Every player has their own biases and preferences when it comes to deck selection. There's nothing wrong with playing to strengths, and it is important to remember that Magic is a game. You have more fun playing something you enjoy. However, this goes both ways, and you can dislike a deck for less-than-rational reasons. I have a problem with the most popular version of Bant Spirits that has little to do with the deck itself.
I don't enjoy playing the latest version of Bant Spirits, but that doesn't mean that it's a bad deck by any means. I prefer UW Spirits, and would probably play it even if I didn't have hang-ups with the Bant version. Outside of personal preference, I don't feel that Bant Spirits in any form utilizes Collected Company very well. Why this is and how I'd rather use Company are the topics for today's article.
While I've been experimenting with new decks since the end of PPTQ season, I do make sure that my workhorse is in shape. UW Spirits will remain a powerful tool against the Modern metagame while control decks, Burn, and Humans dominate Tier 1. I haven't had much reason to change the maindeck, but I have been working on the sideboard.
My anti-creature plan of winning the tempo game and using Slaughter the Strong to catch up left something to be desired. Here, I instead went for a prison plan using Worship. Cutting the Slaughters for another Echoing Truth has paid dividends against UW Control. Terminus is hard to fight, but responding with Truth to retrieve whichever creature we have multiples of saves the day. Truth is also great against tokens and any deck with problematic permanents like Ensnaring Bridge.
Worship has been a bit of a disappointment for me. Players have gotten the memo about Spirits and know to bring in answers for non-creature permanents. Assassin's Trophy also really hurts the card. I've had success using it as a multi-turn Fog to buy time to catch up on damage, but it never earns an automatic concession anymore. I'll keep looking for a better anti-creature strategy. Other than that, I'm very happy with UW Spirits.
However, despite some strong showings, UW is still not the Spirits deck of choice for most Modern players. That honor goes to Bant Spirits, and specifically the version with Aether Vial. Ondrej Strasky won GP Stockholm with the deck, which has since received the endorsement of a Hall of Famer.
While the no-Vial version isn't my cup of tea, I like that version better than this one. I feel that the deck is full of compromises. Both Ondrej and Paulo admitted as much. It is a hybrid between UW and Bant, picking aspects of one to cover weaknesses of the other.
As a result, it has better matchups across the board, but its good matchups aren't as favorable as those of the other Spirits decks. With fewer Company hits, Vial Bant isn't as grindy as no-Vial Bant, and fewer Vials and Rattlechains means it isn't as tricky as UW. It therefore leans more on hitting lords than either alternative does. Merfolk players know well the power of lords, but leaning on a small number of cards to make a deck good creates more failure states through variance or disruption. I'd rather have spikier matchup percentages and more reliable gameplans.
Another aspect I don't like is the lack of Rattlechains. Paulo likes the card, but needed something to cut, while Ondrej just thinks it's bad. And true, Rattlechains isn't very impressive in terms of stats; rather, it shines given the context, and I'd argue that this metagame is friendly to Chains. Against Jeskai, it's Spirits's best card, since that matchup revolves around two-for-ones. Even when that isn't the case, Rattlechains is powerful because it's a flash creature that makes more flash creatures, allowing the deck to play at instant speed.
Rattlechains is a card that to jam on the opponent's end step after making them play around a counterspell, hopefully sub-optimally. After that, it creates more uncertainty for the opponent, as we could have anything at anytime and potentially wreck them. This intangible information advantage and stress generation can translate into game wins.
Vial Bant Spirits is a Frankenstein of a deck (for the record, any commenter who says "Actually, it's Frankenstein's Monster" earns my scorn). Bant and UW have separate identities as the deck that overwhelms or outplays opponents, respectively. This new version is a hybrid, aspiring to the overwhelming card advantage of Collected Company and the tricky mana advantage of Aether Vial. Maybe if I hadn't worked on Spirits as long I as I have, I wouldn't have a problem with the Bant Vial build.
However, my experience with the archetype renders me acutely attuned to the minor inefficiencies that hybridizing Bant and UW creates, and subsequently to where each deck is superior to Bant Vial. Bant Vial has fewer creatures than no-Vial, and so Company whiffs more often. It also can't run all the utility lands, and they're integral to no-Vial. Despite only having three Vials, Bant Vial is more reliant on them than UW. Rattlechains provides UW a lot of flexibility and makes it easy to play at instant speed and gain more value from Captain or Phantom. To match that, Bant Vial must either hit well with Company or have Vial out. UW also has more flex slots maindeck which allows for more metagame tuning and adaptation.
In other words, because of my experience I can see the seams and scars left over from making the monster. Other players seem to see what the creator intended; a new lifeform, whole and flawless. It cannot be that to me, at least right now, because I'm too invested in the results of my own tweaking to stomach the stitch-work.
One big issue with the hybridized Spirits deck is its lackluster Collected Companies. The deck has few passable targets outside of Drogskol Captain. Casting Company to look for Spell Queller or Selfless Spirit in response to a dangerous spell has a high ceiling, but can be quite risky.
Company is not a card that can just be jammed into any deck with creatures and be great. Yes, Company will find creatures and put them into play, which is always card advantage. Company can be straight tempo advantage if it finds 4+ mana worth of creatures, but simply getting creatures from the deck on the opponent's end step technically provides a tempo advantage, too. Digging six cards into the deck is also quite good. However, that's not what makes Company a great Magic card. Playing Company "for value" is like using Black Lotus to cast three Birds of Paradise turn one. It's not wrong, but it is a long way from right.
If believe the best way to play Collected Company is to play Collected Company. Or, because I like using symmetrical tautologies as a teaching tool, instead of going for value, play Company for value. Company decks excel when they use the card to explicitly go for the most value as they possibly can. The Standard Bant Company decks that nearly got Company banned were built to maximize each Company. They were designed to hit 5-6 mana worth of cards every time, and every single creature gained value on its own. The creatures were already spells, and Company made them instants. Modern has typically used Company to dig for combo pieces, which is also very good. So why mess about with dinky fliers?
Most recent Bant Company decks revolve around Knight of the Reliquary. Sometimes it's to execute the Retreat to Coralhelm combo, but usually they're just big threats that find utility lands. I don't like this plan. Coralhelm combo has never worked as well as Splinter Twin, despite hopes to the contrary, while Knight takes too long to become threatening in my book. Durdling around fetching lands and getting wrecked by Fatal Push is not what I want from a Company deck. Instead, I want my Bant Company cards to be good right away.
I've included the Devoted Druid combo package because winning on turn three is very attractive. I've only included a few copies of each piece because my experience has been that it just isn't a reliable path to victory when the opponent has any interaction. Considering the aforementioned metagame, I expect plenty of interaction. However, it's nice to just win against linear decks. I wish I could risk cutting the Path to Exiles for additional copies of Knight of Autumn, Spell Queller, and Reflector Mage, but dedicated Counters Company Combo is popular enough in my area that I need cheap answers.
The goal of the rest of the deck is to get as much value from our creatures as possible. Hitting any two utility creatures on is great and frequently provides more than two cards and six mana of value. In testing Reflector Mage plus Knight of Autumn has been game winning against Hardened Affinity while Voice of Resurgence and Scavenging Ooze are huge problems for creature decks. Queller is frequently mediocre off end step value Companies, so I've starting firing Company off in response to almost anything Queller can stop just to get that sweet value hit.
This greatest advantage is deck grinds harder than a machine shop. Chaining the same Company using Eternal Witnesses is backbreaking for any attrition deck, and Witness is arguably the best hit as a result. So too are an active Tireless Tracker or Duskwatch Recruiter. So long as sweepers are kept in mind, it is almost impossible to run out of gas in this deck. Couple that with Gavony Township and, given time, there's no fair deck that can't be out-valued and overwhelmed.
Tron is a weakness game 1, but that's why my current sideboard is Damping Sphere. And nothing else, as I'm still working on the sideboard and am spoiled for choice. There are a lot of options to transform the deck into a straight combo deck, change up the value package, or go for traditional hate and hole-filling, and I don't know which is best. I don't even know if this Bant Company deck is better than Bant Spirits. What I do know is that I've never felt like I'm wasting time with Company in this deck, and that nagging disquiet I get playing Bant Spirits is gone.
Certain decks just don't fit some players style or preferences. Regardless of its results, Bant Spirits just isn't for me. I want my Spirits to be tricky and Companies so value-laden they melt the table. That doesn't mean the alternatives are bad in a vacuum. The format is Modern. Pick what you want to play and master it.
100% agree with your take on Bant Spirits with Vial vs. UW, also agree with not liking Worship.
Question: Why not run more Echoing Truth in the side, and play hard towards the tempo plan after board? As you point out, Truth has very wide versatility on both sides of the battlefield. It deals with recurring graveyard permanents like Vengevine or Amalgam well. It hits Ensnaring Bridge, and planeswalkers, and shrinks large creatures from Humans and Hardened Scales decks that have loads of counters on them.
I'm thinking its time has come, and Id appreciate your thoughts on this. Right now I'm even considering a playset.
I've certainly thought about it, though I'm not sure a full set sideboard is correct. If you want to go that far I'd find maindeck room for pair.


It's a father and son affair as DMW artiste, Peruzzi teams up with his label leader, Davido who heads the DMW on this new song titled "Try" and we love it.
Produced by Fresh VDM, this song is the first we are hearing from Peruzzi since earlier this month when he teamed up with Mayorkun, Dremo, Yonda on "Red Handed" which itself came after he teamed up with Slikish on "Body" earlier December.
"Try" is one of the songs off Peruzzi's debut studio project titled "Heartwork" and sees him join forces with his label head, Davido who has had an amazing year with endorsements, viral songs and generally headline-grabbing moves both as a business man and as an artiste.
Collaborator Davido shared good news a few days ago that his concert that was still shopping for a new venue after Atlantic City rejected his attempt to use the venue is now back on and would be holding in the same Atlantic City. The City of David concert has always been his year ending show and it will be massive this year.
Peruzzi helped by his boss and biggest fan, Davido came through powerfully on this song and we can't wait for you to hear this one.


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SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND: The Inexorable Demise of the MSM, by Wiggia
When I left school I got a job 'in the print', a loose term for a job with a union card that meant that at a certain age I was privy to the best paid trade in the country. 'Trade' is a bit of a euphemism as anyone with a union card had the opportunity to work in Fleet Street having been given a permit, to join the extremely bloated workforce and do very little, sometimes nothing and earn in one night what many worked two weeks or more for. It couldn't go on and the stranglehold the unions had over the printing presses was finally blunted and then to all intents expunged by first Eddie Shah and the Rupert Murdoch. I got out before the collapse as there was no future I could see and so it transpired.
A rare picture of the newspaper trains that left London for all points north
to drop the daily papers at stations for the wholesalers to collect.
I mention that because during that period, and it was a fascinating one, I had access to all the national papers on a daily basis and many magazines as well. I became adept at scanning them - the Sun took all of fifteen minutes to actually read! But even the others I could absorb in double quick time.
The difference then was there was a distinct difference in the way the different titles came across with the news: investigative reporting was normal and apart from a couple of red tops who had tits at the top of the agenda, all had something to say on the matters of the day.
For me the 'Thunderer' was hard work to get through and I favoured the Telegraph as the go-to newspaper with the added attraction that it had the best sports reports of any paper by far. The broadsheets still had influential proprietors with famous family names going back decades and a newspaper was a valuable asset to own. Even the editors had status: many were household names, as were many columnists.
It has to be remembered that at that time, the early Sixties, the circulation of these news sheets was considerable, not quite the pre war numbers as television was beginning to eat into circulation numbers, but the Daily Mirror still had the proud boast of the highest daily readership in the world at 10 million emblazoned under its title. Those figures were the zenith and since then the slide has been continuous. London had then, it must be remembered, three evening papers: the Standard, News and Star; now there is only one and it is a free sheet. The evening papers started to run quite early in the day and had several editions with a stop press for the latest news and share prices.
Fleet Street at night when fully working was an amazing sight with the presses worth admission for a view on their own, and of course all the papers apart from a couple were located in the Street of Shame.
Interior of the Daily Express building in Fleet Street
A pre-war front page from the Daily Herald who along with Reynolds News,
the News Chronicle and others have long since stopped publishing.
The Manchester building of the Daily Express,
an even better exterior than the London one
All gone now and even the wonderful art deco Daily Express building serves another purpose; the digital age has destroyed that centre of the world of news.
The dead tree press still has a role to play but a much diminished one. If it were not for the digital age and the ability of computers to set out newspapers and the ability to use joint out of town printing works many would have gone to the wall before now. Some are on the edge anyway: the Guardian, which back in the day was a decent newspaper, is eating through its not inconsiderable reserves and asks for donations - that is not a long term model for survival; the Express, once a right of centre paper, is now owned by Mirror Group as consolidation was the only hope for survival; and so it goes on.
I stopped reading the Telegraph some years ago as they slowly but surely got rid of their writers and correspondents. The final nail in the coffin for me was when they were found out to have invented sports columnists and were using outside reports with fictitious names as the writers.
I occasionally get the Times, and even that one-time representative of all that was good about this country, a publication revered around the world, is a shadow of former times; the business section which is now half of the paper is more interesting than the news section.
Television has not escaped the turning to dross of things that were once good. I can openly say I remember the time when Channel 4 news was worth watching; now it is a platform for the sneering Jon Snow to castigate anyone and everything not of the Left.
Programs like Panorama were intelligent, informative and largely without bias; no more. We are inclined to read into the bias of the BBC more than we should but it is undoubtedly there and for the State broadcaster that is totally unacceptable in news reporting: the blanking of cultural issues (as they call them), the incessant reporting of any minor infringement of items, statements from the likes of Trump, as opposed to anything on the Left; the incessant war against Brexit... An independent source targeted the Today program in the six months following the Referendum and found that something like 80% of all the people they had on the program to discuss Brexit were 'remainers'; that again is simply not acceptable; imposing their views by the way they present them is simply not on, but what else do we have?
Well, the rise of Twitter was a salvation to a degree, but that and similar platforms have become a battle ground rather than a debating area. The split that now exists in our nation is magnified online, and further the people who run these online platforms are now themselves taking sides and banning people who have done very little wrong other than go against what seems to be the editorial line of the owners.
We see before us now the results of all this bias and selective reporting: a government that cannot put a foot right at the moment, and gives out conflicting data and directions, has hardly a question of note put to them. A decent press and media would have asked the obvious by now but no, they are as muddled as the government, and in the meantime, almost unnoticed by the majority, the country is going down the pan fast.
A good example was in a small piece at the back of the paper in the business section a few day ago: a think tank for financial 'experts' has suggested that negative interest rates could be a good thing. This is not the first time this has been voiced, but the bit underneath that suggests it would create a £25 billion black hole in pension funds should be a prominent article, as it affects so many with already plundered private pensions; but no, such details are to be, as Private Eye used to say (when that was worth reading) 'continued on page 94.'
As the late News of the World used say on its header, 'All human life is here.' It was then; not so much today, only a very selected version.
CherryPie said...
I try to filter out media bias by not reading newspapers. I listen to to headline news (rather the in depth analysis).
The only news publication I read is 'The Week'. It provides a variety of viewpoints giving pause for thought.
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Is it because i am on a phone. I can't see a thank you or like icon?
Unfortunately, I had to remove the "Thanks" extension because this platform had an update (they do this often) and this extension was not compatible with the update and showed bugs.
So in the end I had to remove this feature; I am sorry about this.
I cannot promise this because it depends on a few things, but since there is a new update to be made, I want to try to install the chat again. But we will see if this is possible. I will be checking this; just been dealing with some personal things lately.


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Nanodroplets with cancer medicines may one day travel through our veins.
Researchers solve a long standing mystery of how superheated nanodroplets vaporize when hit by a pulse of ultrasound, this finding may lead to a localized and controlled form of chemotherapy.
A technique which may one day be used for tumor therapy and imaging could be greatly improved thanks to new insights obtained by scientists from the University of Twente, the Erasmus MC and the TU Delft.
The researchers from the three universities solved a long standing mystery of how superheated nanodroplets vaporize when hit by a pulse of ultrasound. The findings were published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The imaging method the team has been working on revolves around nanodroplets of a special liquid called perfluorocarbon that can be injected in a human body. These droplets can move out of the vascular system and enter the space in between the tumor cells. The idea is to activate these droplets with an intense pulse of ultrasound. This sound causes the droplets to vaporize, forming tiny bubbles of gas which can be viewed using ultrasound imaging equipment.
The same method can also be used to administer toxic medicines carried into the tumor by the droplets. This should have no damaging side effects on healthy tissue in the rest of the body, making it a localized and controlled form of chemotherapy.
The technique is still in its infancy. An important problem being the fact that the amplitude of the sound needs to be very high as to vaporize the droplets, while it may not be that high that damage may occur to healthy tissue.
What's promising about this new research however is that it shows how the droplets can be vaporized with sound waves having just enough energy. It was known that droplets could be vaporized with sound with lower energy then the activation threshold of the droplets. But the physics behind it have been puzzling researchers for more than a decade.
Using images captured by the world's fastest camera, the Brandaris 128, the researchers from Twente and Rotterdam were able to see that the ultrasound was being focused in a single spot within the droplet. This was peculiar, because the wavelength of the ultrasound emitted is many times larger than the droplet, causing negligible focusing.
The explanation can be found in a unique phenomenon that occurs in the propagation of ultrasound. Sound is a wave movement of high and low pressure that moves at the speed of sound. However, in the body, a high pressure propagates faster than a low pressure, distorting the wave and creating a shock wave.
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Today's real estate buyer isn't looking to ""pay retail"", and it goes without saying that when a transaction closes in 2011, the buyer has gotten a deal. Some deals, however, are better than others.
My new listing in Reynoldstown is one of those special deals. Located at 54 Chester Street, it's less than a 1/16 of a mile from the Atlanta BeltLine. Built in 2004, it's a standout in a neighborhood where new construction isn't the norm. It boasts two roomy decks, an open designer kitchen and modern finishes throughout.
The house, and it's BeltLine location speak for themselves. The price, however, is what pushes this house to the top of the heap: $199,000 for 3 br/2.5 ba (for those of you Zillow/Trulia addicts at home, this represents a 30% discount on what it sold for just a few years ago). Whether you're a potential owner occupant or an investor looking for a rental property, you won't find a better deal in the neighborhood.
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The greatest puzzle of all
Philip Pullman's trilogy, His Dark Materials, is one the best works written in English in my lifetime.
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ Philip Pullman
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Philip Pullman's trilogy, His Dark Materials, is one the best works written in English in my lifetime. He is a truly great storyteller, and the details of his myth, as well as the rich gallery of characters, live forever in the reader's memory. It upset many religious readers, especially in America, because of the fact that the central villainy of the Gobblers, child-stealers controlled by the Magisterium, are a Blake-inspired vision of Church Christians. (And rather a prophetic picture of what is now revealed on a daily basis in the papers about the activities of the Roman Catholic clergy).
No reader of his trilogy will be surprised by the fact that in his latest book, in which Pullman retells the narratives of the Gospels (apocryphal and canonical), he departs from Christian orthodoxy in a very Blakean direction. Jesus is the heroic visionary who gets crucified for his bold and liberating preaching. Christ is his rather sinister elder brother. In Pullman's version, he is the elder brother in the prodigal son (old St Joseph is the father) who resents the favour given to the sibling who has broken all the rules. Jesus is born as a result of his 16-year-old mother, Mary, allowing an 'angel' into her bedroom while her elderly husband is absent. Christ is the 'religious' one who has yielded to all the temptations of Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor. Lurking in the Garden where his brother's crucified body is stolen from the Tomb, 'Christ' — before it is yet light — bumps into Mary Magdalen, and tells her that she must not touch him because he has not yet ascended to the Father. He thereby unlooses a chain of superstitious beliefs about the resurrection.
As you would expect from Pullman, the exercise is conducted with great skill. On the back of the book-jacket are inscribed the words, picked out in gold capitals, THIS IS A STORY. The implication is that, since most of the book is a retelling of the already-existent Gospel narratives, they are no more than 'stories'. The further implication, of course, is that Christianity is a myth, worked up by the Magisterium, which has grossly distorted the revolutionary and simple teachings of that tragic prophet, Jesus.
This, very broadly, was the view of Christian- ity which was taught by many Christian divines when I studied theology at Oxford. It was assumed that the 19th-century Lives of Jesus, such as Renan's, though sentimental in appeal, had more or less the right idea — that a simple Jewish prophet had had his words distorted by Saint Paul and made into a mystery cult for gentiles. This Victorian view of things resurfaces in the life-work of the great Dead Sea Scrolls scholar, Geza Vermes, whose Jesus the Jew is really Renan rechauffé.
Like many 'reasonable' explanations, it leaves out of account all the great puzzles (historical and interpretative) of the Bible. Pullman has invented a character, called 'Christ' to survive the death of Jesus, and to promote Magisterium-style fake consolations — that we can feed on Jesus in the Eucharist, or that we shall survive death. While not forgetting that this is only a story, and not a piece of theological propaganda, one is bound to notice that Pullman — precisely because he is such a good story-teller — has only exacerbated the unbeliever's difficulty.
We all know that Pullman's 'Christ' is an invented character. Remove him, and you are left with the puzzle. Who did meet Mary of Magdala in the Garden on the first Easter Day? Who appeared to the Twelve three times? Who appeared (in the testimony of Paul written only 20 years after the event to over 500 people in Jerusalem after the Crucifixion? Was it a phantom? Was it a fake? Were they lying? Quite possibly, of course. But then you have to wonder why those who concocted the fake were prepared to spend uncomfortable lives as missionaries, undergoing shipwrecks, persecutions and stoning, preaching this illusion so ardently; and why or how they found the courage to die heroic martyrs' deaths defending this 'lie'?
If Pullman's version provides no answer to this puzzle, nor does his 'story' explain how — perhaps as early as the 40s, only a decade after the departure of the earthly Jesus, Christians had a hymn in which they proclaimed that at His name every knee should bow and every tongue confess that he was lord of all. If you think about these matters calmly and rationally, the apparently reasonable explanations — that the disciples, or St Paul, for some reason or other invented Christianity in defiance of Jesus's simple Jewish faith — gradually become less and less plausible. The Gospel according to Pullman, precisely because it is so skilfully constructed, will prompt many readers to turn once more to consider whether or not they should accept the apparently bizarre testimony of the early Christian witnesses, testimony which they repeatedly insisted was not simply a 'story' but was based on factual experience.
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When we last left our intrepid travellers they were frantically trying to find their long lost son, Adam.
Meanwhile in Mexico City, Adam, having had a restful night care of American Airways was determined not to miss his Mexicana flight to Havana via Cancun, so he arrived at the airport 3 hours early! He then sat himself at the gate and started reading. Everytime people around him got up he checked his watch to see if it was his flight. Finally after finishing a really interesting chapter he realised it was 15 minutes after his plane was schedule to depart and no-one around him moved because he was sitting at the wrong gate!!!…..What is Spanish for schmock!
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DENVER — There was a time not long ago that basketball success in the Rocky Mountains was measured by the Denver Nuggets' ability to persuade a free agent of Dwyane Wade's stature to meet team brass in New York and let the Nuggets offer him millions.
In the summer of 2016, only one season into the career of Nikola Jokic and with few hints to that point that the Nuggets already had a cornerstone player, just getting the opportunity to pitch Wade face-to-face was widely hailed as a triumph for this franchise.
What went unrevealed that off-season is that Denver also made a futile run at Wade's longtime rival, Dirk Nowitzki of the Dallas Mavericks. Nowitzki had no interest in even entertaining the idea of leaving the only team he had ever known, but that was the Nuggets in the embryonic stages of Jokic's development — straining to persuade some of the game's biggest names to take them seriously.
Three years later, Jokic is a certifiable All-Star and his team of upstarts from the Mile High City found an entertaining way on Tuesday night to win some leaguewide notice. Seemingly headed for a second consecutive playoff defeat to the San Antonio Spurs on its home floor, Denver rode a remarkable fourth-quarter resurrection from the third-year guard Jamal Murray to rally to a 114-105 victory over the Spurs that did far more than even this Western Conference first-round series at one game apiece.
Millsap's candor conveyed a good chunk of the significance attached to this win, but not all of it. Murray's eruption for 21 of his 24 points in the final period — on 8-for-9 shooting after he stood at 0-for-8 through three quarters — not only gave the hosts hope of making this an actual series but also spared them some real embarrassment and introspection.
After five consecutive seasons out of the playoffs, Denver unexpectedly won 54 games this season to vault to No. 2 in the West. The Nuggets were nonetheless a trendy pick to suffer a first-round upset against the San Antonio masters of execution and their coaching maestro, Gregg Popovich, which would naturally render Denver's regular-season accomplishments rather hollow.
"Frauds" was the popular word being tossed around on N.B.A. Twitter after the Nuggets fell behind by 19 points — twice — in a must-win game. Booing broke out at Pepsi Center on multiple occasions in just Denver's second home playoff game since 2013, with both Jokic and Nuggets Coach Michael Malone telling reporters afterward that the fans were too hard on Will Barton when they hissed at his 1-for-10 shooting.
"When they're going through a tough time, they could use some love," Malone said of his players, who comprise the league's youngest playoff roster.
Fortunately for Barton and the rest of the Nuggets, it was all love in the fourth quarter, thanks largely to Murray, who shot 8-for-24 in Game 1 — including a wide-open elbow jumper he clanked in crunchtime that clearly haunted the Canadian guard well into Game 2.
During one key timeout, Malone reminded his players "what the Clippers did" Monday night, when they rallied out of a 31-point deficit in the second half at Golden State to register the largest playoff comeback in N.B.A. history. The inspiration finally hit Murray in the fourth when, without warning, he drained his first eight shots.
In support of Murray, Jokic rang up 21 points, 13 rebounds and 8 assists in a bid for a second consecutive triple-double, which would suggest that the Serbian big man is coping quite well with his first turn under a playoff microscope. Gary Harris and Millsap added 23 and 20 points, to give Denver four starters in the 20s.
The collapse was even worse than Popovich realized. The Spurs actually allowed 39 points in the quarter — and San Antonio's All-Star forward, LaMarcus Aldridge, could be subjected to some league discipline that affects his status for Thursday night's Game 3 judging by video footage in circulation that appears to show Aldridge landing a below-the-belt shot on Harris.
Not that the Nuggets, after days of hearing incessantly about how inexperienced they are, can feel any sort of comfort yet. They've lost 13 consecutive games in San Antonio dating to 2012. Denver is also 0-11, as a franchise, in best-of-seven series after losing Game 1.
"I think the cynicism is fair," Nuggets General Manager Tim Connelly said after the victory, acknowledging that he was well aware of the noise about his team.
Yet Connelly pointed out that as fluky as skeptics might find the Nuggets' No. 2 seed, team officials set three fairly lofty goals before the season started and then watched this group reach them all.
End the playoff drought? Check.
Win the Northwest Division? Check.
Secure a top-four seed and home-court advantage in the first round of the postseason?
The next step was making sure they didn't spoil all that by falling into an 0-2 hole to San Antonio with two home defeats, which is the sort of deficit only four teams in league history have managed to erase. Yet one of the more refreshing things about this team is that it doesn't try to pretend that its collective lack of postseason experience is merely a topic harped on by the news media.
The Nuggets have only three players (Millsap, Barton and Mason Plumlee) who appeared in a playoff game before Game 1 of this series, and they acknowledge it's an obstacle, especially against a team that can carry out a game plan like the Spurs.
"Yes, playoff basketball is everything everybody says it is," Harris told me Monday, on the eve of Game 2.
Breakthrough performances from Murray and Jokic and big comebacks, as such, must be celebrated — even at this early stage of Round 1.
So in the middle of the victorious locker room, swept up in what the novices, er, the Nuggets had just achieved, Malone was duly pulled into a robust group hug by their rarely seen owner, Stan Kroenke, and Kroenke's son Josh, the team's president and governor.


For the last three or four years, I've participated in a "Whodunnit" Fundraiser for the Art Association of Jackson Hole. This is a lively event as I understand it, orchestrated by a friend of ours who's the Chairman of the Board.
Of course this subject is usually off limits to me, TABOO you might say, except when I'm painting for this event. Needless to say I have fun with this – just another copyist of the great … (I have to say that every time I do this, I learn something!) I will report that it sounds like my tipi paintings are a big hit, and people wait in line to buy them. Now if I could just be lucky enough to have lots of people waiting in line to buy paintings of my own subject matter!
Wapiti is an oil, 12×12.
They will be lined up this weekend!. Best to you and Tom.
Beautiful painting, just like the many others you post. Lucky collectors who own a piece of your artwork.
Wapiti tipi…love the play on words and the piece.. Good Job Laurie!!


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G. Reghu
Reghu was born in 1959 in Kilimanoor, Kerala. He studied sculpture at the College of Fine Arts,Thiruvananthapuram. Though he began with stone as a medium, his sensibility gained direction after interacting with Elizabeth and Laurie Baker. Their Gandhian philosophy of working with indigenous materials influenced him greatly. He shunned expensive materials like marble or bronze in favour of humble terracotta.
Another huge influence in his life was J. Swaminathan. As a final year student, Reghu participated in an All India Students' Camp organized by the Roopankar Museum of Fine Arts at Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal. Swaminathan who was the Director at that time spotted Reghu's talent and awarded him a scholarship for two years to work there.
Reghu remained at Bharat Bhavan for 15 years, where he shifted to ceramic and terracotta art. Swaminathan in his persona of a 'tribal' artist, voiced the cause of the dispossessed, and this further inspired Reghu's works.
Although Reghu was traditionally a potter, he abandoned pottery and turned to ceramic sculpture. This journey in form from "the pot to the head" is marked by a certain fluidity. The convex curves of the pot now assume the contours of the head and the inanimate and utilitarian object is fused with spirit of a living image. He showed an intimacy using the tactile processes of modeling with clay and using the potter's wheel. The medium and method reflected his familiarity with a rural lifestyle. Using the processes of hollow-modeling, slabbing, folding, coiling and pinching, Reghu began to evolve a racial type that mingled Dravidian and African facial features – bulging eyes, thick lips, and cabbage ears mingle both Dravidian and African facial features, evocative of an ancient civilization. Thereby transcending his well-defined local images to convey a world of magic, myth, and bucolic innocence. From here, he moved to his present preoccupation, an exploration of the human form.
Reghu's works are inspired by the artist's own agricultural background, and the Gandhian ideal of working with local materials. The figures themselves are doll-like and employ traditional folk motifs –like women and children at leisure, with expressions of joy or wonder. The muted organic earth colours and a matte finish recall his Indian village roots.
Since 1988, Reghu has held several solo shows and participated part in a number of group shows. He is the recipient of the Award of Fourth Contemporary Indian Art Biennale, Bharat Bhavan, 1987 & 1988 and also the Bombay Art Society Award, Mumbai, 1998.
Reghu lives and works in Bangalore.


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Name the one Blazer you irrationally miss
Stacey Augmon. I know he'd be pretty useless these days with his broke-ass jumpshot, but I loved his long, active defense.
Post by: Minstrel, Jun 23, 2019 in forum: Portland Trail Blazers
If he learns to shoot passably (35% or better from three-point range), he's a massive steal. If he never is capable of shooting, he'll still be a...
OT What's the latest on Durant's injury in game 5?
How do Durant's own doctors have incentive to err dangerously on the side on the side of optimism? It's entirely possible all the doctors got it...
It's probably not a coincidence--multiple people have noted that a hamstring injury can lead to an Achilles injury. What the probability was on that...
2019 NBA Draft Thread
It might be foreshadowing a trade down for more picks, in a flat draft pool.
I agree. Is it possible that the Warriors did something sinister? Sure...anything is possible. But I think dislike of the organization is driving the...
Yes, I'm sure he lied that Durant's doctors and agent were also involved. How could he ever be caught in such a lie?
Report: Details of Blazers' offer for Paul George revealed
I know that both could be true simultaneously. What I said was that the major supposed evidence for that theory has proven to be awfully weak...
I realize that that was the perception at the time--but that perception was clearly incorrect, which makes the "evidence" really, really weak....
A lot of the "evidence" for that theory was people thinking he took a garbage return on George, just to avoid dealing with Portland. It's clear now...
The simplest explanation is still that the Warriors told the truth: he suffered a hamstring injury, but that hamstring injury put additional pressure...
Why would the Warriors downgrade from a Kevin Durant who can't play to an Evan Turner who can?
The Official 2019 NBA Finals Thread
I've never liked Kevin Harlan. He's cheesy over-the-top in his announcing style. I like Jeff Van Gundy, but the other two are extremely...
Pretty much since Nic Batum.
Post by: Minstrel, Jun 7, 2019 in forum: Portland Trail Blazers
Notice Oregon bill cracks down on racially motivated 911 calls
I don't really do database work so, unfortunately, I can't comment.
Post by: Minstrel, Jun 6, 2019 in forum: Blazers OT Forum
I guess we can agree to disagree.
I'm curious why you've changed your position on that.
You've always been pro-reparations. What's the problem?
Just think of it as reparations and relax.
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We are very proud to announce our latest commission showcasing Black British filmmakers, who explore the impact of George Floyd's killing by the police and the protest it has sparked in the UK.
Starts TONIGHT at 7:55pm, Ch4 with 'My First Time'.
CHANNEL 4 ARE MAKING A SHORT SERIES OF 4 MINUTE DOCUMENTARIES WITH ISSUES AROUND RACISM IN THE UK AND THE US. THE WORKING TITLE IS 'GEORGE FLOYD MATTERS'. WE ARE LOOKING FOR STORIES FROM THE BLACK COMMUNITY ABOUT THE VERY FIRST TIME THEY EXPERIENCED RACISM. THERE IS NO COMMITMENT AT THIS POINT IN TERMS OF FILMING, WE ARE KEEN TO SPEAK TO PEOPLE WHO POTENTIALLY WANT TO SHARE THEIR STORY.
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Announcing our third commission, Stacey Dooley Investigates: Spycam Sex Criminals
AVAILABLE NOW - Click on TX card below to watch on BBC Three via the BBC iPlayer
We are delighted to announce our second commission.
Click on TX card below to go to programme information on Channel 4 website
Not one but two! Enormous congratulations to our Head of Development, David Metcalf for his double Children's BAFTA wins (CONTENT FOR CHANGE and TEEN) for the BBC coming of age film LEAVING CARE.
We are delighted to announce our first commission.
Click on TX card below to go to programme information on BBC website.
Many congratulations to David Metcalf, our Head of Development, who has been nominated for two Children's BAFTAs (CONTENT FOR CHANGE and TEEN) for the BBC coming of age film LEAVING CARE.
The awards ceremony takes place Sunday 1st December.
Click on image below to view LEAVING CARE.
SandStone Global's Warrior Women with Lupita Nyog'o, was executive produced by our MD, Lucy Pilkington. Here are some of the reviews:
"Celebrity travelogues are hardly an underpopulated genre on our screens, but Warrior Women with Lupita Nyong'o at least offered something fresh and enlightening. It was shot with shimmering beauty and Nyong'o was engaging company".
"An outstanding and novel contribution to Black History Month from Channel 4, and excellent in its own right".
"A beautifully shot film that is a powerful story of both past and present".
The Mail on Saturday
"The story told by the Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong'o in this one-off documentary is like something out of a blockbuster Hollywood movie".
"Slick visuals and Nyong'o's relaxed presence makes this eminently watchable".
Channel 4 Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5LVh4FRq7I
Milk and Honey Productions are delighted to announce that they have recently been commissioned by Channel 4, BBC4 and BBC3 to produce a number of documentaries which will air in late 2019/early 2020.
Lucy Pilkington feature: Broadcast magazine:
www.broadcastnow.co.uk/the-show-that-shaped-me/lucy-pilkington-roots/5139139.article
We are delighted to announce our founder, Lucy Pilkington's collaboration with SandStone Global as the Executive Producer on Warrior Women with Lupita Nyong'o coming soon to Channel 4. A remarkable investigation into the real story of the 'Agoji' Warrior Women of West Africa. (link to Channel 4 press site)
https://www.channel4.com/press/news/channel-4-and-lupita-nyongo-search-forgotten-female-army
Milk and Honey Productions are delighted to announce that David Metcalf's critically acclaimed series My Life: Locked in Boy (CBBC) has received the 2019 Sandford St Martin Children's Broadcasting Award.
https://sandfordawards.org.uk/2019-award-winners/
Milk and Honey Productions attend the Sheffield Doc Fest. Sessions include Bush, Boobs and Body Positivity with the Slumflower and University of Sheffield Presents: How to Pitch your Academic Idea.
https://sheffdocfest.com/articles/714-bush-boobs-and-body-positivity-with-the-slumflower?tag=sessions
https://sheffdocfest.com/sessions/6946


Enter the North Building at the 68th street entrance (between Park and Lexington Avenues). Take the elevators to the fourth floor. Make a left to the double doors. Make a right and then another left. The Film and Media Offices are straight ahead.
The #6 train stops directly under the College at the 68th Street Stop. Major transfer points for the #6 train are: 14th Street-Union Square, 42nd Street – Grand Central, 51st Street & Lexington Avenue, and 59th Street & Lexington Avenue. There is an entrance to the school in the Subway station.
The M66 bus goes crosstown on 68th street going east and 67th street going west. Consult a Manhattan Bus map for transfer points to the #6.
Take the Long Island Expressway to the Queens Midtown Tunnel. Make a right on to 3rd Avenue and proceed to 69th street. Make a left turn on to 69th Street to Park Avenue. At Park Avenue, make a left and then an immediate left onto 68th street. The College will be at the end of the block on your right.
Take the New York Thruway (I-87) to the Major Deegan Expressway to Willis Avenue Bridge (Exit 2, at exit make a right at Stoplight) to the FDR Drive to 71st Exit. Continue straight to 2nd Avenue. Make a left turn on to 69th Street to Park Avenue. At Park Avenue, make a left and then an immediate left onto 68th street. The College will be at the end of the block on your right.
Take the Lincoln Tunnel, at exit bear left and go to third light (parking garage will be directly ahead). Make a left and then take the first right to 65th Street. Turn right, go to second light and continue straight through Central Park. After exiting Central Park, go three lights to Park Avenue. Make left onto Park Avenue. Go three blocks and make a right on 68th Street. The College will be at the end of the block on your right.
Take the George Washington Bridge to the Harlem River Drive to FDR Drive to the FDR Drive to 71st Exit. Continue straight to 2nd Avenue. Make a left turn on to 69th Street to Park Avenue. At Park Avenue, make a left and then an immediate left onto 68th street. The College will be at the end of the block on your right.


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Q: BehaviorSubject with class instance I understand how to use BehaviorSubject when it comes to simple types such as int string bool etc. But I have just attempted to implement a BehaviorSubject for a class instance, and I am very certain that my approach is wrong...
This is what I currently have (which works by the way):
//user.model.ts
export class User {
    public accesstoken: string;
    public details: UserDetails;
    public subscriptions: Channel[];
    private loaded: boolean;
}

//user.service.ts
export class UserService {
    public activeUser: BehaviorSubject<User>;
    ...

    // called when we want to update the users details
    public updateUserDetailsFromServer(){
        ...
        // set the instance to the new data.
        this.activeUser.getValue().details = data.details;
        // now update the BehaviorSubject (this feels so wrong)
        this.activeUser.next(this.activeUser.getValue());
        ...
    }
}

I am certain that there is a far cleaner way to implement this.

A: To simplify matters, I didn't create a User class. But it should be easy to replace the object with your implementation.

const { Observable, Subject } = Rx;
const input$ = new Subject();

const user = {
  token: null,
  loaded: false,
  details: {}
};

const user$ = input$
  .startWith(Object.create(user))
  .scan((activeUser, { details }) => {
    Object.assign(activeUser.details, details);
    return activeUser;
  })
  .subscribe(x => console.log(x));

input$.next({ details: { name: 'Bob' } });
input$.next({ details: { role: 'Admin' } });
<script src="https://unpkg.com/rxjs/bundles/Rx.min.js"></script>

EDIT: Since using a class was part of your question:

const { Observable, Subject } = Rx;
const input$ = new Subject();

class User {
  constructor() {
    this.token = null;
    this.loaded = false;
    this.details = {};
  }
}

const user$ = input$
  .startWith(new User())
  .scan((activeUser, { details }) => {
    Object.assign(activeUser.details, details);
    return activeUser;
  })
  .subscribe(x => console.log(x));

input$.next({ details: { name: 'Bob' } });
input$.next({ details: { role: 'Admin' } });
<script src="https://unpkg.com/rxjs/bundles/Rx.min.js"></script>

I would not advise you to use Observables like that. Especially, using a BehaviorSubject and then just pulling data from it with getValue(). As shown above, I would suggest using scan to hold the current value for the user.
In your case the input$ can be one or multiple (merged) streams that can update the active user (for example your http stream). This way, anything that is interested in updated to the active user, can then just subscribe to the user$.

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Split between gore grind bands from switzerland and Mexico.
Split tape between Nasty face ( with members of The Afternoon Gentlemen), Goregrind from Switzerland and Fetal Deformity, raw goregrind from Mexico.
Released in 2019 on Choothar Tapes and Rectal Purulence.


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A CEO friend of mine told me not long ago that he came into work one Monday morning to find two-week notices of resignation from four members of his key management team on his desk. He stood there, stunned, and could not imagine how he was going to survive the loss of these key people.
After taking a few moments to think about what to do, he called them all into his office and humbly asked them what was the matter. It was what they were waiting for, and they gave him an earful. When they were finished, he did the only thing he could think of. He asked them if they would stay and give him a chance to make the changes in his behavior to which they were objecting.
The answer from them all was a qualified "yes." Things had to change, and they were willing to see if he was serious. They recognized that it is not easy to change habits of many years, but they were willing to give him a chance.
My friend was lucky. He got a punch to the gut that opened his eyes and made him realize that there were a few things that he needed to work on in how he related to employees, and he was more than willing to do that. Many CEOs go blithely on, suffering high employee turnover and constant disruptions, without ever learning what is at the heart of the problem.
The answer is that we have to develop a keen ear and listen carefully. We need to ask questions and then thoughtfully listen to the answers. And there needs to enough trust for people to respond honestly, without fear of retribution.
When I ran my own company I designed a questionnaire called the Employee Satisfaction Index. Ten questions with a score of one to ten. I wanted employees to enjoy working for me and so I asked them if they did. It was answered on a strictly confidential basis, and I published the scores and all the comments, good or bad, and promised to work on the low scores. Pretty simple really, but I got an earful without facing a mass resignation or high turnover.
We also implemented a "Rate Your Boss" system call an Upstream Evaluation. A chance for all managers to get an "earful" from their direct reports. We all want to be good managers and leaders and so we asked them how we were doing. Again on a strictly confidential basis. All scores and comments were published with the promise to work on those areas needing improvement.
Two tools that greatly enhanced the communications in the company and made us all smarter and better leaders. Simple and easy to do, and hopefully avoids that hard punch to the gut!
Click on the two links below to get copies of what we used, and think about trying them in your company. Your employees will thank you for it!


Keyword research for beginners | What are long-tail keywords?
Keyword Research for Beginners – What Are Long-Tail Keywords?
Keywords are divided into head, body and long-tail. A head keyword is one single word that users search for. They're highly competitive terms and don't really help either you or the person searching for them much. For example, typing "dancing" into a search engine will bring you back everything from classes to games and people's pets doing funny things. The keyword "dancing" is way too broad a topic but a search engine user understands that they can optimize their search by adding a few more words to "dancing" to narrow the results and get to what they need.
Body keywords are 2-3 word phrases and get decent search volume but are still competitive. "Dancing classes" is an example of a body keyword. It's still broad and can be optimized further but you'll find that the results of this search are closer to what you're looking for.
Long-tail keywords are keywords that are 4+ words and very specific. They are keywords that users type into google to try and get exactly what they're looking for. An example of a long tail keyword is "dancing classes in brooklyn nyc". This keyword should fetch you some of the most relevant websites in terms of what you're looking for. Long-tail keywords don't get searched for as often– maybe a dozen times per month depending on many factors– but if your content is focused around this keyword, you have a much higher chance of ranking on the first page of google and getting that free organic traffic to your website which could prove extremely valuable for your business since long tail keywords are also the highest converting types of keywords.
Now that you know the types of keywords that are out there, take a look at the demand curve below which will give you a visual about how keywords work in relation to search volume and conversion rates. To recap, when we use longer keywords in search, the competition, or search volume, for that keyword drops and conversion rate increases, which is why long tail keywords are the preferred types of keywords to rank for.
Research and select several long-tail keywords within your particular niche and produce your content around them. If your website or business indeed offers dancing classes, do a search for the other types of keywords that are popular in this niche.
For tools to assist you in your keyword research, read this post.
Keyword Research for Beginners – What is Metadata?
Jargon for SEO can sound intimidating but once you familiarize yourself with it, it's not too bad. Metadata is simply the information submitted to search engines or other websites about a website and its contents. It's the little summary you read about a website page when the search engines returns the results. Below is this particular website page's metadata.
These can all be filled in by the author or website administrator and there are plugins for WordPress, including Yoast SEO, to preview it before publishing and make sure you're filling in the right information in the right place.
Social media metadata is a bit trickier to implement. It's how your links look when you share them to platforms such as Facebook. Facebook is a popular platform for people to share their links. This link below was shared as a comment to a post in a Facebook group.
Each element is known as a "tag" and can be customized by you in a way that could influence other users to click your link. The format above which Facebook uses to display links is collectively known as "Open Graph".
Plugins to make your life easier when editing your open graph data for Facebook and the tags for other social media platforms do exist. Yoast SEO is one of them, but we also like a plugin called Facebook Open Graph, Google+, and Twitter Card Tags. If you know how to edit your social media's metadata directly in wordpress by inserting the correct properties between the <head></head> tags of your theme, you can do that as well.
Whichever method you choose, you can then preview how your open graph will appear on Facebook by entering your URL in the Facebook Debugger Tool.
Yoast SEO is one of the best all-in-one WordPress plugins to optimize each and every one of your posts for search and edit your metadata for Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Google+. Make these activities part of your routine before publishing a post to make your content look good enough to click when it appears in search engines and social media when you share your links.
With all the technical stuff going on when it comes to putting out content, don't forget that it's the quality of your content that you should focus on. While making sure you crossed all your T's and dotted your I's in the tech area, ultimately, it's your ability to turn those keywords into high quality and value packed content that will get your website the traffic you're aiming for.


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When & how to watch WWDC Keynote in India today?
Excited about Apple's annual developer conference? Well, this year, you expect more than just software updates & improvements; yes, there will be product launches as well. Apple is all set to announce its M1X chipset today, along with the confirmed 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros running on this chipset and a possible new Mac Mini.
Also, the Cupertino giant has some notable changes in iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and other operating systems that will be announced during the event.
Apple's next version of the mobile operating system, presumably the iOS 15, is speculated to bring some big changes to notifications and possibly iMessage. According to sources, users may get a different notification setting for driving, working, sleeping, or even a custom category.
Its also being reported that users will be able to set automatic replies based on which notification setting they're currently using. Coming to iMessages, the Cupertino giant is currently working on features to make it act like "more of a social network" to compete with Facebook's WhatsApp.
In addition, iPadOS 15 will bring some major updates to the home screen, including the ability to put widgets anywhere you want. However, we expect the company to add some features to improve the performance of the newly launched M1 iPad Pro.
You can watch the WWDC Keynote in India at 10:30PM today from the YouTube video below:
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Q: Pandoc: is it possible to disable interpretation of inline HTML in markdown? I need markdown only for what options its syntax offers.
So I don't want it to interpret inline HTML (e.g. hello), but it should display those tags as text.
Is there a way to disable this? Or should I simply search and replace each and every < and > with a < and &gt?

A: Call pandoc with -f markdown-raw_html, i.e., disable the raw_html extension.


Oil prices are finally starting to show signs of going back up, which is good news for investors, and bad news for commuters when they top to fill up their gas tanks. The big question is, will the price of oil keep going up?
First, you should look at what U.S. inventories currently look like. This is the fourth straight week that these have dropped, and simple supply and demand indicates that this will drive prices up. The drop was about 2.8 million barrels, which is a sharp difference from what estimates had indicated. One estimate, by Reuters, said that inventory would drop by 857,000 barrels, while the American Petroleum Institute indicated that stores would go up by 1.3 million barrels. A big shortage will lead to momentary price spikes, and if there is no correction in the inventory, then prices will probably keep going up until something is fixed.
Despite the decreases gaining rapidly, oil bulls haven't had much power in the weakened market. Prices are still low, and one good day after several bad ones does not get the price back to where long term traders would like it to be.
A second consideration is the strength of the U.S. dollar. Right now, the dollar is very strong, and it is driving down prices all over, including that of crude oil. This ends up being a stronger force than four weeks of inventory decline. The recent rise in U.S. crude was of 0.3 percent, while the decline the two days before it were of 3 percent. So, yes, prices are going up, but there's a long road to go before they are back where they were. In fact, it could be over a week at this pace before they are where they were even a couple days ago.
There are a lot of indicators out there to help you gauge where oil is going. The dollar seems to be the strongest one right now, but inventory, consumer confidence, policies from OPEC and the Middle East, and any news that the U.S. government releases in regards to foreign trade or crude oil will all influence prices. Understanding how these things interact and how they will play out will allow you to get a better feel for what prices will do in the future.
The next step, then, is to make sure that you are using this information for your profit. Trading the price of oil is tricky because most commodity brokers focus on long term investments. And because these are futures, the contracts are a bit more rigid and there's a chance that you could find yourself having to make good on a delivery of barrels of crude. They also have a bit less liquidity. If you are dealing with thousands of barrels, you will do well here, but most people don't have this amount of expendable cash to tie up in a potential contract fulfillment. This creates the potential for binary options to take a foothold in the market. They have a low cost of entry, and they allow you to focus on terms that are much shorter than futures are. You can trade the price of oil for a few minutes or a few hours, or to the end of a week, month, or year. Oil typically moves slowly. and when you are in a pattern where prices are easy to guess the direction of, it makes a perfect scenario for trading binaries. It's a skill that you will build over time, but it is a valuable one, espeically for cashing in on this underused portion of the market.


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A STORY OF LOVE, ART, AND ACTIVISM
A FILM BY A.K. SANDHU
This film follows the journey of two women working to honor the Black Panther Party's vital place in American history. Dana King, an ex-News Broadcaster, reborn as a Sculptor, now casting Black bodies in bronze. Activist Fredrika Newton, widow of Dr. Huey P. Newton, former Black Panther Party member, and Co-Founder/President of the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation, established to preserve and share the true legacy of the Black Panther Party.
FOR LOVE AND LEGACY is a short documentary that explores a nexus of art, race, and legacy through the personal journeys of King and Newton. We follow King as she sets out to sculpt the first-ever public sculpture to honor the co-founder of the Black Panther Party, Dr. Huey P. Newton. King and Newton allow the camera to document the creation process of this important sculpture and their collaboration takes place in a time when America is energized to reevaluate the stories that monuments are telling.
The film blends intimate verite scenes between King and Newton with the meditative sculpting process, juxtaposing macro close-ups and wide shots with personal family archives. We will see King create art within her personal studio and living space and the film will end with a verité scene of the dedication ceremony revealing the public art installed in West Oakland.
The central question in the film is "How do Black womxn feel about distorted narratives of their past and how are they working to reclaim them today?" We will address this question by exploring the personal stories of Newton and King. Additionally, it is a poignant and personal consideration of the 2020 movement to replace monuments of oppression with monuments of justice.
Filmmaker: A.K. SANDHU
A.K. is a rising filmmaker, recovering corporate employee, and a mediocre yogi. She is the founder of Re–Present Partners, a womxn and BIPOC owned, Oakland-based production company that embraces the expansion of how underrepresented communities are depicted in media. A.K. tells stories that tackle the complexities of our perceived differences and inspire deeper understandings about human connections. Inspired by her father's photographs of their family, she exited a career in finance to pursue her love for visual storytelling.
A.K. employs documentary filmmaking and photography to revive absent narratives that have been buried or suppressed. Her work crosses into experimental docu-hybrid modes of storytelling, probing themes such as race, class, spirituality, and cross-cultural solidarity. A.K. has been awarded the 2021 Emerging Artist Award in the State of California. She is currently a fellow in DOC NYC/VC's 2021-2022 Storytelling Incubator, a global mentorship initiative, and was selected as part of the inaugural cohort for Represent Media's Re-Take Oakland 2019–2021 film fellowship for emerging BIPOC filmmakers.
She is the Co-Director, Producer, and Co-DOP of her first feature documentary, Sign My Name To Freedom (in post-production), and in development for her first episodic sports documentary.
A.K. is also developing this short into a larger project that reveals the neglected stories of womxn and children of the Black Panther Party and their ongoing work to redefine our cultural narrative through the arts.
A.K. has earned degrees from Columbia University and U.C. Berkeley, and is a member of A-Doc, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, CineFemme, and Collective of Documentary Womxn Cinematographers. Her work has been supported by California Humanities, Berkeley Film Foundation, Bay Area Video Coalition, East Bay Artists Fund, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and Center for Cultural Innovation.
[Director, Producer, DOP, and Co-Editor]
Photo by: Tony Sehgal
Director & Producer: A.K. Sandhu
Consulting Producers: Selina Lewis Davidson, Kenneth Eng
Story Consultant: Jennifer Crystal Chien
Composer: Marcus Shelby
Editors: Regina Spurlock, Riccardo Servini
Finishing Editor: Kenneth Eng | Trailer Editor: Jevon Heyliger | Co-editor: A.K. Sandhu
Directors of Photography: A.K. Sandhu, Tamara Santos
Addtl.Cinematographers: Alex Ajayi, Kien Nguyen, Beatriz Noronha, Korise Jubert,
Viet Mac, Alex Long
This film has been supported by
Re–Take Oakland
Film Fellowship by
Re–Present Media.org
East Bay Community Arts Foundation, Fund For Artists
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Ken Morley kicked out of Celebrity Big Brother house for unacceptable and offensive language
It's the second eviction in as many days for the beleaguered Channel 5 show as Ken Morley given his marching orders
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Former Coronation Street star Ken Morley has been removed from the Celebrity Big Brother house for using unacceptable and offensive language following his formal warning.
Tonight's eviction is now cancelled and lines are closed.
A spokesman for Channel 5 said: "Anyone who has already voted will be able to apply for a full refund and details will be available on the Big Brother website within 24 hours."
Communications watchdog Ofcom said 233 people complained about the actor, who was given a formal warning by show bosses for using "unacceptable language" after he called US singer Alexander O'Neal a "negro".
O'Neal responded angrily, telling Morley: "I'm just giving you some information - it's just 'black', we don't use 'negro' any more."
Ofcom also received two complaints about offensive language used by Katie Hopkins and another four about former Baywatch star Jeremy Jackson, who was removed from the show after pulling former glamour model Chloe Goodman's bathrobe open.
Jackson, 34, was kicked off the Channel 5 show after former Page 3 girl Goodman, 21, claimed he drunkenly tried to look at her breasts while the pair were alone in the toilet.
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The alleged incident, which was not shown on camera, came after Goodman went to Jackson's assistance as he vomited after drinking rum and vodka.
Hertfordshire Police, the force covering Borehamwood where the show is filmed, confirmed they are working with its producers to probe what happened.
The complaints about the latest series, which began last Wednesday, are being assessed by Ofcom.
Last year's series was the second most complained-about show of the year with 1,874 people contacting Ofcom about it.
The only programme with a worse record was the main Big Brother series which received 3,784 complaints, many of them centred on the behaviour of its eventual winner, Helen Wood, who was accused of bullying other contestants.
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Ken angered female housemates when he followed them into the shower and joked: "This is the best place to look at a**** in the world".
While Katie Hopkins saw the funny side others, including Nadia Sawalha and Perez Hilton, certainly didn't.
In the same episode the actor, who played Reg Holdsworth in Coronation Street called Cami Li "half Moroccan, half s***."
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Beyonce Goes To Rehab
But relax it wasn't for real but preparation for a new film role
Beyonce has said she visited a rehab centre as research for her latest movie Cadillac Records.
The star- who is married to rapper Jay Z- will play legendary soul singer Etta James in a forthcoming film about Chess Records.
As well as gaining 20 pounds for the demanding role she also visited a Brooklyn hospital treating drug users. Knowles revealed:
"I never tried drugs in my life so I didn't know about it all, It was hard to go there. In the beginning I didn't want to offend anyone, I didn't want to ask the wrong questions or seem judgmental.
They were so honest, though, and I am so thankful. I don't think I could have understood that level of pain or need. What they do there is amazing. I learned a lot about life and myself."
Beyonce releases her latest solo album I Am Sasha Fierce this week and has said the experience of playing Etta James- best known in the UK for I Just Wanna Make Love To You- influenced it.
She said: I'm not afraid to do something different. I really wasn't afraid to step out of the pop-star box or whatever box people put on me.
The singer was also determined to make her character in Cadillac Records accurate: I read Etta's book and watched every video of her I could find. I wanted to do her justice, said B. She's a real woman that had guts and was unapologetic. . . . I wanted to have the swollen eyes and the veins in my face too. I wanted to make it real.
The film is released on December 5 in the US and also stars Oscar winner Adrien Brody and Mos Def.
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PART 1 of this series focused on the songwriting team of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. In subsequent entries, I will be focusing on two legendary songwriters who wrote on their own. PART 2 will focus on Ray Davies of the Kinks.
Among the bands to emerge from England in the 1960s, the four best were without question The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, and The Kinks. However, of this group, the Kinks have always been the band slightly set apart from the rest. Although they were and continue to be critically acclaimed and are now considered one of the most influential groups of all time, their initial chart topping and commercially successful albums and singles came to a screeching halt by 1970 in their native UK; at the same time, their popularity underwent a renaissance in the USA. While they faded into the obscurity of cult band status in their home country by the mid-1970s, they simultaneously had a second life in the USA, becoming megastar arena rockers well into the mid-1980s and they remained popular in America until their split in 1996. Over the course of their entire career, however, the one thing that remained constant was the presence of the Davies brothers, Ray and Dave, and the creative direction which was guided by the brilliant songwriting of Ray. Known for his quirky, humorous and wry observational lyrics as well as his exquisitely constructed songs that draw on influences ranging from blues, R&B, rock, jazz, music hall, country and just about every other style imaginable, Ray is rightly hailed as one of the best songwriters of the 20th century.
Ray Davies was born in Muswell Hill, London in 1944 as the seventh child and first son of his parents; brother Dave followed three years later. They grew up in a very close-knit family, doted on by their older sisters and taking part in the weekly music parties their parents threw every weekend. The entire family, sisters and their boyfriends/husbands, nephews, nieces, cousins, would all cram in the front room of the Davies house to sing, dance, drink, play piano, and listen to records. These gatherings had a profound effect on the Davies boys and both would look back on them fondly in later years. It was in this same front room that they would write some of the earliest Kinks songs before moving out once they became famous. However, whereas Dave was extroverted, fun loving, and friendly, Ray was almost the polar opposite: moody, withdrawn, and emotionally unsettled. However, it was this introspection and homebody personality that in many ways informed the best of his songwriting. More strikingly, while in real life he was a mercurial, introspective, and restless creative type, onstage he was a flamboyant extrovert and master showman. He could also be very calculating and manipulative toward his brother, bandmates, managers, promoters, and others who he worked with. He is certainly a fascinating and complicated man and I would direct anyone who wants to learn more about him to read his two autobiographies, X-Ray and Americana.
The Davies brothers formed the Kinks with their school friend Pete Quaife in 1961 and by early 1964 when they added drummer Mick Avory, their classic lineup was completed. A string of chart topping hit singles and albums followed, written almost entirely by Ray Davies. However, by the end of 1967 the band were at a crossroads...having been banned from performing in the USA by the musicians union under mysterious circumstances after their 1965 US tour, they missed out on some prime years to build their career there, while in England they started a slow commercial decline; the nadir was when they were forced into a package tour of UK cabarets and gentlemen's clubs in early 1968. Even seminal and landmark albums like 1968's Village Green Preservation Society and 1969's Arthur, or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire couldn't reverse the trend. Apart from hit singles "Lola" and "Apeman" in 1970" and "Come Dancing" in 1983, they all but vanished in the UK, while at the same time their relentless touring after the American ban was lifted in 1969 led to them becoming one of the biggest concert and recording acts of the 1970s and 1980s in the US. Throughout it all, however, Ray was incredibly prolific, churning out quality singles and albums written in the midst of the usual chaos that surrounded the Kinks, the numerous lineup changes the band underwent throughout their career, and the various personal traumas, both emotional and physical, that he went through.
Ray was certainly no stranger to writing about topical matters, communicating with his audience about current happenings of importance just as many of his peers did. However, the unique thing about Ray's approach is in the way he did it, using a very observational style of lyric writing that relied on wry humor, wit, sarcasm, and social comment in a manner that was sometimes cutting and aggressive, but suggested much more. When humor wasn't required, Ray's brilliance lay in his ability to write about things both mundane or complicated in a simple and direct manner that was also able to touch something deep inside the emotions of the listener and resonate in a very profound way. He is well known for writing in an almost nostalgic manner about a world in the midst of rapid change that no longer exists; he was doing this at the same time that most of his peers were extolling the "in with the new and out with the old" ethos of the 1960s counterculture. While other bands preached revolution and the tearing down of old ways, Ray yearned for the England of pre- and post-WWII and the traditions and values they represented. One need only listen to the albums mentioned above, or 1967's Something Else by the Kinks to hear it. Songs like "Autumn Almanac," "Afternoon Tea," and "Waterloo Sunset" have a deep, pastoral longing for the return of the past and an anxious clinging to the shriveling remnants of these traditions at present. His writing reached its apex in this vein with the Village Green Preservation Society and Arthur albums at the end of the 1960s and the two Preservation albums in the mid-1970s. While out of step with the change that the wider rock music scene was going on and on about at the time, Ray's songs still resonated with listeners the world over and these albums continue to be cited as the masterpieces they are.
At the same time, he was able to chronicle topical and contemporary events throughout the band's career in a way that was informative, funny, and thought provoking. Whether this was his absolute dismantling of the music industry on the 1970 album Lola vs. Powerman and the Moneygoround Part 1, social comment on Swinging London in hit singles like "Dandy" and "Dedicated Follower of Fashion," rampant globalization in "Holiday in Waikiki," the social commentary of "Sunny Afternoon" and "Dead End Street," or his assessment of the horrific economic climate of the late 1970s on almost the entire Low Budget album (which is just as relevant today), Ray managed to say what he wanted to say in a manner that was instantly accessible and more often than not, was sung with his trademark lopsided smirk.
Beyond that, however, he was and still is a gifted lyricist who is able to be direct and touch on emotions within the listener that cause his songs to resonate beyond merely what the words say...Ray Davies lyrics make you feel but they also make you think. One of my favorite Kinks songs resonated with me so much that I even dedicated an entire in-depth post to it. His lyrical gifts are thankfully coupled to a melodic gift that rivals that of Lennon and McCartney. Beyond the inventive riffs and catchy hooks of "You Really Got Me," "All Day and All of the Night," "Lola," "Come Dancing," and more, songs like "See My Friends," "Sweet Lady Genevieve," "Waterloo Sunset," "Celluloid Heroes," and "Tired of Waiting For You" are amongst some of the most beautiful melodies ever crafted in popular music.
Whether he was writing carefully crafted pop singles, album tracks, or sweeping concept albums, Ray Davies always had something to say with his songs. Often funny, sometimes melancholy, happy or angry, cutting and sarcastic or loving and pleading, his direct and meaningful lyrics were married to instantly catchy, recognizable, and memorable musical backdrops that were and continue to be some of the most respected and popular songs of 20th century rock music. More than that, the songs continue to endure and inspire into the present. Just as his band were always slightly askew of the mainstream, Ray's songs have that slight bit of an edge to them that makes him unique amongst his peers. Along with the other writers I'm profiling in this series, his songs were among those that made me want to write songs and they've helped me immensely both personally and emotionally throughout the various phases of my life. I still have a distinct memory of sitting in my dorm room during my first year of college playing my guitar along to the Arthur album blaring out of my stereo, later using many of the chord changes and song structures Ray used as inspiration for some of the songs I was writing. I continue to use his songs as a musical touchstone for my own writing. Likewise, he showed me that lyrics can say deep and meaningful things and still have a sense of humor about them. Ray and the Kinks were always conscious of being outsiders and holding a unique place in the musical world, which is something I and countless others can relate to from the teenage years all the way through adulthood. As one of his best songs from the 1960s says, he's "not like everybody else," and we're all the better because of it.
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Thanks for the compliments! And I completely agree with you, Ray is unique among writers, especially of his generation, where he doesn't bludgeon you with social comment but presents it in a way that still makes you think about it. Also, while there are numerous examples of his beautiful wordplay (Autumn Almanac instantly springs to mind), he's so adept at using simple and direct language that still reaches deep inside you and stirs thoughts and emotions that other writers, with all of their florid prose, can't do.
It's very gratifying to see the Kinks starting to FINALLY get more mainstream praise and recognition amongst the casual fans in the same way the Beatles, Who, Led Zeppelin, Stones, etc do...especially gratifying for those of us who have gotten it all along!
Very nicely done. But any Mt. Rushmore of songwriters should also include Alan Hull, a very underrated songwriter/social satirist much like Ray but with far less recognition.
Who's he? I'm not familiar with him or his work.
I consider "Some Mother's Son" as one of the best songs about war ever. I rarely listen to it because it's so poignant and true.
Yes, that's a great one. As you said, very poignant and sad. He wrote it from the perspective of a WWI parent (the setting for the album) but it works in any context. The mark of a truly brilliant songwriter.
I recently got told by a classmate at school that my music is weird but I wouldn't change for the world and I wish others would appreciate the 60's too. I absolutely admire Ray, Paul, John and Pete and I am hopefully going to go see the musical 'Sunny Afternoon' which is based on the Kinks, their music and their story. I am so excited!!
Awesome! Don't worry what other people think, you like what you like and that's just fine :).
Let me know how you like Sunny Afternoon. I've heard nothing but good things about it...wish it would come for some shows here in the US!


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Потин Лионски ( 85.-177.) је ранохришћански мученик и светитељ, први епископ града Лиона.

Биографија
Био је ученик светог Поликарпа Смирнског. Он га је послао из Мале Азије у Галију да тамо проповеда Јеванђеље. Тамо је изабран за првог епископа града Лиона око 140. године. Својим проповедима превео много незнабожаца у хришћанство.

Познат је пре свега по својој мученичкој смрти, заједно са многим другим лионскими хришћанима, од чега је још 43 имена сачувано.

177. године, у време владавине римског цара Марка Аурелија је настављен је прогон хришћана. У Галији и околним провинцијама хришћани су хапшени, мућени и убијани. Међу њима је био и 90-годишњи епископ Потин из Лиона, који је бачен у тамницу, где је умро након два дана мучења. Део хришћана је посечен мачем, а остали, укључујући свету Бландину – је бачен дивљим зверима. Остаци тела су неколико дана били изложени а затим спаљени и пепео расут по реци Рони.

Све ово је познато из писма које је послао преживели хришћан из Лиона, посредством хришћана малоазијске цркве у Фригији. Могуће је да је у писму учествовао свети Иринеј Лионски, који је Потина поставио за епископа Лиона.

Православна црква слави светог Потина 23. августа по јулијанском календару.

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Умрли 177.
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Okay, so it isn't exactly the EEE, XO or classmate PC but the Zonbu Notebook is right up there with the three competing for the cheapest notebook in the market.
The Zonbu Notebook has a 15.4 inch widescreen display, 1.5 GHz VIA processor, 512MB memory, 60GB hard disk drive, DVD-ROM/CD-RW optical drive, and VIA Chrome9 HC IGP graphics card. Connectivity options on the Zonbu Notebook includes 3 USB ports, Ethernet port, and built-in 802.11 b/g WiFi. The Zonbu Notebook is made by EVEREX and weighs only 2.4 kg.
So why is the Zonbu Notebook so cheap? Well, like the EEE, XO, and Classmate PC, it doesn't rely on the Windows Operating System or Microsoft Office, instead, it has 20 of the best open source applications. Aside from the $279 hardware price, you will also need to pay a $14.95 monthly service plan for the Zonbu Notebook. This covers services for online backing up of data, free tech support and maintenance of the operating system.
For those who're new to computers, this will probably be a good choice and Zonbu's service plan will eliminate any headaches that comes with troubleshooting a notebook.


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Santuario della Madonna del Divino Amore ou Santuário de Nossa Senhora do Divino Amor é um santuário católico dedicado à Virgem Maria e consiste de duas igrejas: uma mais antiga, construída em 1745, e uma nova, construída em 1999. A igreja foi incluída pelo papa São João Paulo II no circuito das Sete igrejas de peregrinação de Roma durante o Grande Jubileu de 2000.

História
Uma das torres de um portão, conhecido como "Castel di Leva", era decorada com um afresco da Madona com o Menino. Em 1740, um peregrino foi atacado por cães ferozes ao lado do portão e, segundo a tradição, foi salvo pela intercessão da Virgem Maria. Como resultado, um grande número de peregrinos começou a afluir para lá e uma capela foi construída para recebê-los. Logo depois a imagem da Madona foi transferida para lá.

Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, o papa Pio XII e muitos romanos visitaram o santuário para rezar pela intercessão da Virgem Maria para que a cidade fosse salva. O moderno santuário no local é novo e foi inaugurada por São João Paulo II em 4 de julho de 1999. Para celebrar, ele decidiu incluí-la no lugar de San Sebastiano fuori le Mura entre as igrejas peregrinas para o Grande Jubileu de 2000.

Atrás da capela está uma escada que leva ao portão onde o milagre de 1740 ocorreu.

Interior
O afresco milagroso está abrigado sobre o altar-mor. Os mosaicos da abside são modernos e mostram Cristo no centro e o milagre à esquerda.

Na cripta está o túmulo do casal Beato Luigi Beltrame Quattrocchi e Beata Maria Corsini Beltrame Quattrocchi. Ele morreu em 1951 e ela, em 1965. Depois disso, o processo de beatificação dos dois foi iniciado. Em 21 de outubro de 2001, pela primeira vez um casal foi beatificado em conjunto, numa cerimônia celebrada por João Paulo II. Suas relíquias foram transladadas para lá uma semana depois. A festa dos beatos Luigi e Maria Corsini Beltrame Quattrocchi é celebrada em 25 de novembro, a data do casamento dos dois, desde então.

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The Servite neighbourhood around The Harmonie Vienna hotel is just a few minutes' walk away from Ringstraße and the centre and yet you are immersed in a separate world here far away from the throngs of tourists. It's hard to find any other district with as many students, academics and pensioners in one spot. Resulting in an extremely interesting mix of the middle-class and trendy. The Viennese and guests appreciate the neighbourhood's village flair. Mingle with the locals and enjoy the unique attitude to life in this part of the city!
Named after the Catholic order of the same name, the Servite neighbourhood is the heart of the Alsergrund 9th district. Little boutiques and restaurants have set up around the Servite Church. Cafés and delicatessens shape the scene and turn it into an original and at the same time cosy Viennese neighbourhood for enjoying a stroll and indulging.
The famous Strudlhofstiege, an important Viennese Art Nouveau building, is situated very close to the hotel. Its name became famous thanks to the novel of the same name by the Austrian author Heimito von Doderer (1951). Nearby Palais Liechtenstein was the first significant High Baroque building in Vienna and can be viewed during a guided tour. The Votive Church, Volksoper, university, Rossauer barracks and the stock exchange are also close to the hotel.
The Sigmund Freud Museum is housed at nearby Berggasse 19. Sigmund Freud's former apartment and surgery have been set up as a museum today and accommodate some of his antiques collection alongside original objects and photos.
The Rossau Jewish Cemetery, the oldest preserved cemetery in Vienna, is also situated in the Servite neighbourhood.
The Harmonie Vienna boutique hotel is right in the middle of the Servite neighbourhood, in the charming Harmoniegasse. Spend a comfortable holiday here in a quiet location and yet still in Vienna's vibrant city centre. We look forward to receiving your booking or no-obligation enquiry!