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The Qatar World Cup 2022 is one of the most exciting events in world football. Millions of people from all over the world will watch the World Cup as it is a time that fans, neutrals or those looking to enjoy themselves will be celebrating and supporting their national teams as they attempt to progress through various stages of the most illustrious international tournaments in the world. Secure your guaranteed seats to the 2022 FIFA World Cup with Football Ticket Pad and support Saudi Arabia in this exciting competition by securing your Saudi Arabia World Cup 2022 tickets.
From all over the globe, various nations will come together for football festivities as the most talented players from each team face off on one of the largest stages in sports - The FIFA World Cup. This will be the sixth time that Saudi Arabia has qualified for a World Cup tournament. Their biggest success in this illustrious tournament came in the 1994 World Cup tournament where they finished in the Round of 16.
Saudi Arabia has been placed in Group C of The World Cup which will be a test for the national side. The reason being is that they need to contest with Argentina, Mexico and Poland. Out of these teams, it is believed that Argentina and Poland are the favourites, with Mexico potentially upsetting the applecart. Therefore Saudi Arabia is not exactly the favourite to progress.
However, stranger things have happened in football which is the reason why we love the beautiful game so much as any team can beat the opposition on any given day. At Football Ticket Pad, you are guaranteed a safe, simple and secure platform to obtain your World Cup tickets. With a plethora of options at your disposal that suits your needs, do not hesitate to browse our latest offers for Saudi Arabia World Cup 2022 Tickets
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In order to secure their spot for this year's World Cup tournament Saudi Arabia started off with their foot on the pedal. Securing massive victories over Palestine, Yemen, Singapore, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. These victories were still coming following these large results but in a less dominant fashion.
Most notably, a convincing 1-0 win against Japan as well as a 3-2 win against China PR. With this level of dominance, Saudi Arabia will look to continue this level of form through to their World Cup group stage in hopes to progress through to the Round of 16 and beyond.
Herve Renard has been the manager for Saudi Arabia since 2019 and he is a manager who has felt what it feels like to win a major honour throughout his managerial career. This came in 2015 when he managed Ivory Coast to lift the African Cup of Nations. Therefore, we will understand what is needed to go as far as possible in this year's World Cup tournament.
Time will tell how well Saudi Arabia performs in this year's World Cup tournament in Qatar, however, one thing is certain - they will be sure to give everything they have for their nation and their fans.
An Exciting Prospect
Despite only being 21, Firas Al-Buraikan has made 20 appearances for his country with him already contributing 6 goals for Saudi Arabia. Firas Al-Buraikan is sure to be a fan favourite for his nation as he will aim to use his blistering pace to get in behind defenders and capitalise on a goal opportunity.
With his age also comes success as he lifted the Saudi Professional League in 2018-19 whilst also lifting the Saudi Super Cup back-to-back in 2019-2020. Proving that this talent understands what is needed to help his team progress as far as possible.
An Experienced Leader
Saudi Arabia is also blessed with having an experienced midfielder to lead them as captain. Salman Al-Faraj is the definition of a leader who has led his domestic team Al-Hilal to multiple major honours. Lifting 6 Saudi Professional Leagues, 2 Saudi Super Cups, 2 AFC Champions Leagues, 3 King Cup of Champions and 6 Saudi Crown Prince Cups - Salman Al-Faraj is the definition of a winner.
Currently obtaining 67 appearances for his country, Salman Al-Faraj will want to lift gold with his country of Saudi Arabia.
Clinical International Striker
Fahad al-Muwallad has made 70 appearances for Saudi Arabia while contributing to 17 goals. For his domestic team of Al Ittihad, he was able to lift the Kings Cup as well as the Crown Prince Cup in 2016-17. He understands what it takes to win for his team.


Monday Bunker: Is it too expensive to attend NRL games?
IS the price of a day out at the footy too expensive?
With associated costs such as food and beer at a premium, many families struggle to afford the required budget to attend games.
Monday Bunker host Paul Crawley discussed the issue on this week's show, believing the various costs were too high.
"Cost is a huge, huge issue when you're going out to the football," Crawley said.
Panel member Fatima Kdouh agreed, saying the game had lost touch with its roots.
"It costs twenty dollars to park your car before you even get into the stadium," Kdouh said.
Mixed resposes were received when asked the question on Twitter, with many believing the NRL is in fact doing enough to make it affordable to attend games.
Tell us what you think by leaving your thoughts in the comment section below.
Originally published as Monday Bunker: Is it too expensive to attend games?


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by Mike Sullivan April 9, 2018
written by Mike Sullivan April 9, 2018
Seriously, how cool would it be to sit down with these two guys and have a beer or dinner and talk about domain names, entrepreneurship, and their experiences. Just an hour with these two guys would be like a full advanced college course in domaining. I would honestly be taking notes while beer dripped across the pages because, yes, I'm that guy taking notes at a bar on paper – not even on an iPad.
Well, guess what? We don't get an hour. You can still have a beer if you want, that's your call. But get the most out of the next 15 minutes of your life by watching these two hit on topics such as UDRPs, ICANN and ICA. Thanks to NamePros for antoher great video.
Braden: Nat Cohen, welcome to NamesCon.
Nat: Good to be here.
Braden: Happy to have you. You've come to all of them, right?
Nat: I missed the first one.
Braden: You missed the first one?
Nat: Yeah.
Braden: I don't know if we should even do this interview now.
Nat: I've just been doing holiday travel and I was like, "Richard, this is a great conference idea but I'm just not coming out.
Braden: You gotta squeeze it in.
Nat: Yep.
Braden: You've been coming to domain conferences forever because you've been…
Nat: I went to the first T.R.A.F.F.I.C one 2004.
Braden: Tell us about what you do. You have a massive portfolio. You've been doing it a long time. Tell us about how you got started and why you got started, your experience in the domain industry, and who the heck you are.
Nat: Okay. Well, I am… Yeah. I'm from DC, grew up in the area, and I got into domains by accident when I was just trying to publish a website and learn about how to register a domain to do it. And then learned about people investing in domains and got curious and looked into what was available, and that's what I got started on. And I have a… Yeah, have a sort of a generic portfolio since 1997.
Braden: Wow.
Nat: And…
Braden: And that's really…that was early on, right?
Nat: It was early on but people liked Digimedia and other ones who were there, even earlier, had taken all the good stuff.
Braden: But only by a few years.
Nat: Doesn't matter if it's by…you know if it is one second. You miss it by one second, it's too late.
Braden: Granted. But it's still early on because only it was, what, mid '94, '95? When did it go public?
Nat: That's when people… That's when it… Yeah. '95, '94, '95, was like Rick Schwartz and those kind of guys started saying, "This is what we're gonna do."
Braden: Because prior to that, you had to be on the inside to get a name.
Nat: I think, yeah. I don't know much about it, but yeah.
Braden: So, you're old school.
Nat: Relatively early. And yeah. So, got names through registrations, some drop catching, a lot of purchases along the way, and try to just keep increasing the value of the portfolio and hope, yeah. Hopefully, I've done that.
Braden: Did you do much in the Dot-bomb at about 2000, 2001 when a lot of these names were expiring that used to be companies?
Nat: I actually got distracted in trying to do development and that took my focus out for a couple of years, probably right when like Frank and those guys were catching all the good stuff that was dropping.
Braden: Yeah. Frank Schilling really did well that period.
Nat: Then, I'm also involved with the ICA on the board level and have that's been kind of like the main area of focus for me for a lot of years.
Braden: Yeah. You spend a lot of time.
Braden: The Internet Commerce Association.
Nat: So, I care about the policy side of things because I realized that these domains that I was investing in and buying in, that I thought I owned, my ownership in them wasn't as secure as I thought they were because people…there was a way that you can come and take away domains from a domain owner. And I lost crew.com in a decision that, you know, I thought…
Braden: I was gonna ask if you had some bad decisions.
Nat: Yes. When I was… I had one of the very first UDRPs, I think, on like a dictionary word domain.
Braden: Uniform Dispute Resolution Protocol.
Nat: Dispute Resolution Procedure/Policy. Policy I think.
Braden: Procedure? Policy?
Nat: Yep
Braden: Something P.
Nat: Something with a P in it. Yeah. So, that was something they introduced.
Braden: And that's how a company claiming trademark rights goes through ICANN to take a name from the registrant.
Nat: Yes. So, if they think that someone is registering a domain to target their trademark, and a lot of people have done that, and that's a policy that they can use to get the domain transferred to them. And that policy was built for cybersquatting but it's been expanded and expanded to a lot of investment domains, dictionary word domains. As domain investors, we're in this tricky situation where we wanna buy domains that companies like, but the issue is that some companies have already liked that name and trademarked it. So, the question is to what extent when you buy this domain are you targeting that trademark that's there, or are you buying it because it's got inherent value? And that's always been the key issue that's come down. And a lot of the people who are deciding these things are trademark attorneys and they tend to look at it more from the perspective, if the company has a trademark and you don't, then why are you buying this if you don't have a trademark? The only possible reason you'd be buying it is to try and target my client who's got the trademark.
Braden: Which is certainly not the case if it's a generic word.
Nat: I mean, some people could buy a generic word to target an existing trademark but, you know, domain investors are buying them because the word has inherent value and it could be of interest to anybody in any company.
Braden: Right. Any kind of brand.
Nat: Yeah. So, it's the… This new policy was written in a broad enough way that a lot of investment domains got caught in that net. And it's implemented in a way that's kind of trademark…from a trademark focus. And so you get the wrong guy on the panel and he'll take a look at it and he'll just won't…he won't give too much credence to the view that this domain has inherent value. He'll think it's only because of the trademark value.
Braden: The panelists are the decision makers through the UDRP process.
Nat: Right. They are… They get…
Braden: So, they represent ICANN and get to make the decision, yeah?
Nat: Well, they don't represent ICANN.
Braden: Signed by ICANN? How would you…?
Nat: It's a multi-step process and each step there's less and less accountability. So, ICANN credits these providers of UDRP who get to administrator the UDRP under no contract at all, and then the UDRP providers get to pick who, pretty much under whatever standards they want, to be UDRP panelists. Some of them have no IP background, apparently. And then they're set up.
Braden: How's that possible?
Nat: Because their attorneys or lawyers… We don't know what their criteria are. That's one of the things. It's a black box as to how they pick who they're gonna use as a panelist and they may just not have… Some of their decisions make it pretty clear they don't have a good understanding of trademark law. So, these are people who are then deciding whether or not you as a domain owner gets to keep your domain name.
Braden: And typically, who are these people? So these panelists, you say, a lot of times are lawyers or IP lawyers?
Nat: Yeah. I hope almost always they have a legal background. Some of them are retired. Some of them are academics. Actually, maybe not all of them are lawyers but a good chunk of them are active trademark attorneys who represent brand owners as clients in their day job and that's their perspective.
Braden: So the decision makers are on the trademark side of the world.
Nat: Many of them are.
Braden: So, who's representing the domain investors? So, who's understanding that perspective? Is there anybody in the mix?
Nat: At the panelist level, very few, I think, have a particular understanding of the domain investment industry. And so, yeah, your… If you just had to do a random draw, the odds are you won't get somebody. And that's why most, you know, most people recommend…there's an option of a three-member panel or a one-member panel. And even though a three-member panel is significantly more expensive, they recommend trying to get three…that it's better to get three panelists because you gonna have that diversity of perspective and you may just, from the random draw, you may get someone who doesn't, frankly, doesn't really have much of a clue or just has a very you know, minority perspective on what's okay and what's not okay.
Braden: As a domain investor, my name ends up on one of these panels because a trademark owner is trying to take it from me, even though I just have a generic word and they think they have…I'm infringing on their mark, which I'm not, and then the decision makers are trademark lawyers so I'm not gonna be represented. So, how do we fix that problem?
Nat: That's a very good question and we don't have an answer to that. There is a…
Braden: Nat, I come to you for answers.
Nat: Well, I can recommend a good restaurant.
Braden: Okay.
Nat: So, there's an ICANN process. ICANN is the overall group charged with implementing this whole domain name system. And so they're the ones who…through which this UDRP, the domain transfer policy was, you know, released or they're the ones who created it through their process. And so they're reviewing it for the very first time. And the ICA, of which we're both members, is actively involved in that process. We haven't gotten to the UDRP portion of it yet, and we're hoping that that process will result in a more balanced…there's trademark interest and trademark owners have rights but domain owners have rights too, and we'd like to see a little better balance there, a little better protections for trademark owners who aren't infringing. There's too much at risk now.
Braden: I appreciate the in-depth perspective. I'm gonna give you an opportunity to plug ICA, and then we're gonna talk about NamesCon.
Nat: Okay.
Braden: So, how does someone support ICA?
Nat: They support by joining. That's the usual way. They go to ICA.domains, which is our website, and they can learn a lot about it and there's a chance to join. And they can read various testimonials as to why they should join there. And I can give a whole pitch about why people should join but I'll leave that to you.
Braden: Well, we're gonna move on to NamesCon. So, you've been in the space a long, long time, 20 plus years?
Nat: My 20th year.
Braden: Wow. Happy anniversary.
Nat: Thank you.
Braden: When somebody says, "What do you do?" What do you say? How do you explain when you say, "I'm a domain investor," and they say, "What?"
Nat: I've tried many different variations and I haven't settled on anything good yet, but I try and explain, you know, what it means to invest in a domain name. I think the approach I'm taking now is to say that every company that's on the internet needs a name and there's a limited pool of good quality names out there and that limited pool is what we call investment quality domains. And that the key thing when somebody has a name is that it can be memorable and you can remember what that name is. And the great thing about existing words is that some people are already familiar with them.
If you have some random combination of letters or some made-up word, no one's ever heard of that, it's hard for them to remember it. So there's a lot of value to a company that that when you say their name, people are gonna remember it. That that name has some kind of meaning, then they get the benefit of that meaning being associated with their brand. So, if you have a nice memorable word that has some positive connotation, that's a beautiful brand and companies who have big visions for their brand and wanna promote it and advertise it and spend a lot of money getting people to remember it, it's worth a lot of money over their lifetime to get a brand that has those qualities to it.
Braden: And hopefully, those big companies come to me.
Nat: Me.
Braden: Oh.
Nat: Sorry.
Braden: Us.
Nat: Us. Yes
Braden: So, let's say somebody wants… Somebody says, "That's interesting. I wanna do that too." What do they do? Where do they go? How do they get started?
Nat: Well, they're lucky because there's a tremendous amount of…tremendous number of people in the domain industry who are providing a tremendous amount of useful information for free and are just being very generous with their knowledge. So, there's sites like domainsherpa.com, blogs like domaininvesting.com, domainnamewire.com, dnjournal.com. I'm leaving out the domainshane.com.
Braden: Or they can go to domaining.com which is an aggregator of all the…
Nat: Right. That's a good…domaining.com. Yeah. You can find all sorts of…many, many of the blogs there. And once you dive in, there's no end of excellent content and advice that you'll get. So, I think, once you get started, you'll get plenty of information there. And of course, come to NamesCon. I've said the right thing.
Braden: Yeah. That's where we're gonna go.
Nat: All right. Because this is where everybody is and the people are very generous with their information and there's tons of sessions, especially geared towards newcomers to the industry that can get them, get you guys up and running and going after the better quality names, steering clear of bad investments.
Braden: So NamesCon, we've got about 1,300 attendees. It's pretty good. It's the most we've ever had in any domain conference ever.
Braden: Right? Including internationally. I don't think there's ever been a bigger name…
Nat: I believe you.
Braden: Yeah. Because I go to those.
Nat: Yes.
Nat: You're out there.
Braden: 400 people maybe was the biggest one in Hong Kong. But this is huge. Everyone comes to this conference. It's a great place to come meet people, network, and all the old school guys like you are here and then people can grab us and talk to us and ask questions. And we're up on stage and we're doing panels and there's a lot of information to be learned here.
Nat: Yeah. There's a lot of valuable information and there's a number of, you know, there's some people I've talked to over the year and they're interested in domains. And I say…and a couple of them have come to NamesCon just because it's like, "This is where I need to be," and they're not really domain investors but they have a good quality domain or they wanna learn more and this is the place to come.
Braden: Yeah. And they can also… We mentioned blogs. We mentioned NamesCon, and there's also forums like NamePros.
Nat: What's NamePros?
Braden: You haven't heard it?
Nat: No.
Braden: Maybe…
Nat: Oh, NamePros. Yes, NamePros. That's a great, great place to go. No, NamePros has done a wonderful job of creating a ton of excellent content, video interviews.
Braden: Right.
Nat: Yes. And my hats are off.
Braden: And you can ask questions to people in the forum and get answers and…
Nat: Yeah. My hats are off to the NamePros for stepping up and really creating a ton of valuable information for us.
Braden: Great content. Yeah. Okay. Nat, thank you for joining us. I appreciate your time. It's great information. Thank you.
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Falinesti is a moving tree city which can be found at varying locations within Valenwood. It can usually be found in one of four locations, depending on the season. In the spring, it travels to northeastern Greenshade, northwest of Marbruk. In the summer, it moves north to western Malabal Tor, east of Velyn Harbor. In autumn, it travels to a spot in Reaper's March, west-northwest of Rawl'kha. And in the winter, it moves south to Grahtwood, where it can usually be found just west of Elden Root.
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Students re-evaluate their initial point of view on payment for household chores.
At the end of this task, students will be able to defend their point of view and explain why they changed their mind, if applicable.
At the end of the debate, students re-evaluate their point of view.
Read the My Point of View Post-Discussion sheet after the student debate and explain the assignment.
Present the evaluation criteria for the task.
Ask students to fill out the sheet.
Use the My Point of View Evaluation Grid to grade their work.
If students say they think they should be paid for household chores, ask them to think about the importance of contributing to their family home. Make them aware of everything they already get from their parents, in addition to food and shelter, like restaurant meals, outings and gifts. Tell them that this is a form of payment.
Calculate the annual amount a student receives if they get an $x allowance of each week, (e.g.: $5) to do chores.
Make a list of outings, restaurant meals and gifts they've received from their parents.
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Undiscovered talent joining forces to tour different venues, grouped together by a prestigious design thinker who recognises their future stock potential. Our guest curator has hand selected designers to make up this special new edition of Trouping Colour.
A project born to create opportunities for young designers with a track record, joining forces in order to exhibit their work at high profile venues. We intend to create a recognisable symbol of new and exciting quality design. For the designers involved this means the start of a trajectory which will help establish themselves as resilient, interesting and recognisable brands. Making the name Trouping Colour a symbol of fresh talent with superior quality.


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Theatre 625:The Year of the Sex Olympics (1968)
Settle down folks! "An American View" hasn't suddenly shifted into a smut site or anything, although I predict that this article title will bring lots of the WRONG sort of internet traffic here. No worries, I just decided to take another plunge into the fine world of public domain BBC TV stuff by Nigel Kneale (as found on YouTube)! This week, we're taking a look at the audaciously named TV movie The Year of the Sex Olympics, part of an anthology show called Theatre 625. Theatre 625 had some big hits including a remake of Kneale's 1954 teleplay of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four in 1965. The Year of the Sex Olympics is particularly notable because it basically predicts our current media culture and the advent of reality television.
With an opening card proclaiming "Sooner than you think" one can see that Nigel Kneale was really worried about the issues lampooned here. Kneale had to have seen the advent of lowest common denominator programming like so-called "reality TV", but I can't find any articles or interviews with him on the issue of a TV genre that he accidentally created all those years ago. His death, in 2006, did bring some comments from others about it, such as the following snippet of a Guardian interview by Mark Gatiss (The League of Gentlemen, Clone, Doctor Who, Sherlock): "When Big Brother began on Channel 4 in 2000, I took a principled stand against it. "Don't they know what they're doing?" I screamed at the TV. "It's The Year of the Sex Olympics! Nigel Kneale was right!""
Kneale was apparently influenced to create The Year of the Sex Olympics due to his own concerns about overpopulation, the counterculture of the 1960s, and the societal effects of television. To most, this comes as no surprise as Kneale can be seen as a "cranky old man" that saw anything youth-related as evil in some way. To put this on perspective, Kneale was the very same man that cast "hippies" as the antagonists of his fourth Quatermass serial (something I will review soon) and routinely made it seem like anyone under the age of forty was in some way morally deficient in his writings.
This isn't a bad thing by any means, just a sign of the times. Britain was in turmoil during this time, and many of the "Greatest Generation" (using an American term) had no idea why "Baby-Boomers" were always so pissed off. I'm part of "Generation Y", and routinely get irritated with my parent's generation and how they treat us, and reading up on stuff like this makes me see that they had it the very same way.
The Year of the Sex Olympics depicts a world of the future where a small elite class (people called Hi-Drives) control the media and government. In order to keep power, these Hi-Drives keep the lower classes (Low-Drives) docile by broadcasting a constant stream of "entertainment" designed specifically to remove any ambition to act and to relieve all stress. Essentially, the Hi-Drives pull this off by concentrating on constant and total immersion into a world of reality TV. This includes mind-numbing programs including one baffling example involving rotund men with no shirts on hurling whipped cream at each-other, and various themed "sex shows" that masquerade as sports and arts, but are really just pornography.
One Hi-Drive, Nat Mender (Tony Vogel), believes that the media should be used to educate the low-drives, and not simply allow them to rot away. He has become disillusioned by his peers and society itself due to social norms forbidding him from having any real connection to his lover Deanie (Suzanne Neve) or his own daughter, Keten (Lesley Roach). For a while, Nat's "boss", Co-Ordinator Ugo Priest (Leonard Rossiter), tries a lot of different things to illicit new responses from his audience, one of which being old-fashioned slapstick comedy. Anything seen as traditional or old-fashioned is generally frowned upon by this society, so this doesn't go over well. After the accidental death of a renegade artist gets a massive audience response of laughter due to it being broadcast live on-air, Ugo Priest decides to commission a new style of entertainment: reality television.
The flagship show in this initiative is called "The Live Life Show", and stars Nat's family. They have been stranded on a remote Scottish island while the low-drive audience watches. This is pretty monotonous and boring until "reality" gets "spiced up" by Lasar Opie (Brian Cox), Nat's former co-worker and one of the big-wigs that runs a lot of the TV production. The producers introduce a psychopath named Grels (George Murcell) to the island, and lets him loose on a murderous rampage.
Some of the Hi-Drives such as one named Misch are incredibly annoying, showing how awful their society is in the grand scheme of things. This isn't annoying in the "this actor sucks" sort of way, but the "man, these characters are horrible people" sort of way. Their language has degenerated into a juvenile mixture of jumbled sentences full of missing words and slang, and constant whining. Anything that isn't in some way pleasurable gets an awful response usually involving a temper tantrum.
Comparing these people to something modern is easy, as she reminds me of some of the inhabitants of "the Capital" in the Hunger Games series based on their complete separation from reality and vapid personalities. It's like someone took the trashy, almost mindless essence of your modern "famous for being famous" "celeb-utant" like Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian and ramped it up to an insane degree.
A great example of their speech patterns happens to be one of the first scenes in the show itself, and has Misch utter the following, as she is the host of the most popular sex show, Sportsex:
"Here we go again, bubbies and coddies! Comfy and cosy are you all? Tonight, we got lots of real super-king talent for you all, so keep your eyes with us! Stay looking! First we got those two top lovers, Cara Little and Stewart Tenderleigh! Hello there, Stewart and Cara! Been on this show a jumbo lot of times. Winners of the Kama Sutra Prize last year. Now in training for the Sex Olympics."
One thing of note that could be both good or bad depending on how you look at it, is that this serial is in black and white. This is due to the color versions being lost like many TV programs of the time due to "junking". One can see that everyone is wearing seizure-inducing colorful patterned clothes and heavy bodypaint in such high quantities that the whole thing would probably look laughably outdated and silly. I feel that this sort of "masks" the garishness of the future clothes to the point where they aren't so bad. On one hand the show is incomplete, on the other it seems more "important" this way, somehow.
One can watch The Year of the Sex Olympics and immediately feel bad, because an over-the-top fear that a man had in the sixties has basically come true. Most television watchers consume shows just like Live Life Show on a daily basis, with the same camera angles, boring dialog, and manufactured turmoil to "spice" the reality up a bit. It's an almost eye-opening experience to watch this, and really shows you how far our culture has been diluted in some ways. I'm not going to go for the hyperbolic statement that we are the Hi-Drives and Low-Drives, but it's pretty close. People speak in annoying short-hand "text speak", dress like Lady Gaga, and gawk at the exploits of those more wealthy than ourselves. Just give it a few years and we'll have shows about fat guys that throw whipped cream at each other.
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Author Stephen K.Posted on August 28, 2014 September 2, 2014 Categories Misc. Reviews, TV ReviewsTags 1960's, BBC, dystopia, George Orwell, Kneale, Nat, Nigel Kneale, porn, pornography, reality television, reality TV, sci-fi, science fiction, sex, Suzanne Neve, Television, Year of the Sex Olympics, YouTube6 Comments on Theatre 625:The Year of the Sex Olympics (1968)
The Monday Meme: Independent State of Eyebrows
Weekly Writing Challenge: DNA Analysis
Daily Prompt: Practice Makes Perfect
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Author Stephen K.Posted on August 25, 2014 Categories Doctor Who, The Monday MemeTags BBC, comedy, doctorwho, Facebook, Games, meme, Monday Meme, Peter Capaldi, Steven Moffat, TumblrLeave a comment on The Monday Meme: Independent State of Eyebrows
Doctor Who: Deep Breath (2014)
"Look at the eyebrows! These are attack eyebrows! You could take bottle tops off with these! They're cross, crosser than the rest of my face. They're independently cross. They probably want to cede from my face and set up their own independent state of eyebrows!"
It's been a long eight months since the newly-born Twelfth Doctor mused about his new kidneys. Eight months where I had to recover from what was most likely a Doctor Who overload during the 50th anniversary celebrations. So here we are, summer 2014, and I don't know about you guys – but I'm glad my favorite TV show is back! I'm especially glad that the recent trend of having short seasons, split seasons, and other things that generally make me (and a lot of other fans) feel like we're getting ripped off has ended. We're in for a full, uninterrupted , 13 episode season this time around, and I couldn't be happier.
The story of Deep Breath takes us back to Victorian England where everyone is amazed, and somewhat terrified, by the presence of a real-life Tyrannosaurus Rex in the middle of London. The Paternoster Gang (Strax, Jenny, and Vastra) are about to get to their crime fighting on, when a familiar blue police box is expelled from the maw of the mighty beast. Faced with a giant monster on the loose, a possible serial killer, spontaneous human combustions, and a version of The Doctor who isn't really feeling like himself, it looks pretty bleak for our heroes.
Being the first episode of a new series, and the introductory episode for a new Doctor, I was actually surprised at the way Deep Breath unfolded on our screens. The episode opens with the aforementioned T-Rex attack, something that is typical "premiere episode" fare. A lot of times, we have had season openers that go crazy with special effects and spectacle to gear us up for the rest of the season, much in the same way US television pilot episodes are a bit more "flashy" than the rest of the show. This episode starts that way, but slowly evolves into somewhat of a character piece that we usually do not see until around mid-season. I bet this slower pace put off some fans, but I personally found it a bit refreshing. My main concern with a lot of current Doctor Who is that the episodes sometimes feel constrained by the timeslot, running time, and a general lack of "breathing room". With an episode title like "Deep Breath", this breathing room seems built into the DNA of the episode itself.
Clara is given room to really show her personality, which is amazing because her story-arc in season seven had the potential to doom her as some sort of a gimmick-companion if she never matured past it. It's almost like Steven Moffat listened to some of the criticism he has been given of late, regarding his writing of female characters, and gave them most of an episode to shine. The Paternoster Gang is given quite a bit of screen time, with Vastra and Jenny's relationship dynamic getting aired out a little more than usual.
This did come across sort of silly at times because a lot of it seems to be both of them constantly re-affirming to the audience that they were in fact married, just in case the subtlety of a lesbian inter-species marriage was too ambiguous for the audience to comprehend. I can just imagine some guy sitting in front of his TV completely baffled and exclaiming "wait, so these two women are MARRIED!!! what what WHAT!" That aside, I really enjoyed seeing this interaction between the two of them. Strax is basically there as comic relief like usual, and although he does the same jokes in every episode he is in, I love them each time.
Most importantly, this episode showed us the usual overly-manic side to The Doctor that always makes these introductions a bit unpredictable. His "regeneration sickness" played out much in the same way that the Sixth Doctor's did in his first outing. Well, minus that whole "trying to kill the companion" business. There are moments where one really wonders if The Doctor is about to turn evil or something, but I think that's because we're so used to the more touchy-feely, less-alien versions of the doctor since 2005. Capaldi's Doctor, once he mellows out, is definitely a throwback to a previous time with the moral ambiguity of Hartnell's First Doctor and a dash of Fourth Doctor showing through the most.
Hartnell had those moments where he was hardly what anyone would call a "good guy" a stark contrast to the recent "Space jesus" archetype that David Tennant's Doctor especially had. One can recall the often referenced incident from the first serial where he was about to crush a caveman's skull with a boulder simply because he was slowing the party down. This anti-hero tendency is revisited here in spades. Capaldi's Doctor has a moment where is is left with a conundrum: in order to defeat his foes he has to either A) commit an act of murder or B) convince the villain that he has nothing to live for an "off" himself. Both are horrible choices, and The Doctor lays out the fact that he's "hardwired" not to preform option A, but will do anything to protect Earth if he needs to.
When the deed actually happens, it happens off camera, with us only seeing the aftermath. The question ends up being: "did he do it?!" This hammers home the "theme" from the trailers, that went out earlier this summer, where The Doctor was asking the audience whether he was a good man or not, somehow I think this will pop up more this season. All-in-all Capaldi has already hit it out of the park for me, because a combination of Hartnell and Baker just happens to be a combination of my long-time favorite versions of the character.
The Doctor had some great interaction with Clara this time around, and to me it almost seems like Clara and Twelve will "work" the best together, better than Clara and Eleven. One scene in particular involved the dynamic duo meeting in an Italian restaurant that hides a horrible secret. Clara is angry at The Doctor because he left her "high and dry" and seemingly went into great lengths to come up with a contrived puzzle for her to solve to find him. The Doctor says that the person that did the puzzle was an egotistical power hungry lunatic, which Clara takes as an apology, but it soon becomes clear that he is under the impression that she placed the ad, and is actually talking about her! There is also a joke in the scene where he tries to lie about where he got his new coat, one that reeks of all manner of horrible gutter smells that a typical Victorian homeless man would have. He almost makes it seem like he stole it from someone as he sheepishly answers her questions.
The all-important villain to this episode is somewhat surprising to me, because it marks the return of a "monster" that I felt was surely just a one-off, in the clockwork service droids last seen in The Girl in the Fireplace. That previous episode showed the droids actively looking for parts to repair their ship after the S.S. Madame du Pompadour was damaged. In desperation, they eventually killed the entire crew and used human flesh for the repairs, then went even more "crazy". Somehow they got it in their clockwork noggins that the actual brain of their ship's namesake would repair their ship. Deep Breath shows an even more dangerous version of these droids that seemingly survived "crashing" on mesozoic Earth after yet another failed voyage of a 51st century time ship, this time the S.S. Marie Antoinette.
The droids have spent millions of years repairing themselves to the point that they have created their own religion and have lost all sight of their original purpose. The "leader" of this group speaks of "The Promised Land", but seems confused as to what that actually means and how he is to attain his goal to go there, seemingly his plan is to simply survive by killing innocent people until it just shows up. Basically they have become "reverse-Cybermen" in that they are trying to keep themselves alive by grafting human parts onto their original machine bodies. The Doctor makes an apt remark about a hypothetical broom where one might replace the handle, then later replace the broom's head. He questions whether this is in fact the original broom at all, in reference the the constant replaced parts used by these droids.
I really enjoyed Deep Breath, and although it had an odd pacing and seemed a bit "talky" it was one of the better opening episodes since the show came back. I honestly wish they would just make the episodes an hour long even though the U.S. Market would flip out due to our stupid 42 minute run-time rules. My only real complaint with the episode is that the initial set-up involving the Paternoster Gang investigating cases of spontaneous human combustion was overshadowed by the T-Rex attack so much that it made the whole thing seem tacked on. I'm not sure if it's because the subject matter is fairly disturbing for a family audience, or that the episode was already pretty long, but it simply felt like a loose end. Next week, we have a new Dalek episode to look forward to, so check back soon to see what I though of Into the Dalek.
P.S. "Missy" better be The Rani, I know she probably isn't but having another renegade Timelord would be AWESOME!!
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Author Stephen K.Posted on August 25, 2014 Categories Doctor Who Reviews, Doctor Who Series 8, TV ReviewsTags BBC, BBC America, Capaldi, Clara, Clara Oswald, Doctor, Doctor who, Girl in the Fireplace, London, Peter Capaldi, sci-fi, science fiction, series 8, Steven Moffat, Twelfth Doctor1 Comment on Doctor Who: Deep Breath (2014)
Here's Your Saturday Links for 8/23
Why fans can't wait for Doctor Who Extra
Described as 'much more than a 'making of' show', Doctor Who Extra will be comprised of twelve ten-minute programmes. It follows in the footsteps of Doctor Who Confidential, the much-loved and much-missed behind-the-scenes series which aired on BBC Three from 2005 until 2011.
'Doctor Who' companion Jenna-Louise Coleman leaving the show at Christmas?
"The conversations about Jenna's exit have started, and a plan is in place which is being ironed out," says the source. "By the time she leaves she will be one of the longest-standing companions ever. She has been absolutely brilliant in the role, but everyone agrees it is a part that should change after a period."
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Robin Williams's final film performance may have to be axed
"Simon Pegg, its star, tells me: "I'm not sure Robin had completed doing his voice in the movie. He was doing the voice of my dog and I hope that he had completed it because it would be a real shame not to have him in it. And of course there will be a degree of sadness there, but the work he did do would have been done with his usual verve and brilliance.""
'The Quatermass Experiment' Dated for Blu-ray
"In an early announcement to retailers, Kino will be releasing 'The Quatermass Experiment' on Blu-ray on December 2."
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Author Stephen K.Posted on August 23, 2014 August 23, 2014 Categories Doctor Who, News, Quatermass, Saturday LinksTags BBC Three, Christmas, Doctor who, Home, Jenna-Louise Coleman, Peter Capaldi, Robin Williams, Simon PeggLeave a comment on Here's Your Saturday Links for 8/23
Ever Wonder how Scary the Doctor Who Theme Sounds Slowed Down?
Wonder no longer, I have your nightmare fuel right here!
(500) Days of Photographs: Day 490
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Doctor Who Season 7 Postmortem
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The Day of the Triffids (2009) – Part One
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Author Stephen K.Posted on August 22, 2014 August 22, 2014 Categories Doctor WhoTags BBC, Big Finish Productions, Doctor, Doctor who, doctorwho, nightmare fuel, radiophonic workshop, random, scary, TelevisionLeave a comment on Ever Wonder how Scary the Doctor Who Theme Sounds Slowed Down?
Fleet Street goes sci-fi: Daily Express's starring role in The Day The Earth Caught Fire
"An apocalyptic science fiction film showing the world overheating and society thrown into turmoil is about to be released. But this is no modern commentary on global warming and war – the film was originally shown in 1961. The Day The Earth Caught Fire, a pioneering production and scathing indictment on Cold War posturing, has been rescued from the archives and digitally restored for public release…."
Best sci-fi books round-up: Where imaginations run wild
According to The Independent "Science fiction and fantasy is a broad church, and many who preach its tenets might not be wholly aware that they are doing so."
'Tractor Beams' Are No Longer Science Fiction
"Tractor beams – invisible tethers which pull space ships into cargo bays through no definable mechanism or physical law – are the latter. Or they were. Researchers at the Australian National University say they have developed what amounts to a tractor beam which is capable of pulling objects using 3D wave currents. "
Peter Capaldi Discusses Matt Smith's Final Day on Set
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Red Dwarf XI Confirmed at Convention
"A big update came during the Sci-Fi Scarborough convention on Saturday a Red Dwarf panel comprised of Chris Barrie, Danny John-Jules and Robert Llewellyn confirmed the news. John-Jules said that shooting is scheduled to get under-way in October 2014 with a view to being aired on Dave in Autumn 2015."
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Author Stephen K.Posted on August 16, 2014 August 16, 2014 Categories Saturday Links, UncategorizedTags Australian National University, BBC, Chris Barrie, Cold War, Danny John-Jules, Day The Earth Caught Fire, Doctor, Doctor who, doctorwho, Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi, red dwarf, Robert Llewellyn, sci-fi, science fiction, Television, TVLeave a comment on Here's Your Saturday Links for 8/16
This Is What Happens When Someone Drunk Texts A Dr. Who Fanatic
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So There's an App That Lets You Text Like You're Drunk When You're Sober
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Drunk User Testing
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Usher's Lyrics Sound Like Drunk Texts
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I'm Drunk and I love you
Author Stephen K.Posted on August 14, 2014 August 16, 2014 Categories Comedy, Doctor WhoTags Alcohol intoxication, android, Business Insider, Death, Doctor who, doctorwho, drunk, drunk texts, Facebook, funny, IOS, joke, prank, Texas, Text messaging2 Comments on This Is What Happens When Someone Drunk Texts A Dr. Who Fanatic
It's been a funny few weeks in Doctor Who fandom! First we had some long-awaited trailers finally hit the airwaves, then the "leaks" happened. It seems somebody figured out how to access BBC worldwide servers in Florida, and discovered scripts and a few "screener" episodes left unsecured. Don't worry folks, I don't plan on downloading the leaked Peter Capaldi episodes, much less writing about them, mainly because they aren't full episodes and have no special effects (or so I've heard). There was one time where my willpower wasn't as strong, and I immediately remember what the Doctor Who community was going through almost NINE years ago (it doesn't seem like that long ago). Take a walk down memory lane with me, as we discuss Rose, as the first in a series of "backlog reviews" to fill in my review catalog.
Way back in 2004, I joined a now defunct Doctor Who message board to fulfill a nostalgia trip I was having. As a small child, I absolutely LOVED Doctor Who. It ran on my local PBS station late at night, and I always looked forward to staying up late with my mom and watching one of the most exciting TV shows I had ever seen at the time. This eventually faded, as PBS stopped airing the show around 1990 and Star Trek: The Next Generation became "my thing". It wasn't until college when I started seeing tapes of various episodes coming into my college retail job, that I thought "hey, I miss that show!". I started renting DVDs and joined this message board to see if the show was still continuing in some way. I had no idea that there were audio dramas, comics, books, and all the other material that populated the "wilderness years". Then I learned it was coming back!
Flash forward to 2005, and I find myself downloading a "leaked" copy of Rose on Bittorrent. As I recall, I excitedly woke my (now) wife up at some alarming time like 8:00 am on a Saturday (I'm a night owl) and basically forced her to watch it with me. I had secretly found out about it the night before, and wanted to surprise her. It was like Christmas morning for a small child, I simply could not wait any longer to dig into my presents. The leak of Rose, The very first Christopher Eccleston episode of the show, was one of those things that I suspect everyone on that forum did secretly, then pretended they did not online. I have no regrets for doing it as I ended up getting even more excited for the show's return, and downloaded all the rest of the episodes. This was before the show was airing in America, before it was one of the more popular nerdy fandoms over here.
With Doctor Who coming back, there was a lot of pressure on the show to perform. Not too far from 2005, the whole idea of the show was something of a laughing stock after it was unceremoniously divorced from the BBC airwaves. Rose had two things that it absolutely HAD to get right for the show to succeed. Firstly, it had to introduce a new sidekick character, a person we would be viewing the show through. He/She had to be good enough to attract the old fans back to the show, and attempt to gain new fans – namely the criminally overlooked female market. Some might say that such a character isn't wholly necessary, but I disagree. The Doctor NEEDS someone to talk with, teach, learn from etc. Secondly, and more importantly, Rose had to re-introduce the concept of The Doctor himself to a whole new generation of TV viewers, many of which were probably not even alive when the show was yanked off the air in the late 1980's!
Rose is essentially a second part of a two-parter that we do not see the beginning of. When we join up with Rose herself, she is going about her typical day at a retail clothing store, only to find something strange going on. She notices an army of walking plastic mannequins in the stores basement, and is almost attacked if it wasn't for the appearance of a strange man calling himself "The Doctor". It seems that something bad is going on regarding the window shop dummies, and he needs to blow something up on the roof to stop them. Rose escapes just in time, only to see life explode right in front of her eyes, as The Doctor presumably destroys her workplace. From here on, Rose is left with what we can see is an unsatisfying life. Her boyfriend would rather be at the pub watching a game than spending time with her, and her mother is somewhat classless and controlling. Rose perhaps puts it best herself: "I've got no A-Levels, no job, no future…" The only bit of excitement left is attempting to figure out exactly who this "Doctor" is, and why he's doing the things he's doing.
As a character, Rose is fairly atypical for the female lead in Doctor Who (up to that time) , and in many ways she isn't all that similar to those that came before her. Both are from lower-class upbringings, and both have the "street smarts" that some of the other, more refined companions may have lacked. That isn't to say all previous companions were the often-stereotyped "screaming girl that gets in trouble/twists her ankle", but he large majority ended up that way. Unlike Ace, Leela, or even The Brigadier, she isn't a warrior by any means, but she's determined and brave. She feels like she has nothing to live for, so being with The Doctor is her escape.
I recall being less than enthusiastic about Billie Piper's casting, as she was presented to me as "The UK's answer to Britney Spears" according to various message boards and magazines. To me, she sounds like any other 90's pop singer that was trying to copy the popular vibe of the Spice Girls and failed at it. She reeked of "stunt casting" and that sort of thing never usually works out very well here in America. Many TV shows make a habit out of jamming popular singers into cameo roles that they have no business taking part in, Justin Bieber comes to mind for one of the more egregious examples. At least for me, this fear was put to rest pretty early on in Rose, as I felt the character was something refreshing to the show, and Piper was doing an adequate, if not pretty good job portraying the character.
Rose is joined by a few characters that aren't really companions, (at least not yet) but exist to keep her grounded on Earth in some capacity. Not only does this give The Doctor and Rose a group of recurring characters to work with, but it helps explain why his adventures had a tendency towards taking place in London rather than the other nearly infinite amount of places he could have been traveling. One will immediately look back to Jon Pertwee's tenure on the show for an older example of this, but in the case of the 2005 series of the show, I can only assume that budgetary limitations were the main reason behind this. In the case of Rose, these characters are a bit different from agents of a military organization that The Doctor is working for, because it's Rose's own family we get to see a lot of. Camille Coduri plays Jackie Tyler, Rose's own mother, and Noel Clarke plays her somewhat estranged boyfriend Mickey.
There isn't really a whole lot of big special effect showcases in this episode to write home about, and the few instances of computer generated effects or creature make-up we do see is somewhat average at best. Things like the Auton costumes (the aforementioned mannequins) are hard to be wowed over because it's just a guy in a mask walking like he's made of plastic. The Nestene consciousness is a blob of CGI in a pool, and things like a fake Mickey that pop up are decent, but not great. Later episodes in this season have amazing special effects, so it seems the production staff kept it reigned in a bit for this first outing.
The only issue that I have always had with Rose is it's tendency towards childish slapstick. Being ever so close to the eighth season of the show as of this writing, looking back at this first season is sort of jarring. Once David Tennant really got a few seasons in the can, and especially with Matt Smith, the show itself took a far more serious turn. That isn't to say this season is "fluffy", it's just a bit weird in tone. One can see that Russell T. Davis was attempting to play all of his cards to see what stuck, and that means we get some "kiddy stuff" occasionally.
One scene in particular is pretty rough, and it's an infamous one involving Mickey being eaten by a sentient trashcan. It seems the Autons place a possessed garbage bin at the front lines in their battle with The Doctor, and it decides to eat Rose's boyfriend to gather intel. This already sounds dumb on paper, but it gets worse when the whole thing is punctuated by a cartoonish "burping sound" once Mickey enters the bin. Luckily, the second half of this season finds a better balance between comedy and drama.
Earlier I compared Rose to a Jon Pertwee episode, and there are many reasons I get this vibe and keep making such comparisons. First and foremost, this episode stars the villainous Autons. The Autons are a race of living plastic creatures, last seen in a few Pertwee episodes and most notably his very first serial Spearhead from Space. I think the Autons worked better in the 70's as a commentary on commercialism, but it's cool seeing them once again so many years later.
Rose is basically nothing more than an average episode of Doctor Who, but it is elevated quite a bit, as it is arguably the most important "average episode" produced since An Unearthly Child. I don't actually like using this episode to introduce folks to the show due to it's all over the place tone, and almost embarrassing trash can scene, but it still holds a warm place in my heart. I will always remember waking up early, only to watch a pirated copy of a leaked episode of the show, as stupid as that sounds. I have a better memory of this than other things that folks are expected to remember vividly, things like watching Star Wars for the first time. Nine years on, Rose is still one of my favorite episodes of this new series.
Notice how I didn't even mention Chris Eccleston's portrayal as The Doctor? Check back next time, and I'll chime in when I'm talking about The End of the World!
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Ivanka Trump's baby boy crawled for the first time Wednesday at the White House.
Trump and Kushner are also parents to 5-year-old daughter Arabella and 3-year-old son Joseph.
The mom-of-three said in an interview with People in April that her older children are adjusting nicely to their new sibling.
"My youngest brother proves he's a baby whisperer -- while my father signs his first executive orders," she tweeted of the incident.
The designer also shared a family portrait with the new president.
Trump is the only daughter of Donald Trump and his first wife, Ivana Trump, who also share sons Donald Trump, Jr., and Eric Trump.
The president is also dad to daughter Tiffany Trump with second wife Marla Maples and Barron with Melania.


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Ever since we moved to rural Honduras in 2006, Sister Alegría and I had wanted chickens. Our imaginations became reality when, in 2012, friends gave us some pullets and a young rooster. We quickly discovered that raising fowl wasn't so straightforward. The second night the birds were here, perching in the branches of a tree, a possum helped himself to the rooster!


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MOUNT CARMEL - Mildred Marie Dondero, 93, passed away in her beloved home on "The Avenue" in Mount Carmel Sunday morning, April 29, 2018.
Known to all who loved her as Nana, Mildred was born on June 3, 1924.
Nana was a graduate of Mount Carmel High School and Georgetown School of Nursing and loved her years spent in Washington, D.C.
She was married for 60 years to Louis "Bob" Dondero, who preceded her in death in 2008.
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She took care of everybody when they were sick and helped with the grandchildren when they arrived. The many family dinners and celebrations with Nana wearing her signature starched white apron will be forever cherished by all her of family.
Nana was caring, loving and generous. She was an intelligent woman who loved reading her daily paper. She left us with a lifetime of memories and a treasure trove of "Nanaisms."
She will be keenly missed by all who loved and cared for her.
She is survived by her sons and their spouses, Louis and Janet Dondero, of Mount Carmel, Bob and Marian Dondero, of Naples, Florida, and Tony and Alyce Dondero, of Severna Park, Maryland; grandchildren and their spouses, Steven (Allison), Louis (Lynette), Angela (Vic), Katie (Rick), Christie (Ryan), Adam (Katie), Mara (Mike) and Alyssa; great-grandchildren, Bobby, Millie, Claire, Dominic and Vera; numerous nieces and nephews.
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With his dynamic dancing and smooth yet gutsy, vocals, Morris Day played an essential role in the development of the Twin City dance/club sound of the 1980s. A founding member of Prince's band, The Time, in 1981, he remained with the group until 1984 when he launched his solo career. Returning for the first time in 1988, he performed and recorded with The Time from 1990 until 1991 and since 1995.
Day's involvement with Prince traces back to 1980 when his composition "Partyup," originally recorded when he was a member of the Enterprise, was covered on Prince's Dirty Mind album. Releasing his debut solo album, Color of Success, in 1985, Day reached his apex with his second solo album, Daydreaming, two years later. Produced by ex-Time members Terry Lewis and Jimmy Jam, the album included the chart-topping R&B tune "Fishnet." Day released his third solo album, Guaranteed, in 1992. After Guaranteed, Day toured on-again, off-again without any new product. He finally returned to record store racks in 2004 with It's About Time a mostly live album with a few new studio cuts, one including a guest appearance by rapper E-40. Day has appeared in such films as Prince's autobio-pic, Purple Rain, in 1984, and New Attitude in 1990.
In their twenty-five year recording history, Rose Royce music is currently being played on radio stations all over the world, such sensations as "CAR WASH", "Wishing on a Star","I Wanna Get Next To You", just to name a few. Artists like Beyonce, Seal and Mary J Blige have covered or sampled Rose Royce's Mega hit songs.
Rose Royce Multi Platinum & Gold selling recordings allows the band to travel the world and perform at sold out venues world wide. Although Rose Royce is best known for their great ballads, they are one of the funkiest bands around.
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On February 2nd, 1905, Alice Rosenbaum was born in St. Petersberg Russia. Her early life was comfortable, and she received a good private school education. In her early teens, this all changed. Following the Bolshevik Revolution, her father's business was nationalized, and the family's comfortable life came to an end. Alissa never forgave her country this betrayal, and would for the rest of her life speak out against the sacrifice of the individual to the common good.
In 1918, the family fled to the Crimea to escape the civil war, and it was during her three years there that Alissa declared herself an atheist. During this formative time, she discovered the awesome power of Victor Hugo, who wrote massive novels about heroic people fighting against great adversity. Although her decision to become a writer had been made 4 years before, it was Hugo's writings that told her what kind of stories she wanted to create.
In 1921, Alissa returned to the city of her birth and entered the University. Her novel We The Living is an obvious reflection of her University years, as well as of a doomed love affair that she experienced during her 4 years there. She graduated with a degree in history in 1925, the same year she would receive an invitation to go visit relatives in the United States.
She never expected her request for a passport to be granted, but when it was, the determined young woman knew she would not be returning to Russia. During her passage to the United States, she chose the name Ayn after a Finnish writer she admired. The last name Rand was chosen soon after her arrival, and came from the Remington-Rand on her type writer. Ayn Rand never saw her parents or older sister again, and although she did meet with her younger sister 50 years later, the reunion was evidently unpleasant.
During her first few years in the United States, Rand worked in Hollywood as a movie extra and scriptwriter for the Cecil B. DeMille studio. There she would meet and marry Frank O'Connor [in 1929]. Although O'Connor was the man that Ayn Rand insisted was the model for her heroes, by all outside accounts, he was a likable, handsome, passive, nonintellectual alcoholic who never landed more than bit parts as an actor. Not exactly what one would expect of the inspiration for Howard Roark, the protagonist of the Fountainhead. The character of Roark - virile, decisive, sure of himself - is a commanding, unforgettable presence. Though not necessarily Rand's ideal, she and O'Connor were married until his death 50 years later. During that time, O'Connor offered his wife the financial security and flexibility that allowed her the freedom of movement she would need to write and lecture and develop her philosophy. For the remainder of his life, back and forth between Hollywood and New York he followed her, bending to her will, learning new trades as necessary to support her. One wonders if Rand could have realistically lived with a man like Roark.
From 1929 to 1932, Rand worked in the wardrobe department of R.K.O. studios. She hated this job. In 1932, she finally sold a screenplay called Red Pawn to Universal pictures. Though this should have been Rand's first major triumph, it proved to be little more than a frustration. Universal ended up trading the screenplay to another company, who later changed their mind about producing it. The only benefit Rand received was $1500, which afforded her the opportunity to leave R.K.O. and pursue writing on a full time basis.
In 1934, a play that she had called Penthouse Legend opened in Hollywood as Woman On Trial, and made Rand famous. The following year, she took a risk that nearly floored her. She and Frank moved off to New York and lived on the edge of poverty, all so that her play could be produced on Broadway. During this time, Rand lost all control of the play, which under contract to A. H. Woods, was changed so much it was nearly unrecognizable. The title now became The Night of January 16th. In spite of all this, the play was an immediate success, and enjoyed a long run on broadway. It was not until 1968 that the manuscript was published in its original form.
That was a bad year. She had completed but could not sell We The Living, New York was not friendly, and the heroine of The Fountainhead, which she was writing at this time, was a reflection of her overall negative attitude. When We The Living finally did sell [in 1936], it received mixed reviews, which would establish the pattern of reception for all of Rand's major works of fiction: mixed reviews and poor sales at first, with each piece becoming more popular with time.
The Fountainhead was a major turning point in the direction of Ayn Rand's writing. To make the book its best, she took an unpaid job in an architectural firm for nearly a year. She was gearing up to write a great novel about a heroic architect, the aforementioned Howard Roark. The novel is actually about four men. Roark is the protagonist. Peter Keating, another architect, is his opposite. Where Roark experiences failure in the beginning, but heroism in the end, Keating enjoys early success, but because he looks to others for guidance, and is sorely lacking in self-esteem, he loses the control of his own fate that Roark has always had. Gail Wynand, a man with all of Roark's heroic potential, tragically gives in to the will of society. Ellsworth Toohey, whose primary drive was to have power over other men, is the antagonist of the work. Surrounded by these men - all powerful in there own way - is Rand herself in the guise of Dominique Francon, a vampire drawing sustenance from each of their egos. Early on, Rand decided that instead of a story where the main character was eventually dragged down - as in her other fiction - this was to be a story of one man's ultimate triumph over great adversity.
In 1943 The Fountainhead was published at the insistence of Bobbs-Merrill editor Archibald Ogden, who had such faith in the manuscript that he threatened to quit the firm if it was refused. Although Rand was later criticized on this point for being the recipient of another person's altruism, she believed that he was acting out of self-interest. She said that he was fighting to be the one to discover a great work of literature. This may well have been true, as the mammoth novel became a perpetual success, if not an immediate one. The sale of the screen rights later that year made Rand a wealthy woman, though the film could hardly be called a success.
Following this triumph in 1946, Rand was finally able to publish Anthem - an Orwellian style story of one man's struggle against a collectivist system - in the United States. Although written during one brief summer in 1937, the novella had been previously published only in Britain [in 1938].
Throughout the 1940's, Rand had begun to involve herself in politics; first with her support of the doomed Wendell Willkie against the popular Roosevelt, whose social programs she detested. The same year Anthem was released in the United States, Rand involved herself in the postwar effort to find and punish leftist Hollywood writers and actors. At this time, there was great hostility towards Russia. Russian sympathizers were accused and penalized. Rand volunteered to point the finger at those she felt had kept her from delivering her message for so long. So in 1947, Ayn Rand testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee against the "Hollywood Ten."
1950 was an auspicious year for Rand. Not only did she begin work on what was to be her masterpiece, but she met Nathaniel Branden and his future wife Barbara. Branden had written her a fan letter concerning The Fountainhead, and she immediately recognized a kindred spirit. Although she would eventually have a mysterious and scandalous falling out with him, at the time she declared him her "ideal reader" and intellectual heir. He was even allowed the honor of reading Atlas Shrugged as it was being written. When it was published in 1957, it would be dedicated jointly to Branden and her husband. The two would remain inseparable for the next 18 years.
Throughout this partnership, Rand would slowly earn respect as more than just a fiction writer. In 1958, in an interview with Mike Wallace, she drew the attention of many with comments that condemned altruism in America, supported capitalism as the foundation of all political freedom, and denounced the Christian cross as a symbol of torture. She declared instead as her symbol the dollar sign. In 1961 she published her first philosophic treatise and entered a new phase of her writing career. The 1960's were dedicated to the founding of the Objectivist movement, lecturing, and essay writing, interrupted only by her support of Barry Goldwater in 1964 and her falling out with Branden in 1968 [following certain infidelities on his part]. Goldwater she believed to be the kind of "Atlas" who would bring America back to capitalism. His loss only confirmed Rand's conviction that the United States was headed in the wrong direction. As for her split with the Branden, much ugliness and mud was slung on both sides, and it ended in her declaring a new leader for her movement, Leonard Peikoff. There was plenty of bitterness available for all, and more about this story can be found in Barbara Branden's book The Passion of Ayn Rand.
Until 1976, Rand continued to produce essays in the form of newsletters to her followers, just as she had done in the 60's, but with less and less frequency and enthusiasm as her health began to decline. When in 1979 Frank O'Connor died, time was also running out for Ayn Rand. In 1981, she briefly roused herself to make one more speech for Monetary Reform, and to reconcile with Barbara Branden. [On March 6, 1982], she died in her Manhattan apartment her only company, a professional nurse.
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Nike to end financial penalties for pregnant athletes: report
New York (United States):, May 26, 2019 09:49 IST
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According to the Times, Nike plans to waive performance-pay reductions for 12 months for athletes who decide to have a baby.
US sporting goods giant Nike, under fire for financially penalizing sponsored athletes who become pregnant, is changing its maternity policy, the New York Times reported.
"We've recognized Nike, Inc., can do more, and there is an important opportunity for the sports industry collectively to evolve to better support female athletes," Sandra Carreon-John, a Nike spokeswoman, told the newspaper in an email on Friday.
The move comes after Olympic track and field star Allyson Felix joined a chorus of critics.
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Felix, the only female track and field athlete to win six Olympic gold medals, wrote in the New York Times she had been offered a vastly reduced contract by Nike since taking time off in 2018 during her pregnancy.
The 33-year-old spoke out after US team-mates Alysia Montano and Kara Goucher levelled similar allegations against Nike as part of an investigation by the Times.
"They told stories we athletes know are true, but have been too scared to tell publicly: If we have children, we risk pay cuts from our sponsors during pregnancy and afterward," wrote Felix, who gave birth to a baby girl in December.
She opted to start a family despite concern over renewal of her Nike sponsorship deal that expired at the end of 2017.
The company offered her a new deal that was much less lucrative and balked at her request for guarantees that she would not be penalized if she performed below her best "in the months surrounding childbirth."
"If I, one of Nike's most widely marketed athletes, couldn't secure these protections, who could?" Felix wrote.
Nike said in a statement last week that it had "standardized our approach across all sports to support our female athletes during pregnancy, but we recognize we can go even further.
"Moving forward, our contracts for female athletes will include written terms that reinforce our policy."
In a memo addressed to Nike employees on Friday -- reported by both the New York Times and Bloomberg -- Amy Montagne, a company vice president and its general manager for global properties, wrote that she was "saddened" to learn of Felix's experience.
"This has been a humbling event," Montagne wrote, adding the company was reaching out to sponsored women athletes to advise them of policy changes.
Two-time Olympian Goucher responded with cautious optimism to the New York Times report, but said she was waiting to hear from Nike.
"Really excited about this but genuine question, Will Nike stop suspending women without pay or is this just about reductions?" Goucher, who had a son in 2010, said on Twitter.
"I, and the other women I know, were suspended without pay, not reduced. We want to see this policy in writing and then celebrate!"
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