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Bay Area comedy shows to bring plenty of laughs in 2020
Kevin L. Jones	December 23, 2019Updated: January 2, 2020, 11:51 am
SF Sketchfest hosts comedy performers at the Castro Theatre and other venues throughout San Francisco. Photo: Tommy Lau Photography
It's indisputable: San Francisco is a comedy hub.
It's a breeding ground for stand-up, with prominent comedians growing up here (Margaret Cho, Ali Wong) or moving here to hone their skills (Lenny Bruce, Patton Oswalt, many others). On top of that, comedy venues of all sizes dot the Bay Area, creating a laugh scene that stretches from Santa Rosa down to Santa Cruz.
So it's no surprise that 2020 is already shaping up to be a hilarious year. Here are a few of the new year's must-see comedy shows:
SF Sketchfest turns 19 this year and as always, it plans to get fans rolling in laughter. Lots of notable names are receiving the tribute treatment, like Tony Shalhoub, George Wallace and the Monkees; and there's much more — like a sneak preview of "Medical Police," the new project from the creators of the spectacular Adult Swim show "Childrens Hospital."
Add the many stand-up comics and troupe performances (Groundlings, anyone?), and the growing number of popular podcast live recordings, and it becomes clear: SF Sketchfest is a comedy lover's paradise.
SF Sketchfest: Thursday, Jan. 9-26. Venues throughout San Francisco. For a full schedule and ticket details, go to www.sfsketchfest.com.
Comedian Ali Wong, onstage in Austin, Texas, in 2017, is in demand and heading to the Bay Area. Photo: Rick Kern 2017
Since Netflix released Ali Wong's hilarious special "Baby Cobra," tickets for the "Always Be My Maybe" star's local shows have been in high demand.
Thankfully she's added some bonus sets to her current "Milk and Money" tour. But act fast.
Ali Wong: 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Jan. 18-19. $69-$335. The Masonic, 1111 California St., S.F. www.aliwong.com/tour; 8 p.m. Feb.15. $49-$279.50. Luther Burbank Center, 50 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa. www.lutherburbankcenter.org.
Taylor Tomlinson performs during the 2018 Outside Lands festival. She will play the San Jose Improve Jan. 23-26. Photo: FilmMagic 2018
Taylor Tomlinson's recent appearances on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" and "Conan" are like barrages of pitch-perfect comedy. She's only 25 but she says she's been doing comedy for a decade — and it shows. She owns the stage like a stand-up veteran.
See for yourself when Tomlinson visits San Jose.
Taylor Tomlinson: 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Jan. 23-26. $20-$70. San Jose Improv, 62 S. Second St., San Jose. improv.com/sanjose
Comedian Dominique Gelin (left) performs in Oakland. She will be at the All Out Comedy Theater on Jan. 24. Photo: James Tensuan , Special to The Chronicle
Dominique Gelin
Dominique Gelin is a ubiquitous figure in the Bay Area comedy scene, running several shows around Oakland, including "Man Haters" at the White Horse and "Tokens" at the Layover. But this month also features Gelin performing a half-hour set at the All Out Comedy Theater for a special show tentatively called "Crazy/Funny."
"Crazy/Funny": 8 p.m. Jan. 24. $10. All Out Comedy Theater, 2525 Telegraph Ave., Suite B, Oakland. alloutcomedytheater.com
Comedian Michelle Wolf performs at at Outside Lands Music Festival in 2018 in San Francisco. Photo: Amy Osborne, Special to The Chronicle 2018
The world learned who Michelle Wolf was after she ripped into President Trump at the 2018 White House Correspondents dinner. But in addition to political humor, Wolf's comedy includes unforgettable bits about everything from superhero movies to lady farts. Her upcoming series of shows at Cobb's are notable as she's certain to be working on new material, having released her latest Netflix special "Joke Show" in December.
Michelle Wolf: 7 and 9:30 p.m., Feb.6-8. $36-$51. Cobb's Comedy Club, 915 Columbus Ave., S.F. www.cobbscomedy.com
'The Dollop'
The format for this podcast is simple: comedian and television writer Dave Anthony reads a story from American history to his friend, genius improvisor Gareth Reynolds. While Anthony reads, Reynolds riffs on what he's learning, which is usually some strange or horrendous moment in history, like the Emu War or Thomas Kincade's career. Anthony knows exactly what details of a story make for a good joke and Reynolds' improv skills must be seen to be believed.
"The Dollop" on tour: 8 p.m. Feb. 13. $35-$80. San Jose Improv, 62 S. Second St., San Jose. improv.com/sanjose; 8 p.m. Feb. 14. $35. Palace of Fine Arts, 3601 Lyon St., S.F. palaceoffinearts.org
Jo Koy, at The Chronicle in 2018, makes his Filipino American humor relatable. Photo: Alex Washburn, San Francisco Chronicle 2018
What makes Filipino American comic Jo Koy worthy of the 2018 Stand-Up Comedian of The Year award is his high energy and hilarious jokes about family. Even if you aren't Filipino, you can laugh about that strict parent, crazy aunt and silly kid in your life.
"I love relatable humor," Koy told The Chronicle in 2018. "My fan base is broad … We all have the same mom; it's just that ours has an accent."
Jo Koy: 8 p.m. Feb. 13. $39-$435. Chase Center, 1 Warriors Way, S.F. jokoy.com
Greg Proops is a veteran of TV's "Whose Line is it Anyway?" The "Whose Line" touring show is coming to the Bay Area. Photo: Mitch Haddad, ABC
'Whose Live'
The short-form improv TV game show "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" started in England back in 1988 and aired for a decade there before coming to America, where it ran for another 15 seasons with recurring players Wayne Brady, Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, Greg Proops and Jeff B. Davis.
The 2020 touring version of the show doesn't have Brady or Mochrie, but it does include veteran comedian Joel Murray ("Mad Men," "God Bless America"), so there will be plenty of laughs to go around.
"Whose Live": 8 p.m. Feb. 13. $39-$59. Luther Burbank Center, 50 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa. www.lutherburbankcenter.org; 8 p.m. Feb. 14. $37-$65. Marin Veterans' Memorial Auditorium, 10 Ave. of the Flags, San Rafael. www.marincounty.org; 8 p.m. Feb. 15. $39.50-$59.50. San Jose Civic Center, 135 W. San Carlos St., San Jose. sanjosetheaters.org
Comedian/actor Mike Epps will be headlining the Fabulously Funny Comedy Festival in Oakland. Photo: Chris McKay, Getty Images
Fabulously Funny Comedy Festival
This festival highlights some fantastic comedy veterans, including Sommore, "Breaking Bad" actor Lavell Crawford and Oakland native Mark Cooper of "Hangin' With Mr. Cooper." Headliner Mike Epps is mostly known for his acting roles, including the recent hit "My Name Is Dolemite," but he's been a stand-up comic for much longer.
Fabulously Funny Comedy Festival: 7 p.m. Feb. 22. $59-$125. Oakland Arena, 7000 Coliseum Way, Oakland. www.coliseum.com
Bobby Lee is bringing his comic energy to San Jose Improv. Photo: Mitch Haaseth, Walt Disney Television
A part of what makes Bobby Lee exciting to watch is that he looks like he would do anything for a laugh. His performance is typically unhinged and even when he was on a scripted show like "Mad TV," he looked like he could tap into the same uncontrollable comic energy.
Bobby Lee: 7 and 9:30 p.m. Feb.28-March 1. $25-$75. San Jose Improv, 62 S. Second St., San Jose. improv.com/sanjose
Norm Macdonald, seen performing in Del Mar in 2017, is at his best just telling jokes. He will be at the San Jose Improv. Photo: Tim Mosenfelder, Getty Images 2017
Norm Macdonald, the "Saturday Night Live" alum behind the underrated movie "Dirty Work" and Netflix show "Norm Macdonald Has a Show," is at his best just telling jokes. The jokes can even be bad and he will still find a way to milk a few laughs out of them.
Norm Macdonald: 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. March 13-14. $28-$78. San Jose Improv, 62 S. Second St., San Jose. improv.com/sanjose
Doug Stanhope performs onstage in London during his 2018 tour. He will visit Cobb's Comedy Club in San Francisco in March. Photo: Ollie Millington, Redferns 2018
He's not a household name, but Doug Stanhope should be. He's like Bill Hicks but with a greater appetite for partying, able to vacillate with ease from cutting social commentary to jokes about hangovers. While his gravel-voiced delivery already makes his performance a treat, he has decades of material — eight specials worth — filled with insightful bits, like his hall of fame-worthy take on nationalism.
Doug Stanhope: 8 p.m. March 17-19. $45-$55. Cobb's Comedy Club, 915 Columbus Ave., S.F. www.cobbscomedy.com
Micheal Foulk
Micheal Foulk has the confidence of a longtime comic, though he's only been at it for a few years. Then again, when you've written jokes as tight as his, you have something to be confident about.
A recent transplant to the Bay Area, Foulk is a comic hustler who performs multiple times a month at local venues. Catch him hosting Oakland's version of the LGBTQ+ comedy storytelling series "Greetings From Queer Mountain" every month at Temescal Brewing in Oakland.
Micheal Foulk: 7:30 p.m. every first Tuesday. Free. Temescal Brewing, 4115 Telegraph Ave., Oakland. www.facebook.com/queermountainoakland
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Kevin L. Jones	Kevin L. Jones is a Bay Area freelance writer and audio producer.
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In my spin class this morning, a woman said to me (kinda loud so the class heard--gah--whatevs) "I don't know what you are getting ready for, but you look ready!"
10 min w/up, 20 min best pace, cool down.
Hill pushes. Um, kinda hard in Michigan.
20 min E2/10 min E4 x 6.
Dialed back for bug to settle and rest that muscle.


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Q: How to test page load times of a web app from different countries? The company I work for has a web site located in a data center in North America, and would like to test page load times for our site from different continents, specifically from Europe, Asia and Oceania.
How can I do this? I don't know anyone that lives in any of these areas.
I'd love to be able to use selenium to automate this task, and perform various actions, but this is a nice to have.
EDIT: The reason I'd like to test using Selenium is so I can repeat the test from each location hundreds of times, and get an average of what the response time is for pages from my app. I know that these results would be a little fuzzy, but I'm mostly looking for a big picture - for example, it takes twice as long to load page X from Europe as it does from Asia.
EDIT 2: It's been pointed out to me that Google Analytics can be used to get this type of data by Region, which is helpful, but only helps out a little. It's good at helping me identify the big picture, but it's slow at helping me see how things I change affect the load times, which is what I'm really seeking - something that can be run under automation.

A: My webdriver provider interface:
package org.gk.networking;

public interface WebDriverProvider
{
    WebDriver requestWebDriver(WebDriverInitialization aInitialization)
            throws IllegalArgumentException,
            WebDriverProviderException;
}

Abstract implementation:
package org.gk.networking;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver.Navigation;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver.Options;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver.TargetLocator;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

public abstract class AbstractWebDriver implements WebDriver
{
    AbstractWebDriver(org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver aWebDriver)
            throws IllegalArgumentException
    {
        if(aWebDriver == null)
        {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("aWebDriver may not be null");
        }

        this.mWebDriver = aWebDriver;
    }

    @Override
    public void close()
            throws Exception
    {
        this.mWebDriver.quit();
    }

    @Override
    public final WebElement findElement(By aBy)
    {
        return this.mWebDriver.findElement(aBy);
    }

    @Override
    public final List<WebElement> findElements(By aBy)
    {
        return this.mWebDriver.findElements(aBy);
    }

    @Override
    public final void get(String aUrl)
    {
        this.mWebDriver.get(aUrl);
    }

    @Override
    public final String getCurrentUrl()
    {
        return this.mWebDriver.getCurrentUrl();
    }

    @Override
    public final String getPageSource()
    {
        return this.mWebDriver.getPageSource();
    }

    @Override
    public final String getTitle()
    {
        return this.mWebDriver.getTitle();
    }

    @Override
    public final String getWindowHandle()
    {
        return this.mWebDriver.getWindowHandle();
    }

    @Override
    public final Set<String> getWindowHandles()
    {
        return this.mWebDriver.getWindowHandles();
    }

    @Override
    public final Options manage()
    {
        return this.mWebDriver.manage();
    }

    @Override
    public final Navigation navigate()
    {
        return this.mWebDriver.navigate();
    }

    @Override
    public final void quit()
    {
        this.mWebDriver.quit();
    }

    @Override
    public final TargetLocator switchTo()
    {
        return this.mWebDriver.switchTo();
    }

    @Override
    public void webDriverClose()
    {
        this.mWebDriver.close();
    }

    @Override
    public final org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver getWebDriver()
    {
        return this.mWebDriver;
    }

    private final org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver mWebDriver;
}

Webdriver interface, since it isn't autocloseable and I cant extend the original since it already has a close method.
package org.gk.networking;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver.Navigation;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver.Options;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver.TargetLocator;

public interface WebDriver extends AutoCloseable
{
    WebElement findElement(By aBy);

    List<WebElement> findElements(By aBy);

    void get(String aUrl);

    String getCurrentUrl();

    String getPageSource();

    String getTitle();

    String getWindowHandle();

    Set<String> getWindowHandles();

    Options manage();

    Navigation navigate();

    void quit();

    TargetLocator switchTo();

    void webDriverClose();

    org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver getWebDriver();
}

Tor webdriver implementation:
    package org.gk.networking;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class TorWebDriver extends AbstractWebDriver
{
    public TorWebDriver(FirefoxDriver aWebDriver)
            throws IllegalArgumentException
    {
        super(aWebDriver);
    }
}

Webdriver initialization interface:
    package org.gk.networking;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;

public interface WebDriverInitialization
{
    DesiredCapabilities getCapabilities();
}

Tor webdriver initialization implementation:
    package org.gk.networking;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLDecoder;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Collections;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxProfile;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;

public class TorWebDriverInitialization implements WebDriverInitialization
{
    public TorWebDriverInitialization(DesiredCapabilities aCapabilities, FirefoxProfile aProfile,
            Collection<String> aCommandLineArguments)
                    throws IllegalArgumentException
    {
        if(aCapabilities == null)
        {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("aCapabilities may not be null");
        }
        else if(aProfile == null)
        {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("aProfile may not be null");
        }

        this.mCapabilities = aCapabilities;
        this.mProfile = aProfile;
        this.mCommandLineArguments = (aCommandLineArguments == null ? null : new ArrayList<>(aCommandLineArguments));
    }

    public TorWebDriverInitialization(FirefoxProfile aProfile)
            throws IllegalArgumentException
    {
        this(new DesiredCapabilities(), aProfile, null);
    }

    public TorWebDriverInitialization()
            throws IllegalArgumentException,
            UnsupportedEncodingException,
            FileNotFoundException
    {
        this(new DesiredCapabilities(), new FirefoxProfile(getDefaultProfileFile()), null);
    }

    @Override
    public DesiredCapabilities getCapabilities()
    {
        return this.mCapabilities;
    }

    public FirefoxProfile getProfile()
    {
        return this.mProfile;
    }

    public Collection<String> getCommandLineArguments()
    {
        if(this.mCommandLineArguments == null)
        {
            return null;
        }
        else
        {
            return Collections.unmodifiableCollection(this.mCommandLineArguments);
        }
    }

    public static synchronized File getDefaultProfileFile()
            throws UnsupportedEncodingException,
            FileNotFoundException
    {
        if(TOR_PROFILE_FILE != null)
        {
            return TOR_PROFILE_FILE;
        }

        String torProfilePath = "browsers/tor/profile.default";

        URL resource = TorWebDriverInitialization.class.getClassLoader().getResource(torProfilePath);
        if(resource == null)
        {
            throw new FileNotFoundException("Unable to open " + torProfilePath);
        }

        TOR_PROFILE_FILE = new File(URLDecoder.decode(resource.getFile(), "UTF-8"));

        return TOR_PROFILE_FILE;
    }

    private final DesiredCapabilities   mCapabilities;
    private final FirefoxProfile        mProfile;
    private final Collection<String>    mCommandLineArguments;

    private static File                 TOR_PROFILE_FILE;
}

And last, the tor webdriver provider implementation:
    package org.gk.networking;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLDecoder;
import java.util.Collection;

import org.apache.commons.lang3.SystemUtils;
import org.gk.PlatformNotSupportedException;
import org.openqa.selenium.Dimension;
import org.openqa.selenium.Point;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxBinary;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class TorWebDriverProvider implements WebDriverProvider
{
    public TorWebDriverProvider()
            throws FileNotFoundException,
            UnsupportedEncodingException,
            PlatformNotSupportedException
    {
        getTorBinaryFile();
    }

    @Override
    public WebDriver requestWebDriver(WebDriverInitialization aInitialization)
            throws IllegalArgumentException,
            WebDriverProviderException
    {
        if(aInitialization == null)
        {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("aInitialization may not be null");
        }
        else if(!(aInitialization instanceof TorWebDriverInitialization))
        {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("aInitialization must be of type TorPhantomJSWebDriverInitialization");
        }

        TorWebDriverInitialization initialization = (TorWebDriverInitialization)aInitialization;

        FirefoxBinary binary = null;
        FirefoxDriver rawWebDriver = null;
        try
        {
            binary = new FirefoxBinary(getTorBinaryFile());

            Collection<String> commandLineArguments = initialization.getCommandLineArguments();
            if(commandLineArguments != null)
            {
                for(String argument : commandLineArguments)
                {
                    binary.addCommandLineOptions(argument);
                }
            }

            rawWebDriver = new FirefoxDriver(binary, initialization.getProfile(), initialization.getCapabilities());

            // Cheaty way to hide window
            //rawWebDriver.manage().window().setSize(new Dimension(0, 0));
            //rawWebDriver.manage().window().setPosition(new Point(-4000, 0));

            return new TorWebDriver(rawWebDriver);
        }
        catch(Throwable t)
        {
            try
            {
                if(rawWebDriver != null)
                {
                    rawWebDriver.quit();
                }
            }
            catch(Throwable t2)
            {
                t.addSuppressed(t2);
            }

            try
            {
                if(binary != null)
                {
                    binary.quit();
                }
            }
            catch(Throwable t2)
            {
                t.addSuppressed(t2);
            }

            throw new WebDriverProviderException(t);
        }
    }

    public static synchronized File getTorBinaryFile()
            throws PlatformNotSupportedException,
            FileNotFoundException,
            UnsupportedEncodingException
    {
        if(TOR_BINARY_FILE != null)
        {
            return TOR_BINARY_FILE;
        }

        String torBinaryFilePath;
        if(SystemUtils.IS_OS_WINDOWS)
        {
            if(SystemUtils.IS_OS_WINDOWS_NT || SystemUtils.IS_OS_WINDOWS_95 || SystemUtils.IS_OS_WINDOWS_98
                    || SystemUtils.IS_OS_WINDOWS_ME || SystemUtils.IS_OS_WINDOWS_2000)
            {
                throw new PlatformNotSupportedException("Minimum Windows version required is XP");
            }

            torBinaryFilePath = "browsers/tor/windows/tor_windows32/firefox.exe";
        }
        else if(SystemUtils.IS_OS_MAC_OSX)
        {
            if(SystemUtils.IS_OS_MAC_OSX_CHEETAH || SystemUtils.IS_OS_MAC_OSX_PUMA || SystemUtils.IS_OS_MAC_OSX_JAGUAR
                    || SystemUtils.IS_OS_MAC_OSX_PANTHER || SystemUtils.IS_OS_MAC_OSX_TIGER
                    || SystemUtils.IS_OS_MAC_OSX_LEOPARD)
            {
                throw new PlatformNotSupportedException("Minimum OSX version required is Snow Leopard");
            }

            torBinaryFilePath = "browsers/tor/osx/tor_osx64.dmg";
        }
        else if(SystemUtils.IS_OS_LINUX)
        {
            String architecture = SystemUtils.OS_ARCH;
            if(architecture == null)
            {
                throw new SecurityException("No permissions to read system property os.arch");
            }

            if(architecture.contains("64"))
            {
                torBinaryFilePath = "browsers/tor/linux/tor_linux32/firefox";
            }
            else
            {
                torBinaryFilePath = "browsers/tor/linux/tor_linux64/firefox";
            }
        }
        else
        {
            throw new PlatformNotSupportedException("The current platform is not supported");
        }

        URL resource = TorWebDriverProvider.class.getClassLoader().getResource(torBinaryFilePath);
        if(resource == null)
        {
            throw new FileNotFoundException("Unable to open " + torBinaryFilePath);
        }

        TOR_BINARY_FILE = new File(URLDecoder.decode(resource.getFile(), "UTF-8"));

        return TOR_BINARY_FILE;
    }

    private static File TOR_BINARY_FILE;
}

Hope this is of use to you.
EDIT:
Btw, the profile is a folder that ships with a copy of the Tor browser. Just search for it when you download it. And the binary file is just for example firefox.exe on windows.

A: Another possible approach is to use Sauce Labs with a VPN connection, using "Sauce Connect", as detailed here

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The Singapore Under-18 football team lost 0-7 to Japan in an Asian Football Confederation U-19 Championship qualifiers yesterday.
The game, played in Mongolia, saw the Japanese race to a five-goal lead by half-time before cruising to the final whistle.
The Cubs will face the group hosts in Ulaanbaatar tomorrow. With two defeats so far (losing 1-3 to Thailand last Saturday), Singapore cannot qualify for the finals held in Indonesia next year.
NEW YORK • Italian great Andrea Pirlo, 38, yesterday announced his retirement from football, bringing the curtain down on an illustrious 22-year career.
In a statement published on the website of his Major League Soccer club, New York City FC, he wrote: "Not only my adventure in New York comes to an end but my journey as a football player as well."
He also thanked "every team that I had the honour to play for, every team-mate that I have been pleased to play alongside".
Pirlo has won almost every major honour including six Serie A titles, two Champions League trophies, two Italian Cups and the 2006 World Cup.
LONDON • Former Stoke City defender Dionatan Teixeira has died aged 25, the Premier League club announced. The Brazilian joined the club in 2014 and made two first-team appearances before joining Moldova's Sheriff Tiraspol.
LAS VEGAS • American Patrick Cantlay, 25, parred the second play-off hole on Sunday to defeat South Korea's Whee Kim and German Alex Cejka and capture his first PGA Tour title at the Shriners Open.
He has struggled for two years with a back injury and the death of his caddie and friend Chris Roth in a hit-and-run accident in February 2016. He, Kim and Cejka finished tied on nine-under 275 at the TPC Summerlin.
ENGLAND • Coach Eddie Jones says England are not fit enough to win the 2019 Rugby World Cup and must undergo huge changes to their training methods over the next two years to address the issue.
He added England had brought in several experts to help forwards adapt to the changing demands of the game.


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Tibirke is a locality in Gribskov Municipality located between Tisvilde and Tisvildeleje to the north, Tisvilde Hegn to the west and Arresø to the south, approximately 60 kilometres north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It includes the protected area Tibirke Bakker (hills), Tibirke Lunde (grove), Tibirke Sand (sand) and the village Tibirke.

Location

Tibirke Sand has an area of two square kilometres. It is bounded by Frederiksværksvej and Tisvilde Hegn to the north, Arresø to the east and south and by the municipal border with Halsnæs Municipality to the west.

History

Ancient history
Remains of two ancient roads at Tibirke Ellemose show evidence of early human activity in the area. One is from 2,800 BC, making it Denmark's oldest known road construction. The other, which consists of a series a step stones and a cobbled section of road, dates from the pre-Roman Iron Age.

13th to 19th century
The first references to the name Tibirke are from 1208–14. The name comes from ti, meaning god, and birki birch grove. The village of Tibirke was covered in sand and abandoned when the area was hit by sand drift in the 16th century. The farmers moved to Tisvilde. In 1717, Tibirke Church was almost completely covered by sand and it was under consideration to tear it down and ship the building materials off to Greenland. However, king Frederick IV ultimately decided to combat the sand and the church was instead excavated.

20th century
In the beginning the 1900s, a mixture of artists, writers and wealthy citizens built the first houses in Tibirke Hills. The architect and archaeologist Ejnar Dyggve created a master plan for the area in 1916 and he also designed a number of summer houses that was built in the hills over the following years. Many other leading architects of the time also designed summer houses in the area, including Mogens Clemmensen, Mogens Lassen, Ivar Bentsen and Vilhelm Lauritzen. Among the residents were the writer Johannes V. Jensen. In 1928, mockingly, Poul Henningsen referred to Tibirke Bakker as "Snob Hills". Tibirke Lunde saw a similar development.

Literature
 Dahl, Thorkel: Huse i Tibirke Bakker. Kunstakademiets Arkitektskoles Forlag.

References

External links

Gribskov Municipality

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Lowe (Sr.), Henry Edward
Henry Edward Lowe, Sr. was born in September 1951 in Macon, Georgia. He is a graduate of Lanier High School and is also an Eagle Scout. Henry attended Mercer University for one year then transferred to The University of Georgia where he graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration.
Henry and his two older brothers, Jim and Tom, grew up in the aviation business. His father, James Tarver Lowe, was a Naval Aviator during WWII. After the war in 1946, James Lowe started Lowe Aviation Company in Macon, GA. James Lowe was enshrined in the Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame on May 18, 1996.
Henry soloed at 17 years old and went on to earn a commercial license with flight instructor, multi engine, and instrument ratings. Henry began working at Lowe Aviation Company in 1973. He flew powerline patrol, US Forest Service patrol, and Part 135 Air Taxi Charter. As a flight instructor, Henry taught many new pilots how to fly.
Henry is a certified Airframe and Powerplant mechanic with Inspection Authorization as well as Instrument Repairman license. He has and continues to maintain the aircraft that Lowe Aviation owns and flies with his son, Edward. Henry took over as president of Lowe Aviation Company and led the business to become a Part 145 FAA Certified Repair Station working on aircraft, instruments, autopilots and engines. As a broker, Henry has sold aircraft to customers in nearly every state in the U.S.
Henry has served as president of the Georgia Aviation Trade Association four times. He was a Founding Director of the Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame and the Museum of Aviation. He is a member of many aviation trade organizations. He served as chairman of Macon Chamber of Commerce Military Affairs Committee and Aviation Committee as well as many civic organizations. He was the General Aviation Advisor and Coordinator for three airshows hosted by Robins Air Force Base and he headed two airshows hosted by the Middle Georgia Regional Airport.
As president of the FBO of Lowe Aviation Company at Middle Georgia Regional Airport, Henry has dedicated his career to promoting and expanding aviation in Macon and throughout the great State of Georgia. He is grooming his son to take over the business one day and his greatest desire is for his son to perform as powerfully in General Aviation as he has. Henry has a very proud family heritage in the family business that his father started; and a business his son will continue to build and grow. What greater honor for Henry than to be enshrined next to his father, James Tarver Lowe (1996) in the Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame.


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Tech sector says more job cuts to come as Elevate conference gets underway
Organizations: Clearco, DMZ, Dragons' Den, Elevate technology conference, Information and Communications Technology Council, Netflix, Properly, Rangle.io, Shopify, Wealthsimple
People: Abdullah Snobar, Anshul Ruparell, Lisa Zarzecsny, Michele Romanow, Mike Katchen, Nick Van Weerdemburg
The Elevate technology conference made its return to Toronto this week with a buzzy spectacle – shutting down several blocks of the Esplanade neighbourhood for a block party with performances from artists like rapper Haviah Mighty and scheduling more than 350 speakers, including tennis star Venus Williams, to grace its three venues by the time it wraps Thursday evening.
But the annual festival's reappearance after a two-year, pandemic hiatus is coming at a less than grand time for the industry. A slew of startups and tech giants as prominent as Netflix, Shopify and Wealthsimple have slashed their workforces as the sector grapples with fading investor exuberance and a potential recession.
That meant how to navigate the economic headwinds – and predictions about how long they will last – were hot topics on the Elevate stages.
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"I don't think we've hit close to the bottom yet," said "Dragons' Den" star Michele Romanow in a Wednesday mainstage session called "leading through uncertainty."
"Tech has seen the first kind of bump in this road and it could get a whole lot worse."
Her e-commerce investing company Clearco has not been immune to the industry's troubles. It laid off 60 employees last month as it handed off its international business, a month after cutting 25 per cent of its workforce.
The company anticipated a lot of international growth that no longer made sense in the current economy and it eventually cut "experimental" projects, which Romanow said was "devastating."
She's since been outlining a new business plan for employees and reminding them that she cannot promise it will go perfectly according to that plan.
"Being an entrepreneur is an extremely hard job. It is largely masochistic, even when the sun is shining and so when it starts raining, and we go into cloudier economic conditions, this is a very difficult thing," she said.
Abdullah Snobar, executive director of the DMZ tech hub in Toronto, agreed more cuts from more companies lie ahead.
"This is just the beginning," he said, as Elevate kicked off on Tuesday. "Not to create this over-the-top scare narrative, but I think for sure they're going to see a lot more layoffs."
Labour data aggregator Layoffs.fyi counts 630 startups worldwide which have let go of 80,902 employees this year alone. About 1,193 startups have laid off 176,874 workers since the pandemic began.
Workers watching these cuts unfold and being affected by them are now getting acquainted with the fact that "the world won't be the way it was," when companies were hiring "ridiculous" numbers of staff members in a short period of time, Snobar said.
But these workers are still needed.
A 2019 report from the Information and Communications Technology Council, a not-for-profit organization offering labour policy advice, predicted demand for digitally-skilled talent in Canada would reach 193,000 by 2022 and more than 305,000 by 2023.
A 2020 addendum accounting for COVID-19 forecast that demand would be reduced by nearly 24 per cent and said under new baseline scenarios, the digital economy is expected to experience demand for 147,000 workers by 2022, with total employment reaching nearly two million.
Banks, insurance companies and even retailers are embarking on hiring sprees as they delve deeper into artificial intelligence, apps and other software to advance their operations and cope with labour shortages.
"I don't think you'll be looking at a Gotham story, like the clouds have come in and we have got to be very careful and everybody's hiding for a bit," said Snobar. "We're going to get over this thing."
Lisa Zarzeczny, Elevate's chief executive and co-founder, agrees. It's part of why she was intentional about booking speakers who were willing to talk about the harsh realities facing tech and share tips on how to move forward.
"We don't want to gloss over it," she said. "We think there's an opportunity to learn, and so across all of our stages, we're asking some hard questions."
On top of Romanow's session, Elevate had scheduled Wealthsimple founder Mike Katchen and Properly CEO Anshul Ruparell to explore how to grow a business amid headwinds and Rangle.io CEO Nick Van Weerdenburg leading a talk called "Hedgehogging and outfoxing: The psychology of leveraging uncertainty."


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CUPE Nova Scotia Opposes Pension Clawback Tabled by Government Trustees
December 08, 2020 09:11 AM Eastern Standard Time
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CUPE Nova Scotia is disappointed to learn that board members of the Public Service Superannuation Plan Trustee Inc. (PSSPTI) are considering cuts to public service pension plan benefits.
"The changes that the trustee board are considering would effectively cancel the much-needed Canada Pension Plan (CPP) enhancement for thousands of workers, including CUPE members, who are members of the pension plan," says CUPE Nova Scotia President Nan McFadgen.
"CUPE Nova Scotia represents a number of local unions within the PSSP and we strongly object to these potential clawbacks from our members' pensions," says McFadgen.
The trustee board recently made a call for submissions, asking whether or not adjustments should be made to the PSSP in response to CPP increases that are being phased in by the federal government until 2025.
"All public service workers should be concerned about these cuts to their pension," says McFadgen. "We only learned about the call for submissions by accident. The board did not contact us locals directly."
"Last week, these changes were rejected by the sponsor board of the Public Service Pension Plan in Newfoundland and Labrador. In fact, none of the other plans have made cuts. Nova Scotia should not be the first," says McFadgen.
Nova Scotia's support was critical to the 2016 deal between the federal and provincial governments to expand the CPP.
"At the time, the Nova Scotia government said that the modest increase in CPP contributions was affordable for both workers and employers. They said nothing about later trying to take these new benefits back from their own workers' pensions," adds McFadgen.
"The trustees have fiduciary obligations to make decisions in the best interests of plan members," points out McFadgen. "These cuts to the PSSP are clearly not in the best interests of plan members."
CUPE Nova Scotia also supports the submission made by CUPE Local 1867, Nova Scotia Highway Workers' Union. Read CUPE's letter and submission at https://bit.ly/3lISBDd.
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Andrea Gibson Performs 'Privilege Is Never Having to Think About It'
By Andrea Gibson | November 5, 2014
There comes a moment when we are all confronted with our own privilege. And yes, it can be very challenging to accept and acknowledge this privilege — but the way we react when confronted says a lot about us. Check out this poem by Andrea Gibson about a moment when fellow poet Sonya Renee called them out for their white privilege and about how they reacted.
'Ashes': Andrea Gibson's Explosive and Moving Tribute to Victims of Violence in the Queer Community
By Andrea Gibson | September 14, 2014
Despite progress made in marriage equality and representation, the truth is that the violence against queer people is still a rampant problem. After reading about a soldier who was burned to death for being gay, Andrea Gibson wrote one of her most powerful spoken word poems from the perspective of the victims of these horrific hate crimes.


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Marika Anthony Shaw is commonly known as a member of the super music group, Arcade Fire. A classically trained violinist raised by a linguistics pioneer, Marika grew up watching her mom revitalize dying languages in remote areas of the world. Later, while touring the world herself with Arcade Fire, Marika had an epiphany. If bands added $1 to the price of their ticket sales, the lump sum could be donated to a charity of the group's choice. Thus, www.Plus1.org was born. Now in it's second year, Plus1 has turned Marika into a full time business woman, changing the world one dollar at a time. On Innovation Crush, Marika discusses her transition from band mate to CEO, the hurdles and triumphs she's faced along the way, thought leadership, the art of persuasion, and an obvious passion for change. Feat guest host, Monika Bielskyte, founder of All Future Everything.


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Monsanto Scientist Pleads Guilty To Stealing Secrets For China.
Natalie Winters
A former scientist employed by American agricultural giant Monsanto pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit economic espionage on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party against the U.S.
Xiang Haitao, 44, a Chinese national formerly residing in Chesterfield, Missouri, admitted to stealing trade secrets from Monsanto and its subsidiary, The Climate Corporation, from 2008 to 2017 where he worked as an imaging scientist.
"Despite Xiang's agreements to protect Monsanto's intellectual property and repeated training on his obligations to do so, Xiang has now admitted that he stole a trade secret from Monsanto, transferred it to a memory card and attempted to take it to the People's Republic of China for the benefit of the Chinese government," said Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen of the Justice Department's National Security Division.
The stolen technology was a digital, online farming software platform that could collect, store and visualize critical agricultural field data and increase and improve agricultural productivity for farmers. A critical feature of the platform was a proprietary predictive algorithm referred to as the Nutrient Optimizer, which Monsanto and The Climate Corporation describe as a "valuable trade secret."
In June 2017, the day after leaving Monsanto and The Climate Corporation, Xiang returned to China. While leaving the U.S., officials discovered his devices contained copies of the Nutrient Optimizer, which would have been useful to Xiang's new employer: the Chinese Academy of Science's Institute of Soil Science.
"Xiang pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit economic espionage and is scheduled to be sentenced on April 7. He faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison, a potential fine of $5 million and a term of supervised release of not more than three years," explains the Department of Justice (DOJ).
"The American worker suffers when adversaries, like the Government of China, steal technology to grow their economies," said Assistant Director Alan E. Kohler Jr. of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division. "It's not just military technology developed in secret labs that adversaries want; in this case, it was agricultural technology used by American farmers to improve crop yields. The FBI will continue investigating the theft of technology from American companies because economic security is national security."
The Chinese Communist Party has increased its outreach and influence efforts to American farmers and, in many cases, have seen their overtures welcomed by high-level agriculture officials in the Biden White House.
The arrest follows the DOJ indicting researchers employed by American pharmaceutical companies for stealing trade secrets relevant to COVID-19 treatments.
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Design drawings from the motor industry in the 1950s.
Hamish (Henry) Basil Macpherson (1915-2005) was a sculptor who trained at Central School of Arts and Crafts, London under John Skeaping (1901-80), from 1934-9. Following the Second World War he returned there to teach.
This archive comprises seven beautifully stylistic car design drawings by Macpherson, made when he worked in the motor industry in the 1950s. These are important materials for tracking the work of sculptors within manufacturing and industry.
We would like to thank Ann Compton, of Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851-1951, for putting us in contact with the owner of the collection.


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Can you remember the last time you set foot through the doorway of our office? Think hard and be honest with yourself. Has it been within the past year, or do you believe it may have been longer? The fact is, many Americans struggle with making it to their dental appointments, and just two out of three people have seen us this year. This simply will not do! When we ask you to come in for checkups and cleanings, we are making this recommendation on what is best for your oral health. We here at Tieken Smiles Dentistry strongly advise that you come in twice a year for your bi-annual dental appointment.
We get it. We do. Many of you have a genuine fear of coming to see us, debilitating anxiety known as dentophobia. This is a true phobia and keeps millions of people who need critical dental care from actually scheduling it. However, please understand that keeping your appointments with us can relieve your fear of us – routine appointments not only help normalize good oral hygiene, it can also prevent any scary dental problems from sneaking up on you!
Taking care of your teeth is teamwork. It would help if you started a good oral hygiene regimen at home, but we also need to call you in twice a year for a checkup and a cleaning. During your appointment, we will not only look inside your mouth to make sure you are not developing any tooth decay, but we will also look at other areas of concern. These include problems with jaw alignment, tooth loss, jaw pain, and even screening for oral cancer. We will also check your oral health to make sure you do not have gum disease, an infection of the gums that can lead to tooth loss and systemic infection and illness.
If it has been longer than two years since your last dental appointment, we may also recommend dental X-rays. This will allow us to determine if you have any active tooth decay or tooth or bone problems. These X-rays will stay in your file so we can track any changes to your oral health each time you come in for a checkup.
We will also clean your teeth during your appointment. A dental cleaning includes us brushing your teeth for you and polishing them with a special type of gritty toothpaste. We will also floss your teeth while you are here. If we notice blood during the flossing, we will recommend that you floss more often at home, at least once per day. We will also scale your teeth, which means that we will remove any hardened tartar (calculus) from your teeth. This will help brighten and improve the health of your smile! We may also offer you a fluoride rinse, which will help strengthen and remineralize your teeth.
Please do not wait until you are in pain to give us a call! We need to see you every six months to help you have your healthiest mouth. To set up your checkup and cleaning with us here at Tieken Smiles Dentistry, please give us a call today at (281) 942-0444!


This morning, 12 of NEXT Canada's ventures pitched at the organization's seventh annual venture day, which included an audience of over 250 investors, mentors, donors, and partners at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto.
Venture Day celebrates the end of NEXT Canada's two spring and summer programs: Next 36, which supports young founders of early stage businesses; and Next Founders, which focuses on founder development for existing startups with significant traction. Murad Al-Katib, president and CEO of AGT Food and Ingredients, kicked off the day with a keynote on how he grew his $2 billion food business out of Saskatchewan, while maintaining a focus as a social entrepreneur by giving back.


Every Tin Treasure starts out as a flat sheet of metal that is printed and then cut into separate pieces. Each piece is then formed into it's final shape through numerous tooling stations. The pieces are then hand assembled to create the final toy.
A labour-intensive process, Tin Toy production was quickly abandoned when plastic moulding was developed. Most traditional toy makers in India, like elsewhere in the world, moved away from Tin Toy production. Today, people from all over the world seek Tin Toys, either as serious collectors or merely to cherish the rich memories of their childhood. Anyone intending to start or enlarge a collection should not delay!


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Watch the First Trailer of 'Demolition' Starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts
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Toronto International Film Festival starts in 2 days. 'Demolition', starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts, is going to open the festival. What is confounding though is the fact that Fox Searchlights is releasing the film next year in April. In spite of all the talents behind the film including a well-known director in the form of Jean-Marc Vallée (Dallas Buyers Club) at the helm, Fox didn't want to give it an Oscar run this year. So, the question is, why then premiere at the biggest film festival ?
The trailer looks good — better than I expected — though you would notice absence of Naomi Watts in it. That doesn't mean she is not central to the story. I know that because I have read the screenplay. The decision to virtually omit her from trailer could be more due to the character she plays, which is a little mysterious — at least for the 1st 30 minutes of the film.
Davis (Jake Gyllenhaal), a successful investment banker, struggles after losing his wife in a tragic car crash. Despite pressure from his father in law Phil (Chris Cooper) to pull it together, Davis continues to unravel. What starts as a complaint letter to a vending machine company turns into a series of letters revealing startling personal admissions. Davis' letters catch the attention of customer service rep Karen (Naomi Watts) and, amidst emotional and financial burdens of her own, the two form an unlikely connection. With the help of Karen and her son Chris (Judah Lewis), Davis starts to rebuild, beginning with the demolition of the life he once knew.


Welcome back! We hope everyone had a good Easter break and is ready for the term ahead.
This week we will be starting revision. Maths and English will both have various focuses over the next few weeks depending on the needs of individuals/ groups. We will also be focusing on test technique over the next few weeks.
Our DT, work continues looking at Skyscrapers. We will be creating our designs this week.
In Science, we will be looking at the circulatory system over the next few weeks. This will start off by seeing what we have remembered from our Year 4 work on this.
PE days will be on a Monday and a Wednesday for the whole of Year 6. Please keep your kit in school everyday in case you need it.
Any newspapers for our art work would be appreciated.
Also, if children have an old shirt/t-shirt they can bring to school as an art apron, could they bring these in from Monday?
A very busy week this week to finish off a successful term!
English and Maths topics will vary for the different groups over the next few weeks as we revise and revisit various topics we have previously covered.
As Friday is our art day, we will be having an 'arty' week. The theme this year is 'I am Unique' so we will be doing some PSHE work on being unique, making masks and decorating an individual pebble for a whole school display- a pathway in the school grounds.
Science continues to be our work on DNA- which the children are very much enjoying.
PE trials for athletics will continue-weather permitting!
Just a reminder that those invited to Easter School (Mon 8th-Thurs 11th April), please check your session time, come into school via the front office, you can wear your own clothes!
Have a wonderful Easter Break- see you in the Summer Term!
This week will be an assessment week. Children will be completing a series of Maths and English assessments throughout the week.
Please note that due to this the weekly spelling test day may change for some groups this week. It will not be completed before Tuesday though.
Our DT work becomes practical this week-continuing on from looking at Skyscrapers the children will be looking at how to strengthen structures by design (using dry spaghetti and marshmallows!).
The PSHE focus for the next few weeks will be finance based- looking at various money/finance related topics including bank accounts, debit and credit cards and different ways our money is used from salaries.
PE continues to be focused on athletics, but again, weather depending PE days may vary.
The Mother's Day sale will be held on Wednesday.
This week we will be looking at nonsense poems in English. We will be studying 'The Jabberwocky'.
Math's will focus on Ratio and Proportion as well as some time spent revising word problems.
PE will change from tennis to athletics for the next few weeks so make sure you have PE kit in school!!
We will also be continuing with our DT work on 'Skyscrapers'.
Another busy week in year 6!
This week is Science Week! We will be doing lots of activities looking at science in the 20th Century and DNA. Year 6 will be extending this topic over the next few weeks.
Our English topic continues to be Ratatouille with some persuasive writing to Mr Pye this week.
In maths we will be tackling algebra.
Please remember to have PE (indoor and outdoor) kit in school each day as PE days may vary due to weather and hall availability.
English this week is carrying on with our ratatouille recipes. We will also be focusing on elements of SPaG we need to revisit as revision.
Our maths will be continuing work on fractions, decimals and percentages.
Wednesday is our visit to Crucial Crew. We will be having an early lunch (the kitchen has kindly said they will do an early meal if ordered in the usual way). We will be leaving school at 11:45 and aim to return to school by 3:10pm.
Thursday is World Book Day. Optional dressing up as a book character (no set theme). The book fair begins and children are welcome to bring a book to share an extract with their class.
Friday we have an exciting Science workshop each in year 6. This is to start the build up to Science Week.
As well as that busy week, parent consultations are also taking place on Monday and Wednesday. Please wait in Mr Hawkins room.
This week we are making ratatouille as part of our DT work. We will then be using our knowledge of making this tasty dish to write recipes for it.
In maths we will be focusing on fractions, decimals and percentages revision work.
Don't forget about TT Rockstars!
PE days remain the same this half term but please be aware that due to hall availability we may chang days or location of PE. Make sure you have kit in school for indoor and outdoor PE every day.
In English we are completing our ghost stories based on Alma.
In Maths we are having a week on Area and Perimeter.
English: Ghost stories based on the short animated film, Alma.
Please remember that the SATS meeting for parents is on Thursday 17th January at 6pm. We think it is very important that at least one parent should attend.
May we take this opportunity to wish everyone a Happy New Year.
Year 6 Summer 2016 Production Songs Click here for the songs for Far Out Island. Please do not share these on line with anybody else or on any social media as they are copyrighted material and we have been given special permission from the author to share on our website.
Balloon Invaders Times tables game - how well do you know your tables?
Handwriting help If you want to practice your handwriting you can make your own sheets following this link.
Revise science Some activities to help with learning the key facts in science.
World War Two A great BBC website to help with our history studies this term.


Photo Gallery – Some Class Pictures taken at the 1983 Evergreen Reunion have been posted. To view these click on Photo Gallery, 1983 (REUNIONS), Classes of: (the year you wish to view). Please click on the picture to enlarge it. Other pictures on the site should also be clicked to enlarge.
While only the class pictures of the 1950s are posted at this time, plans are to post all pictures taken, including Roberta Brunson Quirk representing her 1915 EHS Class.
Dale has designed the page for ease of navigation and Ryan has edited and provided captions for all of the class pictures. A special note of appreciation is extended to both of them for their devotion to providing viewers of www.EvergreenLa.org with high quality technology results.
Family Connections – Michael Rabalais FCs was submitted by Angie Rabalais Hudson.
Class Rosters – Angie Rabalais Hudson EES Class of 1978 and Cece Rabalais Ducote EES Class of 1980 have emailed names of classmates.There is a need for names of students who attended EES from 1966 - 1988. Please email Ed@EvergreenLa.org with any information for those class years. Thank you, Angie and Cece.
Bernard Mayeux has two burial plots for sale in the Little Flower Cemetery. The plots are cemented. If interested, please email me and I'll notify him of your interest or contact him directly. Thank you.
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This directory was deleted at the same time as the original WAMP. What environment variable does WAMP read when it starts up? (I don't see that path in the environment variables listed in "This PC"
Wampserver does not create paths in PATH system environment variable.
Wampserver does not use PATH system environment variable.
Some content - paths to PHP or mysql versions - of the PATH system environment variable can create Wampserver malfunctions because PHP configuration files (php.ini) or MySQL (my.ini) are searched first in the paths indicated by the contents of the PATH environment variables before being searched in the Apache, PHP or MySQL folders.
That is why, with version 3.1.3, the content of the PATH environment variable is checked and you are notified if there is a problem.
Deleting a folder does not delete its possible referencing in the PATH environment variable. In the same way that software uninstallations do not remove the paths they created in the PATH environment variable during their installations.
So you must remove this path from your environment variable PATH.
Open a command windows "as an administrator" and type "PATH" (Without quotes) and you will see the contents of the variable. The different paths are separated by a semicolon.
Although WAMP had nothing to do with the issue I had created for myself, your answer did lead me to a solution, and a better notion of how all of this works together.
Please start a new thread for a new problem!


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How To Complete Winter Party Bag Sbc Challenge In Fifa
How To Complete Winter Party Bag SBC Challenge In FIFA 22
The Winter Party Bags are back in NBA 2K22 ultimate team, along with new icon SBC's. It's sad that we don't have the Winter Wildcard packs, but it'd be cool if we had farty bags in FIFA 22. How you can grind the party bag challenge and why you should grind the party bag in FUT 22? Next, we are going to talk about how to complete FIFA 22 Winter Party Icon Bag SBCs.
FIFA 22 Winter Party Bag Icon SBC
There are 3 new icons that have been released in FIFA 22 Farty bags. We've got the Carles Puyol, Gianfranco Zola, and George Best. All of them seem to be okay value. The Gianfranco Zola is the one that everyone likes more, this one has the 76 stamina and the rest of the stats are cracked with four-star skill moves and four-star weak foot. However, the issue with Carles Puyol is always doesn't have elite-level acceleration or sprint speed, and the agility's bad. But he's got the 92 defensive awareness, the 92 strength, and 91 aggression. As for George Best, he is the one that most people are excited about coming in around 550,000 FIFA 22 coins is what the SBC is. He's about 550,000-600,000 coins on the market.
Some people don't have liquid coins, some people use their own tradable fodder for those of us that grind the game and just get on tradable packs and season objectives and wild card token swap packs and icon swap packs. If you don't have a crazy liquid coin balance, these might be some icons that appeal to you.
What Is Winter Party Bag In FIFA 22?
The Winter Party Bag aka Farty Bag has just arrived there. When you are opening this Winter Party Bags, it will display a fart sound. There is a new Winterwild card, there is an Awad and then there is also a cheeky party bag with the Hartridge center back. The reason you do this SBC it's about 30,000 coins.
What Contains In Winter Party Bag In FIFA 22?
The majority of you are going to do the SBC for the Wildcard token, but you also get yourselves a FIFA 22 winter party bag that contains a Team of the Group Stage, Rule Breakers, Ones to Watch, and the upgraded Numbers Up or TOTGS player that are currently available in packs.
How To Grind The Winter Party Bag SBC In FIFA 22 Ultimate Team
First of all, you get a Wildcard token, all you can do is get as many of these Wildcard tokens as possible. Because you get rewards based on how many tokens you have, you can choose from. Kind of like icon swaps. Then we need two Team of the Week players with 83 overall ratings and 60 cams. This shouldn't be too hard to complete but if you're trying to get some in the Team of the Weeks. Essentially what you're going to want to do is grind the 75 plus player picks. This gives you the option to pack one and three players that are 75 rating and above. The best thing you can do is gold rare, use your untradable first. If you have any in your club that way you don't have to spend any coins, you save yourself some coins. We'll put in 3 rares and then we will go to the commons untradable. Then put in some more. If you have Syria cards this should be pretty easy. Then put him at center back, at last, you should be able to get 75 plus.
Above is an example of doing one of these with untradeable in her club and you didn't have to spend a single coin. The truth is you're not going to get a board or walk out every single time. But you will get some Team of the Weeks, you will get some more fodder for League SBCs and you'll get a bunch of different stuff. If you don't have any untradable fodder in your club, there are a couple of different things to grind Winter Party Bag SBC FIFA 22. One you can use tradable fodder you might have. Just look for tradable options in your club or go to the market. If you go to gold common, look at the lowest buy now. The thing you might run into is depending on the cards you're bidding on. You might run into League SBCs, people bidding on League SBC cards and they're willing to pay way more than just the average gold price on the market.
Would you guys pay for a 100, 000 coin or maybe even 150, 000 coin for a FIFA 22 Winter Party bag pack if it guaranteed a Winter Wildcard? At the end of the day, it's a minimal investment, you get the Winter Wildcard and token, then you get a farty bag.


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Cars on Campus Rooftops and R2D2 Observatories: 6 awesome college pranks
1) Spruced up statues
Many university campuses have statues of mascots or key figures from the institution's history – and dressing them up has become a longstanding tradition the world over. One dramatic failed attempt to dress up a campus statue is particularly worth highlighting. In 1958, a group of students at the University of California, Los Angeles, thought it would be a good idea to coat the Tommy Trojan statue on rival University of Southern California campus in manure. Incredibly, the students rented a helicopter to dump their cargo, but the manure got sucked up into the helicopter's rotor blades, spraying the students with a taste of their own medicine. Poor Tommy has been the subject of so many pranks (including having his sword repositioned in a rather uncomfortable manner) that the school has installed a live webcam to deter further assaults on his integrity.
2) Remodeled campus buildings
Not content with desecrating statues, a few enterprising students at Carleton College remodelled a whole building, transforming the university's observatory into a huge replica of R2D2. The swivelling of the telescope makes it the perfect medium, and the likeness even comes complete with all the robotic beeps of the original. Check out the YouTube video.
3) Cars hoisted onto university buildings
All the way back in 1958, Peter Davey of Cambridge University started the trend of sticking a car on the roof of a campus building. The Austin Seven he chose made the 70ft climb to the top of the Senate House after months of planning, reams of calculations, and help from students who volunteered to surreptitiously erect scaffolding. It took a week to get the car down afterwards. In 1994 some MIT students followed suit, this time hoisting a (fake) campus security car atop Building 10 and issuing it with a parking ticket.
4) Angered football fans
This one really only works in the US, where college football games attract thousands of spectators. The 1961 Rosebowl was watched by 100,000 and millions more who tuned in on TV. All were shocked when fans held up cards which, taken together, read "CALTECH". Tiny Caltech is not known for its sporting prowess, and were not on the pitch. Apparently, some crafty Caltech students had managed to fool a cheerleader that they were journalists, break into the cheerleaders' hotel rooms, and switch the cards and instructions.
No doubt inspired by this stunt, in 2004 two Yale seniors and 20 of their friends dressed as the fictional "Harvard Pep Squad", walked into Harvard's football stadium and convinced almost 2,000 unsuspecting fans to unwittingly spell out the words "WE SUCK".
5) Fake students
One of the earliest university pranksters was Georgia tech student William Edgar Smith. He received an extra enrolment form when he signed up for his studies in 1927 and filled one out for the imaginary George P Burdell. Smith completed coursework for his fictitious friend, earning him a very real degree. Burdell has since become the stuff of university legend, earning a number of additional degrees and being admitted as a member to many clubs. Barrack Obama even got in on the joke, saying that George was meant to introduce him but that he was nowhere to be found.
Fake students need not even be human, and matriculated animals have frequently been used to call out equally fraudulent institutions. There is a "List of Animals with Fraudulent Diplomas" maintained on Wikipedia.
6) Silly school traditions
In the town of Göttingen in Germany, recently minted doctoral graduates rush off to kiss a statue of Lizzy, aka "Goose Girl" (Gänseliesel) at a fountain in front of the mediaeval town hall. In Wisconsin, students have been placing plastic pink flamingos on the main lawn at graduation since 1978.
Does your university have a history of foolish pranks? Have you hung a giant bra from a balcony or stolen a priceless George III cannon and welded a brass rat to it? Share your story @AcademiaObscura.
This post originally appeared on the Guardian Higher Education Network.
Posted in Academic Humour, Guardian Blog
Tagged animals, Caltech, cars, college, flamingos, football, Goose Girl, Harvard, MIT, pranks, sports, Wisconsin, Yale


How did your weekend go guys? As for me, I had a busy weekend trying to finish some of my undone online tasks and in fact until now I am not done yet. Yay, I hope I won't lose another batch of tasks reserve to my three blogs. It is this time when I wish I am moneyed of English vocabulary so I won't have hard time finishing those tasks.
On the lighter note, although I am loaded with online tasks I manage to attend a birthday party at my place to accompany the little one. It was a good opportunity to take a break online. How about you? How did you celebrate the weekend?


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Let's plan a date all together; Saturday 7th of July 2018, it's time for the 4th edition of Superball!! Don't miss all the beautiful, talented and creative creatures who will be shining on stage this night, so much entertainment + afterparty!
Just to explain Superball a bit more, there are ten different (inter)national drag houses who all will battle in three different categories to win the award of 'House of Superball 2017'.
Every house will introduce themselves with a video of all the members and afterwards they will perform a lip-sync.
Every house prepared a dance, that can be in every music style and free to do whatever they like.
Every member of the house will join the finale to walk the Catwalk.
The houses that will participate at Superball 2018?
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Rhode Island Man Barred From Sending Junk Text Messages
A federal judge in New Jersey granted the injuction to Verizon Wireless, though the carrier did not get the $150,000 in damages it was seeking.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A judge granted Verizon Wireless a permanent injunction against a Rhode Island man accused of sending millions of unsolicited text-message advertisements to cell phone customers in four states.
The injunction Friday in federal court in Trenton, N.J., bans Jacob Brown from sending any more spam text messages. Verizon sued Brown in June after identifying him as the leader of a ring that sent the messages.
"The ruling shows this won't be tolerated," said Steve Zipperstein, an attorney for Verizon. "It's annoying in your car, in your house, when you're out, to get messages that you don't want."
The messages were sent over the last several months to cell users in California, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. They advertised mortgage loans, products for losing weight, even adult Web sites.
Officials with Bedminster, N.J.-based Verizon said Brown and his cohorts sent bulk text-messages to cell phones by disguising their identities and using an automatic telephone dialing system.
Verizon had sought at least $150,000 in damages, but none were awarded.
Attempts to reach Brown, whose last address was listed in Pawtucket, R.I., were unsuccessful. He did not appear at the hearing last week in which the injunction was granted.
Internet service providers have won dozens of spam-related lawsuits against companies and individuals over the past few years.
Two years ago, Verizon Communications settled a spam lawsuit against Alan Ralsky and his Michigan-based company, Additional Benefits LLC, that prevented Ralsky from E-mailing Verizon Internet customers. The suit required Ralsky to pay unspecified damages.
Companies also are making it easier for customers to report an unsolicited text message. If they get one, they can forward it, at no cost, to their provider.


1. Tracing family and friends, aka "cluster genealogy." This approach helped me discover my third-great-grandmother Mary Frost's maiden name, which wasn't legible in her divorce case file. You can read about it in this blog post.
2. Looking for alternate sources of missing information. Six or seven years ago, my request for records of my great-grandfather's 1913 bootlegging trial in Texarkana, Texas, came back with a "found nothing" note. Not long after, at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, I scrolled and scrolled through microfilmed Bowie County, Texas, court records. Like the county clerk, I came up empty.
But while attending a genealogy conference in Little Rock, Ark., in 2009, I jumped at the chance to use microfilmed Texarkana newspapers (Texarkana straddles the Texas/Arkansas border). They didn't provide the level of juicy detail I'd hoped for, but several articles had updates on the trial.
3. Using multiple sources for the same data. Using the Ellis Island passenger search, Stephen P. Morse's One-Step search form for the Ellis Island site, and passenger records on Ancestry.com eventually led me to my Haddad great-grandparents in passenger list records of ships arriving in New York.
4. Formulating a theory. When I found two mystery men in a family cemetery plot, I looked at what I knew about them and then came up with a theory about their identities. From there, I could come up with steps to see if my theory was correct, which you can read about here.
5. Researching a potential relative forward in time. I do this often when I'm not sure whether a record I find is really my ancestor. For example, I've found online trees with my great-great-grandmother in a different family. I understand how it happened: She was born just after the 1880 census and her 1890 census listing is, of course, toast. A similarly named person lived in Indiana in the 1900 census.
6. Keeping on keepin' on. Continuing to research an ancestor—not necessarily focusing just on my problem or question—has probably been the most helpful strategy. It also requires the most time and patience.
Had I found these records before beginning my ship's list search years ago, I would've looked harder at the passenger named Fadlo Hadad—who turned out to be my ancestor. But as it was, not realizing my great-grandfather Mike had used that name, it took me several more years to identify him in passenger lists.
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Hypocrisy: Trump Admin Members Used Private Email
Calvin Wolf
Hillary Clinton's private email server may have been a genuine national security concern, or just a big nothingburger. However you slice it, the scandal gave the former Secretary of State no end of grief. Although primary campaign rival Bernie Sanders gave her a pass, Donald Trump and the Republicans beat Hillary Clinton over the head with the email issue every chance they got. Even after Trump won the election, he continued with the "lock her up" rhetoric, suggesting that the former First Lady deserved time in a jail cell. Currently on her book tour, Hillary Clinton has criticized the intense media focus on her emails as sexists and hostile.
Now, at long last, Clinton has some evidence that she is far from alone when it comes to ignoring proper email protocol. Ironically, it turns out the upper echelons of the Trump administration have been using private email to conduct official business. Days after the President led rally chants of "lock her up," he has to confront that fact that his own daughter was among top aides and advisors whose activities resemble Clinton's.
While none of Trump's staffers have used private email exclusively, as Clinton did, the hypocrisy is hardly excusable. The situation is made worse by the fact that Team Trump actively portrayed Hillary Clinton's email use as a genuine national security concern. If you believe the GOP, Clinton's private email server was an open door ready to be walked through by Russian, Chinese, and North Korean digital spies and saboteurs. We were one step away from having our most sensitive secrets snatched through the in-home server of a former U.S. Senator (D-NY), jeopardizing the lives of American personnel abroad.
It will take some impressive acrobatics to go from condemning Hillary Clinton's private email use to ignoring similar criticism of Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Reince Priebus, and Steve Bannon.
Perhaps having grown exasperated with President Trump's continued political bumbling, even Republicans are unwilling to turn a blind eye. U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) wants the White House to disclose the names of Trump staffers who used private email for government business by October 9. Reports that private email accounts are indeed being used by Trump staffers flies in the face of a March inquiry, when administration official Marc Short told then-U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) that no "senior officials" had "multiple accounts." There may not be any sort of a smoking gun, but the Trump administration is far too battered and bruised to tolerate any more scandal.
More worryingly for Trump, the new email scandal reveals that he has done nothing to "drain the swamp." There's a new swamp in D.C., and it's the same as the old swamp. The halls of power are still filled with Ivy League elites, like Kushner and Ivanka, who think they are above the law (or, at least, communication protocol). Democrats are certainly sharpening their blades for 2020, ready to paint Trump's entire first term as a long and miserable tide of hypocrisy, but perhaps even more worrisome is Steve Bannon himself.
As President, Trump needs to court the favor of the very Republican elites whom Bannon despises. To get legislation passed, lobbing verbal bombs at members of your own party is a terrible blunder for a commander-in-chief, so expect Trump's criticism of Republican Senators to wane over time. Having already lost his fourth bid at repealing Obamacare, Trump is growing desperate to pass anything. Expect the former real estate tycoon to try to catch more flies with honey this fall when it comes to tax reform.
But will Bannon and co. let the President simply walk away from his combative roots? Don't bet on it. Eventually, some of those who chanted "drain the swamp!" will be targeting their taunts at the very man who promised to do so in the first place. Steve Bannon, exhibiting the height of hypocrisy, will undoubtedly dredge up the private email use of Trump's top aides when he strikes. "I trusted Trump, but he turned out to be no better than Hillary Clinton herself," Bannon will thunder through Breitbart. He will shift his allegiance to a new politician.
By failing to "drain the swamp," exemplified by his own staffers doing that which they condemned Hillary Clinton for, Donald Trump has assured that his alliance with Bannon and co. is temporary at best.
Calvin Wolf is a regular TrigTent contributor


The Consumer Product Safety Commission (''CPSC,'' ''Commission,''or ''we'') is issuing a final rule that establishes protocols and standards with respect to certification and continued testing for children's products. The final rule also establishes requirements for labeling of consumer products to show that the product complies with the certification requirements under section 14(a) of the Consumer Product Safety Act (''CPSA''). The final rule implements section 14(a)(2) and (i) of the CPSA, as amended by section 102(b) of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (''CPSIA'').


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A sign of unrest spills over the streets as protesters drove past the Michigan Capitol on Wednesday to show their displeasure with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's orders to keep people at home and businesses locked during the new coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak. | Source: AP Photo/Paul Sancya
Dow Sways as America Desperately Fights to End 'Insane' Lockdowns
September 23, 2020 UTC: 1:49 PM. April 16, 2020 UTC: 11:48 AM. by Ben Brown
Protests are breaking out across America as monthly unemployment claims surge past 22 million.
Americans and politicians are growing restless in lockdown, putting pressure on Trump to ease restrictions.
Traders struggled to push the stock market higher on anticipation of U.S. economy reopening.
America is growing restless. Protests are breaking out across the country, and state officials are fighting back against lockdown rules. As pressure builds to reopen the economy, the stock market is tentatively pushing higher. Yet the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) struggled to maintain upward momentum on Thursday.
Las Vegas mayor Carolyn Goodman, made a passionate plea, calling for the end of "insane" lockdowns.
This shutdown has become one of total insanity… I am asking: Open the city. Open Clark County. Open the state.
The Las Vegas economy, like many places across the U.S., has been ravaged by the lockdown. New jobless claims came in at 5.245 million this week, taking the total to more than 22 million – around 15% of the total national workforce – since lockdowns began.
For heaven's sake, being closed is killing us already, and killing Las Vegas, our industry, our convention and tourism business that we have all worked so hard to build. The longer we wait to do this, the more impossible it will become to recover.
Dow struggles as stock market attempts to extend recovery
Dow Jones futures trended higher overnight, but the DJIA quickly relinquished its gains after the stock market opened.
As of 9:41 am ET, the Dow had lost 105.96 points or 0.45% to decline to 22,398.39.
The Dow Jones dipped into decline for a second straight day, though the broader stock market ticked higher. | Source: Yahoo Finance
It's the second straight loss for the index, which declined on Wednesday amid a deluge of dismal corporate earnings and economic data.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq diverged from the DJIA, rising 0.34% and 0.93%, respectively.
Lockdown protests break out across the country
Tension is rising across the U.S., with Americans desperate to get back to work. In Michigan yesterday, protestors blocked traffic at the state's Capitol in Lansing. Protestors held signs that read:
'Let Us Work' and 'We Are Not Prisoners'
One campaigner, Meshawn Maddock, said people were "sick and tired" of the lockdowns.
This arbitrary blanket spread of shutting down businesses, about putting all of these workers out of business, is just a disaster. It's an economic disaster for Michigan.
A similar protest broke out in Raleigh, North Carolina. At least one person was arrested as a demonstrators filled the streets. A local business owner summed up the mood among many Americans who have lost their income.
I cry every day. I'm doing the best I can. I need to open.
Trump under pressure to reopen the economy
As state officials and the public fight back against lockdowns, the pressure grows on Trump to ease restrictions. The president is expected to reveal guidance for how to relax stay-at-home rules later today.
These encouraging developments have put us in a very strong position to finalize guidelines for states on reopening the country, which we'll be announcing — we're going to be talking about that tomorrow [Thursday].
The president hosted a conference call with all 50 governors to discuss reopening state-by-state. And the White House drafted a committee to reopen America with 200 CEOs and business leaders. Investors have broadly cheered the initiative to get America back to work and limit the damage to the economy.
Dow Jones investors focus on reopening economy
The stock market's impressive bounce off March 23rd lows was largely driven by a stabilization in coronavirus cases. All eyes are now on when the economy restarts.
Julian Emanuel, chief equity and derivatives strategist at BTIG, says everything rests on reopening America.
We are now in the last two or three days, not really talking about case count and mortality rate as much. The discussion has squarely focused on how and when you open the economy.
The question is: Will that be enough?
Dow Futures Sell Off Ahead of Trump's New Federal Coronavirus Guidelines
America's Biggest Banks are Bracing for an Enduring Recession


I found a bug with the "Speadsheet to Form" widget.
It appears that when the user goes back to edit their form via an "Edit Link" (see here: https://www.jotform.com/help/40-How-to-Let-Users-Update-Their-Form-Submissions-at-a-Later-Date), the value for the input field disappears.
I was able to reproduce the issue with missing 'Spreadsheet to form' value in submission edit mode. A bug report ticket has been attached to this thread and escalated to our developers.
Unfortunately, there is no exact ETA for when it will be fixed, but we will let you know if we have any updates.
Hi we apologize the delay, but this has already been fixed.


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Der Bundestagswahlkreis Heidelberg (2005: Wahlkreis 275, seit 2009: Wahlkreis 274) ist ein Wahlkreis in Baden-Württemberg.

Wahlkreis
Der Wahlkreis umfasst den Stadtkreis Heidelberg sowie die Gemeinden Dossenheim, Edingen-Neckarhausen, Eppelheim, Heddesheim, Hemsbach, Hirschberg an der Bergstraße, Ilvesheim, Ladenburg, Laudenbach, Schriesheim und Weinheim aus dem Rhein-Neckar-Kreis.

Bundestagswahl 2021

Zur Bundestagswahl 2021 traten folgende Kandidaten an:

Bundestagswahl 2017

Als Direktkandidaten für die Bundestagswahl 2017 wurden aufgestellt:

Bundestagswahl 2013

Bei der Bundestagswahl 2013 waren 215.996 Einwohner wahlberechtigt. Die Wahl hatte folgendes Ergebnis:

Bundestagswahl 2009

Die Bundestagswahl 2009 mit 211.807 Wahlberechtigten hatte folgendes Ergebnis:

Bisherige Abgeordnete

Wahlkreisgeschichte

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 Strukturdaten des Wahlkreises Heidelberg beim Bundeswahlleiter

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A range accessible to all budgetsSo about 3 years ago we set out to develop a full range of shoes, a proper range of shoes, with the primary aim being to hit prices that were accessible to all riders, whatever the budget. We wanted products that would sell for $70-100 and no more. Second was the grip. At O'Neal there's been a kind of unwritten phrase we've been toying with for a while: "stick but don't get stuck" meaning trying to get the perfect balance of grip but being able to subtly readjust foot position when needed. The Honey Rubber sole was born and hopefully it's achieved what we set out to do.
Marketing BS vs genuine no-frills products that really work…Rather than take our word for it – because of course we are bound to say they're great, take Matt MacDuff's! Matt MacDuff has been wearing the shoes for a while now and is pretty stoked on how they perform. Of course, you could also argue that a rider, paid by a brand, is also bound to say they rock! Well, that's true. To a point. But then again this is Matt. He isn't just hitting trails and jumps that the average rider (even sponsored rider) hits, he's pulling off stuff where the contact points with the bike have to be perfect and he has to be able to place his entire trust in what he's wearing.
Not only is the video below impressive in its own right, but having bailed out the top of a 40ft loop the loop not that long ago and spending a year off the bike recuperating, means Matt's trust and confidence in the products he relies on is even more important.
Matt isn't your average rider. He also had issues with other shoes in the past and for him they really have to perform.Anyway, if you still think it's marketing hype then watch Matt pulling off the open loop double from the Reverence movie again.
Our MTB shoe range has been completely redesigned from the ground up, literally, and tested by development riders in the 2017 and '18 UCI WC DH Series. Built to last, packed with features and competitively priced to deliver one of the best value-for-money MTB shoe collections on the market. Below is just the start, launching at Crankworx this year will be another 3 models with more to come after that….
The Loam WP SPD incorporates our new adventure sole unit giving excellent traction when hiking off the bike but still designed for easy SPD entry and exit and traction even on flat and platform SPD pedals if needed. With a fully waterproof breathable membrane and thermal insulation, the Loam gives the ultimate protection against the elements. Gusseted tongue, mud flap and ankle gaiter give even more protection when needed.Tested extensively down to 0°C this is a true Winter shoe but is equally as happy in Spring and Fall with the thermal insulation striking a perfect balance between warmth and more year-round riding. A great option for those racing DH and Enduro due to the level of protection given, the Loam is set to be many riders' go-to do-everything shoe.
Crankworx is up and running, find out who came out on top.