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Should Wenger Go?
The Wenger Out saying used to be a complete non-entity amongst the Arsenal faithful but now more than ever it's an expanding topic of conversation. The problems are this; we are 15th in the league and have a squad that appears susceptible to a hammering at any point. We have replaced quality with average to good replacements and worst of all we have money to spend to enhance our squad.
Our form is horrendous by our usual high standards and to be quite honest we are lucky to be 15th, this is after 7 games too. 21 points available and 7 taken? If you were witnessing this happen at any other club would you think their manager should be sacked? We have sold some integral players and we have replaced them with lesser players. Nasri's record for us wasn't spectacular but would I have been as open to his sale if I'd known Benayoun was his replacement? Probably not! As for Cesc's sale, I was expecting a big name in to replace him but we got Arteta. Arteta and Benayoun are nowhere near the calibre of player we've let go and that naturally has an impact on our results. I'm not saying they aren't good, they just aren't what we had. If this was happening at another club would you be critical of their policy? I would.
Vieira's last act as captain was to bring home our last trophy, 6 years ago
Then we come down to the financial aspect. Don't worry I'm not going all anti-Arsenal etc, I'll leave that to people with hidden agendas. We have money to spend on players and we didn't. The attempts to get Gotze were unrealistic and desperate. Dortmund were never going to sell and we seemed to adopt the approach of our closest rival in attempt to appease our support. Eden Hazard was a possibility but we never went in and subsequently we'll never see him in an Arsenal shirt because Zidane will get Real to sign him. Last summer might have been a great opportunity to bring in players with the lure of Champions League football. Let's be realistic for a moment, finishing in the top four would now be an excellent achievement and even the club are planning for life without the cash injection that is elite European competition.
So what do we do? I don't know which way to turn but someone is accountable. Is that man Wenger? From the sounds of it, yes it is. Kroenke and Co have said Wenger has complete autonomy at Arsenal. This isn't healthy. So he's the man we should be venting our anger towards right? Not so sure. With that question comes with it what the great man has done for our club. You don't need me to go through what he has done for Arsenal, it's a true legacy. The way I gauge the Wenger debate is you are either with him or you aren't, which is fine but ask yourself this for one moment. What would you do if Wenger did leave? No if's or but's. I'd be gutted but I'd also acknowledge that things are going in the wrong direction and possibly a change is needed. I used to worry that if Wenger left all of our world class players would follow him but now we don't have any players I'm concerned about losing (compared to the invincibles). Then there's the "who is out there to replace Wenger?" For some reason this discussion can only comprehend managers that are currently unemployed. We are a massive football club and with the exception of 3 or 4 clubs we can take any manager we want. Managers would jump at the opportunity to be in charge at The Emirates.
Back to reality, I did blog on Wenger in April and I wanted him to change his philosophy but I knew then that he wouldn't and he hasn't. Our defence is still a shambles, injuries are a constant nightmare, our squad is weaker than it has been at any point in the Wenger era and players aren't living up to their potential. Have you ever watched Premiership Years and you can see a team performing poorly but you know that next month they get the inevitable sacking next month? That's us right now but we have no idea how this is going to pan out. Other team's supporters love our demise; look at the game last Sunday. Did you see their fans reaction at Full Time? They were happy but not as ecstatic as they have been in the past. It put things into perspective for me.
Where do we go from here? Even our own players are reluctant to commit to the club. How do we get out of this mess? Fans have lost faith at The Emirates (Just look around The Emirates, it speaks volumes). Our away support is immense and in fact I have just booked myself a ticket for Chelsea because I love watching Arsenal play but can't say I'm expecting much in return. I have no expectancy of winning trophies or at present winning big games, as the scars of Old Trafford are still quite deep.
A legend that will always remain!
Is it all on Wenger? Kroenke has been clear in his message and if he sticks to his word Wenger is as safe as houses. Stability is always a good thing but we need to turn this around, now. Arsene Wenger is an Arsenal Legend, that will never be questioned but there will come a time and a place when he does leave. I personally think he'll never be sacked and it'll all remain mutual but if there was ever a time to question his future it's now. Can he turn it around because time is running out! I want him to remain successful but now it's more hope than expectation.
Pax 5 October 2011 at 02:54
Arsene is a legend but his time has come and gone. 7 trophies in his first 9 years was a great record, the second half of his time, not so good. When he started at Arsenal, he inherited one of the world' best defenses and his offensive approach was novel and unique. Of course he won trophies.
Now his tactics are tired, his defense pathetic and quality of player dropping each and every year. The current problems at Arsenal are easy to see and would have been resolved by anyone less stubborn in their ways. How can he not fix a defense that has been rotting for 5 years?
All in all, his time has come and gone and unless he goes within 12 months, Arsenal will require years to recover from Arsene's poor decision making over the last few years.
Bergkamp10 7 October 2011 at 03:49
This is the trouble. I used to be able to defend Wenger but I can't disagree with the points you have made!
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#### Writeup

We got a one liner c program and where asked to find the movie title, after adding
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>

main(t,i,j){unsigned char p[]="###<f_YM\204g_YM\204g_Y_H #<f_YM\204g_YM\204g_Y_H #+-?[WKAMYJ/7 #+-?[WKgH #+-?[WKAMYJ/7hk\206\203tk\\YJAfkkk";
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putchar(t>>5|(int)(t*x));}}
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We compiled it with:

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gcc putchar.c -lm
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Actor Tamannaah Bhatia, who has a-no-kissing clause in her contract, has said that she is ready to bend the rule just for one-person: Hrithik Roshan. Tamannaah made the confession in an-episode-of Famously Filmfare (Tamil). She said, "I don't kiss on screen, basically. So, that's actually a part of my contract. I keep joking with my friends. But Hrithik Roshan... yay! I would, I would."
Actor-filmmaker Rakesh Roshan, 69, has been diagnosed with early stage of squamous cell carcinoma, a-type-of cancer. PM Modi, apart from film fraternity members, prayed for his good health. Rakesh's actor son Hrithik shared the news via social-media on Tuesday morning, before his father was going in for surgery. "Asked my dad for a picture this morning. He is probably the strongest man I know.


As the Belgrade Theatre celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2018, on World Heritage Day, we're taking a look back at some of the fascinating architectural history we share with one of our most famous neighbouring buildings. Like the Belgrade, Coventry's distinctive circular Indoor Market was first opened in 1958, as part of extensive post-war redevelopment of the city.
Both buildings were the product of the collaborative, purpose-made City Architects Department, during a time when Coventry was pioneering brand new city planning features, such as its fully pedestrianised shopping precinct – home to another building finished in 1958, the eye-catching rotunda café, currently run by Caffe Nero.
Listed by English Heritage as a Grade II building, the market features rooftop parking and easy access from different areas of the City Centre, helping to ensure trade prospered in the city during the 60s and 70s.
The construction of the Belgrade was something of a pioneering project itself, the Theatre becoming the first full-scale civic theatre to be opened after the Second World War. Typical of the integrated designs of the era, the theatre was originally part of a mixed-use development including 21 flats and street-level shops along Corporation Street, with an exterior clad in Portland stone and glass.
The story behind the Theatre's unusual name is familiar to many in the city: in 1953, the city of Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia donated a consignment of beech timber which was used in its interior construction. The exchange formed part of a wider project of partnerships and twinning with cities across Europe, reflecting the spirit of peace and reconciliation that has become integral to Coventry's identity.
What's perhaps less well known is that the stone relief frieze representing the city of Belgrade on the outside of the theatre was created by the same artist who produced the quirky figure sculptures for the Coventry Fish Market.
Born in Paris in 1917, James C. Brown (known to his friends as Jim), was a prolific member of the City Architects Department during the post-war period. Among his designs are the horse-sided benches situated in Little Park Street, which were originally created to be used in Belgrade Square during the 1960s, commissioned by the Belgrade Theatre Club and their Friends in memory of former director Brian Bailey (a sculpture commemorating Bailey still sits outside the theatre today).
His sculptures for the fish market, meanwhile, were intended to look like Staffordshire China Figures, taking the form of mermaids, sailors and Neptunes. Standing at roughly 75cm tall, they were cast in a stone mix called Titanite, with arms cast separately and attached with dowels, before being brightly painted. The first few figures were installed when the Market opened in November 1958, with more added subsequently in January 1959. When the old fish market was demolished, ten of the figures were moved into the new round market, touched up, and fixed around the fish stalls, where they can still be seen today.
More information about Coventry's architectural history can be found here.
Thank you to our Directors' Club Members!


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Analyst Starts LULU Stock at Overweight
Lululemon Athletica stock has added over 55% in 2019
Emma Duncan
The brokerage firm expects 20% upside from the yoga apparel name
Shares of Lululemon Athletica Inc. (NASDAQ:LULU) are inching their way higher this morning, up 0.2% at $189.75 in electronic trading. Behind the positive shift is a bull note out of Piper Jaffray in which the firm initiated coverage with an "overweight" rating and $227 price target, implying expected upside of 20% to Friday's close.
In a note to clients, the brokerage firm cited "better-than-expected performance in China" and "improving profitability in Europe" as among the positive catalysts behind its bullish thesis on Lululemon. Overall, the analyst outlook on LULU has been positive, with 14 of 23 firms sporting a "buy" or better rating coming into today.
On the charts, the athletic wear name has been on a long-term climb higher. In fact, earlier this month, LULU saw a post-earnings surge to a fresh record intraday high of $204.44. Acting as support since early August has been the 80-day moving average -- a surefire contributor to the stock's now 55.7% year-to-date lead.
Calls have been a popular pick among Lululemon stock options traders in recent weeks. This is per the equity's 10-day call/put volume ratio of 1.74 across the International Securities Exchange (ISE), Cboe Options Exchange (CBOE), and NASDAQ OMX PHLX (PHLX). This ratio ranks in the 91st percentile of its annual range, indicating calls have been bought to open over puts at a faster-than-usual clip.
Lastly, in the wake of that big earnings gap earlier this month, short-term volatility expectations are looking modest. The stock's Schaeffer's Volatility Index (SVI) of 27% arrives in the tame 8th percentile of its annual range, indicating that near-term LULU options premiums are pricing in unusually low volatility expectations at the moment.


Asked about structural reforms in India in the past few years, the RBI governor listed the implementation of the GST and the IBC, among others.
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das has asked central banks across the world to think "out of the box" and suggested, for example, that changing policy rates by 25 basis points (bps) or multiples thereof is "not sacrosanct and just a convention". He said monetary policy could be well served by calibrating the size of the policy rate to the dynamics of the situation, and the size of the change itself could convey the stance of policy.
"If the easing of monetary policy is required but the central bank prefers to be cautious in its accommodation, a 10 bps reduction in the policy rate would perhaps communicate the intent of authorities more clearly than two separate moves – one on the policy rate, wasting 15 bps of valuable rate action to rounding off, and the other on the stance, which, in a sense, binds future policy action to a pre-committed direction," Das explained, while speaking at the "Governor Talks" programme on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)-World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington.
"One major area where reforms are necessary in India — again that is something that lies in the domain of the state government — is agricultural marketing. We have certain laws related to agricultural marketing, which act as impediments in getting private investments in creation of agricultural markets. As a result, the flow of private capital into creating a value chain in agricultural products from the farm to consumers is getting hampered. The laws are in the domain of the state governments and they need to be completely overhauled," the RBI governor said.
Das said India's average growth rate of 7.5 per cent over the last few years was very good, but the country needed to grow at over 7.5 per cent. "In fact, India needs to grow at about 8 per cent to eliminate poverty. There is still a large number of poor people living in India. There are still many challenges in social and other development sectors. So India needs to grow faster," he said. "I don't want to start a debate on what should be the potential growth rate of India, but by and large, let me say 7.5 per cent plus should be the reasonable growth rate that India can expect." He cautioned that global spillovers of loose monetary policy measures, in the absence of a financial safety net, could be unintentionally forcing emerging market economies (EMEs) to "break out and challenge the hegemony of dominant reserve currencies". Managing such spillovers, he said, was a formidable challenge for EMEs.


Does Apple have another major iCloud security issue on its hands?
Apple has had one headache after another over the past few weeks, spanning from the media circus that is "Bendgate" to a buggy iOS 8.0.1 update that bricked about 40,000 new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus handsets. Among all of these issues lies a fairly serious bug in iOS 8 that has been causing major headaches for users — but luckily, there's a simple way to avoid the issue altogether.
In a nutshell, iOS 8 has a huge bug that has impacted several users who perform a reset on their devices using iOS's "Reset All Settings" function. In performing the wipe, some users have found that all of their documents stored in iCloud drive are getting deleted and then, since iCloud syncs to all devices, those documents are in turn being deleted off of connected iPads and Mac computers.
Apple's latest iOS 8.0.2 update does not resolve the issue, so Wired notes that the best option is simply to embrace it.
If you've already performed a reset and lost all of your documents, contact Apple support — it's your only hope. If you have not but you're planning to perform a device reset, go into it assuming that your iCloud Drive documents will be lost. Back them up to a Time Machine, another cloud service like Dropbox, or save them in a separate folder on your computer. Then, once the reset is complete, re-sync your documents if they were deleted.


The Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC) opened in 1990 as the designated public sector centre to spearhead and coordinate the provision of specialised ophthalmological services. SNEC has nine established sub-specialties :- Cataract and Comprehensive Ophthalmology, Cornea, Glaucoma, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Oculoplastic and Aesthetic Eyeplastic, Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, Refractive Surgery, Ocular Inflammation and Immunology Service and Vitro-Retina. It is also involved in clinical research and education.
The SNEC is located within the wider Singapore General Hospital (SGH) campus in Outram Road in south central Singapore.
Following is a map of the location of Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC) and its surrounding area.


Piers Morgan is not particularly well-known for having upstanding opinions, but he certainly loves to discuss them, and very publicly. On Thursday afternoon, the British media personality took to Twitter to work through his many feelings about one of his all-time favorite (or least favorite?) subjects: the gender pay gap.
In response to news presenter Jon Snow that he had voluntarily taken a 25 percent pay cut in an attempt to close to gender pay gap, Morgan figured it was an appropriate time to remind his followers that he doesn't get that whole pay-equity concept.
And then he, a man who , tweeted again.
While it's no secret that Morgan loves to own himself online, his inclination to , despite having an incomplete understanding of it, is concerning. For years, he's been trying to grasp the concept, but it still doesn't fully make sense to him.
But in his opinion, he's much better at his job than, say, his Good Morning Britain co-host, Susanna Reid. In July 2017, published a list of presenters making over £150,000, which revealed a major pay discrepancy between men and women at the company. Morgan, however, didn't think Reid would care that he was being paid an atrociously large amount of money.
I've slightly redone the wheel here," Morgan . "I bring a completely different kind of feel [to the show]." Hmmmm.
Time to bring in ol' Daniel Radcliffe to explain the gender pay gap to him.


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Fast start sees Prosper pitch a shutout for bragging rights over Prosper Rock Hill
Harrison Rosar threw for 304 yards and had a hand in all four of Prosper's touchdowns in the all-Prosper ISD matchup.
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By Robert Thomas
10:53 PM on Sep 23, 2022 CDT
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PROSPER — In the first ever all-Prosper ISD varsity football game, Prosper claimed bragging rights with one of its more complete games of the season in a convincing 49-0 victory over Prosper Rock Hill in District 5-6A play at Children's Health Stadium on Friday.
Prosper (4-1, 1-1 in 5-6A) piled up a season-high 535 yards on offense, riding big games from quarterback Harrison Rosar and receiver Hunter Summers as Prosper scored on its first six drives of the contest.
"It was our best game of the season on offense and the kids did a great job with execution," said Prosper head coach Brandon Schmidt. "We came out fired up on offense and the defense did a great job playing at a high level."
Prosper Rock Hill (2-3, 1-1) never got in sync against a stout Prosper defense, managing just 121 yards of total offense in absorbing the team's first shutout loss of the season.
"We just never could get started tonight and a lot of that credit goes to the Prosper defense," said Prosper Rock Hill coach Mark Wilkinson. "We got behind early on and we just couldn't recover after that first quarter."
Prosper put the contest out of reach in that opening quarter, scoring on all four of its possessions in the period to take a 28-0 lead.
Rosar had a hand in all four touchdowns for Prosper, starting the scoring with a 10-yard run before tossing three straight touchdown passes. That included a pair of scores to Summers, including a 91-yard catch and run for the final score of the quarter.
Rosar threw for 304 yards and four touchdowns, while rushing for another score in the win while Summers had three touchdown catches to go with 104 yards receiving.
Prosper kept the pressure on in the second quarter with two more touchdowns, taking a 42-0 lead into the half.
Rosar continued his big night with a 5-yard touchdown pass to Summers, marking the third time the duo combined to reach the end zone. Prentice Sanders capped the scoring for Prosper in the opening half with a 1-yard run, finishing a 14-play, 84-yard drive.
Rock Hill managed just 38 yards of offense in the first half, with Prosper's defense controlling much of the pace with four sacks. Penalties also hurt Rock Hill in the opening half, as a penalty wiped out a 70-yard touchdown pass from Kevin Sperry to Eric Webb.
Sperry, the reigning Dallas Morning News Player of the Week, struggled against Prosper's defense, finishing with just 68 total yards.
After a scoreless third quarter, Prosper closed out the game's scoring midway through the final quarter with a 1-yard scoring run by Sanders. Sanders finished with a game-high 72 yards rushing and two touchdowns.
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Q: With the winter in the Northeast being just a little more intense this year, I have taken to the treadmill for the majority of my runs. Are my runs on the treadmill equivalent to my runs on the road provided equivalent topography of the run? Say for instance I put in 5 miles on the treadmill in under 34 minutes, am I getting the same benefit out of the treadmill work out that I would get on the roads? I realize the injury aspect is minimized by avoiding the dangers of the road, snow/ice and cars during the winter, but is there anything else I should be taking into consideration when plotting my workouts on the treadmill?


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Jennifer Lawrence Opens Up About Her Relationship with Darren Aronofsky
-Since Angelina Jolie went to Vanity Fair, I guess Jennifer Lawrence was the predictable choice for the September cover of Vogue. At least the cover is stunning and the interview is free-wheeling. She talks about the criticism surrounding her character's lack of agency in Passengers ("I'm disappointed in myself that I didn't spot it") , her photo hack ("I'm always waiting to get blindsided again"), dating director Darren Aronofsky ("I've been in relationships before where I am just confused. And I'm never confused with him."), and blames crystals for her house flooding.
–Chris Pratt wrote the foreword to Anna Faris' new book before they announced their separation.
-I'm side-eyeing everything about Us Weekly since the ownership change, but their new cover story claims people close to Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are doubtful they'll actually go through with the divorce.
-So Chloe Grace Moretz told a story about a male co-star who fat-shamed her on a movie set and now everyone is trying to detective out which project it was. I'm going with If I Stay, 'cause the timeline fits (she said she was 15 at the time while he was in his mid-20s and playing her love interest).
-Oh god. How I Met Your Dad might still happen.
–Jennifer Garner's next role sounds very Alias-like, and I'm here for it.
–Katie Holmes will star in an adaptation of The Secret, which actually makes a weird kind of sense. I always felt like people who loved that book were cult-ish, and she has some experience with that.
-Whoa. Who knew Jim Carrey was also an accomplished artist?
-This is eye-opening: an analytics company tried to determine the 20 most popular shows of 2017 based on signals other than traditional ratings (like illegal downloads, social buzz, etc), and the results are crazy. The most popular shows are NOT ones the critics talk about. We're talking Suits, Pretty Little Liars, Sherlock, Arrow, Gotham and something call The Grand Tour.
– TV ratings are slumping in Canada (I blame myself — I basically stopped watching TV this summer, which surely put a dent in their stats…) But it's still not as bad as in the U.S.
-The X Files presented at the TCAs and they made sure to address the criticism they received (even from Gillian Anderson) after announcing an all-male writers room. They've since hired two female writers and two female directors. They also mentioned that there will only be two mythology episodes, and 8 standalones.
–Rihanna responded to Diplo's anecdote about that time she called his music a "reggae song at the airport."
–Lana Wachowski, the Sense8 cast, and the crew honored fans in an emotional thank you video.
–Josh Brolin is jacked — and his Instagram is full of photo proof.
–Nikki Reed and Ian Somerhalder are talking about taking a one-month of silence vow after the baby is born, with no visitors and no phone calls. Gee, they still sound swell.
-Here is Jennifer Lawrence in the terrifying new trailer for Mother!


After billions of dollars spent and countless lives lost, the war on drugs has been at best a misguided endeavor. IRIN explores the collateral damage wrought by global drug policy in developing countries.
Billions of dollars later, countless lives lost and disfigured, policymakers are coming round to the idea that the war on drugs has been at best a misguided endeavour.
Latin American countries – which have borne the brunt of the violence and dislocation - are spearheading the demand for new thinking. Even in the United States, which for years had led the global crusade to stop the drugs trade by throttling supply, enthusiasm is waning. Some of its states are pursuing their own experiments in decriminalization of marijuana.
It is not yet clear what the future of global drug policy will look like ahead of the UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) in 2016, where member countries will debate the issue.
But this In-Depth seeks to explore the flaws in the current architecture, and document the humanitarian impact – the collateral damage – wrought by those policies in developing countries.


All this (beautiful) white arriving in our Southern world means the world shut down for a week. The Northerners roll their eyes. The Westerners wonder how we've gone soft. It is what it is! We can't do a thing about it! While I do enjoy me a good snow, cabin fever is no one's friend! Our family underwent a terrible case of cabin fever last week. Look what it did to us.
We did enjoy being together at home, playing games, reading and relaxing a little more than usual. But we are mighty glad the sun decided to reappear and bring our normal routines back again. It's safe to say we've all recovered from the plague of cabin fever! And we've become even more thankful for our Southern living and the constant changes that brings!
How are the days looking in your part of the world?
July makes me feel like summer is really here! Over the weekend our little fam enjoyed a day of rest and playfulness! We seem to appreciate those moments more when we feel disconnected throughout the camp weeks! Our staff is employing the ole saying, work first, play second this week as we do a little onsite work then follow it up with some offsite fun! We really needed this week! I'm thankful God knew that ahead of time! I'm feeling disconnected with you all too! More sharing will begin again this week! Thanks for your grace in the meantime!
Happy July to you, friends!
With focus, intention and creativity, his brush glides across the paper leaving a splash of color on the expanse.
Much like Daddy. May His splashes of grace fill the expanse of our today!
cold, windy, beautiful, wintry (finally!). our right now!


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One of the great injustices foisted upon the entertainment world was perpetrated when gay men claimed for themselves sole right of enjoyment for musical romantic-comedy motion pictures. Straight males, turn on your TVs, fire up your DVDs, and unite! Take back the joy of melodic movie-going, starting with a delightful viewing of Bye Bye Birdie (1963). Based largely and loosely upon the public fascination with the induction of massively popular rock singer Elvis Presley into the United States Armed Services, Bye Bye employs boisterous bouts of singing and dancing to tell the tale of an ambitious young lass whose plans for her songwriting boyfriend's success impel her to hijack the nation's obsession with an entertainer modeled upon Elvis the Pelvis. Counter-intuitively, Birdie's most sensational swiveling and crooning come from the lips and hips of a young Ann-Margret.


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A page turner from start to finish...
By: John Ellison, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Date: Saturday 19 October 2002
Richards has crafted one of the three best novels in the 8th Doctor line in my opinion. Tightly woven, pulse pounding, and a thrill a minute! Everything I could ask for from a Who adventure.
His characterizations of Fitz and Anji continue the recent trend of making them seem like real people rather than plot points or cardboard stand ups. Combined with a plot that promises to keep on giving...just go read it for yourself and see!
By: Jerry Lewandowski, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Date: Tuesday 29 April 2003
Is anyone sick of Sabbath yet? I am beginning to wonder if we will ever get a break from him. Don't get me wrong, he's a good character, reminiscent of the Master himself, but he is getting old and tired. Give the Doctor some new enemies or maybe bring someone along who is part of his past that can help him with his amnesia.
As far as the story of the book, it was pretty slow at first and didn't really pick up until around page 200. It wasn't as action packed as the books have been lately and it left me rushing through the book to just get it over with.
A Chilling Read!
By: Piers, Lancashire, UK
Date: Friday 24 September 2004
This is another strong addition to the Eighth Doctor range. At the start the Doctor and his companions go their separate ways, only to discover that they are to be drawn into intriguing circumstances that will ultimately reunite them. So many plot strands are set up in the earlier chapters, and it is these that made this book a page-turner, trying to discover how these are all related. Unfortunately the coming together of all these elements are the weakest part of this novel, with an excessive use of technobabble and hypothetical physics being used to explain the plot. I for one had to re-read a couple of sections just to try to make sense of what was going on (I think I got there!). Another gripe is the way Sabbath is introduced into the story, which is just a retread of 'Anachrophobia'... Does he have a fancy dress trunk on the Jonah? And could Justin Richards be a fan of The X-Files - the way Sabbath departs at the end is highly reminiscent of the movie!
The book does end on a high, with the coda nicely setting up the next stage in the on-going arc. Where do things go from here?!


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Chargers Eric Weddle celebrates after a win over the Chiefs in 2011.
The San Diego Chargers 2007 top draft picks from left are, Craig Davis from LSU, Eric Weddle from Utah, and Anthony Waters from Clemson, shown at Chargers Park on April, Feb. 29, 2007.
Eric Weddle of the San Diego Chargers forces Sage Rsenfels of the Houston Texans to throw away the ball in 2007.
Eric Weddle of the San Diego Chargers tips a pass intended for Derrick Mason of the Baltimore Ravens on November 25, 2007.
Chargers Luis Castillo celebrates with Eric Weddle after a sack of Raiders JaMarcus Russell on Sunday, Sept. 28, 2008.
Eric Weddle of the San Diego Chargers intercepts a pass against the Indianapolis Colts on January 13, 2008 at the RCA Dome in Indianapolis.
Portrait of Eric Weddle of the San Diego Chargers on April 4, 2007, in San Diego, California.
Chargers Eric Weddle runs back a 4th quarter interception for a touchdown against Miami in 2009.
San Diego Chargers draftee Eric Weddle moves into his San Diego home on Tuesday, June 12, 2007.
Chargers Eric Weddle signs autographs after practice in 2014.
Chargers Eric Weddle celebrates after an interception against Miami in the 4th quarter in 2011.
Chargers Eric Weddle and Jets LaDainian Tomlinson talk after the Jets beat the Chargers in 2011.
Chargers Eric Weddle hits Bears Earl Bennett to keep him from scoring in the 2nd quarter at Soldier Field on Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011.
Chargers Eric Weddle (32) celebrates with Steve Gregory who intercepted a pass and returned it for a touchdown against the Bills in 2011.
Chargers Eric Weddle swings his daughter Brooklyn, 4, at his home on Monday, Jan. 9, 2012.
Chargers Eric Weddle runs an interception by Chiefs quarterback Matt Cassel in the 1st quarter on Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012.
Chargers Eric Weddle runs out of the tunnel before the Bengals game on Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012.
Chargers Eric Weddle is introduced before a game against the Seahawks in 2013.
Chargers Eric Weddle gets ready to take the field against the Jets in 2014.
Chargers Eric Weddle takes the field against the Jets in 2014.
Chargers Eric Weddle during a break against the Jets in 2014.
Chargers Eric Weddle celebrates with fans after a win against the Jets in 2014.
Chargers Eric Weddle celebrates after a 13-6 win over the Raiders with Marcus Gilchrist in 2014.
Chargers Eric Weddle greets fans after a win over the Raiders in 2014.
Chargers Eric Weddle (32), leads a prayer with Steve Williams and defensive backs before a game against Jacksonville in 2014.
Chargers Eric Weddle is introduced against Jacksonville in 2014.
Chargers Eric Weddle makes an interception against Jacksonville in the 4th quarter in 2014.
Chargers Eric Weddle celebrates an interception against Jacksonville in 2014.
Chargers Eric Weddle is introduced against the Dallas Cowboys in 2015.
Chargers Eric Weddle celebrates with fans after a 30-27 win over the Browns in 2015.
Chargers Eric Weddle stops Steelers Le'Veon Bell in 2015.
Chargers Eric Weddle and Philip Rivers celebrate win over 49ers in 2014.
Chargers Eric Weddle waits for a play during the Rams game in 2014.
Chargers Eric Weddle is introduced at Qualcomm Stadium before a Chargers game against the Lions in 2015.
Chargers Eric Weddle celebrates with fans after a game against the Rams in 2014.
Patriots Tom Brady talks with Chargers Eric Weddle after a game in 2014.
Chargers Eric Weddle takes the field against the Dallas Cowboys in 2015.
Chargers Eric Weddle watches from the sideline during his last game playing as a Charger in Oakland.
Chargers Eric Weddle takes photos with fans after a 30-14 win over Miami at Qualcomm Stadium in 2015.


Hosa Digantha (Kannada:ಹೊಸ ದಿಗಂತ) is a Kannada morning daily in Karnataka. "Hosa Digantha" has the literal meaning of "New Horizon".
With its tag line Rāshtra Jāgrutiya Dainika (Kannada:ರಾಷ್ಚ್ರ ಜಾಗೃತಿಯ ದೈನಿಕ), meaning "Daily for national awareness", Hosa Digantha is a newspaper with nationalist ideology.


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Q: I want to add values under same key "locs" : {
        "-Lci8jGrXCEP-r6LBxD8" : {
          "title" : "Marriage"
        },
        "-Lci9UNW80J2Jap_UHwj" : {
          "title" : "Visit"
        }
      },

My firebase realtime database looks like this. I want to add three other values under this same push key namely latitude and longitude and address.
  mDatabase.child("users").child(mUserId).child("locs").push().child("title").setValue(text.getText().toString());

This works in first activity. In second activity I retrieve lat and long and save it in a string lat and long respectively. Now I want these two values and addr to be saved under this same key.
This is my expected result
"locs" : {
        "-Lci8jGrXCEP-r6LBxD8" : {
          "title" : "Marriage"
          "lat"   : "xxx.xxxxxx"
          "long"  : "xxx.xxxxxx"
          "addr"  : "Street 112 xxxx"
        },
        "-Lci9UNW80J2Jap_UHwj" : {
          "title" : "Visit"
          "lat"   : "xxx.xxxxxx"
          "long"  : "xxx.xxxxxx"
          "addr"  : "Street 1212 Flat 6"
        }
      },

A: You'll need to do two things:

*

*Make sure the second activity knows the key to update. You can do this either by passing the key along from the first activity to the next (in an intent or in shared preferences), or by looking it up in the second activity based on some other unique property that you know the value of.

*Update the location for that key, instead of generating a new one. You do this by calling update() instead of set() and using child(key) instead of push(). So:
Map<String, Object> values = new HashMap<String, Object>();
values.put("title", "new updated title");
values.put("newprop", "value of new prop");
mDatabase.child("users").child(mUserId).child("locs").child(key).updateChildren(values);

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Today Cathay Pacific announced a major restructuring and will find ways to make around 600 Hong Kong hardworking staff redundant from its head office, in the biggest round of job cuts by Hong Kong's flagship carrier in 20 years. The local economy is facing a challenging time, at the moment, given the economic uncertainties many large corporations focus on cost cutting and restructuring. In general this means 2 things for the staff of those companies: 1) Stress due to career uncertainties. 2) Long working days, since the same amount of work needs to be done with less staff. In order to service in this kind of harsh business climate, it is off utmost importance to keep the mind fresh and recharged day in, day out.
After a long day of work, coming home, you need to create the right environment to slow down, let go, and recharge. Do invest in this daily 1-2 hr down time, the more comfortable your furniture set up, this easier it will be to relax and wind down. At SofaSale we understand the importance of this moment, so we designed a range of relax furniture, which can be added into your living-room set up and complement our lounge sofa. Do note that an investment in creating the perfect downtime for your body and mind, will definitely pay-out in the long run. Keep in mind, in today harsh business environment, the corporates will need to make selections in their key staff. Better make sure you are the energetic workforce they want to keep, at every expense!
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Police Violence? Body Cams Are No Solution
Shahid Buttar,
Recent evasions of justice by the NYPD officers who killed Eric Garner prove what Americans of color have long known: Police can do anything – even murder someone in broad daylight on videotape, without provocation, using methods of force already held illegal – and get away with it.
Americans from all walks of life have responded with a rising tide of protests around the country, ranging from sit-ins at shopping malls and walkouts on college campuses, to the occupation of train stations, major intersections and highways.
This movement for justice has largely untapped opportunities among potential allies, and also faces a disturbing threat in proposals to expand the use of police body cameras.
A Movement to Which Washington Is Responding
The movement's visibility and assertiveness have already compelled a response from Washington. Policy proposals responding to the movement, however, threaten to distract from its most crucial goals, undermine its interests, and ultimately exacerbate mass incarceration.
After greeting grassroots organizers from Ferguson at the White House, and affirming his concerns about the "militarized culture" of domestic police forces, President Obama proposed to spend a quarter billion dollars on solutions including police body cameras. Body cameras, however, are no solution to the problem.
The real problem – which the president and Congress continue to ignore – is a legal system granting police broad latitude to commit civil rights violations. Between Congress amending it and courts interpreting it, the law must change so that police face justice for arbitrary violence, whether their human rights abuses happen on or off camera.
Cameras Promise Transparency but Don't Deliver
The parents of Mike Brown endorsed a call for body cameras because the facts surrounding their son's death have been in dispute since the day he was killed. Transparency is not sufficient without reform, nor is it ensured by cameras.
First, there's no guarantee that the public will ever see footage from police body cameras, especially in cases where it may be helpful to defendants or civil litigants.
When police have been observed filming demonstrations, for instance, civil litigants have been unable to gain access to footage in discovery due to self-serving police claims (not unlike the CIA's claims when evading accountability for human rights abuses like torture) that the footage was either lost, recorded over, or never captured in the first instance.
Second, even when body camera footage is public, it remains an inadequate solution at best. Cameras captured video of Eric Garner's death, which millions of people watched on YouTube. But video neither saved Eric Garner nor helped hold his murderers accountable.
Moreover, even when everything does work as their proponents suggest, body cameras offer transparency only into particular incidents, not into patterns or practices.
A few weeks ago, when I testified before the Washington, DC, City Council on policing reforms, members were eager to define what few statistics they could glean from the Metropolitan Police Department. In New York City, the council fought for a year merely to gain some insight into the racial impacts of NYPD stops, searches, surveillance and uses of force, through the creation of a new inspector general's office.
We need transparency into patterns and practices, not only into discrete acts.
Cameras Could Make Mass Incarceration Even Worse
Beyond failing to satisfy transparency concerns, police body cameras also pose a massive risk to privacy and could support mass incarceration. In these ways, cameras are not merely a distraction from the police accountability movement's underlying aims, but could actively set it back.
First, body cameras are oriented not toward police officers, but rather toward the public. Nor are they particularly focused.
Rather than specifically capture footage of people involved in police encounters, body cameras monitor anyone within their field of vision, without the individual basis for suspicion constitutionally required to justify a police search. The president's body camera proposal would ultimately expand government surveillance of people suspected of no crime, without doing much to check or balance police abuses.
By extending surveillance, cameras could also fuel mass incarceration. Cameras could capture footage used against defendants in criminal trials – either where the footage depicts criminal acts, like jaywalking or selling loose cigarettes, or where it merely supports suspicion of potential crime, justifying subsequent stops and searches that would otherwise be illegal.
It would be disturbing indeed for calls that "Black Lives Matter" to be answered with tools ensuring that they will continue to be treated as fodder for a corrupt system promoting racial injustice.
Real Solutions
In Ferguson, community members have compiled a sensible set of comprehensive demands, ranging from the adoption of federal legislation to end racial profiling, to local measures ensuring accountability for rogue police officers, protections to give journalists and community members the right to observe police activities, and limits on military equipment acquisition.
The End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA) – included among the community's demands in Ferguson – would address the problem by requiring police departments to track and disclose the impacts of police activities. It would establish the transparency that body cameras promise, but fail to deliver.
ERPA would not only enable transparency into patterns and practices, it would go further by creating a right of private action so survivors of profiling could seek their day in court. Under a disparate impact standard, plaintiffs could use the statistical evidence required from police to establish a discrimination claim, without having to somehow prove an officer's specific intent to discriminate, as required under current federal law.
Washington Failing America, Yet Again
This is an issue on which both major political parties have failed America. ERPA was endorsed by the Bush administration as early as 2001, years before President Obama came to Washington.
Yet, more than a decade later, the bill remains under the congressional bus, ignored by Republicans and Democrats alike. During the two years that Democrats most recently controlled the Senate, the bill did not receive a single hearing – even though profiling sparked a raging national controversy.
If the president can mobilize a quarter billion dollars to fund potential solutions to police violence in communities, those funds should go where they can most help. Instead of further inflating the budgets of police departments, the president should invest in communities seeking job training, violence prevention, and youth counseling programs.
Even if the goal remains unfortunately limited to establishing greater visibility into discrete police activities, and cameras are incorrectly perceived as the solution, the best way to get them on the streets is to train community members and aspiring citizen journalists.
Cameras fail to provide meaningful transparency, extend domestic spying, make mass incarceration even worse and represent a budgetary bonus to police departments and corporate camera contractors, while distracting the debate from the more important issue of officer – and department – accountability for abusive patterns and practices.
If the president wants to do more than pay lip service to the movement, he should endorse ERPA and push Congress to finally enact it.
In the meantime, seemingly spontaneous mass demonstrations will continue across the country. The movement to end police murder with impunity is not asking for new solutions. It has already put solutions on the table.
It's time to give Garner, Brown and all the other victims of police violence the justice they were denied during their lives and help them rest in peace by taking meaningful steps to ensure that police do not force others into their unfortunate footsteps.
Shahid Buttar
Shahid Buttar is a constitutional lawyer, nonprofit leader, DJ, poet, MC, music producer and community organizer. In 2020, he became the only Democrat to ever face Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in a general election, when he won over 80,000 votes to replace her as San Francisco's voice in the House.
Police "Reforms" You Should Always Oppose
Ultimately, the only way that we will address oppressive policing is to abolish the police.
Mariame Kaba,
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Kelly's Deli Conference Center
Next to the entrance to 7519 Standish Drive
FDA/CVM Center
Mar 9, 2017 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm (GMT -5:00) EST
�The Cancer Genomic Atlas (TCGA) Project
and Precision Medicine�
To be presented by
Zhong Chen, MD, PhD
Staff Scientist and Chief of Clinical Genomic Unit
Tumor Biology Section, Head and Neck Surgery Branch
National Institute of Deafness and
Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), NIH
6:00 � 6:20 PM � Networking; Pizza/drink
6:20 � 8:45 PM � Program
8:45 � 8:55 PM � Door-prizes drawing; Networking
Online Registration site: http://www.asq509.org/ht/d/DoSurvey/i/35817
Open to Public �
$5: non-ASQ members to cover pizza/drink cost;
Free: ASQ members, veterans, senior citizens, past speakers, US PHS Commissioned Corp officers, teachers, students, interns, residents, postdocs, FDA Commissioner�s Fellows, MJ-DC members, NTUAADC members, CAPA members, NTMUADC members, CKUAADC members, NTHUAADC members, NJTUAADC members, CCACC volunteers/employees, FAPAC members, CBA members, AAGEN members, NCARSQA members, OCA-DC members, AAMB members, ACAP members, DC Leaders Club members, BioTrain volunteers, and current job-seekers
Location: Kelly�s Deli Conference Center, 7529 Standish Place, Rockville (Derwood, for GPS users), MD 20855
Registration Deadline: Please register by Thursday noon, March 9, 2017.
Question: Please contact Dr. C.J. George Chang, Chair of Biomed/Biotech SIG, ASQ509; gchang2008@yahoo.com or 240-793-8425 (cell).
Driving directions: By Cars: From I-270 (N or S bound): Take Exit 9A and exit from the FIRST right exit; turn left (east) onto Shady Grove Dr.; turn right (south) onto Rockville Pike (Route 355); turn left (east) onto East Gude Dr.; turn left (north) immediately onto Crabb�s Branch Dr.; turn left (west) immediately onto Standish Place. The first building on your right side is 7519 Standish Place; open parking). The venue is on the first floor of 7529 Building with its external entrance opposite to the left side of 7519 building main entrance. By Metro trains: Off from Red Line Shady Grove Station, and take RideOn Route 59 TOWARD ROCKVILLE and get off from �Calhoun Place� stop. Standish Place is next to the Bus stop. Our venue is within 2 min of walking distance from the stop.
The current achievements of high throughput biomedical technologies and high speed computation/bioinformatics make large-scaled studies of human genomics into the reality. To comprehensively and systematically investigate cancer genomic landscapes, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) initiated collaborative efforts of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project in 2005. This project has generated multi-dimensional maps of the key genomic changes in 33 cancer types. The data are collected from tumor tissues of more than 11,000 patients through high throughput technologies, which are publically available and have been used widely by the research community.
As a participant and co-leader of a sub-working group of TCGA project, Dr. Chen will highlight the important technologies and scientific achievements of TCGA project. Dr. Chen will explain how to translate the data from TCGA project to the clinical setting and benefit cancer patients through the recently initiated precision medicine project. Dr. Chen will review the concept of precision medicine, including the near-term and long-term goals, the workflow, and the clinical trial design of precision oncology. Dr. Chen will discuss how to apply the concept of precision oncology in the clinical practice of internal medicine, surgery, and laboratory medicine. Finally, Dr. Chen will discuss the future of precision oncology from the perspective of cancer patients and the human society.
Speaker�s Bio
Dr. Zhong Chen received her medical degree from Beijing Medical University in 1983, and obtained a PhD degree in tumor immunology in 1988 from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester, NY. She then continued her postdoctoral training in the same department and in the Department of Dermatology until 1994. Dr. Zhong Chen then joined the Tumor Biology Section, Head and Neck Surgery Branch at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She was promoted to staff scientist in 2001, and was appointed as chief of the Clinical Genomics Unit in 2011.
Dr. Chen has been working at NIH for more than 20 years and her research traverses several diverse disciplines relating to translational oncology and genomics, including cell and molecular biology, gene expression and transcriptional regulation, high throughput sequencing, functional genomics, animal tumor models, preclinical and clinical investigation, and new drug testing. She has participated in several pre-clinical investigations and phase 0/I clinical trials testing novel anti-cancer therapies targeting PI3K, MEK, CK2, heat shock protein, EGFR, NF-κB, TRAIL, and Wee1 pathways.
Dr. Chen has published ~100 original papers and review articles in peer-reviewed journals, and has co-mentored ~80 PhD and MD fellows and students. Recently, she has participated in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) of head and neck cancer and PanCan TCGA 12 projects, and served as a co-chair of PanCan Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC) working group.
This event is cosponsored by NTU Alumni Association DC Chapter (www.ntuaadc.org) and Chinese American Professional Association DC Chapter (www.capadc.org).


Don't let gifts for your neighbors stress you out. You can send each of your neighbors the same set of vintage coasters and include a personalized heartfelt card. Let your messages of kindness and hope be the items that makes the gift different for each recipient – that way you cut down on your own stress while making each neighbor feel special for being recognized in a personal way. Message or call me to find out how!


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Hungary grows many standard international varieties, such as Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc, but there are also a myriad of local grape varieties commonly found in the Carpathian Basin.
Let's start with Ezerjó for no particular reason, except that I've been tasting a few of them lately, including the excellent full-bodied Pontica Pince Móri Ezerjó 2012.
This is a grape variety that is widely planted within Hungary, but little known outside the country.
It has many other names, amongst others zátoki, korponai, budai fehér (Buda White), Korponai or Kolmreifler, and in Transylvania, it is known as fehér bakator (White Bakator).
Until 1884, it was widely cultivated in the Sopron wine district. Nowadays, it is more commonly found in the Kunság, Neszmély and in particular Mór wine districts.
The Mór district is particularly well-known for its Móri Ezerjó. Indeed many people associate the variety closely with this area. Here it yields a light, crisp, refreshing easy-drinking wine.
It is a early-ripening, high yield variety, sensitive to frost and rot.
Its wine is high in alcohol, often with a slightly harsh taste, with pronounced acidity, pale green in colour, dry and relatively neutral in flavour.
It can also be used to produce sweet wines, in good vintages containing some botrytised grapes.
Literally translated, it means 'a thousand boons'.
I was persuaded to try this wine with the recommendation that I would never have tasted such a rich, creamy Ezerjó. This advice turned out to be correct.
Medium gold in colour, distinctly mineral on the nose, luscious, mouthfilling dried fruits (apricot and peach), led by firm minerals, off-dry in the mouth, despite being a dry wine. Rounded acidity and creaminess make this a wine to savour. Delicious.


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BLOGGER IN PARIS IN THE MIDST OF TEAR GAS CANISTERS RAINING DOWN ON THE CROWDS (video)
The webmaster of No Pasarán almost felt he was being deliberately targeted as the tear gas canisters started raining down on the yellow vest protesters around him on the Avenue de Friedland, one of the roads leading up to the Place Charles de Gaulle l'Étoile, already covered not in fog but in tear gas.
Whether it was related or simply a coincidence, the crowds had started chanting "Macron ! Démission| (Macron resign!) when the bombardment started.
As I wrote last week, in How Fake News Has Misrepresented the Yellow Vest Revolt in France:
There is nary a single media report about the Yellow Vest demonstrations in Paris and France that I've read or watched that has not been slanted by Fake News.
It has (usually) not been deliberate, I gather, and nobody has said anything factually wrong; what is the problem is the fact that (very) important stuff has been omitted. (Update: merci au Professeur Glenn Reynolds.)
It is not wrong to say that the demonstrations were caused by the government's decision to raise gas prices. What is missing is that this is just one of several draconian measures dating back half a year, i.e., 'tis the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.
For the past four to five months, the French government has done nothing but double down on bringing more and more gratuitous oppression and more and more unwarranted persecution measures down on the necks the nation's drivers and motorcycle riders.
In fact, the imposition of ever harsher rules has been going on for the past decade and a half or so — whether the government was on the right or on the left …/…
…/… What has been most irksome for les Français since the turn of the century has been the ubiquitous radars, which, like red-light cameras in the United States, are accused of having (far) more to do with bringing revenue to the state than with road safety.
And just like the arms industry in the Soviet Union, if there was one area of France where the technology was always moving forward, it was the radar business.
Over the years, the radars have become evermore stealthy and insidious. …/… What has happened since shows the Deep State at work in Europe just as much as, if not more than, in North America — and this leftist statism is the kind of news that has been ignored by the mainstream media, in France itself as much as abroad. …/…
WE ARE NOT MILCH COWS!
All of which brings us to 2018. This year, as mentioned, Emmanuel Macron's government has doubled down on the repressive measures.
• On July 1, Prime Minister Édouard Philippe did what no other country in Europe or in the West (or, as far as I know, on the planet) has done: go against the march of progress and lower the slowness limit (sorry, the speed limit) on secondary (country) roads by 10 km/h, decreasing the limit from 90 km/h (56 mph) to 80 km/h (50 mph).
• At about the same time came the contracts that the government decided to write with private corporations, handing the business of the state's (plainclothes) gendarmes over to their company employees, to take over the business of the mobile radars in their shiny new fleets of vehicles. (Meanwhile, other private companies have been getting similar contracts from city governments, meaning wage earners doing mostly nothing but driving up and down the city streets, while a license plate reader decides which cars' owners will be getting automatically-generated fines.)
This is actually the point at which the first protests started. During the summer, the country saw a huge increase in instances of destruction (or incapacitation) of radars on the roadside. Many were defaced with paint, others were set on fire, while still others were simply covered with something like a garbage bag (one man arrested while covering a radar was let free by a judge who decided that since the garbage bag hadn't actually brought any physical harm to the machine in any way, the defendant could not be accused of destroying it).
• More recently, the government added more gratuitous sanctions to the driver's license point system, which is already far more punitive than that of most European countries, not least neighboring Germany's.
• Finally, with the announcement of the gas prise rise, the French said "Enough is enough." And that was when the entire nation seemed to get together via the internet to mount the Yellow Vest revolt.
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Guess What: Don't Democrats such as Beto in Fact Agree — 100%! — with Trump that Central American Countries Are Shitholes?!
As supporters call on Beto O'Rourke to run for president in 2020,
writes Chantal Da Silva in Newsweek (gracias por Instapundit—y tambien por Stephen Green),
the Texas Democrat slammed Donald Trump administration's handling of the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border.
In a message posted online to Medium on Sunday, O'Rourke called on the U.S. government to handle the situation at the southern border "the right way" after U.S. Border Patrol agents fired teargas at hundreds of Central American migrants who had rushed the U.S.-Mexico border.
"It should tell us something about her home country that a mother is willing to travel 2,000 miles with her 4-month old son to come here," O'Rourke, who lost his Senate bid against Republican incumbent Ted Cruz in the midterm elections, wrote in a message posted online to Medium.
Repeat after me: "It should tell us something about her home country that a mother is willing to travel 2,000 miles with her 4-month old son to come here."
Doesn't Robert Francis O'Rourke, in other words, agree — doesn't he agree 100% — with none other than… Donald Trump?!
When they moan the fate of the migrants and of the refugees, what are all Democrats and all leftists, American or foreign, doing if not essentially agreeing with the sentiment (if not the choice of words) allegedly expressed by Donald Trump — that those countries are (wait for it)… sh*tholes?
If you hold that there is a humanitarian crisis on the border, how can you not agree with Donald Trump, all the while accusing him of manufacturing a crisis?
In fact, what are the very migrants, legal or otherwise, and refugees from Central America and, in Europe, from the Middle East and Africa, saying — with their feet — if it isn't that the places they were born and have been living in are sh*tholes?!
As I write in What Kind of Startling Groups Might Tend to Agree with Trump About "Shithole Countries"?,
What kind of surprising groups might tend to agree with President Donald Trump on calling places like Haiti, El Salvador, and various nations in Africa "shithole countries", not to mention many others?
No, no, you're wrong: the answer is not those revolting racists who belong to the despicable Republican party.
1) The first jaw-dropping answer is (wait for it) the citizens of Haiti, the citizens of El Salvador, and the citizens of various nations in Africa, not to mention the citizens of many others.
… you would be surprised to hear how many individuals agree if not with the wording itself, certainly with the sentiment behind it.
Indeed, isn't the very fact that so many of these citizens are emigrating to America, or to the West, in the first place a pretty strong sign of what they think, if not in those exact terms, of the regions they were born in?
Wittingly or otherwise, the Texas congressman from El Paso goes on to confirm as much:
"People are leaving violent countries where they fear for their lives," the Democrat wrote. "Without money, they are subsisting on hope for their kids, for themselves, that they can get to safety. After being denied the ability to lawfully petition for asylum for the last 10 days, they are desperate."
O'Rourke said that in the "longer term," the U.S. government must also "work with the people of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador," where many asylum seekers have traveled from over fears of violence and economic and political instability, "to address underlying conditions that are causing them to flee in the first place."
Check out Beto's words again: "It should tell us something about [a refugee's] home country" [with its] "underlying conditions that are causing them to flee in the first place"; "People are desperate" to get out of the "violent countries where they fear for their lives"…
Translation: I, Beto O'Rourke; we, members of the Democrat Party; we, leftists all over the world, I/we agree with Donald Trump 100% that countries in Latin America are sh*tholes.
• Related: Even liberals know that Haiti, El Salvador, and Africa are "shitholes"; in fact, it seems to be their recurring argument for why we need to prioritize citizens of those nations in our immigration policy (!)
Furthermore:
"Those applicants ultimately granted asylum will then live in the U.S., make us a better country for being here"
If all these migrants are such outstanding citizens, why — why on Earth — would leftists not want them to go home for that very reason, in order to make their nations — their own nations (rather than the USA, which hardly needs those outstanding citizens) — better countries?!
Speaking of which: and to change the subject to gun violence: If los Estados Unidos is such a violent place, shouldn't Latin Americans be staying put?! Indeed, shouldn't the migratory movements be reversed, i.e., shouldn't masses of U.S. citizens be doing their utmost to escape the U.S. and be trying to immigrate, by any ways possible — legally or otherwise — to Mexico, to Honduras, to El Salvador?!
If Beto O'Rourke was president, here's how he would handle migrant caravan https://t.co/Id1rHslM9K pic.twitter.com/CvUBPbYMcr
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) November 26, 2018
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How Fake News Has Misrepresented the Yellow Vest Revolt in France
Demonstrating with the Yellow Jackets on the Champs Élysées against la répression du gouvernement. It was quite festive in the beginning; but cats are not partial to tear gas, so when the tear gas grenades started raining around us, the bicycle cats said Enough and we pedaled home.
NOTE: This post will be fully updated, greatly expanded, and, in the process, thoroughly rewritten for an article in the January 2019 issue of the New English review entitled THE TRUTH ABOUT FRANCE'S YELLOW VESTS.
It has (usually) not been deliberate, I gather, and nobody has said anything factually wrong; what is the problem is the fact that crucial information has been omitted. (Update: merci au Professeur Glenn Reynolds, à Monsieur Pierre le Tech Mec, et à Monsieur Francis Turner.)
In fact, the imposition of ever harsher rules has been going on for the past decade and a half or so — whether the government was on the right or on the left — and that is why the choice of les gilets jaunes (the yellow jackets) by the demonstrators is particularly ironic.
The 2008 law (under the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy) requiring the presence of high-visibility vests (gilets de haute visibilité) aka security vests (gilets de sécurité) in every vehicle — hardly an unreasonable rule, for sure, as similar ones exist throughout the continent — was just another example of the myriad of evermore-onerous directives for car and motorcycle owners over the past 15 years, and so the government in effect provided the 2018 rebels with their uniforms.
What has been most irksome for les Français since the turn of the century has been the ubiquitous radars, which, like red-light cameras in the United States, are accused of having (far) more to do with bringing revenue to the state than with road safety.
And just like the arms industry in the Soviet Union, if there is one area of France where the technology was/is always moving forward, it is the radar sector.
Call it the radar-industrial complex.
Over the years, the radars have become evermore stealthy and insidious. For instance, radars have gone from contraptions being able to photograph a single car on only one side on the road, in the lane closest to the machine (with a burst of white flash quite jolting to the driver at nighttime), to taking multiple pictures over the entire roadway simultaneously of several vehicles driving in both directions.
The first radars were installed in 2003 under President Jacques Chirac and his interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, and in the beginning, drivers were always warned by a road sign when a radar could be expected ahead (which brought about exactly what allegedly was the desired goal, to get cars to slow down).
What has happened since shows the Deep State at work in Europe just as much as, if not more than, in North America — and this leftist statism is the kind of news that has been ignored by the mainstream media, in France itself as much as abroad.
Eventually — in spite of the insistent promises of then-interior minister Sarkozy — new radars were installed without road signs announcing their presence.
The schemes to make the rules harsher have at times been so far-fetched and outrageous that push-back was inevitable and led to their demise. For instance, the attempt to require all vehicles in the nation to be equipped with a breathalyzer. (Not surprisingly, it emerged that a breathalyzer manufacturer who, naturally, was a close friend of a number of politicians, was behind the bill.)
Recently came the news of mobile radars, as mentioned above, meaning unmarked cars loaded with a radar-installed contraption driven by gendarmes dressed in civilian clothes. (Everywhere, young boys daydream of wearing a shiny uniform and going into action to fight crime; imagine, then, a policeman being asked to remove his uniform and put on his plainclothes to do nothing but passively drive up and down the road or highway in an unmarked car and let the hidden radar do its work, i.e., making him trick his (otherwise honest) fellow citizens who have done nothing but "violate" a rather arbitrary administrative rule, a "speed" (sic) limit that has barely changed, if at all, in almost 50 years).
Meanwhile, crony capitalism has given rise to a side economy, a side economy whose only purpose revolves around the punishment of citizens with cars or motorcycles — not least with blossoming (and very expensive) driving schools for drivers to recoup at least some of the points they have lost on their driver's licenses (again, for violations of a rather arbitrary malum prohibitum rule). If and when they are down to 0 points, they are barred from returning to the schools and they lose the license itself, for a year or more — the licenses of some two million Frenchmen are currently suspended — which leads in turn to job losses for some 80,000 drivers every year, since they can no longer commute.
Lire mes articles sur la répression, la persécution, et le matraquage des conducteurs :
https://www.contrepoints.org/author/erik-svane
Il y du Fake News ici — Les médias (francaises et internationales) rapportent que les manifestations sont contre la hausse des prix de l'essence.
Ce n'est pas faux, mais le Fake News, c'est ce qu'on ne dit pas.
En fait, ces hausses ne sont que la goutte qui fait déborder la vase, le dernier exemple de répression, de persécution, et de matraquage depuis 4-5 mois.
• D'abord Édouard Philippe a fait ce qu'aucun gouvernement d'Europe ou de l'Occident (ou de la planète) a fait — baisser la limite de lenteur (pardon, la limite de vitesse)
• Ensuite, il y a eu la multiplication des radars, des radars de plus en plus sournois
En fait, c'est durant l'été, à la suite de ces mesures, que les protestations ont commencé :
Par une hausse impressionnante des instances de destruction des radars sur le bas-côté de la route dans tout l'Hexagone
• Par la suite, le gouvernement a endurci le permis à points, de façon gratuite, avec des punitions grotesques
• Enfin, la hausse des prix de l'essence
Qu'est la démocratie si ce n'est
le pouvoir de dire aux autorités :
Nous ne sommes pas des vaches à lait !
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Ladies of the Canyon: The Movers & Shakers of SoCal's Vibrant Americana Scene
Nikki ONeill
Photo by John Whitaker
As seen in Guitar Girl Magazine Issue 11 – Spring 2020 – Southern California
In the West Coast metropolis where glitter meets bitter and music venues come and go, there's a remarkable artistic camaraderie within the Americana scenes of Los Angeles and its surroundings. What's noteworthy is the significant number of women spearheading this community of creative talent: artists; band leaders who double as organizers of showcases; publicists; talent bookers; filmmakers and poster artists, all dedicating their time and money to lighting the spark, setting things in motion, and spreading awareness.
"It's a large group, but it's also tight-knit. Everybody bonds together, and through strength in numbers we try to make our presence known in Nashville and at SXSW," says Kim Grant, publicist, columnist for roots music magazine Turnstyled, Junkpiled, and co-founder of the Grand Ole Echo concert series in Los Angeles (which is still going, but under different leadership).
Kim Grant and Pam Moore – 2 of 3 Grand Ole Echo founders – photo by Pi Jacobs
Some host concert series, festival showcases, radio shows, podcasts, and other events to promote local talent, while also being active artists. The combination of these undertakings requires time, dollars, non-stop creative ingenuity, and seemingly endless supplies of determination where others would've quit long ago.
"It's definitely a full-time job to get something like this up and running," says Deb Morrison-Littell, singer and bass player with Morrison & Company, freelance photographer, and owner of Prickly Pear Presents Americana Music Nights concert series.
Deb, what kind of work goes into creating Americana Music Nights and getting the word out every week?
People might not realize all the time and money that goes into finding a venue, booking, scheduling, creating all the media, marketing, and doing publicity on a consistent basis — and feeding the social media animal on top of that, which is a job in itself. I had to get a creative team, with people I like, that could help provide what I needed: artwork, posters, and photographs. And I had to put money behind it to make it happen.
But you have to enjoy the process and do it for something much larger than money. The benefits of the whole event coming together is a wonderful ride, plus the people who have been brought together in the name of music. The whole point of playing and listening to music is community . . . gathering to make something happen, and the love of the art.
While Deb strongly encourages anybody with a similar idea to "throw it against the wall, go for it and give it 200 percent," she also points out that things will unfold and move according to some sort of timeline, but it's usually not the one you had in mind.
It can take a long time for people to become aware of what you're doing. You have to let it grow in its own way. LA is such a vast, wide city with so much going on that it can be hard to know where to look. That's why calling something "Americana Nights" or "California Country" is helpful because it lets people know that "oh, there's something going on over there." It gives people a place to look.
Deb's publicity efforts — which include distinctive poster art and videos — drew the attention of Manda Mosher, a solo artist (formerly of CALICO the band) and owner of three entities: the all-genre record label Blackbird Record Label, California Country Apparel, and California Country Events.
Manda Mosher – Photo by Deb Morrison-Littell-Shots by Morrison
Manda, you were working on three California Country showcases at AMERICANAFEST 2019. What made you want to collaborate with Deb?
When I saw what Deb was doing at the Highland Park Bowl with the images, artwork, and the cool, mysterious videos, I was really impressed. My husband and I are big fans and connoisseurs of album art and poster art. And I loved the combination of people that I know and that I'd never heard of that I got to discover through Deb's series. So as I was putting together the California Country events, I knew if we had Deb on the team, we would collectively present strong events. Partnering with Dave Bernal and his California Country radio show and Ted Russell Kamp were the perfect choices to represent our California scene. [Editor's note: Dave did artist interviews and a live broadcast from the showcase, featuring Garrison Starr, Jaimie Wyatt, Ted Russell Kamp, Tawny Ellis, Jim Lauderdale, and many more.]
How were you able to connect with AMERICANAFEST and make this one of their official events?
This goes back to CALICO the band, where we were individual artists/songwriters who came together in a group. We often booked events with multiple artists because we enjoyed the community and tying the threads together. The California Country Show at AMERICANAFEST was a natural extension of these prior efforts. I always saw AMERICANAFEST as a smaller version of SXSW, which has these cool international and regional showcases like "Australia Fest." Back when I started performing at AMERICANAFEST in 2010, they didn't have such a thing as a California showcase.
In the initial years of the California-themed events, we started out connecting with media outlets like The Alternate Root and other Californians who were out there doing smaller, boutique showcases, so we thought of pooling our resources. I reached out to Jed Hilly (Executive Director of the Americana Music Association) and asked if we could have an official status for our California event within the festival. They thought it was a great idea, and since that time, applying for an official event has become a streamlined application process that is open to anyone who has an event idea they would like to propose within the festival.
What does it take to promote this kind of showcase successfully?
It involves a lot of reaching out, a lot of communication, and you do have to spend money to promote it. You must learn social media marketing, advertise, and get good graphics done. Visuals are crucially important when it comes to marketing your event. With AMERICANAFEST, you can buy a sponsorship package which is very helpful because you get into the festival app and on the program, so all the conference attendees know about your event.
Prickly Pear Presents poster art by Lucy Faery
In spite of how much Southern California has contributed to this style of music, its artists still deal with some prejudice, right?
California is often overlooked in the history of roots music. There's a preconceived "not authentic" notion, but people don't think of the rural areas that are here beyond the big cities.
One important thing to remember about LA's contribution is that it had and still has some of the best recording studios in the world. Many of country music's big artists historically came through LA to make records and perform in our historic venues.
Kim, how does the SoCal Americana scene get treated by the local press?
In LA, although there are great exceptions, Americana is sometimes ignored to write about more popular indie music. It's easier to get coverage out of town. But lately, the younger artists like Sam Morrow and Jaimie Wyatt are starting to be taken seriously by the national publications, being written up in Rolling Stone and such.
The LA scene features many transplants, and others conversely leave the city to try their luck in Nashville. The California-themed showcases at AMERICANAFEST provided opportunities for people to reconnect, and some of the now Nashville-based musicians backed up the LA artists who couldn't fly out with their own bands. These moments weren't lost on Deb, Manda, and the other hosts.
Deb, in closing, how would you describe this community of artists that you're a part of?
I see them as the storytellers of our time. Someday, the next generation will look back at what we are doing and hopefully be inspired by watching our "old footage" or listening to "bootleg recordings" of a music scene that we are in the process of creating now.
We are writing our own history and should relish in every moment of making music together, whether it's in someone's living room, curating an event, or recording an album. This is our time … and we've got a goldmine.
SoCal Americana Artists to Check Out
Dave Bernal: Leader for Just Dave Band and a central figure in the growing country scene in Long Beach, hosting The California Country Show, a radio show and podcast. He recently did a 6-week series called "Trailblazers: Women in Country Music," where he interviewed female indie country artists from SoCal like Dixie Jade, Sheyna Gee, and Honey County. california-country.com
Francesca Brown: Received great press for her latest single (including American Songwriter) and will perform throughout 2020. francescabrownmusic.com
Annette Conlon: Releasing a new album this spring. annetteconlon.com
Lacey Cowden: Host of the "Live from Venice" showcases at the Townhouse, poster artist, and illustrator. laceycowden.com
Tawny Ellis: Releasing a new album, "Love Life," with U.K. tour this spring. tawnyellis.com
Molly Hanmer & the Midnight Tokers: Recording their second album with producer Sheldon Gomberg (Rickie Lee Jones, Ben Harper) and touring later in 2020. mollyhanmer.com
KP Hawthorn: Six months into touring the US with her husband Johnny Hawthorn in their duo, The HawtThorns, and promoting their album "Morning Sun." East Coast tour in February and SXSW in March. KP is also producing records with production partner Steve Berns; they just completed an EP for Saint John's Dance, a bluegrass/Americana band. thehawtthorns.com
Adrienne Isom: Bass player with her and her husband Chris Isom's band Nocona. New album out late spring. noconamusic.com
KP and Adrienne are also teamed up for a film project focusing on the legendary Palomino Club in North Hollywood (1949-1995), which was a home base to many country superstars; Ronnie Mack's Barn Dance; "Talent Night," and other iconic happenings through the decades.
Pi Jacobs: New single and video "Rearview" was followed by a new album, "Two Truths and a Lie," in February. SXSW in March, and extensive touring in 2020 including West Coast (Feb/March), East Coast, and Southeast (April/May), and Europe (Oct.) pijacobs.com
Heather Lomax: Single and video release in February; full-length album out in mid-April. heatherlomaxmusic.com
Deb Morrison-Littell: Singer and bassist with Morrison & Company. Currently writing and recording new music. Photographer. Owner of Prickly Pear Presents Americana Music Nights, a weekly concert series. morrisoncompanyband.com
Manda Mosher: Solo artist. Owner of three entities: Blackbird Record Label, California Country Events (which hosted three events at AMERICANAFEST 2019), and California Country Apparel. Built San Fernando Valley Recording, a recording and rehearsal facility, recording singles, and a full-length album. Released Ian Gothe's album on Blackbird. Listening to label submissions. Doing shows, including The Troubadour, in March. mandamosher.com
Nikki O'Neill: Solo artist. Interviewed in Guitar Player Magazine Nov. 2019. Releasing a new full-length album, "World is Waiting," and video in May, with tours to follow. Has her own TrueFire.com guitar lesson channel, "Twang, Soul & Rock 'n' Roll." Author of "Women's Road to Rock Guitar" (Alfred Music/iBooks) nikkioneill.com
Amelia K Spicer: Had an official showcase at AMERICANAFEST 2019 and is always touring across the US ameliakspicer.com
Garrison Starr: European tour in Jan/Feb. New album out this year. garrisonstarr.com
Jaime Wyatt: jaimiewyatt.com
Emily Zuzik: Solo artist and in the duo, Angelenos. "Trouble" single and video out released in January. A new full-length album, "Torch & Trouble," out in May. emilyzuzik.com
Get Your SoCal Americana/Alt-Country/Country Fix at These Venues
Grand Ole Echo; McCabe's Guitar Shop; the Cinema Bar (once a hub for the whole scene originating in the '90s, and where Lucinda Williams got her start); The Townhouse; Coffee Gallery Backstage; Hotel Café; Wine & Song; Ireland's 32; Maui Sugar Mill Saloon ("Twang City" show series); Pete Anderson's The Viva Allstar Jam at Viva Rancho Cantina, Harvelle's; Tuning Fork; Love Song Bar; Lucky Strike Live; the Park Bar & Grill; Joe's Great American Bar & Grill; Petie's Place; Cowboy Palace Saloon in Chatsworth; Copper Blues in Oxnard; Cowboy Country in Long Beach; Pappy & Harriet's out in Joshua Tree, El Segundo Public Library's concert series; Prickly Pear Presents "Americana Music Nights," and "California Country" events.
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Nikki O'Neill is an Americana singer, guitar player, and songwriter with a deep love for soul music. Her records have been played on many blues and roots music stations in the US, Canada, and the U.K. Based in Los Angeles, she performs actively with her band.
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