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Tesla meets 2020 target despite pandemic
Tesla, one of the leading automobile manufacturers in the world, announced that it achieved the target it set for the number of vehicles it sold in 2020. Actually, the target was not caught exactly but it was quite approached. The overall sales figures for the last quarter of 2020 and 2020, made by Tesla, revealed how many vehicles the company sold.
Tesla, which is in a leading position in electric car production, has become one of the leading companies in the USA and the world. So much so that Tesla shares are traded at $ 700 on the New York Stock Exchange. It is stated that the market value of the firm is between 600 – 700 billion dollars. This value makes the company one of the most valuable companies in the world.
Tesla satisfied with the number of vehicles it sells in 2020
At the beginning of the news, we stated that the company could not exceed the specified number, but it was very close. This development also pleased Tesla and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The number of Teslas that the company aimed to sell was 500 thousand. The number of Tesla sold in 2020, which is the subject of epidemics and disasters, was 499 thousand 550. In other words, it was 450 behind the determined target.
Tesla shared the details on its website for the number of vehicles it sold in 2020. According to the other information contained here, 509 thousand 737 Teslas were produced in 2020. However, it was reported that in the 4th quarter of 2020, 179 thousand 757 Teslas were produced and 180 thousand 570 Teslas were sold.
Tesla thanked its customers, employees, suppliers, shareholders and supporters after the statistics were shared. It has been announced that the income status for 2020 will be announced after the details of the 4th quarter of 2020 are finalized.
Retweeting Tesla's post on Twitter, Elon Musk said, "We are proud that the Tesla team reached this important milestone. When I started Tesla, I thought we had a 10 percent chance of surviving. " made the addition.
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Verena Stuffer, née le  à Bolzano, dans le Haut-Adige, est une skieuse alpine italienne, spécialiste des épreuves de vitesse.

Biographie
Sa carrière démarre en 1999 dans des courses FIS. Elle fait son entrée en Coupe du monde en 2003 à Cortina d'Ampezzo. En 2005, Stuffer remporte son premier succès dans la deuxième division mondiale, la Coupe d'Europe sur un slalom géant à Alleghe. Cette année, elle marque ses premiers points dans la Coupe du monde dans un combiné à San Sicario ().

En 2007-2008, elle revient dans le top trente, figurant même dans le top dix à la descente de Saint-Moritz avec le huitième rang.

Elle participe à ses premiers championnats du monde en 2009, où elle est  de la descente.

Elle obtient son unique sélection olympique en 2014, à Sotchi, où elle est  du super G et  de la descente. Le mois précédant la compétition, elle a enregistré son meilleur résultat en Coupe du monde avec une quatrième place au super G de Cortina d'Ampezzo. Stuffer accumule un total de dix résultats en Coupe du monde dans le top dix jusqu'à son dernier en 2017.

En 2017 à Saint-Moritz, elle prend part à ses troisièmes championnats du monde, finissant enfin dans le top vingt avec une dix-neuvième place en descente.

En 2018, elle dispute sa dernière manche de Coupe du monde à Crans Montana et prend sa retraite sportive.
En 2019, elle est élue représentante des athlètes à la Fédération internationale de ski.

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Jeux olympiques

Championnats du monde

Coupe du monde
Meilleur classement général :  en 2014.
Elle a obtenu comme meilleur résultat une quatrième place lors du super G de Cortina d'Ampezzo en .

Classements en Coupe du monde

Coupe d'Europe
2 victoires (1 en descente, 1 en slalom géant).

Championnats d'Italie
Championne du super G en 2013.
Championne de la descente en 2017.

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Naissance à Bolzano
Skieuse alpine italienne
Naissance en juin 1984
Skieuse alpine aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 2014

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Today, we'll discuss how function inspires form and vice versa. Let's get into actual story and see how it affected my push towards design both visually and for game play!
Rumours of a lost palace kept in the stranglehold of a deep jungle dance along the tongues and ears of many travelers across the land. These stories usually come and go, but this time around, an alarming number of rogues and explorers have gone missing after the tale. For Mirza and Yamini, rumours are all they need to start packing up and set courses towards adventure!
It would come as no surprise to those who know the couple that they would of course find the mysterious palace. To their surprise however, they find it is anything but ripe for the picking...Instead, it has been renovated to be a prison by a Djinn, an otherworldly entity that has been collecting all who enter his chambers as prisoners.
I envision the tower to be twisting and turning as if it were destroyed and put together in a very makeshift and supernatural way. The palace tower features floating architectural sections like crazy staircases, leaning towers and shifting balconies and be adorned with random entry points for windows and doors, giving people no true exit should they try and escape the building at higher stories.
For what reason is unknown, but regardless, Mirza and Yamini have only one goal in mind - to free themselves and loot the place dry on their way down to freedom. The nature of their escape gets complicated however, when they learn of a war brewing between murderers, thieves, and spies, including Yamini's father Rukh, who has been captured.
As they make their escape down the prison tower, players will unravel a grand story that reveals the storied past of Mirza and Yamini, shed light on a cast of misfits whom you'll have to decide is friend or foe, and discover the mystery that is the Djinn's perilous plans!
As the prison tower is under the control of an all powerful Djinn, expect his dark magic to caress every corner of the palace. In specific, everything that you do has a consequence and is recorded by the fates.
Mandalas light up over time that designate either good or bad karma that you develop through your actions. Kill too many guards, and The Karmic Tides will flow against you. Expect your screen to go black for a few seconds, or watch as the number of guards in the room go up.
Spare the guards and rescue inmates, and let the ebb of The Karmic Tides wash you in good fortune. Do good deeds and you'll unlock perks like being able to see the guards field of vision or be surrounded by holy armor that'll block one enemy attack.
The Karmic Tides is a system that I designed to make use of the setting and culture, incorporate with the story and level, and influence how the player approaches tight situations that require strong decision-making skills. Is it worth it killing the guard and turning The Karmic Tide against you for the rest of the level? How far out of your way will you go to have the Karmic Tide against your back to buffer out the difficulty of a particular level? You decide!
The "good" mandala is full of round and curving shapes. I used peacock feathers as inspiration to design this one. The final mandalas that would appear on screen would have a chalk like appearance, and ideally would be "drawn" on the screen as the deeds were tallied.
The "bad" mandalas have a more ominous color scheme, with harder angles and watching eyes. Both of the mandalas are rather messy but for the time being, does the job of letting people know where The Karmic Tides reside.
To recap, we now have a major system in play that guides your actions. What about your avatars that will carry them out?
Mirza and Yamini as a duo work together to traverse through each floor of the prison as if they were a puzzle. Each stage is a single level of a giant tower that you are descending, and every 5-10 of these stages carry a specific theme that I don't want to yet disclose. Some stages will allow you to traverse the floor as you see fit while others require a very specific strategy to reach the exit.
Certain areas of stages or an entire level may force the player to traverse the space as a couple or require splitting up. You'd have the basic stuff, like having one person stand on a switch while the other person goes through the newly opened door to press another switch to let the other in Then you have concepts that I'm still experimenting on like finding two lanterns, but having a limited time to navigate in the dark while you two are split up, using the light of the lanterns that switch back and forth between both players triggered after taking a specific number of steps!
You also get the tactical advantage of having two people against a single foe - if an enemy spots you, split up in two directions and watch as he take extra caution in approaching down the hallway. From there, set up your attack or find a way to hide or regroup!
One of the biggest elements of the environment revolves around the prison setting. Because the game takes place in a fortress, you should obviously expect jail cells to be incorporated for your benefit and otherwise! Not all stages have cells, but the ones that do will add a unique twist to the gameplay. On the plus side, you can push an unsuspecting guard into a jail cell and go along your way with one less foe to worry about. On the other hand, a free jail cell means that one of you two can be captured and thrown in.
What this would entail is that on stages where there are no cells featured, if one of you gets captured, then its game over and you start at the beginning of the map. However, if one of you gets captured in a map with a free jail cell, you are captured and cannot complete the level until you free your beloved. In order to do that, you have to find the guard that captured your spouse and either defeat or steal the key from him and bring it back to the cell to release your spouse. Some stages have hard to reach cells, like ones hanging from the ceiling, so be careful!
You also have to be careful if there are cells already filled with a captive. Depending on the inmate, they might shout to the guard you're there or they might help you depending on how much coin you'd be willing to part with by causing a distraction at the push of a button.
In some rare instances, you can free an inmate if you come across the key to their cell. Freeing an inmate largely affects the Karmic Tides in your favor, and the freed individual will more than likely assist you on their way out. For example, a chameleon inmate offers temporary stealth, while a buffalo will ram through any guard foolish to try and stop him. As they offer great boon, you can imagine that the keys to their cells are well guarded, so its up to you to go out of your way and save them or not.
What can I say? I really love Metal Gear!
Next week, we'll take a look at some more characters - heroes, the baddies, and maybe a few in between!


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Mastos (; Mehrzahl: Mastoi) ist ein Trinkgefäß der griechischen Antike.

Die Mastos-Form wurde in Korinth entwickelt, von wo sie auch von attischen Töpfern übernommen wurde. Vor allem im Athen der spätarchaischen Zeit war es eine beliebte Form des Trinkgefäßes. Erhalten sind nur wenige attische Exemplare, die alle aus der zweiten Hälfte des 6. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. stammen. Rotfigurige Mastoi sind sehr selten. Sie haben die Form einer weiblichen Brust mit einer Brustwarze im Zentrum, von der sich ihre Bezeichnung ableitet. Meist haben Mastoi einen vertikalen und einen horizontalen, manchmal zwei vertikale Henkel. Die Gefäße sind im Schnitt etwa 15 Zentimeter hoch. Bilder auf Mastoi folgen meist einfachen Dekorationsschemen. Nach der Form wurde der schwarzfigurige Mastos-Maler benannt. Auf einem Vasenbild des KX-Malers ist ein Mastos an der Wand hängend abgebildet. Eine nahe verwandte Form ist der Mastoid.

Literatur
 John Boardman: Schwarzfigurige Vasen aus Athen. Ein Handbuch (= Kulturgeschichte der Antiken Welt, Bd. 1). von Zabern, Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-8053-0233-9, S. 204.
 Wolfgang Schiering: Die griechischen Tongefäße. Gestalt, Bestimmung und Formenwandel (= Gebr.-Mann-Studio-Reihe). 2., wesentlich veränderte und ergänzte Auflage. Mann, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-7861-1325-4, S. 151.

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Garypus longidigitus est une espèce de pseudoscorpions de la famille des Garypidae.

Distribution
Cette espèce est endémique du Queensland en Australie. Elle se rencontre dans les îles du détroit de Torrès.

Habitat
Cette espèce se rencontre sur le littoral.

Description
La femelle holotype mesure .

La femelle décrite par Harvey, Hillyer, Carvajal et Huey en 2020 mesure .

Publication originale
 Hoff, 1947 : New species of diplosphyronid pseudoscorpions from Australia. Psyche, ,  (texte intégral).

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Garypidae
Espèce de pseudoscorpions (nom scientifique)
Faune endémique du Queensland


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The Kyoto Prefecture man recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest person turns 116, receiving congratulations from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and others.
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The Kyoto Prefecture man recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest person turned 116 on Friday, receiving congratulations from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and others.
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"Mr. Kimura's good health is the confidence and pride of Japan. Please keep well," Prime Minister Abe said in a video message.
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He benefits from a nursing service and short stay program at a care facility. He eats three meals a day, including porridge and mashed sweet potatoes.
Born on April 19, 1897, Kimura became the world's oldest living person on Dec. 17 when the previous record-holder, an American woman, died. He then set a record for longevity among males on Dec. 28 when he marked 115 years and 253 days of life.
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est un film de yakuza japonais réalisé par Takashi Miike sorti en 2007. Le film est une adaptation du jeu vidéo Yakuza sorti en 2005 et fait suite à Ryū ga gotoku: Jissha-ban de Takeshi Miyasaka.

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 Titre français : Yakuza : L'Ordre du dragon
 Titre anglais :
 Titre original :
 Réalisation : Takashi Miike
 Scénario : Seiji Togawa
 Production : Toshihiro Nagoshi et Munehiro Umamura
 Photographie : Hideo Yamamoto
 Montage : Yasushi Shimamura
 Musique : Crazy Ken Band
 Pays d'origine :
 Langues : japonais, coréen
 Durée : 110 minutes
 Dates de sortie :
 Japon :
 France :  (DVD)

Distribution
 Kazuki Kitamura : Kazuma Kiryu
 Gorō Kishitani : Goro Majima
 Shō Aikawa : Noguchi
 Yoshiyoshi Arakawa  : le marchand d'armes
 Ken'ichi Endō : Imanishi
 Gong Yoo : Park
 Haruhiko Katō  : Kazuki
 Kuroudo Maki : Akira Nishikiyama
 Yutaka Matsushige : Makoto Date
 Natsuo : Haruka
 Saeko : Yui
 Sansei Shiomi : Shintaro Kazama
 Shun Shioya  : Satoru
 Tomorō Taguchi
 Saki Takaoka : Yumi Sawamura

Notes et références

Liens externes

Film japonais sorti en 2007
Film d'action japonais
Film réalisé par Takashi Miike
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Bank capital: A new holy grail every year
Banks around the world have browbeaten their regulators into accepting so-called hybrid tier one securities issued by special purpose vehicles. Now the investment bankers who arrange capital issues are looking for the next challenge of finding new issuers for these securities.
Just one year ago, bank capital specialists were getting ready for the big push. The objective was to persuade authorities throughout Europe to accept tax-deductible tier one securities. Victory in this battle would give every bank access to a cheaper form of core capital than equity. This hybrid tier one capital, said its advocates, would become the perfect way for banks to fund acquisitions as they turned themselves into pan-European institutions.
A year on, and the same bankers can hardly believe the scale of their achievement. "The year 2000 has been the annus mirabilis of tier one bank capital," says David Marks, from JP Morgan's financial institutions group in London. "It has been the acquisition finance tool of the year."
Between January and November, European banks issued over $15 billion-worth of these securities. Most of this issuance has been used to finance purchases, though mostly of the domestic rather than the cross-border variety. And banks in every major jurisdiction have now persuaded their authorities to let them raise this tax-advantaged form of core capital.
Since October 1998, the world's banks have been waging a war of attrition with their regulators and tax authorities. Battles are won by tweaking ever more complex structures until the authorities tire of ploughing through dummy prospectuses and allow banks to issue the securities.
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Sweden, Finland, and the role played by Turkey in their accession to NATO
Jimena Untiveros, Diplomacy, Peace and Security Intern
Sweden and Finland have applied for accession to NATO and are expected to become members by 2023. However, a major challenge they will have to overcome first is Turkey, who has stated that both nations, especially Sweden, need to meet a series of criteria before they accept their admission, becoming the only member of the organization that has yet refused to do so. Because NATO membership can only be confirmed through a unanimous vote, Turkey now plays a major role in the outcome of this process which will change the balance of power of Europe forever.
In general, it can be said that Turkey will use its vote in NATO in order to advance its national interests. As stated by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the importance of NATO's expansion for Turkey is proportional to how much respect is given to Turkey's "sensitivities"[i], therefore making a clear stance on how Sweden and Finland's accession will only procced in accordance to how Turkey's conditions are met.
Both Sweden and Finland are involved in a major concern for Turkish security. As stated by Erdogan, both countries, but specially Sweden, have ties with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). This guerrilla group, designated as a terrorist organization, is at the front of separatist activities in Turkey that aim to create an independent state[ii]. Because Sweden supports a branch of the PPK active in Syria, fighting off the Islamic State, Turkey considers that it is not viable to accept Sweden into NATO before the nation makes an active effort to cut ties with the PKK and support Turkey's measures against the organization. Turkey has several requests regarding the actions that need to be taken, starting with the extradition of members of the PKK that allegedly participated in the failed coup attempt of 2016 that sought to overthrow Erdogan. Ankara states that neither Nordic nation has responded to these extradition requests, which they consider is a necessary first step before they can be granted NATO membership. Additionally, Turkey has also urged Sweden and Finland to end an arms embargo that has been active since 2019 following a Turkish military offensive in Syria[iii].
Even though Turkey considers that both Sweden and Finland have steps to take before they can become members of NATO, Erdogan has stated that the approach of Turkey towards each nation is different, arguing that they have different security demands to meet. According to him, Finland is not a nation that harbors terrorists and allows their activities freely[iv], hinting that Finland could gain accession first as compared to Sweden. In response to this, Sweden and Finland have taken a firm stance on the matter, assuring that they will only join NATO at the same time. Finnish Prime Minister Sana Marin reaffirmed Finland's commitment with Sweden by saying that, even though Erdogan had told her that Turkey's main security concerns were related to Sweden and not Finland, her nation would not make advances in the process alone[v]. In the case of Sweden, it has released a letter which contains fourteen examples of measures taken by the nation to meet the requirement of Turkey and how they plan to implement them. Among them, the most notable one is Sweden's commitment to address the Turkish extradition requests and their willingness to cooperate with MIT, Turkey's National intelligence organization[vi].
Despite the efforts by both Sweden and Finland, the prospects of both nations for NATO membership are not promising, and it is expected that the process will continue through 2023. A major cause for this is the Turkish general election next year[vii]. Aiming to be reelected, Erdogan seeks to gain nationalist support by making a clear stance against any concession to the PKK and to Sweden by extension if they do not take active measures to cut ties with the organization.
It is left to see how the situation will change for Sweden and Finland once the elections in Turkey are over.
[i] Rauhala, E., Birnbaum, M., & Nakashima, E. (2022). "Turkey blocks start of NATO talks on Finland's and Sweden's applications". Retrieved from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/18/finland-sweden-nato-apply/
[ii] Pietsch, B. (2022). "Why Turkey dissents on Finland and Sweden joining NATO and why it matters". Retrieved from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/16/turkey-nato-sweden-finland-ukraine/
[iii] Karadsheh, J., & Sariyuce, I. (2022). "Why is Turkey causing problems for Finland and Sweden's plans to join NATO?". Retrieved from: https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/18/europe/turkey-nato-finland-sweden-cmd-intl/index.html
[iv] ABC News. (2022). "Turkey suggests Sweden, Finland can join NATO separately". Retrieved from: https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/turkey-suggests-sweden-finland-join-nato-separately-91134187
[v] Reuters. (2022). "Finland, Sweden promise to join NATO together in united front to Turkey". Retrieved from: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/finnish-swedish-pms-assure-commitment-join-nato-together-2022-10-28/
[vi] Reuters. (2022). "Exclusive in letter, Sweden lists 'concrete actions' on Turkey's concerns over NATO bid". Retrieved from: https://www.reuters.com/world/exclusive-letter-sweden-lists-concrete-actions-turkeys-concerns-over-nato-bid-2022-10-21/
[vii] Hacaoglu, S., & Drozdiak, N. (2022). "Turkey Is Unlikely to Sign Off on Swedish NATO Bid This Year". Retrieved from: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-03/turkey-unlikely-to-sign-off-on-swedish-nato-bid-before-year-end?leadSource=uverify%20wall


Patrick Denis Marleau (born September 15, 1979) is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward currently playing for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League. He serves as the alternate captain for the Sharks, and was previously team captain. Marleau is the all-time Sharks leader in goals, even strength goals, power play goals, points, shots, and games played having spent his entire NHL career with the Sharks since being drafted second overall by the franchise in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft. He played his 1000th NHL game already on January 17, 2011 against the Phoenix Coyotes. He won gold medals with Team Canada at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics. Marleau - being one of the most important players of the Sharks for nearly 20 seasons - is one of the fastest skaters in the NHL, and exhibits a high standard of playing ability combined with gentlemanly conduct. This has earned him two nominations to The Lady Byng Memorial Trophy - and made him a popular player both among fans and his professional peers.
1 Father of Landon Patrick (b. October 16th 2006) and Brody Christopher (b. March 25th 2009).
2 Taken 2nd overall in the 1997 NHL draft by the San Jose Sharks.


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from functools import partial
from warnings import warn

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from twisted.python.failure import Failure

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from bl.player import Player, snd

def fallback(message, address):
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    def send(self, address, *args):
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    def __init__(self, instr, notes, velocity, stop=lambda: None, clock=None):
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    address = "touch"

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class BoolDispatcher(AbstractDispatcher):
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class FloatDispatcher(AbstractDispatcher):

    def handle(self, message, address):
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    def handle(self, message, address):
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class Float3Dispatcher(AbstractDispatcher):

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class DispatcherHub(object):

    def __init__(self, *dispatchers, **kw):
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Getting Go: An Interview with Cory Krueckeberg
Getting Go is a film about making a documentary about a go-go dancer. Writer and director Cory Krueckeberg talks about the trust that's necessary in such a project, and the ways in which we look not for the real but the ideal in a culture dominated by social media.
Cory Krueckeberg's new film Getting Go: The Go Doc Project explores that moment when our deepest desires become a living reality, and that age-old warning, "Be careful what you wish for". The film follows university student, Doc, who has developed an intense fixation with a local New York go-go dancer, aptly named, Go. His obsession leads him to rouse up a strategy to create a documentary about the performer in order to get closer to him. To Doc's surprise, the flirtatious dancer – played by real-life dancer and artist Matthew Camp – agrees to take part in the film. What's more unexpected is what happens when the two interact as well as the impact they have on each other's lives. Andrew Darley spoke to Getting Go's writer and director Cory Krueckeberg about the layers within the film, the trust needed to create it, his homage to Andy Warhol and the separate lives we lead on the Internet.
What drew you to the world of go-go dancing?
I really wanted to do something inexpensive and fast which looks like it didn't cost very much money. I started with this concept of wanting to make a movie about a guy creating a documentary about somebody. I started thinking about different things like if I was that character what would I be interested in. The initial idea was New York nightlife so I did some research. As I dug deeper, the persona of a go-go dancer was fascinating to me. I started searching for a person who was multi-faceted and not just a go-go dancer. I wanted to find somebody that this wasn't all they were about. I needed someone who had depth. I happened upon Matthew and that's when the real idea came together. Something clicked. It was this process of looking for an idea for a subject that also becomes Doc's in the film.
Matthew Camp in Getting Go, the Go Doc Project
Did you conduct much research into the world or look to any sources for insight?
Not really. Once I had the concept I started writing an outline. I started doing it based on Matthew and what we talked about. I made the whole process of making the movie the same as the way Doc does it in the film. Admittedly, I didn't know a whole lot about go-go dancing but there isn't a lot to learn either, other than who the different people are and the politics behind it. We actually shot this film while the clubs were open so we had to ask permission from the go-go dancers who are on the platforms if they would get off so we could shoot on it.
What was the rationale behind using a documentary narrative to tell the story?
My partner Tom and I make movies together. Together, we have a very specific aesthetic. There is a lot of gay film out there that looks really low-budget. I knew that if I was going to do this and only spend $10,000, I needed a concept that made the fact it could cost $10,000 feel authentic. Not just that we made a cheap movie.
Tanner Cohen & Matthew Camp
How were the characters cast? Did you have them in mind from the beginning?
Once I discovered Matthew, I contacted him online. I emailed him the same message Doc sends in the movie and his response is the same one in the film. When we met up, I wanted to make sure that he had some sort of charisma that would hold up on camera. Some people who are interesting and great in person can fall completely flat on screen. We did some improv on camera and he was engaging and appealing. After that I wanted to find a filmmaker for the character of Doc because I wanted this to be as meta-cinematic as possible. I searched for someone but couldn't find anyone. One day, I was talking to Tanner Cohen, who was the star of our first feature, Were The World Mine. He said "I'm not really a filmmaker but you should consider me". He came in and met Matthew and they hit it off.
There are some intensely sexual and intimate moments in the film. I wonder what the dynamic was between you, Matthew & Tanner? Did you have to build up a certain level of trust?
We didn't make this like a normal movie; it was literally me and my partner, Matthew and Tanner. We just had the camera and we didn't really have a schedule.
I kept saying we should the big sex scene first, but Matthew said we should do it at the very end. So we shot it at the end. We got together, we drank some bourbon and I choreographed it a little so that the camera would see what we wanted it to see and not what we didn't want it to see. I literally set up the camera, closed the door and they did what we had planned out. I told them to take three or four minutes so that I could get a good edit. They were in there for 20 minutes! When they shot the scene, I think they felt a sense of freedom because we weren't in the room and the door was closed they were in there by themselves.
Go starts out as stridently confident and flirtatious. In one of his first scenes, we see him stripping in the street. Yet, when we are brought into his apartment, we see that he is quite artistic and in touch with his surroundings. Also, the interviews he gives reveal a very deep person. Was your idea to build up this image of person and then dissolve any assumptions and preconceptions about him?
I definitely used preconceived notions of who a go-go dancer may be. For me it was more about creating a dynamic between two people that had a push and a pull. I pulled a little bit from both their personalities and my ideas to create two characters that are opposing. The more you go into somebody the more complicated they are. Gradually you start to build an image about him. A major aspect of this piece is the façade that we put on which links in with the homages to Warhol in this film. Who are you when somebody turns a camera on you?
What was the intent of interpreting Warhol's Eat, Sleep and Kiss in this film?
As a writer it may be out of the lack of confidence. I sometimes want to try and find something in existing culture to ground the project in. With Were The World Mine it was Shakespeare and in our last feature Mariachi Gringo, it centred on the culture of mariachi in Mexico. With this, it's along the lines of your first question, I wanted to make this to feel sophisticated and not cheap. I spent a lot of time brainstorming. Once I met Matthew and found that he was an artist we talked about what if he inspires Doc in some way to look at art and explore the art world. So I thought about artists who I could funnel some interesting ideas to give Doc a view of culture as well as mirror the other themes I was working with.
Warhol seemed to be perfect because he made so many films in his time. He was the birth of reality television, just setting up a camera and inviting interesting people to analyze how they behave with no narrative. That's originally what I envisioned this film to be. I thought it might've been more experimental than it ended up being. With the Warhol homages, the idea was to fold in a layer of culture through referencing the male gaze and our obsession with celebrity or people that are different than yourself. Andy was already thinking about that, which is what I wanted to this film to be about.
There is an explicit emphasis on the importance of the male body and physicality in the film. On a general level, do you feel individuality is sometimes lost within the gay community?
Definitely I think that's one of the main pieces of what we were trying to do. Matthew has a certain body and what's interesting about him is that for 10 years he has been this nightlife personality with this big persona. People want to photograph him and invite him to events. The first thing they want him to do is take his shirt off. He is a exhibitionist so he does get off on it. He's gotten to the point that he wants to do these strange mutilations to himself. He wants to widen the bridge of his nose with silicone. He wants to look like an alien which I'm not entirely sure why. He hates the fact the gay community is so militant in the way they portray the male body to be. He wants to push himself in the opposite direction for being the ideal for such a long time.
Yet this theme goes beyond the gay community. I was struck by this most at a film Festival in Tokyo. It's a gay film festival but the audience is very mixed. It's more of a cultural event that all people from different walks of life come to the screenings. This theme really resonated with them; the idea of being like everyone else. It makes up a huge part of their culture in Japan. The idea of being yourself and stepping outside the box resonated with them on a different level.
For me, the film is about how the idea of someone or something is more pleasurable than actually having it.
I guess that's the moral of the story for me. Doc doesn't imagine that this is a real person he is going to get to know. He just imagines that Go is an object on his computer. Then when he becomes involved in his life things become a little stickier. It's just becoming so much easier now with social media, nobody really talks to each other anymore. People use Facebook or you text and then when you see them in person you're always trying to put on the façade outside of your home, outside of your comfort zone. You can create this whole life yourself online and never really let anybody know what's going on with you. I think it's a major theme in the culture of the world going forward.
Do you feel there was a sense of uncomfortableness, or manipulation, in how Doc gets Go to agree to the film?
I think he's too naïve for that. Tanner and I talked about this a lot. Tanner is very different from the character in that respect because he was worried that he would come across as not pure because Tyler isn't that way. For me he was just caught the moment. I didn't have any bad intention behind it.
Although the film is about Go, it's also very much about the story of how Doc grows into his own sexuality and identity. I know he is openly gay from the outset but you can see that he doesn't really own it. How do you think his character grew up?
Go is definitely a major stepping stone in his evolution. He's young and he doesn't know what to do the rest life. He has dreams but he doesn't know exactly how to achieve them or what to do with them. I think he was starting down this wrong path. He is also like a reflection of what I said about social media earlier. If you can get out from behind your WebCam, from your computer, from your phone and get into the world and experience the world, your life will be much more fuller and richer. Go gives him some to courage to step out from his little apartment and meet people and be a part of something that's going on down in the street. That's his biggest growth.
What is next on the cards for you?
We have two projects in the works. The first one is a musical that was off-Broadway in the '90s called Hello Again based on the Schnitzler play La Ronde. It's basically 10 scenes, with two actors in each scene; it's kind of a cult favourite. We have some of the financing in place so I think we maybe shooting out in the fall. But also I've written a script based on this happening in Harvard in 1920 referred to as 'Harvard Secret Court'. It was basically a witch hunt to expel as many gay students as they could find in the spring of 1920. It wasn't brought to light until 2002 when a file was found in the Harvard archive. There has never been a major film about it, just a couple of plays. I've been researching and looking at all the documents and files and the people's lives. This one is a much bigger budget so it take a lot more time to develop. I'm excited about them both.
Given that the majority of your films have dealt with LGBT themes, in what way would you like to contribute to queer cinema?
The first queer film that I ever saw that I remember was Parting Glances. I was obsessed with that movie and it was a part of the new wave of queer cinema. If you look to the beginning of what we consider queer cinema now, for the past 10 or 20 years we have this great divide between highbrow gay movies and other queer cinema which is populated by inexpensive, unsophisticated films. What I hope to contribute most is just is an interesting point of view.
I'm a storyteller. The aim for me is to create the definitive version of that movie. For example, I don't want there to be another movie about a guy trying to make a documentary about a go-go dancer. To me, it's all about doing the definitive idea the best way you possibly can. Also I want to bridge the gap between queer cinema and the rest of cinema. We had a meeting in LA last week about the Harvard Secret Court script. The first thing to developer said, who is gay, said "We need to find out how to make this more palatable for a straight audience if we are ever going to achieve a commercial crossover". I replied "Why don't we try and find a way of having a gay point of view universal, instead of trying to force a universal point of view onto every project." It's crucial to maintain your own identity so when I say I want to bridge the gap between queer and mainstream cinema I want to gay stories with a gay point of view but make them something the mass audience will want to see and not just a gay audience.
Getting Go: The Go Doc Project is out now via Peccadillo Pictures. For more information about the film, visit the film's official Facebook page here.
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Facebook suffers a blow from regulators in India, proving that the fight for an open web is more than an abstraction.
The web may be lovely, dark, and deep, but most of us don't actually venture very far into it.
Back in 2013, Nielsen reported Americans visited an average of 90 different domains per person each month. That's a startlingly low number—equivalent to about three domains each day—and one that crept down over the years, even as people spend more and more time online overall. I suspect the average person visits even fewer domains today, as tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, and Google increasingly design interfaces—walled gardens of engagement and advertising—aimed at discouraging their users from visiting other sites.
That's part of what's so interesting about the recent decision by officials in India to block what's called "zero-rating" or "sponsored data"—the practice of exempting certain kinds of Internet use from counting toward a person's data plan. The move effectively bans a Facebook program called Free Basics, a suite of lightweight versions of popular sites—including, of course, Facebook—that don't eat up data the way visiting other mobile sites does. The idea is to give people an affordable way to get online, but it has long been criticized by advocates for net neutrality as a way of giving an unfair advantage to certain websites.
These differential tariff offerings have positive as well as negative impact. On the one hand, it may appear to make overall Internet access more affordable by reducing costs of certain types of content and enabling people who have so far not been able to use Internet services and content, to access at least part of the Internet. This could have the benefit of expanding and accelerating Internet access, as first-time users of the free Internet could experience its benefits and start paying for full access.
On the other hand, differential tariffs result in classification of subscribers based on the content they want to access (those who want to access non-participating content will be charged at a higher rate than those who want to access participating content).
Which brings us to another part of why what's happening in India is so fascinating. The concept of net neutrality is so snoozy-wonky because it's so often described in theoretical terms.
The decision also has profound business implications for Facebook. Its goal isn't just to help 4.9 billion people around the world get reliable and affordable Internet service; Facebook wants Facebook to be a key portal through which two-thirds of the global population first experiences the Internet. That may sound like a cynical way of interpreting the ambitions and values of a project that Zuckerberg has said is a way of fulfilling people's fundamental social and economic right to access the web. ("This isn't about Facebook's commercial interests—there aren't even any ads in the version of Facebook in Free Basics," he wrote in an op-ed for the Times of India late last year.) But it would also be foolish for Facebook not to consider the potential for growth as the global Internet-connected population swells. And Zuckerberg isn't foolish.
There are implications for other countries, too. Part of Facebook's strategy for global expansion just failed, or at least suffered a serious blow, in a key country. Here's how Kevin Roose, a writer at Fusion, puts it: "If a group of activists could successfully reframe Free Basics as an insidious land grab, rather than an act of corporate largesse, and mobilize a country against it, what's to stop them from resisting elsewhere?" And as Ingrid Burrington wrote for The Atlantic in December, various mobile carriers in the United States offer "free" video streaming as a way to attract customers—free, in that data use doesn't count toward a person's monthly allotment.


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Live Like the Ancient Cynics
Arthur C. Brooks
Modern cynicism traps you in an unhappy cycle. The original version will set you free.
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There are a growing number of Marxists today. By which I mean followers of Groucho, not Karl. "Whatever it is, I'm against it," Marx sang in his 1932 film, Horse Feathers. "I don't know what they have to say / It makes no difference anyway."
What was satire then is ideology today: Cynicism—the belief that people are generally morally bankrupt and behave treacherously in order to maximize self-interest—dominates American culture. Since 1964, the percentage of Americans who say they trust the government to do what is right "just about always" or "most of the time" has fallen 53 points, from 77 to 24 percent. Sentiments about other institutions in society follow similar patterns.
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Why Biden Had No Other Choice on Voting Rights
Russell Berman
Tonight the president—and his party—learned the true definition of the phrase slim majority.
On the eve of the January 6 insurrection, the twin special-election victories by Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff of Georgia gave Democrats the Senate majority they desperately wanted, and simultaneously burdened incoming President Joe Biden with something far more fickle: hope and expectations.
Tonight, the possibilities opened up by that winning night in Georgia closed shut in a pair of Senate votes that revealed, more starkly than at any point in the past year, just how limited the Democrats' power really is. First, after a year of new voting restrictions in red states, Republicans blocked a vote on a landmark elections bill, the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act. Then two Democratic holdouts, Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, thwarted their party's bid to change Senate procedure to circumvent the GOP filibuster.
A Russian Mail-Order Bride and a Jaw-Dropping Twist
The hilarious, stranger-than-fiction story of a mother and son who emigrate to America and get more than they bargained for.


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Dehradun, the capital state of uttarakhand,Dehradun is located in the Doon Valley on the foothills of the Himalayas nestled between the river Ganges on the east and the river Yamuna on the west. Dehradun is famous for its beautiful landscape and cool climate . It's close connection to the Himalayan ,make this place a tourist destinations such as Mussoorie, and Auli and the Hindu holy cities of Haridwar and Rishikesh along with the Himalayan pilgrimage circuit of Chota Char Dham.
PALTAN BAZAAR: This is one of the most economical places of Dehradun,it is famous for basmati rice.
TIGER FALLS : It's a 50 metre high waterfall ,it's a fun loving place ,you can visit here to have an eye catching view of this site with your friends and family.
MINDROLLING MONASTERY : It is a religious site founded in 1965,it has one of the largest Buddhist learning centre in India, NgagyurNyingma college.
TAPKESHAWAR TEMPLE : It is known as the oldest shiva temple in uttarakhand,built on the bank of Nandi river.This temple is the witness of the shivratri festival that takes place every year.
There are so many other places you can visit in Dehradun.as this place is gifted by the nature with all its bounty and mesmerizing beauty.


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A winding trail: following serpents, dragons and other water beings around the world
Cultural anthropologist Veronica Strang, Executive Director of the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Durham, reveals the widespread role of water serpent beings in religious belief and ritual across the world.
The Aztec xuicoatl. Cedar wood, turquoise and shell, 1400s to early 1500s. The use of turquoise defines it as a celestial serpent, linking the waters of the earth and sky.
Veronica Strang, Executive Director of the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Durham 31 October 2017
30 years ago, facing another long winter and fed up with sitting behind a desk, I wrote to some old friends managing a cattle station in northern Australia's outback and asked if I could go and work with their stock team for a while. 'We've never had a woman do that,' they replied, 'but why not?' It was an excellent adventure. I learned how to muster cattle, break horses, and survive eating beef three times a day (with little in the way of fruit or vegetables).
Veronica Strang with her favourite horse. Photo: Clare Blackman.
The stock team contained a number of Kunjen elders from the nearby Aboriginal community of Kowanyama. Along with making daily jokes about whether I needed a box in order to get up on my horse, and broadening my diet to include fruitbat and wallaby, they were kind enough (as we herded unruly cattle along the Mitchell River) to teach me about their lifeways: their social practices, their religious beliefs and rituals, and the sentient ancestral beings inhabiting a sacred landscape.
In doing so, they introduced me to one of the world's most fascinating water beings, the Rainbow Serpent – a central figure in Aboriginal Australian beliefs about how totemic ancestors created the world and continue to generate life from within the land. I was hooked immediately, of course, and, on returning to England, studied Anthropology at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, and began research which, in the decades since, has increasingly focused on understanding people's relationships with water.
Serpent beings regularly appear in Australian rock art, such as the ochre serpents in this cave in Chilligoe, upriver from Kowanyama. The Rainbow Serpent also features in traditional bark paintings, and in many contemporary paintings by Aboriginal artists.
Supported by a Royal Anthropological Institute Fellowship, and Australian Research Council funding, I continued to work with Aboriginal groups in Queensland and other indigenous communities. In New Zealand, assisting the Maori Council in a legal claim to regain indigenous rights to water introduced me to another set of water serpent beings. For Maori, the rivers and seas are protected by powerful guardian spirits: taniwhas and marakihaus. And a recent landmark legal decision established that, in accord with their worldview, rivers are Tupuna Awa – 'living ancestors' – and must be respected accordingly.
A wooden and painted carving of a marakihau above the door at the Moana marae (meeting house) near the harbour in Auckland. Photo: Veronica Strang.
Further research on water and cultural diversity for UNESCO, and then sheer curiosity, led me to many more historical and contemporary water beings – Babylonian leviathans, ancient Greek sea serpents, Celtic and Roman river goddesses, Norse dragons, rainbow snake deities in Africa, feathered serpents in Mexico, giant twin anacondas in Amazonia, the horned serpents of the American Pueblos, Indian Nagas. And, in China, Japan, Vietnam – indeed, right across Asia – a veritable plethora of dragons rising from the waves, flowing from wells and springs, and drifting through mountain mists and clouds.
Dragon emerging from the clouds. Painted screen in 12th-century Kinnin-Ji temple, Kyoto, Japan. Photo: Veronica Strang.
The British Museum has some of the world's most inspirational objects depicting water beings. It is hard to choose a favourite, but many people will recognise the gorgeous turquoise xiucoatl (twin serpent), an Aztec water being depicted in a pectoral ornament dating from between 1400 and the early 1500s. It is on display in Room 27.
The Aztec xuicoatl on display in Room 27. Cedar wood, turquoise and shell, 1400s to early 1500s. The use of turquoise defines it as a celestial serpent, linking the waters of the earth and sky.
Water serpent beings and dragons, it turns out, can be found everywhere in human history, and even now – though much subsumed by religious changes in some areas – they continue to wind their way through many cultural belief systems. But why? Why were water beings so ubiquitous in early human societies? And why do they remain important today? Why are they alike in key respects, while also being culturally and geographically unique? And why are they worshipped in some places and demonised in others?
These are the questions I have been asking, while following serpentine trails to understand the many and complex ways in which people engage with water. Water beings provide insights into human cognition and engagement with the material world. They show how water flows imaginatively through religious beliefs. And they have a lot to say about the kinds of relationships that different communities have with their environments.
I am currently working on a book about water beings around the world, and most recently they wriggled their way into a paper written for the UN, to help them to encourage heads of state to give more priority to cultural and spiritual values in relation to water.
You can book your free ticket to see Veronica Strang explore some of the questions – and answers – about a range of water beings, in the lecture Water beings: historical and contemporary religious beliefs in the powers of water, on Thursday 23 November at 13.30.
The lecture relates to the exhibition Living with gods: peoples, places and worlds beyond, which is on from 2 November 2017 to 8 April 2018.
Supported by the Genesis Foundation. With grateful thanks to John Studzinski CBE.
The accompanying BBC Radio 4 series is being broadcast weekdays from 23 October 2017.
Living with the gods by Neil MacGregor will be published by Allen Lane in March 2018.


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What are the top changes we made to improve our finances? Below concludes the discussion of the top 5 things we did that I feel had the largest and most immediate impact.
The final step that I took was to lock in these savings. Knowing myself, I realized that I had a strong need to "hide" that money from myself and get it out of my regular checking account. Historically, my savings have been most successful when I can play these little mind games with myself. So, the question is what to do with those savings to attempt to turbo charge my savings. I have spent many years "playing" the markets with varying degrees of success. When I did well, I chalked it all up to my intelligence and skills and when I did poorly, it was undoubtedly those uncontrollable market forces or worse…. Evil politicians messing with economic policies. Obviously, this was convenient thinking and I knew it even as I succumbed to it. Therefore, passive index investing appealed to me. It would neutralize my habit of overthinking things and trying to time markets. The company that seems to be discussed the most often is Vanguard and with a little research I found that they had fees that were far better than anything I had previously paid on my investment accounts. So, I opened an online account. This was much easier than I expected and was set up in minutes. It took a few additional days to link it to my bank account. The steps to link the account took minutes, but there were some tiny transfers to and from the account to verify the access. So, in a matter of a few days, I was all set up and ready to go.
Next, I had to decide on an automated savings plan. I have always tried to keep a cushion in my checking account to overcome any temporary items to arise each month. With this in mind I felt that a stepped approach would work best for me to overcome my fears of going too far with the savings and over drafting my checking account. The timing of automatic transfers was also a concern of mine since I like the control of knowing when money goes into or out of my account. This is just a psychological issue that I have and need to overcome. When I started working full time, it took me many years to agree to have my paychecks deposited directly to my bank. I liked the control of physically going to the bank and handing my check to a teller. In hindsight, it was a pretty silly hang-up and I knew that auto-savings would fall into this same category once I overcame the fear and control issues. I decided to time my transfers with my bi-weekly payday schedule. I started with a $250 per pay period transfer. This amounted to roughly $500 per month and I felt that this was a strong start and would be aggressive yet still allow me to adjust if it turned out to be too aggressive. Not surprisingly, I didn't even notice the withdrawals. I did this for a few months and then stepped up the savings amount to $300 per transfer, then $500 per transfer and at present I am moving $550 every other Friday. I just made this recent change within the past month and as expected, it has not negatively impacted my monthly budget. I will continue to adjust the amount upwards every few weeks or months until I land on the amount that tests the limits.
One small additional change I have made attempt to automate my savings was taking advantage of a program that my employer offers which was to schedule automatic increases to my 401K contributions. I decided to increase my contribution by 1% each year on my birthday. For the past few years I have maxed out my contributions to my 401K and this change will simply allow that to happen sooner in the year. When I do max out my contributions and the money that was previously automatically withheld from my paychecks comes to me, I plan to move that to my investment account immediately.


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Home Most Popular Camelphat have unveiled their eagerly anticipated new single 'Hypercolour'
Camelphat have unveiled their eagerly anticipated new single 'Hypercolour'
Grammy nominated and triple platinum selling DJs and producers Camelphat have unveiled their eagerly anticipated new single 'Hypercolour' featuring Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis.
The track is a master-crafted display of Camelphat's signature hypnotic sound topped with Yannis' melancholic vocals. Hypercolour sees two musical powerhouses of the British music scene come together to create what is set to be one of 2020's biggest crossover hits.
Never afraid to push the envelope, Camelphat's collaboration with Foals' frontman Yannis Philippakis has been eagerly anticipated by fans. Needing little introduction, from playing chaotic house parties in their home city of Oxford to becoming major festival headliners across Europe, Foals' trajectory has been remarkable.
They've earned critical acclaim winning Best Band at the BRIT Awards last year as well as NME and Q Award wins. Not stopping there, the band have also been nominated for an Ivor Novello and have been nominated three times for a Mercury Prize earning fan devotion with anthems such as My Number, Inhaler and The Runner.
Liverpool duo Camelphat (Dave Whelan and Mike Di Scala) have firmly established themselves as one of the most in-demand dance acts around. Making their mark with their 2017 Grammy nominated hit Cola, the duo have continued to release huge hits such as Breathe, Panic Room ft Au/Ra, Rabbit Hole and 'Be Someone' alongside Jake Bugg. The pair have been hailed as the 'hottest dance acts in the world' and have consistently been supported by industry heavyweights including Annie Mac, Zane Lowe, Danny Howard and Pete Tong.
The pair are also firm favourites on the festival circuit playing some of the world's biggest events such as Glastonbury, Coachella, Reading & Leeds, Creamfields, Warehouse Project, and Parklife. This summer the pair were confirmed to headline their own residency every Wednesday at Ushuaia, Ibiza and are set to announce a huge UK headline tour in the next coming weeks.
Hypercolour
Yannis Philippakis (Foals)
CamelPhat remix Alan Fitzpatrick's 'Warning Signs'
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Bad Axe Throwing
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Bad Axe Throwing Toronto is an axe throwing facility located in the Junction . Part of a chain with locations across southwestern Ontario, Bad Axe hosts league nights ($120 for seven weeks) and is available for individual bookings ($44.25 per person with an eight person minimum).
I visited Bad Axe on a cold Sunday night. The axe throwing facility is actually located on the second floor of an office building, appropriately shared with a fashion school. The floor is set up with six targets so three face-offs can be played simultaneously, with communal party areas in between the three playing areas.
Chain link fences protect the observers, and there are tables made of cool reused barrels and stools for sitting and observing. The walls are painted with vibrant colours and decorated with history's most virulent enemies: Yoda and Darth Vader, Batman and the Joker, Bad Axe's web address and their Instagram handle.
The night I visited, three separate parties were taking place. Each party had brought in their own drinks and eats (Bad Axe is BYOB and BYOSnacks). Before the throwing got started, staff took the members of each respective party through the safety precautions and explained the rules.
Then, the music started playing (super loud Drake via a Bluetooth speaker), the axes started flying (super valuable tips via staff members helped) and the vibe in the space got increasingly exciting.
Since axe throwing is essentially just a more-dangerous version of darts, it can run the risk of being boring to watch. Not to mention, if you're only playing 12.5% of the time, it could quickly become a low-energy evening.
At Bad Axe, the combination of the smaller space, louder music, and enthusiastic staff members made for a fun, exhilarating time more reminiscent of a no-holds-barred game of dodgeball or an awesome Greek wedding than a boring bar game.
Bad Axe is a really exciting way to brush up on your hand-eye coordination, work on toning those potential FLOTUS arms, and to spend time with friends in a fun setting.
With prices on the same level to other local weapon-throwing facilities, it's a great option for those of us in the west end who want to live out aspects of The Shining in a non-violent way without having to resort to the TTC.
Writing by Martha Stortz. Photos by Jesse Milns.
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