We've ran numerous articles on this site explaining the virtues of learning a musical instrument and where to find the best resources to do so, but it is always important to remember is that music should be fun. Gone are the days of a elderly gentleman teaching you scales in his lavender-scented house as your first forays into making music, now it could be following a learn-as-you-play online tutorial series that lets you jump right into pop-song covers, an app that lets you tinkle on a virtual keyboard when waiting for a bus, or any number of other music games online.
Gamifying is a phrase popularised by the tech sector to describe how apps managed to increase user interaction and retention by giving their users tasks to perform and actions to complete in order to earn badges and stickers – no matter if the app was prima facie a game or a social media app that wanted to get users talking more. And these ideas work just as well with music – by getting people to treat playing music as a game, and offering plentiful rewards, you can get people to learn the basics of a new skill almost by accident.
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In the capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, which is not exactly lacking in architectural sights, the Düsseldorf theatre stands out in particular. Together with the neighbouring Dreischeibenhaus, it forms one of the most important ensembles of post-war architecture in Germany – the building, designed by Bernhard Pfau and completed in 1970, is quite rightly a listed building.
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But the gleaming white, gently and organically curved building was starting to age. On the one hand, its structural condition was no longer that of a modern theatre and, on the other hand, structural mistakes had led to defects in the roof and façade. It was therefore the task of the Düsseldorf firm ingenhoven architects to redevelop it comprehensively, while at the same time restoring its appearance to its original state.
Grand entrance: the open ceiling construction forms a sculptural prelude (photo: HGEsch).
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A major challenge was the façade made of up to 16-metre-long steel sections without butt joints, which were fastened to the structure with a special clamp specially manufactured by Thyssen. As redevelopment was not advisable here, all elements were completely reconstructed and replaced using modern methods and materials – and the effect formerly desired by the architect Pfau was fully achieved again. The Ingenhoven team removed only those elements that had been added at a later point in time, such as the ticket booth in front of the building.
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In addition to the building envelope, all interior areas relevant to the public were also renovated, with the exception of the two theatre halls, which had been redeveloped only about ten years ago. But the spectacular foyer below the supporting structure of the main auditorium, the stairways and the cloakroom areas received a thorough facelift, including furnishing and lighting. The revised design still relies on the high-quality natural stone floors, combined with warm wooden tones and emphasised by bold colours and black. The switches and socket outlets of the Gira Esprit Linoleum-Multiplex design line, which combine high-quality materials with a distinguished modern look, are a perfect match. The Düsseldorf structural and cultural icon is now ready again for its sophisticated audience.
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Le Trinkhall Museum, (anciennement Madmusée pour « Musée d'art différencié ») est un musée liégeois fondé en 1998 qui est situé dans le parc d'Avroy à Liège. Le musée conserve et expose des œuvres réalisées par des artistes porteurs d'un handicap mental, de maladie mentale ou de fragilité psychique, en contexte d'atelier.

Historique
L'histoire du Trinkhall museum est liée à celle du Créahm (Créativité et Handicap mental).

Le Créahm
Créé à Liège en 1979 par Luc Boulangé, le Créahm est une association dont l'objectif est de révéler et de déployer des formes d'art produites par des personnes handicapées mentales. Pour ce faire, le Créahm a mis en place des ateliers de création animés par des praticiens en arts plastiques et en arts vivants, inscrivant ainsi son projet dans un cadre pleinement artistique, et non pas thérapeutique ou occupationnel. L'originalité et l'importance de cette démarche, du point de vue artistique, mais également sociétal et politique, sont aujourd'hui encore au centre des objectifs poursuivis par le Créahm. Les structures qui, par la suite, en sont nées, le Centre de jour Créahm Liège (1994), le Centre d'Art Différencié devenu le MADmusée (2003), constituent, avec les ateliers, ce que nous appelons le « Grand Créahm » et relèvent du même projet d'ensemble. Le Trinkhall, en remplaçant le MADmusée, s'inscrit dans la même perspective.

Le musée
Le Trinkhall Museum, (anciennement Madmusée) est un musée Liégeois fondé en 1998 qui est situé dans le parc d'Avroy à Liège. Le musée conserve et expose des œuvres réalisées par des artistes porteurs d'un handicap mental, de maladie mentale ou de fragilité psychique, en contexte d'atelier. S'inscrivant à l'avant-scène du paysage culturel liégeois, il entend développer de nombreuses collaborations avec les différents acteurs de la vie artistique, sociale et culturelle, à Liège et bien au-delà des frontières de la ville. L'ouverture du Trinkhall est l'aboutissement d'un projet qui a mis plus de dix ans à se concrétiser. Il émane du Créahm qui, depuis quarante ans, défend dans une perspective qui reste profondément novatrice et engagée l'expression artistique des personnes porteuses d'un handicap mental. Le Trinkhall bénéficie de l'accompagnement de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles et de l'indéfectible soutien de la Ville de Liège et de son échevinat de la culture. Il est, à ce titre, l'expression d'une politique urbaine qui envisage l'art comme un instrument d'émancipation inspiré par le désir et l'exigence d'un mieux-vivre.

Une nouvelle politique muséale
Comme par le passé, le musée développe et met en valeur sa très riche collection : ce sont, venant du monde entier, près de trois mille oeuvres essentiellement réalisées par des artistes porteurs de handicap mental. Mais, dorénavant, avec un projet muséal profondément renouvelé autour de la notion d'arts situés.

La notion d'arts situés confère au musée sa nouvelle identité. Elle manifeste la singularité du Trinkhall dans le paysage des arts contemporains et commande la mise en place de son programme d'expositions, de recherche et de médiation. Elle englobe, sans s'y restreindre, les régimes d'expression liés au handicap mental et les expériences qui leur sont associées, notamment dans le cadre des ateliers de création qui se sont développés à travers le monde depuis une quarantaine d'années.

À ce titre, les liens que le musée entretient avec les ateliers du Créahm restent très étroits. Mais les domaines que la collection du Trinkhall et l'expérience historique des ateliers permettent d'envisager dépassent largement le seul registre du handicap mental. Ils touchent à la question même de la création artistique et des relations qu'elle entretient avec la société, le monde et chacun d'entre nous. Le Trinkhall est un musée d'arts contemporains dont la politique est adossée à l'expérience des ateliers.

Les arts situés
La notion darts situés définit la politique muséale du Trinkhall. Elle repose sur un mode de perception et de compréhension des œuvres qui intègre la dimension fondamentale de leurs environnements et se refuse au réductionnisme esthétique que charrient, souvent malgré elles, les catégories communément mises en usage : une œuvre d'art est un système de relations localisées dont l'expression esthétique est le moyen et l'effet. Toute œuvre d'art, en ce sens, est située. Mais certaines, étant donné leur apparente singularité ou leur relative marginalité, font entendre plus fortement que d'autres la voix de leur situation. Ainsi en va-t-il des œuvres conservées dans la collection du Trinkhall : elles sont, en leur lieu singulier, l'instrument privilégié qui donne à voir et à comprendre les conditions mêmes de l'expérience artistique – ce que l'on peut appeler la « condition artistique », au même titre que l'on parle de la « condition humaine » …

Art et handicap mental
En excluant toute forme de stigmatisation liée au handicap mental, la notion d'arts situés rend pleinement justice à la richesse, à la diversité et à l'intérêt exceptionnels de la collection que le musée abrite. En plaçant à l'avant-plan la question des dispositifs de création et de réception, la question des environnements, elle rend intelligible la puissance esthétique et la signification sociétale ou politique des œuvres. En s'adossant à la singularité des pratiques d'atelier, elle fait éclater les catégories de genre ou de style au bénéfice d'une intelligence ouverte et vivante des oeuvres.

Centre de documentation
Le centre de documentation du Trinkhall, riche de plus de deux mille publications et largement ouvert aux chercheurs, aux étudiants, aux élèves ou aux amateurs, accompagne les projets de recherche et les activités de médiation du musée.

Le bâtiment
Réalisé par le bureau d'architecture Beguin-Massart, le bâtiment, recouvert d'une résille opaline aux contours doucement arrondis, se dépose comme une lanterne au cœur de la ville. Il est l'aboutissement d'une réflexion où les architectes ont su rencontrer la poétique du lieu, son histoire, sa beauté, et toutes les exigences fonctionnelles d'un musée d'aujourd'hui. Avec plus de  de surface d'exposition, une espace librairie, un centre de documentation, un espace de rencontre et d'activités pédagogiques et tous les locaux techniques nécessaires à la conservation des œuvres, le Trinkhall s'inscrit dans une nouvelle dynamique. Son café-restaurant, ouvrant largement sa terrasse sur le parc d'Avroy, reste librement accessible au public et renforce la dimension d'échange et de sociabilité qui caractérise le lieu depuis le .

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Article connexe
 Liste des musées de Liège

Liens externes

Site du Créahm
Site du MADcafé

Musée à Liège

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Team EnVyUs received permission to join the league earlier this week after agreeing to terms with Renegades who were forced to sell their spot.
I owe a big thank you to the @Renegades organization, their owners @MonteCristo and @RNGDoombang for their care in transitioning the team.
Renegades were forced to sell their spot last Sunday after co-owner Chris Badawi was banned due to misrepresenting his team's relationship with Team Dragon Knights whilst also compromising team welfare and safety.
Team EnVyUs, also known as the 'boys in blue', are an American organisation mostly known for their competitive teams in Call of Duty and Counter-Strike.
Owner Mike "Hastr0" Rufail, the owner of Team EnvyUs, was already in negotiation with co-owner 'Montecristo', prior to the Renegades and Team Dragon Knights ban was implemented by Riot.
The acquisition is rumored to have cost Team EnVyUs over $1million USD, and will introduce Team EnVyUs to the massive League of Legends viewing audience.
The deal, which has been wrapped up just 2 weeks before the start of the NALCS Summer Split, gives the ownership little time to put a roster in place – especially as the majority of players with current LCS teams have contracts running until the end of the Summer Split (November). So far the only players that have been officially confirmed are agreements for top laner Shin "Seraph" Woo-yeong, mid laner Noh "Ninja" Geon-woo and they have confirmed that they will be retaining Renegades support player Nickolas "Hakuho" Surgent.
Team Impulse, who was also banned from the LCS last Sunday, has yet to find a bidder although it is rumoured there are many potential suitors, with one of them being Tempo Storm. Tempo Storm is an American esports organization with teams in Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, FIFA,Super Smash Bros, and the FGC. Owner Andrey 'Reynad' Yanyuk, a well known Hearthstone player, confirmed yesterday on his stream that he and Tempo Storm were looking into buying one of the open LCS slots. 'Reynad' said the highest bid before he dropped out was $850,000 and he expects that it went for around $1M.
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The team that was forced to sell their North American Challenger Series spot is Team Dragon Knights. They were accused along with Renegades of inappropriate financial dealings.
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The next reveal will be on Sunday.
Interestingly, this image is almost exactly the same as some concept art described here. The only difference was it featured Darth Vader standing in for Kylo and he had his back to us without Phasma and General Hux. Even the Original Trilogy Stormtroopers are the same (noticed by J-Red5).
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Eduard Brunner was, right up to the end of his life, vitally active as a soloist and teacher and a perennial fixture on the music scene over decades.
Eduard BrunnerAs far back as 1983 Eduard Brunner championed the revival of the early Romantic era at the ORFEO label with the clarinet concertos of Carl Maria von Weber; employing exemplary skill with his instrument's richness of expression, he produced the finest of nuances, finding just the right tone whether for the melancholic and elegiac or for high-spirited exuberance and humour.
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Sorting Out Medical Advice from Medical Nonsense: Dr Mercola
May 27, 2015 by Bob Leave a Comment
There's so much confusion regarding health information in the media. How do you determine which advice to follow and what to take with a grain of salt? Dr. Malcolm Kendrick wrote the book Doctoring Data: How to Sort Out Medical Advice from Medical Nonsense to help you answer that question.
His fabulous book will teach you how to identify common research flaws and help you sift through misleading and meaningless data. An important resource if you are a serious student of health.
Dr. Kendrick has also written The Great Cholesterol Con: The Truth about What Really Causes Heart Disease and How to Avoid It, which is another great book. Like me, he's a trained family doctor whose journey led him to abandon much of what's promoted in conventional medicine.
"The first time it really hit home, I was at a conference in Gleneagles… At that meeting the results of the first ever trial on treating mild to moderate hypertension came out. Prior to that, no one has done a study. It was done in the UK under the Medical Research Council. When the results came out, there was great fanfare. But once I teased out all the figures… it worked out that the total number of deaths from stroke and heart disease in the placebo group was 124, and in the treatment group, it was 124. I thought, 'Well, nothing happened. This was a complete waste of time…' I realized that basically, research, data, facts, and figures seem to have no effect on some people. I think that was when I suddenly thought, 'Hold on, this is nonsense.'"
Quite often, this kind of "nonsense" is a manipulation effect designed by the people who funded or put these studies together. Over the past decade, Dr. Kendrick has developed 10 tools the average person can use to help identify the truth in any given study. The book is an important tool that teaches you how to tear apart any study promoted in the media as a breakthrough. The reality is most of the time it isn't, and the book will explain how you can make that determination yourself.
Correlation Does Not Prove Causation
A basic tenet of science is that correlation does not imply or prove causation. This is one of Dr. Kendrick's 10 principles. It's a common mistake to get excited about associations that in reality frequently amount to nothing.
"People will look at a group of people, studying what they eat and do over many years. Then they say, 'Oh, look, they drink red wine and they don't get heart disease.' They immediately come out and say, 'Red wine protects you against heart disease.' I always go, 'No. It could mean that. But what it probably means is that people who drink red wine may be better off; maybe they're more educated, maybe they exercise, maybe they eat vegetables as well, maybe they don't smoke, or maybe they do a hundred of other things.' Even though it's something highly correlated… it doesn't mean it is [causative]."
On the other side of this coin, lack of association disproves causation.
"We have studies like that," Dr. Kendrick says. "There's a huge study in Austria of 150,000 people, which showed that the higher your cholesterol level was, the longer you lived. And the lower your cholesterol level was, the shorter you lived. These [findings] don't see the light of day. They are published, but silenced…"
Many Times They Just Make Stuff Up
While it's hard to comprehend, some health recommendations are completely fabricated and are not based in any science. Dr. Kendrick wrote about this in a recent article for The Independent:
"If you are a man, it has virtually become gospel that drinking more than 21 units of alcohol a week is damaging to your health. But where did the evidence to support this well-known 'fact' come from? The answer may surprise you. According to Richard Smith, a former editor of the British Medical Journal, the level for safe drinking was 'plucked out of the air.' He was on a Royal College of Physicians team that helped produce the guidelines in 1987. He told The Times newspaper that the committee's epidemiologist had conceded that there was no data about safe limits available and that 'it's impossible to say what's safe and what isn't.' Smith said the drinking limits were 'not based on any firm evidence at all,' but were an 'intelligent guess.' In time, the intelligent guess becomes an undisputed fact."
According to Dr. Kendrick, the linear model for blood pressure—which states the higher your blood pressure is, in a linear fashion, the greater your risk of dying—was also made up.
Ditto for recommended cholesterol levels, and healthy versus unhealthy obesity levels. Believe it or not, none of these are based on real data. The recommendation to eat five portions of fruit and vegetables is equally made up, yet recommendations such as these become set in stone.
People believe it must be based on solid evidence and therefore true. One of the most impressive comments he made in the interview is: "Don't believe it. They just made it up."
Absolute Risk versus Relative Risk, and Number Needed to Treat
Absolute risk versus relative risk can be used to make something sound far worse than it really is, or conversely, make something appear better than it is. Most doctors even struggle to understand what these two terms actually mean. Dr. Kendrick explains absolute versus relative risk with the following example:
"You get 100 people and you put them on a blood pressure-lowering medication, and you get 100 people and put them on a placebo. After a year, two people have died in the placebo group; one person has died in the blood pressure-lowering group. That's an absolute difference of one percent [one out of 100], and a relative difference of one death versus two; that's 50 percent.
Now, take 1,000 people and do the same. In the thousand-people group, one person dies in the blood pressure arm and two people die in the placebo arm. The difference is absolute: It's 0.1 percent. The relative risk difference is one versus two—it's 50 percent…
When it comes to things like statins, which they say reduces the risk of heart disease by 40 percent, you say, 'What was the underlying risk? Was it one in 10,000, one in two, one in a million?' Unless you know that, the statistic is meaningless. I think relative risk should never be mentioned in any clinical study. It should be absolute risk all the time. [Relative risk] is the standard, and it shouldn't be because it's just ridiculous."
Overall Mortality versus Specific Cause of Death
Another way medical findings can be twisted is by focusing on the prevention of specific causes of death. For example, a study might claim that a cholesterol-lowering drug reduces the risk of dying from heart disease, but the people in the study may have died in greater numbers from other health problems instead. Naturally, you cannot die from heart disease if you die from another disease first. As a result, some research ends up forming the basis for health recommendations that actually do more harm than good.
"It's the overall mortality you have to look at—ALL causes of possible death. What was the impact? When you look at, say, alcohol consumption, it increases the risk of mouth cancer, esophageal cancer, stomach cancer… But when you look at the overall figures, it reduces the overall mortality risk. So you can take all of these things, add them together, and basically ignore them on the basis that you're going to have to die of something," Dr. Kendrick says.
Another perfect example is sun exposure.
"Dermatologists have taken over the world on sun exposure and said, 'Oh, people are getting skin cancer so you must never allow a photon go straight to your skin.' To which I say, I've seen studies where women who have higher sun exposure are 50 percent less likely to get breast cancer. Men who have higher rates of sun exposure are 50 percent less likely to get aggressive prostate cancer. Men and women who have higher rates of sun exposure are 75 percent less likely to get colorectal cancer… Frankly, the research I've looked at says sun exposure protects against malignant melanoma; it doesn't cause it. Therefore the whole thing is a crock."
Sun exposure also protects against heart disease, improves bone strength, reduces osteoporosis, and reduces your chance of developing multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease. Does it raise your risk of deadly skin cancer? If you get burned, yes, it may, but the overall health benefits FAR outweigh the potentially elevated risk of melanoma. Part of the problem is you cannot see that which does not happen. If you tan and get melanoma, your dermatologist will tell you it's your fault for not following his recommendations to stay out of the sun. But if you never come down with colorectal cancer, no one will pat you on the back and say, "Great job! You successfully avoided cancer because you spent so much time in the sun."
Longest Running Study in the World Refutes Conventional 'Facts'
One of the examples in Dr. Kendrick's book is the Framingham Study, which was one of the longest studies ever done in the world. It has been going on for about seven decades. One of the conclusions reached was that people whose cholesterol was reduced by one millimole per liter, which equates to about 40 milligram per deciliter, raised their risk of dying of heart disease in the next 14 years by 500 percent. Falling cholesterol was determined to be the most important risk factor for heart disease mortality in this study, yet this finding has received virtually no publicity, as it runs contrary to conventional recommendations to lower your cholesterol to prevent heart disease. They also discovered that the more saturated fat people ate, the lower their cholesterol level was during the length of the study. This too is completely contrary to conventional recommendations to avoid saturated fat because it raises your cholesterol.
Mammography is another area where science and "conventional wisdom" is often at odds. Dr. Peter C. Gotzsche, a professor of Clinical Research Design and Analysis, and director of the Nordic Cochrane Centre, wrote an excellent book on this subject called Mammography Screening: Truth, Lies, and Controversy. After studying it for years, he came to the conclusion that mammography probably does more harm than good. The Cochrane Collaboration, by the way, is a worldwide effort of researchers who have no industry connections, who collaborate to review and evaluate available evidence on any given topic and then come to a conclusion. The Cochrane Database the gold standard for objective, impartial, non-biased meta-reviews.
Non-Disclosure of Negative Data and Other Shenanigans
Other common tactics of misdirection include the non-disclosure of negative studies and good old-fashioned conflicts of interest. As noted by Dr. Kendrick: "In the States, they have the non-disclosure of negative data on antidepressants. They only publish positive studies, and the negative ones aren't published. You then have a bias of infinity. There are hundreds of these things that go on."
His book also addresses the now infamous revolving door between the government and the drug industry. One classic example is Julie Gerberding, who headed up the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—an agency charged with overseeing vaccines and drug companies—for a number of years before becoming the president of Merck's vaccine division. If you don't see the enormity of the influence her former high-level ties to the CDC can have, just consider the fact that Merck makes 14 of the 17 pediatric vaccines recommended by the CDC, and 9 of the 10 recommended for adults, and while vaccine safety advocates are trying to rein in the number of vaccines given to babies, safety concerns keep falling on deaf ears.
"You should be banned forever from working with the industry if you're in the position of authority making decisions about drugs and medications," Dr. Kendrick says. "If we have to get opinion leaders and experts, people running studies, that's fine. You can do that if you like. But you cannot then sit on the guideline committee. You cannot be the person who says, 'This is how we'll be treating X.' Look at the cholesterol-lowering guidelines. How many conflicts of interest are there? Last time I looked at the guidelines made in 2004, there were 107 conflicts of interest, 70 directly with statin manufacturing companies. How can this be? This is nonsense."
Anyone who's a serious student of health needs a copy of Dr. Kendrick's book, Doctoring Data: How to Sort Out Medical Advice from Medical Nonsense, in their library. It goes into far more details than we've covered in this interview. It's definitively eye-opening, and will empower you to make sounder choices for you and your family when it comes to your health and lifestyle.
It is an important tool to help you take control of your health and avoid deception by the media and drug companies. You don't have to be fooled by drug industry manipulation once you know some of the tricks they use. Dr. Kendrick also has a blog, DrMalcolmKendrick.org, where he discusses this and other health-related topics.
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Tesla Worker Alleges "Nightmarish" Conditions, "Rampant Sexual Harassment", At Company's Fremont Factory
Saturday, Nov 20, 2021 - 11:00 AM
Weeks after losing a workplace racism lawsuit that resulted in a $137 million award against Tesla, the automaker is now facing allegations of "rampant sexual harassment" in the workplace and a new lawsuit from a worker at its Fremont factory.
38 year old Worker Jessica Barraza is claiming she faced "nightmarish" conditions working the night shift at Tesla, Bloomberg reported late this week. Her suit alleges that co-workers and supervisors made lewd comments and gestures to her and other women "multiple times a week".
She says when she complained to supervisors and human resources, they did nothing about it.
As a result of her trauma, she says she suffers from panic attacks and "is afraid to return to work knowing that her body could be violated at any time with no repercussions."
"She is on medication and in therapy, and she is not the same person she used to be," the suit says.
Tesla has used arbitration in the past to try and settle such incidents.
David A. Lowe, an attorney for Barraza, said: "Tesla has carved out the right to go to court on the claims that are important to them while prohibiting employees from doing the same."
"It's such an egregious and compelling situation that Jessica describes," Lowe said, calling it "so important on the merits".
Barraza isnt' the first woman to have complaints about working at Tesla. A black woman named Rebecca Spates, who joined the company in 2019, alleged she was discriminated against for her race, gender and age. She also claimed that a co-worker touched her buttocks.
31 complaints were filed with California's Department of Fair Employment and Housing alleging discrimination at Tesla throughout 2020, Bloomberg reported.


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- Tony Gallopin (AG2R-la-Mondiale) won the 2018 Etoile de Besseges.
- The 2019 Etoile de Besseges is being held February 7-10. The race will once again be broadcast live starting with Stage 2.
- Welcome to our live coverage guide for the 2019 Etoile de Besseges.
- News: Sarreau wins stage 3. (Cyclingnews) - FDJ rider takes second win from three stages.
- Marc Sarreau (FDJ) won Stage 3 and took over the lead in the general classification.
- News: Laporte wins stage 2 sprint in Generac. (Cyclingnews) - Cofidis rider moves into overall lead.
- Christophe Laporte (Cofidis) won Stage 2 and is new race leader.
- News: Sarreau wins stage 1. (Cyclingnews) - FDJ rider tops Boudat to claim first leader's jersey.
- Preview: Etoile de Besseges 2018 - Preview. (Cyclingnews) - Calmejane and Gallopin return and target top places.
- Marc Sarreau (FDJ) won Stage 1 and is first leader in the general classification.
- Lilian Calmejane (Direct Energie) won the 2017 Etoile de Besseges.
- The 2018 Etoile de Besseges is being held January 31 to February 4. The race will be broadcast live starting with Stage 2.
Marc Sarreau (FDJ) wins Stage 3. It was his second stage victory of the 2018 Etoile de Besseges.
Marc Sarreau (FDJ) is new overall leader.
Stage 2 comes down to a sprint finish. Bryan Coquard (Vital Concept Club) has got this!
By the time Coquard sees Christophe Laporte, it's too late.
Christophe Laporte (Cofidis) wins Stage 2.
Stage 2 winner Christophe Laporte (Cofidis) celebrates on the podium.
Milan Menten climbs the Cote de la Tour ahead of his breakaway companions during Stage 1.
Marc Sarreau (FDJ) wins Stage 1 in Beaucaire.
- The 2017 Etoile de Besseges is being held February 1-5. There will be a live stream for the final stage only.


Heat one tablespoon of butter in a pan on medium and add about 2 leeks worth of chopped crescent shapes, sauteeing until softened. Add your kale and an additional 1/2 tbsp. of butter. Sautee for a minute or so. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and then add a dash of water, covering the pan and lowering the heat. Let cook on low for 10-20 minutes, covered, or until kale is buttery soft and leeks are nicely caramelized. Remove to a bowl. Melt another tbsp. of butter in the pan on medium heat and add your remaining leek crescents. Sautee for a minute or two and then add your thinly sliced cabbage. Cook your cabbage for about five minutes, and then add your remaining 1/2 tablespoon of butter, generous amounts of salt and pepper to your taste, lower heat and cover until you have nice caramelized leeks and very soft, buttery cabbage with light browning. You may wish to turn the cabbage once during this.
While the cabbage mixture is cooking on the stove-top, mash your potatoes with a masher and add your glug of rich milk. Fold the leek-kale mixture into the potatoes gently. When the cabbage-leek mixture is done, you can add it to the potatoes as well. Don't over-stir; you want the potatoes to have a slightly lumpy, rustic presentation.
Sprinkle with a dill-onion type herbal blend and serve.
Serve in a pretty piece of pottery as a side dish for a St. Patrick's Day themed feast!


The alarm went off at 4:30 AM, followed by a muffled "you awake?" from the salon. Gerry, apparently well-rested despite the racket of rain drumming above our heads all night, had sprung into action.
While I fumbled with the coffee mill in the galley, Brian and Gerry got busy prepping the boat; checking the engine, filters, oil, and checking out the instruments that came with Morning Light. Once they had the lay of the land, there were eight dock lines attached to tall pilings at all four corners that needed to be undone. By the time they'd started the engine, I was handing mugs of coffee up the companionway to the cockpit. Brian pointed the searchlight at pilings while Gerry began steering us slowly down the channel leading into the Chesapeake Bay.
Expertly navigating the shallow, narrow channel in the dark, on a boat we'd never driven, we were already feeling pretty great about our decision to bring Gerry on as our captain. He knew the stretch like the back of his hand, and pointed out interesting landmarks along the way. After a stretch of motoring in total darkness, we started to be able to see as we moved into the wide open bay, and the sun rose shortly after. Tiny fishing boats began zipping by us, dropping crab pots marked with tiny florescent orange buoys. Gerry sent me forward to the bow to point out these hazards and signal with my arms which way to steer around them. Lines in the water can cause severe (expensive) damage when they get caught around a propeller, so while a little boring, it was an important task.
With daylight came steady, chilly rain. Having sweat buckets in Annapolis just a few days prior, all of us (even Gerry) had packed too light, but luckily I had a stash of winter clothing that I'd thrown on board as an afterthought the weekend prior. I put on my fleece-lined running tights, fisherman's sweater, and winter shell before taking my first turn at the helm, right around the time we entered the narrow waters of the C&D canal. Unlike driving a car, keeping a sailboat on a straight course is an exercise in constant correction of the rudder, a little to the left, then a little to the right, back and forth, over and over.
Brian updating the ship's log and manually plotting our course for the next day.
We'd been underway nearly 14 hours and the sun was setting by the time we hit the opening of the Delaware River. We navigated into a protected anchorage and dropped the hook to stay for the night. The anchorage was located smack next to a nuclear power plant, but what it lacked in natural beauty, it made up for by being a solid place to get our anchor to catch and hold us safely for the night. Exhausted and chilled to the bone, we cracked beers and gobbled down pasta with homemade sauce that I'd made in Brooklyn and reheated. Gerry's entertained us with stories from his childhood growing up in England, while Brian made his first entry in the Captain's log. It was lights out by 8:30, and we slept like the dead, looking forward to a less rainy stretch tomorrow.


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Christie says states should decide whether to allow same-sex marriage
TRENTON, N.J. -- Gov. Chris Christie says it shouldn't be up to the Supreme Court to decide whether states allow same-sex marriage. The Republican governor weighed in Thursday on the court's decision this week not to hear appeals from a handful of states, paving the way for a significant expansion across the country.
By Associated Press Thursday, October 9, 2014
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Photo: Matt Rourke, AP
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks during a rally for Pennsylvania Republican Gov. Tom Corbett who is seeking a second term, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014, at Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pa. Matt Rourke, AP
TRENTON, N.J. — Gov. Chris Christie says it shouldn't be up to the Supreme Court to decide whether states allow same-sex marriage.
The Republican governor weighed in Thursday on the court's decision this week not to hear appeals from a handful of states, paving the way for a significant expansion across the country.
But Christie told reporters he doesn't believe gay marriage is something that should be imposed by the highest court. He said states should have the ability to decide the issue on their own.
Christie personally opposes same-sex marriage but dropped his administration's legal challenge to a lower court's decision allowing it last year.
He said he has been upholding the law since then.
Christie had avoided commenting on the court's decision at a campaign stop earlier this week.
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