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2018: The Revisiting
Posted By: tomk74 1 Comment a wrinkle in time, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Annihilation, Ant-Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Aquaman, Arrow, Arrowverse, Ash vs Evil Dead, Ash Williams, Avengers, Avengers: Infinity War, batman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Bitch Planet, Black Lightning, Black Mirror, black panther, bobbleheads, Boris Karloff, Brad Bird, Bruce Campbell, Cable, Christopher Moore, Daredevil, Dark Nights: Metal, DC Comics, Deadpool, Deadpool 2, doomsday clock, Dwayne Johnson, East of West, Edgar Wright, Emily Blunt, Ernie Cline, evangeline lilly, fantastic beasts and where to find them, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Fire and Blood, Gabbing Geek, Game of Thrones, George RR Martin, Gillian Anderson, Hanna-Barbera, house of cards, Iron Fist, iron gold, Isle of Dogs, iZombie, Jenny, jessica jones, Jimmy Impossible, Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Jungle Book, Jurassic Park, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Kevin Feige, Kevin Spacey, Killmonger, Legends of Tomorrow, legion, lin-manuel miranda, luke cage, Marvel Comics, Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins Returns, Maze Runner, Maze Runner: The Death Cure, MCU, Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible 6, Mission: Impossible-Fallout, Monstress, Mowgli, NBC, Netflix, noir, Ocean's 11, Ocean's 8, Pacific Rim, Pacific Rim Uprising, Paper Girls, Paul Rudd, Peyton Reed, Pierce Brown, Pixar, Playstation, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Rampage, Ready Player One, Red Dead Redemption, Red Dead Redemption 2, Red Rising, Ronan The Accuser, Runaways, Ryan, Ryan Coogler, Ryan Reynolds, Saga, Shane Black, Snagglepuss, Solo, Spider-Man, Star Wars, Starz, Steven Spielberg, Supergirl, The Flash, The Flintstones, The Good Place, the grinch, The Handmaid's Tale, The Incredibles, The Incredibles 2, The Magicians, The Predator, The Shining, The Walking Dead, The Winds of Winter, Tom, Tomb Raider, Venom, Vikings, Watson, Wes Anderson, Westeros Watch, Wreck-It-Ralph, Wreck-it-Ralph 2, X-Files, Yellowjacket, You Were Never Here
The Geeks look back at their predictions and see what pleased them and what did not.
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We here had some thoughts back at the tail end of 2016 for all the stuff coming in 2017. How did those things turn out?
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As a writer that specializes in Scuba Diving and Scuba related travel, I spend a great deal of time looking at websites. Recently, Surface Interval (surfaceinterval.co) has announced they are now launching their new website. Surface Interval is looking to create a site that highlights Worldwide Scuba Diving Reviews. Scuba divers can leave reviews of the dive centers they have used.
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QUEEN ANNE SILVER-MOUNTED TORTOISESHELL SNUFF BOX
Peace of Utrecht Silver Medal, John Croker, 1713
England, c1713-15
The oval tortoiseshell box
centering a Queen Anne Peace of Utrecht Silver Medal by John Croker, 1713,
cast with a bust in embroidered gown,
and inscribed ANNA.D.G.MAG.BRI.FR.ET.HIB.REG.,
the reverse with Anne as Britannia, standing, holding an olive branch, shield and spear,
beyond to the left, ships, and to the right, a farming scene,
inscribed COMPOSITIS.VENERANTVR.ARMIS and MDCCXIII,
the box within silver rims and having a stand-away hinge to the backside
John Croker (21 October 1670 – 21 March 1741),
born in Saxony and known in his youth as Johann Crocker, was a master jeweler who migrated to London,
where he became a medalist and engraved dies for English and later British coins and medals.
For most of his adult life Croker worked in England,
serving provincial mints as well as that at the Tower of London.
For some seven years he engraved the die stamps for the coins of King William III and Queen Anne
before becoming Chief Engraver to the Royal Mint, a position he held from 1705 until his death.
He worked closely with the head of the Mint, the famous scientist Isaac Newton.
Almost all of the dies for the coins of Queen Anne and King George I were engraved by Croker,
and, until 1740, many for those of George II.
He was also the creator of a large number of medals, including Peace of Utrecht.
The Peace of Utrecht was a series of peace treaties signed by the belligerents
in the War of the Spanish Succession, in the Dutch city of Utrecht between April 1713 and February 1715.
The very expensive and bloody war involved three contenders for the vacant throne of Spain,
involving much of Europe for over a decade.
The treaties were concluded between the representatives of Louis XIV of France
and of his grandson Philip on one hand,
and representatives of Queen Anne of Great Britain, King Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia,
King John V of Portugal, and the United Provinces of the Netherlands on the other.
This Treaty ushered in the stable and characteristic period of Eighteenth-Century civilization,
and marked the end of danger to Europe from the old French monarchy.
It further marked a change of no less significance to the world at large,
and the maritime, commercial and financial supremacy of Great Britain.
Seven related tortoiseshell boxes
inset with John Croker's 1713 medal commemorating the Treaty of Utrecht
reside in The Royal Collection Trust, acquired by or given to the following :
Queen Mary of the United Kingdom (3)
King George V (2)
King Edward VII (2)
Condition : Good to excellent with minor wear and small scratches throughout;
having no splits or breaks to shell or silver; a few minor dents to the rim;
minor remaining residue of glue to the interior (likely reinforcement of tortoise to silver);
closes well with good hinge
3-1/4" Wide x 2-3/8" Deep x 1/2" High / 1/8 Total oz.
2022 - NEW & INCOMING CATALOG
(Link : Royal Early George III Silver Second Course Plate Above)
Parker and Wakelin, London, 1766
For information, call (901) 761-1163 or (901) 827-4668,
Queen Anne Silver-Mounted Tortoiseshell Snuff Box, Peace of Utrecht Silver Medal, John Croker, England, c1713-15
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Sørskeidet Valley () is an ice-filled valley in Antarctica. Located north of Skeidshovden Mountain near the southwest end of the Wohlthat Mountains in Queen Maud Land, it was first photographed from the air by the German Antarctic Expedition of 1938–39. It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from surveys and air photos by the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–60) and named Sørskeidet.

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Valleys of Queen Maud Land
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When I was in grade school my favorite books were anything by Dr. Seuss and my favorite cartoons were the Warner Brothers LooneyTunes/Merry Melodies. Flash forward a few years and I'm creating dozens of designs for the Looney Tunes series and having a ball doing it.
Last night as we were driving back to Nashville from my father's 90th birthday celebration in Indiana, my lovely wife, Vickie was sitting next to me looking at her ipad when I heard that familiar tune that is played at the opening of all Looney Tune cartoons. Sure enough, she was watching our favorite cartoon of all time, Chuck Jones' masterpiece "What's Opera Doc?"(The figurines on our wedding cake were Elmer and Bugs in drag). I couldn't help but glance over occasionally to see what was going on. I mean, how could I miss seeing Elmer's massive shadow cast on the mountain's rocky face in the opening scene? Or Bugs, with golden braids flowing, reclined on the back of the rotund white steed as it gracefully glides down the hillside? I'm smiling now just thinking about it.
The cartoon is a masterful combination of dialogue, music, animation and beautifully painted backgrounds. I couldn't help but notice how closely Maurice Noble's backgrounds resemble the ones in my most recent books. Well, okay... my backgrounds resembled his. I've always stated that Dr. Seuss was the biggest influence in my writing, but I hadn't realized what a huge influence Maurice Noble had in my illustration style until seeing those images from "What's Opera Doc?" last night. Well, I'll be sure to give him more credit in the future!


Move adds 30-plus jobs, amid plans for 25 sites by 2022. Picture: contributed.
Pure Spa & Beauty has teamed up with David Lloyd Leisure Clubs to debut sites in Peterborough (opening yesterday), followed by Hamilton in South Lanarkshire, Purley located south of London, and Cheadle in Cheshire that will open their doors over the course of this and next month.
It brings the total number of Pure Spa locations to 13 across the UK, having started out with a single site on Edinburgh's Lothian Road in 2002.
It has now added two branches each in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and London (in the City and Canary Wharf).
Headcount now amounts to about 150, and it positions itself as one of the UK spa industry's biggest employers.
The launches will create 30 jobs at the point of opening, with more positions predicted to become available as the locations expand.
The business said it has pioneered a spa partnership model that has seen it create "highly profitable" operations within hotels, retail malls and leisure centres, as well as standalone city-centre outlets. Pure also said the launches tie in with its plans to grow to 25 sites by 2022, reaching "hundreds of thousands" of new clients every year.
Founder chief executive and Becky Woodhouse said: "We are thrilled to be opening four new Pure Spa & Beauty locations this spring. It is exciting to be launching in new areas for the business, allowing us to introduce Pure to a brand-new audience. The demand for Pure nationwide continues to grow and we plan to continue our expansion in 2019 and beyond.
Woodhouse – who Pure notes became the first Scottish woman to be accepted on the global EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women programme, which supports high-potential female entrepreneurs – founded the business in a bid to offer "high-quality, accessible and affordable" spa treatments.
It has branched out into offering its own retail and professional range of natural skin care products that are sold in its spas, online and through selected retailers, as well as being used in Pure treatments.
About 18 months ago, the company launched the Pure Beauty Zone, a new marketplace for the "flourishing" clean beauty sector, which sources and sells clean face, hair and bodycare brands.


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Hugo, 5, is proud owner of Lauderdale House piano
Published: 10:09 AM October 21, 2015 Updated: 1:46 PM October 14, 2020
Hugo Kemp, five, has already learnt a song on his new Lauderdale House piano - Credit: Archant
A historic house has given away a piano to a budding five-year-old musician as it clears out its attics to allow a £2.3million year-long renovation to take place.
Hugo Kemp and his family picked up the instrument after the Ham&High reported last week that Lauderdale House in Highgate Village wanted to find homes for two of its pianos – including its renowned Steinway concert piano. Hugo, who lives with his parents and sister in Swain's Lane, Highgate, has already learnt to play his first song on the upright Witton&Co piano on one finger – The Sky Boat Song.
The family picked it up free of charge excluding delivery costs as the piano has been sitting unloved for 10 years in the 16th century-mansion's attic. His father, David Kemp, 42, said: "We've been going to Lauderdale House ever since Hugo was inside his mum's tummy, and we have lunch there every weekend, so it's nice to take a little part of that into our own home. It feels quite special."
Lauderdale House is still looking for a temporary year-long home for its Steinway, which can cost £76,000 when new, but has had enquiries from an embassy and a dance school.


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STIP Nov 29, 2021
Five Doctoral positions, International Max Planck Research School, Berlin
Berlin, Sep 01, 2022
Application deadline: Jan 31, 2022
Sophie Schwarzmaier
The International Max Planck Research School "Knowledge and Its Resources: Historical Reciprocities" (IMPRS-KIR) invites applications for
5 doctoral positions, to begin on September 1, 2022.
Each position will run for 3.5 years, with the possibility of extending once by six months.
The IMPRS-KIR is a new, research-driven PhD program based in the history and philosophy of science, technology, and medicine (HPSTM). It is a collaboration between the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Technische Universität Berlin. The IMPRS-KIR will trace the deep entanglements of knowledge and its resources from a long-term and global perspective. Key to its agenda is a "historical-political epistemology" that highlights how knowledge is shaped historically by a great variety of resources - political systems, technological infrastructures, social interaction, material objects and media technologies. Knowledge, in turn, is understood as a means to define and unlock such resources, while being, in and of itself, one of the key resources of human culture.
The School offers training in historical-political epistemology, combining HPSTM with regional and global studies, Science & Technology Studies (STS), all fields of history, media studies, museum studies, archaeology, art history, literary studies, philology, environmental studies, and digital humanities research. Prospective doctoral students with projects on any specialty and period within these and related fields are invited to apply.
The doctoral positions are open to applicants of all nationalities holding a Master's degree (or equivalent) in the aforementioned fields and having proficiency in English, and, preferably, in one or more additional languages. Candidates are expected to be able to present and discuss their work and that of others in English; dissertations may be submitted in German, English, or any of the supervisors' working languages. Selection criteria relate to the excellence of the individual candidate and project and the closeness of the project's fit with the School's agenda.
The IMPRS-KIR is located at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Dahlem, Berlin. Students will work in a stimulating international and interdisciplinary research environment. The School's program entails one year of courses held in conjunction with the three Berlin universities involved in the IMPRS-KIR (FU, HU, TU), as well as mentored reading groups, workshops, training in digital humanities methods, a tailored coaching program, and language courses. A research budget will be available for travel to archives worldwide. Additionally, students may opt to spend up to one semester at one of our international partner universities (University of Pennsylvania, Nanyang Technological University Singapore, Singapore University of Technology and Design).
The PhD degrees will be awarded by one of the Berlin university departments represented in the Principal Teaching Faculty. Additionally, an IMPRS certificate of the Max Planck Society will be awarded.
Applicants are asked to submit the following materials:
• a cover letter with a personal statement of your motivation for applying to the IMPRS-KIR (max. 1,000 words)
• a dissertation proposal (max. 2,500 words, excluding bibliography) including working title, abstract (max. 250 words), research topic and state of the art in the field of study concerned, research questions and objectives, methodology, short description of the project's feasibility and how it would be carried out (including a list of archives if applicable), bibliography (max. 30 titles)
• a curriculum vitae (1–2 pages)
• copies of degree certificates/proof of the finishing date of your Master's degree
• transcript of grades achieved during your Master's studies
• proof of fluency in English (preferably at level C1, but at least at level B2). If English is your native language or if you went to a university where the language of instruction was English, you do not need to submit an English certificate.
• contact details of two academic referees. Our Selection Committee will contact referees for shortlisted applicants.
Please submit these materials as separate PDF documents, exclusively through the following application portal: https://recruitment.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/position/19628037
Only complete applications submitted via the application portal will be accepted. The portal will close on January 31, 2022, 23.59 Central European Time.
The IMPRS-KIR aims to foster diversity within its four collaborating institutions. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals regardless of age, disabilities, ethnicity, gender, nationality, religion or sexual orientation.
For more information, please consult the FAQs on the website of the MPIWG: https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/research/departments/imprs
For further inquiries about the new PhD program and the recruitment process, please contact Sophie Schwarzmaier: sschwarzmaier
mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
For questions about the application portal, please contact Tanja Neuendorf: applications
Please note that we cannot consider applications sent by email or post. The email addresses given above are only for your questions.
STIP: Five Doctoral positions, International Max Planck Research School, Berlin. In: ArtHist.net, Nov 29, 2021 (accessed Jan 20, 2022), <https://arthist.net/archive/35433>.


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Q: Need help editing relative layout I'm new to android studio and building a little calculator. Here's a screenshot:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/Q76Oo.jpg
As you can see, it's aligned with the left border,  rather than in the center, which I'd like.
All of the buttons are based on the √ button. Is this a bad thing? How do I make them center?
Thanks
Edit - Here's my content_only code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    app:layout_behavior="@string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior"
    tools:context="com.thegreat.douglas.calculator.OnlyActivity"
    tools:showIn="@layout/activity_only">

    <Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/sqrt_key"
        android:id="@+id/sqrt_key"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="178dp"
        android:onClick="operator" />

    <Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/seven_key"
        android:id="@+id/seven_key"
        android:layout_below="@+id/sqrt_key"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
        android:onClick="numbers" />

    <Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/four_key"
        android:id="@+id/four_key"
        android:layout_below="@+id/seven_key"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
        android:onClick="numbers" />

    <Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/one_key"
        android:id="@+id/one_key"
        android:layout_below="@+id/four_key"
        android:layout_alignRight="@+id/four_key"
        android:layout_alignEnd="@+id/four_key"
        android:onClick="numbers" />

    <Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/zero_key"
        android:id="@+id/zero_key"
        android:layout_below="@+id/one_key"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
        android:onClick="numbers" />

    <Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/point_key"
        android:id="@+id/point_key"
        android:layout_below="@+id/one_key"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/one_key"
        android:layout_toEndOf="@+id/one_key"
        android:onClick="operator" />

    <Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/two_key"
        android:id="@+id/two_key"
        android:layout_above="@+id/zero_key"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/one_key"
        android:layout_toEndOf="@+id/one_key"
        android:onClick="numbers" />

    <Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/five_key"
        android:id="@+id/five_key"
        android:layout_above="@+id/one_key"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/four_key"
        android:layout_toEndOf="@+id/four_key"
        android:onClick="numbers" />

    <Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/eight_key"
        android:id="@+id/eight_key"
        android:layout_above="@+id/four_key"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/seven_key"
        android:layout_toEndOf="@+id/seven_key"
        android:onClick="numbers" />

    <Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/left_parenth_key"
        android:id="@+id/left_parenth_key"
        android:layout_above="@+id/seven_key"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/sqrt_key"
        android:layout_toEndOf="@+id/sqrt_key"
        android:onClick="operator" />

    <Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/right_parenth_key"
        android:id="@+id/right_parenth_key"
        android:layout_above="@+id/eight_key"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/eight_key"
        android:layout_toEndOf="@+id/eight_key"
        android:onClick="operator" />

    <Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/nine_key"
        android:id="@+id/nine_key"
        android:layout_below="@+id/left_parenth_key"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/eight_key"
        android:layout_toEndOf="@+id/eight_key"
        android:onClick="numbers" />

    <Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/six_key"
        android:id="@+id/six_key"
        android:layout_below="@+id/eight_key"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/five_key"
        android:layout_toEndOf="@+id/five_key"
        android:onClick="numbers" />

    <Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/three_key"
        android:id="@+id/three_key"
        android:layout_above="@+id/point_key"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/point_key"
        android:layout_toEndOf="@+id/point_key"
        android:onClick="numbers" />

    <Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/negative_key"
        android:id="@+id/negative_key"
        android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/point_key"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/point_key"
        android:layout_toEndOf="@+id/point_key"
        android:onClick="specialOperator" />

    <Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/multiply_key"
        android:id="@+id/multiply_key"
        android:layout_above="@+id/nine_key"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/right_parenth_key"
        android:layout_toEndOf="@+id/right_parenth_key"
        android:onClick="operator" />

    <Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/subtract_key"
        android:id="@+id/subtract_key"
        android:layout_above="@+id/six_key"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/nine_key"
        android:layout_toEndOf="@+id/nine_key"
        android:onClick="operator" />

    <Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/add_key"
        android:id="@+id/add_key"
        android:layout_above="@+id/three_key"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/six_key"
        android:layout_toEndOf="@+id/six_key"
        android:onClick="operator" />

    <Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/enter_key"
        android:id="@+id/enter_key"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/three_key"
        android:layout_toEndOf="@+id/three_key"
        android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/negative_key"
        android:layout_alignTop="@+id/three_key"
        android:onClick="enterKey" />

    <Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/clear_key"
        android:id="@+id/clear_key"
        android:onClick="clearEquation"
        android:layout_above="@+id/left_parenth_key"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true" />

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
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"Should The U.S. Adopt A New Flag," by Ohio political prisoner Jason Goudlock.
After Adolf Hitler's murderous military force was defeated in 1945, the infamous red, white, and black swastika-bearing German flag was abolished along with all Nazi symbols. In 1949, the newly formed post-World War II countries of East Germany and West Germany both adopted the national flag colors in black, red and gold.
Following Hitler's campaign to exterminate Jews, the Nazi flag was an image of horror for most Germans. Imagine the worldwide condemnation if the newly formed countries of East and West Germany had decided to adopt the Nazi flag with its black swastika.
How dare do the people of the United States consider it appropriate to fly the tri-colored red, white, and blue stars-and-stripes flag—which carried to existence during the eighteenth century when the U.S. was decimating the sacred lands and cultures of Native Americans and trafficking in enslaved humans from Africa.
Today, the people of a country that considers itself the rear of the free world want to relinquish this symbol of historical trauma, just as East and West Germany relinquished theirs after World War Two. Not doing so is to embrace a heritage rooted in oppression, thus ignoring the feelings of millions of Americans—the feelings of those who were oppressed, enslaved, and murdered on soil over which the stars and stripes fly.
The U.S. has made significant progress in improving race relations among its citizens. But it has not yet come to terms with the hard truth that no [inaudible] has tried, no spoken words, no fathers will separate its country's dark history from his flag. If history has been written, then it cannot be erased. But, as history has shown, it can be transcended.
In 1994, three years after South Africa abolished its brutal and oppressive system of apartheid, the country began to transcend its deep racial divide by electing as president, former political prisoner and African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela. The late Mandela's election often overshadows the equally important adoption in 1994 of a flag designed to civilize an all-inclusive, ideal of unity. On the flag: six colors. The yellow, black and green represent the African National Congress, which brought about the end of apartheid. The remaining red, white, and blue represent the Boer of Republic, fathered by South Africans early debt settlers.
The flag remains the national flag today, demonstrating to the world that great racial division can be mended. If South Africa can transcend their history of apartheid, the U.S. can transcend its history of racial strife also. With the still ongoing racial divide in the U.S. today made visible, when unarmed people of color were killed by law enforcement officers, it would be a bold step toward atoning for its dark history, if the U.S. retired the stars and stripes and adopted a new flag, baring in its design a symbol of unity.
After coming through the aid of many members of the global community, the people of the U.S. need to come to their own aid by transcending their dark racial history. President Donald Trump might not agree, but the U.S. need not regress to a time of greatness for a limited few, instead, it needs to progress toward becoming great for all of its citizens. Adopting a new flag will be a giant step in that direction. The world rejoiced in 1994 when South Africa adopted their more inclusive flag. And I'm pretty sure it would do the same for the United States. So, at the title of the time, Spike Lee feels to just, "Do the Right Thing" America, and [inaudible], make the flag great.
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Men Without Suits: Objectifying the American Male Body presents a wide-angle look at the evolution of depictions of the nude male. Curator John Vollmer suggests the bulging American beefcake aesthetic developed because the hyper-masculine body was more socially acceptable. He explains that "social constructs permit muscle-building magazines to be displayed in racks without censorship, but require no less provocative images on the covers of soft porn magazines to be kept behind protective barriers." The viewer is guided through centuries of glutes with bite-size factoids glimpsing at padded cod pieces – 1450s jockstraps worn under manskirts – and the celebration of prepubescent boys in ancient Greece, which presaged the first Mr. Olympia contest in 1981. This exhibit exposes Vollmer's challenge to construct a comprehensive evolution from only a scattering of sociological material produced on gender and sexuality. These fragments of our sexual heritage raise questions this exhibit could not begin to answer. The viewer must construct an understanding of how others deal with the male nude through an awareness of how these images arouse us today.
Stags, Smokers and Blue Movies: The Origins of American Pornographic Film, curated by Joseph Slade and Jennifer Lyon Bell, transports the viewer –through dim lighting, floor projections and ambient vocal outbursts of testosterone –into a clandestine stag party, where gatherings of men watch illegal hard-core pornography in smoky backrooms.
In 1907, less than a decade after the movie camera was invented, porn was being produced in Hungary, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Russia, Argentina, North Africa and the United States. One of many rare films shown at MOSex, The Casting Couch (1924), a 35mm silent film, is a pornographic parody of Hollywood's Mark Sennett, a notorious cad who demanded sex from attractive women in exchange for parts in Hollywood features. In this still-relevant x-rated social commentary, the casting director hands the lady a book titled How to be a Movie Star, and in a flash, they're fucking ravenously on the casting couch.
At the very least, this museum is an alter to the universal act of sex. Footage of a close-up of a labia being pulled to and fro as if it were doing the Charleston aside, its exhibitions tend to expose bonds between cultures and generations rather than distinctions.
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A Very Fine and Large French Empire Style Napoleon III Gilt-Bronze Surtout-de-Table, now a coffee table with later gilt-bronze legs with paw-feet, with a finely chased grape and vine border and mirror plate top, in the manner of Pierre-Philippe Thomire (French, 1751–1843). The gilt-bronze legs are Circa: Paris, 1900. The Surtout-de-Table is Circa: Paris, 1860-1870.
Height: 21 1/2 inches (54.5 cm)
Width: 70 1/2 inches (179 cm)
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Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1751–1843) a French sculptor, was the most prominent bronzier, or producer of ornamental patinated and gilt-bronze objects and furniture mounts of the First French Empire. His fashionable neoclassical and Empire style furnishing bronzes (bronzes d'ameublement) established the highest standard in refined finish in the craft that the French called that of the fondeur-ciseleur, "founder-finisher". In his pre-Revolutionary training, Thomire appeared first as a ciseleur, in the division of duties that went into the production, for example, of a set of gilt-bronze wall-lights delivered for Marie-Antoinette's card-room, her Salon des Jeux at Compiègne: under the general supervision of Hauré, the wax and wooden model was carved by Martin, cast by Forestier, and chased by Thomire, as Pierre Verlet was able to show over fifty years ago.
He had received his training in the workshop of Pierre Gouthière, the outstanding Parisian ciseleur-doreur working in the Louis XVI style, before establishing his own shop in 1776. He gradually assumed the leading position of his former master. In 1784 a pair of Sèvres vases with Raphaelesque grotesques in violet on a white ground, made in 1782 were mounted with gilt-bronze goats as handles, which Pierre Verlet recognized in a memorandum delivered by Thomire, who was responsible for modelling in wax, casting, matte gilding and mounting on the porcelain. In 1783–84 he received his first notable commission, casting and finishing the gilt-bronze handles modelled by Boizot for a pair of Sèvres porcelain vases, today divided between the Musée du Louvre and Palazzo Pitti.
Under the Empire, Thomire purchased the fashionable premises of the marchand-mercier Martin-Éloi Lignereux, for whom he had provided furnishing bronzes in rue Taitbout, Paris. When he exhibited in the 1806 Exposition Publique des Produits de l'Industrie, the first time a bronzier was permitted among the exhibiters, he gained a gold medal. His most prestigious commission was the execution of the cradle for the King of Rome, which was designed by Pierre Paul Prud'hon and in which Thomire collaborated with the Imperial silversmith Odiot; in a second cradle, Thomire alone was responsible. At the height of his business, Niclausse estimated Thomire employed six or seven hundred workers. A great number of the bronzes by Thomire in the Imperial residences had been commissioned, but further bronzes were supplied as collateral for a loan that was extended to Thomire in 1807 and which he was unable to repay, which consequently passed into the Imperial collection in 1811.
Under the Restauration, Thomire Duterme and Cie. retained the highest clientele, Monsieur, the King's brother, the duc de Berry, and as furnishers to the Garde Meuble de la Couronne, though elaborate measures were taken to rededicate Napoleonic allegories in bronze and ormolu with suitably Bourbon ones. In one, Thomire cast and finished a martial allegory sculpted by Louis-Simon Boizot, who had provided draped caryatid models for furniture mounts that were touched up by Thomire, applied to the upper corners of a secretary desk by Guillaume Beneman, delivered for the King's cabinet intérieure at Compiègne, 1787.
In a notable commission for Count Nicolay Demidoff in 1819, Thomire produced finely-made figures of Fame with doubled trumpets to serve as handles for the massive malachite-veneered vase now at the Metropolitan Museum. Thomire retired from his firm in 1823.


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The reigning world champions have an embarrassment of riches between the sticks, with one of the game's best in the form of Iker Casillas set to lead the side. However, if something unforeseen should happen to the Real Madrid stopper, Valdes and Reina are more than able deputies.
With Carles Puyol injured, it will be interesting to see just who Del Bosque picks to fill the experienced Barcelona man's boots. The personnel and shape of the defence will depend on where Sergio Ramos is deployed, with the Santiago Bernabeu man's versatility of playing either on the right or in the centre an attribute. Ramos is likely to play in the centre alongside Gerard Pique, but Del Bosque could also use him at right-back, and partner the Camp Nou man with Javi Martinez. Jordi Alba looks a shoe-in at left-back.
With only four strikers selected in the contingent and the sheer quality of the players listed above, it is likely that Spain will play with five in midfield, with a 4-5-1 formation without the ball quickly changing to a 4-3-3 whilst in possession. Xabi Alonso and Xavi are certainties in the centre of the park when fit, and they may well be joined by either Cesc Fabregas or Sergio Busquets, depending on whether Del Bosque wants to keep it tight or include an extra attacking player. David Silva and Andres Iniesta may well start from wide areas, but look to get space in-field and provide chances. Santi Cazorla could be used if Spain look for width and delivery.
Likely to be one of four in attack, however Pedro could also be used as a supporting striker. Negredo, Torres or Llorente will be charged with finishing the chances created by the mercurial midfield maestros, which should be plentiful. After the Sevilla man's season of injuries and Torres' torrid time at Stamford Bridge, the omission of Roberto Soldado is surprising to say the least. The Valencia marksman has continued to progress this season at the Mestalla, and was for some (including myself) the pick of the available forwards to fill David Villa's shoes. Atletico Madrid's Adrian also missed out.
Del Bosque's squad is dominated by World Cup winners, Barcelona and Real Madrid superstars and has extraordinary depth. Spain rightly go into the competition as frontrunners, however it will be interesting who gets the nod up front and given the task of firing La Roja to their third consecutive glorious campaign.


As a Wii owner, I have to be honest, the classic controller is hit or miss with certain Virtual Console titles. Sometimes the set-up is deadon, while others (i.e. N64 titles) leave you wanting to same grip you had when you first picked up a N64 controller. No worries though as Nintendo has announced the North American release of the Classic Controller Pro, and it's black too.
Japanese gamers have had the fortunate time with this controller for awhile, so it makes sense for Nintendo to finally pony up and release a better version of their original classic controller release. The Classic Controller Pro is basically the same design but with grips on the bottom, a set of extra shoulder buttons on the back and a cord that comes out of the top instead of the bottom. (Yes, the Dreamcast controller had this but we forgive Sega from time-to-time).
But, that's not all folks. The Classic Controller Pro will be bundled with the release of Monster Hunter Tri for a price of $59.99, so you'll be able to test out this bad boy when the Japanese mega-hit is shipped. The controller will also be sold separately for a price of $19.99. No firm release date has been confirmed, but Gameshoe will announce it when we hear more.


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The Crime of Being a Woman Athlete
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I wasn't really involved in sports until I turned ten. I was not the biggest fan of watching a game or practicing for long hours, because I considered it boring.
But the older I got, plus the more I started to pick up my involvement in sports, I slowly started to understand why people loved watching and taking part in them. The only aspect I never truly understood, and still do not, is the crime of being a woman athlete.
There always seemed to be a negative connotation that followed the title. The backhanded comments are some of the first things that come to mind. These comments and connotations only seemed to increase the older I got and the more involved I became in sports, and I was only barely scraping the surface of them.
Women athletes, at all levels, are treated differently than male athletes. They are constantly being judged for their actions, comments, presentation, and even just how they play their sport. There are so many incidents where women are treated differently, but usually the bad takes over the good.
The first thing that male athletes most often get away with is their actions or comments in a game. There are times when a male player gets angry in a game, or after, and make rude comments towards players, referees, supporters, and even reporters, and face no backlash or repercussions.
However, if a female athlete were to do something like this, it would be brought up for the next three years and that player would never hear the end of it. For example, Serena Williams lost the U.S. Open Tennis tournament in 2018, and proceeded to be upset over how she played and lost. She never criticized the referees or bashed her opponent, she was simply angry with herself and her playing ability, knowing she could do better.
A comic was then released after the final match with Williams angrily jumping on her broken racquet and the referee in the background telling the other player to "just let her win." Just because she was upset with herself, the comic and article decided to criticize her and make her out to be a baby who cannot handle losing. They also said, as a woman athlete, she let her emotions get the best of her and didn't "take the loss like a man."
Comments and articles like this, stating she cannot handle the loss properly because she's a woman and lets her emotions get the best of her, is frankly insane. I have seen men punch lockers and kick trash cans after games, and most people defend them by saying "they are just dedicated to the sport, they have the right to be upset." This is not an acceptable response towards the situation, and shows how differently women are treated in athletics.
Another way female athletes are treated differently than male athletes is the fact that people are afraid to accept that women athletes can be amazing in their own way. A lot of people refuse to believe that and immediately follow with the argument, "well the men's team can beat them, so why does it matter?"
Ultimately, that is demeaning to women who play these sports because people refuse to see the potential that these women have. Even if you do not find the women's side of a sport as entertaining, why is the first response to bring them down? This does not happen in men's sports.
Men do face judgement and criticism for their playing ability, but they almost never get put down because of their gender. They also never seem to be compared to women's sports as often as women get compared to the men. Why can only one gender of a sport thrive and be great at a game? Why can't they both excel? The G.O.A.T. argument is a huge example of this topic and proves that a lot of the media and society look to only have male sports thrive.
Lastly, another way that both women and men are treated differently in sports is how the media reacts. One currently popular argument is Alex Morgan "sipping the tea" after she scored her goal during the World Cup game against England in 2019. Now, if a male soccer player was to perform this move, they would have been made out to be a God and receive endless praise.
Another example of this is Megan Rapinoe's power stance during the World Cup. She was called unprofessional and was told to stay in her lane, and never do that celebration again. She proceeded to take this as a challenge and has repeatedly done it since then, but a male counter-part, Cristiano Ronaldo, performed the same stance and faced nothing but praise from the press and fans of the sport.
Ultimately, the media sets women's sports up for failure. They push more negative press about women's sports and look for the negatives to publish articles about. If the roles were reversed, the men would be praised for the exact same things that these women are doing.
Do not get me wrong though, we have certainly come a long way as a society to the acceptance of women in sports, but I still believe we have an even farther way to go. The people who still refuse to believe that women's sports provide quality entertainment are the ones halting this process for everyone else.
Look into the future of sports because this is the only warning that will be provided. The future is women and I promise you, they are hunting to be heard.
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Cleveland nurse on coronavirus frontline explains struggles of distancing from her own children
'It's very hard because you want to touch your kids and interact with them.'
Author: Jasmine Monroe
Published: 7:59 AM CDT April 2, 2020
Updated: 7:59 AM CDT April 2, 2020
CLEVELAND — Lakeisha McMillian is just one of millions of Americans trying to adjust to the new norm.
"It's very hard because you want to touch your kids and interact with them."
But she can't have that close interaction because she's a nurse who handles COVID-19 patients.
Now, she's forced to keep physical distance from her two children who are considered high-risk.
"I distance myself within my own home," she tells 3News. "They are in a different area of the house. I miss them."
McMillian, who is a single parent of three, now has to juggle being a mother and a nurse all through isolation,so text messages are how they communicate for the time being.
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"It's now a routine. I've gotten used to not sleeping, just doing what you have to do to make it through the next day."
A routine that now consists of no hugs and no kisses from mom.
But she says it's support from the community that gives her hope and strength.
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WWE Hall Of Famer Scott Hall Dies At 63
Mike McGinn March 14th, 2022
PARK CITY, UT - JANUARY 23: Wrestler Scott Hall from "The Resurrection of Jake The Snake Roberts" poses for a portrait at the Village at the Lift Presented by McDonald's McCafe during the 2015 Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2015 in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images)
Former WWE & WCW Hall of Famer, Scott Hall passed away today after his family took him off life support due to suffering three heart attacks this weekend. Hall, who also went by the stage name Razor Ramon in the late 1980's early 90's was one of the pillars of the WWE vs WCW Monday Night Wars and was one of the founding members of one of the all time great factions in wrestling history, The NWO. Last week he had hip replacement surgery, but there were complications following the procedure due to a blood clot getting loose.
May "The Bad Guy" Rest In Peace.
A quote that will live on forever, you will be missed Scott Hall 🤍 pic.twitter.com/oMgvqISRAD
— Wrestle Ops (@WrestleOps) March 14, 2022
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Hi, I'm Sarah. Welcome to The Daily English Show.
Today's language is Swahili.
The video I studied today is from Watch Me TV – which is one of the sites where you can watch The Daily English Show.
It's someone teaching Swahili in Japanese ... so yeah, maybe not that useful for study English. But anyway.
The video is made by Hide – who is a Japanese reality TV star. He was on a show called Ainori.
I really like Ainori. But I haven't seen it for ages because we don't have a TV and YouTube deleted all the Ainori videos. Evil YouTube. No, I'm kidding, I guess it's fair enough.
Anyway what I like about Ainori is I think it's a good mix of entertainment and education and doing something positive for the world.
It's a kind of dating show - but they travel around the world and visit interesting places ... and I think you can donate money to the show – and then they do things like build schools in places where they don't have schools.
Hide traveled around Africa on the show and he really liked it. So when he finished the show he went back and did some more traveling and then he started a business importing goods from Africa. And he has a shop in Harajuku. I actually went there once but I didn't go inside because there was a really big queue. I think it was during Golden Week. And I never got round to going back.
Hide now has some videos on Watch Me TV and in one of them he is teaching Swahili.
Swahili is the most widely spoken African language. It is spoken by over 50 million people, of whom there are approximately five million first-language speakers and thirty to fifty million second-language speakers.
Hide teaches two words in his video:
Jambo which means hello.
And shikamoo which is how you greet an elder person.
Kia ora in Stick News today a character in an in-flight movie said "beep bless you" instead of "god bless you" after a censor bleeped out all references to god.
Profanity is another name for a swear word.
Swear words are words that are considered by some people to be rude or offensive such as shit or fuck.
Profanity includes blasphemy. Blasphemous language is language that insults or shows a lack of respect for God or religion.
Saying "oh my god" is blasphemy – but saying "god bless you" isn't.
A US company called Jaguar Distribution had the job of editing the movie The Queen to be shown on Delta Air Lines, Air New Zealand and other airlines.
A censor at was told to bleep out all profanity including blasphemy.
The censor was inexperienced and excitedly bleeped out every time a character said god – even when it wasn't part of a profanity.
And that was Stick News for Friday the 26th of January.
There wasn't much fresh snow today, so the snow was pretty hard.
#163 Have you seen The Lion King?
Step 1: Repeat Tracey's lines.
Step 2: Read Tracey's lines and talk to Sarah.
Sarah Did you know hakuna matata was Swahili?
Tracey Hakuna what?
Sarah Haven't you heard that phrase?
Tracey No.
Sarah Have you seen The Lion King?
Tracey No, I haven't.
Sarah Really?!
Tracey Yeah, I don't really like Disney movies.
Sarah Oh OK. Well, they say it in The Lion King. I just Disney just made it up – but it's actually Swahili.
Tracey What does it mean?
Sarah No worries.
Learn basic Swahili.
Great Swahili song! (Listening to this song put me in such a good mood).
Today's language is Persian.
Persian is also called these two words. I'm not sure how to pronounce them.
Parsi and Farsi.
Persian is an Indo-European language spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan
And by minorities in these countries.
Southern Russia
And neighboring countries, and elsewhere.
Apparently Persian used to be even more widely used.
For five centuries prior to the British colonization of South Asia, Persian was widely used as a second or first language in the Indian subcontinent.
Only in 1843 did the British force the subcontinent to begin conducting business in English instead of the traditional Persian.
Persian is written in Perso-Arabic script which is a writing system based on the Arabic alphabet.
So it looks similar to Arabic.
And you can learn some Persian from messmanreturns on YouTube.
In this video he teaches some Persian letters and words.
Including these words:
Kia ora in Stick News today the 2006 word of the year in Australia has been announced. It's muffin top.
In Australia some people enjoy wearing low cut tight fitting pants and skirts.
According to the Australian government's website around 67% of Australian men and 52% of Australian women are overweight.
The excess fat the Aussies are carrying around can't fit into the tight pants – so it spills out over the top.
This creates an effect which looks like the shape of a muffin. So it's called a muffin top.
Muffin top has just been chosen as the Australian word of the year. Judges chose the word because of its vivid imagery and sense of playfulness.
That was Stick News for Thursday the 25th of January.
#162 Have you ever seen a muffin top?
Step 1: Repeat Hide's lines.
Step 2: Read Hide's lines and talk to Sarah.
Hide Have you ever seen a muffin top?
Sarah Yeah – it was one of the first things I noticed when I went to Australia.
Hide Why do people wear clothes like that?
Sarah I guess they think it looks good.
Hide They think a roll of fat looks good?
Sarah Well, some people think excess fat looks good.
Hide Really?
Sarah Yeah. Have a look on the internet. There are some people who want to gain more fat. And they say it's attractive.


The nature of design, as with any undertaking of the creative sort, calls for broad horizons. The more experiences and cultures one is steeped in, the richer his or her output. But in doing so, what are the responsibilities that come with such acts of "borrowing"; when is it considered cultural appropriation? While the current climate has seen many a designer called out on the matter time and again and yet, offer little remedy or repair, Christian Louboutin shows us how it's really done with a recent bag collection.
Inspired by the lagoons, traffic jams and bedazzled trucks of the Philippines, the Manilacaba range is a collaborative effort between the brand and local artisans of the GREAT Women in ASEAN (GWA) initiative from design to production. It doesn't simply take or borrow, but sets the stage for its people to represent their own culture and traditions first-hand: "Designing the side-panels with Christian was a rich experience. The pattern Christian elaborated for them was new for the artisans who were used to weaving traditional motifs with this technique," said GWA's co-founder, Jeannie Javelosa of the process. "[The collaboration] is a unique chance to help artisans grow and put their work in the light." Going one step further, the brand is to pump in ten percent of the collection's profits to the organisation in hopes of further empowering these artisans and their craft.
To that, we say watch and learn.
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The word 'campervans' covers a large range of different vehicles. A number of terms are used to describe more or less the same thing! Camper vans or campervans are also known as motorhomes in New Zealand. We've also heard them called caravanettes (by our British friends) and RVs (by the Americans and Aussies).
Huge 4 and 6 berth campervans with all the mod cons – more like apartments on wheels!
The camper van you choose will depend on your specific requirements.
You can also buy new and used campervans in New Zealand. If you're planning to stay in New Zealand for longer than a few months, buying a campervan may be a better option for you than renting. You'll find more information on our Should you Rent or Buy? page.


Is Hiring a Real Estate Coach Worth it?
Brian Meidam talks to us today about what you can get out of hiring a real estate investing coach and if it's right for you.
Learn more about what a coach can do for you and how they hold you accountable.
Mike: Welcome back to the FlipNerd.com REI classroom where experts from across the real estate investing industry teach you quick lessons to take your business to the next level, and now let's meet today's expert host.
Brian: Hi everyone my name is Brian Meidam with Plan B HomeBuyers, and today I'll be your host with the REI classroom, and we are going to be talking about the subject: Is hiring a real estate coach worth it?
Mike: This REI classroom update is sponsored by VirtualStaffNow.com.
Brian: So is hiring a real estate coach worth it? Is it worth the investment? Well, I'm sure you've all heard of people like Warren Buffett. Well, actually he was coached by Ben Graham. Bill Gates was coached by Warren Buffett. Steve Jobs was coached by Andy Grove. Mark Zuckerberg, Mr. Facebook, he was coached by many people including Steve Jobs.
So I guess plain and simple, if you want to be successful, do what successful people do and hire a coach. I know some of you may be thinking, well Brian, you're completely biased because you coach real estate investors. Well, I have been in this business since 2004, and at that time I made a decision to fire my employer, actually in 2007, and I still have the same coach that I have today as when I started out with.
Why? Well, I pay that person a lot of money, but they've helped me become successful. They see things my business that I'm not able to see because I'm simply too close to it. My business has grown every single year since I've started, and it's not because I'm some genius. It's because my coach is helping a lot along the way and has pushed me to hit the goals that I wanted to.
So how much should you pay your coach? Well, if the person that you hire to coach you in 12 months gets you to let's say a 6 figure income that you weren't making before, what's that worth to you? Is that 10 grand, 20 grand, 50 grand, a full hundred grand?
I know what some of you are thinking right now is like, "Well, Brian, there's lots of free information online. You don't need to hire a coach. You can just get everything out there online." Well, you know, free information online comes with a significant cost, and that cost is your time and how much time are you willing to give up in agony to try and figure it out.
The other part you can just hire a coach and instead of treading along, they're going to help you really ramped up that business in a hurry and get you to the next level.
So I coach a small number of investors around the country in the real estate business, and when I'm talking with them, a common theme I hear is that they're stuck. They just can't get to that next level, and the issue for most of them is they don't know what they don't know. Again, they're too close to their business, and until we start working together they can't see everything that's happening.
Just one thing that a real estate coach can do for you, besides the accountability and teaching you the I guess the tricks of the trade, and there really is no tricks, just being consistent and knowing what to do and when.
Time is our most valuable asset. So I say quit wasting your time and hire a real estate coach. They'll get you where you need to be much, much faster, hold you accountable, and your progression track won't be flatline.
So you owe it to yourself to get aligned with people that are giving what you want to achieve. So stop wasting your time and hire a coach.
Mike: VirtualStaffNow.com is the leading virtual assistant provider for real estate investors. As busy real estate investors, there's nothing more valuable than our time. VirtualStaffNow.com not only helps you find the right real estate virtual assistant for your business, they train them on an ongoing basis, manage them daily to make sure they're staying productive and effective, and in the event they're not the right fit or need to be replaced, they handle that for you too. Whether you need 1 or 100 virtual assists for your team, start the process right now at VirtualStaffNow.com.
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Businessman, Family Man, Outdoorsman, Successful Real Estate Entrepreneur. Brian Meidam is one of those rare people who does many things and does them all pretty well. Whether its transforming residential real estate from junker status to works of beauty, wholesaling properties, negotiating debt with banks on short sales, buying rental properties for cash flow, providing transactional funding, funding local hard money loans, or coaching real estate investors, Brian takes a measured, hands-on approach to his ventures, which may be one of the reasons Brian has been able to profitably adapt to the ever-changing real estate market since buying his first property more than 10 years ago.With a degree in finance and a background in fixed-income trading, Brian has the experience and skill to approach investing from all angles, one of the traits that also make him a successful coach to burgeoning investors.When he isn't doing deals, enjoying Wisconsin's natural beauty, or relaxing with his wife and three children, Brian regularly acts as an advisor nationwide to select real estate investors seeking to launch, streamline, or make the leap to profitability.


According to a new report from FIFA, Premier League clubs spent £660m on international transfers last year, accounting for 25% of all money spent.
After the Premier League, Italian clubs were the next biggest spenders overseas (£286m), followed by France (£253m), Spain (£192m) and Germany (£144m).
The value in the transfer market must be in Brazil are the World Cup hosts supplied 13% of all international transfers on 2013, as 1,558 players went overseas.
"There are just a very few clubs making very big moves and that is skewing the market, but the rest of the market is very stable," said Mark Goddard, general manager of Fifa's Transfer Matching System.
Despite big money signings of Gareth Bale and Neymar, Spanish clubs were the biggest net earners when it came to deals in 2013, earning £150m selling players abroad.
What is remarkable about the transfers is that FIFA reports that £2.2 billion was spent on transfer fees last season. Of that £2.2B, five club, Monaco, Real Madrid, Man City, Spurs & PSG were responsible for approximately £500 million of that whole spend. Which equates to roughly a quarter of all transfer spending.
One of stat that jumped out was the increase in so-called conditional transfers, where part of the fee is fixed and the rest is performance-based. Fees from such transfers leapt 73% to a total of £317 million.
Mark Goddard, general manager of FIFA's Transfer Matching System (TMS), said the jump in conditional transfers could be significant.
"It is a very interesting trend because the market is becoming more astute, a lot of the transfers are based on either potential performance or past performance, if the players are older," he told reporters.
"Conditions can be represented by a number of performance factors such as qualification for competitions, relegation, or the players' performance on an individual level.


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New Unease for Europe's Rescue Plan
JACK EWING and LIZ ALDERMAN
Oct 24, 2011 at 12:01 AM Oct 25, 2011 at 10:04 AM
Fears are growing that the latest rescue will be another minimal step that falls short of a solution.
FRANKFURT — As officials worked on Monday to iron out details of a plan to solve the European debt crisis, fears were growing that the result might be another example of European leaders doing less rather than more. And concerns are that it may not be enough.
After marathon talks in Brussels during the weekend, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and other leaders returned to their respective capitals while high-level aides remained to work on issues like debt relief for Greece and measures to strengthen European banks.
But one of the most concrete results of the weekend talks — a plan to compel banks to bolster their emergency reserves — disappointed expectations and suggested that Mrs. Merkel and Mr. Sarkozy were still hesitant to commit resources to a problem that threatens not only the survival of the euro but the world economy.
Banks would be required to raise their reserves by about 100 billion euros ($139 billion) for the euro area as a whole. That sum is at the low end of analysts' estimates and is well below what many analysts consider adequate to remove doubts about the creditworthiness of European banks and to restore their access to international money markets.
"The key to re-establishing confidence is to reassure markets you have dealt with the weak links," said Nicolas Véron, a senior fellow at Bruegel, a research organization in Brussels. "It seems the parameters they have agreed on do not accomplish that."
Mr. Véron said the standards applied appeared to be so lenient that even the troubled French-Belgian bank Dexia would not be required to raise more capital, if it were not already the focus of its second government rescue in three years.
The tentative plan would give banks until June 30 to increase their reserves, which they could achieve by selling new shares, retaining profits or selling assets. But taxpayer support would be required for weaker banks.
In response to criticism that the time span was too long, some officials in Brussels were arguing to move the deadline to the end of the first quarter.
The recapitalization plan seems to be based on the costs of a default by Greece, but investors have already shifted their focus to Italy and the risk that Rome's dysfunctional politics could endanger the country's ability to service its debt.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi did little to ease the discomfort as he struggled Monday to persuade his own allies to support pro-growth measures that he first promised in August. During the weekend, Mrs. Merkel and Mr. Sarkozy were openly disdainful of Mr. Berlusconi's progress so far.
The amount being discussed for the recapitalization plan is not enough to reassure investors about the risks emanating from Italy, said Jon Peace, an analyst in London for Nomura. "We're going to need potentially much more capital to provide that comfort."
If there were a positive message to emerge from the meeting, it was the acknowledgment by European leaders that the crisis required a battery of measures, including bank recapitalization.
"The Europeans have now come to the conclusion that something needs to be done about the capital of the banks, and they should do it well, consistently and in a coordinated fashion without missing the target," said an official who has participated in the talks, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the discussions were continuing and confidential.
Talks with banking industry representatives in Brussels were also continuing about a steeper devaluation of Greek debt, perhaps as much as 60 percent, to a level the country has a chance of repaying. But banks, which had agreed earlier to a 21 percent "haircut," seemed to be taking a hard line.
One of the main negotiators for the banking industry warned of dire consequences if banks were forced to accept losses against their will.
"Any approach that is not based on cooperative discussions and involves unilateral actions would be tantamount to default, would isolate the Greek economy from international capital markets for many years and would impose a harsh burden on the Greek people as well as European taxpayers," said Charles H. Dallara, managing director of the Institute of International Finance, a banking group.
"It would also likely have severe contagion effects, which would cost the European and the world economy dearly in terms of employment and growth," Mr. Dallara said in a statement.
The banks are insisting on assurances that Greece will eventually be able to repay its debts without the help of international bailouts. The International Monetary Fund said last week that would be a tall hurdle because Greece's economy has deteriorated so much that it might need to rely on international assistance for as long as nine years.
In the weekend meetings in Brussels, the sense of frustration with the banks was palpable among some policy makers, said the official who participated in the talks. Given that investors might no longer be surprised if Greece did default, several member states said it should be allowed to, according to the official.
Nonetheless, with the painful memory of the demise of Lehman Brothers in 2008 still fresh, Europeans recognize the dangers of allowing a Greek default. A default would be dangerous "because we don't have a clue of what it would be like, just like with Lehman," the official said. "Little did we know what the consequences would be."
The European leaders also seemed to be paying more attention to the need to do more than just preach austerity. There is general agreement that they need to find a way to restart economic growth, not just in Greece and other stricken countries but throughout the Continent.
"Without growth, Europe is at risk of struggling permanently with debt sustainability," the economists Zsolt Darvas and Jean Pisani-Ferry wrote in a paper published Monday by Bruegel.
New data released on Monday underscored what the paper called a "growth emergency." The Markit Eurozone purchasing managers' index for industrial and services companies fell to its lowest point since July 2009, led by a steep decline in business sentiment in France. The survey data reinforce expectations that Europe is headed for a recession, which could depress tax receipts and make it even more difficult for governments to reduce their budget deficits.
Another issue that European leaders are trying to resolve is how to increase the firepower of the euro area's bailout fund. One plan favored by Germany involves setting aside money from the fund to guarantee bonds from countries like Italy or Spain against a first cut of any losses that buyers might suffer.
Because neither Germany nor France wants to pump even more taxpayer money into the 440 billion euro fund, a second, more intense debate has sprung up over the idea of creating an accompanying fund, known as a special-purpose vehicle, that would theoretically attract money from emerging market nations or other countries to help Europe contain the crisis.
It was not immediately clear what incentive countries would have. Some officials have suggested that the I.M.F. could also contribute money to the fund. But that is proving to be a hard sell.


What Does Operation New World Do?
Operation New World is an educational Charity established in 1992 in order to provide self-help programmes for young people in need of the knowledge, guidance and necessary skills to become competitive in the current jobs market. Although the courses focus upon the huge and rapidly expanding environmental jobs sector, which provides employment at all levels from manual labour to consultancy and executive, it has been designed to develop an extensive range of transferable skills necessary in todays' world of work.
The UK based element of the programme is primarily concerned with developing the ability to effectively search the jobs market; produce an appropriate, targeted cv and succeed at interview.
The complementary field work is used as a vehicle to develop skills in planning, organising, teamwork, and leadership, with classroom sessions designed to develop self-confidence and communication abilities.
It is controlled by a Council of Management.
Anne Leonard MBE; Col. JN Blashford-Snell OBE; David Prichard MBE; David Zeitlin (Co Secretary).
Since 1992, nearly two thousand young people have taken part of whom 90% found jobs or took up full time education shortly afterwards.
A one day introductory course based in the UK.
One or two weeks field trip in an isolated location, free from the distractions of life in the UK.
The projects are led by highly experienced, qualified, teaching and business professionals and local experts.


After both attorneys in a DUI / DWI trial have made their closing arguments, and the judge has given the jury their final instructions, the jurors are sent to deliberate the case.
This is the first opportunity the jurors have to discuss the case with one another. The jurors will elect a foreperson who oversees the deliberation process.
The jurors deliberate on all of the evidence presented throughout the trial. They decide which facts to consider, which to discount, and decide how much weight to give to each piece of evidence presented.
The jurors must follow the law as laid out in the instructions given to them by the judge. Jurors can send a note to the judge if they have any questions. They are also allowed to see certain pieces of physical evidence if they wish.
After deliberating for a certain period of time, the jurors will take a vote. If all agree, they have reached a verdict. If they do not yet agree, more deliberations will follow. When all jurors agree on a verdict, the bailiff is notified, and the jury returns to the courtroom to have the verdict read.
If all jurors agree in the defendant's guilt, a guilty verdict is rendered. If all jurors agree in the defendant's innocence, an acquittal or verdict of not guilty is returned.
If the jury cannot agree on a verdict, there is a hung jury. This is a win for the defendant. Many cases are dismissed following a hung jury. If the case is not dismissed, the prosecutor may offer a generous plea bargain. Although the case can be retried, the prosecutor rarely will want to do so.