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Ceremonial Ten Count: A Requiem for HBO Boxing
Posted on December 12, 2018 December 12, 2018 by Eric
The other day, while discussing boxing in detail with a knowledgeable co-worker – and there's a opening I never would've thought I'd possibly write five years ago – I casually reminded him that Saturday night's Boxing After Dark card would technically be the final telecast of HBO Boxing after 45 years of standard-bearing quality and omnipresent, sport-influencing significance. He professed mild disappointment when hearing that the best card the network could apparently assemble as its swan song was a triple-header featuring two matches from the nascent and still relatively obscure realm of women's boxing. I found myself neither particularly surprised by his knee jerk response nor my general agreement with it. Boxing fans are always hungry, after all, rarely satisfied, and can be exceedingly hard to impress. No matter how young or old, they have borne witness to humbling, truly exceptional displays of athletic determination, and carry within the depths of their memory so many amazing images and transcendent moments collected and archived over time. Authentic boxing fans were inevitably galvanized at some point early in their personal journeys by the unexpected and extraordinary climax to an otherwise ordinary night. They have as much say in choosing to love and follow the sport thereafter as does a person who miraculously survives being struck by lightning. I actually first got into boxing because of the stories – century-spanning, spellbinding tales of blood grudges and grudging respect, fathers and sons and lifelong brothers, larger than life characters and pugs who simply aspired to be "somebody" – but I stayed for the moments, and the memories.
Those abundant stories, those flashpoint moments, and all those spine-tingling memories were provided me, expertly and with not only skill and care but obvious affection, by HBO Boxing, at first exclusively and, as my worldview expanded, in a way that, by prizing the nourishment of my love of the sport over any strict allegiance to a given provider, ironically rendered it my de facto destination on a map increasingly dotted with imitators. The suggestion that HBO didn't ever leverage its prestige or prominence to elevate its Boxing division at the cost of its competitors is, of course, absurd, but I never noticed all that much, or, more to the point, cared. From my own hazy beginnings, as a child on the floor of my mother's bedroom watching Leonard, Hagler, Tyson, and Holmes in the 1980s, to my true boxing awakening, thrilling to Gatti, Pacquiao, Cotto, Marquez, and Pavlik in the mid-2000s, to today's drastically different, practically alien, landscape, where broadcast venues are plentiful and streaming services look to supplant the primacy of pay cable and pay-per-view once and for all, I always thought the choice was self-evident, and so I made my own, time and again. Now that it's over, I honestly still do. It is altogether appropriate that this final broadcast was less about the six fighters it showcased – who certainly don't take any fewer inherent risks or somehow deserve less respect for not being global superstars – than it was about HBO itself, because, on the whole, I just don't remember HBO often taking those sorts of bows, however much it might've deserved to.
HBO Boxing's downhill slide has proceeded, apace and unimpeded, for years now, almost as if toxic public sentiment directed toward the sport en masse in the wake of the high profile anticlimax that was the 2015 Mayweather-Pacquiao mega-fight had manifested as cleansing fire in search of a sacrifice, or a half-acre of quicksand hungry to take down an icon. During that doldrum period, longtime promotional ally Top Rank shockingly defected for a syrupy sweet deal as primary content provider for ESPN's reinvigorated, cross-platform boxing program. Golden Boy Promotions, whose namesake CEO Oscar De La Hoya fought his entire legendary career on HBO, eventually followed suit. Though it weathered its own violent, hubristic storms, Al Haymon's Premier Boxing Champions outfit appears to have since somehow found its footing, flitting between homes on FS1 and HBO's ancient enemy Showtime, although boxing's permanent return to network television, after a couple of dalliances, does seem a collateral damage casualty. What's interesting is how little the demise of that dream – long considered the holy grail to boxing reclaiming some semblance of its former glory as a national sport – now seems to matter in the grand scheme of things. Having siphoned off pound-for-pound stalwarts Terence Crawford and Vasiliy Lomachenko, names HBO invested in for years, ESPN has made high profile boxing the cornerstone of a wide-ranging streaming service. Upstart streaming platform DAZN has inked exclusive rights to middleweight champion Saul "Canelo" Alvarez and is on the verge of doing the same for Kazakh destroyer Gennady Golovkin. The two last shared headlines three months ago, meeting in the main event of HBO's final ever pay-per-view.
Boxing is a brutal, unforgiving business, outside the ropes as well as in. It also doesn't always cost that much to program, assuming certain things – influential partners and, especially, sponsors; a receptive, reachable audience; a thoughtful mixture of value-priced action fights and value-providing action fighters – fall into place. Many have tried and failed, and whether this current crop thrives or even endures is a question that can only be answered with time. HBO floundered post-May-Pac as a market it had once not only set but lorded over as a tyrant both flourished and diversified. Beset with external criticism and declining ratings, the subscription service found itself having to actively trim costs and rethink purse guarantees for the first time in years, then improvise strategy as its friends deserted for the promise of greener pastures. We're squarely in that "new investment" phase now. PBC was fine promoting smallish cards on Showtime, Spike TV, and, later, FS1, but dramatically flamed out when it tried to muscle into bigger tents. ESPN shuttered its own longstanding "Friday Night Fights" series in order to become strange bedfellows with Haymon, but the fallout from their resulting, shall we say, conditional successes together only inspired the "worldwide leader" to redouble its efforts apart. I don't know where this alleged influx of new or newly interested fans comes from, whether it's some legit, organic groundswell, an especially persuasive figment of some power broker's imagination, or an industry-afflicting delusion from which the crash and resulting hangover will be epic.
I want boxing to grow not fail – indeed, I was once an evangelist of the highest and, admittedly, most insufferable order – but I'm having a difficult time disguising my current ambivalence toward the sport's upswing, which edges over at times, unbidden, into something closer to contempt. I mentioned before a childhood misspent in large part watching HBO from the floor of my mother's bedroom during summer while she was at work, or on weekends after she fell asleep. I still remember razor-thin controversies like Leonard-Hagler and Holmes-Spinks, not to mention how the young and terrifying Mike Tyson decimated those latter two established heavyweight champions in close succession, pulverizing one and blitzing the other. All I know, love, and have ever cherished about the sport of boxing springs directly from HBO. It was there, through a sterling docuseries called Legendary Nights, that I first began to comprehend boxing's impossibly deep and colorful history, and through seminal post-millennium fights like Pavlik-Taylor (the personal flashpoint moment I mentioned earlier), Pacquiao-Marquez I (there would be four total, all tremendous), and Ward-Gatti I (the genesis of an all-time great trilogy, including two consensus fights of the year), authentically tasted the vicarious thrill of watching gloved combatants risk life and limb to challenge one another while also plumbing the depths of their own souls, thrilling to what ringside commentator Larry Merchant termed the "Theater of the Unexpected." Irrational as it is, "business-as-usual" as it is, there is a part of me deep down that can't yet outpace the feeling that this new order cannibalized HBO Boxing in order to secure its spot, and, frankly, I'm angry even as I mourn.
After a second's reflection, I told my coworker that final HBO card would be worth watching because, as we both already knew, it would surely feature interesting remembrances and stirring retrospectives recounting the sort of rich history that I'm not sure has ever before existed between a sport and a broadcaster, and that I am absolutely certain never will again. As is so often my problem, I should have been more succinct: It would be worth watching because it was HBO Boxing. For forty-five years, HBO Boxing was not only destination television for dedicated lovers of the Sweet Science, it was often the only destination that mattered. Name a significant fight since the mid-1970s and chances are at least reasonable that it was carried on HBO: Ali-Frazier; Foreman-Frazier; Pryor-Arguello; Gomez-Pintor; Hearns-Benitez; Leonard-Hearns; Holmes-Cooney; Hagler-Hearns; Leonard-Hagler; Holmes-Spinks; Tyson-Berbick; Douglas-Tyson; Chavez-Taylor; Holyfield-Bowe; Foreman-Moorer; De La Hoya-Trinidad; Ibeabuchi-Tua; Lewis-Tyson; Morales-Barrera; Gatti-Ward; Lewis-Rachman; Trinidad-Vargas; Barrera-Hamed; Pacquiao-Marquez; Mosley-De La Hoya; Lewis-Klitschko; Toney-Jirov; Pacquiao-De La Hoya; Pavlik-Taylor; Pacquiao-Cotto; Cotto-Margarito; Martinez-Williams; Mayweather-Pacquiao; Bradley-Provodnikov; Cotto-Alvarez; Joshua-Klitschko; Ward-Kovalev; Alvarez-Golovkin; Plus dozens of other obvious candidates I'm either shamefully forgetting or else willfully omitting because Floyd Mayweather, great as he is, only deserves so much unsolicited press. Hell, two and a half months after my birth, Muhammad Ali outthought then outfought George Foreman in the famed "Rumble in the Jungle", emanating from Kinshasa, Zaire and brought to you by HBO. At the very least, an era has ended. At worst, I worry about the end of something else, something more elusive yet altogether more consequential.
I came to boxing for the stories. Boxing is a storyteller's medium, whether you electrify on canvas to the cheers of spellbound throngs or paint with words and pictures, reaching each reader or viewer in his/her time. For longer than I have been alive, and certainly for as long as I have been a boxing fan, HBO has been the trusted keeper of those stories, equal parts troubadour and custodian. Who tells them now? Who cares as deeply, about them or the sport? Everyone tries to emulate the HBO approach to one degree or other, because of its proven track record and because boxers are inherently fascinating human beings, but presenting the 360-degree image is tricky. That requires passion, and depth, and credibility. HBO's final boxing telecast originated, as had many memorable nights before it, from Carson, California's StubHub Center. It featured, in Danish headliner Cecilia Braekus and two-time Olympic gold medalist Claressa Shields, the two biggest names in women's boxing, battling overmatched opponents to, as we'd foreseen, serviceable but only mildly impressive victories. My favorite ever boxing broadcast team – peerless Jim Lampley on play-by-play; encyclopedic Max Kellerman on commentary; former pound-for-pound king Roy Jones providing expert analysis – were loose yet professional in their task, approaching the lame duck card as an appealing potpourri of real time reaction, reminiscence, plaudits, digressions, and informed speculation. Self-evident fans of the sport, the jovial trio seemed rightly less interested in the in-ring action than all the amazing places they had been together, and where things might go from here, keeping their respective composure until finally crumbling somewhat at the end. They weren't alone there, on any count.
45 years. 1116 fights. 865 fighters. 9447 rounds. If those statistics are themselves impressive, then the images behind them are overwhelming, pregnant with deeper meaning and personal resonance for each longtime viewer and oozing with weapons-grade raw emotion that connects directly to the heart and gut, superseding experience level. Do yourself a favor and watch all twenty+ combined minutes of the retrospective that closed HBO Boxing's final broadcast, including the end credits and heartfelt goodbyes. I'll miss Lampley's keen fan's eye and heart-on-sleeve eloquence most of all. Let those images really sink in. Maybe even imagine the greater piece, as I did, as a deconstructed mosaic broken down into over a thousand component parts, some of which (if you're reading this) I'm sure you remember so well, and then reassembled into something different, something towering and shattering, something somehow even better than your memories. There was nothing else in the history of sports broadcasting like HBO Boxing. There never will be again. Treasure it. Burnish those memories instead of letting them fade. And keep telling the stories of these extraordinary athletes, and the sport to which they gave everything, for nothing and everything in return.
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Sichuan Airlines starts Tel Aviv - Chengdu flights next month
28 Aug, 2018 12:28
Passengers can continue on a connecting flight from Chengdu to Beijing, Shanghai, or Guangzhou at no extra cost.
Sichuan Airlines is inaugurating a direct line between Tel Aviv and Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province in China, on September 26. The airline, which will run two weekly flights, on Sunday's and Thursdays, is offering an interesting gimmick in which passengers can continue on a connecting flight from Chengdu to Beijing, Shanghai, or Guangzhou at no extra cost. Ticket prices will start at $600 for tourist class and $1,400 for business class. The company is represented in Israel by TAL Aviation.
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The flights will use Airbus 330A airliners and later Airbus A350s. Some of the company's planes are colorfully designed, including decoration with the company's panda bear logo. The flight time will be eight hours and 20 minutes. Flights will take off from Tel Aviv at 3:25 PM and land in Chengdu at 6:00 AM on the following day. The return flight from Chengdu will take off at 2:15 AM and land in Tel Aviv at 7:35 AM on the same day. The flights will have 277 tourist class seats and 24 business class seats.
Commenting on the growth in passenger traffic between Tel Aviv and China, TAL Aviation president and CEO Gideon Thaler said, "It is true of both businesspeople and tourists going to China and the Far East. The company expects the inauguration of the new route to substantially boost the number of tourists from Asia to Israel, but also expects to see more families and tourists from Israel visiting China and the Far East."
There will now be three airlines operating direct flights between Tel Aviv and China: El Al Israel Airlines Ltd. (TASE: ELAL); Hainan Airlines, which already operates flights to five destinations; and now Sichuan Airlines.
Sichuan Airlines, founded in 1986, has a network of flights with over 270 Chinese and international destinations. The company's fleet contains 130 airplanes, and it plans to add 50 more by the end of 2020.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on August 28, 2018
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Preston Love Jr: "My hope is that John Lewis' life will be as a beacon to our young"
July 21, 2020 July 24, 2020 / News
This is an article from July 20, 2020 Omaha World Herald
Congressman John Lewis was a friend of mine for 40 years. I mourn the passing of my dear friend, who was 80.
In 1980, after moving to Atlanta, I became a part of the inner circle of the civil rights community there. Later, I became the director of budget for the City of Atlanta, having been appointed by former Ambassador and then Mayor of Atlanta Andrew Young. John Lewis was a newly elected member of the City Council and I, as a lieutenant for Mayor Young, had additional responsibilities to "whip" the City Council for the mayor. (A political "whip" in theory whips the members of a body into line, in this case in support of issues initiated or advocated by the mayor.)
So my initial perspectives on John Lewis first occurred in that capacity. But by at that time in his life, in 1980, John Lewis was a civil rights icon. In 1965, John was nearly beaten to death on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, during the first of three infamous marches from Selma to Montgomery. As a result, later in the year the awesome 1965 Voting Rights Act was passed. For the young readers, may I say, the Selma marches were peace protest marches, demanding change and reform, albeit for voting rights. A quick historical note: In 2013 the U.S. Supreme Court gutted a key part of the Voting Rights Act (Shelby v. Holder). "Deja vu all over again." I remind you that John Lewis was the youngest and maybe the second most electric speaker at the 1963 March on Washington. He was 23 years old. Additionally, John Lewis tirelessly, and dangerously, worked in the Southern states to register African Americans to vote. John's partner in these agonizing voter registration efforts mentioned above also was a very dear friend of mine, the renowned, late Julian Bond.
By the time John was on the Atlanta council, I had the occasionally impossible job of attempting to persuade him to cast his vote with Mayor Young, whom he loved. When John felt that something did not pass his test of what was righteous for the people, meaning no political maneuvers, no political deal, his response was a stern no. No, unless it adhered to John's sense of what he felt was right, he would not vote with anyone, including the mayor. That made being the mayor's whip a horrible job sometimes, but when we walked away, we always left with the highest respect for John Lewis. That was John Lewis as a councilman and then as a congressman. No Nancy Pelosi, nor any political giant, could sway John away from his personal principles. John never changed. He was the rock; he was the conscience of the Atlanta City Council and then the conscience of the U.S. House of Representatives for 33 years.
When I reflect on John Lewis, and my experiences with him, so many names pop up in my head. They include civil rights icon C.T. Vivian, who also died July 17, 88-year-old Andrew Young, my dear friend Coretta Scott King, and more. But when I think of John, I also think of Julian Bond.
By 1985, my friends John Lewis Julian Bond decided to run for Congress and it was against each other. Bond was hands down the favorite to win the race. While John was iconic and historic, Julian was charismatic, handsome, an eloquent speaker and extremely intelligent. So Preston Love Jr., who had just returned home from running Jesse Jackson's presidential race in 1984, was the sought-after advisor by both campaigns. What a dilemma for me. I loved them both, but I chose Julian Bond. There were several other people in the race, which required a runoff. In the primary, Julian received the most votes. John Lewis won the race. I won an egg on my face. While John never let me forget that in the early days. He was always a man of such high character, he always continued to embrace our friendship: mine and Julian's. It's important to note that John Lewis was elected 22 times for that same seat until the day that he died.
My hope is that John Lewis' life will be as a beacon to our young, because John spent his whole life fighting for change and reform and he said over and over, "never give up. It's going to be tough, but never give up. And if you stay with it, you will win the fight." So, I say, on behalf of John Lewis, to our young folks that I join in every way, their calls for change. I hope that they will follow John's mantra, and never give up.
I caution to our young generation, as well as our older generations, don't fail to see the leverage of registering and voting. I say boldly and strongly, as a veteran of the many years and cycles of racial disparities and lack of equity, that in November of this year, we all must vote. And when we do, we honor John Lewis, who was the first, and true to the very last. RIP.
Preston Love Jr. is a longtime Omaha civic engagement activist who also teaches black studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.


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In the  Mount Surround had a population of 145 people.

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Kevin Campbell urges Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta to throw Thomas Partey straight in against Manchester City
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Arsenal signed Thomas Partey from Atletico Madrid on transfer deadline day (Picture: Getty)
Kevin Campbell is hoping to see Thomas Partey in Mikel Arteta's starting XI against Manchester City and says a victory for Arsenal this weekend will see the club taken 'seriously' in the race for the Premier League title.
Arsenal got the season off to the perfect start as they beat Liverpool to get their hands on the Community Shield but Jurgen Klopp's champions soon got revenge in the league with a 3-1 victory at Anfield.
It remains the Gunners' sole defeat in top flight this term and the north London club will fancy their chances versus an out-of-form Manchester City side at the Etihad on Saturday.
Arteta outwitted Guardiola in last season's FA Cup semi-final (Picture: Getty)
Arteta, Pep Guardiola's right-hand man for three-and-a-half years at City before taking charge of Arsenal, faces several selection headaches leading into the clash and must decide whether to throw Partey straight in at the deep end for his debut.
Ex-Arsenal striker Campbell predicts the Spaniard will opt for a back-three – which worked so well against City in the FA Cup semi-final last season – with Partey potentially acting as the anchor in midfield.
'What do Arsenal need to do? Obviously we're hoping Thomas Partey starts in the midfield. That'll be protection for those at the back, especially the centre-backs,' he told the Highbury Squad YouTube channel.
'I think Arteta might go with three at the back and play with wing-backs. It's proved to be fruitful in the past, especially in the semi-final of the FA Cup last season.
'Obviously he's got more legs now with the likes of Thomas Partey in the midfield. Partey is multi-faceted and he can do a lot more than our midfielders.
Campbell is confident Arsenal can come away from the Etihad with a result this weekend (Picture: Getty)
'Not only is his passing range very good but he can also drive with the ball, he can pick the ball up and go and that gives us so many more opportunities and angles to win the game.
'First off, we have to defend properly and that's key.
'[Bernd] Leno has to marshal that back-three or back-five, whatever you want to call it, we've got to pick people up and mark correctly, the wing-backs have to play smart and defend when they're in a good position and be solid but offer themselves as attackers when they can.
'Our distribution from the back, we know we can spring [Pierre-Emerick] Aubameyang over the top given the opportunity because Man City's full-backs play so high.
'But I think we can play an even better ball from Thomas Partey when he plays in there, over the top for Aubameyang.'
Arsenal captain Aubameyang is without a goal in his last three games (Picture: Getty)
Campbell says Aubameyang failing to score in his last three games can partly be put down to a lack of service from the midfield and believes dominating in this area will be 'key' for Arsenal.
'I can see Arsenal either playing a two and one in midfield because we're away from home which could be [Granit] Xhaka and Partey with [Dani] Ceballos in front or you could go Ceballos and Partey with Willian in front,' he added.
'I think we've got to try and dominate the midfield and, if we don't dominate, we have to try and win the ball back and spring from there and really make Man City pay on the counter-attack. That is key.
'When we break we have to go and hurt them. We have the speed and the ability now to hurt them, Ceballos and Partey's passes, Xhaka being solid and keeping the ball ticking over and giving some service to the front boys.
'There's been a lot of talk of Aubameyang not scoring since he signed a new contract but I don't think we've created anything for him to go for, to be honest, so we have to be better attacking-wise and we have to defend as a team.'
Campbell continued: 'I don't think this Manchester City team are as good as the team we beat in last season's FA Cup semi-final.
'I think they've come down a little peg and I just think this Arsenal team can go to the Etihad and get something and if we can get something – a win, a win is the key – then people are going to take Arsenal seriously and that's where we want to be.
'We want Arsenal to be serious, we want Thomas Partey to get his first win. We want him to start, get his first win and let's get the fanbase buzzing.
'Arsenal can win but they have to do the right things and perform well as a team.'
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Much of the media has declared calling Social Security a "Ponzi scheme" taboo since Texas Gov. Rick Perry started mainstreaming the comparison. But Tuesday on the Fox Business Network, George Mason University economist Walter E. Williams didn't scold the GOP presidential hopeful.
Williams also criticized other government efforts at so-called "social justice," and started with the government education system.
He also explained how government efforts to engineer social justice are the root of problems all over the world.
Williams argued that he had no problems being charitable, but not with a government mandate.


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Twitter users say 'No' to single-use plastic at Ramadhan bazaar
It is Ramadhan, the month where Muslims will fast to commemorate the first revelation of the Quran to Prophet Mohammad.
One of the unique ways the Muslims in Southeast Asian countries like Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore celebrate the breaking of fast (Iftar) is to shop for food at the Ramadhan bazaar.
From the Twitter trend, Ramadhan bazaar became popular on the 2nd and 6th of May.
On May 2, the Twitter network of Ramadhan bazaar consist of one huge cluster with several others segregated tiny clusters.
The biggest one, being pink, had @SueKz93 as its influencer. The account tweeted advice for bazaar visitors on how to save in terms of plastic, food and money.
Her advice is to bring your own food containers and bags when purchasing food. Thus, no plastic bags will be wasted for packing your take-aways. Additionally, @SueKz93 also advised on using a metal straw over the single-use plastic straw.
The usage of plastic straws has been banned in the Federal Territories since the 1st of January this year. The full plastic straw ban for the whole nation is expected to be implemented in 2020.
Therefore, the practice of using a metal straw as an alternative will be a great preparation for the ban.
@SueKZ93 received positive feedback from other users with more than 11 thousand retweets and almost 6,000 shares.
One of the separate clusters tweeted about news where 5,000 traffic police officers will be placed in 250 bazaars throughout Malaysia. This means, on average, there will be 20 officers available at each Ramadhan bazaar.
On its peak day (May 6), the network expanded with more clusters spawned. Some were heavily linked to one another, and others were mildly connected.
The pink cluster remained active in opposing plastic wastage. Users in this group worried that the waste produced from the bazaar would be littered on the streets.
One of the users in the pink cluster shared an image of a street filled with junk. He hoped that the Ramadhan bazaar will not end up looking like the street in the picture.
The orange cluster is heavily connected to the pink cluster. This is because there were numerous users who reacted to the tweets from the influencers of the two clusters.
For the orange group, the primary influencer is @sunfloweraidil.
Like @SueKz93 in the pink cluster, @sunfloweraidil reminded the bazaar-goers to be eco-friendly.
He advised them to bring their own food and water containers along with reusable bags. Additionally, he asked bazaar-goers to be mindful to avoid food wastage.
Subsequently, he received a high amount of positive responses.
However, his feedback is lower than @SueKz93 despite having more followers. Maybe this is because he did not accompany any pictures along with his tweet to attract attention.
In addition, the blue cluster is also quite close to both pink and orange cluster. This group has news account Astro Awani as its influencer.
The account tweeted reminders to the people to be environmentally friendly and take care of Ramadhan bazaar safety and cleanliness.
Additionally, Awani also tweeted the news that stall owners will be fined if they were found to be using mobile phones while conducting their business.
Meanwhile, in the yellow cluster, national badminton player Lee Chong Wei wishes the Muslims a happy fasting month.
Overall, most of the Twitter users were concerned about the waste produced from the Ramadhan bazaar. This is a positive sign as Malaysia's Twitter users are concerned about the environment. But does this reflect the attitude of real-life bazaar-goers?
Tags: bazaar, Environment, food, Malaysia, Ramadhan, Twitter, waste
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Woman accused of attempted second-degree murder, home invasion
3 years 2 months 3 weeks ago Sunday, April 24 2016 Apr 24, 2016 April 24, 2016 7:22 PM April 24, 2016 in News
By: Kevin Dupuy and Kristen Althouse
BATON ROUGE – Police arrested a woman after they say she entered a victim's home and attacked someone with a box cutter.
According to court documents, Baton Rouge Police officers were dispatched to a home on Duke Street in refrence to a stabbing around 2:34 p.m. Sunday. At the scene, police say a victim had several stab wounds in her chest and left arm.
The victim told investigators that 56-year-old Theresa Ross walked into her home without her permission and began stabbing her.
The victim also said there were three small children inside the home at the time of the attack. Ross fled the home before police arrived.
BRPD located Ross on North Acadian Thruway and placed her under arrest. Court documents show that Ross said she did not attack the victim.
Ross was booked on attempted second-degree murder and home invasion at the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.


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The competences of the department extend to the strategic and operative planning, technology design, operation and management, financial organization, technological and economic evaluation and legal control of transport networks and passenger and freight transport processes also with regard to the aspects of transport safety and sustainability. The courses offered by the Department encompass a wide range of fields, covering operational, technological, economic, ICT, organizational and management knowledge.
The department has been carrying out research and education in the interdisciplinary fields of transportation engineering and economics for nearly 60 years, focusing on questions like policy development, strategic planning, and decision support in transport and logistics. Thus, it has a number of experts who have an advanced and in-depth knowledge and experience in monitoring and evaluating policies, just as well as drafting reports using different qualitative and quantitative monitoring and evaluation methodologies, like desk research, data analyses and case studies.
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When I find myself repurchasing something for the 3rd or 4th time, it feels only right to devote a post to the product in question. The Clinique Quickliner for Eyes found its way into my birthday beauty haul (Part 1 & Part 2) and I've owned it several times before.
This isn't a super exciting product but it is one that I find myself reaching for a lot when I'm well enough to apply makeup. I use it only on my bottom lash line and am happy with the job it does. There is no unpleasant tugging on application and you don't need to press hard to get the desired amount of pigment. The nib is soft but not crumbly and obviously doesn't require sharpening since the pencil is of the twist-up variety; always a good thing as I'm in the habit of misplacing my sharpener!
This time around I opted for the Brown/Black shade for 'everyday wear' but I'd be interested to try out other colours such as the Intense Plum shade that is available.
The thing I really like about this product is the smudging sponge thing on the end. I've tried other pencils that turn out to have a smudging end that is rock hard and therefore not easy or comfortable to use. This sponge is firm enough to use precisely but still soft enough that it is comfortable for use in the delicate eye area.
Having said all of that, this product isn't perfect. Considering that it is a relatively expensive item, the packaging can be unreliable. The twist up mechanism isn't strong and can become loose and difficult to use even when the product is still quite new; this is poor when you factor in what it costs to purchase.
Overall I like this product and use it regularly. The problem with the packaging and twist up mechanism hasn't happened with every individual pencil I've owned but it has happened twice, which is enough to suggest that it wasn't a one-off faulty item but a design flaw. It is for this reason that while I like this product, if I were to come across one with a similar sponge that is more reliable, I'd have no qualms about switching.
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These 5 women changed YOUR life, but do you know them?
A poll of '100 Women Who Changed The World' has been revealed…
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BBC History Magazine (niche) has revealed the list of the '100 Women Who Changed the World' as voted for by the public. But do you know the five women who topped the list?
1. Cancer Curer: Marie Curie, 1867-1934
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Marie Curie defines the term, 'game-changer.' Not only did she discover radioactivity, she termed the name and her discoveries formed the foundations of Cancer cures we still use today. Her career kicked off by providing X-ray equipment for ambulances in the First World War. Inspiringly Marie's story is a story of triumph over circumstance. Growing up in Poland, the odds were more than stacked against her in a Russian occupied territory as everywhere she turned she was regarded with distrust for not only being foreign, but a woman. Becoming ill in her later life from the radioactive materials she continuously handled, she lives on today with the charity that bears her name, Marie Curie. The foundation continues to aid terminally-ill patients worldwide.
2. Equality Queen: Rosa Parks, 1913-2005
Rosa Parks changed the course of history, one seemingly normal day in Montgomery, Alabama, by refusing to give her bus seat up to a white person. In the process, she undermined the race segregation that existed not only in America, but the Western World. Her protesting stance quickly spread, gained momentum and resulted in the fight for equal rights that littered the 1960s. What. A. Woman.
3. Suffragette Flagbearer: Emmeline Pankhurst, 1858-1928
Imagine a world where you were not able to vote simply because you are a woman. That was a reality for Emmeline Pankhurst and her army of suffragettes. Forming the Women's Social and Political Union in 1903, Pankhurst's slogan, 'Deeds, not words' became a rallying call in the campaign for the parliamentary vote for women. Going against the socially ingrained practice of 'politeness', Pankhurst and her fellow campaigners were loud and proud in their quest that saw her being imprisoned thirteen times before winning the right to vote.
The incredibly inspiring women you can thank for your right to vote today
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4. The First Computer Programmer: Ada Lovelace, 1815-1852
This is one brainy Victorian. Ada Lovelace is widely regarded as the world's first computer programmer and her achievements are even more remarkable because of her gender. Lovelace's obsession with science and maths defied contemporary conventions applied to women creating the algorithms of the 'Analytical Engine', which became the forerunner of the computer. Mind. Blown.
5. DNA Darling: Rosalind Franklin, 1920-1958
Rosalind Franklin created the now infamous photograph 51, an X-ray showing the foundations of the double helix structure of DNA. By discovering the very foundations of the DNA structure, a series of incredible medical advancements were made from genetic engineering to test-tube babies. Her life became a West End play, Photograph 51, where Nicole Kidman assumed the role of Rosalind Franklin, illustrating how men continuously attempted to steal her findings and class them as their own.
Rounding off the top ten are the UK's first female prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, Victorian Angela Burdett-Coutts, the nation's first female peer, feminist 18th century writer, Mary Wollstonecraft, Florence Nightingale for her contribution to nursing during the Crimean War and finally, Marie Stopes, the first advocate for birth control and sex education in the early twentieth century.
For the full list of BBC History Magazine's poll of 100 Women Who Changed the World click here.
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Madison Square Garden became the Phish tank in 2017, the band played seventeen shows at the famous venue when the calendar year came to a close. The group began their annual New Year's run on Thursday the 28th as the sold out crowd battled frigid temperatures to get into the arena.
From the opening "AC/DC Bag" Phish made their musical statement and stuck with it all night; funky grooves that never quit. Mike Gordon was clearly the most valuable player this outing as his bass both anchored and led many of the jams, especially in the excellent first set. The thick funk of "Tube" brought out gyrations from the crowd, "Get Back on the Train" bubbled over with energy before "Your Pet Cat" screeched and bumped delightfully.
While the closing "Theme From the Bottom" was a powerful statement (led by Trey Anastasio's climbing riffs), the highlight of set (and the night) was the dynamic "Wolfman's Brother" which showcased strong piano work from Page McConnell and passages that veered excitingly close to chaos while maintaining the funky fun. It was the best version of this song we have heard/seen yet.
After the brief metallic clanging of "Wilson" echoed out to signal the start of the second set, the band wasted no time dropping right back into the groove, but less successfully this go around. "No Men In No Man's Land" was the main vehicle as the group spread out behind Anastasio's pedal work but unfortunately ended up aimless in their exploration, even so the players still managed to keep things fairly light and upbeat. The darker funk came next as "Twist" swirled and while "Everything's Right" lyrics/chorus are laughable, the dance laden jam that sprang fourth did the job.
The second set was wobbly at times but coalesced nicely at its finish as the funk reached its zenith by way of "Also Sprach Zarathustra" before a scenic "Harry Hood" blissfully rolled out over the fans. The odd pairing of the encore (pop groovy "The Wedge" and gorgeous fret working "Slave To The Traffic Light") prove the band will play just about any tune at any time these days and still sound damn good doing so.
This summer Madison Square Garden played host to the Bakers Dozen which clearly invigorated the band; now the world's most famous arena gets to have the group wrap up a successful year on its stage. While Thursday didn't hit the highs of the summer shows, it is great to hear and see Phish still playing at a high level 34 years into their career.


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Hong Kong philanthropist Tin Ka-ping was a man of true humility
Chris Patten (left), then governor of Hong Kong, speaks to Tin Ka-ping in 1993 after the unveiling ceremony of the Tin Ka Ping Building at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, as vice chancellor Charles Kao Kuen looks on. Tin, a plastic industry magnate, donated HK$25 million to the university for its academic research and development programmes. He died on July 10 at the age of 99. Photo: Handout
Topic | Philanthropy
Published: 1:03am, 15 Aug, 2018
Updated: 1:02am, 15 Aug, 2018


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The next time you start to toss out your used cardboard boxes, consider giving them a second glance. Local artist Mark Langan found his vision in corrugated cardboard, a distinctive and interesting medium resulting in a uniquely beautiful finished masterpiece.
"As an artist who has worked with a majority of mediums throughout my life, I find corrugated boxes and paper a very responsive product," Mark notes.
Mark is a self-taught artist who has been creating art with different mediums for as long as he can remember. Hailing from a family with many artists, Mark's corrugated cardboard masterpieces are his passion and he's devoted to being the best he can be with such an unexpected material source.
"I have created many logo pieces for clients that allow them to visually showcase their branding strategy toward social standing, with regard to sustainability and eco friendliness," says Mark.
Mark's work can be found for sale on his website, LanganArt.com. The pieces shown there were created in his downtime and displayed at eco-friendly events throughout the year, notably NASA and the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's America Recycles Day, Beachwood's Green Dream event and at The Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
"Most of my sales come from commissions I receive for specific pieces. Often those are logo recreations in the medium," Mark explains.
Mark's work has been published in several books and magazines worldwide. A quick Google search brings up several results for one to see just how wide the scope of his work extends.
"As Andy Warhol was known for his Campbell's Soup creations, I want to be known as 'that box recycling guy,'" smiles Mark.
To reach Mark, email him at werlangan@roadrunner.com or call 330-273-5290. Mark works primarily on commission, and you can inquire about his availability by email. Visit LanganArt.com to learn more about the artist and his work and see what's available for purchase. Find Mark on Twitter @corrug8, on Instagram @LanganArt, and on YouTube at LanganArt.


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NORTH CAROLINA–In late April, a federal judge in Charlotte refused to stop CBS's telecast of a hidden-camera report about a psychiatric hospital group that is alleged to have condoned dangerous conditions and falsified records.
In a bench ruling, federal District Judge Graham Mullen denied the hospital group's request for a temporary restraining order to block the telecast. Mullen denied the request six hours before the program was to air.
The Associated Press reported that Mullen prefaced his ruling by saying he was concerned that laws might have been broken in assembling the hidden-camera report. According to CBS attorney Jay Ward Brown, Mullen expressed sympathy for the hospital group and indicated that a wiretap violation may have occurred.
The clinical worker, Terrance Johnson, allegedly documented cases of falsified records and patient mistreatment for the CBS report on "60 Minutes II." Johnson is a licensed social worker who spent eight weeks working at a Charter hospital as a mental health technician.
Charter argued the program would violate patients' privacy. CBS argued the network was shielded from prior restraint by the First Amendment. The network also said the patients' identities were protected. CBS claimed that the report needed to be telecast because it raised important questions about the quality of care at psychiatric hospitals.


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Is India getting bullied by Singapore in accepting Gift city truce?
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SGX – NSE International Exchange Connect – Pitfalls for GIFT IFSC
Singapore has over the years emerged as a top International Finance Centre (IFC) and the Singapore Exchange (SGX) has found a successful niche in licensing of indices from other jurisdictions such as China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines etc. and creating deep and liquid index derivatives markets. Besides having created a deep and liquid market in India based index and related products, Singapore also is a global foreign currency hub of the India Rupee based contracts through the NDF and SGX markets.
To counter this unabated export of Indian products to such international financial centres, India has established its own IFSC at GIFT City, Gandhinagar to develop an international financial centre in India, rivalling the likes of Singapore and Hong Kong. It aims to have a prime position in Asia and emerge as a financial centre of choice for global participants. Eventually, GIFT city should become a vehicle or a place for investments across the world into India like Hong Kong has acted for China in the last 30 or 40 years as envisioned by our Honourable Prime Minister.
Additionally, skilled manpower is also expected to return to the onshore markets and numerous job opportunities created for our own people as foreign participants and intermediaries set up offices in GIFT IFSC. Already, over the past few budgets, various tax incentives, exemptions, relaxations have been provided to create a level playing field for GIFT IFSC to compete with other IFCs.
An initiative which is being envisaged to build liquidity at GIFT IFSC is the proposed SGX – NSE International connect, which is a proposed collaboration between the NSE International Exchange (NSE International) and the SGX wherein SGX will provide order routing into NSE International and all the foreign financial intermediaries and participants will operate from Singapore with no visibility to NSE on the participants, rendering it as a permanent vassal under this arrangement. The details of financial arrangements, operational and implementation issues are still not public, the collaboration it is believed remains subject to further approvals from authorities, including amendments to the Prevention of Money Laundering Laws, which would be a major concession to enable the project take off.
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Incidentally, one of the big reasons for participants using SGX is the Omnibus account structure, wherein the details of end client of beneficiary is not known to the Exchange and in many cases to its intermediaries, which poses a significant Money Laundering risk affecting our economic and national security. Potentially, no trading member, clearing member, institutional investor of SGX, which are some of the marque names, would then be incentivised or find it worthwhile to ever set up a presence at GIFT IFSC, since they can easily access all IFSC products from Singapore, killing the potential of GIFT IFSC forever.
The settlements of trades would take place at SGX for those trades which are netted out and required to be settled between SGX members and other trades would be settled at the NSE International Clearing. In essence, SGX therefore would continue to retain its participants, order flows, settle trades, offer margin offsets, earn its fees, leaving no development of markets, creating an investor base at GIFT IFSC.
The collaboration seems to completely rely on order flows and business emanating from Singapore almost acknowledging that GIFT IFSC does not have any potential or standing of its own to generate business or trading volumes. This could have probable damaging consequences to the reputation of GIFT IFSC. It also shows our continued reliance and dependency on an offshore venue, not only for volumes but also as the price setter for India based indices and exchange rate. This seems clearly contrary to the goals envisaged while setting up GIFT IFSC and erode the importance of GIFT IFSC in the minds of international participants.
When all the efforts should be to develop a transparent, deep and liquid market in the India based products at GIFT IFSC, wouldn't such a link destroy the potential of GIFT IFSC to emerge as competition to Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai etc., by handing over our markets and volumes to Singapore? The other issue which remains to be seen is whether investors would have an interest in the SGX – NSE connect, which brings in an additional set of rules, regulations and processes to be followed. Will it bring enough liquidity to GIFT IFSC, will it hamper the attractiveness of GIFT IFSC by keeping other potential participants away, since they would certainly notice the absence of large international names at GIFT IFSC?
Will it bring skilled financial sector manpower back to onshore markets? What would be the parameters on which the success of the venture be monitored and how much time given to the project to emerge successfully? In case any potential damage to the reputation of GIST IFSC ensues, whether due to abuse of laws, lack of build-up of liquidity, lack of international institutional investors at GIFT IFSC, who would bear responsibility and can the reputation of GIFT IFSC be subsequently salvaged?
Clarity would also be required whether the SGX – NSE connect would be a one off, case to case approval or would it be a general go ahead for other exchanges at IFSC to also connect to international venues such as Korea, Taiwan, Dubai, Mauritius etc.
While other countries such as Japan and China are implementing policies to bring back liquidity to their local markets from Singapore, would it be a right step for India to continue handing over the markets to Singapore and lose out on market participants?
Osaka bourse revamped its derivatives trading in 2016 by implementing new technology along with longer trading hours and reduced transaction costs with an objective to bring back Japanese index futures (NIKKEI 225 futures) trading from foreign bourses (SGX & CME) to home country.
China has also placed restrictions and disallowed certain indices like A 50 index option from being trading on the SGX and also getting HK to take exclusive licenses of MSCI indices preventing SGX from trading them any further. In fact, China has created a connect model between their domestic and offshore markets within the same jurisdiction, through the Shanghai/Shenzhen – Hong Kong Stock Connect, to develop their own local and onshore markets.
In the long run, building deep and liquid local markets or a continued dependency and reliance on foreign markets needs to be well thought through for the success of IFSC. Finally, when the policy aim of the government is being Aatmanirbhar (self-reliant), would be worthwhile to emerge as a strong, stable, independent Indian IFSC or become reliant on a competing International Finance Centre to get business?
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Ever the blushing bride, I didn't dare allow myself the indulgence of a lie-in with the man I'd just married. It seemed vulgar to linger behind a bolted bedroom door screaming 'do not disturb' while the in-laws ate breakfast downstairs. My reasoning was all thanks to the old fashioned values I'd honed back in Bradford. Despite my British birth, I was mindful of the implications of being female from an early age, because my gender was bestowed with the millstone of preserving a valuable commodity – family values. Even though it was sometimes a sham, I was used to manipulating my behaviour because it was usually subject to feedback. "What will people say" was a dominant theme in our home long before my marriage. I was taught that women's conduct needed greater protection and control because it was worth more, so much more in fact that the entire family's honour depended on it. And now, with all eyes trained on me as I moved in with the in-laws in Islamabad, I knew it was my conduct rather than my husband's that would be scrutinised. Besides, he was already within his comfort zone because this was his home. Now it was my home too but it didn't feel like it yet.
I presumed that being watchful of the unspoken rule that bars public displays of affection, I might exemplify my model upbringing and the Pakistani values I'd inherited from mum. I had after all been trained to switch channels instantly if a sordid kissing scene caught us out on the TV. Mum once deserted a bus stop because she couldn't bear to stand behind a couple absorbed in a snog. Indeed, I'd never seen a Pakistani married couple holding hands or even sitting snugly on the sofa. Then there was the story of my maternal grandmother which typified the conduct of an entire generation. She moved into the large household that was already occupied by her husband's parents as well as his many siblings. That old house, with its enclosed courtyard and rooms leading off the veranda, is still standing in our ancestral village of Neela. Only married couples were assigned the privacy of a separate room, primarily for use at night, since much of the day to day activity took place in the communal spaces of the courtyard and veranda. Mum says if my grandmother went inside and her husband inadvertently followed her in, she would quickly retreat lest anyone think the couple was snatching a private moment together!
So there I was in my new surroundings, trying to display the sort of modesty that I thought was socially appropriate. As a naïve 23 year old just entering my first relationship, it never even crossed my mind that my sense of decorum might be based on the antiquated rules from the 1950s, that mum had hauled to Bradford in her suitcase! I wanted someone to tell me to relax and be myself. I wished there was some sort of guidebook that explained the code of conduct a British bride should adopt as she assimilates into a new household in Pakistan. Instead I felt a sort of cultural confusion. That's why I put myself on a rota of self-imposed early starts. Ignoring my husband's protests, I would fling myself out of bed, get dressed as quickly as possible and present myself downstairs as soon as I heard activity in the kitchen. In my own way, I was making sure nobody could even accuse me of alluding to intimacy with my other half.
My early mornings might have been entirely voluntary but they were still a struggle because I was also enduring continuous late nights. You see, with the official ceremonies behind us, we had now embarked on a whirlwind of dinner parties, which confirmed beyond any doubt that our wedding was more about a family alliance than the union of two individuals. Ostensibly laid on to honour the bride and groom, the dinners were ultimately a chance for the two families to get to know each other. The invitations always extended to the entire family which meant cooking was abandoned in several households for many days after the wedding. With so many cousins and aunts lining up to host the happy couple and their entourage, the dinners demonstrated how influential and popular each family was, the extent of their clan, as well as the value they placed on kinship ties. And so, my husband and I found ourselves, lunch after lunch, night after night, feasting with the same bunch of people at different tables across Islamabad. The induction was ingenious if a little intense and irritating, since the entourage seemed oblivious to sabotaging our chances of spending quality time together.
Even Bollywood films couldn't help me in this unchartered territory. My own love story had only just got going after the wedding, whereas it was courtship that tended to be the focus of most of the romantic films I'd seen. The first half was usually devoted to the declaration of love. Then the couple spent the second half ironing out the obstacles that prevented them from marrying – their fathers were arch enemies, the girl was already promised to someone else, the girl was richer than the boy, and so on. Such was the emphasis on love blossoming before marriage, that I couldn't even recall a Bollywood film where the romance focussed on newlyweds. Recent films have dealt with themes of adultery, separation and divorce yet the notion of romance between husband and wife is rarely explored. Just like this example from Waqt (Yash Chopra, 1965), a song featuring a married couple is likely to be incidental, and generally acts as a precursor to some great calamity. The evergreen 'Ae Meri Zohra Jabeen' establishes the couple's happy family life. Just after the husband publicly serenades his wife at a party, the family is torn apart by a major earthquake in this classic lost and found story.
Interestingly, romantic songs within marriage often feature older couples, even grandparents. There's a song in the film Baghban (Ravi Chopra, 2003) where the sons, their wives and children help to celebrate a senior couple's wedding anniversary. Since the grandparents' roles are played by Amitabh Bachchan and the astonishingly youthful Hema Malini, I can't help wondering if the song was little more than a ploy to relive the magic these veteran actors created some 20 years earlier in films like Naseeb (Manmohan Desai, 1981).
The exception is 'Payalay Chunmun Chunmun' from Virasat (Priyadarshan, 1997) featuring Tabu, my favourite actress. Anil Kapoor (from Slumdog Millionaire) marries out of obligation, but isn't sure if he'll be able to fall in love with his bride. The song beautifully portrays the newlyweds' blossoming romance. Towards the end of the song, there's a delightfully telling scene in which the husband playfully drenches his wife whilst they water their crops. When she runs inside to remove her soaking sari, he sheepishly checks for onlookers before rushing inside to join her.
My own bedtime routine was being compromised by a pressing matter. After returning from yet another dinner party close to midnight, I would wearily remove my makeup and jewellery, and set about rummaging through the various suitcases containing my clothes which now occupied our bedroom. In anticipation of my early starts, I would plan my outfit the night before. This was time well invested because as a new bride, it wasn't just my behaviour that was under scrutiny, my appearance was too. The scrutiny had started the moment I set foot in my new home on the wedding day. I received a diamond ring from my husband, his first gift to me, as part of the 'munh dikhai' ceremony which literally means 'unveiling the face'. And in the days after marriage, I was similarly 'viewed' in exchange for a cash gift, by family, friends and nosy neighbours. You know how it is when your house is up for sale, and the thought of potential viewings, as well as the pressure to promote your property compel you to spruce up your home to an impossibly high standard. Well, that's just how I felt at times, although the term 'strictly by appointment' was often lost on the people coming to greet me.
The problem was that planning the outfits took much longer than usual. All the belongings I'd packed at my mum's house now sat in suitcases around my new bedroom. The new outfits mum had paid for had already been displaced by an entire wardrobe courtesy of my husband's family. This was my 'bari', the traditional gift of clothing and jewellery to welcome a bride into the fold. It would now be tactful to show my acceptance and appreciation by wearing these outfits. But you see, although the bari was prepared especially for me, my taste and preference had been irrelevant – apart from a request for my measurements and shoe size, I wasn't even consulted. In fact, the bari was put together secretly, partly to amplify the impact of its presentation. But then, the whole point of the bari is to allow the donors to make a statement about their status and style.
Luckily, it was my good fortune that the wife of my husband's older brother was in charge, because she was renowned for her fine taste and had a degree in home economics to boot. Still, putting the bari together is no mean feat. It's a huge undertaking requiring the skills of an experienced project manager – a methodical approach, budgeting and brokering skills, sound judgment, chasing up deadlines, discretion and flair. Then there were the months of shopping trips to bazaars in the gruelling summer heat. Fabrics were selected and delivered to a trusted tailor, and there were discussions about the design of each outfit. An embroiderer was commissioned to create intricate beadwork on the neckline and hem of the kameezes. Dupattas were delivered to the dyer to ensure they matched the accompanying shalwar kameez suits perfectly. Then they were edged with gold or silver trimming to make them appropriate for 'occasion wear'. Matching shoes, handbags and make-up also needed to be bought or preferably imported.
You'd hardly go to all that trouble if the results weren't going to be publicly appreciated. In fact, the grand unveiling is precisely the occasion to showcase the efforts and enthusiasm with which the bride is being welcomed. And so the big reveal took place on the eve of my wedding during the mehndi celebrations. With the ceremonies conducted, the food eaten, the bride-to-be poised in her ringside seat, out came the suitcases. Every single item from those suitcases was unveiled to the gathered crowd of women. Each of the 21 outfits had been pinned together to facilitate its exhibition. My sister-in-law and her team held up each outfit with outstretched arms, conscientiously revealing the front as well as the back, then turning 180 degrees to ensure everyone in the audience could appreciate the detailed embroidery. I smirked beneath my yellow dupatta as the scene reminded me of the glamorous hostesses on the TV programme, Sale of the Century. The ladies would then turn the outfit towards the cameraman to ensure an eternal record was being kept of their triumph on video.
The most spectacular outfits were revealed first, like the lengha I would wear on the walima (the celebration to mark the consummation of the marriage). I gasped with delight when a shimmering red shalwar kameez was held up. An aunt sitting nearby instructed me to wear the white China silk outfit when it was her turn to host a dinner. The women nodded admiringly, approving the extent of embroidery on a particular kameez, or acknowledging the quality of the imported court shoes. Now a green towel was held up, forming a canvas for the skin coloured bras and knickers stitched on to it, presumably to make them easier to display. The obligatory gold jewellery was refreshingly tasteful. I spotted a bottle of Lou Lou perfume, a nightie I'd never wear, some very usable clutch bags, as well as a couple of hand knitted cardigans. The clothes were then spread out on a charpoy for closer inspection. Each outfit had been impressively packaged to allow them to be handled by curious women without being damaged.
Ideally, I'd have scheduled 48 hours to unpack and organise my wardrobe; to try on the new outfits at my leisure and identify the shoes, bags and earrings that were the best match. I could have done with some order in my surroundings to counter the confusion I was feeling already. It seemed ironic that the person I was supposed to adorn myself for was the one I wasn't spending much time with. Rather than bonding as a new couple, our first days together seemed to focus on the social ties that our union had created.
I greeted the end of the honeymoon period with a huge sense of relief. The flurry of activity had died down with the final relatives returning to their homes in different cities, leaving just me, my husband and his father. With the return to normality, I would finally have time to catch up on sleep, sort out my wardrobe and rearrange the bedroom furniture. But there was sadness too. My husband said goodbye to me with a handshake in the driveway as his friend prepared to drive him to the airport. After two and a half weeks of married life, it was time for him to return to his job in the Middle East.


General Motors Co. is only "halfway done" making moves, and could surprise investors by taking more action to lift its lagging shares, analysts at Morgan Stanley said.
GM GM, -1.70% has already shaken up things quite a bit in the last few months, focusing on trucks, selling its Europe business, and developing more expertise around electric and self-driving vehicles, they said. Yet shares have lagged.
Morgan Stanley earlier this month upgraded its rating on GM stock to buy; the investment bank has buy ratings on Ford Motor Co. F, -0.51% and Fiat Chrysler NV FCAU, +0.21% stocks as well.
GM is scheduled to report first-quarter earnings on Thursday. Analysts polled by FactSet expect per-share earnings of $1.24 on sales of $34.3 billion, which would compare with earnings of $1.70 a share on sales of $41.2 billion in the first quarter of 2017.
GM beat fourth-quarter profit and sales expectations when it reported in February, but shares are down around 5% since then. The stock lost 7.2% in February and 7.7% in March, with 4% gains in April offsetting some of the losses.
With the caveats that they had no knowledge of specific action, and that GM has kept mum, the analysts saw several moves that GM could make to boost its shares.
For starters, GM could change the way it reports its financial results, going by business lines rather than geography, now that it has exited Europe, said the analysts.
GM earlier this month announced it would stop reporting its sales on a monthly basis, and start reporting quarterly instead, saying that would help with volatility. Most car companies report monthly sales, with the exception of Tesla, which also reports on a quarterly basis.
GM could also sell its South America and South Korea businesses, taking a page from its Europe book, the analysts said.
"The precedent of GM exiting a region with little or no chance to generate positive returns for shareholders has been set," they said.
Morgan Stanley estimates that GM South America lost $600 million since 2011, excluding restructuring expenses. GM stopped reporting results from its South America operations in the third quarter last year.
At best, the economic value of that line to the stock price is zero to minus $2 billion, perhaps as much as minus $5 billion, the analysts said. That's not counting ill effects from "strategic distraction," they said.
GM in February said it would close an "increasingly underutilized" plant in South Korea by the end of May, a first step in restructuring its business in the country. That restructuring is likely to take many years and be "extremely expensive," the Morgan Stanley analysts said.
A "soft exit" from China, trading its joint venture with a Chinese partner, could also be an option.
Perhaps more drastically, GM could give up on selling sedans to retail in the U.S., the analysts said.
U.S. buyers have favored SUVs and pickup trucks for years, and the percentage of GM sedans sold directly to the public, versus cars sold to rental-car companies, government fleets, and the like, are likely already minimum, the analysts said.


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Wildcats hand San Francisco State their first loss on the season
Alex Martin|February 15, 2020
Hana Beaty
Chico State hitter bunts the ball down the third base line.
It was an exciting day at Nettleton Stadium as the Wildcats took on the San Francisco State Gators in game one of a four game series. Coming into the game, the Gators were undefeated having won their first six games. It did not take long for the Wildcats to hop on the scoreboard. In the bottom of the first inning, shortstop JT Navarro launched a solo home run over the fence.
"It's always good to start like that," Navarro said. "Don't expect it though. That'll get the team going. Get the energy up."
When Navarro returned to the plate for his following at bat, he drove home another run on a bunt single in the second inning. Shortly after came a two-run single from first baseman Willie Lajoie. This extended the Wildcats lead to 4-0.
The starting pitcher for the Wildcats Grant Larson got off to a hot start as he did not allow a run and struck out six Gator batters throughout the first four innings. That changed, however, in the top of the fifth inning. Right fielder for the Gators, Riley Cleary, hit a grand slam that got the Gators within one run of the Wildcats.
LHP Grant Larson pitching against the Gators.
Larson was then pulled and Alex Kent took over on the mound for Chico State. Kent got out of the inning by striking out the designated hitter for the Gators, Thaddeus Wilson.
"I was just helping a teammate out. It's not really anything that I can control," Kent said. "He gave up a hit. It was one bad pitch. But it was just one of those things where you gotta get out of the inning. Do your job and get out of it."
The Wildcats added on a few more runs throughout the game. A big insurance run came in the bottom of the eighth inning as the catcher Tyler Stofiel hit a home run after striking out in his first three at bats.
"Honestly, it was much needed after those first three at bats, three strikeouts. But I got to honor that one to my coach who's been helping me out and keeping me level throughout the game," Stofiel said.
Tyler Stofiel takes a swing against the Gators.
Wildcats blew through the top of the ninth inning to win the game over the Gators by a final score of 8-4. Both teams get back to the field once again on Saturday in a doubleheader.
"Doubleheaders are always big because it's always a long day," Stofiel said. "It's more of an energy battle as opposed to actual performance. Just honestly come out and do our thing early in the first game tomorrow, and I think we'll be alright."
Alex Martin can be reached at [email protected] or @amjournalism130 on Twitter.
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The Panorama Restaurant, open all year round in the main building of the Balmer See Hotel Resort, offers our guests a fine selection of culinary delicacies from morning to evening. This is where our hotel guests start their morning breakfast buffet. After the excursions or your round of golf In the evening, our kitchen crew will serve you fine dinner menus or even upscale hotel cuisine à la carte, and you'll be spoiled with a sensational view of Lake Balmer!
A perfect vacation day starts with a well-balanced breakfast, and the breakfast buffet on Lake Balmer leaves nothing to be desired. There is a wide selection of pastries, cold meats, egg dishes and specialty coffees, all of which allow you to make your own fresh fruit and vegetable juice. And don't miss the local speciality the sea buckthorn juice. For your morning reading, you can expect the daily newspaper as well as our Balmer See despatch with up-to-date information and stories about our holiday resort.
We serve our breakfast buffet every morning from 07.00 - 11.00.
In our panoramic restaurant and on the sun terrace, we offer you both coffee and cake, as well as hearty dishes from our lunch and tea time menu from 12:00 to 5:00 pm. Whether you returm from your round of golf or a trip on the island of Usedom, in our selection you will find sweet and savory snacks, so that you stay energized.
Whether a la carte or set menu: Every evening our kitchen serves you a composition of culinary delicacies.
In doing so, our chef is very careful about the quality and origin of the food offered. The daily changing menu offers you always a choice of main courses with fish, meat and a vegetarian variant. And our friendly service team will advise you in choosing your wine or other beverages to match your menu.
The view of Lake Balmer and the view of our Schwalbenhotel make a visit to the Panorama Restaurant in the evening a highlight of your stay.
Your table reservations are accepted by our local service team. Your telephone reservations can be made between 07:00 am and 6:00 pm daily on 038379 - 28 180.
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