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Prospect Profile: Taylor Dugas
December 19, 2012 by Mike 22 Comments
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Taylor Dugas | OF
A Louisiana kid from Lafayette, Dugas was a two-way star at Teurling Catholic High School. He hit .518 with 19 homers and 51 doubles during his four years with the Rebels while also going 31-6 with 195 career strikeouts on the mound. Dugas hit .640 with ten homers and 34 steals (in 35 attempts) as a senior, earning him the Louisiana Baseball Coaches Association Player of the Year award as well as numerous other honors. He was also a standout quarterback on the football team and thrice earned Academic Honor Roll status.
Despite his high school accomplishments, Dugas wasn't considered much of a pro prospect because of his small frame. Baseball America (subs. req'd) did not rank him as one of the top 40 draft prospects in Louisiana in 2008 and no team rolled the dice in the draft. Dugas followed through on his commitment to Alabama after going undrafted, and he stepped right into the lineup to hit .352/.412/.479 with a team-leading 83 hits and 13 steals (in attempts) in 56 games as a freshman. The performance earned him freshman All-America honors.
Dugas continued to hit for the Crimson Tide, posting a combined .351/.484/.543 batting line in 130 games as a sophomore and junior. He earned a First Team All-American, First Team SEC, and SEC Academic Honor Roll accolades along the way. Baseball America (subs. req'd) ranked Dugas as the seventh best prospect in Alabama prior to the 2011 draft, and the Cubs selected him in the eighth round (249th overall). He did not sign and instead returned to school for his senior season.
Following a big senior season (.343/.450/.498), Dugas left Alabama atop the school's all-time hits (334), singles (234), doubles (67), and triples (18) list. He placed second on the all-time games started (239) and walks (151) lists. His .360 career average is the seventh best in school history, his .466 OBP the fourth best in school history. After more First Team SEC honors, Baseball America ranked Dugas as the 331st best prospect in the draft. The Yankees selected him in the eighth round (#277 overall) of this year's draft and signed him quickly to a well-below-slot $10k bonus.
Pro Debut
Assigned to Short Season Staten Island after signing, Dugas hit .306/.465/.373 in 276 plate appearances with the Baby Bombers this summer. He lead the circuit in OBP and walks while placing eighth in batting average.
Listed at 5-foot-8 and 170 lbs., Dugas is an undersized left-handed hitter who qualifies as scrappy and pesky and all those wonderful cliches. His best offensive asset is his supreme control of the strike zone, which allowed him to post a 35/51 K/BB (18.5 BB%) with Staten Island this summer and a 101/151 K/BB in four years at Alabama. Dugas' swing is geared for contact and he makes a ton of it, though he only offers average speed and very little power.
Defensively, Dugas fits best in left field because he doesn't have the range for center or the arm for right. He's a bit of a 'tweener because his bat falls short of the typical left field profile and he doesn't offer say, Brett Gardner-level defense at the position. As you'd expect, Dugas earned that scrappy tag by playing hard all the time. Here is his 2011 Draft video and a more recent clip from YouTube.
As a four-year starter at a major college program, Dugas will jump up to High-A Tampa next season. A midseason promotion could be in the cards, though he'll have to fight the likes of Mason Williams, Slade Heathcott, and Tyler Austin for outfield playing time at that point.
Like a number of other teams, the Yankees targeted college seniors who would sign for relative peanuts to save draft pool money in the sixth through tenth rounds. Dugas is more than just organizational filler though given his contact skills and extreme plate discipline from the left side, so maybe he provides some value as a fourth or fifth outfielder on the heavy side of the platoon at the big league level. Improvements on defense and/or on the bases would increase that profile. I like Dugas because he'll post fun K/BB numbers as he climbs the ladder, but he's an older guy (24 later this month) who will get overrated quickly due to his statistical performance.
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Aicha ist ein bayerisches Dorf, das zur Gemeinde Birgland gehört.

Geografie
Das Dorf im Norden des Oberpfälzer Jura ist einer von 42 amtlich benannten Gemeindeteilen der Gemeinde Birgland im westlichen Teil der Oberpfalz. Das auf einer Höhe von  gelegene Aicha ist etwa sechs Kilometer von dem nordnordöstlich liegenden Pfarrdorf Illschwang entfernt, in dem die Birglander Gemeindeverwaltung ihren Sitz hat.

Geschichte

Zum Ende des Heiligen Römischen Reiches unterstand das bis 1777 kurpfälzische Dorf der Landeshoheit des Kurfürstentums Pfalzbaiern. Es gehörte dabei zum Landrichteramt Sulzbach, das der südwestliche Teil des wittelsbachischen Herzogtums Sulzbach war. Die katholischen Einwohner des damals aus 13 Anwesen bestehenden Ortes waren der Pfarrei in Heldmannsberg zugeordnet, die evangelischen Einwohner hingegen derjenigen in Fürnried.

Durch die Verwaltungsreformen zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts im Königreich Bayern wurde Aicha mit dem Zweiten Gemeindeedikt im Jahr 1818 zum Bestandteil der Landgemeinde Schwend, zu der auch die Orte Baumgarten, Betzenberg, Dickatshof, Hirschricht, Leinberg, Leinhof und Riedelhof gehörten. Während der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts kamen dazu noch Ödhaag, Ödthal und Schwenderöd, die Neugründungen oder Ausbrüche bestehender Gemeindeteile waren. Im Zuge der kommunalen Gebietsreform in Bayern in den 1970er Jahren wurde Aicha zusammen mit der gesamten Gemeinde Schwend am 1. Juli 1972 in die neu gebildete Flächengemeinde Birgland eingegliedert. Im Jahr 1987 zählte Aicha 83 Einwohner.

Verkehr
Eine von Kastl kommende Gemeindeverbindungsstraße durchquert den Ort und führt weiter zur Staatsstraße St 2164. Der ÖPNV bedient das Dorf an einer Haltestelle der Buslinie 66 des VGN. Der am schnellsten erreichbare Bahnhof befindet sich in Sulzbach-Rosenberg an der Bahnstrecke Nürnberg–Schwandorf.

Sehenswürdigkeiten

In Aicha befinden sich zwei denkmalgeschützte Objekte, nämlich der Wohnteil eines ehemaligen Bauernhauses, das aus dem 18. Jahrhundert stammt und ein aus dem 19. Jahrhundert stammender eingeschossiger Stadel.

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 Aicha im Bayerischen Behördenwegweiser, abgerufen am 9. Juni 2020
 Aicha  im BayernAtlas, abgerufen am 9. Juni 2020
 Aicha  auf historischer Karte, abgerufen am 9. Juni 2020

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Ortsteil von Birgland
Ort im Landkreis Amberg-Sulzbach
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Tyson Foods Managers Placed Bets On How Many Workers Would Catch Covid-19, Wrongful Death Lawsuit Alleges
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Managers at a Tyson Foods meat processing plant downplayed the extent and severity of a Covid-19 outbreak tearing through the Iowa facility, taking bets on how many employees would get sick as they kept the plant open for business in dangerous conditions, a wrongful death lawsuit filed by a worker's son alleges.
Tyson Foods Managers Placed Bets On How Many Workers Would Catch Covid-19, Wrongful Death Lawsuit ... [+] Alleges
In May, officials said more than 1,000 employees had contracted Covid-19 at Tyson's Waterloo pork processing plant, with at least six reported to have died from complications.
The plant was eventually closed, though local officials slammed the company's failure to take proper precautions to safeguard its employees from Covid-19.
In August, the son of Isidro Fernandez, who had worked at the plant, sued Tyson Foods over his father's death, alleging dangerous and unhygienic conditions and a failure to protect workers from the outbreak.
Tyson displayed a "wilful and wanton disregard for worker safety," the suit alleges.
This suit was amended with further allegations on November 11, claiming that one manager "organized a cash buy-in, winner-take-all betting pool for supervisors and managers to wager how many employees would test positive for COVID-19."
In a statement sent to Waterloo broadcaster KWWL after the amendments, a Tyson spokesperson declined to directly address the lawsuit, though said the company is saddened by the loss of a team member, adding that "our top priority is the health and safety of our workers and we've implemented a host of protective measures at Waterloo and our other facilities that meet or exceed CDC and OSHA guidance for preventing Covid-19."
Key Background
Food processing facilities have been at the center of numerous Covid-19 outbreaks around the country. Amid fears of food shortages, they have faced pressure to remain open even as Covid-19 tears through facilities, and in April, President Donald Trump invoked the 1950 Defense Production Act to require them to stay open during the pandemic. Unions responded with venom, accusing the President of rushing the re-opening of plants without proper regard for employee safety. Marc Perrone, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW), derided the order as "a reckless move that will put American lives at risk and further endanger the long-term security of our nation's food supply."
4%. That's how much Tyson's Waterloo pork processing plant, the company's largest, represents of the country's pork processing capacity.
Tyson Foods managers had a 'winner-take-all' bet on how many workers would get covid-19, lawsuit alleges (Washington Post)
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'MU', 'Heat', 'WWZ' Down 'White House'
Box Office: PG-13 Big-Budget Action Film Can't Even Match R-Rated 'Olympus Has Fallen'
June 30, 2013 by Vinnie Leduc
Monsters University, Pixar's latest streak-extending blockbuster, held onto the top spot at the domestic box office for the repeat win, but the bigger story coming out of the weekend was that chick cop couple comedy The Heat (in its debut) and zombie apocalypse thriller World War Z (in its second weekend) both beat down big-budgeted action flick White House Down, one of the honorable mentions on our list of most anticipated movies of the year.
Directed by master of disaster Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, 2012) and starring Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx, White House Down's fourth-place opening at an estimated $25.7 million couldn't even match Olympus Has Fallen's second-place $30.4 million debut in late March, even though White House Down had a money-friendly PG-13 rating versus Olympus Has Fallen's R rating. Will this be a lesson to Hollywood and its annual rite of serving audiences copycats? Or will the crowded slate of summer action movies be blamed?
Maybe Sony, which has already absorbed a big commercial flop just last month when After Earth crashed under Fast & Furious 6 and sleeper surprise Now You See Me, can point fingers at The Heat. Directed by Paul Feig and pairing Oscar winner Sandra Bullock and Oscar nominee Melissa McCarthy, The Heat is the summer's only movie featuring female leads. Its estimated first take of $40 million threatened Monsters University's sophomore haul of $46 million and is the highest opening ever for Feig, Bullock, and McCarthy, beating Bridesmaids, The Blind Side, and Identity Thief, respectively.
The final podium spot went to Brad Pitt's World War Z, which tallied another $30 million over its second weekend to bring its domestic cume to nearly $125 million. Raising its domestic total to twice that at $250 million was Christopher Nolan and Zack Snyder's Superman reboot, Man of Steel, which added over $20 million during its third weekend and rounded out the top five.
This July 4th extended holiday weekend, traditionally the biggest box office weekend of the year stateside, introduces animated 3D sequel Despicable Me 2, which will likely help prevent animated 3D prequel Monsters University from becoming the first 2013 movie to three-peat at the domestic box office, and another Disney tentpole, The Lone Ranger, which features the re-teaming of Johnny Depp and the original Pirates of the Caribbean director, Gore Verbinski.
Here are the estimates for the top five over the weekend via BOM:
Monsters University — Weekend Gross: $46.2 million — Total Gross: $171 million (#1 last week)
The Heat — Weekend Gross: $40 million — Total Gross: $40 million (new)
World War Z — Weekend Gross: $29.8 million — Total Gross: $123.7 million (#2 last week)
White House Down — Weekend Gross: $25.7 million — Total Gross: $25.7 million (new)
Man of Steel — Weekend Gross: $20.8 million — Total Gross: $248.7 million (#3 last week)
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Cuzco, July 1st. Happy Canada day! The company we booked to trek the Inca Trail/Machu Picchu with, Peru Treks, came to pick us up in a bus at our hotel at 6AM. We were to go to the beginning of the Sacred Inca Trail. It was raining pretty hard outside, and on the way, we actually saw SNOW!
Snow on the way to the Inca Trail. It's the first time we see snow in South America, beside snow-topped mountains! Not a good sign!
Myself dressed and equipped for trekking in the rain! It was actually quite comfortable!
The bridge of km 82.
Our guide told us that most Inca sites were made in the shape of sacred animals. The first one we saw, Llactapata, was apparently shaped in a Puma's foot! He also told us that this site in particular was to guard the commercial Inca Trail (there are two trails – one Sacred and one Commercial, the later one is currently closed to the public after being destroyed by a land slide last year). It was never found by the Spaniards.
Some remaining foundations of Llactapata. These homes were in the rustic style, and were meant for the lower class.
A porter (on the left) and a beautiful Sacred Inca Trail scenery with misty mountains. These guys carried up to 25kg of stuff on their back!
When we arrived at our camp, a "restaurant" tent was set up and hot tea was waiting for us! What luxury huh? We were stunned by the absolutely intense food we were prepared everyday.
Some entrée the cook made for us, consisting of mashed potatoes stuffed with tuna and onions, and topped with a black olive. I don't remember the name of this dish, but it originates from Lima. It was delicious!
Various plates of delicious food served to us. The middle brown thing is Alpaca meat, served with fresh andean mint!
Cake?? We were offered cake! And bananas flambéed in rum! I mean, I never expected to eat such quality food in the wild!!
The nice porters and cook. These guys were the best!
My biggest discovery, food-wise on this trip! This is a breakfast food they were serving up, some sort of quinoa porridge. You just overboil the quinoa, add sugar and it makes a killer, nutritive and comforting morning drink!
Unfortunately, on the second day, our guide woke us up with bad news. Apparently, the unusual rain (it is supposed to be winter/dry season) has turned into snow on the highest point of our path, the Dead Woman's pass (4400 meters of altitude). There were 60 cm (2 feet) of it, so it was dangerous for us to go through it. The last time it snowed was 6 years ago… Imagine the porters walking into that with their bare feet in sandals! Some other groups were walking back to the beginning, but thankfully our guide took us forward and made us do a detour through a train track. Therefore, instead of doing 11km on the second day, we hiked for 28km! But it was really easy – everything was very flat, and we got to see ruins that normally people don't see. Beats climbing 1000 meters worth of stairs and then going down 550 meters!
A very colorful flower with a fly on top!
For lunch, we stopped at the ruins of Torontoy, which were again in incredible condition. They were a resting place for the Inca – who, in exchange for a night's rest, had to give an offering (coca leaves, rocks, food, etc).
An entrance in Torontoy. Notice the big stone at the top of the doorway - it was placed there as a sign of importance.
And the following we thought was really cool! This is where they put mummies of important members of their communities. The person was mummified in a fetal position and placed in the walls with several useful objects for them to use in the afterlife. They were mummified in a fetal position because they were supposed to be reborn as fetuses, obviously!
After lunch, we still had 16 km to do. Fortunately, the rain finally stopped and we were able to remove our ponchos!
Urubamba rapids, in the cloud forest. Notice the strange rock formations at the back, due to erosion!
We ate breakfast, then quickly visited the ruins of Chachabamba since it was raining again. This place was once again a resting place for the traveling Inca. The construction of the houses made me think a little of old Canadian houses, or even houses found in Brittany (France)!
After that, we proceeded to walk in the mountains. The path goes up, and the nature itself transforms into a rainforest ecosystem.
Some sort of small scarab?
Some houses. Notice the door on the right, its opening has two rows of blocks. It means that on the other side is a temple or a very sacred place.
Some ceremonial baths that were still active!
Some terraces, once again. These were build for growing food to bring to Machu Picchu.
Another view of the valley, near dusk.
Our camp for the night. The tents were really comfortable!
We arrived at the Sun Gate a few hours later, but we unfortunately couldn't see the sunrise as everything was completely white with mist!!!
View of Wayna Picchu, from the sun gate! This mountain is right next to Machu Picchu (which is hidden by clouds on the left). Apparently, Machu Picchu is supposed to be shaped like a condor.
After this, we did another hour of hiking (this one was probably the hardest of all the hike – it was non-stop ascending on huge rocky staircases!) and we finally reached our goal….
To view Machu Picchu like this, for the first time, shrouded in all of its mystery, was quite something. In fact, it really felt like we were on a movie set; everything looked so out of this world! We were absolutely stoked!!!
The temple of water, a large room with a fountain, where they worshipped water!
Committing fashion crime in Machu Picchu. I had to, I swear! My feet were covered in nasty penny-sized blisters.
The temple of the sun, located in the heart of the sanctuary. Notice the beautiful stonework, it took up to three weeks to polish each stone!
A cave named "The Royal Tomb"... although no mummies were ever found there!
Another double-walled door, which warns that the other room is a sacred place.
We even saw a chinchilla on the site! It wasn't very scared, we could go close to him and it wouldn't move at all!
Walls of the plaza. Unfortunately, water has greatly destroyed that wall over the years.
What impressed me about Machu Picchu is that the architecture is in perfect harmony with nature. Sometimes the Inca would leave rocks on purpose in honor to pachamama, or construct terraces along the curves of the mountain. 550 years later, it still looks stunning.
Rocks left on the site. They carved stones for the houses and temples from them.
A wall following the curve of the mountain. You will notice that there are often three things (three "windows/shelves" in this case). It is an important number in Incan symbology - it means the snake (underworld), puma (overworld) and condor (cosmos).
A condor shaped rock. There was another cave and some kind of secret passage underneight it.
After our guide finished showing us around, I collapsed from tiredness and did a magnetic siesta on the main plaza's park.
That's it for our intense and inspiring adventure in the Andes… It was a great trip, and as you could see, seeing Machu Picchu was only the cherry on top!
Right now, we are have just arrived in Lima, having traveled 20 hours from Cuzco. The ride was comfortable, but they played a really annoying Korean tv series called "Escalera al Cielo" for 15 hours! Arghhh, pure torture!
In any case, we are getting prepared for our gig with Condenados, Reino Ermitaño and Cobra on the 16th. If you are in town, don't miss this – it promises to be one hell of an event!
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Bienvenidos a Lima! se ve que la pasaron muy bien en Cuzco, las fotos están muy buenas.
Ah, Machu Picchu… TROP HOT! J'ai eu un petit frisson en voyant la belle photo (merci pour le nouveau wallpaper!), je peux juste imaginer ce que tu as ressenti en le voyant en personne.
Again all the beautiful photos together with the tour commentary, both Fantastic!
As is the noisy playlist (great selection).
And finally, all the best to you and François for the 16th July gig!!!
i, for one, hope you both continue travelling for the rest of your lives so that i can continue reading this blog!- stay heavy!
Hello I noticed your site, i can provide names for your flowers and also for the 'some entree made with mash potato'. Are your images high res?


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I Got an Art Student to Explain London's Freize Art Fair to Me
As it was my first time to Frieze, and I know as much about art as your grandma knows about the gender binary, I got a friend who is a hoity-toity art student at the Royal Academy to look at it with me.
by Joe Bish
Oct 6 2016, 4:10pm
The author, using some expensive German wifi.
This post originally appeared on VICE UK.
For those who don't know, Frieze Art Fair is basically a giant yard sale for fragrant French millionaires who dress like David Bowie and Audrey Hepburn to buy $20,000-worth of fluorescent light bulbs arranged in the shape of a swastika. Every year in Regent's Park, in swanky central London, a giant tent is erected to hold many galleries' worth of paintings, sculptures, films, and all the rest of it. Luminaries like Anish Kapoor and Jon Rafman had stuff going on, and even Channel 4 was present with its Random Acts art film series, one of which included a man sort of walking up a hill in sepia (the rest were OK, though).
As it was my first time to Frieze, and I know as much about art as your grandma knows about the gender binary, I got a friend who is a hoity-toity art student at the Royal Academy to look at some #art with me and tell me what he thinks of it. Leave us a comment below, and tell us what you think of the art. (I'm guessing most of you will just say, "Art is dumb. I like vaping and power metal.")
Pleb Says:
I quite like the plants. I'm assuming these are meant to be some sort of pillows. It looks like it's meant to be in space, like we've colonized Mars and now we need to grow plants and you know... colonize Mars. And this video is saying, like, "The world's gone upside down!" Because why are we colonizing Mars before we've sorted out Earth? That kind of thing.
Art Student Says:
This is a section of Yuri Pattison's installation at the Chisenhale Gallery that just recently closed, and this part of it has got a lot of pot plants. I know that Yuri was quite closely linked with Second Home (an office in Shoreditch that looks like a futuristic 60s ad agency) and other innovative workspaces across London. Second Home uses pot plants in their offices because they look a lot at social Darwinism—well, not social Darwinism, though there is social Darwinist tendencies in it, but they look at it in evolutionary psychology within the workplace. Pot plants and looking at plants makes you more efficient within the workplace. That video is, not of Second Home, but another futuristic work space in London, and he's filmed it upside down, which seems a little bit arbitrary in my opinion, but I do find his work very interesting.
As you can see, it says, "In logic what is unnecessary is also useless." It's a sunflower-yellow-neon sign. I don't really get neon art, and I don't really get why it exists or why people think it's good. I feel like it would have a similar effect if it was just written on the wall.
With neon art, it's got a very long history that started off basically trying to take consumer culture and the culture of advertising pre-LED technology, but because it's become such a mainstay of artistic language, it doesn't retain that same element of implicit critique of consumer culture, so now it's become a very pretty method of saying something that is arbitrarily philosophical and then making it into an object that is quite easily sellable.
(The art student discovers that the piece wasn't made by some chancing cunt last week and is actually a Joseph Kosuth work from the 90s)
This is a Joseph Kosuth piece from 1993. This SHOULD be in Frieze Masters and not in Frieze London because Frieze London should have contemporary art, and this isn't contemporary. It's from when neon art was in its genesis, and he is one of the most innovative forerunners in neon art, which is quite interesting.
This seems to be some sort of comment on scally blokes with shaved heads, but who are gay, which is a big thing, like those guys in those chav porn films. Obviously it resembles an advert, and it has a fake Supreme logo at the bottom with the "e" in brackets, not sure what that means. Maybe it's something about street wear being... A gay thing? I don't know.
The commas around the "e" in Supreme is a nod to Semiotext(e), which is the publishing house that Chris Kraus started with some other people, and I Love Dick was Chris Kraus's 1997 book that has become quite a cult classic within art theory and has been reprinted again, and Chris Kraus has become a massive figure within the art world. I Love Dick is all about her semi-confessional—well, it blurs the boundaries between confession and fiction based upon her falling in love with an academic called Dick who comes to dinner with her husband, and she begins a series of letters to Dick that she never posts, and the whole book is written in this narrative form of "Dear Dick," and a diary entry every day, and looking at her life in a starkly confessional way. It's become a piece of classic feminist literature. The light box is obviously a nod to modern forms of advertising. Supreme and Semiotext(e) are at the bottom, it's probably a collaboration. Chris Kraus is also part of the Bernadette Corporation, which blurs the boundaries between fashion and art.
In front of me is a corpulent old woman with Asian masks on her wall giving boiled eggs with salt and pepper, I'd imagine, to her elderly husband. I would guess he's got a dog next to him. An image of domesticity in the old working-class England, which is fabulous stuff. It doesn't feel intrusive, as some of these types of things do.
Richard Billingham took these photographs of his own family initially as subject matter for paintings, but because the photos themselves were so powerful and interesting he ended up just publishing them as pictures. They've become his most famous work, and they show his alcoholic father, his quite physically overbearing mother, and another series shows his weightlifting brother. They're extremely beautiful and powerful, but within Frieze, the obvious working-class taste and degraded settings have a certain fetishistic appeal in this scenario, which kind of ruins it for me because he was my favorite photographer when I was a teenager. I don't like them being here. I don't want these cunts seeing it.
Latifa Echakhch
I like this big old bell, because it looks old, and I quite like old art. If I had to pick a kind of art that I like it's probably old shit like paintings and old sculptures, you know, classical art, from the classical era. As much as it pains me to see a lovely big bell all broken and stuff, my simplistic brain is telling me that all this old bollocks can go fuck itself, and we can smash it up because it's not going to last forever. Or maybe it's about religion. Or maybe it's about the Liberty Bell.
I don't have much to say about this to be honest. Obviously bells are a very sculptural and sonorous object, and when they're broken, they cease to be sonorous, and so there's a rupture here in the function and the physical, materiality of the object. Bells are objects of celebration or European Christian architecture. It's titled Forever, so the fact that it's broken is potentially a comment on the ultimate downfall of Euro-centric Western Judeo-Christianity.
Jakub Julian Ziolkowski
This piece here looks exactly like something I see every time I go to an art show, which is very rare, whether it's an A-level art show or something of this caliber. There always seems to be some kind of shiny, ceramic with twisted metal thing, which is painted in loads of sickly greens and blues that are quite unappealing. I don't know why this style is just constantly here at art things, and I don't know what it is about it that people seem to enjoy, because to me it just looks like standard shit.
This piece has some kind of aquatic theme going on. There are turtles—it's sort of an underwater fantasy world. It's a piece of stand-alone sculpture that has reinforced bars as the base. I don't know whether maybe this has been cast like this. To be honest, I have very little to say about this.
Darja Bagajić
This seems to be a woman who is bleeding out of her mouth in a fountain-esque situation. The blood is coming out of her mouth, and then it's kind of collecting at the bottom and being pumped up back to the top, and the blood just keeps coming, which I quite like. I'm not sure whether I like it because it's got blood or because it has a naked woman on it or because it has a kind of black metal aesthetic, but I'm pretty much 100 percent down with it. I think this is good art.
I don't have some kind of interesting take on it. I just think it's really good. It seems like a continuous fountain that is pushing out liquid and sucking it back up, in a similar way that a fountain in the grounds of a grand palace would. These images seem to be taken from something like amateur pornography, slightly sado-masochistic pornography, and the objects are bleeding, so there's something to do with physical materiality, representation of a kind of... not an objectified female form but perhaps emancipated through its objectification. The piece itself physically is exquisitely finished and is a fantastic object.
Sylvia Fluery
The thing about video art—and I'm no connoisseur on video art—I find is that a lot of it seems to try very hard to look like 90s fitness videos and stuff like that, and they're always filmed in this really weird way, like poorly produced Australian kids TV shows. Remember Round the Twist? All art films to me just look like Round the Twist, and I don't know why. I find video art weird because I feel like my relationship with art is that I look at something and I study it for a bit and I work out how it makes me feel, whereas with this it just keeps throwing things at me, and I don't really know what to make of it. This is fine as far as I can tell. But if it was made in 1993, it would have been new shit, no?
Well, you've taken the words right out of my mouth, to be honest, because this could be a Goldsmiths degree show piece. But then again, the fact that this looks so modern to us now shows you that there are so few new ideas with contemporary artists, and you could go round a graduate's show in 2016, and it would look brand new in 1993, whenever this piece was. At the time, this probably would have been very innovative and a comment on an industry that is so subsumed into the mainstream now that we don't even consider it as something separate, whereas at the time these fitness videos were a relatively new thing. These videos have become a cliché now. This piece has lost the power it would have had in the 90s.
So there you have it. Some views on art from a fucking idiot (me) and a pretentious jerk (him). I hope you enjoyed it and learned something about aesthetics in the process. I'm away to watch Bob Ross paint a cabin in a snowy wood. That's real art.
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Trump's lewd comments trigger outrage
Donald Trump's vulgar, lewd and sexually aggressive comments recorded in 2005 have drawn fire from all corners.
Trump's lewd comments trigger outrage Donald Trump's vulgar, lewd and sexually aggressive comments recorded in 2005 have drawn fire from all corners. Check out this story on hattiesburgamerican.com: http://hatne.ws/2dWIng5
Associated Press Published 9:01 a.m. CT Oct. 9, 2016
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pauses during a meeting with members of the National Border Patrol Council at Trump Tower, Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)(Photo: Evan Vucci, AP)
NEW YORK (AP) — On a bus headed to the set of the soap opera "Days of Our Lives" in 2005, Donald Trump was secretly recorded saying he was drawn like a magnet to beautiful women. "I just start kissing them," he boasted. "I don't even wait."
After the recording was released Friday, backlash didn't wait, either. Critics across the political spectrum said the Republican presidential nominee's comments crossed the line from vulgarity to assault and underscored a need to push back against misogyny and so-called rape culture.
"Someone with such disrespect for women, with such a misogynistic lifestyle who boasts about using his power to sexually assault women cannot — and will not — be the leader of this country," said National Organization for Women president Terry O'Neill.
On the tape, Trump brags about women letting him kiss and grab them because he is famous. "When you're a star they let you do it," Trump says. "You can do anything." He adds seconds later, "Grab them by the p----. You can do anything."
Dozens of Republican officials called for their own presidential nominee to quit the race. Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, tersely stated: "No woman should ever be described in these terms or talked about in this manner. Ever."
Kelly Oxford, an author and social media personality, posted an account of an older man on a city bus grabbing her crotch and smiling at her. She asked other women to share their own harrowing assault stories, and thousands did, pushing #NotOK into a trending topic on Twitter.
Trump has provided plenty of fodder for the conversation. He has called a Miss Universe winner "Miss Piggy," referring to actress Rosie O'Donnell as a "pig," and speculated that Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly asked him tough questions because she was menstruating.
One sidebar of the debate centered on whether men really talked that way when they are not around women. "All men talk like this, get over it," wrote someone with the Twitter handle @psychicempress. To which many replied: "No they don't."
Since that 2005 conversation, sexual violence against women and how society deals with it are more often discussed, in part because of the rise of social media. The issue was at the center of an outcry over a six-month jail sentence for a former Stanford University swimmer who sexually assaulted an unconscious woman. Fox News chief Roger Ailes was recently ousted over charges of his mistreatment of women.
And sexual violence is the main issue surrounding charges that Bill Cosby, 79, drugged and molested a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004. Cosby, who has faced multiple accusations of sexual misconduct from various women, says his encounters with women were consensual.
In a statement, Trump initially called his remarks "locker room banter."
Brandon Morrow, a pitcher with the San Diego Padres, tweeted that he's been around locker room banter but Trump's words were "a few of the most disgusting things I've heard a man say."
Daniel Weingarten, a 24-year-old Los Angeles-based actor and writer, posted a video in which he shot down the notion that men behind closed doors talk like Trump. "Real men don't say these things. Real men don't brag about sexual assault like it's a badge of honor."
Trump called the taped comments "a distraction from the issues we are facing today." He said that his "foolish" words are much different than the words and actions of Bill Clinton, whom he accused of abusing women, and Hillary Clinton, whom he accused of having "bullied, attacked, shamed and intimidated his victims."
Right-leaning radio host Laura Ingraham tried to defend Trump, saying that while "objectifying women with graphic language is appalling," liberals have "little credibility on this issue."
But Trump supporters were easily swamped by outraged Americans.
"As a human being, I am appalled by Trump's words," tweeted Matthew Carson of Tallahassee, Florida. "As a father of 4 boys, I pray I can raise them to be better than that."
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The ups and downs of the jobs report, at a glance
The government's monthly jobs report provides a wealth of information about the state of the economy. On balance, July's report was a good one, particularly compared with the dismal reports from the previous two months.
Still, each report has both positive and negative elements. Below are the good and the bad from Friday's jobs report:
— The economy created more jobs. Employers added a net total of 117,000 in July, much more than in May or June and more than the 90,000 economists had expected for July.
— Companies did even better. Businesses added 154,000 jobs, and the gains were widespread across many industries.
— People with jobs made a bit more money. Average hourly wages moved up 10 cents, to $23.13 from $23.03, the biggest monthly gain since 2008.
— Temporary hiring leveled off. Companies usually hire temp workers before adding full-time ones. So economists look at the temp figures as a sign of future trends. In the past three months, temp hiring fell, but in July it ticked up by about 300 jobs.
— There are still 13.9 million people unemployed. While down from about 14.1 million the previous month, that's far higher than the 7.6 million unemployed when the recession began.
— The unemployment rate is 9.1 percent. That is also down, from 9.2 percent in June, but is still shockingly high given that the recession officially ended two years ago. The rate has been above 9 percent every month but two since then.
— Fewer Americans have jobs. The proportion of the population that has a job fell in July to the lowest level in 28 years: 58.1 percent. It's fallen so low in part because millions of Americans have given up looking for work. These people are not included in the unemployment rate.
— More than 25 million Americans are either unemployed, or have given up looking, or are working part time but would prefer a full-time job. That means the so-called "under-employment" rate is 16.1 percent, down only slightly from 16.2 percent in June.
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Bank Frauds in the News – $43 Trillion Financial Fraud Lawsuit in US – Racketeering and Money Laundering
Posted on November 1, 2012 by bobbygill
Iceland dealt with it's banking and financial problems and the economy is recovering. The Irish are taking mass action against the banks. Even the US have started civil lawsuits against racketeering and Money Laundering now – but they're trying to keep it quiet.
Censored: Banks Fraud in the News – $43 Trillion Financial Fraud Lawsuit and CNBC Executive's Children Murdered – coincidence or not!?
Do you watch/read the news? Do you believe it isn't censored…?
In that case you will have heard one of the big CNBC related news stories.
Not the one about the Vice President of CNBC Digital having his children murdered, which is the daily fodder of stories that media like to feed people that enjoy this kind of curious behaviour. Even though it was horrific and not deserving of anyone, especially young children: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2223972/Krim-murder-Brave-year-old-girl-tried-fight-killer-nanny.html
But the other BIG story I'm referring to is about the $43 trillion dollar lawsuit that CNBC had published earlier that same day. It was a Press Release that they had run on their website, I know it was there as I had a glance last week and saved the link to read later. CNBC Published the article on Thursday and it had disappeared within 48 hours! Now who says news isn't censored!?
This is the link where the article WAS:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/49555671/Major_Banks_Governmental_Officials_and_Their_Comrade_Capitalists_Targets_of_Spire_Law_Group_LLP_s_Racketeering_and_Money_Laundering_Lawsuit_Seeking_Return_of_43_Trillion_to_the_United_States_Treasury
A copy of the deleted article/press release is available here to read:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/111797302
View the 858 Page Lawsuit here:
And other people that notice the anomaly and discussing the coincidence:
http://wtfrly.com/2012/10/27/cnbc-curiously-removes-article-on-43-trillion-financial-fraud-lawsuit-after-executives-kids-murdered-in-new-york-nanny-case/
I'm not saying there is a link but don't you think it curious that it happened!?
Elsewhere in the World….
Do what Iceland did and kick out the corrupt Government plebs and fraudulent bankers!
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/902371-what-can-greece-learn-from-icelands-recovery-after-banking-collapse
The Irish have also started their cases
Bankers in America know their time has come with the latest lawsuit and it looks like it will be the UK's biggest next, with Lloyds TSB management and their Halifax Bank of Scotland partners next.
Do you think your Bank has defrauded you?
Well, with so much overwhelming evidence (or lack of defence offered), moral and financial bankruptcy, government bailouts, whilst they take money from 'Dear Doris' – the answer is yes and you can find out easily by asking them a few simple questions.
Of course if you're happy with them defrauding you, then carry on as normal. After all is Ignorance is Bliss!
If you want to know for sure then you can send them a letter requesting a certified copy of your supposed contracts and proof of Bank funds, to confirm your suspicions.
Your only obligation to yourself is to send the letter, see what answers you get back – then follow up with legal action (if you can afford) or at least publish the information online if there is something untoward or shady about any misdirection and refusal to provide answers or documents that you have a right to!
Yes that's right – Banks refuse to send documents either because they don't have them or because they believe they can get away with it. Is it time you showed them that people aren't going to take any more fraud and lies?
Isn't it time you took a stand too?
Leave a comment below and I'll send you a copy of the letter to find out if you have been taken for a ride.
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Banks Put Profits Before People
Posted on April 4, 2011 by bobbygill
If it's possible to make money out of gullible or unsuspecting customers, that's perfectly acceptable. The Banks pay huge bonuses because they know they can get away with being bailed out to the downside by the Government and taxpayer. They are not 'too big to fail' but think they are 'too important to fail' – where in reality, with the billion pound bail-outs we're about to find out that they will ultimately be 'too big to save'.
Of course Banks put profits before customers, how else does a business make decisions, especially when you are part-nationalised and insured against any risks?
The delusional Chief executive of the British Bankers' Association Angela Knight says "the industry had reformed radically" – which bank is she talking about in particular that would lead her to think this was true? The Banks believe they can fall back on the taxpayer because it has been proven to be so.
Nick Clegg says he's angry about the Banking industry and it's actions – well do something about it then!!! Otherwise scenes like those seen in London a week ago are likely to repeat themselves again and again…
"Just weeks after Chancellor George Osborne signed Project Merlin the Bank of England governor Mervyn King has questioned why banks are trying to maximise short-term profit at the expense of customers.
In a Daily Telegraph interview Mr King attacked the banking bonus system warning that failure to reform the sector could result in another financial crisis.
Mr King said that, over the past two decades, too many people in financial services had thought "if it's possible to make money out of gullible or unsuspecting customers, that's perfectly acceptable".
He said: "Why do banks in general want to pay bonuses? It's because they live in a 'too big to fail' world in which the state will bail them out on the downside."
The Project Merlin deal previously struck with the banks agreed that in return for the bank's lending more money and showing restraint on bonuses, the UK Government would not take any further action on pay and profits.
"We've not yet solved the 'too big to fail' or, as I prefer to call it, the 'too important to fail' problem. The concept of being too important to fail should have no place in a market economy. There is too much weight put on the importance and value of takeovers and it doesn't make sense to destroy a company with a sound reputation in the hunt for short-term profits."
Mr King also drew a contrast between manufacturing companies, who largely care about their workforces, customers and products, and the banks. "There's a different attitude towards customers. Small and medium firms really notice this: they miss the people they know."
Chief executive of the British Bankers' Association Angela Knight said "Some in the industry had got it badly wrong during the financial crisis but since then the industry had reformed radically. We entirely agree that no bank should believe it can fall back on the taxpayer. I sincerely hope Mr King is as committed as we are to forming a good relationship when the Bank of England takes over regulation".
Banking chiefs said they "respected" Mr King but disagreed with his comments..
The Con-Dem Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg told delegates at the Scottish Liberal Democrat spring conference in Perth:"I agree with Mervyn King, the job of making our banks safe and responsible is not yet complete, I understand why people are angry when they hear about the super-sized salaries and bumper bonuses awarded to top bankers. I am too".
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What is a Bank Holiday?
A Holiday is by definition a Holy Day, the word originally referred only to special religious days – but the Bankers felt they deserved some time off too.
Historically this would be the day that Bankers went for Confession and then threw themselves out of windows to save the honour of their families and their karma. Black Mondays were around times when they'd caused a financial crisis – there were so many leaping from tall buildings, in a mass cleansing, that they blocked out the light from the sun.
Those were the good old days! Oh, how old traditions are forgotten. If only…
"Bank Holidays Act 1871
Prior to 1834, the Bank of England observed about thirty-three saints' days and religious festivals as holidays, but in 1834, this was reduced to just four: 1 May (May Day), 1 November (All Saints Day), Good Friday, and Christmas Day.
In 1871, the first legislation relating to bank holidays was passed when Liberal Politician and Banker, Sir John Lubbock introduced the Bank Holidays Act 1871 which specified the days [set out below in italics]. Sir John was an enthusiastic supporter of cricket and was firmly of the belief that bank employees should have the opportunity to participate in and attend matches when they were scheduled. Included in the dates of bank holidays are therefore dates when cricket games were traditionally played between the villages in the region where Sir John was raised.
The English people [bankers] were so thankful that they called the first Bank Holidays 'St. Lubbock's Days' for a while. Scotland was treated separately because of its separate traditions; for example, New Year is a more important holiday there.
Whit Monday ( First Monday in May)
First Monday in August
Boxing Day/St. Stephen's Day
The act did not specify Good Friday and Christmas Day as bank holidays in England, Wales and Ireland because they were already recognised as common law holidays, and because of common observance, they became customary holidays since before records began.
Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971
Exactly a century after the 1871 Act, the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971, which currently regulates bank holidays in the UK, was passed. The majority of the current bank holidays were specified in the 1971 Act, but New Year's Day and May Day were introduced after 1971.
Royal proclamation
Under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971, bank holidays are proclaimed each year by the legal device of a royal proclamation. Royal proclamation is also used to move bank holidays that would otherwise fall on a weekend. In this way, public holidays are not 'lost' in years when they coincide with weekends. These deferred bank holiday days are termed a 'bank holiday in lieu' of the typical anniversary date. In the legislation they are known as 'substitute days'. The movement of the St Andrew's Day Scottish holiday to the nearest Monday when 30 November is a weekend day is statutory and does not require a proclamation." –
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_holiday
That's right. Everyone else knows what a Holiday or holy day is but the Bankers have an Act for it and even the Queen gets involved. It's just not cricket!
Happy Bank Holiday and don't let the Bankers bite!
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Lloyds (HBOS) Gambled and Lost – Next Centre Point London
Posted on October 25, 2010 by bobbygill
Find out where the Banks gambled your money and what they're doing to get some of it back at the cost to other businesses and people! Do you trust your countries Bankers to be HONEST?
11 October 2010: Trust me I'm a banker
By Mark Daly BBC Scotland Investigations Correspondent (Full story: http://www.bbc.co.uk)
Two years ago this week, Scotland's once-proud banking history was ripped to shreds.
Facing total ruin, Royal Bank of Scotland was rescued by the government. Halifax Bank of Scotland had to be sold off to Lloyds, which in turn had to be bailed out by the taxpayer.
In 2009, RBS paid £1.3bn in bonuses, while Lloyds paid a reported £200m. Both were in the red at the time
We wanted to know more. Remember, RBS is 83% owned by the taxpayer, Lloyds 41% – so it could be argued that we're entitled to know what they're up to.
"Bankers are paid much more than executives in any other walk of business life. The idea that you have to pay these people stratospheric sums of money…underwritten by the taxpayer is offensive." – Economist Will Hutton
"Just remember one thing, the City is full of greedy, ruthless, clever people and they will do what they can to line their pockets with no regard of the impact it has on society." – Former trader and best selling author of "Cityboy" Geraint Anderson
Mr Tate, who was the highest earning Lloyds director last year with £1.8m, said: "There are a whole lot of people, myself included, who would love to get the kind of return on their investment that the taxpayer has made into this bank. They've made an investment that is making money. If you could come up with me, with an investment in the infrastructure which would have returned more for the taxpayers, I'm all ears."
(What a Banker!)
Tuesday 12 October 2010: HBOS loses millions on Vegas casino
(Full Story: www.guardian.co.uk)
Value of state-owned Lloyds' overseas portfolio questioned after Penn National Gaming paid $230m for $860m debt
Penn National Gaming paid $230.5m for around $860m owed to HBOS, which included $700m the bank loaned to M Resort Photograph: Alise O'Brien
Lloyds Banking Group, the partially state-owned lender, has lost more than $500m (£317m) on loans to M Resort Spa Casino in Las Vegas – the second massive financial hit the bank has taken in America in as many months.
News of the deal has started attracting attention to the value of Lloyds's overseas portfolio, much of which it acquired during the unpopular takeover of HBOS is 2008. Market watchers had previously attributed most of the woe associated with that acquisition to lending within HBOS's UK corporate division, headed by Peter Cummings.
Penn National Gaming, a US gambling group, paid $230.5m for about $860m owed to HBOS International, which included $700m the bank loaned to M Resort plus another $160m loan that HBOS had acquired from MGM Resorts at an undisclosed price.
The debt sale comes two months after it emerged that HBOS International was set to lose "tens of millions of pounds" from dealings with another US client, Sea Island, the exclusive Georgia holiday retreat that filed for bankruptcy in August. In that case, court documents said Sea Island was unable to pay back close to $600m in debts owed to a consortium of banks that included HBOS, which were taken out to fund an ambitious expansion plan. The company said it planned to sell its coastal resorts to investment funds Oaktree Capital Management and Avenue Capital Group in a $197.5m.
The mounting US losses at HBOS are thought to have been incurred in the division previously run by Colin Matthew, a former HBOS board member whose responsibilities included the bank's international business. He retired from the newly formed group in January 2009 with a pension entitlement of £416,000 a year, having been paid £652,000 in 2008 and £905,000 in 2007.
Lloyds declined to comment on individual impairments, although the group is thought to have already written down the value of the M Resort loans. Following the sale of HBOS to Lloyds, the former HBOS international and UK corporate businesses have all been rolled into a single Lloyds division, making it difficult to analyse where the major losses have been incurred.
One analyst said: "There is an idea that much of the financial crisis was down to a few bad apples. That is a simplification. It has lots to do with the organisational structure of banks. People are not incentivised to sit back and call the cycle."
Lloyds has been winding down or selling HBOS-owned assets ever since acquiring Britain's largest mortgage lender. The acquisition, which was encouraged by the UK government, helped Lloyds book losses of £6.3bn last year and pushed the shares, which closed yesterday at 72.65p, down to 19p.
13th October 2010: High Court reprieve for Centre Point owner in survival battle with Lloyds banking
(Full Story: www.dailymail.co.uk)
The owner of the Centre Point tower in London won a reprieve in its battle for survival with Lloyds Banking Group. London's High Court granted Targetfollow two weeks to secure investment, despite efforts by Lloyds to force it into administration over £700million of debt. The property developer cannot meet repayments on the loan or repay it in full because the value of its estate tumbled in the financial crisis.
But the group claims it has come up with a number of viable ways to restructure the debt – only to see them rejected by Lloyds.
The part-nationalised bank, 41per cent owned by the taxpayer after a multi-billion pound bailout by the state, wants to seize and sell the properties to recoup some of its money.
It has raised fears within the commercial property industry of a fire-sale of assets and double-dip in prices as banks seeking to unwind toxic loans handed out during the boom years from undermining the recovery.
Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland, which is 84 per cent owned by the state, are sitting on more than a third of the £250billion of outstanding UK property debt.
Many of the rotten loans at Lloyds were approved by Peter Cummings, the former corporate chief of Bank of Scotland, which Lloyds acquired by it bought HBOS in 2008.
'Every week that passes is detrimental to the value of the assets,' he said. Lloyds values Targetfollow's estate at just £450million. The company claims it is worth nearer £680million.
The judge adjourned the case until October 25 at the earliest.
Naghshineh, an Iranian businessman, last month said: 'The whole UK property industry is watching the situation very closely.
'Any indication that [Lloyds] is starting a process of offloading [assets] at fire-sale prices will hit the property market very hard indeed, just as the recovery is underway.'
Friday 22 October 2010: Lloyds to go ahead with administration of Centre Point owner Targetfollow
(Full Story – http://uk.finance.yahoo.com)
Lloyds Banking Group is preparing to push ahead with administration proceedings against the owner of London landmark Centre Point despite the company claiming it has secured a £150m rescue cash investment.
Targetfollow, led by founder Ardeshir Naghshineh, issued a statement yesterday saying it had agreed terms with a "high-quality institutional consortium" to invest £150m in the business.
However, according to sources close to talks, Lloyds, which is owed more than £700m by Targetfollow, does not support the proposals and still plans to go ahead with a High Court hearing next week about whether the property company is placed into administration.
Targetfollow is breaching covenants on its debts and Lloyds must approve any capital injection, however it is understood that the bank believes the consortium's terms are "not feasible" and would require it to take writedowns. The offer is a "long way" from what the bank considers appropriate, sources said. Lloyds declined to comment.
Targetfollow is due in court next week after it was granted two weeks to find a rescue investor earlier this month.
The consortium's proposed £150m aid package would be used to acquire a portion of the debt from Lloyds and to provide working capital to Targetfollow. Mr Naghshineh said: "I believe that this consortium addresses the issues that the bank has raised with the company in the past 12 months, and will pave the way for the bank and the company to move on from what has been a very difficult time."
Lloyds is managing about £30bn of problem property debt. The downturn in the sector led to the bank making damaging writedowns during the financial crisis. Latest accounts from Uberior Ventures, HBOS's property joint venture arm, show its investments fell in value by £590m to £345m last year.
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Where did the economy go… double-dip here?
No bull! There's a double dip coming unless the Banks lend the Governement a few trillion more!
My thoughts on the Economy, now that I have a moment to sit down and flow… here are my answers to some of the questions that people are asking.
Below is a bunch of things I wanted to share. If I'm not specific on anything feel free to ask and leave a comment.
1. Current economy
The Depression, yes that's what it is economically regardless of the lies the politicians tell you and stats made up by economists, is affecting the majority of people right now.
People are losing their jobs, homes and there is no such thing as security. With big companies going bust (those not powerful enough for bailout money) there is no such thing as job security. Employee pensions being gambled away on the stock market and they will be lucky if they have much to live on – that's probably why they're pushing the retirement age back.
Almost every year the Government spends more than it raises in tax! It 'borrows' this money from the 'Bank of England' (so much for it being a Government owned body!)
Someone has to pay this back eventually and that means you! Find out about the UK National Debt.
2. Money is being devalued as more is printed, taxes will go up to cover the money being spent and given to the Banks. Quantitative Easing: "Instead of lowering Bank Rate to increase the amount of money in the economy, the Bank supplies extra money directly. This does not involve printing more banknotes. Instead the Bank pays for these assets by creating money electronically"
You need to be smart in how and where you invest your money right now. Gold has always been a viable option and the demand will always be there for it if you need to sell. Currently Gold has been trading at around £860 / $1380 per ounce and you can always easily get 90% of it's value from a jeweler or gold dealer.
Can you afford Not to invest in Gold?
3. It is also wise to keep some liquid cash on hand, for when you need it.
4. Commercial real estate!
I believe the worst is not yet over. This is the breathing space before the real storm. As people lost their jobs and homes, more mortgage resets are coming, increasing interest rates and fewer jobs. This has worked it's way through the residential property markets at the moment and the next one to be hit is the Commercial property (real estate) markets.
Don't think it will happen? Walk around your local town centre shops. How many 'To Let' signs do you see? More charity shops and pound shops than high street brands? Pubs and bars closing or changing hands more often?
Empty shops and cheap stores being the only ones in business are clear signs of the recession/depression.
Do you see more Cash Convertor stores and places offering to buy your gold in exchange for their cash? Do they know something you don't…
Only another World War could get everyone working again and making money… hmmm… any invasions on the agenda at the moment Mr. Obama?
I hope I'm wrong… but what what if this is how it happens?
I discussed many of these things with my friend Gerry P. and unfortunately the winds and tornadoes started before I actually implemented and acted on any of the facts.
Make sure you're not left behind by being forewarned. Get educated!
Government and Banks
The Banks and Governments monitor traffic on the internet now to spy on people, I have know of them doing it with BMV property investors and checking their profiles before processing applications.
As TRUST is the Bankers' issue, maybe they want to look in the mirror too!?
The world is waking up and the 'Federal Reserve' is now a household name, instead of a 'perceived' Government body – in reality it is a privately owned bank that masquerades as a Government body. People are against the War and attacks in foreign countries in the name of 'Oil'.
Enough of living in a Police state with everything being filmed and silly little 'civil laws' being invented so they can legally steal your money.
Have America not convinced enough people to support them in attacking Iran yet, to prevent Nuclear arms development? Hmmm… remember the WMD-Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq? Neither do the dead US soldiers and citizens of the country or their families and relatives. But it made a lot of US dollars and gave them control.
The fiat currencies are going to go pop and they need wars to keep their pockets lined and economies going. Read up on Buckminster Fuller's honest writings: Grunch of Giants and Critical Path.
The Amero (have you heard about it?) is as real as the European Union and I won't even start on the One World Government with the US President (and his puppeteers) in charge.
Remember this is a game being played by Governments, Banks and Corporation liars (lawyers) – to support their hidden agendas. I'm not sharing anything new – just repeating it so that you may hear the truth THIS TIME!
And if you don't want to believe it then that's cool too… just remember the choices you made when you're waiting for your pension to arrive.
Educate yourselves now! Learn the truth…
I don't know all the answers but I do know the difference between RIGHT and wrong.
Interestingly HONEST is a Powerful (positive) pattern -v- Legal which is a weak (negative) pattern.
Where would you rather be vibrating? (Source: Power Vs. Force by David R Hawkins)
Despite the doom and gloom – this is a great opportunity for change!
Take stock and learn from your mistakes. Accept the feedback.
Let the stresses and challenges be your friend and make you stronger.
Make plans and do things better this time.
The information is already out there and you just need to want to look for it. It requires change from YOU and people to come together and say enough is enough to this slavery.
We are all free people but forgot along the way… Freedom is More Than Just a Seven Letter Word
Now is a time that people will remember what really is of value, taking them away from greed and materialism and forcing them to appreciate the other things in life.
Remember: don't be a victim! You're going to have to let go of the old attachments first.
Then get back in charge, take control and be responsible for the life you live!
When would NOW be a good time to do that?
I wish you a happy life filled with fun, friends, family and laughter 🙂
P.S. Double Dips are for caring and sharing together!
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import React from "react";
import {Col, Row} from "helpers/reactstrap";
import {withApollo, useQuery} from "react-apollo";
import * as Macros from "../../../components/macros";
import gql from "graphql-tag.macro";
import ErrorBoundary from "helpers/errorBoundary";

const CLIENT_QUERY = gql`
  query Clients {
    clients {
      id
    }
  }
`;
const MacroConfig = props => {
  const {data, loading} = useQuery(CLIENT_QUERY);
  if (loading) return null;
  const _handleArg = (name, value) => {
    let {args} = props;
    args = JSON.parse(args) || {};
    args[name] = value;
    // Stringify it so it can be sent to the server
    props.updateMacro("args", JSON.stringify(args));
  };
  const {event, client} = props;
  const args = JSON.parse(props.args);
  const EventMacro =
    Macros[event] ||
    (() => {
      return null;
    });
  return (
    <Row>
      <Col sm="12">
        {EventMacro && (
          <ErrorBoundary render={
Error in macro
}>
            <EventMacro
              {...props}
              updateArgs={_handleArg}
              args={args || {}}
              client={client}
              clients={data.clients}
            />
          </ErrorBoundary>
        )}
      </Col>
    </Row>
  );
};

export default withApollo(MacroConfig);


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Q: Android 4.0 calendar api I have a problem with listing all events in Google Calendar on Android OS.
I used this tutorial
But each time I have only 98 events (I have a lot more).
Each event is from January to March 2012 (I have events from 2011).
Here is my Code:
{
  private static final String LOG = "service";
  private Cursor mCursor = null;
  private static final String[] COLS = new String[]
{ CalendarContract.Events.TITLE, CalendarContract.Events.DTSTART, CalendarContract.Events.DURATION, CalendarContract.Events.DESCRIPTION};
  Uri uri=CalendarContract.Events.CONTENT_URI;
  mCursor = getContentResolver().query(uri, COLS, null, null, CalendarContract.Events.DTSTART +" ASC");
  Calendar date = Calendar.getInstance();
  Log.i(LOG,mCursor.getCount()+"");
  while(mCursor.moveToNext()){
    date.setTimeInMillis(mCursor.getLong(1));
    Log.i(LOG,mCursor.getString(0)+" "+date.get(Calendar.DATE)+"-"+date.get(Calendar.MONTH)+"-  "+date.get(Calendar.YEAR)+" "+date.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY)+" "+date.get(Calendar.MINUTE));
  }
  return super.onStartCommand(intent, flags, startId);
}

I'am trying to use Android 4.0 API to calendar. Can anyone help me with getting ALL the events from calendar? Any tutorials or something?

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All results National League National Trophy
2013-09-27 British Challenge Match in Plymouth (Great Britain) 2 Plymouth Devils 2* 3 3 2 1* 5 11
2013-09-23 Silver Ski Championship in Sittingbourne (Great Britain) 1 3 3 3 3 3 3 6 18
2013-09-21 British National League Riders Championships in Rye House (Great Britain) 1 3 3 2 3 3 5 14
2013-09-16 John Cearns Cup in Sittingbourne (Great Britain) 1 Kent Kings 2 3 3 r 4 8
2013-09-03 British National League in Isle of Wight (Great Britain) 1 Kent Kings 3 3 3 2 3 5 14
2013-09-02 British National League in Sittingbourne (Great Britain) 1 Kent Kings 3 3 0 3 0 5 9
2013-08-26 British National League in Sittingbourne (Great Britain) 1 Kent Kings 3 3 0 1 4 7
2013-08-24 British National League in Stoke (Great Britain) 1 Isle of Wight Islanders 3 3 6! fx 4 12
2013-08-20 British National League in Isle of Wight (Great Britain) 1 Isle of Wight Islanders 3 3 3 3 2* 5 14
2013-08-19 British National League in Sittingbourne (Great Britain) 1 Kent Kings 3 3 3 3 4 12
2013-08-18 British National League Fours semi-final in Stoke (Great Britain) 4 Kent Kings 3 3 2 6
2013-08-18 British National League Fours final in Stoke (Great Britain) 4 Kent Kings 3 2 2 5
2013-08-14 British National League in King's Lynn (Great Britain) 1 Kent Kings 2 6! 3 2 3 5 16
2013-08-13 British National League in Isle of Wight (Great Britain) 1 Isle of Wight Islanders 3 3 3 3 3 5 15
2013-08-12 British National League in Sittingbourne (Great Britain) 1 Kent Kings 3 3 3 3 3 5 15
2013-08-11 British National League in Buxton (Great Britain) 1 Kent Kings fx 6! 2 6
2013-08-06 British National League in Isle of Wight (Great Britain) 3 Dudley Heathens 3 2 3 3 4 11
2013-07-30 British National League in Wolverhampton (Great Britain) 1 Kent Kings 3 2 6! 1 2 5 14
2013-07-23 British National League in Isle of Wight (Great Britain) 1 Isle of Wight Islanders 3 1* 3 3 3 5 13
2013-07-22 Eurolink Cup in Sittingbourne (Great Britain) 1 Kent Kings 2 2 3 2 4 9
2013-07-15 British National Trophy in Sittingbourne (Great Britain) 1 Kent Kings 3 0 6! 3 3 5 15
2013-07-14 British National League in Mildenhall (Great Britain) 1 Kent Kings t 6! r 3 2 5 11
2013-07-11 John Berry Memorial in Ipswich (Great Britain) 7 John Berry Memorial Select 3 3 1 2 4 9
2013-07-09 British National League Cup in Isle of Wight (Great Britain) 1 Kent Kings 3 3 6! 3 3 5 18
2013-07-08 British National League in Sittingbourne (Great Britain) 1 Kent Kings 3 6! 3 3 2 5 17
2013-07-06 British National Trophy in Stoke (Great Britain) 1 Kent Kings 3 3 3 3 3 5 15
2013-07-01 Kent Laurels in Sittingbourne (Great Britain) 2 3 3 3 3 2 5 14
2013-06-30 British National League Pairs Championships semi-final in Mildenhall (Great Britain) 1 Kent Kings 4 4 4 3 12
2013-06-30 British National League Pairs Championships in Mildenhall (Great Britain) 1 Kent Kings x 4 4 3 8
2013-06-24 British National League Cup in Sittingbourne (Great Britain) 1 Kent Kings 3 3 6! 3 3 5 18
2013-06-18 British National Trophy in Isle of Wight (Great Britain) 1 Kent Kings 3 3 6! 2 r 5 14
2013-06-17 The Tunnel Trophy in Sittingbourne (Great Britain) 1 Kent Kings 3 3 3 3 4 12
2013-06-16 British National Trophy in Mildenhall (Great Britain) 1 Kent Kings 3 2 4! 1 3 5 13
2013-06-14 British National League in Coventry (Great Britain) 1 Kent Kings 2 4! 3 3 2 5 14
2013-06-10 British National Trophy in Sittingbourne (Great Britain) 1 Kent Kings 3 3 3 2 2 5 13
2013-06-03 British National League in Sittingbourne (Great Britain) 1 Kent Kings 2 3 3 r 4 8
2013-05-27 British National Trophy in Sittingbourne (Great Britain) 1 Kent Kings 1 3 2 2* 3 5 11
2013-05-26 British National Trophy in Buxton (Great Britain) 1 Kent Kings 3 3 3 2 3 5 14
2013-05-13 British National Trophy in Sittingbourne (Great Britain) 1 Kent Kings 3 3 r 3 6
2013-05-06 British Challenge Match in Sittingbourne (Great Britain) 1 Kent Kings 3 2 3 r 1 5 9
2013-05-04 Handicap Individual in Rye House (Great Britain) 7 2 3 2 3 3 5 13


Updated to reflect changes introduced with 10.13.4. Update to 10.13.4 if needed before attempting to make SecureToken-related changes.
sysadminctl is a tool Apple introduced in 10.10 for working with system user accounts. In 10.13, sysadminctl is Apple's recommended tool for working with user accounts in the CLI, replacing functionality that has long been provided by dscl and adds new features available only in 10.13. sysadminctl can be used to change user passwords, create new users or check the status of a new-to-10.13 security feature named SecureToken.
SecureToken is a non-visible APFS file system attribute, unlike the SIP protected flag or file creation date, that triggers the creation of a new AuthenticationAuthority entry in a user's local account record (e.g. sudo dscl . -read /Users/[user name] AuthenticationAuthority). SecureToken is not publicly documented by Apple so it is not possible to provide a full technical description, but in practice one needs only to know if a user has SecureToken or not. Having SecureToken set signifies that a user can unlock a FileVault-encrypted container on an APFS-formatted volume. Without the SecureToken bit on a user account, that user will not be able to authenticate at the FileVault pre-OS login screen.
Users created in the GUI via System Preferences > Accounts should be automatically granted SecureToken but users created via the CLI (dscl, sysadminctl or via policy from the JSS) do not automatically get SecureToken. For all CLI-created users you need to explicitly grant them SecureToken using an admin account that itself has SecureToken.
On machines with FileVault enabled, it is imperative that any user using the machine have SecureToken set or else they will not be able to unlock the encrypted drive.
The admin user running this command must have SecureToken themselves. Granting SecureToken is a chain-of-trust process.
When prompted, authenticate as the admin running the command and then provide the user's password.
This second version will prompt you, at the CLI, to first enter the admin user's password and then the user's password.


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|Published on: Sep 5, 2016|Categories: Olympics|
The 2016 Olympics were hosted in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil over 5th – 21st August.
With 207 countries represented by 11,238 athletes competing in 306 events across 28 sports.
As far as medals won, it was the best ever result for Team GB. Coming 2nd in the Medal Table with 67 medals. 27 Gold; 23 Silver and 17 Bronze.
A touch better than London 2012 when Team GB were 3rd in the medal table, with 65 medals. 29 Gold; 17 Silver and 19 Bronze.
However, what about our cyclists?
At both Rio and London Team GB Cyclists topped the medal table, taking 12 medals at each. (Rio: 6 Gold; 4 Silver and 2 Bronze. London: 8 Gold; 2 Silver and 2 Bronze.)
Team GB also topped the Medal Table at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, gaining 14 medals. 8 Gold; 4 Silver and 2 Bronze.
Over the 3 Games, nearly all the medal success has come from our Track Cyclists.
Our only success in the Road Racing Rio 2016, Chris Froome gaining the only medal – a Bronze in the Men's Time Trial.
Whereas the Men's Track Team took 4 of the 5 Gold medals on offer and the Women's Track Team took 2 of the 5 Gold Medals.
We did not manage to win any of medals in the BMX nor the Mountain Biking events.
Many Olympic and World Records were also broken. In addition, Jason Kenny matched teammate Chris Hoy, as the most successful male cyclist in Olympic history, with six gold medals and a silver over three Games.
A number of changes were made from the Beijing Olympics to the total number of cycling track events, cutting the number of men's events down from 7 events to 5 events.
The more cynical observers reckon it was to stop Team GB cyclists taking all the Gold Medals. (5 out of 7). The Olympic committee say it was to offer more events for the women. (3 in Beijing, 5 in Rio).
The question that has been asked repeatedly, is why the success on the track, but not on the road?
Is it natural talent, money or something that cannot be defined?
Since, the National Lottery started to pump money into cycling, there has been no doubt that Track Cycling, has benefited.
However, what about Road Cycling? – We have some immensely talented riders. Riders who are capable of winning all the major races.
Is it a question of riding for a commercial team as opposed to riding for your country?
Your Team Mates today are your Opponents tomorrow. Do we play 'too nice' and don't want to beat our friends.
It is a question that will be asked again and again.
So, let us look forward to the XXXII Olympiad and the start of the Cycling Events in Tokyo on 25th July 2020.