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Nonito Donaire: "If Manny Pacquiao can land those big punches that he usually does, there's a possibility of a knockout!"
4 Submitted by Robert Brown on Fri, 11 March 2016, 00:39
Nonito Donaire has been a professional boxer for fifteen years and has won world title belts in five different weight classes. He was once thought of as one of the top three boxers in the world and was creating huge ratings on TV in divisions that had never seen mainstream popularity. After a couple of defeats and a decision to drop back down in weight, Nonito Donaire is aiming to reclaim his P4P status, with the first step being against Zsolt Bedak on April 23rd.
In part 2 of my interview with Nonito Donaire, I discuss with him his desire to keep fighting and what it has been like dealing with the ups and downs of his career. Donaire also talks about Manny Pacquiao's upcoming fight with Timothy Bradley and gives his prediction for what he thinks the result will be. Additionally, Nonito talks about what he hopes he can do in the final stretch of his career and what goals he has. Here is what Nonito Donaire had to say.
Robert Brown: What keeps the fire going for you at this stage in your career?
Nonito Donaire: The knowledge and the experience is as powerful as time, and now that I realize where I'm at and what I want to do, I think that's the most essential key to be motivated, be inspired, work hard and know that I can be up there. I can be on top and I'm going to be on top. It's much more fierce because I'm a more dedicated fighter rather than a guy with youth.
Robert Brown: Do you feel the best is yet to come in your career?
Nonito Donaire: Definitely, I feel strongly about it. I'm working harder than before and I'm ready. There's no fear and there's a lot of motivation for the challenges I'm looking forward to.
Robert Brown: Your next fight is going to take place in The Philippines. How important is it for you to fight in The Philippines?
Nonito Donaire: It's always an important fight but being in front of my countrymen and them feeling blessed and gifted for me fighting and for me having the support, it's incredible. It's an amazing surge of energy making motivation and inspiration. It's incredible and I'm truly blessed with it, it's very important.
Robert Brown: Can I have your official prediction for your fight with Zsolt Bedak?
Nonito Donaire: I don't really have any prediction. I have to go out there and seek victory, and if I see a knockout, I always go for one, but if not, I'm just gonna be there and the victory is pretty much the key, it doesn't matter what it is. As you know from the past, I've always been the type to want a more satisfying victory, which is a knockout victory. I always go for it when it's presented in front of me, but if not, we're gonna be boxing, we're gonna be smart about it and we're gonna be ready.
Robert Brown: What are your thought on Manny Pacquiao's upcoming bout with Timothy Bradley?
Nonito Donaire: It's a fight that we've seen before and it's a very good contested fight between the two guys. They go out there and they show what they're capable of. In the last two fights we saw that Manny Pacquiao should have been awarded two victories, but that's in the opinion of others.
In the fights that I've seen, Manny Pacquiao has a good advantage over Bradley, but for now with Bradley's changes of coach and motivation — as well as Pacquiao's with focus and politics — it may be a different fight coming into this third one. I would go for Pacquiao to win this fight because of what I've seen in the last two fights. But if Manny shows up unfocused and Bradley is more focused, then it's going to be a different fight.
Robert Brown: Manny has said that he wants to knock Bradley out in this fight but he hasn't had a knockout win in a number of years. Do you think he can stop Tim?
Nonito Donaire: We've seen Bradley in some really tough fights. It depends how tough his chin is still, everybody breaks down. We've seen him in very difficult fights and if Manny can land those big punches that he usually does, there's a possibility of Manny winning that. But it takes a Manny Pacquiao that's focused and determined.
Robert Brown: Where do you hope to be by the end of 2016?
Nonito Donaire: I want to have at least two belts by this year. I want to challenge the champions and challenge the number one guy who is Rigondeaux and be number one. That's where I'm going to be for 2016, that's the plan. We're not afraid to take on anybody. It's not to boast, it's just being confident of what we're capable of and looking forward to being out there and fighting the best.
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4 Responses to "Nonito Donaire: "If Manny Pacquiao can land those big punches that he usually does, there's a possibility of a knockout!""
Arnrl says:
Manny Pacquaio is done. Nobody cares seeing this coming retarded fight. Pacquaio should concentrate just being a full time pastor stay away from politics, basketball, singing etc. Also with all his money, he forgot to hireca good English teacher to improve how he speaks English. It's a disgrace and humiliation for the Philippines. I think Donaire speaks more good English. So 100% Sure, Bradley will easily beat the over confident inconsistent aging Pacquaio.
Mateng says:
Nobody cares? Why waste your time to make a comment? youre a stupid clown.
you already made your comment….hahahahahha
liob says:
I think you care about Manny. You're just too shy to admit…
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The Billboard Twitter Real-Time charts were four interactive Billboard music magazine charts debuted on May 27, 2014. The charts ranked trending songs from popular and emerging artists based on how often they are mentioned in messages called "tweets" sent by social networking site Twitter in the United States. The charts "Trending 140", "Emerging Artists", "Weekly Top Tracks" and "Weekly Emerging Artists" were reported to define how fans interacted with, and influenced, popular content by ranking the most popular songs being shared on Twitter in the U.S.  The first two charts updated on a "real-time" minute-by-minute basis, with the last two charts providing weekly summaries.

In August 2017, for the charts dating September 2, the "Trending 140" and real-time charts were discontinued and the Emerging Artists chart was revised to become a "breakout" of the overall Artist 100 chart, highlighting the top-performing rising acts of each week.

In October 2021, Billboard and Twitter launched two new charts, Hot Trending Songs''' ("Real Time" - first 24-hours started at noon on October 22, and "Weekly" - first chart release date was October 30), sponsored by Rémy Martin, which track 24-hour and weekly global Twitter trends.

History
2014: Charts created
These charts, for Billboard, represented an ongoing attempt to incorporate new-music consumption and sharing technologies in its charts. In 2013, Billboard added YouTube plays to its Billboard Hot 100 formula, alongside its Social 50 that already tracked which artists are most active on social networks, and included data from Twitter.

For Twitter, it was a follow-up to its failed Apple "#music" app, launched in April 2013 to track music on Twitter, which intended to acquaint users with new acts and see what their contacts were listening to. The app had a "Popular" page, showing music trending across Twitter, and an "Emerging" page, showing "hidden talent found in tweets." On March 21, 2014, the "Twitter Music" account wrote that the app would discontinue on April 18, and said in another tweet, "We continue to experiment with new ways to bring you great content based on the music activity we see every day on Twitter." On March 27, 2014, Billboard and Twitter announced the partnership for the Billboard Twitter Real-Time Charts, and Twitter Amplify to help with chart distribution; along with custom in-Tweet charts and a weekly in-Tweet video round up of the week in music.

Music is one of the most popular topics on Twitter, and music acts routinely dominate its list of the most popular personalities on the service, with most of the top accounts being musicians. Billboard President John Amato said "Twitter, for us, felt like the right way to capture real time more than anything else that we could think of," and "They're the only people that have true scale in real time. Facebook is a behemoth."

Austin Mahone's performed his single "Shadow"  at the May 27, 2014, New York City launch event for the Billboard Twitter Real-Time Charts and charted for the first number one on the (Twitter) Trending 140 chart on the same day. "Problem" by Ariana Grande was the first song to top the weekly (Billboard) Twitter Top Tracks chart, and K Camp's "Cut Her Off" featuring 2 Chainz was the first number one for the weekly Emerging Artists chart, both on June 7, 2014. At the end of 2014, the first year for the charts, hip-hop was the most popular genre of music on Twitter and topped many of the year-end Billboard charts. Rapper Bobby Shmurda's "Hot Nigga" (also called "Hot Boy"), with its popular dance, gave him a number one for the real-time Emerging Artists chart for the year, with 837 peaks at number one, with Dej Loaf following at number two, and K Camp at number three.

Chart data collection
The "Trending 140" chart "is an up to the minute ranking of songs shared in the U.S., measured by acceleration over the past hour. This chart can be filtered to present a real-time view of the most shared track in the U.S. over the past 24 hours, with a weekly summary presented as the Billboard Twitter Top Tracks chart on Billboard.com and in print in Billboard". The chart's name combined a typical Billboard "top 40" sounding name with 140, for the limit of characters allowed in a "tweet" and for the number of songs the chart tracked.

The "Emerging Artists" chart "is a ranking of the most shared songs on Twitter in the U.S. by up-and-coming artists (defined as artists with fewer than 100,000 Twitter followers who have also not appeared as a lead artist in the top 50 songs on the Billboard Hot 100)", "ranked by the number of times each song was shared over the past 24 hours. The weekly ranking chart, "Weekly Emerging Artists", is, also, ranked over a seven-day period".

Songs that are shared or mentioned on Twitter are tracked and incorporated into the charts by the following criteria: "the use of, or the inclusion, of a link to the song via music listening platforms, such as Spotify, Vevo and iTunes; the use of various track sharing notations, such as a hashtag "#nowplaying" or "#np," along with song/artist name; and the use of various terms associated with the song and song playing, such as "music," "song," "track," "listen."

2017: Emerging Artists chart revised, others discontinued
Starting with Billboard charts dated September 2, 2017 and released online August 22, all of the Billboard Twitter charts except for Emerging Artists were discontinued. A revamped Emerging Artists chart was modeled after the same formula as the Artist 100 chart which debuted in 2014 and captures the breakout artists not on that chart. It measures artist activity across Billboards "most influential charts", including Billboard Hot 100, Billboard 200 and the Social 50. And, unlike the original Billboard Twitter Emerging Artists chart, which ranked with song titles of the weekly most shared songs on Twitter by new artists, the new Emerging Artists chart ranks only by artist, without listing a song or album.

New methodology
The new chart "incorporates key metrics of music consumption, blending album and track sales, radio airplay, streaming and social media fan interaction to provide a weekly multi-dimensional ranking of artist popularity". And the revised chart will "exclude artists that have notched a top 25 entry on either the Hot 100 or Billboard 200, as well as artists that have achieved two or more top 10s on Billboard's "Hot" song genre charts that blend streaming, airplay and sales data (such as Hot Country Songs, Hot Rock Songs, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Latin Songs) and/or consumption-based "Top" album genre rankings (including counterpart charts Top Country Albums, Top Rock Albums, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Top Latin Albums)".

2021: New "Hot Trending Songs" 24-hour and weekly charts launched

In May 2021, Billboard and Twitter announced two new real-time charts, sponsored by Rémy Martin, that would track global music trends on Twitter. One chart, "Hot Trending Songs - Weekly" (also called, "Hot Trending Songs Powered by Twitter"), would be published weekly, like other Billboard'' charts, but also refreshed every 24 hours as the new "Hot Trending Songs - Real Time" chart. The charts were launched on Friday, October 22, with BTS's "Permission to Dance" trending on the first 24-hour chart and charting at number one on the first weekly released chart, dated October 30.

References

External links
 Emerging Artists
 Hot Trending Songs - Real Time
 Hot Trending Songs Powered By Twitter - Weekly

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Jeremy Clarkson, old man who once had a travel show about stereotyping Dutch people and other European nationalities, just actually'd the guy who broke the sound barrier. This is the amazingly dumb Twitter fight I needed today.
This all began with Chuck Yeager, the guy who strapped in to an orange bullet with a rocket on the back and said what the hell let's see what happens, chimed in on Twitter to be his usual self. Basically, here's some cool supersonic history stuff all of you might enjoy. Thanks, Chuck.
This was not taken well by Clarkson, and he could not let Chuck Yeager have this one.
I can't say that I'm an expert on any of this, but I did get a degree in history studying the history of technology. It's a fascinating field, and going over it is always illuminating and interesting. But I know from experience that the one thing you do not want to do is try to argue who or which individual is responsible for what first, as everyone disagrees and misunderstands and everything gets extraordinarily messy.
Perfect for Twitter, at least.


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Feature-to-smartphone conversion may pick up pace in 2023
Of the installed base, new smartphone users coming from feature phones was 6.1% in 2019, which fell to 5.7% in 2020, 5.6% in 2021, and 5.4% in 2022, according to Counterpoint Research. The reason is mainly affordability and a lack of relevant use cases. The featurephone-to-smartphone conversion though is expected to bounce back next year with research director Tarun Pathak predicting it to grow to 5.9%.
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Updated: December 19, 2022, 08:28 IST
New Delhi: The conversion of feature phones to smartphones, crucial to both the growth of the handset industry and for telecom industry revenues, is set to pick up in 2023 after falling to a four-year low in 2022.
"First the pandemic, the component issues, and then inflation—in that order, has been impacting the feature phone market and people have been holding on to the feature phones for longer. Next year we expect some upgrades," Pathak told ET.
He added that the average replacement cycles have gone up to 20-23 months in 2022 in the historically high-volume sub-Rs 8,000 segment, from 18 months in 2019, which has led to a lot of brands either exiting the segment or slowing down their launch cycles.
"The segment under Rs 8,000 is not growing the way it should be growing. But it is still a very big segment with almost 370 million consumers, which is a huge base. Within that, almost 220 million consumers are still using 2G networks," said Arijeet Talapatra, CEO, Transsion Holdings, which operates brands like Itel, Infinix and Tecno in India.
Itel is among the top three in this segment along with Lava and Samsung, and has been the leader in the feature phone segment for three years in a row, with 28% share in Q3 2022, according to Counterpoint.
He added that for an average feature phone user, there is almost a gap of Rs 3,500 for a new smartphone. "So, we still don't have an answer to that—actually nobody has. We have had a lot of meetings with (Reliance) Jio and Airtel on that, on how to bridge the Rs 3,500 gap because while consumers have been upgrading from a Rs 800 feature phone to a Rs 2,000 smart 4G feature phone, they are finding it difficult to upgrade to a Rs 4,000 smartphone after that."
Talapatra said that non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) don't want to finance a phone which is priced between Rs 4,000-4,500, which could have addressed the affordability issue. "They would like to get into financing ideally with a phone priced above Rs 8,000".
Handset grey market makes a Rs 5,000-crore hole in the exchequer
Samsung could pip Xiaomi to be biggest smartphone company in India
Consequently, shipments in the entry and budget segments have been falling, according to the research firm's report on Q3 shipments. The quarter however saw consumer demand rising in the mid- and premium-price smartphone segments, with feature phones declining 24% on-year.
But both telecom companies and smartphone brands need the huge 220 million 2G customer base to make their upgrade to increase average revenue per user (ARPU) and revenues, respectively.
Transsion has done a couple of projects with market leader Reliance Jio—which only has a 4G network—wherein they bundled data benefits with their smartphones. Talapatra said that has proven extremely successful for the brand.
"It would also be profitable for Airtel, because no country in the world has almost 220 million consumers in 2G, another 600 million consumers in 4G and almost 82 million consumers in 5G and growing fast," he added.
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According to the latest numbers, demand is high and inventory is low in our market. We should expect a slowdown soon, but homes will still be appreciating in value.
What do the latest numbers from the Greenville MLS say about our market?
First, the median price is up 8.9% year to date. Remember, the median price refers to the number that's in the absolute middle of all other transactions, so a house that was worth $191,500 last year is now worth $208,650. In other words, your house is worth more now than it's been in the past 10 years—or ever.
Next, let's look at supply and demand and get an idea of where the prices are being pressured. The number of sales has increased 8% year to date. Meanwhile, there are 2.7% fewer homes on the market. This means there's more demand but less inventory, and that is what's putting this upward pressure on prices.
As you can see, we only dropped by one day compared to 2017. The average is still going down, but not as quickly. This does indicate a slowdown, but it doesn't mean prices are going to drop. The average is still going down, so houses are still appreciating in value, just not as quickly.
At the 2:40 mark in the video above, you can see a graph I drew which explains this effect. Over the next several years, home values will still increase, but not at the same rate as in previous years. For example, if you bought a house last year for $200,000 and it grew in value to $220,000, it might only appreciate to $225,000 by next year.
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Q: Error handling with int32.TryParse I am having trouble with adding a error message and a reloop on this and wonder how I can add "Wrong input, try again" and then try to write down the correct numbers. It doesn't crash, that's good so far but I would like to have an error without using try and catch and a loop that forces you to write only numbers to be correct.
Here's the code I've done so far:
bool loopie = true;
int result;
int result2;
int result3;

while (loopie)
{

    Console.Write("Number one: ");
    Int32.TryParse(Console.ReadLine(), out result);

    Console.WriteLine(" ");
    Console.Write("Number two: ");
    Int32.TryParse(Console.ReadLine(), out result2);

    Console.WriteLine(" ");
    Console.Write("Number two: ");
    Int32.TryParse(Console.ReadLine(), out result3);

    Console.WriteLine(" ");
    int summa = result + result2 + result3;
    Console.WriteLine("summan: " + summa);

}
Console.ReadKey();

A: int result, result2, result3;

private int GetResult(string msg)
{
    int temp;

    do
    {
       Console.Write(msg);
    }
    while(!Int32.TryParse(Console.ReadLine(), out temp));

    return temp;
}

void Main()
{
   var result = GetResult("Number one:");
   var result2 = GetResult("Number two:");
   var result3 = GetResult("Number three:");

   Console.WriteLine("summan: " + (result + result2 + result3).ToString());
}

If we wanted to be even more 'elegant' (at the cost of readability - and ability to use the value of the result variables later on):
void Main()
{
   Console.WriteLine("summan: " + (GetResult("Number one:") +
                                   GetResult("Number two:") +
                                   GetResult("Number three:")).ToString());
}

A: TryParse returns bool that specifies if conversion done correctly or not. so use it.
while (loopie)
{
    Console.Write("Number one: ");
    if (!Int32.TryParse(Console.ReadLine(), out result))
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Wrong input. try again.");
        continue;
    }

    Console.WriteLine(" ");
    Console.Write("Number two: ");
    if (!Int32.TryParse(Console.ReadLine(), out result2))
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Wrong input. try again.");
        continue;
    }

    Console.WriteLine(" ");
    Console.Write("Number two: ");
    if (!Int32.TryParse(Console.ReadLine(), out result3))
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Wrong input. try again.");
        continue;
    }

    Console.WriteLine(" ");
    int summa = result + result2 + result3;
    Console.WriteLine("summan: " + summa);
}

Or use another while if you dont want to reset whole process after fail.
do
{
    Console.Write("Number one: ");
    Console.WriteLine("Wrong input. try again.");
} while (!Int32.TryParse(Console.ReadLine(), out result)); // write this for all 3 inputs.

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Excerpts from Mary Trump's tell-all book have been published - and the President's not happy
Trump has described that book as "fiction."
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DONALD TRUMP'S NIECE has described the US President as a lying narcissist who was shaped by his domineering father, according to excerpts of her upcoming released memoir.
The White House immediately hit back, describing Mary Trump's 'Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man' as "a book of falsehoods."
The memoir is due out on 14 July amid a legal battle to stop its publication and is already a best-seller on Amazon.
Mary, a clinical psychologist, writes that Trump saw "cheating as a way of life," according to The New York Times.
She accuses Trump of "hubris and willful ignorance" stretching back to his younger days.
She alleges that the future US leader paid someone else to take the SAT pre-collegiate exam, helping him get into the University of Pennsylvania's prestigious Wharton business school.
The Times doesn't explain how she knew.
"The absurd SAT allegation is completely false," said deputy White House press secretary Sarah Matthews.
The 240-page book says Trump is a product of his "sociopath" father Fred Trump who created an abusive and traumatic home life, The Washington Post reported.
"(The President) said his father was loving and not at all hard on him as a child," Matthews said in response.
The memoir is billed as the first unflattering portrayal of Trump by a family insider.
The president's younger brother Robert Trump tried to block publication, arguing that Mary was violating a non-disclosure agreement signed in 2001 after the settlement of her grandfather's estate.
Last week, a New York appeals judge ruled that Simon & Schuster is allowed to release the memoir, saying it was "not a party to the agreement."
Mary is the daughter of Fred Trump Jr, Trump's older brother, who died in 1981 from complications related to alcoholism.
She writes that her uncle meets all the clinical criteria for being a narcissist, according to The New York Times.
"Mary Trump and her book's publisher may claim to be acting in the public interest, but this book is clearly in the author's own financial self-interest," Matthews said.
The book is set to be the latest bombshell book to dish dirt on Trump after former aide John Bolton's tome, which describes the Republican leader as corrupt and incompetent, hit shelves last month.
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — A closely followed index of Philadelphia area manufacturing conditions soured in January as local companies reported fewer new orders and hiring fewer employees.
The Philadelphia Fed's manufacturing index went negative in January, slipping to -5.8 in January from +4.6 in December.
Economists polled by MarketWatch expected a positive 5.0 reading.
What it shows is the fiscal cliff agreement reached at the end of the year hasn't resulted in a wave of new activity — perhaps because looming questions over the debt ceiling and scheduled spending cuts still remain.
"This particular survey has often been volatile around periods of political uncertainty, and it is possible respondents are still wary of upcoming decisions over spending cuts and the debt ceiling," said Andrew Grantham of CIBC World Markets.
The Philly Fed data is at odds with the tone of other economics releases Thursday, which included a five-year low for jobless claims and a four-year peak for housing starts.
The new-orders index fell to -4.3 from 4.9 in December, and the employment index fell to -5.2 from -0.2 in December.
The prices received index decreased 14 points, from 12.4 to -1.1.
However, the future general activity index increased from a revised reading of 23.7 to 29.2.
In a special question — one that gets to the heart of the economics debate — the Philly Fed asked what are the three most important factors that are restraining hiring plans.
The most important, at 27.4%, was expected growth of sales is low; the second-most important, at 19.2%, was firm wants to keep operating costs low; and the third-most important at 15.1% was the cost of health insurance.
The answer gives ammunition to Democrats who want fiscal stimulus to bolster demand, as well as Republicans who want to repeal President Obama's signature health-care law.
The rancorous debate between the two parties also is hurting: 37% reported federal fiscal policy developments have decreased hiring plans, but only 4.1% say those developments have increased them.


The president of Brazil made an extraordinary consult with to CIA headquarters and later spoke of his admiration for america on the second one day of a commute that mirrored his nation's shift to a extra pro-American stance.
President Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right baby-kisser who succeeded a leftist who every now and then had a frosty dating with america, arrived within the nation with a half-dozen ministers and a objective of increasing business and diplomatic co-operation between the 2 greatest economies within the Western Hemisphere.
He used to be anticipated to fulfill Tuesday with President Donald Trump to speak about a spread of problems, together with tactics to extend U.S. private-sector funding in Brazil and tactics to get to the bottom of the political disaster in Venezuela.
"At the moment, you will have a president who's a pal of america who admires this pretty nation," Bolsonaro advised an target market on the U.S. Chamber of Trade on Monday.
Bolsonaro underscored the variation between his management and that of former President Dilma Rousseff by way of preventing by way of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, to speak about "global issues within the area," in line with his son, Eduardo, a Brazilian lawmaker accompanying him on his first bilateral in another country commute.
Eduardo Bolsonaro described the CIA as "one of the revered intelligence businesses on this planet," in a tweet that used to be prone to carry eyebrows again house in Brazil, the place the U.S. and its undercover agent services and products were looked with suspicion in recent times.
In 2013, leaks from Edward Snowden published that the Nationwide Safety Company had wiretapped conversations of Rousseff, resulting in a number of years of stressful family members between the U.S. and Brazil.
"No Brazilian president had ever paid a consult with to the CIA," mentioned Celso Amorim, who served as overseas minister beneath former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and is a Bolsonaro critic.
The CIA had no remark at the consult with.
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From the 6th century, most of Wales became christianized through the efforts of missionaries, amongst them St David and St Teilo. At this time, there was encroachment from Anglo–Saxon settlers, following the valley of the River Severn into mid-Wales. Anglo-Saxon dominance within England was confirmed at the Battle of Chester (616), where Northumbria triumphed over a confederation of Welsh tribes led by Powys. Later, a Welsh king of the Borders, Cynddylan, became an ally of Penda of Mercia in his wars with Northumbria. By the 8th century, two kings of Mercia built earthworks, Wat's Dyke and Offa's Dyke, to protect against Welsh incursions. It was not until the 850s that Rhodri the Great of Gwynedd achieved control of the bulk of Wales. Thereafter, Welsh inheritance customs led to the kingdom being repeatedly subdivided.
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Opinion | How Lester Young Altered the Course of Music
John Edward Hasse
He looked different, he played different, he was different. Lester Young stood out: green eyes, reddish hair that earned him the boyhood nickname "Red," a porkpie hat, an ankle-length black coat, his saxophone held at a 45-degree angle. In a musical field known for individuality, he was an outsider's nonconformist, swinging to his own beat: shy, sensitive, averse to loudness and ostentation, inventor of his own eccentric lingo, and progenitor of cool as hipness in music, language and persona. If he didn't invent "cool" to mean "hip," he popularized it and other phrases that spread well beyond jazz. Most important, he created a poetic new aesthetic, altering the course of music. Sixty years after his death, the tenor saxophonist continues to rank as one of the most influential jazzmen in history.
Born in Mississippi in 1909 and raised in nearby New Orleans, by the time he was a teenager he was touring with a family band led by his father. But before he was 20 he decided to go out on his own. He went on the road, living for a time in Albuquerque, N.M., Minneapolis, and then in Kansas City, Mo., a jazz hotbed hosting dozens of nightclubs for listening and dancing. As part of Count Basie's soon-to-be-discovered, quintessential swing band, Young made his first recordings. In 1936, on "Lady, Be Good," he plays a wondrous two-chorus solo that sparked a sensation among musicians.
His solo on Basie's 1937 "One O'Clock Jump"—Young hits a B-flat 20 times in a row—was memorized by legions of tenor sax players. Young's 1939 showpiece "Lester Leaps In"—rife with rhythmic surprises—spotlights his superior note choices and interlinking melodic ideas. These recordings have much to offer listeners today.
Billie Holiday, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins and Gerry Mulligan in 1957 Photo: Getty Images
A decade earlier, cornetist Louis Armstrong had crystallized the model jazz solo; Lester Young—a brilliant soloist and melodist—reimagined how an extempore statement could sound. Young's feathery-floating tone; dearth of vibrato; long, flowing lines; and seemingly endless melodic ideas grabbed listeners' ears. Inspired by the white saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer, Young presented a lyrical contrast to the hot style of the dominant tenor saxophonist, Coleman Hawkins. Young's approach played down harmonies and emphasized melodic invention. He nailed his solos on the first take, spinning out golden melody lines at the speed of thought.
Achieving a balance between lyrical and earthy, between poise and punch, Young's new paradigm made him the most influential jazz musician between the rise of Armstrong in the 1920s and saxophonist Charlie Parker in the mid-1940s.
Young and singer Billie Holiday forged a warm friendship, crowning each other with admiring nicknames. He called her "Lady Day" (short for Holiday) and she dubbed him "The President" or "Prez"—the top man in her realm. Their recordings of 1937-41—such as "Mean to Me" and "I Must Have That Man"—still sparkle after 80 years.
If Young's sound was essentially romantic, his life arced toward the tragic. In 1944, shortly after appearing in a celebrated, arty movie short, "Jammin' the Blues," he was drafted into the U.S. Army, one of the worst possible fates for someone introverted, soft-spoken, detached and suffering from epilepsy. The Army charged him with smoking marijuana and placed him in disciplinary barracks for nine months, a trauma from which he never fully recovered: "a nightmare," he said, "man, one mad nightmare."
As Young's alcoholism grew worse in the 1950s, his tone grew huskier, his vibrato wider, and his pitch range lower. He died on March 15, 1959, at age 49, ending a recording career of just 23 years. Four months later, his musical soulmate Billie Holiday expired in a Harlem hospital at age 44.
It's been 60 years since the influential Young died Photo: Getty Images
Young influenced scores of saxophonists—such as Stan Getz and Dexter Gordon—as well as bebop, cool jazz, bossa nova and Hollywood soundtracks. Beyond music, such beat writers as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac hero-worshiped Young, and Bertrand Tavernier would base his 1986 movie "'Round Midnight" on the lives of Young and pianist Bud Powell.
The premature deaths of Young and Holiday testify to jazz musicians' hard road then: irregular incomes, often-itinerant work, ever-present temptations of substance abuse, unscrupulous club owners and record producers, and vicissitudes of public taste.
If you were an African-American musician, you also faced the psychic brutality of widespread racism, discrimination, segregation and the risk of physical violence. "It's all bullshit," said Young, "and they want everybody who is a Negro to be a Uncle Tom or Uncle Remus or Uncle Sam." And yet, despite sustained assaults on his dignity and humanity, Young and other musicians of color, fortified by the strength of their character and culture, produced so much splendid, evergreen art.
—Mr. Hasse is curator emeritus of American music at the Smithsonian. His books include "Beyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington" (Da Capo) and "Discover Jazz" (Pearson).
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Samurai Jack Season 5 Episode 8 Review (XCIX)
So now that Jack is back to "classic" Jack as of last episode, having wrapped up his arc about re-discovering himself and coming to terms with his past mistakes, one has to wonder how the rest of the season is gonna play out. Will it be the more traditional structure of the original, episodic run or will we still get to see new developments for Jack before he reaches his final showdown with Aku? Turns out the answer is a bit of Column A and a bit of Column B. This week's episode might be the most straightforward one we've had all season, and the most reminiscent of the first four seasons: the story is driven primarily by action and set-pieces as Jack and Ashi fight a new enemy along their journey to defeat Aku. Even so, it manages to throw in elements that tie into both heroes' overarching story…
… and oh man is it a doozy.
I know some of you may have called it, but I'm actually surprised the show didn't just go there, but how it went there.
We start the episode by watching some kind of monolith-looking spaceship crash land in the desert after getting hit by asteroids. We'll get back to that later.
Jack and Ashi are hanging out at a middle-eastern looking marketplace similar to one featured in the show's original intro as they wait for a transport that will take them to their next destination. Shout-out to Billy West as the voice of that anthropomorphic walrus that sounds like a Swedish Dr. Zoidberg. I'm also assuming it's a stealthy reference to Wally the Walrus from the "Woody Woodpecker" cartoons, who also has a Swedish accent. His dialogue implies that he's confusing Jack and Ashi for a couple, though it goes over Jack's head.
Once onboard their transport, they're surrounded by a posse of green cat people, some of which flash shit-eating grins at the two of them. It becomes so crowded that Jack and Ashi are pushed up against each other. It's here that they encounter their greatest challenge yet: awkward sexual tension.
And boy is it awkward. There's even a joke about Jack "poking" Ashi, but it turns out it's just his sword. I guess when you've already had a guy whose head looks like a penis a few weeks ago, the sky's the limit when it comes to dick jokes. Oh yeah, this is probably a good time to remind you that this episode takes the show back to the TV-PG rating again. I suppose that when your show airs on a Saturday night, TV-PG takes on a very loose meaning, as other examples coming down the line will show. Also, shout-out to the soft mood music that plays during the scene.
The duo's compromising position is alleviated a bit when they notice something weird about the jackets the cat people around them are wearing.
The two make quick work of the cat men, though the narrow spaces make it hard for them to keep their distance from each other, inevitably making the tension pop up again, as even the slightest touch from the other makes them nervous, even if briefly. Props to the composer for mixing the mood music with the fighting music.
The two decide to ditch the transport and continue on foot, which means having to walk across the desert; a decision that doesn't seem to bother them as much as you'd think. The two make their way across the desert, letting us sink in some more of that gorgeous desert scenery. Wisely, the animators play around with the colors and the contrast of Jack and Ashi against the backdrop quite a bit here, keeping the view nice to look at even though we're just watching them walk for a bit.
Along the way they find an oasis where they can get some water. Jack even takes the time to make hand-made straw hats for the both of them. Yeah, small fun fact about Jack for those who don't know: back in the day, he was shown to be wearing a straw hat from time to time, and in one episode we even get to see that he makes them himself.
Hope you're enjoying watching these two make kissy faces at each other, 'cause we're not even halfway through that yet.
Eventually, the two get caught in a sandstorm (they even lose their hats!) and have to look for shelter. They find the crashed ship from the beginning of the episode and go inside. After walking around for a bit, they conclude that the ship is some sort of prison, yet it doesn't seem to have any prisoners at the moment. Ashi gets bitten by some sort of blue leech, making an infection begin to spread. Thankfully, Jack is able to suck out the poison from the wound.
It may not be explicit, but I'm adding this one to the "sexual tension moments" list. Mostly because I have a dirty mind.
Jack and Ashi hear a loud screech coming from behind them. Not looking to find out what it is, they try to make their way back out of the ship. Unfortunately, the ship is built like a maze, with some parts even looking like a small city with futuristic-looking M.C. Escher stairs, and the two eventually get lost. They're eventually cornered by the thing that was chasing them: a monster composed of hundreds of blue leeches like the one that attacked Ashi.
It's one of the coolest, and also most daunting monsters to come about on this show in a while. Between being able to morph its shape into a swarm, its ability to throw leeches at them, and its seemingly endless supply of them, it proves too much for our heroes to handle, so they run away again. They find a security terminal where they learn the monster's name, Lazarus 92, which we're told has regenerative properties.
I'm sure you've heard the name before, but for those of you that don't know its origin, here you go: one of the most well-known uses of the name is in the Gospel of John: Lazarus of Bethany was a man miraculously resurrected by Jesus Christ after four days of being dead. It's a reason why the name "Lazarus" has been attributed to words like "resurrection" and "rejuvenation". To use a more pop culture-y example: The Lazarus Pit from "Batman" canon is a pool of restorative chemicals used by the villain Ra's al Ghul.
A computer tells Jack about a weapon that can be used to subdue Lazarus. Too bad Ashi accidentally sets off an explosion that makes Jack skip over the part where the computer tells them how the weapon is activated. The computer goes offline (isn't that inconvenient?) and hands Jack the weapon, which looks like a Roomba. Ashi is eager to fight Lazarus again after knowing they have a weapon specifically built to fight it, but Jack can't bring himself to tell her he doesn't know how it works.
It's not really touched upon, but Jack seems worried that telling Ashi that either she's the reason that made him skip the instructions on how to use the weapon or that he just doesn't know how to use it will make her angry at him. Jack, I know you're still sorting out what's going on with you and Ashi, but maybe you can do that AFTER you're safe and the monster is dead? I think figuring out how to do that is more important right now. If it means you two can be alive by the end of this, it should be worth it.
It's only a matter of time before they run into Lazarus again. Throughout the fight, they take turns in one keeping the monster at bay while the other attempts to figure out how to activate the weapon. Complicating the matter, at least for Jack, Lazarus proves to be pretty crafty, as he sends a sneak attack of leeches at Ashi that eat through her clothes, leaving her completely naked.
Even in the heat of battle, Jack can't help but to be distracted by his own embarrassment. With some quick thinking, he takes off his gi (I guess that what you call that thing he wears), telling Ashi that she "needs protection", leaving him to fight wearing only his underwear (I can't find the word for what that thing he wears under his gi is supposed to be). Ashi thinks Jack is being weird, but seems to appreciate his concern.
What could've easily been gratuitous fan service for it's own sake is played more like a small, fun character moment for both of them. Props.
Lazarus splits into multiple monsters and surrounds them. In one last ditch effort, Ashi covers Jack while he tries to work the weapon, which he does right before they're engulfed by leeches. If that wasn't painful enough, the weapon unleashes bolts of electricity that fry the leeches until they pop like firecrackers, and since they're right in the middle of it, they get to feel all that voltage. The same infection Ashi had earlier was beginning to spread on both of them, but the shock appeared to neutralize it (sure, why not?). By the end of it, they're exhausted, in pain, and covered in fried bug juice, doing their best to catch their breath, which leads us into a hard-cut to…
When I say hard-cut, I mean that literally. One moment, they're just standing around, looking at each other, and then next shot, BAM! There it is.
Full disclosure. When I woke up to write this review the morning after watching this episode, I had to double-check to make sure that I didn't actually hallucinate that ending. I guess now we know how these two get their rocks off, and whenever they do, they like it rough. Now that's what I call "self-discovery". Shout-out to Ashi caressing that neck. Looks like Jack isn't as much of a square as one would imagine. Until proven otherwise, I'm just gonna assume that those two take their throbbing biological urges all the way right after the credits start rolling. Oh yeah, and it's a shot so nice, they actually play it twice.
Ok, enough of that.
So yeah, that's how the episode ends. A roll of the credits and, instead of the traditional theme song, we get played off by Dean Martin's "Everybody Loves Somebody" all the way up through the closing logos, which I think it's the first time this show has ever used licensed music that wasn't a sample. I can't help but be reminded of the last time I saw a Tartakovsky production use a licensed song to great effect. If you ever get a chance, look up A Flock of Seagulls' "Space Age Love Song" sequence in Sym-Bionic Titan. That guy knows how to use those needle drops like a pro. You'll probably have to watch the whole episode to appreciate it fully, though. Much like this one, it's also a doozy. In about the same way.
…Where do I even begin?
As a whole, the episode fits the bill of classic "Samurai Jack": A new exotic location where Jack encounters some new ally, enemy, etc. and has to fight his way out of a dangerous situation, where the action scenes push the narrative along. While the last couple of episodes haven't been short on action at all, it's been a while since these scenes get to be a driving force for the plot, as opposed to the emotional/personal stakes that develop in between said fights. For example, last week we saw Ashi crush an entire army of orcs single-handedly. While this was mostly spectacle (an awesome spectacle!), the sequence was capped off with her having to fight her own mother to protect Jack, where she finally lets go of her past once and for all. What made that scene work was watching Ashi face the person responsible for turning her into a killer and putting an end to her ways definitively, setting her path as Jack's accomplice in stone. Now that both her and Jack have generally wrapped up their respective arcs, it seems the creative team realized they needed something to fill in the void left by that. Part 1 of that plan seems to be to give us the kind of battle Jack would encounter on a regular basis: a monster with power leagues above his own and find a way to defeat it. In terms of the versatility, power, and even intelligence it displays, Lazarus 92 deserves to be remembered among the great battles that Jack has had over the series. The fights with this thing were tense, forcing Jack and Ashi to get creative with their approaches and be quick on their feet, putting forth some of the coolest fight choreography we've had in a while.
As for Part 2, there's…well, the development between Jack and Ashi that builds over the course of the episode and culminates at the very end. Part of me wants to criticize the decision of pushing these two to be a couple, given how so far there really hadn't been a need for that, and how refreshing that had been. Still, watching their budding romance blossom was genuinely sweet and funny, if not a bit crude at times. Tartakovsky and his team admirably handle the shifts in tone well, never making a scenario too serious for it to be jarring when it gets deflated by a joke. On top of everything, it feels earned. The team knew better than to start throwing in these moments before establishing a meaningful connection between the two. Jack and Ashi understand each other and the kind of people they are/have become. The way they've helped each other become better and get over their hang-ups has made their relationship up until now very symbiotic. They share the same goal, and have become willing to put themselves on the line for each other. At this point, Ashi is in on Jack's quest for the long run, so having things end up between them where they're leading up to is not the most outlandish thing one could imagine. They really do make a good couple, in that they're both born-and-raised warriors with very little skills outside of that, awkwardly discovering their feelings and how to express them as they go along. So yeah, I'm hooked and I wanna see how this ends up once it unavoidably comes crashing into having to fight Aku and what could happen afterwards. Who knows? Maybe having an extra person around is exactly what Jack needs to not fall for Aku's tricks again.
Plus, if The Scotsman can find the time to make himself an army of daughters, who says Jack can't catch a break, too? I'm assuming he'll want to find a cure for his agelessness now, provided he wants to go all the way with this.
At the end of the day, in a season full of firsts for the show, not only is this one the biggest surprises it has brought forth, the execution of it is genuinely great. I've made this comparison before, but so far this has played out like the "happy ending" version of the episode "Jack and the Warrior Woman".
So, that's it for now. Next week, Jack seems to encounter a familiar-looking place. See you then!
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John Lennon, who would have turned a cracking 72 next week, cut these five radio promotional spots for Tobias Casual Sportswear, in 1974, while living in L.A. during his 'Lost Weekend'. One wonders – was Nilsson in tow, and if so, was he lingering outside the vocal booth with a frothy pitcher of Brandy Alexanders in hand? Sardonic, mercurial and subversive, these are pure Lennon. Lost weekend, indeed.
I can't wait to sample these and get sued by Yoko!
It's wonderful to hear John's voice. We've missed so much by not having him around the past 32 years.
Classic Lennon wit. Wonder if he did these spots for a year's worth of threads. What I wouldn't give to have been along for the ride while Lennon and Nilsson tore a gaping hole in L.A.
And, incidentally, May Pang was hot! Yoko, not. Good on ya, John.
I think these were extracted from his guest DJ spot on KHJ-AM. The same week he sat in at WNEW-FM NY and read spots for Korvettes, White Castle, etc. He wasn't paid by Tobias, just read the spots as guest DJ.


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Home FOOD & DRINK Food News & Trends Creating a Safe Space
Creating a Safe Space
Chefs Joe Sparatta and Jason Alley team up to start a chapter of Ben's Friends, a restaurant industry support group for those struggling with addiction
by Eileen Mellon
Richmond's 2018 Elby-winning Chef of the Year has something he wants the city to know, and it has nothing to do with charcuterie or making better pasta.
In February, Joe Sparatta won the award for the second time, chosen by national journalists and chefs. Sparatta is co-owner of both Heritage and Southbound.
Joe Sparatta (Photo by Stephanie Breijo)
What most in attendance did not know was that only three months earlier the chef had suffered a personal low, when, in November, he checked himself into an outpatient program for alcoholism.
Today, Sparatta is going public to raise awareness in the community of chefs and restaurant workers, many of whom, he says, are in the midst of similar battles with their addictions.
Sparatta told me he had been sober for two years before he relapsed. "I had never drunk and tried to cook," he said this morning, in a long phone conversation that the chef described as "freeing."
"I would always use alcohol after service, but then that wasn't the case," says Sparatta. "I started getting crazy anxiety and panic attacks after [we] had our first child. He came into the world early, and it was a crazy, horrible experience … and I used alcohol to manage. I felt like I was f**king dying, and it became my medicine and it turned off those feelings, but when the alcohol wore off they would come back tenfold. … I was on antidepressants and alcohol, and you start mixing all those and it gets really ugly."
Sparatta says the industry is appealing to many people — and also ruins many of those same people — because of its proximity to temptation.
"The restaurant world really champions how much you can drink," says Sparatta. "Everyone is getting f**ked up all the time, it's almost a badge of honor, like, look how drunk you can get and come into work the next day. I was a part of a bunch of shitty, reckless behavior, and I'm happy to not be anymore. I'd really like to help anybody try to switch that mentality and change it a little bit, so they know they don't have to live that way anymore."
Jason Alley (File photo)
Sparatta's confessional comes seven months after another prominent, local chef — Jason Alley, the proprietor of Comfort, Pasture and Flora — admitted to his own battles with alcoholism, in a piece penned for this very publication.
Sparatta says that he was not only inspired by Alley, but that he "leaned heavily" on his friend and colleague as he struggled to get a handle on his life.
Alley says he has been sober for 15 months, but although he is proud of that fact, he doesn't think in terms of years or months. Each day, he says, requires a rededication to staying clean.
"I was worried, Am I going to be able to do this? Who am I going to be?" he told me yesterday. "I knew if I didn't make a serious life change I had the potential to lose everything. It was starting to affect my health, my relationships, and I wanted to stop before I lost everything."
At the same time, making a change terrified him. "I'd been a drunk for 25 years," he says.
Alley and Sparatta say there was no defining moment when they knew they had to quit drinking. No DUI. No car accident. Their drinking had simply become more intense and more frequent. Alley had been drinking for 25 years, Sparatta for 16. It was, they say, a way of life — a respite from a demanding, stressful occupation. And it was all around them, all the time. The biggest temptations were out of town, when they were invited to cook at culinary events and shows, and it was easy and natural to fall into drinking with their fellow chefs from around the country.
But what each, on his own, began to realize was that this carefree life they had embarked upon in their 20s could not be sustained. They had wives, children, and businesses that relied upon them.
It was that realization that spurred their turnarounds.
The notion that they are not independent agents, but belong to vast networks of people — that they are not alone, and don't have to go it alone — is what is now spurring them to team up on a project to entice their colleagues in the industry to take the first difficult steps toward sobriety.
The two chefs are starting a chapter of Ben's Friends, a food and beverage industry support group for those struggling with addiction, the first of its kind in Richmond. The idea is to try to provide a support system for people in the restaurant industry, as well as for themselves, as they cope with sobriety. They are hoping to launch sometime this summer, with meetings initially at Comfort and Heritage.
Ben's Friends was founded in 2016 by restaurateurs and recovering alcoholics Mickey Bakst and Steve Palmer as a way of honoring the life of Ben Murray, a chef at Palmer's Indigo Road in Charleston who unexpectedly took his own life after struggling with alcoholism and depression for years. Bakst, who himself is celebrating 35 years of sobriety, says that they were tired of seeing people in their industry getting destroyed by drugs and alcohol.
"We kept saying we have to do something, we have to do something," says Bakst. "We realized in [food service] it tends to be younger people, and they are not comfortable going to NA or AA; [the service industry] is a little more gritty. Line cooks, chefs, bartenders, general managers, servers — we talk differently, we swear differently, and nobody else understands the experience of being on a 100-degree line with 40 tickets up and a chef screaming at you. Everybody needs to blow off steam, and the industry is a pressure cooker. When [industry workers] get out of work, there's no place for them to blow off the steam that's been built, except to go to bars."
Bakst has clearly identified a need: There are chapters of the organization in Raleigh, Charleston, and Atlanta, with plans to start chapters in Greenville and Charlotte.
According to a 2015 study by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration, the restaurant industry has the highest rates of substance abuse in the country. The food service industry is a breeding ground for addiction — late hours that extend into the next day; the daily grind of pleasing demanding customers; a core business model driven by alcohol sales and providing an escape for patrons; the constant pressure and need to stay awake and focused, paired with the desire to unwind and decompress.
Alley and Sparatta want their brothers and sisters in the industry to know that they can lead clean lives, that it's not a badge of dishonor, that heavy drinking is not synonymous with being cool.
"We want there to be a conversation about recovery and talk about the journey," says Alley, as he lays out a vision for a judgment-free space where people who are trying to make changes in their lives can lean on each other. "I'm not the one with the answers, but I know having a safe space to figure them out is important. The whole deal is to create a space where there's encouragement for people to make the best decisions they can."
Sparatta echoes these sentiments: "It's easy to drink; we want it to be easy for people to reach out."
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From food trucks to white-tablecloth destinations, craft cocktails to craft beer, farm to table to fork, we serve up the latest in Richmond dining and drinking. Feedback? Suggestions? They are always appreciated. Contact Food Editor Eileen Mellon at eileenm [at] richmag [dot] com.


Jarryd Hayne is under investigation by the NRL Integrity Unit following his appearance in a bizarre video in which he handed an alleged bikie enforcer $5,000 cash.
The Daily Telegraph obtained and released the video footage posted on accused Hells Angels bikie and former Gold Coast under-20 player Chris Bloomfield's Snapchat account.
There is also footage of Hayne, who joined the Titans late in the NRL season after a stint with NFL franchise the San Francisco 49ers, joy-riding on the Gold Coast with Bloomfield.
t is unclear exactly when the video was shot, with some outlets suggesting Hayne's alleged night out was 24 hours after the Titans' season-ending loss to the Broncos.
"Haynsey just gave me five grand," the alleged bikie standover man says in the video.
Hayne responds with a shrug and says: "Cash money fam, cash money. Give me a f ... ing cigarette."
Hayne is yet to publicly respond to the damaging footage but his manager Wayne Beavis quickly moved to play down Hayne's association with Bloomfield.
"I've spoken to Jarryd and he said 'it was just beers with the boys'," Beavis told the Daily Telegraph on Tuesday.
"The money's not his, he would ever be walking around with five grand in his pocket.
"He says he doesn't even know the bloke. They aren't even mates. He just happened to be there."
Bloomfield is currently facing charges of extortion, assault occasioning bodily harm while armed and stealing.
Former Titan Nene Macdonald, who has signed a three-year deal with St George Illawarra, is also being investigated by the NRL Integrity Unit after The Daily Telegraph published an Instagram photo of MacDonald and Bloomfield.
The Hayne video is the latest in a string of public relations disaster for the NRL who have repeatedly warned players not to associate with convicted or suspected criminals.
Cronulla prop Andrew Fifita sparked a furor earlier this month when it was revealed he wore a message of support for one-punch killer Kieran Loveridge on his wrist during several games.
NRL players Corey Norman, Junior Paulo and James Segeyaro posed for a happy snap at The Star with a former Nomad bikie in May.


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Business owners throughout the Gulf Coast, have not only survived – they have rebuilt and thrived, despite the destruction of recent hurricanes. The question is, how? By Catherine McNaught
Weathering the StormPanhandle business owners bounce back quickly from nature's worstBy Catherine McNaught
One day, Don Abrams dreams, he will expand Florida's Gulfarium. Exactly when that will be depends on the weather.
After Hurricane Opal slammed into Santa Rosa Island with winds of 115 miles per hour in October 1995, Abrams had two feet of water inside the entire Gulfarium building. The Fort Walton Beach business closed for more than a year. In 2004, a Hurricane called Ivan tore the roofs off Florida's Gulfarium and deposited up to two feet of sand throughout the aquarium. The ensuing cleanup closed the business for eight more months.
That Abrams remains in business at all might strike some as a miracle. Yet he, like other business owners throughout the Gulf Coast, has not only survived – he has rebuilt and thrived, despite the destruction. The question is, how?
"Preparation," he says. "It all comes down to preparation."
Before Opal hit, Abrams says Florida's Gulfarium had funds earmarked for a major expansion.
"That's what saved it," he says of the money, which he used to cover operating expenses until the business could re-open a year later. "Having seen that, I started putting money away every month to plan for that."
When Hurricane Ivan hit, Abrams again tapped the expansion fund during the eight-month closure. But now he has got the formula.
"I estimate that if we're going to be closed three to five months, I try to have $100,000 to $150,000 per month that is accessible to me," he says. "I would not want to keep less than half a million in that contingency account, having seen how long it takes to get insurance money back."
Sound financial and corporate resources also kept West Florida Hospital in Pensacola running after Hurricane Ivan ravaged it in 2004, doing $20 million in damage.
"We were pretty much functional throughout the hurricane and right afterwards," says Kendrick Doidge, vice president of marketing and public relations for the hospital. "But we had substantial damage on the entire outside of the hospital. Windows were blown out and pieces of the building were torn off."
As a result, West Florida Hospital underwent a $100 million renovation, using contingency funds set aside by the hospital's parent company, HCA. In the renovations, the hospital upgraded its exterior and windows to withstand a Category 3 hurricane.
"Now, with our renovations, our hospital and the windows can withstand winds of up to 140 miles per hour," Doidge says. And that, hospital executives hope, will prevent the kind of damage the facility sustained in Ivan.
But sometimes, surviving the catastrophic damage of a hurricane just comes down to hard work and entrepreneurship.
"Your whole business mode changes," says Tom Rasinen, director of sales for the Hilton Pensacola Beach Gulf Front, who looked at his damaged and sand-covered facility and saw a glass that was half full. Half of the hotel's 181-room inventory was out of commission, but he still had 86 rooms left, and when he returned to Pensacola Beach, there were law enforcement and residents waiting to get in.
"It didn't matter if you had power or not, people just wanted a place to stay," Rasinen says.
The Hilton was repaired in roughly two months, but in that time, Rasinen says his entire clientele changed.
"Media, insurance evaluators, power company employees, displaced residents," he says. "You adapt to your guests' needs and expectations because they are a little bit different. The guys that are working on the power lines – they don't need a buffet brunch every morning. So we did a bunch of sausage biscuits and coffee to go." The hotel brought in Ping-Pong tables and dart boards for entertainment. "You try to add a little bit more to the day-to-day experience," Rasinen says.
Making sure that employees know when to return to work is also crucial to recovery, says state Rep. Jimmy Patronis, R-Panama City. "Have a plan in place to make sure when your employees know when you're opening back up," he advises.
His family's Panama City Beach restaurant, Capt. Anderson's, was in the path of a tornado spawned by the outer bands of Hurricane Ivan. Patronis says the restaurant was closed less than a week – largely because his employees reported back to work immediately.
"We operated the restaurant on the concrete floors until we got the new carpets in, but that's just part of staying open," he says. "We had too many families needing that restaurant to stay open. We had to look at the bigger picture."
Ted Corcoran, president of the Greater Fort Walton Beach Chamber of Commerce, concurs, noting that 90 percent of the area's businesses employ 10 or fewer people.
"Saving for a rainy day, so to speak," is what can make or break them and their employees while they wait for insurance claims and repairs to be completed. "Businesses need an actual plan, and that plan not being, 'I hope there won't be a storm,'" he says.
"It's not just preparing for a storm," says Abrams, who is still socking money away in his contingency fund for expansion of Florida's Gulfarium. "It's preparing for everything. Like the economy now," he says.


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City Council delays housing contract
By John Geluardi, Daily Planet staff
Funding would continue hotel's emergency homeless aid
Councilmember Linda Maio pulled a $100,000 contract to provide emergency housing off the City Council's consent calendar Tuesday, saying she wanted to learn more about the program and its impact on the neighborhood.
The council resolution would continue an emergency housing contract with the Flamingo Hotel, located at 1761 University Ave., to house up to 10 mentally ill homeless people. Generally, items on the consent calendar are approved unanimously in one vote, without discussion.
"I checked with Health and Human Services to make sure the delay would cause no disruption to the program's services," Maio said. "But this one threw me a curve because I didn't know what was being proposed."
Maio has scheduled a meeting with the Health and Human Services officials so she and neighbors of the hotel can learn more about the state program, formally known as Integrated Services for the Mentally Ill.
The program, which provides counseling, drug rehabilitation, food and clothing to the chronically homeless, has been housing clients at the hotel since March.
The council is now considering the contract because of a policy to approve all contracts once they go above $25,000.
Harvey Tureck, manager of the Mental Health Division, said he is confident the contract will be approved because the program participants who use the emergency housing at the Flamingo Hotel are not troublemakers. "Mental health staff are on site every day and besides these people are mentally disabled and not likely to commit crimes," he said.
Tureck added that since the program began, none of the participants has been arrested.
The recommendation was rescheduled for the council's Nov. 13 meeting.
If approved, the temporary hotel housing will continue to provide a much needed element in a unique $3 million program that is attempting to offer meaningful and lasting help to the most severely mentally disabled homeless, who health officials say are the hardest to reach.
In September 2000, Gov. Gray Davis approved $56 million for similar programs in 26 counties. Berkeley received grant approval for $3 million last November to serve approximately 100 of the city's most severely mentally ill homeless through November 2003.
The Mental Health Division, which manages the program, has hired seven social workers who have mostly been working the streets to gain the trust of the mentally ill homeless. Tureck said trust building is essential because the people the program is meant to help are often mistrustful and wary of all government agencies.
The need for housing this particular homeless population is especially great, because it brings some stability to what is often an otherwise chaotic existence, according to Tureck. He said the 72 clients currently being assisted by the program are now living in residency hotels, long-term care facilities and independent housing.
Tureck said the Flamingo Hotel provides clients with much needed transitional housing until arrangements can be made for long-term housing, which is the primary goal of the program.
"So far the results have been good," Tureck said. "We've been able to move some clients into permanent housing around the county and we are currently negotiating to convert a boarding house in central Berkeley into housing for about 20 people."
The governor approved the bill based on three pilot programs in Stanislaus and Los Angeles counties and the city of Sacramento.
The pilot programs cost $10 million to provide the mentally ill homeless with counseling, drug rehabilitation, housing, food and clothing but, according to organizers, it saved $20 million in other services such as emergency medical care and police services.
Maio represents District 2, where the Flamingo Hotel is located. She said she expects the contract will be approved on Nov. 13.
"My neighborhood has been supportive of affordable housing, which makes it a very tolerant and unusual place," she said.


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UAE debuts the world's largest individual solar power project
The United Arab Emirates might still be associated with oil money, but it just set a record for reducing its dependence on oil. The Emirate Water and Electricity Company has started running Noor Abu Dhabi, the largest individual solar power project in the world. At 1.18 gigawatts of peak capacity, it's only eclipsed by solar parks (where multiple projects share space) -- it makes the US' biggest facility, the 569MW Solar Star, seem modest by comparison.
Not surprisingly, Abu Dhabi is keen to tout the environmental benefits. It estimates that Noor Abu Dhabi's 3.2 million panels provide enough power for 90,000 people, and will lower CO2 emissions by 1 million metric tonnes (984,206 imperial tons). That's the equivalent of pulling 200,000 cars off the roads, according to the emirate.
It's hard to deny that the UAE is using the solar farm as a publicity tool. Although it should have a tangible effect on emissions, the reality is that the UAE is still heavily reliant on oil. It recently talked about cutting oil production to balance the market, not to shy away from fossil fuels. It remains an important development, though, and you can expect other record-setting solar projects before long.
Source: Endgadget.com


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Emily Cheerleading…. She absolutely Loves It!!! She cheers all day & all night. I guess it's just in the blood!!! This picture she is in the middle of doing a Toe Touch. Too cute, that's my girl.


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What does it mean to "make disciples"?
The first time disciples of Jesus were called "Christians" was in the city of Antioch. Antioch was a cosmopolitan city with many different ethnicities living within its walls. Amid this diversity, a group of people stood out—those who followed an obscure, recently crucified Jewish rabbi from Nazareth. It would have been understandable if the people of Antioch had mistaken these people as just another Jewish sect. Yet there was something different about them. Something so different they were given a name intended to poke fun: "little Christs" or "Christians."
The term "Christian" is only used a handful of times throughout the New Testament, often by outsiders. Members of the early church were known to call themselves "disciples." In John 13:35, Jesus gives the identifying mark that His disciples should bear: love.
Jesus' last earthly words were for his disciples to go out into the world and make more disciples. (Matthew 28:18)
But what is a disciple?
A disciple is someone who understands and follows a teacher. But a disciple is more than just a student; a disciple has a deep relationship with his or her teacher.
What does it look like for an MAF pilot or tech specialist to make disciples? What does it look like for a person with a nine-to-five job, or a stay-at-home parent, or a retiree in America to make disciples?
Jesus' model of discipleship in the Gospels consisted of sharing His life with a select group of followers—pouring into them through teaching, showing what it looked like to live in the Kingdom of God, and being in relationship with them.
Being and making disciples looks like a missionary family in Lesotho investing in the life of a local teenager. It looks like a woman moving across the world to live in a village for decades so the people there can know Jesus. It looks like faithful people such as you supporting the work of MAF as we take the hope and love of Jesus to the most remote places on earth.
Being and making disciples means sharing the love of Jesus and the hope of the gospel with others and helping them mature in their faith.
The people of Antioch and others outside the Church in the New Testament saw this love displayed and accused disciples of being "little Christs." Oh, that the same accusation could always be thrown at the followers of Jesus!
Story appeared in the Summer 2019 issue of FlightWatch. Read the entire issue here:
Changing Airplanes, Unchanging Mission
When WWII pilots envisioned using small aircraft to help the gospel spread to hard-to-reach areas, could they have imagined what missionary aviation looks like today?
A Day of Celebration
The day was a mix of joyous celebration and solemn ceremony. The sounds of exuberant singing and traditional harp and drums filled the air.
Persevering in hard places
Just over a week after a devastating 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked southwestern Haiti, MAF pilot Eric Fagerland landed in the town of Jérémie with a load of relief supplies.