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Superior Motors revs up a superior drinks program
"We try to use a lot of fresh herbs, and try to keep sugar levels low."
by Drew Cranisky
CP photo by Krista Johnson On the bar at Superior Motors
1211 Braddock Ave., Braddock. 412-271-1022 or
If you know only one thing about Superior Motors, you know this: It's been a long time coming. Thanks to a record-breaking Kickstarter campaign, the ambitious Braddock restaurant had more than a few folks watching its progress. For the better part of three years, there wasn't much to watch. But despite construction delays and tight budgets, chef Kevin Sousa and his team finally opened Superior Motors in mid-July. What's left to do but have a drink?
Beverage director Jeremy Bustamante is happy to provide one. Bustamante's relationship with Sousa goes back to Salt of the Earth, where he ran the bar for several years. When the job with Superior Motors came his way, Bustamante says it was a no-brainer. Fans of Salt will recognize a familiar format in Superior Motors' cocktail program, which consists of a clean list of 10 drinks named after their base spirits. "It's a very seasonal menu," explains Bustamante. "We try to use a lot of fresh herbs, and try to keep sugar levels low."
Perhaps no drink on the opening menu embodies this approach more than the one called "Vodka." The seasonal cocktail contains just three ingredients: vodka, mulberries and lemon. There is no sugar aside from the slight sweetness of the mulberries. The vodka is local (Boyd & Blair), and the mulberries are hyper-local: Bustamante and general manager Chris Clark harvested the fruit from a tree in Superior Motors' parking lot. (The mulberries have since been switched out for tomatoes.) Like Sousa's food, the drinks will feature foraged ingredients and local produce, including herbs grown right down the street at Braddock Farms.
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The 50-bottle wine list, curated by Clark (formerly of wd~50 in New York), is split evenly between Old World and New World selections. In keeping with the restaurant's focus on education (it is developing a youth training program), Clark offers something called a "dual strand," which allows guests to sample a rotating pairing of New World and Old World wines. Reflecting a nationwide obsession with pink wine, rosé comprises nearly a third of the list, and seven rosés are available by the glass. Clark has also assembled an impressive sake selection, which pairs nicely with Sousa's Asian-tinged cuisine.
As for beer, the bar boasts six drafts and a small selection of bottles and cans. Not surprisingly, one tap pours Brew Gentlemen beer, which is made just blocks from the restaurant. The other taps are all Pennsylvania beers, and Bustamante hopes to eventually make the entire draft list local.
Like the food, the drinks at Superior Motors will change with the seasons and the whims of Bustamante and his team. But regardless of the specific selection the night you stop in, the energy and excitement of the long-awaited venture will be palpable. "How happy am I to be working with Kevin Sousa again?" says Bustamante, beaming. "I can't even describe it."
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At first I thought it was just a sunset, but the clouds look very strange and after remembering that I saw a bunch of "Chemtrails" two days earlier, I thought this could be a result. Either way, coincidence or not, it's good to look out for these things in our world.


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Bill Cosby leaves the courtroom with the help of an aide flanked by lawyer Brian McMonagle (far left) with fellow counsel Angela Agrusa (right) during a break at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown
Bill Cosby has lost his latest effort to have criminal sex-assault charges thrown out on appeal in Pennsylvania.
Cosby's lawyers argue that accuser Andrea Constand should have testified at a preliminary trial so they could confront his accuser.
Pennsylvania law allows prosecutors to use hearsay testimony from police at pretrial hearings, and the state Superior Court on Wednesday denied Cosby's appeal.
But defense lawyer Brian McMonagle says he hopes to join a related appeal being heard by the state Supreme Court.
Cosby is set for trial in June in suburban Philadelphia on charges he drugged and molested Constand in 2004. He has pleaded not guilty.
The Associated Press does not usually identify people who say they are the victims of sexual assault, but Constand's lawyer has said her name can be used.


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Representing 3 different Nordic countries, we want to present classical masterpieces by Nordic, Russian and European composers from the late 19th Century until today.
It is our goal to make the audience hear the music in a greater context, while immersing in the music itself, and get a sense of how the composers influence each other, creating a new kind of music through time.
With Nordic spontaneity we play from our hearts, and try to express real feelings without disturbing the natural flow and form of the music.
We met in a pub in Copenhagen and immediately started to talk about all the great music we want to play together!
We are giving our first concert this summer at The Chamber Music Festival by Harbæk Fjord, playing two of the best piano trios of all time, Schubert's Op. 100 and Shostakovitch' Trio No. 2 as well as Grieg's Andante con moto.
We hope to give many concerts in the future, sharing our deep love to music with audiences in the Nordic countries and the rest of the world.
Having a life in music is extremely important to us. To get in close touch with classical music, it needs full attention, something that is rare in the modern world, but it is important for people not to forget to immerse themselves in the arts; modern life is increasingly superficial. The musical language brings people from all over the world closer. If you really get into music, it can give you an experience that enriches your life and—and what is more important than that?
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Pål Eide has given numerous recitals in the Scandinavian countries for more than 20 years, and got his international breakthrough the last couple of years, receiving top reviews in leading international press, his latest cd Grey Clouds turning up on playlists of major classical radio channels in more than 15 countries. This gave opportunity to recent prestigious radio and tv concerts.
In 2019 he will perform Bach's Piano Concerto No. 5 and Brandenburger Concerto No. 5 at Chamber Music Festival by Hjarbæk Fjord, as well as giving more than 25 recitals as Pianist of the Week at Edvard Grieg Museum Troldhaugen and other summer festivals.
His new album Piano Pictures was recently recorded at Grieg's Steinway from 1892, at Edvard Grieg Museum, Troldhaugen by two times Grammy award winning sound engineer Helmut Burk and filmed by film photographer Per Dreyer who wish to make a music film and documentary on the recording and Grieg's influence on modern music.
Eide is a new president of the Nordic-Russian Music Society, based in Copenhagen as well as a new board member of the Rudersdal Summer Concerts, working with the musical program of the festival.
Aleksander Koelbel - violin
Aleksander Koelbel was born in 1984, and started playing the violin at the age of 6. He started studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in 2003.
From 2005 he studied 2 years at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki with Anatoli Melnikov, and the same year started studies in Vienna. In 2008 he was enrolled at the Menuhin Academy Switzerland, and became a member of its chamber orchestra, Camerata Lysy. With this orchestra he also appeared several times as soloist, at such places as Zürich Tonhalle and Basel concert hall. He has since 2007 undertaken private studies with the famous Moscow professor Yevgenija Tchougaeva and her student Viktor Tretyakov.
Since returning to native country Denmark in 2011 he was violinist for several years at the Royal Danish Opera and Orchestra. Since 2017 he has been violinist at the Danish National Radio Orchestra.
As a passionate chamber musician he has appeared at numerous famous european festivals including Gstaad, Salzburg and Venice.
He is artistic director of a summer festival in Denmark where he in 2018 together with colleagues played J.S. Bach Brandenburg Concertos, violin concertos and several masterpieces of the chamber music repertoire.
Lauri Rantamoijanen - cello
After studies at the Sibeilus Academy with Heikki Rautasalo and Marko Ylönen, Lauri has also worked under the guidance of The Alban Berg Quarted and Lisa Phjola.
He was a finalist in the prestigious Turu Cello Competition and a finalist in the Eurovision Young Soloist Competition (2004) and has performed as a solist with the Finnish Radio Orchestra.
As an active chamber musician he has performed in many countries with various ensembles, playing a Francesco Ruggieri cello dated 1693.
"Agonizing clarity… immense climax… gracious beauty… revealing details not noticed in other performances."
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If we were a family, this would be on our Christmas card. That's Mike, Phil, Susan and me. The camera was on a tripod, if you're wondering.
On the way to Utah, in the middle of Nowhere, New Mexico, in the back of a convenience store the size of a shopping mall was this fantastic classic car museum. Go figure.
What's stranger than a classic car museum in the middle of nowhere? A statue of Yoda in the middle of the car museum.
Phil and Susan Hudgens, me and Mike Hall and the shadow of a guy who ran off with my camera. Not really. This is at a drive-through national park with a bunch of natural bridges. Just a side trip on the way to Canyonlands.
Mike at the natural bridges driving tour in Utah on the way to Canyonlands.
Phil and Susan at the natural bridges drive-through tour in Utah.
Gnarly trunk of a twisted cedar (?) tree.
One of the natural bridges. Didn't have time to move myself to the sunny side or wait for the sun to come to my side.
This is the initial descent into the Maze District of the park. If you think it looks scary here, you should have seen it live. X2 on the way out because it had snow on it then.
It's all downhill from here.
Mike could smoke, snack, search his ipod and check his Blackberry while driving these roads.
Solar panels that provide the electricity to the ranger station at the put-in point to the Maze District of Canyonlands National Park. The ranger station is about 40 miles (really) down a dirt road. They want you to check in and reserve a camp site, but they said not to bother checking out when you leave. I think they'd rather not have to launch a search and rescue mission every time a group forgets to check out.
The view from Panaramic Point, our first campsite.
Susan and Phil in our make-do rain shelter between the trucks at Maze Overlook. This tarp that Phil brought was a lifesaver!!
No dehydrated chicken & rice for us! Fires were not allowed in the park unless you brought your own grill, like this one, and carried your ashes out with you, which we did. We burned three large bags of natural-wood charcoal since you're not allowed to collect and burn wood from the desert. And, you can image that if they want you to carry out your ashes, then there's other waste they definitely don't want you leaving behind. So, yes, we carried that out, too.
Sunrise at our first campsite at Panaromic Point.
One of the dazzling views from Panaramic Point.
On this trip I learned the value of an expedition-grade tent because one of those, unlike the one I had, wouln't have had its poles broken by the high winds. It was a flappy night. The next night I slept in the passenger seat of Phil's truck. But the two nights after that I was back in my newly fortified tent.
The bottom just dropped out of the desert floor here. Fortunately, it happened well before we got there.
Somewhere in the Maze District.
Part of the view from Panaramic Point, our first camp site.
Phil maneuvering his Nissan Titan.
One of the views from campsite #2, Maze Overlook. The maze is actually a maze-like series of slots in the canyon floor to the right of this shot. The light never cooperated with me to get a good shot of it while we were there. It rained on us that night, but was like this in the morning.
Another view from Maze Overlook. I was reminded of traveling in Europe and visiting those magnificent cathedrals. The first three or four just blow you away, then you started getting accustomed to them. It was like that out here, and a little disappointing to realize you're beginning to get used to this magnificence after being surrounded by it for a couple of days.
Again from the Maze Overlook campsite. The fixture in the lower left is called the Chocolate Drops (I think). I was more interested in the clouds at the moment.
Our happy little shelter at Maze Overlook. While they have designated camp sites, they are not developed at all. They're just spaces they set aside where they allow you to camp. Fortunately, we brought plenty of the comforts of home, like tables, chairs and a stove, along with us. This was in the morning after it had rained most of the night, thus the tarp.
This was nearly the extent of the wildlife we saw on this trip. Well, actually, we did glimpse some deer and antelope playing, about a dozen chipmunks, a couple of squirrels, and mice at every campsite. One of the mice got into Mike's truck and kept him up most of the night running around eating and making a little nest and doing whatever it is that mice do at night.
Susan and Phil enjoying the view. That's about as close as Phil cares to get to the edge.
This was somewhere between campsite #2 and 3. It's shot with a 12mm lens, if you wonder.
I took a ridiculous number of pictures of Phil's truck.
Phil and Susan in their mighty Nissan Titan. It was more than up to the task.


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Tackling global health care challenges
Nicola Walsh reflects on the first World Innovation Summit for Health which explored new and innovative ways to tackle a variety of global health care challenges.
By Nicola Walsh - 19 December 2013
You can't get the staff these days: the shifting NHS workforce
In light of our September 2013 quarterly monitoring report, James Thompson investigates the reasons behind the recent decline in the NHS hospital and community health service workforce in England.
By James Thompson - 18 September 2013
The NHS workforce: how do we balance cost-effectiveness with safety?
Professor James Buchan explores how NHS reforms have affected the health and social care workforce, and the importance of maintaining the balance between safety and cost-effectiveness.
By James Buchan - 3 September 2013
Let's hear it for allied health professionals
It is impossible to deliver effective care without the crucial contribution of highly trained allied health professionals. Yet, whenever the quality of health care is debated, these vital staff are written out of the conversation.
By David Oliver - 8 August 2013
Developing GP federations: will clinical commissioning stand in the way?
Central to the RCGP's new vision, The 2022 GP, is the proposal that GP practices come together as federated or networked organisations. But can GP federations develop alongside CCGs?
By Candace Imison - 2 July 2013
There's nothing quite like being there
All senior civil servants will now be expected to spend the equivalent of four weeks a year with staff and patients in health and social care organisations. But will this lead to a more patient-centred culture?
By Jo Maybin - 28 May 2013
A matter of meaning
One of the most effective things NHS leaders can do is to help people see how their work matters or help them articulate for themselves what contribution their work makes, says Liz Saunders.
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The NHS in 2013: no place for the faint hearted
The NHS reforms in England will have major implications for all involved in the system, none more so than providers.
By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 1 April 2013
Clinical commissioning groups: a north-south divide?
The hard work and long hours put in by GPs and managers in setting up CCGs have, so far, paid off. All 211 CCGs have been authorised to take control of their commissioning budgets from the beginning of April.
By Chris Naylor - 25 March 2013
Delivering the workforce of the future
Vijaya Nath sums up our discussions on the future health and social care workforce, and looks at the impact of leadership, technology and the shifting patterns of care delivery.
By Vijaya Nath - 14 March 2013
Labour's health and care policy review: ambitious but incomplete?
Andy Burnham's speech to launch Labour's health and care policy review was strong on principles but left many questions unanswered.
By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 25 January 2013
Revalidation: opportunity or challenge?
Revalidation has been a popular topic in our leadership work with medical directors, GPs and consultants – so what have we learnt so far?
By Vijaya Nath - 23 January 2013
A guide to the NHS Commissioning Board's Everyone Counts
The NHS Commissioning Board has issued its 'planning guidance' to the 211 clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) that are to take control of local budgets from April. So what message does it send to CCGs?
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The first day of the 2017 NRA National Smallbore Conventional Position Rifle Championships opened with 120 shots in three positions with metallic sights.
Army's Patrick Sunderman, who had a solid prone performance in that championship, opened with the tournament with a 400-38X. Mike McPhail, perhaps one of the best prone shooters in world, followed up 400-37X and, in perfect descending order, civilian Daniel Martz closed out the top three with his 400-36X.
Moving into standing young Malori Brown, an intermediate junior held hard shooting a 397-18X Army shooters Erin McNeil and Sunderland and junior Jared Desrosiers, who has his eye set in joining the pair at the AMU, battled it down to Xs when they all posted 396s on their feet. McNeil prevailed by five Xs, 25 to 20. Sunderman's 17X left him in fourth.
McPhail shot his second perfect score of the day, 400-30X, to win the kneeling match. Sunderman was second just an X behind the winner. Desrosiers was again in the money with a third place score of 399-29X.
Final results have Patrick Sunderman winning the National Smallbore Conventional Position Metallic Sight Championship with a score of 1596-114X. Mike McPhail is second at 1595-124X. Jared Desrosiers out Xed Antonio Gross, 1594-109X to 1594-104, for third.


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Mick Taylor Returns In Wolf Creek TV Series
Fans of the Wolf Creek films have been awaiting news of a third installment of the film franchise and now we have some info on where the next entry is headed. On Adam Green and Joe Lynch's Movie Crypt Podcast Director Greg McLean revealed that Wolf Creek will return, but on the small screen. The iconic fictional character will be seen via the new Australian video-on-demand service Stan.
Australian actor John Jarratt, 62, is set to reprise his role as the iconic villain for the series. The Wolf Creek drama series comes from the creative forces behind the phenomenally successful Wolf Creek films and the smash-hit Underbelly television series. This series is being developed by writer/director Greg Mclean (Wolf Creek, Rogue), writer/producer Peter Gawler (Underbelly), writer Felicity Packard (Underbelly) and executive producer Greg Haddrick (Underbelly, Anzac Girls).
Screentime and Mclean's Emu Creek Pictures are collaborating on the Wolf Creek series. Screentime MD Bob Campbell tells IF he hopes the first draft screenplay will be completed by Easter and, assuming the project gets the greenlight, the aim is to go into production before the end of the year.
Given the global recognition of the Wolf Creek brand, he thinks the material is ripe for international pre-sales or the participation of an international co-production partner and he believes the TV series has franchise potential.
Wolf Creek is planned as a six-part series. Wolf Creek reimagined for television will be a compelling, psychologically complex and visually spectacular suspense series driven by a young woman's quest for justice. Star of the Wolf Creek films, John Jarratt, is attached to reprise his role of the iconic villain Mick Taylor.
Mclean said: "Wolf Creek and the character of Mick Taylor have become household names, and the opportunity to tell a rich and complex story in his world in a high-quality drama series is a thrilling creative opportunity. Plus, I couldn't be more excited about collaborating with the Screentime team who consistently create outstanding entertainment."


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Two sisters—the sickly, intellectual Ester (Ingrid Thulin) and the sensual, pragmatic Anna (Gunnel Lindblom)—travel by train with Anna's young son, Johan (Jörgen Lindström), to a foreign country that appears to be on the brink of war. Attempting to cope with their alien surroundings, each sister is left to her own vices while they vie for Johan's affection, and in so doing sabotage what little remains of their relationship. Regarded as one of the most sexually provocative films of its day, Ingmar Bergman's The Silence offers a disturbing vision of emotional isolation in a suffocating spiritual void.
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Hillsborough verdict
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Anniebach Tue 26-Apr-16 08:24:44
The jury will return their verdict today . I hope the families of the victims finally have justice.
annsixty Tue 26-Apr-16 08:35:37
My hope is that they will all accept the verdict whichever way it goes and then try to get on with the rest of their lives for their own sake and that of their loved ones.
I can understand their anguish but also can see from other people that life must go on. I am not being hard or unsympathetic here, I am trying, perhaps very clumsily, to point out they have a life to live and now they should try and live it.
Justice must always be fought for surely ?
ninathenana Tue 26-Apr-16 09:07:52
Yes justice must be fought for and we can have a personal opinion of what we think that would be. However as outsiders we will never know what the verdict should be.
I agree with annsixty
Surely justice means truth
Justice at last, the victims were innocent
Dictionary definition:
Fairness in the way people are dealt with.
Not the same as truth Annie
daphnedill Tue 26-Apr-16 11:28:55
It's very easy, as an outsider, to say that life must go on. I'm very fortunate that I've never lost anybody close in such a tragic way.
It was important for the relatives of those who died to seek justice. I don't think I can ever truly know how they feel.
Don't forget that the victims were 'blamed' by certain sectors of the media. To this day, I understand that people in Liverpool still boycott the Sun.
As someone who was at the Aberfan disaster I know how these families feel and why they have fought so hard and for so long.
Nina, justice is truth,i don't care what a dictionary says sorry , if there is to be justice then there has to be truth
inatiz Tue 26-Apr-16 11:52:40
the verdict is in apparently - the victims were unlawfully killed and now they're considering whether to bring criminal charges
oh sorry, just seen someone's mentioned it earlier
kittylester Tue 26-Apr-16 12:03:41
I agree with Ann. DH and DS2 were there and it has had a lasting impact on them, DS2 particularly. I'm terribly sad for the families and for their loss. I admire them for seeking answers but, for the sake of the survivors, it should be left to lie - though I doubt it will.
As it was in the days before mobile phones our other children and I were worried sick watching it unfold on the television. DFiL was also worried sick and permanently on the phone asking if we had heard anything. I spent my time trying to calm him whilst trying to get him off the phone in case DH and DS, who had unusually gone on the supporter's bus, were trying to ring us.
DS still has nightmares about it, despite various therapies, and his nightmares are much worse when it is in the news.
I hope the families find peace now.
Kitty I feel sorry for your son, I went through therapy but still haunted . Can the families of the victims leave it to lie? I doubt could. The CPS are now viewing it so I don't think there will be any prosecutions , I await 'lessons will be learned ' which really means the police must make sure their lies cannot be uncovered
obieone Tue 26-Apr-16 13:35:29
I think justice means truth too. I think.
But there is also peace. And also the concept of "rather be wronged".
I think sometimes we are supposed to let go and have peace[not sure I at all mean that in the circumstances on this thread]. I think it partly depends on whether, if by getting justice, then the same wrong things dont happen again and to others.
I think people also have to be careful not to damage their present by say alienating those around them by pursuing something that perhaps others could pursue with less damage if you see what I mean.
Not quite sure what you mean sorry , if the Hillsborough families hadn't fought for the truth who else would have ?
I can see that my post is quite confusing.
My last paragraph is not necessarily or really talking about the Hillsborough families, and since this is a Hillsborough thread, I will attempt to keep largely on topic.
PRINTMISS Tue 26-Apr-16 15:04:44
We can but hope that those families who fought so hard for justice will now find some peace. It cannot have been easy to have to relive the nightmare over and over again, especially for those who suffered nightmarish repercussions from being immediately involved, the imagination runs riot in the small hours of the nigh;. whatever the outcome of these "findings" the horror will stay with them, and we can only wish them peace in the future.
There is to be a police investigation, obviously, and I am quite sure that there are a number of police officers who were on duty that day, who also relive the scenes over and over in their minds and possibly suffer the same nightmares.
You are on topic, I admit I have mixed feelings today so possibly too emotional ,sorry . I do understand about letting go and finding peace, I have experienced this and I am thankful I was able to let go of anger etc , but it is difficult
Truth, justice whatever word is used of course I feel for the relatives and admire their determination.
I also feel for others like kitty's family who suffered from just being there.
Eloethan Tue 26-Apr-16 18:54:32
I think that if I had a family member who had died in such a horrific way and I had seen the TV footage of the obvious lack of urgency and negligence displayed, I would not be able to put it behind me until everything was brought out into the open.
When you add to that, the "cover up" where police officers were told to edit their notes to give a uniform and incorrect account of events - which the Sun readily believed and published - I can quite understand why for some people this issue has become an all-consuming part of their lives.
I hope now that they feel more at peace and they can get on with the rest of their lives - though I don't suppose that this awful event will ever be forgotten.
rubylady Tue 26-Apr-16 18:59:09
Good on them, every one of those families who have fought tooth and nail to prove that their own were not to blame for what happened that day. I would certainly not leave it there, I would want the people to blame to be brought to justice and to pay for what they have done. If cases can be brought from years past for sexual matters like they have then this still needs to be fought until someone is found accountable for the mistake of those fans being crushed to death.
They have guts and determination, those Liverpool families, many many tears but lots of strength and support from each other, God love them.
petra Tue 26-Apr-16 19:45:54
I can't believe that John Snow ( Chanel 4 news) said: " Its a good day for British justice" WHAT!!!!!
What do you mean, petra?
Good grief, is the man mad , it's yet another day where we learn of police corruption and cover ups
Ana Tue 26-Apr-16 20:05:28
Presumably he meant he agreed with today's verdict. What's wrong with that?


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Lynx-Sparks has grown into one of best rivalries in women's basketball history
By Ramona Shelburne
LOS ANGELES -- Maya Moore sat at her locker and stared off into space. She wasn't playing on her phone or eating or talking to any of her teammates after helping Minnesota to an 80-69 win over Los Angeles on Sunday evening at Staples Center to stave off elimination in Game 4 of the WNBA Finals. She was tired after yet another bone-crushing, heavyweight bout in what has become one of the best rivalries in WNBA history.
"I don't know if there's been another [rivalry] like this," Moore said.
Teammate Renee Montgomery nodded as Moore spoke.
"There hasn't," Montgomery said.
For the second straight year, the WNBA Finals between these two teams is heading to a decisive Game 5. Last year the Sparks won on a last-second, game winner by Nneka Ogwumike. The first two games in this year's series were decided by a total of three points.
In other words, these WNBA Finals have been exactly what the women's game needed after a decade of dominant teams at the college, professional and Olympic level which took some of the drama out of the sport's biggest moments.
Between UConn's 90- and 111-game win streaks, the Lynx's three titles in five years and the United States' Olympic teams that are so good that coach Geno Auriemma could afford to snub one of the best players in the world (Candace Parker) over what appear to be ancient grievances dating back to his rivalry with Pat Summitt and anything Tennessee, women's hoops has spent way too many of its best moments justifying its best players and teams.
It is one of the most ridiculous Catch-22's in all of sports. Being so good that you're perceived as too good. Winning so much that those wins become less impressive the more you win. Yet that has become an unfortunate storyline in women's basketball over the past decade.
We say "unfortunate" because winning is never supposed to be a bad thing. Brilliant individual play and dynastic teams are how stars are made and fans are won over for life. Yet far too often in the women's game, dominance has robbed the game of the drama needed to capture the attention and imagination of the casual sports fan.
That's why the Lynx-Sparks rivalry is so important to the game and to the future Hall of Famers playing in it. Instead of wasting the drama of this series in a Western Conference final, the league last year smartly adjusted its playoff format so the top two teams would meet in the Finals, regardless of conference. In 2005, the league expanded the Finals to a five-game series, and the format lets the drama build as the two best teams adjust and scheme for each other.
"A three-game series, you turn it on and it's over. A five-game series, people can really get involved," Parker said. "Coaches can make adjustments, players can make adjustments. It's back and forth. I really like it."
Said the Sparks' Alana Beard: "People will come up to you and tell you, 'I've never watched a game,' but they're into this series. I think it's good for the league and the women's game."
The Lynx have a 6-4 edge over the Sparks in the regular season over the last three years. Four of those games were decided by single digits. In last year's WNBA Finals, two games were decided on last-second shots, and Games 1 and 2 this season weren't decided until the final possession.
"Every game has been unpredictable," Moore said. "And each of the games has a life of its own.
"It's been fun, and it's been hard."
She laughed at the juxtaposition of those two descriptions.
"It's the highest of the highs when we win," Moore said. "And it's devastating when we lose. There's no middle."
Moore has always been the self-motivated type. She's up and prepared and competitive no matter who she plays. But it helps when there's somebody capable of really pushing back.
"You want other teams to rise," she said.
In this series, that somebody is both the Sparks pushing back against Moore's Lynx, and her individual battle with Los Angeles' Beard, the WNBA defensive player of the year.
"She pushes me," Moore said of Beard. "We make each other work. There's a lot of respect between us."
Beard downplayed the individual matchup, noting that "You can't defend Maya with one person. It's a team effort and we have schemes that are in place to defend her."
Just watch 'em play, and it's like watching Tony Allen or Bruce Bowen in their prime on Kobe Bryant.
It's like up-and-down the matchups between these two teams, with four MVPs -- L.A.'s Parker and Ogwumike, and Minnesota's Moore and Sylvia Fowles -- on the court together and two other players -- Minnesota's Lindsay Whalen and Seimone Augustus -- who have won Olympic gold medals.
"I've never [had a rivalry] like this," Beard said. "I think it's a combination of talent, how well we know each other, and the competitiveness, which is at another level."
Sunday night the series also might have gotten its first dose of bad blood between the two teams, after Minnesota point guard Whalen committed a flagrant foul on Sparks guard Odyssey Sims in the opening minutes of the game. One L.A. columnist compared it to the infamous clothesline foul by the Boston Celtics' Kevin McHale on Lakers forward Kurt Rambis in the 1984 NBA Finals.
Maybe a little bit of a stretch, but not much considering one of the stars of that '84 game, Sparks owner Magic Johnson, was sitting in the front row Sunday night, right in front of where Sims crashed to the court.
Said Sims, "I think it's beyond the game. I'm not talking about that."
There doesn't have to be bad blood to make a great rivalry, of course. But it certainly doesn't hurt.
"It's going to look ugly at times," Ogwumike said. "This is probably the strongest [rivalry] I've experienced.
"But we don't have time to really dwell ... It's not over. That's what we have to realize. It's not over at all."
Lynx force Game 5 with road win in LA
Sylvia Fowles scores 22 points and grabs 14 rebounds as the Lynx beat the Sparks 80-69 to force a decisive Game 5 in the WNBA Finals.
Sparks a win away from repeating
Candace Parker dominates on both sides of the floor and Nneka Ogwumike records a double-double in Los Angeles' 75-64 win over Minnesota, giving the Sparks a 2-1 lead in the WNBA Finals.
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The Solar Decathlon Europe 2012 competition began with a call for participation proposals launched during the final phase of SDE2010, in June of that year. In January 2011, after detailed evaluation of all the proposals received, 20 teams were selected to take part in the competition. Once they were officially declared SDE2012 participants, the teams started working on tasks specified in the SDE2012 Rules. Documentation required by the rules had to be delivered on the dates stipulated by the Competition Calendar. The deliverables were related to stages in the project's development, allowing the organization to check on progress of individual projects and ensure that they met the requirements of the Rules and Health and Safety demands.
Universities taking part have carried out their work in multi-disciplinary teams, which gives students an opportunity to learn, not only about technical matters, but also to develop important skills for their professional life, such as working in a team and improving their negotiation and communication skills. The students concentrate, not only on designing and building their houses, but also on conceiving ways of improving the incorporation of solar systems, on generating knowledge of sustainable building and raising public awareness about SDE values.
First SDE2012 Meeting
The First SDE2012 Meeting was held on 16th May 2011 at the Feria de Barcelona (Barcelona showground), coinciding with the Construmat Expo and the "Nearly Zero Energy Buildings: from research to real construction" international conference, organized by the Institute for the Diversification and Saving of Energy (IDAE). The models and videos of the participant houses formed part of the exhibition. In addition to attending talks and general activities, the teams took part in working groups, rotating around each of the four sections set up by the Organization, to explain and clear up any doubts about different aspects of the SDE project.
SDE2012 Workshop
The Workshop was held from 4th to 6th October 2011 in Madrid's City Council. The different areas of work were the main activity. Each team had nine private sessions, where they had the different areas of the SDE competition explained to them. In addition, meetings were held between the SDE Directors and officers of each participating team, and students had a chance to visit the Casa de Campo, where the Villa Solar of SDE 2012 will be set up.
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The final phase of the Competition started at the beginning of September, with assembly of the houses developed by teams participating at the Villa Solar in Madrid's Casa de Campo.
Once the Event officially opened, the 13th September, the period of competition, prize-giving ceremonies and public exhibition started, in accordance with the timetable set out in the Competition Calendar. From 17th to 28th, the houses took part in 10 contests, with prizes given to the three teams with most points in each of the contests. Later, in the Final Prize-Giving Ceremony, the three teams with most points in the Competition overall were awarded. The team with most points at the end of the competition TeamRhoneAlpes was the final winner.
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SDE Rules set out three methods of evaluation, depending on the type of contest: Completed tasks, Measurements in situ and Jurors' appraisal.
Points for Task Completion. Teams gain points by successfully completing a task or coming as close as possible to completing it.
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With more candle-lit cafes, quirky museums, whirring bicycles and free-spirited partying than you could ever need, it's hard to know where to start in the Dutch capital.
Explore the miles of canals lined with narrow gabled houses, or while away the hours in a local "brown café." Whatever you do, make sure you look before you cross the road, in the city of bikes, the locals are relentless.
The famous canals in Amsterdam.
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The biggest three jostle for space around a park in Museumplein to the south of the city. Check out the Dutch art masters in the Rijksmuseum, get to know the man behind the flowers in Van Gogh's museum or see something more contemporary in the Stedelijk.
On the western canal ring, Anne Frank Huis brings sombre history to life in the very rooms where the Frank family hid from the Nazi's for over two years. And on a more light-hearted note, the Sexmuseum Amsterdam and the red light district's Erotic Museum will show you… well, you get the idea.
With more canals than 100-kilometres of waterway in the city centre, they make one of the best ways to get around.
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Amsterdam is one of those cities where it's impossible to not be lured in by it's late night shenanigans and eclectic collection of hedonistic activities.
The red light district is surprisingly upscale and cultured, with it's instantly recognisable red glow from full length windows hosting Amsterdams finest company for hire. It's also blessed with some beautiful bars.
Later in the night, especially at the weekends, the city shifts up a gear and this bar crawl will let you dip your toes into this part of town, see what's on offer and enjoy some drinks or dive into an all night journey of liquor and lust.
Amsterdam is a city obsessed with its beer. With hundreds of bars, there's something for every beer lover.
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With big brands like Heineken opening their doors, to smaller operations welcoming you into the cellar, the choice is yours. Brouweij 'T IJ, is a must-see, operating tours of their brewery inside an 18th-century windmill.
Amsterdam is a city of bikes. At last count, nearly 800,000 of them whizz one way or another through the city each day.
You know what they say if you can't beat them, join them.
Bikes are available for rent at multiple sites throughout the city. Download a map or just head off and see what you find. Don't worry about keeping up with the locals though – set your own pace and enjoy the ride!
When's the best time to go to Amsterdam?
We think late Spring and early fall provide the best window to arrive in Amsterdam. As the weather is not at it's windy worst, but the crowds and volume of tourists are much more manageable.
What's legal or illegal in the Red Light District?
Cannabis is not technically legal in Amsterdam but it is decriminalised. In the Red Light district, prostitution is legal and well regulated by the government.
Is Amsterdam just for party animals and smokers?
Absolutely not. The home of Van Gough is an artistic dream with buildings that are as ornate as they are tall. The winding canals, chirpy chorus of bike bells and laid back, creative Dutch spirit make Amsterdam a must visit for culture vultures every bit as much as part goers.
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Go to Paris
Every year millions of couples from all over the world visit this French capital for a romantic getaway, but there's more to Paris than just romance.
London is somewhere everyone should visit in their lifetime. With over 2,000 years of history steeped in its pavements, it's famous worldwide for magnificent buildings, diverse culture and influence on other cities.
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But at this point, the SEC's exact game plan isn't clear, and some have gone as far as to suggest that the regulatory body doesn't even have the right people to effectively deal with this new digital reality.
In February, the SEC confirmed that it had sent subpoenas to dozens of individuals and companies behind ICOs, while a former SEC lawyer told the New York Times that as many as 80 targets had received subpoenas, describing it as "one of the broader regulatory sweeps" he had seen.
According to Foxbusiness, the SEC has brought as many as nine cases involving cryptocurrency fraud, citing unnamed sources as saying that investigators were working on dozens more.
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Without any concrete numbers and in the face of a lack of clarity from the SEC, no one is quite sure where things stand at this moment—and that's likely because the learning curve is so steep that neither the SEC itself, nor securities lawyers nor lawmakers have a handle on this.
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