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The tarp industry as well as tarp buyers use custom canvas tarps. The custom canvas tarps are tarps that are made for a specific purpose rather than an all purpose one. Whether they are used for storage, transportation or whatever else the owner might need, these tarps provide an affordable convenience to those that need them.
Have you ever been shopping for something, then realized you didn't have anywhere to store it so that it is protected from the elements? You can still have what you want if you use custom canvas tarps. After all, something like a motorcycle or grill needs its own particular covering. It's not protected near as well with a generic one.
People who use these tarps are serious about taking care of the things they own. Sometimes a regular tarp could be used, but it wouldn't be quite as effective. For instance, a tarp that is covering a motorcycle needs to be held down with some type of weight or fastener to prevent it from being blow away. The elements can still blow up under the tarp though.
A custom made tarp fits the item snugly so that it is more efficient at protecting it. Not only is it more efficient, but it looks nice enough to not be an eye sore in your driveway or yard.
A custom canvas tarp can be made for almost anything. Whether its a vehicle you want to cover, a grill or an outdoor item, there's one to fit your needs. Since canvas is waterproof, it not only provides protection from the wind and dust, but also from the rain. It's a sturdy material that is easily maintained and can last a lifetime.
If you can think of a need for custom canvas tarps, then they can be made for you. There is no end to the things that can be protected by these types of tarps. They're also a lot more affordable than the repairs that need to be done on things that aren't protected from the weather!


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Everything You Need To Know About Ettore Ewen, A.K.A Big E (WWE Wrestler)
Ettore Ewen, a.k.a. Big E is one of the most popular names that have made the activities of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) attractive indeed. Just as his solitary SmackDown appearances are almost always not uninteresting, his fights alongside other members of The New Day team (Xavier Woods and Kofi Kingston) are a real treat that fascinates his viewers. Big E's big ending and running splash finishing moves are always expected.
Ettore Ewen Background Details
Ettore Ewen Career Accomplishment
Net Worth – How Rich Is He?
Height and Body Measurements
Wife or Girlfriend, Is Ettore Ewen Married?
Among WWE fans and beyond the wrestling community it is well known that Big E is an excellent wrestler. However, many don't know that he is a former American footballer, and it is also not common knowledge that the man was once a powerlifter. With this in mind, we bring you the things you should know about the WWE wrestler.
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It was on the first day of March 1986 when this professional wrestler was welcomed into the world by Eltore and Margaret Ewen, his parents, who are supposedly immigrants of Afro-Caribbean origin.
The birthplace of Big E was in the United States of America, more precisely in Tampa, Florida. It was here that he received his high school education. As a student at Wharton High School, Ettore Ettore distinguished himself through athletic activities that earned him a handful of prestigious awards. Among other things, he was fantastic at wrestling and football; it was only natural that he was crowned Hillsborough County Ironman.
When he finished Wharton High, he transferred to the University of Iowa, where he focused more on football. Big E played as a defensive lineman for the Institution's team (Iowa Hawkeyes) until he received his Bachelor of Arts degree. After that, he was somehow convinced that he would do well as a powerlifting athlete, and this was the beginning of his powerlifting career.
Ettore Ewen's efforts in powerlifting paid off in 2010 when he participated in the U.S. Open Championships, where he improved national records and set new ones in the state of Florida. The following year, Big E triumphed at the USAPL Raw Nationals. He won the competition and broke more records.
Before his successes in powerlifting, Ettore signed a contract with the WWE. In 2009, he participated in the Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) activities; he wrestled as Big E Langston, defeating such renowned wrestlers as Antonio Cesaro. When FCW became the NXT, he continued his winning streak and kept the fans excited with The Shield. He made a lot out of his show and it was only natural that he rose to the top of the main list. Big E debuted as the villain who picked on John Cena; together with AJ Lee, he made quite interesting drama possible with Dolph Ziggler and Kaitlyn.
His greatest achievement in this profession so far is Stall The New Day. Through the partnership with Kingston and Wood, which began sometime in July 2014, the trio has been the longest WWE Raw Tag Team Champion. This extended from 2015 to 2017, eventually losing the championship to Cesaro and Sheamus and moving on to SmackDown, where they made winning against The Usos a priority.
Although several figures have been given as the total value of the man's wealth, none of them can be authenticated. The value of his wealth is best known to him. Nevertheless, his income does not only come from wrestling. Ettore Ewen is also an actor and has been involved in a handful of television works.
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Wrestling requires a strong physical structure, complemented by good size and weight. Big E is, as the name suggests, one of the most imposing and intimidating wrestlers. His chest, waist, and biceps are thought to measure 50, 36, and 22 inches respectively; his height is estimated at 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) and his weight at 129 kg (285 lb).
If there is something unknown about this WWE star, it is his love life. While it is widely believed that he has never been married, to the best of our knowledge Big E is not dating anyone and has never been romantically involved with any partner, except when it has been claimed that he secretly admires Kaitlyn (Celeste Beryl Bonin). This was sometime between 2012 and 2013.

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"After being diagnosed I realized that material things didn't matter as much as memories and family is where my focus needed to be."
I'm 41, an active father of two amazing boys Joshua (9) and Austin (7). In November of 2016 I went to my orthopedic surgeon complaining of shoulder pain. They took some x-rays, ordered some physical therapy and sent me on my way. Over the next few months I did a few large caterings and restaurant openings for work. I even did a stint on the food network, all with a shattered humerus. In April of 2017, one of the fathers of a kid on my baseball team who happens to be a radiologist noticed my arm and asked if he could look at my x-rays. The next day while I was getting ready for a photoshoot I was anemic and shot the same friend a picture of my face. He immediately told me to go to the ER and tell them I have myeloma cancer and I'm in kidney failure from too much calcium in my blood. From that point on my life changed. Within six months I would undergo two weeks of radiation, six rounds of RVD treatments, a stem cell transplant and have my shoulder and half my humerus completely replaced. Through it all I have continued to work, coach several baseball and football teams, travel and live a new normal life.
I have to admit at first I was angry, mad and very upset when I was told I had a three to five year life expectancy at the age of 39. I was at a point in my life that I worked hard, I was present in my home and in my kids lives but not fully invested. After being diagnosed I realized that material things didn't matter as much as memories and family is where my focus needed to be. It's sad that a life threatening disease with no cure made me stop and smell the roses. My new normal with cancer is life!


Fur mommies and daddies are constantly on the hunt for the best places to bring their doggos to. This off-leash dog park should be on their list.
– There will be an off-leash dog park in Kansas City.
– Bar K also is a bar, a restaurant, and a coffeehouse.
Bar K is actually not just an off-leash dog park but it is also a restaurant, a bar, and a coffeehouse. Bar K is located in Kansas City, which was first established last year. The dog park, which is two acres wide, will be fully operational by August 14. Bar K is open to all doggos of shapes, breeds, and sizes and the fur babies could enjoy a jungle gym, a splash pool, a rock climbing wall, and more. There is also a special place for doggos that are lighter and are around three to nine months.
Accordingly, the employees of Bar K have been trained to understand the body language of doggos in order to avoid any fights between pets. As for the fur moms and dads, they could listen to music at the coffeehouse or restaurant and enjoy the great food served there.


We are very keen to give RBA students the opportunity to take on leadership roles which encourage them to develop strong communicative skills and to become proactive and independent learners.
Student leadership at RBA is one of inclusivity; leadership is about learning together. At RBA we set high standards for all of our learners. Successful, confident and responsible citizens who enjoy and achieve, who recognise the benefits of making a positive contribution will undoubtedly improve their future opportunities. Student leadership has the potential to be the vehicle for these aspirations.
There are many opportunities within subjects, within lessons and beyond lesson time which will raise awareness and afford leadership opportunities to all who attend RBA.


On Saturday March 19 2011 we held another Barnabas School of Ministry Seminar at Trinity Church in Bacau, Romania. I was excited to be with these students again, with some to renew friendships begun last November with others to greet for the first time. Our participants represented seven churches from the region, and numbered over thirty. And notice how many are young people!
The day of study, prayer and instruction was fruitful. Everyone took extensive notes in addition to the english outlines I provided. The Rhythm of teaching with translation is not difficult to establish, but it does require a little concentration! I loved preaching/teaching this way in Hindi while in India in 2009, and now in Romanian in 2010 & 2011. Pastor Marian excels at translation, and the few times there is any hesitation, voices call out out from the classroom with suggested possibilities. Ena & Kjeld Olesen, missionaries in Onesti from Denmark, attended again – and Ena translated into Danish for Kjeld. Like the United Nations!
* Acts 1: Follow Instructions & Make the Connection to the world, to each other and to God.
* Acts 4& 5: Care to Share? Unity, Sensitivity & Generosity Changes Everything.
The blessing, inspiration and education I am receiving through this partnership is simply amazing. Thanks to my many supporters who have made the trip possible! Thanks to my Presbytery and to First Church Brockville for releasing me to take study leave in this manner. You are helping to build the Kingdom of Jesus by strengthening servants & leaders in an area where ministry education is not available and affordable.


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Though it might be premature to label Eubank Jnr 'finished' there's an almighty hill to climb to restore his reputation, writes Matt Christie
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Gennady Golovkin is solely focused on Dominic Wade
MIDDLEWEIGHT supremo Gennady Golovkin is toiling away at The Summit High Altitude Training Facility in Big Bear Lake, California for his April 23 fight with Dominic Wade.
Golovkin will defend his IBF and WBA world titles against the unbeaten American at the Forum in Los Angeles, California.
While big fights against the likes of Canelo Alvarez are in the pipeline, Golovkin's sole focus is Wade.
"We're working hard every day, focused only on Dominic Wade. It's a very important fight for me, he's an undefeated challenger. Every fight for me is important to achieve my goal of all the belts," he said.
"I'm very excited to return to the Forum, Los Angeles is my second home, my family lives here now. I have a lot of friends and many fans who want to see me fight and I'm very thankful for that. The people love my style."
His trainer, Abel Sanchez, also provided some insight into how 'GGG' has prepared for Wade.
"Dominic presents a challenge because he's young, hungry and undefeated. We haven't any changes in training camp because I train my fighters to be the best they can be. They have to adapt to us, we're not going to adapt to them. Gennady works hard, he will have sparred 70-75 rounds by the end of camp, a similar amount to what he's sparred for the last 5-6 fights," he said.
"Gennady understands that this fight is for the IBF mandatory, if we don't fight this guy we lose the title."
"We're willing to fight any middleweight champion. Billy Joe Saunders was offered the fight and he turned the fight down for this time.
"Big Bear is so slow and tranquil; it makes training easy. The altitude and weather is very important.
"Gennady has a streak going of 21 knockouts for a lot of different reasons, he was blessed with God given talent but works very hard on balance, distance and technique.
"The power that Gennady possesses with his exciting style, he's giving the fans what they want, always pressing the action and that's why he's selling out arenas."
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DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – It may be a cliché, but that doesn't mean it's not true: It would have been impossible a decade ago to predict the kinds of projects that are coming online today in Downtown Los Angeles.
That's what the editorial staff of Los Angeles Downtown News realized as we were considering candidates for this year's Downtowners of Distinction awards. The community is full of housing, entertainment, retail and restaurant projects that might have seemed unfathomable in 2005. Back then who could have guessed that the Central City would be the hippest nightlife destination in Los Angeles, or that it would be the community of choice for young chefs changing the way L.A. eats? Who could have known that 2014 would be the year when Downtown gains a top-notch concert hall, a destination hotel and a huge batch of housing complexes?
In the following pages, Los Angeles Downtown News runs down the winners of the 14th annual Downtowners of Distinction awards. The prizes were created to recognize the individuals, groups and companies that created projects that not only turned a profit, but also made their community and the whole of the Central City a better place.
This year's Downtowners of Distinction includes a new twist: the inclusion in eight categories of other Notable Projects. Picking 2014 winners was harder than ever due to the unprecedented number of high-quality endeavors that benefit their community. We only give one Distinction award in each district, but we wanted to recognize some of those who took great risks to create new projects.


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Angela Norris is a Brooklyn-based artist and the owner of Fxattics Studios, a shop where she makes creepy Halloween props and masks. Recently, she created a series of side-by-side pics comparing actors to some of their creepiest roles, and they show how some make up and masks can make them look completely unrecognizable.
In a recent interview with Bored Panda, Angela said that the project started after she did the montage with John Carroll Lynch and Twisty the clown, and noticed that her followers liked it. "I am a huge John Carroll Lynch fan and he portrays Twisty the clown of American Horror Story," explained the artist. "So many people did not know that that was him. So, I decided to make a bunch of art pieces of horror Icons and the actors who portray them. A behind the mask and makeup, if you will."
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#1 Lord Of Darkness, Pennywise And Frank N. Furter By Tim Curry From "Legend," "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" And "It"
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#2 Samara And Daveigh Chase From "The Ring"
Angela says that the goal of the project is to generate some followers for her business page. "I try to make things that I like and what interests me because I know so many people love horror out there as much as I do," says the artist.
#3 Freddy Krueger And Robert Englund From "A Nightmare On Elm Street"
#4 Beetlejuice And Michael Keaton From "Beetlejuice"
The artist says she was born in Salem, Massachusetts, so horror is in her blood. "I have been in love with horror and monsters since I was 4 years old, at which time I accidentally watched A Nightmare on Elm Street with my brother Ken," said Angela. "My husband Alan and I run Fxattics Studios. I run the artistic side and he runs the business and marketing. I got the better end of the deal, if I do say so myself."
#5 Valak And Bonnie Aarons From "The Nun"
#6 Pennywise And Bill Skarsgård From "It"
Angela says that what she loves most about horror is that it creates feeling much like being in love. "The feeling of being scared and not knowing what's coming next is so stimulating. Obviously, on the fictional level," explained the artist. "I fell in love with my husband while watching horror movies. He had not seen many when we met. Still brings us together now. We scare each other all the time. Even the kids will hide for minutes on end for the perfect scare."
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#7 Predator And Big Foot By, Kevin Peter Hall From "The Predator" And "Harry And The Hendersons"
#8 Chucky And Brad Dourif From "Child's Play"
#9 Twisty The Clown And John Carroll Lynch From "American Horror Story"
#10 Pinhead And Doug Bradley From "Hellraiser"
#11 Creeper And Jonathan Breck From "Jeepers Creepers"
#12 Captain Spaulding And Sid Haig From "House Of 1000 Corpses"
#13 Michael Myers And Tony Moran From "Halloween"
#14 Leprechaun And Warwick Davis From "Leprechaun"
#15 Leatherface And Gunnar Hansen From "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre"
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Name any of the U.S. states that belong in each selected category.
Name the biggest modern-day urban areas whose territory was once part of the Spanish Empire.
The NBA playoffs are happening now so I wrote a short quiz for each team. Click your team.
Name the countries that collect the most tax as a percentage of GDP.
Question #1: In what mountain range would you find the Matterhorn?
Can you name all the U.S states and Canadian Provinces included in the Louisiana Purchase?
We give you two things. Guess which one came earlier.
Six countries have a name that ends in -BIA. Can you name them?
Solar? Feline? We give you the word. You tell us what it pertains it to.
The Dude abides in one of these movies.
Question #1: What ancient nation was led by pharaohs?
There are 9 countries whose names end in NIA. Can you name them?
Name the most populous urban areas in the world where English is the most commonly-spoken first language.
For each item, answer whether one would eat it, wear it, or drive it.
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The Earth Carer Series By Katha: Using Art As A Medium For Storytelling
Published by Devishobha Chandramouli at July 31, 2019
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It is a topic that is on the agenda of every summit- from the local to the international. Climate Change is a not a futuristic term anymore- it is a current term, and it is happening faster than we can handle. There are plenty of things we, as humans, can do- but one of the most impactful things we could even do is preparing the next generation to care for their planet. Katha's new series – The Earth Carer Series does that through two beautiful media- Storytelling and Art. The series has three books, one of them based entirely on a poem. Here's a detailed review of the three books.
A Tree
Based on the poem by Klara Kottner-Benigni, A Tree is a visual treat. Conveying the story of trees through many Indigenous art forms like Gond, Warli, Madhubani, Kurumba and Bhil Art, every page in the book boasts a beautiful tree. The art brings home facts we might likely forget- that while we cut trees, there is a lot going on for them. There are leaves which are alive, fruits on them which are ripening, birds who make their abode on them, bees who make their hive on them, animals who sit and rest under them.
The brilliant illustrations nudge us( not just children) to think how much Nature provides, and how we still mindlessly destroy everything that nurtures us. Famous tree-saving movements like the Chipko Movement find mention in the book. The book leaves us with many ideas and leads to step up and care for the trees around us- from encouragement to form tree-hugger Clubs to forming our own movements. After all strength comes from numbers!
The Earthcarer's guide to climate change: Katha's Earth Carer Series
The Earth Carer's Guide to Climate Change
While the effects of climate change and global warming may not necessarily be beautiful, Katha packs a punch in its messages with art and poetry. Also, the complex subject of climate change is made simple and more important, actionable, in this book. By first taking us through the wonders of Nature, The Earth Carer's Guide To Climate Change gently lets us in on what we are really doing to this planet.
The book includes poems, stories, and interesting snippets of information from multiple accomplished authors and artists, all embedded in beautiful art from all over the world, emphasizing that climate change is not the problem of one community or person or country. What affects one corner of the world, will affect the other end as well, and this is beautifully brought out by juxtaposing work from various corners of the world- A folk song from India conveys the same thing as an old folk song from Japan, for instance. The book also has plenty of suggestions for making a difference as an individual- emphasizing that a child is an individual enough.
Also Read: Katha's Portraits of Exile Series Is A Lovely Portrait Of Lives Away From Home
Dotted Lines
Dotted Lines: Katha's Earth Carer Series
Art is magic, but the magic can get real when art transforms the life of an artist. Dotted lines, the third book in the series is a visual art project following the life of a real-life indigenous artist called Bhuri Bai. Published in visual autobiographical style with a generous dose of art between the pages, Dotted Lines was brought to life by filmmaker and indigenous art researcher Debjani Mukherjee.
Dotted Lines traces the story of Bhuri, the first woman artist from her community to show the courage and determination in her love for painting. Bhuri is forced to move to the city to work as a laborer, but the love for her art pulls her life back towards art. But, change is never about 'going back to the same thing.' Bhuri has to reinvent herself while sticking to the core values of her artistic self and shine the love for her art.
How does Bhuri do it?
A true story, Dotted Lines beautifully tell us the place of art in the hearts of an indigenous artist's life. Art is like prayer for them and is completely entwined with all aspects of their lives. Here's Debjani(on indigenous artists) – " Their own indigenous art, for the community artists, is much more than decorating the walls of their houses. There is an elevation in the status of art that makes it akin to a way of life for them. "
Bringing this to a child is a great way to help them appreciate the vast richness of lives beyond their own, to help them see perspectives of lives far removed from their own.
In typical Katha style, the Earth Carer Series books leave you with a lot of thinking points and action points. More importantly, it leaves a young child feeling more powerful than they thought.
For power, all we need is for hope and action to come together!
Also read: Gender Series by Katha: Sowing the right seeds when minds are fertile
Devishobha Chandramouli
Devishobha is the founder of Kidskintha- an online parenting resource repository dedicated to jumpstarting conversations around millennial parenting, encouraging parents to bring their attention to words, thoughts and actions that will enable them to raise a well-rounded, empathic and motivated generation. You can also find her on the Huffington Post, Parent.co, Entrepreneur, Lifehack, TinyBuddha and many other publications.
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Fork over the cash! Justin Bieber loses lawsuit over cancelled meet-and-greets as his legal troubles continue
Just two weeks after beginning the Purpose World Tour in March 2016, he cancelled all scheduled meet-and-greets.
And on Tuesday, Justin Bieber lost a lawsuit filed against him by Melissa Matthai, a mom in Florida who purchased the VIP package for herself and daughter Gabriela.
According to Matthai, the 43-year-old coughed up $1,856.35 for the tickets, which included floor seats and a meet-and-greet session for a July concert in Miami.
Wanted man: Justin Bieber, 22, lost a lawsuit filed against him for cancelling meet-and-greets
The judge awarded Matthai $5,298.75 for her trouble after finding 22-year-old Bieber in default.
According to records provided by Gossip Extra, Bieber didn't even hire a lawyer to represent him and never showed up to contest the allegations.
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The amount awarded reflects the price of the ticket plus $3,240 in legal fees and court costs.
The lawsuit is a drop in the bucket for Justin, who made $56 million in 2016 alone, according to Forbes.
No more hugs: The international superstar decided to cancel his meet-and-greets at the beginning of his world tour, taking to Instagram to make the announcement
The international superstar decided to cancel his meet-and-greets at the beginning of his world tour, taking to Instagram to make the announcement.
Under a picture of him hugging a young fan, the singer captioned: 'Love u guys.. I'm going to be canceling my meet and greets.
'I enjoy meeting such incredible people but I end up feeling so drained and filled with so much of other people's spiritual energy that I end up so drained and unhappy.'
'I end up drained:' Fans were disappointed in the singer when he had to cancel his meet-and-greets because of 'security reasons' and feeling 'drained'
The loss fell on the same day that Justin's lawyer requested to seal his deposition for the 2014 egging case filed by his ex-neighbor.
A week earlier, Bieber was indicted for an alleged fight in 2013 with a photographer in Argentina.
According to TMZ, until the case is resolved, if Bieber sets foot in the country he will be arrested.
The outlet pointed out that this is a huge problem for the megastar, who is set to start his South American leg of the Purpose tour - with Argentina being the biggest market and the home to his biggest fan base on the entire continent.
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The new Table-Top 3D Scatterometer TTS, developed at the Fraunhofer Institute (IOF) in Jena, Germany, enables laser-based highly sensitive measurements of angle resolved light scattering, reflectance, and transmittance of optical and non-optical surfaces, materials and components within the entire 3D-sphere.
Examples of in-plane scattering distributions of optical components measured at 532 nm.
Superposition of 3D scattering distributions of gemstone at 405 nm, 532 nm, and 640 nm.


ITIL incident investigation and diagnosis is applied when an incident cannot be resolved as part of the initial diagnosis.
A common practice in this phase is the attempt to recreate the incident under controlled conditions. It is important when performing incident investigation and diagnosis that the proper order of events that lead up to the incident be understood.
Incident investigation and diagnosis is the sixth step in the incident management process. It follows incident escalation.


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Luminary Welcomes Richard Plepler to Board of Directors
February 8, 2020 Podcast NewsLuminaryJen Thorpe
Luminary Media has announced that Richard Plepler, founder of Eden Productions and former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of HBO, has joined Luminary's Board of Directors. The company plans to make additional board announcements soon.
"Under Richard's leadership, HBO set the gold standard for quality, bringing premium content across genres. I've seen firsthand Richard's invaluable impact on a premium content business, and we welcome his strategic partnership as we endeavor to support creators, curate content for listeners, and drive Luminary's business forward," said Luminary CEO Simon Sutton.
"Podcasting has become such an exciting and dynamic medium for great storytelling," said Plepler. "Luminary's vision as a jewel box of premium podcast content where creators are enabled to do their best work and subscribers can consistently discover quality will make it easier for consumers to navigate an incredibly crowded space. I am thrilled to join the board, partner with Simon and the Luminary team, and help realize this vision."
"Richard pioneered the concept of 'curated excellence,' and his deep content expertise aligns perfectly with Luminary's approach to world-class talent like Trevor Noah, Lena Dunham, and Leon Neyfakh, as well as Luminary's business model. We are fortunate to have him on the team," said Matt Sacks, Luminary Founder and Executive Chairman.
Richard Plepler most recently served as Chairman and CEO of Home Box Office, Inc. (HBO), a position he held from 2013- 2019, culminating 28 years at the company. Prior, Plepler was the Co-President of HBO from 2007 – 2012. Earlier this month, Plepler announced the creation of Eden Productions, a film and television production company with a five-year exclusive deal with Apple TV+.
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WHEN RIVERS MEET are pleased to announce their Spring 2023 UK Tour with their very special guest "Arielle".
Planet Rock will start a 48-hour ticket pre-sale at 9am on Wednesday December 7th at www.planetrock.com.
Tickets go on general sale on Friday December 9th from www.whenriversmeet.co.uk/tour.
The tour announcement coincides with When Rivers Meet's first-ever Christmas single "Christmas Is Here" b/w "It's The Time of the Year", which is released today.
Written by Grace and Aaron Bond, and produced by Adam Bowers, the double A-side single is available from shop.whenriversmeet.co.uk. Watch the music video on YouTube HERE.
"Christmas Is Here" is an upbeat blues rock Christmas song, featuring Grace Bond's distinctive, powerhouse vocals and raunched-up mandolin solo overlaying Aaron Bond's gritty guitar riff and harmonising vocals.
Beautifully simple and heart-warming, "It's the Time of Year" harks back to gathering around the piano, giving the perfect platform for Grace to display her ability to switch from rock to ballad flawlessly with Aaron's vocal harmony perfectly melding in choruses.
In 2021, When Rivers Meet were the first band to win four UK Blues Awards including Blues Band of the Year, Blues Album of the Year (We Fly Free), Emerging Blues Artist of the Year, and Most Inspirational Online Performance of the Year. WRM also won Best New Band at Planet Rock's awards The Rocks.
In May 2022, WRM won three more UK Blues Awards including Blues Album of the Year (Saving Grace), Blues Band of the Year, and Blues Vocalist of the Year (Grace Bond). WRM won Album of the Year (Saving Grace) at Planet Rock's awards The Rocks 2022, beating Iron Maiden who came in second place. WRM also won the Blues Power Award at Planet Rock's "The Rocks 2022."
GRACE BOND – VOCALS, MANDOLIN, FIDDLE
AARON BOND – VOCALS, GUITAR
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WHEN RIVERS MEET – BREAKER OF CHAINS UK TOUR 2023
WITH SPECIAL GUEST "ARIELLE"
PLANET ROCK 48-HOUR TICKET PRE-SALE STARTS 9AM ON WEDNESDAY 7 DECEMBER 2022 – WWW.PLANETROCK.COM
TICKETS ON GENERAL SALE FRIDAY DECEMBER 9, 2022 – WWW.WHENRIVERSMEET.CO.UK/TOUR
Tour poster photo by Paul Hutchings
Special Guest "Arielle"
Born in the US, but a self-proclaimed wanderer, Arielle began studying music at the age of five. A child prodigy, she attained a degree from Musician's Institute in Los Angeles, and continued her education at London's Institute of Contemporary Music Performance.
Discovered in 2010 by Extreme's guitarist Nuno Bettencourt, she signed with an American indie record label called 'Open E'. In the years that followed, she made a name for herself touring throughout North America and the UK, opening, and playing with Heart, Joan Jett, Graham Nash, Country Joe McDonald, Joe Bonamassa, Guns N' Roses, members of Deep Purple, Billy Ray Cyrus, Eric Johnson, Gregg Allman, Keith Urban and Cee Lo Green, which included a main stage slot at Coachella.
At the age of 18, good fortune ensued when Arielle was handpicked by guitarist Brian May for a key role in the London-based musical "We Will Rock You" – a production based on the songs of his band Queen. From the cover of Guitar Player Magazine, to being recognized by country superstar Vince Gill as one of the 'Top 5 Best New Guitarists,' to being cast as a guitar player on the hit TV show Nashville, to ascending to No. 3 on the CMT Pure chart with the song "California," as well as being featured on vocals and guitar on the new Joe Bonamassa documentary "Guitar Man" with the credit track. She has released 9 albums/EP's, one of which placed in 11 chart genres in 2017 independently, including #3 in the Heatseekers Chart.
Her pride and joy is the "Two-Tone," an extraordinary one-of-a-kind guitar she painstakingly designed, and hand-built, with her friend Patrick Yates. Brian May Guitars released a signature model-based on Two-Tone and the Brian May Red Special called 'The BMG Arielle' in March 2021.On April 20, 2023, Arielle will release her new studio album, '73.
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DONKEY HEART Trafalgar Studios 2, SW1
SCARS OF THE SOVIET IN A MOSCOW HOME
There's a lovely, very Russian moment in Moses Raine's play (in from the Old Red Lion and directed by his sister Nina, author of Tiger Country now at the Hampstead). We are in the Moscow apartment of three generations of modern, post-Communist citizens. Sasha, the nervy daughter of the house, is explaining to her guest Tom, a naive British student, why she cannot love him. Five years ago she kissed another boy and now says that love is "A place where space has no gravity…all night an ambulance wails in my soul". Awkwardly lumpen, the thwarted English swain mutters "Yeah, okay, great whatever…". And Sasha explains "This is fifth year I try and brainwash donkey heart, still it haven't worked…."
It's never going to. Sasha (Lisa Diveney) likes her dreams impossible. And they're poles apart: she remembers the excited queues for a single egg in the 80's, while all Tom connects with that decade is Pac-Man. He doesn't wail internally, he probably bleeps. Raine, wittily and sadly, is evoking the legacy of the Communist era as "the deep bruise of history works its way to the surface". Although there are some mercilessly funny moments, his family make Chekhov's seem positively frivolous.
James Turner's design in the tiny space sets it beautifully in a cramped defiant domesticity. The father is Ivan, a government official unable to express the family affection he feels: Paul Wyett gives him a clenched unsmiling tension. He has a secret: for a while we aren't sure if it is personal or political. His wife is Zhenya, her pain delicately etched into every move by Amanda Root; their son Petya has failed to get round to bribing his way out of conscription, and quarrels with his leather-miniskirted girlfriend; ten-year-old Kolya is both rowdy and vulnerable, Sasha has her internal wailing to deal with, the guestTom is taking up space and speaks no Russian, and suddenly the foxy Natalia (Emily Bruni) is moved in, ostensibly because her rent has tripled. Maybe.
For life is still not simple in Moscow. Paranoia lurks in every conversation. Focusing it all, in a marvellous subtle tragicomic performance (it's often the veterans who steal the show) we have Patrick Godfrey as the grandfather Alexander. He cheats at chess, dries his trousers with a hairdryer, and can't bear to see a morsel of food wasted because he was in the siege of Leningrad, and ate rats. He lived through decades of the midnight knock on the door, bugged walls and the need to talk in metaphors; his young son was killed. In a remarkable scene he rises from amiable elderly absurdity to reprove Tom – through Sasha – when the British lunkhead 'ironically' wears a red, CCCP hammer-and-sickle T shirt.
It's a slow-burn, its characters not quite defined enough, and as a play the energy dissipates in the last half-hour. But to set a traditional domestic drama so credibly within this haunted, uneasy Russian present is an achievement.
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RESULTS! SHARKS MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE ATTACKED SURFER!
By Anthony Pancia
Slain great whites may have vomited up man's hands after being caught, says Fisheries…
The two great whites pulled out of the crystal-clear waters of Esperance, Western Australia, just hours after the attack on surfer Sean Pollard have been examined, and, well…
"We are unable to confirm whether either shark was involved in the incident," Department of Fisheries' principal shark scientist Dr Rory McAuley said.
Dr McAuley said while the results were inconclusive, it was not uncommon for sharks to disgorge their stomach contents when they were caught. "Jaw measurements will also help with future bite investigations. The first white shark caught is 3.46 metres long; the second white shark is 2.68 metres in length."
The thief dropped the jewels after the robbery, m'lud! Guilty as charged!
Dr McAuley says his team of scientists gathered sections of each shark's vertebrae, which will assist in further research. He also said that while bite marks left on Sean's board did not match either of the sharks, "Indications are that a white shark was responsible for the injuries he received."
He did not mention who gets to keep the jaws of either shark.
A local fishing boat operator, who asked not to be identified, told BeachGrit there was a fairly obvious connection between the migratory pattern of whales and an influx of big sharks.
"It happens every year, but, you'd have to say it seems to be worse this year. I saw one that must have been six meters a couple weeks ago" he, or she, said. "And the scary thing is, the whale season's kinda only kicking off, still got a couple months to go."
The operator said no one in the town was overjoyed that two sharks had been killed, everyone was happy there were two less big sharks in the water. He, or she, also said the speed in which the sharks were caught had more to do with where the Department of Fisheries boat was moored as anything else. "It's moored at Bandy Creek which is only five k's from where the attack happened. They were good to go and got out and got the job done. I'd love to know how they got the big one in though. The boat's only six metres and one of the sharks was four metres.
He, or she, also thought the phrase "Humanely destroyed" put forward by authorities at the time, meant only one thing.
"Bullet to the head. For sure."
"Surfers can be a surprisingly conservative group, with assorted rednecks, and racists," says Carson. "Look at those flying block letters, drop shadows, moving flags etcetera on the new ASP webcasts – they are horrible and embarrassing from a graphic design standpoint."
ASP branding "Embarrassing and Silly. Like Wrestling!"
Says Dave Carson, the world's most influential graphic designer…
The designer who took fusty old Surfer magazine and made it hip, like overnight, in 1991, has described the ASP's webcast branding as consensus-driven schmaltz. An embarrassing shmear, he says.
In an interview in Saturday's Australian newspaper, the just-turned-sixty-year-old Carson told Fred Pawle:
"Look at the new ASP (Association of Surfing Professionals) webcast graphics – horrible design that feels more appropriate for wrestling, boxing, American football, or Las Vegas tourism. Big solid 3D silver letters saying Rio! Trestles! France! Weird 3D-ish logo moving in an out and flying about. It's horrible and embarrassing, and not representative of the sport. It was no doubt created by committee and seasoned commercial motion graphics operators. Slick and silly stuff."
David Carson, if you didn't know, is the game changer of surf-mag graphic design who was selected by Apple as one of the 30 most influential Mac users in their history.
Smithsonian Institute magazine said, "(Carson) is one of America's most important artists."
From Newsweek, "He changed the public face of graphic design."
In a sweeping interview, Carson talks legibility of design (who needs it!), designing for free (hey, at least I'll get some sweet shirts!) and the laziness of designers (anyone can do it! It's automatic!).
And surfers themselves? "Surfers can be a surprisingly conservative group, with assorted rednecks, and racists. Again, look at those flying block letters, drop shadows, moving flags etcetera on the new ASP webcasts – they are horrible and embarrassing from a graphic design standpoint but I doubt few, if any, surfers noticed or complained."
Not everyone's sold, however. The graphic designer of White Horses and the architect of Surfing Life's design, Graeme Murdoch, posted this on Facebook: "Bring on a Carson-designed webcast interface: John John scores a 9. or is it a 7. I can't tell. Who cares? Now THAT'S edgy!"
The interview is most certainly worth the consumption of your time. (Click here to read.)
Hear Carson talk at the Byron Theatre on October 8 at seven pm. Buy tickets here.
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Bodyboarder breaks Kelly Slater's face!
Not just any bodyboarder, though. Paul Roach! THE Paul Roach!
He comes screaming down the line like a slippy, slidey salsa dancer. Like a liquid torso'd Cirque du Soleil acrobat. Onlookers, standing on the beach, gape. "How is he throwing so much spray? How is he snapping so damned hard? A 360? Right in the middle of the wave after that snap? How is he getting so barreled? Isn't this wave a dumpy three-footer?" He blows apart their preconceptions. Some of the onlookers, though, bury their awe beneath a rude and heavy sneer. "Booger." "Fucking speed bump." "Dick-dragging kook." The rudest. If only they knew this "dick-dragging kook" was the one, the only, Paul Roach, their jeers would soon turn to admiration. And if they didn't soon turn to admiration? Well, then those particular onlookers should rot in hell because Paul Roach is beatific. He is the Patron Saint of Choosing the Wrong Historical Side.
Yes, culture perpetually comes to forks in the road and there are groupings that choose the Right Historical Side and groupings that choose the Wrong Historical Side. Millions of years ago, for instance, there was a fork with one path leading to Hominini and one path leading to Panini. Those who walked with the Hominini became Homo sapiens—humans—like you and me, while those who walked the Panini can now be visited at the zoo. They are chimpanzees. Almost one hundred and fifty years ago there was another fork called the Civil War with one path leading to freedom and one path leading to slavery. Those who walked the freedom path became thoughtful, well-bred Americans like you and me, while those who walked the path of slavery live in southern backwaters, inbreeding and screaming incoherently that, "The South will rise again!" A few decades ago there was another fork with one path leading to VHS and one path leading to Betamax, and shortly after this, yet another with one path leading to surfing and the other leading to bodyboarding. VHS and surfing have had respectable runs—you and me have enjoyed both—while Beta and boogie clog the darkest corners of embarrassed garages.
The history of bodyboarding shares the same fine root as the history of surfing, like Panini and Hominini share the same root, like democratic principles and dictatorships share the same root, like VHS and Beta share the same root. Both began in the mists of ancient Polynesia (or Samoa, depending on where you happen to be vacationing and who happens to be cracking their knuckles in your direction), and Captain Cook's men observed the practice of each in Hawaii. The natives were riding the surf, some on their stomachs, some on their knees, some on their feet. It was the feet varietal that became popular, later. Still, the alaia, ridden prone, and later, the paipo, continued on as semi-viable, though not widely practiced, alternatives. This all changed, though, one bright Big Island morning in 1971 when Tom Morey stood on the beach dreaming.
Tom Morey wearing a moustache, a Speedo, and a glint of weird baha'i in his ey'e dreamed of riding faster than heavy, single-finned surfboards of the '70s would allow. They were all soulful but all sluggish. And Tom wanted all fast. He had toyed with the idea of a board, to be ridden prone, with a polyethylene foam deck and a fiberglass bottom but, when he actually crafted it in Waikiki, it broke under the crushing lip of a tiny wave. So it was off to the Big Island—to dream.
Morey had one piece of nine-foot plastic foam left from which he could have made some sort of plastic surfboard but he did not. And a fork suddenly appeared in the path when Tom Morey cut that piece of plastic in half, shaped the rails like Vs, squared the nose, and took it surfing. Or, no, not surfing, he went and laid on it. He "paddled" out and "caught" a wave without ever getting to his feet and claimed that he could "feel" the wave through the "board" in a way that he had never "felt" before. He put his body on a boogie and shebang! He knew he had "something" "spectacular." He asked his Baha'i brothers and sisters for some cash to return to the mainland and sell the feeling. They ponied up. He flew to California. And another Wrong Historical Side was fully realized.
Bodyboarding, though, was not realized by its patron saint—the Patron Saint of Choosing the Wrong Historical Side—until some time later. Paul Roach was born in San Diego, only two years after the Boogie, to a father who loved the ocean. "My father loved to bodysurf and he had me on a board by the time I was 4 or 5." The board of which he speaks was a surfboard, not a bodyboard. Paul spent his early years on the Right Historical Side. "We lived down by Mission Beach and I was always out there," he says, glowing an aura of serene nostalgia before taking a sip of frosty, cold Stella Artois. He is handsome now, tall and lanky, strong arms, strong chest, the brunette version of an all-American face, partially obscured by a gray knit cap worn low. I'm sure he was handsome in his youth, too, handsome but poor. "Yeah, really poor. I slept in a bed with my two sisters, with my parents in the same room on a foldaway bed." But it ain't as hard to live a pre-Willy-Wonka-meeting, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory life on the beach, and Paul's parents moved to Encinitas when he was 11. He was always in the water there, too, always surfing. But one of his first North County friends did not surf. He rode a bodyboard. Paul's initial reaction to this was not negative. He mostly thought, "That looks easy." When his friend told him of an upcoming bodyboard contest Paul thought, "That sounds easy." And, for him, it was easy. He won. It was the first thing he had ever won. There was no cash prize, but for an 11-year-old kid sharing a bed with two sisters, the brand new bodyboard and the brand new spring suit felt too good.
"The way I was drawn toward it was, like, fully a monetary thing," he says now, after taking a sip of still-frosty Stella sitting next to me at Encinitas's favorite dive bar Mr. Peabody's. "There was a contest every month and I won every single one of them." A full monetary thing. There are always reasons to choose the Wrong Historical Side. There are reasons based on fear of change, on incorrectly discerning the arc of history, but money is the purest reason to go Wrong. It is simple. It is powerful. It is very powerful. Free bodyboards and free spring suits and Dell computers pave the way to hell. Remember how cheap Dell computers were? Remember how Apple crushed them?
Paul Roach was winning and things were going well. He had sponsors like Morey Boogie—Tom's company—and Beaver Sunblock giving him free product and a few hundred bucks per victory. He particularly liked Beaver. "I had this shirt that said, 'Is that a Beaver on your body?' and I thought it was super rad. I think my mom threw it away though." Yet suggestive shirts, paychecks, and all, he was still not completely satisfied. "So I started riding drop-knee. There were others who where doing it too but not so many. I cut Roach off and we drink half our Jagermeister shots. Then I ask, "Why? Why drop-knee? What does it add? What is the magic behind it?" I drink the other half of my Jagermeister shot while he rubs his chin.
"You know, all I can think is that it is really fuckin' hard to do and I needed the challenge."
"But," I interject, "isn't there some sort of leverage thing happening that lets you get all that lightning quick wow-wow?"
And still rubbing his chin, he says, "No. It's not functional. It's a really awkward position that's only good for really hurting your back or breaking your nose on your knee. The thing about it is, though, if it is done right, it looks cool. It is a way to ride a bodyboard and show style. It's hard to show style while riding prone but on a knee…It's like drop-knee turning a longboard—not functional but stylish."
Stylish indeed. Drop-knee and Paul went together like rama-lama-lama-ke-ding-a-de-dinga-dong. There was something very specific about his glide and his power. He was good at it, and it is a marvel to watch an expert no matter their field of expertise. Have you ever watched an expert archer arch? Or an expert birder bird? Or an expert dancer bowl? I mean, dance? The field matters not when marvelous skill is employed. And, for whatever reason, drop-knee and Paul went together like shoobop-sha-wadda-wadda-yippity-boom-de-boom.
It was at this point on his journey down the Wrong Historical Side, when he was 13, that he started getting rides to Seaside reef in San Diego. There he met a young Taylor Steele in the water. They hit it off and became fast friends. Taylor surfed. Paul rode his bodyboard. And later, Taylor stood on the beach filming while Paul rode his bodyboard. "He would throw clips of me into his high school project," Paul says after taking a bite of a chicken wing. "It was really awesome. Sometimes as it was all happening, I gotta say though, I would wonder, 'Shouldn't I be surfing right now?' But I was already too deep into it." That high school project became Momentum and there was Paul Roach in the middle of it all—insta-snaps in the middle of a wave, 360-floaters, 360s in a barrel. Drop. Knee.
Despite the groundbreaking surf footage, one of the most memorable scenes in the film is when Roach boxes Kelly Slater. When Taylor Steele called him, he could hear the rest of the Momentum crew giggling in the background. Even though Roach had some experience boxing, he remembers thinking, "Great. Kelly's gonna kick my ass and they are all gonna laugh at this bodyboarder who gets beat up by Kelly." Film equipment was set up when he arrived. In comparison to Roach's tall and lanky frame, Slater was muscular and fit. "But I had reach and I used it," he recalls. "We started boxing and I got in a couple of cracks and then he got all upset and ripped his gloves off and said, 'Let's go film some surfing or something…'Now I consider it a real honor to have boxed Kelly Slater, though his manager called me a few years ago and asked if I would fight Kelly in a cage match." (WATCH KELLY GET ALL BENT OUT OF SHAPE RIGHT HERE!) I am sure the very public loss Kelly suffered at the hands of a bodyboarder haunts him to this day. He is as competitive as anyone on earth. And I am sure it would have been a friendly bout, maybe. Just two old acquaintances having a laugh whilst choking each other out but Paul declined, he only loves to box. And Kelly is as competitive as anyone on earth. It is good that they do not meet in the octagon.
The reception to his peculiar role in a game-changing film was immaterial. Paul Roach did not have to care what surfers thought at all. Life has its own momentum and his was on the upswing—five figures up. It wasn't the millions that many others in the Momentum crew would go on to earn but he didn't care. He was getting paid to kick around in the warm, warm seas.
He turned pro at 16 and traveled the world with sponsors like Quiksilver. "Board Fast. Rock Hard." He competed, though he hated it. He hated it because he would only ride drop-knee, which did not have a separate division, so he was judged against the prone riders. Silly business. Yet his sponsors required him to compete. He remembers staying in the Pipe-front, Momentum-famous Weatherly home, sleeping on the floor before the Morey Boogie Pipeline Pro, and hearing third reef thunder—nerve-racking to say the least. He woke up the next morning, though, and kicked out into the maxing fray. "I'm in the Morey Boogie Pipeline Pro," he thought. "I am not going to ride on my stomach." And he didn't. He rode like he always rode. Whack, whack, slip, slide stylishly. It is twice as hard to ride giant surf drop-knee. The bodyboard has a propensity to go too fast, and when it goes too fast the nose bends down toward the water and pearls. It is twice as hard to keep the nose up whilst on a knee but Paul Roach stayed true. He didn't win. He never won. But he stayed true.
As much as he hated the contests, he loved to travel. He rounded the globe on magazine trips and video trips, drop-kneeing Teahupoo, Indonesia, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Sometimes the trips would include his surfer friends, and he'd stand-up surf on those trips, too, but only when the waves were small. "When it was cracking, I was on a bodyboard," he says, while finishing the second half of his own Jagermeister shot. "I was a cocky shit. I thought I was rad."
He sounded rad. He played in a death metal band called Niner, even playing the Belly Up in Solana Beach for one of Taylor Steele's premieres. He laughs, "We opened for Sprung Monkey, Unwritten Law, Pennywise—all these punk bands. We were on first and it was just crickets. Death metal was the completely wrong sound for the crowd. It was then that I kinda realized Taylor and I were going in different directions."
Twenty-three-year-old Paul Roach was at the height of his career. He was buzzy. He was rad. He was coming into his own. Then the bodyboard industry in the United States collapsed suddenly and all the way. The magazines folded. The brands crashed. Quiksilver pulled its sponsorship. "Stop boarding fast. No more rocking hard." It went from a fringy but robust business to absolutely nothing overnight. Roach, with his young wife and younger daughter, picked up an Australian sponsor that would never send him checks. He went bankrupt, then picked up a hammer. "I had done a little construction before and I really needed money quick. No training, but a couple of local surfers took me on, let me start," he says, taking the final sip of a no-longer-frosty Stella. He has worked construction for the past 15 years.
Is he angry that he chose the Wrong Historical Side? Kelly Slater makes millions of dollars each year. Paul Roach, many years ago, made only a small fraction of that. Angry? He laughs. "I regret nothing." The biggest cliché in the book! But I look at his brunette all-American eyes and I see truth. "It has been a trip. I surf whenever I can, whenever there are waves. I'll get work off—whatever it takes." But what about dip-dadip-dadip-doowop-drop-knee? And here his brunette all-American eyes grow wistful. "Yes. When the waves are good for it."
This is what makes Paul Roach a patron saint. The Patron Saint of Choosing the Wrong Historical Side. He still loves it. "There is something about it on the right wave," he explains. "That's the problem: the right waves for bodyboarding are not really in Southern California…With no fins, and less structure, the bodyboard does what the wave wants to do… It's very functional. It's like music."
He talks feeling. He talks shape. He talks nuance. And he glows. Bodyboarding has been proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt, to be the Wrong Historical Side. It is in ruins, probably to never return. But Paul Roach sees the beauty. He sees art. He sees what the masses, rushing headlong with virtually all others on the Right Historical Side, fail to see. He sees nuance in an openly derided deal. So easy to know that humans are smarter than apes, that slavery is worse than freedom, that Betamax and Dell are shit. So difficult to find appreciation, and not ironic appreciation like I-once-voted-for-Ross-Perot-hee-hee-hee revelry, but real, true, honest appreciation for something as ridiculous as drop-knee bodyboarding.
Eeek! I'm in its jaws! Lewis, baby, Lewis! Help!
PAYBACK: TWO GREAT WHITES KILLED IN WA
Surfer loses both hands in shark attack. Two white pointers killed by pro-active government…
"Y'all know me. Know how I earn a livin'. I'll catch this bird for you, but it ain't gonna be easy. Bad fish. Not like going down the pond chasin' bluegills and tommycods. This shark, swallow you whole. Little shakin', little tenderizin', an' down you go. And we gotta do it quick."
Remember Quint? The shark fisherman from Jaws? Well, turns out he had a point.
Actually, 'member Jaws, and the good people of Amity Island racked with paranoia in need of an end to the "shark menace?
Well, cast your mind back just three weeks and you'll recall a still-pissed West Oz premier Colin Barnett shaking his fist towards the ocean and telling all who would listen that rogue sharks would be "destroyed and removed."
Barnett, of course, was still quivering with anger at the decision by his own Environmental Protection Agency, who advised against the redeployment of 72 shiny new baited hooks this summer.
But yesterday he kept good on that promise and authorised the swift "humane destruction" of not one but two four-metre white pointers found swimming in the vicinity of an attack on surfer Sean Pollard near the beautiful fishing town of Esperance.
The 23-year-old from the state's south-west was surfing solo prior to the attack and the injuries…Jesus… Sean lost the hand from one arm and part of his other arm from the elbow down.
He reportedly told paramedics that two sharks, perhaps bronze whalers, had attacked him.
The town's shire president, Malcolm Heasman, absolutely caught on the hop by the circling press, urged locals and visitors, comprised of families enjoying school holidays enjoy to "exercise caution," before stating:
"I am extremely sad, but I guess we live in a coastal community so from time to time unfortunately these things happen," Mr Heasman said. "We would prefer they didn't."
But for better or worse, the two whites were in the area, and out they came, straight onto the back of a waiting truck for transport to Perth, trailed by news crews, where they are currently being examined to determine if they were indeed the culprits.
And the method of their capture? Drum lines and baited hooks. The whole incident unfolded at such a pace that opponents of any form of retribution towards the sharks did not have a chance to voice their disgust.
But, jeez, what do you think? Victory for good old common sense or knee-jerk reaction?
Picture Quint, talking to us from beyond the grave. Fixing us with that steely gaze, bottle of rum in one hand and sharp gaff in the other.
"You've gotta make up your minds. If you want to stay alive…then ante up."
Let the debate begin.
CANDID: HOW SURFER-HAIR RUINED MY LIFE
When you're 15 years old, losing those golden stripes will tip you into the deepest existential gloom…
I grew up, like every other kid, building a castle of unfulfilled moments, lost opportunities and slammed doors. An accumulation of regrets so painful – all those gals never kissed, all those set waves never ridden, all those heats lost cause of, what, nerves? – that if I ever let myself wade back into 'em I'd drive myself into the arms of crazy.
But, there was this one time. And, if I could backspin the planet 20 years or some, I'd play it diff.
I don't remember her name, but I can't forget her deep brown skin. She was just short of sixteen years, but lived alone, or so she said. The small house was one street back from the beach, an hour from my parent's house, where I lived.
The situation was unusual, sure. But, when you're 15-and-a-half and staring at a gal whose breasts speak of buttery milk and carnal abundance and she tells you there ain't another soul in that house, in that house with the bedroom that faces east and so the morning sun pours onto the bed, onto her sweating body, you don't argue the point.
I had met her outside a bar on a Friday night and she'd invited me to her house the following weekend. She was tall and had long limbs, a face too pretty, a gal built for modelling.
I was just coming out a summer of eight-hour beach days. My dark hair was balayaged with blond stripes, my body, although not the sort to thrill gym kinkos, was tight enough and brown, too. I was riding high. A surfer. And, surfers ruled my town.
In my pre-surf life, this gal wouldn't have exercised her neck to check me out. Now, suddenly, I was going to her house, to the the empty house. I imagined her deep and fathomless submission to me. My expert groping hands leading her queer clumsiness. She would experience a seething electric female ecstasy while I controlled her like a master puppeteer.
I imagined this many times in the week leading to our appointment. I spent so much time in my room, my mom thought I'd become clinically depressed.
Two days before we were to meet I decided to really light shit up by getting a killer haircut. At the big-city hairdresser, I showed 'em a photo of a CK model and paid fifty bucks for a cut and blow-dry. I watched handfuls of blond waft onto the floor, little golden parachutes whose contrasting beauty had secured me this erotic rendezvous. I watched as they were swept into the trapdoor at the corner of the salon. I might've whispered goodbye as the flap slammed shut.
That afternoon, I cried in the bathroom as I stared at the stupid boy with monotone hair stiffened by gel on the sides and awash with mousse on the top panel. Then, I ran to the drug store and bought a bottle of "Honey Blonde".
While my parents slept, I painted the peroxide in long stripes. It turned my dark hair red.
It looks okay, I said to myself.
On the day I was going to meet her I scooped up a handfuls of pomade, gel and mousse. I worked it in, I smooth it over. I shaped and sculpted.
But, it didn't.
And the gal's face said it all when my bike came up her driveway and her vision was filled with an ordinary boy and not a surfing super hero.
What happened to your hair, she said, although the question rang rhetorically not quizzically.
If I was a painter, I could've made a masterpiece of that moment, a study of profound disappointment.
Then she said, Let's go to the beach.
On the beach I showed her my right bicep that I had inflated by lifting my school bag 200 times a day in front of the mirror.
I invited her to run her hands over the bulge in my arm.
It feels pretty good, she said.
But she kept looking at my hair.
It's red, she said at one point.
I left at exactly three-thirty pm that afternoon.
I know because the radio news was on and there was something about the Australian surfer Martin Potter winning the world title, and I now hated Martin Potter because his hair was a bed of sun-burnt curls and I knew that if Martin Potter was here on this driveway, near this girl in the scoop leg shorts and the loose singlet that was cut low on the sides, he could take her, he could take her now, right in front of me, and they would bang and they would bang.
And, then they would laugh at my red hair while they smoked cigarettes and the sun coming through the bedroom window baked their skin even darker.
Regrets, yeah, I've had a few.
ASP branding "Embarrassing and Silly. Like Wrestling!"
Bodyboarder breaks Kelly Slater's face!


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Mangrove planting in Madagascar
Taking down climate change: one mangrove at a time
Madagascar | £0.095 per tree
This trail-blazing project run by Eden Reforestation Projects has reforestation and poverty alleviation at its heart. Mangroves pack some punch when it comes to carbon sequestration but also provide a whole load of other natural benefits such as storm surge protection and vital habitat for many species.
The Madagascar project that we support started in 2007. The project has already planted over 300 million trees and created over 3 million workdays.
To date, they have planted over 334 million trees across 8 countries
They have created 3.3 million days of work for local communities
By 2025 they aim to plant 500 million trees each year
Project: Mangrove planting in Madagascar
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How many trees would you like to plant?
Great for Earth
Madagascar has experienced deforestation on an enormous scale with only 10% of its original forest remaining today. Did you know that approximately 75% of species found in Madagascar are not found anywhere else in the world? This means it is even more important to protect what is left and help to reforest areas that have been destroyed.
Mangroves are important for the climate crisis because estimates suggesting that they sequester carbon at a rate of 2 – 4 times greater than mature tropical forests. Each mangrove tree removes around 308kg of CO2 from the atmosphere over the course of its life-cycle (approximately 25 years).
Mangrove forests also offer numerous other ecosystem services such as natural coastal defences from floods and storm surges, increased biodiversity and sediment reduction.
Planting: A mix of four different mangrove species are planted as well as at least 10% agroforestry trees to provide an additional source of income to the local people. The mangroves are planted directly from propagules, and Eden have discovered that mortality becomes irrelevant as natural regeneration occurs (after the inevitable loss of some propagules). Typically regeneration exceeds 200% of the original number of mangroves planted – we know it's cool.
Earthly do also contribute a buffer so that if anything were to happen like a tropical storm we have you covered.
Tree Planting © Photo from Eden Reforestation Projects
Deforestation is often tied to extreme poverty, so Eden Reforestation Projects uses a unique methodology of 'employ to plant' in order to target both of these problem areas. This aims to provide fair employment to local people to grow, plant, and guard to maturity native species forest on a massive scale.
Cost Per Tree
£0.095
Days of work created
Undoing climate damage isn't easy. But our powerful partners make it happen.
Eden has partnered with two national parks to restore mangrove estuaries. Written agreements are made to secure the land in perpetuity so deforestation of the newly restored areas does not occur.
Local people are employed by Eden and a variety of propagules are planted.
Mangroves mature, and so does soil quality and water purity leading to increased crop yield and further decrease in extreme poverty.
We chose to partner with Eden Reforestation Projects because we believe in their model of combining tackling poverty with an important climate solution. Tropical forests are listed as 5th on the top 100 climate solutions available today by Project Drawdown.


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FG on top of security situation – Enang
Ita Enang
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Mr. Ita Enang, said on Friday the Federal Government is doing everything within its powers to tackle insecurity in the country.
Enang told students of the Nigerian Law School, Abuja, who visited him in his office that government was on top of the situation.
Citing the recent mayhem in Plateau State, Enang said "what is happening now is not just ethnic or inter-ethnic conflicts, it is pure terrorism.
"This terrorism is not caused within but without."
He decried the actions of the terrorists which he blamed on the policy of the ECOWAS Free Movement Protocol.
He noted that the policy allows every person in every country in Africa to have free movement within the continent.
Enang said: "They come in with arms. Whenever there is war or the collapse of any nation state, you will have a collateral effect.
"We are suffering not from ethnic problems, internal to Nigeria, but from the effects of the collapse of neighbouring countries like Libya and Mali.
"Under that protocol, you are to allow them so long as they are Africans.
"Our survival, unity and security of citizens are threatened as a country by this free movement and those who come in with evil intention."


Look out for notices regarding Messy Church and Gateway Services.
Reverend Alex Pye was licenced to the Parish of Gowerton as Priest in Charge and to the Ministry Area as Associate Priest on Tuesday 14th November 2017, after a 18 month interegnum. We are pleased to welcome Alex and his family and wish him all the best as he starts his ministry with us.
We are pleased to announce that Anthony Charles and Sue Rumbelow have become Ordinands in the Church in Wales. As things stand at the moment they will be ordained Deacons in about 18 months time, June 2018 and then priested a year later. They do, I know, appreciate all your prayers and support as they undertake their studies, both academical and practical.
The Bishop has agreed to come and lead a special service at 3pm on Sunday 9th August. At the service the new doors will be dedicated along with the new hymn books.
We are grateful to Mr Dillwyn Thomas for the donation towards the cost of the door and to the Church in Wales for their help in the cost.
There was a tremendous Messy Easter celebration on the morning of Good Friday. An excellent attendance of children and adults contributed to the reflection on Good Friday whilst looking forward to the celebration of Easter Day.
Voices in Harmony held a wonderful Christmas Concert on 15th December. In addition to items from the choir and their Musical Director Nigel Hopkins, there were contributions from the Penclawdd Junior Band, Baritone Andrew Matthews, Violinist Clive Dobbins and accompanists Julie Dobbins and John Davies.
At the main morning service on October 26th the 65th anniversary of the Mothers Union in the parish was celebrated. Members of the Mothers Union took part in the service which was followed with a celebration in the church hall.
The celebrations continued at the Mothers Union meeting on October 30th where there was more cake and more celebrations.
We give thanks for the work of the Mothers Union in the parish and throughout the world and pray for their work today and into the future.


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Weathering the Storm: Despite key injuries, Seattle remains in WNBA playoff race
Seattle Storm's Natasha Howard brings the ball up the court against the Las Vegas Aces during the second half of a WNBA basketball game, Tuesday, July 23, 2019, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher) APAP
By Oregon Sports News and Connor West | Oregon Sports News
The Seattle Storm have faced more adversity than a typical defending champion this season. Breanna Stewart's torn Achilles, Dan Hughes' cancerous tumor and Sue Bird's possibly season-ending knee surgery have all made sure of that.
All these compounding factors made it reasonable to assume that this would be a lost year for the Storm, that they would probably miss the playoffs even in a league where 66 percent of the teams make the postseason. That would have been OK given the circumstances. It's hard to imagine any team making the playoffs after losing its two best players, even a reigning champion.
This, however, is not what has happened in Seattle.
The Storm have rallied and have made it up to sixth place in the WNBA with a 12-9 record, sitting just two games back of first place. It's not as if the adversity stopped once the season started either. Key contributors who came into the season healthy have missed significant time as well. Jewell Loyd, who many considered the Storm's best remaining player coming into the season, has missed seven games with an ankle sprain. Jordin Canada, who has started at point guard in Bird's absence, has missed three games herself.
So how exactly are the Storm doing this?
Their defense has carried over from last year and they are currently second in defensive rating at 93 points per game, trailing only the Las Vegas Aces. This is unsurprising even with the injuries because the absence of Stewart and Bird was always going to be felt more on the offensive end without go-to playmakers. The stats bear this out as well, as the Storm are down to sixth in offensive rating compared to second last year.
So far this season, Seattle is battling the shot clock more because of that lack of a bonafide scoring threat. The offense, however, is still staying afloat in large part because they are bombing away from three-point range. The Storm are second in both three-pointers made and three-pointers attempted.
With all the bombing away from three, Seattle needs balance, and that has to come in the form of a breakthrough from Natasha Howard. Howard, who played center last year next to Stewart, has shifted over to power forward in her absence and has taken over her role as leading scorer. She hasn't been very efficient, posting just a 45 percent effective field-goal percentage, but at a certain point you just need someone who can create shots.
Create shots she has.
Howard is averaging 16 shots — by far a career high, up from her previous career-best 9.4 that she posted last season — and has a 30.3 usage rate. That rate is second in the league behind only the New York Liberty's Tina Charles.
But where Howard really shines is on defense. The Storm hold a 90.0 defensive rating when Howard is on the floor, and she also leads the league in defensive win shares.
The increase in volume and the sustained defensive excellence have earned Howard her first All-Star appearance, which puts a stamp on what has been such a remarkable improvement for a player who was thrust into a role she wasn't expecting. It says a lot about her place in the league going forward as someone who has been overlooked throughout her career. Before arriving in Seattle, she had primarily come off the bench in each of her previous two stops in the WNBA. Now she's an MVP candidate leading her team to a winning record and a probable playoff berth.
Howard's brilliance and the team's stingy defense encapsulate the Storm's performance in the clutch, not to mention the way they are pulling off these wins. The WNBA defines clutch as a game where the score differential is five points or less with less than five minutes left in the game. The Storm have won eight games that fall into this category, accounting for 66 percent of their wins this season.
Crunch time is when the Storm's defense is at its peak and the lack of an elite scorer is most noticeable. They've shot a measly 35 percent from the field in the clutch, but their defense has forced even worse results from their opponents.
With 13 games left and over half the season played, the Storm are favored to make the playoffs. Because of their lack of firepower, they probably don't have the ability to make much noise once they get to the postseason, but there's no shame in that.
The Storm have been displaced this season, as KeyArena undergoes renovations, splitting time between Angel of the Winds Arena and Alaska Airlines Arena, putting a delay on when a championship banner will be raised at home. This is a unique footnote to a unique season.
Ultimately, it's another piece of adversity Seattle has faced. But adversity hasn't seemed to faze the Storm this season.
-- Connor West is a freelance writer. This story was published on OregonLive through a partnership with Oregon Sports News.


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Q: hibernate IllegalArgumentException in joined-subclass with Composite key Edit #2 - Added person class at bottom.
This is driving me nuts! I think this is a mapping problem, but I'm not sure. I'm new to Hibernate and I think using a joined-subclass with composite key is messing me up.
The error happens when I open a session and the message is:
Initial SessionFactory creation failed.org.hibernate.PropertyAccessException:
IllegalArgumentException occurred calling getter of com.dave.test.Person.personId
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at com.mkyong.util.HibernateUtil.buildSessionFactory(HibernateUtil.java:17)
at com.mkyong.util.HibernateUtil.<clinit>(HibernateUtil.java:8)
at com.mkyong.App.main(App.java:21)

Caused by: org.hibernate.PropertyAccessException: IllegalArgumentException occurred calling
getter of com.dave.test.Person.personId
at org.hibernate.property.BasicPropertyAccessor$BasicGetter.get
(BasicPropertyAccessor.java:198)

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: object is not an instance of declaring class
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.hibernate.property.BasicPropertyAccessor$BasicGetter.get(BasicPropertyAccessor.java:172)
... 11 more

First mapping:
<hibernate-mapping>
  <class name="com.mkyong.stock.Appointment" table="appointment" catalog="physdb">
    <composite-id name="id" class="com.dave.test.AppointmentId">
        <key-property name="personId" type="int">
            <column name="person_id" />
        </key-property>
        <key-property name="apptdate" type="timestamp">
            <column name="apptdate" length="19" />
        </key-property>
    </composite-id>
    <many-to-one name="client" update="false" insert="false" fetch="select">
        <column name="person_id" not-null="true" />
    </many-to-one>
    <property name="location" type="string">
        <column name="location" length="45" not-null="true" />
    </property>
    <property name="fee" type="big_decimal">
        <column name="fee" precision="7" />
    </property>
    <property name="paid" type="big_decimal">
        <column name="paid" precision="7" />
    </property>
    <property name="serviceRendered" type="boolean">
        <column name="service_rendered" not-null="true" />
    </property>
  </class>
</hibernate-mapping>

And second mapping:
<hibernate-mapping>
<class name="com.dave.test.Person" table="person" catalog="physdb">
    <id name="personId" >
        <column name="person_id" />
        <generator class="identity" />
    </id>
    <property name="firstName" type="string">
        <column name="first_name" length="45" not-null="true" />
    </property>
    <property name="lastName" type="string">
        <column name="last_name" length="45" not-null="true" />
    </property>
    <property name="phone" type="string">
        <column name="phone" length="15" />
    </property>
    <property name="cellPhone" type="string">
        <column name="`cell_phone`" length="15" />
    </property>

    <joined-subclass name="com.dave.test.Client" table="client" extends="Person">
            <key column="person_id" />
    <set name="appointments" cascade="all" inverse="true" lazy="false">
        <key column="person_id"/>
        <one-to-many class="com.dave.test.Appointment"/>
    </set>

    <property name="complaint" type="string">
        <column name="complaint" not-null="true" />
    </property>
    <property name="notes" type="string">
        <column name="notes" not-null="false" />
    </property>
    <property name="doctor" type="string">
        <column name="doctor" not-null="false" />
    </property>
    </joined-subclass>

<joined-subclass name="com.dave.test.Therapist" table="therapist" extends="Person">
            <key column="person_id" />

    <property name="school" type="string">
        <column name="school" not-null="false" />
    </property>
    <property name="specialties" type="string">
        <column name="notes" not-null="false" />
    </property>
    <property name="hiredate" type="date">
        <column name="hiredate" not-null="true" />
    </property>
</joined-subclass>

 </class>
</hibernate-mapping>

The classes are:
public class Client extends Person implements java.io.Serializable {

private int personId;
private Person person;
private String complaint;
private String notes;
private String doctor;
private Set appointments = new HashSet();
public int getPersonId() {
    return this.personId;
}

public void setPersonId(int personId) {
    this.personId = personId;
}

}

public class Appointment implements java.io.Serializable {

private AppointmentId id;
private Client client;
private String location;
private BigDecimal fee;
private BigDecimal paid;
private boolean serviceRendered;

public AppointmentId getId() {
    return this.id;
}

public void setId(AppointmentId id) {
    this.id = id;
}
}

public class AppointmentId implements java.io.Serializable {

private int personId;
private Date apptdate;

public int getPersonId() {
    return this.personId;
}

public void setPersonId(int personId) {
    this.personId = personId;
}

}

public class Person implements java.io.Serializable {

private int personId;
private String firstName;
private String lastName;
private String phone;
private String cellPhone;
private Therapist therapist;
private Client client;

public int getPersonId() {
    return this.personId;
}

public void setPersonId(int personId) {
    this.personId = personId;
}
}

I'm sure I'm going to kick myself when I figure this out, but could someone give me a hand?
Thanks
Dave

A: First thing, Client class contains the personId attribute (plus getter and setter). Since Client extends Person, it inherits the personId property. So the one in the Client class should be removed.
Second thing, Client class contains a reference to a Person, which, unless the client has another Person (has-a, not is-a), I think is wrong and may be causing problems (although is not mapped in the XML).

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DSU Football May Implement a 2 Quarterback System
Apr 8, 2016 | Posted by	WBOC Staff | Delaware State, Featured Sports	|
DOVER, Del — With only one win on their record to close out their 2015 regular season, "rough" is an understatement in describing the Delaware State University Football program last season.
Second year head coach Kenny Carter has been busy in the off-season making the team look virtually unrecognizable from last year.
With less than 20 returning players, Carter will have close to 50 new faces join the Hornets family from recruits to walk-ons.
One face that you might recognize is now sophomore quarterback Kobie Lain who lead the Hornets to their only win last season as a true freshmen. In that closing game against Howard, Lain completed 14 out of 27 passes for 181 yards, threw for two touchdowns and rushed for 52 yards.
The development of Kobi Lain is a crucial puzzle-piece to picture that Carter wants to paint in 2016. To avoid a young quarterback making mistakes in a big position, Carter has junior QB Daniel Epperson challenging him.
But make no mistake, this is no quarterback competition.
" Dan is fantastic," Carter said. "We are really really happy with Dan. Dan is pushing Kobi and both will play. We'll play both quarterbacks."
Before the spring game on Sat. April 10, Carter is considering implementing a two-quarterback system for the upcoming season.
Epperson started for two years at a junior college and has the football maturity that some may argue an underclassmen does not.
" Right now coming out of spring practice, that's exactly what's it's going to be because they've both earned the right to play," Carter said.
Before bringing his talents to DSU, Epperson passed for 2,767 yards, 27 touchdowns and 6 interception in his time at San Bernardino Junior College.
You can get a better look at both Lain an Epperson at the DSU Spring Game on Saturday, April 10th at Alumni Stadium in Dover at 2 p.m.
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Posted in: Crime Stoppers, Media Release, Reward.	Tagged: Sandrell.
Franklin Police are searching for clues after a man was robbed last night in the parking lot of an apartment complex at 301 N. Royal Oaks Boulevard. The victim was taking his trash out at 11:45 Tuesday night when a male suspect approached him from behind and stuck what the victim thought was a gun in his back, and ordered him to empty his pockets.
Little more is known about this robbery, but Detectives are hopeful that someone with information might come forward. There is a cash reward of up to $1,000 available for information in this case.