JOYRIDE was released October 5, 2001. It was the first flick after the events of 9/11 that I went to see in a movie theater. At the time I thought it was a decent riff on one of my favorite made-for-TV movies DUEL. I especially enjoyed that the great TED LEVINE (SILENCE OF THE LAMBS and later, THE HILLS HAVE EYES remake) provided the voice for the murderous trucker. That's about all I do remember about the movie except some fuzzy stuff about LEELEE SOBIESKI being endangered in a motel room. What I do recall with absolute clarity is leaving the theater and feeling profoundly dismal. Even though the movie had satisfied me, was adequately suspenseful and too well done to ever be called "bad," it left a horrible taste in my mouth and by mouth, I mean brain. It was just too soon for me. JOYRIDE is hardly the most horrifying movie I can think of but somehow, due to my still fragile state of mind, it came across as a pitch-black wall of unpleasantness. I wished I'd stayed home and watched sitcoms instead. Sitcoms are always tranquilizing (with the noted exception of MAUDE which is anything but, as the theme song clearly warns).
I was really excited to watch this one on VHS when it was released and then at some point in the middle of viewing it ,my cat Fraidy came over to me with blood dripping out of his nose and mouth. Needless to say I didn't finish the thing. Fraidy was fine, the vet found nothing wrong with him but I 'll never attempt to watch BODY PARTS again. There's obviously something evil in it that is harmful to pets.
What I saw of this movie concerning the end of the world I liked a lot. A strange thing happened the day I viewed it though, just as the film was reaching its apoclyptic climax, the theater I saw it in suffered a complete electrical blackout. We were given free passes to return in the future but the damage was done. The experience was so off-putting that I have never attempted to find out how the movie (and the world) concludes. I'm assuming I'm not meant to know.
I went to see this HITCHCOCK classic at a tiny college theater some time in the eighties. Believe me when I tell you that somebody in the theater (who was not I) was having a serious issue with flatulence. The stink was deadly and seemed to reach its putrid peak right during the surreal dream sequence designed by a blameless SALVADOR DALI. Watching this segment again, I can see it's incredible and yet I'm still tempted to hold my breath. I have a boxed set of HITCHCOCK DVD's and this title remains untouched.
I was visiting my parents and must have gotten some kind of bug from the plane because oh boy, was I sick with some crazy flu. I rented out whatever was new at the Blockbuster and prepared myself for at least one day of doing nothing but watching movies from bed. I'm not sure if it was the fever or the mammoth amounts of medicine I was on, but I was basically tripping my brains out. This rotten movie flickered in abstract flashes in and out of my half consciousness never making a lick of sense and the absence of JULIAN SANDS didn't help. It is dead to me, which means I can never partake in a WARLOCK triple feature!
This is the hardest one to explain. I've never even seen this movie! Once upon a time though I had a terrible nightmare involving it and that was enough. I'm assuming my nightmare was inspired by seeing the trailer because as I watch that now, I see that it's got EXORCIST music, Satan hysteria and it takes place in olden timey days and knowing me, that would do it. Mostly forgotten, it's a very easy movie to avoid but when I worked at a video store I used to eye the VHS box with suspicion and frequently dare myself to check it out…I never did. It's based on a true story and sounds really interesting but I don't want to die so I guess it's off the table.
So you see, JOYRIDE, it isn't personal. You were just at the wrong place at the wrong time. If a movie can be nixed by me based on associations as harmless as the ones listed above what chance considering your inadvertent alignment with the worst day ever, could you possibly stand? None.


Have you been using the family car to make your deliveries? As you expand your business and earn profits, you should consider getting a vehicle that is used solely for business only.
If the business requires four or more cars or trucks, consider a fleet leasing program. By leasing instead of buying, you won't tie up all your capital.
What's more, lease payments are usually lower than purchase payments. On the other hand, the overall cost can amount to more than that of purchasing the vehicles, and at the end of the lease the lender gets the autos back, leaving your company with no trade-in or sales assets. In addition, if your vehicles rack up high mileage, mileage restrictions may mean leasing is not for you.
If you need a new company fleet every two or three years, then leasing is recommended because you'll only pay for the cost of using the car for the length of time of the lease, which can range from two to five years. If you can decide you want to buy the car at the end of the lease, you'll have to pay the residual value.
To get started on fleet leasing, first evaluate the cars and trucks your employees now drive, taking into account mileage, purpose of use and costs so you know what your expenses are. If you need fewer than 10 trucks, your local dealer can usually accommodate your leasing needs. If you need more, consult a professional fleet management expert catering to small and medium businesses, to determine which cars and trucks suit your businesses and budget.
Whether you manage the program in-house or outsource it to a fleet management company or through your car supplier, fleet leasing makes sense economically because you can expect a 5 to 7 percent discount or higher off the vehicles' price.
Having a handle on leasing terms before negotiating begins can make this complex process easier—and help you strike a better bargain.
• Capitalized cost: The price of the vehicle at the beginning of the lease.
• Capitalized reduction: You can opt for lower monthly bills by putting a down payment on leased vehicles, although this eliminates the biggest advantage of leasing, which is the ability to hold on to your cash.
• Closed-end lease: You hand back the vehicle at the end of the lease without owning residual value (also called appraised/resale value), which is a fixed amount stated in the contract. If you need new vehicles every two to three years, you can roll over the lease to the latest model each time.
• Depreciation: The peso amount difference between the car's value at the beginning of the lease and at the end.
• Early Termination: If you have misjudged the length of time you need the leased vehicles and want to hand them over before the lease expires, you will owe an early-termination penalty (stated in your contract). Determine how long you will need the vehicle before signing a long-term lease.
• Excess wear and tear: If your leased vehicles suffer excessive damage through careless driving habits or lack of routine maintenance, you will be charged for repairs.
• Gap protection: Waives the difference between what your auto insurance will cover and how much is still owed on the vehicle if it is stolen or wrecked.
• Mileage allowances: The standard limit is 12,000 to 15,000 miles a year. Any number over that can cost an average of 15 cents a mile. If necessary, negotiate a higher mileage allowance.
• Open-end lease: You have the option of buying the car at its fixed residual value, but if the vehicle is worth less than that amount at the end of the lease, you must pay the difference. Leases, whether closed or open, typically do not include insurance, but may include license and title fees. Some require the first and last month's payments, or a refundable security deposit at signing.


The Margaret River Wine Industry Association is offering one lucky winner the opportunity to win 240 bottles (20 cases) of top quality Margaret River wine worth around $5000. The contest is part of the wine region festival due to be held next month. By registering at the event website (www.margaretriverfestival.com), you can sign up to get the MRWIA LoveNotes newsletter and participate in the contest.
Businesses from the Margaret River region are being urged to market themselves at the Perth Royal Show this year. The region, from Busselton to Augusta, will feature in Guest Town Pavilion at Claremont Showgrounds during the event, Sep 26th – Oct 06th. With a likely exposure to over 20,000 people per day, the marketing campaign is one of the largest promotion initiatives ever carried out for the region.
A Margaret River lady whose Redgate home was destroyed in the Margaret River blaze has called the State Government's reimbursement offer an utter and complete insult. Ms. Kane McDonald has convened a meeting of people who lost their properties in the fires on Thursday 5.30 pm to talk about compensation. The meeting will take place at Bushfire Recovery Hub at the Community Resource Centre, Tunbridge St. Margaret River.
Ellen Taylor-Hawkins, a resident of Margaret River, is amongst the 25 rural students who will get an opportunity to pursue a career in medicine at the Uni. of Western Australia through the Rural Pathway program. The program was launched to identify students of rural areas who want to study medicine and offer them assistance so that they can achieve their goals. Ellen said she was pleased to be part of the program.
It was all freestyle skaters, scooters and BMXers at Margaret River Skate Park last Sunday for a BMX, scooter and skateboards contest. The contest was the third round of the Freestyle Now Western Australian Skatepark Series, which was hosted by Freestyle Now BMX stunt squad in partnership with the Shire of Augusta Margaret River. There was an impressive turnout of contestants with 17 BMXers, 16 skaters and 14 scooters.
The opposition in Western Australian is asking Margaret River residents to send it written submissions overlooked by the Keelty investigation into last year's Margaret River blaze. Corrective Services Minister Margaret Quirk said the management of the fire needed to be probed. The move isn't about blame placing but rather to address blunders if blunders were made. "The Margaret River enquiry was very narrow in scope," Quirk said. Around 80 submissions were ignored in the investigation.


At what — electing presidents? Even if one accepts Joshua Spivak's arguments in his Washington Post op-ed, the Electoral College has been much more successful than the framers thought. With only a couple of exceptions, the venerable and uniquely American institution has credibly elected presidents for 230 years.
The electoral college was designed with two purposes: to separate the branches of government in an attempt to avoid "cabals" and to prevent foreign corruption. Some of the Founding Fathers assumed it would almost never actually elect a president. In other words, we could say the electoral college failed to achieve most of what the founders designed it to do.
It was designed to elect presidents based on electors from the states, which has succeeded in every election since its inception. Cabals and foreign influence were certainly concerns, but hardly the only issues in the minds of the framers. The Articles of Confederation failed because of the lack of federal authority, which meant creating an executive. The states still wanted the executive to be chosen by the states rather than by popular election in a manner which gave each state enough influence to have a reasonable say in the choice. The motive was then what it remains today — to keep the most populous states from seizing control of the executive.
The electoral college was not a replacement for direct election — because that possibility never received serious consideration at the convention. (Only two of 11 states voted for a popular election of the president.) As James Madison's notes make clear, there was very little support for a popular election of the president. The original idea in his influential Virginia Plan was that the new bicameral legislature — Congress — would itself gather to elect the executive, and the convention repeatedly returned to that idea.
There's some irony in this admission, given that Spivak is arguing to do precisely what the founders almost all opposed — creating direct popular election of the president. The past election should have made clear why that creates more vulnerability to "foreign influence" than a distributed system of fifty elections does, especially in the age of social media, even if the "foreign influence" this time was relatively minuscule in the overall picture.
That's not what happened, though. George Washington would easily win electoral majorities in 1789 and 1792. But after he left office, the electoral college plan almost immediately began to break down. Instead of multiple candidates running for the presidency as the Founding Fathers had expected, political parties quickly formed and presidential elections seemed to become one-on-one fights. The election of 1800 spelled doom for the original plan, resulting in an electoral college tie between Thomas Jefferson and his presumed running mate, Aaron Burr. The vote went to the House of Representatives (which took 36 ballots to elect Jefferson). The debacle led to the adoption of the 12th Amendment, which changed the vice president from a competitor and runner-up to (in most cases) a subservient running mate.
Emphasis mine. Even in the event of a House vote, the rules stated that the vote would go by state delegations rather than by individual representatives, which excluded a popular vote even in Congress. Had the founders wanted the House to elect presidents, it would have been very simple to set up the Electoral College for that purpose — and the end result would have made it less deferential to public opinion, not more. Plus, it would have left the executive beholden to Congress and its own "cabals," a problem which would have just gotten worse as the years rolled on.
And if the framers were disappointed that the Electoral College had actually succeeded in electing presidents in an undisputed manner, where was the effort to change it? In 1804, the Twelfth Amendment corrected a problem in the original design of presidential elections, forcing the Vice Presidency to be an elective office in itself rather than a presidential runner-up position. If the framers saw the Electoral College as a failure after the election in 1800 in any other respect, they had plenty of opportunity to fix it in that amendment. Instead, they refined and solidified the Electoral College as we know it now. They must have seen it as a success even after the corrosive and partisan Jefferson/Adams election.
We have had 57 presidential elections since the ratification of the Constitution and the Electoral College. Only three of them produced any significant controversy via the Electoral College — in 1876 and then in 2000 and 2016, when the popular votes didn't match the outcome. That, however, was by design as Spivak concedes. The framers didn't want direct elections, and neither did the states. They did, however, design a system which has succeeded in electing an executive in a credible and broadly embraced manner for more than two centuries, in large part because all parts of the country feel engaged in the process. I'd call that a success.
As CBS News pointed out last week, complaints about the Electoral College go back well before Bush v Gore or the collusion illusion. Birch Bayh floated the idea of ending it via a constitutional amendment in 1979, even though it had been a century since the last disputed election at that point. It's the political equivalent of the designated hitter — a point that Americans will love to argue, but which will never get resolved.
Point of order on the National Popular Vote compact, though: it wouldn't eliminate or change the Electoral College. It would just set up an agreement between states as to how to assign their electors, a power the states have always had. And for full disclosure, the NPV project covered my travel expenses last year to go to their media presentation in Hawaii, which did not include any commitment to write about it or to offer any opinion on it.


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Security can be an overlooked aspect of system development; often the need for it is realized during implementation. Avoid scrambling to handle such vulnerabilities by planning security measures during project initiation.
Engineer security during initiation phase to help prevent system vulnerabilities
by ronaldanthonylewis in Security
on October 1, 2002, 12:00 AM PDT
Within the five basic phases of the development life cycle—initiation, development, implementation, maintenance, and decommissioning/disposal—the need for security is often realized during the implementation phase and security measures are added during maintenance. Even so, many other system vulnerabilities end up being fixed as afterthoughts through patches, service packs, or emergency hot fixes.
A well-secured system has security designed during initiation—not during implementation or maintenance—because service packs and patches applied post-implementation can introduce other vulnerabilities, leading to a spiral of patching, fixing, and repatching. The objectives of the initial phase are to define the need for the system, identify its purpose, and craft a system-specific security policy. The security policy is a vital product of this phase because it serves as the underpinning for the system and provides a solid foundation on which to build a trustworthy system.
Ensuring that security measures are included during initiation requires a few extra steps, including defining a security policy, evaluating the type of information to be processed, and identifying the system's sensitivity. For example, architects designing a human resource management system must determine how much of the system's data falls under the constraints of the Privacy Act of 1974. They would also need to ensure compliance is included in the design in addition to applying business rules, such as allowing only upper management to view performance reports. Architects of a banking system would perform the same assessment, but would delineate a completely different set of constraints.
First steps in determining the security requirements
During the initiation phase, the system's purpose is defined; typically, it's expressed with a mission needs statement. You also draft a problem description and eventually build a paper model from the system requirements. System architects also must assess the type of information to be processed, the information's sensitivity, and the system's sensitivity as a whole. It's during this phase that you will need to define the security requirements and express them in the context of a system-specific security policy.
I must emphasize the need for staying focused on the purpose of this preliminary phase. You must exercise caution because there is a tendency to over-define the solutions. The primary purpose of initiation is to nail down the system requirements. The goal of the security engineering effort during this phase is to identify the security requirements and define them in the context of a policy—a system-specific security policy. Sometimes overzealous engineers want to define everything up front, perhaps deciding on a language, database engine, and toolset before fully defining the system's purpose. I often have to fight this tendency in preliminary meetings. For example, a system designer might drill down too deep and determine that you need to create a separate social security table containing a foreign key to the customer table and employ Oracle column permissions so the numbers are well-protected. This level of detail falls well outside the scope of this phase.
It is also important to keep first things first. In the beginning of this phase, define the problem and corresponding security requirements. You can determine the rest—‑the language, tools, and so forth—during the development phase.
Define at the initiation phase and the development phase
The National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) publication Engineering Principles for Information Technology Security (A Baseline for Achieving Security) states that system and security requirements should be derived during the development phase of the life cycle. While I agree that some requirements will be defined in greater detail during the development phase, the basic requirements should be documented during initiation in the security policy.
In the initiation phase, you define the problem at a high level, providing the developer a synoptic view of the system from the customer's perspective. The basic security objectives must be included in this birds-eye view if security is to be a core part of the system design. The security policy should encompass the need for the system and the system's need to be deemed trustworthy. The primary goal of the security policy is to ensure the integrity, confidentiality, assurance, accountability, and availability of the system. A system that cannot be trusted will not be used.
For example, let's say I'm building a very simple application for measuring customer satisfaction for the purpose of increasing customer loyalty. The system centers on customer responses to satisfaction surveys. Part of the ancillary data is the salesperson information, company information, customer contact information, date of purchase, type of purchase, and amount of purchase. The company needs the system to help identify positive and negative trends in the sales arena, allowing management to curb negative trends and increase positive trends. Each salesperson can look at his or her own customer satisfaction rating and the store's satisfaction rating as a whole, but is not allowed to look at any other salesperson's scores. Neither can competing companies view each other's scores; however, all companies can look at the national averages. No one should be able to modify the scores once the customer has committed the results of the survey; for the data mined from the system to be useable, the results must be trustworthy.
After having the customer define the problem and generate a system-needs statement, I asked the customer to help define the security policy. The policy turned out to be fairly straightforward. Remember that the goal of the security policy is to address each of the following:
The confidentiality of the data is addressed in that the sales associates can only view their results and a company average; companies can only view their results and a national average. Integrity is also addressed: No one is allowed to modify the scores. The customer wants the system to be available during normal business hours. Accountability is addressed with all completed surveys being able to be mapped back to a specific customer, along with the time and date they were completed and submitted. Lastly, there must be reasonable assurance that the system's inherent security mechanisms can protect the data entrusted to it. Although this is an abbreviated security policy, it met the objective.
Further considerations
In addition to building a security policy during initiation, I would define interactions with other systems (e.g., external interfaces) and determine whether the interfaces are trusted or not trusted, depending on how they are protected. The example application above is slated for implementation in a closed environment, and has no external interfaces.
The sensitivity of the data must be evaluated as well. For instance, if I store a customer's social security number (which I would avoid doing, in reality), I must consider the constraints dictated by the Privacy Act of 1974. All customer contact and financial information must be protected in accordance with the security policy.
In my example, scores are considered sensitive per the customer's direction—no one can modify scores, and only certain individuals can view them. Mechanisms to preclude unauthorized viewing of scores must be implemented during the next phase. The purpose of this phase is not to design the security solutions, but to determine what is needed.
Although I've oversimplified the security policy for the purposes of this article, you must realize that there are other issues that must be included, such as managing output and defining types of users and roles. Despite these issues, the policy has a clear goal: to describe from a security perspective the five crucial expectations of the system—integrity, confidentiality, accountability, availability, and assurance—and the data it contains.
Having built a foundation for securing the system and completing the objectives of initiation, you can then progress further into the life cycle and begin developing the application.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Bornscheuer (* 2. Mai 1917 in Güttersbach; † 3. Oktober 2015) war ein deutscher Bauingenieur (Baustatik, Stahlbau). Er war Hochschullehrer an der TH Stuttgart.

Biografie
Bornscheuer war der Sohn eines evangelischen Pfarrers, ging in Schotten und Mainz zur Schule, studierte ab 1936 an der TH Darmstadt mit dem Diplom 1939. Sein Lehrer in Stahlbau war Kurt Klöppel, bei dem er 1939 Assistent wurde. September 1940 wurde er zu den Pionieren eingezogen, aber bald darauf wieder wegen einer Augenverletzung (Handgranatensplitter) freigestellt und von Klöppel für die Aufklärung des Einsturzes der Autobahnbrücke über den Rhein bei Frankenthal hinzugezogen. 1941 war er wieder bei den Eisenbahnpionieren in einer Garnison bei Hanau, bevor er 1942 bis 1945 an die Heeresversuchsanstalt Peenemünde in die Raketenentwicklung (Statik von Raketen im Überschallflug) abkommandiert war. Nach dem Krieg arbeitete er kurz im Stahlbrückenbau (Werk Gustavsburg von MAN, Bau der Behelfsbrücke über den Rhein bei Worms) und wurde 1946 in Darmstadt promoviert, mit einer Dissertation (Beitrag zur Berechnung ebener, gleichmäßig gedrückter Rechteckplatten, versteift durch eine Längssteife) die er schon 1943 begonnen hatte. 1946 bis 1949 arbeitete er wieder in der Raketenentwicklung, diesmal in Frankreich (ein Angebot von Wernher von Braun mit anderen Raketenspezialisten 1945 in die USA zu gehen hatte er aus familiären Gründen abgelehnt). Danach arbeitete er neun Jahre im Rohrleitungs-, Behälter- und Apparatebau.

Er wurde 1958 Professor an der Universität Stuttgart (früher TH Stuttgart), an der er 1968 bis 1983 das Institut für Baustatik leitete. Er löste in der Lehre 1958 (auch auf Anregung von Fritz Leonhardt, der gleichzeitig in Stuttgart Professor wurde und mit Bornscheuer eng zusammenarbeitete) die bis dahin dort übliche Unterteilung der Statik in der Lehre nach verwendetem Material (Stahl, Beton) ab. Er war für seine Fähigkeiten als Lehrer bekannt und bildete eine eigene Statikerschule in Stuttgart. Nach der Emeritierung arbeitete er weiter als Prüfingenieur und Tragwerksplaner im Ingenieurbüro seines Sohnes Bernd-Friedrich Bornscheuer.

Bornscheuer sah sich als Praktiker und Stahlbauer. Er leistete Beiträge zur Mechanik der Stabtragwerke (Einschluss der Wölbkrafttorsion), wobei er einer alten Forderung von August Föppl nachkam, Torsionskonstanten in die Tafelwerke für Querschnitte des Stahlbaus aufzunehmen, was auch in die entsprechenden DIN-Standards einfloss, und befasste sich intensiv  mit dem Schalenbeulen, was sich in der DIN 18800 (Teil 4) niederschlug.

Mit Fritz Leonhardt und Volker Hahn (von der Baufirma Züblin) gründete er 1961 das Recheninstitut für das Bauwesen (RIB) in Stuttgart (heute RIB Software AG). Die Initiative ging von Hahn aus, der mit Leonhardt sprach und Leonhardt schlug vor den Statikprofessor in Stuttgart Bornscheuer einzubeziehen.

Wolfhardt Andrä von Leonhardt, Andrä und Partner war 1963 sein erster Doktorand und dessen Sohn Hans-Peter Andrä 1982 sein letzter.

Schriften (Auswahl)
 Baustatik, in: Viat Review of German Science 1939–1946. Applied Mathematics 2, Wiesbaden: Diederichsche Verlagsbuchhandlung 1948, S. 13–52
 Systematische Darstellung des Biege- und Verdrehvorgangs unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Wölbkrafttorsion, Der Stahlbau, Band 21, 1952, S. 1–9
 Beispiel- und Formelsammlung zur Spannungsberechnung dünnwandiger Stäbe mit wölbbehindertem Querschnitt, Band 21, 1952, S. 225–232, Band 22, S. 32–44
 Tafeln der Torsionskenngrößen für die Walzprofile der DIN 1025–1027, Der Stahlbau, Band 30, 1961, S. 81–82

Literatur
 Ekkehard Ramm, Manfred Bischoff: Friedrich Wilhelm Bornscheuer gestorben, Stahlbau, Band 84, 2016, S. 75
 Ekkehard Ramm: F. W. Bornscheuer 75 Jahre, Beton- und Stahlbetonbau, Band 97, Mai 2012, A 17–18
 Stahlbau, Band 76, 1977 (zum 60. Geburtstag)
 Bauingenieur, Band 52, 1977 (zum 60. Geburtstag)
 Klaus Stiglat: Bauingenieure und ihr Werk, Ernst & Sohn 2004
 Karl-Eugen Kurrer: The History of the Theory of Structures, Ernst & Sohn, 2008

Weblinks
 Seite an der Universität Stuttgart
 Seite an der Universität Stuttgart zu seinem 90. Geburtstag
 Structurae

Einzelnachweise

Bauingenieur
Hochschullehrer (Universität Stuttgart)
Deutscher
Geboren 1917
Gestorben 2015
Mann

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Retief Goosen was about ready to give up. His lower back was in so much pain that he decided to withdraw next week from Bay Hill so he could get treatment. A double bogey late in his round knocked him nine spots down the leaderboard, which he figured was the end of his hopes to get into the Masters.
One day later, everything changed. Retief decided Friday to pull out of Bay Hill and arranged for a protein injection in Virginia on Wednesday. Suddenly, he is able to play and the final round is packed with significance.
WOW..it bothers me just to type this..an injection??? How about FIXING the problem!


"I wanted to develop a collection inspired by the cities and places where I was spending a lot of time last year. Weeks were spent either navigating urban jungles or just getting dusty and staring at stars. There was such a great contrast between LA, NYC and Joshua Tree. And I think the spirit of those places are represented here in the textures, materials and colors of the line."


I get to meet this pretty lady in May (She Recovers in NYC, people--yaaas!) and share the love at her wedding in June. I'm so, so, SO, stoked. We've been friends (online) for over a year and a half now, which seems nuts when I think about it. If you're not familiar with Helaina yet, get ready to dive into the life and works of one of the most accomplished sober twenty-somethings in the world. Seriously.
Then: Weed and definitely mostly alcohol. Now: Cookies at 2am when I can't sleep.
Oh boy....a nutshell? Let's hope it's a Walnut and not a Peanut, more wiggle room....I was 22, a social drinker with a few years under my belt, high-functioning, and in therapy for PTSD and anxiety when it occurred to me that I was jogging around the finish line when it came to making a full recovery. It was only once I entered 12-step recovery that I was able to start to really become the person I always wanted to be, living a life that felt fulfilling, calm, and full of healthy people and relationships.
Speaking to and being of service to other women in recovery both in personal relationships and through my writing.
Being mindful of HALT/ strong self-care.
Remembering that everything is meant to be as it is at any given moment, even if I don't like it!


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Mayumi Oda's internationally-recognized artwork plays with traditional Japanese and Buddhist images, refiguring them as celebrations of the feminine and the natural world. Where most traditional Buddhist iconography features male figures, Oda introduces female "Goddesses" that seem to jump off the page, imbued with the vibrancy of Oda's color and line.
Originally from Japan, Oda settled in Muir Beach, California in the 1970s and began practicing and painting at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, which Oda calls her "California Buddha Field." Divine Gardens pairs Oda's artwork with essays by her fellow practitioners, for whom Oda's artwork has been a constant companion.
Suitable for study by art students or for display on a coffee table, Divine Gardens captures the essence of Mayumi Oda's art and life as a Zen practitioner. The forty-five full-color works of art and twenty-four essays contained in the collection are a joyful celebration of her work and the community forged through the years at the San Francisco Zen Center.
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[19:00:10] ERIN BURNETT, CNN ANCHOR: OUTFRONT next, the breaking news. Donald Trump speaking live this hour in the crucial state of Nevada as new details emerged about Trump's debate strategy. Is he running out of time?
Plus, Donald Trump claimed nearly a billion dollars of losses in a year? But did it stop him from living a lavish lifestyle? Our special report.
And Bill Clinton in damage control mode after calling ObamaCare the crazy system. Is he doing his wife more harm than good? Let's go OUTFRONT.
And good evening, I'm Erin Burnett. OUTFRONT tonight the breaking news. It is down to the wire. Donald Trump at this hour rallying supporters in the crucial swing state of Nevada. There are less than five weeks until voting and the slew of national and state polls showing Trump trailing Hillary Clinton. Can he turn it around just days ahead of the next debate? Trump today celebrating running-mate Mike Pence's well-received performance at the VP debate and basking in some reflected glory.
DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: I'd argue that Mike had the single most decisive victory in the history of vice presidential debates. I believe that too. And last night America also got to look firsthand at my judgment.
BURNETT: Now, the next all important presidential debate is just four days away. This time it will be a town hall debate. Half of the questions coming from people in the audience, just citizens of this country. Will Trump take a lesson from Pence and prep more, study more ahead of the face-off? Tomorrow, trump attends the town hall meeting in New Hampshire which is being built as the dry run for Sunday.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is helping Trump prepare. It was a format that the New Jersey Governor did again and again and again in the state of New Hampshire. Hillary Clinton is off the campaign trail huddling with advisors prepping for the debate. Jim Acosta is OUTFRONT tonight at the Trump rally in Reno. And Jim,
obviously the pressure is now on Trump. He got the assist from Mike Pence. The pressure is now all on Donald Trump and Sunday night.
JIM ACOSTA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Absolutely, Erin. Mike Pence did so well last night at that vice presidential debate, he was generating talk of Mike Pence in 2020. That is not the effect that the Trump campaign intended. And Mike Pence spent part of the day trying to tamp that down. But it certainly puts pressure on Donald Trump to outdo his number two.
ACOSTA (voice-over): Donald Trump is taking a victory lap. Declaring the bottom of his ticket came out on top in the vice presidential debate.
TRUMP: Mike Pence did an incredible job. And I'm getting a lot of credit. Because that is really my first so called choice. I'd argue that Mike had the single most decisive victor in the history of vice presidential debates.
ELAINE QUIJANO, DEBATE MODERATOR: Gentlemen, the people at home cannot understand either one of you.
ACOSTA: But in the rumble of the running mates, Mike Pence was at times sprinting as fast as he could away from Trump as Tim Kaine was in hot pursuit.
GOV. MIKE PENCE (R), VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: I'm happy to defend him. Most of what you said is completely false and the American people know that.
ACOSTA: While the Indiana Governor state cool deflecting most of Kaine's attacks, Democrats are seizing on Pence's defense of Trump's past comment that some undocumented Mexican immigrants are rapists and criminals as a defining moments.
PENCE: Look, he whipped out that Mexican thing again. He, look --
TIM KAINE (D), VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: Can you defend that?
PENCE: There are criminal aliens in this country. And he also said many of them are good people. You keep leaving that out of your quote.
ACOSTA: During the debate, Pence was talking tough on Putin insisting a President Trump would stir down the Russian leader in Syria. That is despite reservations voiced by Trump himself.
TRUMP: I would have stayed out of Syria.
PENCE: If Russia chooses to be involved and continue, I should say to be involved, in this barbaric attack on civilians in Aleppo, the United States of America should be prepared to use military force.
ACOSTA: Still. Post-debate polls show the Reganesque performance carried the night. The Indiana governor shrugged off the likelihood that Trump didn't pay federal income taxes for nearly two decades.
KAINE: He stood on the stage last week. And when Hillary said you haven't been paying taxes, he said, that makes me smart. So it is smart not to pay for our military. It's smart not pay for veterans.
PENCE: Senator, do you taken all the deductions that you are entitled too?
ACOSTA: But after the debate, when Trump's son Eric was asked by Dana Bash whether his father had in fact paid any federal income taxes over the last 20 years, his answer hardly put the matter to rest.
ERIC TRUMP, SON OF DONALD TRUMP: Of course. Yes absolutely. My father paid a tremendous amount of tax. We as a company pay a tremendous amount of tax.
ACOSTA: Now, unlike the last debate. Donald Trump's top advisors are actually talking up his chances for this upcoming face-off with Hillary Clinton. Campaign Manager Kellyanne Conway is saying that the town hall format coming up on Sunday is tailor made for Donald Trump and she's pushing back on any notion that Trump is taking on a lighter schedule. Heading into Sunday, Erin as Kellyanne Conway told me earlier today, that is what Hillary Clinton is doing -- Erin.
[19:05:09] BURNETT: All right. Thank you very much, Jim Acosta. And now, Jason Carroll, he is OUTFRONT in Henderson, Nevada. That is where Trump spoke this afternoon. So really, tripling down on this must win state. And Jason, now we're 24 hours away from a town hall. Trump's practice run for Sunday night's debate.
ACOSTA: Right. In sun down New Hampshire, this is where it's going to take place, the same place where Chris Christie held his town hall during the primary season last year. Look, as you say, this is going to be a dry run for Donald Trump. There was a lot of criticism that he did not prepare as well as he should have for the last debate. Clearly the camp does not want to see this happen this go around. Part of the reason they are holding this town hall, where he can sharpen his skills, get more familiar with the format.
Also, there is a question though going forward, Erin, will Donald Trump learn from some of the things that Pence arguably did well during his debate? He did not take the bait when he was challenged on some of those controversial things that Donald Trump has said about Mexican-Americans or women or Muslims. He didn't interrupt as much as well as we saw Donald Trump do during his debate with Clinton. So going forward, yes he's getting this practice but will he learn from some of things that Pence did well during his debate? That is a question that remains to be seen -- Erin.
BURNETT: All right. Jason, thank you very much. Interrupting obvious seems to matter very much. Tim Kaine tonight admitting his own wife had criticized him for interrupting too much last night.
OUTFRONT now. Manu Raju, our senior political reporter. Philip Bump, a Washington Post political reporter. Dana Bash, our chief political correspondent. And Mark Preston, our executive editor for Politics.
So, Dana, Pence won, that is what our poll says. He prepared. He was substantive. He didn't take the bait. Is Trump now going to follow Mike Pence's lead and do serious debate prep? He has just days left and he's got to turn it around.
DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: No. I mean, that is the simple, honest answer that I'm getting from sources who are familiar with Trump's preparation. His style and how he likes to prepare. Which is not a whole lot. The very fact that he is going to New Hampshire tomorrow. He wants to stay on the campaign trail. But, here is the "but." They did as Jason mentioned, convince Donald Trump that he does have to get familiar in some way, shape or form with the classic town hall format.
Again it is not just about taking questions from voters, undecided voters. He hasn't actually done as much of that as a Chris Christie or a John McCain did back in the day. People who spent a lot of time in states like New Hampshire where that is expected of them.
BURNETT: Yes.
BASH: But he still needs to have some basic skills about what do when a voter asks a question, do you stand up? Do you walk towards them? Do you address them by name? How do you show that empathy factor that Bill Clinton first did so well during the presidential town hall debate? That is the kind of thing that they have convinced Donald Trump that he needs to do. Which is why he's going to do that tomorrow night. So, preparation Mike Pence did? Not even close.
BURNETT: Not even close. Philip, I mean, so we're talking about the town hall? That's it.
PHILIP BUMP, POLITICAL REPORTER, THE WASHINGTON POST: Right.
BURNETT: That's it?
BUMP: Right. Yes, I mean, I think the point is well taken that this is a format where Donald Trump should do better. It is more casual. It's more informal. He likes having a rapport, one on one with folks in a way --
BURNETT: Right.
BUMP: -- that didn't come through in that first debate.
BUMP: I think it is interesting to think of this like 2012. Mitt Romney beat Barack Obama soundly in the first debate.
BURNETT: Uh-hm. BUMP: And then the second debate was a town hall that meant Obama was more casual and more comfortable. Played to his strengths. Right. Donald Trump is not a Barack Obama type politician for a lot of reasons. And I think that he will be challenged in a way to, you know, follow-up on policy and so on and so forth but it is going to be harder for Hillary Clinton goad him there as well which is one of the main reasons --
BURNETT: You know, Manu, I'm remembering, I had hosted some town halls with Donald Trump on the business side and he did like to interact with people. He let people come in and touch his hair at times. I mean, I don't know if you'd seen anything like that.
But I am simply saying, I know he hasn't done a lot on the campaign trail, but I have been with him in that format and he did like to be with people.
MANU RAJU, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL REPORTER: This format suddenly lends itself to that. But it also lends itself to him answering very difficult questions off the cuff which we know sometimes is not Donald Trump's strength. But I would be surprised he does not take some serious lessons from not just how Mike Pence did but just the fact that he lost that first debate and he was criticized relentlessly about his tone and the way he interrupted Hillary Clinton.
I look at the way Donald Trump handled the primary debates and as instructive in this. Remember that South Carolina primary debate, Donald Trump was really a loose cannon in that debate. Attacking all his opponents. I think George W. Bush was responsible for 9/11. Then after that. The next debate. The Florida debate. He was very reserved. Muted.
BURNETT: He was completely different.
RAJU: Completely different Donald Trump. So, I would be surprised if he doesn't learn a little bit from, not just Mike Pence's performance but his own performance.
[19:10:06] BURNETT: Now, Mark, Pence did seem to try to reinvent Trump last night on some level. Here is some of what Mike Pence said last night versus what Trump has actually said.
KAINE: Let's start with not praising Vladimir Putin as a great leader. Donald Trump and Mike Pence have said, he's a great leader. And Donald Trump --
PENCE: No, we haven't.
TRUMP: He's running this country. And at least he's a leader. You know, unlike what we have in this country.
PENCE: I think it is inarguable that Vladimir Putin has been a stronger leader in his country than Barack Obama has been in this country.
KAINE: Donald Trump believes in deportation.
TRUMP: You are going to have to deportation force and you are going to do it humanely.
KAINE: No nation should get nuclear weapons.
PENCE: Well he never said that Senator.
TRUMP: At some point we have to say, you know what? We're better off if Japan protects itself against this maniac in North Korea.
BURNETT: Does that juxtaposition matter, Mark?
MARK PRESTON, CNN POLITICS EXECUTIVE EDITOR: Well, facts are certainly stubborn, Erin. You know, the reason why Mike Pence was able to get away with that in real time last night is because his opponent Tim Kaine was so aggressive that he really sucked up a lot of oxygen in the air. When I say the oxygen, kind of the bad oxygen. You know, Mike Pence came across in a very calm, collected manner. Even though he wasn't necessarily answering that in the, you know, truthfulness way that he possibly could.
Heading into this though, just very quickly Erin, heading into this town hall, Donald Trump cannot come in red hot. He is going to have an audience of 50 or so people in there. They will not be interacting with him other than asking the questions. These are not these big rallies.
PRESTON: But this is something where Donald Trump is going to have to actually answer the question. And guess what, they can go right back Erin and ask him to fulfill their answer if they don't think they got it.
BURNETT: Hmm. That could be very interesting. All right. All of you staying with me.
Next, Bill Clinton is trying to damage control. He came out in great detail, called ObamaCare the craziest thing and he laid out why. Is he a liability or an asset?
Plus, this is Hurricane Matthew as seen from space. Pretty incredible picture. A deadly storm right now headed right to Florida, millions of Americans in its path could have one of the biggest evacuation in American history. We're going to go there live to the ground.
And what was Donald Trump's life like? When he lost the billion dollars, what was he living like? Well, we're going to show you and it is pretty stupendous.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK) [19:15:53] BURNETT: Breaking news. Live pictures, as you can see. Donald Trump going to be taking the stage there at that rally in Nevada. We know he is going to be talking specifically about Bill Clinton who called ObamaCare the craziest thing in the world yesterday. Trump tweeted moments ago, quote, "Bill Clinton is right. ObamaCare is crazy, it doesn't work and doesn't make sense." By the way those are in all quote. Those are things Bill Clinton did say. "Thanks Bill for telling the truth." That is the end of Bill's tweet. The former president tried earlier today to walk his comments back. But can you, when you were in such detail?
Brianna Keilar is OUTFRONT.
BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Hillary Clinton off the trail fundraising and prepping for her second debate showdown with Donald Trump on Sunday but her big name surrogates are out in force. One time rival Bernie Sanders imploring voters to look past Clinton's unfavorable ratings on Election Day.
SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (R), FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Politics is not about personality. Now I know, if you watch TV and watch national media, they think their politics is like dancing with the stars.
You know, it's like the Super Bowl. The World Series. It is not. It is not entertainment. What politics is about in a Democratic society, it must be about. Is which candidate will have a positive impact on your lives.
KEILAR: Sanders is trying to rally young voters to support Clinton in Iowa where early voting is already under way and Clinton has been trailing Trump in the polls.
CHELSEA CLINTON, DAUGHTER OF HILLARY CLINTON: We don't want anyone to sit out and stay home.
KEILAR: Chelsea Clinton also in the Hawkeye State but her dad is in hot water after saying this about ObamaCare.
BILL CLINTON (D), 42ND PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: All of a sudden 25 million more people had healthcare and then the people are out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half. It is the craziest thing in the world.
KEILAR: Today in Ohio, Bill Clinton tried to walk it back.
BILL CLINTON: There are problems with it. And everybody knows it. The Republicans want to repeal the law. Their idea of solving the problem is to take 20 million people who got insurance and take it away from them. Give it all back to insurance companies again. Hillary's idea is recognize what the problem is.
KEILAR: Donald Trump is seizing on the assessment of President Obama's signature domestic achievement.
TRUMP: Bill Clinton torched President Obama's signature legislation. Remember Hillary Clinton called ObamaCare one of the greatest accomplishments. But Bill had different view. He said it is just a crazy system.
KEILAR: Campaign Manager Kellyanne Conway making it clear ObamaCare will come up at the next debate.
KELLYANNE CONWAY, TRUMP CAMPAIGN MANAGER: I think it is a huge issue that's been left on the table in these debates. We've got now President Bill Clinton as our best surrogate. And thinking of having him in the spin room with us in St. Louis.
KEILAR: In the final five weeks before Election Day, the Clinton campaign has all of her big name surrogates out on the trail. You have President Obama who is supposed to be in Miami today, Erin for Secretary Clinton but that's an event that was postponed due to Hurricane Matthew. He's now scheduled to hit the trail next week in North Carolina and Ohio. And former Vice President Al Gore being added to the list, he is also going to be on the campaign trail very soon -- Erin.
BURNETT: All right. Brianna, thank you. And now Hillary Clinton supporter Karine Jean Pierre and Donald Trump supporter Jeffrey Lord join Manu and Phil who are both back with me.
Karine, look, this was not just a casual comment from Bill Clinton as you could see from the sound bite that Brianna included in her piece. He went into detail. Premiums double. Benefits cut in half. So, people who are working hard with 25 million people, the implication was essentially just jump on to the back of the system. Does he really think he can unsay what he said? He's calling this a clarification. But that was clearly what he thought yesterday.
KARINE JEAN PIERRE, HILLARY CLINTON SUPPORTER: Yes. But look, I don't think there's -- I honestly don't think there's a damager here that was done. What Bill Clinton said is that there are some people out there who are paying high insurance premium and that is a problem. Obama believes that. The President believes that. Hillary Clinton believes that. What this is turning into is the Republicans are seizing this moment, this narrative, right, to try to turn this into a discord between Obama and the Clintons which just doesn't exist. It's not what's happening here.
Bill Clinton has always been on the same message as Hillary Clinton. He has said. They have both said, ObamaCare is good but it could be better and now his words are being parsed out to be much worse than it actually is.
BURNETT: She has of course said this is a great achievement for Democrats going back to the days of Harry Truman. Staunch supporter of ObamaCare.
JEFFREY LORD, DONALD TRUMP SUPPORTER: Right.
BURNETT: That is not what a staunch supporter of ObamaCare would say.
LORD: No.
BURNETT: That is not how you would say.
[19:20:38] LORD: No. And the political point of this which I think is a serious one. I get stopped, you know, because of CNN in the grocery store. And some guy stopped me whom I don't know. And what was he upset about. He was upset about ObamaCare. He went on chapter and verse. He had a stroke, he recovered from the stroke, he had to deal with ObamaCare. He was really angry. And then included by saying, pointed finger, that is why I'm voting for Donald Trump.
So when you hear Bill Clinton say this, I can only tell you that there are people out there, regular folks, saying yes, exactly and I've had to deal with it.
BURNETT: I mean, and Manu, here is the question though. It is something that President Obama has said. This is going to be his legacy. This maybe his biggest legacy. Sure, he thinks it needs tweaks, not exactly what he wanted but this is his legacy. Hillary Clinton has said he's a staunch supporter. How much does it hurt that Bill Clinton came out and said, essentially it's spilling and it's the craziest thing in the world.
RAJU: I can tell you, Democrats in Washington and the White House are not happy about this.
BURNETT: Well, I'm sure.
RAJU: Yesterday at the White House briefing, our colleague Michelle Kosinski asked Josh Earnest, do you wish he used different words than calling it the craziest thing in the world and they said of course, that was Josh Earnest on the record --
BURNETT: Right. Admitting that.
RAJU: Admitting that.
BURNETT: Ordinarily they would not directly admit that.
RAJU: Absolutely.
RAJU: And that is the double edged sword of Bill Clinton. I mean, he's one of the most naturally gifted politicians there is out there but he's also can say things that put his wife in a very difficult spot. Raises a lot of questions what he would be like as a first spouse. And it also shows why the Clinton campaign has been careful at how to utilize Bill Clinton in this campaign. While he's been doing rallies, he's been doing interviews and not getting into the situations that he could get into political trouble.
BURNETT: Right. That was his own choice that he made that decision.
Philip, but you know, this is not just about ObamaCare. OK. You have President Obama and Michelle Obama certainly in her case, the most popular surrogate for Hillary Clinton. Barack Obama has said this election is about cementing his legacy. OK? Hillary Clinton has said, she's going to continue that legacy. And yet Bill Clinton has said some pretty frankly things that Republicans would love about Barack Obama. Here he is.
CLINTON: Keep in mind unlike when I became president, a lot of things are coming apart around the world now. A lot of people say, oh well. You have to understand. It is different now. It is rigged. Yes, it is rigged. Because you don't have a president who is a change maker who Congress will work them. If we believe we finally come to the point where we can put the awful legacy of the last eight years behind us and the seven years before that when we were practices trickledown economics and no regulations in Washington which is what caused the crash, then you should vote for her.
BUMP: You know, I mean, I think Bill Clinton was president of the United States. Right? He spent eight years of people saying you are the president of the United States. And like he clearly thinks the best president of the United States that ever was, was Bill Clinton. Right? And so, that informs on how he looks at things. Yes, ObamaCare is not perfect and he just sort of goes off and starts talking about, you know, I mean I think that it is very easy to look at the flip side of what he said and say, well, yes, there also those 25 million people who got health coverage which I think is probably where we'll see this conversation evolve.
Yes. I mean, Bill Clinton's focus here as it has been for some time is, I'm talking about how Bill Clinton was this great president. I'm sure he wishes Hillary Clinton would talk more about his legacy. I'm sure he's very disappointed about all the topics about the crime bill that keep coming out, about all the things now seen as failures as a politics of change. But, you know, I think this is very easily explain through psychology and that's --
RAJU: -- intention from that 2008 primary --
BURNETT: That is use of the word legacy. I mean, legacy obviously is such a crucial word for our next president.
OK. Thanks to all. And next, Donald Trump claiming nearly a billion dollars in losses but at the time how was he living? Here is what he was telling the world?
TRUMP: Trump is definitely back. Much to the chagrin of some people. (END VIDEO CLIP)
BURNETT: And Trump today reaching out to voters in Nevada. Specifically Latino voters. Not all of them oppose the wall.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I would electrify it on the top. I would put centrics on the ground to see if anybody can --
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You will electrify the wall?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The top of it so people wouldn't go over.
[19:28:53] BURNETT: Donald Trump under fire for his taxes tonight. His son Eric coming into his defense speaking to our Dana Bash.
BASH: Has he paid federal income taxes over the last 18 years. Yes or no?
E. TRUMP: Yes. Of course. Absolutely.
BASH: Have you seen your father's income taxes?
E. TRUMP: Yes, I don't study the tax returns.
BASH: No. How about have you seen them? I mean --
E. TRUMP: Of course, you see tax returns.
BASH: No. Have you seen your father's tax returns --
E. TRUMP: I'm answering the question. Of course I've seen my father's tax returns.
BURNETT: Now questions about Trump's taxes of course have been swirling since The New York Times reported that he declared a $915 million loss in 1995. But that did not stop him from living big and lavishly, frankly.
Jessica Schneider OUTFRONT.
JESSICA SCHNEIDER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): To hear Donald Trump tell it, his business was back and better than ever at the end of 1994.
TRUMP: I think it's the best year I ever had. Yes. Trump is definitely back.
SCHNEIDER: Trump invited cameras to get a glimpse of his revamped Mar-A-Lago resort in this December 1994 interview. But only a year later, he declared a $916 million loss for reasons unknown on his 1995 state tax returns. Documents revealed by the New York Times, the loss may have allowed Trump to legally skip paying federal income taxes, for years. But despite that nearly billion dollar loss that could have been accumulated over years, including 1994 the year Trump claimed was better than ever, the real estate mogul was still in a buying mood.
TRUMP: I could have billions of dollars in debt but I also had billions of dollars in assets.
SCHNEIDER: At Mar-A-Lago, Trump's Florida estate, he paid nearly $2 million at the end of 1993 to buy an adjacent home to his empire, according to "The Palm Beach Post". We searched public records and found more than 2,000 miles away in Colorado, deeds from San Miguel County show Trump purchased three lots near Telluride for $1.1 million in March 1994.
Attorney Alan Pomerantz led the negotiations between Trump and more than 70 banks in the early '90s, when Trump was on a brink of personal bankruptcy, and he says Trump has a penchant for purchases.
(on camera): How would you describe his spending habits?
ALAN POMERANTZ, REAL ESTATE ATTORNEY: Lavish.
SCHNEIDER: Pomerantz says in the beginning of 1990, Trump owed a combined $4 billion to dozen of banks and about $800 million was personally guaranteed from his own assets.
It was a grim reality Trump laughed off a few years later in 1994.
TRUMP: I was walking down 5th Avenue and I said to Marla, do you see that man over there? And it was a man who was a beggar in front of Tiffany. I said, he's worth $900 million more than me.
SCHNEIDER: Trump's admittedly dire financial straits didn't stop the Trump organization from securing a $4 million mortgage for a Bedford, New York estate in Westchester at the end of 1995. Or from getting a $10 million loan to purchase 40 Wall Street in Lower Manhattan in 1996, according to New York City Public Records.
Real estate investment expert David Eisenberg said Trump's reported loss on his tax returns didn't stymie his spending power.
DAVID EYZENBERG, NYU REAL ESTATE FINANCE PROFESSOR: Tax losses sometimes have noting to do with cash flow, and he was living the lifestyle that he was accustomed to.
ERIN BURNETT, CNN ANCHOR: I mean, living a lifestyle he was accustomed to and doing it through more debt. SCHNEIDER: Exactly. You know, Donald Trump has repeatedly declared
that he is the king of debt. This summer, he tweeted about it, saying that he made a fortune off of his debt, that debt made him a great businessman. But in the same tweets, saying that he would actually fix the debt of this nation. So, we'll see.
BURNETT: Certainly a man who's built his fortune on debt and leverage and getting rid -- all right. Thank you so much. Pretty incredible to see that.
Well, Trump's loss seems huge, right? When you talk about a billion dollars. But where does it really rank? Like what are the facts? It sounds big, is it?
Well, Tom Foreman joins me now. He has put this number into perspective, which is the crucial perspective we need, Tom.
So, how unusual is it, $916 million?
TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It's pretty unusual. Hard to imagine anyone surviving that kind of loss and moving forward. In fact, an expert with the Tax Foundation told "The Wall Street Journal" this represented almost 2 percent of all the net operating losses for businesses that year in 1995 in the United States.
Another way of looking at it, you would have to gather together more than 9,000 other average businesses and put all of their losses together to equal how much Trump lost that year.
So, how did he survive this? Well, one of the things maybe that there are unique laws that play to real estate people that don't apply to everybody else and that may have played a role here. These deductions that real estate professionals are written into the tax code.
Among the things that these tax code provision provide is the ability for people to function a little bit as an individual and as a company simultaneously in terms of their tax liability. And it allows them to use their real estate losses to offset their income. And we don't know if that's what Trump did here, but all of that was available to him. And these laws were actually put into place in the 1980s, Erin, to keep real estate people from being unfairly tax and suffering too much from market fluctuations. But what's happened to Trump and others like him is why some tax reform people think it needs to be reformed again.
BURNETT: Right. Of course, they say, you have to invest in real estate. You need years and years of investing. You want people to do it, do good times and bad. That's the argument for it. Obviously, it needs reform.
But beyond the real estate situation, how widespread is it, Tom? The practice of avoiding taxes, perfectly legally by big corporations? Do people -- do companies do what Trump did?
FOREMAN: Well, it certainly looks like a lot of them do. A new report out this week from a couple of progressive groups out there that said that if you look at the Fortune 500 companies, 70 percent of them use offshore tax havens, for example. And in those tax havens, they have put $2.2 trillion in profits beyond the reach of Uncle Sam. Now, how much does that amount to? Well, their argument is, if you could somehow claw this all back.
Now, remember, these are liberal groups that promote that agenda. But if you could bring it all back here, they say it would automatically at a 6 percent rate put $718 billion extra dollars into the federal bank account -- Erin.
BURNETT: It is pretty stunning when you think about it. And that, of course, is something Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have said needs serious reform, which is pretty stunning when you think about it.
Now, of course, it's pretty something when you think about it.
[19:35:01] And that, of course, is something both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have said need serious reform, which is companies parking all that money overseas.
Thank you, Tom Forearm.
And Dana Bash and Mark Preston are back with me now.
And, Dana, you know, this whole issue, you know, Donald Trump living so lavishly. It's hard to comprehend, but he was able to do it. It's sort of once you get rich enough, it seems people assume you'll eventually get back on your feet.
You asked Eric Trump directly whether his father pays federal taxes, he said yes. But obviously, there is still no proof. Is there any chance those returns come out?
DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: I think it's very slim. Very slim that the returns come out.
They have gotten this far and it is hard to imagine anything beyond what we've seen even over the weekend with the reporting from "The New York Times" on that huge almost billion loss. The fact that he still hasn't done it, I don't see it changing.
The one thing I do find fascinating is the politics of this all, how the Clinton campaign is trying to use this not so much as the see, he doesn't really get business, because people do sort of see Donald Trump as a lavish guy and they know that he had ups and downs. He wrote a book called "The Art of the Comeback".
BASH: But more of a patriotic issue. That how can somebody who wants to be president not pay taxes to support the military, infrastructure -- things that he's now saying are important and lacking.
BURNETT: And, of course, Mark, to that point that Dana is making, Trump has touted his use of the tax laws. He says this is what someone who's really smart and who knows how the system works would do. Here's what he said.
TRUMP: I have legally used the tax laws to my benefit, and to the benefit of my company, my investors and my employees. I have brilliantly used those laws.
BURNETT: I have brilliant used those laws, Mark, he said. The lawyer who signed off on that particular tax returns says, no, he was the one that did the work and figured out how do it.
Does this -- does this undermine Trump or just simply prove that he indeed can find smart, clever people to put in the right position?
MARK PRESTON, CNN POLITICS EXECUTIVE EDITOR: Well, let me keep this short. It should undermine. It should be devastating. It would kill any other politician at this point. It is not sticking to Donald Trump.
Look, I think his supporters, Erin, are looking at him and they see hope in him. They say, look, if he can do it, I can do it. They like the idea of him being the comeback kid, so to speak, and Donald Trump can simply say, oh, I have used the tax system to my benefit, but now, I work for you. That is the new line. We'll see if it continues.
But right now, the lack of release of his tax records hasn't hurt him.
BURNETT: Yes. All right. Thank you both very much.
And next, the breaking news, a massive hurricane right now heading to Florida. Massive flooding, death across the Caribbean. Our report coming up.
And outrage among some Latino voters after this remark last night.
GOV. MIKE PENCE (R), VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: Senator, you have whipped out that Mexican thing again.
[19:41:53] BURNETT: Breaking news, Donald Trump on the stump at this hour in Nevada, trying to win over Latinos, a group that makes about 20 percent of the voters in that must-win state. This after this exchange between Tim Kaine and Mike Pence.
SEN. TIM KAINE (D), VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: When Donald Trump says women should be punished or Mexicans are rapist or criminals, or Johnny McCain is not a hero, he's showing you who he is. PENCE: Senator, you whipped out that Mexican thing again.
BURNETT: Kyung Lah is OUTFRONT with tonight's number.
KYUNG LAH, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The battleground state of Nevada -- emphasis on battle.
The guy in the red Trump shirt --
JOHN ELIZONDO, DONALD TRUMP SUPPORTER: Don't forget to vote.
LAH: -- is John Elizondo.
ELIZONDO: Don't forget to vote. Don't forget to vote. Don't forget to vote.
LAH: Proud Latino for Trump.
(on camera): Do you think that Latinos in Nevada are even considering Trump?
ELIZONDO: Absolutely. Absolutely.
LAH: But the great majority are going Democrat.
ELIZONDO: We'll find out. I don't think so. I don't feel that way.
LAH (voice-over): The limo driver believes it's a mistake to think Latinos who make up approximately 20 percent of all voters in Nevada are a uniform voting bloc.
ELIZONDO: Time to wipe the crap out of Washington with Trump.
You know what toilet paper does, huh?
LAH (on camera): Certainly.
ELIZONDO: It wipes the crap from your hoo-ha! So I tell people there is a lot of crap in Washington.
LAH (voice-over): Trump's tough talk is why even though Elizondo's mother and grandparents immigrated from Mexico, his grandparents illegally, he backs Trump's immigration policy like the wall.
ELIZONDO: I would electrify it on the top. I'll put sensors in the ground to see if anybody digging through --
LAH (on camera): You'll electrify the wall?
ELIZONDO: The top of it, so people wouldn't go over it. Yes, I would. I think more of the Latinos are asking questions, especially now. LAH (voice-over): Refrigeration technician Jehovanny Molina, an
immigrant from Guatemala, has plenty of questions. An evangelical Christian, the married father of three is looking for a higher power for an answer before November.
(on camera): Who are you going to vote for?
JEHOVANNY MOLINA, UNDECIDED VOTER: I'm not sure yet.
LAH: Why would you vote for Donald Trump?
MOLINA: I don't see myself voting for him.
LAH (voice-over): Molina's biggest problem with Trump, like many Hispanic voters, is his stance on immigration.
TRUMP: They are bringing drugs. They are bringing crime. They are rapists.
LAH (on camera): Then wouldn't you vote for Hillary Clinton?
MOLINA: If you would think.
LAH (voice-over): But many evangelicals are against Clinton's stance on abortion and same sex marriage.
MOLINA: Most people that I've talked to are decided, just like I am.
LAH: That undecided voter is the target for Culinary Union 226. The union touts 57,000 members, more than half of them Latino. The union says it will deliver the Latino vote for Democrats.
CHRISTINA AGUILA, HILLARY CLINTON SUPPORTER: I love this lady.
LAH: Christina Aguila takes this election personally.
(on camera): You took a leave of absence from work?
AGUILA: Yes.
LAH (voice-over): She emigrated from Mexico. She's a military mom. Her son fought in Iraq.
[19:45:00] "I'm walking because even though it is hot", she says, "and I'm thirsty, Latinos are a team fighting for our rights."
LAH: Latino support for Clinton has remained strong, but true to its nature as a swing state, polls in the state of Nevada have swung back and forth in favor of both candidates throughout the year. All eyes will be on the state on October 19th when Las Vegas hosts the last presidential debate -- Erin.
BURNETT: All right. Kyung, thank you. And now, millions across the Southeast are in the path of a deadly hurricane. It could be the biggest to hit since the year of Katrina hit. Where will it strike?
And the breaking news. A contractor, another one arrested for allegedly stealing top secret classified information. Our live report.
And Jeanne Moos on Tim Kaine's eyebrows stealing the show.
BURNETT: Breaking news: Hurricane Matthew barreling towards the United States at this hour and it is getting stronger. Right now, a deadly category three, winds at 120 miles an hour, 16 million in its path. And it is forecast to become even more deadly, perhaps making land fall as a category four storm.
Now, Florida could get a direct hit. Keep in mind that Katrina hit this country as a category three. This would be the strongest storm to hit the United States since at least 2005, the year Katrina hit.
[19:50:05] Tom Sater is OUTFRONT in the CNN Weather Center.
And, Tom, when do we expect this massive storm to strike?
TOM SATER, CNN METEOROLOGIST: You know, Erin, typically, it's easier to forecast the track than it is the intensity. However with this storm, it's been the opposite. I can give you an idea within a frame of several hours and maybe, you know, several miles.
But again, what we do know is it did make landfall as a four into Cuba as well, interacted with land, it's a three, and will become a four again.
But, first, let's talk about the Bahamas. There are 700 islands here that make up the Bahamas islands, 400,000 residents. But the greatest population is in Nassau, 245,000 live there, and they are going to be in the worse quadrant for the winds, and most likely go through hell tonight, in the darkness of the night, most likely many losing power.
This computer model that's usually reliable keeps it offshore. That would be best-case scenario. We're not so much in agreement with that. We think it is going to be closer to shore. We do agree with the movement and the curve.
Now, the National Hurricane Center has this strengthened to a category four, but places at a little closer to land, making landfall. And then, what is this? Curving back around.
Let me show, 14 computer models, all in agreement. Some making landfall and they all agree with the turn. But nine of the 14 want to turn back around. Is it possible not only one but two landfalls? It's unusual. It's happened before with Ivan and Gene and others.
But let me show the models. European model right now places land fall near Cape Canaveral Friday at 7:00 a.m. It's getting in agreement with the American model now and that is what you want, agreements, although you don't want to see this.
This is earlier in the American model, further to the south, near Vero Beach, at around 2:00 a.m. One thing we know for sure, the warnings have now been extended, and here's why. When you look at the larger pattern, what's going to happen here, as the storm winds approach and in red, you're going to see some hurricane warning winds, or hurricane winds that is. We're going to see downed trees and power lines, 8 to 12 inches of rainfall. If it moves more inland, it is going to create more destruction.
A power outage forecast came out today, Erin, and possibly by Tuesday, we could be looking at 7 million Americans in the dark.
BURNETT: Wow. It's absolutely stunning.
All right. Thank you very much, Tom, as we follow that.
More breaking news, though, right now. A contractor working for the National Security Agency, another one, arrested for allegedly stealing classified information, top secret. The FBI believes this man, Harold Martin, stole classified information about the hacking tool that the NSA was using to break into other country's computer systems. And, of course, the other shock here is that he works for the same company Edward Snowden did.
Pamela Brown is OUTFRONT tonight.
I mean, Pam, this is pretty stunning.
PAM BROWN, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT: It is, it's a big blow to the NSA, Erin. The FBI now accusing Harold Martin of stealing some of the nation's most sensitive secrets. Some classified at the highest levels, and as you pointed out, Martin worked at Booz Allen Hamilton as contractor to the National Security Agency, the same contractor that employed Edward Snowden.
So, the FBI believes Martin stole documents detailing a sophisticated hacking tool that the NSA developed to break in to foreign computer systems, and authorities are still trying to determine what his motivation was. Sources say that the FBI and NSA have been suspicion of Martin for some time, and then after a computer code for a U.S. hacking tool showed up on the Internet recently, you may recall that, the investigation into him intensified.
And in that case, someone calling themselves the shadow brokers was offering the tool for sale on line. The identity of the shadow brokers has not been revealed.
Now, Martin was arrested back in August but the arrest was also made public today after the "New York Times" reported his arrest.
CNN spoke with Martin's wife outside his home in the D.C. suburbs and this is what she said.
DEBBIE MARTIN, WIFE OF HAROLD MARTIN: He's a good ma and that is you will all I can really tell you, OK? I would greatly appreciate it if you guys would respect my privacy and respect my family's privacy. I love him very much and he's a good man.
BROWN: And his attorneys issued a statement that reads in part, "There is no evidence that Martin betrayed his country. What we do know is that Mr. Martin loves his family and America. He served his nation honorably in the U.S. Navy as a lieutenant and has devoted his entire career to making America safe."
But as I said, Erin, a major blow to the NSA after the Snowden leaks. The agency tried to prevent any future so-called insider threats -- Erin.
BURNETT: All right. Thank you very much, Pamela.
And OUTFRONT next: Jeanne Moos on how Tim Kaine's left eyebrow took the world by storm.
[19:58:08] BURNETT: And now the eyebrow. Here's Jeanne Moos.
JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You could say Tim Kaine browbeat his opponent --
KAINE: Slobs.
MOOS: -- with his eyebrows.
KAINE: He said, "That makes me smart."
MOOS: The debate was best summed up by the Grinch.
GRINCH: Hmm. It is a wonderful night for eyebrows.
MOOS: From the first word Tim Kaine uttered. His eyebrows rose to the occasion.
KAINE: That passion throughout life.
MOOS: His left brow in particular.
KAINE: Twitter war with Miss Universe.
MOOS: In the political universe, Kaine is famous for his levitating brow.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Tim Kaine, of course, is the people's eyebrow.
MOOS: The brows first came to national attention back in 2006.
KAINE: My fellow Americans --
MOOS: As Kaine gave the Democratic response to the State of the Union.
KAINE: From huge surpluses.
MOOS: The state of his brows was up.
KAINE: When we work together.
MOOS: Though the left brow seemed to work separately.
KAINE: We must.
MOOS: Tim Kaine's eyebrow must have its own Twitter account. "Clear eyes. Full brows. Can't lose."
By the time he was nominated for V.P. --
KAINE: Do you really believe him?
MOOS: Kaine seemed to have tamed his brows a bit. They were no longer the furry caterpillars of a decade ago.
KAINE: It's an honor tonight.
MOOS: But even the more buttoned down of Tuesday's debate launched GIFs and tweets, speculation that Kaine prepped for the debate but lifting weights for his eyebrows.
Can we all be honest and admit this VP debate is really about eyebrows versus no eyebrows?
"Fun fact, Mike Pence doesn't have eyebrows," read another tweet.
The Democrats definitely don't think Kaine's eyebrows are low brow.
They flaunt them on tee shirts. Kaine himself Instagrammed a pumpkin with an arched brow last Halloween.
KAINE: I have an uncontrollable left eyebrow.
MOOS: He once gave Jon Stewart a button.
An eyebrow raising debate may be a distraction, but how bad can it be being compared to Spock and the rock.
KAINE: He trash talks --
MOOS: Jeanne Moos --
KAINE: Hard work.
MOOS: -- CNN -- KAINE: There's a better way.
MOOS: -- New York.
BURNETT: And thanks for joining us.
Anderson starts now.


Democratic accountability implies that citizens incentivize politicians by rewarding them electorally for beneficial policy. While we know little systemical about the time horizons voters employ for their retrospective evaluations, many observers worry that voters are notoriously myopic and that this short-term bias creates perverse incentives for public policy. We exploit the policy response to the 2002 Elbe flooding in Germany as a natural experiment to dynamically estimate the short- and long-term electoral returns to beneficial policy. Given the well known "peak-and-end-rule" for forming retrospective judgments, the Elbe flooding provides an ideal case to establish an upper bound for the longevity of voter gratitude since the incumbent's flood response was both massive and occurred immediately prior to a federal election. Using a difference-in- differences identification strategy we find that the flood response resulted in an immediate electoral gain for the incumbent party of about 7 percentage points in affected areas in the 2002 election. We also find that 25 percent of this short-term return carries over to the 2005 election. By 2009, however, the electoral gains are entirely vanished. Overall our results suggest that even though electoral returns to beneficial policy decay dynamically over time, policymakers, at least given very favorable circumstances, can generate voter gratitude that persists several years - perhaps longer than scholarship has acknowledged so far. We elaborate on the implications of our findings for democratic accountability and public policy.


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MediaSpark's new game shortlisted as best in Canada by Microsoft
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Posted this 2015-11-11 11:03 AM AST (updated 2017-01-16 4:56 PM AST )
In early 2015, Microsoft launched the Codename GOA contest to find the best upcoming new games in Canada. On November 10th, a shortlist of seven games was announced and it includes GoVenture World by MediaSpark in Sydney, NS.
The MediaSpark team has been building the game over the past number of years at its office on Charlotte Street in Sydney. In game terminology, GoVenture World is an MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) that can be played on computers, tablets, and smartphones.
Watch the Microsoft Video
MediaSpark founder and CEO, Mathew Georghiou, describes GoVenture World as the most authentic business simulation ever created. Players can create and manage virtual businesses while competing and collaborating with others around the world. More than just a fun and realistic game, he believes it has the potential to be the single biggest innovation in the history of entrepreneurship and business education.
MediaSpark's vision is for GoVenture World to provide business experience and skill development that is so authentic, people will promote their in-game success on their real-world resumes to help further their careers or start new businesses. GoVenture World could eventually earn players university credits, and provide those who cannot afford post-secondary education an experience that is equally and perhaps even more valuable.
Microsoft's recognition of the potential of GoVenture World adds to the growing interest the game has already received, including:
Finalist in the Startup Canada and Intuit Financial Literacy Startup Awards.
Selected as one of the 50 brightest new startups around the world during Global Entrepreneurship Week a few years ago.
Identified by CNBC.com in "The World's Most Promising New Companies."
I-3 Tech Startup Finalist, winning $40,000 in prizes.
MediaSpark has also conducted a game demo via video conference to senior policy advisors for science and technology at the Whitehouse, who were curious to discover how GoVenture World could facilitate entrepreneurship on a massive scale to kickstart the US economy.
Mathew credits the National Research Council of Canada for having the vision to help finance a game that is so technically challenging to build, radically different, and potentially disruptive in the industry. The game is such a big bet that most financial backers in Canada would be afraid to consider an investment like this at such an early stage.
After years in development, the game will be made available publicly in the coming months.
Microsoft will be showcasing the shortlisted games at the 2015 Montreal International Games Summit Nov 15 - 17, where the finalists and winner will be announced.
View Microsoft's shortlist tweet on Twitter
Find out more about GoVenture World at GoVentureWorld.com
STEAM users can also find the game on Steam Greenlight
Find out more about MediaSpark at MediaSpark.com
Contact Mathew Georghiou
NOTE: goCapeBreton.com and lokol.me are also MediaSpark creations.
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jim addicott Follow Me 2015-11-12 8:35 AM AST
Well done to Mathew and the team. best of luck in the finals
Jacquelyn Scott Follow Me 2015-11-12 4:21 PM AST
Congratulations on the shortlisting, Matt and team! Love it that you good work just continues to grow and attract more notice! Hope you sweep the finals, too....
Doug Milburn Follow Me 2015-11-12 10:45 PM AST
Marie Aucoin Follow Me 2015-11-13 3:56 PM AST
That's exciting news. Congratulations and much good luck going forward.
Heather Sparling Follow Me 2015-11-14 6:59 AM AST
Congratulations! Such exciting news! Good luck with the finals!
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Tbilisi, formerly known as Tiflis, was founded in the 450's. It is the largest city in Georgia as well as the capital. This beautiful city conceals itself between two Caucasian nooks on the banks of the Mtkvari River south of Russia and north of Turkey. It is laden with huge trees poking up everywhere and surprisingly very humid.
Due to lack of funding, Tbilisi Fashion Week'13 was cancelled. Problems from lack of corporate sponsorship, lack of support from the Ministry of Culture and Tbilisi City Hall were amongst many of the challenges that saw to the cancellation of the popular Georgian Fashion event last year. The cancellation of the ninth season of Tbilisi Fashion Week had a negative effect not only on the designers, but notably on tourism and the global popularization of Tbilisi and Georgia as a whole. Since October 2009 Tbilisi Fashion Week has been held twice a year, Spring and Fall. Georgian designers working both in Georgia and abroad participate in Tbilisi Fashion Week.
After a one year break, Tbilisi Fashion Week is back with more attraction and glamour. The Autumn-Winter 14/15 collections showcased Georgian style and assurance by its annual sartorial parade certainly did not disappoint. Hosted at Rose Garden, the highly anticipated Tbilisi Fashion Week started off with an exhibition of photographs by Irakli Ghughunashvili, a prominent Georgian photographer who died tragically in a fatal car accident last year.
You can explore more of Irakli Ghughunashvili's amazing work here.
Tbilisi Fashion Week kicked off with the capital's most discerning fashion names - Lado Bokuchava as art director of Atelier Kikala and Gola Damian / Dalood Group. The highly anticipated fashion event was attended by Georgian fashion industry's elite and wives of politicians who shared the front row benches. The opening ceremony was cordially attended by Georgia's First Lady, Maka Chichua.
Milan Style Academy's director, Gianni Fontana, who was in Georgia, attended Tbilisi Fashion Week for the second time. Fontana envisioned Georgia's elite fashion event as "not too far" from Milan and London fashion weeks.
The main goal of Tbilisi Fashion Week was to promote Tbilisi as a cultural and business center in the region in order to support the development of Georgia's fashion industry. This was used as a platform to promote new designers and to aid in international branding and exposure of Georgian fashion to international markets. Based on this approach, the international experience of Tbilisi Fashion Week was at the heart of the concept and format of its showcasing this year. This concept unites culture, education and communication components as well.
Kikala Studio, a photo studio, used clothes of their own design for their projects and upon receiving positive feedback, decided to establish Atelier Kikala. They commenced operation on September 1st, 2012. It is headed in design and management by Kikala Studio's Art Director Lado Bukochava. Their AW 14/15 collection compromises of bold silhouettes that challenge convention and, while the colour palette is fairly neutral save for the pieces that have gold and pale pink elements, the textures used are give the pieces an air of modernity and innovation.
To know more about their work, check out their facebook page and website.
Gola is a young Georgian designer who partnered with the Dalood Group for this show. It is clear that the inspiration for this AW 14/15 collection was the cosmos.This is seen in the print used for a few pieces wherein there are space ships and aliens used in a minimal way, and also some of the designs we cannot help but draw back to the costumes in Star Trek and Star Wars. Plain fabrics had details scattered on them were reminiscent of our stellar galaxy. Some pieces used a more textured approach with fabrics to further showcase this concept.
Visit Gola Damian's instagram and facebook page to see more of her work.
Gvasalia's AW 14/15 collection certainly had a sporty vibe to it. Instead of overwhelming pieces with large jock style numbers that we often see, she opted instead for a smaller style that was used sparingly. There were crop tops, bomber jackets and vests brought back the collection to its athletic inspiration. Aside from this, the designer didn't limit herself to a set colour palette and fabrics but explored different options that presented her talent and potential.
Visit Mariam Gvasalia's facebook page and instagram to see more of her work.
Aka Nanitashvili's AW 14/15 collection was very light and had feminine details in the way of lace and pearls. Pastel colours were seen throughout the collection and bold opera house prints contrasted some of the pieces. The embroidery of the pieces certainly added an ethereal look to them. The way the collection was put together was both exquisite and delicate.
Visit their facebook page to see more of their work.
Keti Chkhikvadze is a graduate of Tbilisi State Academy of Art with a signature preference for fur inserts. Keti goes down in the details: the size of the roses on the pockets, how bulk the embroidery should be and the amount of beads that should be exhibited on the shoulders. Her AW 14/15 collection is a collection with a rich assortment of key wardrobe items with a twist like her signature fur inserted coats and detailed black dresses.
To see more of their work, check out their facebook page.
The fashion house presented Eloshi designer Lela Eloshvili, a graduate of Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Lela's work can be described in three words: elegant, strong, and modern. Pieces in her AW 14/15 collection were full of graphic tricks for instance the pronounced symmetrical prints that was the main attraction for most of the pieces. Femininity is shown through the delicate flow of some pieces but thicker fabrics were also used to create more structured and stronger silhouettes. The collection compromised of different components in fabric, design, and style that demonstrated Lela's talent.
Materiel is a separate brand that was created in 2012 by Fashion House Materia, whose main aim is to represent works of different Georgian designers. This year, Materiel's winner of Tbilisi Fashion Week Newcomers, Alexander Akhalkatsishvili had the privilege to showcase his AW 14/15 collection. His collection featured pieces in dark colors and presented long and sharp silhouettes. Alexsandre was able to explore the use of different kinds of fabrics per piece to showcase how they can come together but also how they can change the structure of the pieces.
Visit the website and facebook page for Materia Fashion House.
Mach & Mach is a relatively new Georgian brand headed by sisters Gvanca and Nina Macharashvili, who are young upcoming designers. The Mach & Mach AW 14/15 collection incorporates "arguing organza", we see this characterisation on the skirts and sleeves of some pieces that partnered with contrasting fabrics. The surfaces of other pieces were covered with sequins that reflected a fun and playful mood in the collection. The collection has mini, midi, and maxi styles that used flare and body hugging silhouettes. The high slits placed in the middle definitely added to the sexiness of the pieces. The various designs and styles of the pieces were brought together by the youthful vision of the Macharashvilis.
To see more of their work, visit their facebook page.


Surprise announcements don't get much better than the one received by Bellarmine University rising senior Michael Messier from his summer league teammates on the Coastal Plain League's Edenton Steamers.
As the left-handed pitcher approached them pre-game on Saturday, an unknowing Messier was showered with congratulations as they informed him he was selected in the 15th round of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft by the Kansas City Royals with the 463rd pick.
"I looked at them and said, 'I have no clue what you're talking about,' " laughed Messier, who immediately went to the MLB Draft Tracker on his phone for verification.
"It's surreal and a dream every baseball player envisions. I don't think I've received as many texts and calls in a year as I have today."
Messier becomes the ninth Major League Baseball draft pick in program history and the second-highest selection after Todd Wellemeyer (fourth round, 2000, Chicago Cubs), who pitched eight seasons in the big leagues. Prior to Messier, Bellarmine's most recent draft pick was Patrick Brady (48th round, Seattle Mariners) in 2010.
Other Knights draft selections include: Michael Thompson (47th round, 2009, St. Louis Cardinals), Craig Bragg (45th round, 2000, Atlanta Braves), Paul Burke (34th round, 1998, Braves), Pat McClinton (31st round, 1993, Colorado Rockies), Scott Wiegandt (45th round, 1989, Philadelphia Phillies) and Scott Oliver (23rd round, 1981, California Angels).
Messier in 2016 tied for the fifth-most strikeouts in a single season in program history with 84. The 6-foot-6, 205-pound southpaw went 6-5 with a 4.74 ERA in 13 appearances, including 12 starts. He accumulated a team-best five complete games with one shutout.
Messier likely made a lasting impression on MLB scouting departments one year ago when he was named a Summer All-American by D2 Baseball News. Competing for the Utica Brewers in the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League, the native of Milton, Georgia, posted a 3-1 record with an anemic 1.38 ERA while striking out 36 in 45.2 innings pitched over eight appearances.
Messier was selected to the PGCBL's All-Star team and twice earned Pitcher of the Week accolades. He was rated fifth in Perfect Game's list of the top 25 prospects who played in the PGCBL.
Messier was contacted Saturday morning by the Royals and alerted about their draft intentions for him. Kansas City is the defending World Series champion.
Messier still has one year remaining of collegiate eligibility and will consider his options. He's enjoyed his experience at Bellarmine.
"It's a small community that gets behind each other 100 percent," he said. "That's the best thing I can say about Bellarmine."