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You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth – Kahlil Gibran
This week has been a very busy one but somehow I managed to take lots of nice photos of the children's adventures and more ordinary moments too. I was totally spoilt for choice. I have decided to use the photos I took on Saturday during our weekly trip to the farmer's market.
The farmer's market takes place every Saturday Morning at the city park and the kids love going there. After our shopping we always head to a quieter part of the park to enjoy the lovely chicken pies we treat ourselves to each week and for the kids to play.
On Saturday the weather was a little bit all over the place. One minute is was sunning and the next pouring down hence the light being so different in almost every photo. We didn't mind though and stayed out for a couple of hours.
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To the east of the Flinders Chase National Park lies the Kelly Hill Conservation Park and Caves – a series of dry limestone caves offering an awe-inspiring experience for caving enthusiasts of every level. Even if you've never explored beneath the Earth's surface before, a journey into the intricate subterranean system will quickly turn you into an avid caver.
A steep staircase leads into the belly of the cave, revealing a fully lit display of stalagmite and stalactite limestone formations. On a general tour, knowledgeable guides will lead you underground and reveal the history of the caves, point out flora and fauna fossils and offer added insight into this spectacular natural phenomenon.
The Show Cave Tour will set you back $AUD17.50 for adults and $AUD10 for kids. If you're planning on visiting a few sites, a Kangaroo Island Parks Pass is an affordable option and grants you access to the Kelly Caves, Seal Bay, Flinders Chase National Park, and the Cape Borda and Cape Willoughby Lightstations.
Put your adventure hat on!
The Kelly Hill Caves are fun for the whole family. Children aged eight and over can don a hard hat and light and scramble down the cavernous tunnels on an adventure caving tour, crawling, sliding, and slithering deep beneath the ground. The Adventure Caving Tour costs $AUD70 for adults and $AUD55 for concession cardholders and kids.
Of course, you can always stay above ground and enjoy the walking trails through the bushland atop the caves. Spend half a day on the scenic 18-kilometre Hanson Bay hike where you will pass freshwater lagoons and coastal dunes, or take a short 1.25-kilometre trek along the Burgess Hike.

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We are looking for local people from South Gloucestershire and North Somerset to join our Healthier Together Panel Steering Group.
The Healthier Together Panel Steering Group oversees our 'Citizens' Panel'. The Panel is made up of around 1,000 people from across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire that have been invited to voice their views on health and care matters.
The Steering Group plays an important role in shaping the strategic direction of the Healthier Together Panel, including inputting to survey questions and ensuring we make best use of the results.
We already have a lay representative from Bristol and are now looking for two more volunteers to join us. You can find out more by about the role here.
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Can I Get LASIK Twice?
LASIK surgery has an incredibly high success rate – around 98% of people are happy with their results. For the other 2%, however, they don't share that experience. As safe and effective as LASIK surgery is, it is not unheard of for people to need a secondary LASIK procedure. You definitely can get LASIK twice… Read More


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Boric acid & sugar.... about 3 parts acid to 1 part raw table sugar... mix the stuff together and put in little lids, on paper, sprinkle on floor (under refrigerator, stove, heavy furniture, back of cabinets) and leave there.... re-apply often
At night sprinkle a tablespoon into sink drains and let sit thru the night (roaches love water & congregate around it)
We have tenants run a line across the back of their counter tops at night too and then wipe up in the morning. As long as their are no pets in the house to get onto the countertops - boric acid is highly toxic (that's why you put it in places that pets and animals do not get to).
The thing is, roaches are attracted to the sugar. They run thru it and the acid gets on the their feet. They take the acid back to their nests and everyone gets a dose of it then.
It will take a few weeks of constant treating to rid them. The life cycle of a roach is 16 days. There will be new ones born that need to be killed, so just keep at it. If you are in an apartment, you may need to treat all the time as you never know what the neighbors are doing. Also in houses or living quarters that are close together, the roaches will travel between home to home. I would suggest after you no longer see them, you can skip the sink & countertop applications, but continue to keep fresh down under heavy appliances & furniture. Also put out a few roach motels and leave them.
Boric acid can be bought at the dollar stores in the cleaning supply sections....
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Unsung Audio Gearhead
Although this happened way back in February [a mere two months ago, but somehow this feels like a lifetime], we are now very proud to announce that Dig1's very own Chip Sloan was featured in POST Magazine, the monthly publication dedicated to covering, documenting, and contributing to "the most intensely dynamic segment of the entertainment industry", the industry that we live and breathe daily: Post Production.
Since you have to be subscribed to POST to partake in the spoils, here's the excerpt from the article for your reading pleasure…
"Unsung Audio Gear" by Jennifer Walden, POST Magazine, February 2014
Chip Sloan has been a sound designer at Digital One in Portland, OR, for the past 10 years. Before moving to Portland, he worked in Detroit, doing audio post for five years, with two years in music production before that. Digital One is an audio post facility and recording studio that caters to the advertising community. Sloan has won several awards for his sound design work, including a Gold Clio for Best Sound Design, and two Cannes Lions.
Digital One has three main audio suites, two of which are set up for 5.1 mixing. Sloan notes, "The rooms are matched in every way, with the exception of the surround speakers in the third room."
Since the three rooms are outfitted with the same gear, Digital One doesn't make hasty decisions when choosing audio tools. "When we pick something we like, we tend to stay with it as long as it's still working for us," Sloan says. That's been the case for his current go-to audio tool, the LM6 Loudness Meter by TC Electronic. With all the broadcast work they do, a loudness meter is now an essential part of their workflow. Sloan even mixes non-broadcast projects using the LM6.
"Even things that aren't planned to go to broadcast may end up going there later," says Sloan. "You have to be ready for that. I mix everything with the new loudness spec in mind. The LM6 helps us keep track of how loud everything is. It's a fundamental tool that we use all the time."
Since all loudness meters come up with the same numbers, Sloan feels the interface on the LM5 is what originally sold them on the plug-in. "It's easy to look at," he says. "The radar looks really cool. Sometimes it's just about flashy lights, because the numbers are all the same."
Since the LM5 was working out so well, Digital One upgraded to the LM6 when it became available, as opposed to choosing a new loudness meter from a different company. "I saw Waves just came out with a really good loudness meter," he notes. "I'm sure it's pretty nice, but we like this one."
The TC Electronic LM6 Loudness Meter plug-in helps users comply with broadcast standards for loudness, whether it's the ATSC A/85 standard in the US, the EBU R128 for European broadcasts, or any other international broadcast standard. There are several options to choose from. The LM6 features a Loudness Radar Meter that instantly communicates a projects Loudness History, Momentary Loudness, True-Peak Level, Program Loudness, and Loudness Range (LRA). Looking at the radar, you'll see program loudness displayed within five concentric circles. The boldest circle is the ideal target for program loudness, which is -24 LKFS for US broadcasts. Audio that peaks above that line is colored orange, and everything below that line turns from green at the ideal loudness, to more bluish as the levels get 'colder.'
You can set the display to your program length, from one minute, up to 24 hours, so that the loudness history, or loudness over the entire project, is easily perceived. There is also an outer ring that displays Momentary Loudness. That's the loudness of the program as it's happening in realtime. When set for ATSC A/85, -24 LKFS is located at the 12 o'clock position, so it's easy to see when program levels peak above that. Another thing to notice on the interface is the allimportant Program Loudness. This is clearly displayed in the bottom left corner of the plug-in window.
TC Electronic designed the LM6 to run all the time without eating up precious CPU. It's available in Audio Units, VST, AAX, AudioSuite, and RTAS plug-in formats. According to the TC Electronic Website, you can use the LM6 with Media Composer, Final Cut Pro X, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Nuendo, and other programs, both on a Mac or PC. It works for projects that are in mono, stereo, or 5.1. The Native plug-in is available through TC Electronic's Web store for $450. To find out more, check out the TC Electronic site.
Sloan recently used the LM6 on a short film he mixed for Kamp Grizzly, a production company in Portland, OR. The three-minute film, titled Massan Barrage Cargo, is for Chrome Industries, makers of "useful and durable gear for professional messengers, fixed freestyle riders, and urban commuters," according to Chrome. The film is currently on Vimeo.
"It's an interesting documentary-like piece and I have a feeling it's going to end up somewhere else, possibly in a theater," says Sloan. "Using the LM6 meter on that project allows me to know that the mix I did could easily be made to fit broadcast spec."
Since Sloan mixed the film for the Web, he made a final gain adjustment to raise the level overall before outputting the file. This way, if the film does go to broadcast, or theaters, he can simply go back to the original mix and set the output gain at an appropriate level for those deliveries. He says, "It tends to save work down the line when the client needs a new version to go to a new place. It helps you be prepared for that. It's a necessity to be able to do things quickly. Anything we can do to help the world move as fast as it needs to, and help people meet those quick deadlines, the better we are. That's kind of our mission, to set everything up to be as flexible as we can, as long as we can, before we're locked into a mix."
The full POST Magazine article by Jennifer Walden can be read in it's original form here, beginning on page 32, or you can download the PDF here. Atta boy Chipper!


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AKA Group (previously A Kyri & Associates) was founded in 1997 by Anna Kyriacou, who at the age of 25 wanted to create a firm that approached accounting and business advisory with a difference.
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Tips For Styling A White Oxford Shirt
The white Oxford shirt is one of the baseline staples of menswear. It's like the peanut butter of a pb&j, if you will. But just a pb&j is nothing without the jelly, the white Oxford can't stand alone (seriously, put some pants on).
So, first off, what the heck is an Oxford anyway? An Oxford shirt is not the official uniform of Oxford University. Legend has it, a Scottish mill in the 19th century created four unique fabrics and named them Oxford, Harvard, Yale, and Cambridge. These fabrics were a popular choice when making long-sleeved shirts for polo players. Eventually, Oxford was the last shirt standing.
So, there you go. That's all well and good… but how do you rock it?
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Oxford shirts are as versatile as jeans. Wait, yes, jeans! Pair those and wear simple boat shoes and you have a great go-to casual outfit. That goes for both short-sleeve or rolled up long-sleeve Oxford shirt variations. Need a pop of color? Wear some chinos instead of jeans! Cold out? A nice bomber should round that out nicely.
2. High and tight.
Your tie, that is. A white Oxford is a perfect base layer for any more elevated look. This is especially true in the colder weather due to the thicker, more textured fabric. Go 'Out On The Town' with a matching vest and trousers, topped with a slick topcoat. Go 'Full Blown Professor' with a tweed blazer and a sweater-vest (leather elbow patches optional). When it comes to more elevated styles, as the saying goes, "the white Oxford is your oyster." That's a thing… right?
3. Go crazy.
Listen, the truth of the matter is the white Oxford is one of the more versatile pieces out there. From casual to fancy, tucked to untucked, layered to solo, you really can't go wrong. Put it this way, there's a reason that a painter's canvas is white.


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|The infamous "Bud Wave" after an Atlanta Hawks victory
Mike Budenholzer and the Atlanta Hawks are on track to making their Eastern Conference leading 9th playoff appearance in a row, also a third consecutive playoff berth in his three years as the head coach of the Atlanta Hawks. Budenholzer became the Hawks head coach in 2013 after spending 18 seasons as an assistant on one of the leagues's most respected organizations, the San Antonio Spurs and under one of the best coaches we've seen in modern NBA history, Gregg Poppovich.
|Atlanta Hawks Coach Mike Budenholzer talking with his team during Game 5 on Monday. Credit Darron Cummings/Associated Press
Budenholzer had an amazing breakout year in 2015; he went on to coach the Eastern Conference in the NBA All Star game as well as coaching Team Africa in a NBA Africa exhibition game. His year didn't stop there, Bud was promoted to President of Basketball Operations in addition to his duties as head coach as well as being inducted into the Pomona Pitzer hall of fame. Budenholzer proceeded to lead the Hawks to their first Southeast division crown and first division title since 1994. Also, the Hawks earned the top seed in the Eastern Conference and warned their first trip in team history to the Eastern Conference Finals before their season ended against the Cleveland Cavaliers. Injuries derailed any chance the Hawks had at winning that series, but last season was one that many true Atlanta Hawks fans whom endured the struggles of this team would never forget and always remember the amazing run in 2015.
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Founded in 1994, Lantek Corporation specializes in supplying obsolete, shortage and production quantities of active, passive and electromechanical components. For over twenty years now, we have helped some of the world's largest OEMs and CEMs from around the world resolve ongoing sourcing issues caused by periods of allocation, extended lead times and obsolescence.
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|Puerto Vallarta fishing report February 2015
The fishing in Puerto Vallarta continues to get better I have seen a few Marlin Black and Blue Marlin caught off season in the past years
but this is the first time We have ever had a consistent Blue and Black Marlin bite through February. Normally the Blue and Black Marlin
season is June - through November but the hot bite has not stopped and just seems to continue to get better what is also surprising
about this is that We are also seeing all the winter fish as well like Striped Marlins and Roosterfish the Dorado are also biting
consitently. The inshore report is good as well off the point of punta de mita We have been having a consitent Jack bite and you can
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for all the cow hunters out there I saved the best for Last the Yellowfin Tuna are here and biting in big numbers offshore 70 + miles
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After police raids, former owner Jodie Emery says government is clearing way for legal producers
CBC News Posted: Apr 07, 2017 11:20 PM ET Last Updated: Apr 08, 2017 10:20 AM ET
The last of the former Cannabis Culture dispensaries in Toronto, once synonymous with Marc and Jodie Emery, will close this weekend after becoming a frequent target of police raids — a consequence the marijuana activists blame on the government's support of licensed producers.
The dispensaries were making pot available in contravention of the law, until recreational marijuana is actually legalized by the government, a process expected to happen in July 2018.
But former owner Jodie Emery said she believes dispensaries in Toronto have been raided more frequently in the past year because the federal Liberals want to keep the recreational weed market clear for the licensed producers already selling medical marijuana.
"We're seeing a government and corporate push to exclude the pioneers, to literally put us in handcuffs and throw us into cages while they move in to open up their own shops to sell their own pot."
Jodie Emery, right, said the raids on recreational dispensaries have punished the activists who have fought for legalization. (Paul Chiasson/Canadian Press)
The pioneers of pot
The Emerys divested themselves of their Cannabis Culture shops in Toronto on March 10, as part of their $30,000 bail conditions on possession and drug trafficking charges.
Jodie Emery said the couple decided to open the storefronts to fund their activism — and because she believed the franchise model would be successful once Ottawa legalized pot.
"We wanted to have our spot in this industry, because we've earned it and we deserve it …after 10 years of being broke and suffering through prison and court," she said.
Jamie McConnell, the owner at the Village Dispensary, said he'll keep doing this somewhere else. (CBC)
The 461 Church St. location was reborn as the Village Cannabis Dispensary after the Emerys sold it to Jamie McConnell, the store's former manager.
McConnell said his landlord will no longer rent to the dispensary, something he said has happened because of pressure from the police raids and the city.
"I was planning on being here forever, my goal was jail or the landlord locking me out. It looks like the landlord locked me out."
He said he believes it's better to have marijuana "activists and users" sell the products than licensed producers, because they know first-hand what makes a quality product.
"I don't know what the government's going to do as far as legalization, but I'm not going to stop."
Legal producers also took risks: lawyer
But Andrea Hill, a corporate and securities lawyer with the firm SkyLaw who represents several regulated marijuana firms, said the dispensaries have been shut down because what they're doing is illegal. It has nothing to do with the regulated medical marijuana industry.
And those licensed producers have been pioneers in the industry as well, she said.
- Liberals want to move up pot legalization to avoid Canada Day celebrations
- Cannabis industry opposes call for plain packaging and bans on advertising
"They've put themselves on the line just as much as anyone else," the lawyer said. "If a business is operating outside of the law and it can't make it and it has to shut down I think that means that the law wins — and that people who play by the rules win, at the end of the day. I think that's a good thing.
The Liberal government is expected to make recreational pot legal by July 1, 2018. (Julie Gordon/Reuters)
An earlier version of this story indicated that recreational marijuana is expected to be legalized by the federal government this July. In fact, it is expected in July 2018.
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(Editor's note: This is a recurring column that will cover the ins and outs of esports media and journalism. With more interest than ever in esports, there has likewise been more interest in the reporting to this industry and what goes into it. I hope to shed a light on the industry through interviews with media professionals and news analysis from the perspective of someone with six years of professional journalism experience. Anything you'd like to see? Send me an email at firstname.lastname@example.com. Enjoy!)
Richard Lewis' career in esports has led to this moment, even if he didn't believe so.
Lewis, the respected veteran investigative journalist, has in the last year added another significant role to his resume as the desk host for ELEAGUE, the Turner Sports/WME|IMG venture that produced two seasons of Counter-Strike, January's ELEAGUE Major and now the Street Fighter V Invitational, which began this week. Lewis had been on the desk before joining Turner, though being on live TV came with added adjustments.
As a journalist first, and somebody who has been in the esports scene for more than a decade, Lewis said he never expected to end up on TV and that it "still doesn't make sense." But he's excelled with ELEAGUE and has drawn praise from both Turner executives and people who work behind the scenes on the show.
Lewis also has an active YouTube channel and recently launched a new website to host his written work. In the first of a two-part interview, I talked to Lewis about his first exposure to esports, making adjustments for TV and why the esports media should advance beyond Reddit.
Vince Nairn: You've had so many different roles and a long tenure in this space. How did you even get into this? What was your start in esports?
Richard Lewis: I've always been a writer. That was what I wanted to do when I was at university. I really put a lot of time into it. I was kind of writing short stories and fiction and stuff back then. When I was deciding my career path, realistically what I want to do for a living. I had been writing for so long, that journalism is probably the way to go on that one. All the people I had read about and admired were journalists. I transferred into a course about journalism and started learning about (the industry). Then I took over the university magazine. Reporting and that kind of thing, writing editorials and opinion pieces, that was what I wanted to do. That became the sole focus. Simultaneously, after I graduated, I started to learn more about esports…I wanted to work in journalism, but I was unable to because it's incredibly hard field to get into. I didn't want to live in London. I didn't want to go down that road. The average journalist in London makes about ($15,000) per year, and you're expected to live off that in London. There were all these tales of local journalists cooped up in houses, sleeping on the floor or couches. That type of thing. I didn't want that life. So I went and took a regular job and just felt that "Well, I'll get a job eventually."
When I started learning about esports more and more, I wanted to make a contribution…I signed up with a very popular blog at the time for Counter-Strike: Source, Source Junkie. I started submitting articles for free…and people seemed to like it. There really wasn't anything like it. The standard of writing wasn't very high, and people liked it so much I started getting offers from bigger sites that were like "Why don't you come write about Quake." "Come write about 1.6. Counter-Strike: Source is waste of your time."
I was doing all of this work and then eventually, working at a blog and making no money wasn't gonna sustain me. I was becoming increasingly frustrated with the shit jobs I was doing outside of esports. About 2006, I doubled down and wanted to get a full-time paying job (in esports). That just so happened when CGS was taking off. That was kind of validation. I ended up working there and ended up making ridiculous money for not doing much. They pretty much were hiring propagandists. They weren't really interested in reporting but wanted people to write things to make the league sound like it was the best thing since sliced bread. And I don't mind saying that at the time, it was my first job in esports, I sold out. I wouldn't say I drank the Kool Aid; I knew what I was doing was PR and not journalism, but it was very high paying PR. When CGS died, my commitment to never do that again was very clear. And I linked with Heaven Media and started being an advocate. I started writing stories the scene didn't want written. People owing money to other people. Secrets. Lies. Dodgy contracts. Because this was an emerging industry, and people were getting away with murder. These people were young, naive, and people were able to take advantage of that. And I talked about a bunch of taboo stuff. It was the first kind of weekly esports column. It was called Gonzorrhea because of (my name). I was writing up about cheats and liars and frauds and how we could make esports a better place. I don't understand why people didn't listen. And it kind of became a cult thing. It was one of those things where every Monday people would be like "What's Richard gonna say this week?" I started having a bit of a more presence on video shows, and I got into being kind of a spokesperson for what was good and right in esports. I had people saying "we'll pay you to work for us if you just shut the fuck up and stop rocking the boat." And I could've made a fortune, but that's not what I want to do. My brand by this point — there's a long form interview I did with Thorin, not sure when it was, but a few years ago. I said I wanna be the guy who lifts the veil on esports, and that's what I was interested in.
So obviously esports becomes more successful, becomes more mainstream…I think the vast majority of people know that I tell the truth. I have the interests of esports at heart. I'm not looking to make money. I'm not looking to defraud anyone. Rob anyone. And that's a desirable level of authenticity to have. I think that's why I have the job Turner. It certainly wouldn't be anything else. On Twitter, I say what the fuck I want to say when I want to say it. I've earned that right. I put over a decade into this industry. I will say whatever I want, and if people don't like it, they can go fuck themselves. When you spend 10 years in any industry, you are entitled to comment on that industry, and people shouldn't tell you to shut up because they don't like what you say. That applies to everybody. You may disagree with some of the other icon figure out there. Like Scoots, people attacked him when he took a stance against gambling. He's entitled to that opinion. He's put more into this industry than a vast majority of people who now make in this industry. So that's important to me.
But to end up on television? That's something that still doesn't make sense to me. I don't think of myself as a TV guy. I don't think I've got the look. I don't think I've got the polish of a TV guy. But I'm happy it's something I can say I did. If it continues for a long time, I definitely wouldn't be sad about that. But the journalism thing is what gets me out of bed in the morning. Being the guy who gets to say "This is what's happening. No one's talking about it. I'm gonna tell you all about it. Together as a community we can pressure about it." We can change esports for good. That's what motivates me.
VN: Getting on TV gets into my next question. What was one change or one adjustment or one thing that surprised you when first making that transition to being an on-air talent?
RL: It's just you're no longer — I've always been a big believer that the show comes first. I think when people have diva-ish tantrums and when they put themselves before what the audience sees, that's a big turn off for me. I don't like people who do it that way. I see a lot of talent that operate that way and think that way. I obviously won't name names, but I think there are a lot of people out there, and I know people know it when they see it. If somebody is trying too hard to be the star of the show, or if there's somebody who's in a bad mood and they can't leave what they're upset about, whatever they're feeling, away from the broadcast. I think people can recognize that at home, and I don't think that particularly makes a good viewing experience. So I've always had the belief that the show comes first. But still, to the degree when you're doing it on TV, the time constraints are unbelievable. You are going to an ad break in 30 seconds. I have to be harder as a host to get people to wrap up their points because I have to get us to that commercial, and I have to do a lead out. Otherwise it's going to look terrible because we'll just be talking and it will go to a commercial. I've got to know which camera to look at because most esports events are one, two if you're lucky. You only gotta know if it's a closeup or desk shot. That's all you really have to know. With this it's a lot different. You've all gotta be conscious of what camera's showing what so you can incorporate it into whatever you're talking about.
Just overall the idea of having to be polished and on point and completely aware. You have to put a lot more work into controlling the flow of the show. You've got to put a lot more work into directing the traffic, controlling conversations. It's been a big learning experience. I'm still probably far off what the average TV host does, but I'm definitely a better host with one year under my belt with Turner, than where I was coming in. But it's still a tremendous undertaking. You don't have just one point in your ear now. It's maybe three, and they've all got different things they wanna do. You've got a sound guy. Sometimes you're gonna get tossed an audible. So what you rehearsed earlier in the day, that's gone because tech problems come up, but the show's gotta go on. It's super difficult because it's gotta look like it's TV polished, that it's TV ready. Esports was always rough around the edges and we embraced that. TV, it's got to be ready.
VN: At what point did you start to feel comfortable with that transition? I talked to Jason Baker a couple days ago for an interview about production, and he said you were really good at handling feedback in your ear while also moving the show forward. When did you get comfortable?
RL: I guess there's no real nice way to put it. You've gotta be able to, when you're the host, you've gotta be able to be talking, and what comes out of your mouth is effectively filler. It's buying time. Your brain isn't linked to your mouth. It's shit. Your brain is actually listening to the producers. "What we've got coming up for you," is actually just filler. It's a sentence to buy me time to hear what is fed to me in my ear, and what comes after that filler sentence is what's important. So you have to know how to kind of package everything. Fortunately, I've always been the talkative kid in the class. I've been the kid who the teacher said "Keep talking and you'll go nowhere in life." That's always been me. That's an actual skill I've always had. I've been able to talk and talk to give my brain time to catch. It gets harder as you get older, but it's certainly easier with a few people in your ear telling you where you need to get to.
VN: Reddit is something that has long been a topic of your ire. It's also the hub for esports news consumption right now. You have a well-documented relationship with the site, and even a few times you've posed the idea of what the world would be like if media outlets boycotted Reddit. What would it take to get to a world where something like that was possible? Where esports media and journalism could exist beyond Reddit?
RL: It comes to this self-sustaining lie. Reddit is the definition of the emperor's new clothes, right? People go to Reddit to talk and discuss things because it's easy for them and it's collated for them. And because it's easy and collated for them, that creates the traffic. So people don't want to boycott it or stand up against it until they get banned or their traffic is affected because the traffic's there. But why is the traffic there? It's there because they know people go there to discuss things. So it becomes a self-sustaining cycle. If everyone just boycotted Reddit, if every user in the world stopped using Reddit in one moment, that site is completely fucked because it's useless. It produces nothing. It produces absolutely nothing. It's other people's content. That's why I laugh with utter contempt that Reddit — and I'm not talking about the moderators, who are just volunteers I'm talking about Reddit's actual staff. Reddit's executives. People who sit in board rooms and try to explain why this website that is in the top 10 most popular, highest-traffic websites on the internet still can't turn a profit.
It's an embarrassment how bad Reddit is run. The executives are incompetent buffoons. If you can't monetize what they've got there — I almost think they're not interested in money. They're interested in influence, and I think that's very worrying to me. But to stay on point and on track, if every user just doesn't go to Reddit tomorrow, they've got nothing. But because people won't do that, you've got nothing. Reddit treats content creators with utter contempt. You can't submit your own work. You can't ask people to submit your work for you. You can't vote for your work. You can't ask people to vote for you. Your content, which generates a debate on their site, drives traffic to their site, completely free of charge, you can't even get anything in return. You gotta hope that maybe just maybe, somebody notices it and decides out of the blue to submit it to Reddit. And that enough people — mainly the first 10 people who see your work, because of the stupid algorithm — you hope the first 10 people who stumble across it in the new queue, which is terribly curated and could be zipping and whizzing by at a rate of knots. You have to hope those first 10 people like the work of think it's relevant enough to upvote it. If not, you've got nothing. And that entire piece was a waste of time in terms of traffic. That's why you have to have other platforms. People need to build other platforms. You need an active Twitter. You need an active Facebook because you're just at the whims of madness because Reddit has no respect for you whatsoever. Meanwhile, of course, if you wanna give Reddit some money, you can go anywhere. You can have your links promoted in that subreddit. But the returns on promotion of links on Reddit are absolutely terrible. It's not worth the money. This is why Reddit is a failing institution.
Add into that, let's say all of those things happen. My content is submitted, it's liked, and it hits the front page. Then, there's a janitor. A volunteer janitor who could remove it for no reason. They're held to no discernible standard whatsoever. And the executive take is if you're being censored on the website because they're stupid and petty, there's nothing you can do about it. They're entitled to be stupid and petty. And why is that? The vast majority of their workforce is volunteer and subject to no discernible standard. Or (is that) because they don't want to pay anybody? They can't afford to pay anybody to do what moderators do. In other words, they've created a system where you can abuse your petty power and privileges you're given because that's a form of payment. That's currency with which we pay you for your pathetic volunteer work. I mean, what an awful website. The sooner that it's replaced, the absolute better. Because it is just a series of conflicts of interest. We see that certain companies that are in bed with Reddit can get away with having influence over the subreddit. We've seen reports recently of journalists, for as little as $400, they can manipulate posts to the front page. We've seen political entities like the DNC just "correct the record" that they literally pay people to manipulate Reddit, and Reddit is totally fine with that. They make no attempt to fix it because they're not interested in making money. They're not interested in being fair. They're not interested in a good user experience. They're just interested in trading that traffic for political influence and connections with big companies. It's disgusting.
Reddit is an absolute sewer, and not a sewer in the way these bleeding heart, over the top liberals think it is. Like, "Oh my god. It's just full of neo-nazis." It isn't. You can't even have a dissenting opinion on Reddit and not get banned. There's so many layers of bureaucratic voluntary nightmares to even go out and post on Reddit your honest opinion. This is a website that's doomed to fail. Look at all the other social media companies that try to control the narrative. They fail as businesses. Twitter's stock is in the toilet. It's like internet stock from the 90s. That's where Twitter's at. Reddit's gonna go the same way. Facebook is gonna go the same way if they're not careful. What you're gonna see a new generation of social media. Things like Minds.com, like Snapchat, that are gonna come in and do the thing these failing institutions do, they're gonna do it better, and that'll be that. And as soon as esports, by the way, starts rejecting Reddit, the better. Because Reddit is not a fan of esports. It doesn't care about esports. All it does is provide a space for the content we create. Hard work we put in. They proved it as well. None of the default subreddits will ever contain esports. They're not interested in it. So we should completely pull off. Gaming and esports is a huge amount of traffic to that website, We should just withdrawal, make our own websites, make our own curation websites and invest all our energies toward that, and we're removed from the Reddit paradigm, which I know is extremely frustrating for multiple (outlets).
VN: How realistic do you think that is? It's easy for a lot of us to say that we'd support that or want to do it, but it would be another to actually follow through with it.
RL: Of course they won't do it. They absolutely won't do it. This is what's hilarious about it. I've said to organizations, the League of Legends subreddit has banned my content, even when it's completely valid, because I've been bullied, abused, stalked, harassed. I've had all sort — and this the mods doing this. This is volunteer mods doing this behavior. What I've done on Twitter is point out this is happening, and for that, for what happened off Reddit, Reddit staff has said its OK to ban me. The official stance of Reddit as a corporation is if you tweet anything they don't like, they will ban you from ever being able to use the website. Let that sink in, by the way. Reddit is policing what you can and can't do off Reddit, and that is not just moderators. It is a corporate approved message. That's what Reddit believes. Reddit says that is OK. So if you want to support a company that does that, that's fine and dandy. What I've done is I focused on my YouTube. I still broke stories. And here's the thing: People will get frustrated. "Why can't this be discussed on Reddit? We want to discuss it on Reddit. Why is a moderator censoring these people?" And eventually they come to where they can get the information because that's what people crave at the end of the day. Information is important. Reddit is convenient, but that's all it is. It produces nothing of value, and as a result of that, wherever the information is, that's where people will go.
What I've said to organizations is we can wreck the League of Legends subreddit, which by the way is swirling down the toilet in terms of traffic. It's becoming less and less important now to be on the front page of Reddit. I've talked to multiple editors at multiple sites, and they said 18 months ago, two years ago, a front page League of Legends post would really drive your traffic targets for an entire month. If you had enough of that, you were over the top for the year. Now, it's actually not that important. You're making a fraction, a fifth of what people used to get in terms of traffic. As a result, people are focusing on other things. It's bad for League of Legends. It's bad for Riot Games. Rot Games could stop the subreddit being the No. 1 place for League of Legends information, but then again they're even trapped in that cycle of "This is the most popular place. We need a presence there" whereas "If we don't have a presence there, where we have our presence will become the most popular place." That's how people need to think.
Like I said, it hasn't affected me at all. The only thing it's done is hurt my growth. For example, people like MonteCristo and Thorin, their YouTube videos will have all those subs from when it hits the League of Legends front page. I haven't had that luxury, so I trail behind them in YouTube subs. But honestly, I'll get to where they are now, just in a longer rate. My information is still relevant. The work I still do is good. People want to read it. On my Twitter, I'm coming up to 100,000, which is pretty crazy for a journalist. I'm not worried about it at all. Meanwhile, all of the moderators and people who run the subreddits that banned my content, who are these people? They've got nothing. They're just nobodies. They contribute nothing. They do nothing. They achieve nothing. They are nothing. So I don't mind that. I think on a longer time scale, if people gradually pull away — say you're a team, and you want to do an AMA. Why do an AMA on Reddit? What, because people are there? Fuck that. Do it on your website. And if someone submits it to Reddit, maybe ask for it to be removed. You're entitled to that, right? There are all sorts of things you can do to really apply pressure to Reddit so you can get control of the traffic again instead of making a third-party institution benefit from your hard work and your content
On The Radar
(A rundown of important stories in the esports media realm and analyzing what they all mean.)
As noted above, ELEAGUE premiered the Street Fighter V Invitational this week. It's ELEAGUE's first real push away from Counter-Strike (aside from last summer's Overwatch Open) and will include another weekly live show Friday nights on TBS, starting this week.
On the surface, it seems like a risk for ELEAGUE to go away from Counter-Strike and its community that embraced and adored ELEAGUE. That said, ELEAGUE has been clear about its desires to build its own brand in esports and not have it be tied to any particular game. Short of ESL, which runs events for multiple games (though is still mainly thought of as a Counter-Strike-centric company), there haven't been many attempts or successes at this sort of plan.
That said, if there is a game besides Counter-Strike that seems made for TV, it's Street Fighter. Neidel Crisan, director of esports for Capcom, told me the following during an interview that will run in full later this week:
"When I think about casual person trying to sit down and watch., you have two big, bright colorful characters on the screen and two big life bars," Crisan said. "The name of the game is to deplete the other guy's life bar."
It will be interesting to see how ratings for the Street Fighter V Invitational compare to Counter-Strike, a scene with a much bigger following.
Boomeo has become active in the Counter-Strike scene as of late. The IMG-backed company is focused on providing instructional videos for new CS:GO players by the professional players and teams with which it has partnered. But there's also a news section to the website, which features a bunch of original content, including a TLDW (Too long, didn't watch) section that recaps and breaks down major events.
It's still early, but this site is definitely worth monitoring as its vision becomes more clear.


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Bushey Tuesday Ju Jitsu Club
Monthly Report, September 2014
This month has been an action packed month for the students, even with the summer holidays coming to an end, the students have been working super hard. It shows in their training with the classes filling up we can focus a lot more on the basic moves and perfecting them. With the infant class we have been going over a lot of moving around on the ground, pulling and pushing are partners getting them to the floor and holding them down. All the students are really enjoying this, and getting to work with each over makes it so much fun. I know everyone is enjoying the grappling and everyone wants to grapple with Charlie Bignell as he is really good at holding people down and moving around on the ground.
I would like to say again a big well done to Scottie Turner on becoming this month's student of the month Scottie has not missed a lesson and he has been working so very hard well done Scottie keep it up.
With all the students really enjoying the grappling we put the grappling in to some games we played super sumo, stuck in the mud and also bull dog. All the games had grappling involved trying to hold their partner down pull them to the floor or even just going over some of the hold downs they have learned.
The junior class have been working a lot more on self-defence and throwing with the class really getting stuck in. With loads of different attacks from a grab from behind, in front and even someone strangling them. This is more advanced work for the students but this class works so hard and can be pushed a lot more, and have loads of fun. Loan Henry and Janarth Premabala getting stuck in to the front strangles and showing some fast defences and amazing strike. With all the hard work the students have been putting in we put all their work in to action with games with some stand up bull dog and super sumo all the kids found out how easy it is to take someone down when they are moving to you and grabbing you. To finish all the month we done a lot of fitness and different exercise working on different parts on the body mainly legs and arms, and to do this we played a game I use to love this as a kid, it was called "tug of war" this uses your legs and arms to pull your partner away from their finish line.
To finish this month off I would like to say a big well done to Thesanya W-Perera on becoming this month's student of the month she has not missed a lesson is always willing to learn and help over students out all the time well done and keep up the good work.


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Living in Orlando, you know that our favorite local event all year is the Orlando Fringe Festival. Artists from around the globe flock to Central Florida and put on one-of-a-kind shows that are all $11-and-under.
With over 100 shows to choose from, it's literally impossible to see them all during the festival that runs from May 14 – 27. Good news! We have taken the time to narrow down the top five shows we are looking forward to for the 2019 season. Here they are in no particular order.
What would happen if Disney animatronics all lived in an apartment together? What goes on after hours? The Animatronicans: Under New Management is a sequel to the hilariously naughty 2017 Orlando Fringe Festival favorite.
The Animatronicans is one of my favorite Orlando Fringe shows of all time. It's dirty Disney at its best. Without question, this show will sell out all performances and their first show on Friday, May 17 is already sold out!
We are huge fans of magic here at Theme Park University and Cody Clark is one of our favorites. His 2017 show was our personal Fringe pick and he's back in 2019 with brand new material.
Cody Clark – The Origins of My Magic takes place at the Red Venue this year. He's a huge fan of theme parks, trains and often times donates proceeds of his work to autism awareness. For those who are budget conscious, Cody is offering $6 tickets to his Monday, May 20 performance. This guy is a can't miss!
The Happiest Place on Earth uses Disneyland as a backdrop for a one-man play performed by Adam Reed. According to the Orlando Fringe Festival Guide:
Left reeling from the loss of their patriarch, a family ventures on a quest for solace to a magical kingdom in a California orange grove. More than 50 years later, Philip must now retrace the journey of the women in his family to find if the dreams they wished for really did come true.
We are definitely intrigued! Looking forward to this show.
Are you a fan of the "Hocus Pocus" show at Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party at the Magic Kingdom? Winnie's Rock Cauldron Cabaret stars Bette Midler tribute artist Jennica McCleary who performed the role of Winifred in the 2015 debut of the Hocus Pocus Villain Spelltacular at Walt Disney World.
According to the Orlando Fringe website, McClearly is "thrilled to have conjured this fan-fiction style concert, while battling breast cancer, to celebrate everyone's inner magical badass witch."
There are literally tons of shows to choose from at the Orlando Fringe Festival. We always use several days to take it all in! Visit their official website to purchase tickets and to read the full show schedule!
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What would you exchange Exchange for?
It's long been clear to me that the biggest lock-in Microsoft has, at the enterprise level, is not with Windows or personal apps, but with Exchange Server. And the biggest problem there is this: it's good. Enterprises like it. And, since Exchange works only or best with Windows machines, the lock-in extends to much else. Linux and Mac boxes get purged and replaced by Windows ones.
Or so goes the story I hear from folks at big enterprises.
So I'm wondering about alternatives. Not just about applications, but about who's doing what. Is Google using Exchange? Are Sun, IBM or other open-friendly companies? If not, what ways have they found around it? What do they give up and what do they gain?
Feel free to comment below or contact me directly if you're not comfortable posting here.
FWIW, I'm most interested in hearing what big enterprises -- in business, medicine, education, government -- are doing. Because that's where the lock-in is biggest and there are the fewest alternatives.


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The Water We Rely On: A Series
Bill Hammack has been doing a lot of thinking about east-central Illinois' water supply. You may know him as WILL's "Engineer Guy," bringing complex scientific issues closer to home. All this week, Bill is taking a look at how we use water, how much we have and how we manage it for the future. The different ways we use water at home may seem obvious - but in Part 4, Bill finds some ways we may never have suspected.


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Jared Meyer
We are delighted to announce that Jared Meyer will be speaking at this year's THINK conference. Jared Meyer is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. His research interests include microeconomic theory and the economic effects of government regulations. He is the coauthor with Diana Furchtgott-Roth of Disinherited: How Washington Is Betraying America's Young, and the author of Uber-Positive: Why Americans Love the Sharing Economy. He is a regular contributor to The Federalist, CapX, Forbes, and Reason. Meyer's research has been published in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo! Finance, RealClearPolitics, and National Review. He has been a guest on many radio and television shows, including the BBC World Service, ABC, Fox News, and NPR. Prior to joining the Manhattan Institute Meyer was a research assistant for the political philosopher Douglas Rasmussen. He received a B.S. in finance and a minor in the philosophy of law from St. John's University in New York. Follow him on Twitter @JaredMeyer10.


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If you live anywhere that gets cold a camel overcoat needs to be a staple in your closet. They can be a bit pricy, but will last you years {I'm talking decades} Look for end of season sales at department stores if you're in the market {I linked a few of my favorites below that are on sale right now!} Not only is the camel overcoat a functional piece, its super fun to dress up and gives a polished, classic look to anything. I paired this one with a pair of high riser denim and layered it over a classic oxford and wool sweater. Although the jacket is a little big for me {its my husbands!} I love throwing it over my shoulders for warmth and to add a bit of unexpected style to my outfit!
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A little while ago, we had the great pleasure to give a talk at 12min.me on "Empowering Conversations", which is one of the key aspects of the Philia Peer Coaching method. Unfortunately, there is no recording of the talk, but here you can read the most decisive parts of Tanja's talk on the topic:
Apart from being a co-founder at Philia, I am currently writing my PhD at Cambridge University. I'm based at the psychology department. A few years ago, our department has been a pioneer in big data analysis related to social media.
They developed a personality quiz that people would complete via Facebook and then the results were linked to their Facebook likes. In total, more than 6 million people took part in the study. As a result, the research team got very good insights about the correlations between Facebook likes and personality traits. The research project stopped at that point, but the same technique has been used in advertising ever since.
So let's take the character trait "risk aversion" or "risk loving": An insurance can, for example, use an advert with a mountain exhibition and the title "We're there for you on all your adventures" for a person who is risk loving and for a risk averse person a photo of a family and the title "Wouldn't you want to protect them in the best way possible?". Now add to that a slogan that creates emotional stress such as "buy our insurance package within the next 10 minutes" and you've probably converted your next customer.
Now I would like to turn to an entirely different topic. A couple of years ago, I had some issues around eating disorders and depression. It was a rather overwhelming period of my life. And those of you who have ever suffered from a mental health issue will know that it's hard to see a linear way out of these problems.
Luckily, I had a very capable psychotherapist. She was a bit grandma-like, but extremely knowledgeable and experienced, She essentially helped me explore the reasons for my disease and step by step overcome the issue.
So in each of these examples, there was one party who was way more informed and aware of the situation than the other party. In the marketing example, the customer was the one who had less information and was put under pressure to buy. In the psychotherapy example, I was the one who couldn't make sense of her own situation. In both cases, the other party had a much higher level of what is actually going on. The marketer and the psychologist essentially had a bird's eye perspective and more information.
In both cases, the more aware or more informed party had a reasonable power to influence the less informed person. But the difference between the two is that the marketer used his power to manipulate the customer, whereas the psychologist helped me to find my own way out of my struggles and hence empowered me.
In the sum, the low awareness state means that the situation owns you and you react instead of acting. You lack information and you feel stressed. The high awareness state means that you feel in charge, you have a good overview of the situation, you're relaxed and you are acting proactively. If you're the manipulative type, you focus on competition, you patronise others and you act polarising. Whereas if you're the empowering type, you are focused on cooperation, trust and unity.
When you practice our peer coaching method, you take on 2 different roles. On the one hand, you are the coachee. That means every single week you reflect on your goals, values and barriers. That helps you to raise your awareness about your role in life.
At the same time, you also become a coach for somebody else. In that role, you have the power to either manipulate the other person or to empower them. At Philia, we teach women how to help other women to become the best versions of themselves. And that's what we mean by empowering conversations.
I would like to end with a quote. "True empowerment means to support people in their own approach of solving their problems." That is the kind of empowerment that we stand for.


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Coed Varsity Swimming · Maupin brothers lead Bearden at state swim meet with top 10 finishes
The Maupin brothers highlighted a number of top 10 finishes at this weekend's state swim meet. Senior Brooks Maupin finished in seventh place in the men's 200 freestyle and younger brother Colby Maupin in eighth place. The brothers also helped lead their team to ninth place finishes in the men's 200 and 400 freestyle relays. Colby