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'I Hate Saying This' – Hoops-mad pundit predicts Rangers v Celtic after Jullien latest
Russell Edge speaking to Noel Whelan
2nd January 2021 at 9:00am
Noel Whelan has tipped Rangers to seal a narrow victory over Celtic in the second Glasgow derby of the season.
The former Leeds United striker and self-confessed Hoops fan, speaking exclusively to Football Insider, has admitted he cannot see beyond Steven Gerrard's men at Ibrox after their formidable form which has rocketed them to the top of the Premiership table.
The Gers sit 16 points clear at the summit after winning all but two of their league games this season, although Celtic do have three games in hand over their Old Firm rivals.
The Hoops, who went through a sticky patch after losing 2-0 to Rangers earlier in the season, have won their last four league games without conceding a goal.
However, Neil Lennon is sweating over the fitness of knee injury victim Christopher Jullien after he was stretchered off during Wednesday's 3-0 win over Dundee United.
Whelan has admitted he believes Rangers will come out as 2-1 winners at Ibrox.
"As a Celtic fan it's difficult for me to say but I can only see one outcome and I think that's a Rangers win," Whelan told Football Insider.
"I hate saying this – you've got to put Rangers down as the favourites. The first goal is going to be massive in it, but I just can't, I can't see Celtic winning the game, I really can't.
"I don't think it'll be a demoralising win, I think it'll be close, competitive, well-fought Old Firm derby that you always get but I don't think he's going to be a 4-0 or anything like that.
"I think it probably will be, maybe, 2-1 to Rangers but I can just see them edging it, the way they've been playing this season and the balance that Steven Gerrard has got in that side now, defensively and going forward, they're ticking all the boxes.
"I just think Rangers are in a zone and a mood that they're just so destructive to other teams at the minute and they've got everything right – defence midfield and that attacking line is pretty formidable."
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Ministry of Health confirms 117 killed 581 wounded in Tripoli fighting
September 27, 2018 - 14:18
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The Department of Wounded Affairs of the Ministry of Health confirmed that 117 people have been killed in addition to 581 others injured since the beginning of the clashes south of Tripoli until the 25th of September.
On its Facebook page Wednesday, the department clarified that it was able to evacuate 156 families and provide assistance to around 264 families, while 20 people are still reported missing.
An agreement was signed Tuesday by representatives of the parties to the conflict in Tripoli, which brought an end to the armed clashes and solidified the cease-fire agreed upon in the city of Zawia on September 4.
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Place shrimp in a saucepan over medium-high heat.
Add all other ingredients into the pan and bring the mixture to a boil.
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Rouhani's chance to save the nuclear deal
By Hassan Al Mustafa Sunday, 5 August 2018
Negotiating as an option to resolve the political and security crisis between the United States and Iran, put forward by President Donald Trump without any preconditions, shocked everyone, nevertheless it came according to secret data, information and letters, as Abdulrahman Al-Rashed underlined in his article "Trump's surprise: Negotiating with Rouhani," especially since Omani mediators are most likely acting behind curtains for fear of the deterioration of security which can affect the stability of shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
Strict terms
As much as some observers and political analysts worry about the possibility of a relative Iranian-American rapprochement, the dialogue between the two countries will fall within the interests of the Middle East and its stability, and it will certainly be according to terms that are much stricter than those adopted under President Barack Obama.
Saudi Arabia is not against resolving the present problems with Iran; nevertheless it wants Iran to stop meddling in internal affairs of other countries and stop financing armed militias.
Hassan Al Mustafa
The Gulf States will not be the losing party in this dialogue. The Saudi kingdom and the UAE in particular are capable of coordinating with the United States to protect their national interests. The two countries also have enough diplomatic tools that make it possible for them to create a balance with Tehran and to have an influential word.
The conflict with Iran is not an inevitable destiny, and the Gulf States are not fond of war. Therefore, if it is possible to achieve the interests, security and stability of the region through serious and transparent dialogue and as long as it's not a time-wasting dialogue that's full of empty promises, then this will have a positive effect on the stability and development of the Gulf with its two sides.
Avoiding military confrontation
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal in March 2018, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman clearly stated: "We have to succeed so as to avoid military conflict. If we don't succeed in what we are trying to do, we will likely have war with Iran in 10-15 years."
The Kingdom is not against resolving the present problems with Iran; nevertheless it wants Iran to stop meddling in internal affairs of other countries, stop financing armed militias and not threaten the borders by supporting the launch of ballistic missiles into the kingdom from Yemen. As such, the Kingdom is working to stop any slippage that could result in a direct confrontation between the two parties.
The financial drainage, the Sunni-Shiite conflict, terrorist organizations and the spread of extremist ideology are all difficult problems that would be easier to solve if an Iranian-American-Gulf dialogue is fruitful in accordance to a clear roadmap that fulfills everyone's interests, builds a regional safety net, promotes trust and strengthens relations between the concerned countries.
It is true that the dialogue may not work, and it will be very difficult and challenging, but it is the best available political option. If President Hassan Rouhani convinces
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards of the importance of responding to President Trump's invitation and if they succeed in agreeing with him, he will have fulfilled an achievement that allows Iran to mitigate its revolutionary burden, even if it is according to the Chinese way. It will also help Iran integrate with its surroundings; otherwise, Iran will face difficult domestic problems and great external pressure that may lead to the worst!
This article is also available in Arabic.
Hassan AlMustafa is Saudi journalist with interest in middle east and Gulf politics. His writing focuses on social media, Arab youth affairs and Middle Eastern societal matters. His twitter handle is @halmustafa.
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package org.eclipse.collections.impl.list.immutable;

import org.eclipse.collections.api.list.ImmutableList;
import org.eclipse.collections.api.list.MutableList;
import org.eclipse.collections.api.map.MutableMap;
import org.eclipse.collections.api.set.MutableSet;
import org.eclipse.collections.impl.bag.mutable.HashBag;
import org.eclipse.collections.impl.block.factory.Functions;
import org.eclipse.collections.impl.factory.Lists;
import org.eclipse.collections.impl.list.Interval;
import org.eclipse.collections.impl.list.mutable.AddToList;
import org.eclipse.collections.impl.list.mutable.FastList;
import org.eclipse.collections.impl.map.mutable.UnifiedMap;
import org.eclipse.collections.impl.set.mutable.UnifiedSet;
import org.eclipse.collections.impl.test.SerializeTestHelper;
import org.eclipse.collections.impl.test.Verify;
import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Test;

/**
 * JUnit test for {@link ImmutableArrayList}.
 */
public class ImmutableArrayListTest extends AbstractImmutableListTestCase
{
    @Override
    protected ImmutableList<Integer> classUnderTest()
    {
        return this.newList(1, 2, 3);
    }

    @Test
    public void newWith()
    {
        ImmutableList<Integer> list = this.newList(1, 2, 3);
        ImmutableList<Integer> with = list.newWith(4);
        Assert.assertNotEquals(list, with);
        Assert.assertEquals(FastList.newListWith(1, 2, 3, 4), with);
    }

    @Test
    public void newWithAll()
    {
        ImmutableList<Integer> list = this.newList(1, 2, 3);
        ImmutableList<Integer> withAll = list.newWithAll(FastList.newListWith(4, 5));
        Assert.assertNotEquals(list, withAll);
        Assert.assertEquals(FastList.newListWith(1, 2, 3, 4, 5), withAll);
    }

    @Test
    public void newWithOut()
    {
        ImmutableList<Integer> list = this.newList(1, 2, 3, 4);
        ImmutableList<Integer> without4 = list.newWithout(4);
        Assert.assertNotEquals(list, without4);
        Assert.assertEquals(FastList.newListWith(1, 2, 3), without4);

        ImmutableList<Integer> without1 = list.newWithout(1);
        Assert.assertNotEquals(list, without1);
        Assert.assertEquals(FastList.newListWith(2, 3, 4), without1);

        ImmutableList<Integer> without0 = list.newWithout(0);
        Assert.assertSame(list, without0);

        ImmutableList<Integer> without5 = list.newWithout(5);
        Assert.assertSame(list, without5);
    }

    @Test
    public void newWithoutAll()
    {
        ImmutableList<Integer> list = this.newList(1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
        ImmutableList<Integer> withoutAll = list.newWithoutAll(FastList.newListWith(4, 5));
        Assert.assertNotEquals(list, withoutAll);
        Assert.assertEquals(FastList.newListWith(1, 2, 3), withoutAll);
        Assert.assertEquals(FastList.newListWith(1, 2, 3), list.newWithoutAll(HashBag.newBagWith(4, 4, 5)));
        ImmutableList<Integer> largeList = this.newList(Interval.oneTo(20).toArray());
        ImmutableList<Integer> largeWithoutAll = largeList.newWithoutAll(FastList.newList(Interval.oneTo(10)));
        Assert.assertEquals(FastList.newList(Interval.fromTo(11, 20)), largeWithoutAll);
        ImmutableList<Integer> largeWithoutAll2 = largeWithoutAll.newWithoutAll(Interval.fromTo(11, 15));
        Assert.assertEquals(FastList.newList(Interval.fromTo(16, 20)), largeWithoutAll2);
        ImmutableList<Integer> largeWithoutAll3 = largeWithoutAll2.newWithoutAll(UnifiedSet.newSet(Interval.fromTo(16, 19)));
        Assert.assertEquals(FastList.newListWith(20), largeWithoutAll3);
    }

    private ImmutableArrayList<Integer> newList(Integer... elements)
    {
        return ImmutableArrayList.newListWith(elements);
    }

    private ImmutableList<Integer> newListWith(int one, int two)
    {
        return ImmutableArrayList.newListWith(one, two);
    }

    private ImmutableList<Integer> newListWith(int one, int two, int three)
    {
        return ImmutableArrayList.newListWith(one, two, three);
    }

    private ImmutableList<Integer> newListWith(int... littleElements)
    {
        Integer[] bigElements = new Integer[littleElements.length];
        for (int i = 0; i < littleElements.length; i++)
        {
            bigElements[i] = littleElements[i];
        }
        return ImmutableArrayList.newListWith(bigElements);
    }

    @Test
    public void newListWith()
    {
        ImmutableList<Integer> collection = ImmutableArrayList.newListWith(1);
        Assert.assertTrue(collection.notEmpty());
        Assert.assertEquals(1, collection.size());
        Assert.assertTrue(collection.contains(1));
    }

    @Test
    public void newListWithVarArgs()
    {
        ImmutableList<Integer> collection = this.newListWith(1, 2, 3, 4);
        Assert.assertTrue(collection.notEmpty());
        Assert.assertEquals(4, collection.size());
        Assert.assertTrue(collection.containsAllArguments(1, 2, 3, 4));
        Assert.assertTrue(collection.containsAllIterable(Interval.oneTo(4)));
    }

    @Test
    public void toSet()
    {
        ImmutableArrayList<Integer> integers = ImmutableArrayList.newListWith(1, 2, 3, 4);
        MutableSet<Integer> set = integers.toSet();
        Verify.assertContainsAll(set, 1, 2, 3, 4);
    }

    @Test
    public void toMap()
    {
        ImmutableArrayList<Integer> integers = ImmutableArrayList.newListWith(1, 2, 3, 4);
        MutableMap<String, String> map =
                integers.toMap(String::valueOf, String::valueOf);
        Assert.assertEquals(UnifiedMap.newWithKeysValues("1", "1", "2", "2", "3", "3", "4", "4"), map);
    }

    @Test
    public void serialization()
    {
        ImmutableList<Integer> collection = ImmutableArrayList.newListWith(1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
        ImmutableList<Integer> deserializedCollection = SerializeTestHelper.serializeDeserialize(collection);
        Assert.assertEquals(5, deserializedCollection.size());
        Assert.assertTrue(deserializedCollection.containsAllArguments(1, 2, 3, 4, 5));
        Verify.assertEqualsAndHashCode(collection, deserializedCollection);
    }

    @Test(expected = IndexOutOfBoundsException.class)
    public void forEachWithIndexIllegalFrom()
    {
        MutableList<Integer> result = Lists.mutable.of();
        this.newList(1, 2).forEachWithIndex(-1, 2, new AddToList(result));
    }

    @Test(expected = IndexOutOfBoundsException.class)
    public void forEachWithIndexIllegalTo()
    {
        MutableList<Integer> result = Lists.mutable.of();
        this.newList(1, 2).forEachWithIndex(1, -2, new AddToList(result));
    }

    @Test
    @Override
    public void get()
    {
        ImmutableList<Integer> list = this.classUnderTest();
        Verify.assertThrows(ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException.class, () -> list.get(list.size() + 1));
        Verify.assertThrows(ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException.class, () -> list.get(-1));
    }

    @Test(expected = IllegalStateException.class)
    @Override
    public void iteratorRemove()
    {
        this.classUnderTest().iterator().remove();
    }

    @Test
    public void groupByUniqueKey()
    {
        Assert.assertEquals(UnifiedMap.newWithKeysValues(1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3), this.classUnderTest().groupByUniqueKey(id -> id));
    }

    @Test(expected = IllegalStateException.class)
    public void groupByUniqueKey_throws()
    {
        this.classUnderTest().groupByUniqueKey(Functions.getFixedValue(1));
    }

    @Test
    public void groupByUniqueKey_target()
    {
        MutableMap<Integer, Integer> integers = this.classUnderTest().groupByUniqueKey(id -> id, UnifiedMap.newWithKeysValues(0, 0));
        Assert.assertEquals(UnifiedMap.newWithKeysValues(0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3), integers);
    }

    @Test(expected = IllegalStateException.class)
    public void groupByUniqueKey_target_throws()
    {
        this.classUnderTest().groupByUniqueKey(id -> id, UnifiedMap.newWithKeysValues(2, 2));
    }

    @Test
    public void getOnly()
    {
        ImmutableList<Integer> list = this.newList(2);
        Assert.assertEquals(Integer.valueOf(2), list.getOnly());
    }

    @Test(expected = IllegalStateException.class)
    public void getOnly_exception_when_empty()
    {
        ImmutableList<Integer> list = this.newList();
        list.getOnly();
    }

    @Test(expected = IllegalStateException.class)
    public void getOnly_exception_when_multiple_items()
    {
        ImmutableList<Integer> list = this.newList(1, 2, 3);
        list.getOnly();
    }
}

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Puchar Hopmana – międzynarodowy drużynowy turniej tenisowy, odbywający się co roku na przełomie grudnia i stycznia w australijskim mieście Perth w stanie Australia Zachodnia. Uznawany jest za nieoficjalne mistrzostwa świata zespołów mieszanych.

W odróżnieniu od pozostałych drużynowych turniejów tenisowych, Pucharu Federacji – przeznaczonego wyłącznie dla kobiet i Pucharu Davisa, w którym walczą mężczyźni, reprezentacja kraju w Pucharze Hopmana składa się z jednej kobiety i jednego mężczyzny. W rywalizacji bierze udział osiem zespołów narodowych.

Startujące ekipy dzielone są na dwie grupy, w każdej po cztery zespoły. Cztery najlepsze drużyny zawodów (decydują singlowe rankingi WTA i ATP) zostają rozstawione. Tradycyjnie już w grupie A znajdują się rozstawieni z numerem pierwszym, a w grupie B – z numerem drugim. Następnie odbywa się faza grupowa, w której państwa rozgrywają pomiędzy sobą konfrontacje, złożone z meczu gry pojedynczej kobiet, meczu gry pojedynczej mężczyzn i meczu gry mieszanej. Przynajmniej dwa wygrane spotkania dają zwycięstwo w konfrontacji.

Po zakończeniu fazy grupowej zwycięzcy obydwu grup spotykają się w finale, gdzie również rozgrywają mecze pomiędzy sobą (minimum dwa konieczne do wygrania turnieju).

W przypadku, gdy zawodnik odniesie kontuzję w trakcie rozgrywania turnieju, może zostać zastąpiony przez swojego rodaka.

Do roku 2012 turniej odbywał się na twardych kortach obiektu Burswood Entertainment Complex w Perth. W roku 2013 Puchar Hopmana przeniósł się do nowo wybudowanego obiektu Perth Arena w Perth. Impreza zawarta jest w kalendarzu Międzynarodowej Federacji Tenisowej, a wyniki zawodników nie są wliczane do klasyfikacji WTA i ATP. Impreza stanowi swoiste otwarcie sezonu tenisowego, bowiem kilka dni po inauguracji Pucharu Hopmana na terenie Australii i Nowej Zelandii rusza tenisowy festiwal, złożony z kilkunastu turniejów zawodowych i ukoronowany wielkoszlemowym Australian Open w drugiej połowie stycznia.

Nazwa turnieju – Puchar Hopmana – nadana została na cześć wybitnego australijskiego tenisisty i trenera, Harry'ego Hopmana (1906–1985), który przyczynił się w znacznym stopniu do zdobycia przez kraj piętnastu tytułów Pucharu Davisa w latach 1938–1969.

Harry Hopman nie dożył pierwszej edycji imprezy, która odbyła się w 1989 roku. Do Australii przyjeżdżała jednak ze Stanów Zjednoczonych jego druga żona, Lucy. Miejscowi kibice pokochali ją, nadając jej przydomek "Queen of the Cup".

Dyrektorem turnieju jest Australijczyk Paul McNamee, który miał duży udział w zainicjowaniu zawodów. Hopman Cup to pierwsza oficjalna impreza, w czasie której zastosowano popularny system Hawk-Eye, miało to miejsce na przełomie 2005 i 2006 roku, zwycięzcami zostali wówczas Amerykanie.

W 2020 roku turniej się nie odbył, gdyż został zastąpiony w kalendarzu tenisowym przez nowe męskie rozgrywki drużynowe – ATP Cup. Zarządzający ITF David Haggerty zapowiedział jednak, że rozgrywki mają powrócić w 2021 roku oraz poinformował o trwaniu poszukiwań nowej lokalizacji dla zawodów.

Zwycięskie ekipy

Uwagi

Przypisy

Bibliografia

Linki zewnętrzne

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Brexit Claims Another Airline – Flybmi ceases operations
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Brexit Claims Another Airline Victim – Flybmi ceases operations
As one of the coldest winters in aviation comes to a close, unfortunately, another airline declared bankruptcy. This time, the winter of bankruptcies absorbed Flybmi. The regional carrier was based in the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden and Belgium.
Over the weekend the airline declared that it could not continue running its operations and also make a profit. Thus, effective immediately, Flybmi is not going to run any flights and the company will file for administration.
Blame Fuel, Carbon, Brexit
Flybmi's spokesperson cited the reason why the company ceased operations:
"The airline has faced several difficulties, including recent spikes in fuel and carbon costs, the latter arising from the EU's recent decision to exclude UK airlines from full participation in the Emissions Trading Scheme." The airline has also noted Brexit affected its profitability and future prospects: "Current trading and future prospects have also been seriously affected by the uncertainty created by the Brexit process, which has led to our inability to secure valuable flying contracts in Europe…"
Flybmi Cancels Flights. Source: BBC
Although the United Kingdom is not leaving the European Union as of yet, the uncertainty of the decision is having a lot of impact on aviation. Airlines are struggling to secure an expansion of their operations, as they do not know whether they will be able to fly into the European Union at all. Various airlines around Europe, especially low-cost carriers, are creating subsidiaries to avoid the consequences of Brexit. For example, easyJet, which is based in the UK, has created a subsidiary in Austria called easyJet Europe.
Speaking about the short-term perspective, the rising fuel prices are having a lot of negative impact on the profitability of airlines. Last week, airlines on average had to pay $77 for a baller of fuel. According to IATA, compared to January, the price rose 4.1%. On the other hand, airlines that have survived the harsh winter will release a sigh of relief. Seeing that IATA predicts fuel prices in 2019 will have much less impact on airlines' expenses compared to 2018.
easyJet is preparing for Brexit
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However, when talking about the long-term perspective, seems like the European regional market is currently experiencing very difficult times. And that will not end when spring will finally arrive, as the regional market itself is in a troubled spot. Independent regional airlines are being squeezed out of the skies by low-cost airlines and the subsidiaries of legacy carriers.
Simply put, low-cost airlines can undercut prices. Meanwhile, subsidiaries such as KLM Cityhopper, do not have to remain profitable – they need to feed passengers into the networks of the bigger airlines. To illustrate, KLM Cityhopper is a subsidiary of KLM, thus it transfers passengers from regional airports to long-haul flights of KLM.
That is why regional airlines are struggling. Notably, Flybe is still hopeful that a buyer will save the company from its dire financial situation.
Unfortunately for Flybmi, no messiah has come out the gate to save the airline. Flybmi joins the recently-bankrupt Germania that has ceased operations due to financial struggles.
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Old Country Jewish Blues & Ornette
Published September 1, 2008 April 25, 2019 – By Nat Hentoff
There's a country music song, "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?," of which I never tire, and it jumped to mind as I was reading an advance copy of Ben Ratliff's characteristically illuminating new book, The Jazz Ear: Conversations Over Music (Times Books). The publication date is November 11. You may have seen some of them in Ratliff's "Listening With" series in The New York Times. He not only has a deep, far-ranging knowledge of jazz, but like Count Basie comping his band, Ratliff leaves breathing and feeling space for the musician with whom he's talking.
He asked 15 musicians for a list of five or six pieces of music he or she would like to listen to with him, among them Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins, Paul Motian and Maria Schneider.
Ornette Coleman's first request startled me into freshly realizing-like that country music song-how central jazz has been to the unbroken circle of my life for more than 70 years. Ornette's choice was a recording by Josef Rosenblatt, a Jewish cantor (chazan) in a 1916 (that's not a typo) recording from the Sabbath services in an Orthodox Jewish synagogue (a shul). Ornette's selection jolted me back to when I was a boy, sitting next to my father, in a shul in Boston's Jewish ghetto.
The first music that went all the way through me was the soul music of the chazan, both in that shul and others I kept going to just to hear what I described in this column's "Jazz and Deep Jewish Blues" (JazzTimes, February 2002): "The cry, the kretchts (a catch in the voice), a cry summoning centuries of hosts of Jews … a thunderstorm of fierce yearnings that reverberated throughout the shul and then, as if the universe had lost a beat, there is sudden silence, and from deep inside the chazan, a soaring falsetto."
This was during the so-called Great Depression, and by the time I was 11, working as a delivery boy on a horse-drawn wagon, I had enough money to buy three-for-a-dollar records by Louis Armstrong, Peetie Wheatstraw ("the devil's son-in-law") and Josef Rosenblatt.
Ornette told Ratliff he first heard a Rosenblatt recording some 22 years ago when, in Chicago, a young man asked him to come by and listen to what he thought would interest Ornette.
The reaction by Ornette: "I started crying like a baby. The record he had was crying, singing, and praying, all in the same breath. And none of it was crossing each other. I said, 'Wait a minute. You can't find those "notes." They don't exist.'"
That's what early listeners of Ornette's used to say. I first heard him at one of his first recording sessions in Los Angeles for Lester Koenig's Contemporary label. The penetrating human sound as he sang through his horn made me feel I'd found a soul brother. I didn't know then that Josef Rosenblatt was part of our troika.
Also in Ratliff's new book is a listening session with Roy Haynes. I first heard Roy live during a Sunday afternoon jam session at Boston's Savoy Café, which was my second home. My parents thought it was where I really lived. A kid in his teens walked into the club and asked if he could sit in. He was a student, I later found out, at Roxbury Memorial High School, near where I lived.
That kid lit up the room with a propulsive beat that lifted everybody up, including the bartender. His name was Roy Haynes. Many years later, Roy and I were in the same class of National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters (all I could play was the electric type-writer), and I told him of that session at the Savoy. He laughed and said, "You know, when I was in school in Boston, I used to listen to you on the radio."
On the air, while a staff announcer at WMEX, I got a jazz show in a time slot management couldn't sell. And during a series on jazz history, I played Louis Armstrong recordings with Baby Dodds on drums, including a 10-inch "instructional" recording Dodds made (I think for Moe Asch's Folkways label) on topics including "Playing for the Benefit of the Band."
There was Baby Dodds, brought back to life during Ben Ratliff's interview with Roy, who said, "I used to travel with that [Baby Dodds] record." And Ratliff included in the excerpt from the record: "You must study … a guy's human nature. Study what he will take or what he will go for … that's why all guys is not drummers that's drumming … You can't holler at a man, you can't dog him. Not in music. It's up to me to keep all that lively. That's my job."
Livelier than ever-that's still Roy's job.
Roy spoke of his idol, "Papa" Jo Jones, who, as Ratliff notes, "was proud of his 'kiddies,' the musicians whom he influenced." When I was still on Boston radio, doing remotes from the Savoy, Jo Jones stunned me when he decided I was to be one of his "kiddies." I couldn't play anything, but I had a radio show and was writing about the music, so I had to be instructed in the calling I'd become marginally involved in.
One night, Papa Jo sat me down at the Savoy, and until the club closed, told me where the music had come from, where he had come from, and how to listen to this music by paying attention to what's really inside the players, because that's what the music was all about.
In his introduction to The Jazz Ear, Ratliff explains what he learned by listening to musicians as they were listening to other players: "What are the things they notice? What are their criteria for excellence? What makes them react involuntarily? The answers indicate what a musician values in music, which comes to connect what a musician believes music is for in the first place. And that is the big thing, the big question, from which all small questions descend."
That's why The Jazz Ear will be a permanent part of learning how to listen inside the musicians playing. Jo Jones never stopped keeping an eye on his "kiddies." From time to time, he'd let me know if he felt I needed more instruction. Papa Jo would be proud of "kiddie" Ben Ratliff.
Clearly, jazz has also been at the center of the unbroken circle of Ben Ratliff's life all these years-and we're all fortunate that The New York Times recognizes his value.
Over more than 60 years, Nat Hentoff (1925-2017) wrote about music, politics, and many other subjects for a variety of publications, including DownBeat (which he edited from 1953 to 1957), the Village Voice (where he was a weekly columnist from 1958 to 2009), the Wall Street Journal, and JazzTimes, to which he regularly contributed the Final Chorus column from 1998 to 2012. Of the 32 books that he wrote, co-wrote, or edited, 10 focus on jazz. In 2004, Hentoff became the first recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts' Jazz Masters award for jazz advocacy.
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W Hotels Worldwide Unveils Innovative iPhone Application
Beyond Hotel Bookings, the W App Features Exclusive Access to a Curated Music Experience, Insider Tips, and Social Networking
May 26, 2011 10:06 AM Eastern Daylight Time
IBIZA, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--From the fourth annual International Music Summit (IMS) in Ibiza, Spain, W Hotels Worldwide today unveiled their highly anticipated global iPhone application. The W app not only holds hotel booking capability for W Hotels around the world, but also features an integrated music platform with exclusive content, a first for the hotel industry, as well as W Insider tips, fashion finds, and other meaningful ideas about "what's new and next". Beyond the extension of the W lifestyle, the mobile app will serve as a clear business driver for W Hotels, on trend with how guests are now booking guestrooms. The application can be downloaded free of charge at www.whotels.com/music or through the Apple App Store at www.whotels.com/mobileapp.
"The global iPhone application is a vital, new communication channel for W Hotels that allows us to further connect with our target audience, while bringing to life the passions of the W brand," said Eva Ziegler, Global Brand Leader, W Hotels Worldwide and Le Méridien. "Our savvy guests now have on the go information for all W Hotels, including access to W's signature Whatever/Whenever service, as well as exclusive music content curated by our Global Music Director, Michaelangelo L'Aqua, from DJs all over the world. The W iPhone app is another way for W loyalists to stay connected 24/7."
W's Global Music Director, Michaelangelo L'Acqua, acts as the brand's ambassador for what is new and next in music. One of his ongoing projects is the Symmetry Live series that brings emerging artists to perform in W Hotels, including such acts as Ellie Goulding, Cee Lo Green, Janelle Monae, and Neon Trees. L'Acqua now lends his expertly trained ear to curate music for the iPhone app and will continue to infuse the application with the newest DJ mixes, updated on an ongoing basis.
"MIX.dj is thrilled to provide W Hotels Worldwide with technology and a leading DJ music platform to power their mobile iPhone application," said Xavier Galliot, CEO, MIX.dj. "It is exciting to see an elite hospitality brand like W Hotels embrace the global DJ community and new technologies in order to connect with their audience and extend their brand into lifestyles around the world."
Beyond music, other features of the W Hotels iPhone app include:
Explore W Hotels Worldwide: Find, explore and book W hotels and retreats around the world.
Get Local: Check out the local weather, get directions or take a first look at W photos.
Stay connected: Connect with friends and followers through Facebook, Twitter or FourSquare directly from the W Hotels app.
Get Insider Access: Find out about special events and exclusive W Happenings in each destination through the "Insider" tab on each hotel page.
Order In: View and order from the hotel's in-room dining menus at all hours.
Have it Delivered: Tap the "I Need" tab for immediate service.
Treat Yourself or Someone Else: Guests and non-guests alike can order anything, from champagne to snacks, to a guest room at any W Hotel.
Anything Else? Just Ask: For any other special requests or question, the app enables users to send the hotel an email.
Get the Inside Scoop: Find out about special offers to redeem during your stay at W Hotels around the world by choosing the "Messages" tab on each hotel page.
Bring W Hotels Home: Get instant, on-the-go access to W Hotels The Store (W's take on the traditional hotel gift shop).
And for those who want more: Check out what's happening at W Hotels around the globe or find a special deal for your next stay using the 'Special Offers' page.
W Hotels Launches Partnership with burn Energy Drink from The Coca-Cola Company
W Hotels today also announced their collaboration with burn, an industry-leading energy drink of The Coca-Cola Company, for the music platform of the W iPhone application. These two international brands will together form the W Hotels and burn DJ Lab, a program that will support up-and-coming DJs. Michaelangelo L'Acqua and music ambassadors affiliated with burn Studios, an online creative community of music enthusiasts, will select DJs for the platform. The selected DJs will polish their skills at the burn Hacienda in Ibiza in August 2011 as they prepare for a global DJ tour. The W Hotels and burn DJ Lab global tour dates will be announced later this summer, while exclusive DJ mixes created at the burn Hacienda will be accessible through the W Hotels iPhone app as well as through MIX.dj.
To learn more about the W Hotels and burn partnership, please visit www.whotels.com/music.
About W Hotels Worldwide
W Hotels is a contemporary, design-led lifestyle brand and the industry innovator with 42 hotels and retreats, including 14 W-branded residences, in the most vibrant cities and exotic destinations around the world. Inspiring, iconic, innovative and influential, W Hotels provides the ultimate in insider access, offering a unique mix of cutting-edge design and passions around fashion, music and entertainment. W Hotels offers a holistic lifestyle experience that is integrated into the brand's sensibility through contemporary restaurant concepts, glamorous entertainment experiences, stylish retail concepts, signature spas and inspiring residences. With more than 12 years of proven success, W Hotels is on track to reach more than 50 hotels by the end of 2012. W Hotels have been announced for Paris, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Abu Dhabi, Bangkok, Athens – Astir Palace, Muscat, Mumbai, and Sante Fe, Mexico, while upcoming W Retreats include Verbier and Mexico's Riveria Maya. For more information, visit www.whotels.com. To live the W Hotels lifestyle 24/7/365, visit www.wresidences.com.
About burn
burn is a category leader in the global energy drink explosion. The red formula is a symbol of active fire that provides drinkers the energy needed to leave their original vision on the world. Dismantling category norms, burn consumers embody a live-out-loud mentality, without fear of boundaries created by society. burn is a brand of The Coca-Cola Company.
About MIX.dj
MIX.dj is the world's largest web and mobile based DJ community. The MIX.dj web and mobile music community consists of content producers, content consumers and advertisers. MIX.dj has 1.5 million mobile users (iOS and Droid) and over 120,000 registered users on the web. The community consists of over 55,000 DJ mixes from 12,000 DJs in 150 countries. New DJ party mixes are added 24/7/365. MIX.dj offers DJ promotional tools, fan discovery and recommendation tools, advertising platforms, mobile development, and streaming radio services. MIX.dj also develops customized mobile applications for artists, record labels and lifestyle/hospitality brands. MIX.dj has developed over 100 different mobile applications in the Apple Appstore and Android Market. The MIX.dj global network also offers a powerful mobile advertising platform with a growing network that reaches over 1.5 million mobile users around the world. For more information, visit www.mix.dj on a web or mobile browser.
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Microsoft Reveals 3 Million Xbox One Sales In 2013
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It's been a little while since we've gotten any further numbers from the great console sales race of 2013, and now as CES kicks off, Microsoft has given us an update. In a blog post from Yusuf Mehdi, Corporate Vice President of Marketing, Strategy and Business, Xbox, the latest tallies have been revealed:
"Over 3 million Xbox One consoles were sold to consumers in 13 countries before the end of 2013. It's been incredible to see Xbox One selling at a record-setting pace for Xbox, and we were honored to see Xbox One become the fastest-selling console in the U.S. during our launch month in November. Since our launch, demand for Xbox One has been strong, selling out throughout the holidays at most retailers worldwide. We are continuing to work hard to deliver additional consoles to retailers as fast as possible."
That's 3 million sold worldwide in about 5-6 weeks of sales in 2013. Last we heard, Microsoft hit 2 million sales in early December. Just before those numbers were announced, Sony unveiled 2.1M in global PS4 sales, though we haven't heard updated figures from them since. If Sony has numbers to top Microsoft's 3 million in 2013, we'll likely hear about it shortly as they attempt to steal the Xbox One's thunder.
For now, we only have Microsoft's data, and three million Xbox Ones sold in about six weeks after launch is undeniably impressive. As a reference, Microsoft shipped 1.5M Xbox 360s during that console's launch in the last few weeks of 2005. This figure is easily double that, considering units shipped doesn't necessarily equal units sold.
Microsoft also made a point of highlight brisk US sales in this announcement. Traditionally the Xbox outperforms Sony's PlayStation in the US Market, but Sony pulls ahead worldwide, especially in Asia, for obvious reasons. If PS4 is ahead overall, they have the global market to thank.
I do expect we'll hear Sony's figures shortly now that Microsoft has made this announcement. If I had to guess, Sony may still have the edge in terms of total sales, but it won't be by much, and Xbox does have an extra $100 on its price tag. If there have been more than six million next generation consoles sold this holiday season between the Xbox One and PS4, this was a winter without equal for Sony and Microsoft.
Mehdi ends his post saying how much he's looking forward to 2014, listing anticipated games that will be out for the One like Destiny, Titanfall, Watch Dogs, The Division and more. With barely a handful of truly worthwhile next-gen games out on either system right now, 2014 will be the time when these new consoles go from hopeful Christmas presents to absolute must-haves.
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This is my last Thankful Thursday blog. While I have totally enjoyed Thankful Thursdays, school is starting back next week, and yes, I will still have time to workout, hangout, read, write, but I also must add reading and planning for school into my daily routine. So, I can not guarantee that I will be able to write and post a blog every Thursday. But, rest assured, throughout the school year, I will continue to blog, because I make sure that I do the things that I love to do often.
With the start of school approaching, I must say that I have enjoyed doing whatever I have wanted to do, whenever I have wanted to do it. But, I must also say that I am ready for the change that is coming my way. I look forward to being back on a routine, seeing coworkers, teaching children etc.
I am so Thankful for Change!!!
I am happy that styles change, people change, seasons change, I am changing, because I think it would be almost unbearable if things stayed the same. Change is what keeps us on our toes.
Since I started teaching, there has been so many changes in the way that we teach children, and I am happy about it. Today, we spend much more time thinking and developing ways to reach all children, infusing technology into the classroom, mainstreaming and doing so much more innovative teaching until it is completely mind blowing. If I was still teaching the same way that I did fifteen years ago, I think that I just might go crazy doing the same thing, the same way, for fifteen years.
Knowing that everything changes, I have learned to really enjoy "the right now," because "right now" will not be around very long. I have enjoyed every MORNING bike ride, dentist appointment, workouts with the greatest trainer in the world, grocery store trips, writing, because I knew that this situation will only last for awhile..... and it's on to the next, and I always expect "next" to be even better than "now".
I know people who resist change, and they are fighting an uphill battle. Change is inevitable. But, not only is it inevitable, it is good. It's all in the way that you look at things.
Today, as I sit on my balcony, in the middle of the day, I am so Thankful for Change.
I TOTALLY agree change is good and it's working FOR me!!!! I ALSO LOVE that picture!! While readying this blog I thought about our daddy who was Very instrumental in me having an open mind for change. Upon completion of this blog I thought about my 2cd dad and spiritual father Bishop Ricks who also stood strong for change and that was one of his favorite songs. Today I am thankful for both of them! I am also thankful for my mothers, family, church family, and Just for God being God!! Great blog and thanks for sharing!!! I am also looking forward to a GREAT school year!! God bless you my sister!
Tracy, thanks for that heart felt comment.
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Labouring the Obvious, but Missing the Essence
Labouring the Obvious, but Missing the Essence Saral Sarkar THE aim of this book is "to acquaint the readers with the economic progress of the Soviet Union in the post-war period". This and the title of the book already indicate that the author is not going to examine, but merely describe. Still his impressive bio-data might make one believe that he would give an objective description and, by an telligent choice of the material, leveal also the nature of the development. But Singh disappoints us. He describes mainly with the help of official production figures, plan targets, official percentage calculations and statements of Kosygin and Brezhnev, blissfully forgetting the well-known fact that statistips, especially official statistics (Singh has not worked out any himself), can conceal as well as reveal truth and that statements of politicians, especially of those in government, have to be taken with a pinch of salt. He is totally uncritical; his is the approach of the faithful , But why does Singh describe in such great detail something that is well- known and accepted by most people as fact? Everybody agrees that the Soviet Union is a superpower, and that its industry, science and technology das made great progress. When now there is discussion of Soviet economic development, it is mainly on the nature and not the quantity of that development, on the socio-political setup behind that development and on the nature of the distribution of the gains of that development "The present volume is devoted to her post-war economic progress ... which can not be isolated from the socio-political settings." But does Singh do that properly? He devotes a section to the 20th Congress (1956), but does not say a word about Khruschov's denunciation of Stalin. He mentions the economic reforms of the sixties as "measures for improving the methods of economic management" which "conformed to the requirements of a developed socialist society"; but he does not say a word about the contents of the reforms, nor why they became necessary. He also does not mention that profit (or whatever type, it may be) has played since then a certain important role in the Soviet economy. Rather, he cites the finding of Sidney and Beatrice Webb (1935) that profit-making has been abolished in the Soviet Union. Singh only speaks of the participation of the people in the day-to-day working of the Soviet political system; but he does not give any' concrete example. According to; Singh, "the working people are the co-owners of the means of production". It would be interesting to know the relative powers of the workers and the managers in the affairs of the firm
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Thu, Nov 14, 2019 Mike Willee Copyrights
A Google Play Copyright Case: When Can We Blame Tools For How They're Used?
To what extent can creators be held responsible for the ways in which their creations are used, particularly if those uses fall outside of what is legal or ethical? It's a worthwhile question to consider these days. We've more technology in our hands —quite literally in the case of smartphones— than could have been dreamt of by technologists of yore, and yet all of that tech and all of those tools being readily available to so many means that there are those who would use them for less than legitimate means. You can think of identity theft and the dark web and any number of other nefarious enterprises and wonder how much blame is apportioned to those who helped to create the internet, a consideration that's probably unfair given how unlikely it was for anyone to imagine what the internet would become.
A more direct application of that question is playing out in a copyright complaint against a media player from a major television provider, playing out in Google's version of an app store. TorrentFreak reports that the unnamed pay TV provider took up the complaint against Perfect Player, a media player app that is capable of being used to view Internet Protocol television (IPTV), many of which are illegal streams of copyrighted material. Google clearly took the complaint seriously and removed Perfect Player out of the Google Play store, citing that the app allows users to watch said illegal streams and is therefor in violation of the store rules.
That argument is a bit fraught, however. Perfect Player itself is not expressly designed to encourage IPTV streaming; rather, it's a tool that can be used to the good or ill of the individual downloader. It doesn't come preloaded with lists or links to illegal streams, or even with a wink and a nod towards those practices. It's simply a bit of code on a computer, as benign and innocent as any application might be, if we're to ascribe human traits to technology. The blame falls to the users, but as copyright holders can't get to tens of thousands of illicit actors, it's simpler and quicker to simply take away the tools used in commission of violations, even if it's on dubious grounds.
It's another example of large copyright holders wielding hammers as the only tool in their copyright arsenal — a tool which, fittingly, can be used as a weapon, outside of its expressed design and purpose. Copyright infringement is a issue that content producers are keen to combat, particularly in this age when copyrighted materials are so easy to disseminate. But if the designers and apps that are unwittingly being used to violate copyright are to be the targets of their ire, we could see more and more ostensibly legitimate tech shut down before this is all over, and that could have a chilling effect on innovators the world over.


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2018 Festival Napa Valley Lineup Announced
By: Al Hernandez
The 13th Season of Festival Napa Valley expands its programing and will be dedicated to honoring the first responders involved in the Northern California Wildfires that ravaged the area last year.
The annual festival from July 18-29th at venues throughout Napa Valley will include a number of free concerts and will include $5.00 tickets to firefighters, police, medics and other first responders.
Details on the first responder discount and the free events are available at festivalnapavalley.org. Tickets and lineup details are available. More festival related wine, culinary, and educational events will be posted as details become finalized.
Festival highlights this year include Grupo Compay Segundo from Havana, Cuba, founded by members of the famous Buena Vista Social Club it will be the first time in 20 years members have played in the United States. In addition, violinist Joshua Bell a festival regular will perform a world premiere of the complete score of the Academy Award-winning film "The Red Violin," accompanied by a full orchestra and a showing of a remastered print of the movie.
The score's composer, John Corigliano, is scheduled to attend the performance and the next day, members of the Russian National Orchestra will debut a new arrangement of his "Pied Piper Fantasy."
Tickets and information are on the 2018 festival are available online or by calling (888) 337-6272. Single concert tickets start at $39. Patron Experience passes start at $850.


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Happy New Year, Charlotte. May 2019 treat you well.
How apt as some of us struggle with the amount of cardboard generated by the winter festival(s)!
Children, as well as cats and dogs, find adventures in the simple cardboard box that we can only dream of, if we allowed ourselves that vision.
Happy New Year to everyone, and looking forward to 2019 to be the most exciting year for haiku than even previous years!
Thanks, Alan! Happy New Year to you, too.
#Haiku Happenings #5: Charlotte Digregorio's Daily Haiku features Tom Clausen!


You are here: Home › Moral › Who's Job is it?
This is a story about four people Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody.
Somebody got angry 'bout that, because it was Everybody's job.
Is Suicide better or getting Murdered?
10 Responses to Who's Job is it?
It happens in all large organisations!
You reach the pinnacle of defeat!
It seems somebody did not understand the joke that was sent to everybody; and now he is angry because nobody has responded; but anybody could have !!!!
salam! very noice lesson learn joke keep up it.
Is this someone's foul / Interspersion that is still suspended.
This really makes sense. But it appears our last commentators never understood the logic behind the story.
THIS IS SOOO DUMB N DOES NOT MAKE SENSE!!SARA PLZ DO NOT SEND ME USELESS THINGS LIKE THIS!:@ IF IT WAS JOKES IT WOULD B DIFFERENT BUT THIS IS JUST DUMB N POINTLESS!!IM NOT GONNA WASTE MY TIME FOR THIS!
It was Everybody's job but Nobody had done it.


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New York City, Pier 94, Booth #818
711 12th Ave, New York
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CARL-JOHAN HÖGBERG
ANTHONY GOICOLEA
ABOUT Anthony Goicolea
Born in 1971 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Lives and works in New York
Anthony Goicolea (USA, 1971) is a first-generation Cuban American artist. He grew up in the Deep South of the United States of America, in the midst of the Cuban refugee crises, coupled with the advent of the AIDS crises, and the rise of the religious right. Goicolea was socially stigmatised for being Cuban, gay, and Catholic. These circumstances brought about a heightened awareness of social constructs, and the changing nature of identity in politics – a theme that continually influences his work. Goicolea explores themes ranging from personal history and identity, cultural tradition and heritage, to alienation and displacement.
His diverse oeuvre encompasses digitally manipulated self-portraits, landscapes, and narrative tableaux executed in a variety of media, including black-and-white and color photography, sculpture and video installations, and multi-layered drawings on Mylar. Best known for his powerful, and often unsettling, staged photographic and video works, Goicolea made his artistic debut in the late 1990s with a series of provocative multiple self-portrait images. These early works featured groups of young boys on the threshold of adolescence, acting out childhood fantasies and bizarre rituals of revelry and social taboo in highly staged domestic or institutional settings or dense, fairy-tale forests. Revealing a playful self-consciousness, they often consisted of complex composites of the artist himself, in all manner of poses and guises. Soon thereafter, Goicolea garnered international attention with his ambiguous, yet strangely compelling, landscapes, ranging from dream-like woodland environments to vast, unforgiving urban and industrial wastelands. The artist has created several series of digitally composited, and heretofore uncharted, topographies, often populated by bands of masked and uniformed figures.
In recent series, many of the images are devoid of humans, although the landscape reflects an anonymous and increasingly tenuous human presence. In these works, primitive lean-tos and crudely constructed shanties coexist in an uneasy union with the technological vestiges of an industrialized society. Suggesting a world on the brink of obsolescence, these chilling images further cement the pervasive undercurrent of human alienation—from one another as well as the natural environment—that can be traced throughout the artist's work.
Anthony Goicolea has exhibited widely, notably at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois; the International Center of Photography, New York and Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid. Goicolea's art is held in many public collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York, NY; The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Yale University Art Collection, Photography, CT; the Museum of Contemporary Art of Castile and Leon, Spain; 21c Museum, Louisville, KY, the Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam, and Cobra to Contemporary/The Brown Family Collection, among others.
ABOUT Ryan McGinness
Ryan McGinness was born in 1972 in Virginia Beach, VA
He lives and works in New York, NY
His work consists of an amalgam of icons and symbols. Drawing from his background in the design industry, Ryan McGinness's work resolves the clinical graphic aesthetics of media as vast, contemplative fields of intimate meditation. It incorporates strong social commentary on iconography, language, and historical and contemporary symbolism. His graphic drawings and personal iconography are replicated, recontextualized, and materialized infinitely throughout his densely layered paintings.
Born and raised in the surf and skate culture of Virginia Beach, Virginia, McGinness moved on to study at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as an Andrew Carnegie Scholar. During college, he worked at the Andy Warhol Museum as a curatorial assistant, which inevitably influenced his proclivity toward pop and graphic aestheticism. Known for his original extensive vocabulary of graphic drawings that use the visual language of public signage, corporate logos, and contemporary iconography, McGinness creates paintings, sculptures, and environments and fabricate the iconography of contemporary experience as spiritual and timeless.
McGinness's work can be found in such art institutions as The Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY; The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA; the Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinatti, OH, and private and corporation collections including the Neuberger Berman Collection, New York, NY; Cobra to Contemporary/The Brown Family Collection, and the Charles Saatchi Collection, London.


A new technology from Apple is awaited by millions. Keeping the demands in eye , Apple has been so launching new technologies and products from time to time. Apple has made changes on all most all product and services. Apple's technological supremacy in the digital communication has made it as the most favorable phone brand. Apple extends its ways to add personality to the modern humans. Its sleek and trendy design makes the user feel lucky to have in their hands.
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Amanda Smock
Event: Triple Jump
PR: 14.18m/46-6.25 (2011)
Current Residence: Minneapolis, Minn.
Hometown: Melrose, Minn.
High School: Melrose High School (Melrose, Minn.)
College: North Dakota State '04
Coach: Jeremy Fischer
Agent: Jeff Hartwig
Three-time USA Outdoor champion - 2011 (14.07m/46-2); 2012 (13.94m/45-9); 2014 (13.77m/45-2.25w)
Two-time USA Indoor champion - 2012 (13.77m/45-2.25); 2014 (13.81/45-3.75)
2013 USA Outdoor bronze medalist (13.77m/45.2-.25)
2011 USA Indoor runner-up (13.63m/44-8.75)
Three-time NCAA Division II champion
Amanda Smock holds four national triple jump titles, two at USA Outdoors and two at USA Indoors. After Smock failed to make the Olympic Team in 2008, her father crossed "2008" off of his credential and added "2012." While Smock's father passed away after the 2008 Trials, Smock has kept that memento hanging in her closet and looks at it every day. Her father would be proud as Smock won the 2012 Olympic Trials and had the needed Olympic B standard to punch her ticket to London. In 2011, Smock won the USA Outdoor Championships, but was just shy of making the needed B standard for the World Championships. Days before the World team was announced, Smock jumped a personal best to secure the mark and make her way to Daegu. Smock has worked as a partner in a small company that specializes in corporate wellness programs. Married to former college teammate Greg Smock.
2014: 1st at USA Indoors (13.81m/45-3.75); 6th at adidas Grand Prix (13.66m/44-9.75); 1st at USA Outdoors (13.77m/45-2.25w)
2013: 3rd at USA Outdoors (13.77m/45.2-.25); 2nd at Kingston (13.76/45-1)
2012: 11th in qualifying round at Olympic Games (13.61m/44-8); 5th at London (13.82m/45-4.25); Olympic Trials champion (13.94m/45-9); 1st at Tucson Elite Classic (13.90/45-7.25); 3rd at Mt. Sac Relays (13.84m/45-5); 13th in qualifying round at World Indoor (13.25m/43-5.75); 1st at USA Indoor Championships (13.77m/45-2.25); 3rd at Glasgow (13.56m/44-6.00);
2011: USA Outdoor champion (14.07m/46-2); 2nd at USA Indoors (13.63m/44-8.75); 1st at World Championship Pre-Meet (14.18m/46-6.25)
2010: 4th at USA Outdoors (13.60m/44-7.50); 5th at USA Indoors (13.36m/43-10).
2009: 6th at USA Outdoors (13.64m/44-9)
2008: 5th at Olympic Trials (13.84m/45-5); 3rd at USA Indoors (13.51m/44-4).
2007: 5th at USA Indoors (12.87m/42-2.75); 15th at USA Outdoors (13.09m/42-11.5).
2006: 6th at USA Indoors (12.79m/41-11.5); 15th at USA Outdoors (12.31m/40-4.75).
2005: 6th at USA Indoors (12.76m/41-10.5)
2014: Indoor bests - Triple Jump (13.81m/45-3.75); Outdoor bests - Triple Jump (13.66m/44-9.75)
2013: Indoor bests - Triple Jump, 13.65/44-9½ (No. 7 in in the USA); Outdoor bests - Triple Jump, 13.97/45-10 (No. 4 in the USA, No. 2 in the USA by T&FN)
2012: Indoor bests - 13.77m/45-2.25 (No. 2 in the USA); Outdoor bests - 13.94m/45-9 (No. 2 in the USA, ranked No.1 in the USA by T&FN)
2011: Indoor bests – 13.56m/44-6 (No. 2 in the USA); Outdoor bests – 14.18m/46-6.25 (No. 1 in the USA by T&FN)
2010: Indoor bests – 13.68m/44-10.75 (No. 4 in the USA); Outdoor bests – 13.60m/44-7.5 (No. 6 in the USA, ranked No. 4 in the USA by T&FN)
2009: Outdoor bests – 13.55m/44-5.5 (No. 8 in the USA, ranked No. 6 in the USA by T&FN)
2008: Indoor bests – 13.51m/44-4 (No. 6 in the USA); Outdoor bests –13.84m/45-5 (No. 6 in the USA)
2007: Indoor bests – 12.87m/42-2.75 (No. 24 in the USA); Outdoor bests –13.57m/44-6.25 (No. 6 in the USA)
2006: Indoor bests – 12.85m/42-2
2005: Indoor bests – 12.94m/42-5.5 (No. 23 in the USA); Outdoor bests –13.07m/42-10.75 (No. 24 in the USA)
2004: Indoor bests – 12.91m/42-4.25
2003: Outdoor bests – 12.93m/42-5.25


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Proposed Protection of Conscience Laws
Home : Law : Proposed Laws : United States : PROPOSED FEDERAL LAWS : SB1397
Senate Bill 1397 (2003)
Abortion Non-Discrimination Act of 2003
108th CONGRESS1st SessionS. 1397
To prohibit certain abortion-related discrimination in governmental activities.
Mr. GREGG (for himself, Mr. NELSON of Nebraska, Mr. SANTORUM, Mr. BROWNBACK, Mr. SUNUNU, Mr. INHOFE, Mr. LUGAR, and Mr. FITZGERALD) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
This Act may be cited as the `Abortion Non-Discrimination Act of 2003'.
SEC. 2. ABORTION NON-DISCRIMINATION.
Section 245 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 238n) is amended--
(1) in the section heading by striking `AND LICENSING OF PHYSICIANS' and inserting `, LICENSING, AND PRACTICE OF PHYSICIANS AND OTHER HEALTH CARE ENTITIES';
(2) in subsection (a)(1), by striking `to perform such abortions' and inserting `to perform, provide coverage of, or pay for induced abortions'; and
(3) in subsection (c)--
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking `includes' and inserting `means'; and
(B) in paragraph (2)--
(i) by inserting `or other health professional,' after `and individual physician';
(ii) by striking `and a participant' and inserting `a participant'; and
(iii) by inserting before the period the following: `, a hospital, a provider sponsored organization, a health maintenance organization, a health insurance plan, or any other kind of health care facility, organization or plan'.
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Bill SB301
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House Appropriations (2013)
Bill HR 3
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Coburn Budget Amendment
Brownback Amendment
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Prof. L. Wardle
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Children of God for Life
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Earlier this month, LFP President Javier Tebas announced that an agreement had been reached with US media firm 'Relevent' to stage competitive La Liga matches in the USA. The primary aim is to compete with the Premier League stateside, which currently has a $1bn TV deal with NBC and largely dominates the market. Very little detail has been released and we still don't know when the first game in the states will be played however, the announcement has prompted huge debate in Spain and beyond.
The move is seen as an effort to steal back some of the overseas market which has been dominated by the Premier League for years. The US is probably a good place to start and makes perfect sense, given the large Hispanic population. Spanish football has already dabbled with staging games abroad, with this season's Super Cup between Barcelona and Sevilla being held in Tangier, Morocco. Last year also saw a friendly version of El Clasico in Miami which was a huge success.
Charlie Stillitano of Relevent Sports described the deal as "a first-of-a-kind, 15-year, equal joint venture to promote soccer in the U.S. and Canada." Stillitano is probably the most influential name in football that you've never heard of. He is the man responsible for the International Champions Cup, a friendly tournament based in the US which features teams from La Liga, the Premier League and Serie A. Stillitano has been using his influence to draw teams from Europe to play the US since 2002. Partly down to the World Cup, many of the teams featured weakened sides in this year's ICC. This took its toll on attendances, with giant stadiums left half empty for some matches. The hope is that staging competitive matches will mean full strength teams and fans flocking to get a glimpse of stars like Messi et al.
While the commercial benefits of the proposal may help to grow La Liga internationally, the players themselves are far from in favour of the idea. The captains of each of the 20 La Liga clubs, including Lionel Messi and Sergio Ramos, met at the headquarters of the AFE (their equivalent of the PFA) to draft a statement which declared their opposition to playing competitive games in the US. The agreement between La Liga and US media firm Relevent was reached without consulting either the AFE or the Spanish Football Federation. The AFE's president, former La Liga striker David Aganzo has refused to rule out a players strike over the issue. Aganzo decribed the decision not to consult with players before striking the deal as "a lack of respect".
It has not been confirmed when or where the first game will take place or who will take part however, reports claim that the first La Liga game to be played in the states could come as early as this season. It is also highly likely that this will feature either Barcelona or Real Madrid in order to provide as big a pull as possible however; Tebas has previously stated that a competitive El Clasico will never take place outside of Spain. Sources believe that the game will be one of the big boys against a smaller club from La Liga, who will be forced to sacrifice one of their home games. Whoever the club is will surely be compensated for their loss of gate receipts, but critics ask why a team should be forced to play a home game thousands of miles away in a stadium full of people cheering for the opposition? It has also been stated that fans of the smaller La Liga teams look forward all year to their chance to take on the big boys of Barcelona and Madrid in their own back yard. So for that to be taken away from them may prompt yet more disdain for this new venture.
La Liga may have looked at American Football as inspiration for this idea. The NFL has been staging competitive matches at Wembley for over 10 years now. This has proved to be incredibly successful in boosting the profile of the sport over here, with talk of a team even relocating to London becoming a reality. Click here to read about how Fulham owner Shahid Khan plans to turn Wembley Stadium into the home of NFL this side of the Atlantic.
Fans of the game back home will remember Richard Scudamore's highly criticised and ill-fated "39th game" proposal back in 2008. If La Liga's vision comes true, Premier League fans may have to brace themselves for a similar venture. It's thought that there are no such plans afoot at the moment but there's no doubt that PL officials will be watching the progress of La Liga in the US with great interest.
So should the Premier League be concerned?
Where does Rob see the future of football lying? European Super League perhaps?
Is this a good move for La Liga? And what is the future of the game worldwide? Will we see FA Cup finals played in far-flung locations? Will the "European Super League" idea finally come to fruition? Don't be shy, let us know your thoughts via our social media channels!


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Home Page | What's On | Geelong Jazz Soirées
Callum Watson Enterprises
Corner Latrobe Terrace and Gordan Avenue
Geelong, Victoria 3220
Geelong Jazz Soirées
A music series celebrating Geelong's strong jazz culture in concerts featuring some of the regions best established and emerging talents.
This event will feature jazz vocalist Amelia Evans accompanied by Callum Watson at the piano.
Award-winning Australian vocalist, Amelia Evans is a Melbourne based musician currently studying a Bachelor of Music at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University. As the recipient of the Margaret Schofield Music Performance Scholarship (VCAA) and the Monash-Pratt Music Performance Jazz Scholarship, 2016 marked the beginning of her success as a young jazz vocalist.
Callum Watson is an ambassador for young Australian jazz and classical talent, a well-established pianist and composer, and a prolific producer spanning across jazz, classical and theatre.
In addition to winning the Margaret Schofield Scholarship for composition, Watson has won a variety of awards including from Melbourne Fringe Festival, state and local governments and internationally from orkest de ereprijs (NL).
As a composer, Callum has written original scores for nine theatre productions including one musical and also has a diverse portfolio of concert works which have been played by ensembles internationally.
Critics see Callum "as one of Australia's most exciting composers and pianists".


I'd like to welcome you to Midcentury Monday #23 1/2: a cheat post.
I spent the majority of this weekend cleaning and embroidering and generally getting ready to go to home to San Diego. I haven't been home since June and I am so so excited to see my friends, my family, my dog(!), and the lovely lovely ocean. If you weren't aware, the Southern California Pacific is quite a different beast than the Northern ;) Plus! Mexican food. Nobody (except Mexicans) does Mexican food like San Diego.
Getting back on track... rather than slop together a half-assed MCMM post, I have decided to share with you my all-time favorite post of this series, Midcentury Monday #12. It was published in the middle of August! It's just so pretty to look at and the information makes driving around in old neighborhoods a bit more fun.
We learn the different styles of midcentury roofs!
I totally agree with you about Bettie bangs! For the ultimate best result you have to do it yourself! Such a shame that so few hairdressers can pull it off.. They're supposed to be able to do different styles, not just the same old boring everyday fringe all the girls have!
This was such an awesome post-I soooo want a zig zag roof!
So many different styles I think I'd go for the flat or the gable roofs. Being down south there are few mid-century houses but I've spotted a few and there is this one that got an amazing update but still looks so mid-century!
loving your new layout! this just looks fantastic, lady. <3 hope you had a great thanksgiving.
I would gladly live in each of these houses!