Dr. Joseph Saba is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Axios International. Under his leadership, the company has launched a number of successful drug access programs and developed innovative models for market access and healthcare systems strengthening.
Dr. Saba is a French Lebanese medical doctor specialized in infectious disease, health management and statistics. Throughout his career, he has led numerous discussions with pharmaceutical companies, governments and other key players across the healthcare community to drive access to innovative medications in developing countries and emerging markets.
In this context, he is known internationally for his expertise in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and for establishing the first HIV/AIDS antiretroviral drug access programs in Chile, Côte d'Ivoire, Uganda and Vietnam through the UNAIDS HIV Drug Access Initiative.
In 1993, Dr. Saba joined the World Health Organization (WHO) as the WHO Focal Point for the National Plan for HIV Vaccine Development, and from 1994-1995, he worked with the Global Program on AIDS in the WHO Department of Clinical Research and Drug Development. Following his time at WHO, he worked with the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS in the Department of Policy, Strategy and Research, where he coordinated the PETRA study – a multi-centre clinical trial on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS in three countries in Africa.
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University Paris VI (France). Dr. Saba is also a graduate of St. Joseph University (Beirut, Lebanon) and holds a Master of Communications and Medical Management (MSc) from the Superior Business School (Paris, France). Of Lebanese and French descent, he is fluent in Arabic, French and English.
Dr. Saba has been featured in the Pharmaceutical Executive, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune and Newsweek, among others.


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Q: JavaScript- display whole object and specific keys and its value I am using this code
var obj  =  {   'name':'Some Person Name',
                'country':'Country of Some Person',
                'age':1
            }
var storeVal = Object.keys(obj)

for (var i = 0; i < storeVal.length; i++) {
    var storeLoop = storeVal[i] ;
    document.write('
'+storeLoop+'
');
}

Now I can display the keys of object obj using above code and I also know how to display values of object obj using Object.values(). I want to know how I can display the whole object obj using above for loop and I am not talking about for..in loop. I want to also know how to display the specific key and value,for example if I want to display only name key and its value,how that can be done ? I am only using JavaScript. No jquery.

A: Here's one way to do it:

var obj  =  {   'name':'Some Person Name',
                'country':'Country of Some Person',
                'age':1
            }
var storeVal = Object.keys(obj)

for (var i = 0; i < storeVal.length; i++) {
    var storeLoop = storeVal[i] + ': ' + obj[storeVal[i]];
    document.write('
'+storeLoop+'
');
}

// Just displaying a certain key:

document.write('
Name: '+obj.name+'
');

A: I suggest to use variable names which reflects their content, then I suggest to declare all variables first, an not for example inside of a for loop.
For getting the value of a property of an object, you could use one of two syntax as property accessor
object.property     // dot notation
object['property']  // bracket notation

To get a value of the object, you could use
object.name  // 'Some Person Name'

var object = { name: 'Some Person Name', country: 'Country of Some Person', age: 1 },
    keys = Object.keys(object),
    value,
    i,
    nameKey = 'name';

for (i = 0; i < keys.length; i++) {
    value = object[keys[i]];
    document.write('
' + keys[i] + ': ' + value + '
');
}

document.write('

' + nameKey + ': ' + object[nameKey] + '
');

A: If it is just for you and you don't really want to output it in the HTML code, you can use console.log(storeVal); and explore the printed object in your browser console.
See more here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Console/log

A: Use Object.entries() , see MDN-Doc
Basic example:
var obj = { foo: 'bar', baz: 42 };
console.log(Object.entries(obj)); // [ ['foo', 'bar'], ['baz', 42] ]

Your code:
var obj  =  {   'name':'Some Person Name',
                'country':'Country of Some Person',
                'age':1
            }

Object.entries(obj).forEach(([key, value]) => {
    // Do whatever you like with key and value
});

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Here's a dip station that I have for performing the dip exercise. Basically, the body of this homemade dip station comes from the safety squat racks I built.
Dips are good for building overall muscle mass around the tricep, chest and shoulder areas. Even if you're not strong enough to perform full dips, you can begin by just performing the negative phase of the exercise.
The dipping bars are made thicker and more comfortable with these homemade thick grip handles.
With arms straight, but not locked, lower yourself slowly and in control.
When the upper arms are horizontal or parallel to the ground, raise your torso up.
Avoid the shoulders going below the level of the elbows if you have shoulder problems.
There should be no swinging or jerking movements.
A narrow width between the dip bars work the triceps more, while a wider grip works the chest more.
If your body leans forward, the tendency is to work the chest. If the body is straighter and more vertical, you work the triceps.
By looking and facing upwards, the body becomes more vertical.
Using angled dip bars (facing the inside of the angle) as shown in the photo below may minimize stress on the wrists.
If you have to bend and fold your knees to perform this exercise, put thick padding or pillow on the floor to cushion your knees just in case you reach muscle failure.
Apart from the obvious advantage that this dip station is collapsible and easily stored away, here are other advantages in using this exercise station.
Because the dip bars are individually set on freestanding racks, you could easily adjust the distance between the dip bars. Having a narrower grip, or decreasing the distance between the two dip bars works out the triceps more than the chest.
A wider grip works out the chest more, although more width is not necessarily better. A few people (like me) find wide grips very difficult.
I found that dip bars that are parallel to each other put a bit of stress on the wrists and forearms. By forming a V-angle and facing the inside of the angle, the dip exercise becomes more natural. Again, because the dip bars are on freestanding racks, you could adjust the angle of the dip bars.
The photo below shows the dip bars on freestanding racks that you can move around easily so you can adjust the distance as well as the angle of the dip bars.
The regular grips found on commercial dip machines can be painful on the hands and wrists. This is especially so if you're a beginner on the exercise. It's soreness on the hands rather than muscle failure that can cause you to stop.
Shown below is the thick grip handles that were attached to the dip bars. You can make homemade thick grip handles and then fasten them on the dip bars with a pair of hose clamps.
I found that by using a thick dipping bar, the exercise becomes more tolerable. And it isn't anything like using weightlifting gloves as others may suggest. The added surface area on the thick bar helps distribute the weight more evenly across the hands and wrists, resulting in a more efficient exercise.


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I am planing a party for 300. I am having tea, water and lemonade. How many gallons of each should I have?
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It's an outside party. Iced tea, lemonade, and water. All self-serve. Thank you so much for your time!


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Raptors rake in the views for broadcasters, social media, brands
TSN and other networks broke records with Game 6 audiences, while Twitter and other brands have been quick to activate.
On their edge of their seats through another nail biter, a record 7.7 million Canadians watched as the Toronto Raptors stole the NBA championship away from the Golden State Warriors during Game 6, Thursday night.
The overnight average audience of 7.7 million viewers – according to early Numeris data provided by TSN – made Game 6 the most-watched NBA game in Canada and the biggest English-language linear broadcast in three years across TSN, CTV and RDS.
Nearly 16 million Canadian viewers tuned in at some point during the game, almost half the country's population (44%). In the game's final minute, audience's peaked with nearly 10 million viewers watching. Additionally, post-game coverage attracted an average of 6.5 million viewers.
Game 6 goes down in history as Canada's most-watched broadcast of any genre in three years. Of all people watching television Thursday night in Toronto and Hamilton, 82% were watching Game 6, making it the highest audience in that market's history.
TSN's live streaming coverage attracted 143,000 video starts on TSN.ca and the TSN app, the second-highest total (only behind last year's FIFA World Cup England/Croatia semi-final). Even TSN's social media accounts were buzzing during Game 6 with 4.4 million views on Instagram and 12.5 million views on Twitter.
The night the Raptors clinched the NBA title, Twitter had the most single-day mentions of Toronto in history. Thursday also saw the most #WeTheNorth mentions in history, second only to the Game 6 win against the Milwaukee Bucks that gave the Raptors the Eastern Conference Final on May 25, 2019.
Twitter went live with OOH activations late Thursday in Yonge-Dundas Square, across TTC stations and malls. This follows a host of other brands whose Raptor-based activations got crowds stirring including the spot Tim Hortons did with superfan Nav Bhatia.
Tangerine, which has served as the official bank of the Raptors, continued its heavy presence in Jurassic Park where fans were treated to swag, and some received to sit in the Tangerine suite. It also serves as the presenting sponsor of today's championship parade.
Also activating around the Raps were Unilever brand Axe, which told fans to "chill" in a progressive spin on masculinity in sport (with the help of Kyle Lowry). And earlier this season, Snickers had some fun with a spot kicked off by an Instagram post of Delon Wright in some ill-fitting fashion (using its long-running "You're not you when you're hungry" messaging to create an elaborate prank) in a play on the Raptor account known for its depiction of the team in their designer threads.
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Right on the 'Button': Brad Pitt's film…
Right on the 'Button': Brad Pitt's film pushes cinema to new age
Making his 'case': Brad Pitt is Benjamin Button, a man who ages backward as the world moves forward after World War I.
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PUBLISHED: December 25, 2008 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: November 17, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.
Is David Fincher's groundbreaking, visually breathtaking "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" a "Forrest Gump" for our times? I hope not, given what a mixed blessing "Forrest Gump" was. The real question is: How do you make a 160-minute meditation on mortality out of a 24-page short story?
Based on a charming, Jazz Age-era fairy tale by F. Scott Fitzgerald ("The Great Gatsby") that is adapted by screenwriter Eric Roth ("Forrest Gump"), "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" tells the story of a man who is born "old" in New Orleans at the end of World War I and "ages" backward, observing the world over the decades as it whirls in the opposite direction.
At various points in this often lyrical, beautifully shot tale, "Benjamin Button" recalls "The Picture of Dorian Gray," "The Incredible Shrinking Man" and a "Twilight Zone" episode with a dash of Kurt Vonnegut's sci-fi whimsy.
After his wealthy father (Jason Flemyng) abandons him, Benjamin (44-year-old Brad Pitt) is adopted by Queenie (Taraji P. Henson, evoking Hattie McDaniel and Butterfly McQueen), a loving earth mother who runs, aptly enough, an old-age home.
There Button mysteriously "youth-enizes," gaining strength and vigor as those around him grow old and shrivel. As a "child," Benjamin meets red-headed girl-dancer Daisy. The film is the story of their time-bedeviled love affair.
"Benjamin Button" is certainly a fable for our age-obsessed time. It begins with silent-movie visuals and is framed by scenes in which an aged Daisy (Cate Blanchett) lays dying in a New Orleans hospital bed, while her daughter (Julia Ormond) reads Benjamin's diary aloud as Hurricane Katrina approaches.
'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' trailer (Story continues below)
The film is weightily metaphorical (a train station clock that runs backward figures in the story, as do several hummingbirds). But unlike "Forrest Gump," which was brought to vivid life by Tom Hanks, "Button" lacks the breath of life.
Where Forrest Gump was garrulous and extroverted, spreading his "stupid-is-as-stupid-does" sunshine, Pitt's Button is recessive and withdrawn, a shadow passing among shadows.
While getting Benjamin a job on a tugboat crew is a good idea because it introduces us to a skipper played by Jared Harris, it's very reminiscent of a certain shrimp fishery.
Eventually, the film's premise begins to take on water. The only time "Button" got to me was when we see a startlingly youthful Benjamin aboard a 1950s-vintage Triumph motorcycle, a born-again James Dean, a baby boomer revenant in the flesh and stunning symbol of our generation's dwindling life expectancy.
The film's real breakthrough is technological. Using digital and other screen wizardry, Fincher made it possible for Pitt to play a character from withered old age to adolescence. It's nothing less than the discovery of the cinema's Fountain of Youth. This "Button" changes everything.
("The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" contains war violence and sexual situations.)
Rated PG-13. At AMC Loews Boston Common, Regal Fenway Stadium and suburban theaters.
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Gay Cult Classics Open Thread
Filed By Serena Freewomyn | May 10, 2008 11:30 AM | comments
Filed in: Entertainment, Living
Tags: But I'm a Cheerleader, Connie and Carla, Hairspray, Joan Crawford, Patrick Swayze, To Wong Fu
Hey Ya'll!
This week's open thread is about gay cult classics. When I was in high school, I used to watch "To Wong Fu" religiously (still do). There was just something about those drag queens that I connected with on a very visceral level. Until Ellen came out of the closet, it was the only connection I had to the queer community. When I told Waymon I was gonna give a shout out to my gals from TWF, he told me I had to promise to include a tribute to our hunk Patrick Swayze. And while everyone knows that Miss Noxema Jackson (Jessie's daughter) was the best drag queen of the trio, I did appreciate Swayze in "Dirty Dancing." Because hey . . . "nobody puts baby in a corner!"
How about you? What are your favorite gay cult classics? I'll give you some more of mine after the jump. You can leave yours in the comments.
#2 for me is "Connie & Carla." Can you tell I have a soft spot for drag queens? Any movie where two gorgeous gals hide out from the mob by living as drag queens in West Hollywood is OK by me. Plus, there's singing and dancing. And the cameo from Debbie Reynolds is just icing on the cake.
#3 "Mommy Dearest." I just love it when she says, "why can't you give me the respect I deserve?" And then Christina shouts, "BECAUSE I'M NOT ONE OF YOUR FANS!" OMG, I'm getting all tingly just thinking about it!
#4 "But I'm a Cheerleader." RuPaul is a butch, there are crazy antics by the kids forced to go to "straight" camp, and I enjoy how much fun it pokes at the ex-gay movement.
#5 is "Hairspray." The original version, and the new one! Actually, this should be at the top of the list because I currently have the soundtrack on loop on my iPod and I watch this almost every day. I love it when a fat girl gets her way! The best line in the original movie was when Ricki Lake comes home and tells Divine, "I'm big, blonde, and beautiful." In the new version, Queen Latifah reprises the line and makes an entire song out of it. Does it get any better than this?
I'll stop at 5, because this is an open thread and it's not always all about me. OK, yes it is . . . but I'm also very generous. ;^)
Fire away, dear readers! What's in your DVD collection?
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Bil Browning | May 10, 2008 11:49 AM
Hairspray (both versions)
To Wong Foo (The opening sequence where they get made up is the best)
Adventures of Pricilla, Queen of the Desert (It's a more serious TWF)
Serial Mom (Absolutely hysterical and John Waters)
Longtime Companion (HIV/AIDS - groundbreaking)
Mary Poppins (does it get gayer than this?)
bittergradstudent | May 10, 2008 12:15 PM
I think John Waters just needs an honorary spot at the top of the list
MonicaHelms | May 10, 2008 12:19 PM
"Better than Chocolate" - a great lesbian movie and a fantastic trans woman (played by a straight man.) "I'm not a fucking drag queen"
"Some Like it Hot" - Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon as woman, with Joe E. Brown in pursuit of Jack Lemmon, even after he finds out. Of course, Marilyn Monroe. Need I say more?
"Boys Don't Cry" - I couldn't stop crying when I first saw it. I had to have my friends help me out of the theater.
"Myra Breckinridge"
"Silence of the Lambs"
"Caberet"
"Transamerica"
"The Crying Game"
"Different for Girls"
"Brokeback Mountain"
Angel | May 10, 2008 12:44 PM
"RENT" - You could say that this film changed my life. Like, my name is Angel, right?!
"Kissing Jessica Stein"
"Bound"
"American Beauty" - Such incredible themes of acceptance vs. intolerance.
"Chasing Amy"
"Ma Vie En Rose" - French film about a charming 6-yr-old transgirl.
"Better Than Chocolate"
"Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion" - OK, Romy and Michelle aren't actually lesbian, but I can dream, can't I?
SCBobcatt | May 10, 2008 3:53 PM
To Wong Foo - "I feel like Ms. Jane Mansfield in this car." LOL
Latter Days - don't know if this is "cult classic" yet, but probably my all time favorite
Broken Hearts Club - Love of the Carpenters was my first OGT too.
Sordid Lives - Can't WAIT for the series this fall.
Mercedes Allen | May 10, 2008 9:36 PM
I don't know that I'd consider "American Beauty" a "gay-themed" film, despite the thread with Chris Cooper's character. It is, however, probably my favorite film (with the possible exception of Big Fish).
1. Kinky Boots. Chiwetel Ejiofor had some trouble understanding "transsexual" and so it was played a bit "drag queen" (although this had as much to do with the original script), but he "got it" a lot better than Phillip Seymour Hoffman did in "Flawless." There were some good insightful moments, and some delightful levity.
2. Ma Vie En Rose. It's delightfully honest and innocent.
3. Brokeback Mountain. Okay, maybe it's not so "cool" to place it this high on the list (tall poppy syndrome, I suppose), but I still can't watch this without crying 4 or 5 times. My partner owns a blanket that was used in the filming. Yeah, we liked it.
4. She's A Boy I Knew. I just screened this film, and if I had to pick an "introductory film" about transgender, this would be it. The documentary looks not only at her own transition, but the transition her family, friend and spouse go through at the same time. It is brutally honest. And with a little touch of wit.
5. Bound. A few lesbian cliches, but you can really feel the chemistry between Jennifer Tilley and Gina Gershon.
Dana Beyer | May 10, 2008 10:03 PM
Patrick Swayze:
He grew up in Texas with a trans woman as a close friend, whom he used as a model for his role in "To Wong Foo."
Robert Ganshorn | May 11, 2008 1:21 AM
"La Cage Au Faux" and "La Cage Au Faux II"
in French with subtitles. We have to work for our wisdom.
"Boys in the Band" as an example of how we shouldn't act.
Anything Bette Davis ever did...
I forgot "Victor Victoria."
Serena Freewomyn | May 11, 2008 2:54 PM
How could I leave Kissing Jessica Stein off my list? Glad to see a lot of love for To Wong Fu!
zythyra | May 11, 2008 8:33 PM
I could easily list every glbtq themed movie I've ever seen :) My top three are:
Ma Vie en Rose
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
But I'm a Cheerleader
Documentaries probably don't qualify as cult classics, but my favorites are:
Trembling Before G-d
A. J. Lopp | May 13, 2008 11:30 PM
I know I'm showing my age, but nothing is cult-campier than the Tim Curry version of "Rocky Horror Picture Show"
I've seen it scores of times, the last being at the Saturday midnight showing in Long Beach, California.
AUDIENCE: What's your favorite color?
CURRY: Magenta!
A: Where do you get the best pot?
C: Columbia!
... And the gay marriage scene in the middle of the movie was way, way, way ahead of its time!


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Deer Hunting USA $999
Everything on the game works, and there are tons of different areas to hunt in.
All of the buttons, sounds, and electronics work great. The rifle is in good condition and is very accurate.This is a fantastic game and works perfectly.
The monitor is a huge 25" one and looks good. It's not new, but looks great!
The cabinet has been in an arcade for years and so it has some scratches and scrapes, but all in all looks good. It's definately not mint, but looks good.
The game can be played for free with the keys, or can take quarters so you can charge your friends. The game has a test menu where you can change all the parameters of the game, and everything works great.
This is Sammy USA's "Deer Hunting USA". It's a really fun rifle shooting game and works 100%! In this version, you can pick several different weapons.


Fleur de sel, means "flower of salt," which has been gathered on the island of Ré, off France's Atlantic coast, since the seventh century. Beloved by cooks, these fine, light crystals have a delicate flavor and high concentration of minerals, making them the perfect salt to cook with or use as a finishing touch. This special salt will also make a great gift to anyone who loves to cook. Read our blog post about this special salt here.


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Most of my childhood memories are based on television. Forgotten television programs/films/adverts form a substantial part of my sub-concious. I was speaking to someone about psychoanalysis the other day, and I got on to the idea of nostalgic group conversations ("Oh, you mean The Raccoons? [sings theme tune] What about Trap Door? Do you remember that? NO WAY!!! Knightmare? Yeah of course!! etc. etc.) as a form of naive psychoanalysis, or group therapy.
We root around in our childhood, dragging half-buried ideas and images from our long term memory, we parade them around and re-position them as value-objects. We assign certain images trauma value, holding others to us like comfort blankets or pop-culture mascots.
Turns out I'm not the only one to think of this...
kindertrauma.com is a website which encourages people to send in 'Traumafessions' about things that scared the shit out of them as children.
"KINDERTRAUMA is about the movies, books, and toys that scared you when you were a kid. It's also about kids in scary movies, both as heroes and villains. And everything else that's traumatic to a tyke!
Through reviews, stories, artwork, and testimonials, we mean to remind you of all the things you once tried so hard to forget…"
Like most websites recommended in the Guardian Guide, it sounds way funnier than it actually is. It is interesting to see how this idea of the trivial-as-life-forming is being played out online. I agree with the essence - that trivial things can have meaningful psychological impact. It is strange how these things become a form of 'sharing', where discussing your suppressed memories is deemed necessarily therapeutic, even if the therapy is based in humour.
Yesterday I made loads of work in the studio - it was raining and I got soaked on my ride to town, so there was no way I was going back in to the city with wet thighs - that is risking some serious chaffage.
So, seeing as I didn't do anything of blogging value yesterday (I'm trying not write about the work I'm doing - I'm scripting a performance so it gets a little self-referential if I write about writing...), I thought I'd put these photos up. I took them on my trip down to the Albert Dock.
If I looked up from here, I could see the Liverpool Big Wheel
When I looked down I could see this ominous black buoy, covered in tires and held together by chains. It looks like a naval mine, or a giant floating punch bag.
I like it when developed, tourist centred zones have 'wrong' elements in them. They look so out of place in a polished, clean, cultural attraction, and at the same time somehow manage to be made invisible to visitors through their incongruity.
I love the attitude of the placement of this tape. Firstly, there is no step, secondly these things are surely their own warning - their very presence tells you that you should not walk directly in to them.
They are objects deprived of their obvious meaning, and given a new, visitor concious meaning. These functional objects have been re-interpreted as obstacles to tourism. They have been de-objectified and reconstituted as referential signifiers; their meaning is subject to our presence.
Quantum objects, post-modern objects, impotent objects.
Yesterday I went to meet David Jacques at his studio.
All images are from his website, and the videos are from his youtube channel.
Penny and Dan were interested in seeing his new work, and thought I might like to speak to him - he deals very much with the edges of the city, the abandoned non-places that used to have meaning, such as the docks and industrial estates north of the centre.
His latest work, North Canda - English Electric, documented in this video (in two parts), deals with just such places, and has just won him the Liverpool art prize. He has also been nominated for the Northern Art Prize.
We spoke about the ownership of the city and private spaces (Liverpool One, Grosvenor, the church, university campuses). We also spoke about a collaborative piece of performance he is working on with two other artists and a drama group. The piece is inspired by Hansel and Gretel, and a book by W.G Sebald called, Austerlitz.
I won't say too much about what David told us about the piece, as it is being performed as part of this years Liverpool Biennial. It was a strange coincidence that the piece of work I'll be performing on the 9th of August at the Royal Standard will be loosely based on ideas contained within another of Sebald's books, The Rings of Saturn.
I went home for the funeral of Keith Colquhoun, my girlfriend Jessie's Father. I arrived back in Liverpool yesterday, with a throbbing headache and an unshakable sadness. Funerals are cathartic, but that sense of relief doesn't last for long.
Before I got my train (actually, I missed my train by about 30 seconds, which meant that I had to wait at Liverpool Lime Street for an hour, staring at the giant electronic billboard across the street), we went down to Crosby beach to see Another Place by Antony Gormley.
The piece consists of 100 cast iron figures, spread over two miles of coastline. They face out to sea, and, as per usual with Gormley, are cast from the artists body.
They were meant to go to New York in November 2006, but after a petition by local people and Another Body Place Ltd, a charitable body set up to campaign to keep the iron men on the beach, they were granted a reprieve and will now be permanently posted at Crosby.
I can't find much info on Another Body Place Ltd. Perhaps that might warrant some extra research in to exactly who set up the lobbying body, what funding was needed, and where it came from. Antony Gormley certainly benefited financially from Crosby keeping hold of the statues.
Crosby is pretty bleak. It was so windy that our mile long walk along the beach completely knackered me. Richard took his shoes off and almost instantly his feet were covered in a thick, black sludge. You could see the edge of Liverpool's industry, towards the south, and wind farms out to sea.
You could also see these, which I thought were much nicer than Gormley's men.
Maybe there should be100 of those.
I'd heard that the men closest to the shore had smooth heads and smooth penises, from where visitors rub the statues.
I like the idea that this could become the function of the men. Good luck talismans for a post-industrial mythology. Maybe in a post-cultural landscape, this could become their meaning. For now they are unmistakably linked to Gormley. A large sign at the entrance to the beach explains exactly how they came to be here, and what the artist was thinking when he proposed the idea.
As the tide comes in and out, the figures are submerged at various heights. It is both affecting, and also slightly absurd. People sometimes dress the figures up - one iron man we saw had gold underwear spray painted on him.
This is a jelly fish we found on the sand. Andy is poking it with a stick. This is the colour and feel of the British coastline: rubbish, dead jelly fish, mackintoshes, dog walkers, wind. The iron men fit in somehow. I'm not a fan of Gormley as an artist, but maybe public art requires a different sort of language. His work is certainly basic enough to acquire meaning without too much trouble. You can ignore it or place it within the landscape without having to modify what you are looking at.
Hamish Mclain mounted a man halfway down the beach. He didn't look too comfortable.
This is the local swimming pool as seen from the beach. It looks like a space craft. Maybe they could convert it in to a UFO museum if tourism picks up as much they hope it will.
This is the Lee Shan Kung Fu Club, as seen on the way up from the beach to the town. You can't quite make it out on the picture, but he teaches many styles. Impressive.
When I was finally on the platform for my train, (after a good breakfast, a missed train and an hours wait) I saw a glove on the roof of the station.
I suppose it got there from someone working on the roof. It's funny how the trace of something we recognise as human always intrigues us.
Right, I'm back in Liverpool. I'll do a proper blog tomorrow, featuring Antony Gormley's smooth penis. Until then you'll have to make do with this.
It's Sigmund Freud doing a wheely.
I'm off to Crosby Beach today, and then I'm going back to Essex until Tuesday. I haven't really got time to blog, so you'll have to make do with these pictures.
This is a girl in a brain costume.
This is a girl in a brain costume on my bike.
A few additions to yesterday's post on the Beatles: Alan's surname is Williams, and you can see his artwork here. Kevin Hunt also sent me a link to this page about the Beatles' homes across Liverpool, which clarifies a few things.
I promise I won't write about the Beatles any more, though they do have a habit of creeping up in conversation. I was in the pub last night having a huge conversation about the Beatles with Dan, when we both suddenly realised that neither of us either a) cared about the Beatles or b) knew very much about them.
This is Superlambanana.
It is a piece of public sculpture, designed by Taro Chiezo, commissioned for the Art Transpennine Exhibition of 1998. It is seventeen feet high, and made of concrete and steel. I found all that information at the Superlambanana fansite.
The site promotes products related to Superlambanana, mainly mini-replicas, including this Beatles design...
Tasteful no?
Anyway, I'm getting ahead of myself really. The reason that there are products to buy, and people who would buy them, is because in 2008, a project called Go Superlambananas was launched by the public art production company Wild in Art as part of the Liverpool's year as the European Capital of Culture.
This is from the website.
"For ten weeks during this summer, hundreds of thousands of tourists, visitors and residents had fun exploring the city and discovering 125 Superlambananas, beautifully created by artists and communities from Liverpool."
And I must also say that most of the information I have about this is from a piece of writing by Penny and Dan called Mutiny on the Periphery, which is published in Culture and Agency, Contemporary Culture and Urban Change, ed. Monica Degen and Malcolm Miles, University of Plymouth Press, 2010.
So basically, a load of fibreglass copies of Superlambanana were placed around the city, artists were paid to decorate them, and companies sponsored them, and were allowed to wrap them in company colours. They formed a sort of trail around the city, and people would walk around the city 'discovering' the mini-superlambananas in different situations.
Most of them were auctioned off - with a lot of the money going to local charities, but a not insubstantial chunk going back to the organisers, Wild in Art. Wild in Art are not a charity, and, I presume, were already paid for the production and management of the superlambananas.
Wild in Art have produced and managed several other events along the same lines as Go Superlambanas. Including Go Elephants in Norwich, another event in Merseyside called Go Penguins, and my personal favourite, a project with pigs in Lalin, Spain, called, Lalin Pork Art.
Here is another quote from the Wild in Art website, about the Go Penguins project.
"Liverpool's Go Penguins event was a huge success, with over 500,000 people visiting the trail over the ten weeks, plus a further 4,000 more coming to bid a fond farewell to their beloved penguins at the special auction preview at St George's Hall. Generating a whopping £5.6 million in media stories, the event enjoyed incredible celebrity support, with Paul O'Grady, Johnny Vegas, Graeme Le Saux, the cast of Hollyoaks and Liverpool legend Ken Dodd among those getting behind the event."
There are a few things I don't like about that statement. Firstly, when did getting Graeme Le Saux and Ken Dodd involved in a piece of public art ever make it successful? Secondly, what does '£5.6 million in media stories' mean? Those figures, at best, are invented, the worth of the project to the city is overblown, and the idea of parades of fibreglass animals being distributed around a city for seemingly no reason is presented as an intrinsically good thing.
Superlambanana was not a brilliant piece of art, but it did have a critical function - it was designed as a comment on the genetic modification of food (lamb-banana, fish-tomato). The Go Superlambananas 'event', and the other replicated Go events have no such critical basis. Wild in Art have taken a piece of art and turned it in to a palatable piece of marketing.
Ironically, the Go Superlambanas have become an unofficial, and unlikely, icon of the city. A few of them were 'generously donated' to local charities or community groups by Wild in Art (a direct quote from the website - by generously donated I assume they mean paid for by the local council and centralised government funding), so some of them are hanging about, generating publicity for the company who were paid to make them.
Liverpool council must have bought one for Liverpool Parkway (which I wrote about yesterday - sort of a fancy bus shelter-cum-train station for people travelling from the airport to the city).
I suppose I did take a picture, but hopefully it won't become part of Wild in Art's perpetual marketing cycle.
Later on, we were in a take away, and I noticed this.
I did actually have that deal. I also bought some chips, but I'm not sure how relevant that is.
I suppose all this sounds a bit curmudgeonly (I always wonder where that word comes from, is the curmudgeon a medieval grumbling bird?). I'm not trying to shit on the superlambananas, or their adoption by the people of the city as a mascot. It just seems unfortunate that the way the 'events' were managed benefited Wild in Art - a private company - in real, monetary terms, way more than they benefited the city, despite all the talk of 'media value'.
Yesterday, Richard Proffitt gave me a Magical Mystery tour of all the Beatles' related sites in the city. Sam Venables drove, and Kevin Hunt and Alan Williams came along for the ride.
On the way to pick up Richard and Alan from Tesco (egg and cress triple sandwich + tropicana), we saw the actual Magical Mystery Tour bus. People pay a lot of money to get on a bus and drive round suburban Liverpool. But we did it for free (apart from Sam's petrol, and the fact that Richard had previously done the Magical Mystery Tour so that's how he knew where to take us...).
First off we went to George Harrison's house in Wavertree. I didn't take any photos because, frankly, I was scared of the children.we stood there for a minute and Richard told us about a childhood friend of the Beatles - when they became successful, they bought him a supermarket somewhere down south. After a while, they could afford to give him a job with the band, but he freaked out and went back to running the supermarket.
Next stop was Strawberry Fields. Again not much to see. Richard had brought a stereo and played the relevant song as we drove up to the gates. There was quite a lot of bad graffiti, and it looked as though people had stolen parts of the gate, which reminded me a bit of the guys who stole the Auschwitz sign, only less impressive.
Through the gates we could see a development of new build homes - yellow bricks and uPVC windows. It was hard to get excited. I'm not a big Beatles fan anyway, but it must be pretty depressing to travel from Japan or Brazil just to stand next to a red gate next to a busy road.
Next up was John Lennon's house (at no point did we get from one place to the next without missing a turning or having to perform a dangerous/ridiculous manoeuvre in the car). John's house, as you can imagine, is better kept that George's, and definitely Ringo's (I still can't work out whether or not it's been demolished). It is owned by the National Trust, though someone does live there. We saw an old man peeking through the curtains, and there was a Ford Fusion in the drive. Just like the one John drove.
We saw this woman outside the house. We were at a bit of a loss as to what we should have been doing when looking at the house. She seemed more dedicated to the task, but after a minute or so of reverential looking, even she gave up. She walked across the road, probably to Paul's house, which was also our next stop.
I'm already really bored recounting this. It was quite enjoyable, but probably only because we all recognised that the whole thing was completely absurd. Also, Richard promised us that in Paul McCartney's house, there lived a camp alcoholic, who not only regaled tourists with invented tales of the Macca's last visit ("he brought his own PG Tips, he likes to check up on the place" etc. etc.), but also looked exactly like Paul McCartney, if Paul McCartney was a camp alcoholic.
He didn't appear, and again, we were left wondering what we were meant to do. Luckily a car full of tourists turned up and asked us if we knew which one Paul McCartney's house was. We pointed at the sign and told them that John Lennon's house was much nicer. He had a Ford Fusion.
This is the topiary sculpture of the Beatles that stands on a roundabout at Liverpool Parkway. We probably wouldn't have bothered, but it was close, and I wanted to see how Ringo's head was doing since a vandal had decapitated it last year. Poor Ringo. I'm not sure if you can see from the photos, but instead of growing a new head, the gardeners have just chopped off a bit of his shoulders and sculpted a new head from what was his neck. It looks totally insane, like they hired a Goomba to play them the drums.
The sculpture (or feature, or whatever. What do you call it when it's made out of hedge?) also had a single CCTV camera pointing directly at it. I'm assuming it has been installed since the vandalism attack, but it seemed like overkill. I suppose the tourists won't notice just one more camera.
Actually, the whole Liverpool Parkway development seemed absurd, it is such a small interchange, but such a huge building. So much technology for what is essentially a bus shelter. I suppose the idea is that tourists are impressed as they are carried seamlessly from the airport to the city. Lots of metal and glass and automatic doors.
Finally, we went to Penny Lane where we startled a man and his child by playing the song Penny Lane at full blast from the car window. We were meant to be playing it at a group of lost looking tourists, but they didn't take any notice. Sam thought they weren't Beatles tourist, and might just be looking for the carvery.
With our last job finished, we drove to the pub and talked about non-Beatles related things for a while. Then we noticed that the whole pub was covered in bad oil paintings of the band. It is hard to escape their presence here. Richard spoke about how they overshadow the city. He spoke about how no one from Liverpool will ever be as famous as the Beatles were. He is right in a way. The shifting economics of pop music mean that no musician will dominate western music in quite the same way. And, as Richard said later in a different pub, with less Beatles paintings, but more alligators on the walls, the Beatles were actually a product of the last phase of Liverpool's industrial period. They were a product of a city that had wealth, before the bad old days of the 70s and 80s. They were confident and able because of Liverpool's success as a city, and in a way that is why people are still so reverent of them. They are a hangover from Britain's industrial past.
The Beatles: A story of Victorian Britain's industrial prowess.You don't hear that very often.
On the 10th of July of this year, my girlfriend's father, Keith Colquhoun, died at the age of 82. He was an incredible man, full of facts, fictions, and tales of his journalistic travels. He also sported a particularly fine beard, and though it took me some time to gain his approval with regards to his daughter, he always appreciated my attitude to facial hair.
His wife, Sara, has written an obituary which appeared in the Guardian. There is also an obituary in The Economist, where he had worked on the Asia section and where he had also been, strangely enough, in charge of the obituaries.
As well as a journalist, Keith was a novelist - his most successful being Goebbels & Gladys, first published in 1981. You can buy his latest book, Five Deadly Words, published just before he died, on Amazon.
Whilst I was reading Goebbels & Gladys, I used to read Jessie my favourite lines from the book. She asked me if I could remember any of the passages that I had quoted from. I couldn't. So, today I have been going through the book finding bits that I like, in the hope that I'll stumble upon the quotable quotes that I discovered on my first reading. I thought I'd present a little selection here.
"Noel looked particularly pink this morning, although it might have been the light. I wondered if I would be doing him an ill-service if I took him to the pub this early. It would probably make little difference. Only an expert could tell Noel pissed from Noel unpissed. It would be a rare chance for Noel to do something useful for the newspaper. I raised my eyebrows interrogatively and made a drinking gesture. I don't know why I didn't just ask him to have a drink. I suppose television has made all of us visual."
"The operator said she wasn't getting any reply on Brooke-Kate's extension and she put me through to the features department. I spoke to one of the subs and asked him to tell Brooke-Kate that I was off to Tunis and would call him on Monday. 'My name is Verity, V as in virtuous. That's right. Thanks.' I hung up. To phone someone you don't want to speak to and discover he is out is a timely piece of luck."
"On the way back to the hotel I had a thought as we passed the crowds of Tunisians watching the caravan of cars. I said to Paul, 'A couple of owls like us have just shaken their president's hand and regarded it as part of the day's work. Yet had it happened to any of them they would have remembered it all their life.' Paul didn't say anything. He probably thought I was being facetious, but I wasn't.
Smith said, 'I think that is a noble thought, Mr. Verity.' I hadn't meant it to be noble either. I sometimes feel I am misunderstood."
"Experience is pretty humdrum. It is art that gives it glamour. The spacemen made the moon sound like Little Rock. H.G. wells never went there and made it sound like Arcadia"
"Each one of us survives at the expense of others."
"The confidential euphoria inspired by alcohol is best left until the evening."
This is a photo of some road works near The Royal Standard.
This is a photo of some dirt in a box in the gallery space I'm using as a studio. It is left over from the last show they had here (an exhibition inspired by Robert Smithson - hence the dirt). I've positioned myself right in the corner of the space; jammed up against a window, back to the door like some Feng Shui nightmare.
The rest of the gallery is empty apart from the box of dirt. I'm in opposition to it. It feels notionally more real than me. Like a memento mori; dirt, burial, graves, etc. But maybe it's not a metaphor for death, maybe its just a metaphor for itself - like all objects, they just are what they are. We attach the meaning, the signifying arrows. In that sense all objects are metaphors for death, because when you die you become an object - you become meaningless to yourself, incomprehensible.
An obsession with truth is an obsession with objectivity - how do we see things as they are, not as we think they are? The thinking is inextricably bound up with the seeing - the perceiving. Objects inhabit truth, human subjects fail to perceive it. Once you die, you become an object, and you inhabit truth. You fulfil the dreams of scientific enquiry and cross the border from subjectivity in to objectivity.
I always think that ideas of God are bound up with philosophical ideas of truth. The very impossibility of knowledge is a direct reference to our belief in knowledge; our belief in the existence of objects, in the stability of physical laws, etc.
For those who believe in God, the very incomprehensibility of an infinite, omnipotent being predicates his existence. One of Descartes' proofs of God's existence hinges on the definition of God as something that necessarily exists. The whole rationale of scientific enquiry is predicated on our definition of truth as something that exists, outside of our definition of it.
What I'm basically saying, is that I might keep the box of dirt.
This morning I bought a prawn sandwich from Asda (I've now tried prawn sandwiches from all the main supermarkets - Sainsbury's is the clear winner, but Asda's wasn't too bad. Tesco's has a shameful prawn to mayonnaise ratio.) and then walked to the bus stop. I like getting buses when you don't quite know where you are. I always have to fight the urge to jump off as soon as I see a recognisable landmark.
I walked through town in the vague direction of The Royal Standard and noticed the usual things: empty shop fronts next to hyper branded commercial 'spaces', metal studs on street furniture to stop skaters re-interpreting its use, desperate, windswept for-sale banners hanging forlornly from new build apartments ("Bright, Modern Two Bed Apartment on this Popular Waterfront!").
I like the Radiocity tower that looms over St. John's Garden.
It reminds me a bit of the clock in Alexanderplatz, Berlin.
The communist government always claimed it was an atomic clock, but it was actually just a regular clock with some fancy detailing...
I strolled through the museum quarter and saw these meaty flowers installed in the balconies of the World Museum.
Apparently, at night their air-pumps are turned off and they slowly deflate.
I'm staying with Penny Whitehead and Daniel Simpkins (where I'm sleeping in a bed on stilts - incredibly comfortable until you smack your head off the ceiling), and Penny was talking about how the local council assigns a theme to each year, so 2010 is 'Year of Health and Wellbeing'
I noticed these flags in various places, maybe I'll try and search out as many as I can.
I don't know if you can read the text, but it says, "Connect... Be Active... Take Notice... Keep Learning... Give..."
It even has its own annoying website where you can meaninglessly pledge your support to "acknowledge the importance of the health and wellbeing of our communities".
The only other example of time being branded of which I can think is in the book Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. Most of the action takes place in "subsidized time", where each year is known by its corporate sponsor - here is a list I stole from the wiki page on Infinite Jest.
Year of the Whopper
Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad
Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar
Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken
Year of the Whisper-Quiet Maytag Dishmaster
Year of the Yushityu 2007 Mimetic-Resolution-Cartridge-View-Motherboard-Easy-To-Install-Upgrade For Infernatron/InterLace TP Systems For Home, Office Or Mobile [sic]
Year of Dairy Products from the American Heartland
Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment
Year of Glad
Maybe if the recession really starts to bite up here, Ringo Starr could subsidize a year or two. It might make up for the comments he made about Liverpool in 2008, where he claimed he missed nothing about the city and was glad to have left. Ouch.
If he paid enough they might even put his head back on...
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"Pekkanen weaves a satisfying tale of the nuances of marriage and duty and how small kindnesses can reestablish the bonds of family after an estrangement." - People
"Once again, Pekkanen delivers relatable characters and story lines, showcasing the strength and perseverance required to make relationships work. This is an entertaining and emotional read for fans of contemporary women's fiction"
- Library Journal
"Internationally best-selling Pekkanen writes novels that offer thoughtful examinations of how the past shapes adult relationships and the differences between men and women. Finely wrought and compelling." - Booklist
"Sarah Pekkanen is one of my favorite authors of women's fiction." - NYT bestselling author Lisa Scottoline
From the internationally bestselling author of four books, including The Opposite of Me, a vibrant, compulsively readable novel about two married couples who pursue a dream to open a bed-and-breakfast in small-town Vermont.
In her previous works including The Best of Us, "rising star" (Library Journal) Sarah Pekkanen captivated readers by penning "refreshingly introspective, sharply realistic, and tenderly humorous" novels (Booklist) that had readers "flying through the pages" (Hoda Kotb, Today show). Now, in Catching Air, Pekkanen turns an unflinching eye on the tangled relationships of two pairs of thirty-somethings.
A chance to run a B&B in snowy, remote Vermont—it's an offer Kira Danner can't resist after six soul-crushing years of working as a lawyer in Florida. As Kira and her husband, Peter, step into a brand new life, she quells her fears about living with the B&B's co-owners: Peter's sexy, irresponsible brother Rand, and Rand's wife, Alyssa…who is essentially a stranger.
For her part, Alyssa sees taking over the B&B as the latest in a string of adventures. Plus, a quiet place might help her recover from the news that she can't bear children. But the idyllic town proves to be anything but serene: Within weeks, the sisters-in-law are scrambling to prepare for their first big booking—a winter wedding—and soon a shy, mysterious woman comes to work for them. Dawn Zukoski is hiding something; that much is clear. But what the sisters-in-law don't realize is that Dawn is also hiding from someone…
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Žari este un sat din comuna Mojkovac, Muntenegru. Conform datelor de la recensământul din 2003, localitatea are 385 de locuitori (la recensământul din 1991 erau 528 de locuitori).

Demografie
În satul Žari locuiesc 304 persoane adulte, iar vârsta medie a populației este de 39,6 de ani (37,4 la bărbați și 41,9 la femei). În localitate sunt 111 gospodării, iar numărul mediu de membri în gospodărie este de 3,47.

Populația localității este foarte eterogenă.

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Legături externe
 Žari, Muntenegru pe Wikimapia
 Žari, Muntenegru Map — Satellite Images of Žari, Muntenegru (Maplandia)

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13d Filings
13Ds are filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission within 10 days of an entity's attaining a 5% or more position in any class of a company's securities. Any subsequent change in holdings or intentions must be reported on an amended filing. This material has been extracted from filings released by the SEC between April 29 and May 5.
Source: Federal Filings Business News, Washington
Yonkers Financial
L. Seidman & Associates et al. urged that Yonkers Financial undertake an analysis of various scenarios for the company, including remaining independent or seeking a sale to a third party. The group holds 142,100 common shares (5.2% of the total outstanding), having purchased its entire holdings from March 5 to April 23 at $14.56 to $15.06 per share.
Westmoreland Coal
Investors including Frank Williams Jr. say they will seek to replace Westmoreland's board with their own nominees at the company's May 12 annual meeting, and offered plans to enhance shareholder value including a sale of Westmoreland's independent power projects. The shareholder group owns 1,182,460 shares (16.4%).
Designs Inc.
A group including Jewelcor Management has proposed acquiring Designs Inc. at $3.65 per share. The group owns 1,570,200 shares (9.9%).
TheGlobe.com
Dancing Bear Investments and others disclosed that they may sell up to 1.3 million shares in an offering, plus an over-allotment option totaling 600,000 shares. The group currently owns 7,930,431 shares (60.7%).
Golden State Vintners
Annette Taylor et al. own 284,400 Class B shares (5.5%), after buying their entire position April 28 and 29 at $6.80-$6.99 per share.
Pyramid Breweries
Sugar Mountain Capital et al. hold 422,600 shares (5.1%), including 247,200 shares bought from February 26 to April 20 at $1.63-$1.96 each.
Increases in Holdings
Robert Half International
A group led by Baron Capital Management purchased 867,000 shares March 1 to April 21 at $23.59 to $36.63 per share, lifting its holdings to 9,400,206 shares (10.3%).
Readers Digest Association
Gabelli Funds and others made net purchases of 279,600 Class B shares from March 5 to April 30 at $26.55 to $32.31 per share, raising their holdings to 1,400,400 shares (6.4%).
A group including Bass family affiliate Trinity I Fund increased its position to 1,623,617 shares (11.7%), as a result of purchases totaling 124,100 shares from March 24 to May 3 at $37.80-$41.49 each.
20th Century Industries
American International Group and other investors purchased 928,900 shares from April 1 to 30 at $16.06-$18 per share, increasing their exposure to 53,013,920 shares (60.5%).
Decreases in Holdings
Hertz Technology
Acqueren Inc. et al. sold 52,100 shares from March 29 to May 3 at $14-$18 per share, cutting their holdings to 50,900 shares (4.8%).
Riverside Group
Kenneth Kirschner reduced his stake to 260,341 shares (4.9%), through sales of 172,759 shares from January 27 to May 3 at $1.06-$4 per share.
Investors including Somerset Drilling Associates sold 4,625,400 shares on April 19 at $2.29 per share, cutting its holdings to 25,320,578 shares (15.3%).
Elliott Associates et al. sold 128,800 shares from April 16 to 28 at $11.43- $12.88 per share, leaving the group with 395,500 shares (6.3%).
HPSC
Tweedy Browne Co. and other investors sold all of their 298,085 shares on February 12 at $8.38 per share.
INVESTORS REPORT TO THE SEC


Tri City Medical Center, located in Oceanside, CA, just north of San Diego, is a state-of-the-art, comprehensive medical center. Tri City strives to create an environment of healing regardless of the patients needs, offering a wide-range of services, including medical, surgical, and emergency. Dr. Moradi is honored to have medical privileges in the Tri City surgical wing, where their advanced equipment and pristine operating rooms are a trusted space for performing cutting-edge procedures.
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Record review: Tame Impala – Currents (2015, LP)
July 16, 2015 Paul McBride	Leave a comment
"It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who survive, but the ones most responsive to change" is a misquote often attributed to Charles Darwin, and it's an idea vocalist and songwriter Kevin Parker seems acutely attuned to on Tame Impala's contender-for-album-of-the-year third LP. Psych-rock has been the name of the game up to now, but would you expect such an accomplished band to trundle out the same smack as before? "They say people never change, but that's bullshit," Parker sings defiantly on 'Yes, I'm Changing', as guitars make way to more electronic (read: dance and pop) elements than on any TI release thus far, with notable exceptions 'Eventually' and the goofy disco-funk of 'The Less I Know the Better'. His love of '90s Michael Jackson shows in 'Love Paranoia', while 'Gossip' recalls 1998-era Air and 'Past Life' gets deep into dreampop territory. There's no big rock number in the vein of 'Desire Be Desire Go' or 'Elephant', but the addition of one doesn't feel like it would be a good idea. In fact, this is the most coherent Tame Impala release yet. These are the times, people: some of the best Australian music is being made right here, right now. Well, in Fremantle, to be precise. Currents is the sound of Parker dropping his guard and embracing everything he loves about great pop music.
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CC Sabathia Net Worth: Carsten Charles Sabathia Jr. is an American professional baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Cleveland Indians and Milwaukee Brewers. Sabathia bats and throws left-handed, stands 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m) tall, and weighs 300 pounds (140 kg). He has a net worth of $80 million. Check out the complete information regarding CC Sabathia Networth, His Salary Per Day, Per Month, Per Year, Per Match, Earnings, Houses, Cars, Biography and her other Investments details from the below.
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CC Sabathia is an American baseball pitcher who has a net worth of $80 million.
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CC Sabathia Salary: $25 Million
Earnings 2015 – $23.9 Million
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Endorsement earnings in 2015 according to Forbes
Estimated winnings and salary from 2014 through 2015 according to Forbes.
Earnings 2013 –$23.5 Million
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The 6-foot-7 Sabathia has played for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB) since December 2008, when he signed the seven-year contract, worth $161 million. Upon signing with the Yankees, he became the highest-paid pitcher in MLB history. The first seven and a half seasons of his career, CC Sabathia played with the Cleveland Indians, where he earned the 2007 Cy Young Award.
Then the second half of the 2008 MLB season, he spent playing with the Milwaukee Brewers, leading the team to the Wild Card, which was their first playoff appearance in 26 years. Overall, this left handed pitcher with his trademark hat cocked slightly to the side is considered as one of the most durable pitchers in MLB history, having accumulated an average of more than 200 innings pitched per season throughout his career. However, not all of his net worth comes from contract with the Yankees alone. CC Sabathia also brings in almost $1 million annually from sponsors like Subway, Pepsi, EA Sports and Nike's Jordan Brand. Off the field, he is a man of family, faith and philanthropy. A father of four, he has supported various charity actions in Vallejo, California and the greater New York area, like providing Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners to those in need, work with the Boys & Girls Club, and Strikeouts For Troops where he assists wounded war heroes and their families.
Quick Facts about CC Sabathia:
Date Of Birth July 21, 1980
Place Of Birth Vallejo, California, United States
Weight 290 lbs (131.54 kg)
Profession Baseball player, Actor, Athlete
Spouse Amber Sabathia (m. 2003)
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A Very Classical Christmas: Excerpts from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, Handel's Messiah, and music by Bach, Vivaldi and Mozart
December 20, 2001 - Raleigh, NC:
A Very Classical Christmas: Excerpts from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, Handel's Messiah, and music by Bach, Vivaldi and Mozart. Timothy Day, flute, and the Sonos Handbell Ensemble, James Meredith, director. Well-Tempered Productions CD WTP 5191 (55:13), available online from http://www.sonos.org/
On the heels of the Raleigh Ringers' concert performances of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, it was a delight to have this outstanding Sonos CD float to the top of the "to-do" pile. The recording begins with the Sugarplum Fairy's Dance and includes the March and four characteristic dances but omits the Overture Miniature. The arrangements of three numbers are by the same people whose versions the Ringers played here, and two of them feature solo flute - played by Timothy Day, of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He's heard to great advantage in eight other works, too - three of the six excerpts from Messiah and some marvelous adaptations of familiar works by Bach, Vivaldi and Mozart. Sonos' chief arrangers are Kathy Geisler, who is this CD's producer, and James Meredith, the ensemble's director, who grew up and was educated in North Carolina.
Sonos is widely considered to be America's other leading handbell choir, and Meredith explained during a recent visit here (the group performed in Duke Chapel on October 21) that he aims to have it be the first fully-professional such ensemble in the country. It's a bit smaller than the Ringers; thirteen players perform on this recording, using four and a half octaves of Malmark bells, a bottom octave of Schulmerich bells, and four octaves of Malmark chimes. The results are quite amazing - in the Handel selections, the bells sustain low tones so well, and so resonantly, that one might think there's an organ involved, but Meredith advises that the ensemble is limited to bells alone (plus Day's flute in "Rejoice greatly," "He shall feed His flock" and "I know that my Redeemer liveth."
The 24-bit high-definition compatible CD offers spectacular sound, and readers who want to try it before they buy it may sample it (and other Sonos CDs) via audio files posted at the ensemble's website (provided in the headnote). The fact that this release includes not one but two substantial "suites" earns Meredith and Sonos an A+ recommendation.


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