Hello, my name is John Cherwa and welcome back to our horse racing newsletter as we finally get on a normal racing week.
The worst part of the end of the Triple Crown season is we no longer get Jon White's weekly previews of the Kentucky Derby and beyond. Well, Jon is back and starting his report earlier than ever. Couldn't be more delighted. Jon is a racing historian, morning-line maker at Santa Anita and one of the smartest guys I know. So, let's see what he has to say in this kickoff edition of his Kentucky Derby Top 10.
"The first steps on the 2019 Road to the Kentucky Derby have now been taken. The Jerome Stakes at Aqueduct on Jan. 1 and the Sham Stakes at Santa Anita last Saturday were the first two 2019 races that offered points toward a starting berth in this year's Run for the Roses.
"The Road to the Kentucky Derby is a 35-race series that awards points to the top four finishers in each race. The horses to accumulate the most points in those 35 races earn their way into the big race on May 4. The field for the Kentucky Derby has been capped at 20 since 1975.
"The Jerome and Sham each offered 10 points for a win, four for second, two for third and one for fourth.
"Churchill Downs has announced that the purse for this year's Kentucky Derby has been raised to $3 million. This represents an increase of $1 million from last year's renewal. The winner this year will receive $1.86 million.
"Will there be another Triple Crown winner this year? It certainly is not out of the question, especially considering how Triple Crowns seem to come in clusters. There were three in the 1930s (Gallant Fox, Omaha and War Admiral), four in the 1940s (Whirlaway, Count Fleet, Assault and Citation) and three in the 1970s (Secretariat, Seattle Slew and Affirmed). After a long drought, there now have been two Triple Crown winners during this decade (American Pharoah in 2015 and Justify in 2018).
"If there is another Triple Crown winner in 2019, will Bob Baffert be the trainer? This seems a distinct possibility. Baffert, after all, certainly knows how to train a horse to win the Triple Crown, having done so with American Pharoah and Justify. But if there does happen to be another Triple Crown sweep this year, who knows? Maybe someone besides Baffert will get it done.
"If Baffert does not win another Triple Crown this year, will he at least get another Kentucky Derby victory? There appears to be a pretty good chance of that due to the strong hand Baffert currently is holding, headed by a pair of undefeated colts, Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner Game Winner and Los Alamitos Futurity winner Improbable. Those two colts head a Baffert contingent that could give the Hall of Fame trainer yet another Kentucky Derby victory. Baffert has five Kentucky Derby wins to his credit (Silver Charm, Real Quiet, War Emblem, American Pharoah and Justify). Ben Jones' six wins (Laurin, Whirlaway, Pensive, Citation, Ponder, Hill Gail) is the record for most Kentucky Derby victories by a trainer.
"Is yet another favorite going to win the 2019 Kentucky Derby? Six straight favorites have won (Orb in 2013, California Chrome in 2014, American Pharoah in 2015, Nyquist in 2016, Always Dreaming in 2017 and Justify in 2018). Such a run of winning favorites is astounding, especially when such a big field is something that always has the potential to get a favorite beat. After a string of six straight winning favorites, could this be a year in which the winner turns out to be someone like 50-1 Giacomo in 2005 or 50-1 Mine That Bird in 2009?
"Will this year's Kentucky Derby winner be based in California? Five of the last seven Kentucky Derby winners (I'll Have Another in 2012, California Chrome in 2014, American Pharoah in 2015, Nyquist in 2016 and Justify in 2018) have been based in the Golden State. The two exceptions during this period were based in Florida (Orb in 2013 and Always Dreaming in 2017). Thus, it seems reasonable to think that the 2019 Kentucky Derby winner probably will be based in either California or Florida.
No. 1 Game Winner had his first recorded workout of the year Wednesday morning at Santa Anita, three furlongs in :35.20 seconds. Daily Racing Form's Steve Andersen reported that Baffert timed Game Winner galloping out four furlongs in :47.20.
No. 2 Improbable also had a workout Wednesday at Santa Anita. He worked three furlongs in :38.00 for Baffert.
No. 6 Mucho Gusto stepped five furlongs in 1:02.00 in a Thursday workout for Baffert.
Next of the 35 races on the Road to the Kentucky Derby is the Lecomte Stakes at the Fair Grounds on Jan. 19.
Thursday's feature was a lot closer than the 3 ¼ length margin, but Show It N Moe It battled S Y Sky for most of the race until drawing away in deep stretch to win the 6 ½ furlong allowance for Cal-bred fillies and mares. The purse was $67,000.
Show It N Moe It paid $6.00, $2.40 and $2.20 for trainer Gary Sherlock and jockey Rafael Bejarano. S Y Sky was second and Coco Kisses was third.
Another nine-race weekday card starting at 12:30 p.m. There are six dirt races averaging 6.5 starters and three turf races with a whopping 9.7, not counting the five also eligibles. Only reason we're looking is to see if there are any ripples of (smartly) going to an all-dirt card on Sunday because of the weather.
There are three allowance/optional claimers, so we'll pick the eighth as the feature because the purse, at $59,000 is $2,000 more than the other two. It's for fillies and mares 4 and up going a mile on the dirt.
The favorite, at 6-5, is Mo See Cal, no doubt an homage to Cal Worthington mixed with an Uncle Mo sire. Peter Miller and Rockingham Ranch picked up the filly from Doug O'Neill and Paul Reddam for a $25,000 claim price on June 17. She finished second that day, then second in her next race and has since won three in a row. And, Mike Smith will ride.
There are two second choices, at 7-2, in Just a Smidge and Danuska's My Girl. Just a Smidge is coming off a win for Bob Baffert and Assael Espinoza and Danuska's My Girl is coming off a win for Jerry Hollendorfer and Giovanni Franco. Pretty good when half the field is coming off a victory.
Here are the field sizes, in order: 8, 7, 5, 10 (1 also eligible), 6, 7, 9, 6, 10 (4 ae).
Everything looks right for a top effort by this sophomore colt from the Peter Eurton stable. Improving numbers, route-to-sprint angle coming down the hillside turf course, tactical speed from the outside box and a top jockey in Flavien Prat. There won't be much value betting to win so let's key Vantastic over the three European imports (Urban Light, Boa Nova and Eagle Song) in the exacta and trifecta.
Thursday's result: Emmy and I did not get the anticipated lone front-running trip we envisioned but it didn't matter as she was out of gas turning for home in a very weak effort.
"Trainer Jesus Nunez starts the weekend's action one win away from becoming the 19th trainer in Los Alamitos history to reach 500 quarter-horse victories. Nunez will saddle two on Friday night. In the fourth race, he'll send out the 3-year-old filly Firebrand, who is 12-1 on the morning line. Nunez will also saddle Eagles Policy, who is part of a very competitive seventh race on Friday. The gelding is the fourth choice at 7-2. Friday's first post is 7 p.m.
"In 2018, Nunez saddled Jess Ravin to victory in the Grade 1 Mildred Vessels Memorial Handicap. The trainer also saddled the champion Buccaneer Beach to victory in the Grade 1 Los Alamitos Winter Championship in 2004. In his career, Nunez has won nine graded stakes and 22 total stakes. He's also won 366 races Thoroughbred races at Los Alamitos and has been this track's leading trainer with the breed each of the past two years.
"Grade 1 stakes winner Mickey Ward and six-time stakes winner Joe Legacy are among the eight runners that will face off in the $20,000 Barbra B Handicap at 550 yards on Sunday. Trained by Matt Fales, Mickey Ward won the Grade 1 Cox Distance Challenge Championship at 870 yards on Nov. 17, which is one of his two career stakes wins around the turn. The 8-year-old gelding has been a winner at 550 yards as well and has twice won at this distance at Los Alamitos, including 3/4 length victory last year.
"Joe Legacy is as hard-knocking as they come. A multiple stakes winner at Los Alamitos, the 8-year-old gelding by Brookstone Bay won the 2014 John Ward Handicap and then, after a two-year layoff, returned to win the John Ward in 2018. Go Cash Stevie B and Run Raging Rhino Run, two of the top quarter horses at 870 yards will look to sharpen their speed in this 550-yard dash.
"In last Sunday's Grade 1 Charger Bar Handicap, trainer Chris O'Dell dominated the race as he saddled the top three finishers. Thermonuclear Energy, the runner-up in the 2017 Charger Bar, held off One Sweet Racy to win the 400-yard race by a half-length. A Political Lady finished third.
This gelding will be very tough to beat in this soft comeback spot if he repeats his strong 12.2 gate drill from Dec. 4. After breaking fast, he reached out with big strides midway and was under restraint late while working alone. He showed good ability in his initial 2017 outings and catches a weaker-than-normal allowance field. Three of his four rivals failed to finish among the top three in their last outs.
Now, the stars of the show, Thursday's results and Friday's entries.
Santa Anita Charts Results for Thursday, January 10.
Winner–Halo Darlin Dbb.m.6 by Lucky Pulpit out of Lady Railrider, by Ride the Rails. Bred by Mr. & Mrs. Larry D. Williams (CA). Trainer: Rafael Becerra. Owner: La Russo, Corey, Martin, Craig and Yamamoto, Gregory. Mutuel Pool $152,642 Roulette Pool $596 Exacta Pool $87,582 Superfecta Pool $28,500 Super High Five Pool $2,638 Trifecta Pool $52,113. Claimed–Goseecal by Hronis Racing LLC. Trainer: John Sadler. Scratched–none.
HALO DARLIN sped to the early lead, angled in on the first turn and set the pace inside, came a bit off the fence into the stretch and held on gamely under some urging and steady handling. SUBIC BAY saved ground stalking the pace, came a bit off the rail in midstretch and held second. SPEAKERS stalked a bit off the rail then inside leaving the second turn and into the stretch, lacked room along the fence from upper to midstretch then got up late for the show. MRASEEL (IRE) broke a bit slowly, saved ground chasing the pace, came out into the stretch, waited off heels in midstretch, came out again and was edged for third three deep on the line. WIND TARTARE (FR) stalked three deep then went up four wide into and on the second turn and into the stretch, drifted in some in the drive and was edged or a minor award between foes late. QUINNIE close up stalking the winner outside a rival then between foes on the second turn and into the stretch, could not quite summon the necessary late kick. GOSEECAL chased outside a rival then three deep between foes on the second turn and into the stretch and did not rally.
Winner–Candy Cornell Ch.c.4 by Candy Ride (ARG) out of Mesana, by Mizzen Mast. Bred by Stephen B. Weissman Living Trust (KY). Trainer: John A. Shirreffs. Owner: Stephen B. Weissman. Mutuel Pool $127,682 Roulette Pool $251 Daily Double Pool $35,032 Exacta Pool $72,906 Superfecta Pool $34,583 Trifecta Pool $54,283. Scratched–none.
CANDY CORNELL chased off the rail then outside a rival, came three deep into the stretch, rallied under some left handed urging to gain the lead in deep stretch, was bumped by the runner-up late and gamely prevailed. VICTORY ELEMENT a bit slow to begin, stalked just off the rail, bid outside the pacesetter leaving the turn to gain the lead into the stretch, kicked clear and drifted to the inside, drifted out from the whip to bump the winner late and could not quite match that one. DEUCE stalked off the rail to the stretch, came out from behind foes in deep stretch and clearly bested the others. SOMETHINTOTAPABOUT broke a bit slowly, chased outside then off the rail on the turn and three deep into the stretch and lacked a further response. POINTED dropped back inside and saved ground off the pace, came out past midstretch and did not rally. MANTARAY ISLAND sped to the early lead, angled in and set the pace inside, dueled along the fence leaving the turn and into the stretch and weakened in the drive.
Winner–Slewgoodtobetrue Dbb.f.3 by Jimmy Creed out of Chiefette, by Chief Seattle. Bred by Jim Brinkley (SC). Trainer: Peter Eurton. Owner: Alesia, Sharon, Ciaglia Racing, LLC, ERJ Racing, LLC and Burns Racing, LLC. Mutuel Pool $154,867 Roulette Pool $356 Daily Double Pool $22,313 Exacta Pool $77,592 Superfecta Pool $41,254 Trifecta Pool $59,768. Scratched–Suprema.
50-Cent Pick Three (2-6-1) paid $21.45. Pick Three Pool $47,923.
SLEWGOODTOBETRUE bobbled slightly at the start, chased inside then a bit off the rail, bid three deep between foes to gain the lead into the stretch, inched away under left handed urging in midstretch, drifted in and won clear. SOOTHING a bit slow to begin, chased three deep then outside a rival, continued off the rail on the second turn, bid four wide into the stretch and was clearly second best. CLAUDELLE angled in and dueled outside a rival, battled between foes into the stretch and just held third. BEV'S HUMOR chased between foes then dropped back a bit off the rail on the backstretch, came out into the stretch and was edged for the show.. SHOW HOSTESS had good early speed and dueled inside, fought back leaving the second turn and into the stretch and weakened. BELLAZANO bobbled at the start, chased between horses then inside on the backstretch and into the second turn, came out leaving that turn and into the stretch and had little left for the drive.
Winner–Peach Cove (NZ) B.m.7 by Buffalo Man out of Tennisciti Belle (AUS), by Citidancer (IRE). Bred by Totara Park Stud (NZ). Trainer: Mike Puype. Owner: Dante, Janet and Dante, Michael. Mutuel Pool $217,703 Roulette Pool $342 Daily Double Pool $18,629 Exacta Pool $116,453 Superfecta Pool $55,072 Super High Five Pool $4,404 Trifecta Pool $81,722. Claimed–Girl Downstairs by Hronis Racing LLC. Trainer: John Sadler. Claimed–Miss Boom Boom by Martin, Harley, Williams, Joe Lynn and Saldana, Reed. Trainer: Reed Saldana. Scratched–none.
50-Cent Pick Three (6-1-6) paid $37.40. Pick Three Pool $26,094.
PEACH COVE (NZ) angled in on the first turn and chased inside then between foes on the second turn and three deep into the stretch, came out in the drive and rallied under left handed urging to get up in the final stride. GIRL DOWNSTAIRS came a bit off the rail to stalk the pace, was between foes leaving the backstretch, bid three deep on the second turn to gain the lead into the stretch, inched away in midstretch and was caught on the line. WAR MOCCASIN saved ground chasing the pace, came out some in midstretch, split foes in deep stretch and got up for the show toward the inside. INDYPENDENT DEPUTY chased outside a rival, came out leaving the second turn and five wide into the stretch and was edged for third. MISS BOOM BOOM saved ground chasing the pace, came out for room in upper stretch and was outfinished. LADY BEWARE (IRE) had good early speed and dueled inside, took a short lead on the second turn, fought back into the stretch and weakened in the final furlong. AWARD IT stalked three deep then outside a rival, went three wide on the second turn and four wide into the stretch and lacked the needed rally. EMMY AND I angled in and dueled outside a rival then between foes on the second turn and into the stretch and weakened.
Winner–Dyf Ch.g.3 by Midshipman out of Mirjah, by Elusive Quality. Bred by Tom Evans & Pam Clark (KY). Trainer: Leonard Powell. Owner: J K Racing Stable LLC. Mutuel Pool $164,381 Roulette Pool $345 Daily Double Pool $21,199 Exacta Pool $82,728 Superfecta Pool $36,635 Super High Five Pool $1,568 Trifecta Pool $54,536. Scratched–none.
50-Cent Pick Three (1-6-7) paid $56.15. Pick Three Pool $44,918. 50-Cent Pick Four (6-1/2-6-7) 566 tickets with 4 correct paid $200.65. Pick Four Pool $148,779. 50-Cent Pick Five (2-6-1/2-6-7) 235 tickets with 5 correct paid $1,460.20. Pick Five Pool $398,565.
DYF chased outside a rival then between horses leaving the backstretch, continued outside a rival on the turn and three deep into the stretch and rallied under urging to get up outside foes on the line. DRINK stalked a bit off the rail, came out leaving the turn and into the stretch, bid outside the pacesetter, took a short lead a sixteenth out and was caught between foes late. NICE WORK sped to the early lead, set the pace inside, came a bit off the rail into the stretch, fought back in the drive and held third. OHTANI chased outside, came three wide into the stretch and finished willingly to be edged for the show. TIME N MONEY chased off the rail, split horses on the turn, angled inward in deep stretch and was outfinished. GRAN MARTILLO angled in and saved ground chasing the pace, came out into the stretch, angled back to the rail in midstretch and lacked the needed rally. RESIDENT LIBERAL broke a bit slowly, settled off the rail then inside, came out into the stretch and could not summon the necessary late response. HE'S ZIPPIN ON BY saved ground stalking the pace, dropped back inside in upper stretch, was in a bit tight when crowded in midstretch and was eased in the final furlong.
Winner–Sheza Chattykat Ch.m.5 by Trappe Shot out of Exploremore, by Five Star Day. Bred by Wedgewood Farm (KY). Trainer: Leonard Powell. Owner: J K Racing Stable LLC. Mutuel Pool $219,842 Roulette Pool $604 Daily Double Pool $19,915 Exacta Pool $133,695 Superfecta Pool $60,728 Trifecta Pool $84,246 X-5 Super High Five Pool $1,979. Claimed–Sheza Chattykat by Paymaster Racing LLC and Slugo Racing. Trainer: Mike Puype. Scratched–none.
50-Cent Pick Three (6-7-2) paid $83.75. Pick Three Pool $42,897.
SHEZA CHATTYKAT sped to the early lead, set the pace inside, opened up leaving the hill and into the stretch and held gamely under a crack of the whip and steady handling. SABURAI saved ground chasing the pace, came out a bit leaving the hill then angled in, came just off the rail in the stretch finished willingly to be second best. RUBY TRUST stalked between horses then outside as rival, came out into the stretch and just held third. GONE TO TOWN chased outside then alongside a rival, angled to the inside into the stretch, came out in the drive and was edged for the show. LADYBUG bobbled at the start, saved ground stalking the pace, came out into the stretch and weakened in the final furlong. SILKEN SPY chased outside then between foes, dropped back between horses after the right hand curve, angled in leaving the hill and lacked the needed rally. FAVORITE TRIP stalked between horses then a bit off the rail leaving the hill and weakened in the drive. FLORISTA (IRE) broke slowly, settled a bit off the rail to the stretch and lacked a rally. PROMNESIA stalked four wide then three deep leaving the hill and four wide into the stretch and weakened. OUR BOLD PRINCESS between horses early, chased four wide then three deep leaving the hill and into the stretch and also weakened. Rail on hill at 14 feet.
Winner–Allaboutaction Dbb.g.6 by Candy Ride (ARG) out of Coolwind, by Forest Wildcat. Bred by Carhue Investments & Paget Bloodstock (KY). Trainer: Javier Jose Sierra. Owner: Frank Reynoso, Jr.. Mutuel Pool $162,128 Roulette Pool $276 Daily Double Pool $23,987 Exacta Pool $94,364 Superfecta Pool $42,566 Super High Five Pool $7,350 Trifecta Pool $66,678. Claimed–Italiano by Next Wave Racing, Silverstein, Mark and ERJ Racing LLC. Trainer: Anna Meah. Scratched–K Thirty Eight.
50-Cent Pick Three (7-2-4) paid $18.80. Pick Three Pool $31,597.
ALLABOUTACTION sped to the early lead, dueled outside a rival, took the lead in upper stretch, battled three deep through the final furlong and gamely prevailed under urging. JAN'S RESERVE a bit slow to begin, stalked inside, bid along the rail in the final furlong and continued gamely to the end. ADENS DREAM had good early speed and dueled inside, came a bit off the rail into the stretch, fought back between foes in the final furlong and also went on willingly to the wire. BISTRAYA settled a bit off the rail to the stretch, came out in the drive and found his best stride late three deep on the line. ITALIANO stalked off the rail then three deep between horses leaving the backstretch, continued three wide on the turn and four wide into the stretch and lacked the needed late kick. KOCHEES a step slow to begin, chased just off the rail then between horses leaving the backstretch and on the turn and was outfinished. MARKET SENTIMENT stalked outside then four wide leaving the backstretch and on the turn and into the stretch and weakened.
Winner–Show It N Moe It Dbb.f.4 by Grace Upon Grace out of Robotica, by Ide. Bred by Terry C. Lovingier (CA). Trainer: Gary Sherlock. Owner: London, Tom, Lovingier, Terry C. and Zondlo, Eugene. Mutuel Pool $155,731 Roulette Pool $1,080 Daily Double Pool $19,405 Exacta Pool $81,273 Superfecta Pool $43,417 Trifecta Pool $61,441. Scratched–none.
50-Cent Pick Three (2-4-5) paid $10.60. Pick Three Pool $33,029.
SHOW IT N MOE IT went up to press the pace four wide then dueled three deep on the turn and into the stretch, took a short lead in upper stretch and inched clear late under urging. S Y SKY prompted the pace three deep between foes then dueled between rivals on the turn, fought back a bit off the rail in the stretch and was clearly second best. COCO KISSES had good early speed and dueled between horses then inside on the turn and into the stretch and held third. BARBARA BEATRICE chased off the rail then outside a rival, continued off the inside into the stretch, came out in the drive and lacked a rally. SMILING TIGRESS broke a bit slowly, settled off the rail then inside, came out leaving the turn and three wide into the stretch and lacked a rally. ISA FIRECRACKER pressed then stalked the pace inside, dropped back on the turn, came out in the stretch and weakened.
Winner–Smiling Annie Dbb.f.4 by Smiling Tiger out of Bootleg Annie, by Go for Gin. Bred by Al Kirkwood & Saundra Kirkwood (CA). Trainer: Mark Glatt. Owner: Kirkwood, Al and Saundra S.. Mutuel Pool $219,299 Roulette Pool $739 Daily Double Pool $62,727 Exacta Pool $130,117 Superfecta Pool $80,075 Super High Five Pool $12,022 Trifecta Pool $94,241. Scratched–none.
50-Cent Pick Three (4-5-4) paid $21.00. Pick Three Pool $71,390. 50-Cent Pick Four (2-4/7-5-4) 5672 tickets with 4 correct paid $57.70. Pick Four Pool $428,987. 50-Cent Pick Five (7-2-4/7-5-4) 460 tickets with 5 correct paid $446.75. Pick Five Pool $269,276. 20-Cent Pick Six Jackpot (6-7-2-4/7-5-4) 92 tickets with 6 correct paid $1,504.08. Pick Six Jackpot Pool $259,139. Pick Six Jackpot Carryover $662,871.
SMILING ANNIE dueled outside a rival then between horses into the stretch, took a short lead, fought back inside through the final furlong and gamely prevailed under some urging with the whip turned down and energetic handling. RADISH stalked outside then three deep on the hill, bid five wide into the stretch and three deep in midstretch and continued willingly to just miss between foes late. INTO RISSA settled outside then alongside a rival, came three wide into the stretch, bid outside foes in deep stretch and also continued on well to the end. SMOOVIE saved ground stalking the pace, came out into the stretch, awaited room off heels in midstretch then split horses twice in the final furlong and was outfinished. WHOA NESSIE broke in and stumbled at the start, pulled outside then stalked three deep or outside a rival, came three wide into the stretch, bid between horses in the drive and also was outfinished. I'M SASSY had good early speed and dueled inside, fought back leaving the hill and into the stretch and weakened in the final furlong. OH PRETTY WOMAN pulled between horses to stalk the pace, came out four wide into the stretch and lacked the needed late kick. LA GUAPA VELOS a bit slow into stride, saved ground off the pace to the stretch and lacked a rally. PERFECT PORTRAIT chased off the rail then angled in a bit off the fence leaving the hill, came out in the stretch and did not rally. EAGLE EASE broke slowly and was squeezed back, settled just off the rail, dropped back leaving the hill and failed to menace. Rail on hill at 14 feet.
Santa Anita Entries for Friday, January 11.
Santa Anita, Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, California. 11th day of a 61-day meet.
6 Furlongs. Purse: $23,000. Maiden Claiming. Fillies and Mares. 4 year olds and up. Claiming Price $30,000.
1 Mile. Purse: $18,000. Claiming. Fillies and Mares. 4 year olds and up. Claiming Price $12,500.
1 Mile. Purse: $57,000. Allowance Optional Claiming. Fillies. 3 year olds. Claiming Price $80,000.
1 1/8 Mile Turf. Purse: $55,000. Maiden Special Weight. Fillies and Mares. 4 year olds and up.
1 Mile. Purse: $28,000. Claiming. 4 year olds and up. Claiming Prices $20,000-$18,000.
6½ Furlongs. Purse: $38,000. Maiden Claiming. 3 year olds. Claiming Price $80,000.
About 6½ Furlongs Turf. Purse: $57,000. Allowance Optional Claiming. 3 year olds. Claiming Price $80,000.
1 Mile. Purse: $59,000. Allowance Optional Claiming. Fillies and Mares. 4 year olds and up. Claiming Price $62,500.
About 6½ Furlongs Turf. Purse: $55,000. Maiden Special Weight. Fillies. 3 year olds. State bred.


Joachim Trier's film is a parable that takes depression seriously as a condition and a state of being.
Befitting a title that evokes both the horrors of war and a Smiths compilation album, Joachim Trier's Louder Than Bombs endeavors to tap into two distinct varieties of suffering, with immediate deadly peril and corrosive slow-burn angst drawn into an unusual, often unsteady association with one another. Attempting a survey of the ways in which large-scale political events inspire and influence the micro-geography of personal depression, the Norwegian director's American debut digs into the melancholy of privilege, as crimes perpetrated in faraway lands reverberate back to disrupt the comforts of home, from the scrub plains of Syria to Nyack's carefully manicured lawns.
That connection is made through the conduit of Isabelle Reed (Isabelle Huppert), an esteemed war photographer who, after finally forcing herself to retire from her dangerous but addictive profession, died tragically in a mysterious car accident that seems to have been ruled a suicide. Primarily set four years after this event, the film charts the slow recovery of the splintered family she's left behind, setting the stage for a deliberately paced ensemble drama that's both heavily redolent of cliché and somehow separate from it, steadying itself through an acute focus on the idiosyncrasies of human behavior and an expansive, patient empathy for its flawed characters.
Key to this balance is an enduring sense of ambiguity, stemming from the fact that, despite its status as the emotional and narrative center of the film, the exact nature of Isabelle's death is never clarified. Possible scenarios are glimpsed via the daydreams of one character, and discussed obliquely by others, but precise explanations are avoided. This mystery is treated with trepidation as the family's older son, Jonah (Jesse Eisenberg), fleeing from the pressures of fatherhood after his wife gives birth to their first child, arrives home to sift through Isabelle's photo archives. Here he intrudes upon the brewing cold war between his troubled teenaged brother, Conrad (Devin Druid), and exhausted father, Gene (Gabriel Byrne), neither of whom has found a tenable method for living together without Isabelle, the emptiness of their too-large house creating ample space for bouts of lonesome brooding.
In telling this tale, Trier, aided by frequent collaborator Eskil Vogt, indulges in many of the hacky excesses of high-toned indie drama, while making enough small subversions of the format to leave things feeling slightly askew. Beyond a commitment to over-determined symbolic imagery, further indicators of a prosaic visual approach include the ever-present but always subtle shaky cam, fluttering ever so lightly to underline the characters' tremulous emotional instability, and the familiar outlines of this sad suburban milieu, in which seemingly perfect lives are revealed as rotten at the core.
What makes the film more interesting than the usual and formulaically structured hyperlink drama is its commitment to mounting inquiries rather than offering pat solutions. Refusing to approach this tangle of misery as a puzzle to be solved, the film keeps searching further, digging up further complications and issues, opening up the story instead of closing it off.
Like Trier's previous Oslo, August 31, Louder Than Bombs is a parable that takes depression seriously as a condition and a state of being, not merely a convenient impetus for dramatic catharsis. The characters here start out as stock figures, but deepen via the intensive exploration of their individual problems. They behave logically and illogically in quick succession, the rashness of self-destructive hatred bundled inextricably with their capacity and need for love, with the film attempting to explicate some small sense of deeper meaning out of their painful circumstances.
At one point, Isabelle describes the personal toll of heading off to war, even as an observer, and the heavy weight of being responsible for communicating on behalf of its victims. Along with that burden comes the sensation of dividing oneself into distinct domestic and professional selves, only to discover that each of those versions yearns for the comforts reserved for the other. As with a few other select instances of emotional revelation here, this speech takes on the form of a poetic off-screen narration delivered in two alternating voices, making it unclear if it's being dramatically attributed to one or two characters. In this case, the words seemingly belong both to Reed and her colleague, Richard (David Straitharn), whose looming New York Times profile on Isabelle, which promises to reveal the supposed truth about her demise, provides the story with its primary impetus.
Richard's status as Isabelle's professional partner, and a later revelation of deeper connections between the two, helps develop the sensation of ghostly mirroring that expands as the film progresses. Rather than climactic fireworks, Gene's eventual confrontation with his de facto double yields only the image of two broken men, damaged in entirely different ways by their relationship to this tragedy. Just as Isabelle's proximity to unvarnished human agony in countless different locations both catalyzed and complicated her own feelings of dislocation and ennui, the characters here repeatedly find themselves matched up against others whose suffering simultaneously parallels and makes a mockery of their own. Incapable of drawing anything instructive from these meetings, they continue stumbling on alone, shaded from realization by the myopic insularity of their own clandestine suffering.
This links up with the film's other major metaphorical conceit, again expressed via significant words from Isabelle, this time on how any image can be radically transformed by simply excising part of the picture and modifying its framing. This is a technique Trier himself tries out a few times, both in sly trick compositions and the larger story of a family recontexualized by the removal of one of its members. The confluence of these two motifs helps clarify the dual focus on concepts of emotional expansion and reduction, as well as its subtle subversion of a familiar wartime domestic narrative, confirming Louder Than Bombs as a film far more invested in penetrating dramatic analysis than might initially appear.


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All Listed Works Early Keyboard Trios
Ignaz Pleyel (1757-1831)
Born: June 18, 1757, Ruppersthal Died: November 14, 1831, Paris (age 74)
Sonata for Piano Trio in C major, Op. 23, No. 2, B.441
(for violin, cello and piano)
8:45 I. Adagio - Allegro molto
9:44 II. Adagio non troppo [con Variazioni]
2:51 III. Rondo. Presto
1800 Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) Leopold Kozeluch (1747-1818) Muzio Clementi (1752-1832) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Ignaz Pleyel (1757-1831) Jan Dussek (1760-1812) Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842) Ferdinand Fränzl (1767-1833) Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Johann Baptist Cramer (1771-1858) Johann Hummel (1778-1837) George Onslow (1784-1853) Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Ferdinand Fränzl (1767-1833)
Born: May 24, 1767, Schwetzingen Died: October 27, 1833, Mannheim (age 66)
piano trio, Klaviertrio [G], Trio avec piano [F]—an ensemble comprising violin, cello and piano.Second only to the string quartet as an essential genre, form and ensemble of chamber music
presto—very fast, more so than allegro.
rondo—sectional movement form featuring a recurring refrain between contrasting episodes in a variety of plans, a typical one being ABACABA (A is the refrain; B and C are episodes). Often used for finales.
tema con variazioni, con variazioni, Tema e variazioni, theme and variations, Thema mit Variationen [G], Thème varié [F]—a common movement form featuring an initial theme followed by a series of variations on that theme, each of which adjusts any number of parameters to achieve variety, e.g. tempo, rhythm, key, instrumentation, etc.A challenge to the composers ingenuity and a delight for the listener
trio (1)—an ensemble or work for 3 players
troppo [I], non troppo, trop [F]—too, too much. non troppo means "not too much". e.g. "Allegro ma non troppo" means fast, but not too much
variation, variazione, variatio, variato, variata—a modified re-iteration of a previous theme, reprise, couplet, etc. The music is varied, embellished or creatively transformed for variety while maintaining a unity relationship with the original. See "Theme and Variations."

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Leadership: China Punishes Corrupt Officers
November15, 2006: China released the investigation report of the crash of an experimental AWACS aircraft last June. A lot of mystery surrounded the incident, and the investigation report reveals why. Turns out that air force commanders tried to cover up incompetence and poor leadership, which caused the accident. Over a minute of tape on the black box was erased, and an attempt was made to make it look like only 29, not 40, people died.
What happened was that the twin engine aircraft, carrying a Chinese made surveillance radar, had passed all its technical tests, and this last flight was sort of a victory lap. That's where things began to go wrong. The aircraft was overloaded, with 40, instead of 29 (the max capacity) people on board. The aircraft flew through some chilly, moist air, at high altitude, which allowed ice to form on the wings. This unbalanced the aircraft. Since most on board were not wearing their seat belts, or even sitting down, the lurching aircraft caused several people to be thrown to the rear of the aircraft, which increased the imbalance and sent the aircraft out of control. Shortly thereafter, the aircraft crashed, killing all 40 on board.
The investigation resulted in several officers be demoted, dismissed or given demerits (which tends to ruin promotion prospects.) In a way, it was a "good news/bad news" situation. The good news was that the air force did not allow the cover-up to succeed, and the guilty officers were punished. The bad news was that this sort of thing is still going on. It's been an open secret for decades that the air force was corrupt. This interfered with developing new equipment and training. Too many officers were on the take. That has been turning around over the last few years, and this investigation, and the publicity it was given, is another example of that.


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Q: Log files are not created when executing single file application I'm trying to create a single file executable for my console application. The problem is that logging files are not created for some reason. If I run application in Visual studios, simple debug mode then everything works fine, I can see log file appear in the \bin\Debug\netcoreapp3.1 folder.
This is what publishing settings I use

I am using NLog for logging, and that's how my code looks regarding that
services.AddLogging(builder =>
{
    builder.SetMinimumLevel(Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.LogLevel.Trace);
    builder.AddNLog("nlog.config");
});
LogManager.Configuration = new NLogLoggingConfiguration(config.GetSection("NLog"));

and thats appsettings.json where I hold my nlog configurations
{
    "NLog": {
        "targets": {
            "console": {
                "type": "ColoredConsole",
                "layout": "${longdate}| ${uppercase:${level}}|  ${message}   ${exception:format=tostring}",
                "rowHighlightingRules": [
                    {
                        "condition": "level == LogLevel.Trace",
                        "foregroundColor": "DarkGray"
                    },
                    {
                        "condition": "level == LogLevel.Debug",
                        "foregroundColor": "DarkGray"
                    },
                    {
                        "condition": "level == LogLevel.Info",
                        "foregroundColor": "White"
                    },
                    {
                        "condition": "level == LogLevel.Warn",
                        "foregroundColor": "Yellow"
                    },
                    {
                        "condition": "level == LogLevel.Error",
                        "foregroundColor": "Red"
                    },
                    {
                        "condition": "level == LogLevel.Fatal",
                        "foregroundColor": "Red"
                    }
                ]
            },
            "allLogFile": {
                "type": "file",
                "fileName": "${basedir}/logs/allLog.txt",
                "archiveFileName": "${basedir}/logs/allLog.{#}.txt",
                "archiveNumbering": "Date",
                "archiveEvery": "Day",
                "archiveDateFormat": "yyyyMMdd",
                "layout": "${longdate}| ${uppercase:${level}}|  ${logger}|  ${message}   ${exception:format=tostring}"
            },
            "importantLogFile": {
                "type": "file",
                "fileName": "${basedir}/logs/importantLog.txt",
                "archiveFileName": "${basedir}/logs/importantLog.{#}.txt",
                "archiveNumbering": "Date",
                "archiveEvery": "Day",
                "archiveDateFormat": "yyyyMMdd",
                "layout": "${longdate}| ${uppercase:${level}}|  ${logger}|  ${message}   ${exception:format=tostring}"
            }
        },
        "rules": [
        {
        "levels": "Info, Warning, Error, Fatal",
        "logger": "*",
        "writeTo": "console"
        },
            {
                "logger": "*",
                "minLevel": "Trace",
                "writeTo": "allLogFile"
            },
            {
                "levels": "Debug, Error, Fatal",
                "logger": "*",
                "writeTo": "importantLogFile"
            }
        ]
    }
}

A: Found the solution after hours and hours of struggle.
so my allLog.txt file path was "fileName": "${basedir}/logs/allLog.txt",
apparently if one file executable is created ${basedir} will become something into like C:\Users\my_username\AppData\Local\Temp\.net\my_project_name\VnUDuP7f4QxGtrsSuaNaBXA_wxhYftr=\ , so to fix that I need to use ${basedir:fixtempdir=true} instead of ${basedir} so full path would be ${basedir:fixtempdir=true}/logs/allLog.txt.

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Nintendo began streaming a new video for its Super Smash Bros. Ultimate crossover fighting game on Tuesday. The video previews the gameplay and new content for Joker, the protagonist character from Persona 5 . The character and new content will be available on Wednesday in North America, and Thursday in Japan.
The game shipped for the Nintendo Switch last December. The game includes all previous playable characters and support eight-player battles. New characters include Animal Crossing: New Leaf's Isabelle, Metroid's Ridley, Castlevania's Simon, Donkey Kong's King K. Rool, and Pokémon 's Incineroar.
Several other characters are joining the game as "Echo Fighters" for other characters. Echo Fighters include Street Fighter's Ken (for Ryu), Castlevania's Richter (for Simon), Fire Emblem's Chrom (for Ike), Metroid's Dark Samus (for Samus), Daisy (for Peach), Lucina (for Marth), and Dark Pit (for Pit). Echo Fighters have moves and properties that closely match another character's.


Where are the Poli Distillery?
The Poli Distillery are located in Schiavon (VI), a few minutes from Bassano del Grappa and the beautiful castle of Marostica.
Can I reserve a private visit to the Poli Distillery?
Which distillation method does Poli Distillery use?
- the "bain-marie" Poli stills: "bain-marie" vaacum alembic and traditional "bain-marie".
Does the Poli Distillery distill all year round?
The Poli Distillery exclusively distills fresh grape pomace and therefore produces the Grappa only during the harvest season, from the beginning of September to the end of October/beginning of November.
Does the Poli Distillery use new barrique for the ageing process?
Every year, approximately 20% of the barriques in the ageing places is replaced with new ones.
Does the Poli Distillery export abroad? Where?
40% of our production is intended for the foreign market: U.S.A., Canada, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Denmark, England, Luxemburg, Nederland, Andorra, Liechtensten, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, Norwegian, Nigeria, Poland, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Turkey, Russia, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Brazil, Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Australia, New Zealand, etc..
Where do you buy the Poli Grappa grape pomace?
The Poli Distillery collect the grape pomaces from areas at DOC of the Pedemontana Veneta: from Breganze to Bassano del Grappa (links to Pinterest), to the Asolo's hills and the river Piave's basin.
"Sarpa", a vernacular word from Veneto, means grape pomace: it is also the name of one of the most representative Grappas from Poli Distillerie, obtained by distilling selected grape pomace of Cabernet (40%) and Merlot (60%): the young Grappa Sarpa di Poli.
What is the difference between "Grappa" and other distillates like Brandy, Vodka, Whisky?
Spot the difference between Grappa and grape Brandy and between Grappa and "acquavite".
What is "Taiadéa" and why this name?
The "Taiadéa" is the most typical liqueur in Bassano del Grappa. The name means the act of "cutting" Grappa and china elixir, a liqueur obtained by an infusion of the "calisaya bark" (the term "taiadéa" derives from Veneto dialect "taiare", that means "to cut").
China is a Peruvian plant and its names derives from "Ana de Osorio", Countess of Chincon and wife of Peru's Viceroy that in 1639 discovered the healing virtues in cases of malarial fever. In fact, the powerful antimalarial "chinino" is extracted from "cinchona". Therefore, the Taiadéa originally was used as a popular medicine.
Is it true that Grappa is the distillate with the highest alcoholic strength on the market?
It is false; it is an image created around Grappa by some uninformed writers.
Learn more about Grappa alcoholic strength.
What are the differences between the Poli Distillery and the Poli Grappa Museum?
The Poli Distillery is located in Schiavon (VI) and that is where we distillate Grappa, liqueurs and all the Poli spirits.
Alongside the Distillery there is the Grappa Museum - home to Schiavon, within which it is possible to trace the historical evolution of distillation. Inside the museum there is also a shop where you can buy all the products and gift boxes.
The Poli Grappa Museum - home of Bassano is located instead in Bassano del Grappa (VI) in the historic center (Via Leg 6 - Old Bridge), and consists of five suggestive rooms with video projection and texts in various languages. Also here you can buy the products Poli: proceeds from the sale are intended to enhance the historical research on the origins and distillation of Grappa.
To learn more visit the site of the Poli Grappa Museum.
To view our web references (Blog, Facebook, eMail, Poli Shop) visit the page Poli and Social.


We're putting one of our favorite rings in the spotlight today! As you know, we have many vintage rings remaining in our "vault" Every so often we go down into our basement and find vintage rings to bring up, count and add to our website.
Each ring was made here, in Providence. The rings were hand drawn on paper first (crazy right!?) and then brought into production. Seeing these drawings is mesmerizing – and some of them are even dated. There's something really special about these hand drawn designs – it takes us back to a time where things were much simpler. We are left with multiple binders, organized by number. Each binder is filled with the original drawings of these timeless rings.
#1824 is a ring you've seen before on our website and Etsy shop. A gorgeous 12mm glass pearl is the focus, surrounded by a mixture of round and baguette crystals for a look that is fit for any luxurious event or evening wear. The ring was originally inspired by the Art Deco era with a twist to make it all our own.
The ring was conceptualized and brought into production in October of 1984.
This ring is available in yellow and white gold tone. Stay tuned with us! We plan to reveal the original drawing of every ring we have live on our website!


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This weekend we traveled up to Oakland for our 10th and final Natural History Study. It was a wild weekend. We got to see people that have grown up with us in Rettland. We went through a lot of really rough years with these families. I think that is why we love these people so much. These were the people we called when Claire had her first seizure. These are the people that don't ask how it is going, they just get it and hug you and it's good. They have called me sobbing from IEP's. We've shared highs that nobody else understands like a few steps, a good nights sleep or services that were approved with no fight. Together we have all come so far. With time we have learned and grown and we have watched our daughters transform into the strong, determined, beautiful young ladies that they are.
When we first came to the study we were assigned to work with Dr. Percy and his fabulous nurse Jane Lane from the University of Alabama. We hung on their every word. We asked about what we could do and at that time, the answer was in the details of every day life, there was no medical intervention. This weekend we herd them talk about the NNZ-2566 trial that are conducting and we got to tell them about the IGF-1 trial that we are traveling to in a few days. It was a very different conversation, it was hard to say goodbye but it was easier than dealing with the facts of RTT that we discussed 6 years ago.
As we had our last visit the vivacious and never stopping Chloe snagged my phone and took this picture of Dr. Percy looking at Claire. It's been said, 'the eyes have it" and it is so true. Thank you to every researched that has traveled back and forth across the country over the years. Thank you to the coordinators that have gone to extraordinary lengths to iron out the details and make the weekends what they are for all involved. Thank you to the families that have given up vacations to come and do this and for being the most amazing family that is by DNA and not blood. It's the end of an era, a really rough era and I am excited for what's to come because I've still got all of these people out there in Rettland working to continue to make it a better place.
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Avian Dispersal Networks, Metacommunity Structure, and Bryophyte Community Assemblages
Matthew Wojciech Chmielewski, Portland State UniversityFollow
Portland State University. Department of Biology
Sarah Eppley
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Biology
1 online resource (xi, 144 pages)
Bryophytes -- Dispersal, Passeriformes -- Behavior, Animal-plant relationships
Spatial processes have a profound influence on the structure and function of community assemblages. The dispersal of organisms from their place of origin to the location in which they live out their reproductive life is particularly important for plant communities, which generally cannot adjust their location post-germination. Connection between communities at a landscape scale can also influence species persistence, local and regional diversity, and functional turnover at the metacommunity scale. Animals have been shown to disproportionately deposit propagules in particular microsites in many plant species, facilitating the arrival of plants to appropriate niche-space. Birds are particularly notable seed dispersers, given their ability to fly long distances and their behavioral inclination toward using specific microsites within their habitat for foraging and nest building. Despite the known influence of animal behavior on plant dispersal outcomes, little work has been done to investigate the role of animals in dispersing bryophyte (moss, hornwort, liverwort) propagules. In order to examine how birds may affect bryophyte dispersal, I conducted two studies focused on understanding how bird species identity and behavior influence the bryophyte propagules they carry. In addition, I conducted a study to understand how metacommunity structure across a landscape can be influenced by focal spatial scale.
In the first study I examined how bird species and foraging behavior impact the topical load of bryophyte spores found on bird surfaces. In order to determine this, I captured passerine birds in mist nets and swabbed them for spores. I found that spores were more abundant on passerine tails than legs, and that overall spore load was higher on larger birds. Thrushes in particular carried more spores than other groups overall. Bark and foliage foraging birds had more spores on their tails than ground foraging birds. From these samples I was able to germinate 242 individual bryophytes, demonstrating that carried spores were readily viable.
In the second study, I examined species-specific relationships between bryophytes and the birds carrying them. Swabs from captured birds were grown in the lab and bryophyte species were determined genetically. I used a bipartite network approach to determine the level of specialization of associations within the overall network, as well as how specialized the avian associations of individual bryophyte species were. I then used the phylogenetic distance of bryophytes found on individual bird species in order to assess how specialized the assemblages on a given bird species were compared with a null, random model. I found that bryophyte associations with birds were nonrandom, and that the extent to which those associations were specialized differed by bird foraging behavior. In addition, I found that the diversity of propagules on bird surfaces was significantly nonrandom, with the exception of those bryophytes found on Spotted Towhees.
In the final study, I examined the metacommunity structure of bryophytes at both patch and landscape scales across a relict landscape of Valdivian forest in North-Central Chile. This landscape consists of distinct natural patches of forest maintained by coastal fog deposition, surrounding by a dry matrix inhospitable to patch-resident bryophytes. I used quadrats to sample bryophyte species abundance at the base and at breast height of ten trees in each patch, in 20 patches across the landscape. I found that when considering the whole park as one metacommunity, the bryophyte community exhibited a Gleasonian structure, in which individual species turnover was idiosyncratic. Considering assemblages from both heights separately, a Clemenstian pattern was observed, suggesting that within each height compartment, turnover of species tended to happen together. Treating each patch as a metacommunity of individual community trees resulted in a wide variety of metacommunity structures across the park that did not reflect either longitude or latitude. Low canopy cover and small DBH resulted in structures reflecting random species loss. Underlying Shannon diversity did not explain differences in the observed structures.
This dissertation provides the first evidence that passerine birds carry bryophyte propagules, and that their individual species use of habitat and foraging behaviors are likely to influence the number and diversity of the bryophytes they are dispersing. This has implications for understanding disjunct species and genetic distributions observed in bryophytes that to date have lacked an explanatory mechanism for long distance directed dispersal. In addition, understanding how avian behavior may disperse propagules at a local to regional scale may provide better insight into the trajectory of bryophyte recruitment on impacted landscapes. I also found that assignation of metacommunity structure is sensitive to spatial scale in bryophytes. Together, these findings increase our understanding of the role that spatial processes play in forming bryophyte communities.
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/29413
Chmielewski, Matthew Wojciech, "Avian Dispersal Networks, Metacommunity Structure, and Bryophyte Community Assemblages" (2019). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 5096.
Available for download on Wednesday, August 19, 2020
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Who is the host of catfish the TV show?
Question: Who is the host of catfish the TV show?
What is Kamie Crawford famous for?
Who is Nev married to?
Who is the new woman on Catfish?
What does Nev mean in finance?
What does a Nev route mean?
Who is Max from catfish married to?
Kameran Kamie Crawford (born October 25, 1992) is a television host, and beauty pageant winner who was crowned Miss Teen USA 2010 on July 24, 2010 at the Atlantis Paradise Island Resort in the Bahamas.
Laura Perlongom. 2017 Nev Schulman/Spouse
10 Fun Facts about Kamie Crawford, The New Catfish Host. Catfish: The TV Show is back this January 2020 with all new episodes and mysteries.
NEV is measured by calculating the present value of assets minus the present value of liabilities, plus or minus the present value of the expected cash flows on off-balance-sheet instruments (such as some interest rate derivatives).
Neighborhood Electric Vehicle What, you ask, is a NEV Route? Well, its not directions to Nevada. It stands for Neighborhood Electric Vehicle. What is a Neighborhood Electric Vehicle? It looks similar to a golf cart.
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Jameel Prize 4 – V & A Museum London.
The V&A has announced the shortlist for the Jameel Prize 4. Eleven artists and designers have been shortlisted for this year's £25,000 prize, which is awarded every two years in partnership with Art Jameel. They are:
David Chalmers Alesworth
Rasheed Araeen
Lara Assouad
Cevdet Erek
Sahand Hesamiyan
Lucia Koch
Ghulam Mohammad
Shahpour Pouyan
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/exhibition-jameel-prize/jameel-prize-4/
Meet five inspiring Arab fashion designers.
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Author: Vera Illugadóttir/ Your Middle East
These designers have one thing in common – they all challenge conventional ideas about fashion in the Middle East.
Khaled al Qasimi
"There's always this underlying influence of the UAE and Middle East in my design. The characters I design for are usually urban tribal warriors and nomadic explorers. The idea of dressing as art is part of our culture. The smoking of incense and the placement of the headdress – there's a whole art to it," Khaled al Qasimi told CNN.
Fashion design is perhaps an usual career for a royal, but al Qasimi, the son of Sultan Mohamed al Qasimi, the ruler of Sharjah, did not let that stop him. He studied literature and architecture in London before deciding to follow his dreams and go into fashion. He presented his first womenswear line in 2008, but has since found his niche in…
Remembering Leila Alaoui: The Moroccans.
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It seems way too early to pay respect to Leila Alaoui, talented French-Moroccan photographer, in MER's Remembering sessions. After all, she entered 2016 full of power, only in her thirties.
Unfortunately, Alaoui succumbed to her injuries sustained in the Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) terrorist attacks, only couple of days ago. She was among those (at least) 56 wounded and now joined those more than 30 killed.
Alaoui was born in Paris in 1982 and studied photography at City University of New York (CUNY) before spending time in Morocco and Lebanon.
Her work had been exhibited internationally in recent years, including at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, and was featured in newspapers and magazines including The New York Times and Vogue. Last couple of years she lived between Marrakech and Beirut.
One of her most beautiful projects was The Moroccans. About it, she…
Five For Friday: Ten Years In Turkish Cinema.
A wonderful read for those who are interested in Turkish Cinema!
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If I write that Turkish cinema is on the rise, that it is original and compelling, often beautiful and poetic – I wouldn't be saying anything new. The truth is already out there.
Still, I felt the need to write about a couple of really great Turkish films made during the last ten years (2006 – 2016). These films are maybe not the most famous ones, and maybe not even the best ones – but I think they show diversity, originality, and each one of them is a special experience, rich in layers and nuanced.
Also, I noticed that Five For Fridaycategory has been neglected for last couple of months – I am sorry about that and will do my best to bring a little something different to Fridays more often. It's Friday, I am in love kind of a thing, but Middle East…
A Dictionary Packed with Stories from Eighteenth-Century Delhi, British Library Blog
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The Book To Read: The Librarian Of Basra.
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Here is a real-life hero story. Alia Muhammad Baqer was the chief librarian in the Al Basrah Central Library in Basra (Iraq). Baqer saved around thirty thousand books from destruction during the Iraq War, including a biography of Muhammad from around 1300.
Her story inspired two children's books, one of them being The Librarian of Basra by Jeanette Winter (illustrated by Winter in bright acrylic and ink). It might be presented as a children's book, but this lovely story is out there for everyone.
The book is written in a simple style and it's very easy to understand, but the story it describes is not a simple one – it took a lot of courage to do what Alia Baqer and her friends did.
Baqer worked at the library for fourteen years. As the war spread out, she tried to make sure books from the library would be…
Revolutionary nian hua in the British Library
By Amy Jane Barnes, BICC Post-doctoral Researcher
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Ai Weiwei's 'censored' Lego sculpture to go on show at Design Museum thetimes.co.uk/article/ai-wei…Zahra tweats 2 hours ago
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There is no doubt that the Sioux Falls Skyforce have more talent on their roster than they did two weeks ago. On Tuesday night, that talent only lasted until the beginning of the fourth quarter as the Idaho Stampede shook off a double-digit deficit to roll to a road win 109-102 at the Sioux Falls Arena.
The new-look Skyforce (21-17) scored the first seven points in the third quarter to take a 65-47 lead and threatened to make quick work of the Stampede (12-24). However, the gradual erosion of the Skyforce lead was mainly due to a cold streak from the floor and the line plus a propensity to foul gave enough of a crease for the Stampede to wrestle away the win. With 12 games remaining and 8 of them on the road, that might not be such a bad thing for Sioux Falls as their 10-7 mark so far on the road can attest.
Idaho's Coby Karl scored 16 of his 18 points after intermission with Justin Harper also contributing 18 counters and not to be discounted was the 9 points scored by JuJan Johnson all in the fourth quarter after looking lost in the first half. Demetris Nichols bore the scoring standard for the home team with 26 points and Damian Saunders added 23 points and 8 rebounds off the bench with Andre Barrett scoring 16 and dealing 15 assists. Idaho will continue their road swing on a Thursday junket to Reno while Sioux Falls heads to Santa Cruz on Friday followed by a stop in Reno on Saturday.


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The 2018 Farm Bill was passed in a rare case of bipartisanship with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) applying his penultimate signature using a ballpoint pen made from hemp.
This was significant because buried in the extensive language of the omnibus legislation was a provision outlining the end of the federal prohibition of the hemp plant here in the U.S.
Until then-President Trump signed that bill, hemp had been illegal to grow or process in all but very select circumstances here in the U.S. since 1937 and the passage of the Marihuana Tax Act.
In the 1970's, President Nixon's doomed War on Drugs along with the formation of the Controlled Substances Act and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) led to further discrimination against the cannabis plant in any form, hemp included.
That, however, was then and this is now.
The cannabis plant is in the midst of a renaissance of sorts, riding a wave of public support over the past decade to reform and legalization measures in a majority of states today.
The cannabis plant is still a Schedule I drug according to the feds, highly illegal in any form.
Hemp, though, they say is now perfectly legal.
So, what is hemp and how does it differ from cannabis?
WHAT IS HEMP?
Simply put, hemp is just one of many varieties of the cannabis plant.
Hemp is generally grown outdoors, or in greenhouses, in soil.
Other countries have been growing hemp for both fiber and seeds for quite a long time, as were American farmers prior to its prohibition.
Hemp seeds, and their oily byproduct, are used in countless wellness products and the plant's fibrous stalks are a regenerative source of raw material for textiles, building supplies, and even alternatives to plastics.
When lawmakers here in the U.S. decided to allow American farmers to legally cash in on this popular crop, they felt that they needed to find a way to continue to keep cannabis illegal – they needed a clear-cut way to distinguish between the two.
So, now hemp is only considered to be hemp if the plant contains 0.3% Delta-9 THC or less.
Delta-9 THC is the abundant and active ingredient found in most cannabis varieties that contributes to the 'high' feeling most users' experience.
Anything above 0.3% D9 THC is cannabis, in the eyes of Uncle Sam.
Of course, the cannabis plant (and, in turn, the hemp plant) has hundreds of cannabinoids in addition to Delta-9 THC, but just that one was singled out as the focus of the new federal law.
With the rise in popularity of complementary cannabinoids like CBD, CBG, CBN, CBC, and others, came a curiosity about how they all work in harmony with one another, along with Delta-9 THC, and terpenes, and other natural compounds in the plant – all of which are now federally legal.
This naturally balanced combination – when grown, extracted, and processed properly – can lead to a highly therapeutic user experience commonly called the Entourage Effect. This full spectrum effect can be achieved even with that nominal (<0.3%) amount of Delta-9 THC.
IS ALL HEMP THE SAME?
Today, hemp is being grown on all different scales depending on the intended use (or uses) for the final crop. Hemp grown primarily for fiber will be planted tightly to fit as many burly stalks as possible on the plot of land. Hemp plants grown for seeds or for flowers/buds will be given more room to branch out and breathe a bit.
As with any other crop, the quality of a hemp harvest will depend largely on the quality of the genetics being used as well as the ability/experience/work ethic of the farmer tending to the crop.
As with its cannabis cousin, hemp comes in many different varieties, or cultivars. Each will have its own distinct expression of cannabinoids, terpenes, flavonoids, and other compounds that make up its unique full spectrum.
Though all federally legal hemp must come in at no higher than 0.3% Delta-9 THC, there is no such cap on the rest of the useful constituents of the plant. So, finding cultivars that will naturally produce an abundance of those, while still yielding minimal THC, is the key.
Those proper genetics in the hands of the right farmer will lead to ideal hemp plants at harvest time.
The steps that come next - from the harvest itself to cannabinoid extraction to product creation - are just as crucial when it comes to quality.
When you do find a brand has that entire process mastered from seed to sale, as we have here at Humboldt's Cabinet, it is best to stick with that brand that you know you can trust.
IS HEMP SAFE FOR ME?
The cannabinoids, terpenes, flavonoids, and other full spectrum compounds found in the hemp plant are not only safe for you, but they also have the potential to finally put you on a path to optimal wellness.
Of course, as mentioned above, you need to be able to find a brand that you can trust with products that work for you and your needs.
Unfortunately, the relative lack of regulation in the hemp industry these days has led to the creation of far too many fly-by-night hemp and CBD brands looking for a quick cash grab.
Because the legality of the plant is so recent, reputable trade groups have yet to really take root in the hemp industry which creates some shadowy corners for morality-deprived profiteers to operate.
Too many of these products are sent straight to store shelves without third-party lab testing of the hemp itself, or the products made from it, leading to mislabeling of potency, ingredients, or worse.
Residual pesticides, fertilizers, mold, or harsh solvents can remain in retail-packaged hemp-based products if the brand behind that product has no accountability or reputation.
However, there are brands like Humboldt's Cabinet that fully recognize and appreciate the potential positive impact that properly grown and processed hemp can have on our society, particularly as a preventative form of plant-based wellness.
As a consumer, it is important to do a bit of research on cannabis and hemp brands. Learn their backstory and their motivation for being at the forefront of this industry. Ask them questions about how and where their hemp is grown, how it is processed, and how their products are best used.
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Chinese startup Luckin Coffee is reportedly seeking an IPO in Hong Kong this year, even as global coffee chain giant Starbucks has warned of a slowdown in the China market.
Targeting a similar customer group, Luckin's stores are located in downtown streets or big shopping malls in China, competing with the American coffee chain head to head.
Luckin started as a smartphone-based on-demand coffee business, quickly gaining popularity among the mainland Chinese who basically order everything from their smartphones nowadays.
More importantly, Luckin typically prices its products at over 30 percent cheaper than Starbucks, and the Chinese coffee chain often also launches promotional campaigns that further widen the price gap.
Barely a year in business, Luckin now has 2,000 stores in China. It plans to have 4,500 outlets by the end of 2019, which would likely beat Starbucks, which has about 3,600 stores now.
The speed of expansion is staggering. It means Luckin needs to open around 5.5 shops every day. Finding the right location, negotiating rental contracts, hiring employees all involve a lot of work.
Unlike founders of coffee giants such as Starbucks, Blue Bottle and Lavazza, Luckin's founder Qian Zhiya is a former tech executive. He had been the chief operating officer at Chinese car rental giant CAR Inc. Therefore, technology is at the heart of Luckin's business model, from introduction of digital management to user experience design.
The company raised US$400 million in B-series fund-raising, helping it to stick to its frenetic expansion pace.
Starbucks already caved in to intense competition in China, and decided to offer delivery service by teaming up with Alibaba's food delivery platform Ele.me in a move to shore up sales.
It's hard to say whether a business model with such a high cash burn rate makes sense or not. But at least, a high cash burn rate does not preclude Luckin IPO from being a good bet.
After all, coffee shops can be a highly profitable business, Starbucks gross profit margin is close to 70 percent for example. Luckin might be the winner eventually if its cash-burning strategy and delivery model work.
Meanwhile, its vast coffee outlets and food delivery app have built a huge customer base, which would also make it a potential acquisition target for big technology firms.


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THE U.S. SUPREME COURT WILL NOT STOP BRITISH
PETROLEUM'S GULF LIABILITY NIGHTMARE
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The U.S. Supreme Court just made it unmistakably clear, British Petroleum is inescapably in a dangerously vulnerable position in the seemingly never ending Gulf of Mexico spill-liability suits. The Supremes turned down BP's plea for an intervention in the multibillion-dollar litigation circus stemming from the April 2010 disaster that killed 11 offshore rig workers and spewed millions of gallons of crude Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana. The Supreme Court's unwillingness to wade into the spill litigation means that the present open-ended settlement of one portion of BP's liability will now cost billions of dollars more than the original $7.8 billion estimate. The Court's refusal to hear BP's petition came, as is the court's practice, without an explanation. The non decision will have very broad implications. BP's appeal to the Supreme Court appears to be an unusual frontal attack on the federal trial judge hearing other aspects of the complex spill litigation. Now that Justice Carl Barbier of New Orleans, no longer has to worry about the Supreme Court second-guessing his supervision of the BP case, it is more probable than not that the Brits will pay a penalty for having repeatedly challenged the integrity of the settlement process.
Plaintiffs' attorneys Stephen Herman and James Roy issued a statement that the high court's rebuff "should finally put to rest BP's two-year attack on its own settlement." Shortly after its well explosion and resulting offshore oil spill calamity BP moved to minimize lawsuits and provide funds for cleanup and damage claims. In 2010, the Brits established an initial $20 billion fund for these purposes and began trying to negotiate settlements of various government and private suits. So far, British Petroleum maintains that it has written checks for more than $28 billion. Hoping to avoid a trial on one category of potentially extensive business and economic claims, BP agreed in 2012 to a settlement whose cost it estimated at $7.8 billion. That agreement with various plaintiffs had no overall cap and relied on a highly flexible formula for determining which claimants qualified for payment. BP unwisely accused both the plaintiffs' lawyers and the settlement administrator appointed by Justice Barbier of abusing the pact. BP identified what it called exaggerated and some "fictitious" claims totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. Justice Barbier generally rejected BP's objections and asserted that he took offense at the company's suggestions that it was being victimized by down home New Orleans justice. This was the allegation that the Supreme Court declined to review. BP miscalculated that it could draw the Supremes into the case at this stage. As one report indicated; "the interpretation of the business-claims settlement boiled down to a one-time-only contract dispute complicated by highly idiosyncratic facts - not the sort of broad-reaching constitutional or statutory clash the high court normally seeks to resolve."
By challenging Justice Barbier's oversight of the settlement process, the Brits may actually have drawn additional attention to the pact's extremely loose and ill defined terms. BP now estimates that its liability under the business-claims settlement will exceed $9.7 billion, and plaintiffs' attorneys encouraged by the Supreme Court's lack of action, are lining up to take a shot and predicting the figure will be much higher. "Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Brandon Barnes agrees. He estimates that the settlement ultimately may cost the company an enormous $20 billion". However, that's not the final bill. BP faces a continuing suit filed by the federal government under the Clean Water Act for clean up costs and environmental damages. That separate and distinct liability could reach $18 billion - and the sole decision maker will be , you guessed it, the long suffering Judge Barbier. In short , the very judge the Brits attempted to take to the Supreme Court wood shed will now have it within his power to sock it to BP. This separate verdict will turn on highly particular factual determinations unlikely to draw the attention of the Supreme Court. Officially the PR position of BP's is that they "remain concerned" that it is being asked to pay claims unrelated to the 2010 spill. The Brits know They have more checks to write. Already the Brits have taken a pretax charge of $43 billion to cover hopefully all of its spill liability. With the recent Supreme Court (non)action, that amount increasingly looks inadequate. All this because they wanted to save a few hundred thousand on drilling costs.
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If Cinderella were to have a lavish wedding reception of her dreams today, I'd imagine her wedding cake would look a lot like this 3-tier wonder. With its signature castle cake topper and overall awe-inspiring appeal, this masterpiece may look like your classic Cinderella Castle cake. But if you look closely, you'll see this Disney's Fairy Tale Wedding couple personalized their cake with a little blue shimmer and intricate white details that surely had their guests wondering if they stepped foot straight into a fairy tale.
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Many regular activities take place at Springdale. If you would like any more information about any of the activities below please contact the Church Office for more details on 01902 338420 or by .
On most Sundays, the Junior Church leave the service part way through to go to age-grouped activities. Holy Communion takes place regularly. Junior Church join the main congregation for the later part of the service when Communion is being held.
From time time we are joined by the Rainbows, Brownies, Guides, Beavers, Cubs and Scouts for Parade.
The evening service tends to have a peaceful, reflective atmosphere. Holy Communion takes place regularly.
3.30pm (2nd Tuesday of the month) "Family Hotpot" - Messy Church at Springdale. Arrive from 3.30pm for a snack. Crafts start at 4pm. We say bye at 5.45 after you have had your tea. Young people need to bring a responsible adult.
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The Spanish defender made first Premier Leaguestart of the season in Stoke's1-0 win over Newcastle United on Monday, and he hopes to play again at Sunderland this weekend.
"I feel full of confidence," Muniesa told The Sentinel. "But it's the gaffer who decides who will play and against Newcastle he gave me the opportunity.
"I think I responded well and we will see this weekend if I keep my place.
"We have a lot of players with good quality, but we have to push together because we are one team.
"I have to keep working like always. On Monday the gaffer gave me an opportunity and I will always give everything I have to take it."
Muniesa has fond recent memories of playing against Sunderland, with the former Barcelona man having scored twice in Stoke's 2-1 League Cup win at the Stadium of Light last week.


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Explore the Adirondacks this summer.
Wildlife, up close; a singing forest; and a life-sized eagle's nest...
The Wild Center is a 115-acre campus of outdoor trails and immersive indoor exhibits with hands-on learning for all ages. It has gained international attention because of its distinction as one of the world's best natural history museums, celebrating and teaching about the Adirondacks' fascinating natural world and cultural traditions.
Four facts about Fort Ti
Fort Ticonderoga has a lot of history to tell. After all, it has been in existence, in some way or another, since 1755. It has seen occupation by the British, French, Germans, and forces of an emerging nation: the United States of America.
Today, you can visit the fort to learn all about that rich and complex history, but what makes the fort truly stand out as a special destination is the way that the past is brought to life. A visit to Fort Ticonderoga, nicknamed America's Fort for the role it has played in American history, is an exciting adventure in living history, full of cannon fire, demonstrations of daily activities, music, and more. You'll find more here than you might expect; here are four highlights that show some of the coolest things you might not have known about the history and activities of the fort.
Cycling with a view
It's no secret: The Adirondacks is a fabulous place to ride a bike. The area features miles and miles of low-traffic back roads and wide-shouldered main thoroughfares. But if you have to pick one location as a base for your first Adirondack road cycling experience, you'll want to "Get Close" to Wilmington.
This region has the best of everything. It's why Cycle Adirondacks features Wilmington on so many of its bike tours, including this summer's Ultimate Cycling Vacation, recently named one of the "Best Supported Bike Tours in the Country" by Outside Magazine.
Paddle Lower Saranac Lake
We set out early for a morning paddle on Fish Creek. We planned to paddle a half day, then head into town for lunch at Left Bank Café, followed by a massage. We really needed a break from our hectic lives, a day or two to completely let go and just relax, so we couldn't pass up the opportunity to be out in nature. We wanted to soak in the amazing views and look for wildlife. We were amazed to find a paddling route so close to downtown Saranac Lake that took us out into a remote area.
We unloaded our canoes on Lower Saranac Lake at Ampersand Bay boat launch, parked our car, and set out for our half-day paddle down Fish Creek.
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With its gorgeous views and unique venues, Lake Placid is a fun spot for sunny and exciting summer events. Here are seven options to help you plan your summer adventure.
Anywhere you go in the Adirondacks during summer is going to be great. Lakes, mountains, fields, and streams – it's all great. But why settle for great when you could have spectacular? Schroon Lake is a small, unassuming mountain town located between Lake George and Lake Placid that provides the perfect summertime oasis. Schroon Lake's options for water recreation are as rewarding as they are relaxing. Cruise on a motorboat, ride the tide of the wind in a sailboat, or paddle your own way on a kayak, canoe, or stand up paddleboard. I recently enjoyed my first Schroon Lake experience – so much so that I didn't want to leave!
Summer at the museum
Years ago, my grandfather planned a family day trip to the Adirondack Experience, The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake. He drove, my grandmother sat in front — the easier to distract my grandfather — and my mother and I sat in the backseat. From Plattsburgh, the drive to Blue Mountain Lake seemed interminably long, punctuated by Grandpa's patented distracted wanderings into the wrong lane, usually when a tractor trailer was bearing down on us from the opposite direction. Getting to the museum, much less home, seemed doubtful.
Yet make it to the museum we did and it was a wonderful day for our merry, multi-generational group. Founded in 1947, the museum, now known as Adirondack Experience, the Museum on Blue Mountain Lake, preserves the history of the Adirondacks, big and small, famous and less so. Since its founding, it's been a great, secluded place for families to visit, including mine, a spirit that the museum carries on with vigor to this day.
Family-friendly camping
About 25 miles south of Malone, NY on State Camp Road in Duane, you'll find one of several family friendly campgrounds in Northern Franklin County. Each year, my family and I pack up the truck and head to Meacham Lake for some good family fun. Let me share with you why we look forward to camping every year
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1950s up to now Pop Music Defined
What is pop music? The definition of pop music is deliberately flexible. It accommodates the fact that the specific music identified as pop is continually changing. At any particular point in time, it may be most straightforward to identify pop music as that which is successful on the pop music charts.
For the past 50 years, the most successful musical styles on the pop charts have continually changed and evolved. However, there are some consistent patterns in what we know as pop music. It is tempting to confuse pop music with popular music. The New Grove Dictionary Of Music and Musicians, the musicologist's ultimate reference resource, identifies popular music as the music since industrialization in the 1800's that is most in line with the tastes and interests of the urban middle class.
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ― Leopold Stokowski
This would include a vast range of music from vaudeville and minstrel shows to heavy metal. Pop music, as a phrase with the shortened first word, has primarily come into usage to describe the music that evolved out of the rock and roll revolution of the mid-1950s and continues on a definable path today. (Source: thoughtco.com)
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The Supreme Court has voted by 5-2 to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to Sweden to answer questions about an alleged sexual assault.
Mr Assange faces allegations from two separate women from a visit to Stockholm in Stockholm in 2010, which he says are politically motivated.
Lawyers for Mr Assange demanded the UK's highest court block the removal as the European Arrest Warrant on which it was issued was "invalid and unenforceable".
The case hinged on the judicial authority of the prosecutor issuing the arrest warrant under the Extradition Act 2003.
Mr Assange's legal team argued the Swedish prosecutor was an unsuitable figure to issue the warrant because they are a party in the case, but the Swedish Prosecution Authority successfully argued the term "judicial authority" had a wide meaning.
The judgement means it will not be possible for those resisting extradition in the future to deny that European prosecutors have the right to issue a warrant.
But Mr Assange's legal team raised the prospect of an even more protracted process today when they suggested they may ask for the case to be re-opened on the basis that the ruling was made on a point not argued in the appeal hearing. They have 14 days to decide.
They can also appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), although it can decide not to take the case.
The decision is just the latest dramatic twist for a figure who divides opinion.
Mr Assange originally hit the headlines because of his association with Wikileaks, which dumped diplomatic cables and sensitive information about American military conduct in the Middle East on the internet in 2010.
Since then, Mr Assange has lost many of his original allies, with the New York Times and the Guardian distancing themselves from him. He has also started a discussion show on Russia Today, prompting accusations of hypocrisy.
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MLS Side FC Cincinnati To Offer Inter Target Papu Gomez Around €10M A Year, Italian Media Reports
FC Cincinnati are prepared to offer Alejandro 'Papu' Gomez close to €10 million a year to convince him to join them over other interested clubs according to an Italian media report today.
According to Gazzetta dello Sport's online edition, the MLS franchise are ready to offer the 32-year-old Argentine €8 million a year and have also offered Atalanta €6 million for the former Catania player.
The salary offered would make Gomez the highest paid player in MLS at the moment if he were to accept the offer from the Ohio based club, who were formed in 2018 and played their first game in MLS in 2019.
FC Cincinnati are not alone in courting him however with Sevilla also very keen on signing him and the player would gladly agree to a move to Andalusia as he would be able to play in continental competition which would help his case for involvement with the Argentine national team.
Sevilla are ready to offer Atalanta €4 million for the player and are willing to give him an annual salary of €3 million.
Inter have also been strongly linked with signing him in recent weeks.
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The Pocono Forest and Waters Conservation Landscape covers two distinct areas in Pike, Monroe, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wayne, and Carbon counties. Its rich and diverse past, ranging from early Colonial settlements along the rivers and valleys to industrial development and outdoor leisure and vacation activities.
This landscape houses abundant natural resources, including the greatest concentration of wetlands in the state and large tracts of public and private forested lands, such as state and national forests and parks and private hunting clubs that were established in the past and still exist today.
Trails. Miles of recreational trails weave their way through the landscape, providing hours or days rewards.
Water. There are 4,700 miles of streams and about 74 square miles of lakes and ponds in this region.
The natural lands in this landscape provide a sense of community, clean water, stormwater retention, clean air, and an array of outdoor recreation activities.
Luzerne, Lackawanna, and western portions of Carbon counties have distinct ecological and cultural characteristics associated with the Northern Anthracite field, including the Susquehanna and Lackawanna "Valley" communities of Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, and Lehigh communities of Hazleton, White Haven and Jim Thorpe.
The culture and ecology of Pike, Monroe, and portions of Wayne and eastern Carbon counties have been influenced by the Delaware River, its river communities and its long-standing tourism industry. Gifford Pinchot's home, Grey Towers, is found in this region. Pinchot was the first chief of the US Forest Service and one of the fathers of the conservation movement in the United States.
For more information about the conservation landscape, please contact DCNR's Tim Dugan at 570-895-4000, or Pennsylvania Environmental Council's Janet L. Sweeney at 570-718-6507.