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Yulunga: Gitja
The Gitga (moon) play game from the north Queensland area was usually played when a number of children gathered together. The full version of the game observed involved imitation and acting aspects along with a running-and-chasing activity. This is a chasing-and-catching (tag) game. It is a simplified version of a more involved game. The Yulunga: Traditional Indigenous Games resource was developed to provide all Australians with a greater understanding and appreciation of Indigenous culture by celebrating the games that Indigenous Australians have been playing across the country for hundreds of years.
This resource combines curriculum principles and cultural traditions in sport-related activities for people of all ages. While ensuring the integrity of the traditional games it provides opportunities for traditional Indigenous games to become part of the school curriculum by acknowledging and incorporating the practices of Indigenous people from different areas across the country.
The resource acknowledges and uses traditional language names throughout.
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My pick was from my first ever Bud Plant order.
For those of you who may not recognize the name, he's one of the foremost dealers in this industry, though long ago got out of actual comic books. He's refined his focus to mostly Marvel Masterworks, Golden Age reprints, GGA (Good Girl Art), some fantasy, sci-fi, and the oddball pop culture things, but mostly comic and illustration art.
However, he carried more comic stuff back in the early 80's when I placed the first of dozens of orders with him.
I bought this based on his recommendation in his huge beautiful black & white glossy catalog, along with many other things including all the Spirit reprints he had, Cerebus, and the issues he had left that went along with this reprint.
Oh yeah, and a hardcover black & white reprint of some Judge Dredd with amazing art by Brian Bolland, who'd worked on the Green Lantern Corps mini-series.
This particular issue was not only shocking, but it had first seen print in the 50's before the Comics Code !
This classic Feldstein cover and delicate but gripping artwork to "The Monkey" by the great Joe Orlando. Other EC greats in this issue were Wally Wood, Reed Crandall and Jack Kamen, any one of which are legends as well.
Eventually I filled in the holes to the 12 issues that East Coast reprinted and then later found out about Russ Cochran's beautifully oversized magnificent hardcover collections of each of the EC titles.
I took half of the graduation money I got from my high school graduation and bought the Weird Science set and loved it. Eventually I acquired all the sets except the Weird Science Fantasy and Crime SuspenStories.
Considering they're over half a century old, if you've never read an EC, you owe it to yourself. They produced some of the finest comics ever.
Thanks to Bud Plant's wonderful catalog, I got turned on to other great comics besides the Big Two or strictly superheroes and I'll never forget how this issue truly shocked me.
I was truly honored to meet him.
I'm still ordering stuff from him.
This was my first holy grail of collecting... I know I'm very unlikely to ever get ToS #39, so this is the next best thing for my favorite Superhero. I got it about 12 years ago... my first ever e-bay auction, for about $50. I was thrilled and petrified the entire week I was waiting for it to arrive. It's not the best copy ever (probably a 2 or 3 on the CGC scale), but it's mine and it makes me very happy. I don't think I've ever paid more than $6 than any other single issue I own (certainly not more than $10).
Why this book? Well as a 10 year old I was with my Grandmother crossing Delancey street when we happened apon a newstand. They had the old wire racks among all the magazines and Newspaper and there it was. The book that I just had to have. Marvels Greatest Comics #29 reprinting the first Hulk/Thing meeting. Yeah, I know, This is about FF # 102. Well, the aforementioned MGC was 25 cents and My grandma Naty, wanting to steer me away to the cheaper choice , told me to get another instead. I chose FF # 102, thus making it the very first book that I picked out for myself. ( Well almost). It was dynamic in layout and hooked me on the Foursome forever. I think I had read comics before, but now I was out and about making choices about what I would read. RIP Naty, and thanks.
No inheritance stories this time around, as this pick is actually the most recent comic I've experienced in the countdown. A few years ago, I decided I wanted to collect all of the single issues of Jack Kirby's Fourth World saga, which began with Jimmy Olsen #133.
Now, bear with me here, but I wasn't exactly jumping for joy in reading Jimmy Olsen. A comic about a young photojournalist can't be all that exciting, right? Boy was I wrong. Way wrong.
While #133 commanded my attention, #134 took it to a whole new level. Mind-blowing. This was, IMO, Jack Kirby at his best. The Newsboy Legion. The Whiz Wagon. The Wild Area. The Outsiders. Habitat. The Zoomway. Superman. Kryptonite Gas. Flippa Dippa. The Mountain of Judgment. The Hairies. The Alpha Bomb. Darkseid.
I was just astounded at how much stuff was packed into this issue. It was all amazing to me. The way Kirby mixed everything together was a sight to behold. From the lighthearted fun of the Newsboy Legion, to the serious tone of the Outsiders, to the darkness of Darkseid. Nothing else in the Fourth World universe ever captivated me as much as this issue did.
"Tales of the Bizarro World"
My fourth 80-Page Giant, & my favorite. And why? Well, duh -- it introduced me to the Bizarros. That's a wonderful thing for an 8-year-old. Hell, it's a wonderful thing for a 55-year-old. Either this or the Steranko & assorted other early Captain America issues I mentioned in my Day 3 pick were the first comics buys I ever made via eBay back around 2000. Around the same time, the Tales of the Bizarro World collection was one of the first comics TPBs I ever bought.
The Bizarros & I go back a long way; it started here.
The rap against Promethea is that the narrative often takes a back seat to Alan Moore lecturing the reader about his mystic philosophy. This issue certainly qualifies, as Promethea gets a lesson on the symbolism of the Tarot deck, conflating it with the Jewish Qabbalah to illustrate the history (and future) of mankind. As a counterpoint, running along the bottom of the pages is a mini-biography of Aleister Crowley, the occultist whose writings influenced Moore's beliefs. It's all done as a series of two-page spreads, each flowing into the next, until the whole thing loops back onto itself at the end. And yes, it's didactic as all get-out, but composed so brilliantly, and served up with enough touches of humor, that it's a thrill to read. Moore's love of language is evident throughout, from the rhyming narration to the rearranged Scrabble tiles that sum up each section. And I haven't even mentioned J.H. Williams' pitch-perfect artwork, rich with symbolism. What a trip!
Are you sure it wasn't Yancy Street you were crossing?
Yeah, the first comic you pick out yourself is very special, assuming it turns out to be one that sticks with you, that you still like in later years. My whole list is pretty much based on this idea.
FF#102 is a strong memory from my childhood, as well. I kept reading the FF for several issues after Kirby left. I was too young to really pay much attention to the creators back then, and those first couple storylines after Kirby's departure still loom large in my mental landscape.
By 1986, I had been reading comics for two years or so, and had started getting into the collecting side. I didn't know much about it yet, but my Dad had taken me to a comic store once where I had gotten a bunch of back issues - pretty much just buying the oldest things I could get my hands on.
I was fascinated, as I mentioned earlier, by the history of the titles. The big numbers, what that implied - both the real world history and the in story history. I couldn't get enough.
Now, at this time, my favorite titles were Fantastic Four and Avengers. On that first trip to a comic book store, I had bought the oldest issues they had of each - FF #61 and Avengers #36. I knew next to nothing about the titles except what I had read in the current stuff, and neither of these issues actually grabbed me in terms of the stories in them, but I wanted more. I just wasn't sure how to go about it.
So one day my Dad said to me, instead of just buying random stuff willy nilly, you should focus on one title. Figure out what you like the best, then buy that title only - for back issues, I mean - until you finish it. Then you can start another.
This was great advice. But I couldn't quite decide what title to focus on. So I got a price guide somehow - no idea where I got the money for it - and did some research. This opened my eyes to all sorts of things, but primarily to just how expensive some of the stuff I wanted was.
But, after doing my research and searching my soul, I decided on a title to pursue.
My Dad took me to a different comic book store, the second I had been to. With my new focus in mind, I marched over to the back issue bin to see if they had any old comics - not "old," not stuff that was from a couple years ago, but actually old.
They did. They had one legit old comic in the bin. It looked like someone had used as a plate, or maybe set it under their car while they were working on the engine in order to protect the garage floor. I mean, it was messed up. The cover was coming off, it had stains, rips, pieces missing, the whole nine yards. But - and this is key - it was old as hell, man.
I don't remember if I had any idea of the significance of this issue or not. As I mentioned, I'm pretty sure I had my first price guide by this point, so it's possible. But I'm not sure; I suspect I might have wanted it just because it was oldest issue of Avengers the store had, by about 15 years. And since I had decided to focus on Avengers, both because it was cool and because it seemed much more financially feasible than FF, I had to have it.
Of course, there was still the problem of the fact that the spine was disintegrating. That wasn't going to work for me, because I planned to read it, and often. Luckily, my Dad had the solution: Super glue.
Collectors today probably curl up into a fetus at the thought, but I was very happy to super glue that cover right to the spine, because it meant I could read the comic without worrying about the cover falling apart in my hands.
And almost 30 years later, I'm happy to say the cover is still affixed as strongly and permanently as ever.
I hope I'm not committing a faux pas here but theres too much synchronicity in the air to not say anything.
Now if its not cool about me doing this, gimme a yell and I'll haul out the big ole eraser(called a rubber in real English) and gets ridda it.


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Anti-Jacksonian Party (United States)
Title: Anti-Jacksonian Party (United States)
Subject: 18th United States Congress, 21st United States Congress, 23rd United States Congress
Not to be confused with Republican Party (United States), Democratic-Republican Party, or National Republican Party (Guyana).
National Republican Party
Democratic-Republican Party Anti-Jackson Ticket Adams Men
Modernization, industrialization, economic nationalism
Politics of the United States
The National Republicans were a political party in the United States. During the administration of John Quincy Adams (1825–1829), the president's supporters were referred to as Adams Men or Anti-Jackson. When Andrew Jackson was elected President of the United States in 1828, this group went into opposition. The use of the term "National Republican" dates from 1830.
Before the elevation of John Quincy Adams to the presidency in 1825, the Democratic-Republican Party, which had been the only national American political party for over a decade, began to fracture, losing its infrastructure and identity. Its caucuses no longer met to select candidates because now they had separate interests. After the Election of 1824, factions developed in support of Adams and in support of Andrew Jackson. Adams politicians, including most ex-Federalists (such as Daniel Webster and even Adams himself), would gradually evolve into the National Republican party, and those politicians that supported Jackson would later help form the modern Democratic Party.
The ad hoc coalition that supported John Quincy Adams fell apart after his defeat for reelection in 1828. The main opposition to Jackson, the new president, was the National Republican Party, or Anti-Jacksonians created and run by Henry Clay. It shared the same nationalistic outlook as the Adamsites, and wanted to use national resources to build a strong economy. Its platform was Clay's American System of nationally financed internal improvements and a protective tariff, which would promote faster economic development. More important, by binding together the diverse interests of the different regions, the party intended to promote national unity and harmony. The National Republicans saw the Union as a corporate, organic whole. Hence the rank and file idealized Clay for his comprehensive perspective on the national interest. Conversely, they disdained those they identified as "party" politicians for pandering to local interests at the expense of the national interest.[1] The party met in national convention in late 1831 and nominated Clay for the presidency and John Sergeant for the vice presidency. The Whig Party emerged in 1833–34 after Clay's defeat as a coalition of National Republicans, along with Anti-Masons, disaffected Jacksonians, and people whose last political activity was with the Federalists a decade before. In the short term, it formed the Whig party with the help of other smaller parties in a coalition against President Jackson and his reforms.
Election year
1828 lost John Quincy Adams Richard Rush
1832 lost Henry Clay John Sergeant
Second Party System
Thomas Brown; Politics and Statesmanship: Essays on the American Whig Party. Columbia University Press. 1985.
Carroll, E. Malcolm; Origins of the Whig Party Duke University Press. 1925. chapter 1
Michael F. Holt; The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War. 1999
Robert V. Remini, Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union (1993)
National political parties in the United States
List of political parties in the United States
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America's
America Elect
Freedom Socialist
Independent American
Modern Whig
National Socialist Movement
Objectivist
Pacifist
Peace and Freedom
Socialism and Liberation
Socialist Action
Socialist Equality
Socialist Workers
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American (Know Nothing)
American Populist
American Vegetarian Party
Anti-Masonic
Boston Tea
Commonwealth Land
Constitutional Union
Democratic-Republican
Farmer–Labor
Gold Democrats
Independence (2007)
Labor (1919)
Liberal Republican
National Republican
National States' Rights
New Alliance
Nullifier
Populist (People's)
Progressive (1912)
Raza Unida
Readjuster
Silver Republican
Socialist Labor
States Rights (Dixiecrat)
U.S. Labor
1 Fewer than 50,000 members.
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17th United States Congress, 19th United States Congress, Henry Clay, /ia's At-large Congressional District, James Monroe
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The puzzle of prayer in secular, modern Japan
I am curious about Japanese people's attitude towards spiritual matters, such as worship and prayer.
Is prayer simply a superstition? Does it aim to persuade the gods to intervene and do magic on earth? Or does it have a deeper purpose?
This week, a charming story appeared on the web about a 70-year-old Japanese woman named Yumiko Campbell, who lived in Australia for many years before returning to Osaka.
Divine reward
According to the Media Project website, Yumiko believes that if she tidies litter from the river near her home in Japan, the gods will reward her – especially if she finds significant objects such as children's toys.
"We have a super strange religion," Yumiko told the reporter Meagan Clark.
"We have a super strange religion" Yumiko Campbell
It is true that Japanese religious practice can appear strange to those from Christian societies, especially the United States.
But actually, the rituals would not look particularly strange to people from many Asian countries, where respect for the environment and one's ancestors are central to religious thinking.
Yumiko leaves a cup of steaming green tea at her mother's shrine every morning, then rings a bell. She was six years old when her mother died.
The piece also suggests links between Japanese religion and the best-selling author, Marie Kondo. Her book Spark Joy is about how to achieve serenity through decluttering household junk. It has sold more than five million copies and has been turned into a Netflix series.
The article describes a scene from the series in which Marie Kondo enters the home of an American family, ready to help them tidy up.
"Eyes closed, Kondo leans forward onto her palms, facing backward, then folds her hands in her lap. The guys smile politely in amusement and curiosity. Kondo speaks to them through a translator she brings, who echoes Kondo's soft, hopeful voice.
"I'd love for you to picture your vision for your home," she says.
"Communicate that to your home."
Shinto faith
The article suggests a link to Shintoism – an ancient form of religion in which humans seek to live in harmony with the divine spirits which inhabit everything, even inanimate objects such as volcanoes, rivers and buildings.
"Shintoism, for me, is not particularly a religion in my life, but it is a natural habit in our daily life," Kondo told a reddit user in 2015. "Shintoism, for Japanese people, is not the same religious feeling as a lot of American people might feel, but is pretty much blended into our daily lifestyle or habits."
Prayer for 2019
One of the national newspapers in Japan, the Sankei, provided a reminder of this in an article it published on New Year's Day.
A celebrated calligrapher named Shoko Kanazawa has chosen the symbol for prayer – known in Japanese as inori – as the appropriate character for 2019.
The article explains says: "Prayer is very important for Shoko. She prays every time she begins a new piece of calligraphy. Her mother Yasuko – who has been raising Shoko by herself ever since Shoko's father passed away when Shoko was just 14 years old – prays constantly, from the time she wakes up until the end of the day."
I feel moved by those words. To ask questions about theology seems to miss the point. The challenge is to consider what place we give to prayer in our own lives and how that affects our thoughts, behaviour and relationships.
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Trying to find something to wear to a major event always seems harder than just going with your natural flow. For me, I put the best things together when I'm not thinking to hard... I tried on a few things before giving up and walking away when it came to me - why not mix your polka dot shirt with your printed pants? and VOILA!! As many of you probably know, mixing prints is my ultimate favorite thing when it comes to dressing... So putting this combo together was going to happen at some point!
Cute! After reading the outfit deets I was like "Hey I have this same shirt dress!" Mine is gray though!
LOL I was going to get it in that color as well but I always gravitate towards black!
That shirt is really beautiful.
Loved this look! It was so effortlessly chic and the fact that it was a dress?? Love the look even more so now!
Thank you!! YES ma'am - it was a dress... I need clothing with multiple functions!! this dress is one of them!


Investigating KeNedra's death, Cloud and Griffin interrogates her family and the high school majorette team she was a part of. Cloud works his magic, his gift of persuasion to try and get information out of the grieving mother, but Det. Griffin throws his weight around as an officer of the law, careless to tense history between African-Americans and law enforcement. Well…Cloud thinks its carelessness…until Griffin makes a provocative revelation that threatens to jeopardize the entire case.
It's a quarter past twelve when Griffin and I pull up to a middle class home in the subdivision of Coventry, only a fifteen-minute drive from the Waynesboro Plantation. I'm annoyed even before I've step out the car. As if the pending interview isn't daunting enough, another nuisance has presented itself in the form of a rugged middle age hippy in a brown leather jacket, chain-smoking on cigarettes as he leans against his busted up yellow bug.
"Alright, now who the hell is this?" Griffin asks.
"Jimmy Coolidge. A persistent nut-job blogger working for one of Atlanta's most widely read outlets. Mark, you're looking at a man who thoroughly believes aliens walk among us. That's Jimmy. Welcome to my life," I groan before exiting.
Griffin's never met the guy, but sticking to the "bro code," he mirrors my displeasure. Jimmy's scruffy appearance, from his ponytail, to his beer-stained eyes and that peach fuzz of a goatee…it's like he forgot to fade along with the rest of the 70s. No, he didn't forget. It's more like he saw opportunities to throw a monkey wrench in the same corporate machines all his old friends sold out to.
He wheezes in his laughter, letting the cigarette drop from his fingertips before starting off in a jab-step approach. Griffin stops in the middle of the sidewalk and stares in bewilderment as if he was watching a mime performance. I'd like to continue on to the front door but halfway there, I have no choice but to turn around and confront the inevitable confrontation.
"Sir! You need to go." Griffin says, pointing off down the street.
"Screw that. You don't owe him a damn thing," Griffin grunts.
"What the hell you talking about?" Griffin barks.
"What are you talking about!?" Griffin barks as I play the buffer.
I shoot my sights to the front of the house. I'm checking the blinds and the windows, scanning for any movement. I really hope no one heard Jimmy's little theory otherwise the questions I had lined up would've been a completed waste of time.
"Are you insane?" Griffin asks him.


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The NBA 2017-2018 Thread
By chef free, October 13, 2017 in Ramble On
LedZeppfan1977
Location:NY
41 minutes ago, chef free said:
Now Curry has a bad finger, Durant's ankle is tweaked, as is Thompson's, while both Iguadola and West have knee injuries...
Yet as far as I know they are all playing? So as much trouble they have had given the high expectations, I doubt they will lose in Orlando. Not sure who if there is any true threat to Cleveland in the East? Boston many believe can beat them and if Heyward were back especially. Indiana is not bad, but the young and upcoming 76ers are a team to watch out for very soon. The T Wolves have been playing well out west. But Houston is the one team that GS has to worry about.
Blue-Eyed Merle
Location:The Air Above the Din
25 minutes ago, LedZeppfan1977 said:
But Houston is the one team that GS has to worry about.
Ha. Chris Paul will meltdown in the playoffs as usual.
23 hours ago, Strider said:
Well I do not like Houston. My favorite team is now the 76ers, And Golden St. I have no loyalty in basketball like other sports since the Buffalo Braves left decades ago. The old Lakers with West and the Warriors with Barry were my teams. Also liked Dr J.
chef free
Location:Oakland
I like the Celtics in the East, a team that may be able to overcome the "one-man-team" of LeBron and whoever is with him at the moment. Raptors had their run and are going to fade. Too soon for the 76ers, but give them a year or two!
In the West, it's the Rockets, Thunder, Spurs and, my personal fav the Pelicans. I've been waiting for years for Anthony Davis to have some team support. Now Cousins is playing his best and Holiday has stepped up too. Westbrook still needs to learn to trust his team members, Kawhi Leonard is still hurt (I'll never understand why Pop put him back in that day!) and the Rockets continue to roll!
The Warriors put together their best game of the year against the Magic. If they can play like that, they've got as good chance of repeating. However if they keep making stupid turnovers, all that good defense means nothing! It's harder than ever to repeat a s champions, with all the film, and analytic metrics, every team in the league spent the off season preping to beat Curry and the W's.
Should be a good season!
Edited December 3, 2017 by chef free
18 hours ago, chef free said:
Really in the West its Golden st and Houston. I do not think San Antonio is a team to worry about now. Not at all. Dont be surprised if the Pistons go in there and beat them tonight. The Pelicans should be playing better given the talent. Minnesota has played well in the West too. But its Golden St in the end and I cannot see anyone beating them, unless Houston pulls the upset. Too deep are the Warriors. Not sure Cleveland can be beaten yet. But most like you are saying Boston can do it. Not sure if Heyward is done for good or not? He could be a difference. But it looked really bad. When Washington gets healthy they could be tough.
Thinking G Heyward is done for the season, too bad, I'd love to see what the Celtics could do with him on the floor!
Warriors/Heat game show a flash of 'Dubs dominance, took a half time lead to a big fourth quarter lead with Curry sitting out the last quarter.
Crazy how many stars are getting one T ejections this year! AD, LeBron, KD, then last night Shawn Livingston?!? I saw it, Livingston took at least two steps back before touching heads with the official. This morning the league agreed with me and suspended the ref for a week.
Curry sprained his ankle. Likely out for at least a week?
It looked pretty bad! I'm thinking he out for 3 weeks at least!
5 hours ago, chef free said:
Maybe they will be less lazy knowing he is out? We shall see. I give the Pistons a big shot tonight. Freakin Lakers won in Philly knocking down a 3 with 2 ticks on the clock
Only time I bet against the 76ers all year was Friday night. A classic that OKC won in 3 OTs, and Westbrooke was in beast mode in the 3rd one and put down a slam for the ages from about 6 feet back of the base line. Incredible. Him and Embid chirping at each other. Embid will not make the trip to Chi town tonight, something I learned after putting money down on Philly. Simmons can still beat those shit bags. With that loud mouth trash talker saying they will make it 6 in a row. I say the Lakers have a better shot on Kobe night even though I took GS. They will be the FIRST TEAM IN SPORTS HISTORY TO RETIRE TWO NUMBERS FOR ONE PLAYER. 8 AND 24 FOR KOBE
I thought about getting tickets to the Kobe jersey retirement game. But there is just too much to do with Christmas and everything else. Wished they could have scheduled the ceremony at another time...in January or February, for instance.
The Lakers fought like hell to win this one. Took the mighty Warriors to OT and fell 2 points short. The Lakers have improved since last year, and I am sure within two years they will be a player once again. You can't keep them down for too long. I thought that about the Knicks once, They are getting better now that Phil Jackson is gone with all of that money that was wasted on his sorry ass. And he gets credit for being a good coach. I am not so sure. Who couldn't have won with the lineups he had. Chicago sucked one out again. But the 76ers were without Embid who did not fly to Chicago due to a sore back
Wow! Who saw the return of Isaiah Thomas and Damian Lillard? Great to see IT back in form, 17 points in 19 min. on 6 of 12 shooting and moving like his old self! Lillard looked good too (6 of 9 from 3 point land). I'm excited to see these two teams back to full strength.
And how about the Spurs/Knicks game? Kawhi Leonard's looking good too, 25 points on 8 of 20 and a full 30 min. Aldridge hit 29 and Manu hit a three on a failed lob pass, BUT THE REFS DIDN'T NOTICE!?!? How bad will the officials have to get before the league realizes that they added rules for years but have never add another ref?
And what's up with the Rockets? Have the Thunder finally caught fire? Toronto was playing at a high level last time I watched one of their games.
This season is getting better and better!
Edited to add: How could I forget Steph Curry? 38 points in his comeback and 32 tonight including the game winning 3 pointer with 3 ticks left!
Edited January 4, 2018 by chef free
Cavs lose by 28, Warriors lose by 19! I love this sport!
I have to admit, that Boston @ Golden State game was one of the most entertaining regular season games I have ever seen. The Kyrie vs. Curry duel lived up to the hype...hell, it exceeded the hype. Curry is just unreal sometimes.
Fuck the All-Star game. Just have Kyrie vs. Curry one-on-one.
Watching the Clippers blow up their team is giving me immense schadenfreude.
All those Clipper fans a few years ago telling me the Clippers were gonna take over L.A. from the Lakers. Bwahahaha. Yeah, right. The Doc Rivers-Chris Paul-Blake Griffin-DeAndre Jordan era has netted exactly ZERO championships, ZERO NBA Finals appearances...not even conference finals.
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Surprised the Pistons got Blake Griffin... Looked good last night. I still think it's going to be the Celtics-Cavaliers in the East... I wouldn't worry about GS - they'll rest a guy now so they're healthy by the WCF. Plus, they have a lot of great players not only to make up the slack, but to give them real game experience.
Pretty hard to understand what the hell they are doing. I mean, trading Blake looks stupid as hell unless the number one they got for him pays off. I do not know any of the players they got in return. They were playing surprisingly well. And still are better than the Lakers I hate to inform you. Even in full rebuild mode.
Are they clearing cap space to make a move for LBJ?
Well that was the best All-Star game I've ever seen! Now for the rest of the season: The "New Look" Cavs are rolling hard but are stuck in third place behind the roaring Raptors and the fading Celtics, while the "invincible" GS Warriors have dropped to second place behind the Rockets...
On 2/19/2018 at 1:04 PM, chef free said:
If there is another dangerous team in all of this I believe its OKC. Westbrooke is an animal and now he has some help. In the East Philly is likely a year away, but if there is a sleeper as a lower seed its them. The Raptors might have a real shot of getting out of the East but Cleveland seems to be far better since this trade deadline move?
Totally dropped the ball on the All-Star game. Too much going on.
I just now saw Fergie's excruciating National Anthem "performance". Let's hope this ends her career...at least her music career. I'm sure she could still find work at Wallmart or in porn.
They really shifted the all-star game later this year. It's now a 20 game sprint to the end of the season instead of the normal 40 games after the break.
Obviously, Lebron casting away Dywayne Wade, Isaiah Thomas and all the other dead weight on Cleveland's bench was the move of the season. Suddenly, Boston is not the lock of the Eastern Conference they used to be. If Kevin Love can come back in form for the playoffs, I like Cleveland's chances of going to the Finals.
The Wizards and the Raptors? Ha...don't make me laugh. Toronto might win a round or two, depending on their seeding, but Les Boulez are a mirage. As soon as John Wall comes back they'll turn into a pumpkin.
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On 2/20/2018 at 1:55 PM, LedZeppfan1977 said:
OKC looked terrible tonight
They have raw talent but they're not a team, imo, still too much iso ball
On 2/25/2018 at 1:27 AM, paplbojo said:
OKC won their last trip to Golden St so winning two in a row there is asking a bit much. I would not overlook them in the playoffs. If anyone can give GS a fight its them and Houston and just maybe the Clippers who have been far better without Blake than with him. The Pistons on the other hand have been horrible. I know many would take Curry to build a team around over anyone. I would take Westbrook
Warriors appear to be shifting into "play-offs mode"!


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Members of the House of Travel Australia leadership team swapped their business attire for beach attire last weekend, travelling across the ditch to celebrate House of Travel New Zealand's 30th Anniversary.
Over 700 past and present House of Travel employees were treated to a sit down 80's themed dinner event at Auckland Viaduct Events Centre on Saturday 25th March.
The first House of Travel New Zealand retail outlet opened in Timaru in 1987. Thirty years on and the company is the largest privately owned travel agency in Australasia and one of the largest travel distribution companies in the Asia Pacific region.
Over the past few decades House of Travel has grown to include 74 retail outlets throughout New Zealand and has representation in every state in Australia.
"Between our two countries the House of Travel Group employs more than 1,900 staff. TravelManagers and the House of Travel Group share similar cultural philosophies where the owner operator is supported by a Group Support Office in New Zealand whilst the personal travel manager concept in Australia is supported across each state by a business partnership manager as well as our national partnership office in Sydney, allowing access to 24 hour support and infrastructure," says Araullo.
In theme, the Australian contingent dressed as surf lifeguards from the popular 80's American television series 'Baywatch'.
"Another similar cultural philosophy we share is knowing how to have fun. It was an easy decision for the team to go dressed as Baywatch, the hard decision was deciding who was going to be The Hoff," laughs Araullo.
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'He Sucks at His Job!': MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace Slams the Relentless Lying from 'The Worst Period' in Trump's Presidency /
'He Sucks at His Job!': MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace Slams the Relentless Lying from 'The Worst Period' in Trump's Presidency
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While discussing former White House press secretary Sean Spicer's new book, the panel on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House" agreed that since Spicer's departure, President Donald Trump's administration has become even more mendacious and manipulative than it was when it began.
"I'm almost nostalgic for Sean Spicer, and here's why," said Jason Johnson, politics editor for The Root. "In those first few months, that was when we could still laugh at some of this, in a weird sort of way."
"It was less sinister, it was more like... he was breaking us in for the far the more grave and sinister period that followed him," said host Nicolle Wallace. "To his credit, he was bad at the lies. They now have a team that is very good at the lies."
"Yeah, they have no problem at all lying to your face and not blinking, which is really extraordinary," said Kimberly Atkins of the Boston Herald.
"And Bill Shine, the former head of Fox News, is now the deputy chief of staff to the president of the United States. The guy who helped cover up Roger Ailes' pattern of behavior, and other patterns of behavior at Fox News, for over a decade, is now the deputy chief of staff to the president of the United States," said conservative writer Bill Kristol. "And he's a clever guy."
"But he sucks at his job!" said Wallace. "This is, arguably, since he has started, the worst period of the Trump presidency. What is he doing?"
"I hope you're right," responded Kristol. "He has a deep contempt for the American public. He thinks they can be bamboozled and lied to. And I do very much agree that the lying is more shameless than it was, and that's the biggest story, isn't it? That Trump and his team are more brazen, more shameless, more liberated from the normal guardrails than they were a year ago."
"I'm almost nostalgic for Sean Spicer... we're now at a point where this is so serious and so dangerous." -… https://t.co/5Y8ZiuINRC
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Welcome to our "Under the Spotlight" Feature. In this edition we have chosen the Abu Dhabi Golf Club and have selected Hole 8, which is a Par 5, 541 yards.
Head Academy Pro Danny Jakubowski was kind enough to explain the hole in more detail with his expert opinion.
We would like to thank Danny for his time and Abu Dhabi Golf Club for allowing us to put Hole 8 "Under the Spotlight", see you next time.


LOS ANGELES – USC's victory over Stanford was Pete Carroll's 100th game as the Trojans' coach, but he did not mention any of his 85 victories when looking back on his tenure.
One of those handful of games that remain vivid in the memory was last year's loss to Stanford. USC erased some of the sting with its 45-23 victory Saturday, but it's clear Carroll and Cardinal coach Jim Harbaugh are building an intense rivalry if they both stay in their current jobs.
The gamesmanship at the end of Saturday's game, when Harbaugh lined up for a field goal with three seconds left and changed his mind after Carroll called timeout, seemed to be a marker that the Stanford coach was not conceding anything.
Carroll returned the favor Sunday night when he complained about an official ruling that wide receiver Ronald Johnson stepped out of bounds on a kickoff return.
That irritation also surfaced Saturday night when Carroll sarcastically asked, "Did they score?" when asked about the Cardinal's touchdown on the last play of the game.
But Carroll was more diplomatic Sunday night.
Tailback C.J. Gable said he called his family in Sylmar before the game to make sure they were OK during the Southern California fires. "They said it was close by but it didn't reach them," Gable said. "They said they were good." … Carroll said Joe McKnight's turf toe still bothered him late Saturday night. "He was still pretty sore when he got off the plane," Carroll said.


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Kilmarnock set up a William Hill Scottish Cup quarter-final replay with Aberdeen at Rugby Park after holding the Dons to a 1-1 draw in one of just two games in Scotland to beat the freeze.
Aberdeen opened the scoring at Pittodrie after just nine minutes as Graeme Shinnie struck, but Kris Boyd levelled from the penalty spot midway through the second half.
Killie goalkeeper Jamie MacDonald will not want to see the opener again.
After driving down the left, Shinnie played the ball back to Ryan Christie, who passed back to the Dons captain, and while it looked like he was simply trying to drill the ball across the face of goal, his shot slipped through MacDonald's arms and went in.
Killie looked at their most dangerous on the counter, and it was from a superb Stephen O'Donnell clearance to Eamonn Brophy that they had a claim for a penalty.
It looked obvious as Shay Logan appeared to haul down the former Hamilton man, but referee Steven McLean was unmoved and indeed booked the striker for his vehement protests.
Just a minute from the interval, Aberdeen's on-loan Newcastle keeper Freddie Woodman was forced into a good save, diving to his left to turn a Boyd header round a post following a Jordan Jones corner.
Jones took the second corner from the other side, again finding Boyd, who this time lashed a left-footed effort well over the crossbar.
Aberdeen were back on the attack 10 minutes into the second half, with Niall McGinn swinging a teasing free-kick to the near post from the left.
It was met powerfully by the head of Kari Arnason, the Iceland international denied only by a fine flying save from MacDonald.
But midway through the second half the scores were level, and Aberdeen were the architects of their own downfall.
Logan and Arnason could not decide who should deal with the run of Jones and in the end combined to pull down the winger. This time there was no doubt in the referee's mind, and a spot-kick was awarded.
Boyd, as is so often the case, kept his cool as he stepped up and sent the equaliser high to the goalkeeper's left.
In the final 10 minutes, Rooney hooked a shot wide of an upright as Aberdeen tried to find a late winner, but to no avail.


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3:26 p.m. An officer received a report of someone who had broken into a co-worker's house.
8:16 p.m. A caller from Martin Street reported a barking dog in a house, at which no one was home.
4:30 p.m. Two subjects were playing ball behind a Main Street store. They were questioned and found to be employees.
7:04 p.m. A caller reported a raccoon walking around Waltham Street.
2:32 a.m. A Randall Road caller reported a barking dog.
3:41 a.m. A Concord Street caller reported a large dog barking all night.
7:06 a.m. Officials responded to a medical emergency on Main Street.
10:10 a.m. A caller reported a possibly rabid raccoon on Demars Street.
11:25 a.m. Officials responded to a medical emergency on Arthur Street.
4:24 p.m. Officials responded to a medical emergency on Roosevelt Street.
5:09 p.m. A caller reported a suspicious red car in the area of Tobin Drive. It was a census worker going door to door.
7:35 p.m. A Douglas Avenue caller reported that someone trampled her garden overnight.
4:48 p.m. A walk in reported that she wanted to add to a previous report of fraud.
4:57 p.m. Officials responded to a medical emergency on Summer Hill Glenn.
12:29 a.m. A caller reported that someone was threatening to beat up a store clerk at Tedeschi's on Waltham Street.
8:21 a.m. Officials responded to a medical emergency on Powder Mill Circle.
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12:41 a.m. Officials responded to a medical emergency on Bancroft Street.
12:54 a.m. A McKinley Street caller reported an on going issue with a barking dog.
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1:35 p.m. Officials responded to a medical emergency on Amory Avenue.
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Many digital marketing agency owners struggle with the rollercoaster ride of feast and famine cycles.
You get a new client on, work hard to get the project done, and while you're busy doing the work your sales suffer. When the project comes to an end and you hit the "famine" part of the cycle and desperately hunt for your next project.
This is stressful, and even more so if you have a team of employees who are relying on you for their pay check.
The answer to breaking this feast and famine cycle is to build a strong base of recurring revenue into your business. Recurring revenue provides a secure base for your business, which not only helps you sleep better at night, but enables you to grow your team more securely, as you can project your recurring revenue and plan hiring staff and other business expenses.
If you're running a digital marketing agency, here are seven types of recurring revenue that you can aim to build into your business.
Hosting websites for clients is a simple way to build recurring revenue. But don't compete in a race to the bottom in terms of price. Don't aim to compete with the super cheap self-hosted platforms such as Bluehost or Dreamhost. Instead, remember that clients pay for the value you add.
Your client doesn't understand the technicalities around hosting, and they shouldn't have to. That's where you provide value.
Clients also often overlook the importance of reliable backups. They've invested in you building their website – don't let them be naïve when it comes to backups. Providers like Bluehost actually have it written in their T&Cs that they do not guarantee their backups! And if your account is larger than a predefined limit (e.g. 2 GB) then their backups won't work.
If you let your client host on one of these self-hosted platforms, and then their site gets hacked, or broken and none of the backups work, they will not be impressed. And arguing that the web hosting was done by a third party won't help you mend the relationship.
So, make sure that you choose a good hosting environment and have a reliable backup system. Then pick an amount to charge your client for hosting – but don't get tied into the amount you're paying to the server provider. Instead think about the value your client is getting, the time it will take to do any troubleshooting as needed, and the risk you are taking if for some reason a site gets deleted or damaged and you need to spend unbillable time fixing it.
If you are building websites in WordPress, the most important practise for keeping the websites secure is to keep WordPress and plugins updated.
Releases come out regularly, which include feature updates, bug fixes and security fixes. If you let a site get out of date you're leaving your client's site potentially vulnerable to hackers.
Therefore, you should require that each WordPress site that is hosted with your company must have a monthly maintenance subscription. For this fee, you will take care of all WordPress and plugin updates.
The easiest way to take care of this is to use ManageWP to run updates for all the sites you maintain from one simple interface. Or use the premium WPMU Automate plugin to run updates as they become available. (But sometimes WPMU Automate runs into problems with an update, so have ManageWP installed too).
When building a website, it's common to require a deposit, a progress payment and then a final payment when the site is live. But an alternative approach is, instead of charging on an up-front basis you could split the payments over monthly instalments for 12 or 24 months.
The advantage for the client is that they don't have to find the funds upfront for the website build. The advantage for your business is that you can often charge a higher amount for the full website, which the client wouldn't have been able to afford if they had to pay it at the start.
If you go down this path though, make sure you have a rock-solid contract. If the client decides to get another website built by an alternative provider before the contract term is up, you need to make sure you won't be left out of pocket.
As a digital marketing company, search engine optimisation is an ideal way to increase your recurring income. SEO is a continuous process, and if someone is knocking on your door looking for SEO services, you have an opportunity to turn them into an ongoing customer.
SEO results can take a few months to see, so make sure you explain this clearly to your client. That way expectations are in the right place, and as long as you start to get results, you'll have got yourself a client who's not going anywhere.
Google has pretty much taken over the online world, and nearly every business wants to be found on Google to generate leads.
If you have someone signing on to try Google Ads, and you are able to generate leads for them, they've got no reason to leave you. The more business they get, they more they want to invest and the more money you take.
Some agencies charge a fixed fee for managing Google Ads, others charge a percentage or performance basis. If prefer the percentage model, because if your campaigns work so well that the client wants to spend more money, you should be rewarded for the results by earning more from that client too.
Domain name renewals are a simple way to make some extra recurring income. Mark-ups of almost 100% are common – so if you buy a domain for $21.50 it's common to retail it to your client for $39.95 per year.
However, while the mark-up sounds impressive, the actual profit is very small. With the example figures above it is just $18.45 per year. And for that you need to pay for the domain, send an invoice to your client, and chase up late payments if needed.
So, to make this work profitable, automation is critical. Full automation (where the client logs in to your system and pays to keep the domain going) is a lot to setup and only useful if you're dealing with thousands of domains. A much more simple way to setup automation is to use Xero or Quickbooks repeating invoices. When you buy a domain for a client, setup the repeating invoice in your accounting system and set the invoice to be automatically sent each year. That way, you never have to touch the administration again (until the client wants to cancel the domain).
Recurring income is a smart and sensible way to give a solid financial foundation to your growing your business. To keep your finger on the pulse you need to be able to project your recurring income easily on a regular basis. This will help you immensely with your planning, and measurement of business growth.
It is a good habit to look at your recurring income forecasts on a 12-month basis, so you know what to expect. This helps you plan ahead and work out what you need in order to grow.
Forecasting used to be painful and complicated. But if you're using Xero for your accounting, forecasting your recurring revenue is now instant, thanks to software called DonkeyBean. DonkeyBean connects to your Xero account and within 2 minutes gives you a 12 month forecast of your revenue from your repeating invoices.
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LISTEN: AJR Share New Song "Burn the House Down"
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Alt-pop brothers AJR just gave you your weekend party anthem.
Called "Burn The House Down," the song's a banger. Listen below:
The track was written as the theme song for Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken. AJR told Billboard they were "blown away" by the sequel to 2004's fast-food documentary and Spurlock's passion to expose a "corrupt giant." That's the message they aimed to convey in "Burn The House Down"—underdogs banding together to evoke change.
AJR are currently touring in support of 2017's The Click. The Click Tour will keep the trio on the road through May 12 in Boston, MA.
THE CLICK TOUR.
A show you've never seen before. Not from us. Not from anyone.
Tickets: https://t.co/CsS4vfBcKm pic.twitter.com/8KtCHNKNMR
— AJR (@AJRBrothers) November 17, 2017
Burn the House Down