Ronnie Golden's journey has been a long and fascinating one. From opening shows for Tom Jones, Scott Walker and Engelbert Humperdinck as a teenage guitarist, he worked with David Bowie in his Beckenham Arts Lab days then went on to form cult late 70s renegades Fabulous Poodles whose album Mirror Stars outsold both The Clash and The Jam in America in the early 80's.
Within a few short weeks of that band's demise he was doing stand-up at London's Boulevard Theatre alongside Comic Strip regulars Rik Mayall, Ben Elton, a nascent French and Saunders and Alexei Sayle and performing a legendary Buddy Holly in the first series of BBC 2's The Young Ones. He remains the only original member from The Comic Strip team to still be actively working on today's comedy circuit. There were several guest spots and cameos: he played Tracey Ullman's son inC4's first Friday Night Live then performed with Mac McDonald in Saturday Live and was a detective and then a doo-wop singer in a couple of Lenny Henry Shows. His voice, regularly heard on Spitting Image was featured on the No.1 single The Chicken Song/We're Scared Of Bob.
He's played an MI6 agent in the 1986 movie The Fourth Protocol (with Pierce Brosnan and Michael Caine,) a heroin addict in C4's How Much Is Too Much? won awards for composing advertising jingles, and is a much sought after voiceover artist.
His 6 piece R&B/Soul outfit Ronnie and the Rex still perform their Club Senseless nights in N. London and the West End and, over the past five years, have recorded four series of Radio 4's The Right Time for which Ronnie wrote songs and sketches.
He performed standup in Brit.Com at the Montreal Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in July 2003 as well as a reprise of the Leonard Cohen show with Arthur.
A winning combination with comedy legend Barry Cryer has yielded several successful Edinburgh Festival shows and a live cd: Rock 'N' Droll on Laughing Stock Recs. They regularly perform their 2 hour show in theatres across the UK.
At 2004 Edinburgh Festival he played a drug-addled, alcoholic, self-destructive blues singer Prince Royale in 'noir' boogie woogie / blues musical The City Club which became a small budget Hollywood movie entitled Dark Streets. He collaborated on the score for this with composer / musician James Compton.
He appeared in Radio 4 sitcom Ed Reardon's Week and recently on the panel show Act Your Age and has guested in several series Radio 2 music / comedy show Jammin' .
Ronnie has just returned from a series of shows at the Edinburgh Festival . First A Fender, his first ever solo show, is an autobiographical guitar lesson and he hopes to tour the UK with it.
New Zealand-born composer Mark Hardy invited Ronnie to contribute vocals to his songcycle Listen To Me which was released late 2010.
The City Club, blues/boogie musical, is opening for off-Broadway previews at the Minetta Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village, New York at the end of March 2012. Alongside a whole bunch of songs he's written for the project he has two great new numbers Copacetic! and Why Did It Have To Be You? the big soul ballad which closes Act One.
He continues to write and tour with Barry Cryer.


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Delorean aims to provide you with convient ways to get significant dates and times and easy ways to move dates from state to state.
In order to get the most of the documentation we will define some terminology.
naive datetime – a datetime object without a timezone.
localized datetime – a datetime object with a timezone.
localizing – associating a naive datetime object with a timezone.
normalizing – shifting a localized datetime object from one timezone to another, this changes both tzinfo and datetime object.
Making time with delorean is much easier than in life.
Now that you have successfully shifted the timezone you can easily return a localized datetime object or date with ease.
For the purists out there you can do things like so.
You can also create Delorean object using unix timestamps.
As you can see delorean returns a Delorean object which you can shift to the appropriate timezone to get back your original datetime object from above.
If you are comparing Delorean objects the time since epoch will be used internally for comparison. This allows for the greatest accuracy when comparing Delorean objects from different timezones!
Delorean also now accepts localized datetimes. This means if you had a previously localized datetime object, Delorean will now accept these values and set the associated timezone and datetime information on the Delorean object.
If you pass in a timezone with a localized datetime the timezone will be ignored, since the datetime object you are passing already has timezone information already associated with it.
Delorean can also handle timedelta arithmetic. A timedelta may be added to or subtracted from a Delorean object. Additionally, you may subtract a Delorean object from another Delorean object to obtain the timedelta between them.
Delorean objects are considered equal if they represent the same time in UTC.
Delorean provides many ways to get certain date relative to another, often getting something simple like the next year or the next thursday can be quite troublesome.
Last Tuesday? Two Tuesdays ago at midnight? No problem.
Using the replace method on Delorean objects, we can replace the hour , minute , second , year etc like the the replace method on datetime .
Often we dont care how many milliseconds or even seconds that are present in our datetime object. For example it is a nuisance to retrieve datetimes that occur in the same minute. You would have to go through the annoying process of replacing zero for the units you don't care for before doing a comparison.
Delorean comes with a method that allows you to easily truncate to different unit of time: millisecond, second, minute, hour, etc.
Though it might seem obvious delorean also provides truncation to the month and year levels as well.
Another pain is dealing with strings of datetimes. Delorean can help you parse all the datetime strings you get from various APIs.
As shown above if the string passed has offset data delorean will convert the resulting object to UTC, if there is no timezone information passed in UTC is assumed.
There might be cases where the string passed to parse is a bit ambiguous for example. In the case where 2013-05-06 is passed is this May 6th, 2013 or is June 5th, 2013?
Delorean makes the assumptions that dayfirst=True and yearfirst=True this will lead to the following precedence.
So for example with default parameters Delorean will return '2013-05-06' as May 6th, 2013.
Here are the precedence for the remaining combinations of dayfirst and yearfirst.
Delorean wouldn't be complete without making a few stop in all the right places.
This allows you to do clever composition like daily, hourly, etc. This method is a generator that produces Delorean objects. Excellent for things like getting every Tuesday for the next 10 weeks, or every other hour for the next three months.
Now that you can do this you can also specify timezones as well start and stop dates for iteration.
The stops method only accepts naive datetime start and stop values.
Now in the case where you provide timezone , start , and stop all is good in the world!
if no start or timezone value is specified start is assumed to be localized UTC object. If timezone is provided a normalized UTC to the correct timezone.
Now in the case where a naive stop value is provided you can see why the follow error occurs if you take into account the above note.
You will be better off in scenarios of this nature to skip using either and use count to limit the range of the values returned.


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A teacher's distress – She speaks about 'Charlie' to her students who display utter contempt for the minute of silence, provocations…
Posted on January 11, 2015 by Eeyore — 53 Comments ↓
Original translation by Sassy
From Fdesouche
Minute of silence met with misunderstanding, at times contempt, provocation…, a PEN (Priority Education Network) college teacher of the Grenoble Academy tells of her disturbing day.
On the morning of January 8th, our minister notified us by email of our duty to explain the values of the Republic. As teachers, it is our duty to explain the facts to our students, to promote contemplation, to help them understand.
"Why observe one minute of silence for people I never knew?"
My first exchange was with my 5th grade class of 12-year old students. They were very quiet. Except one who asked me: "Why observe one minute of silence for people I never knew?" I found this reaction to be violent. His classmates were also angry. They're young, certainly more emotional than their elders. I saw this student's words were not purposeful. He was provoking.
I summarized the events: human beings were killed. To ensure the minute of silence would be observed, I had to 'take hold of the situation', or else it wouldn't have worked. I told them: "Do you realize the victims left home yesterday morning and said to their family 'See you later'?"
During this moment of silence, I had to rein in those who were amusing their audience through a display of bravado. After the moment of silence, I felt a heaviness weigh down the class so I moved on to another topic. I had just seen a few of my muslim students stand up, head lowered, ill at ease for themselves, their families, it must be hard for those who established the parallel.
As to what happened in my classroom, this provocation, it's meaningless compared to what some of my colleagues had to deal with. During the minute of silence, in the other classrooms, many students were expelled, some kept on talking, saying horrible things, while others laughed. A muslim 6th grader outright refused to observe the minute of silence. All these students, of 'devious' behavior, were sent to the principal's office and to the school infirmary to be given a lecture no doubt different from that which they hear in their home.
Early afternoon, I attended my 4th grade class. They had just finished a French lesson during which they took part in a lively debate on the subject. They were noisy, agitated. I proposed we continue the discussion. Some said it was a terrible event, calling the terrorists 'barbarians'. But one student started to express his disagreement. I also noticed another muslim female student sitting at the end of the classroom waiting patiently with her hand held up to speak.
"We will not allow ourselves to be insulted by a drawing of the prophet"
"Madame", she says to me, "we will not allow ourselves to be insulted by a drawing of the prophet, it's normal that we exact revenge. It is more than a mockery, it is an insult !"
Contrary to some, this young girl was not mincing her words, she was not provoking. Next to her, one of her friends, also muslim, agreed with her words.
I was upset, I tried to engage on the principle of freedom and freedom of expression. Then, another group of four muslim students became agitated: "Why do they keep on, Madame, since we already had threatened them?"
Many students tried to calm them down while explaining that Charlie Hebdo treated all religions the same way. Their French lesson class teacher had shown them the photos of other religions mocked by Charlie Hebdo. But they react according to what they hear in their home.
A division was created among the students
What distresses me, it's the fracture this tragic event created in my classrooms which are normally well blended in. The result was a division among the students. Today, the atmosphere was gloomy, particular. This 4th grade classroom, usually sympathetic and dynamic, was suddenly divided into two clans. The sectarians suddenly resurged. And I am frightened for what will follow.
The school system must transmit our values but we are, at times, betrayed by the parents. We teach the children our republican values, but once they are home, they ditch them aside. They don't trust us, their teachers. They don't consider us as their allies but as their enemies. As a teacher, you ask yourself what they must think of you, of us – the teachers, us – whose mission is to teach them.
We have before us young citizens that entertain such ideas that we must ask ourselves: "Where are we heading?"
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53 Replies to "A teacher's distress – She speaks about 'Charlie' to her students who display utter contempt for the minute of silence, provocations…"
eib on January 11, 2015 at 4:01 pm said:
The French were fools yesterday and fools today, to think Muslims are their friends! The Muslim will never be your friend, he would bury his own daughter alive.
Don Laird on January 11, 2015 at 9:20 pm said:
Hello there…..its me again….Don Laird…
@Eib
He has and does and will bury his daughters alive…….
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2173837/Newborn-girl-buried-alive-father-Pakistan-deformed.html
Regards, Don Laird
Dogtown Bastard
Ross A Lloyd (@F22Ross) on January 11, 2015 at 4:09 pm said:
So true eib.
Oooohh God! on January 11, 2015 at 4:32 pm said:
She hopefully realises that youths can generally be flippant with such issues. I taught a lesson in english to Slovakian youths about Rwanda. They just shrugged , laughed and took the piss.This was 1997. I realised after why should a white Slovak kid care about black people in Africa.
The problem with the story is the division. It was always there it just needs a spark to set it off and it was obvious before it began.
I believe the demonstrations in France and elsewhere make the west weaker. The core issue is once again but with more force, swept under the carpet. The fact that muslims died and helped in the situation ,while a tragedy, ensures to many on the left that their thinking is correct. It is not.
Individual acts of kindness by a muslim like in the kosher store are human and correct.But like the muslim police officer this man was helping the infidel . The officer was an apostate working against Allah's will.
I am once again attacked by 'friends' for stating the obvious. They claim all muslims are not the same and it is only a few nutters. The Je suis Charlie demo's gaurantee to the jihadis that we are all Charlie………we are dead men.
yucki on January 11, 2015 at 6:41 pm said:
Richard on January 12, 2015 at 11:27 am said:
I agree the demonstrations are simply the left saying see we have done something now we can go back to ignoring the situation.
Crom on January 11, 2015 at 4:43 pm said:
We will see European civil wars pop off one country after another, should ship the Louvre collection to Canada, and the other major Western and Central European collections. Stash them someplace less likely to implode, go Somali, lose their shit, wonder when the the islamo-mini-states declare themselves sovereign and independent.
I hate the fools that caused this, I want trials for those that facilitated this tragedy.
The European civil wars are starting but like all civil wars they take a long time to develop and then one day they will explode and the left will start asking how this happened,
Another thought grasped me whilst I was watching the events unfurl.
The muslim terrorists were a scouting party or lets say a probing tactic. These 3 men may have been sent in to test responses. Troop and police dispositions, re-action times. Police tactics on the ground , who , where, when etc and all on TV being watched by other cells in Europe or elsewhere.
Lets say now they know that a particular kosher store after reconnaisance can be taken over with one gunman taking hostages. They know the police cordon distances , crowd control etc. They know that vehicles within the cordon are not removed allowing potential vehicle bombs. They know line of sights that will allow them to target clusters of policemen in groups of ten surrounding the shop. From an ambush point of view the options are limitless. They might even realise now that the President may even walk down the street they want him too. With cameras rolling all the time. It may seem obvious but the media have become their eyes.
occupant 9 on January 11, 2015 at 9:59 pm said:
The French have allowed and enabled several millions such scouting parties. Heck, the very fact that the French, along with every other western nation, purposefully sought out mass Muslim immigration means no government is serious about Islam; only serious about downplaying the more and more bloody obvious.
Our nations are target rich. There will be fighting in the streets.
Yes there will be a lot of blood in the streets and the civil wars will last years, they will not be large scale unit combat but rather attacks like Paris with (eventually) almost all groups fighting using those tactics.
Probing attacks like the ones in Paris are useful to let the next wave of attacks be even more deadly and terrorize more people. Someday the authorities will have to react with more then demonstrations.
Sobering thought.
Maria José on January 11, 2015 at 7:49 pm said:
'Change Schengen rules to catch Islamists': Spain
Spain wants to see the Schengen treaty modified to allow border controls to be restored to limit the movements of Islamic fighters returning to Europe from the Middle East, a report said on Sunday.
http://www.thelocal.es/20150111/spain-calls-for-new-border-controls-to
The treaty should not be modified. It should be abrogated in full.
Just as the EU treaty should be destroyed.
Wtd on January 11, 2015 at 8:05 pm said:
French PM: France without Jews Would be a Failure
"France without Jews is not France," he said.
However, Valls said before the attacks that the French Republic had been founded on equal rights being extended to Jews, but that was being threatened with an admitted rise in anti-Semitism coming from an influx of Muslim immigrants.
How could trillions of dollars be laundered from DC to Saudi Arabia? Why, through Citigroup, of course.
A clever reader with probably more knowledge of the Middle East than they would care to have put before me a very interesting question. Is the US laundering money to Saudi Arabia through Citigroup in order to "hedge" against, or compensate Saudi Arabia for the drop in oil prices?
Well, it sure as hell looks like it. I recently tweeted the reportage on the massive derivatives position being accumulated by Citigroup (the parent Holding Company) and Citibank (the bank held by Citigroup HoldCo) – $135 TRILLION. Citi is adding roughly $10 TRILLION PER QUARTER, and the bank is now holding MORE derivatives than the parent HoldCo, which is unprecedented and shocking. Even worse, the bank – the derivatives holdings of which are now "guaranteed" by the FDIC, which is to say the US TAXPAYERS, thanks to the Cromnibus bill – is where the exposure is being added – $9 TRILLION was added to the Citibank portfolio within the third quarter of 2014 alone – the latest available data. Citi is the only big bank that is INCREASING its derivatives position, all the other big banks have modestly reduced their derivatives exposure in the same time period. But Citi is piling it on as hard and fast as it can – NINE TRILLION $ IN ONE QUARTER!!
Do you know who the largest private shareholder of Citigroup is?
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud. Mister Saudi Arabia.
France without Jews blah, blah.
A French Jew should feel cosseted – he's a living, breathing example of the enlightened France. A vestige of its better self.
Tra-la.
That statement would have me packing my bagstout suite.
But I'm an American. And a Jew.
"European Jew" post-Holocaust has always seemed an oxymoron to me.
Hello there……its me again……Don Laird….
The barbaric, savage and vulgar Muslim hikes his bedsheet and spreads his cheeks and points to his filthy arse………wash!!!…..he commands………and we do……..giving that same filthy arse a bath with our tongues………..then he points to his boots……..wash!!!!……he commands……and we do………with a mouth and tongue laden with his feces we grovel and lick his boots clean……then he holds out his hand…..pay!!!!….he commands…. and all this whilst he rapes and butchers our women, our daughters, our families and friends, all while he uses our money to smear the filth and excrement of a 7th century lunatic on everything we hold dear, on everything we have poured sweat and spilled blood to build, all while he builds a global network of ass/boot washing centers for his pleasure and convenience, each and every one a monument to our cowardice and our utter humiliation………..and then he laughs and laughs and laughs……
Lay waste to the Islamized Middle East, Islamized portions of Africa and enforce a domestic program of MAID.
Solution……..NO MUSLIM=NO ISLAM=NO PROBLEM……….
Quite simple really.
Food for thought, catalyst for action.
Oh and by the by………they estimated there were over 3 million people marching across France today, with over 1 million in Paris alone.
I think the internment and deportation camps are soon to become a reality. I can hardly wait.
The Muslim now has very good reason to be looking over its shoulder, very good reason to be peeking through the drapes into the dark night, very good reason to start perusing travel brochures that sing the praises of Syria……..I can hardly wait.
On another note. I met with some people tonight in Edmonton. The organizing is moving along well. I can hardly wait.
malca on January 11, 2015 at 9:56 pm said:
Your words are those of an agent provacateur that discredit my comments and I repudiate your destructive words.
@Malca…..
Obviously your thinking has been impaired by your long plugged colon, I suggest you seek medical advice and, as eyesight is usually the next thing to go, please avoid driving and sharp cutlery until your little "issue" has been resolved.
Now, be a nice little troll and run along……
The news about Citigroup is interesting, especially that they are plunging even deeper into the derivatives trade, I will have to try and figure out why they are exposing themselves to so much risk in a time when the worlds economy is weakening.
yucki on January 12, 2015 at 12:02 pm said:
Layers & layers of complexity.
Richard on January 12, 2015 at 1:32 pm said:
Yup and it makes one wonder if the man isn't trying to see if he can cause the American banking system to crash again.
Parade pix in posting and in comments with links to Facebook page.
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2015/01/two-parades-on-fatahs-facebook-page.html
Martin on January 11, 2015 at 9:30 pm said:
Parade pix : some of them didn't mix with the others
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B7E6S1XIgAAvp5J.jpg:large
Global Community Steps Out for Unity March
GODDAMN!!!!!!
BiBi was there…….!!!!
Excellent post Martin……
The venomous, verminous Muslim and its murderous Islam are living on borrowed time in Europe……
There are a growing number of us here in North America who are trying to shorten their stay here as well…….
I can hardly wait………
Hello there………its me again…..Don Laird….
Its called "murderous indifference"……..a tenet of the Leftist/Liberal, of cowards and of the Muslim.
Wrath0fKhan on January 11, 2015 at 9:30 pm said:
Apparently we got that one witness… So if anyone with some French connections wants to investigate further…
AP Exclusive: Witness to Paris officer's death regrets video (yahoo, Jan 11, 2015)
http://news.yahoo.com/ap-exclusive-witness-paris-officers-death-regrets-video-140947541.html
"The man whose amateur video of a Paris police officer's cold-blooded murder shocked the world now regrets sharing the footage online, saying he never expected it to be broadcast so widely.
Engineer Jordi Mir told The Associated Press he posted the video out of fear and a "stupid reflex" fostered by years on social media.
"I was completely panicked," he said in an exclusive interview across from the Parisian boulevard where the officer was shot to death by terrorists Wednesday morning.
The short film immediately became the most arresting image of France's three-day-long drama, which began with a mass killing at the headquarters of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and ended Friday with the death of four hostages and the three terrorists in two separate shootouts.
"I had to speak to someone," Mir said. "I was alone in my flat. I put the video on Facebook. That was my error."
Mir said he left the video on Facebook for as little as 15 minutes before thinking the better of it and taking it down.
It was too late.
The footage had already been shared across the site and someone uploaded it to YouTube. Less than an hour after Mir removed the video from his page, he was startled to find it playing across his television screen.
In its unedited form, the 42-second film shows two masked gunmen — brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi — as they walk toward a prone police officer, later identified as 42-year-old Ahmed Merabet.
"You want to kill us?" one of the brothers says as he strides toward the wounded officer.
"No, it's OK, boss," Merabet says, raising his hand in an apparent plea for mercy.
Then he's shot in the head.
The video unleashed a worldwide wave of revulsion. British tabloids described it as "shocking" and "sickening." France's Le Figaro ran a still from the footage on its front page over a caption which read "War." CNN's Randi Kaye called it "an unforgettable image forever associated with this horrible attack."
The iconic nature of the imagery — rebroadcast again and again — has anguished Merabet's family. His brother Malek told journalists Saturday: "How dare you take that video and broadcast it? I heard his voice. I recognized him. I saw him get slaughtered and I hear him get slaughtered every day."
Some argue that the video plays a useful role by exposing terrorists' heartlessness. Mir said that one official told him the video helped galvanize French public opinion.
"For me, the policeman killed, it's like a war photo," Mir said at one point, comparing it to famed photographer Robert Capa's controversial picture of a soldier being shot dead during the Spanish Civil War.
The video did help cause an outpouring of support for Merabet and his family, with many adopting the tag "Je Suis Ahmed" — I am Ahmed — as a spin on the solidarity slogan "Je Suis Charlie." As Mir spoke to AP on Saturday, members of the public were still gathering at the site of Merabet's death to lay flowers and pay respect.
Mir didn't even know what he was filming at first. Drawn to his window when the sound of gunshots interrupted his emailing, he initially thought there was a bank robbery in progress. When he spotted the rifle-wielding men in black walking down the street, he assumed they were SWAT police going to help a stricken comrade.
"And — horror — they're not," Mir said.
As police rushed to the scene, Mir downloaded the video to his computer and then to a removable disk, which he handed to officers.
Then, he uploaded the footage to Facebook — and to the world.
Mir, a slight man in his 50s whose parents were refugees from fascist Spain, is still at a loss to explain exactly what pushed him to share the chilling video with his 2,500 Facebook friends.
"There's no answer," he said. Perhaps a decade of social networking had trained him to share whatever he saw.
"I take a photo — a cat — and I put it on Facebook. It was the same stupid reflex," he said.
Mir wanted Merabet's family to know he was "very sorry," saying that he had turned down offers to buy the footage and that he wanted media organizations to blur Merabet's image before running it. But many, he said, just broadcast the unedited footage without permission.
The AP received Mir's authorization to run the video on condition that it cut the scene of the officer's death, which is standard AP practice.
Mir said that, if he could do it all again, he would have kept the video off Facebook.
"On Facebook, there's no confidentiality," he said. "It's a lesson for me.""
Egypt student gets 3-year jail term for atheism (yahoo, Jan 11, 2015)
http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-student-gets-3-jail-term-atheism-152045172.html;_ylt=AwrSyCMGmLJU1UQAe.rQtDMD
"An Egyptian court has sentenced a student to three years in jail for announcing on Facebook that he is an atheist and for insulting Islam, his lawyer said Sunday.
Karim al-Banna, a 21-year-old whose own father testified against him, was jailed by a court in the Nile Delta province of Baheira on Saturday, lawyer Ahmed Abdel Nabi told AFP.
"He was handed down a three-year prison sentence, and if he pays a bail of 1,000 Egyptian pounds ($ 140 or 117 euros) the sentence can be suspended until a verdict is issued by an appeals court," Abdel Nabi said, adding that an appeal was to be heard on March 9.
Abdel Nabi said his client's father had testified against his son, charging that he "was embracing extremist ideas against Islam".
Banna's name had appeared in a list of known atheists in a local daily after which his neighbours harassed him, said Ishaq Ibrahim, a researcher on religion and beliefs at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights.
When Banna went to file a complaint against them at a police station, he was accused of insulting Islam and arrested, said Ibrahim, who has been tracking Banna's case.
Banna has been in custody since November…."
Pakistani soldier beheaded by Afghan, Pakistani IS supporters: video (yahoo, Jan 11, 2015)
http://news.yahoo.com/pakistani-soldier-beheaded-afghan-pakistani-supporters-video-133821178.html
"A group of Pakistani and Afghan militants have beheaded a Pakistani soldier after pledging allegiance to Islamic State, according to a new video released online, copying execution tactics used by the Middle East jihadist group…"
Official: Islamic State group battle in Iraq kills 30 Kurds (yahoo, Jan 11, 2015)
http://news.yahoo.com/official-islamic-state-group-battle-iraq-kills-30-122419283.html
"Islamic State group fighters attempting to retake a town in northern Iraq held by Kurdish peshmerga forces have killed at least 30 Kurds, an Iraqi military spokesman said Sunday.
The battle for the town of Gwer demonstrates the Islamic State group's ability to still launch offensives in Iraq, despite a monthslong campaign of airstrikes by a U.S.-led coalition. And while an alliance of Iraqi troops, Kurdish fighters and Sunni and Shiitte militiamen have made some gains, their advance remains tenuous at best…"
Sunshine on January 12, 2015 at 8:31 pm said:
Sad news. I'm following these guys, the Kurds. Every second day or so, I check Internet for Kobane news. If any one people deserves its own country, it's the Kurds.
Amazing that ISIS controls 1/3 of Iraq and Syria in such a short time without any air power. We're not going about this war the right way. We'll have to create massive innocent casualties. No choice.
I'm a Kurd-supporter, too, Sunshine.
We're just fiddling with these air strikes.
Richard on January 13, 2015 at 12:44 pm said:
We aren't fighting the war to win but instead are fighting the war to win hearts and minds. The first thing you have to do is win the war otherwise winning their hearts and minds don't mean anything and history shows that the only time nation building works is after you have destroyed the old aggressor nation and proven to the citizens you are willing and able to crush any resistance.
Readers here who aren't from the USA might not know the rest of the phrase about "winning hearts & minds". But they seem to get the point anyway.
Pamela Geller EXCLUSIVE: Inside the jihad siege of the Paris kosher supermarket
"In the aftermath of the massacre, Joseph pointed out that during a news report about the attack, Muslim children gathered behind the journalist, happily making the hand signal of firing a gun, making the V sign, and celebrating. "This is in their blood," Joseph said. "It's not something that Americans understand. But I've been stabbed, I have had a lot problems with them. I know their hatred. These are people whom the Koran commands, very clearly, many times, to kill us. We are supposed to be murdered. Yet I see these people reports on TV saying, 'Oh well, Jews and Muslims lived side by side for many years in Muslim Spain.' But you can talk to my, to my grandparents. You can talk to those who lived under Muslim occupations. They were dhimmis, they had to pay more taxes, and the day that the Muslim king wasn't happy, he'd come in and kill everyone."
Survivor 'Befriended' Paris Kosher Market Terrorist
Eli Vaknin, a survivor of Friday's terror attack on a kosher supermarket in paris, convinced the terrorist he was a Muslim.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/189769
Survivors of kosher market attack recount hostage crisis
"We just wondered how we would get out alive," says Marie, who said the terrorist blamed Jews for events in Syria and Mali and demanded France withdraw from Islamic countries • Muslim employee, Lassana Bathily, credited with saving many hostages' lives.
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=22715
Algerian sources warned against attack on Charlie Hebdo offices
French ignored Algerian intelligence warning of Charlie Hebdo's attack; British intelligence services: "Al-Qaida is planning attacks in the West."
http://www.jpost.com/International/Algerian-sources-warned-against-attack-on-Charlie-Hebdo-offices-387359
Not too surprising, the problem is information overload, intelligence groups get so much info it takes days to weeks for the important ones to be brought to the right people.
In France soon – maybe now! – the authorities will be TARD-majority.
We've got the first Tard POTUS, so we must practice humility. It really bothers me that no top-level administration person showed up in Paris.
I'm the one who always yells [at the wall, to the carpet], "I didn't vote for him!" – I'm ashamed.
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…I'm ashamed that the USA couldn't link arms and have that special moment with the rest of the [formerly] free world.
It sounds corny, but the biggest crowd since Evacuation Day and we're a no-show.
We have a lot to be ashamed for including this piece of stupidity
Pelosi to name first Muslim lawmaker to House intelligence committee
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/andre-carson-muslim-intelligence-committee-114213.html#ixzz3Oizkd9PB
If that doesn't tell you who is working to destroy the US nothing will.
Well, many in Europe will nod their heads, commiserating, "We are all in this together, even though we're in deeper than you are."
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Eye-witness describes the Paris kosher supermarket terror attack
Ruddy Haddad tells how he managed to hide from the terrorists inside the kosher supermarket's basement alongside a woman and her baby until the dramatic rescue.
story :
http://www.jerusalemonline.com/news/world-news/the-jewish-world/eye-witness-describes-the-paris-kosher-supermarket-terror-attack-10876
Just as everybody in France is trying to come together in this march of solidarity, Bibi calls out to French Jews "Come home!" Kinda tacky, n'est-ce pas?
But if Hollande takes it as a challenge, "Bin your trash. Control your dogs," he may actually do something to make France a safer place for everybody.
French army may protect Jewish sites, community leader says
Jewish group decries Israeli government's 'Pavlovian' calls for emigration; kosher market victims to be buried in Jerusalem
http://www.timesofisrael.com/french-army-may-protect-jewish-sites-community-leader-says/
Two Scenes From the Grand Synagogue of Paris
Netanyahu, the French national anthem, and what it all means
http://tabletmag.com/scroll/188225/two-scenes-from-the-grand-synagogue-of-paris
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Given and , find andWe only take the positive answer…why?
Can you explain why each of these is true???
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FT Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy Sept 22
Our school has been given the opportunity to take part in a project that will run jointly between schools and West Midlands police.
Operation Encompass is the reporting to schools, prior to the start of the next school day, when a child or young person has experienced, any domestic abuse.
Operation Encompass will ensure that a member of the school staff, (DSL) known as a Key Adult, is trained to allow them to liaise with the police and to use the information that has been shared, in confidence, while ensuring that the school is able to make provision for possible difficulties experienced by children, or their families, who have been experienced a domestic abuse incident.
We are keen to offer the best support possible to all our pupils and we believe this will be extremely beneficial for all those involved.
You can see more about the program here: Operation Encompass
Government advice for parents and carers when choosing out of school care:
The guidance is intended to help parents and carers choose a safer out-of-school setting for their child.
The guidance covers:
after-school clubs
other activities for children that take place without their parents' or carers' supervision, that are not a:
16 to 19 college
provider caring for children under 8 years old registered with Ofsted or a childminder agency
DFE Keeping Children Safe During Community Activities.pdf
Free support available from Birmingham City Council
Birmingham Children's Partnership: From Birmingham with Love
We've all been through a tough time with Covid-19 and lockdown. For many families it doesn't get easier during the summer holidays, which is why we're here to help. Here are some of our partners' most used services and support, which might make life a little bit easier…
Online parenting course. We've pre-paid for every parent in Birmingham to access a parenting course. Just enter the access code "COMMUNITY" at the top of the page to claim. There are courses for parents, carers and grandparents of children from bump to 19. Learn about how your child develops, and get tips to manage their behaviour.
Mental health support. In these difficult times we have to look after our mental health. For young people aged 11-25 there are forums, guides and counselling available at Kooth. If your child 0-25 needs support, get in touch with Pause by calling 0207 841 4470 or email. Adults can get support from MIND by calling 0121 262 3555. Or for urgent help call Forward Thinking Birmingham on 0300 300 0099.
Financial help. If you've lost your job, or are struggling for food or rent there are services that can help. Local welfare provision can make a big difference if you are in a crisis and need food, fuel or basic white goods. Discretionary Housing Payments may be able to help with rent. And there are food banks across Birmingham that are here to help.
Domestic abuse. For women and children affected by domestic abuse please see guidance or confidentially contact Birmingham and Solihull Women's Aid. For Men, please contact Respect.
Problems with drugs or alcohol. A new, discrete app called Staying Free is available on Android or Apple. Use the code "birmingham11" for pre-paid access. To speak to someone call Change Grow Live.
Bereavement support. It's a terrible time to lose a loved one — you can get help by calling 0121 687 8010 or from Cruse.
Early help for families. If anyone in your family needs more help, from public services or community groups, then please contact our voluntary sector local leads. We have ten areas which can connect you to support across the city.
If you are worried about a child, please call Birmingham's Children's Advice and Support Service on 0121 303 1888. In an emergency, including child abuse, contact the Police on 999. You can also chat to the Police.
The Birmingham Children's Partnership Offer
Help for all families and children in Birmingham - help with food, finances, parenting, drug and alcohol abuse, bereavement, domestic violence and mental health.
Early Help Support for Families available from Birmingham City Council
From_Birmingham_with_love.pdf
Finding help local to you
NHS Mental Health Support during Lockdown
0-18 year olds
7 days a week (10am-6pm):
askbeam@childrenssociety.org.uk
Support for Key workers
7 days a week (9am-11pm):
Safety Advice for Parents re Private Tutors
Local help available
Further information about NHS mental health support during Lockdown for all ages
v3_MH_Support_A5_flyer.pdf
The Waiting RoomThe Waiting Room is a key website which signposts you to the services available in Birmingham and Solihull. This includes a wide range of community support services.
NSPCCWide range of resources and information available to support parents and children.
Mental Health and Well-Being Websites
Young MindsInformation and support material for parents related to mental health, well-being and responding to abuse
Action for HappinessThis website includes 10 keys for happier living, and a monthly calendar of actions for happiness that you could try.
Action for ChildrenAdvice and support for parents on how to encourage children's well-being.
NHS guide to mental health servicesGuidance about mental health services that are available.
Forward Thinking BirminghamMental health support and counselling for children, includes information about their drop in centre "Pause" in Digbeth.
Children at risk of sexual abuse:
Lucy Faithful Foundation Helpline:
Talk to us if you're worried about child sexual abuse
Our confidential child sexual abuse prevention helpline (0808 1000 900) is available for anyone with concerns about child sexual abuse. Callers do not need to give identifying information, so can remain anonymous. We speak to thousands of people every year, and help them act to protect children and young people from sexual abuse and exploitation.
If you're not ready to speak to someone yet, you can get confidential support through our live chat and secure messaging service.
The Lucy Faithful Foundation have also created 12 short films for parents and carers which can be accessed here.
Domestic Violence and Abuse
Government advice about domestic abuse during lockdownIncludes signposts for support
RefugeFreephone 24 hour National Domestic Abuse Helpline
Birmingham and Solihull Women's AidInformation and support for women and children affected by domestic violence and abuse.
Relate BirminghamIncludes information about relationship and family counselling and support.
Solace Women's AidInformation and Support
Support if you are worried about hurting someone 0808 802 4040If you are concerned that you or someone you know may be an abuser, there is support available. Respect is an anonymous and confidential helpline for men and women who are harming their partners and families. The helpline also takes calls from (ex)partners, friends and relatives who are concerned about perpetrators.
Modern slavery is a harmful and hidden crime and its victims may be especially isolated and hidden from view during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
Help and support is available for victims of modern slavery. This guidance sets out what modern slavery is, how to recognise the indicators of modern slavery and how to refer suspected cases of modern slavery to the appropriate services.
Preventing Radicalisation
Parent-Guardian-Online-Radicalisation-Information-and-Support.pdf
EAH_Parents_Top_Tips_English_AW_Interactive.pdf
Worries about terrorism or terrorist attacks
Talking to children about terrorismResources and advice for parents
NSPCCAdvice for parents on protecting children from radicalisation
ChildlineResource for children about their worries about the world
Educate Against HateAdvice for parents on how to support children trying to understand terrorist attacks
PSHE - Primary schools resourceResource to use in schools to support discussion of terrorist attacks
General Safety Advice for Parents
Safety Advice Posters and Advice for Parents.pdf
NHS urgent mental health helplines
New 24/7 all ages NHS urgent mental health helplines have been rolled out across the country in 2020. They provide expert advice and assessment for children and adults facing a mental health crisis. People can call for themselves, or on behalf of someone else. We encourage the promotion of these helplines, and have developed public facing lines:
If you need help for a mental health crisis, find your local 24/7 urgent mental health helpline at nhs.uk/urgentmentalhealth.
You can call for:
24-hour advice and support – for you, your child, your parent or someone you care for;
help to speak to a mental health professional;
an assessment to help decide on the best course of treatment.
If your child needs urgent mental health support or advice, you can contact your local mental health helpline via nhs.uk/urgentmentalhealth. You can call the helpline for 24-hour advice and support for you and your child, to speak to a mental health professional or for an assessment to help decide on the best course of care.
Children's Mental Health Support
Find your local mental health crisis line
Self-referFor physical or psychological symptoms, you can call the GP, your usual practitioner, or NHS 111 as appropriate. You can also self refer to local Psychological Therapy services that can help with common mental health problems like stress, anxiety and depression.
Ways to help support your child's mental health
Eating Disorders and Concerns
BEAT Eating DisordersSupport Services and Information
There are helplines and other resources available on the BEAT website, including a GP guide and a guide for Friends and Family which you can find below.
From the BEAT website:
Looking after a child
• Remember, it's important to address the thoughts and feelings causing an eating disorder, not just the behaviour. There are many different therapies that can do this, and no single therapy is the best choice in all cases. Depending on how young they are, you may have a lot of say over their treatment, so remember that if your child isn't responding well to one form of treatment, they may respond better to another.
• Be mindful of other children and how the eating disorder might be affecting them. They may need their own emotional support. Our leaflet, "Caring for Someone with an Eating Disorder (for under 18s)" may be useful for siblings of the person with the eating disorder. It is available to download on our website.
gp-leaflet-website.pdf
tips-2019.pdf
beat-carers-booklet-1.pdf


Legacy is thus as much about looking forward as it is about looking back. Indeed, as this parshah brings us to the end of B'reishit, the first book of the Torah, it is interesting to note that each book ends with a hint about where the Children of Israel are headed. B'reishit, Genesis, ends with the word "Egypt," as the Children of Israel become the Nation of Israel and begin their extended stay in Egypt. Sh'mot, Exodus, ends with "on all their journeys," as they depart Egypt for the desert. Vayikra, Leviticus, closes with "at Mount Sinai," leading us into the Israelites' travels through the Sinai Desert, chronicled in B'midbar, Numbers. Its closing words are "the Jordan near Jericho," where the Israelites stay through the final book of the Torah. And D'varim, Deuteronomy, closes the Torah with the word "Israel," propelling the Jewish people into the Land. With this literary forward momentum, it is as if the Torah is leaving us with its legacy: the command to apply what we have learned as we move forward on our journey.
The last parshah of the whole Torah, V'zot Hab'rachah, references the legacy of Jacob once more, calling the Torah the "legacy of the community of Jacob." As Rashi comments on that phrase: "We have taken hold of it, and we will not forsake it!" So too, the legacy of our ancestors and predecessors is not something simply left to us as a memory or keepsake, but rather, it is an impetus to action—to take hold of, to live out and to pass along to those who come after us.


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The First Production Photos and Video of the Frozen North American Tour Have Been Released
As the Frozen North American tour begins its nine-week engagement at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre in LA, the first images and video of the production are now available, featuring stars Caroline Bowman (Elsa) and Caroline Innerbichler (Anna), along with the rest of the Frozen company.
Disney's Frozen, the Tony®-nominated Best Musical, has joined Disney Theatrical hits Frozen and Frozen on tour across North America. Heralded by The New Yorker as "thrilling" and "genuinely moving," Frozen has emerged as the biggest hit musical of the last two Broadway seasons, breaking four house records the legendary St. James Theatre, its New York home where it is currently celebrating its second smash year.
For more information, including a list of currently announced cities, visit FrozenTheMusical.com/Tour or click here.
In addition to the North American tour and Broadway companies, Frozen's global footprint will soon expand to include London, Australia, Japan, and Hamburg.
The Frozen North American tour stars Caroline Bowman as Elsa and Caroline Innerbichler as Anna, the sisters at the heart of the joy-filled musical. Joining them are principal cast members Austin Colby (Bowman's husband) as Hans, F. Michael Haynie as Olaf, Mason Reeves as Kristoff, Jeremy Morse as Weselton, Collin Baja and Evan Strand alternating as Sven, as well as Stella Cobb (Young Anna), Alyssa Kim (Young Elsa), Jaiden Klein (Young Elsa), and Arwen Monzon-Sanders (Young Anna).
Frozen also features Caelan Creaser, C.K. Edwards, Michael Everett, Berklea Going, Michael Allan Haggerty, Tyler Jimenez, Hannah Jewel Kohn, Marina Kondo, Dustin Layton, Nika Lindsay, Tatyana Lubov, Adrianna Rose Lyons, Ralph Meitzler, Kelly Methven, Michael Milkanin, Kyle Lamar Mitchell, Jessie Peltier, Naomi Rodgers, Daniel Switzer, Zach Trimmer, Brit West, and Natalie Wisdom.
A mysterious secret. A family torn apart. As one sister struggles with being an outsider and harnessing her powers within, the other sets out on a thrilling adventure to bring her family together once again. Both are searching for love, but they'll learn that to find it they'll have to look inside themselves first.
Frozen is melting hearts on Broadway and across the country in an all-new production created for the stage by an award-winning team. It features the songs you know and love from the original Oscar®-winning film, plus an expanded score with a dozen new numbers by the film's songwriters, Oscar winner Kristen Anderson-Lopez and EGOT winner Robert Lopez. Joining them on a creative team that has won a cumulative 16 Tony Awards are Oscar winner Jennifer Lee (book), Tony and Olivier Award winner Michael Grandage (director), and Tony winner Rob Ashford (choreographer).
The design team for Frozen includes scenic and costume design by two-time Tony and Olivier Award winner Christopher Oram, lighting design by six-time Tony winner Natasha Katz, sound design by seven-time Tony nominee Peter Hylenski, video design by Tony winner Finn Ross, puppet design by Michael Curry, hair design by David Brian Brown, makeup design by Anne Ford-Coates, and special effects design by Jeremy Chernick.
Two-time Tony Award winner Stephen Oremus is music supervisor and creates vocal, incidental and dance arrangements. He is joined on the music team by Tony nominee Dave Metzger (orchestrations), Chris Montan (executive music producer), David Chase (additional dance arrangements), and Faith Seetoo (music director).
An unforgettable theatrical experience filled with sensational special effects, stunning sets and costumes, and powerhouse performances, Frozen is everything you want in a musical: It's moving. It's spectacular. And above all, it's pure Broadway joy.
Frozen is produced by Disney Theatrical Productions under the direction of Thomas Schumacher.
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Broadway Leading Lady, Janet Dacal, to Join The Band's Visit North American Tour
The Providence Performing Arts Center Announces its 2020/2021 Season Featuring Three National Tour Launches


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Vernon J. Harris Medical and Dental Center to reopen
Jeremy M. Lazarus | 11/27/2019, 6 p.m.
Vernon J. Harris Center
A mainstay of health care in Richmond's East End is reopening after being sidelined for a year of renovation.
The upgraded and improved Vernon J. Harris Medical and Dental Center at 719 N. 25th St. will show off its new look on Thursday, Dec. 5, with a grand reopening celebration from 3 to 5 p.m., it has been announced.
The clinic is scheduled to fully reopen Friday, Dec. 13, to provide medical and dental services to patients, center officials said.
The center is the flagship clinic of the nonprofit Capital Area Health Network, a federally supported, affordable health care operation that also includes a mobile health van and six other clinics, including four in the city and one each in Chesterfield and Henrico counties.
Launched in 1998, CAHN opened its first clinic in the building named for the late Dr. Harris, a physician who served Church Hill area patients for more than 36 years and never turned anyone away.
CAHN used a $1 million federal grant to overhaul the 10,000-square foot, two-story building, which closed in December 2018 in preparation for the work.
"Our reopening is truly a community event, and we want our community to celebrate in our excitement," said Tracy L. Causey, CAHN's chief execu- tive officer who has led the operation almost since its inception. "We invite our community to take full advantage of the medical and dental services we provide."
"This is where CAHN began," Deninez Moss, chair of CAHN's board. "And in the spirit of Dr. Harris, we want to be there to serve our community."
According to CAHN's reports, more than 15,000 people a year visit a CAHN clinic and more than 4,000 people receive dental services.
CAHN employs about 175 people, including doctors, nurses, dentists and support staff, and operates on a budget of more than $10 million a year.
CAHN celebrating 20th anniversary of Vernon J. Harris Medical Center
Free tooth extraction clinic pulls in crowd
Nonprofit counseling group to move into East End Family Resource Center
CHIP remains on danger list
Gold tapped to launch new grocery in Church Hill


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Facebook might let Trump back just in time for the 2024 election
ByRafi Schwartz
Just days after pulling the plug on his hilariously under-appreciated performance art exhibition masquerading as a "blog," former President Donald Trump received a bit of conditionally good news on Friday, with a surprise announcement from Facebook suggesting he could regain access to his account there, shuttered for his encouragement of the January 6th insurrection, just ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
The social media juggernaut's decision to leave the door open for Trump to return comes shortly after the company's oversight board effectively punted on whether or not the former president's ongoing ban should remain in place indefinitely. Instead of ruling directly, the oversight board returned the decision to the company itself, temporarily maintaining the suspension, but ordering Facebook to reassess its criteria for forcing people off their platform for good.
That reassessment seemingly concluded today, with Facebook's announcement that "we believe [Trump's] actions constituted a severe violation of our rules which merit the highest penalty available under the new enforcement protocols." Therefore, the company continued, "we are suspending his accounts for two years, effective from the date of the initial suspension on January 7 this year."
And what will happen on January 7, 2023, just as the next presidential election starts to heat up?
At the end of this period, we will look to experts to assess whether the risk to public safety has receded. We will evaluate external factors, including instances of violence, restrictions on peaceful assembly and other markers of civil unrest. If we determine that there is still a serious risk to public safety, we will extend the restriction for a set period of time and continue to re-evaluate until that risk has receded.
In other words, to make it back on Facebook just in time for his still-theoretical but highly anticipated run for a second term as President, all Trump has to do is be slightly less overt in his endorsement of violent insurrectionists and right wing attempts at overthrowing the government. So long as he just lays low, it seems, he could be resume sharing whatever nonsense comes to his at-that-point-76-year-old brain before we know it. Which isn't to say Trump would have unrestricted posting privileges should he be allowed back into Facebook's cold, cruel embrace.
"When the suspension is eventually lifted," the company wrote in a press release accompanying its decision (notice the "when" instead of "if" here), "there will be a strict set of rapidly escalating sanctions that will be triggered if Mr. Trump commits further violations in future, up to and including permanent removal of his pages and accounts."
Put another way: "Don't do it again, sir. This time we mean it!"
Despite the fact that Facebook has essentially opened the door for his return to the most powerful communications platform in the history of this planet, Trump responded to the announcement with his typical grace and humility.
Because nothing shows the sort of soul searching and personal growth Facebook is looking for quite like suggesting you'd sic tens of millions of your supporters to "win" against the "abuse" of not being allowed to do bad posts.
Oh, and then he followed that up with, uh, whatever this is:
Threatening one of the richest people in the world with not having to eat dinner with you after your still-unannounced run for a second term? That's some 19th dimensional chess, folks.
Clearly understanding that they are in a no-win situation, at least as far as optics is concerned, Facebook acknowledged the awkwardness of their decision, writing:
We know today's decision will be criticized by many people on opposing sides of the political divide — but our job is to make a decision in as proportionate, fair and transparent a way as possible, in keeping with the instruction given to us by the Oversight Board.
Which is all to say that one of the most powerful institutions on the planet has successfully managed to kick this extremely stupid can down the road for a few more years of peace and quiet, while giving a "hey, it's not our fault!" excuse in the process.
So mark your calendars: January 7, 2023. One way or another, it's gonna be quite the occasion.
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In February 2018, Australian owned and originated Plus Fitness is set to open its 180th 24 Hour Gym Franchise and has simultaneously sold its 275th franchise territory in Australia alone. In addition to this, Plus Fitness has also sold two International Master Franchise Licences in both New Zealand and India with both markets displaying strong signs of early growth.
This remarkable achievement sees the brand become Australia's largest and fastest growing Australian owned gym chain confirming Plus Fitness as a true 'Australian Success Story'.
The first Plus Fitness was opened some 21 years ago by founding CEO John Fuller. John went on to open four more Plus Fitness gyms over the following years and in 2008 formed a partnership with Nigel Miller. With both having franchising the Plus Fitness brand set firmly in their minds there has been no looking back since.
After initially franchising the 'Plus Fitness Health Club' model in 2009, John and Nigel soon recognised that a change in the fitness industry was looming and set about remodelling their franchise from traditional 'big box gyms' to lower priced, more convenient 24 hour gyms.
After researching the 24 hour gym market, the pair developed a franchise model with some unique and appealing selling points to assist in gaining market share in what was becoming one of the fastest growing segments within the franchising sector. These included developing a true turn key franchise offering that presented exceptional value, inclusive of everything from gym equipment to fit out, franchise training and support to marketing.
Added to this was a low staff model and an exclusive territory for each franchisee protecting them from any future market saturation. With the continual support of a committed team of industry experts headed up by two of the most experienced operators in the fitness industry in Australia, it is then no surprise that along with a lot of hard work Plus Fitness has be-come the 'Australian Success Story' that it is today.
At the official launch of the 'Plus Fitness 24/7' franchise model at the Sydney Franchise Expo in 2011, John and Nigel sold five franchises 'off the stand' in three days and the pair have gone from strength to strength since then. They are always seeking to further develop their infrastructure, franchise support and consumer offering. With a Head Office team made up of what they refer to as 'Support Specialists', John and Nigel repeatedly reference the passion and hard work of their team as a large part of their success.
Plus Fitness has had its achievements widely recognised winning a number of prestigious awards. This includes being named as the Emerging Franchisor of the Year in 2013 by the Franchise Council of Australia. This was awarded in front of the Australian franchise community at the annual Gala Dinner held at Jupiters Casino and was described by John and Nigel as a "humbling achievement". In addition to this, Plus Fitness have been ranked in the BRW Fast Starters and BRW Fast Franchise awards on a number of occasions and have also ranked as the Top Franchise in the Smart Company Top Franchise awards and were also the Smart Company 8th Fastest Growing Australian Company for 2013.
Plus Fitness Franchisees have always benefited greatly from a number of strong and longstanding relationships with leading, globally recognised commercial gym equipment suppliers. These ongoing relationships have enabled Plus Fitness to deliver a quality range of commercial gym equipment at incredibly competitive competitive prices for their Franchisees.
There is also no stopping the Plus Fitness team when it comes to innovation with them having recently launched their Plus Fitness member app on both iOS and Android. In addition to this Plus Fitness offer a range of Virtual Classes with their proprietary 'Classes On Demand' system which provides embers access to exercise classes 24/7. The 'Plus Fitness Express Classes' are also a recent addition to their ever developing service offering, providing 45 minute, instructor lead classes both on the gym floor and in their studios. Plus Fitness also have their own in-house media channel which can be streamed into each franchise with all the latest music as well as training tips from their brand ambassador, World Champion hurdler Sally Pearson.
Considering themselves Australia's 'fastest growing fitness family' and with a new Plus Fitness opening every 21 days somewhere in the world, then if there isn't a Plus Fitness near you now, there no doubt will be soon!
For more information on either joining or owning a Plus Fitness then head to www.plusfitness.com.au.


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Summertime. Food, drinks, friends, parties, rooftops, food trucks and bucket lists. Living in one of the greatest cities I have access to so much culture, music, and people. What better way to experience these cultures than via their food? What better way to do that then to check out the bazillion foodie events in NYC. Now there are so many I'd be here for years talking about them, so I've picked out my faves and future "need to get there" and compiled my summer food bucketlist, or bucketbites.
Now I do the Broadway Bites once a week. I work around the corner so gotta get my fix. There are some killer things to try, like Korean style tacos anyone? I'm dying to try Palenque as I love me some arepas and they offer a fantastic line up. If I could afford it I'd try it all, but alas a girl has bills to pay.
Smorgasboard – what CAN I say? How dare you live in NYC (and surrounding areas) and not go! Well I haven't and this makes my bucket list every year. This event alone has over 100+ vendors and is becoming one of the most do's in NYC for summer time. I mean food. FOOD EVERYWHERE!
The Vendy Awards – THE annual festival that determines who really is the best taco cart out there…this festival can make a food truck be the place to eat. And it covers almost every cuisine out there (hello the movie chef?). I want to go just because often I'm out and about and want a quick snack that's lighter on my wallet than say waistline? Enter food trucks or what NY'ers call it, street meat.
Blues BBQ – ok when talking about BBQ you have to mention blues and vice versa. And I love me some BBQ (big apple BBQ anyone? Missed it this year). Now this happens in August but is the best way to see some of the top blues performers and showcases the best in NYC "cue. What better way to spend a day than listening to music, eating and enjoying the sights along the pier.
Ferragosto – it's the Bronx's version of San Gennaro, just less people. Carbs, followed by carbs then maybe some protein in the form of sausage and peppers. This should be all delicious things Italian. Being that I just moved to the boogie down I will have to go.
So this is my list, and I love to eat (official fatass here). Of course NYC has festivals ALLLLLLL the time for various things and there is always food. But these are my tops picks to nosh on this year.
What about you? Did I miss anything? Let a girl know so I can go gets up on it…..
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The 2018 Organisation Stroll study of Buncombe Region services disclosed that auto parking continues to be a worry for Asheville location companies in addition to real estate and also allowing.
The Asheville Location Chamber of Business arranged the 2018 Organisation Stroll to evaluate the neighborhood's organisation setting. Carried out in 2013, the Service Stroll asked companies what would certainly make their company much more effective as well as just what adjustments would certainly boost the regional organisation atmosphere.
Sixty-three percent of companies reported that they were expanding with the greatest percents in East Buncombe as well as Biltmore Park. Holiday accommodations were a noteworthy exemption with 47% of participants keeping in mind a decrease.
Accessibility of certified workers was a leading adjustment for business in the 20-99 staff members vary in addition to a leading problem for production and also building and construction. Car park was the leading modification kept in mind by retail, arts and also enjoyment and also individual solutions.
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Auto parking as well as pathways covered the most important framework demands and also were continually rated as leading demands throughout firm dimension and also sector. There was variant throughout company place.
General 53% of participants claimed they were not having a hard time with labor force accessibility or staffing. By market, the biggest challenge was educating for production, contractors/construction as well as holiday accommodations; while, food as well as drink firms showed pay and also real estate as the biggest barriers.
The Chamber and also its calculated companions will certainly make use of the solutions to notify financial advancement and also public plan initiatives intended at constructing area with service. A previous Company Stroll study exposed that graffiti was a significant problem for organisations.
Business Stroll was arranged by the Asheville Location Chamber of Business in collaboration with Asheville Midtown Organization, Biltmore Park Allies, Charlotte Road Service Organization, Enka-Candler Company Organization, Historic Biltmore Town, River Arts Area, Black Mountain/Swannanoa Chamber of Business as well as West Asheville Organisation Organization.
Business keep going down and need some motivation to make it goes up again. Maybe can hope in this new American Advertising Federation.
Request to make a new advertising program at AAFA to make a successful advertising.
Great survey and some idea about market. Maybe i need to change the other market products or services.


Brisbane City Council is helping residents celebrate this Australia Day with thousands of people expected to visit pools, parks and take in a green and gold fireworks spectacular at South Bank.
Lord Mayor Graham Quirk said there was no better place to celebrate Australia Day than in Brisbane with lots of interesting things planned for residents and visitors to see and do.
"We live in a vibrant, New World City and our weather looks set to be perfect for residents to get outside to enjoy the wide range of events, activities and facilities across the city," Cr Quirk said.
"If you're looking for an affordable and easy celebration with family or friends this Australia Day a barbecue or picnic is the perfect option, with more than 2000 parks across the city and more than 1000 barbecues.
Cr Quirk said in the inner-city the Story Bridge would be lit green and gold on Australia Day and South Bank would also host a family-friendly event "Australia Day on the Green' with live music from 1pm.
"South Bank will once again host the not-to-be-missed fireworks spectacular at 7:30pm on Saturday including, for the first time, six jet-ski performers who will launch fireworks as they perform in front of the Clem Jones promenade," he said.
Cr Quirk said one of the most important parts of Saturday's celebrations was City Hall continuing to host Queensland's largest citizenship ceremony on Australia Day this year.
"Brisbane is a diverse community and I look forward to welcoming nearly 600 new citizens from, more than 50 countries at Brisbane City Hall's Australia Day Citizenship Ceremony," he said.
"As Lord Mayor I've also had the privilege and honour to meet and recognise some of the city's unsung heroes who help make Brisbane an even better place for us all to live.
For a full list of Council's events, parks and facilities visit Council's website at www.brisbane.qld.gov.au.


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Biografia
Nato a Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, fin da bambino si appassiona alla musica studiando pianoforte e chitarra. Cresciuto bilingue, parlando spagnolo in casa e inglese a scuola. All'età di sedici anni inizia a scrivere e comporre canzoni pop rock, ispirandosi ad artisti come Bon Jovi, Bryan Adams, Damien Rice, ect.

Dopo che il progetto di un suo album di debutto non andò in porto, Canto decise di concentrarsi sulla recitazione. Nel 2009 ha recitato nel thriller messicano Sin memoria e nella commedia Te presento a Laura.

Successivamente si trasferisce negli Stati Uniti, e nel 2013 interpreta il ruolo di Paul Torres nella prima stagione della serie televisiva The Following. Nel stesso anno ottiene la parte di Sunspot nel film X-Men - Giorni di un futuro passato di Bryan Singer.

Filmografia parziale

Cinema
Sin memoria, regia di Sebastián Borensztein (2010)
Te presento a Laura, regia di Fez Noriega (2010)
Amar no es querer, regia di Guillermo Barba (2011)
Casi trienta, regia di Alejandro Sugich (2012)
X-Men - Giorni di un futuro passato (X-Men: Days of Future Past), regia di Bryan Singer (2014)
Amanda & Jack Go Glamping, regia di Brandon Dickerson (2017)
Bruised - Lottare per vivere (Bruised), regia di Halle Berry (2020)
2 Hearts - Intreccio di destini, regia di Lance Hool (2020)
 Agent Game, regia di Grant S. Johnson (2022)

Televisione
The Following – serie TV, 8 episodi (2013)
Mixology – serie TV, 13 episodi (2014)
Narcos – serie TV, 1 episodio (2015)
Blood & Oil – serie TV, 10 episodi (2015)
Second Chance – serie TV, 5 episodi (2016)
The Catch – serie TV, 1 episodio (2016)
 Designated Survivor – serie TV, 53 episodi (2016-2019)
 The Cleaning Lady – serie TV (2022)

Doppiatori italiani
Nelle versioni in italiano dei suoi lavori, Adan Canto è stato doppiato da:

 Gianfranco Miranda in The Following
 Marco Vivio in Designated Survivor
 Francesco Pezzulli in Bruised - Lottare per vivere
 Stefano Crescentini in Agent Game

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Collegamenti esterni

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I finally got Morgan out in the surf again yesterday. Time to try out his new wetsuit, new gloves, new boots, new hood and new surfboard. It was a little bigger out there than it looks from the video and the GoPro angle is a bit off but I still got some footage, including a nice wave for Morgan. I ended up swimming a little bit too. All good practise though and the water is feeling a little warmer already!


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PLAY BUILDINGS COLLECTION
Play | Architecture | City
The buildings of Olabaà are game structures that propose placing symbolic play in the context of architecture and urban space. With this proposal, children are encouraged, through play, recognition, discovery and exploration of their environment, in order to foster reflection and analysis skills and develop imagination and creativity.
The buildings we propose are based on architectural typologies that are sufficiently generic in order not to define specific uses and not limit their play to limited and stereotyped areas and uses, but rather to explore wider and richer concepts such as inhabiting different spaces, occupy them, be it the urban space, the public space, the collective space: the city.
The buildings of Olabaà are open game proposals that allow freedom in the game, within the framework of the structures and spaces typical of the urban context. This allows a type of game that especially motivates the relationship with others and contributes to the socialization and transmission of the city's values, such as coexistence, cooperation, interaction.
The city is more than a physical territory or a set of urban spaces, it is also a place of participation and creation, dynamic and interactive. We understand the city as a field of knowledge and experimentation. We learn from the city to be citizens, to relate and live together, to get involved and to configure the city itself. Through the game, then, we understand the city, we are part and transform it.
TO INHABIT | TO BUILD
To inhabit is to experiment, occupy, live, invent, act in the spaces where we live, where we play. Building is to create spaces to be inhabitated. Or is also to manipulate and modify the space we live. Play elements to inhabit or transform the spaces of our toy buildings may be multiple, from representative elements such as dolls, cars, animals, to abstract elements, or non-specific material.
SPACE | ARCHITECTURE
The quality of the materials and the care of the design, paying special attention to the coherence between space and structural solution, are essential factors to emphasize the values of the architecture. From the simplicity of the structures we propose, we want to bring children closer to these values.Both in the game and in real life, the spaces we inhabit have qualities that influence how we inhabit them.
Customized projects
Olabaà is a laboratory of ideas, experimentation and action around architecture, play and space. We really like to raise new challenges and new projects.
If you are a school or an educational space, an organization or a private individual, you can count on us to invent and create spaces, games and workshops to play with architecture.
You can contact us at olabaa@olabaa.com
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No professional football player is as credited with the elevation of the NFL to the status of America's favorite sport than John Constantine Unitas. The Pittsburgh native attended the University of Louisville, playing well enough to be drafted by his home-town Steelers in the ninth round of the 1955 draft. However, the Steelers had too many quarterbacks and released Unitas, though it was too late for him to hook up with another team for the season. Instead, he played for the Bloomfield Rams, a semi-pro team, earning three dollars each game while also working construction. This was a fairy tale in the making.
The Baltimore Colts contacted Unitas in February, 1956 thinking he may be able to help their football team. The Colts had been scouting the semi-pro quarterback and were intrigued by what they had seen. Only two years later, Unitas led the Colts to the 1958 NFL title over the New York Giants in what has been called "The Greatest Game Ever Played." His last-second heroics that game made Johnny Unitas a household name, and his very image became symbolic of 1950s America; a masculine buzz cut and black high-tops are everlasting memories for all football fans.
Not only was "The Golden Arm" a gifted quarterback, it was his courage to perform in a pocket completely surrounded by violence combined with his genius-like ability to read and understand opposing defenses that led to career marks of 40,000 passing yards and 290 touchdowns, staggering totals compared to his contemporaries. Unitas captured three Most Valuable Player awards, three NFL titles, and was a Super Bowl champion. Just as Unitas remains an icon of professional football, so too is his standing as one of the most widely and passionately collected athletes in the hobby.


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Q: vba access query with variables
I get the runtime error 3141 which says the SELECT statement includes a reserved word or an argument name that is misspelled or missing, or the punctuation is incorrect. On user form click, I'm trying to use a loop where multiple fields within a query are defined using variable inputs. Where am I going wrong here?

Private Sub Calculate_Click()
Dim db As Database
Dim x As Integer
Dim y As Integer
Dim WPmonthly As String ' field name for monthly written premium
Dim UPRmonthly As String ' field name for monthly unearned premium
Dim EPmonthly As String ' field name for monthly earned premium
Dim runningDate As Date
Dim useDateLower As Date
Dim useDateUpper As Date
Dim qry As dao.QueryDef

Months = Me.YearsBack * 12 + Month(Me.ValDate)

If Me.Period = "monthly" Then

    Set db = CurrentDb

    Set qry = CurrentDb.CreateQueryDef("MyQuery")
    Debug.Print qry.SQL ' shows the SQL from MyQuery

    For x = 1 To Months

    runningDate = Format(DateAdd("m", -x + 1, Me.ValDate), "mm yyyy")
    useDateLower = runningDate
    useDateUpper = Format(DateAdd("m", -x + 2, Me.ValDate), "mm yyyy")
    WPmonthly = "WP M" & Month(runningDate) & " " & Year(runningDate)
    EPmonthly = "EP M" & Month(runningDate) & " " & Year(runningDate)
    UPRmonthly = "UPR M" & Month(runningDate) & " " & Year(runningDate)
    qry.SQL = "SELECT IIf([tblEPdata]![IssueDate]>" & useDateLower & ",IIf([tblEPdata]![IssueDate]<" & useDateUpper & ",[tblEPdata]![GrossPremium])) AS " & WPmonthly & " FROM tblEPdata;"

    Next

    qry.Close

End If
end sub

A: The first thing I would change is this line:
qry.SQL = _
"SELECT IIf([IssueDate] > #" & useDateLower & "#," & _
"IIf([IssueDate] < #" & useDateUpper & "#," & _
"[GrossPremium])) AS [" & WPmonthly & "] FROM tblEPdata;"

Also need brackets around WPmonthly.  I would also try changing using bangs instead of periods (Me!Period).

A: by seing your query i think that is the format for Dates should be between '' and yyyymmdd or yyyy-mm-dd format and for the last ; in the query statement.
You have something like:
useDateLower = 01/05/2016

Excel understand it but SQL does not, so, you must inclose your dates with '' or ## and your query ends like:
... [tblEPdata]![IssueDate]> '' " & useDateLower & " '' ,IIf([tb...

and you can add an Alias to your table.
qry.SQL = "SELECT IIf([TBL].[IssueDate]> ''" & useDateLower & _
                "'',IIf([TBL].[IssueDate]< ''" & useDateUpper & _
                "'',[TBL].[GrossPremium])) AS " & WPmonthly & _
         " FROM tblEPdata AS [TBL]"

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LAS CRUCES - A Hatch man receiving treatment at a Fresenius Dialysis Center is charged with three counts of assault after he allegedly pulled a gun on clinic staff.
According to court documents, Mathew Roger Smith, 56, became agitated during a dialysis session Tuesday, pointing a loaded .357 revolver at a nurse before a responding police officer was able to "wrestle the weapon out of his hands," before detaining him.
Court documents indicate Smith has had verbal outbursts at the clinic before. On Tuesday, prior to the gun incident, staff held a meeting with Smith to discuss his behavior.
Smith received treatment after the meeting, but became agitated, pulling out his access line, which caused him to bleed profusely at his station and on other stations, court documents state.
Clinic staff said Smith became more agitated when staff tried to control the bleeding, so staff called police about 4 p.m.. When Smith learned police were called, his behavior worsened, court documents state.
Officer Oscar Magallanes was the first officer to respond to the clinic on the 3000 block of Foothills Drive.
When Magallanes entered the treatment room, he said he saw Smith reaching into his jacket with his right hand.
"The defendant pulled out a black in color revolver and pointed in the direction of the nurse who was holding his left arm," court documents state.
Magallanes then reached for Smith's right arm and Smith transitioned the gun to his left hand. At that time, Magallanes pulled Smith from his chair, knocking the gun out of his hand, court documents state.
Smith began to reach for the gun, now under a chair, when one of the nurses kicked it away, court documents state. Smith was then detained and taken into custody.
Court documents state Magallanes, the clinic manager and clinic staff all feared for their safety during the incident.
Smith was booked into the Doña Ana County Detention Center on two charges of aggravated assault on a health care worker with a deadly weapon, and one charge of aggravated assault on a peace officer.
He is initially being held without bond.


6 common frequently asked questions about vaping!
There are tons of questions and misunderstandings regarding vaping. Therefore I have decided some of the most frequently asked questions regarding this habit and give answers to them one by one.
Do vapers always need nicotine?
This is a question which is asked all very often especially by those who have never experienced vaping before. Nicotine is either served additionally or it is contained by the eliquid or e-juice which is the liquid the vaporizer needs in order to transform the liquid to vapor with the help of the atomizer. In mods this can be set independently too. But most importantly the answer to the question is "No". There are tons of eliquids coming without nicotine and it's definitely not a "must-have" when it comes to vaping.
Are vapers only used by those who want to quit smoking?
This is how it has started but by today, vapers especially vape mods have their own dedicated fan base which constantly work and share all the improvements they make with their own devices. Tons of people use vapers and the majority is actually those who were never frequent smokers.
Is it all the same what I use for vaping?
Today the 3 main types of vaporizers are the following: e-cigarettes, AVPs or vaping pens and Vape Mods. The e-cigarettes are easy to buy because they are sold by regular stores and at gas stations. Those are disposable and cheap. The vaping pen is the most regular choice due to its use being easy and the devices being cheap. Mods are used by the geeks and advanced vapers who really want to have more control and power in a device.
Does the eliquid contain dodgy substances?
This is perhaps one of the most frequently asked questions, especially because of a recent fiasco that happened with e-cigarettes ( they contained diethylene glycol which is harmful to health) since then the content of eliquids is guarded and constantly monitored, so much that only certified eliquid manufacturers can sell their products officially. The normal content of eliquids is certified organic vegetable glycerin that derives from vegetable oil and it is safe to inhale and propylene glycol which is often used in asthmatic devices to actually help the breathing and it's certified and 100% safe to inhale.
Is vaporizer expensive to use and maintain?
No, the AVPs or regular vaping pens are especially cheap and they are the best choice for the non-regular vapers. They are cheap to buy (USD 40-100) and they are also cheap to maintain. Next to eliquids the only thing one needs to watch out for is to regularly change the atomizer (once every 2-4 months depending on the frequency of usage).
Is it easy to buy a vaporizer?
You can buy them either online from trusted resources (which we highly advise) or from certified vaping stores (tobacco stores today also offer vaping products and eliquids too).
I hope this FAQ helped to clarify a couple of questions regarding vaping.


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I Never Thought I'd Meet This Girl. Especially Not Like This
Rebel Bingo is a hard-core and hipsterized version of your grandma's Thursday-evening pastime. You enter the concert venue and receive two paper game boards and a marker, then try to juggle them with a pair of tallboys while dancing to dub step and drawing on/getting drawn on by fellow revelers, which, for some reason, is totally cool with everyone there. The game has yet to begin. I don't want to go, considering it's the end of a long workweek and I'm inappropriately rocking a button-down shirt, sensible khakis, and Clarks. But since my roommate, who works, like, a thousand hours a week, is still wearing his finance-drone suit yet positively jazzed to play a drunken rendition of the nursing-home favorite, I guilt myself into it. The lights drop, music sounds, the MC explains the rules and gets us pumped for what's sure to be an ironically intense experience. After an unnecessarily epic but undeniably electrifying countdown, the game begins. Then two dancers appear, and there she is. Girl X. Her eyes look black. Same with the ponytail that falls at the small of her back when she's not whipping it like a lasso. A scowling expression on a delicate face
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Rebel Bingo is a hard-core and hipsterized version of your grandma's Thursday-evening pastime.
You enter the concert venue and receive two paper game boards and a marker, then try to juggle them with a pair of tallboys while dancing to dub step and drawing on/getting drawn on by fellow revelers, which, for some reason, is totally cool with everyone there. The game has yet to begin.
I don't want to go, considering it's the end of a long workweek and I'm inappropriately rocking a button-down shirt, sensible khakis, and Clarks. But since my roommate, who works, like, a thousand hours a week, is still wearing his finance-drone suit yet positively jazzed to play a drunken rendition of the nursing-home favorite, I guilt myself into it.
The lights drop, music sounds, the MC explains the rules and gets us pumped for what's sure to be an ironically intense experience. After an unnecessarily epic but undeniably electrifying countdown, the game begins. Then two dancers appear, and there she is.
Girl X.
Her eyes look black. Same with the ponytail that falls at the small of her back when she's not whipping it like a lasso. A scowling expression on a delicate face makes way for a wagging tongue. A canvas of caramel skin flaunts a bevy of vividly colored but indiscernible tattoos. She's all charisma. And power. And hips. She's a blowtorch and the stage is crumbling to ashes.
"Ohmygod," I murmur to my roommate, jaw dropped, frightened and tingly. "I think I love this girl."
"Ohmygod."
The rest of the game is a blurry montage of lights and music and videos and prizes like a vintage-looking bike and a panda bear or panda costume or something. It's pretty awesome, but that doesn't matter. Someone call Liam Neeson: I'm taken. I'm captured like a planet in her gravitational pull, eclipsed by her once-in-a-lifetime darkness. Her body sings like a siren song as my ship, transfixed, drives closer to the sands of her lethal beach. She's a Venus flytrap. I'm buzzing.
The game ends, the DJ bumps more dub step, and as the crowd largely turns and heads for the door, I'm pushing against the human current towards the stage, which she's still incinerating.
I look like a sweaty wannabe Gap model and my Clarks are slip-sliding along the beer-drenched floor, which is not helpful when trying to long-distance dance-seduce a girl who is, oh yeah, a professional dancer. Beyond feeling particularly clumsy and uncool, I'm intimidated. Maybe it's her tattoos. Or bullring. Or effortless ooze of confidence and sexuality—juxtaposed with my current inferiority complex and rather lengthy dry spell. I'm dancing like a maniac trying to get her attention. She doesn't notice, but one of the security guys does and shoots me a glance like, "Da fuh?"
Eventually, defeated, I decide it's time to go. I'm waiting for my roommate to finish in the bathroom and then, in a moment of cosmic serendipity, the girl and her cohort materialize, walking in my direction. Reflexively, I dial up the smooth talk.
"Uhh…G-Great show. Y-You guys were really uh, um, good."
Then, from my femme fatale showgirl, something I don't expect: a gorgeous, genuine smile. She's touched.
"Aww, thanks!"
"T-Totally!" Then, too soon, "I'm Ben."
"I'm Girl X." (This is not the name she gave, but it was very clearly a pseudonym. And started with an X.)
In a brief and nervous conversation, I learn her fellow dancer is a DJ and say I'd love to see her spin. I weirdly give her friend my phone number and, more weirdly, my email address. Then they're gone. I take out my phone and text myself: "Girl X." My roommate emerges from the bathroom. Then we're gone.
A week passes. I don't hear anything from Girl X's friend, because why would I? Normally my defeatist attitude manifests itself in instant forgetfulness; I've blocked out the memory of dozens of missed connections and ones that got away. But Girl X is different. She's haunting, like a welcome nightmare.
If Desperation were a person, he'd wear an "I'm with Creepy -->" T-shirt. That's why I think to myself, How many people call themselves Girl X? and google her. Sure enough, there's her Twitter. I've recently pretentiously denounced online dating as "just not for me," yet here I am, full-fledged Twitter stalker. I decide to, you know, "play it cool" by not following her but instead starring a few of her tweets.
Unexpectedly, she responds with something clever and hysterical to one of mine, and next thing I know, we're tweet-volleying photos and videos about:
Kittens.
*Kittens on bikes.
Kittens on bikes wearing helmets.
Kittens on bikes wearing citrus helmets, like an orange peel or watermelon rind.
Obese kittens in overalls.*
After this last one, from her, makes me very literally LOL at work, I tell her so in a direct message. Then she cuts to the chase.
"Did I meet you last weekend? Either way, we should get together."
"Yeah, that was me. I'd love that."
"I knew it! How bout Thursday?" And then her phone number.
Whenever I enter a new contact in my phone, I also fill in the "Company" section, partially to remember how I know the person and partially to amuse myself. Hers reads:
Name: Girl X
Company: Rebel Bingo/Seriously?
How do you think our date will go? Have any entertaining "how I met him" stories?
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