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You should care about this topic because the kettlebellpress is simply a safer and more efficient way to press heavyweight overhead. When I learned the nuances of this movement, I can't tell you how much of a difference it made, not only in my pressing strength, but in my overall shoulder health.
Paul Gonzalez
• Tuesday, 01 December, 2020
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I'll explain this movement's unique distinctions so you can discover the key benefits, as I have. First, we need to address the prevalence of shoulder injuries with resistance exercise in general.
Soft tissue injuries (injuries to the rotator cuff, biceps tendon, and PEC major), acromioclavicular disorders, instability, dislocations, mobility restrictions, and nerve injuries can occur with strength training and have been reported in research on resistance exercise. However, the vast majority of strength-training related injuries can be avoided by focusing on proper techniques, improving muscle imbalances, maintaining or improving shoulder joint mobility, and avoiding stressful joint positions such as the high-five position (we'll discuss this momentarily).
The kettle bell rack is a more optimal resting or starting position to press from. Finally, when pressing with the kettle bell, you are free to move and adjust the plane of motion, which is not as restrictive as with the barbell.
Believe me, I love overhead pressing with a barbell, but it is different from the more natural movement you can perform with the kettle bell. The plane of the scapula (POS) is the normal resting position of the scapula on the posterior aspect of the rib cage (the shoulder blade resting on the back of the ribs).
The scapula (shoulder blade) sits in a position that is approximately 30 to 45 degrees anterior to the frontal plane. In other words, your shoulder is in an optimal position when you raise your arm (or in this case, perform a press).
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The natural resting position of the scapula, which is 30 to 45 degrees anterior to the frontal plane. Soft tissue injuries, such as PEC major ruptures, have been reported to occur most often in the high-five position.
This position also stresses other anterior structures and the capsule in the shoulder joint. You use full-body tension to increase stability between the ground and the kettle bell (or any other tool) to generate more force production.
Once again, you can certainly "wedge" with a barbell or a dumbbell, but the shape and design of the kettle bell make it different from the other tools. If you try this and compare the feeling between a dumbbell and a kettle bell, you'll see exactly what I mean.
This small difference enables a stronger and more efficient overhead press. The tool design, the natural movement in the plane of the scapula, and the wedging effect make the kettlebellpress a unique variation.
You can do anything you want, but it's a lot more comfortable and efficient to press with a kettle bell compared to other tools. M. Older, et al. Shoulder Injuries Attributed To Resistance Training: A Brief Review," Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, June 2010, Volume 24, No 6, pp.
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Martin Kelly and William Clark, Orthopedic Therapy of the Shoulder. Scott Marcella, MPT, CSS, SFG II, NFL, ISSN, Saw, CA CWC.
With over thirty years of unique experiences, he currently coaches kettle bell and Weightlifting techniques to small groups in South Florida. The kettlebellpress is a popular workout technique used to strengthen and build muscle in your deltoid, upper pectorals, and triceps.
Every well-balanced training program should incorporate an overhead press in some manner, and kettle bells are a great piece of equipment to utilize in your workout. Watch as Kettle bell Kings trainer Mike Salem and our good friend Justin Andrews from Mind Pump Media break down the essentials for a high-quality kettlebellpress.
In their training experience, Mike and Justin have seen a number of people fail to maximize the use of their muscles and put themselves at risk by using the incorrect form. Justin notes that some bodybuilders perform a "half- press," in which the arm is only half-extended above the head, in an attempt to better isolate certain muscles, but this variation is not necessary and may even be less effective overall.
By utilizing the correct form for your press, you not only work these muscle groups but you also generate a safer movement that reduces the risk of injury. Although this is the standard position, you also have a range of angles you can place your arm in that isolate different parts of the upper body and allow you to perform more repetitions.
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The kettlebellpress or military press can transform your upper body making it look, feel and perform at its peak. Let's delve deeper into this important kettle bell overhead press exercise and understand why and how it should be used for maximum results.
When performed correctly the kettlebellpress lights up almost all the muscles in your body. Good overhead pressing also demands perfect alignment throughout the body from head to toe in order to produce a strong and stable base of support.
There are a great many kettle bell shoulder press variations for you to practice adding to your workouts in order for you to keep things interesting. Activates most of the muscles in the body when performed correctly Improves overhead strength for daily tasks Develops better alignment throughout the body Increases cardio due to the heart having to work harder to pump blood to the top hand Conditions the shoulders and upper body Adds variety and spice to existing workouts and combinations
However, the main muscles that do most of the heavy lifting are the shoulders (deltoid) and the back (latissimus Doris & trapezium) and the arms (triceps). The legs and even the toes can be activated when pressing challenging and heavy loads.
If you lack the movement necessary in the upper back or shoulders to extend the arm directly overhead then compensations must be made further down the body in order to maintain correct alignment. The human body is strongest when all the joints are stacked in good alignment one on top of the next.
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When you press a kettle bell overhead you can increase your overall strength by activating as many muscles as possible. Squeezing the handle of the kettle bell, clenching your other hand into a fist, clamping your buttocks together and locking your legs straight.
The act of ' getting tight ' will cause as many muscles as possible to activate and through the process of irradiation transfer the strength throughout your body. Basically the body conserves valuable energy by only using the muscles it needs to in order to perform a movement.
When you hold a kettle bell overhead it challenges your smaller endurance based stabilizing muscles. Use the following 4 overhead kettle bell stabilizing exercises in order to strengthen your muscles in preparation for your heavy lifting later.
Practice : Holding, Walking or Performing the Overhead Warm Up for 60 seconds non-stop is the ultimate goal. Practice : 5 repetitions on each side is enough as the exercise is performed slowly and deliberately.
The shoulder will be challenged from all angles as you stand up and then lay back down again all while keeping the arm locked. The kettle bell bottoms up clean is a fun exercises that will help correct shoulder and arm alignment issues.
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I talked earlier about the importance of stacking joints when load is added in order to gain strength, the bottoms up clean helps you naturally develop this skill. As the kettle bell is cleaned to the racked position the handle is pointing downwards and the weight balanced above it.
You will need to keep your shoulder and arm in the correct position in order to maintain balance of the kettle bell. Practice : use as a nice warm up performing 6-8 repetitions holding in the balanced position for as long as possible.
The half kneeling kettlebellpress will not only challenge your pressing strength but also your core stability. Do not allow your hips to rotate backwards and for your midsection to fall forwards, stay upright.
The kettle bell tall kneeling press isolates the upper body by taking away your base of support. Keep the buttocks and abs pinched nice and tight throughout the full movement.
Do not let the hips slowly track backwards as you progress through your repetitions. The classic standing kettlebellpress or military press takes the kettle bell from the racked position and overhead.
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Engage the Lats by tensing the armpit as you press Make sure the forearm is vertical as you press Keep the shoulder down away from your ear and back in its socket Squeeze the whole body to create tension Push away from the floor Use your breath by inhaling first, then forcing air out through tight lips as if letting air out of a balloon Lock the arm at the top with the shoulder away from the ear Ensure that the kettle bell is vertically overhead and not in front or behind the head Actively pull the weight down slowly and with control The hardest part of the KB strict press is taking the kettle bell from the racked position and moving it the first 12 inches.
The kettle bell push press does not involve much work from the legs just a slight knee bend and then a sharp snap of the hips. Once the kettle bell is moving upwards you can then use the momentum to help with the rest of the overhead press.
First you use a slight push press to begin the momentum of the kettle bell moving upwards before dropping for a second time underneath the kettle bell and driving upwards with a straight arm. You will need excellent body and arm alignment in order to press the kettle bell overhead from the bottoms up position.
Maintain a strong grip throughout the exercise and always be prepared to get out of the way if the kettle bell flips over. You will need good upper back and shoulder mobility in order to complete this exercise.
At the bottom of the squat press the kettle bell overhead and then return it to the racked position before standing up. If you struggle with good squatting technique or have mobility issues then this exercises is going to be a real challenge for you.
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One of the simplest and most common ways to incorporate the overhead press is to add it to the kettle bell clean. Make sure to complete the clean correctly and rack the kettle bell securely before moving into the shoulder press.
From a deep squat you use your momentum on the upward part of the movement to help push the kettle bell overhead. You can think of the exercise as an even more exaggerated type of push press with a full squat at the bottom.
Practice : 10 continuous repetitions on each side will really get your heart rate racing. If you can perform nice deep smooth reverse kettle bell lunges then adding a press to the exercise will ramp up the muscle activation.
Make sure you keep the arm tucked nice and tight to the body during the lunge to save exhausting the shoulder prematurely. The back knee should kiss or get very close to the floor in order to activate the buttock muscles fully, do not cheat the movement just to get in the overhead press.
Practice : work up to 12 repetitions on each side for a full body and cardio based workout Drive up from the bottom position using the momentum to press the kettle bell overhead.
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You will need good core stability and cardio in order to perform a number of quality repetitions. Keeping the legs straight sit up and press the kettle bell overhead.
The format of this strength workout is simple just alternate sides adding 1 extra repetition to the total each round. You don't need to rush between sides, take your time so you are fully switched on for every repetition.
If you find the last few repetitions too difficult then use the push press to finish off the reps. As you get stronger and can manage all 5 repetitions without using the push press then add a second set starting at 1 and increasing to 5 again.
Finally, when you have mastered the overhead kettlebellpress there are 5 kettle bell combination pressing exercises that you can use to really ramp up the cardio and full body muscle engagement. Much like we went over in the dead lift and squat, the overhead press is a great movement to build strength and it complements well with the kettle bell.
Traditionally the overhead press is done with a barbell or dumbbells; however, the kettle bell can provide a different, and even advantageous, way to get the most benefit out of the exercise. Most overhead pressing variations with the kettle bell start from the rack position which we discussed in our hard style squat series.
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The kettle bells can be supported neatly and close to the body making it much more comfortable to rest in the rack position. With the barbell, where the hands and arms are fixed, it is nearly impossible to slightly adjust the path of the weight overhead to compensate for shoulder mobility limitations.
For pressing success it's important to start with a good rack position and ground connection. Doug Farinelli is the owner of Rise Above Performance Training demonstrates the Overhead Press Set up in an athletic stance with the kettle bell in the racked position where the handle sits low on the hand, wrist is straight and the bell close to the body resting in the pocket.
Overhead pressing does require a good amount of shoulder mobility and stability to achieve success in the lift and with our daily lives constantly pulling us forward, this might be a struggle. A little rotation in the shoulders, hips and even the torso can help the stubborn bell reach the top of the mountain.
Moving the two bells simultaneously does not allow for much compensation in the surrounding joints which is why I feel the technique used to carry out this lift is so important to its success. A fun variation using two bells is to press one while completely resting the other in the rack position and then switching between sides.
I have seen the strongest of people traditionally press a lot of weight be completely humbled by this variation. In the push press use a slight knee dip and drive up with the hips; this will create upward momentum where you can actually bump the kettle upward off the chest to get the bell moving in the desired direction towards the strict lockout at the top where the hips and knees are straight at the finish.
In the jerk the initial motion of the knee and hip dip is essentially the same as in the push press however the goal is not the strict lockout immediately following the leg movement. In the jerk the bell is only moving upward with momentum ever so slightly and the body drops underneath it allowing for a strong squat to complete the repetition.
You now have all the tools needed to perform a proper kettle bell overhead press and numerous variations to make your shoulders strong and resilient to injuries. So how did the early fathers of strength — men like Sand ow, Hackenschmidt, and Saxon — build such impressive upper bodies?
Pavel Tsatsouline wrote in Enter the Kettle bell that, "…if you work your overhead presses hard, you will hardly need to do anything else for your upper body." Looking at the Herculean torsos and shoulders of the strongmen of yesteryear it would seem to be correct. The kettlebellpress is unlike a normal barbell or dumbbell press.
With the weight of the bell resting against the back of your arm, a kettle bell is always trying to pull you out of your groove and into a potentially dangerous position. I've always thought of this as a two-for-one bonus deal kind of thing because it means when I press a kettle bell I am getting a great shoulder stability workout as my rotator cuff has to work overtime to counteract these forces.
So step one in a successful heavy press is a solid and consistent clean. One of the biggest mistakes I see people make as they bell arrives in the rack is to let it knock some air out of them.
Imagine someone trying to knock you over as they walk past — tense your body the exact same way. In this position — a standing plank — you will be tight with legs locked, abs and glutes switched on, and body rigid.
Letting your forearm go out of vertical increases the torque at the shoulder if it goes backwards or causes your arm to be caved in by the bell lying on top of it. Because of the need to keep the forearm vertical the upper arm needs to open out a bit to allow this to happen.
But all of a sudden we get to the press, and they revert to their inner bodybuilder and think it's a shoulder exercise. Imagine trying to suck your shoulder blade on the working side down into the opposite hip pocket and keeping it there during the duration of the press.
When trying to get my groove, particularly with a new bell, bigger than one I've been used to training with, I like to perform a bottoms up press with an appropriate sized bell that makes a single rep difficult. I find this reminds me of good mechanics and how to develop tension.
After a short break I go straight to my new bell and try to get that same feeling of tension and alignment. The single rep gives you a high level of neural activation and actually makes completing a set of five immediately after easier, allowing you to use a heavier weight which in turn leads to more strength and muscle gain.
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If you follow the drills above and take your time you'll build a strong press and an upper body to make Sand ow jealous. Up until 45 years ago, the overhead military press was actually the third event in Olympic weightlifting, along with the snatch and the clean and jerk.
The military press was considered the main yardstick for measuring strength. They didn't even know what the rotator cuff was, and, in fact, there is no mention of it in the kinesiology textbooks of that time.
In the bench press, the shoulder blades are locked in an abducted and depressed position, which inhibits the action of the serrated anterior muscle. This is because the serrated anterior muscle is responsible for the protraction, as well as the rotation and elevation, of the scapula, which is exactly the opposite of what happens during the execution of the bench press.
Not surprisingly, the serrated anterior muscle is activated when the shoulder blades can move freely during the overhead press movements. Our goal is to become strong in an absolute sense, and remain so for a long time.
Rather, you are really strong when your strength can be useful in a variety of endeavors, it protects you from injuries, and it allows you to do what you like, for a long time. The kettle bell pressed overhead from the rack position helps the shoulders to stay packed and move according to optimal biomechanics.
This enables an optimal lockout overhead, and thereby helps to develop strong and healthy shoulders. In deeply studying the kettle bell military press, I have concluded that it represents an excellent choice when it comes to transfer to the bench press, as it allows the practitioner to cover the entire range of motion of an overhead press, and it involves in totality, thanks to the lockout, the muscles of the upper back, including the para-scapular muscles and those of the rotator cuff.
I believe the kettle bell military press is essential for the harmonious development and coordination of the shoulder joint district. There are three factors that make the kettle bell military press the best way to develop overhead strength:
This is totally different from what happens with dumbbells and offers unique advantages in regard to the joint's health. A sample of ten athletes participated in the study, some of them students of the University of Rome "For Italics," Sums.
The subjects, all coming from the world of strength, were instructed by me until they could perform a strict military press for 5-8 reps with a given kettle bell size. By strict, I mean a modality that meets all the SFG standards of the military press.
The press program that the subjects followed involved rep ladders, with a volume that increased every week. By the fifth week, during the heavy session, they had to perform a total of 150 military presses.
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In fact, as we all know, the meaning of life is press heavy weights overhead," right? We must feel good, be happy, and continue to cultivate our passions in a healthy environment.
Enjoying our time practicing our kettle bell military press is one way to achieve these objectives. If you are around online forums, social media, and fitness blogs, you may have heard this: "Yeah, who doesn't need a he...
Gilda Flaming is an SFG Level I Instructor and a powerlifting athlete with the Form Club Team of Mona. She is a former professional swimmer and distance runner, and is a member of the Italian law enforcement.
She has trained with the greatest athletes in swimming and distance running, and she now studies strength in all its forms. Additionally, it is a great exercise to reinforce proper scapular control and tension to aid in injury prevention of the shoulders during most pressing movements.
The Z Press starting position can be performed in a power rack with a barbell or flat ground with dumbbells or kettle bells. Form Tip: Spend 5-10 extra minutes stretching and opening the hip before performing the Z Press, even if you already feel warmed-up.
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The elbows should remain under the wrists in the press, and when locking out, the arms should be fully extended, with the head coming through the "hole" at the top. The body will more than likely want to press with the weight slightly in front of it to build better balance, but this should be resisted by maintaining core tightness.
Form Tip: If you're falling forwards or backward during the Z Press, then more than likely, your bar path may be wonky. Once you've locked out the weight overhead, you'll bring down the press with control, so the core remains upright through the whole range of motion.
If you find that you're wavering and losing balance during the descent, then try to slow your tempo, as this can help clean up the bar path. For example, if the hips are aching or tightening, then more than likely, this is an area that requires a little extra work for Z Pressing with ease.
The Z press leaves very little margin for error when taking a load from the chest to the overhead position. By performing Z presses, the lifter cannot excessively lean backward, fall forward onto toes, or use any leg and hip dip to help gain momentum.
Be sure to continually practice the press, maintaining smooth and full control at the tip of the lift, and stay as upright as possible. The shoulders, primarily the anterior (front) head of the deltoid, are responsible for most of the force to press the loads overhead.
The lat muscles are used isometrically to help maintain an upright posture and the stability necessary to press and support loads overhead. The obliques and rectus abdominal work to anteriorly compress the rib cage during all phases of the Z press.
The erector spinal contracts to maintain the lower back's rigidity during the pressing and overhead aspect of this movement. Below, we've included three types of athletes who can benefit from the Z Press for specific reasons.
Strength athletes like powerlifters, strongman competitors, and weightlifters can all benefit by performing the Z Press. All of these athletes can gain shoulder/core strength and hypertrophy with the Z Press, which is key for success in each of their respective sports.
Powerlifters: Great for improving hip mobility, which can be an issue for many athletes during heavy squats. Weightlifters: Fantastic movement for improving hip mobility/strength and increasing the ability to maintain an upright torso with a strong core, which is a fundamental aspect of the snatch and clean and jerk.
Still, it's also great to use for improving muscular endurance capacity, which is a vital characteristic of successful functional fitness athletes. Second, it can help build a strong foundation of core strength and hip mobility, which are two keys that can translate to longevity in the gym.
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Andy Gin/Shutterstock Z presses are a great way to prime overhead movements like jerks and push presses or reinforce proper torso alignment and rigidity for moves like overhead squats and front squats. Do two to three sets of five to 10 reps with a light to moderate load, working on control and movement coordination.
The important thing here is never to lose tension in the core and really focus on keeping the rib cage tucked in and down to allow for maximal recruitment and assistance from the obliques and rectus abdominal for added structural stability. You can mix in tempos and overloading principles like drop sets or supersets (with other shoulder/back movements) to enhance muscle growth further.
Some lifters may want to train greater muscle endurance (mainly for sport), in which higher repetition ranges and/or shorter rest periods are recommended. However, it can more easily be performed in a way that compromises core strength and posture (for example, many lifters will hit a sticking point and flare the ribs cage).
Kettle bells dangle lower than dumbbells when held, and this off-centered load creates an added stability challenge. However, the lifter performs a strict overhead press while at the bottom of the front squat.
This is a great movement to reinforce stability in the bottom of the squat while simultaneously promoting proper overhead mechanics and postural strength. While we always suggested you refer to your doctor and medical professional for questions like this, it is often advisable for individuals with poor pressing mechanics to use the z press to strengthen the upper back and learn to promote overhead strength without sacrificing the stability of the core and upper back.
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If you experience pain, however, you either need to use lighter weights or stop performing this movement and consult a trained professional.
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I presume you drove around the summit, using rocky outcrops as shielding??
the traffic was insane towards Gt Orme, and there was a diversion that really messed us up.
busiest I've ever seen so we stuck to the far eastern end of seafront (extremely weak long distance stuff, no de-sensing) and then for the first time , we tried the Premier Inn on the hilltop (lots of very strong mid distance stuff at rds level, like Newstalk 103.3 but some bursts of desensing on the sdr) next time we'll try the food!
That's good to read Tim. I suppose the critical thing is how good is a car radio at dealing with strong signals? I found some good spots up there where the transmitters were shielded. Some were on bends in the road I would never have dared to park the car, but there were good spots elsewhere. Glad this shows there is still DX potential around the periphery of this great hilltop.
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The front end of the car stereo was somewhat overloaded by the Great Orme tx though.
Nice log Tim never been there yet maybe one day I will visit there lol.
Regarding 106.9 Heart, Moel-Y-Parc C3AA 107.3 Heart, Gwaenysgor C3AA/C5AA these are still showing C6A3 on FMlist so would be worth informing the editors about the change in PI.
glad my days tuning was so useful!


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The matches come the day after England host Ireland at Twickenham and on the first free Sunday of the Championship.
"The audience figures on BT Sport have been way above any estimation this season with the early rounds almost double what they were a year ago, so we expect this Super Sunday to be very popular amongst our fans," said Dominic Hayes, Premiership Rugby's Commercial Director.
The latest round of live TV matches starts on Friday 7 February when Worcester Warriors entertain Leicester Tigers, followed that weekend by Northampton Saints' trip to Sandy Park and Harlequins hosting London Wasps on Sunday.


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I've been working on this on and off while having nothing better to do for a week or so, probably spent about an hour or so on it. It's a 8-bit sounding template for fl, i listened to a few 8 bit songs and tried to get my sounds to match their sounds.
It has a few example songs in it..
You are a genius--- I am still learning FL Studio and find all the knobs, dials and switches more overwhelming than it should be. Thanks!!
Can you record onto FL Studio? Like if I plugged a guitar into a mixer and then into the computer, would it actually record on here? If it does I might look into getting it when I get a new computer for my 18th on Sunday. Otherwise, I'll probably just dig out an old copy of Cubase and stick that on.
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Haven't used it in a while. I'll download the demo of FL Studio and have a little comparison.
FL Studio supports recording but I hear you need an ASIO sound card to do so.
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Recently, London-based band Ibibio Sound Machine unveiled their third album Doko Mien. The groovy beat-driven record infuses the polyrhythm and pizzicato guitar of Africa with funk, disco, and electro to make a genre-bending experience. The band is made up of Nigerian singer Eno Williams and Ghanaian guitarist Alfred "Kari" Bannerman alongside a world-class backing band of musicians that bring a burst of funky rhythms, slapping bass, bold horns, and impassioned guitar lines to make Doko Mien one of the most dynamic and joyful records of the year.
KEXP spoke with Williams in an interview about the new record, staying positive in the post-Brexit UK, and – the most important topic of all – fashion. Read below.
KEXP: You're three albums in now, what's changed and what have you learned since your 2014 debut?
Eno Williams: We've been finding our way in the world as a band, wrestling with the idea of wanting to communicate a message to listeners, but not exactly putting it across lyrically in words that most people can understand.
I guess that's an odd one – the oblique nature of singing in both Ibibio and English has been a cool journey. When we started out, it felt like a case of coming together in a random meeting of different musicians which then became our first record, but since then we've started to get deeper into this idea of trying to communicate to people in interesting ways and as we go along it feels like we could really still get a lot further into that idea, like we've only found the tip of the iceberg!
I would imagine that Nigerians are incredibly excited about their native tongue being displayed and shared on a large platform. How has the band been received there?
It's been a slow building thing, as we're way outside the Nigerian mainstream and there is perhaps not the sophistication in the music market to accommodate the eclecticism you find in Europe, the US and some other places. Having said that, we've had some really wonderful responses from people, especially Ibibio speakers (of which there are perhaps only roughly 5 million out of around 200 million Nigerians).
I'll never forget when we first supported Seun Kuti at Citadel Festival in London a few years back and one of the security guards just happened to be an Ibibio speaker – he nearly leapt out of his skin when we came off after our set, saying he couldn't believe he was hearing his own language being sung at a big music festival - he was so happy about it! That kind of thing is amazing and hopefully we'll get to perform in Nigeria soon, but the right opportunity has not yet arisen.
I'm curious about whether, in the post-Brexit UK and being both female-led and singing partly in a foreign, non-English, language, you've received any negative treatment despite your joyous and loving presence and perspective.
No, I'm a firm believer in the power of positivity and I think most people are inherently good, even if they don't always realize it. When we go out to play gigs and so forth with the band, we always try to bring good energy to the stage even if we ourselves aren't feeling that way before we go on and I know that people pick up on that.
Brexit has stirred up some nasty sentiments yes, but everything is a question of perspective. It's important to try and speak with each other, interact, yes people may have very different political views to you – but so what? Common ground is there to be found if you look for it and perhaps one of the negatives of this age of social media is that it lends itself to the idea of polarisation, in that the sensational always wins out against the more measured and perhaps thoughtful.
As for being female-led, I find that is generally very well received and I don't see it as a negative in any way. It's just been a privilege to play and sing for people.
On a more superficial level, we have to talk about your beautiful and colorful outfits! Where do you get them and do you have a specific designer you work with?
Now you're talking - a favourite subject of mine! I love fashion and have been very lucky to find an extremely talented young designer from Berlin called Laura Lang who I meet now and again and we discuss ideas, and then she goes away and comes up with some brilliant things. The latest outfit I wore on the cover of our new album is another one of hers - she suggested we work on the colourful pattern together and if you look at it closely, we took pictures of synthesizers and old tape machines that we sent her and she turned them into a computer-generated pattern which she then sent off to get made into fabric! I'm always making bits and bobs as well, I'd secretly love to do some proper designing one day.
What's next for Ibibio Sound Machine and will you ever come to play Seattle?
Well, we're touring our album Doko Mien currently and are going to be doing a bunch of festivals coming up. We're very excited about returning to America too in the summer and would certainly not take much convincing to pay you a visit in Seattle, I can say that for sure!
Stay tuned for footage of Ibibio Sound Machine's performance at KEXP's International Clash Day London Broadcast. Below. listen to "Doko Mien (Tell Me)."
Ibibio Sound Machine Share Slow-Burning Single "Guess We've Found a Way"


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July 31, 2012 by Daniel Loeb 2 Comments
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Anyone who's been disappointed by the 1977 movie, Raid on Entebbe , will be captivated by the new documentary, Follow Me, which gives an account of the life and tragic early death of Yonatan "Yoni" Netanyahu, the commander of the rescue mission and the elder brother of Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel.
It's a profile in courage and leadership, with the filmmakers having gotten unprecedented access to Yoni's letters, both published and unpublished, family photos, and home movies. There are also interviews with former Israeli prime ministers Ehud Barak and Shimon Peres, the soldiers under Yoni's command in the elite Sayeret Maktal (commonly known as "The Unit"), and even his ex-wife Tirza "Tutti," who had never before agreed to speak about her relationship with Yoni.
More after the jump.
Fierce patriots, the Netanyahus spent some years in the United States — in our fair city — while their father, Ben-Zion, pursued scholarship at Dropsie College.* The father was professor of Hebrew language and literature, and later, chairman of the department, (1957-1966), and professor of medieval Jewish history and Hebrew literature. As a 16-year-old, Yoni arrived to attend Cheltenham High School in Wyncote, PA (where he was a classmate of Baseball Hall of Fame member Reggie Jackson). This is the reason Bibi Netanyahu speaks colloquial English with a Philly accent. In his letters, Yoni wrote about his discomfort with the expansiveness of homes in the United States and the carefree lives of his classmates, who cared only for cars and girls.
The Israel depicted in the documentary is the one we grew up with and our children are taught about in school — an ideal world with pioneers who fought for a dusty land and who wished only to be allowed to live in peace. The Netanyahu brothers came of age in a young nation that was subject to struggles for survival — in the epic wars of 1967 and 1973.
After his military service, Yoni returned to the U.S. to study at Harvard on scholarship, but he was troubled by the existential crises of his country and he returned to Eretz Yisrael as an officer in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). Yoni was a leader who inspired his men by working alongside them. He never sent them to do anything he would not do himself.
Yoni Netanyahu is immortalized for leading the counter-terrorist hostage-rescue mission carried out by commandos of the IDF at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on July 4, 1976. On June 27th, an Air France plane with 248 passengers was hijacked by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the German Revolutionary Cells, and flown to Entebbe, near Kampala, the capital of Uganda. The passengers were sorted by ethnicity and country of origin– Jews and Israelis from the other passengers. That afternoon, 47 non-Israeli hostages were released. The next day, 101 more non-Israeli hostages were allowed to leave. More than 100 Israeli and Jewish passengers (along with the non-Jewish pilot, Captain Michel Bacos, who refused to leave his passengers) remained as hostages and were threatened with death.
The IDF acted on intelligence provided by the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad. Israeli leaders decided on a covert rescue mission, while publicly agreeing to a release of military prisoners. The operation took place at night. Israeli transport planes carried 100 commandos over 2,500 miles to Uganda for the rescue operation. The operation lasted 90 minutes. They rescued 102 hostages. Five Israeli commandos were wounded and only one, their commander, Lt. Col. Yonatan Netanyahu, was killed. (According to Wikipedia, all the hijackers, three hostages, and 45 Ugandan soldiers were killed; 30 Soviet-built MiG-17s and MiG-21s of Uganda's air force were destroyed. Twenty-four hours later, a fourth Israeli hostage was killed by Ugandan army officers at a nearby hospital.) The rescue mission, named Operation Thunderbolt, is now sometimes referred to as Operation Jonathan.
Like King David, Yoni Netanyahu was a courageous military leader and a sensitive poet. Yoni's letters as voiced in the film make me mourn for the man he was. Yoni, we hardly knew you!
Jonathan Gruber is the writer, director, and producer and Ari Daniel Pinchot is also director and producer. Follow Me is being distributed independently and it's making its rounds of film festivals. It's being shown in the greater Philly area exclusively at the Bala Cinema in Bala Cynwyd. At press time, it's not known if the engagement will be extended beyond Thursday, August 2nd.
*Rabbi Dr. Joel Hecker notes that the library collection of Dropsie College is now housed at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Dropsie College is now only known by its honorific, alav ha-shalom
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Born and raised in the North East of England, I left to attend university in Liverpool where I gained my Applied Psychology degree before embarking upon the BPS Independent Route in Counselling Psychology. I have worked within the psychology department of a Learning Disabilities multi-disciplinary team, …
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Belinda Brown is author of 'The Private Revolution' and a number of widely-cited academic papers. More recently, she has started writing and blogging for The Daily Mail and The Conservative Woman. She is an honorary research assistant at UCL and has a particular interest in men's …
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Russell completed his PhD in male eating disorders as a mature student, having pursued other careers before academia. His research, situated in Critical Men's Studies, takes a novel approach to the study of an area that is often dominated by clinical discourses, addressing the lack of …
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Dr Christian Edwards is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Worcester, where he is a member of the Gender, Identity and the Body research group. The principal focus of his research is on the antecedents and consequences of muscularity-orientated body image in men. He has published his work …
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Over the years, there has been a demand for television technology to adapt to creations like the internet. Such a strong desire is what led to the creation of special chips, consoles, smart TVs and now, Connected TVs (CTV). As its popularity grows, more opportunities for marketers, under the field of media and advertisement, emerge. In order to truly comprehend the effect CTVs can have on various industries, we need to have a deeper understanding of what it really is.
What is a Connected TV?
A CTV is exactly what it sounds like; it's a television that is connected to your broadband internet connection to aid the provision of content like videos, movies, ads and many more. What makes it's nature so expansive is the fact that things like Smart TV, Apple TV, Hulu, PlayStations and such are already included in the CTV. Provided you have the corresponding devices, you will have easy access to these facilities.
It is this massive outreach that makes CTV so appealing for the advertisement industry, particularly, because it is one avenue through which they can have access to a greater market size. In the last decade, according to eMarketer, as much as 65 percent of internet users worldwide consume video as their main content –including things like online streaming via Netflix, YouTube and the like. Thus, a subsequent drop in TV subscriptions was observed which forced advertisement companies to invest more in digital video marketing, through CTVs especially.
How would advertisement through Connected TVs work?
Ads administered through CTVs are done in a similar manner to regular TVs, the only difference being through the internet rather than a TV station. In order to continue watching content, that seems to be cheaper and is convenient to access, people are willing to sit through the advertisements. So much so that the mid-roll advertisements (ads that appear during the middle of the video content) have become one of the most sought after spots by companies. Additionally, increased levels of interconnectedness makes it an efficient, often cost-effective, way for corporations to promote themselves.
What are the reasons for CTVs growing popularity, especially in regards to advertisement?
This is perhaps one of the most attractive factors about CTVs, their reach. Due to the exclusivity of some shows and movies, more and more people are making use of platforms like Amazon Prime, Hulu, Apple TV and Netflix. This is reflected in the fact that around 60 and 75 percent of homes in the US and UK, respectively, have CTVs in order to gain access to exclusive media content. This only means that the accessible market size keeps increasing by the year.
Unlike traditional TV advertising, CTV advertising can give you a more precise approach. Instead of paying hefty amounts to TV stations to run ads that may not even be watched by your target market, opting for CTV is a more efficient and effective approach. Through data provided by apps like Netflix, Hulu and such, you will be able to run ads selectively and will ensure that you have direct access to your target market.
The fact that you have access to more people, you can selectively run your ads by determining your target market through the data provided by apps and the increased likeliness of people watching the entire ad is enough to make this a high return on investment. Most people will not mind having to sit through an ad campaign to watch cheaply acquired media content. It's a small price for enormous benefits.
The factor that truly benefits corporations and advertisement companies is that almost all of the ads run on the CTV can't be skipped. Unless users are paying to premium accounts that offer ad-free access to media content, ads must be seen before users can go back to watching their video. Thus, you can be assured that your ad will be viewed –something you could never be sure off when dealing with traditional TVs since users could simple change the channel. Additionally, people are more likely to watch your 1 minute add because there is nothing else to do at that moment. They will be full of anticipation and will have high levels of engagement thus ensuring that their focus is on the screen throughout. It is this exact phenomenon that will make ads around 65 percent more effective overall.


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Less than a day after announcing her new album, AIM, M.I.A. dropped a new track from the album, slated for a Sept. 9 release.
"Go Off" is the second song from AIM. She previously released "Borders" in November, which proceeded the release of the music video in February. Watch the "Go Off" video above.


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Miami ready to arrive as global soccer city
By Joe Prince-WrightDec 12, 2019, 1:39 PM EST
This weekend the Premier League on NBC Sports crew are heading to Miami Beach to host the second Premier League Mornings Live Fan Fest of the season.
And Rebecca Lowe, Robbie Earle, Robbie Mustoe and Kyle Martino, along with several high-profile guests, will be arriving in a city which is primed to re-enter the discussion as a truly global soccer city.
With David Beckham's Inter Miami CF franchise arriving in Major League Soccer for March 2020, CONCACAF's HQ in Miami, plus many of the biggest clubs in the world visiting Miami to play in friendly games each summer — and of course the USMNT and USWNT both playing regularly in South Florida — Miami is already well on its way to becoming a key U.S. hub for the global game.
But things are changing. Rapidly.
After the Miami Fusion folded in early 2002 and the heyday of the NASL long gone, there was a soccer void in MIA, but now teams are popping up in both MLS and USL, and if you wander around Miami you will spot jerseys from just about every club on the planet.
Peter Smith (who played for the U.S. Futsal Team in the 1989 world championships) is involved in soccer in the Miami area where he runs his company, Smash Soccer, a consultancy agency.
He has seen a huge upturn in the popularity of the sport in and around Miami in recent years.
"There will be a big turnout and a great atmosphere at the Clevelander because their is such a passion for the sport in Miami and South Florida," Smith said. "Miami is more of an international city than an American city. You always see Barcelona, Real Madrid, PSG, Juventus, Boca Juniors, River Plate and Flamengo jerseys, as well as plenty of Liverpool, Man United, Man City and Chelsea shirts and there is so much interest in the global game.
"Miami has such a mix of tourists and residents that you will always have PL interest in and around the bars and on the streets and there really is a growing interest in the Premier League. There are plenty of fan bars on gamedays, and in particular areas of Miami where you have specific bars for fans supporting clubs in South America and Europe. It's a real mix and it is wonderful."
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When you start to ask around the Miami area, it is clear soccer is on the minds of many.
Mike Ryan Ruiz is the Executive Producer for The Dan Le Batard Show and Host of Chelsea's new U.S. focused podcast, "Chelsea Mike'd Up."
"The world is now his oyster at Chelsea."
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Aside from his focus on all things Premier League with the Blues, Ruiz believes the arrival of Inter Miami CF will be a key part of the puzzle in soccer getting back on the map in Miami.
"The soccer community is really buzzing down here for Inter Miami, even though it's in Fort Lauderdale initially. Our supporters groups, I think, are going to be the talk of MLS. There are three main groups but the wildest is Vice City," Ruiz explained. "I really think Inter is going to be a success story. The town is desperate for a winner and I think they're well positioned even as an expansion team. We've been waiting on this for so long. It felt like the day might never come… but we're here."
It is sure to be one heck of a party at the Clevelander Hotel in Miami Beach this weekend as Miami continues to grow as a worldwide soccer destination.
All the details for our Fan Fest can be found right here.
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There is more than one road to freedom. Emmeline Pankhurst and her three daughters went very different ways, politically and personally, and finally each was buried on a different continent.
Helen Pankhurst, granddaughter of Sylvia Pankhurst, great-granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst, inherited that name because her grandmother refused to marry in despite of pressure from her suffragette family. She lived and had a son (at the age of forty-five) with Italian anarchist refugee Silvio Corio, but held that marriage was an unequal institution and insisted on living out the principle of female equality; she'd have lost her nationality and hard-won vote along with her name, if she hadn't.
Perhaps it was naïve of me, but I was quite astonished to learn that the great Emmeline, who fought so famously hard for women's rights, and whose memoir of militancy reveals a radically critical mind, was in Helen's words "distraught" that her daughter was living out of wedlock and rejected her more thoroughly over this than she had over their earlier political differences. Even the intensely militant Christabel Pankhurst (who is rumoured to have had love affairs with women) pressured Sylvia to marry.
Certainly there are far fewer white British women who'd be disowned by their families for having illegitimate children these days, but the persistence of patriarchal tradition is remarkable. Helen and chair Jenny Lacey orchestrated an impromptu survey of the audience, trying to count the hands of women who'd kept or changed their names on marrying; the women present at such a feminism-laden, ticketed and predominantly-white, middle-class event could hardly have been considered representative of the general population, but it looked as though a little less than half of those married had kept their own names. And the proportion of those whose children had taken their mother's rather than their father's name was far smaller. There was just one lonely hand for the double-barrel. With characteristic good humour, Pankhurst suggested that if you're going to get married, perhaps you could think about "how to minimise" the anti-woman impacts of that very patriarchal tradition.
This evaluative see-sawing between then and now was the pattern for the evening's event as well for the book under discussion, Deeds Not Words: The Story of Women's Rights, Then and Now. After a first section on the Suffrage movement, which Pankhurst describes as having been less exclusively middle-class than critics like to suggest – drawing together women of diverse backgrounds, classes and ages, with "issues of intersectionality beginning to be tabled" – the audience were given an opportunity to respond. I raised my hand to say that a man once told me that Suffragette militancy had been inexcusable, whereas Nelson Mandela's much greater use of violence was justified because "the Apartheid state was evil". Why was a state that enshrined female inferiority in law and endorsed the brutalisation of women not also "evil"? Pankhurst answered me with a wry smile and pointed out there was a similarly gendered double standard at work in the way that Winnie Mandela has been portrayed with so much less glory and sympathy than has her husband.
A woman sitting just behind me raised her hand to say that while we're all familiar with the idea of girls dreaming of getting married, in her youth she had "dreamed of getting divorced": growing up in the "South Asian ghetto" of London she had seen marriage-followed-by-divorce as "the road to freedom". After one year in an awful marriage, she told us, she had done as she'd intended and secured through divorce the independence she could not have had if she had remained a marriageable girl, or a wife. It both stirred and sobered me to hear that a woman who had grown up in the same country as me, and been a girl when I was a girl, had been planning how to secure her freedom while I was idly dreaming of all I'd do with mine that was already granted. However hot we think we are on our intersectionality we need these vivid reminders; need not only to tick off the list of intersections – age, race, class, religion, ability, sexuality, gender non-conformity, etc. – when we make our sentences, but never to let our assessment of the status quo be informed by voices from only one group.
The other contentious issue that came up was the question of agency. "Women's agency is what feminism is all about," writes Pankhurst in the book; speaking of the fight for suffrage she says that "women's agency was at the core of that movement. … Ideas about agency and about changing social norms." I wanted to know what she'd think of recent claims – many coming from self-proclaimed feminists – that the #MeToo movement is an insult to or denial of female agency. Women like Melanie Phillips have suggested it is a movement to embrace the victimhood mentality and that women sexually harassed in the workplace should punch the guy and/or leave the job. I asked Pankhurst if she thinks that to say "I have been the victim of sexual harassment in the workplace" or "I have been the victim of street harassment" is compatible with agency?
There is more than one road to freedom.


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The last month has seen a groundswell of support for the people of Palestine as the murderous crimes of the Israeli state have been exposed to the world. Across the globe people have marched in their millions to protest Israel's onslaught and show solidarity with the people of Gaza.
Yesterday the call was made by the 250 plus people who travelled to Dublin for the national demonstration – Belfast needs another march for Gaza. While Israel's onslaught continues so must the protests against it.
This Saturday we are calling on every single group who opposes this murder and genocide to come out in their thousands to send a clear message. Belfast Supports Gaza. We will not stand idly by and watch as Palestinians are massacred by Israeli/US bombs.
Let's make this the biggest one yet folks. Viva Palestine!


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David Cicilline
stated on September 4, 2012 in a debate:
"The auditor [for the city of Providence] was not locked out" of access to the city's finances.
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. September 7, 2012
U. S. Rep. David Cicilline says that when he was mayor of Providence, the city's internal auditor was not blocked from accessing financial records
U.S. Rep. David Cicilline is facing a tough reelection campaign, in part, because by the time he finished his tenure as mayor of Providence, the city was in horrible financial shape and Cicilline, during his 2010 congressional campaign, had characterized the city's fiscal status as "excellent."
Making matters worse are allegations that Cicilline tried to hide the problems from Providence's internal auditor.
Not surprisingly, the issue came up Sept. 4 when he debated his opponent in the 1st District Democratic primary, Anthony Gemma, on WPRO radio.
"The fact of the matter is he locked out the city auditor," Gemma said of Cicilline. "So why would you lock out the city auditor, when the auditor needs to file for a Freedom of Information request to get in to do the very job that he was supposed to do, when you're not trying to hide something?"
Cicilline called the allegation "absolutely false. The auditor was not locked out and so that is absolutely untrue."
Cicilline's emphatic denial seemed ripe for an audit of its own.
At the center of this dispute is James J. Lombardi III, who served as Providence's internal auditor and, as an employee of the City Council, had a sometimes contentious relationship with the Cicilline administration. He is now the city's treasurer. (The city also has an external audit done every year by an outside company. That report, dated January 2011, confirmed the financial problems.)
In the fall of 2010, when Cicilline was winding down his tenure as mayor and in the middle of a tough race for the U.S. House, Lombardi was complaining that Providence's finances were in trouble and he was having trouble getting access to information.
We found some justification for Gemma's assertion that Lombardi was "locked out."
Two Providence Journal stories by two different reporters in March 2011 reported that Lombardi said the administration had canceled his computer access when he began to ask questions about the city's finances, forcing him to seek information by filing formal requests under the Rhode Island Access to Public Records Act.
Lombardi now says that he was never locked out of his computer. His computer access to city financial records was never canceled, he said, because he never had such access in the first place.
Nor was he ever physically locked out of his office or anywhere else where he tried to get records.
That would mean Cicilline is correct in the strictest sense of the phrase "locked out."
But you can still be figuratively locked out if you are denied access to something you're legally entitled to.
Providence's City Charter requires the City Council to appoint an internal auditor who "shall have access to the books and records of all offices, department and other agencies of the city." That section of the charter offers no limitation. The auditor reports to the council, not the mayor.
Lombardi, whose complaints about his inability to get information from the mayor's office go back to 2004, told us that in this case the problem wasn't that he was denied the information. The problem was the timeliness of the responses he was getting.
A key issue was whether the city's reserve fund -- sometimes called the rainy-day fund -- was being severely depleted. City records show that on Jan. 11, 2010, Lombardi had requested copies of all authorization forms transferring money in and out of the reserve fund in January 2010, which the Cicilline administration was tapping because of its budget problems.
Three days later, he wrote to the city solicitor's office asking it to assist with the request because, if that request was treated like other requests he had made in the past, "I will never see it."
Lombardi said if that couldn't be done, he would request the data under the state open records law, adding that he thought it was "ridiculous" that he would have to do such a thing.
He did not get the information until October 2010, according to a report he filed with the City Council. That's nine months.
When we asked the Cicilline campaign about the delay, spokesman Eric Hyers said "there was absolutely not any plan to delay him, to do anything secretly or to stonewall him."
Hyers said Lombardi "had access to whatever he needed. He oftentimes had very unrealistic expectations as to what the turnaround time should be and how soon he should be provided with certain information. At times he assumed that City Hall officials were his own personal staff; they had their own jobs to do."
Hyers said "this constant tug of war over what he was entitled to and when he should have it was not unique to 2010. It started several, several years ago."
We saw two other examples.
In May, according to city records, Lombardi requested a cash flow analysis and was told by the Cicilline administration that (a.) one didn't exist and (b.) the administration was not obligated to generate one just for him under the open records law.
Also in May, he asked Bruce Miller, the city's finance director, for a schedule detailing how the Cicilline administration planned to balance the city's budget. He was told that, until the plan was finalized, he wasn't entitled to see it under the open records law.
Lombardi said he ultimately received the information he wanted in October 2010. That was after the Democratic primary, where Gemma was one of Cicilline's opponents, and before the general election, where Cicilline ran against Republican John Loughlin.
Loughlin was able to use that information in a Channel 12 debate, during which Cicilline, while touting his accomplishments as mayor, made the now-infamous declaration that Providence was in "excellent financial condition."
That record would become seriously tarnished after the election when an independent audit made the full extent of Providence's financial problems painfully clear.
Former Providence Mayor David Cicilline said that the internal auditor for the city "was not locked out" of access to the city's finances.
The auditor now says that he was not locked out in the usual sense of the word.
But there's a fine line between being locked out and stonewalled.
Cicilline's spokesman emphatically says that "neither of those happened."
But the record shows that Lombardi faced many months of delay in getting information he was entitled to by the City Charter. He was forced to use the state's open records law to get information and waited months for it.
And key information -- that Cicilline had been tapping the rainy day fund -- wasn't provided until October 2010, after Cicilline's primary victory.
Whether it was part of a long-running political wrangle between the mayor and the City Council, which hires the internal auditor, is irrelevant. Open record laws require the release of information regardless of the motives of the person seeking it.
The auditor was not locked out in the strictest sense. But the inability of the internal auditor to get information that might have led to a timely disclosure of the city's serious financial problems had the same effect.
Because the statement contains some element of truth but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, we rate it Mostly False.
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"We've brought in more than $81 billion in economic investment, more than four times any previous administration."
By Warren Fiske • January 14, 2022
630WPRO.com, "Video: Gemma & Cicilline focus on trust and jobs in debate," Sept. 4, 2012
Municode.com, "Providence, Rhode Island - Charter," Article VIII-816, accessed Sept. 5, 2012
Interview, James Lombardi, Providence city treasurer, Sept. 5, 2012
Interview, Eric Hyers, spokesman, U.S. Rep. David Cicilline, Sept. 6, 2012
The Providence Journal, "Auditor stymied by administration," Metro edition, Dec. 6, 2004; "Alarms about finances in 2009 went unheeded," March 3, 2011; "Cicilline says he had to use reserve fund," March 14, 2011
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Devices/Gadgets
Asus is said to be working on its first smartwatch based on Android Wear
By Asif Iqbal June 30th, 2014 AT 1:05 AM
As per a report by TechCrunch, Asus is working on its first smartwatch based on Android Wear. It is said to feature an AMOLED display and come at an affordable price. As per @evleaks, the device is codenamed as Robin and will be the thinnest smartwatch in its category. Google had announced the specialised version of Android for wearable devices such as smartwatches and smart glasses.
Currently, there are three smartwatches based on Android Wear; Motorola Moto 360, LG G Watch and Samsung Gear Live. The LG G Watch and Samsung Gear Live are already listed on Google Play Store for Rs 14,999 and Rs 15,999 respectively. The Motorola Moto G on the other hand is said to be pricier than both of these smartwatches. If Asus wants its smartwatch to be relatively affordable, they should price it close to Rs 10,000.
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The government of Ha Tinh Province said on Wednesday it will quickly set up a monitoring station to check wastewater discharged from a Taiwanese-invested steel plant, suspected to be responsible for the mass fish deaths along the central coast.
Dang Quoc Khanh, chairman of Ha Tinh People's Committee, told the press the construction of the station is "urgent" and the provincial government will finance the project, Zing.vn reported.
The Department of Natural Resources and Environment will oversee the project, he said.
He expected the onsite station at the plant of Hung Nghiep Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Company, a major firm in Vung Ang Economic Zone, will finish in one month.
The station will automatically collect and analyze samples from Formosa's sewage pipe and will be linked to existing stations managed by Ha Tinh's Department of Natural Resources and Environment.
Earlier on May 1, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc ordered the environment ministry and Ha Tinh authorities to build the station as soon as possible.
Hundreds of tons of fish were washed ashore in early April in Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue provinces, apparently killed by industrial effluents.
Suspicion has centered on Formosa, which admitted it has a large sewage pipe going straight into the sea. But it claimed all its discharged wastewater had been treated.
Officials have said they could not find any connection between Formosa's discharge and the disaster yet. Local and foreign scientists are assisting them in the investigation.
The environment ministry has admitted that response to the disaster was slow.


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module FSelector
#
# Bi-Normal Separation (BNS)
#
#     BNS = |F'(tpr) - F'(fpr)|
#
#     where F'(x) is the normal inverse cumulative distribution function
#     R equivalent: qnorm
#
# ref: [An extensive empirical study of feature selection metrics for text classification](http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=944974)
#
  class BiNormalSeparation < BaseDiscrete
    # this algo outputs weight for each feature
    @algo_type = :filter_by_feature_weighting

    private

    # calculate contribution of each feature (f) for each class (k)
    def calc_contribution(f)

      each_class do |k|
        a, b, c, d = get_A(f, k), get_B(f, k), get_C(f, k), get_D(f, k)

        s = 0.0
        x, y = a+c, b+d

        if not x.zero? and not y.zero?
          tpr, fpr = a/x, b/y

          R.eval "rv <- qnorm(#{tpr}) - qnorm(#{fpr})"
          s = R.rv.abs
        end

        set_feature_score(f, k, s)
      end
    end # calc_contribution

  end # class

  # shortcut so that you can use FSelector::BNS instead of FSelector::BiNormalSeparation
  BNS = BiNormalSeparation

end # module