love and generosity for the rank and file. For decades, he has provided financial support for the logistical needs of various Army units and the education of dozens of officers.
Others in the military see him as a rule-breaking maverick who relied on political connections to get ahead. They resent that his conduct has tarnished the military's reputation and that upon entering politics, Prabowo and his men tried to extend and utilize their influence within the military, setting back organizational cohesion and professionalization as democracy took hold.
Jokowi's gambit could go one of two ways.
Prabowo could take his first chance at public office in two decades to prove his critics wrong, restore his reputation, and leave a legacy as one of Indonesia's most effective defense ministers. With his extensive knowledge of foreign affairs, he could be a powerful voice for Indonesian interests in regional forums. He could energize the defense ministry's role in policymaking and improve its relationship with the uniformed military. He might use his personal authority to push the military to complete its long-overdue organizational transformation and technological modernization to contend with a challenging strategic environment.
Or, if his past is any indication, Prabowo could be a disaster. He might seek to dominate the security establishment beyond the bounds of his legal authority, increasing frictions within the military and between the military and civilians. It seems likely that he will advocate hard-line approaches to internal security, including the recent unrest in the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua, and demand a greater role in counterterrorism. Both moves would exacerbate military-police tensions that have grown heated over the past few years and distract the military from defending Indonesia's interests as the rivalry between the United States and China gathers steam.
Moreover, Prabowo's presence in the cabinet is likely to lead to more brittle Indonesian politics. The relationship between the two leaders is not one built on trust or respect. Both men will be on the alert for any signs that the other is seeking to undermine his authority. As an ancient Javanese political proverb notes, "There cannot be two suns in the sky at same time."
In a political crisis, a mere resignation or dismissal might be a relatively benign outcome. The history of the two men serves as a warning. The risk that Jokowi will use his control of the police and attorney general to prosecute Prabowo remains, and the risk that Prabowo will use his network within the military to seize power cannot be discounted. Democracy in Indonesia can no longer be taken for granted.
Prabowo's elevation also represents a failure of over two decades of U.S. policy. Though the United States sanctioned the Indonesian military for human rights abuses committed during the tumultuous transition to democracy, it promised to ease them if individuals and units were held responsible for their actions. The Indonesian response has been uneven, but the United States has continued to ease restrictions. Earlier this year, then-acting U.S. Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan announced that the last set of sanctions, on joint training exercises with the Army special forces, would be removed in 2020.
Prabowo, however, was considered irredeemable. In the summer of 2000, he was denied a visa to enter the United States, consistent with U.S. obligations under the U.N. Convention against Torture. It has now been two decades since he set foot on U.S. soil. Though the slight appears to weigh on Prabowo, he evinces little ill will toward the United States. Diplomatic sources say he has repeatedly sought to be granted a visit.
The U.S. relationship with Indonesia is too important to risk denying entry to Prabowo now. It seems likely that someday soon, he will ascend the steps of the Pentagon to meet with his American counterpart. The moment will be one of somber reflection for those Americans who put accountability at the heart of U.S. policy over the past 20 years, but it will be one of vindication for Prabowo.
[Aaron L. Connelly is the director of the Southeast Asia project at the Lowy Institute in Sydney.]
Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/31/indonesia-democracy-general-jokowi-offers-prabowo-a-piece-of-the-pie
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Sydney: Virat Kohli on Sunday became the ninth Indian cricketer to make 250 appearances in One-Day Internationals (ODIs). He reached the milestone during the second ODI of the ongoing three-match series against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
The 32-year-old, who made his ODI debut on August 18, 2008 against Sri Lanka, has also represented India in 86 Tests and 82 T20Is. Kohli has scored more than 21,000 international runs across formats till now.
Overall, Sachin Tendulkar holds the record for making most ODI appearances for India. Tendulkar played 463 ODIs in his stellar career in which he scored 18,426 runs with the help of 49 hundreds. Besides, he also played 200 Tests and 1 T20I scoring 15921 and 10 runs respectively.
The 'Master Blaster' is followed by MS Dhoni (347 ODIs), Rahul Dravid (340), Mohammad Azharuddin (334), Sourav Ganguly (308), Yuvraj Singh (301) and Anil Kumble (269) in the list of most ODI appearances by Indian players.
Overall, Tendulkar's 463 ODI appearances are also the most by any cricketer in the history of the 50-over format. Sri Lanka's Mahela Jayawardene played 448 ODIs and comes second in the list. Next to follow are Sanath Jayasuria (445), Kumar Sangakkara (404), Shahid Afridi (398), Inzamam-ul-haq (378) and Ricky Ponting (375).
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TODAY, HeidelbergCement announced that their Italian subsidiary, Italcementi, has entered into an agreement with Cementir Holding to buy Cementir Italia, including the fully controlled subsidiaries Cementir Sacci and Betontir.
The acquisition, which includes all of Cementir Italia's cement and concrete business, has an enterprise value of €315 million. Closing of the transaction, which is subject to final approval by the Italian Antitrust Authority, is expected in early 2018.
'Cementir Italia provides an ideal industrial and geographic fit that significantly improves our nationwide presence in Italy,' explained Dr Bernd Scheifele (pictured), chairman of the managing board of HeidelbergCement.
'For Italcementi, the acquisition is a unique opportunity to grow and consolidate their position in the Italian market. We see strong recovery potential in Southern Europe and especially in Italy over the coming years.
Cementir Italia's business includes five integrated cement plants and two cement grinding centers with a total capacity of 5.5 million tonnes per year, as well as a network of terminals and concrete plants, all operating in Italy.
Italcementi will fully integrate the operations into their current network, thereby expanding their position in the Italian market. Minimum annual run-rate cost synergies of €25 million are expected to be achieved by 2020.
The acquisition will be financed with free cash flow, and net investments for the years 2017 and 2018 will remain unchanged. To offset the acquisition, HeidelbergCement say they intend to dispose of non-core assets within their broader portfolio review.


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Alternately ascribing a European and an American sensibility to these quartet sessions is a bit simplistic. But the fact remains that it's more than serendipity that makes two CDs recorded live in the studio with nearly identical instrumentation about one month apart, both first rate, yet so different.
Perhaps it's the combined experience of the musicians in each band, coupled with the fact that tenor saxophonist Rich Halley's four blows flat out on six lengthy compositions, while baritone saxophonist Alberto Pinton's quartet spread its music among 14 much-shorter selections.
It may also be cohesion. Halley, bassist Clyde Reed and drummer Dave Storrs have played together in and around Portland, Ore. for many years, in a variety of settings. Cornetist Bobby Bradford, the ringer here, is also one of the most adaptable of serious musicians. How else can you explain the dexterity of someone whose brass tones sounded equally at home as part of saxophonist Ornette Coleman's spiky, iconoclastic bands and in the formal, yet blues-rooted quartet of the late clarinetist John Carter?
On THE BLUE RIMS, the brassman easily integrates himself into the Halley-Reed-Storrs trio as if his presence was a regular occurrence. Pinton's Clear Now is also a regularly constituted band, or at least as regular as one can be where one member, Venice-born Pinton, lives in Stockholm, and the others, bassist Salvatore Maiore, drummer Roberto Dani and Indianapolis-born brassman Kyle Gregory live in Italy.
Recorded in less than four hours, the Oregon session is one of those that distinguish jazz from other kinds of music. With the ADAT machines turned on the morning after an evening concert by the four, they just played — with a break for sandwiches and stories. The result is the sort of spontaneous and exciting CD that Nashville sweeteners and Los Angles multi-trackers try to duplicate during several months of studio time and usually fail to equal.
tambourine sounds to call out the Sally Ann. When Storrs begins worrying his cymbals, Bradford squeals his way upwards in such as way as to recall "Work Song" until both hornmen turn to a faster, Spanish style vamp. A false ending precedes a coda back in march time.
Another suggestion of how Bradford might have sounded with Coleman, "Rat Trap Blues" showcases a mixture of walking bass and bouncy drumbeats. Storrs contributes some bass drum accents and Halley introduces a breathy Ben Webster-like tone, complete with a tough vibrato, then doubles the tempo as cornet obbligatos appear. The subtle, professional he is, Storrs' drum solo is a brief episode in snare and tom tom foolery without slowing the tune down. Returning to the head, the front line adds variations then exits in higher keys.
The four can be even more outside. "Old Fields" finds Storrs sounding as if he's producing his percussion underpinning from hand drums while Halley, much freer than elsewhere, constructs a solo that seems to want to find the midpoint between "Bags Groove" and some of Arthur Doyle's drooling sax ejaculations; he even gets into squealing multiphonics at one point. After Reed brings the tempo down with a canon-like bass line, Bradford appears to quote lyrical Italian opera-like arias, while the drummer brings out the triangle and other miscellaneous percussion.
Miscellaneous percussion also makes an appearance on "The Stalk" where, largo, Storrs almost appears to be sounding Tibetan bells until fleet-fingered Reed turns the piece andante. As Halley elaborates the theme, Bradford sounds as if he's leading a fox chase. Finally, he ends his chromatic trills with a brassy flourish as his rolling liquid tones mate the saxman's mid-range horn honks.
As on its first outing, COMMON INTENT, Clear Now still seems intent on providing more for the consumer's dollar, playing 14 tunes in less than 49 minutes. This may be admirable, but as on the band's first CD, it seems that the longer tunes that give the members more room to stretch are superior to the shorties.
For instance, as good as Pinton's fleet fingered and flutter tonguing a cappella baritone digressions resonant on "Variation On a Ballad Theme", when the tune runs into "One Of a Kind" (sic), the balladic imagery suggested by the grace notes flowing from the flugelhorn, unhurried plucked bass accompaniment and subtle cymbal pressure give it added strength.
Ditto for "Stoneface", where Pinton's pedal point bari outpourings, and near Philly Joe Jones bop lines from Dani allow Gregory to sail over the changes. Bringing out his bass clarinet, the reedist unites his tone with low-key muted brass for an Eastern European-style sound excursion as Maiore's bass slinks cat-like through the composition.
Or take "Dark Déjà Vu", where the drummer's chinging triangle recalls a freebop version of the Jazz Messengers. Playing with the facility of a tenor saxophonist, Pinton manipulates his baritone to produce smooth multiphonic cadenzas. Gregory contributes sky high trills — is he using the piccolo trumpet here? — and the entire track suggests what would have happened if Lee Morgan and Pepper Adams had been transmutated to the 21st century.
On the other hand, Dani's composition, "Canzone Per Max" and Pinton's "Calm" reference European free music avant garde, something Halley & Co. avoid. The drummer, who has played with such outstanding theorists in that field as tubaist Michel Godard and clarinetist Louis Sclavis, has constructed a slow moving, contrapuntal line, which has only the barest hint of percussion and ends in almost complete silence. Similarly, the reedman's piece is pastorally reminiscent of pre-20th century music, relying as it does on the arco scraping of the double bass.
Whether you like your improv Yank or Continental, there's much to like on both of these discs.


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Latest regional GDP data added to the Regional Economic Activity Report
New Zealand's regional gross domestic product data, for the year ended March 2015, are now available via the Regional Economic Activity Report (REAR) website developed by Dragonfly.
Chris and Finlay worked with the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) to load Statistics NZ's data into the website on the day it was released. The website helps Government make the data available across more channels.
"We update the report regularly, when new data is available," says Chris.
"As long as the structure of the input data is the same, then the updating is automatic. That's the beauty of the system we built, that it can get the information out to the public on the same day it's released."
The data is built onto a staging site at Dragonfly, checked by MBIE staff and then published. According to Statistics NZ, Auckland's contribution to total GDP for the year ended March 2015 was 36.6 percent. Canterbury contributed 13.6 percent, with Wellington narrowly behind at 13.5 percent. The smallest contribution was from the West Coast region (0.7 percent). GDP in the Auckland region grew by 4.2% over the year to March 2015, while GDP in Southland shrank by 10.5% over the same period.
Explore the regional GDP below, visit the full REAR website, or read the Statistics NZ media release.
Overlap between black petrel and fisheries
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Peacefully, at Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline on Thursday 2nd April 2015, Ron, aged 90 years. Beloved husband of Doreen Fraser, a much loved dad of Keith and Linda, a devoted granddad, brother and friend. Sadly missed. Funeral service at Kirkcaldy Crematorium on Wednesday 15th April at 12.45 pm to which all family and friends are invited. Family flowers only please.


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Review: Mindsight by Kenneth Ring and Sharon Cooper
Review: Mindsight
by Kenneth Ring and Sharon Cooper
Today I'm reviewing Mindsight: Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences in the Blind (second edition) by Kenneth Ring and Sharon Cooper.
I saw this in a bookstore one day and just had to buy it. This book poses several fascinating questions: Do blind people actually "see" in out-of-body experiences (OBEs) and near-death experiences (NDEs)? If they're blind from birth, what is it like? Is it more like their normal mode of perception (centered around hearing, touching, smelling) or something entirely different from their normal mode of perception (centered around sight)?
To answer these questions, the authors contacted schools for the blind and arranged to interview several blind people who had OBEs and NDEs. Then they presented the evidence and some fascinating observations in the book. The book is more than just a bunch of interesting stories. In fact, it's rather dry, scientific, and analytical, but it's fascinating, in a good way.
In a nutshell, the answer is: Yes and no. They seem to be no different than OBEs and NDEs of people with normal sight. Sometimes people with normal sight report a strange mode of sight that doesn't exactly correspond with regular eyesight: they report being able to see in all directions at once: spherical sight. They sometimes report being able to sense an entire room with crystal clarity, but it's not exactly the same as physical eyesight.
One woman named Claudia who could see as a young child, but was blind by age 5, described it this way:
"It's kind of like vision but it's not vision...It was seeing but it wasn't vision...because vision is really sharp and it wasn't like that." (pg. 98)
This really piqued my interest. I devoted an entire chapter of my first book to the subject of OBE eyesight and its different modes and peculiarities. The chapter is called "Fight for Sight." You can read the chapter by clicking on this link. What Ring and Cooper found about the blind perfectly matches what I called "Astral Mind-Sensing" in the book. It's almost like you're remotely sensing everything in the room at once in great detail. For example, you "sense" that a chair is six feet (2 meters) in front of you and "sense" every detail about it, at a distance, but it's qualitatively different from "seeing." In fact, this seems to be the normal mode of operation for my OBE eyesight, and I often have to make an effort to switch my mode of perception to "astral sight" in order to get a more visual representation of things; one that more closely matches my physical sight.
Other times, the blind do seem to be able to "see." People who have extreme visual impairment can, in an OBE, suddenly "see" everything with crystal clarity.
It often startles them to be able to suddenly see clearly. For example:
"Interviewer: And was it a visual perception?
Nancy: Yes.
Interviewer: And could you tell me the clarity with which you saw too?
Nancy: Extremely clear. And to this moment it's just like it happened five seconds ago. Or it's happening right now, I can just see the whole thing." (pg. 74)
I guess I'm biased when it comes to this topic, given my experience, so by all means: read the book and judge for yourself. But a lot of the evidence is pretty compelling.
For example, one woman, Vicki, was congenitally blind (blind from birth), but she claimed to be able to see during her 1963 NDE. In her interview, they asked her what it was like. She said:
"I was shocked. I was totally in awe. I mean, I can't even describe it because I thought, 'So that's what it's like!' But then I thought, 'Well, it's even better...than what I could have imagined.'" (pg. 26)
But that might just be her interpretation or expectation, right? Or is there something more? Later, she goes on to describe things in detail like:
"I saw the metal chairs that we sat on as children and the round tables in the dining room, and they had plastic table cloths on them. I didn't have to touch the plastic table cloths to be aware of them." (pg. 32)
Another man, Brad, who was blind from birth describes:
"I remember seeing what we could call the backyard which was on one side of the building, and I remember that I could see a hill that I used to scamper up and down just for exercise in the part of that yard that was farthest from that particular building. Those are the sights that I can particularly remember seeing. I wondered, even then, how I could know them without touching them. I could actually point to them." (pg. 40)
Another man, also blind from birth, found himself:
"In an enormous library during the transcendental phase of his NDE and saw 'thousands and millions and billions of books, as far as you could see.' Asked if he saw them visually he said, 'Oh, yes!' Did he see them clearly? 'No problem.' Was he surprised at being able to see thus? 'Not in the least. I said, 'hey, you can't see,' and I said, 'well, of course I can see. Look at those books. That's ample proof I can see.'" (pg. 49)
Then there's the story of "Frank" who asked his friend to pick out a tie for a wake of a mutual friend who had died. Later, he took a nap and had an OBE in which he saw the tie: It was red with gray circles on it, and he was surprised to find out what it looked like. His friend was shocked when Frank described the tie to his friend. This incident was independently verified by his friend (pg. 70).
The book presents some very interesting insights: For example, a man named Jeff was severely visually impaired in his left eye, and completely blind in his right eye. During his NDE, he was surprised to find he could see perfectly through both eyes. He saw his path through the tunnel, for example. (pg. 82)
Another thing I found fascinating: People who are congenitally blind do not have visual images in their dreams at all. Their dreams are just like their waking life: they can hear, touch, etc., but they cannot see. Children who lose their eyesight before the age of 5 also tend to not have visual imagery in dreams. Kids who become blind between 5 and 7 may or may not retain visual imagery in their dreams, and people who become blind after age 7 seem to have "visual" dreams. (pg 84)
And yet they all still seem to "see" during OBEs and NDEs. Here's the thing: Congenitally blind people describe their NDEs and OBEs as qualitatively different in that they can actually see whereas their dreams always lacked a visual element. (pg. 84)
Another thing I found absolutely fascinating: There have been several cases in which a congenitally blind person had their physical eyesight restored by doctors. In those cases, they have an extremely hard time dealing with their newfound eyesight, learning to identify and recognize shapes and such. But when a blind person has an OBE or an NDE, they don't: they're not only able to instantly "see," they can instantly grasp what they see. Wow, that's mind-blowing.
The authors approached this scientifically, seeking other reasonable explanations. They consulted vision specialists. They shoot down Susan Blackmore's theories regarding "retrospective reconstruction." (pg. 86) They discuss "blindsight" and "skin-based vision" theories. They do all their homework.
They also address the language problem: Our society is so geared toward normally "sighted" people that our language interferes with our descriptions. For example, blind people often say they were "watching television" even though that's physically impossible. Could all this just be a big misunderstanding? Could they be using the words metaphorically? There's a long, fascinating discussion, but the bottom line is: no. It's more than that. Blind people seem to "see" things that are later verified to be true.
Here's another interesting thing: blind people, with no possible experience of sight, describe their NDEs and OBEs with concepts like color, as different frequencies of light they perceived. When you think about it, that's pretty darn accurate. One blind woman described the different colors of the flowers she "saw." Another described how the doctors and nurses in the Operating Room all wore green outfits.
Some of these blind people seemed genuinely surprised at how their own physical body "looked." One woman described her body as a gray outline, which is how I normally see mine. Another described her body as looking very black.
The bottom line is that "sight" seems to be simply an "interpretation" of a set of data, and that remains the same regardless of how you gather that data, whether it comes from your eyes or another source. The book's authors call it "transcendental awareness." And it seems to be the same data for both sighted and blind people alike. It's all just data and our mind's interpretation of that data, right?
The book is 140 pages, professionally written, with "smallish" text and margins, so it's not a big book, but there's a fair amount of content. In places, it's a bit dry, even for my tastes. They use a lot of long scientific words. At times, it's difficult to read, so it took me a while to get through it. I didn't find any typos or mistakes in the text.
I'm give the book 3 and a half stars.
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My Five Unconventional Meditations
In my never-ending pursuit of out-of-body experiences, I've tried a lot of types of meditation. But you know I'm an unconventional guy: I'm not one to follow the rules and do the stereotypical Transcendental Meditation (TM) or Kriya yoga. I'd rather try new things, explore and reinvent.
Inducing an OBE is a special kind of meditation itself, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about "support meditation," in other words, meditation to make OBEs more likely and your OBE attempts more fruitful.
I basically do five types of meditation. They are:
Musical meditation
Left-right meditation, and
Vibration raising meditation
On most days, I meditate twice every day: Once in the morning and once in the evening. Every morning, I meditate for about twenty minutes, and I always do a silent meditation. In silent meditation, no music is playing. I just sit in complete silence and try to quiesce or "turn off" my mind completely. What often happens is that as soon as my mind is completely shut off, I start seeing things, literally, in my mind's eye.
In the late evening I meditate again. Depending on my mood, I pick one of the other four types at random. I always, without exception, listen to binaural beats or music under good quality over-the-ear noise canceling headphones. A couple years ago I broke down and invested in a pair of Bose QuietComfort 35 Bluetooth headphones. They were expensive, but I have no regrets.
I listen to a lot of binaural beat meditations. I've got a collection of them on my phone. I always wear my headphones. My current favorites are:
"Winds Over the World" by Richard Roberts (not to be mistaken for the idiotic Christian evangelist with the same name). You can buy this from the Monroe Institute at this link: https://www.monroeinstitute.org/node/1085. The track is 30 minutes long, but you can hear a two-minute sample here: https://www.monroeinstitute.org/sites/default/files/Winds%20over%20the%20World%20Sample.mp3?uuid=5cb2172ae1eeb
"The Far Countries: Multidimensional Man" by Jurgen Ziewe. You can listen to this track here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVshec6YL_Y
"Maha Mrityeonjaya Mantra" by Hein Braat. You can listen to that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmsPdQlEy2c
You can also find a variety of binaural beat meditations on youtube. Jason Bannister has created several nice ones.
Music meditation
When I don't feel like listening to binaural beats, I sometimes listen to "ordinary" music that makes me feel "spacey," "entranced," or "otherworldly." I'm not talking about "trance music" as most people like to think about it (I've never cared much for that). I've got a large collection of songs for this. Some of my favorites are:
"Awaken," "Ritual" or "Close to the Edge" by Yes.
"State of Independence" or "The Mayflower" by Jon and Vangelis.
"One of These Days" followed by "Echoes" by Pink Floyd
"Kashmir" by Led Zeppelin.
"Rajah Khan" by Renaissance.
"Little Neutrino" by Klaatu.
"Cygnus X-1" by Rush.
"One of These Days" followed immediately by "Echoes" by Pink Floyd.
Left-Right music meditation
Out-of-body mogul Robert Monroe developed his "Hemi-sync" technology when he discovered that binaural beats synchronized the two hemispheres of the brain. The brain tries to synchronize what it hears in the left ear with the right ear.
I've always thought he didn't take the technology far enough: While Hemi-sync has a long list of benefits, I believe it doesn't go far enough to aid in inducing OBEs. In my experience, it's more effective to jar your brain's sense of location by deliberately feeding it false auditory information, and hopefully in such a way that confuses it. If you scramble that so it doesn't make sense, you can kick it out of its normal patterns. What I mean is to close your eyes and:
Feed different-but-similar music into each of your ears. This is similar to Hemi-sync, but for example, play the same song with two different instruments, and pipe the two separately into each ear.
Listen to music that unpredictably "bounces" the music from one ear to the other.
Visualize the music as best you can.
Imagine energy or "chi" moving through your body and around your body in harmony with the music.
This is probably my favorite type of evening meditation, and I've amassed a large collection of songs that do this, and I'm always looking for more. I listen to them a lot, and I love them. Here a just a few of my favorites, in no particular order:
"Merlin the Magician" by Rick Wakeman.
"I Robot" by Alan Parsons Project.
"Magnum Opus" by Kansas.
"Nucleus" by Alan Parsons Project.
"Yours is No Disgrace," "Long Distance Runaround," "Face To Face," "Astral Traveller," "Arriving UFO," or "The Ancient: Giants Under the Sun" by Yes.
"How it Hits You" by Jon Anderson.
"Toward the Within" or "The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove" by Dead Can Dance.
"Too Much Time On My Hands" or "Lights" by Styx.
"Autobahn" by Kraftwerk.
Vibration raising music meditation
I'm not talking about "The Vibrations" associated with OBEs. I'm just talking about music to change my mood to be more positive, optimistic, and uplifting. A lot of OBE experts say that having a bad, sour, or negative mood lowers your vibrations and makes it impossible to induce OBEs. So this is one way I try to improve my own attitude and lift my spirits.
"Are You The One," "Key to the Universe," or "Silence of the Night" by Timo Tolkki.
"In Perfect Harmony" by Within Temptation
"Street Spirit" by Stream of Passion (Yes, I know it's a remake)
"I'm Okay," "Sing for the Day," or the entire album "The Grand Illusion" by Styx.
"Holy Light" by Stratovarius.
"Bound for Infinity" by Renaissance.
"I'll Sing You Home" by Timo Tolkki.
"The Answer Lies Within" by Dream Theater.
"And You And I" by Yes. I love to visualize my vibrations getting higher and higher, then kundalini energy shooting from my base chakra out through my crown chakra while this plays.
Don't try to do anything else. Just close your eyes, listen to the music and let it do its magic. Whenever possible, try to visualize the music dancing in front of you.
After doing this for years, I still think the most effective of these for me is the "Left-Right" music. For me, it seems more effective than listening to binaural beats. I listened to a few of these last night creating this blog article and had an OBE this morning. Enough said.
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GOOD FOR HIM! Tucker Carlson Lands Multi-Million Dollar Book Deal
Tucker Carlson's star just keeps rising. Less than a month ago, he took over the 8 PM slot on the FOX News channel. Now he has landed a book deal for big money.
The Daily Caller reported:
Fox News's Tucker Carlson Lands Big Book Deal
Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson has landed a whopping book deal.
It's for two books. The publisher is Threshold Editions. He's reportedly getting $9 million.
Threshold's President Louise Burke announced the news Tuesday.
Carlson, host of Fox News's Tucker Carlson Tonight, has obviously blossomed at Fox News.
After the election, he left Fox & Friends and took over Greta Van Susteren's 10 p.m. slot when she fled to MSNBC. And then when Megyn Kelly left for NBC, he moved to 9p.m. With the sudden exit of Bill O'Reilly in the past two weeks because of that whole sexual harassment mess, Carlson has assumed yet another new time slot — 8 p.m. and primetime. The release says his "still young" show is widely cited in many media outlets and many of his segments have "gone viral."
Threshold called him a "conservative mainstay for the better part of two decades."
Carlson — who, according to the numerous profilers who tried to figure him out but really couldn't, once wore a f–king bowtie — remarked that he's pleased to be working with this company and is "proud to be published alongside so many of my favorite authors."
Tucker has worked very hard to get where he is. He deserves this success!


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Guild Wars 2 Launches August 28, 2012
meh.. another MMO
–NCsoft®, the world's premier publisher and developer of massively multiplayer online games (MMOs), and ArenaNet™, developer of the renowned Guild Wars franchise, today announce that Guild Wars 2, the most anticipated game of 2012, will launch in both Europe and North America on August 28, 2012.
"After five years of creation, development, and polish, announcing the launch date of Guild Wars 2 is a huge milestone for us, but the thing we're most looking forward to is seeing gamers from all over the globe explore this world and begin creating their own stories."
Building on sales of more than seven million units of the original game, Guild Wars 2 redefines massively multiplayer online roleplaying games with visceral, action-oriented combat; a gorgeous, living world full of constantly evolving dynamic events; customizable personal storylines that are unique to each player; intense Player vs. Player combat between small teams or massive armies; and most importantly, a shared online world where players work together as allies instead of as rivals – all with no monthly subscription fee.
"We're offering gamers an experience that delivers on the promise of online gaming with a truly social experience in an immense, shared world," said Mike O'Brien, president and co-founder of ArenaNet. "After five years of creation, development, and polish, announcing the launch date of Guild Wars 2 is a huge milestone for us, but the thing we're most looking forward to is seeing gamers from all over the globe explore this world and begin creating their own stories."
As they prepare for launch, ArenaNet will focus on polishing Guild Wars 2 to ensure the highest quality experience on launch day, which includes hosting a final Beta Weekend Event July 20-22, 2012.
For more information about the Beta Weekend Event and how to pre-purchase Guild Wars 2, visit www.guildwars2.com.


I answered "ne soyons arrivés" but this was marked wrong. "Soyons arrivés" was given as corrrect.
Am I missing something with the expletive "ne" (which I do find a bit confusing!) Could you explain?
I can see nothing wrong with your answer. I would expect the "ne explétif" to be used in this context. The "ne explétif" is often omitted in casual speech but should be used in formal French (of which I assume this is an example).


There is evidence that both teams have moved on from 12 months ago but if the choice is between which team has made the more plausible strides, the answer is Dublin.
For all the familiarity of the finalists, Sunday's All-Ireland football final breaks genuinely unusual ground. There hasn't been such a sustained rivalry as Dublin and Mayo have struck up in nearly 30 years.
Mayo can bridge a gap of 66 years by winning the title whereas Dublin haven't won three-in-a-row since the 1923 season.
As ever it comes down to a match and although the stakes are high there haven't been too many attendant conundrums, such as agonising selection decisions to be made.
Diarmuid Connolly looked like he wasn't going to start as soon as it became clear that his comeback match in the semi-final wouldn't yield more than a few minutes. There has been rumour that Paul Flynn might start in place of Niall Scully but Flynn has done well off the bench so the idea may be to keep him there.
Equally, for all the familiarity, this is not an easy match to call. Of course five championship matches in the past four years tell us something but both teams have been different quantities so far this summer. Either Mayo have timed their run perfectly after a dismal first half of the season or Dublin have simply stepped up to a higher plateau.
Either Mayo's progress has been exaggerated by unimpressive opposition or Dublin have been flattering to deceive in a sequence of matches, none of which remotely tested them.
The shadow that falls over the champions is that of 2014 when they were similarly acclaimed as unbeatable until they let Donegal off the hook and ended up getting eaten by them.
Mayo's difficulties have traditionally been a failure to put away Dublin when they had the opportunities. Last year chances were squandered to build a significant early lead – even allowing for the plague of own goals breaking out – and in the 2013 final, they could have been out of sight by half-time but instead had racked up seven wides.
There's no doubt that the semi-final defeat of Kerry was a massive vindication for the team and their clear-eyed management of the final minutes of the drawn match allowed them to survive – even if relying on Bryan Sheehan to miss a 55-metre free wouldn't always have worked out for the best.
Over two matches they were clearly the better team and their accuracy was far better in the replay but in the context of a match where the opposition's decision to go defensive didn't really improve security – it just led to more fouling and Cillian O'Connor, who had just one kickable free in the first half of the drawn match, put five on the board before the break on day two – and completely hamstrung the attack.
Dublin will be a far more organised defensive unit both systemically and individually.
Mayo do have the capacity to put physical pressure on the champions and that will be a start but it won't be as easy to get free for the sort of scores with which Andy Moran was filling his boots.
There were also good displays from Cillian O'Connor and Jason Doherty over the two Kerry matches and the latter has been having a very good year.
Aidan O'Shea will presumably restored to centre forward for some of the match and his power will create problems but can it create the sort of openings that yawned wide in the semi-finals?
There is a suggestion that he could do time on the edge of the square as a hopeful punt that there are some bodies buried in the Dublin full-back line.
This is based on the only goal conceded by the champions so far – a dropping ball in the dying minutes with Michael Fitzsimons possibly distracted by the glare of the sun and probably oblivious to Paddy Brophy's lurking presence – and the penalty rather gratuitously given away by Philip McMahon in the dying minutes of the Tyrone semi-final.
Fitzsimons though was Man of the Match in last year's final against the same full-forward line and McMahon is an All Star. Are they likely to be a careless when the final is in the balance?
The Dublin defence is set up to cope with high ball and it's been a while since that approach paid out much. Mayo will argue that had Aidan O'Shea been better resourced in the 2015 semi-finals the tactic might have worked but it doesn't appear to be much more than a Plan B or C.
With the strength of Séamie O'Shea and Tom Parsons up against the pace and nimbleness of Brian Fenton and the excellent James McCarthy, centrefield is well balanced until it becomes a battery test but Dublin have had greater issue with more orthodox players, like Kildare's Kevin Feely in Leinster and Kerry's David Moran and Jack Barry in the league.
Tactically Gavin's team can play defensive systems in their sleep and Mayo's better prospects lie in going all out – pressing the Cluxton kick-out, as Tyrone briefly but productively did in the early minutes of the second half – gearing towards attack.
The champions' most competitive moments so far were early in the Leinster final when Kildare went man on man but failed to take the chances they created and then got sloppy at the back.
The latter won't be Mayo's problem. The team's defence is accomplished and versatile with four of the back seven All Stars.
They will also have their work cut out, as Dublin bring two new assets to the table this year: Jack McCaffrey, scorching the earth from wing back, and Con O'Callaghan having a dream rookie year, symbolised by dancing through a blanket defence and sticking the ball in the Tyrone net before the approving gaze of the Hill.
There is a caveat. Four years ago, McCaffrey, Paul Mannion and Ciarán Kilkenny – the latter two now in their pomp – were also young and gifted but none of them made an impact on the final. There's something however about O'Callaghan's work rate and 'next ball' mentality that says a repeat of that is unlikely.
The champions also timed their run better than last year and look to be hitting peak form at the right time, which hasn't always been their experience in finals. There is evidence that both teams have moved on from 12 months ago. This comes down to opinion but if the choice is between which team has made the more plausible strides, the answer is Dublin.


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'He's my boss:' Hospital president knew of CEO's Dominican vacation but couldn't stop it
'My choice, as was the choice of the entire executive team, was to stay local,' Melissa Farrell
Bobby Hristova · CBC News · Posted: Jan 08, 2021 6:25 PM ET
The president of St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton says she knew Dr. Tom Stewart, the now-former CEO and president of its broader hospital network, was going on a Dominican vacation for the holidays, but was powerless to stop him because "he's my boss."
"I know how disappointing this decision is, really for all of us. Tom is the CEO at the system level, this is not something that I would approve. You know, he's my boss," Melissa Farrell said in response to questions during a Wednesday town hall meeting.
"I can understand how this feels, it's unfair, it feels hurtful."
Farrell said in a statement on Friday "My choice, as was the choice of the entire executive team, was to stay local and work with our healthcare teams."
While Stewart's vacation was approved, it's unclear how many others — particularly those with authority over him — knew he was heading to the Caribbean and who, if anyone, tried to stop him.
The town hall came one day before St. Joe's announced Stewart was no longer CEO, adding to several health leadership roles he's lost in two days.
CEO's vacation abroad caused 'pure frustration'
The meeting was focused on vaccines but began and ended by addressing Stewart's vacation.
One day after the meeting, Susan Thornton who works at St. Joe's West 5th hospital on the Nursing Resource Team and is a CUPE Local 786 member, said staff have been enraged ever since learning about Stewart's vacation.
"Melissa was very good, but there's pure frustration and it's an embarrassment as an employee," said the 63-year-old worker who has been at St. Joe's for more than three decades.
Melissa Farrell, president of St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton, says she knew her boss Dr. Tom Stewart — who was the CEO of the entire hospital network — was going on vacation to the Dominican Republic, but couldn't stop him. (St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton/YouTube)
Concerns have also been raised about whether Stewart was getting paid while he was isolating after returning to Canada from his private home in the Dominican Republic — unlike some staff.
CUPE Local 786 president Santo Cimino says full-time workers get paid sick time but part-time workers don't.
Farrell was asked about this during the Wednesday town hall meeting but said she had no influence in that decision.
"That's really between Tom and the system board for which he works," she said.
Cimino sent her a letter, obtained by CBC News, on Thursday.
"Your staff … have been redeployed, internally and into long-term care. They have worked extended shifts and compulsory overtime. Their weekends off and vacations have been cancelled or not approved. They work with the constant fear and risk that they can bring the virus home to their families. But they soldier on," read t letter.
The letter suggested St. Joe's provide sick pay for those who get COVID-19 and provide paid time off for anyone who needs to isolate — but hours after Cimino sent the letter, Stewart was no longer CEO.
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Stewart's vacation, which began on Dec. 18, occurred while facilities in his hospital networks fought off outbreaks. It also started a day after his hospital networks asked the Ford government to be more decisive about lockdown measures.
He was removed as CEO of Niagara Health on Wednesday. It was previously paying $140,000 annually for CEO services from St. Joe's. Niagara Health says there's a provision for 90 days notice to end the agreement, and details about the cancelled deal are under discussion.
On Tuesday, hours after the public learned of his vacation, Stewart resigned from a number of health advisory boards including a COVID-19 panel that advises Premier Doug Ford.
He has also faced previous controversy during his time as chief of staff at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital.
Stewart resigned from that position in 2012 after a Toronto Star investigation revealed the hospital paid ORNGE CEO Chris Mazza $256,000 for consulting work without proof the work was completed.
Hospital staff 'relieved' Stewart out of CEO role
Cimino said Friday morning, staff were relieved to hear Stewart will no longer be CEO.
"With him being gone, we hope the hospital will [realize] how serious of a morale problem this has caused," he said.
"I hope it does bring us closer together."
Despite this, questions linger around if Stewart resigned or was fired — and if the hospital network is required to pay him for 24 months, which adds up to more than $1 million.
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Second Alzheimer's treatment showing modest benefits for patients approved by FDA
In clinical trials, Leqembi, formerly known as lecanemab, slowed the progressive cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer's. It also reduced proteins that accumulate in the brain associated with the disease.
"Alzheimer's disease immeasurably disables the lives of those who suffer from it and has devastating effects on their loved ones," said Billy Dunn, director of the Office of Neuroscience at the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research at the FDA, in a statement. "This treatment option is the latest therapy to target and affect the underlying Alzheimer's disease process, rather than just treating the symptoms of the disease."
Eisai and Biogen are also the makers of Aduhelm, the first Alzheimer's drug targeting brain proteins to receive accelerated FDA approval. The drug's approval was controversial: The FDA's panel of outside experts recommended against its approval based on conflicting data. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services also ruled that patients must be on probation to be reimbursed for the cost of the drug. Sales of the drug were so disappointing Biogen scaled back its program for Aduhelm and fired its CEO.
The FDA did not convene an advisory committee meeting before approving Leqembi. An agency spokesman said the drug is not the first in its class, nor did its application raise any new or unexpected safety concerns.
Although both drugs are antibodies that bind to a protein called amyloid, which is thought to be a major cause of Alzheimer's disease, Leqembi binds to amyloid proteins in a slightly different way than what does Aduhelm do. It is given by intravenous infusion every two weeks.
The Alzheimer's Association has asked CMS to reconsider its coverage determination for this particular class of drugs. While the agency is considering that request, it's unclear when it will make a decision.
"We will continue to rapidly review data on these products as they become available, and we are committed to timely access to treatments, including drugs, that improve clinically meaningful outcomes," CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure said in a statement
Eisai and Biogen asked the FDA to grant Leqembi accelerated approval based on two clinical trials. Under the accelerated approval pathway, companies would have to conduct a third clinical trial to show that the drug benefits patients.
In the time between Eisai's accelerated approval submission to the FDA and the agency's decision Friday, the company released the results of a third clinical trial. That data, published late last year, showed the drug modestly slowed the progression of patients' symptoms while reducing levels of amyloid in the brain.
Eisai has stated that he does not believe two of those deaths are related to Leqembi. Still researching the third one.
Wednesday, doctors at Northwestern University published a letter in the New England Journal of Medicine detailing the case of a patient who died after receiving treatment for a stroke after receiving Leqembi. The authors could not conclude that the patient's death was a result of the drug, but noted that it would be "unusual" for the patient to die from the stroke treatment alone.
On the drug's label, the FDA stated that Leqembi should only be taken by patients in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease with confirmed amyloid in the brain. Patients should also be screened for signs of swelling before starting treatment and subsequently after the fifth, seventh and 14th infusion of the drug.
Eisai has said it plans to ask the FDA to consider Leqembi for a traditional approval pathway using new data from its Phase III trial. In a statement, the FDA said it expects to receive that data soon.


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Original 3 Doors Down Guitarist Matt Roberts DEAD At 38
Aug 20, 2016 3 Doors Down, cnn, Darrell Roberts, death, Drug overdose, Matt Roberts, Prescription drug, Saturday morning cartoon, TMZ (website), West Bend, Wisconsin
Matt Roberts, best known as a former guitarist for the band 3 Doors Down, is dead. He was 38.
According to his father, Darrell Roberts, he was traveling with his son to perform at charity event, "Rockin' for Heroes" a benefit for veterans in West Bend, WI, when the tragedy occurred. Darrell said he often traveled with his son.
"We go up to our room, we got adjoining rooms and — he was always looking after me as his dad — so my key didn't work and he went and came back in just a few minutes and got me a new key. He opened the door for me and he said 'just make sure you open the adjoining room in case you need anything.' He was always looking out for me," Roberts said. Roberts says detectives woke him up Saturday to tell him Matt had passed away. "I was wakened at 8:50 this morning by some detectives beating on my door. It's always scary as a parent, they were in suits and that's when they told me. They asked me if Matt Roberts was your son, I said yes, and they said 'we have bad news to tell you, Matt deceased last night,'" Roberts said. West Bend police received a call Saturday that a man was "either asleep or passed out in the hallway of his hotel," a statement from the department says. h/t cnn
He was later declared dead. The department has not determined the cause of death and an autopsy is scheduled.
Roberts departed 3 Doors Down in 2012 citing health issues.
In 2013, 3 Doors Down bassist, Todd Harrell, was charged with vehicular homicide in Nashville.
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Irish ayes! If you want to celebrate St. Pats, you need this article
By Michelle Manetti
for The Brooklyn Paper
File photo by Bob Hacken
The bagpipes are coming! The Bay Ridge St. Patrick's Day Parade returns March 27.
Photo by Stefano Giovannini
Nothing says St. Patrick's Day like shepherd's pie, or maybe a tall pint of Guinness. Get both at Cobble Hill's Ceol, and you'll be saying Erin go Bragh in no time.
The green, white and orange: Ceol bartender Susan Keough shows off her Irish pride. Show your own this St. Patrick's Day at the Cobble Hill restaurant.
Photo by Bob Hacken
The bagpipes are coming! The Park Slope St. Patrick's Day Parade returns to Prospect Park West this March 20.
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Kiss us, we've gone Irish.
St. Patrick's Day is almost upon us, and, in honor of the man who drove the snakes out of the Emerald Isle, restaurants and bars all over the borough are going green.
They're also offering the best in Celtic culture, from traditional Irish food to romping music. And with our Gaelic guide to doing St. Patrick's Day right, you won't be just another amateur at a lousy bar on March 17.
One of the most traditional Irish pubs this side of Galway hosts the Celtic-influenced hip-hop of Seanchai and the Unity Squad this March 17.
"It's really fun and family-oriented here," said Rocky Sullivan's manager Rachel Fitzgerald. "It's not too crazy, you can actually move and enjoy the music."
The newly reopened Freddy's Bar is also ready for the big night, as it hosts the Captures, the Telephones and the Highland Shatners for a mix of Irish, pop and rock music that even the bartenders can't resist.
"I'm working the morning shift, but I'll be rocking out at night to these great bands," said bartender Ellen O'Shea.
If you're in the mood to get your Aran sweater a little dirty, stop by the Bell House for the Gowanus venue's "St. Patrick's Day for Sinners," an all-redhead edition of Wasabascco Burlesque with a musical performance by Alex Battles and the Whisky Rebellion.
Jalopy Theater is also sticking with a wicked theme as it hosts "Debauchery Series: Episode 1," with The Whistling Wolves performing songs about boozing and bruising.
"We're going to have an amazing time," said manager Dorina Savela. "There's going to be so many different people having fun and drinking green beer."
Who has time to cook shepherd's pie, and what, exactly, is corned beef? Lucky for you, some of Brooklyn's finest have prepared special feasts just for St. Patrick's Day, so you don't have to.
Make your reservations now for Eamonn's in Brooklyn Heights, which will be serving smoked salmon on homemade brown bread, Irish pork sausage over creamed mashed potatoes and Baileys cheesecake.
"We're expecting a lot of people," said hostess Lisa Gotic. "It's the busiest day of the year."
Over in Williamsburg, Spike Hill is celebrating St. Patrick's Day with 17 hours of non-stop food. The bar will serve Irish specials including corned beef, fish and chips and shepherd's pie. You'll also get to enjoy the bar's famed Irish breakfast which includes blood sausage and rashers.
For some traditional atmosphere with your traditional grub, head to Ceol, which will make you feel as if you've just stepped foot in a Dublin pub. The Cobble Hill restaurant has put together a true Irish feast for St. Patty's Day. That means Guinness Irish beef stew, bangers and mash, and Guinness chocolate cake. There's even a vegetarian shepherd's pie for picky eaters.
If free is your speed, head over to Cobble Hill's Brazen Head at 5 pm on St. Patrick's Day to take advantage of the bar's free corned beef and coleslaw on rye bread, available until it runs out. You can also cough up and enjoy the bar's $5 pint of Guinness and Irish whiskey shots.
"It's a neighborhood bar with really good beer," said manager Lou Sones. "It's very crowded but fun crowded, not young amateurs."
Some of the best celebrations don't even happen on St. Patrick's Day. Here's the lowdown on parades happening throughout Brooklyn:
• Park Slope Parade [starting at 15th Street and Prospect Park West, (718) 832-8227], March 20 at 1 pm. There will be an after party at Holy Name Hall with dinner and music.
• Bay Ridge Parade (starting at Fourth and Marine avenues in Bay Ridge, no phone), March 27 at noon.
Rocky Sullivan's [34 Van Dyke St. between Dwight and Otsego streets in Red Hook, (718) 246-8050], open at 11 am on March 17; Freddy's Bar [627 Fifth Ave. between 17th and 18th streets in Park Slope, (718) 768-0131], open at 11 am on March 17; "Saint Patrick's Day for Sinners" at the Bell House [149 Seventh St. between Second and Third avenues in Gowanus, (718) 643-6510], March 17 at 7:30 pm. Tickets $10; "Debauchery Series: Episode 1" at the Jalopy Theater [315 Columbia St. at Woodhull Street in Columbia Street Waterfront District, (718) 395-3214], March 17 at 9 pm. Tickets $10.
Eamonn's [174 Montague St. near Clinton Street in Brooklyn Heights, (718) 596-4969], open 11 am-4 am on March 17. Reservations recommended for groups larger than four; Spike Hill [184 Bedford Ave. at N. Seventh Street in Williamsburg, (718) 218-9739], open at 11 am on March 17; Ceol [191 Smith St. between Baltic and Bergen streets in Cobble Hill, (347) 643-9911], menu available from 1 pm to 2 am on March 17; Brazen Head [228 Atlantic Ave. between Court Street and Boerum Place in Cobble Hill, (718) 488-0430], open at 11 am on March 17.
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Joey from Clinton Hills says:
try not to throw up on my shoes, ok?
March 9, 2011, 11:36 am
curious from Brooklyn says:
Anyone know if the Brooklyn St. Pat's parade includes lesbian and gay groups? If it's inclusive, I want to go.. If not, me and the kids will sit this one out.


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Scots social carer who fractured a baby's skull faces being struck off
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A SCOTS social carer who battered a baby from the day she was born now faces being struck off the social care register.
Michael Finlay was jailed in June 2019 for five years after assaulting the tot to an extent where her life was in danger.
The vile brute from Johnstone, Renfrewshire fractured the youngster's skull by pushing and shaking the girl "uncontrollably".
Michael Finlay may be struck off the SSSC register on Friday.
Finlay, who worked as a carer at Quarriers Village in Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire, would shout at the girl to "shut up" and lose control when she cried.
When confronted by the baby's mother and aunt about the baby having bruises, Finlay responded saying: "S*** happens".
The 36-year-old now faces being struck off the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) register while behind bars for the brutal attacks.
The SSSC allegations due to be heard on Friday state: "It is alleged that you were convicted of offences where you acted in a controlling manner and physically abused individuals you knew.
Michael Finlay was sentenced to five years in prison after his brutal assaults.
"It is alleged that your fitness to practise is impaired because of your convictions.
"If the allegations are proved you will have failed to comply with…the Scottish Social Services Council Codes of Practice for Social Service Workers."
The horrific attacks took place at a house in Lenzie, East Dunbartonshire between October and December of 2017.
At Glasgow Sheriff Court in June 2019, the court heard how Finlay would "lose control" and shout at the baby to "shut up" whenever she cried.
The social carer is also said to have bruised the girl on Christmas morning having reportedly held her "too tight".
After assaulting the child and fracturing her skull through "blunt force trauma", Finlay could not explain to family members where a lump on her head had come from.
Quarriers Village Headquarters where Finlay worked prior to the attacks.
Finlay's lawyer Gary Allan QC told the court at the time that he loved his job as a carer.
He said: "Not only was he good at caring for vulnerable people but he enjoyed it."
On 12 July 2019 Sheriff Norman Ritchie QC handed Finlay the five-year maximum sentence that can be imposed at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
He said "Your rage has cost you your home, your employment and your liberty.
"No one who heard the evidence could fail to be moved by the plight of the child who suffered at your hands."
Prior to his time behind bars, Finlay was known as an eager marathon runner, having used his athleticism to raise funds for multiple charities, including Quarriers Village.
The hearing will be held on Friday at the SSSC building in Dundee.
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