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Brands Impact announces Golden Glory Awards 2021 with Malaika Arora
October 08: Following the successful edition in 2019, Brands Impact announces the second edition of the Golden Glory Awards with renowned B-town celebrity Malaika Arora. The ceremony is scheduled to be held in December 2021 in Mumbai.
The Golden Glory Awards (GGA) have been instituted by Brands Impact to bring forward the extraordinary journeys of individuals, professionals & companies that are embarking upon the path of glory & success with their remarkable achievements.
The categories include Education, Healthcare, Hospitality, Real Estate, and Technology coupled with special awards for Celebrities, TV Artists, and Influencers. Additionally, there will be awards to honor the work of Astrologers, Tarot Card Readers, Makeup Artists, Salons and Spas too.
Talking of the Awards, Ms. Ankita Singh, Director – Brands Impact, said, "In the recent past, not many Bollywood events have happened, so we plan to make it huge. We have taken it up as an opportunity to make this event even bigger in grandeur, and we are expecting a lot of B-town celebrities to be a part of this event. Talking about our chief guest, the gorgeous Mallika Arora, being the style goddess, fits in perfectly for these style and glamour awards."
The 2019 edition was held at Hotel Leela, Mumbai and was graced by the gorgeous Preity Zinta as the chief guest. Several other personalities from Bollywood & Television industries who were awarded at the event included Actor Karishma Tanna, Actor & Dancer Rashmi Desai, Actor Anita Hasandani, Gurmeet Singh (Shera), Actor Payal Rohatgi, Television Producer & Host Vikas Gupta, Actor Chetna Pande, Actor Monika Sharma and Singers Tonny Kakkar & Meet Brothers.
The event was concluded with a Page 3 after-party at the in-house club of the property. Both the event and after-party were revered by the audience and media alike.
About Brands Impact Pvt. Ltd.
Brands Impact is a team of young professionals that has over ten years of cumulative experience of having conducted 100+ highly successful events, including four televised talk shows, with more than 5000 happy clients. Today, the company stands among the top film production and brand management firms in India. Brands Impact specializes in a comprehensive bouquet of services that includes film production, branding, creative design, web enablement, advertising, public relations, event management, online promotions, social media management, and more. The team builds upon inspirational ideas and delivers compelling brand messages to engage the target audience across platforms and mediums. The company has strategic advertising partnerships with some of the largest media houses in India that include Times Group, Network 18 Group, India Today Group, RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group, Zee Media Group, iTV Network, Express Media Group, among others. This helps Brands Impact provide critical media access and the best possible visibility to its clients.
For more details, please visit https://goldengloryawards.com/ or mail at info@brandsimpact.in
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Game of Thrones meets Oceans Eleven??
because I'm still too chicken to watch GOT. HAHA!
and we haven't even met them yet!!
Also, the cover is freaking gorgeous.
I can't wait to have this book in my hands.
Oh yes! Most definitely looking forward to this one too!
My wow's at YA Story Teller.
So so excited for this one. I loved the Grisha series so I would have read any book by Leigh Bardugo anyway, but this really does sound brilliant! I love books about heists. Great pick!
Great pick! I've seen this one around a lot!
I love the whole crow thing. I've never seen OCEAN'S ELEVEN and only watched an episode or two of GAME OF THRONES, so I don't know the comps very well, but I like the criminal concept this seems to have going on. And I still need to finish the Grisha trilogy!
Great pick! Leigh Bardugo's books sound so amazing but I've yet to read one! I'll definitely have to check this one out when it is released.


The third annual update of the satellite map of the state of Queensland, Australia by the New Space pioneer Earth-i has been completed and the colors are amazing.
The map covers the whole of Queensland's 1.9 million km2 and was created by Earth-i for the Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy (DNRME). The first map was produced in 2016 with Earth-i reappointed for updates in both 2017 and 2018. Earth-i faced strong competition to lead this prestigious project which has set the standard for Governments across the world who are looking to use images of Earth taken from space to improve their decision-making.
Around 6,000 very high-resolution images from the DMC3 Constellation were used for the 2018 update of the map with multiple re-visits to tropical areas with heavy cloud cover. The images have a pixel size of 80cm (one pixel equates to 80cm on the ground) so that details such as individual trees can be easily seen.
All three maps are available on an online portal - 'The Queensland Globe'- where images can be viewed and printed.
These images are used by a variety of Government departments, local agencies and natural resource management groups to manage and monitor Queensland's resources and improve policy development, investment and planning decisions. The map also helps to monitor environmental changes, and helps with the planning of long-term land development strategies.
Paul Majmader, Commercial Director of Earth-i, said that winning this contract for the third consecutive time is a tribute to their entire team. The DNRME in Queensland is showing Governments around the world how important regularly updated, high resolution data is in making informed policy decisions.
Earth-i currently provides satellite imagery, data analysis and insights services from a range of Earth Observation (EO) satellites, including the DMC3, SuperView, KOMPSAT and Planet constellations of satellites. Earth-i launched its own satellite service demonstrator satellite, VividX2, in January 2018.
The upcoming launch of its own satellite constellation, Vivid-i, is an evolution of Earth-i's existing image and EO analytics business. The Vivid-i Constellation will enable Earth-i to meet the growing demand for high-resolution EO data, analytics and insights, while delivering pioneering high-frame rates, ultra-high-definition color video, and very high frequency revisits.
The company is pioneering the application of machine learning and AI solutions to Earth Observation data to provide deeper insights in support of critical business decisions and policy formulation. Earth-i has a wide range of clients globally including National and Local Governments and a multitude of specialist geospatial companies and other commercial organisations.
Earth-i is headquartered in Surrey, UK, on Europe's largest academic space campus near to many other UK space-related companies including Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL).


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Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Coat a 10-inch cast iron skillet with olive oil and heat over medium-high heat.
Add garlic, butter, panko, and Parmesan cheese to a small bowl. Mash mixture together using a fork until well combined; set aside.
Pat each filet dry with paper towels. Season both sides with salt and black pepper. Add steaks to hot cast iron. Sear for 4 minutes, or until deeply browned on one side. Flip; remove cast iron from heat.
Divide panko mixture evenly between filets, patting down slightly to adhere to steaks. Place cast iron in oven and bake about 5 minutes until steaks reach desired doneness, 130 degrees for medium-rare, and 145 degrees for medium, and panko mixture has browned. Remove from oven and serve garnished with fresh parsley, if desired.


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Rent is a claim against you, asserting (implicitly) that you are extra-terrestrial or alien. It is a demand that you pay the real natives of Earth, the "owners," a certain tribute for residing on "their" planet. Science-fiction writers have never dreamed up anything weirder.
Like most forms of insanity, rent is not recognized as schizo because it is so commonplace. Only the man or woman who invents an original idea – such as demanding tribute from from those who breathe, on the basis of a claim that he or she "owns" the air – would be diagnosed correctly as a megalomaniac. The landlord is, like the banker, a man whose delusion has been institutionalized and people really believe he owns what he claims to own.
The most important application of non-violent revolution in America today is a permanent universal rent strike.
Not a fake strike, in which the money is handed over to the courts and the landlords get it later after the strike is over.
What can the landlords and their government do? Throw us all into the Atlantic, or Pacific? Put us in rockets and shoot us to the moon? And even if they could do that, then what? With all of us gone, who will they collect rent from?
Rent if the tribute paid by the non-owning user of land to the non-using "owner" of land. Such ownership is a legal fiction, and needs only to be resisted to be exposed, discredited and abolished.
The permanent universal rent strike – which is, together with the permanent universal tax strike and the coining of non-governmental money, the triple solution to everything – rests on a firm foundation in chaotic egotism.
These tactics do not require self-sacrifice and they do not involve coercing (or killing) others. Hence, they have not been very popular in Judeo-Christian culture, which is basically sado-masochistic and strongly inclines people to grasp at philosophies which do give people a reason to torment themselves and bully others.
YIP is the only part of the Movement which begins to have a clue about what real REVOLUTION is.
The permanent universal rent strike is the affirmation, by everybody, of his or her right to live on the planet Earth.
The permanent universal rent strike is the end of Feudalism. The landlord, as his name reminds us, is a Feudal functionary, originally a relative of the king.
Capitalism continues Feudalism by continuing landlordism, although the landlord no longer has to be a relative of the kind. Socialism continues Feudalism by making a spook ("the State" or "the People") into a new landlord. Since spooks can't function in the real world, Socialism just means a continuation of the same old eon … certain individual human beings, proclaiming themselves the the representatives of "the State" or "the People", will function as landlords.
The permanent universal rent strike is a rejection of Feudalism, Capitalism and Socialism all together.
IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A MOSES TO LEAD YOU OUT OF THE CAPITALIST WILDERNESS YOU WILL STAY RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE. I WOULD NOT LEAD YOU INTO THE PROMISED LAND IF I COULD, BECAUSE IF I COULD LEAD YOU IN, SOMEONE ELSE COULD LEAD YOU OUT.
Every landlord on this continent is a receiver of stolen property. The land was stolen from the Indian tribes before it was "legally" acquired by its present owners. The same is true on other continents, but the history is older, more complex and somewhat hidden by time.
Figure how much of your monthly pay goes to the landlord, to "buy" from him the "right" to live on the surface of this planet. Think what you could do with that money if you asserted that you already have the right to live on this planet and don't have to buy that right, in monthly installments, from a Lord-of-the-Land.
Soldiers will shoot at their fellow citizens, after sufficient brainwashing in boot camp. It is especially easy to get them to shoot at their fellows if these people happen to be out in the streets rioting.
It is not so easy to get them to shoot if the citizens are sitting quietly at home and just minding their own business.
If the rent-strike is combined with a tax-strike, both the landlords and their government are threatened.
Individual martyrs to tax refusal accomplish zero, or a quality infinitesimally larger than zero but still hard to perceive.
Collective tax refusal … well, Benjamin Tucker estimated that only 20% of the population would have to join before the cost of imprisoning them became more than the alleged value to the State of doing so to terrify others.
None of this can work, really, until it is put upon an egotistic basis. Asking people to join for altruistic reasons is the chronic error which has ruined most anarchist campaign to organize such mass civil disobedience.
People who have read Any Rand and found the solid core of truth in the midst of all er bull are more likely to start this movement rolling than the average Marxist or Tolstoyan-Christian anarchist.
by Robert Anton Wilson appeared in Other Scenes, Volume 5, Issue 1 (Spring 1971).


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«Маленький шкільний оркестр» () — український радянський художній фільм 1968 року режисерів Олександра Муратова і Миколи Рашеєва.

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Музичний ліричний фільм про маленький юнацький колектив, об'єднаний любов'ю до музики. Життєві дороги розлучають друзів, але пам'ять і вірність шкільній дружбі, любов до музики назавжди залишаться в їх душах.

Фільм-настрій, що передає атмосферу 60-х років, фільм, витканий з музики Мікаела Таривердієва і легкого дихання юності.

У фільмі знімався джаз-квінтет під керівництвом Ігоря Кондакова..

Фільм одразу був заборонений за  звинуваченням авторів у «зайвій» свободі.  Картина пролежала на полиці 42 роки, вперше показана  глядачам у 2010 році.

У ролях
 Галина Шабанова — Ольга
 Світлана Смєхнова — контрабасистка
 Сергій Власов — піаніст
 Віктор Тоцький — Віктор Хубов, саксофоніст, велогонщик
 Володимир Ходзицький — гітарист
 Володимир Чинаєв — барабанщик
 В епізодах: І. Брікер, В'ячеслав Воронін, Б. Гончаров, Михайло Крамар, В. Савенков, Сергій Шеметило

Творча група
 Сценарій: Володимир Зуєв, Олександр Муратов, Микола Рашеєв
 Режисери-постановники: Олександр Муратов, Микола Рашеєв
 Оператор-постановник: Олег Мартинов
 Композитор: Мікаел Тарівердієв
 Художник-постановник: Галина Шабанова
 Звукооператор: Костянтин Коган
 Режисер: Т. Воробйова
 Редактор: В. Силіна
 Директор картини: Олексій Ярмольський

Посилання
 Маленький школьный оркестр (1968)

Фільми СРСР 1968
Музичні фільми СРСР
Фільми кіностудії імені Олександра Довженка
Фільми Олександра Муратова
Фільми Миколи Рашеєва

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Students are always expected to wear correct, neat and clean uniform. Personal cleanliness, hygiene and neatness is expected at all times. Hair must be neatly trimmed / pinned / plaited and combed. Nails must be kept clean and short.
Thrice a year, Parent – Teacher meeting will be held.
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The school diary is to be brought to school everyday. Parents are hereby informed that occasional reports from the teachers are written in the School Diary, which should be signed as a proof that they have been read. Failure to do so may put their children to great inconvenience.


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50-50 (Fifty Fifty) è stato un game show italiano andato in onda dal 21 aprile al 25 maggio 2008 su Canale 5 nella fascia preserale condotto da Gerry Scotti. È stato inoltre trasmesso in Spagna da Cuatro, nell'estate del 2008, in Svezia sul canale TV4, in Macedonia del Nord, in Grecia e in Giappone.

È il primo spin-off del quiz di successo Chi vuol essere milionario?. Ideato da Intellygents e 2waytraffic e prodotto da Endemol Italia e RTI. Il format prevede che il gioco avvenga in coppia. Il programma era registrato presso lo Studio 11 di Cologno Monzese.

Come dice il nome, una cospicua somma di denaro sarà data alla coppia che sarà in grado di risolvere insieme ai round del quiz con domande di cultura generale a risposta multipla, con due opzioni in tre diverse manches.

Scopo del gioco
50-50 è un quiz a risposta doppia e si gioca in coppia. I due concorrenti possono essere parenti, amici, familiari o altro. I componenti della squadra si devono mostrare affiatati e pronti al gioco di squadra. Il montepremi massimo, che si può vincere è di 300.000 euro.

Il programma si divide in tre fasi:
 La qualifica
 Il montepremi
 Fase finale

La qualifica
In questa fase di gioco, tre coppie si sfidano per andare alla fase del montepremi. Quando un concorrente si prenota, dopo aver sentito la domanda posta, farà rispondere il suo compagno, che si troverà davanti due opzioni tra cui scegliere. Se uno dei due dà la risposta esatta la squadra nel complesso guadagna 500 euro, mentre se la sbaglia regala 250 euro alle altre due coppie.

Il montepremi massimo che si può vincere in questa fase è 3.000 €, ma dura poco (a un certo punto suona l'allarme dei 60 secondi finali).

Al termine della prima manche, la coppia che avrà conquistato più soldi andrà alla fase del montepremi, mentre la coppia arrivata al secondo posto partecipava alla qualifica nella puntata successiva.

Il montepremi
Durante la fase del montepremi, ci saranno dieci domande di differente valore (2 da 500 €, 3 da 1.000 €, 2 da 3.000 €, 2 da 5.000 € e una da 10.000 €). Il concorrente a cui è rivolta la domanda avrà tutto il tempo per pensare. Una volta data la risposta, il suo compagno avrà 10 secondi per decidere se confermare la risposta oppure scegliere l'altra.

In caso di risposta esatta, il valore della domanda verrà aggiunto al montepremi, mentre in caso di risposta errata il montepremi verrà dimezzato e alla successiva viene aggiunto il 50% del guadagnato.

Alla fine delle domande, la somma accaparrata verrà moltiplicata per 10, per esempio guadagnati 17.500 euro, la finale si gioca per 175.000 euro, 15.000 euro, alla finale 150.000 euro e così via.

Fase finale
Nella fase finale, verranno poste cinque domande ad uno dei due concorrenti, questo avrà 10 secondi per rispondere ad ogni domanda e il suo compagno vedrà sul suo leggio elettronico la risposta data.

Esso potrà decidere se confermare oppure scegliere l'opzione che lui non vede. Al termine delle domande, il concorrente che non vede entrambe le risposte dovrà fare una previsione del numero delle risposte esatte date. È possibile conquistare il totale del montepremi solamente se la previsione è di cinque e si rivela esatta, altrimenti la parte di montepremi che si conquista verrà in proporzione se inferiore.

Se viene indovinato il numero delle risposte esatte la coppia vincerà il montepremi conquistato, altrimenti si accontenterà del premio di consolazione equivalente al montepremi conquistato nella fase della qualifica.

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Let me begin by saying that we were a little intimidated by Managua. We had heard a lot about what not to do there and were feeling less than encouraged by guidebook quotes like, "tourists tend to land in Managua and leave. Quickly." We'd also heard a lot about how unsafe and discombobulated the public transportation was (everything from it being impossible to figure out to the great likelihood of being robbed at knifepoint while on it). Our hostel had a list of warnings on the wall, right next to a map that clearly outlined "safe" and "unsafe" neighborhoods.
However, we're not the kind of people to sit in a hostel all day because we're afraid to venture outside. We didn't do anything really extraordinary, but we did end up sharing what is a pretty common pastime with a certain class of people in Managua.
Stop. I hear you judging (I'd be judging). Before you jump to the conclusion that I'm a mallrat or start heckling me for going to a mall when I'm in a freaking foreign country and could be doing ANYTHING else, let me explain. I hate malls with a burning fire-and-brimstones passion. If I go to hell when I die, hell will be a shopping mall around Christmas. Commercialism and chaos. I did have a brief mallrat phase when I was about 12 (I lived in South Jersey – there really isn't much else to do), but I got over that fast.
So, obviously I was a little annoyed to be in a shopping mall in a foreign country, even though our options were limited. However, as I looked around and slowly noticed that we were the only tourists there, I realized that we were, in fact, sharing an experience with the residents of Managua. I decided to enjoy it.
Having spent little time inside malls since before India, I was overwhelmed and occasionally found myself casting my gaze around for a nice quiet space with minimal sensory stimulation. However, I persevered and we wandered aimlessly around for a bit, before deciding the ultimate experience would be to see a movie in Spanish (well, subtitled in Spanish). Sombros Tenebrosas (or, Dark Shadows) was the movie of choice. Ticket buying was in and of itself an experience: apparently going to the movies on a Saturday night is THE thing to do in Managua. Everyone was seeing either Ice Age 4 or Madagascar 3. Tickets were less than four dollars. That alone made the entire experience worth it.
Since we had about an hour or so of extra time before the movie, we decided to complete our Nicaraguan mall-going adventure by venturing down to the food court to see what we could find for dinner. It. Was. Insanity. Absolutely packed. I briefly contemplated the fact that if I was doing this in America, I would be seriously cranky. But, it was Nicaragua, so I rolled with it. The sheer number of people packed into the space was overwhelming. There were also a concerning number of fried chicken places. In a feeble attempt to be somewhat healthy, we ended up at a place called GoGreen! that did paninis, salads, etc. I got a quesadilla that sounded good on paper, but in practice was so bad I gave up after half. Courtney's panini was likewise. I decided it would be a better choice for me to have gelato instead of eating any more nasty, uncooked, limp, cold quesadilla, so I bravely navigated my way across the food court to the gelato place, where I stood in line behind two teenagers who were clearly on a date for what seemed like an eternity. My length of time waiting on line was increased when two people casually stepped in front of me. There's the very real possibility that I was allowing for too much personal space between myself and the two teens.
As I learned, the way this gelato place worked was that you paid first, then ordered your ice cream. I successfully managed the first piece, then waited for another period of time to place my order. Clearly, I wanted gelato pretty badly. I learned quickly that I was not allowed to order two flavors together and that the flavor I wanted more was a "different price." Okay. So, as I was debating my options, the guy scooping the ice cream said (in Spanish), "Reese's! You'll like it, here, try!" and pushed a sample into my hand. Never one to say no to free ice cream samples, I tried it. I felt bad ordering hazelnut instead because he clearly wanted me to like the Reese's. However, as he handed me the hazelnut, he said, "disfruta!" This means "enjoy!" except he said it quickly and I wasn't fully paying attention (ice cream can be quite the distraction), so I said, "que?" He repeated it in English and said, "you can enjoy!" It was the highlight of my day. I promised I would and returned through the sea of tables, chairs, and people to Courtney and Sara, who'd been wondering what on earth had happened to me.
We learned the hard way that the staff will not allow you into your theatre until the exact time printed on your ticket. Our movie started at 4:10 and we were not allowed past the ticket stand until 4:10. Also, our seats were assigned, which was actually kind of awesome. We got to choose the seats at the ticket booth. America should pick up this habit, because arriving late to a movie and getting crappy seats is never fun.
After the movie, we stopped by the supermarket to get some stuff to nosh on for dinner. For some reason, I wanted tortilla more than anything else, so I bought a small pack of those (mistake: they were terrible). We also found Nica chocolate (previously mentioned in the "Coffee, Volcano, & Where Almonds Come From" post on the former Blogger-hosted blog.). I bought a bar of the 75% cacao chocolate, which was so rich that it took me two days to get through half the bar. It was so gloriously wonderful though. I'm devastated that it's gone.
Leaving the store (foreign grocery stores are always fascinating, by the way), we realized it had gotten dark. As we'd been repeatedly warned against wandering around after dark in Managua, this was not ideal. Fortunately, the walk was not long and we made it back safely, where we met Roberto, a 19-year-old native who worked in the hostel. He was hysterical and I'll be talking more about him in the next post.
We decided to hang out on the patio behind the hostel, where I planned to do some writing in my journal. However, we met John, an older American, and Malcolm, a 20-something from Toronto, instead. We chatted a lot about traveling and where everyone had been. We also had a nice, healthy conversation about politics, which is always interesting, if one-sided. I meet very few travellers who tend to be more conservative, which I'm inclined to believe is because traveling opens your mind to the point where it's hard to accept certain policies or conservative belief systems. (Obviously, I'm speaking in generalizations here and as we all know, there are exceptions to every rule) Regardless, conversations and nights like that are the reason I really enjoy the hostel lifestyle. The people are always interesting and everyone has fantastic travel stories. Malcolm mentioned that he'd been in San Juan for a night and had stayed at the Naked Tiger hostel. His review of the place made us exceptionally glad that we'd opted out. Apparently, although the location was beautiful, the owners weren't very hospitable, the other visitors acted as though they were above everyone, the nights were madness, and therefore, it was predictably weird during the day.
As we sat and chatted, there was a bat that repeatedly swooped low over the backyard pool, occasionally skimming the surface. It did it a few times before I realized it was drinking the water. Very cool.
Tisk tisk tisk. When you figure out why I'm tisking you, we can chat.


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The 2004 Advance Auto Parts 500 was the eighth stock car race of the 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series. It was held on April 18, 2004, at Martinsville Speedway in Martinsville, Virginia before a crowd of 91,000. The 500-lap race was won by Rusty Wallace of the Penske-Jasper Racing team after he started from a seventeenth position; It was Wallace's fifty-fifth and final victory of his career. Bobby Labonte finished second and Dale Earnhardt Jr. came in third.

Report

Background

Martinsville Speedway is one of five short tracks to hold NASCAR races; the others are Richmond International Raceway, Dover International Speedway, Bristol Motor Speedway, and Phoenix International Raceway. The standard track at Martinsville Speedway is a four-turn,  oval. Its turns are banked at eleven degrees, and neither the front stretch (the location of the finish line) nor the backstretch is banked.

Before the race Kurt Busch led the Drivers' Championship with 1,032 points, nineteen ahead of Matt Kenseth in second, and a further sixteen in front of Dale Earnhardt Jr. in third. Tony Stewart was fourth on 946 points, and Elliott Sadler was a further four points behind in fifth.  Ford was leading the Manufacturers' Championship with 48 points; Chevrolet was second with 43 points, and Dodge was a close third on 42.  Jeff Gordon was the race's defending champion.

Practice and qualifying
Three practice sessions were held before the Sunday race: one on Friday and two on Saturday. The first session lasted 90 minutes, and the second and final sessions lasted 45 minutes. Jeff Gordon was fastest in the first practice session with a lap of 20.325 seconds; Ryan Newman was second and Jimmie Johnson third. Kasey Kahne took the fourth position with a time of 20.371, and Busch placed fifth. Robby Gordon, Earnhardt, Jamie McMurray, Ricky Rudd, and Sadler rounded out the session's top-ten drivers.

Although forty-four drivers were entered in the qualifier; according to NASCAR's qualifying procedure, only forty-three could race. Jeff Gordon clinched his third consecutive pole position at Martinsville Speedway with a time of 20.252 seconds. He was joined on the front row of the grid by McMurray. Newman qualified third, Earnhardt fourth, and Kevin Harvick fifth. Ward Burton, Busch, Johnson. Sadler and Jeremy Mayfield rounded out the top ten qualifiers. The driver that failed to qualify was Todd Bodine. After the qualifier, Gordon said, "We came with the basic setup that we sat on the pole here the last time with and we had to make some adjustments. We tweaked it and at the end of practice, I felt like we hit on some things. I took off and the car did everything I really wanted it to do. I couldn't ask for much more than I got out of the car."

On Saturday morning, Mark Martin set the fastest time in the second practice session with a lap of 20.561 seconds, ahead of Harvick and Terry Labonte. Ricky Craven (with a time of 20.599) was fourth-fastest; Mayfield was fifth and McMurray sixth. Jeff Gordon, Scott Riggs, Johnson, and Robby Gordon followed in the top ten. Later that day, Earnhardt paced the final practice session with a time of 20.580; Johnson was second and Busch third. Jeff Gordon was fourth-fastest, ahead of Newman and Harvick. Terry Labonte was seventh-fastest, Robby Gordon eighth, Jeff Green ninth, and Craven tenth. Jeff Burton was afflicted with a problem with his brakes in the closing stages of the session; he spun back into the wall and heavily damaged his car's left side. Burton switched to a back-up car.

Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings

Manufacturers' Championship standings

Note: Only the top five positions are included for the driver standings.

References

Advance Auto Parts 500
Advance Auto Parts 500
NASCAR races at Martinsville Speedway


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Lesbian Organization of Toronto (LOOT)
Title: Lesbian Organization of Toronto (LOOT)
Between 1976 and 1980, LOOT was a cultural, social, and political hub of mostly white, young, middle class women who identified as lesbians. LOOT was located in an old house at 342 Jarvis Street, and the rent was paid through fundraising at coffee houses, dances, cultural events, and LottoLesbian. An apartment on the top floor was also rented and provided some financial stability as well as ongoing on-site security and access.
LOOT was a place to come out, to find lovers, to discuss politics, and to hear and see various artists and performers like Rita McNeil. LOOT sponsored a newsletter, a weekly drop-in, Sunday brunches, monthly house meetings, a library, a peer-counselling phone-line, New Year's dances, and political discussions and actions.
Membership was diverse in terms of communities and political activism: women who participated in LOOT activities were involved in the Lesbian Mothers Defense Fund, Women Against Violence Against Women, the Committee Against the Deportation of Immigrant Women, the International Women's Day Committee, the Toronto Committee for the Liberation of Southern African Colonies, the Revolutionary Marxist Group, and Broadside (a radical feminist newspaper).
The house on Jarvis was shared with The Other Woman newspaper, (which stopped publication soon after LOOT was formed) the Lesbian Phone-Line, and the Three of Cups coffeehouse. Other groups that consistently used the space were Superbia Press (printing), Sappho Sound, and Mama Quillia II, a women's band that practiced in basement.
LOOT co-organized the Bi-National Lesbian Conference held in 1979 in Toronto. The conference's goal was to build a unified, visible, and radical Pan-Canadian lesbian-feminist movement. (See Bi-national Lesbian Conference.)
LOOT was hardly monolithic, but there are three moments when the majority of members who attended meetings agreed:
The group response to the publication of Men Loving Boys Loving Men published in Body Politic in November 1977 was negative. LOOT members raised critical questions about intergenerational relationships and sex, and questions about power that flowed from their feminist analysis of violence against women.
Members of LOOT were centrally involved in Anti-Anita Bryant organizing, defended freedom of the press, and specifically, the right of The Body Politic to publish, despite political disagreements.
A lesbian who identified herself as a trans woman wanted to check out LOOT. A heated discussion ensued at one of the monthly membership meetings. 1980s Lesbian feminist orthodoxy won the day, and the woman was not welcomed into LOOT.
LOOT had difficulty maintaining and paying for the house. Many of its members were either poor or were working on the margins. It was also difficult maintaining a clear sense of purpose when the organization was trying to be all things to all lesbians.
At the beginning of 1980, a call went out to discuss the future of LOOT. At the meeting, it was decided to disband.
What did LOOT achieve? It was a social and political centre that created pride and resilience among the women who participated. It provided an important site of social connection, creativity, and political awakening. From LOOT sprung many activists and dynamic cultural and political projects. (See Lesbians Against the Right and Bi-national Lesbian Conference.)
Lesbian Organization of Toronto (LOOT) Documents
Bi-national Lesbian Conference – May 1979 1979 National (all of Canada)
Call for Lesbian Dialogue 1979 Ontario
LOOT Herstory -- Ontario
Open Letter to the Lesbian Community 1979 Ontario
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Lavender Sheets
Lesbian Perspective
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Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives
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Nepomuceno's appointment as the new administrator is welcomed by OCD.
Oliver Friday, December 30th, 2022 3:45 am 16 0 0 4 min to read
The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) welcomed Undersecretary Ariel Nepomuceno as its new administrator, describing his appointment as a sort of homecoming given that he served as the organization's executive officer in 2012.
"The OCD warmly welcomes Undersecretary Ariel Nepomuceno as its new leader. His appointment as CDA (Civil Defense Administrator) is a sort of homecoming for him as he previously served as OCD's civil defense executive officer in 2012 "Mark Cashean Timbal, the OCD's public affairs officer, said in a statement.
Nepomuceno succeeded Undersecretary Raymundo Ferrrer, who was appointed to the position in August, as OCD chief by President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. Following rituals at the Department of National Defense's central office in Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City, he officially assumed control of the OCD on Thursday.
Soon after his initial tenure at the OCD, Nepomuceno worked for the Bureau of Customs as deputy commissioner for enforcement. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council's OCD is its implementing division.
Undersecretary Nepomuceno, a seasoned public servant, would bring to OCD his years of administrative expertise as well as the motivation to advance the national resilience agenda to protect Filipino communities from catastrophe hazards, Timbal added.
The OCD is tasked with leading the continuous development of strategic and systematic approaches as well as measures to reduce vulnerability and risk to hazards and manage the effects of national disasters in order to administer a comprehensive national civil defense and disaster risk reduction and management program.
"OCD also wants to express its gratitude to Undersecretary Raymundo Ferrer for his sage guidance, concern for the agency and all of its personnel, and selfless devotion in maintaining the safety and well-being of all Filipino communities during his illustrious time. We wish him the best of luck as he starts new efforts away from the business. Good luck to you, Usec Ding Ferrer!" Timbal remarked.
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A'Lelia Walker's Grand Harlem Funeral: August 1931
Eighty years ago this month on August 17, 1931–after a lovely day at the beach celebrating a friend's birthday– A'Lelia Walker, my great-grandmother and namesake, died in Long Branch, New Jersey. She and six pals from Harlem had enjoyed the sea breezes and dined on lobster and chocolate cake earlier that day. Prohibition notwithstanding, they'd toasted each other with champagne. And, there had been lots and lots of laughter.
Just as the parties she hosted at her salon, The Dark Tower, and in her mansion, Villa Lewaro, had been grand, so was her funeral. Here's my description from On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker, my biography of A'Lelia Walker's mother, entreprenuer Madam C. J. Walker.
"More than 11,000 people filed through Howell's Funeral Home [on Seventh Avenue in Harlem] the night before the services…In the open casket, A'Lelia wore a gown of gold lace and tulle over lavendar satin with a pale green velvet sash draped around her body. Her feet were covered in apple-green satin slippers. Around her neck were her cherished Chinese amber prayer beads…Three orchids, a gift from Bessye Bearden [mother of artist Romare Bearden], had been placed in her hands."
"By early Saturday morning nearly 1,000 people had gathered outside the mortuary for the invitation-only funeral. 'But just as for her parties, a great many more invitations had been issued than the small but exclusive Seventh Avenue funeral parlor could provide for,' Langston Hughes remembered [in his autobiography, The Big Sea]."
"Appropriately the service was filled with music performed by A'Lelia's friends. The Bon Bons, a female quartet, opened with "Steal Away to Jesus." Paul Bass, who often had entertained at 80 Edgecombe [her pied-a-terre], offered 'I'll See You Again,' A'Lelia's favorite melody from Noel Coward's 1929 play, Bitter Sweet…Mary McLeod Bethune, speaking 'in that great deep voice of hers,' delivered the eulogy…As friends and family sifted through the meaning of Mrs. Bethune's words, Inter-State Tattler columnist and music critic Edward Perry read 'To A'Lelia,' a poem that Langston Hughes had written two days after A'Lelia's death.
So all who love laughter/And joy and light,/Let your prayers be as roses/For this queeen of the night.
Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, Mae Walker Perry and Marion R. Perry at A'Lelia Walker's graveside
Later, at Woodlawn Cemetery, Mae [Walker Perry, her daughter], Marion [Perry], Mayme [White], Mrs. Bethune and a small group gathered around the flower-filled space that had been dug beside her mother's grave. From above, Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, the world's first black licensed pilot, dropped two bouquets of gladiolas and dahlias from a small plane. 'That really was the end of the gay times of the New Negro era in Harlem,' Hughes later wrote. 'The Depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.'"
Years later her friend Carl Van Vechten, the novelist and photographer, described A'Lelia Walker to Chester Himes, author of If He Hollers, Let Him Go: "You should have known A'Lelia Walker. Nothing in this age is quite as good as THAT…I miss her…What a woman!"
Langston Hughes/Pastel by Winold Reiss
Hughes described her as "a gorgeous dark Amazon in a silver turban…A'Lelia Walker was the joy goddess of Harlem's 1920s."
Copyright: A'Lelia Bundles August 17, 2011
A'Lelia Bundles is at work on Joy Goddess: A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance, the first major biography of her great-grandmother.
For updates about the book, please visit our Madam Walker and A'Lelia Walker Family Archives Website and Facebook page and our Madam C. J. Walker Biography Facebook page and Madam C. J. Walker Official Website.
Contact A'Lelia at https://aleliabundles.com/ and visit her personal Facebook page.


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Property Description: This is an excellent business opportunity for anyone looking to semi-retire to Thailand.
This intimate five villa resort is located in the beach resort of Kamala, on Phuket's ever-popularwest coast. Set towards the back of the village, it is a 5-minute drive to the beach or less than that to the local village offering a wealth of amenities all-year-round.
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Minnesota Twins Win AL Central: Five Reasons They Will Win The World Series
by Brian Shannon under MLB
The Minnesota Twins were the first MLB team to punch their postseason ticket on Tuesday night after defeating the Cleveland Indians 6-4 at Target Field.
The Twins are currently a game back of the Yankees for the best record in baseball after their division clinching victory improved them to 91-60 on the year.
Minnesota clinched their second straight AL Central title, and they will be one of the top World Series contenders when the playoff get underway in October.
Despite winning the division five times in the past decade, the Twins have been able to get over the playoff hump and into the World Series.
Here are five reasons why this will be the year the Twins get back to the World Series for the first time since 1991 and will ultimately win it.
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Felix Hernandez Struggles To Win Games, but He Should Win the Cy Young
There are many deserving pitchers for the Cy Young award in the American League this year, but there is one pitcher who has stood above the rest this season.
King Felix.
Seattle Mariners starting pitcher Felix Hernandez is the AL leader in innings pitched this season with 204.1 and strikeouts with 192. Felix has a 2.47 ERA this season, good for third in the AL and a WHIP of 1.11, tying him for third in the league.
Felix is the only pitcher in the league in the top five in all of these categories, and Felix has been absolutely outstanding as of late.
The hard-throwing Venezuelan has a minuscule ERA of 0.98 during the month of August as opponents have hit just .199 off of him. The only problem Felix has had this month, is the same problem he's had all season, he just hasn't gotten the run support to win games.
Despite his dominance this month, Felix still managed to lose two of his five starts.
Felix has a marginal record of ten wins and ten losses this season thanks to the less-than-stellar run support the M's offense has given him this year.
In the past, the three main pieces of criteria Cy Young voters used to determine who they would vote for was wins, ERA, and strikeouts.
Last season Kansas City Royals ace Zach Greinke may have set a new precedent when he won the award with only 16 wins, the fewest wins by an AL Cy Young winner since David Cone won while also a member of the Royals in 1994.
There are other good candidates for the award, such as Twins pitcher Francisco Liriano, Yankees starter C.C. Sabathia, Rangers Cliff Lee, and the Rays ace David Price. All of these guys pitch for contending teams, but none of them have been as effective as Felix this season.
Price is the closest to Felix in ERA, but he is still more than half a run back at 3.01, while Sabathia is the closest in innings pitched with 194.2, but he is still ten innings behind the King.
Liriano has 171 strikeouts this season, the closest of the other four contenders, but he is also still 21 Ks behind Hernandez.
Lee is the only one who is better than Felix in any major category besides wins and that is in WHIP. Lee has a very impressive WHIP of 1.00 on the season, due entirely to his remarkable control this season. Lee has thrown 179.2 innings this season and walked only 12 batters.
The 6'3″ lefthander was the Mariners best pitcher while he was on the team, better than even Felix, but the Cy Young race is a marathon and not a sprint.
Felix has been nearly untouchable since Lee was traded, while Lee has struggled to replicate the success he enjoyed in Seattle earlier in the season.
Felix has the numbers to prove that he is the American League's best pitcher this season, and if he continues to pitch the way he has as of late he will end the season very close to Greinke's 16 game win total from a season ago.
Wins are the only area that Hernandez is lacking when it comes to winning the award, but if the voters truly vote for the best pitcher, than King Felix has to be the choice.
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Johnny Damon: Detroit Tigers Star Can't Go Home, He's Already There
Johnny Damon was a larger than life figure in Boston after the Red Sox won their first World Series in 2004 after an 86-year drought.
On Tuesday, Damon declined an opportunity to return to Boston after the team claimed him on waivers from Detroit.
The Red Sox could use a spark, as they are six games behind the Rays and Yankees for first place in the AL East, and Damon seemed like a logical fit.
However, Damon is a much different player and person now than he was in 2004 while playing in Beantown.
In 2004 Damon was a bearded, long-haired member of the "idiots" while playing for the Red Sox, but he is now a clean-cut member of the Tigers youth movement. Damon batted .304 with 20 home runs for the Red Sox, but he is hitting .273 with seven home runs this season for the Tigers.
Damon set the pace for the Red Sox league-leading offense in 2004, leading the team with 189 hits and getting on base so that Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz could drive him in.
Manny is gone and Ortiz is no longer the .300 hitter that came up clutch every time the team called on him.
Had Damon returned to Boston he would have encountered a much different team and atmosphere than the one he played for in 2004.
On Tuesday, Damon said "I love Detroit," and he also said that he didn't want to send a message to his Tigers teammates that he was giving up on their season by rejoining the Red Sox.
Realistically the Tigers' season is over as they are nine games back of the AL Central-leading Minnesota Twins.
Damon is 36 years old and says that he likes being a member of a young team that is working to get better.
You have to admire Damon for turning down the opportunity to return to the Red Sox and a team in a better position to make the playoffs. Instead, he chose to stay with a Tigers team he enjoys playing for, in a city he enjoys playing in.
Damon knows what kind of spotlight he would be under playing in Boston, and the spotlight is something Damon and his laid-back personality prefer to avoid.
Detroit is the perfect city for Damon to play in. He is on a contending team that doesn't face nearly as much pressure and scrutiny as the Red Sox do each and every day.
Damon has decided to stay a member of the Tigers for at least the remainder of this season, and has said that he would like to finish his playing career in Detroit. Damon should be a solid player for at least a few more years as the Tigers continue to develop their young talent.
Red Sox Nation took a big hit on Tuesday when Damon spurned them to stay in Detroit.
Boston needed Johnny Damon, but Johnny Damon didn't need Boston.
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Ryan Howard Ejection Wasn't Worth It
Ryan Howard cost the Philadelphia Phillies a game they desperately needed last night in the NL East playoff chase.
The Phillies are 2.5 games behind the Atlanta Braves for first place in the division. With the Braves losing last night, the Phillies had an opportunity to make up a game on the division leaders.
Instead, Ryan Howard was ejected in the 14th inning while arguing a check swing that resulted in his fifth strikeout of the night.
The Phillies went on to lose to the Houston Astros 4-2 in 16 innings.
Howard struggled mightily all night at the plate. He went 0-7 on top of his five strikeout performance.
It was his seventh and final at-bat that proved to be his worst one of the night as he was ejected.
With Howard's ejection, left fielder Raul Ibanez had to move to first. The Phillies had no players left on the bench after the incident prompting Manager Charlie Manuel to insert pitcher Roy Oswalt into left field.
Oswalt, hitting .150 on the season proved to be the final out of the game as he grounded out to third with the game tying run on first. The Astros took advantage of the Phillies' situation by intentionally walking Chase Utley after Placido Polanco had also walked.
That brought Oswalt to the plate and effectively ended all hope to Philadelphia's chances.
Ryan Howard should have been smarter in this situation and kept his cool knowing that the Phillies could not afford to lose a player. As soon as third base umpire Scott Barry said Howard did not check his swing Howard became enraged and the Phillies chances of winning the game went down in flames.
Even though Howard was having a rough night at the plate, Phillies fans would have much rather seen his eighth at-bat of the night with a chance to win the game, than to see Oswalt's first at-bat of the night with very little chance to even tie the game.
The Phillies have won the division the last three years. They have come on strong at the end of the each season to do so.
This year looks to be no different as the Phillies have gone 14-7 in the month of August. Games like this won't help their cause.
There is no guarantee that the Phillies would have went on to win this game, but Howard would have given them their best chance win. Howard has spent enough time out of the Phillies lineup this season. He needs to do everything he can to stay in it for the rest of the season.
Howard was not the sole reason the Phillies lost the game. They were unable to capitalize on the momentum they gained after Jimmy Rollins tied the game with a solo shot in the bottom of the ninth.
The Phillies were playing at home against an inferior opponent and still couldn't score enough runs in 16 innings to come away with the victory.
This was a game that Philadelphia needed to win and one that could come back to haunt them at the end of the season.
Ryan Howard needs to be the leader that he was paid to be. He needs to get the Phillies back on track if they are going to win the division for the fourth straight season.
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Why Me? The 10 Best Starting Pitchers With a Losing Record This Season
Not everyone can be a winner.
These ten pitchers have found this out the hard way this season. Despite pitching very well for their teams this season they each have a losing record.
These ten pitchers have suffered from a lack of run support, poor defense behind them, and a case of bad luck.
Three of the pitchers on this list pitch for teams that are last place in their divisions, two play for teams that are still in the playoff hunt, and one pitcher on this list is actually on a first place team.
These ten pitchers have combined for eight all star selections, two NLCS MVP's, a World Series MVP, a Cy Young, and a perfect game. Clearly losing can happen to anyone, but these ten pitchers have pitched better than most and don't have the wins to show for it.
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The Seattle Mariners Should Have Fired Their Players, Not Their Coaches
The Seattle Mariners are owners of the third worst record in baseball this season, and typically when a team performs as badly as the Mariners have this season, someone has to pay for it.
In the case of the Mariners, the wrong people have paid for it. After turning the Mariners around from a 101 loss team in 2008 to an 85 win team in 2009, Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu and his coaching staff were fired Monday.
Wakamatsu went from Coach of the Year candidate to unemployed all in the span of less than a year, while his bunch of under-performing players continue to keep their jobs and pick up their paychecks.
The Mariners have been by far the worst hitting team in baseball this season. They have scored 390 runs this season, worst in the league and 26 less than the Pirates. The Mariners are hitting .235 as a team, also the worst in the league and seven points worse than, you guessed it the Pirates.
To call the Mariners offense pathetic this season would be an understatement. Ichiro is the only Mariner that is hitting above .255 this season, while Chone Figgins, who has been far below his career average this year, has climbed all the way into second with a whopping average of .253.
It's okay though because the Mariners hitters swing for power and not average right?
The Mariners have the fewest home runs in baseball this season with only 67 all year. The Major League leader in home runs this season is Toronto Blue Jays right fielder Jose Bautista who has 36 home runs, more than half of the Mariners total as a team.
The Mariners are 12th in baseball in pitching this season, yet pitching coach Rick Adair was fired along with Wakamatsu. Pitching has not been the Mariners problem this season, and if the Mariners had even a decent offense this season they would have been in playoff contention right now.
Mariners fans had hopes for the postseason this year after the team acquired pitching ace Cliff Lee during the offseason, but those hopes quickly faded once Mariners fans saw the team step in the batters box this season.
The Mariners brought in players such as Casey Kotchman and Milton Bradley, who the Seattle front office hoped would add more depth and production to the offense. Both players have struggled this season and Bradley was even placed on the restricted list for 13 days in May so he could seek help for his emotional outbursts.
Jack Wilson has always been one of the best defensive shortstops in the league, but he has also been one of the worst hitting shortstops in the league. The Mariners have focused so much on becoming the strongest defensive team in baseball the past few seasons that they forgot they still have to score runs to win.
It is a wonder that Jose Lopez is still on the team after the season he has had. Lopez hit .272 with 25 home runs last season for the Mariners, and because of that he started out this season as the Mariners cleanup hitter. Lopez is currently hitting .240 with six home runs, not exactly the stats of your typical four hitter.
Lopez has also made numerous mistakes in the field and on the bases, perhaps none bigger than in a game a few weeks ago where he was on first base in the ninth inning of a tied game. Lopez' run did not matter, as the winning run was on second, yet Lopez decided to take off on a line drive to right field and ended up getting doubled off at first to end the inning. The Mariners went on to lose the game in typical Mariners fashion this season.
Lopez is just one cog of the disaster that is the Mariners this season, he needs to go and so do many other players from this team.
Wakamatsu has the perception of a very laid back manager, which was good last season for a team that was trying to come together in the clubhouse, but was bad this season for a team that has not been winning.
Wakamatsu never had a chance this season once the Mariners stopped hitting and started losing, it's a shame that he had to go, especially when others deserved to go more.
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The MVP at Every Position in MLB This Season
With two months left in the season lets take a look at who has been the most valuable at their respective positions.
The most valuable player at each position is not necessarily the player with the most home runs or highest batting average, but the player who has meant the most to his team this season.
Hitting, fielding, and team success were all key in determining who has been the most valuable to their teams this season.
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Jul/10
Seattle Mariners Ship Cliff Lee To Texas Rangers For Boatload of Prospects
The Mariners have traded Cliff Lee and injured reliever Mark Lowe for Justin Smoak and three minor leaguers. The minor leaguers are AA pitchers Blake Beavan and Josh Lueke and AA second baseman Matt Lawson.
The Mariners had no choice but to trade Lee after falling well behind in the AL West, and seem to have pulled off a deal that will help the team not only now, but in the future.
Smoak has been the Rangers starting first baseman for a good part of the season and in 235 at bats is hitting .209 with eight homeruns and 34 RBI. Smoak's numbers aren't very impressive so far this season, but he is still young, at only 23, and has a lot of potential.
Smoak was the Rangers first round selection in 2008, and is an athletic player who switch hits, and has the ability to hit for power. He gives the Mariners something they have been severely lacking in their lineup, a potential power threat.
Smoak has the ability to develop into a potential number five hitter and was ranked by Baseball America as the number two prospect in the Rangers farm system before the season began, behind only Neftali Feliz.
Smoak was rated as the best hitter for average, best power hitter, and best strike-zone discipline out of all Rangers prospects.
The Mariners also received another former first round selection by adding Beavan.
Beavan was the Rangers first round pick in 2007, and has the potential to be a solid middle of the rotation starter in Seattle.
Beavan was rated as the pitcher with the best command in the Rangers farm system and has only walked 12 batters in 110 innings in AA so far this season. He is a big kid, 6'7″ and 250 pounds, and he is only 21 years old.
Lueke is a pitcher out of the bullpen that could eventually see time in Seattle, with a fastball that is in the mid 90's and tops out at 97. Lueke has struck out 62 batters in 38.1 innings this year between LoA and AA ball.
The final piece coming to Seattle is second baseman Matt Lawson, a AA prospect who is hitting .277 with seven homeruns and 34 RBI. Lawson has been solid in the field with only six errors on the season and could be a solid utility player for the Mariners down the line.
The Mariners had been rumored to be in talks with the Yankees to receive top prospect Jesus Montero earlier in the day but that deal fell apart based on the other pieces coming Seattle's way.
The Mariners did a great job using the leverage they gained through talks with the Yankees to get other teams to step up to the plate and make a legitimate offer for Lee. The Rangers finally decided to part with Smoak, which is what Mariners GM Jack Zduriencik had been waiting for all along.
The Mariners got a potential power bat for years to come with good athletic ability for a first baseman, and a pitcher in Beavan who could potentially be in the Mariners rotation for a long time. Prospects are prospects, so you never know, but the Mariners did a great job getting some guys that have the tools to succeed at the Major League level.
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The Rainy Day Issue
Mafia Party
How to kill your friends.
by David Cross
01 December 2005, 12:00am
Photo by AP
I'm going to tell you about a parlor game that sounds like the corniest Christian-camp-organized fun you could imagine but that you will instantly become addicted to, guaranteed (unless you're Janeane Garofalo). The game is called Mafia and a Russian psychologist developed it in the early 70s, so there. Here's the deal: you get a minimum of 12 players (you can play with up to 18) and you sit in a circle. I know, I know, sitting in a circle is already pushing up the queer quotient, but bear with me.
Everyone in the circle is part of the Village. One person acts as the Mayor, who basically runs the show using a long stick or broom handle. I suggest making a male the Mayor as men are smarter at this kind of thing and there's no danger of getting menstrual blood all over everything. The Mayor then has the Village "go to sleep," which entails everyone closing their eyes and putting their heads down. The Mayor will then walk around the circle and, without making a sound, tap three people on the head with his thing. These people are now the Mafia. The Mayor will ask the Mafia to QUIETLY open their eyes and acknowledge each other.* When this is done, the Mayor (again, it's important to have a man do this because a woman will start to silently think about everyone's shoes and get distracted) will have the Mafia close their eyes again and will then walk around the room, this time tapping one person, announcing, "You are Detective #1." Then the Mayor will walk around some more and tap one last person, announcing, "You are Detective #2." The Detectives do not have to open their eyes, as, for reasons I will explain later, they do not want to reveal themselves. Also, it's important that the Mayor move his head around a lot so people can't hear who he's talking to when he points out Detectives. Some Mayors have even been known to talk at the ceiling.
OK, now the hijinks begin. Basically, the goal is simply this: The Village needs to kill off the Mafia before the Mafia kills off the Village. There are two rounds, consisting of "day" and "night." At nighttime the Mayor (after announcing "It's nighttime, Village go to sleep") will have everyone close their eyes, then the Mayor (I can't stress how serious I am about making the Mayor a guy because at this point a woman will start to bitch about something she read in Us Weekly and take everyone out of the game) will have JUST the Mafia wake up and ask them to SILENTLY choose one member of the Village to kill. The Mafia quietly does this by motioning with their eyes and, once the victim is confirmed by the Mayor, going back to sleep. Now the Mayor will ask Detective #1 to wake up. The Detective is allowed to pick one person and ask the Mayor (again in silence) if he or she is in the Mafia. The Mayor either shakes or nods his head, tells the Detective to close his eyes again, and then wakes the other Detective. This part takes place each round until the Detectives are killed off.** More on this later.
The Mayor will now say, "Village wake up, it's morning" and everyone opens their eyes and lifts their head. Those new to the game that have been picked to be in the Mafia usually make a big show of "waking up." It's a pretty good sign of guilt, trust me. Now for the fun part. After a brief pause the Mayor continues, "Village wake up, it's morning… Brian, you're dead." Oh shit!! Now Brian (and all "dead" people) may not say a fucking word. They have to get up and out of the circle. It is the Mayor's job to strictly enforce this rule because some stupid people inadvertently give shit away as they're leaving. Brian will now stand outside of the circle and observe the mechanics of your friends lying to your face. This becomes, second to none, the best part once the game is moving along and the paranoia starts seeping into the room like so much Zyklon B. Now things start to kick in as the Village all talk among themselves trying to suss out who's in the Mafia. They now have more incentive to figure it out because they just saw an innocent friend die.
STOPPING THE MAFIA
Accusations are flung far and wide. Sometimes with some expertise and sometimes it's just a bunch of "I don't know, you just seem suspicious the way you're sitting there all unsuspicious-like" bullshit. The Mayor lets the Village prod and discuss for a few minutes, and then, based on the Mayor's discretion, will call the Village to order. Now it's time for people to make formal accusations as to who they think is in the Mafia. If someone seconds someone's accusation then the accusers explain why the accusation has been made. Then the accused are allowed to defend themselves. Usually there are two to four people accused per round. Then, when everyone is satisfied that they've had their say, a vote is taken. You only get to vote once each round and you can't change your vote unless there is a revote. This is the trickiest part of the game because the people with smart theories about why someone is guilty can easily get drowned out by loudmouths that want attention. Did Brian accuse anyone of being in the mob before he was killed? Well, then that person is probably in the mob. If you've got a good theory, make sure it is heard.
The person (let's call him Jaleel) with the most votes is killed. Again, they have to leave immediately and can't say ANYTHING! They can't do that half-mumbly "This is bullshit, I know Amy's in the Mafia, I'm telling you. You guys fucked up." The Mayor will then turn to the Village and say, "Jaleel was… NOT in the Mafia (or WAS if that's the case). Also, if Jaleel was a Detective, the Mayor will note this as well. Now the shit starts to get weird. The Mayor should immediately have the Village go back to sleep. Sometimes you have to yell at the top of your lungs, "Village, it's nighttime! Go to sleep. Go to fucking sleep for Christ's sake! Judy this means you. Judy, shut the fuck up!" Then, after a few seconds, "Now, Mafia, open your eyes and choose somebody to kill."
Well, this goes on and on until either the Mafia kills off the entire Village or the Village kills off the Mafia. As you can imagine, it gets really intense toward the end, especially if out of five or four players left, two or three Mafia remain among them. You get to see people pleading their innocence as if they were hostages. Husbands and wives will turn on each other and lie to each other's faces with an earnestness and stoicism worthy of Patrick Henry.
The real beauty of the game comes when you're playing your third or fourth consecutive game (each game lasts anywhere from half an hour to 45 minutes or so, give or take) and you've had an opportunity (from the sidelines) to watch how slick or unslick your friends who are secretly in the Mafia are. You pick up patterns after a while. For example, it seems like every time someone is innocent they get so indignant about being accused their defense is usually something like, "You know what, go ahead and kill me, you fucking idiots. Then you can see how stupid you are." Whereas guilty people usually have really long and detailed explanations like, "Why would I have voted Glazer out if I was in the Mafia?" Which brings up another scary thing about the game. It's not unheard of for mobsters to vote off their own people just to look innocent. It kind of makes you shudder when you see it and grudges from that kind of betrayal can continue game after game.
BEING DEAD
Truly the best moment in the game (outside of being alive and on the winning team at the end) is, after you've been killed and have taken your place outside the circle, and your anger has subsided and you've gone to the kitchen with the other dead people milling about pleading your case and you've guessed incorrectly as to who's in the Mafia and then the Mayor says, "It's nighttime, Village, go to sleep… Mafia, wake up and pick somebody to kill." And you watch as the people you weren't even close to guessing slowly and quietly raise their heads and pick off one more Villager. "I can't believe it's Tonya and Patrick and Leslie?! Those fucking assholes! Can you believe that line of shit she was feeding everybody about being too tired to be in the Mafia? FUCK!........ I can't wait to play again!"
* Now it's extremely important that the Mafia do this quietly because when the game starts there's usually some hyper pain-in-the-ass who immediately starts saying shit about how "I heard movement over there! I heard breathing. It's Brian! Brian's in the Mafia!"
**The cool thing about the Detectives is that no one knows who they are and they kind of have to keep it that way. If a Mafia member suspects someone of being a Detective then the Mafia will kill them, but the Detective does need to have enough sway so as to help the innocent or lay suspicion on the guilty. They have the hard evidence in hand. They have to try and subtly lead the Village to the truth. For instance, if they know that Jamiroquai (an awesome player) is innocent, but the Village, getting desperate, is singling him out to kill, they have to somehow steer the focus elsewhere without being too obvious lest the Mafia smell a rat and kill them in the next round. "I don't know, I gotta say, I'm not sure Jamiroquai is in the Mafia. He hasn't been farting and usually he farts when he's nervous. I think it might be Toniqua." Oh, I just remembered something. One time a Detective was about to be killed as a Mafia guy and he said, "You guys, please don't kill me. I'm a detective and I've been trying to tell you that Albert is in the Mafia this whole game." Everyone believed him and he was telling the truth but it inspired mobsters to start using it as a last-ditch lie.
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Satisfactory Is A Factory Sim From The Creators of Goat Simulator
Who ever said managing a rapidly expanding factory couldn't be fun?
By David Jagneaux
Updated: Jul 20, 2018 1:32 am
Posted: Jul 19, 2018 3:00 pm
Few things are as perplexing to me as the gaming world's fascination with menial simulation games. Farming Simulator, Euro Truck Simulator, and even Street Cleaning Simulator are all real games that people play for dozens of hours. Goat Simulator, the game that majorly put Coffee Stain Studios on the map following the modest success of their tower defense meets FPS hybrid series, Sanctum, was a nearly direct parody of those very games.
Now, with Satisfactory, the studio has seemingly come full-circle. Instead of being a parody on realistic simulation games, it sprints in the other direction by letting players craft intricate and elaborate factories that slowly expand and grow in both size and complexity. It's a bit tedious, sure, but it's also a bit remarkable in its own way.
"The base idea for Satisfactory comes from our love of playing Factorio, but we wanted it to be more immersive," said Coffee Stain Studios senior designer Oscar Jilsén in an interview. "You're always working towards a central goal of needing to build this large machine into the sky that goes in stages as you build more of the factory buildings."
Fans of these sorts of games know exactly what they're in for: you go out and collect resources, build up your factory, automate construction so it's working while you're away, head out to explore, then rinse and repeat. It's a tried-and-true system, but we haven't seen it implemented on this scale in a fully 3D game world before.
"In the very, very beginning the idea was to make it like a base defense game with enemies that come and attack as you build stuff to defend your factory, but we grew out of that after a while," said Jilsén. "We had a lot of heated discussions where we realized that if you spend 20 hours making a great factory, you go out to explore, and then you come back with it destroyed, that's not super fun. You still need to go out and explore to find resources and that's where you stumble across alien creatures and some of them are not too happy with you stomping around in their territory."
Satisfactory is designed to be played in co-op if you've got interested friends, but is also playable completely solo too. There aren't any competitive elements at all since the team wanted to focus specifically on delivering a fun, detailed co-op experience instead.
Just like Factorio, the game that influenced it, Satisfactory can get extremely complicated. As you expand your structures and continue to build more and more layers of production, it can feel overwhelming.
"First you've got the constructors to make one thing out of just one thing, then you've got assemblers to make one thing out of two things, and then manufacturers can make one thing out of up to four things, so everything just gets bigger and bigger," said Jilsén. "And then things will start being dependent on other things and needing supplies from other areas."
The passion for these sorts of games is clearly there. Despite Goat Simulator's whimsical, slapstick style, the team at Coffee Stain have a love for the genre. In fact, Jilsén's father used to design factories for a living. That explains a lot.
"It's weird to talk about it because honestly I work on Satisfactory all day then I come home and to relax I play some more Satisfactory," said Jilsén. "It really has that, 'OK just one more thing' aspect that keeps people playing for long periods of time."
Near the end of our conversation I asked my most burning question: Was there more to the game's name, or was it just a silly pun? "It's purely, purely a pun," said Jilsén with a chuckle.
David Jagneaux is a contributor to IGN. Talk factory sims with him on Twitter at @David_Jagneaux.
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Do Fitness Apps Really Improve Health? And What About Privacy?
Now many people use Fitness Apps and wearable sensors to rightfully track the fitness levels of their body, rating how many steps we take in a minute, blood pressures, cholesterol, sugar, heart levels, sleep quality, free calorie-counter, and some even claim to detect cancer.
Mobile health apps or PC fitness apps have been rocketing over the past few years, it grew even more in the past year when every gym got closed and people adopted personal gym-ming at homes, According to IQVIA (institutes for digital health) the consumer have access to 318,000 health apps available at the app stores. With 200 apps adding each day. Also, It has increased over 27% from last year approx 68.7 million to 87.4 in 2020 alone.
Workouts are tracked to monitor your progress and an animated figure or the system-related functions guides you through each exercise. Settings allow you to adjust the time spent per exercise, how many steps you have walked, the calorie counting, and your rest time in between the exercise sets. These exercises include push-ups, crunches, squats, planks, triceps, general walking, and more.
Be it the diet, mindfulness, or fitness apps there aim is simple to reduce overall health costs and keeping you fit daily.
You may ask, Then what's the problem with that? Remember that they are directly linked with us as you have given all the tracking information, like name, age, GPS, when did you last eat? when are you sleeping? and other such.
Are Fitness Apps Friend Or A Foe?
1. Live Calorie Count Doesn't Make Sense
If we look at all these apps as a whole, there's a common characteristic between all fitness apps present in the market is that they have a central goal: to motivate people to consume less and exercise more. Most of the time, they ask users to track what they eat, login in on their website, and record each and everything of their physical activity. That's how they judge and quantify daily how many calories we are getting and how much should be burned.
However, do we need these? Because all calories are not the same, like for instance if we are taking some medications for Diabetes or Anti-depressants, it rises the hormone levels inside the body, which causes the medicine-related weight gain, now apps do not know that, neither do we have the ability to segregate the normal calories from medicine-related ones.
That Is why the most severe problem with these fitness apps is that they treat all calories the same. Calories coming from high fructose corn syrup that is cheaply available in the US,
are counted as similar to the calories from lean meat protein and baked goods – even though science tells us that these calorie types have a completely different impact on our bodies.
2. Battery Drainage in Systems
It is not only that but many consumers complain about draining batteries, and system struggling when they have these apps inside them. Some of these apps tend to run in the background and draining batteries way too quickly.
3. Data Safety
These Fitness Apps are an ultimate data mine that often gets credits and incentives from third-party apps, advertisers, Facebook, and others who can use your data to sell information or to spy on you.
A famous fitness giant MyFitnessPal, owned by Under Armour suffered a heavy data breach in early 2018, which exposed about 150 million users. The data of several users that included passwords, email usernames, and such went underdrain when the data was offered for sale a year later on the dark web, with an asking price of $20,000 bitcoins.
Similarly, 8Fit another fitness app, experienced a breach in February 2019, affecting about 20 million users worldwide. A troubling thing about that incident was that the company was aware of it after 6 months of the incident.
Now imagine a military personal going for a walk-in on their secret military base but they had their Strava fitness tracking ON, what will happen if this gets in the hands of the enemy nation? This incident actually happened, A tweet from WiredUK in the year 2018 revealed Strava's (it can record the GPS location) data leak, it had gotten so worse that it included the exact running routes of the people and even the locations of supposedly secretive military personals who were using the app.
What We Should Do?
1. Checking Vague and Misleading Privacy Policies.
2. Check what you are sharing.
3. Check if there are any Privacy Settings.
4. Ask If you aren't sure about the App fitness policies.
Lastly, always opt to use Anti-virus, a cleaning utility, or a Best PC Cleaner Software that not only just clean junk from your systems but also will perform all-round protection for PC's mitigating all the uncertainties from internet security and protection from unwanted apps.