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SOUND EDUCATION
December 14, 2020 David M. Ciminelli
Rockin' new book For Those About to Rock teaches kids music history with some edgy fun.
If you respect and appreciate good music and great artists, then you may be feeling a bit indifferent about the trending videos on YouTube that feature millennials and Gen Zers sharing their reaction to first hearing classic songs by legendary artists like the Bee Gees and Motley Crue. Now, watching strangers react to music sounds about as interesting as playing Zeppelin records backwards hoping to hear Satan. However, the most surreal part of the whole "reaction video" trend is that some young people simply aren't ashamed of their lack of basic music history.
Granted, being able to name the four original members of KISS without needing to check Wikipedia won't land you a professorship at the local university. But by the time anyone reaches their teen years, you'd hope they'd have some semblance of how and why Bruce Springsteen and The Beatles are just as important to American and world history as George Washington and Albert Einstein.
Considering how difficult it is just to get the American education system to provide a basic quality education, we're not holding our breath. Fortunately, a new rockin' new book has found a great solution. Author/rocker Kate Seldman's For Those About to Rock: A Kid's Guide to 50 Legendary Musical Acts is a long overdue, gorgeously illustrated "text book" that highlights a rich musical education delivered in a fun and engaging presentation that would appeal to any young mind that loves learning.
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LIVE SHOWS, MUSIC FESTIVALS
January 28, 2015 David M. Ciminelli	Leave a comment
Hollywood Roses Revisits Guns N' Roses at Whisky, Feb. 14
Sure, on Valentine's Day, you can always do the usual wine and roses thing with your better half.
However, we have a much better suggestion: the Night Train and Roses thing!
On February 14, toast the evening with some Night Train while getting your faces rocked off by the sounds of Hollywood hit-makers Guns N' Roses at local faves Hollywood Roses' headlining gig at the world-famous Whisky A Go-Go!
The Whisky is located in the heart of the Strip's Rock Row at 8901 Sunset Boulevard at Clark Street. Get more details and tickets for Hollywood Roses' Valentine's Day show here.
But don't blame us if the date starts to feel a little uncomfortable should the band break out "Used to Love Her"!
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LIVE SHOWS, ROCKIN' NEWS
2015 IS GONNA ROCK!
December 25, 2014 David M. Ciminelli	Leave a comment
READY TO RING IN SOME ROCK: (clockwise from top left): Ozzy Osbourne, Poison, Stephen Pearcy, Duff McKagan, Marilyn Manson and KISS
SUNSET & CLARK: 10 OF THE HARDEST-ROCKIN' THINGS WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO IN 2015!
1. GETTING POISON'D
Metal fans looking for nothin' but a good time won't have to wait too much longer now that Poison has announced that the Sunset Strip-launched legends will be hitting the road again next year.
"It looks like it will happen [in 2015]," Bret Michaels recently confirmed to Cleveland Scene. "It's been a few years. We just want to put together the right package and show to celebrate with everyone."
2. OZZY OSBOURNE'S RETURN TO TV
The legendary P.O.F.D. himself is returning to reality television for new episodes of The Osbournes, which will find Ozzy Osbourne and the fam — Kelly, Jack and Sharon — giving fans another peek into their lives a decade after the hit show ended its run on MTV. This time around, The Osbournes will include, according to Sharon Osbourne, eight new episodes and will debut on VH-1 in early 2015.
3. STEPHEN PEARCY GETTING 'SMASH'-ED
Sunset Strip legend and former Ratt frontman Stephen Pearcy is following up his recent headlining gig at the Whisky A Go Go with the release of his fourth scorching solo album, Smash, due out in early 2015.
4. CHRIS CORNELL, MIKE MCCREADY & DUFF MCKAGAN RELAUNCHING MAD SEASON
The Nineties supergroup Mad Season is reuniting — sort of — on January 30 in Seattle. Mad Season founding members Mike McCready of Pearl Jam and Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin will return with a revamped lineup that includes legendary Guns N' Roses/Velvet Revolver bassist Duff McKagan replacing late Walkabouts rocker John Baker, who passed away in 1999, and grunge god Chris Cornell taking the mic in place of Alice in Chains' Layne Staley, who died in 2002.
The band, which is reportedly planning a new album, will be taking the stage with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra as part of SSO's "Sonic Evolution" showcase. The once-in-a-lifetime concert will also feature works inspired by Nirvana and Pearl Jam, along with the world-premiere of McCready's decidedly less grungy orchestral composition "Waking the Horizon."
5. METALLICA DROPPING A NEW ALBUM…MAYBE
"I'm pretty convinced that 90% of the record is actually written; it's just gotta be kind of assembled between all those riffs," Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich revealed to Metal Zone last summer. "It's just a matter of connecting this to this and sort of shaping it into a song. And so, I'm pretty psyched about that."
In September, frontman James Hetfield (pictured) confirmed the long-awaited album's progress, telling Pulse of Radio: "We've come up with enough material for a record, for sure…We just haven't had the time to really focus on it and…start whittling at these masterpieces."
Bassist Robert Trujillo, who previously reported that Death Magnetic producer Rick Rubin will also helm the new album, provided an update to RockCellar Magazine in early December.
"We're just blueprinting everything right now," said Truillo. "There are a lot of ideas, a lot of song bodies, you gotta go through the process. For me personally I'm really excited about what we've been able to jam out."
The band has promised fans that they'll be hearing Metallica's tenth studio album by as early as 2015 and no later than 2016.
6. BULLETBOYS RETURNING TO SUNSET
L.A. metalheads BulletBoys are bringing the band's awesome hard rock hits like "Smooth Up in Ya," "Hard as a Rock," the killer cover "For the Love of Money" and "Freakshow" to the Whisky A Go Go on March 19!
Frontman Marq Torien and most of the band's founding lineup are still cranking out killer original rock jams, like the stellar "Symphony" from BB's upcoming release Elefante. Get ticket details here.
7. SYSTEM OF A DOWN GETTING 'SOUL'-FUL AT FORUM
SoCal superstars System of a Down are set to headline another hometown show in the new year, when they will rock Inglewood on April 6, bringing the band's "Wake Up the Souls Tour" to the Forum.
8. ROCKING OUT TO A NEW KISS ALBUM
Iconic rock god Gene Simmons revealed to the Toronto Sun earlier this year that the world's hardest-working rock band has its sights set on releasing new material very soon.
"I recently wrote a new song called 'Your Wish is My Command,' so the process has already started," revealed Gene Simmons about the upcoming follow-up to 2012's Monster.
9. MARILYN MANSON UNLEASHING 'HELL' ON EARTH
Shock rocker and antichrist superstar Marilyn Manson will be returning to the spotlight in 2015 to rock your face off with his ninth studio album, The Pale Emperor, which drops January 20. If the album's kick-off single "Third Day of a Seven-Day Binge" is any indication of the weight of the new material, Pale Emperor is going to be stellar.
A day after the album drops, Manson will launch "The Hell Not Hallelujah Tour," which snakes its way through the U.S. starting in Washington, D.C. on January 21 and ending in Vegas on February 14. The singer-songwriter will then head overseas to rock a few summer festivals. Unfortunately, Manson has not announced an L.A. date.
10. HEAVY METAL HITTING THE HIGH SEAS
Los Angeles bands Buckcherry (right) and Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society along with Limp Bizkit, P.O.D. and Filter lead a rockin' roster of awesome acts that will be hitting the high seas February 2-6 as the star attractions of ShipRocked: The Ultimate Rock N' Roll Cruise.
Sailing from Florida to the Bahamas and back, ShipRocked will also showcase the super-band Metal Allegiance, which includes current and former members of legendary metal bands Megadeth, Anthrax, Pantera, Testament and Dream Theatre.
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REVISITING SUNSET
November 7, 2014 David M. Ciminelli	Leave a comment
SLASH & MYLES KENNEDY SERVE UP 'NIGHTRAIN' ON DIRECTV, NOV. 7
Guitar Center has just released a badass sneak-peek at the upcoming Slash with Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators concert set to premiere on DIRECTV on November 7.
Taped at the Roxy on September 25, the clip features the rockers performing a scorching cover of Guns N' Roses' "Nightrain." Contrary to Slash's shirt, the number definitely does not suck!
Catch the full show November 7 at 9 p.m. on DIRECTV channel 239.
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RETURN TO SUNSET
September 2, 2014 David M. Ciminelli	Leave a comment
SLASH AND MYLES KENNEDY & THE CONSPIRATORS SET FOR THREE-NIGHT L.A. TOUR AT ICONIC ROCK CLUBS, SEPT. 23, 25 & 26
Legendary GN'R alum and Sunset Strip rock refugee Slash is heading back to West Hollywood and Rock Row in September to shred at three of the city's most iconic rock clubs: Troubadour, Roxy and The Whisky A Go Go. The three-night mini-tour will have Slash reuniting with his SSMF 2010 guest artist, occasional studio collaborator and frequent touring mate, Myles Kennedy and his band Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators.
The band will first head over to Santa Monica Boulevard and Doheny and hit up the iconic Troubadour on September 23 for a headlining gig before cruising up to Sunset on September 25 to rock the Roxy. The party continues on September 26, when Slash and Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators take center stage at the world-famous Whisky A Go Go.
Get tickets and additional details here. See you at the shows!
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ROCKIN' NEWS
APPETITE FOR METAL
September 14, 2013 David M. Ciminelli	Leave a comment
WHISKY SERVES UP DOUBLE SHOT OF METAL WITH HOLLYWOOD ROSES & MOTLEY TOO
Sure, it's been awhile since Guns N' Roses and Motley Crue played the Sunset Strip. But if you have enough Night Train Express and head to the Whisky A Go-Go tonight, you, like Bowling for Soup, may be able to drift back to 19, 19 1985!
Perhaps the the next best thing to a real Guns/Motley double-bill, local legends Hollywood Roses (right) and Motley Too (below) will be visiting the Whisky tonight to do a little dancing with Mr. Browntstone and shouting at the Devil while keeping the spirit of Sunset strip-launched heavy metal alive!
SoCal rockers Never Justified, who cite GN'R as a key influence, along with Foo Fighters, Zeppelin and Slash, are also on the bill and making the Saturday night event the band's record release showcase for Never Justified's debut EP.
Also set to hit the Whisky stage tonight, Sept. 14, is OC Bay, a local duo delivering original tunes and familiar covers. Get more deets here.
More rockin' upcoming shows at the Whisky:
• Phoenix glam rock stalwarts, Tuff – Sept. 21
• Industrial rockers Powerman 5000 – Sept. 25
• Dizzy Reed's Hookers & Blow – Oct. 7
• Metal-maricahi mash-up of Metalchi – Oct. 11
• Concord, Cali. thrashers Death Angel – Oct. 19
• Michigan hit-makers I See Stars – Oct. 31
• Local nu-metal innovators Otep – Nov. 9
• Sunset Strip rock refugees L.A. Guns – Dec. 2
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February 5, 2013 David M. Ciminelli	Leave a comment
BULLET BOYS, L.A. GUNS TO ROCK SUNSET
We were walking down Sunset this evening sulking from neglecting to get tickets to see metal gods Metallica play L.A. in May when we spotted the Whisky's marquee and two words made us feel better right away: Hollywood Roses, the best GN'R tribute band around will be rocking the Whisky ion February 9.
Then two more words smacked us upside the head: Bullet Boys – on February 15! That, naturally, was followed by another two words: Hell yeah!
The best of late '80s/early '90s metal is slicing its way right back to the Sunset Strip and to that we raise our Bic lighters high!
Fellow L.A. rock refugees James Hetfield and Metallica will also be playing L.A. soon, when the iconic band rightfully receives the Ronnie James Dio Lifetime Achievement Award at rock mag Revolver's Golden Gods Awards Show at Downtown L.A.'s intimate-sized Club Nokia on May 2.
Also set to perform is Five Finger Death Punch, Dillinger Escape Plan and a bunch of other awesome bands. Tickets to this rockin' once-in-a-lifetime event, unfortunately, are astronomical — plus, they're general admission!
Catching Hollywood Roses and Bullet Boys at Whisky is definitely an awesome backup plan. Plus, with all the ca$h we're saving by skipping the Golden Gods event, here's all the other Sunset Strip shows we'll be checkin' out in the next couple of months:
Warner Drive @ Viper Room • Feb. 6 (and 13, 20 and March 1)
Fall Out Boy @ Roxy • Feb. 7
Lonely Drunks Club Band @ Viper Room • Feb. 8
Fan Halen (authentic down to the spandex Van Halen tribute band) @ Viper Room • Feb. 9
Buckcherry @ Viper Room • March 7-9
L.A. Guns @ Whisky • March 23
Lizzie Borden @ Whisky • April 13 (Celebrating 30 years of metal!)
Dizzy Reed @ Hookers &a Blow @ Whisky • May 7, 14, 21 & 28
We're also lookin' forward to checking out Buckcherry's support act Cherri Bomb again at Viper Room. OK, we admit we initially cast them off as a Runaways knock off awhile back…but that was when we were drunk and before catching them live and seeing the ladies rock the hell outta the Strip at last summer's SSMF. Check out some rockin' anthems below from the band's that will keep alive the Sunset Strip's enviable rep as the global anchor of authentic kick-ass rock and roll.
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Lies, Part II?
SLASH TAKES TO TWITTER TO BLAST LINDSAY LOHAN ARREST REPORT
In what seems like a real-life B-rate Groundhog Day, fallen starlet Lindsay Lohan has been arrested again. But while LiLo's arrest news is not surprising, it does come with a shocking twist — Slash has come to her defense!
The ex-Guns N' Roses guitar god sent out a tweet last night calling Lohan's newest arrest for hit and run in NYC as "being blown out of proportion."
Although it's a little unexpected that the hard rock icon would take a moment from his current Apocalyptic Love tour with Myles Kennedy to defend a former Disney starlet, it sort of makes sense given Slash's awesome, inspiring story — revealed in his 2007 memoir Slash — of dealing with recovery from alcohol and drugs, and that LiLo was reportedly coming from his Hammerstein Ballroom show when the accident occurred.
The Velvet Revolver rocker's compassionate reaction to the sordid situation and his defense for the trouble starlet also proves another thing: Slash rocks!
Check out the tweet below.
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Day of Guns N' Roses
July 22, 2012 David M. Ciminelli	Leave a comment
HERE'S A GREAT REASON TO CRANK UP SOME GN'R TODAY…
Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction celebrates its 25th anniversary today! The band's classic debut album was released on July 21, 1987 and has since gone platinum 30 times — and counting. The Sunset Strip rock refugees are immortalized on the wall of the Rainbow Bar & Grill, the band's old haunt and setting of some of their best music videos, including "Don't Cry," "November Rain" and "You Could Be Mine."
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Channeling Axl
ANOTHER CHANCE OF 'RAIN'
We've come across plenty of cool clips of Guns N' Roses fans covering the L.A. band's classics, but this one by Scottish singer-songwriter Sandi Thom is one of our current faves. Check out her awesome acoustic take on "November Rain."
Bringin' Out the Big Guns
GN'R Return to Sunset….Sorta
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Bringin' Out the Big 'Guns'
July 21, 2012 David M. Ciminelli	1 Comment
REVIEW: VIPER ROOM'S APPETITE TRIBUTE SATIATES GN'R FANS
Last night, it felt like the Viper Room froze July 1987 in time. The GN'R tribute show was far superior to the show Axl Rose and his GN'R Part Deux gave at the Forum a few months back. The Room rocked with a great house band, the awesome Lonely Drunks Club Band (right) and six different singers from L.A.'s hottest local bands.
It was also very cool to spot members of our favorite L.A. band, Warner Drive, including frontman Jonny Law and bassist Elvis James, checking out the show.
In addition to the kick-ass Lonely Drunks Club Band, Brando's Island (left) really stood out in the night's multiband lineup and had the place groovin' to a fantastic set of original tunes before frontman Brandon Wardell later grabbed the mic during the GN'R tribute for a couple more powerhouse performances.
Throughout the tight set of spot-on covers of classics like "Welcome to the Jungle" and "Sweet Child O' Mine," Wardell and the various singers chatted between songs about how GN'R's major label debut changed their lives, including one who said he was 10 when the album dropped! Another mentioned that he was 12 when Appetite debuted! Doh!
Despite how great all of the Axl imitators were, it's doubtful anyone on stage can remember what Rose looked like before the Botox and cornrows.
But they all perfectly captured W.A.R.'s vocal inflections, held the mic the same way, whipped their hair back and forth like him and, of course, when the band did "Paradise City," the ENTIRE ROOM broke into the serpentine dance. It was a very cool, fun Spinal Tap-like experience.
Guns N' Roses Return to Sunset…Sorta
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GN'R Return to Sunset…Sorta
July 20, 2012 David M. Ciminelli	2 Comments
VIPER ROOM CELEBRATES 25 YEARS OF APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION
If you're a fan of the original Guns N' Roses — you know from the Appetite for Destruction/Sunset strip days, when they were awesome — then there is nowhere else to be tonight, July 20, than the Viper Room! The iconic club is hosting a multi-band lineup to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Appetite! Yep, it's been 25 years since Axl and the guys launched their superstar career from the Sunset Strip.
Tonight's Viper Room lineup includes Inside the Black, Coma, Brando's Island and, performing Appetite in its entirety, the Lonely Drunks Club Band. Plus, there will be special surprise guests. We're crossing our skull-ringed fingers that at least one of those guests is either Axl, Slash, Duff, Izzy or Steven! (OK, hell, we'd even be happy to see Matt and/or Dizzy. But please, no lame GN'R newbies!)
Guns N' Roses' full-length studio album debut actually dropped on July 21, 1987, but with the Lonely Drunks Club Band likely rocking past the midnight hour, it's all good!
Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and cover is a cheap-o $15 at the door. Tonight is gonna rock for sure.
And if you're an L.A.-based diehard GN'R fan but don't plan on being at the Viper Room tonight, well, you're crazy, hey, hey. You know you're crazy, oh my! You're f**kin' crazy, oh child. You know you're crazy Ay,ay,ay,ay,ay,ay,ah,ah,ah,oooh, yeah!
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Decline of Western Civilization Part 3
June 18, 2012 David M. Ciminelli	1 Comment
JOE ELLIOT BLAMES DEF LEPPARD WANNABES FOR THE DEMISE OF HEAVY METAL'S POPULARITY IN THE AWESOME EIGHTIES
Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliot gives his theory on what led to the demise in popularity of heavy metal in the late '80s/early '90s in an interview with Vanity Fair.
"When Kurt Cobain came along and tried to kill off the '80s, he wasn't trying to kill off Def Leppard. He could have lived with Def Leppard. What he couldn't deal with was the hundred of other sound-alikes. And that was the problem. And that's why the '80s imploded and started eating itself. There were bands that sounded like GN'R, bands that sounded like Bon Jovi, [and bands that sounded like us] — it was one of those three, copied maybe 20, 30 times. It was just a weaker version. And the novelty wore off pretty quick."
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Sun Sets on Tower Video
June 13, 2012 David M. Ciminelli	2 Comments
SUNSET STRIP LANDMARK & EARLY GN'R HAUNT BECOMES RUBBLE
Iconic Sunset Strip landmark Tower Video, the timeless neon-lit hub of hipster activity that was the main spot to head to for concert tickets and music videos, has become a pile of rocks. Earlier this month crews began to deconstruct the famous spot that once employed a pre-rock star Axl Rose as its night manager and Guns N' Roses bandmate Slash as a counter clerk.
In the fall of 2006, as Internet music piracy and iTunes began to claim their stake on the Net, Towers' chain of music and video stores filed for bankruptcy after 46 years as the go-to place for discovering exciting new bands and picking up tickets to L.A.'s hottest shows.
Tower Video was located at 8844 Sunset at Larrabee, across the street from the defunct Tower Records. The split-level video store also served as a concert ticket venue, classical music annex and sold rock novelties. The store's small back parking lot, where the photo on the left, of Tower Video rubble, was snapped, is the infamous location where Rose once challenged Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil to a fight over some trash talk. The incident sparked the singers' well-publicized, longstanding feud.
R.I.P. Tower Video.
Check out what remains of the landmark location as it becomes rock and roll rubble.
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TRACKING L.A.'S MUSIC SCENE FROM THE SUNSET STRIP
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I am convinced that anyone who visits Kenya and experiences all that it has to offer will fall in love and forever be tied to its wild, charming and endearing spell. This isn't a blanket statement, but one that stems from the rich history of Kenya when Denys Finch Hatton, a legendary British aristocrat visited Kenya in 1911 and left his heart in the wild. He fell in love with Kenya and its wildlife, became a famous photographer and conservationist, and introduced the British Royalty and business tycoons to experience the magic of Kenya with his luxury safaris. While I write this, I can't get Meryl Streep and Robert Redford from the movie, Out of Africa, out of my mind. Robert Redford played Denys Finch Hatton. While pictures are worth a thousand words, and movies briefly touch a humongous iceberg when it comes to depicting a safari in Kenya, there is so much more to the experience in person. It's breath-taking, and what dreams are made of.
After a whirlwind 48 hours in Nairobi, I embarked on a road trip with family and friends down to Tsavo West National Park. Home to Kenya's largest elephants, deep green bushes, and trees growing in an arid savannah is the luxury-tented camp, Finch Hattons. The camp is located on an oasis of natural spring pools, surrounded with 17 luxuriously decorated suites, including the Finch Hatton Presidential suite and two family suites, each with two bedrooms.
We settled in our tents, which is an understatement, because they were not just tents, but safari palaces. Under high thatched roofs, the canvas tents are beautifully draped with chandeliers, dark solid wood furniture, luxury linens, deep brass bathtubs, and open outdoor showers. All the comforts for a luxury escape into nature, including a fully stocked bar with delicious snacks and all the makings for a perfect cup of tea on your private deck over looking the bottled green water. My perfect escape.
The sense of peace and quiet is like no other when you're sitting on the beautiful wooden deck with comfortable outdoor seating and fluffy pillows. With the perfect cup of tea in hand, it was serene and quiet, with the occasional splashing about of the hippopotamus' in the water below and the birds skirting the smooth sparkling water from the sun over head, leaving circular ripples behind. Immersed in the tranquility and peace, it was the chance to reflect, relax and gather my emotions and senses. I seemed to have been doing a lot of that lately. Different places and experiences bring out various feelings and reflections.
We spent the afternoon lazing by the pool like crocodiles soaking in the sunshine. I took safari style to a whole new level, camouflaging into my surrounds with a zebra printed kaftan from HM. While I was beached on the side of the pool, I was tempted to use the Spa, which comes highly recommended, however on this particular occasion, we had planned for sun downers on our evening game drive. On the evening game drive we saw lots of impala, giraffe, waterbucks, warthogs, buffalo, wildebeest and stopped by the Galana River to enjoy sundowners prepared by the staff at Finch Hattons. Ice cold delicious Pimms and crunchy snacks went down a treat as we watched the sun dip behind the savannah with Mount Kilimanjaro in the backdrop. I could use a thousand words to describe the moment, but it wouldn't do it justice. You would have to experience it for yourself to truly understand the beauty of Mother Nature in Kenya.
The setting and camp is unbelievable, like an oasis in the middle of the desert. Hard to believe that amidst the dense bush are deep green spring pools with tents of paradise. Finch Hattons is a luxurious escape in the savannah of the wild. The staff are warm and friendly, attentive and always on hand. We enjoyed dinner on an open top private dining balcony covered with candles, with fine silver and china, and lots of vibrant african printed pillows. My favourite part was sitting apres-dinner by the burning bonfire at night, with a full cheese board and glass of red wine. We spent hours staring at the night sky covered with tiny speckles of shining stars above, with the resident musician strumming away on the guitar singing Swahili ballads that sent beautiful shivers down your spine.
Unlike my previous escape to the Maasai Mara, where I had reconnected with myself through mother nature, countless of game drives and hours sitting in an open jeep on the plains on safari, this experience was very different. It wasn't about the animals, or the safari, but instead, a chance to re-connect with my soul. It was sitting on the deck outside my tent, with the chandelier reflecting fragments of light out onto the dark wooden floor beneath my feet, that I began the cliché term of searching within my soul. Rumi once said "the soul has been given its own ears to hear things the mind cannot understand," and for the first time, in the surroundings of Finch Hattons, I was able to step away from the noise in my mind and look within my soul. It was in the tranquil surroundings at Finch Hattons that I began my journey of soul searching.
If there was ever a place to get away from the trials and tribulations of life, with breath taking luxurious comforts and a chance to centre the compass of your soul, Finch Hattons would be it. Waking up in the morning to a hot cup of tea on the deck, the sun rising behind the oasis, the birds tweeting, the sounds of Mother Nature and the comforts of splendour and bliss, Finch Hattons will remain a place in my heart that I can, and will, return to over and over again.
Beautiful description of a heavenly place on earth. Worthy of a visit again and again. African splendor at its best. Your post has sold this place to me!!
I have been to the Tsavo but I had no idea this side of it existed! So beautiful and peaceful I definitely would stay here, my little heart would burst with so much joy.


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Blood Mask: The Possession of Nicole Lamoureaux
Wednesday, Mar 19, 2008 by Ben "Greasnin" Platt
Overview: Six horny college students spend a night in a haunted mansion, and then are somehow surprised when things start to go wrong.
Directed By: Dennis Devine, 2007.
The Case For: It's like a Curse of Lizzie Borden reunion special!
The Case Against: Everything, just... everything. Pick a random bunch of negative-sounding words, and I can promise you they're applicable to this movie.
A few months back, I reviewed a film called The Curse of Lizzie Borden, which was even worse than it sounds. Little did I know, when I popped Blood Mask into my DVD player, that I would be treating myself to a trip down memory lane. It's not just that Blood Mask features two of the stars of The Curse of Lizzie Borden as well as its director in prominent roles, nor is it the fact that Blood Mask takes place in precisely the same location as The Curse of Lizzie Borden, including the same set design and props. The real similarity comes from the fact that both movies follow the same exact plot, and yet Blood Mask manages to do it much, much worse.
Blood Mask, baby Blood Mask!Normally I like the pin the failings of a movie on its director, and Dennis Devine will definitely take his share of lumps before this is through. However, screenwriter Kristin J. Johnson is the real villain of this little tale. For an example of what I mean, we need look no further than the opening lines of the movie. Blood Mask begins with title cards that appear on screen to tell us that this is Cambrai, France, and it is 1491. The first line of dialogue in the movie, spoken by a young nun in training, is, "This is Cambrai, France, 1491." It takes a special kind of suck to insult the audience's intelligence so profoundly in under thirty seconds, and Blood Mask has it to spare.
The opening scene centers on Genevieve, a young nun who really, really loves Satan. She's not possessed, she's not insane, she just thinks Satan is tops. This does not sit well with the Father in charge of her wellbeing, so he decides that the best thing to fix her unhealthy obsession is a hearty dose of Christian love, in the form of an excruciating death. The role of "excruciating death" will be played by the BLOOD MASK, an iron mask with lots of pointy bits on the inside that cause the wearer to bleed to death if the mask is held in place long enough. "Long enough" can mean minutes, hours, or instantaneously, depending on what the story calls for at the time. Before the Father can put the mask on Genevieve, though, she bites him on the arm and claims that she has just passed a curse to him that will endure throughout his descendants for generations. He calmly reminds her that he is a priest, and does not see many kids in his future, then BLOOD MASKS her like it's his J-O-B, which it is.
This guy is the scariest thing in this, or any other movie.Flash forward to the present day, as indicated by the presence of modern delicatessens, skateboards, and the title card that says "Present Day." We find ourselves in a college classroom, presided over by Professor Frank, played by Randal Malone, the man who brought his particular brand of creepy and ugly (he calls it "crugly") to his role as the Lizzie Borden-obsessed museum curator in The Curse of Lizzie Borden. Now, it's true that The Curse of Lizzie Borden also begins with a flashback to an act of violence in bygone days, followed by a modern day college class populated by sluts, whores, and idiots, but that could describe any movie. For Blood Mask to really rip off its more historically-grounded cousin, one of the students would have to have some sort of psychotic episode which makes her the most likely candidate to be the killer. Oh? You say that's exactly what happens? Well, why don't you write the rest of the review, Mr. Smart Guy?
The predictable breakdown comes from Nicole Lamoureaux, which would indicate that she's the killer-to-be, even if the title of the movie didn't already give it away. Hallucinating that her boyfriend, Derek, is bleeding from every facial orifice, Nicole leaps up on her desk in shock. In the real world, what happens is that she jumps up on her desk, has a little seizure, and then tries to bite Derek's neck. When she is calmed down, she apologizes for the disruption by calling her classmates "bitches and whores." Granted, they are, but it still doesn't go a long way to explain Nicole's confusion about why nobody likes her. Top on the list of Nicole's detractors is June, a Russian blonde who enjoys spending every waking moment outside of class as a submissive in the thrall of a dominatrix who is evidently training her to take on her own bondage slave. Yes, that's right, in a movie about haunted houses and demonic possession, there is a subplot involving a lonesome dom and her search for a sub.
Woo! College!Nicole is suspended for a week for her disruptive behavior, which seems a little harsh considering it was a seizure, and even moreso considering that her classmates, teacher, and school are all aware that she has these seizures regularly. Evidently Nicole has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, although the traumatic event in her life that brought her to this state is never explained. The people in her class who tolerate her - including Danielle De Luca, who played the murderous college student in The Curse of Lizzie Borden - all agree that Nicole has had a difficult life, but again, these difficulties are never explained beyond the fact that she is a preacher's daughter. Her dad, played by Lizzie Borden director Ford Austin, grounds her for getting in trouble, but that doesn't stop Nicole from sneaking out of the house.
Same damn house.You see, Nicole and her friends have plans to spend the night in the old Montfort place, a creepy old mansion that is neither creepy, old, nor a mansion. It's a big enough house, certainly, but not a mansion. What it is, however, is the exact house that is used as the Lizzie Borden museum in The Curse of... well, you know. And when I say "exact house," I'm not messing around. The décor is the same, the furniture is the same, even the easily-accessible murder weapons are the same. The only thing that is different about the way the house is used in this movie is that we never go into the back yard. After all, that would necessitate a shot revealing the existence of a back door, and while an audience can swallow the front door locking on its own, and all the windows locking on their own, having a back door lock on its own? That's just crazy.
Santa's Slay
The Curse of La Llorona
Zombies Gone Wild
Gnomeo & Juliet; Just Go With It; The Eagle
Battleship; Lockout; The Cabin in the Woods; The Three Stooges
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Randy's Pictures
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ZM has attained exclusive video from Ed Sheeran himself asking for New Zealand's Prime Minister to "hook me up please" with an NZ citizenship.
It's no secret that Ed Sheeran really freaking loves New Zealand.
The singer-songwriter has frequently declared his love for our small country, even recently divulging that his favourite city in the world is NZ's own Wellington, saying "I think Wellington's just so wonderfully beautiful."
His love for Aoteroa has even gone as far as looking into citizenship, as we learnt at the start of this year when he told Megan from Fletch, Vaughan and Megan that he has set the wheels in motion for a New Zealand citizenship.
"I did ask for citizenship and I think we got an email from someone involved with that. So maybe that's going to happen. I could be a citizen," Ed said to Megan.
But it appears that he hasn't had much progress since then, as he has now made a fresh plea for citizenship, in an exclusive video for ZM.
Watch above to see his special message to New Zealand's Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern.


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Untitled Thoughts by Joy Lieberthal Rho, Co-Founder of IAMAdoptee
April 25, 2021 April 25, 2021 joylrho_admin
How do we feed ourselves when we were raised on pasta and pizza?
It's a facetious question, because I have nothing against pasta or pizza, but I distinctly remember that pizza was an acquired taste and I never crave pasta the way I crave rice. I still hold my memory of pizza for the first time as a six year old coming to America. I did not enjoy it. Honestly, it is not my "go-to" meal of choice even now. But it brings up a larger question of how we as intercountry adoptees feed ourselves, our bodies and how we have taught our guts to accommodate that which we can't or shouldn't always tolerate or digest?
Our country is going through a reckoning, at least that's what I am hoping is happening. Our gut is turning and churning and it's not pretty. The only way I have figured out how to be a contributing member of the movement is to do the individual work of checking in with and holding space for my fellow POC therapists, many of whom are also adoptees; my fellow adoptees in counseling and in advocacy and weekly wellness checks with my sister friends and those I love. I feel fortunate that the 25 years of being in community with other intercountry adoptees has allowed for this moment to not feel utterly alone, just sad and mad.
What have we adoptees been fed? Growing up with white parents who have not done the work of nourishing their palate for racism, micro-aggressions, prejudice and hate crimes, what have we been feeding ourselves to make our churning guts feel soothed so that we can tolerate the racism, the micro-aggressions of our families, those who say they love us unconditionally and without prejudice? How do we make sense of that quivering feeling when at the grocery store, in a conference room, just walking down the street? How have we overrode the wavering gut that knows something is wrong and it's not so much that we are wrong, but the situation feels off and we are slightly nauseous?
Often in therapy, when I recognize this nausea, I wonder aloud, "This doesn't feel new – when were other times you felt this way? And how did you cope?" Often times in therapy with intercountry transracial adoptees, the response is coping with a fair amount of pasta and pizza waiting for the gut to churn and digest or reject, only to feel like crap afterwards knowing that we are neither satiated nor satisfied. We tolerate so that we may not be rejected. To be abandoned is to be left with an empty stomach, aching to be fed.
I've been thinking of conversations about racial identity and racial injustice in terms of food, it's that primal. Too many times we have accepted what was served us, ignoring our instincts, knowing that it is better to be with family and fed than be hungry and without. We learn to stop listening to our gut, stop paying attention to our instincts until we feel and hear nothing. Our minds are powerful, and we can justify that third piece, that off-color remark, that sour smell, that sideways glare. Still, we all know what the wrong diet does to our bodies.
I've been thinking about the word "proximal" and how we adoptees are fed that our proximity to whiteness is a privileged space. I am not and never have been aware that my white parents could protect me from anything. I was fed the notion that being adopted was my saving grace and it made me keep my pasta and pizza down with a lot of emotional labor, denial, effort, rationalization and gratitude. I was being fed, that was all that mattered.
Not anymore.
It feels like a lot more intercountry adoptees are emerging wondering if they are alone in the nausea, wondering if anyone else has felt this way. They are attempting to lead the charge again, nourishing their minds and souls with the tastes of what adopteeland can give them and spoon-feeding their adoptive parents in hopes to have a common meal. Virtual conversations again and again exercising and digesting the language and culture of the marginalized and finding community, only to go home and have to bring out the teaspoons. This reminds me of a friend I made freshman year of college. She grew up in a Polish American home and never even knew what Chinese takeout was. Once she tried it, she never stopped and went home so excited to share her new palate with her parents. They were having none of it. I think about this friend as her mouth is permanently altered and her parents will never get it. Get it?
The stakes never felt higher. 25-year-old me just wanted to talk about how well I adjusted to pizza and pasta and all the labor that went into it. 50-year-old me wonders if I missed the point. We adoptees have been doing all the labor, cooking from scratch. I am devastated that we are still in the kitchen trying to figure out the best dish to entice, seduce, cajole and invite our parents to try to join us and eat.
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British-born, US-based conductor Philip Barnes interviewed Francis Pott for the Saint Louis Radio Arts Foundation, Missouri, USA, 10 February 2018: Episode 177 of the regular Re-choired Listening series. The complete broadcast includes recorded performances of the large-scale motet When David Heard that Absalom was Slain, the carol settings Good Day, Sir Christemas! and Balulalow, and the closing stages of Pott's 90-minute oratorio The Cloud of Unknowing, all of which are discussed.


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The red lines show The Times' value-added estimates for this teacher. Podley falls within the "average" category of district teachers in math and within the "average" category in English. These ratings were calculated based on test scores from 96 students.
Because this is a statistical measure, each score has a degree of uncertainty. The shading represents the range of values within which Podley's actual effectiveness score is most likely to fall. The score is most likely to be in the center of the shaded area, near the red line, and less likely in the lightly shaded area. Teachers with ratings based on a small number of student test scores will a have wider shaded range.
Just for the record, these ratings are not always a true measure of one teacher's individual effectiveness. Rather, they often reflect the entire school support and intervention system. Though my rating slightly "improved" in math from the previous year, I don't credit myself, as I had some students receiving extra help daily from the math coach as well as many students in after school intervention classes. Be careful when praising or demeaning teachers based on these scores alone, as they may not tell the whole story.


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Q: How do I include IBM XLC template *.c files in the make dependency file? For the XLC compiler, templated code goes in a *.c file.  Then when your program is compiled that uses the template functions, the compiler finds the template definisions in the .c file and instantiates them.
The problem is that these .c files are not by default included when doing an xlC -qmakedepend to generate the build dependencies.  So if you change one of those .c files, you won't automatically build everything that depends on it.
Has anyone found a good solution to this problem?

A: In short, the answer is to migrate off using the XLC's tempinc utility.
The tempinc utility requires you to set up your files with the template declarations in your header (.h or .hpp) file and your implementations in a .c file (this extension is mandatory).  As the compiler finds template instantiations, it will put explicit instantiations in a another source file in your tempinc directory, forcing code to be generated for them.  The compiler knows to find the template definitions declered in foo.h in foo.c.
The problem I specified is that the dependency builders don't know about this, and thus can't include your .c files in the dependencies.
With Version 6.0 IBM recommends using a the -qtemplateregistry setting rather than -qtempinc.  Then, you can use a typical template set up of including the template definitions in your header file, which will then be visible to the  dependency finder, or putting them in a separate file which you #include from your header file, and will also be found using the dependency finder.
If you are migrating from using -qtempinc, you can conditionally #include your template implementation file from your declaration file with code like below:
// end of foo.h
#ifndef __TEMPINC__
#include "foo.c"
#endif

Thus your code will build and link if you ever decide to go back to using the -qtempic setting.


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fanatix | Rugby | Rugby League | NRL | Greg Inglis stars as South Sydney extend lead at the top of NRL ladder
Greg Inglis stars as South Sydney extend lead at the top of NRL ladder
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Rabbtiohs made to work for the win against gutsy Gold Coast Titans side.
The South Sydney Rabbtiohs were forced to come-from-behind to secure the win over the Gold coast Titans 30-24 in what was one of the games of the season to date.
Victory ensures the red-hot Rabbtiohs continue their momentum before the second State of Origin period, with Greg Inglis and Chris McQueen set to be missing next round for the red and greens.
South Sydney coach Michael McGuire said his side used its get out of jail for free card after missing 26 tackles and failing to complete 14 sets of six.
"It was frustrating and you could see the disappointment on the players' faces when they came into the changing rooms," McGuire said.
"We didn't play the way we're capable of, and if we do that too often, we'll get burnt.
"We were pushing passes when we don't normally, and to get the two points, we were very lucky."
The game was played from end-to-end with both side's speedsters finding open air to stretch their legs and the opposition defence.
Greg Inglis scored his 12th of the season just 10 minutes into the game and the sign looks good for the Bunnies.
However, off the back of a Sam Burgess mistake, the Titans clicked into gear as Kevin Gordon and Albert Kelly scored within three minutes.
The sides traded blows on the scoreboard before South Sydney produced one of the tries of the year in the shadows of the half-time break.
After the ball passed through eight sets of hands it was Dylan Walker who touched down after a pin-point Adam Reynolds cross-field kick to make the score 18-all at half-time.
South Sydney jumped out to a crucial lead early in the second half thanks to Titans' mistakes, with Roy Asotasi and Ben Te'o putting their name on the scoresheet to make it 30-18.
Kelly scored his second try for the game, and his 10th in his last 13 appearances, to bring the Titans back to within six points.
But with just three minutes left, Inglis pulled off a sensational try-saving tackle against Kelly, to ensure his side took home the points.
Gold Coast coach John Cartwright said the slow start to the second half, in the end, cost his side a chance to knock off the competition leaders
"We did a fantastic job to hold out as long as we did, and although we got back into the game, we'd spent too much petrol," he said.
"On the back of the amount of possession they had, I thought we didn't lose anything compared to them.
"But I'd loved to have seen if the possession had been turned around."
The Titans will be out to secure their place in the NRL top eight when they play a Melbourne Storm side who is set to be without its State of Origin stars.
The Rabbitohs will take aim at Parramatta in round 15, with another loss for the Eels all but ruling them out of the finals.
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Australia have made some changes to their squad ahead of the third Test against Pakistan in Sydney, with all-rounder Hilton Cartwright set to make his Test debut on Tuesday. Zimbabwe-born Cartwright and left-arm spinner Steve O'Keefe have come in for Nic Maddinson and Jackson Bird, captain Steve Smith said on Monday.
The 24-year-old is a handy addition to the Australian side. Cartwright is a batting all-rounder who bowls medium pace and will be expected to support star bowlers Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood.
"He's improved (his bowling) a lot over the last year or so. He's gained 10 kph," Smith said of Cartwright.
O'Keefe was picked over Ashton Agar after selectors wanted to draft a second spinner for the Sydney Test.
"We're playing the two spinners, traditionally out here it does take some spin," Smith said.
O'Keefe will partner veteran spinner Nathan Lyon, who cemented his place in the team with a crucial three-wicket spell on the final day of the Melbourne Test.
O'Keefe has played three Tests, including in Sydney against the West Indies last season, and partnered Lyon in the first Test in Sri Lanka in July before injury ruled him out for the remainder of the series.
Explaining Agar's inclusion in the expanded squad, Smith said: "It was to bring him into the mix and have those three spinners working together.
"I think the selectors probably have an eye on India and the guys that are possible to be there.
Cartwright said he was ready to step up with the ball.
"I can definitely contribute overs during a game," Cartwright told reporters yesterday.
While Cartwright has taken only 14 Sheffield Shield wickets at 42.50 in his career, he is averaging 36.67 with the bat in the Shield so far this season, including three half-centuries.
Smith said pace bowler Bird could consider himself unlucky to miss out after taking 13 wickets in the last three Tests. "I thought he bowled particularly well in Melbourne but, look, conditions sometimes change the team," Smith said.
Australia are chasing a 3-0 whitewash in the Test that starts in Sydney tomorrow.
Australia: David Warner, Matthew Renshaw, Usman Khawaja, Steve Smith (capt), Peter Handscomb, Hilton Cartwright, Matthew Wade, Mitchell Starc, Steve O'Keefe, Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Lyon.


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Martial Art of Life: Way of Foot and Fist
This is experimental creative non-fiction, where I played with contrast, comparisons, and chronology. You'll have to experience it by reading it. (3510 words) 2011.
"...her husband had filled out a form and wrote 'Homemaker' as her occupation (she used to work as an accountant). 'Can you believe it!''" (1203 words) 2011.
"Today is one of those mornings when I know as soon as I've started the car that I should have gone to the bathroom first, but then we are already late for getting Little Boy to school" (474 words) 2011.
Another experimental creative non-fiction using multiple links of narrative chains. I hand-wrote the full draft on the 4-hour plane ride home from the keynote speaking trip. (4328 words) 2011.
Indemnitas
"We are rewriting Fables. The hare beats the tortoise and wins the race. The farmer who killed the goose that laid the golden eggs gets rich by selling futures against golden eggs in the market..." (472 words) 2011.
A rare flash fiction piece. Flash because less than 500 words. Rare because I don't write fiction. (486 words) 2011.
This piece was adapted for a speech that was awarded 2nd place in Toastmasters District 1 International Speech Competition, 2007.
"I did notice that the man whose turn was coming up at the cash register acted a bit strange..." This piece was adapted for a Toastmasters Speech Competition, 2006.
"She, like me, had no domestic skills, but: I had no domestic skills because I chose not to acquire any. She had no domestic skills because she did not need to do anything for herself."
Sublimation . Secret Path to Closure . Bridge Generation
jane's mental health source page (est. 1998)
In 1998 I wanted to share my experiences with undiagnosed depression and misdiagnosis. Little did I know that my simple personal "homepage" would become one of the internet's oldest personal website on depression, mental health, and emotional abuse. Early writings have appeared in an anthology of a graduate student's masters thesis, and my journey with and through this website have appeared in online channels past and present, including Beliefnet, Genetics & Health, and Hyphen magazine. Jane's Mental Health Source Page is now one of the web's voices on the deleterious consequences of "Tiger Parenting", with wounded cubs all over the world sharing with me their stories of childhood abuse and trauma from parental emotional abuse.
Copyright 2021 by Jane Chin, All Rights Reserved. Email jane@janechin.com


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The objective of Guildford Street is to develop into a diversified holding company, with interests in, inter alia: oil and gas, coal, next generation clean energy power plants, property, rare earth minerals and corporate finance.
The corporate finance arm - ranging from the provision of finance to successful companies all the way through to the corporate restructuring and refinancing of ailing businesses - helps to facilitate deal flow.
To enhance and increase the liquidity of the Group, its various investments in these chosen sectors will predominantly be held through subsidiary and associated companies that are stock market listed or where a market in the shares of each investment exists. Again, the corporate finance division of the Group can help with such listings which will also generate revenue for the Group from corporate finance fees.
The Board of the Company is currently Allan Biggar, Jeremy Chivers and Andrew Irvine and will be strengthened following each substantial investment or acquisition that the Company makes.
Guildford Street Capital seeks investments in both public and private equity situations. Taking each opportunity on its merits our investment strategy is neither sector specific nor geographic specific rather our investment criteria are based on whether the investment is cash generative and increases our own shareholder value.
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Where you have coal you generally have gas and we are working on early stage gas liquification plans in Virginia.
Guildford Street Capital Limited holds a 67% shareholding in Whetstone Capital Group plc an Alternative Investment Fund targeted at energy, property, technology, and professional services. Please see www.whetstone.capital for more information.
Commenting on GSC investment in Whetstone Capital Group plc, Allan Biggar GSC Chairman said he was delighted with the launch of the Company and that it had achieved its target to bring in more than 1600 small investors. In the four weeks since Whetstone shares commenced trading on the Britdaq matched bargain platform over 5,000,000 of its shares have been traded, rising from an initial launch price of 2.5p they peaked at 34.5p before settling back to trade at around 24p.
In addition, our own team trade publicly quoted securities which helps to generate cash to fund our business, to utilise cash balances in a highly productive manner that produces revenue for the company and ultimately dividends to shareholders.
Our team are working to build innovative solutions to corporate debt and company restructuring. With business failures such as Carillion rocking the business world the need to provide alternative funding sources and access to capital for restructuring is stronger than ever. In 2018 we'll be publishing details of a product aimed at releasing hidden cash from distressed assets. We are constantly looking for opportunities to provide liquidity funding to listed companies as well as opportunistic finance to acquire distressed assets at a substantial discount to the inherent market value.
Almost every electronic device has relied on high tech metals known as Rare Earths. Global demand significantly outstrips supply. Through our mining experience we are looking at opportunities to invest in joint venture exploration and production in Greenland and other locations.
It is an old business saying but we believe 'Cash is King'.
We believe in maintaining a high proportion of easy to liquidate investments. Those investments may be either in the form of publicly traded stock or private company stock that can be turned into cash over a pre-agreed period through either sale or IPO of the investee company. The exception is where an investee private company creates attractive long-term dividends and/or capital growth. Before making an investment or acquisition, we need to be clear on the exist strategy or to be satisfied that the investment will generate sufficient cash that retaining the investment on a long term basis is preferable.
We don't like debt and we are in business to make a profit.
All investments made by the Company must meet a basket of criteria. Top amongst our criteria is that our investments should increase our net profitability and net cash flow. Additionally, investments must generally increase our current assets and increase our net asset value per share.
We do not like to incur debt, so investments should generally not lead us to incur indebtedness, either directly or by cross guarantee.
Build a portfolio of profitable cash generative investments which meet our investment criteria.
Generate cash and increase out net assets.
Look for strategic fits for businesses and restructuring opportunities when we can.
Keep it simple… we believe business works best when it is kept simple.
Pay dividends regularly to our shareholders.
Create long term wealth and income for our shareholders.
Above all remain agile, opportunistic and cash rich.


A senior banker says China's plans to combine the QFII and RQFII schemes will give investors more flexibility in repatriation of funds and futures hedging. Investors are also set to get the 'National Treatment'.
The merger of China's QFII and RQFII schemes has been designed to ensure that investors get the best of both worlds, a senior banker said yesterday.
China's securities regulator has confirmed that fund firms' clients legally own securities held in QFII and RQFII accounts, as it pushes for inclusion of A-shares in MSCI's emerging-market indices.
Institutional investors appear to be largely holding off from using the Shanghai-Hong Kong trading link, as expected, but will have drawn comfort from yesterday's launch, said Z-Ben Advisors.


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Ellen and Demi Lovato Play Su'Move It, Move It!
And when she's not lap-dancing, she's - erm - wearing see-through dresses.
Demi Lovato is, essentially, one of the prettiest girls in show business. There's no denying it. And - somehow - she looks incredible, even when she's dressed as an obese sumo wrestler!
The 'Cool For The Summer' singer joined Ellen Degeneres to play a round of 'Heads Up!', but with a pretty big twist. Both her and Ellen were wearing inflatable suits and had to act out actions... Including one hella hilarious lap dance.
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She also spoke to Ellen about her - ahem - revealing GRAMMYs dress, and that her Dad mistakingly approved of it being see-through! "He said he approved, but I don't think he realised it was see-through" Lovato said. "We didn't talk about it."
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KUALA LUMPUR: The nearby bourse dunked into the red at early afternoon in the midst of blended territorial markets as tech counters took fall on the US Nasdaq (Share Trading Tips), prompting milder exhibitions in their Asian partners.
Chinese stocks, be that as it may, ascended on Tuesday morning after a private overview demonstrated development in China's administrations segment movement grabbed to a three-month high in November, Reuter revealed.
At 12.30pm, the FBM KLCI (Share Trading Tips) was 0.28 focuses bring down at 1,712.85 focuses. Turnover was 911.82 million offers with an estimation of RM921.88mil. Decliners outpaced advancers at a 3:1 proportion at 465 to 156, and 486 counters were unaltered.
Genting Malaysia was a main gainer on the file, rising 13 sen to RM5.13. Different advancers included Maxis, increasing five sen to RM5.88, and IHH Healthcare, adding three sen to RM5.64.
Petronas Gas put on 26 sen to RM16.20 (Hot Stocks), while Petronas Dagangan rose 18 sen to RM24.58 and Petronas Chemicals dropped 10 sen to RM7.42.
In the interim Hong Leong Financial Group rose 18 sen to RM16.58 and Hong Leong Bank added two sen to RM15.32.
Among decliners, Genting dropped four sen to RM8.91, MISC slipped two sen to RM7.07 and Tenaga Nasional lost two sen to RM15.56.
Westports Holdings lost 12 sen to RM3.46 while YTL COrp dropped three sen to RM1.13.
Sime Darby Plantations kept on losing ground (Equity Tips), slipping 14 sen to RM4.71 for the third sequential day since its presentation. Sime Darby Property took action accordingly, losing eight sen to RM1.04.
On the more extensive market, Gas Malaysia was another vitality counter to put on picks up on Tuesday, rising seven sen to RM2.78.
SWS Capital increased five sen to RM1.27 while Ireka added five sen to 65 sen.
In products, oil costs climbed somewhat on desires of lower US unrefined reserves and fixing supply following a week ago's arrangement amongst Opec and other rough makers.
US light unrefined rose 11 pennies to US$57.58 a barrel and Brent increased seven pennies to US$62.52 a barrel.
In monetary forms, the ringgit ascended against significant monetary standards. It exchanged 0.25% higher against the greenback at 4.0530 (Financial Advisory Services), 0.02% against the pound sterling at 5.4592 and 0.06% against the Singapore dollar at 3.0111.