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PALMER PARK, Md. - Prince George's County police are gearing up to crack down on illegal dirt bike and all-terrain vehicle riders this Labor Day holiday weekend.
Prince George's County police said these riders have become a bigger and bigger problem for them and the community. Back in June, about a hundred of them tore through the streets and sidewalks of National Harbor.
"That is when things kind of went to a new level for us," said Prince George's County Police Cpl. Tyler Hunter. "During a busy time, there were people on the sidewalks in a very populated area at the National Harbor. These bikes were up on the sidewalk and were causing danger. We have been receiving a flood of information - where these bikes are stored, who is operating them. We are getting a lot of community support, which is encouraging to us."
These illegal riders have caused issues on the streets of Washington D.C. and Virginia as well.
The enforcement operation this weekend targeting ATV and dirt bikes will involve 50 Prince George's County police officers and 25 Maryland State Police troopers. They will also have air support from both agencies.
But a new tool officers will be using this weekend is tire deflating devices similar to spike strips or stop sticks. These are specifically created to slowly and safely deflate the tires of off-road vehicles.
"This specific strip - the spike that is embedded in the tire is hollow - so instead of popping the tire or causing a very rapid deflation, it embeds itself in the tire and it basically lets the air out of a tire very slowly at a controlled rate, which allows the vehicle to come to a slower and more controlled stop," said Cpl. Hunter.
Police are also working off of surveillance images and tips trying to identify riders before they head out. Police are asking residents that if they see a pack of riders, and if it is safe to do so, to use their phones to capture photos or videos of these riders as well as call 911.


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Q: System.arrayCopy is slow I've been trying to measure the performance of the System.arrayCopy vs Arrays.copyOf in order to choose properly one of them. Just for the sake of benchmark I added manual copy as well and the result surprised me.
Obviously I'm missing something really important, could you, please, tell me, what it is? The implementation is as follows (see first 4 methods).
public class ArrayCopy {

    public static int[] createArray( int size ) {
        int[] array = new int[size];
        Random r = new Random();
        for ( int i = 0; i < size; i++ ) {
            array[i] = r.nextInt();
        }
        return array;
    }

    public static int[] copyByArraysCopyOf( int[] array, int size ) {
        return Arrays.copyOf( array, array.length + size );
    }

    public static int[] copyByEnlarge( int[] array, int size ) {
        return enlarge( array, size );
    }

    public static int[] copyManually( int[] array, int size ) {
        int[] newArray = new int[array.length + size];
        for ( int i = 0; i < array.length; i++ ) {
            newArray[i] = array[i];
        }
        return newArray;
    }

    private static void copyArray( int[] source, int[] target ) {
        System.arraycopy( source, 0, target, 0, Math.min( source.length, target.length ) );
    }

    private static int[] enlarge( int[] orig, int size ) {
        int[] newArray = new int[orig.length + size];
        copyArray( orig, newArray );
        return newArray;
    }

    public static void main( String... args ) {
        int[] array = createArray( 1000000 );
        int runs = 1000;
        int size = 1000000;
        System.out.println( "****************** warm up #1 ******************" );
        warmup( ArrayCopy::copyByArraysCopyOf, array, size, runs );
        warmup( ArrayCopy::copyByEnlarge, array, size, runs );
        warmup( ArrayCopy::copyManually, array, size, runs );
        System.out.println( "****************** warm up #2 ******************" );
        warmup( ArrayCopy::copyByArraysCopyOf, array, size, runs );
        warmup( ArrayCopy::copyByEnlarge, array, size, runs );
        warmup( ArrayCopy::copyManually, array, size, runs );
        System.out.println( "********************* test *********************" );
        System.out.print( "copyByArrayCopyOf" );
        runTest( ArrayCopy::copyByArraysCopyOf, array, size, runs );
        System.out.print( "copyByEnlarge" );
        runTest( ArrayCopy::copyByEnlarge, array, size, runs );
        System.out.print( "copyManually" );
        runTest( ArrayCopy::copyManually, array, size, runs );
    }

    private static void warmup( BiConsumer<int[], Integer> consumer, int[] array, int size, int runs ) {
        for ( int i = 0; i < runs; i++ ) {
            consumer.accept( array, size );
        }
    }

    private static void runTest( BiConsumer<int[], Integer> consumer, int[] array, int size, int runs ) {
        ThreadMXBean threadMXBean = ManagementFactory.getThreadMXBean();
        long currentCpuTime = threadMXBean.getCurrentThreadCpuTime();
        long nanoTime = System.nanoTime();
        for ( int i = 0; i < runs; i++ ) {
            consumer.accept( array, size );
        }
        System.out.println( "-time = " + ( ( System.nanoTime() - nanoTime ) / 10E6 ) + " ms. CPU time = " + ( ( threadMXBean.getCurrentThreadCpuTime() - currentCpuTime ) / 10E6 ) + " ms" );
    }
}

The result shows that manual copy performed around 30% better, as shown below:
****************** warm up #1 ******************
****************** warm up #2 ******************
********************* test *********************
copyByArrayCopyOf-time = 162.470107 ms. CPU time = 153.125 ms
copyByEnlarge-time = 168.6757949 ms. CPU time = 164.0625 ms
copyManually-time = 116.3975962 ms. CPU time = 110.9375 ms

I'm really confused, because I thought (and probably I still do) that System.arrayCopy due to its nativity is the best possible way to copy an array, but I cannot explain this result.

A: Using jmh, I get the results shown in the table below (size is the size of the array, score is the time in microseconds, error shows the confidence interval at 99.9%):
Benchmark              (size)  Mode  Cnt      Score     Error  Units
ArrayCopy.arrayCopy        10  avgt   60      0.022 ±   0.001  us/op
ArrayCopy.arrayCopy     10000  avgt   60      4.959 ±   0.068  us/op
ArrayCopy.arrayCopy  10000000  avgt   60  11906.870 ± 220.850  us/op
ArrayCopy.clone_           10  avgt   60      0.022 ±   0.001  us/op
ArrayCopy.clone_        10000  avgt   60      4.956 ±   0.068  us/op
ArrayCopy.clone_     10000000  avgt   60  10895.856 ± 208.369  us/op
ArrayCopy.copyOf           10  avgt   60      0.022 ±   0.001  us/op
ArrayCopy.copyOf        10000  avgt   60      4.958 ±   0.072  us/op
ArrayCopy.copyOf     10000000  avgt   60  11837.139 ± 220.452  us/op
ArrayCopy.loop             10  avgt   60      0.036 ±   0.001  us/op
ArrayCopy.loop          10000  avgt   60      5.872 ±   0.095  us/op
ArrayCopy.loop       10000000  avgt   60  11315.482 ± 217.348  us/op

In substance, loop seems to perform slightly better than arrayCopy for large arrays indeed - probably because the JIT is quite good at optimising such a simple loop. For smaller arrays, arrayCopy seems better (although the difference is quite small).
Note however that clone seems to be consistently as good as, or better than, the other options, depending on size. So I would go for clone, which also happens to be easier to use.

For reference, benchmark code, run with -wi 5 -w 1000ms -i 30 -r 1000ms -t 1 -f 2 -tu us:
@State(Scope.Thread)
@BenchmarkMode(Mode.AverageTime)
public class ArrayCopy {

  @Param({"10", "10000", "10000000"}) int size;

  private int[] array;

  @Setup(Level.Invocation) public void setup() {
    array = new int[size];
    for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
      array[i] = i;
    }
  }

  @Benchmark
  public int[] clone_() {
    int[] copy = array.clone();
    return copy;
  }

  @Benchmark
  public int[] arrayCopy() {
    int[] copy = new int[array.length];
    System.arraycopy(array, 0, copy, 0, array.length);
    return copy;
  }

  @Benchmark
  public int[] copyOf() {
    int[] copy = Arrays.copyOf(array, array.length);
    return copy;
  }

  @Benchmark
  public int[] loop() {
    int[] copy = new int[array.length];
    for (int i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
      copy[i] = array[i];
    }
    return copy;
  }
}

A: Actually, HotSpot compiler is smart enough to unroll and vectorize manual copy loop - that's why the result code appears to be well optimized.
Why is System.arraycopy slower then? It is originally a native method, and you have to pay for a native call until the compiler optimizes it as JVM intrinsic.
However, in your test the compiler does not have a chance for such optimization, because enlarge method is not called many enough times (i.e. it is not considered as hot).
I'll show you a funny trick to force the optimization. Rewrite enlarge method as follows:
private static int[] enlarge(int[] array, int size) {
    for (int i = 0; i < 10000; i++) { /* fool the JIT */ }

    int[] newArray = new int[array.length + size];
    System.arraycopy(array, 0, newArray, 0, array.length);
    return newArray;
}

An empty loop triggers a backedge counter overflow, which in turn triggers the compilation of enlarge method. The empty loop is then eliminated from the compiled code, so it is harmless. Now enlarge method gets about 1.5x faster than the manual loop!
It is important that System.arraycopy immediately follows new int[]. In this case HotSpot can optimize away the redundant zeroing of newly allocated array. You know, all Java objects must be zeroed right after creation. But as far as compiler detects that the array is filled right after creation, it may eliminate zeroing, thus making the result code yet faster.
P.S. @assylias' benchmark is good, but it also suffers from the fact that System.arraycopy is not intrinsified for the large arrays. In case of small arrays arrayCopy benchmark is called many times per second, JIT considers it hot and optimizes well. But for large arrays each iteration is longer, so there is a lot less iterations per second, and JIT does not treat arrayCopy as hot.

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Journalist or soldier? Meduza dissects allegations that Roman Protasevich (arrested in the Ryanair Minsk incident) served with a neo-Nazi Ukrainian paramilitary unit
Azov Battalion volunteer recruits take their oath during a ceremony in Kyiv on August 14, 2015
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The head of the Belarusian KGB is directing the public's attention to Roman Protasevich's past activities in eastern Ukraine, apparently hoping to bolster allegations against the opposition journalist, whom state officials arrested earlier this week after his international passenger flight was diverted from Lithuania and forced to land in Minsk. Pro-government news outlets and bloggers in Belarus and Russia have also reported that Protasevich fought with the ultra-nationalist Azov Battalion in eastern Ukraine as a mercenary. Meduza breaks down the evidence to support these claims and weighs how they matter in Protasevich's case.
On May 26, during a meeting with President Alexander Lukashenko and members of the Belarusian Parliament, KGB Chairman Ivan Tertel argued that Protasevich's supposed combat experience in Ukraine puts "blood" on his hands:
It's undeniable that this individual fully meets the definitions of a terrorist, a mercenary, and a participant in many blood-soaked events perpetrated by the infamous Azov Battalion and the deaths of civilians in southeastern Ukraine. And this isn't based just on our data and investigations but also on the facts presented in the media with Protasevich's personal confessions, which are widely available.
Almost as soon as Protasevich was arrested at the airport in Minsk, pro-government news outlets and Telegram channels in Belarus and Russia started aggressively promoting claims that the journalist fought in the Azov Battalion. One of the first to advance this theory was Anatoly Shariy, a pro-Russian blogger in Ukraine who posted the cover page of the Azov Battalion's Black Sun magazine from July 2015, which features a man armed and in uniform who looks like Roman Protasevich. As further evidence of Protasevich's participation in Azov, Shariy ran the image through facial recognition software and declared that "separate programs" confirmed the resemblance.
In an interview last September with Russian YouTube star Yury Dud, Protasevich said he'd spent time inside Ukraine's war zone and freelanced for a year as a journalist doing camerawork. He never joined the fight, Protasevich told Dud, but he was wounded at the front.
Pro-government media outlets in Belarus and Russia have tried to refute any claims that Protasevich wasn't an active combatant in eastern Ukraine. "He said he was just covering events as a correspondent for Radio Liberty, [but] there is correspondence where Ukrainian nationalists — members of the Azov Battalion — talk about Protasevich. He was there at the line of contact, and the fact is that he was on the side of the Azov national corps," argued Russia Today employee Konstantin Pridybailo.
Meanwhile, Komsomolskaya Pravda journalist and pro-Kremlin columnist Alexander Kots shared a clip from an interview Current Time conducted with Protasevich's father during mass protests in Minsk in August 2020 where he said, "They started opening cases against my son back in 2014 when he was in the Donbas and fighting on Ukraine's side."
"Oops, who do we have here? A journalist who looks like Roman Protasevich? Or is it a Protasevich who looks like a freelancer? I'm confused."
Next, on May 26, the pro-government Belarusian Telegram channel Zheltye Slivy published two photographs showing a man who closely resembles Protasevich posing in tactical gear with a rifle. Kots also shared screenshots from archival footage of the Azov Battalion featuring a man who looks very much like Protasevich lined up with other soldiers.
"An Azov parade in Mariupol in 2015. Protasevich."
Other bloggers and media outlets sympathetic to Alexander Lukashenko have pointed out that one of the same photographs allegedly depicting Protasevich in uniform also appears as the cover image (albeit with the face obscured) in a Radio Liberty interview from September 2015 with an anonymous Azov Battalion soldier identified only as "Kim."
One of many Belarusian fighters in the so-called "Pogonya" (Pursuit) detachment, "Kim" said he was "serving now in Mariupol" and warned that the "war isn't just for Ukraine but also for Belarus" because "our country could be next if the Russian Putinist horde isn't stopped now." He also said he'd been in combat against soldiers from Russia and sustained an injury.
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'I'm proud of my son. He's a hero' Meduza speaks to the mother of jailed Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich
But not everything "Kim" told Radio Liberty lines up with Protasevich's biography: he claimed to be 22 years old, though Protasevich was only 20 at the time.
This wasn't the only interview with "Kim." When he spoke to the Ukrainian news outlet Focus in June 2015, he described himself as a journalist without combat experience or formal military schooling, though he said he underwent training with the Azov Battalion.
On May 26, Azov founder Andriy Biletsky stated on his Telegram channel that Protasevich never fought with the battalion:
Roman was indeed together with Azov and other military units that fought against the occupation of Ukraine, though his weapon as a journalist wasn't an automatic rifle but the written word.
In an interview with Meduza, Protasevich's mother Natalia also denied her son's combat role in Ukraine, saying, "He was there as a journalist. All this [about him fighting] is a bunch of nonsense. We were already asked all these questions. He went there as a photographer and a freelance journalist." Protasevich's father, whose claim that his son "fought on Ukraine's side" has been circulated widely, now says, "I don't know myself about him fighting in the Donbas." He also told Current Time, which conducted the initial interview in August 2020, that his words have been misinterpreted:
When there's a battle happening and a war is going on, and they're shooting all around you, do people just stand around? They're participating in war, right? He was there as a journalist, as part of a camera crew.
On May 27, the independent Belarusian news outlet Nasha Niva spoke to an anonymous Azov soldier who offered a different explanation for the photographs showing an armed Protasevich in uniform:
I remember him in Urzuf [outside Mariupol, where Azov operated a training base]. He was this young guy. Biletsky didn't trust him because he showed up and started with "So where are the other Belarusians? Let me at 'em." People figured he was collecting information, so there was never much trust and they didn't involve him in any operations. He did a bit of basic training, took some selfies with a weapon at the shooting range, and probably realized that he wouldn't be joining the team, so he left. Did he fight? If so, I don't think it was with Azov.
So what's all this mean?
The debate about Roman Protasevich's alleged combat experience in Ukraine with the Azov Battalion adds little to the Belarusian authorities' felony allegations against him. KGB Chairman Ivan Tertel hasn't even tried to explain how Protasevich's arrest in Minsk relates to anything that happened in the Donbas, except to say that Protasevich "actively used" his fighting experience after returning to Belarus. The only example he's offered, however, is that the journalist "is the head of one of the online channels we've legally designated as extremist."
Back in 2014, however, Tertel's predecessor Valery Vakulchik declared that any Belarusian national who fought on either side in the war in eastern Ukraine could face criminal prosecution back home for illegal mercenary activity. In 2017, a court in Gomel handed down the first of these convictions, sentencing Vitaly Kotlobay to two years in prison for fighting with the self-declared Luhansk People's Republic. According to an investigation published in February 2018 by the Polish television network Belsat TV, roughly 1,000 Belarusian nationals fought in Ukraine.
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Die Vaahteraliiga 2021 war die 42. Saison der Vaahteraliiga, der höchsten Spielklasse des American Football in Finnland. Sie begann am 12. Juni und endete am 12. September 2021 mit dem Vaahteramalja XLII (auch Maple Bowl XLII), dem Finale um die finnische Meisterschaft. Ursprünglich sollte die Saison bereits im Mai beginnen und mehr Spiele in der regulären Spielzeit beinhalten, doch machte die COVID-19-Pandemie wie im Vorjahr eine Verkürzung notwendig. Die Kuopio Steelers konnten ihren Titel erfolgreich verteidigen. Als bester Ligaspieler wurde der Linebacker Maurice Wright Jr ausgezeichnet.

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Die sieben Teams bestreiten eine acht Spiele umfassende reguläre Saison. Die besten vier Teams der regulären Saison erreichen die Play-offs, in denen das bestplatzierte gegen das viertplatzierte Team sowie der Zweite gegen den Dritten im Halbfinale antritt. Im Vergleich zur Vorsaison wurde das Teilnehmerfeld mit den United Newland Crusaders um ein Team erweitert.

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Play-offs

Halbfinale

Vaahteramalja XLII

Auszeichnungen

All Stars 2021

Awards
 Liga-MVP (Vuoden liigapelaaja): Maurice Wright, LB, Kuopio Steelers
 Offensiv-Spieler des Jahres (Vuoden Hyökkääjä): Le'Anthony Reasnover, RB, Kuopio Steelers
 Defensiv-Spieler des Jahres (Matti Lindholm Trophy): Jaska Värinen, LB, Seinäjoki Crocodiles
 Bester Line-Spieler: Semmie Radji, DE, Kuopio Steelers
 Leader des Jahres (Ari Tuuli Trophy): Mikko Seppänen, WR/P, Porvoon Butchers
 Bester Newcomer (Vuoden Tulokas): Hannes Harju, WR, Kuopio Steelers

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 Offizielle Website des finnischen American-Football-Verbands (finnisch)
 Saison  2021 auf sajl.org (englisch)
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Luxe Performance Style with a Sustainabilty Focus
Fashion-forward women's activewear brand Koral uses the phrase "designed to perform" as a core theme in its latest spring drop. Garments are made with antimicrobial, ultra-breathable fabrics and boast unique shades and textures designed to "accentuate and celebrate the female form," according to the brand. Additionally, the Koral team says it is committed to reducing fast fashion waste, bringing long-lasting, sustainably crafted designs to market. Koral's Netz, Seamless, high-performance compression, and ribbed Lycra fabrics are constructed from recycled yarn.
Court Style with On-Trend Vibes
Fila has partnered with Christopher Bevans as a guest designer and creative collaborator on its new spring tennis line, the Bevans Park Collection. The second design collaboration between Fila and Bevans, this apparel line builds on the launch of the brand's tennis-inspired Fila Renno x Bevans footwear released last September.
Bevans, known for his design work with streetwear and athletic brands, as well as for dressing top athletes and celebrities, is a longtime tennis fan and tennis player. In this partnership, the aim is to merge Fila and Bevans' similar design aesthetic of creating activewear for optimum performance while maintaining classic and on-trend silhouettes.
The line is described as featuring "hues that would be vibrant in the desert sun." The garments have a nature-inspired palette, eclectic prints and high performance fabrics. In a palette of white, navy, green, pink, teal and hints of orange, the collection features geometric patterns and sonic wave designs, which are meant to highlight the expression of energy as it relates to a player's game.
"As someone who plays the game myself, I know that designing for optimum performance is the priority," says Bevans. "I wanted to create pieces that would enhance and not impede on the game, while at the same time, share my creative point of view and bring a unique new style and energy to the court."
The 42-piece collection features a range of silhouettes including tennis dresses, tanks, skorts, shorts, a long sleeve tee, a jacket, and pants. The Bevans Park Collection ranges from $60 - $100.
Yoga Style with Eco Elements
The newest yoga collection from Puma, called Exhale, is an eco-conscious line designed in collaboration with model and actress Cara Delevingne. All bras, tights and layering pieces in the line are made from at least 20% recycled materials. Standouts in the line include the Exhale Crop Top, a layering piece made from recycled heathered cotton spandex and featuring 87% recycled polyester power mesh cap sleeves. The top's design also focuses on feminine details such as a ballet-inspired scoop back. Another standout is the Low Impact Exhale Bra, which features recycled heathered cotton spandex and adjustable straps. And the line's Exhale Full Tight has a contoured high waistband (with a pocket) and features recycled heathered cotton spandex material.
Supportive Style & Merino Wool in a Sports Bra
A quality sports bra is a must-have for active women. This one is a standout. The PanAlp Wool Sports Bra #5555 from Anita, available in sizes A-G, 32-42, is made with high-quality sustainable Merino Wool in the inner cup, back and straps while the outer cup is made of ultralight mesh fabric. Merino Wool is a soft, breathable and temperature regulating material that is cooling in the summer and warming in the winter, making it an unexpected yet extremely functional fabric for Sports Bras. The bra retails for $85 and is in stock now from Anita.
Mountain Style with a Rental Twist
Hardgoods rentals in the ski and snowsports world have been the normal course of business for decades. Can apparel rental in the performance space take off as well? Gore-Tex thinks so.
The "Outerwear On Demand" garment rental program for winter snowsports currently offers access to Gore-Tex branded snowsports apparel via rental at 15 different resort and retail locations throughout North America. The program is planned to grow to additional locations in coming seasons.
Each item in the Outerwear on Demand collection is an exclusive Gore-Tex garment. The target market includes both experienced and beginner snowsports participants. Occasional skiers and snowboarders may not yet be ready to invest in their own gear, and would seek to rent performance apparel. And experienced users may be looking to try something new, particularly if they are traveling light.
Gore-Tex also sees upside for the environmentally conscious consumer who might prefer "usership" to "ownership."
"We've set out to create a very technical, very durable line of clothing that will stand up to frequent use and cleaning, providing consumers the Gore-Tex Product Experience and a convenient alternative to purchasing when it comes to outfitting themselves for winter adventure," says Chris Brennan, product specialist - innovation, fabrics division, Gore.
Each mix-and-match top and bottom is made with Gore-Tex fabric and includes details such as adaptable fit features, integrated snow barriers and ventilation elements, Primaloft Silver insulation, patented Cohaesive Drawcord System, RECCO reflectors, and more.
Following a rental, each garment will undergo a multi-point inspection process, after which it will be cleaned locally to lessen the carbon footprint of shipping, then repackaged for next use. Consumers can rent online or in-person and pick up at any of the 15 participating locations — these currently include resorts and retailers in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and Whistler, BC.
Adidas /Spinnova
Sustainable Style Collaboration
Eight months after Adidas announced its partnership with Finnish textile material company Spinnova, the brand has unveiled its first product made in part with Spinnova fibers. A mid-layer for hikers, the Adidas Terrex HS1 is composed of a minimum of 25% wood-based fibers and 75% organic cotton.
The collab makes sense as part of Adidas' commitment to helping end plastic waste via a three-loop strategy that consists of using recycled materials, materials that can be remade into entirely new products, and products created in part with natural ingredients. By 2025, Adidas says that nine out of 10 Adidas articles will carry a more sustainable technology, material, design, or method of manufacturing.
"Progress is about learning and constantly moving forward — and for Adidas this also means partnering to innovate in new areas," says Carla Murphy, GM of the Adidas outdoor brand Adidas Terrex. "At Terrex, we are on a journey to drive greater sustainability of our technical apparel and we're constantly looking to find new ways to help end plastic waste. Working with Spinnova is another step on this journey."
The first product to emerge from this partnership, the Adidas Terrex HS1 is a multi-functional, unisex mid-layer designed to work on the trails — and it also rolls up into its hood for easy storage or to create a pillow on longer adventures. Made in part with Spinnova technology, a minimum of 25% of the fabric in garment comes from wood-based fibers that are mechanically grinded to avoid the use of harmful chemicals. Working with the material's natural color and without using any dying or bleaching chemicals, it also uses less water than the standard dyeing process.
A limited number of the the Adidas Terrex HS1 midlayer will be available on the brand's website and at select retailers beginning in July.
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8 great rape jokes to highlight Sexual Assault Awareness Month
April 23, 2019 April 23, 2019 Rosa Escandon 0 Comments adrienne truscott, amy schumer, cameron esposito, college humor, ever mainard, hannah gadsby, heather jordan ross, Inside Amy Schumer, list, nanette, rape jokes, sexual assault, sexual assault awareness month, wanda sykes
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Stand-up comedy has always had a complicated relationship with sexual assault. Rape jokes happen often in comedy. Many notable comedians make them including Dave Chappelle, Louis C.K., Daniel Tosh, George Carlin, and Sarah Silverman. If you Google "rape jokes," you'll find a lot of think pieces debating whether or not you 'can' joke about the touchy topic. While these jokes are common, some people
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Amy Schumer hates people with happy pregnancies in Netflix trailer
February 26, 2019 February 26, 2019 Seema Dhawan 0 Comments amy schumer, amy schumer growing, amy schumer netflix special, Netflix
The trailer for Amy Schumer's second Netflix special, Growing, is out and it's clear Schumer continues to keep it real during her pregnancy. Amy Schumer: Growing debuts on March 19 and will show Schumer talking about the trials of pregnancy, being a bridesmaid in your late thirties, and marital bliss. In the trailer, Schumer shares that even though someone is pregnant you don't start to change who you are, unlike
Amy Schumer tour dates canceled amid pregnancy complications
February 25, 2019 Mary Stevens 0 Comments amy schumer, amy schumer pregnant, amy schumer tour
Amy Schumer canceled her remaining tour dates due to pregnancy complications over the weekend. While Schumer is uncomfortably ill, she assured her fans that, "the baby and I are healthy and everything looks good." On Saturday, Schumer posted on Instagram that she needed to cancel the remainder of her tour for both her and her baby's health. Schumer began her current national tour in November in New York. She was
Amy Schumer announces second Netflix comedy special
February 12, 2019 Rosa Escandon 0 Comments amy schumer, amy schumer growing, amy schumer netflix special, Netflix
Amy Schumer is coming out with a new Netflix special. The comedian, who has proven she won't be stopped no matter what's growing inside her, will cover marriage and pregnancy in the new comedy special. If you've been living under a rock: Amy Schumer is pregnant. The star has been very open about her pregnancy, morning sickness, and all of the issues surrounding her pregnancy on social media. The I
Is Amy Schumer pregnant with twins? Mysterious post spawns rumors
February 11, 2019 February 11, 2019 Mary Stevens 0 Comments amy schumer, amy schumer pregnant, amy schumer twins
Is Amy Schumer having twins? The pregnant stand-up comic teased her 7.8 million Instagram followers with a post on Sunday featuring iconic twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen wearing black coats and smoking cigarettes. Schumer posted, "Special announcement coming Tuesday! (It is unrelated to the Olson [sic] twins)." Schumer has not posted any mysterious messages on Twitter in the past day. View this post on Instagram Special announcement coming
Holiday shopping gift guide based on their favorite comedian
December 10, 2018 December 9, 2018 Bronwyn Isaac 0 Comments amy schumer, christmas, dave chappelle, eddie pepitone, holiday shopping, list, margaret cho, maria bamford
Picking out the best gifts for your loved ones can feel like a never-ending maze of lofty price tags and vague memories of shoes they said they liked years ago. Of course, in concept, the best gifts are deeply personal—a weird lamp that made you think of your sister or a bear-shaped lighter that just screams Uncle Dan. But finding the inspiration for these intimate gifts is much harder than
Amy Schumer shares pregnancy struggles on Instagram in heartfelt post
November 28, 2018 Rosa Escandon 0 Comments amy schumer, amy schumer pregnant, instagram
Amy Schumer posted a new video about her pregnancy on Instagram, which is as gross as it is unflinchingly real. The Trainwreck star announced the pregnancy last month. News pic.twitter.com/UBe1ZQq5Yz — Amy Schumer (@amyschumer) October 23, 2018 Since then, Schumer hasn't been shy posting about her impending firstborn. She often shows off her bump in Instagram posts and tweets. The comedian seems to be excited about expecting her first child
Amy Schumer hospitalized for hyperemesis gravidarum
November 16, 2018 Billy Procida 0 Comments amy schumer, amy schumer hospitalized, amy schumer pregnant, instagram
Amy Schumer was hospitalized Thursday due to pregnancy complications. "I am in the hospital. I'm fine. Baby's fine," the I Feel Pretty star shared on Instagram. "But everyone who says the 2nd trimester is better is not telling the full story." Schumer is suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum which causes intense nausea. "I have hyperemesis and it blows," she continued. "Very lucky to be pregnant but this is some bullshit! Sending
Pregnant Amy Schumer announces more tour dates, podcast second season because she can't be stopped
November 8, 2018 Allison Kilkenny 0 Comments 3 girls 1 keith, amy schumer, amy schumer podcast, amy schumer tour
Comedian Amy Schumer has had a busy year. In addition to getting arrested while protesting Brett Kavanaugh and standing up for Colin Kaepernick, Schumer announced some new tour dates and the second season of her podcast Amy Schumer Presents: 3 Girls, 1 Keith. The $1 million podcast from Spotify features the I Feel Pretty star with Bridget Everett, Rachel Feinstein, and Keith Robinson. Schumer just added a show in Brooklyn
Perez Hilton claims Amy Schumer career was a 'moment'
November 1, 2018 Billy Procida 0 Comments amy schumer, amy schumer perez hilton, instagram, NFL, perez hilton, super bowl
Amy Schumer and Perez Hilton are beefing out in the open and people are paying attention to the latest celebrity feud. Hilton, a celebrity gossip blogger, made a video post on Instagram this Monday promoting a new episode of his podcast. In a video preview clip, he and his co-host Chris Booker discuss the comedian's recent call for Maroon 5 to drop out of the Super Bowl halftime show and
Amy Schumer pregnant in sneaky Instagram announcement
October 23, 2018 October 23, 2018 Betsy Farber 0 Comments amy schumer, amy schumer pregnant, chris fischer, instagram, jessica yellin
Amy Schumer and her husband, chef Chris Fischer, are expecting a baby. The pregnant Schumer made a very mysterious Instagram post Monday afternoon. The image featured the heads of her and her husband with the bodies of Prince Harry and the Duchess of Sussex (the royal couple recently announced their pregnancy and seems like the I'm Pretty star is dropping hints for future playdates). The caption told fans she'd be
Amy Schumer and 7 comedians with odd arrest records
October 18, 2018 October 17, 2018 Rosa Escandon 0 Comments amy schumer, arrest, chelsea handler, george carlin, jake flores, katt williams, lenny bruce, paul reubens, richard pryor, tj miller
Comedian Amy Schumer was arrested in Washington, D.C. earlier this month while protesting the confirmation of then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. She joins a long list of comedians with a police record, so there's no chance this is a comprehensive list. While they might not have as good of a reason for their arrests as Schumer, there are some pretty crazy stories to be found when comedians run into trouble
Amy Schumer arrested at #CancelKavanaugh protest in Washington, D.C.
October 4, 2018 March 25, 2019 Billy Procida 1 Comment amy schumer, amy schumer arrested, amy schumer protest, brett kavanaugh, cancel kavanaugh protest
Amy Schumer was detained Thursday while protesting Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Thousands rallied in Washington, D.C. to oppose the federal judge who has been accused of sexual misconduct by three different women during his high school and college years. Schumer—along with celebrities like John Legend, Whoopi Goldberg, and Lena Dunham—promoted the #CancelKavanaugh protest outside the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse. Protesters later moved to the Hart Senate Office where
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Laughspin Podcast – episode 116: Kevin Meaney, Amy Schumer, Seeso
October 27, 2016 October 27, 2016 Laughspin Staff 0 Comments amy schumer, kevin meaney, Laughspin Podcast, Seeso
This week on The Laughspin Podcast, Dylan and Mike chat about the sad, untimely death of comedian Kevin Meaney, why, it seems, Amy Schumer is constantly in trouble, how this absolutely insane presidential election season has affected the comedy world – especially Saturday Night Live – and all the cool, exclusive streaming comedy currently being put out by Seeso. In fact, this episode is sponsored by Seeso, the all-comedy streaming
Amy Schumer, Goldie Hawn perform ode to Beyonce 'Formation' video
October 22, 2016 Laughspin Staff 0 Comments amy schumer, Beyonce, Goldie Hawn, stephen colbert
Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn teamed up for an ode to Beyonce's "Formation" video while on set for their movie Mother/Daughter. Although there isn't a great deal of information about the upcoming flick, in which Hawn plays Schumer's mother, we do know it was shot in Hawaii. While promoting her new book The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Schumer explained that Hawaii "didn't


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Joe Pesci Told Louis C.K. He's 'No Good' At Stand-up Before Lecturing Him On Pleasing A Lady
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Louis C.K.'s Monday appearance on The Howard Stern Show was packed with all kinds of goodies. At one point, the comedian bantered back and forth with the shock jock about how his controversial Saturday Night Live monologue was legitimated by ex-Subway pitchman Jared Fogle's arrest and imprisonment. However, one of the more fetching gems concerned C.K.'s self-distributed show, Horace and Pete, and how he'd originally written the part of Pete (Steve Buscemi) for Joe Pesci. That's because C.K. and Pesci had a very interesting phone conversation and in-person meeting, and it was the stuff of legend.
It all started when the 48-year-old comedian got a hold of the 73-year-old Goodfellas actor's phone number. Turns out Pesci isn't fond of random people he doesn't know — even someone as famous as C.K. — having his phone number:
"I got Joe Pesci's phone number. My manager got it and I called him. He said, 'Where the fuck did you get my phone number?' It was the first thing he said. He said, 'I don't know you! I don't know you.' He said, 'I watched some of your stuff after I got…' Because I left him a message. He said, 'I watched your stand-up, which I can tell you're just trying that and you're no good at it.' He told me, 'You're no good at stand-up.' He said, 'Quit that now!'"
When Stern and co-host Robin Quivers were finally able to stop laughing, the former asked if Pesci had been joking. According to C.K., the actor had not been kidding — his unsolicited professional advice to the Emmy Award-winning comedian was genuine.
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Minister of Environment expresses worry over felling of tree
By; SANI ALIYU, Zaria.
The Minister of Environment Hajiya Amina Mohammed has expressed serious concern over incessant felling of trees in the country.
The Minister stated this at 2016 annual Tree Planting Campaign of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) with the theme "Go Wild for Life: Zero Tolerance For Illegal Trade In Wild Life" and sub-theme: "Reawakening Campaign For Sustainable Tree Planting" held at the main campus of the institution in Samaru, Zaria in Kaduna State.
Represented by the State Minister, Alhaji Ibrahim Usman-Jibril, she lauded the efforts of University for maintaining greenish environment for many decades.
He stressed the need for issues between herdsmen and farmers to be addressed through afforestation to pave way for calmness in the society.
In his message, Gov. Nasiru el-Rufa'i of Kaduna State said his administration was targeting planting about 1.5 million seedlings of trees every year in the next three years.
El-Rufa'i, who was represented by the state Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Mr Manzo Daniel said they have already commenced planting of 1.8 million trees this year to effectively tackle desert encroachment.
"Our plan is to plant 1.8 million seedlings this year and only trees that are used to respective environment that will be planted. We shall continue to plant not less than 1.5 million seedlings annually.
"Kaduna is really threatened environmentally, in view of the fact that most of the states neighboring Kaduna up-North are already affected by desertification," he said.
El-Rufa'i said the seedlings to be planted would be provided to people free of charge, adding that people were already trained on how to plant the trees and they would in turn train the larger society.
The governor said his administration would use the programme to create employment opportunities to over 30,000 unemployed youth who would be engaged in the exercise.
Earlier, the Vice-Chancellor of ABU, Prof. Ibrahim Garba observed that trees contribute immensely to peaceful coexistence of man.
The V-C said the university was planning to reinvigorate its partnership with federal and state ministries of environment, non-governmental organisations and other key stakeholders in the industry towards greener environment.
While assuring that over 630,000 trees were planted by the university in the last 19 years, Garba seek assistance from stakeholders to restore the university's biological garden.
Also in an address, the former V-C of the University, Prof. Ango Abdullahi advocated for establishment of Arizon Development Commission to deal with issues of deforestation, apart from social and economic problems of people in the area.
According to him, the commission, if established, would strive to address what lead to felling of trees in the area.
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Exposing The Young Turks – Clinton & Disney's Fake 'Progressives'
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By Robbie Jaeger
By Guest Author Last updated Mar 13, 2020
Robbie Jaeger
How Corporate Money and Hypocrisy turned TYT into MSM
Information is the most valuable commodity on Earth. This has been, and continues to be, proven time and time again. The elites of the world are where they are because somewhere along the line, they gained control over the flow of information; they dictated what to tell, who to tell, and most frighteningly, if they should tell at all. The "Haves" keep the "Have Nots" in the dark — so, naturally, they search for a light switch. People are constantly searching for a source of news that hasn't been contaminated by the influence of those who would want us to remain ignorant, an outlet where advertising revenue takes a back burner to the virtue of the message.
For 17 years, millions of people have tuned in to The Young Turks because they thought they had found just that. Cenk Uygur's creation appeared like a beacon of hope for "Independent Media" that shone it's light on all the ugliness that hides in the shadows on both sides of the aisle. They tore down Republicans and took centrist Democrats to task on a regular basis. They rallied against lobbyists and corporations that have bought their way into the halls of Congress. "The Home of Progressives" — that's what they call themselves. But what happens when the well of independence runs dry? Do you drink from the overflowing cups of the establishment that you've spent a lifetime rallying against? If you're Uygur, the answer was disappointingly "yes", and it begs another question: Is it possible to do so without compromising your fundamentals?
In August of 2017, Cenk Uygur struck a deal for $20 million in funding, partly from big time Clinton backer Jeffrey Katzenberg, but it wasn't the first time he had done so. Three years earlier, Uygur received a $4 million investment from former Republican Governor of Louisiana Buddy Roemer. People scratched their heads. How could a conservative be funding a progressive network? It didn't appear to change the message however, and TYT continued to rage against the machine.
What largely went unnoticed at the time is that another member was added to the TYT board: Kenan Turnacioglu, a limited partner at venture capitalist firm Pointstate Capital. By the time the 2016 election rolled around, Turnacioglu and his firm were throwing money behind their interests, and they were anything but progressive. Turnacioglu himself donated $3,000 to Hillary Clinton — in the primary. He also donated $2,700 to John Kasich, and $10,000 to Cenk Uygur's WolfPAC. Interestingly enough, Turnacioglu's boss — Pointstate's chairman — donated $36,000 to Clinton in 2016, $25,000 to then-Speaker Richard Boehner, and even $2,700 to Chris Christie.
Think about that. A member of The Young Turks' board was actively donating to Hillary Clinton during the 2016 Primary, a time when Bernie Sanders needed all the help he could get against a media and party that rigged the game against him. As it turns out, TYT is connected and financed by the very people who they claim to oppose, and it permeates throughout the network.
Before Turnacioglu came along, Uygur had been joined on the board by Jam City founder Josh Yguado. Prior to founding the startup, Yguado served as the Vice President of FOX Networks Group from '04 to '09. His wife was head of FOX International Studios, eventually leaving to lead the Event Series department at Amazon Studios.
The more you examine the power structure, the more obviously corporate it appears to become. TYT has fought agianst Mainstream Media for years — but is there really anything that sets them apart on a fundamental level? The Young Turks' senior and upper level staff has become a revolving door of corporate media lifers, such as Managing Editor and Executive Producer Jonathan Larsen. Larsen was an Executive Producer at Al-Jazeera, and prior to that worked in the same role for some pretty big names at some of the most prominent news outlets in the country.
His credits include being producer for Anderson Cooper 360, Rachel Maddow's Air America radio show, "Up" with Chris Hayes and "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann. The man who has the most control over the editorial process at The Young Turks spent almost two decades working for CNN and MSNBC, and now they want viewers to trust his judgment when it comes to promoting the Progressive platform. It's a tough pill to swallow. Almost every major network, including Walt Disney Studios, is represented in the backgrounds of the ones who work behind the scenes. For an "independent" institution, their management would fit right in at just about any corporate media company.
When The Young Turks got their $20 million dollars in August of 2017, all the buzz was about Dreamworks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg — for good reason. Katzenberg himself donated almost $1,000,000 to Hillary Clinton and related PACs, and another $1,000,000 to Priorities USA in 2016. That same cycle, Dreamworks employees donated almost $400,000 to establishment Democrats — Clinton ($30,000), Chuck Schumer ($21,600), Debbie Wasserman-Schultz ($21,600) and Kamala Harris ($16,350) took home the most that year. Bernie Sanders managed to grab $1,197 — for his Senate run.
That number went up during the 2018 midterms, with Dreamworks employees upping the ante to $550,000 donated with the top recipients being Elizabeth Warren ($19,000), Tim Kaine ($18,200) and Amy Kobluchar ($16,200). Wasserman-Schultz ($5,400) and Mitt Romney ($2,700) even got some love. Two cycles, almost $1,000,000 in donations; and the most progressive among the ranks, Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard, got nothing. People were right to be concerned.
This guy was going to fund the biggest outlet for the Progressive agenda? And while Katzenberg was eating up the headlines, smaller details of the investment seemingly flew under the radar, namely the fact that while Katzenberg is listed as a "Partner" on the deal, he is not listed as the "Primary Investor" according to CrunchBase. That honor belonged to a brand new investment firm, 3L Capital. In the deal, their founder Shawn Colo added his seat to the TYT board.
Colo is a career equity investor and venture capitalist who got $100 million in funding from Goldman Sachs and started his own company, Demand Media (Leaf Group) in 2006. In 2016, Demand Media employees donated a meager $3,700 to campaigns, with less than $370 going to Bernie Sanders. Colo himself seems to favor establishment politicians, as indicated by a picture posted on social media of his significant other posing with Chuck Schumer. The caption read: "Our favorite Senator".
The hypocrisy of The Young Turks railing against Wall St. for years and then taking millions of dollars from a man who made all of his money from Goldman Sachs is palpable; and it should bother you.
The other major player in the $20 million investment was Greycroft, a very large and influential investment firm founded by none other that Alan Patricof, one of the most connected men in political finance sphere. He stayed at the White House while Bill Clinton was President. He was Hillary Clinton's national finance chairman for both her '08 and '16 Presidential runs. His firm handles $1,250,000 of California Senator Dianna Feinstein's wealth. Just how connected is Alan Patricof?
Well, he even made it into Jeffrey Epstein's "Black Book". In 2016, Greycroft employees donated almost $68,000 to political campaigns; the vast majority to Clinton. Patricof himself donated almost $63,000 to Hillary and PACs that supported her. In both cases, Sanders got zero. 4 months after the massive investment, in December of 2016, TYT hired 30 year media veteran and executive Deanna Brown to a newly created President position. Brown had been VP of Yahoo and President of Scripps, to name just a few of her many upper level and executive positions at numerous major media companies.
One such company was Lorne Michael's Broadway Video, who hired Brown in April of 2017 to head up a 'stealth project' named "Sanctuary". Sanctuary is/was an subscription based service that combines elements of astrology and social media, or at least is marketed as such. Sanctuary had one investment made of $1.5 million to fund it's development. That investor? Greycroft. Deanna Brown left TYT last year, but it's still kind of funny how things work out, isn't it?
The Young Turks' establishment infiltration may not be exclusive to the members of the board and the senior level staff, however; it also may be infecting the on-air talent. That brings us to Emma Vigeland. Vigeland is the daughter of two former US Attorneys, who were also both head of the Major Crimes division in a very major district. After prosecuting Wall St. for years, both parents found their way into defending Fortune 500 corporations against white collar crimes for very large and successful private firms.
When 180 former federal prosecutors petitioned Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein for a Special Counsel to oversee the Russia Investigation, both her parents were amongst their ranks. One of Vigeland's parents in particular donated $20,000 in 2016, with $6,000 going to the Hillary Victory Fund during the primaries. She also donated $3,000 to Off the Sidelines PAC (listed recipient is Kamala Harris) and $2,700 to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. Speaking of Gillibrand, in 2010, the same parent was a "Host" for a Gillibrand fundraising committee, meaning they either raised $2,500 or donated $2,400.
The next year, Emma Vigeland was interning at the Offices of Senator Gillibrand. A few more years, and a few more summer internships followed, retail, law offices, and then as if it was magic — intern for TYT. When Vigeland says she was raised in an "establishment Democrat family", she isn't exaggerating. In fact, she's probably understating it, and it seems to give way to hypocrisy and even cripples her ability to fully grasp the mindset she claims to embrace. This has become more and more apparent, especially through her recent commentary on Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, Congresswoman from Hawaii.
Vigeland's assertions that Gabbard is anti-LGBT (although her voting record tells a different story) because of her upbringing in an ultra-conservative household, and the ideological brainwashing that comes with being raised by an extremist. Her entire argument boils down to the premise that someone can't rise above their upbringing. If that were true, then how can Emma Vigeland be trusted to stand up for Progressives? So, while it was nice for Vigeland to applaud her former boss for talking about privilege at the last Democratic Debates, one can't help but wonder why she hasn't addressed the subject more herself. It seems she would have a lot to teach us on the subject.
The Young Turks have a philosophical problem that cannot be ignored. For years, they've screamed about the dangers of money in politics, only to turn around and accept funding from the people throwing the money into politics. The whole premise stinks of hypocrisy. In a video meant to quell fears about the investments, Cenk Uygur brazenly says "Corporations aren't people" as he glances up and down from a que-card with a look of feigned sincerity.
This is a fallacy, and a patronizing one at that. Corporations do not start themselves. They do not employ themselves. They don't develop their own business strategies, nor do they invest in themselves. People do all that. Corporations do, in fact, take on the persona and push the ideologies of their founders, executives, and their employees to an extent. Information is a big business, and money can and does by access and influence over it. We have seen it to be true. It's the exact reason why campaign finance laws exist.
Are we supposed to believe that money only has a corrosive effect on politics?
Do they expect us to be as naive as to believe that business, and the people who control them, cannot be bought and sold? That's ridiculous. As a society, we should be supremely skeptical of news media outlets who take funding from billionaires and venture capitalists, especially those whose money is thrown behind candidates that pose a threat to your ideology.
Make no mistake, small donations from average people are a sign of support. Large donations from the elite and the coporations they inhabit are a sign of trying to buy favor and influence. This cannot be denied.
The questions we should be asking ourselves is why would a bunch of establishment millionaires want to invest millions in an online news network that caters to Progressives, more specifically millennials?
Sanders did win that vote over Clinton by a significant margin, and the divisiveness among the two sets of voters still lingers to this day. It would stand to reason that the political and information influence machine would want to get their hands on that demographic.
There are hundreds of logical excuses for them to attempt to do so. TYT, from the ground up, is full of people who spent years working at senior and executive level positions in Morgan Stanley, Kaiser Permanente, Disney, MSNBC, Yahoo, CNN, and FOX. They've taken millions of dollars from the people who've propped up their movement's greatest enemies, and told you that there's nothing to see. One thing is clear: The Young Turks are not Independent.
The cost of selling out is going bankrupt in your principles.
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Last week, I went sightseeing in Yokohama which is about 1 hour by train from central Tokyo. We arrived around 12, and the first stop was China Town!
In China Town you buy plenty of food you can take with you and particularly various types of "xiaolongbao" (小籠包, shouronpou, in Japanese) and "manjuu" (饅頭). First up was a "Niku Manjuu" (steamed bread with meat inside) and fried xiaolongbao.
You need to be careful when eating these since there's a thin sauce inside which is very hot. However it is very tasty!
Particularly because it was golden week, there were a lot of people so it was necessary to line up for a little while when buying something.
Probably since it was China Town, there were sooo many souvenirs with pandas. There was even a shop where you entered through a panda's mouth.
… and after walking around for quite some time, we bought some more xiaolongbao and some well deserved Tsingtao beer to go with it.
From China Town, we walked to a park neer the harbor and even though there also was a lot of people here, it did not feel crowded. It was a very peaceful and nice place to take a walk and take a rest.
A bit after the park there was also a german festival going on where they were playing live german music and selling german beer.
And the old building in the above photo was actually a shopping center where they also had a nice café selling waffles with fruits on top (it was very tasty).
Walking a bit further there was another park and a small ship museum free to enter.
There was also a theme park with a few rides such as roller coasters and a large paris wheel.
I can really recommend the riding the paris wheel since there's a very nice view from there.
In the evening the whole city lights up which is definitely a view worth staying until after sunset for.
In the weekend I went to Kanazawa, so next time will probably be about that! Over and out.


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The Losers Club by Andrew Clements
Read quite well by Christopher Gebauer, this audiobook was a story about these young kids who are in an after-school book-reading club. The guy who started the club deliberately called it the Loser's Club because he figured few people would want to join such a club, and it would give him the opportunity to sit and read uninterrupted by others, which is all he ever wanted to do. In fact, he'd been getting into trouble for reading and day-dreaming in class, and this was his last chance to show he could apply himself and not screw-up.
This sounds like it ought to be a good idea - a novel about reading, but for me it fell short. Admittedly it's not aimed at me, but not being a twelve-year-old I can't judge it from that perspective. I can reference my own youth, but that's a while ago and probably had little to do with youth today who have so many more distractions than I had. Plus I didn't get into reading seriously until I was around fourteen. This leaves me with my current perspective and I have no problem with that!
I gave up on this because of three things. The first of these was the bullying. The kid - whose name is Alec - has to recruit at least one more person to his club, so his first choice is old friend Dave, who is talked out of it by bully Kent, who used to be a close friend of Alec's way back. Now he's a complete jerk. Here's the thing. This novel was published in 2017. That year, the author was in his late sixties and I am by no means convinced he understands the school system any more, nor did he seem interested in doing any research, apparently. I mean, did bullies in 2017 really call a kid who likes to read 'a bookworm'? I doubt it.
Since this author was in middle school at the beginning of the sixties, there have been great strides taken to eject bullying from schools by means of zero tolerance policies. Schools are not the same as they were when he was in school! This doesn't mean that the policies always work, or that bullying is totally absent by any means, but the type of unrestrained, uncontrolled, rife and overt bullying going on here is completely ridiculous and made the story unbelievable. It was like everything that Bully Kent did was unconstrained and went without notice, much less censure, but everything Alec did, though it wasn't remotely connected with bullying, the teachers came down on him like a ton of mortar. It was too absurd.
The second thing was about the books. Alec is passionately into reading, but the only books he's ever heard of are what are considered (for reasons which all-too-often escape me) as classics. There was nary a truly modern novel mentioned in the entire book. It's like the author considered only his own preferences - either that or he blindly pulled up a list of classics and used that. The name-dropping of the same tired-old titles in novels like this is nauseating - even for a book which is about reading. It's worth noting that none of these books was read on any electronic device - it's like those hadn't been invented in this author's world.
Connected with this was another nauseating habit: that of referencing Star Wars - and not the new garbage, but the old garbage! I grew out of Star Wars a long time ago, and I look upon those tediously uninventive and repetitive movies with distaste these days. I can understand others' enjoyment of it, yet for all the references to it here, Alec had read not a single Star Wars novel (at least as measured by a complete lack of reference to them in this book). Instead Alec was all classics all the time. It made no sense and was entirely unrealistic.
This leads me to the third issue with this so-called reading passion of his: he actually had no reading passion. At least not as would be determined from his devouring of books. Instead, it seemed he re-read the same limited selection over and over and over again. This rather convinced me that he was not a book lover. He merely had a fixation on certain books and he showed no interest in moving on to other stories or in advancing to more mature material. Instead he was stuck inside a reading time-loop of juvenile 'classics'.
Now if Kent had taunted Alec on that, it would have made sense. It would still have been bullying, but not anything a teacher could have really called him on. He would have got away with it and called out Alec realistically. Why the author never thought of that is a mystery to me. I guess his imagination is lacking.
That's not the worst part. Alec can't start his club until he has at least one other person signed on, and he manages to get a girl by the name of Nina. Later another younger girl by the name of Layla joins, but despite his supposed passion for books, Alec quickly abandons all interest in books and begins focusing solely on Nina. What she's thinking, is she attracted to Kent, what's she doing, and on and on. It felt like a complete betrayal of everything the book had supposedly been about up to that point, and there was no lead-in to this at all; it just happened out of the blue.
So overall I consider this book a very amateur attempt to tell a story which could have been written in much better way. I can't commend it for these reasons.
Labels: Andrew Clements, audio book, pre-young adult fiction, WARTY!


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A PET/CT scan will require an IV injection of FDG (Fluorodeoxyglucose), which is an analog that is tagged to the radionuclide F18. This radioactive "sugar" will allow images to be taken of metabolic functions in the body. These images produce "hotspots", often indicating rapidly growing tumors. Cancerous cells generally consume more sugar/energy than other organs or tumors. A radiologist will analyze the images and create a report.
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Q: Build an UI like option menu I think the question says it all: I want to build an Windows 8 Store app but how can I build an UI like this:

I think left is a normal ListView. The important thing is that I want an own AppBar for each ListViewEntry. And how can I load different pages (with different AppBars) in the right content area?

A: You can put a ContentControl in the main panel and another one in the AppBar, then bind their Content properties to the SelectedItem property of the ListBox on the left and use ContentTemplateSelector to display the right UI for the selected page.
*EDIT - Sample
XAML
<Page
    x:Class="App17.MainPage"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    xmlns:local="using:App17"
    xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
    xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
    mc:Ignorable="d">
    <Page.Resources>
        <local:PropertyPageTemplateSelector
            x:Key="PropertyPageTemplateSelector"/>
    </Page.Resources>
    <Grid
        Background="LemonChiffon">
        <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
            <ColumnDefinition />
            <ColumnDefinition
                Width="2*" />
        </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
        <ListBox
            x:Name="listBox"
            DisplayMemberPath="Label"/>
        <ContentControl
            Grid.Column="1"
            Content="{Binding SelectedItem, ElementName=listBox}"
            ContentTemplateSelector="{StaticResource PropertyPageTemplateSelector}">
            <ContentControl.Resources>
                <DataTemplate
                    x:Key="Options">
                    <StackPanel>
                        <TextBlock
                            Text="{Binding Label}"
                            FontSize="32"
                            Foreground="SlateGray" />
                        <Rectangle
                            Width="400"
                            Height="400"
                            Fill="Aquamarine" />
                    </StackPanel>
                </DataTemplate>
                <DataTemplate
                    x:Key="Preferences">
                    <StackPanel>
                        <TextBlock
                            Text="{Binding Label}"
                            FontSize="32"
                            Foreground="SlateGray" />
                        <Rectangle
                            Width="400"
                            Height="400"
                            Fill="Khaki" />
                    </StackPanel>
                </DataTemplate>
                <DataTemplate
                    x:Key="Properties">
                    <StackPanel>
                        <TextBlock
                            Text="{Binding Label}"
                            FontSize="32"
                            Foreground="SlateGray" />
                        <Rectangle
                            Width="400"
                            Height="400"
                            Fill="LawnGreen" />
                    </StackPanel>
                </DataTemplate>
                <DataTemplate
                    x:Key="Settings">
                    <StackPanel>
                        <TextBlock
                            Text="{Binding Label}"
                            FontSize="32"
                            Foreground="SlateGray" />
                        <Rectangle
                            Width="400"
                            Height="400"
                            Fill="Violet" />
                    </StackPanel>
                </DataTemplate>
            </ContentControl.Resources>
        </ContentControl>
    </Grid>
</Page>

C#
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Windows.UI.Xaml;
using Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls;

namespace App17
{
    public sealed partial class MainPage : Page
    {
        public MainPage()
        {
            this.InitializeComponent();
            listBox.ItemsSource =
                new List<PropertyPageViewModel>(
                    new PropertyPageViewModel[]
                    {
                        new OptionsPropertyPageViewModel(),
                        new PreferencesPropertyPageViewModel(),
                        new PropertiesPropertyPageViewModel(),
                        new SettingsPropertyPageViewModel(),
                    });
        }
    }

    public abstract class PropertyPageViewModel
    {
        public abstract string Label { get; }
    }

    public class OptionsPropertyPageViewModel : PropertyPageViewModel
    {
        public override string Label { get { return "Options"; } }
    }

    public class PreferencesPropertyPageViewModel : PropertyPageViewModel
    {
        public override string Label { get { return "Preferences"; } }
    }

    public class PropertiesPropertyPageViewModel : PropertyPageViewModel
    {
        public override string Label { get { return "Properties"; } }
    }

    public class SettingsPropertyPageViewModel : PropertyPageViewModel
    {
        public override string Label { get { return "Settings"; } }
    }

    public class PropertyPageTemplateSelector : DataTemplateSelector
    {
        protected override DataTemplate SelectTemplateCore(object item, DependencyObject container)
        {
            if (item == null) return base.SelectTemplateCore(item, container);

            var contentControl = (ContentControl)container;
            var viewModel = (PropertyPageViewModel)item;
            var templateKey = viewModel.Label;

            return (DataTemplate)contentControl.Resources[templateKey];
        }
    }
}


Personal trainers will develop a resistance program for you and take you through the workout. Before you begin your program, you should be taken through a fitness evaluation and health history to ensure the program written is aligned with your starting point as well as your goals. An experienced trainer will know how to progress your program over time in a way that not only gets you to your goals but also addresses any underlying issues; such as muscle imbalances, instability or lack of mobility. Your time with a trainer will be spent doing the actual workout.
What personal trainers don't do?
Conduct coaching sessions that focus on behavior change and take into account your entire lifestyle.
In the past few years the title of health coach has become popular as people are realizing the benefit of coaching in all areas of life. A health coach educates and motivates individuals to make healthy lifestyle choices. Some have certifications, and others have merely gone through the process of losing weight themselves.
Your time with a health coach will be spent discussing your goals, strategies and struggles. A good coach will provide you a safe environment to discuss the emotional side of your weight loss journey and hold you accountable to behaviors you agree to move forward with. They also take a look at your entire lifestyle as a whole rather than just the workouts and nutrition.
What health coaches don't do?
Nutritionist is a very vague title. Your nutritionist could have a college education, a certification, or may have no formal training at all. Your sessions with a nutritionist will strictly focus around the topics of meal planning, healthy food choices and how to make those changes. A good nutritionist will look at the details of your diet, making sure you are progressing and making changes along the way as work towards your goals.
Provide overall health coaching for all aspects of your life.
Regardless of whom you decided to see, make sure they are certified through an accredited or reputable organization. Unfortunately there are a lot of certifications that aren't worth the ink they're printed on and individuals that believe they can help you lose weight or get fit by doing exactly what they did. And as we know, one size does not fit all.
I'd also recommend you look at the number of years this person has been working with clients similar to you. Having the certification is crucial, but so is experience. It takes time to learn what works and what doesn't work with different types of people and the more experience some one has the quicker they will be able to recognize what changes need to be made to keep you moving in the right direction.
So where do I fit in all of this? Basically, I bring all of these professions under one roof. I have over 30 years of experience and am certified through the American Council on Exercise for personal training, health coach as well as an orthopedic exercise specialist. I am also a certified nutritionist through AASDN.
If you're looking for someone who can handle all aspects of your weight loss journey, fill out this form or schedule your complimentary Fit After 50 Coaching Strategy Session. This is a great way to find out if working together would be a good fit for us.