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Ethics Group: McCaskill Admitted Campaign Finance Violations in Politico Column
Claire McCaskill / AP
Lachlan Markay • August 14, 2015 9:34 am
An ethics watchdog group filed a legal complaint against Sen. Claire McCaskill (D., Mo.) on Thursday, saying she admitted to violating campaign finance laws in a Wednesday column for Politico.
The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, headed by former U.S. Attorney Matthew Whittaker, alleges that McCaskill made an illegal in-kind contribution to the primary campaign of then-Rep. Todd Akin (R., Mo.), who unsuccessfully challenged McCaskill in 2012.
CNN reported on the Federal Election Commission complaint on Friday:
"Senator McCaskill did not simply meddle in another party's primary, rather, she crossed the legal line and made a prohibited donation in violation of federal law," said Matthew Whitaker, executive director of the group, in the complaint.
The complaint says McCaskill admitted to helping Akin win the Republican primary because she believed she could beat him in the general election. The Missouri senator wrote in a passage from her book "Plenty Ladylike" — which was excerpted in Politico this week — sharing how she spent $40,000 polling Missouri Republicans, and that staffers on the Akin campaign spoke with McCaskill's pollster.
Federal law limits in-kind campaign donations to $2,500, a figure the complaint says McCaskill violated by allowing her pollster to share data with the Akin campaign.
"By providing polling data and information, Senator McCaskill made an in-kind donation to a candidate that appears to be in violation of federal law," Whitaker wrote.
University of California at Irvine law professor Rick Hansen noted McCaskill's potential legal problems in a Wednesday post on his Election Law Blog.
If she gave the campaign something worth more than the limit (which was probably $2600 in that election) she'd be giving an in-kind contribution, and a contribution worth that much would have to be reported.
Well did the Senator give Akin something of value? It looks like it. After all, we know it is valuable to him because the Senator writes "Akin did not have money for polling," and she provided the information he needed to clinch the primary (at least in the Senator's telling). Elias's response to this point is: "There's no suggestion she shared 'polling data'. She only 'gave clearance, allowing [pollster] to speak in broad generalities." Perhaps that distinction will work, but I still think the issue is a serious one and merits a fuller analysis (and certainly fuller than I can give it now). I'm not suggesting the Senator broke the law, but there is enough here to justify a closer look.
Published under: Campaign Finance, Claire McCaskill, Missouri
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By Dept is a problem that has reached epidemic proportions in the World. A 2019 study conducted by the public policy research group Demos, showed that the average aged 65 or older carries a credit card balance of $10,235, this is up by 26% compared to four year ago. If you are pushing retirement but you have a lot of debts to settle, here are some strategies you should be adopting:Don't spend above your means – We all want to retire in that beautiful beach house or that rustic log cabin by the lake, with enough tucked away to keep us comfortable. The reality is most of us just can't afford it, and if you can't afford it, you shouldn't buy it, no matter what the credit card companies tell you.Throw away your credit cards – The numbers don't lie; the surest road to retirement debt is maxed-out, high interest credit cards. By spending only cash, it is much easier to keep your spending within sane limits.Make some extra money – If you can handle it, take on an extra job, or work extra hours at your existing job. A part time job, an online job, or even a side business can be great for earning some extra cash. It may seem difficult now, but you will need the additional cushion in the future.Sell what you can – Websites like Craigslist and eBay now make it much easier to sell stuff that would not have been possible to move 10 – 15 years ago. An old car or two, even ones that don't run, a boat you never use anymore, antique furniture, toys, anything of value that you don't really need. If you are intimidated by computers, you can have a relative help you out, or you can even have an old fashioned garage sale.Start saving up – Most people simply prefer to spend money recklessly on things they want now rather than plan for the future. This mentality is probably the single biggest cause or retirement debt. Start saving a portion of your income, and invest it wisely. Bankrate.com has a savings calculator to help you figure out how best to budget your money to prevent retirement debt. You'll find that if managed correctly, you will probably be pleasantly surprised at just how much you have saved when you do retire, and how much your investments have earned for you.


Inspired by the 2012 Sports Personality of the Year, Bradley Wiggins, I took to cycling around his old stomping ground of Kilburn (and Brondesbury) whilst delivering and speaking to local members.
More importantly, his background, a child of a single mother, shows that as long as opportunities are provided for, anyone can succeed in life. The Conservatives are determined to back an old fashioned nuclear family view of life. In the process vilifying many single parents with children on welfare, when (like with Bradley's mother) their partner is no longer there.
The welfare system must be there to support those in need. The Liberal Democrats are ensuring that it is there for those who need it; whilst at the same time supporting reform so that it is better to be in work than on benefits and easier for recipients to understand.
Yesterday I was delivering in Rowley Way, Kilburn, an award winning and Grade II listed architectural estate. Hearing more about it, and speaking to a former resident of the place, it made me think is this the kind of innovative architecture we need more of in the UK?
I'm not suggesting replica estates / designs, but it's an example of trying to use space more creatively that could tackle the housing problem in Hampstead and Kilburn as well as the UK.


Breosla Talmhaíochta Tráchtála – Tuigeann muid ag Sweeney Oil na fadhbanna éagsúla a bhíonn ag suíomhanna tráchtála ar bhonn laethúil. Má tá d'umar folamh nó más gearr go mbeidh, glaoigh orainn agus déanfaidh muid ár ndícheall ola a thabhairt chomh fada leat taobh istigh de chúpla uair an chloig. Soláthraíonn muid breoslaí d'ardchaighdeán do réimse leathan tionscal. Tá foireann speisialaithe againn a bhfuil taithí acu ar dhíolacháin áitiúla agus atá ar fáil chun do cheisteanna a fhreagairt, praghsanna a thabhairt, d'orduithe breosla a thógáil agus seachadadh a eagrú ar dháta agus am a fheileann duit. Oibríonn ár bhfoireann tiománaithe áitiúla lena chinntiú go bhfaigheann tú an táirge ceart ag an am agus san áit a dteastaíonn sé uait.
Cuntais bunaithe i nGaillimh chun aire a thabhairt de do riachtanais.
Mar ghnó teaghlaigh atá ag freastal ar an bpobal feirmeoireachta ar feadh os cionn 25 bliain, tuigeann muid riachtanais éagsúla ár gcustaiméirí feirmeoireachta.
Suaimhneas intinne: a bheith ar an eolas go gcuireann muid seachadadh an lá dar gcionn ar fáil.
Faisnéis fíor-ama faoi phraghsanna: a chuireann ar do chumas cinneadh feasach a dhéanamh nuair a cheannaíonn tú breosla.


ZEALS are a relatively new band and I've been loving them recently. The band have just released their latest EP, Ready To Fly, which has got me super excited for their future music! They've got a nice sound which is a mix of pop and rock, lots of guitar and drums. I interviewed this band so you can learn a bit more about them.
We were originally a 5 piece called Violet Heights, before that just a 3 piece with an idea, but yeah Violet Heights, went to record our first EP with our producer Romesh Dodangoda (Bring Me The Horizon, Don Broco, LTA, KIGH) and he said our name sounded like a hotel and was ultimately, pants. So we changed to IDLE HOUR, we then did a stint in Austria at a ski resort for a few months and the name just wasn't clicking with the variety of accents, so we were back in the U.K. I was driving to a solo gig with our EP on and thinking of names and I drove through a village in southwest Wiltshire which was real nice, and the name just stung me in the eyes. I looked up the meaning, 'a strong feeling for something or someone', absolutely what our songs and passion are about, so yeah, we're called ZEALS!
What makes Zeals different from the other bands out there?
We have a poppy sound but with enough balls to get the bikers going.
You've recently released your EP, Ready to Fly, what sort of reactions have you had from that so far?
It's been amazing, we've had so many reviews (which you can find on our FB page) we also got to 43 in the iTunes rock charts.
Tell me a bit about your latest EP.
It's a break through record, wanting something more out of something you really care for. We we experimented with the production side of the EP this time, lots of exciting synths and percussion, with the ballsy wall of sound to back it up.
You've been a band for a while, last year you released an EP, Playing Games, which reached 43 in the iTunes Rock Album charts. How did that moment feel?
It was immense, a real buzz of inspiration that's driving us on more and more.
You also took a visit to Austria, what was your favourite part of the trip?
It was so good, the best part was playing to so many different nationalities and boosting our following, the skiing was pretty sick too!
When you can feel the audience's vibe bouncing off us.
If you had the opportunity to support anyone at any venue, who would you support and where?
It's gotta be The1975 at Wembley, surely.
What's your favourite 'weird' food combo?
If you were stuck on a desert island and could only take three things, what would you take?
Guitar, pen (leaves for paper), water.
Touring with mainline bands, pleeeaaase!
Thank you so much for the constant support, we have more music coming soon and some sick gigs in the pipeline, keep posted ya'll!
I hope you enjoyed that. You can keep up to date with ZEALS on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
These posts are great and we can read about bands that we might have actually heard about before. So interesting!
It was so nice to learn about yet another band's story.


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Ulica Świętego Ducha (dawniej platea Sancti Spiritus, ulica Św. Ducha, niem. Heilige Geistgasse) – jedna z ulic w Gdańsku na Głównym Mieście.

Najstarsze wzmianki o ulicy pochodzą z roku 1336. Nazwa wiąże się prawdopodobnie ze szpitalem św. Ducha, który w roku 1357 został przeniesiony w pobliże Bramy Zamkowej.

Ulica zaczyna się przy Targu Drzewnym i przebiega w kierunku Motławy. Początkiem ulicy była rozebrana w roku 1804 "Brama Dzwonna" (nazywana również "Ludwisarską") zaś końcem wychodząca na Długie Pobrzeże nadmotławska Brama Świętego Ducha. Obowiązujący miejscowy plan zagospodarowania przestrzennego zakłada odtworzenie zabudowy w dolnym przebiegu ulicy (m.in. "Ław Mięsnych"). Przy ulicy św. Ducha w domu o numerze 47 urodził się filozof Arthur Schopenhauer. Dorocznie na ulicy odbywa się tradycyjny Jarmark św. Dominika.

W roku 2015 przystąpiono do odbudowy 6 kamienic zlokalizowanych po południowej stronie ulicy. W przypadku dwóch na podstawie zachowanej dokumentacji nastąpiła pełna rekonstrukcja elewacji, natomiast pozostałe cztery posiadają współczesną formę architektoniczną z przeszkleniami parteru i jego posadzki (w celu uzyskania wglądu do historycznych piwnic). Nawiązanie do obiektów znajdujących się po przeciwnej stronie ulicy zapewniło zachowanie historycznej wysokości zabudowy. Zgodnie z planem miejscowym w budynkach miała nastąpić odbudowa przedproży, przynajmniej w symbolicznej formie. W piwnicach zachowane zostały fragmenty gotyckich murów. Odbudowa zakończyła się w końcu 2016 roku.

W maju 2017 rozpoczęła się przebudowa ulicy (przywrócenie brukowanej nawierzchni, nowe nasadzenia, likwidacja krawężników i in.), której zakończenie nastąpiło w grudniu 2017.

15 września 2018 nieopodal Kaplicy Królewskiej odsłonięto rekonstrukcję kamienia, wyznaczającego środek historycznego Gdańska.

Kamieniczki i obiekty przy ul. św. Ducha

Znajdują się przy niej liczne kamieniczki, utrzymane w różnych stylach architektury (w większości odbudowane po II wojnie światowej) i często należące do znanych historycznych gdańskich osobistości. Do ciekawszych należą:
 Hotel "Wolne Miasto"
 Dom kapra Paula Beneke (zdobywcy obrazu Sąd Ostateczny)
 Dom Schopenhauerów (dawny dom burmistrza Gralatha)
 Dom Conradiego (gdańskiego burmistrza)
 Dom "Pod Żółwiem" - w XVIII wieku należał do Trosienerów, rodzinny dom Johanny Schopenhauer.
 Dom Groddecka (gdańskiego armatora)
 Kaplica Królewska
 Dom Strakowskiego (gdańskiego architekta Jana Strakowskiego)
 Dom Żeglarzy (należący do gdańskiej Gildii Szyprów)
 Dawna Kaplica Angielska

Linki zewnętrzne
 Ulica Św. Ducha

Przypisy

Ulice i place Głównego Miasta

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Ghentia is a genus of tephritid  or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae.

Species
Ghentia millepunctatum Bezzi, 1918

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Tephritinae
Tephritidae genera
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ULAN BATOR, Mongolia – Russian President Vladimir Putin is flying to Mongolia on Wednesday for a working visit amid soaring tensions with Washington and NATO over a Kremlin-backed offensive in Ukraine.
Putin is due to arrive in the Mongolian capital of Ulan Bator for afternoon talks with Mongolian President Elbegdorj Tsakhia. The two are to oversee the signing of trade and transport agreements before Putin departs at 6 p.m. (1000 GMT).
Moscow firmly controlled Mongolia during the Cold War and retains considerable influence over this vast landlocked nation sandwiched between Russia and China. Mongolia relies on Russia for almost all of its gasoline and diesel fuel and much of its electricity.
Moscow also holds a 51 percent stake in Mongolia's railway and a 49 percent stake in its largest state-owned copper mine.
With Western investment declining, Mongolia is turning increasingly to China and Russia to support its mining and animal herding-based economy, while also maintaining close ties with the U.S. and others as a counterbalance.
Chinese President Xi Jinping paid a state visit last month, during which the sides pledged to almost double their annual two-way trade to $10 billion by 2020.
Putin's visit is his third since he first became Russia's president in 2000. It comes as Ukrainian officials say their country's armed forces are now locked in a conflict with not only Moscow-backed separatists, but also the Russian army, although Putin has denied that his forces are invading Ukraine.
In response, President Barack Obama and Western allies are due to approve plans this week to position at least 4,000 troops and military equipment in Eastern Europe to reassure nervous NATO states near the Russian border.


Eiza Gonzalez has been set to co-star with Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham in the David Leitch-directed Fast and Furious spinoff Hobbs and Shaw. Chris Morgan wrote the script and the film is produced by Johnson with his Seven Bucks Productions partners, Dany Garcia and Hiram Garcia, along with Statham, and Morgan. Kelly McCormick, Steve Chasman, Amanda Lewis, Ainsley Davies and Ethan Smith are executive producing.
Idris Elba, Vanessa Kirby and Ray Donovan's Eddie Marsan round out the cast.
Gonzalez will next be seen in the Robert Zemeckis-directed Welcome to Marwen, the Sundance bound Paradise Hills, and Alita: Battle Angel. She's coming off Baby Driver.
Exec veep Mark Sourian and veep Jay Polidoro are steering the pic for Universal.


Comic Remy Munasifi does it again.
He mocked liberals in a parody of Obamacare. (Click here for the video in case you missed it).
Now he takes on out-of-control government spending with a parody of the national debt in "$20 Trillion Reasons," based on a Lady Gaga tune.
Watch the hilarious video and follow along to the lyrics.
Fantastic video by Remy Munasifi. I really enjoyed it!


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Aphanogmus microneurus is een vliesvleugelig insect uit de familie van de Ceraphronidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1907 door Kieffer.

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MILLWALL striker Shaun Batt is poised to join League One side Leyton Orient on loan.
Batt has made 11 appearances for the Lions this season and a move to Orient, initially for a month, will give him the opportunity to play much-needed first-team football.
Manager Kenny Jackett told the club's official site: "It is a great opportunity for Shaun to get some first-team minutes under his belt.
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This will be a great move for Battman! He has got bundles of power and pace, just lacking the technical ability but hopefully get some 1st team action and bang in the goals!
One gone, just two to go. N'Guesson and Tyler.
Let's all hope that signing Hulse is just a smokescreen and that either Morison or Kane are on their way and that at the end of this day we've spent the money we've got.
We wont be signing Kane, he is on-loan at Norwich! Plus he has been out injured for a while.
Morison has been touted as replacement for Bechio at Leeds!
The only player I'd like to see coming in would be Sylvan Ebanks-Blake or a creative midfielder like George Boyd!
I doubt if Morison would go to Leeds. He's not the bait that Norwich need to sign Bechio as quoted by Hughton. Kane can be recalled by Spurs at any time now and the fact is Norwich are actively looking to improve their forward line with several players. Kane and Morison are on the way out from there and let's hope they're heading to SE14.
Morison has just joined Leeds as part of the Becchio deal.... don't say I didn't tell you haha. Kane is still a possibility but Hughton likes a large choice of strikers and would prefer to keep Kane!
Well, Morrison HAS gone to Leeds. Here we go again, watching the quality sail by and looking at a forward line that would shame a conference side.
We can't sign Kane he made sub appearance for spurs before joining Norwich I think the rules state you can only play for two clubs per season.
Gutted we couldn't sign better but they're here now so as much as it pains me they have my support for now.
Wouldn't it be special if hulse or Tyson scores the winner at Leicester and they miss out on promotion by 3 points. They fcuked us so let's support the boys in fcuking them.
You say that as if it's Millwall's fault, as if we could somehow have stopped Morison from going to Leeds. Norwich didn't want to do a deal with us as they were using him as part of the Becchio deal. Same with everyone banging on about Dudley Campbell. He doesn't want to play for Millwall, simple as that. It's not always just down to money: the selling/loaning club and the player themselves have the final say. If they don't want to do business with us, that's our tough luck.
Let's get a grip. Hulse might not be the player we hoped for, but he's quite a lot better than Conference level. Some fans seem desperate to sign anyone for the sake of it. We should be signing the right players at the right price, just as we always have done under Jackett. If that means waiting until next season, then so be it.
Great. So we settle for what we've got and end up mid table cos that's better than relegation ? Get the players we need in now. It was obvious weeks ago that Wood was going and 3 weeks since he's gone. What is the back-up plan that was mooted? Hulse ? Please give me a break.
We've got a very good chance of getting into the quater final of the FA cup and the monet that goes with that not just from TV but also from the FA. We've already got more money to spend than any manager at Millwall has ever had. Be prudent yes, don't sign for the sake of it yes, but surely, if everyone's been doing their job thare is someone on their way. Let's hope so.
All the best to Shaun Batt, by the way. Not really in contention at Millwall, but his attitude has always been spot on. A good chance to get back to match fitness and, perhaps, to attract some attention in the league below.
Nah that b*******! KJ and AA have bottled it! we had an opportunity to really go for the play offs and we've bottled out.... simple as..... same old Millwall!!
Not being funny but we have the 2nd smallest budget in the league, so to be where we are is fantastic.... don't get me wrong I want us to be ambitious and get to the play-offs and the dreamland of the prem but would you prefer us to have a go for play-offs and fail which could be a massive risk and leave us in the s**t or be financially secure for championship football for the next 5 years? If you say play-offs you are deluded!
Be grateful for where we are!! We were in administration almost 20 years ago, some clubs have almost gone bust and are playing in the lower reaches of league 2 after going into administration!
Theres money available but KJ is too tight fisted to spend it! overall out squad is weaker now than at the start of the season.... we never look like scoring anymore and were cut to shreds by a ropey Barnsley outfit! call me deluded all you want but quite frankly we're going backwards these past few weeks! I'm not talking about going out there splashing cash like Leicester do but relying on loans and 33 year old donkeys isn't going to keep us in this league let alone see us competing in it!!
He is tight fisted because money means something to Millwall unlike Leicester and likewise towards the top of the league, they can spend what they want and who they want without caring if the signing is a flop, we have to be wise about investing..... Too many times in the past have we seen money spent on crap and we cannot afford to keep doing that, Scott Dobie, Paul Goddard, Pawel Houbertz, Bob Peters... the list is endless.
If Rob Hulse scores a dozen between now and the end of the season and creates a lethal partnership with Tyson you wont be saying that, all us Millwall fans are too quick to pre judge how someone is going to do before they have even kicked a ball.
You might be right, but cannot judge now, come back at the end of the season and give a real assesment of how the 2nd half of the season went, we might only finish 18 points above relegation but that would be an improvement on last season.
KJ and AA were giving it the big one about back up plans being in place if we couldn't keep hold of Wood - surely they didnt mean Hulse?! I'm saying this window is long enough to replace quality with quality should funds be available.... which they were!
Given the opportunity we had, finishing outside the top half cant be judged as successful regardless of last season!
I don't think I need to see Rob Hulse in a wall shirt to judge him - I've seen PLENTY of him and I don't remember being this disappointed in a singing we've made! He's been signed in a panic on the cheap because nobody else wants him! I'll be shocked if he gets 3 goals for us!! I also don't think we'll see much of Tyson - I like Tyson and think he could be good for us but BB will be seeing him much more than we will i fear!
By the sounds of it your going to be on Hulse's back from the word go.... well done.
We have made a name out of signing players who have done particularly poorly at their respective clubs and done well for us, Josh Wright, David Forde, Danny Shittu, James Henry... the list goes on.
Anyway enough with the negativity of some people.... the very best of luck to Shaun at Leyton Orient, he deserves to be playing 1st team football and I for 1 will be looking out for him to see how he is doing!
With you on Battman.... I hope he does well at Orient - his pace and strength shoudl see him get goals in that league - all the best Shaun!
How can I be disappointed if he hasn't even played yet let alone a run of games in the side yet!?!?
Who was the last prolific striker Millwall signed? .... apart from Morison from then conference club Stevenage as that wasn't even in the football league.
I know I'll be backing him all the way, if it doesnt work out for him and us then I'll be disappointed.
Exactly - we never do!! and people wonder why we get such s*** gates!!
This is what I'm saying, we can't afford a prolific scorer, they cost over £2mil in this division unless we sign a Sylvan Ebanks-blake but his wages are nearer £20k a week apparentlyand why would he want to come to us when there are bigger teams after himwith a better shot of promotion??
I know its closing the stable door after the horse has bolted but Jason Roberts may have been a better option than Hulse, he's played with Tyson at Wigan and they were a formidable partnership. Some will say that's going back a bit, but we may have got more out of Tyson than previous teams did. And Roberts is a far better player than Hulse at a similar age.
Also does anyone know if charlton came back in for N'Guessan ?
No they didn't. He'll be off to Welling or Fisher by the summer.
Adsy..... give me a positive about our current situation?! yes we have a talented manager and a good chairman BUT we have a poxy weak squad with no goals in it (in my own opinion) Im extremely disappointed with what we have done in this window - I feel we have swapped Hendo (who yeah was moody and inconsistant) for 2 guys of similar age, with awful goal records of late who both are more injury prone than Hendo himself!! My negativity comes from frustration, we had a proper good opportunity this season after the run and thats all but gone now because we haven't got anyone in!! The reason for that may be because we have no money, it may be because the "right player" wasn't available or it might even be because JB, AA and KJ havent worked hard enough!! whatever the reason the fact is still there and that is what my problem is!! Im still well behind the team and the manager but I feel we've let the good first half of the season go to waste!
Can people stop going on about us having the second smallest budget in the league, its utter b*******. If we can afford to pay likes of shittu Tyson and hulse over 10k a week and previously Henderson 15k then we are by far spending more budget wise than just the 1 team. We waste our money on loan fees and their wages on players that don't really improve the squad. With someone like Adam smith or Harry Kane and Townsend they were good loans as they were on low wages low fee and there was no real chance of signing them permanently whereas s**** like hulse and Tyson who are both more injury prone than Henderson was and neither really improve us at all its a complete waste of money.
And why the f*** didnt we sign Matt Ritchie from Swindon, quality player who we will end up signing from Bournemouth for Malone plus cash, the usual.


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Brewers 5, Mets 1: After five consecutive losses, Brewers finally lower their magic number for division to two
Tom Haudricourt
As much as their offense had struggled during their frustrating late-season slide, what the Milwaukee Brewers needed most Friday night was a solid, lengthy outing from their starting pitcher.
And Eric Lauer delivered one.
Bouncing back from a 39-pitch first inning that seemed to portend a short outing, Lauer turned in 6⅔ dominant innings to lead the Brewers to a 5-1 victory over the New York Mets at American Family Field that ended a five-game losing streak and finally – finally – allowed them to lower their magic number for clinching the NL Central crown.
Getting no help to the south from the Chicago Cubs, who dropped a doubleheader to the streaking St. Louis Cardinals (14 straight victories), the Brewers lowered their magic number to two to claim their third division title since joining the NL.
BOX SCORE: Brewers 5, Mets 1
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The Brewers could clinch the NL Central as soon as Saturday if they beat the Mets again and the Cardinals finally decide to lose a game. Milwaukee's magic number had been stuck at three since their last victory on Saturday against the Cubs. The Brewers lost the next day to Chicago and then got swept in a four-game series by St. Louis.
"It was nice as a team pick-me-up," Lauer said. "We got a little stagnant there with the Cardinals. They're playing really good baseball. You can't take that away from them.
"But to be able to turn that page and let that series go, I think it's going to bode well for us moving forward. We're kind of jumping right back on the horse here."
The Brewers backed Lauer with three home runs, including the first one by Christian Yelich in more than a month. Yelich also walked and tripled to at least temporarily halt a September slump in which he was batting .181 with a .475 OPS.
With the bullpen thinned by workloads and an injury to Devin Williams, manager Craig Counsell allowed Lauer to throw a career-high 114 pitches. But he was on cruise control after the first inning, allowing only one hit and one walk before departing after retiring 18 of the last 20 hitters he faced.
Lauer allowed only three hits and one run while matching his career high of nine strikeouts and lowering his earned run average to 2.93 for the season. Over his last 14 outings (13 starts), Lauer has posted a 1.78 ERA.
"He threw the ball well all night," Counsell said. "The error got us in trouble; I'm not sure how many pitches it added. But he was outstanding. Second through seventh (innings), as good as you're going to see somebody pitch all year. I thought he was just in command of everything and working on top of the zone and his cutter was really good tonight.
"He continues to be really key for us, and on a night we needed length from our starter. Obviously, the first inning made it a little precarious, but to deliver that after the first inning, that length, we really had to have it. Just a huge effort."
The first inning did not go as Lauer hoped but he managed to stop a complete meltdown, allowing just one run. That one scored quickly with leadoff hitter Brandon Nimmo belting a triple to right-center and scoring on Francisco Lindor's groundout to short.
Lauer should have put down the next three hitters in order but shortstop Willy Adames overthrew first base after fielding Pete Alonso's two-out bouncer up the middle. That error was costly for Lauer in terms of pitch count but, luckily for the Brewers, not additional runs.
Michael Conforto drew a walk and Jonathan Villar singled to right to load the bases before Lauer struck out James McCann to finally end the inning. It was his 39th pitch, including 17 after the Adames error kept the Mets alive.
"I think that's probably the most pitches I've thrown in the first inning maybe ever," Lauer said. "That was a little bit of a gut check to re-set after that first inning and go out there and try to put up some quick zeroes. Not just zeroes but some quick ones."
It took the Brewers a total of six pitches to get that run back. Leadoff hitter Kolten Wong knocked a home run to right-center off righty Tylor Megill on a 3-2 fastball on the outer half of the plate, his seventh opening blast of the season.
The score was still 1-1 when Wong led off the Brewers' third with a walk. Adames, in his fourth game back from the injured list (quadriceps strain), took a first-pitch fastball from Megill the other way for a two-run homer, his first since Aug. 18.
Another long home-run drought came to an end when the next batter, Yelich, belted a 1-0 changeup out to left-center. It was Yelich's first homer since he hit two on Aug. 21 against Washington, including a grand slam, a span of 120 plate appearances without one.
Yelich kept his breakthrough night going when he sliced a liner into the left-field corner leading off the bottom of the fifth and legged out a triple. Avisaíl García followed with a sacrifice fly to right, boosting the Brewers' lead to 5-1.
Lauer had thrown 100 pitches through six innings, usually a stopping point for a Brewers starter. But with a depleted bullpen, Counsell let him go back out for the seventh. Lauer was at 114 pitches when Jeff McNeill reached on an infield hit and when Counsell came to get him, the pitcher begged unsuccessfully for one more hitter, holding up an index finger.
"Yeah, that was 'let me get one more. C'mon.' I didn't think that one hit should have taken me out of the game," Lauer said. "I understand pitch count-wise, yeah. But I felt good. I really wanted to go for that career high strikeout. I wanted to get through seven. It was a lot of things.
"I was trying to give that subtle little hint that everyone apparently saw. 'Let me get one more. C'mon. It's a pinch-hitter. He's cold off the bench. C'mon.'"
Left-hander Brent Suter took over for Lauer and pitched through the eighth inning. Josh Hader, who hadn't pitched in six days, took over in the ninth and put the Mets down in order.
As for the exhale factor of finally winning a game and watching the magic number go down a click, Yelich said, "You always want to win. We've had some tough ones the last week or so, but it's not our first tough stretch of the season. We've been through it before. It's just baseball.
"It happens like that sometimes, where things just aren't going your way and don't really cooperate. We kept battling and came up short a few games this week. Credit to the guys for coming out today with a clean slate and finding a way to get that one was big, to get back going in a positive direction.
"We're still in good shape. I think we're a positive group and realize, 'Hey, it's better to happen right now than in two weeks.'"
Overall: 92-62
Home: 43-36
Away: 49-26
Saturday: Mets at Brewers, 6:10 p.m. Milwaukee RHP Corbin Burnes (10-4, 2.34) vs. New York LHP Rich Hill (6-7, 3.87). TV: Bally Sports Wisconsin. Radio: AM-620.

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Five bands from across the world join forces to bring the third instalment of Metal Hammer's Defenders Of The Faith tour in full heavy metal mode. A nearly-full room in the Manchester Academy was locked and loaded for the battle.
Consisting of members Tommy Helmet [guitar/ vocals], Martin Rearview [guitar/backing vocals], John S. Hana [bass/backing vocals] and Truls Haugen [Drums], Norwegian outfit Insense was first on the agenda to entertain their Manchester audience. Insense began with the thunderously chilling 'Death For Me, Death For You' and headbanger 'Welcome Whore,' setting the mood on the right path with their metalcore, sometimes progressive, noises along with Tommy Helmet's blend of aggressive & tantalising harmonies. The momentum kept its pace of the going with the aggressive 'Surviving Self Resentment' with heads being thrown forward and loud cheers. Concluding their successful performance were the hostile 'Burn In Beautiful Fire' and punk-metal infused 'Gasping For Air,' it is no wonder that Manchester approved of their performance.
British quintet Rise To Remain has come such a long journey from being introduced when they supported metallers Five Finger Death Punch in 2009. With their newly healthy second opus "City Of Vultures," this was the chance to take note from the lads as soon as walked on stage with their intro music. They whipped Manchester with the fast-paced 'The Serpent' and the circle pit friendly 'This Day Is Mine'. The energy from both band and audience was palpable. It was as though Manchester was powered on full velocity with their thunderous metalcore noise. After kindly apologising to Manchester for the late entrance due to five separate technical difficulties, Rise To Remain quickly exploded with their racy tracks 'City Of Vultures' and 'Power Through Fear'. After a small but effective drum solo provide by Pat Lundy, the band completed their pleasing performance set with their anthems 'Nothing Left' and 'Bridges Will Burn' which instigated an angry pit and a jump into the crowd by the front man. Don't be mistaken by Rise To Remain whose vocalist is the son of metal legend Bruce Dickonson. Austin's versatile voice makes the sound of his fellow bandmates' compromising contribution to their metalcore sounds by his team mates Ben Tovey [lead guitars/backing vocals], Joe Copcutt [bass], Pat Lundy [drums] and Will Homer [rhythm guitars] a great bunch of British lads representing British Metal.
A sense of apprehension fills the Manchester Academy almost immediately. It has come no surprise that the next band on the bill was about to grip their crowd with awe and wonder. Swedish occult metallers Ghost are a band not to be taken lightly. Fresh from their Download Festival performance and approved by big names of the metal community, they were set to intrigue the masses. Reminiscent to arriving at Sunday Mass late with their intro 'Masked Ball,' the hypnotising scent of incense from Papa Emeritus' swinging incense burner and the slow walk provided by The Nameless Ghouls clad in monk outfits and their faces completely covered, 'Con Clavi Con Dio' haunts the spectators quickly and with instant results of rejoiced hands. Next was the equally enchanting 'Elizabeth' and chilling 'Prime Mover', which was incredible to see a band who are disguised as a cult to be praised and to entice a crowd who were uncomfortable towards their presence earlier on. The crowd was literally in silence to capture the many textures and visions of the stage with Ghost present. 'Death Knell' was as another eerie song that grabbed the crowd by its eyes and ears until their spooky concluding tracks 'Stand By Him' and their "last rite" 'Ritual' had the audience chanting the name and embracing the phantom group with claps and cheers to their dramatic performance.
In support of their new experimental album "Sounds Of A Playground Fading", In Flames opened with elegant title song and the equally exciting 'Deliver Us'. To hear Manchester sing every note and making every crack of the walls split even further before it even went further into the set. Smiles were all around with members Anders Fridén [lead vocals], Björn Gelotte [guitars], Niclas Engelin [guitars], Peter Iwers [bass] and Daniel Svensson [drums] after only two songs kicking off the blistering set. Along with the new track 'All For Me' that caused heads to bang and sway, 'The Mirror's Truth' to ignite a circlepit and 'The Quiet Place' for not being that quiet as the title may seem. Anders Friden mentioned about the lack of crowdsurfing from the previous cities Southampton and Wolverhampton due to new rules. This gave Manchester the opportunity for In Flames to yearn for the "smell" of the ongoing crowdsurfers, with the ferocious 'Fear Is the Weakness' helping sate their yearnings. Fists were pumping for crushing melody in 'Ropes' and new single 'Where the Dead Ships Dwell' gave Manchester the chance to unite and sing with every inch of their body. The last chance to "smell the flying bodies" was in full session with popular track 'Cloud Connected' and the highlight 'Take This Life' gave security work to do as the spectators absolutely lost their senses.
'Capsizing The Sea' from their highly successful new album "In Waves" echoed through the speakers and Manchester responded with a massive epiphany of cheers, claps and chants for the main act of the night… Trivium. On walked the leader Matt Heafy [lead vocals/guitars] and his comrades Corey Beaulieu [guitars/vocals], Paolo Gregoletto [bass/vocals] and Nick Augusto [drums] to erupt the room with shattering tracks 'In Waves,' 'Drowned And Torn Asunder,' 'A Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation' and 'Dusk Dismantled'. Imploding the performance was 'The Deceived' in which Heafy howled to Manchester to interpret GO, which was translated with a wall of death forming into a circle pit. "OH MY GOD!" sprang from Heafy's lips in what his eyes witnessed. Their earth smashing songs 'Built to Fall,' 'Ignition' and 'Down From the Sky,' witnessed an accumulation of chants, claps, singing and clapping that Heafy responded light-heartedly "If I don't have a voice for London, I'm blaming you!" Upon popular request, the track 'Departure' gave the chance for everyone to begin singing and dancing. 'Like Light To Flies' exploded into a war of headbanging and pushing, 'Black' was another blast of gigantic sounds and 'Caustic Are The Ties That Bind' let the audience show Trivium what they're really made of. Then, all of a sudden, popular tracks 'Dying In Your Arms' and 'Pull Harder On The Strings Of Your Martyr' resulted in storm of broken throats and sore bodies. A brief break and their performance was completed with booming 'Kirisute Gomen' and ear-piercing 'Throes Of Perdition'.
With 'Leaving This World Behind' playing in the background, spectators walked like zombies with throats croaky like ill frogs. It was a night of different styles but all have one thing in common. They were Defenders Of The Faith and they all did a tremendous job on making the third instalment an accomplished. A triumphant fist in the air for Insense, Rise To Remain, Ghost, In Flames and Trivium!


1887 of Winchester House, London. Member of the Society. "Head of a well known firm of electrical engineers" - this would seem to be a reference to Thompson, Ritchie and Co who were located at Winchester House.
1904 Alfred Thompson of West Norwood patented a silencer for Maxim guns.


Since 1998, the world's top young karting talent has made a pilgrimage to Sebring International Raceway for the Skip Barber Racing School's annual Karts to Cars Shootout. Small wonder. The winner of the Shootout gets what amounts to a free ride in an SBRS race series, with other top performers earning partial scholarships as well.
Does it work? Ask former winners Ryan Hunter-Reay, AJ Allmendinger and Alex Rossi. While the financial benefit to the Shootout scholars is readily apparent, the lessons imparted to every participant by the Skip Barber instructors during the program are even more valuable.
Skip Barber Racing School's 2014 Karts to Cars Shootout discovered more potential stars.
to mention the RACER Top Gun trophy.
Dakota Dickerson (LeFt) was one of 17 karters in the 2014 Skip Barber racing School's Karts to Cars Scholarship Shootout. he was one of the stars, too, finishing as runner-up.
Daniel De La Calle (aBoVe) earned the top prize – a $40,000 Scholarship to the Skip Barber racing School's Winter or Summer Series.


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Jesse Were joins Zambian club, Kansanshi Dynamos
This is his second Zambian based club.
Kenyan striker Jesse Jackson Were has been unveiled at Zambian Super League club, Kansanshi Dynamos.
football Sadio Mane's biography: Early life, career, family, awards
football Mbappe clashes with PSG teammate over new role at the club
Dynamos have snatched the services of the 32-year-old just a few days after he left another Zambian club, Zesco United.
"Welcome Were," Kansanshi confirmed on their official facebook page. "We are pleased to announce our latest addition to our squad, Jackson Jesse Were.
The talisman left the defending champions towards the end of last year after a successful six-year stint at Levy Mwanawasa Stadium.
Jesse Were joins Zambian club, Kansanshi Dynamos Pulse Live Kenya
Were won four Super League titles and two ABSA Cups at Zesco United as one of the best foreign acquisitions to have graced the local league in the last two decades.
Were had a prolific career at Levy Mwanawasa Stadium scoring 108 goals making him Zesco United's all time leading scorer.
Were is not new to goal scoring related history as in 2015. he almost equaled the Guinness Book of World Records for the most consecutive hat-tricks.
In 2015 whilst representing Tusker FC, he scored three hat tricks in three straight games against Chemelil, Sofapaka and Thika United from July 12 to July 24.
Unfortunately, he missed out one hat-trick to level Nakayama Masashi whose four hat-tricks was recorded from 15th to 29th April in 1998.


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By Glenn Walker Posted on August 10, 2014 August 10, 2014
True Blood S07 E08: Almost Home
Only two more episodes of "True Blood" to go after tonight's, so it's almost time for the viewers to steel themselves for the inevitable, and time for our favorite characters to make desperate last moves in their television lives. Eric, Sookie, and Bill are all just about at death's door, while Lafayette and Lettie Mae are trying to dig their way under that same door, and Violet plots her revenge. What's next? Find out after the jump for my review of "Almost Home."
Still Alive for the Moment
As I mentioned, there are only three episodes left in this final season of "True Blood." I get a lot of snickers and people asking in mock surprise, 'oh, do they still make that?' when I say I'm reviewing it. It's true, after seven seasons, the show has definitely seen better times, and in my opinion, the final nail in its coffin (pun unintended) was when series creator and show runner Alan Ball left two seasons ago.
Since then the show has been splashing frantically in the water, managing not to drown. It became more campy than its own conceptual inspiration "Dark Shadows," so much so that it was almost a parody of itself, and yeah, I'll say it, almost an embarrassment to its fans, even the most hardcore among us. This season has been better however, more focused with giving everyone a tidy if not necessarily nice ending, and looking back on when "True Blood" was cool. Let's see how the second to the last episode fares.
Eric, Pam, Mr. Gus and the Yakuza had tracked the wildly delusional and hallucinating Sarah Newlin to the old Light of Day Institute. Before an assault could launched, she surrenders and Eric, at vampiric speed, takes point, and also takes a bite out of the raving 'savior.'
Bill and Sookie, back together, and dying happily ever after, sure could use a bite out of Sarah as well. Back in Bon Temps, their pillow talk fills gaps in previously loose ends of the ongoing story of the series. They are rediscovering their love by reliving the secret origins of their relationship. However, it could just be the rationalizations of the doomed as well.
Lettie Mae finally convinces the Reverend to join her in partaking of vampire blood so he can see what she and Lafayette have been seeing on their V-induced vision quests. Having previously brought them to their old house, the ghostly Tara in white now pulls them inside and into the past. We see a birthday party for Tara with a young Lafayette and Sookie, as well as Tara's drunken abusive father.
This is just not any day however. This is the day Tara's father leaves, the day Tara almost shot him with a gun, the day Lettie Mae fell apart and started drinking. It's the gun that Tara buried that they're looking for. Secrets unearthed, origins told, and Tara is released. It's both heartbreaking and heartwarming at once, one of the few moments that do make "True Blood" worth watching.
In the midst of Hoyt and his girlfriend fighting, Jason gets word of Violet's insidious plans for Wade, Adilyn, and Jessica. With the girlfriend in tow, he calls Andy (conveniently out of state) and heads over into what is surely a deathtrap. Or a torture chamber. After a rather graphic tutorial on torture, Violet's dead lights are put out by Hoyt. Much too conveniently. Not cool, tying up loose ends is no excuse for lazy writing.
The action moment is sacrificed for the emotional moment. The horror that has trademarked the early days of the show was traded here for happy endings all around. Here, Hoyt meets Jessica for what he believes is the first time, and Jason doesn't have to feel bad about being attracted to Hoyt's girlfriend. Is this twisted foursome a good thing? Could be the beginning of one… and almost makes up for Violet's too easy end.
There is no honor among thieves. Now that Mr. Gus and the Yakuza are in possession of Sarah Newlin, the trust between them and Eric and Pam is strained. The Corporation's plans for New Blood are along the same lines as oil companies with electric cars and battery companies with eternity batteries. The antidote will not be distributed as a permanent cure, but as a continuing habit. There's more money that way. "True Blood" has always loved conspiracy theory.
This makes Eric and Pam expendable, especially if they don't keep their mouths shut about the permanence of the cure. Mr. Gus would be right to distrust them as the first thing Eric does is tell Sookie all about it, and she of course tells Jessica, and Bill (and who knows, probably everyone she ran into on the way home, she's like that, you know). When it's starting to look like maybe Bill and Sookie will actually get that happy ending however, Bill refuses to drink from Sarah.
Has the Hep-V, as I've suggested earlier, made him insane like the other H-Vamps? Are his flashbacks a symptom of this or are they just more building backstory like much of this final season? We also saw a disturbing dream from Bill, of Sookie rocking a baby with a slightly more insane look on her face – and the baby's face, a void. What does that mean?
Will Hoyt and Jessica find love again? Will Jason and Hoyt's girlfriend find lust? And will Mr. Gus and the Yakuza just kill everyone in the basement of Fangtasia? Only two more episodes, folks and fangbangers, hang on to your coffin lids.
#TrueToTheEnd
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The only good news about the 2008 Super Bowl is that my fraternity brother (Ruben Ortiz) starred in the Taco Bell commercial. Oh… and the Red Sox are still World Series Champions.
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The moral of this is a reminder to register the .com domain name of your business before telling anyone the name!


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Gay men are 2% of population but 55% of AIDS cases: CDC
ATLANTA, August 23, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – Although homosexual men are a tiny sliver of the U.S. population, they account for the majority of all Americans living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced.
Men who have sex with men (MSM) are two percent of the population but make up 55 percent of people who were HIV-positive in 2013, according to a CDC fact sheetreleased last Wednesday.
More than nine out of 10 new HIV diagnoses (92 percent) come from young gay and bisexual MSM, ages 13 to 24.
If these trends continue, one of every six men who has sex with men will be diagnosed with AIDS in his lifetime. Already, 15 percent of all HIV-positive homosexuals and bisexuals don't know they are infected, the government agency said.
"Gay and bisexual men are also at increased risk for other STDs, like syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia," the CDC added.
"Two things never change when it comes to the U.S. government and homosexualism. First, the CDC is constantly providing evidence like this of the high risks associated with male homosexual behavior; and second, the CDC and pro-LGBT politicians never admit that the problem is unnatural homosexual behavior itself," Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth, told LifeSiteNews.
The CDC reported that men who have sex with men are 44-times more likely to contract HIV than heterosexual males, and 40-times more likely than women. Earlier this year, the CDC estimated that half of all black MSM will get the disease, a statistic that is repeated in the latest fact sheet.
"In a sane world, the CDC would encourage all men, but especially young men and teenage boys, to avoid homosexual sex," LaBarbera said. "Instead, the CDC blames societal 'homophobia' and 'stigma' for the rising disease rates, even though the American public's acceptance of homosexuality is at an all-time high."
More Americans (60 percent) regard homosexual sex as moral than immoral, a 13 percent increase since 2001, according to a poll released in June. The number of Americans who favor same-sex "marriage" has virtually reversed since Gallup started polling the question in 2001, with 55 percent in favor and 37 percent opposed.
"Social conservatives in the United States and across the world should demand that, if sex education is taught to their children in school, it be taught accurately," LaBarbera told LifeSiteNews. "Kids need to see these statistics to cut through the ubiquitous gay propaganda."
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Mousavinejad downplayed the effects of imposing sanctions on Iran's oil export and industry by the US and EU.
The Iranian legislator also emphasized that European countries heavily depend on Iran's oil.
"On the one hand, they ban our oil, while on the other, they send their private companies to us and announce time and again and they desperately need Iran's oil," he added.


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Q: How do you calculate the CPU Affinity Bitmap? I am trying to calculate the bitmap for my 32-core server. I want my instance to use cores 30 and 31.
I know that CPU 0 gets assigned a value of 1, CPU 1 gets assigned a value of 2, CPU 3 gets assigned a value of 4, etc.
I think this means that CPU 30 would have a value of 1073741824 and CPU 31 would get a value of 2147483648, but 1073741824 + 2147483648 = 3221225472, which is higher than the max value of an int and not acceptable to sp_configure
After 16 CPUs, does it flip to start using negative numbers or something?
I can't use ALTER SERVER CONFIGURATION to do this, because I am on SQL Server 2008.
I can't use the GUI, because all my processes need to be reusable on Server Core instances.
I also want to understand the theory and what I am missing from it!!!

A: Your binary representation of the mask should be:
1100 0000  0000 0000  0000 0000  0000 0000

Converting that to an unsigned 32-bit integer would equate to your original calculation:  3221225472.
But the affinity mask tasked a signed 32-bit value.  In that case, the binary to signed 32-bit value would be:  -1073741824.
Same bits, just different interpretation/conversion (signed vs. unsigned).

I can't use the GUI, because all my processes need to be reusable on Server Core instances.

As an aside, you can and should use SSMS remotely, so the fact that you could have target database servers on a server core OS shouldn't prevent you from remotely using a GUI (like SSMS).  On that same note, I always prefer T-SQL at the very least for reusability and for documentation purposes, if nothing more than just knowing exactly what is happening when you do something with no GUI tricks/abstractions/assumptions.

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Kelly and Weston Ward competed in The Kansas Association of Taxidermy's Annual Competition and Convention this last weekend at Manhattan, Kansas.
Weston entered his Whitetail Deer Shoulder Mount in the Amateur Whitetail Division and won the top honors of the Division with a 1st place, a blue ribbon and also with a Best Overall Amateur Whitetail Ribbon. This was Weston's first time competing at the age of 16.
Kelly entered an Alaskan Wolverine in the Professional Division and placed 2nd with the Wolverine and also received a 2nd place for his Habitat also.
This was the 35th anniversary of the Kansas Association of Taxidermy's convention and competition.


Blind River will be back at Croydon Rocks by popular demand.
But before the main event, Richie organised a taster gig at the Scream Lounge on 17th August, to showcase three of the featured bands. It certainly did the trick. Vambo (who are not an Alex Harvey tribute band), Blind River, and Richie's own band, The Fiascos, played to an enthusiastic audience in the packed-out venue.
Vambo's studio-produced material has a well-polished, classic-rock vibe, but live the band provides much more grit and growl, and will go down a storm in November.
Blind River is already a must-see rock band that gets the audience jumping from the first note. Its performance at last year's Croydon Rocks was simply jaw-dropping, and prompted Richie to ask the band back this year. "I aimed to get a whole new lineup this year, but Blind River was so good that I just had to get them back and put them further up the list where they deserve to be", explained Richie.
The Fiascos' whirlwind set brought the evening to a suitably raucous close. The band is built for speed and probably should know better but doesn't give a damn. It delivers clever songs with catchy hooks at a breakneck pace or, as the band itself puts it, 'filthy punk rock n' roll'. What's not to like?
As a warm-up for November's festival at the Croydon Conference Centre, the Scream Lounge gig was perfect. The Croydon Rocks festival proper boasts some amazing bands, and the lineups are carefully assembled by Richie.
Jizzy Pearl's Love/Hate will be headlining the first day at Croydon Rocks.
Image by Croydon Rocks, used with permission.
"In many respects, organising it is the best job in the world. It's like being a kid in a sweetshop" said Richie, who has again looked to America for some headlining acts.
Ginger Wildheart is set to headline day two at Croydon Rocks.
Photo by Croydon Rocks, used with permission.
Sunday's headline act, Ginger Wildheart, was a long-time target for Richie.
"We've also got The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing (a real crowd pleaser), Flight 16 (led by Dave Sears), Blind River (who we warmly welcome back), The WitchDoktors (which I'm sure could have filled the venue on its own), The Kut, Junkyard Choir, Psychobabylon and Vampirok. I'm proud to host these great bands", he concluded.
Head over to the Croydon Rocks website and Facebook page for more info on the festival.


Rich J. Peters is a proud native of Phoenix, Arizona. As owner of R.J. Peters & Assoc., P.C., his firm operates less than one mile from the hospital he was born at. Rich has limited his legal practice to Family Law since 1992. He was sworn in by the State Bar of Arizona on October 25, 1992, just a few days after his 25th birthday. Rich often brags that he was the youngest lawyer in the state when he was sworn in, but this is truly just a guess.
Rich has owned R.J. Peters & Assoc. Since 2005. Prior to that he worked for two very prominent Family Law firms in Glendale and Phoenix. While not every case needs to go to Court, Rich does enjoy being in the Courtroom and considers that one of his greatest skills.
Although being born and raised in Phoenix, Rich did move around a bit during his youth, pending time in Spain, Houston, and South Africa. In 1989 he graduated from Arizona State University with a Bachelor's Degree from the College of Business. In 1992 he graduated from the University of Arkansas with a Juris Doctor. He immediately returned home to Phoenix after law school.
Three of Rich's five children have graduated from Arizona Universities, and the remaining two are very close. He and his Wife Jennifer enjoy their time traveling and boating.
Appreciated are people that say what they mean and mean what they say. Our experience with this firm was straightforward and knowledgeable. I would recommend to anyone I care about !


Even longtime disciples of Hyde Park's Tutto Italiano may still have a thing or two to discover. This gustatory goldmine for gourmet tastes related to everyone's favorite boot-shaped peninsula has a secret. Under the watchful eyes of the requisite Azzurri poster, and alongside the finest in cured meats, cheeses, artisan bread, olive oils, and pasta (to name only a few of my favorites), the punctual may find some secretly great pizza.
Full disclosure: enjoyment of the Sicilian-style sheet (their term) pizza from Tutto Italiano requires some effort. First, the slices are only available in scant quantities daily. I left empty handed on three occasions before having the wisdom to call ahead. Second, they are wrapped in plastic and stacked upon the counter. Therefore, unless you're a devotee of the cold slice (and I know you're out there), you're going to need access to an oven.
Upon the advice of the paternal proprietor I opted for a slow-and-low approach for the home reheat. After about ten minutes of obsessively stalking the oven, I went in for the kill. The results were well worth the effort. The crust retained a moist sponginess, resisting just enough to make the crunch at the bottom a real payoff. The sauce held on to recent memories of time in a garden highlighted by fresh hits of tomato and oregano. The cheese, selectively browned from its initial visit to the oven, would likely have benefitted from a slightly longer reheat. However, I was more than willing to sacrifice some elasticity up top to prevent some potential dehydration in the middle. In fact, to allay precisely such concerns, Tutto Italiano also offers a six-inch round pizza cooked without cheese. Take it home, cheese it, heat it, and Bob's your uncle.
Good Sicilian-style slices are a rare commodity in this part of the world. Little did I know that some of the best could be found in a quiet, family-run market, wrapped in plastic. Oh, and did I mention they're only $1.50?


It looks like Abraham Lincoln. It moves like Abraham Lincoln. And it quotes Abraham Lincoln. But historians say it still doesn't sound like Abraham Lincoln.
After a four-year absence, Walt Disney Co. pulls the curtain back today on a new high-tech version of Lincoln for its "Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln" show at the Opera House on Main Street in Disneyland.
The animatronic Lincoln, incorporating cutting-edge technology that gives the mechanical man nuanced, lifelike facial expressions and lip movements, first premiered debuted at the 1964 World's Fair in New York.
While Although Disney imagineers spent the last year sweating such technological details as how to coax Lincoln's synthetic lips to purse as if he were saying "oooh," they nonetheless left the audio pastiche of Lincoln quotes that the figure speaks unchanged.
Instead, Disney dusted off and remastered the original 40-plus-year audio recordings made by character actor Royal Dano. And Dano's rendition, despite being identified in the public's mind as the voice of Lincoln, didn't sound much like that of the 16th president of the United States, prominent Lincoln historians say.
"I'm listening to Royal Dano again," said Lincoln expert Harold Holzer, who has written 35 books about the Civil War-era president. "You know, I am an absolutely committed Sam Waterston man. ... I will take his readings of Lincoln over anyone's on Earth."
To be sure, no one living today has ever heard Lincoln speak -- and there are no recordings. Much of what scholars have deduced about Lincoln's delivery comes from contemporary accounts of his relatively high-tenor voice.
"He often was so nervous at the beginning, he would almost shift up into a falsetto before he settled himself," said historian Ronald C. White Jr., author of "A. Lincoln: A Biography."
The rest is inferred from a collection of Works Projects Administration recordings of regional accents, which captured a kind of the early- to mid-20th century patois of people living in rural Kentucky, where Lincoln was raised. Waterston, for example, studied these recordings in the Library of Congress for his role as the president in an NBC miniseries, "Gore Vidal's Lincoln."
"The very best of the Lincoln impersonators will speak in that dialect," said White said, a La Canada resident. "They'll speak as if they're from rural Indiana, rural Kentucky."
As in: Thank you, Mr. Cheerman (not Mr. Chairman).
Getting Mr. Lincoln pitch-perfect has been the subject of considerable interest -- and not a small amount of controversy -- among historians.
"I do think the voice is important -- to get the accent right," Holzer said. "We've been all over the lot on this. Is it Raymond Massey? Is it Richard Boone? Gregrory Peck played Lincoln in a miniseries ("The Blue and The Gray")."
But other historians note that Disney doesn't misrepresent Lincoln, even if the audience that sits for the 15-minute presentation may not necessarily glean the richer context behind the five speeches that have been excerpted.
"What the people at Disney have done, and their genius of sorts, is that they do understand that people going to their venues aren't going necessarily for a history lesson," said Thomas Schwartz, Illinois' state historian and the chief consultant on the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.
Indeed, the primary objective of Disney's imagineers was to restore the sense of skin-prickling awe audiences experienced in 1964, when they first saw Mr. Lincoln rise, somewhat herky-jerky, from his chair to speak.
In their latest effort, the engineers worked to create a more lifelike Lincoln, with sculptors consulting 26 original photographs, and his life and death masks to re-create his visage -- down to the asymmetry of his mouth and eyebrows. Then, engineers figured out how to capture the musculature of the face using 16 micro-miniaturized motors pushing and pulling silicone skin.
Besides, say Disney executives, a voice is often in the ears of beholders.
Tony Baxter, senior vice president for creative development for Walt Disney Imagineering, said criticisms about the authenticity of Dano's performance are all based on third-person accounts of Lincoln's voice -- no one knows for sure. And while although Baxter acknowledges that Dano tends not to be as soft-spoken as the president is described, the late actor nonetheless evoked a Lincoln that is "emotionally right."
Moreover, past attempts to change the beloved attraction met with fierce backlash. "Weighing it all, it felt like more of a humbling voice that we felt was more appropriate with what we were trying to do," Baxter said. "We changed the voice in the previous show and we got tremendous negativity, so we brought back this voice, which has kind of been the voice of Abraham Lincoln for 45 years."


Following the successful meeting at Derby last year and as promised, EIG and BPA have arranged a day's seminar on all aspects regarding the use of mortars and mortar racking systems in professionally fired firework displays. The meeting will be held at Centrepoint, London on 3rd July 2007 and to which you are invited. The meeting will be open to the whole professional firework display industry but with priority going to EIG and BPA members. Places may be limited by the size of the room available.
There will be a nominal charge (£20 +VAT per head) for BPA/EIG members – non-members will be charged £40 + VAT per head to cover expenses. A light lunch will be provided.
Both HSE and HSL will be represented at the meeting, and we hope that the meeting will both serve to update the widest industry on recent accidents, developments and research, and to enable both industry and enforcers to have a common understanding of the problems and any possible solutions for the future.
Payment may be made by cheque (made payable to "Davas Ltd" and please detail the names of those attending) and by credit card via the BPA and EIG websites – please consult the websites for further information about the event.


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Q: Why is Wolverine afraid of flying? Wolverine has said he's "afraid" of swimming because he's vulnerable in the water and can drown, but why is he afraid of flying? Is it an unexplained phobia or is it explained in any comic? We all know why Indy's afraid of snakes.

A: There's no mention of this fear of flying in the comics, the film scripts, the film's novelisations or the various graphic novelisations. As far as Wolverine's evident fear of flying is concerned, it seems that that was purely an invention of the actor Hugh Jackman.

The 45-year-old Hollywood star admits he even incorporated a fear into
  his X-Men character Wolverine because he didn't want to play someone
  who isn't capable of feeling scared.
"I put a fear of flying into Wolverine that wasn't in the script. I
  thought, 'I can't like somebody who isn't scared of anything.'"
Bang Showbiz

and

Wolverine is afraid of flying. Are you?
No, I love it. I never get scared. But I came up with the idea that it
  would be kind of interesting if Wolverine hated flying because it's
  unnatural for an animal to fly.
Daily Mirror

Interestingly Wolverine director James Mangold specifically spoke to your suggestion that Wolverine's fear of flying could be related to his known (and canonical) fear of water but he seemed unaware that the fear of flying was actually Jackman's invention!

What about - Logan on the plane - he's so nervous. It occured to me when I was watching this the first time that if he falls into the
  ocean that he will drown and come back drown and come back - is that
  why he doesn't want to get on planes?
I don't know. They told me--everyone who's really knowledgeable about Wolverine has always told me--he hates flying. And Hugh was like "I
  hate flying"--I mean, as Wolverine. I love the idiosyncrasy of it -
  that's the beauty of him, I think, the beauty of Wolverine. It does
  separate him from the kind of Batman, indestructible because of my
  gizmos or Superman indestructible because I'm indestructible.

A: There were several references in the comic book series, he never specifically said why other than that flying was unnatural. As for water, he was in the water a lot in the original comic series.  The movies have several flaws when compared with the original comic series.


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Q: How can a trimmed avi file be three times larger than the original I opened up a avi file in virtualdub and trimmed the clip and clicked "Save as avi" and it saved the trimmed clip but it was 3 times the size of the original clip. How can that be?

A: it can be due to the codecs involved. different codecs offer different compression rates and quality. when you 'Save as avi' did you check which codec was it configured to use?