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Canoe Polo, a spectacular and rapidly growing discipline of the International Canoe Federation, is unlike other Canoe sports. Canoe Polo is a game of two halves of 10 minutes where two teams of 5 players battle it out with a water polo ball. The aim is to score into a goal, which is suspended 2meters above the water at each end of a rectangular 'playing pitch'. These pitches can be on open water or they can even be on a swimming pool. The sport is as much fun to play as it is to watch.
The game is played in short stable kayaks on a pitch that is 35m long and 23 m wide. Teams consist of 5 players on the pitch with up to 3 rolling substitutes who sit behind the goals. Canoe Polo is a fast ball sport with the teams objective to score a point by throwing the ball into the oppositions goal which hangs 2m above the water and is 1.5m x 1m in size.
Canoe Polo boats are flat stable kayaks that are not dissimilar to a slalom boat with the nose and tail cut off. The only way to maneuver the boat is with the paddle and polo players quickly learn the skills necessary play in this manner. In addition, players must learn the skill required to throw the ball with the speed, skill and accuracy necessary to either score a goal or just to pass to team mates without the ball being intercepted by an opposition players paddle.
Canoe polo, as with any team sport, requires that players develop tactical play to outwit their opponents. In general, when a team loses possession of the ball the players will chase back to their goal, set a goalie in place, and form a zone around the goal area to try to prevent attackers from getting close enough to take a shot. Any player can play goalie with the referees interpreting the goalie as being the closest player to the centre of the goal whilst in defense. Once a ball is thrown at the goal the best defense is for a defending player or the goalie to try to stop or bat the ball away from the goal with their paddle.
In attack a team would develop strategies for attacking an opponent's zone. Canoe Polo is an exciting contact sport and players can use their boat to impact or drive an opposing players boat away whilst in the zone area. Similarly though, a defending player can use their boat to block other players from entering the zone. During attacking plays the team will often use big strong players to try to drive defenders away from an area thus creating a hole into which other attacking players can enter to score.
Although Canoe Polo is a contact sport the game has certain rules which are made to prevent players from getting injured. These rules include fouls for illegal use of the paddle and boat. Players are also required to wear a helmet with face mask as a precaution to protect against paddle blows and life jackets which are classed as body armour, protecting against boats. Boats are also padded at the back and front to protect other players in the event of a collision with the body (which is a foul anyway). The above rules and protection have meant that there are very few injuries sustained in canoe polo.
Click Here to go open the ICF Canoe Polo webpage in a new window.
Click Here for the official ICF Canoe Polo Rules (in a new window).
CANOE POLO IN SOUTH AFRICA
Canoe polo is currently played in KwaZulu-Natal (Durban and Pietermaritzurg), Gauteng, Knysna and Cape Town. Canoe Polo is played at a World Championship level and is a sport in the World Games. The World Championships allow for the entry of Senior mens and ladies and U21 mens and ladies teams to the competition. The World Championships are held every two years and the world games every four. South Africa have competed at eight of the nine previous world championship events with a best result of 7th in the senior mens category. Historically the World Games allow only the top six teams in the world and hence South Africa have not had the privilege of playing at one of these events.
Canoe Polo is seen as an ideal vehicle for introducing the sport of canoeing to new paddlers. The game is exciting and fun to play and since the boats are quite stable it allows new players to become competitive very quickly.
Selection and Trials
Committee's Contact Details
Durban Kade Burnett Kade.Burnett@derivco.com
Pietermaritzburg Kevin Meier (0824545686)kevin.meier@umgeni.co.za
Gauteng Chad Andrews chad@canoeconcepts.co.za
Western Cape Sam Braid
wccanoe_polo@yahoo.com
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Three Buckley men in court on drugs charges
THREE men from Buckley have appeared in court on drugs charges after a raid at a flat.
Steven James Hughes, 22, of Rhuddlan Road, had been arrested when a drugs warrant was executed by police.
No Ecstasy was found – but Hughes was charged because of the incriminating text messages found on his phone.
Hughes admitted being concerned in the supply of the class A drug and received a 52-week prison sentence, suspended for a year.
Mold Crown Court heard he had supplied up to 100 tablets a week for up to three-and-a-half months.
Hughes was also ordered to carry out 300 hours unpaid work and pay £500 costs.
Co-defendant Reece John Williams, 20, of Princess Avenue, Buckley, admitted supplying amphetamine after 133 grammes of the class B drug was found by police.
He received a 32-week youth custody sentence, suspended for 12 months, with 200 hours unpaid work and a two-month curfew.
Christopher Edward Bright, 19, of Prince of Wales Court, Buckley, whose home was raided by the police, admitted possessing amphetamine for his own use.
He received a community order involving supervision.
The charges followed a police raid at Bright's flat in December 2009.
Judge Niclas Parry said he believed the defendants were 'extremely fortunate' to be dealt with in the way they had been.
The court heard, since their arrests 14 months ago, the defendants had changed their lifestyles and stopped using drugs.
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Q: Ionic application Xcode build errors I have created a new ionic react project based on the templates on the ionic website and also added capacitor ios.
When I open my project and try to run it in Xcode I get the following errors as attached in the image.
Wondering if anyone can help with this.

Thanks

A: This is because your Podfile hasn't been updated.
You need to run:
npx cap update ios
then:
npx cap build ios
This will force refresh the Podfile for you.
If this doesn't work, you should try deleting your iOS folder within your IDE and reinstalling with:
npx cap add ios or ionic cap add ios
then:
npx cap build ios or ionic cap build ios.
Mac with Apple Silicon (M1)
The above is still correct, but there is a bug within CocoaPods which will prevent you from installing it correctly and therefore run these steps first:
sudo arch -x86_64 gem install ffi
then:
arch -x86_64 pod install
This will simulate Intel architecture and allow you to install the pods.

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Mélanie Joly named heritage minister in Trudeau cabinet
Mélanie Joly, a former litigation lawyer and the recently elected member of Parliament for Montreal's Ahuntsic-Cartierville riding, has been named Canadian heritage minister in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's new cabinet.
Joly holds degrees in law from University of Montreal and Oxford. She worked at two major law firms – including Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg, where she was mentored by former Parti Quebecois premier Lucien Bouchard – before switching to a career in communications. She headed the Quebec advisory committee for Trudeau's Liberal leadership campaign.
Joly founded the municipal political party Vrai changement pour Montréal in 2013, and finished in a strong second place when she ran for mayor later that year, on a platform that included strong promotion and support of the city's culture and cultural identity.
The 36-year-old minister has sat on a variety of professional culture boards and committees, including those of the Montreal Contemporary Art Museum, Ballets Jazz de Montréal, the Montreal Bach Festival, and the Laval Symphony Orchestra. In 2010 she received the Arnold Edinborough Award, which recognizes young professional volunteerism in the arts. She is also the author of the book Changer les règles de jeu (Changing the Rules of the Game), an examination of the Canadian political system.
The heritage minister's portfolio oversees the country's arts industry, and includes the Canada Council for the Arts, Library and Archives Canada, the CBC, Telefilm Canada, and others.
In a statement following the swearing in of Canada's 29th cabinet on Nov. 4, Prime Minister Trudeau said his government planned to "reinvest in our cultural and creative industries."
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Category: Book news
Tagged with: Department of Canadian Heritage, heritage department, Mélanie Joly


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The United States Secret Service said on Wednesday that it had intercepted a pair of suspicious packages addressed to former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
A third suspicious package found in the mailroom of Time Warner Center in New York City forced the evacuation of the building, which houses CNN's New York bureau.
The package addressed to Bill and Hillary Clinton's home in Chappaqua, N.Y., was recovered late Tuesday, the Secret Service said in a statement to Yahoo News. A second package addressed to Obama was intercepted by Secret Service personnel in Washington, D.C., early Wednesday. The Secret Service screens all mail addressed to its protectees; the Clintons and Obamas have had Secret Service detail since serving in the White House.
"The packages were immediately identified during routine mail screening procedures as potential explosive devices and were appropriately handled as such," the statement read. "The protectees did not receive the packages nor were they at risk of receiving them."
Hillary Clinton, who is in Florida campaigning for Democratic congressional candidate Donna Shalala, was not home at the time.
"We are fine, thanks to the men and women of the Secret Service who intercepted the package addressed to us long before it made its way to our home," Clinton said before a rally for Shalala on Wednesday. "Every day we are grateful for their service and commitment and obviously never more than today."
The Secret Service said it has "initiated a full scope criminal investigation" to "determine the source of the packages and identify those responsible."
The discovery of the three packages comes just two days after a pipe bomb was found in the Bedford, N.Y., mailbox of billionaire philanthropist George Soros. Soros, like the Clintons, lives in Westchester County. According to the New York Times, the device sent to the Clintons was similar to the one sent to Soros, a liberal donor who has long been the target of conservative conspiracies.
Officials told ABC News that the devices found in packages addressed to Soros, Clinton and Obama "appear to be of similar pipe bomb style construction."
NBC News reported that the return address on the suspicious packages sent to Soros, Clinton and belonged to Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, D-Fla., a former Democratic National Committee official. Wasserman-Schultz's offices in Sunrise, Fla., were evacuated Wednesday after a suspicious package was found mailed there, local police said.
Earlier Wednesday, a spokesman for New Castle Police Department said its officers assisted Secret Service and the FBI's New York field office after the package was found near the Clintons' home.
In a statement, the FBI said its Joint Terrorism Task Force was "engaged with our federal, state and local partners" in the investigation.
"We condemn the attempted violent attacks recently made against President Obama, President Clinton, Secretary Clinton, and other public figures," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement. "These terrorizing acts are despicable, and anyone responsible will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.
The United States Secret Service and other law enforcement agencies are investigating and will take all appropriate actions to protect anyone threatened by these cowards."
Vice President Mike Pence condemned the "attempted attacks" in a tweet. President Trump retweeted Pence, adding: "I agree wholeheartedly!"
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Brassaï, pseudoniem van Gyula Halász (Kronstadt, tegenwoordig Brașov, 9 september 1899 – Nice, 7 juli 1984) was een Frans fotograaf van Hongaarse afkomst.

Leven en werk
Brassaï was de zoon van een professor in de Franse literatuur en verhuisde al op driejarige leeftijd met zijn ouders naar Parijs, waar zijn vader les ging geven aan de Sorbonne. Hij studeerde in schilderkunst in Boedapest en ging in 1920 naar Berlijn, waar hij de Universiteit van de Kunsten bezocht. In 1924 vestigde hij zich definitief in Parijs, waar hij zich aansloot bij de kunstenaarskringen in de wijk Montparnasse. Aanvankelijk ging hij werken als journalist. In die periode nam hij ook zijn pseudoniem Brassaï aan, hetgeen betekent: 'van Brașov'.

Onder invloed van zijn vriend fotograaf André Kertész ontwikkelde Brassaï een fascinatie voor het fotograferen van het Parijse nachtleven. Dat bezorgde hem uiteindelijk grote faam. In de jaren dertig publiceerde hij diverse beroemd geworden fotoboeken, waarvan met name Paris de nuit de essentie van zijn werk weergeeft: oprechte en waarachtige beelden van het ware Parijs leven in al haar facetten, ook van de louche buurten. Zijn vriend Henry Miller noemde hem "het oog van Parijs".

Brassaï nam deel aan belangrijke internationale exposities, zoals Photography: 1839–1937 in het Museum of Modern Art in New York. Na de oorlog hield hij grote solotentoonstellingen, onder andere in het George Eastman House, het Art Institute of Chicago en diverse keren opnieuw in het Museum of Modern Art. Hij had veel succes in de Verenigde Staten en publiceerde vaak in Amerikaanse bladen zoals Harper's Bazaar. In 1953 werden een zestal foto's van hem geselecteerd door Edward Steichen voor de wereldberoemde tentoonstelling The Family of Man.

Brassaï was een veelzijdig kunstenaar en hield zich ook bezig met tekenen, schilderen en beeldhouwen. Ook maakte hij veel  kunstzinnige, surrealistische foto's die doen denken aan Man Ray. Hij was bevriend met vooraanstaande kunstenaars zoals Pablo Picasso, Henry Miller, Léon-Paul Fargue en Jacques Prévert. In 1964 publiceerde hij het boek Conversations avec Picasso en in 1975 Henry Miller – The Paris Years.

Brassaï overleed in 1984 in Zuid-Frankrijk, op 84-jarige leeftijd. Hij werd begraven op het Cimetière du Montparnasse te Parijs.

Werk (selectie)
 Paris de Nuit. 1933.
 Conversation avec Picasso. 1964.
 Marcel Proust sous l'emprise de la photographie. Tekst en 16 foto's.
 Henry Miller – The Paris Years. 1975.

Literatuur en bron
 Jean-Claude Gautrand: Brassaï, Universal Art. Taschen, Keulen, 2004, ISBN 3-8228-3137-9.

Externe links
Brassaï at MOMA Museum Of Modern Art New York
Brassaï's exhibition at Fundació Antoni Tàpies

Frans fotograaf
Hongaars fotograaf
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Head to the Kentucky Horse Park this weekend for a special event.
On both Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 29-3, from 2 p.m. – 5pm it's HalloWhinny!
Included in regular park admission and be sure to explore the entire park!
This year, the spirit of HalloWhinny is taking over the weekend. Halloween is approaching, and the park won't let the holiday pass without offering two presentations of HalloWhinny, the annual Halloween show, where park horses and their riders are likely to show up as just about any kind of "scary," funny, or quirky dual human/horse costume for the holiday. Guests will experience fun at HalloWhinny and see some creative costumes, with performances set to music, possibly even Superman, a creepy ghost, a hippy chick, the Wicked Witch, Harry Potter, Beauty and the Beast or any number of spooky or fun characters. Joining the staff, volunteers and horses from the Breeds Barn, the Hall of Champions and the Big Barn will be Patrick the Miniature Horse, retired racehorses from Ohio Standardbreds and Friends, and maybe even American Miniature horses from Stampede of Love.
I tell you what............this is oh-so-very Kentucky!


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Kershaw Dividend Review
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Kershaw's slew of new releases is always some of the biggest news out of SHOT Show. Each year the company unveils more than a dozen designs, including high-profile collaborations as well as compelling offerings from the talented in-house crew. Everything they make is accessible, with even the most lavish releases rarely going over $100. There's bound to be something that appeals to your taste and budget in Kershaw's yearly SHOT barrage.
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For me, that something this year was the Dividend. In fact, it stuck in my mind as one of the most exciting knives of SHOT, full stop. Ostensibly a shorter and slimmer version of the Link, to me the Dividend seemed much more closely related to the Leek: a slim, small, lightweight, US-made SpeedSafe EDC knife with an accessible price point. Before I even had one of my own I was sure I loved it.
But then I got my own Dividend in hand and – well, I didn't hate it, but it did, strangely, seem like a different knife than the one I handled earlier this year. Not a terrible knife, just a much less inspiring one.
The news isn't bad so much as complicated. There's a lot to think about with the Dividend if you're considering picking one up, so let's take a look.
General Dimensions and Blade Details
The Dividend has a cutting edge of 3" and a blade length of 3-3/16"-ish depending on where you measure from. It has a handle length of 4 3/16", an overall length of 7-1/4", and weighs 2.94 oz. It is made in the USA.
We say a blade shape is "modified" when it deviates so much from one of the standards that we're not really sure what to call it. So the Dividend's hollow-ground blade is a modified wharncliffe or drop point, depending on how you look at it. It's a good blade, basically one continuous, gently curved edge. I generally like a mix of straight edge and belly, but the curve here is so gradual in places that, functionally, it's straight. Cutting threads, breaking down boxes, slicing up an apple – these are the kind of things you're going to want to use the Dividend for, and in these tasks it will do just fine.
Blade steel is 420HC – bad stuff. This isn't an entry-level steel, it's an outdated one. The blade geometry makes for an effective cutter, but after working through just a little cardboard the edge was drastically reduced. Not impressive. It doesn't even have the good grace to maintain a clean edge; after that initial cut test it became really toothy. The more I use knives the more I like accessible, easy sharpen steels. 420HC is definitely easy to sharpen, but there's a baseline for edge retention that it failed to clear as implemented on the Dividend.
The obvious response to this criticism is the price: the Dividend is designed as an affordable knife, and costs needs to be kept down with affordable steel. But the Dividend isn't that cheap. I paid north of $40 for mine. Everyone's value scale is calibrated differently, but a $40 purchase is not one I personally make lightly. At the consumer's end of the equation, it's hard to say for sure why a certain decision was made on a knife. But whatever the reason, it's unfortunate that Kershaw chose to go with 420HC steel on the Divdend.
Handle, Ergonomics, and Pocket Clip
There's this one handle shape that KAI's in-house designers return to over and over again. We've seen it on the Link, the Rove, the ZT 0095BW, 0770, and of course the Tilt and 0777. It's a good shape: simple, slightly hump-backed, grip neutral. It's back again on the Dividend, available in two different material choices: a GRN configuration that is slightly cheaper but makes the knife more rotund, or the slim, sleek, Leek-like aluminum that I opted for. There is a decorative GRN backspacer as well – not really a pro or a con, I guess, unless the idea of lint getting caught in there really gets to you.
I've already posited that the Dividend is a secret sequel to the Leek (a Leekquel, if you will) and that really comes through in the aluminum model. The Leek managed to be very thin without feeling overly narrow, and Kershaw pulled off the same trick with the Dividend. It is a rare flipper knife that doesn't butt your knuckle right up against the tab, too, so that's all to the good.
Remember when Kershaw had some of the worst clips in the biz? Go look at the nightmare clown clip on the Zing or the Tyrade. Those days seem to be behind us. The clips they've been using in recent years are so much better. On the Dividend we see that same standard, almost nondescript clip that has appeared on the Link and some ZTs. I like it. My one worry is that the vertical screw orientation will be prone to wiggle over time. That being said I've had no problems with it so far with the Dividend. It has remained secure, doesn't interfere with any grip, and is adequately deep.
Deployment and Lockup
Ah, SpeedSafe: the 8Cr13MoV of deployment methods: on so many knives, what is there left to say about it? The Dividend debuted alongside a few manual knives and I would have liked that setup here as well, but there is no denying the SpeedSafe deployment works great. Also, there's a definite synergy between flippers and SpeedSafe, because they eliminate the possibility of misfires. The Dividend will deploy safely and surely every single time (unless the spring breaks or wears out, at least).
Worth noting is that, compared to the Link as well as other SpeedSafe knives I've owned, the Dividend seems less snappy. There's a kind of softness to its deployment. It might be imperceptibly slower than other SpeedSafe knives but it also circumvents that problem of too much kick: you won't have any problem holding on to the Dividend when you open it.
The liner lock on the Dividend is so squared away and familiar I have qualms about wasting more than a sentence or two discussing it. Rock solid, and exceedingly strong for all reasonable use of this EDC knife. Kershaw left just enough of it exposed to make sure you get good purchase on it for disengagement. Good stuff.
Dividend or Link (or Leek?)
The Dividend is positioned by Kershaw as the smaller follow-up to the Link. The relationship is certainly valid: the knives have material, mechanics, and that KAI handle shape in common. But they feel very different in use: the Link is much thicker, it fills the hand and feels like it's meant to be used hard. The Dividend, while undeniably durable, is slender and elegant, keyed into a more EDC centric philosophy.
I bounced off the Link. I wasn't interested in it when it was announced and have never been tempted to pick one up since. Dan sent me his to compare in this review, and some hands-on time confirmed what I already suspected: I prefer the Dividend in every way. The Dividend is much slimmer, with a better blade shape, and weighs nearly two ounces less. The size difference isn't so pronounced that there are tasks the Link can do that the Dividend can't. It is just a better knife.
The real competition in the Kershaw catalog, of course, comes from the Leek. And how does the Dividend compare to the Kershaw's most iconic knife? Pretty favorably. I like the Dividend's larger handle and less doofy pocket clip much better. Its blade shape has some of the sinuous character of the Leek without the fragility. It would be a straight upgrade were it not for the steel. 420HC is bad, there's no two ways around it. Ultimately, I'd probably still give the nod to the Dividend, but until we see one with better steel (and I suspect we will) this matchup isn't cut and dry as it otherwise would be.
Kershaw Dividend Review – Final Thoughts
In the intro I alluded to my disenchantment with the Dividend. There's a lot of good to be found here: I like the slim profile, blade shape, weight, and pocket clip very much. I can even get behind the SpeedSafe mechanism. But I keep stopping just short of enthusiasm. Why is that?
The overall design is deeply competent, but also fails to stand out compared to classic in-house Kershaws like the Skyline and Knockout, as well as their more characterful collaborations and competition outside the Kershaw family. And over time the price thing really got to me. The aluminum version of the Dividend will probably cost you just under $50 – not what I consider a value knife, and not offering much compared to other knives you can get for the same price or less.
But although my initial enthusiasm eroded away, the Dividend isn't bad. Carrying it was never a chore, even if it was boring and the steel was not so good. Sometimes you get a knife in your head and you just want that knife, even if it's not mathematically the best choice. If the Dividend is such a knife for you, I say go for it. Otherwise, grab a Skyline or a save up for a Delica instead.
Kershaw Dividend Gray Folding Pocket Knife (1812GRY); 3" 420HC Steel Blade with Stonewash Finish, Anodized Aluminum Handle, SpeedSafe Assisted Opening with Flipper, Liner Lock, 4-Position Clip; 2.8 OZ
Premium quality 420HC stainless steel, elegant, drop-point blade with a stonewashed finish offers outstanding edge holding capability, strength, hardness and corrosion resistance; roughened, scuffed look hides scratches, dirt and fingerprints
Anodized aluminum handle in matte grey curves gently to fit the hand comfortably
4-position pocketclip for all users, tip-up or tip-down carry
Ideal, essential EDC—slicing, survival tool, cutting boxes, self-defense, tactical use, food preparation or the perfect gift
High quality, general all-purpose knife great for EDC or use when camping, fishing, hunting, working, utility or outdoor activities
I recommend purchasing the Kershaw Dividend at Amazon or BladeHQ. Please consider that purchasing anything through any of the links on this website helps support BladeReviews.com, and keeps the site going. As always, any and all support is greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.
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Patrick L says
At that price you can get the new Spyderco Efficient or CRKT Pilar, and while 8CR13MOV is not spectacular it's definitely an upgrade. And I think they both have better ergonomics as well.
Good review though. This matches my impression of the Dividend after handling it. Better steel would definitely make this guy much more competitive.
Benjamin Schwartz says
Hey Patrick,
Agreed. Elsewhere the Dividend seems to be raking in the positive reviews despite being pretty non-competitive. Maybe the aura that being Made in the USA imbues it with is closing the gap and making it seem better than it is?
The better steel needs to happen without a big jump in cost, is the key. The increase in price that a steel upgrade brings would put the Dividend into even more contested territory. A carbon fiber version with CPM-154 like the new Leek would be quite cool, though.
If they want to keep it "USA-Made", why not CTS-BD1? That steel is inexpensive enough for Spyderco to export it to China. Why couldn't Kershaw grab a batch for a knife like this? How much more could that add to the cost that would cost them more buyers than they'd gain with the upgrade?
Yeah that was my pick too. I think we're going to see a lot of overseas-produced knives from all sorts of manufacturers with BD-1 in the near future, so it should theoretically be even more cost-efficient if the knife is built in the US. The Spyderco UKPKs are CTS-BD1, US-made, and just over $50, and they were that price even when the steel was newer.
Of course, there are probably logistic issues that affect how easy it is to buy and implement a new steel. Still, I would have waited for all of that to get sorted if it meant a better knife in the end.
R.D. says
Good call on BD-1. I've used it on the new Voyagers and it's just fine.
I somewhat prefer 14C28N but that difference is dwarfed by the gap between BD-1 and the Dividend's rendition of 420HC.
C'mon, KAI. You don't have to have your marketing guy get "cute" with every single release. Just pitch 'em across the plate sometimes. It's okay.
PS: I share Ben's fear that they will whiff the steel upgrade by going all "Benchmade Gold Class" on us, doing an S35VN carbon fiber model that they'll milk the enthusiasts for to the tune of $85 or something.
Great to read this and compare perspectives. This was an important release.
I agree with Ben in almost every way. I would go further and say the Dividend is exceptionally handsome. I love the blade shape, the "KAI handle shape" (this in-house design language is undervalued compared to the glitzy outside collabs) and the clean gray anodized finish.
Lots of praise for the lockup. The liner lock leaf is thin but has strong tension and perfect engagement (about 40%). I found it completely stable in spine whacks and lateral torquing. Couldn't ask for better on a light EDC like this. On an assisted opener, liner locks beat framelocks 9 times out of 10, and this is no exception to the rule.
Basically they gave us every other feature of an outstanding budget offering, while keeping it in the USA (hooray!) … but compromised seriously on the steel. I wonder if companies would even try to offer 420HC today if it weren't for Buck's legitimation of the steel through its way above average treatment. Suffice to say that this was no Buck 420HC. Soft and gummy. (I got mild PTSD recalling the straight up trashy 3Cr13 KAI tried to foist off on us with its Starter series.)
Data point re: the steel — I engaged in some arguably abusive behavior, digging a divot with the Dividend in a stack of paper and cardboard. Good deal of lateral torque. I was being dumb: that slender tip is not up to such applications. But interestingly, the tip didn't snap (as I bet a Sandvik Leek would've done), instad it took on a pronounced bend. Like I said, I doubt we are anywhere near the HRC of the Buck heat treat.
And yet the Dividend's blade shape, ergos, looks and weight are all well above average. Honestly even with ordinary AUS-8 this would be an important budget knife.
In the end, the real question is how much will they try to charge us for the 14C28N upgrade. What do you guys think? I would definitely pay $49.95 for a Sandvik Dividend. (Sky blue anodized handles, please!) Probably $54.95 — that's still less than a Delica, and I prefer 14C28N to VG10.
Beyond that, heavy burden on KAI to explain why it should cost over $15 to upgrade this small knife from a gummy embarrassing steel to a solid but not blingy modern one.
Hey R.D.,
Astute as ever – when are we going to see more full-length reviews from you?
Good point about the looks. I think that when Kershaw tries to do fancy it comes across as tacky (things like the three GTC collabs come to mind), but these simple, honest-looking knives are always visually appealing if not inspiring.
I would happily pay $50 for a Dividend with a Sandvik steel. I think it would still have stiff competition from the not-much-more-expensive Delica, but at least it would be a legitimate competitor and not a compromised also-ran. I can almost guarantee we'll see an upgraded Dividend, but I have a sinking feeling it will price itself out of relevance, kind of like the S35VN Link.
It's just not compelling. Nothing wrong with it other than the steel, but I own a Blur, a Leek, 3 variations of Skylines, a Camber, an OD-2, a CQC-5K, a Needs Work, and a few other Kershaws I can't recall right now. They all seem better. I love it when I see something coming out that is exciting, like the Kizer Feist, but this knife seems like it's been done already.
I can see what you mean – I'm kind of torn between thinking it's a handsome design and thinking it's kind of bland. For me, I think it comes down to this: the design is solid but some good steel alongside the good price would have made it exciting. It's a tough one, and I'd have a hard time recommending it over the any of the knives you mention (other than the Needs Work, which I just don't like).
Younggun says
While holding a lot of promise, the 420HC is going to be the primary failing of this product. Sitting at a price point that is competitive with offerings from other companies with better blade steel (RAT-1; Tenacious; Efficient; and frankly a bevy of KAI's own offerings). Its a tough sell to give you a product at the same price point with less horsepower. With the design quality and the USA-made branding this really could have been a hit if it came in with BD1 or D2. A D2 version that is USA made with the handsome styling this knife exhibits that is priced around 50$ is a strong competitor. It would be priced under a Delica with a steel that many consider better than VG-10 at cutting and maintaining, it would be priced just above a Tenacious which is Chinease made and going for around 40$ now, it would be priced just around a RAT-1 in D2 and have better looks and the benefit of USA made. A home run. Instead what we will get it an upgrade in 6 months or so with S35VN that will price it out of the market for people looking at KAI products. If you pay for S35VN in a KAI knife, you just go to ZT. Its like pricing a Toyota up there to the point that it competes with your luxury brand in Lexus. Bad business.
Younggun,
I totally agree. 420HC is basically inexcusable for this knife. Needs to be offered in BD1, D2, 154CM, CTS-XHP, etc.
Great comment, Younggun. Nailed it.
The implied philosophy of "If you want to buy American and can't pony up around $70, we'll sell you a compromised knife" is pretty grating. This is a great design but the handle materials aren't exotic.
Put BD-1 or D2 on this thing and street it at $50-$55. Boom.
J. Gates says
Kershaw's burgeoning lineup has really left me cold for the past several years. A few of Kershaw's designs are interesting, but their race to push out a bevy of meh Chinese-made blades at ~$30 have placed them one step above Gerber in my personal ranking of knife manufacturers.
Hey J.,
While I wouldn't put Kershaw quite that low I agree with your general point. I think the marketing strategy in recent years has been to release a bunch of entry-level knives, each with a single selling point – or in some cases a gimmick. While they manage to make some interesting blades in the category once in a while, and while the quality is reliably decent, this strategy doesn't really make for knives that feel "complete" to me. They don't feel particularly thought out and I find them hard to connect with.
WIC says
Nice write up as usual. I was left uninterested by the Dividend…until they did the M390 sprint run. Now I am debating picking up a couple more. $70 for an M390 blade is unheard of. And I was going to disable the AO on the Dividend, but I actually like it on this knife. They did tweak it to make it better. All around a great knife, though I do find the handle of the Skyline more ergonomic than the similarly sized Dividend. Now if they would just release it with M390 and G-10 or CF scales…
Hey WIC,
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
That M390 run is crazy, and exactly the kind of thing I want to see more of. I knew variants were coming, but I never imagined we'd see such a huge upgrade for such a low price. Awesome.
Yeah, the Skyline is just straight-up a better design. It doesn't look like it would be more comfortable in hand, but it definitely is. The Dividend is a good knife,and would be standout for a lot of catalogs. The fact that it isn't just goes to show how hard it is to surpass the Skyline.
So true. My only complaint about the Skyline is the blade material. It isn't the worst, but it isn't wowing anyone.
On that topic, if you happen to know anyone looking to sell a Skyline 1760S30VCF…or if you have inside word Kershaw is doing another sprint run of the Skyline with a better blade, let me know!
Sonny S. Difuntorum says
Bought a Kershaw dividend in June 2017 and now it's August 2018 is completely fallen apart.
Dan Jackson says
Sonny, What happened to it?
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Q: Connect to TFS/VSO Agent inside a VPN I am using Visual Studio Team Services (was Visual Studio Online), and I have a build agent installed onto a machine inside a VPN.
Is it possible to configure my build in Team Services and have it run using the agent inside my private VPN? If so, how do you connect to the VPN when running a build?

A: Yes the agent can run anywhere as long as it can access the VSTS instance (it has a public internet connection).
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Fixing Health Care
Health-care reform's 'back-door' tax
President Obama leads the recent bipartisan meeting to discuss health reform legislation.By Jia Lynn Yang, writerMarch 11, 2010: 11:49 AM ET
WASHINGTON (Fortune) -- The big talk on Capitol Hill may be about health-care reform, but as part of this massive undertaking, the Democrats are quietly reshaping the tax system too. Tucked inside President Obama's latest health-care proposal is a major change to the Medicare tax.
Since its conception, the Medicare tax has always been tied to payrolls. Every paycheck, employers and employees each chip in 1.45%, regardless of how much someone makes. Under Obama's proposal -- which should be very close to what Congress winds up enacting -- a Medicare tax would now be applied to investment income too: Individuals who earn more than $200,000 and couples over $250,000 would pay an additional 2.9% surtax on unearned income from interest, dividends, annuities, royalties and rents.
Two things happen here. The first one is that the Medicare tax would go from being a payroll tax (like Social Security) to an income tax.
"You can certainly make the argument that [payroll is] really not appropriate anymore and we may as well tax all income," says Howard Gleckman, a senior research associate at the Urban Institute and editor TaxVox, the center's tax and budget policy blog. "But this is kind of a back-door way to do it."
The Democrats found their way to this "back door" because they couldn't agree on how to pay for the health-care bill: House Dems don't like the Senate's proposal to tax so-called Cadillac plans, and Senate Democrats don't like the House bill's inclusion of an income tax on the wealthy to pay for health care.
That paves the way for the second change. The Medicare tax has long been set at a flat rate -- the idea being that everyone pays into the system at the same rate and then receives the same amount of medical benefits later in life.
But by giving the Medicare tax the qualities of an income tax, Democrats can raise taxes on high-earners without explicitly calling it an income tax hike. The proposal also targets this group by adding 0.9% to their payroll portion of the Medicare tax too. Adding a tax just for households making over $250,000 would make the tax progressive for the first time.
The Obama administration says taxing the wealthy on unearned income is only fair because anyone who lives off their dividends and interest should have that money treated as wages too.
Gleckman points out that because the tax is being changed indirectly via health-care reform, the policy design is a bit unorthodox. "Usually we have tax brackets rather than this cliff, where suddenly if you make a dollar more you're subject to this additional tax," he says. But there are ways around it: Taxpayers who want to avoid getting bumped up to the higher rate could easily wait a little longer to sell their stock after the new-year cutoff.
0:00 /3:49Health care reform talk is cheap
The Center for Tax Justice points out the changes would only affect 2.3% of taxpayers in 2014. And the tax would not apply to income earned through tax-deferred retirement accounts.
Still, those higher-income taxpayers would foot a significant chunk of the bill's revenue streams. The non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that Obama's proposal to raise the Medicare payroll tax and expand the tax to unearned income would bring in $183.6 billion in revenues from 2010 to 2019. That's 44% of estimated total revenues needed to pay for health care, making it the biggest portion of all the proposed changes.
There is confusion over whether the Medicare tax on unearned income would apply to capital gains too. In Obama's proposal, the only forms of unearned income listed are interest, dividends, annuities, royalties and rents.
But the plan does make it clear that unearned income, not just wage income, is now fair game. If capital gains income is indeed included, the wealthy would effectively be facing a cap gains tax rate of 22.9%. (The rate is already due to go from 15% to 20% next year) As of this writing, the White House had not responded to a request for comment.
The Democrats have to figure out some way to pay for health care to pass their bill, and this "back-door" tax could be their best hope at a workable compromise. But as they consider how to reshape the country's medical system, watch out for how they're changing the tax system too. If Obama's proposal goes through, other taxes could start popping up in some new, unexpected places.
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A poster session for the Michigan Tech 2018 Research Experiences for Teachers was held from 3 to 5 p.m. yesterday (Aug. 9) in the Great Lakes Research Center Second Floor Atrium.
The poster session concludes the NSF-funded Teacher Professional Development summer institute, "Computational Tools and the Environment." Twelve in-service teachers were paired up with civil and environmental engineering graduate students to research topics such as water quality, lead contamination, aquaponics and renewable energy.
The results of their research have been translated into curricula for science and mathematics classes. They will present the results of their research and curriculum development at the poster session.
Over the past 10 years I've taken my love of teaching chemistry to the community and volunteer bringing hands-on learning to schools, organizations, libraries, the children's hospital, and television science segments on ABC affiliate stations (WZZM 13 in Grand Rapids, Michigan and ABC7 in Fort Myers, Florida). I present a blend of smart and entertaining hands-on science activities that motivate kids to continually question and investigate their world. My encouragement is to never stop being curious and never stop seeking the answers.
In addition, I utilize mobile technology in my teaching in the chemistry classroom, laboratory, and science outreach. I've authored several technology grants and have led several workshops at local colleges and schools teaching on the integration of mobile technology in the classroom.
I started into the education program at MTU as a junior as a result of two friends majoring in mathematics that convinced me to join them. I really wasn't expecting to go into teaching. I loved chemistry and was planning on a career as a research chemist. Standing in front of a group of people was always so fearful to me. As I got farther into the education program, I started to discover how much I was enjoying my classes. It got me thinking how many college chemistry professors really don't know how to teach. This motivated me more in the education program at MTU. I started to feel like I could be that change and teach chemistry better than it was taught to me. The education program at MTU gave me that "face your fear and find your passion" moment. I faced my fear of being in front of a group of people and found a passion that made everyday of going to work since, a joy.
My advice to current teachers is to do what you love. If you don't find a love in your subject or in teaching it, don't force it. The teaching world is filled with too many who complain about teaching, students, and the hard work for so little pay. Yes, the pay is little and yes, the work is hard… but if you love it, you will not regret a day of your career choice. You will make a difference to the world because you're giving the good part of yourself, the happy part.
Always be yourself and do not teach a particular style just because that's how you were taught. Teaching is always evolving and be ready for constant change. The best experiences you can bring to the classroom are your life experiences. Use your personality and life experiences to make the best environment for learning. In the early years of your teaching, keep learning more hands-on about your subject and education. Substitute teach, participate in research, attend workshops and seminars, become active at your school. And if you have time, volunteer in your community.
If you're enjoying teaching, then your students are probably enjoying learning. And if your nervous, that is good because nerves means you care. The day I'm not nervous or a bit scared to go into a classroom might be the day I might be ready to retire from teaching.


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Why Maradona was the Greatest
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Diego Maradona was the greatest footballer of all time, and the nearest thing the beautiful game has ever had to a Muhammad Ali. For all the official tributes lavished on Maradona since his death, Diego was reviled by the football establishment in his prime – but always loved by millions of fans in Argentina and worldwide who saw the brilliant, bolshy little terror as both a genius and one of their own.
Gary Lineker, the self-appointed Twitter conscience of English football, fed many news headlines with his heartfelt tribute to 'arguably the greatest of all time. After a blessed but troubled life, hopefully he'll finally find some comfort in the hands of God.' The last was a reference to Maradona's infamous 'hand of God' goal, punched into the net against Lineker's England in the 1986 World Cup quarter-final in Mexico. Some of us still remember Lineker's rather different response when Maradona was kicked out of the 1994 World Cup in the US, for taking a slimming pill: 'Good riddance.'
Diego died aged 60 on the 15th anniversary of the death of George Best. For me, George will always be the best, the most naturally gifted player.
But Maradona was the greatest thing football has ever seen. That is not intended as an insult to Pele, Messi or anybody else. It's just true.
Pele was the striker supreme, winner of three World Cups with Brazil (the first aged 17), and reputed to have scored more than a thousand goals in his career.
Pele won his World Cups in great teams – most memorably the Brazil side he led to glory in Mexico 1970.
By contrast, Maradona won the 1986 World Cup almost single-handed.
In 1986 Argentina were a decent team, but even the half-decent England could have won it that year with the unstoppable Diego on their side.
Indeed, given the weakness of his right foot, Maradona arguably won the World Cup on one leg. Watch him humiliate England for his second goal in that quarter-final, waltzing through half the team while only touching the ball with one boot – the left foot of God. Even limping past his peak, Maradona carried a weak Argentine team to another World Cup final in Italia 90.
When the world football authority, FIFA, held a poll to determine the greatest player of the 20th century, Maradona pipped Pele in the vote – 'before', as the BBC obituary diplomatically put it, 'FIFA changed the voting rules so both players were honoured'.
That vote-rigging exercise captured a key difference in the perception of the two players.
Unfairly or not, Pele has often been viewed as something of a corporate man; he was certainly exploited as a poster boy by Brazil's military dictatorship.
Maradona was always seen as a man of the people, the 'people's champion' who also became the real one.
He hailed from a Buenos Aires shanty town, where legend has it he was once rescued from an ordure-filled sewer by his uncle.
Diego Maradona while playing for the "Cebollitas" team at Torneos Evita of Argentina. 1973
He became the sporting hero and hope of Argentina's masses and millions more around the world.
Maradona was always careful to put himself on the side of the underdog, even when he became a millionaire playboy with dubious connections in high places. When he left Barcelona for Italy in 1984, he went to the impoverished southern city of Naples rather than the rich football powerhouses of the north.
Napoli had never won anything, and were taunted by the fans of northern Italian clubs as cholera-carrying scum.
With Maradona, they were champions of what was then the best league in the world twice in four years, and won the UEFA cup for good measure.
When Argentina played (and beat) the host nation in Naples in Italia 90, Maradona appealed to his adoring Neapolitan fans to support his team, asking 'What has Italy ever done for you?'.
Arriving in America four years later, Maradona had a message for Argentina's preening president, Carlos Menem: 'Instead of swanning around here and boasting to everybody that we are going to win the World Cup, he should think of the poor people at home, on the streets and without jobs.'
He even told the pope to stop preaching about the poor and give them the Vatican's vast wealth instead.
Many of us loved the way that Maradona took his fighting attitude on to the pitch.
He endured racist abuse and violence of a sort that no footballer could imagine in today's sanitised game. And he was prepared to reply in kind.
Having been kicked to pieces for two years in Spain, Maradona's Barcelona career was effectively ended by an extraordinary mass brawl at a cup final, where the five foot five inches Diego responded to fouls and xenophobic insults by head-butting, elbowing and kneeing Atletico Bilbao players in front of the king and 100,000 spectators. His first World Cup, in Spain 1982, was ended by a red card for a spectacular retaliatory foul on Batista of Brazil.
What about the drugs?
When he was ousted from that US World Cup in 1994, after being found to have traces of a banned weight-loss drug in his bloodstream, there was much smug crowing among English football pundits. Some said he should never have been allowed to play in the first place, because of his previous conviction for taking cocaine. Two dissenting voices spoke up here in Diego's defence. One was England legend Jimmy Greaves, in the Daily Mirror. The other was a youngish writer called Hume (editor of Living Marxism magazine, writing under the pseudonym Eddie Veale).
Both of us pointed out that they had not invented a drug which could make you play football like Maradona – and that he had ruined his health playing on injections of the legal pain-killing drug, cortisone, to cope with the violence inflicted by thugs in football boots.
Elsewhere, his ejection from the World Cup sparked protests around the world, including three days of rioting in Bangladesh.
Inevitably, amid the posthumous praise this week, there were signs of lingering English bitterness about Maradona having 'never apologised' for the 'hand of God' goal. But why would anybody expect him to say sorry for a trick he celebrated as 'some sort of symbolic revenge against the English', four years after the Falklands War?
Reporters recently pointed out to Maradona that, if today's controversial Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system had existed back then, his handball goal would never have stood.
He replied that if today's goal-line technology had been around in 1966, England would never have won the World Cup, because Geoff Hurst's controversial goal did not cross the line. International sport, as George Orwell observed, can be war without the shooting.
For all that, some of us English fans never lost our deep affection for Diego, a player with a real feel for what football means to people, a fan who just happened to grow into a footballing genius. For some reason, some of us have always had a particular affinity with shorter, stouter players who run rings around the athletic giants of the game. The Napoli shirt I bought in Naples' old town, where Diego is still revered, has 'MARADONA' on the back and 'MARS' emblazoned on the front – incongruously hailing the chocolate bar rather than the Roman god of war, yet maybe fitting for a war-like god of football with a sweet tooth for life's off-field temptations.
As for those still whining on about how Maradona's dodgy lifestyle made him a 'flawed genius' (what other kind is there?) – as the old Russian parable has it, 'Eagles may at times fly lower than hens, but hens can never rise to the height of eagles'. And nobody has ever risen to the heights of Diego Armando Maradona.
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How do you know the results of your duct cleaning?
People always ask us if we have before and after images. Of course most people don't look inside the ducts in their homes unless they have to. So, unless they need to retrieve a beloved toy their two-year-old dropped into the vent in the kitchen floor, most people have no idea what it looks like inside the ducts.
The first thing we do when we visit a client for the first time we always get out our camera and show them! That way we both know what their ducts look like. We'll go ahead and complete the cleaning and sanitizing, then we get the camera out again to take a look.
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DUBAI: Islamabad United ended Lahore Qalandars' journey in the inaugural Pakistan Super League (PSL), paving way for Karachi Kings to qualify for the playoffs, at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Wednesday.
Kings qualified for the playoffs with a better head-to-head record as United cruised to a five-wicket win chasing 151. United's left-arm fast bowler Mohammad Irfan was declared the Man of the Match for his three wickets for 22 runs.
After losing openers Dwayne Smith (11) and Sharjeel Khan (five) early in the innings, United capitalised on a solid 69-run stand for the third wicket between Brad Haddin and Khalid Latif.
Haddin scored 54 off 42 deliveries with five fours and two sixes, whereas Latif, continuing his impressive run in the PSL, scored 25 off 24 balls. Both Haddin and Latif were set on course to complete the target but ran themselves out in the middle of the innings.
Qalandars pace spearhead Ehsan Adil tried to bring his team back into the contest by trapping Asif Ali leg before for three, leaving United five down for 126.
But the United skipper Misbah-ul-Haq (38 off 19, with five fours) partnered with Azhar Mahmood (12 off nine balls) to establish a match-winning 25-run partnership for the sixth wicket and take their side home.
Things might have been different for the Qalandars had Zia-ul-Haq gotten Misbah's catch in the 18th over. Misbah, in his attempt to go over the top, mishit a Dwayne Bravo delivery, with the ball going straight up in the air only to land safely a few feet away from Zia.
For Qalandars, Zia-ul-Haq remained the most successful bowler by claiming two wickets for 38 runs in his four-over spell.
Earlier, Sohaib Maqsood and Umar Akmal scored quick half-centuries as Lahore Qalandars managed to recover from early blows and post 150-5 in 20 overs.
Maqsood scored 57 off 44 deliveries in an innings which included five fours and two sixes. Akmal, coming to bat at number five, scored an unbeaten 72 off 49 balls, hitting five fours and three sixes.
Maqsood and Akmal established a crucial 97-run stand for the fourth wicket after United left the Qalandars batting line-up struggling at 6-3 in just 2.4 overs.
Qalandars skipper Azhar Ali was the first to depart on one, followed by Cameron Delport (one) and Mohammad Rizwan (zero). Later, Dwayne Bravo (13) joined Akmal for a 41-run partnership for the fifth wicket to help their side post a competitive total.
Mohammad Irfan was the pick of bowlers for United with figures 4-0-22-3. Rumman Raees also claimed a wicket after giving away 31 runs in his four-over spell.
Islamabad United captain Misbah-ul-Haq had won the toss and decided to field first.
Dwayne Smith made his way into the United squad while his Windies teammate Chris Gayle was ruled out of the Qalandars' playing XI.
Peshawar Zalmi, Quetta Gladiators, Islamabad United and Karachi Kings will compete for the playoffs starting Friday, February 19.
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Bidstack News | August 30, 2019
Bidstack continues to up their game on programmatic trading with new The Trade Desk partnership
Bidstack continues to up their game on programmatic trading with new The Trade Desk partnership.
In-game advertising platform Bidstack Group plc (AIM: BIDS.L) continues to build strong partnerships in the digital advertising space and today proudly announces their new collaboration with globally recognised The Trade DeskTM (Nasdaq: TTD), to bolster their programmatic offering for in-game advertising.
Trading online display advertising space programmatically has become the norm since the rise of real time bidding in 2009. Advertisers are able to reach their audience with user behaviour insights and geo-targeting at lightning speed, en masse. Traditional forms of advertising have seen a downward turn on ad spend in the last few years. This could be due to these forms being less impactful and less effective than they were previously. Nevertheless, brands and agencies actively seek new, innovative, out-of-the-box ways to engage with an audience that will future proof their media strategy are turning to gaming.
The gaming audience is arguably one of the most diverse audience across any industry, with gamers' age ranging between 6-64. According to Fullscreen media, this audience has twice as much discretionary income as non gamers.
Founded in 2009 by pioneers of real-time bidding, The Trade Desk's global digital advertising tech platform has become the fastest growing demand-side platform (DSP) in the industry. Through its self-service, cloud-based platform, ad buyers can create, manage, and optimize more expressive data-driven digital advertising. These ad campaigns can be delivered across ad formats including display, video, audio and native, on a multitude of devices, such as computers, mobile devices, and connected TV.
Since its founding in 2015, Bidstack has been at the forefront of redefining immersive advertising through the world of gaming. Made up of mainly gamers, Bidstack understands the importance of protecting the gaming experience. Seeing themselves as custodians of the artwork, Bidstack goes above and beyond to ensure advertisers are able to reach the gamers in a fully immersive and non-intrusive way.
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1.9 m Tall American Music Personality Method Man is Married to Wife Tamika Smith, Has Three Children
Updated On 03 May, 2019 Published On 03 May, 2019
American rapper, record producer and actor Method Man is best known for his versatile skills as he's entertained his fans with his songs and acting skill. Besides his talent, he is known among fans and media to keep his personal life far from the outside world.
Yes! you people are hearing it right! He quit social media just to protect his personal life. As the father-of-three is a perfect family man, let's know some details about Method Man's wife, children and, family life.
Who is Method Man's Wife Tamika Smith? Know Details About Their Children
Like most loving and caring husbands, Clifford M. Smith aka Method Man is ultra-secretive about his wife.
Method Man with his wife Tamika Smith.
SOURCE: Empire BBK
Wu-Tang Clan rapper Method Man furiously quit social media platform after a private image of him and his wife surfaced on Twitter.
"God-Made Millionaire" Farah Gray posted the rare image of the duo on 26th July. He asked Gray to remove the image urgently. In a series of now-deleted Twitter posts, he wrote,
"I guess follows n likes are more important than tastefulness and decency.. Smh. I'm done with social media until further notice… I've lost faith in human decency and I will not feed the trolls any longer. F**k u all."
After Method poured his anger on the news media, Farrah Gray removed his post later on.
As it's pretty clear that Method is so protective about his personal life, one can barely drag details about him, his wife and children.
Method Man with his Wife Tamika Smith and their Children.
He became engaged to his future wife Tamika Smith in 1999. The lovebirds tied the knot two years later in 2001.
Tamika previously worked as Meth's personal assistant between 1997 and 2002. Also, she worked with "adults with physical and/or learning disabilities".
She writes on her page:
I'm a wife and mother of three teenagers. I am the owner of a small business in the beauty industry. Currently, I'm taking a course in entrepreneurship at the College of Staten Island.
I'm also in pursuit of earning my Associates degree in business management/ administration.
On my free time, I like to workout, study real estate, watch football or hang out with my family. I also like to dance, eat a good meal and I always enjoy a good laugh. I'm looking forward to meeting new people and making new connections.
The pair is blessed with three kids; two sons Sha Smith and Rae Smith and a daughter Cheyenne Smith.
Let's move on below to know more about the relationship between Method and his darling wife.
Tamika Smith Is a Cancer Survivor
Farrah is not the first person to mess with Meth over the privacy issues of his wife as the talk show host, Wendy Williams is also in the list.
Williams announced publicly that Smith had been battling breast cancer in 2006. This revelation angered Meth as some of their closest friends didn't know about the diagnosis.
Method Man became furious over Wendy Williams revealing personal information about his wife.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
He told Rolling Stone,
"My wife is one of the strongest people on the planet. I just want to make Wendy Williams aware of exactly what it felt like to be sitting in that hospital room, watching them pump this poison into the one you love."
Later, Williams said that opening up the cancer diagnosis about his wife caused problems in the relationship of him with his wife. Further, she claimed hat Meth was having an affair with Tamika's doctor.
Here's Method Man dissing Wendy Williams for what she did:
Meth responded to what Williams said about him,
"She said me and [the doctor] was f**king [sic]. What kind of s**t is that, man?"
"You don't do that to nobody … I was ready. I was so mad, I was crying right there and I'm like I'm gonna kill some f**king body and these [Wu Tang friends] kept me in there, kept me in L.A."
Meanwhile, it's a known fact that Tanika has proudly fought her cancer battle. The lovebirds is living a private and happy life with their children.
Method Man: Quick Facts
Born on 2 March 1971 in Hempstead, Long Island.
He has two sisters, Missy and Terri.
He is the member of the East Coast hip hop collective Wu-Tang Clan.
He took the stage name from the 1979 movie Method Man.
He appeared in some movies including Belly, How High, The Wackness and Venom.
He has an estimated net worth of about $20 million as of 2019.
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Marquette Woman Spreads Goodness, Smiles After Stroke
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Anna Dravland of Marquette and the founder of Spread Goodness Day, is a Superior Woman. Dravland, who suffered a debilitating stroke in 2017, is working hard to spread joy worldwide in spite of what some would see as limitations.
By Dale Hemmila
Co-Editor/Co-Publisher
If everyone lived with the same life attitude as Anna Dravland, there's no question the world would be a better place to live. At just 35 years of age, Dravland, a Marquette Michigan resident, has been to the brink of death, was forced to leave her dream job, and regularly travels hundreds of miles for medical treatments.
And yet, she remains focused on how she can help bring out the good in all of us.
Anna Dravland of Marquette, founder of Spread Goodness Day
Just over a year ago, Dravland lay alone in the middle of a Marquette street, wondering if she was going to die. Today, she is looking forward to the second annual Spread Goodness Day, an event she conceived, and with which she is optimistic that goodness will be shared by thousands on that day.
Let's go back to November 16, 2017. Dravland was walking to work at her job at the local convention and visitor's bureau, Travel Marquette, a job she felt she was born to do, even to the point of stating in her job interview: "This is my job; you can't give it to anyone else." Just the week prior, she had asked to be considered for additional training, with the hope of one day leading the organization.
As she was walking and texting her mother on that day, without warning she began to have trouble with the vision in her left eye.
"It was like something flipped off in my brain," she recalled recently, while sipping tea at a cozy Marquette coffee shop. "Things weren't working and I dropped everything and fell in the middle of the street."
She didn't know it at the moment, but Dravland was suffering a stroke caused by a torn carotid artery.
By 8:30 that November morning, Dravland was in serious trouble. She couldn't speak and initially there was no one else around. Shortly a single vehicle came by and Dravland said she knew she had to get up and tried to throw herself at the car. It went past only to stop a little further up the block.
Here is where a little luck took over, or perhaps it was kismet, call it what you will, but by chance the driver of the car was Nancy Maas, a nursing instructor at nearby Northern Michigan University. She saw Dravland lying on the street and rushed to help her.
"She laid me down on the ground and said, 'I'm a nurse and I'm going to take care of you,'" Dravland recalled. Maas' call for an ambulance was answered, and in minutes Dravland was being whisked away to the emergency room.
Dravland said she was terrified as she heard the EMTs diagnose her symptoms confirming she was having a stroke.
At one point she thought to herself: "Am I dying?"
Then her next thought came: "Don't close your eyes."
"I was convinced if I closed my eyes I was going to die," she said.
She didn't die.
Because timing is so important for stroke victims, the providence of someone skilled seeing and recognizing that she was in trouble, and then reacting to it, probably made the difference in Dravland's case and she is grateful for Nancy Maas' quick action.
"I sometimes send her a message," Dravland said, "to say thank you for my life today."
Dravland also praised the care she received as she reached the ER at Marquette General Health Systems, recalling it seemed like a dozen professionals were there to meet the ambulance.
The ER experience is much of a blur for her and there is a three day gap in her memory of the emergency and follow-up experience.
The extent of the damage of the stroke was significant, as she was paralyzed on her right side and could not speak. Follow-up after her hospital stay included physical, occupational, speech, and vision therapy.
During her recovery, however, she became focused on an event that she had conceived in her mind seven years earlier. Friday, March 9, 2018 was to be the first-ever Spread Goodness Day.
Its mission: Create an atmosphere of empowerment worldwide that the smallest acts of goodness will always make a difference. Change the world for the better.
Its goal: Spread Goodness, plain and simple.
The thought was that even one simple act of goodness was a start. Goodness could be spread with a small effort like a random smile, or a larger effort by sponsoring a goodness event, or just something in between, but the idea was that for one day people would join in and conduct acts of kindness wherever they were.
But Dravland had a problem. She needed to complete the website and promotional materials her project needed with what she envisioned was the proper font, colors and correct branding, while recovering from her stroke.
Without being able to speak, and still paralyzed, it was hard for her to relay the proper thoughts for others to do what was needed so she took the initiative.
"I knew what I had to do," she said. "(I said) I'm going to figure out how to do this one-handed on my phone."
She did, and the first ever Spread Goodness Day happened as she had played it out in her mind over her seven-year conception.
Because of her setback, she primarily focused on the Marquette area, but even with a relatively small population base, the results were considerable.
"With hashtags and emails, I personally recorded over 10,000 acts" she said. "I know there were thousands more. People were running all over town delivering flowers and cookies and buying others coffee. One business provided breakfast for service members. It was beautiful."
And the day and her determination to spread goodness, despite her own setbacks, were instruments to help her move forward in her recovery. She remains resolved to keep it going.
"This isn't a new concept, to have people do good," she said. "But it was a new brand. I'm going to change the world and I'm going to do it with goodness. I still believe that. I can still make the world better by giving people a platform to do good."
As for the change in her, well there is no doubt that her life was changed on that November day. She tried to go back to work, but despite the significant support from her employer, it didn't pan out. She deals with limitations.
"I can't feel my arm, I can't work for too long, I can't think for too long," she said. In addition to her physical limitations, bright lights bother her, so she often wears dark glasses. She continues to travel to the University of Michigan for follow-up from her stroke. Fortunately, she qualifies for Medicaid to manage the expense.
On the plus side, she has the grit and attitude to continue with her goal of spreading goodness. She has been the recipient of that goodness, as well. She is grateful for the generosity of others who have provided "cards, money and food."
"I've felt like I've become a child of this town," she said. "I have beautiful family and friends. People are the only reason I'm where I am now. The people of Marquette, but even people around the country have helped. I never felt unloved, but I have never felt more loved."
Looking back on the day of her stroke—she calls it her re-birthday—she remains determined in her recovery process.
"You have to fight," she said. "I know I'm a good person and I have love in my heart. As long as I keep fighting, I know I'm going to be happy. I do the best that I can and I'm lucky that I have a lot of people in my life that make me happy."
Dravland is certain that happiness will continue as she plans the second annual Spread Goodness Day set for Friday, March 15, 2019. She has set a goodness goal of a million acts of goodness spread over 25 countries.
She has also set a personal goal for herself to be able to take her goodness concept to the Ellen DeGeneres Show.
"That's my secret dream in the whole world," she said with a huge smile. "I want to dance with her; I want to laugh with her."
If attitude and resolve are involved it just may happen.
For more information about Spread Goodness Day, visit the website or the Facebook page at:
www.spreadgoodnessday.com
https://www.facebook.com/spreadgoodnessday/
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After receiving much required feed-backs from users about things Facebook should do to improve its Platform, the social networking giant rolled out several new features and updates via its program – Operation Developer Love.
Facebook was criticized consistently for years by developers for enforcing policies. To see that change, it introduced a program called Operation Developer Love headed by well-known figure in the development community, Doug Purdy. The program intended to "improve Facebook's relationship with the community by addressing bugs, improving responsiveness and other points of developer support. It has now rolled out several important feature to ensure a high quality experience for users, .
Facebook has updated the Open Graph Action submission flow to allow developers to upload screenshots of their Open Graph usage directly in the submission process.
Operation Developer Love has updated its Platform policies (IV.4.b). It suggests if you use any of its social plugins you must not sell or purchase placement or participate in any exchange programs.
Operation Developer Team has significantly redesigned the WordPress plugin for improved stability, individual settings pages, custom post type support, and custom post status support.
Facebook has started to roll out HTTPS for all North America users and will be soon rolling out to the rest of the world.
Apps and games can now create and manage Groups via the Graph API to help people connect and share their experiences.
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On the (Rest of the) Net.
By Scarlett Harris ¶ Posted in On the (Rest of the) Net, On the Net	¶ Tagged 60 Minutes, abortion, Andrew Clifton, Ashton Kutcher, BRW, Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Brown, Daily Life, Drake, Ebony, fat-shaming, Girls, Global Grind, Is This Feminist?, IVF, Jezebel, Joe Hockey, Kass Hall, Kotaku, MamaMia, marriage equality, menstruation, Michael Fassbender, Pregnancy Text, reproductive rights, RH Reality Check, Rihanna, Russell Summons, Ryan Gosling, Scandal, selective reduction, Shonda Rimes, slut-shaming, TMZ, Vice	¶ Leave a comment
VICE's period-themed photoshoot, and the commentary to go along with it. What do you think about it? Gross or taboo-breaking? [VICE, MamaMia]
Do tabloids hate women? [Daily Life]
A black man talks about white Girls. [Jezebel]
Is depicting a woman who's been successful in the breakfast cereal market eating… erm… cereal on a magazine cover sexist? [BRW]
A tongue-in-cheek look at… well, everything, from a feminist point of view. Everything's sexist; just give up on feminism already. [Is This Feminist?]
Following on from 60 Minutes' story on selective reduction of foetuses conceived via IVF, Kass Hall examines the issue. I don't agree with IVF personally (not because I don't think it shouldn't be available because it messes with "God's intentions" or some anti-science crap, but because I think there are other—or should be more readily available—ways to have a child, and that not being able to or not wanting a child shouldn't be stigmatised) and I'm pro-choice all the way. Awkward situation all 'round, I think. [MamaMia]
The cupcake is a metaphor for vaginas and the female orgasm. [Jezebel]
So Rihanna had a relationship with Chris Brown and is rumoured to have slept with Ashton Kutcher and Drake. That means she's a slut, right? Two great pieces deal with the one-sided hypocrisy that is slut-shaming in the R'n'B and hip hop community, not to mention patriarchal culture as a whole, in addition to this equally awesome shoutout from Russell Simmons to Brown, Drake et al., telling them to "Get Off Rihanna's Dick!"
I just don't get this "she's a slut" mentality if a woman expresses her sexuality in the same or similar way to any number of men. A woman's a slut if she sleeps with someone outside of a committed relationship (or even if she only has sex with someone inside a relationship; if she has sex with a woman; gives the perception that she wants sex and then reneges; is deemed "too sexy"; is raped… Nay, a woman's a slut no matter what.), but a man is a player, a stud, a lothario.
Here's something to ponder: if women weren't "sluts", men wouldn't have anything to put their dicks into apart from other men or fleshlights. (Well, there are other things, but we won't go there!) [Jezebel, Ebony, Global Grind]
If life was a video game, "Straight, White Male" would be the easiest setting. [Jezebel, via Kotaku]
What it's like to work at an abortion fundraising hotline. [RH Reality Check]
Andrew Clifton writes beautifully about Joe Hockey's anti-same sex marriage stance, and that progressive types should refrain from vitriol-spewing when a social conservative has an opinion we don't agree with:
"We (accurately) believe ourselves to be on a higher moral ground for knowing exactly why legislating in favour of same-sex marriage is important, but we should not judge those who disagree with us, we should only try to help them understand as well." [MamaMia]
Remember in health class when you were given chickens or robotic babies to look after for a few days? Well, now you can have your very own chicken-cross-Tamagotchi in the form of the "Pregnancy Text" campaign, which is aimed at teenagers in an attempt to show them a fraction of what it's like to raise a baby. Me want one. [Jezebel]
Shonda Rimes' latest female-based creation, Scandal, also has a black female lead. The best thing about the character is that her race is a non-issue. The same can't be said for her non-relatability as a person, though. [New Yorker]
Jezebel's "your boyfriend" thing has always been reserved for Ryan Gosling, but apparently the term now extends to Michael Fassbender. Umm, you do know he's a wifebeater, right ladies?
Bryce Dallas Howard is the size of a "Village" because she hasn't lost the weight she gained during her second pregnancy which ended in January. Never mind that her first pregnancy saw her gain 80 pounds and, along with it, postpartum depression. Real nice, TMZ. [Jezebel]
TV: Private Practice—"Rape is Rape".
By Scarlett Harris ¶ Posted in TV	¶ Tagged Addison Montgomery, Charlotte King, Grey's Anatomy, male rape, Private Practice, RAINN, Sheldon Wallace, Shonda Rimes	¶ 3 Comments
While at times it felt like Violet and Sheldon were reading from press releases regarding sexual assault in the military and the sexual assault of men (the episode was shot in partnership with RAINN, the Rape Abuse Incest National Network), you have to applaud Private Practice for being the most progressive of Shonda Rimes creations, what with last season's rape of Charlotte and Addison's speech about being one of only 1700 abortion providers in the United States.
Last night, Sheldon treated a soldier who'd been raped by his supervisor while on a tour of duty in the Middle East. There's always stigma attached to male victims of sexual assault, and Rick questions his masculinity and his inability to fight his attacker off. As Sheldon says, "If a man doesn't fight back, it makes him question whether he's really a man."
Rick hasn't told his wife, Kelly, about his assault, but she knows he's suffering from some kind of PTSD because he flinches at her touch and their sex life is non-existant.
When Rick finally gets the courage to confess what happened to Kelly, with Sheldon's support, she pulls away from him, asking if he's trying to tell her he's gay because he didn't escape the assault.
"How is that [being raped by one man] even possible? You're a soldier," Kelly marvels, as if the two are mutually exclusive. "Why didn't you stop him?"
Selfishly, Kelly confesses to Sam, a friend of the family, that Rick is supposed to protect her; yeah, 'cause I'm sure that's the first thing that ran through his mind when he was ambushed from behind and sodomised.
Credit to a show that is often overlooked in favour of its older sister show, Grey's Anatomy (how else do you explain Seven pushing the show back to an 11:15 start time on a Thursday night? Some people have to work on Friday morning!), for a sensitive, realistic and non-judgemental portrayal of a not-often-discussed topic: male rape in the military.
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