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Houston Dynamo beats visiting Vancouver in Major League Soccer
The Houston Dynamo rallied for a 2-1 Major League Soccer victory over the visiting Vancouver Whitecaps.
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HOUSTON — Warren Creavalle and Giles Barnes scored seven minutes apart in the second half to help the Houston Dynamo beat the Vancouver Whitecaps 2-1 in a Major League Soccer match Saturday night.
After Barnes beat goalkeeper Joe Cannon with a header in the 56th minute, Creavalle connected in the 63rd minute for the Dynamo (2-1)
The victory helped the Dynamo extend its home unbeaten streak to 27 matches, dating to July 2011. Houston has not lost at its new home, BBVA Compass Stadium
Ricardo Clark set up Barnes' tying goal with a pass into the area. Barnes moved ahead of his defender and headed a shot just inside the left post for his first MLS goal.
On the winner, Adam Moffat's shot from outside the area was stopped by Cannon, but he couldn't hold on. The ball fell in front of Creavalle, who scored his first goal of the season and the sixth of his career.
Darren Mattocks scored in the 36th minute for the Whitecaps (2-1), who missed being the first visiting MLS team to win in Houston since Columbus in June 2011.
Cannon made two saves.
Tally Hall stopped four shots for Houston.
Impact rises to 4-0
MONTREAL — Marco Di Vaio scored in the 14th minute and the Montreal Impact beat the New York Red Bulls 1-0 to improve to 4-0.
New York (0-2-2) finished the match short a man after defender Brandon Barklage was sent off for taking down Patrice Bernier at the edge of the penalty area in the 74th minute.
The Red Bulls had a slight edge in ball possession, but the Impact dominated the scoring chances and wasted several opportunities to pad the lead before a crowd of 26,259.
Other MLS matches
At FC Dallas 2,
Real Salt Lake 0
Jackson scored a second-half goal and assisted another for FC Dallas, which is 3-0 at home this season and 3-1 overall.
Crew 2, at D.C. United 1
Ben Speas scored 13 minutes into the second half to lead Columbus past D.C. United.
Josh Williams also scored to help Columbus win for the first time in Washington since 2010, and snap D.C. United's 17-match home unbeaten run.
Sporting Kansas City 0,
at Revolution 0
Sporting KC keeper Jimmy Nielsen didn't have to make a save en route to his second shutout of the season, while New England's Matt Reis stopped five shots in posting his second shutout.
At Galaxy 1, Rapids 0
Mike Magee converted a penalty kick in the 49th minute as Los Angeles beat Colorado.
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Derry, a city in the North Ireland, is a special place to many people and host to Celtronic (June 28-July 2, 2006), an annual festival of visual arts and music. Tom Middleton has said it's his favourite city to play and local hospitality sets an example for all to follow. The promoters, Deep Fried Funk, are among the best in the business, keeping Celtronic ticket prices ridiculously low and always booking the best acts. Phil Keirons' band Alloy Mental was just that–and Silver City (2020 Recordings) produced an excellent live house set. Meanwhile, Tom Middleton and David Holmes blended with local DJs (Campbell, Pepsi, Mark, Hago). Most noteworthy were Derry trio Sirocco MCs, whose Beastie Boys-inspired beats kept it rocking all night long.
On this year's visit, mayor Lynn Fleming greeted me and my writer-companion upon our arrival. We were ushered into the civic building, despite our dishevelled state, and offered drinks from a cabinet that opened from within the wall's wood paneling... very James Bond. Following an afternoon whiskey, she was charming enough to welcome us with the gift of a "Derry City" pen.
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In Salon, Thomas Frank laments the wasted opportunity of the Obama years. "Why, the visitors to his library will wonder, did the president do so little about rising inequality, the subject on which he gave so many rousing speeches? Why did he do nothing, or next to nothing, about the crazy high price of a college education, the Great Good Thing that he has said, time and again, determines our personal as well as national success? Why didn't he propose a proper healthcare program instead of the confusing jumble we got? Why not a proper stimulus package? Why didn't he break up the banks? Or the agribusiness giants, for that matter?"
Frank's piece is definitely a bit overwritten, with its "mausoleum of hope" and all. That being said, I'm on board with his central thesis, as I've said several times before. (In fact, I was glad to see when fixing the old archives lately, that however hopey-changey I felt in 2008, I was more measured in my writing than I remembered, bringing up the ominous example of Herbert Hoover in my post-election post and wondering what the heck was going on within two weeks of Obama's inauguration.)
Also, to get a sense of what a bad place our party is at these days, just look at Kevin Drum's ridiculous response to this Tom Frank piece. Drum, mind you, is the official blogger of Mother Jones, named after the famous labor leader. And he writes: "It's easy to recognize this as delusional…Because — duh — the hated neoliberal system worked. We didn't have a second Great Depression. The Fed intervened, the banking system was saved, and a stimulus bill was passed…As for Obama, could he have done more? I suppose he probably could have, but it's a close call."
A close call? C'mon. As I responded on Twitter: "And all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds. This neoliberal horseshit would've made Mother Jones blanch. This piece sidesteps O's GWOT record. 2. It ignores O's penchant for starting negotiations where they should finish. 3. It presumes filibuster reform impossible. 4. It ignores that financial crisis response grew inequality. And so on."
And, remember: This fatalistic "Americans are all centrists anyway, Obama did all he could" shrug is coming from the house blogger of one of our foremost progressive journals. It's pathetic. This is yet another example of we progressive Democrats no longer having the courage of our convictions.
See also this very worthwhile Salon piece on Zephyr Teachout's challenge to notorious douchebag Andrew Cuomo, by my friend and colleague Matt Stoller, which talks about this exact same phenomenon.
"The basic theory of the 'New Democrat' model of governance is that Wall Street and multinational corporate elites produce wealth through the creation of innovative financial practices and technology, and that Democrats should then help middle class and poor citizens by taxing this wealth, and then using some of it to support progressive social programs…This method of running the economy has become so accepted among Democratic leaders that writers like New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and Vox writer Matthew Yglesias now argue that there simply is no alternative…
"There is a hunger in the Democratic Party for making the party serve the interest of regular voters, not the rich. In 2008, liberal Democrats decisively broke from the Clinton legacy and voted for Barack Obama, with his mantra of hope and change. Obama, however, stocked his administration with Clinton administration officials like Larry Summers, Tim Geithner and Janet Yellen. A joke going around Democratic circles after the election was that 'Those supporting Obama got a president, those supporting Clinton got a job.' Obama broke with the Clinton name, but brought the Clinton intellectual legacy, and Clinton's Wall Street-backed machine, into governance…"
"The potentially transformative message of the Teachout-Wu campaign is that the problem is not solely one of personalities or tactical political approaches. Rather it is that the New Democrat model itself, and the Democratic party establishment, is fundamentally at odds with the party's traditional liberalism…Teachout and Wu are trying to place the citizen at the center of policy. They do that through their proposals for public financing, for antitrust, for social insurance, infrastructure and labor."
Without vision, the people perish. If we ever want to see the real and positive change that Americans were promised back in 2008, we progressives have to stop acting like we have no other option than to fall into line behind the leftiest of the centrists and clap harder for every occasional, diluted-to-all-hell scrap they throw our way. There's more to life than Rockefeller Republicanism, and it's not like we don't have excellent historical templates to borrow from. We need to dream bigger, stop thinking the status quo is all there is, and push back.
Are Zephyr Teachout and Tim Wu going to knock out Andrew Cuomo, a guy who's quite obviously the poster child for everything that's wrong with our party? Alas, probably not. But one does not always fight because there is hope of winning. And New York in 2014 is as a good a place as any to start the long uphill slog of taking back our party.
Meanwhile, Blake Zeff thinks Cuomo may have met his match in US Attorney Preet Bharara. "[Bharara] has not only taken possession of the files from the corruption-fighting Moreland Commission that Cuomo recently closed down as part of a budget deal, but has also publicly floated the possibility of investigating the governor's alleged meddling in its investigations."
In a rebuke to the few Blue Dog remnants that have been calling for her ousting, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces her intention to run for Minority Leader in the 112th Congress. "[D]riven by the urgency of protecting health care reform, Wall Street reform, and Social Security and Medicare, I have decided to run."
This is excellent news. As I've said here before, Speaker Pelosi has gotten things done on the Hill, and the blame for what happened Tuesday does not fall on her shoulders. To the contrary, she was often the only Democratic leader putting up a fight. Also, there is historical precedent: Twice during his long Speakership, Sam Rayburn cooled his heels as Minority Leader, waiting out the GOP blips. As the linked article points out, if Pelosi emulating Rayburn somehow encourages Obama to consider becoming more Trumanesque, well, all the better.
"The president told Democrats that making change happen is hard and 'if people now want to take their ball and go home, that tells me folks weren't serious in the first place.'" As part of a continuing pattern of late, President Obama tells Rolling Stone that progressives need to stop whining about the way things are going and get happy, because, in what's become a new talking point, "If you look at the checklist, we've already covered about 70 percent [of the 2008 campaign promises.]" (70%?! Uh, can I see this checklist?)
Anyway, this latest weird effusion against the base has already been well-critiqued and well-answered many times. See, for example, Glenn Greenwald and David Dayen: "I've never seen a politician run an election with the message 'Don't be stupid, quit your bitching and vote for me.'" I would only add two things:
1) As it turns out, the unhappy Dems among us are more likely to vote, so perhaps berating them for not clapping enough is not altogether productive. (Unless, of course, the WH is doing it as a Sistah Souljah bank shot to get independents, on the classic establishment premise that indies love hippie-punching.)
2) I'd love to live in a world where progressive bloggers have the power to move ginormous voting blocs, I really would. But it takes a certain type of top-down, Beltway-obsessive mentality to think that's what's going on here. The biggest reason voters are depressed is because the economy is, quite obviously, not doing so well at the moment, and people are feeling the pinch. And, that aside, most Obama voters don't need blogs to tell them that this administration, on all too many fronts, hasn't lived up to its promises.
If this White House wants to engage the base (and I really, really hope they do, for reasons personal, professional, and patriotic), then, for Pete's sake, don't browbeat and lecture the Left for being disappointed — Try to make them less disappointed! Give them some red meat, respond to their concerns, and, you know, do the things you were elected to do. Why this even has to be said is beyond me.
As you no doubt know by now, and like his White House correspondent's dinner speech in 2006, the inimitable Stephen Colbert came to the Hill on Friday to deliver his expert testimony on the plight of migrant workers, a topic the media would otherwise have completely ignored in favor of whatever crazy thing Sarah Palin tweeted today.
For those making the ridiculous argument that Congress was horribly besmirched by Colbert's satirical testimony, I have two words: Twain and Elmo. For everyone else, it was very funny and, as per Colbert's usual m.o., spoke truthiness to power. "[I]t just stands to reason, to me, that if your coworker can't be exploited, then you're less likely to be exploited yourself. And that, itself, might improve pay and working conditions on these farms, and eventually, Americans may consider taking these jobs again."
"I don't know what my biggest contribution has been. I think it has been simply showing up for work every day, trying to fight the good fight for average people…But I leave more discontented when I came here because of the terrible things that have been done to this economy by political leaders who allowed Wall Street to turn Wall Street banks into gambling casinos which damned near destroyed the economy."
On the eve of his retirement, Chair of the House Appropriations Committee David Obey has some choice words for the administration, and himself. "I think the more important thing was what was my biggest failure…our failure to stop the ripoff of the middle class by the economic elite of this country, and this is not just something that happened because of the forces of the market."
"[T]o the extent that the 'liberal left' is upset at the President, it's because they are seeing a great opportunity slip away in real time. The only one that told the base that they could change America from the bottom up and bring forth a transformative new era of leadership is Barack Obama. If he didn't want one, he shouldn't have said anything."
In response to the most recent disparaging of liberal and progressive blogs by "senior administrative official" to his or her media lap dog of choice, FDL's Dave Dayen gets to the heart of progressive consternation with Team Obama: "Nobody had a bigger challenge coming into office than Barack Obama but nobody had a bigger opportunity. And liberals like myself are generally peeved that the opportunity has been squandered. Yes, squandered." Yep, sounds about right.
In very related news, with the passage of financial reform in the Senate today, The Prospect's Kevin Drum gets off a zinger about Obama's legislative accomplishments thus far. I think, overall, this president could have accomplished much more than Drum's biting joke suggests — most obviously on executive power issues like torture and indefinite detention. (Or, put another way, I just get irritated with people who throw up their hands and say the problem with our politics is entirely structural when you have an ostensibly-lefty president saying patently dumb things like this. Choices matter, and this administration makes terrible ones.) All that being said, Drum's comment was still worth a (rueful) laugh regardless.
Republican Rep. Joe Barton, the Ranking Member of the Energy & Commerce committee, decides to use the out-loud voice and genuflects before BP's Tony Hayward, causing all kinds of messaging trouble for Republicans today. (Then again, if they had a problem with Barton openly professing his fealty to his biggest donor, maybe they shouldn't have put it in today's talking points.) In any case, this one was right over the middle of the plate for the WH today. [Pic via Greg Greene.]
"We need to train an army of Ninja Cats. Cats are natural born hunters and predators, and it is known that they indeed have 9 lives, many more than the typical human life (being one). They are also excellent at hiding themselves and would be ideal for sneaking into countries and assassinating communist leaders to lessen the ever growing threat of communism, finding key terrorist leaders and shattering the global terrorist network."
As a highly entertaining Reddit thread well put it, "House Republicans turn to the Internets for suggestions on new legislation. Internets reacts exactly how you'd expect." The lack of their own ideas aside, the fact that nobody on the GOP saw this egregious messaging #fail coming from a mile away speaks volumes about their Internet savvy. Series of tubes! (FWIW, here's the counter-argument — More than anything, it's a list-builder.)
"Last week, Congress decided it would not confront Too Big To Fail, the single gravest threat to our collective financial security. But there are still several key Wall Street reforms worth fighting for–reforms that must be enacted before the next crisis hits, with or without a big bank break-up. And fortunately, key Senators have authored amendments dealing with each one." In HuffPo, Zach Carter delineates the most worthwhile progressive amendments to financial reform still up for debate in the Senate. A good encapsulation of the state of play.
"There's got to be more to life than explaining Senate procedures to angry constituents or begging Blue Dogs to do what they ought to do by rote." After forty fighting years in the House, David Obey — formidable Wisconsin progressive, master of both legislative arcana and the harmonica, and powerful Chair of the Appropriations Committee — announces his retirement at the end of this term.
Obey's exactly the type of guy you want in Congress — he's got his priorities straight and was never afraid to fight for them — and he will be missed. "He pondered retirement before, but stayed on because he was angry at what he saw as the 'arrogance' of the second President Bush. 'I was determined to outlast him,' he said."
Update: Chairman Obey's full official statement is definitely worth a read. "I am, frankly, weary of having to beg on a daily basis that both parties recognize that we do no favor for the country if we neglect to make the long-term investments in education, science, health, and energy that are necessary to modernize our economy…I do not want to be in a position as Chairman of the Appropriations Committee of producing and defending lowest common denominator legislation that is inadequate to that task and, given the mood of the country, that is what I would have to do if I stayed.
I am also increasingly weary of having to deal with a press which has become increasingly focused on trivia, driven at least in part by the financial collapse of the news industry and the need, with the 24-hour news cycle, to fill the air waves with hot air. I say that regretfully because I regard what is happening to the news profession as nothing short of a national catastrophe which I know pains many quality journalists as much as it pains me. Both our professions have been coarsened in recent years and the nation is the loser for it."
The WP's Paul Kane profiles the inimitable Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. "Some historians list her alongside Rayburn and his successor, John W. McCormack, as among the most influential speakers in the annals of Congress." (What, no love for Joe Cannon? C'mon now, American history doesn't start in 1945.)
In any case, from my ringside seat here in the belly of the beast, it's pretty clear: Speaker Pelosi gets things done. "After Scott Brown's special-election victory…some pushed for a scaled-down version of health-care legislation to draw Republican support. Pelosi balked. In a moment that has come to define her speakership, Pelosi mocked a scaled-down bill as 'Eensy Weensy Spider' health care."
Since I was talking to old friends on Facebook yesterday and realized once again that few folks outside of DC have a good sense of what's actually in the recently passed health care bill, here's a handy interactive graphic that delivers the what-for for the first year. There's also a handy embed code there for wider distribution (but sorry, the death panel protocols are still classified. You'll learn them when they come for you.)
"'Access for kids who have pre-existing conditions, who would be against that?' Blunt asked a group of health care professionals in Springfield, MO. 'But access for adults who've done nothing to take care of themselves, who actually will have as I just described every incentive not to get insurance until the day that you know that you're going to have medical expenses–that's a very different kind of story.'"
Thanks, Roy! Republican congressman and ostensible chair of the "GOP Health Care Task Force" Roy Blunt actually comes out in favor of repealing the ban on denying coverage for pre-existing conditions, one of the few provisions in the recent health care law that usually garnered bipartisan support. For its part, leukemia declined to comment.
So, as you may have heard, the House passed the health care bill 219-212 late last night. It was a long and busy weekend, and a long and busy week is ahead, formulating the death panels and whatnot. Still, we've been talking about this bill since I got here last July, so it feels quite good to finally get this done. Now, let's make it better. (Pic via here.)
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Strapped for cash while putting herself through medical school, medical student Mary Mason takes a job as a waitress at a strip bar, run by Billy Barker. As she becomes increasingly disillusioned with her studies, Billy introduces Mary to a new and extremely lucrative sideline, performing extreme body modifications to an odd collection of flesh-obsessed characters. Subsequently forced to drop out of medical school, she soon takes refuge in her new career. But as her demeanor steadily darkens, and her actions take on an altogether more vengeful twist, she begins to be known and feared as 'Bloody Mary'.
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Mary Mason (Katharine Isabelle) is a med student who is just about to begin her surgical residency in Seattle. Her only living relative is a Hungarian grandmother, whom she dutifully calls on a regular basis. Otherwise she lives alone, has no friends and works constantly to satisfy her demanding professor of surgical technique, Dr. Grant (David Lovgren). Grant is tough and challenges Mary to the point of bullying, because he sees great things in her (or so he says). To an outsider's eye, his conduct might border on sexual harassment, but Mary doesn't spot it, because she idolizes the medical fraternity to which she so badly wants to belong. Mary's work would improve if she weren't in such dire financial straits that she spends much of her energy fending off creditors. Desperate to make money in her evening hours, she applies for a "no sex required" job at a strip club called Bourbon a Go Go. To the amusement of the owner, Billy Barker (Antonio Cupo), Mary presents a résumé at her interview, which is not something he usually sees. As luck would have it, though, an unexpected development in the back room of Billy's business requires immediate "off the books" medical attentionand Billy just happens to have someone with medical training sitting in the club. When Mary returns home, her money problems are solved. Several days later, though, one of Billy's dancers named Beatress (Tristan Risk) comes calling. With an immobile face surgically altered to resemble Betty Boop and a helium voice borrowed from Ellen Green's Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, Beatress belongs to the underground world of "body modification", in which people pay significant sums to have themselves reshaped to conform to some inner ideal. It's plastic surgery used to make fantasies come true. Beatress offers Mary $10,000 to perform various procedures on her close friend, Ruby Realgirl (Paula Lindberg). It's too much money to turn down. As word of Mary's work spreads through the body modification community, demand for her services increases. She receives the ultimate imprimatur when two German twins (played by the Soskas) who run the largest body modification website in the world choose Mary to perform a critical operation that will bring them even closer together. (See the film if you want the yucky details.) Mary earns enough cash from this one operation to move into an upscale loft equipped with a fancy surgical facility. Mary's success does not come without cost. Her teacher, Dr. Grant, and the jovial surgeon in charge of her residency, Dr. Walsh (Clay St. Thomas), note the upgrade in her attire and the change in her demeanor, and they make stereotypical assumptions about how an attractive single woman must be making money that aren't entirely wrong, given Mary's initial application at Bourbon a Go Go. By the time Mary operates on the twins, she is no longer enrolled in med school. She's also been viciously attacked by a group of medical colleagues, but she's found her own way to get even. Between the services of Billy and his muscle, Lance (Twan Holliday), and her own surgical skills, Mary has become a truly dangerous person to antagonize. The authorities are not absent, just clueless. An earnest police detective (John Emmet Tracy) appears from time to time, inquiring after people who have gone missing, but Mary handles him easily. The real danger arises out of her surgical work. In all classic horror films, everyone eventually pays for their transgressions. The Soskas don't skimp on sex and violence, but their approach has an unmistakably feminine sensibility. A male director would showcase an actress' bare breasts for the male viewers who fetishize them. The Soskas' most explicit and prolonged display of a shapely female chest occurs in connection with an elective procedure to remove the nipples. (And yes, they show enough of the operation to make you squirm.) In a rape scene, they focus on the victim's face, because (as they explain in their commentary) everyone knows what is happening elsewhere, and they're more interested in the victim's emotions. Likewise, when the victim takes revenge on her attacker with the assistance of Mary's surgical skills, the focus remains on the rapist's face, because . . . well, you'll see (if you don't turn away). Katharine Isabelle's performance as Mary is a triumph of restraint. By holding back, Isabelle keeps Mary a mystery to those around her, to the audience and ultimately to herself. As much as she tries to do the "right" thing (which is what makes her vulnerable to someone like Dr. Grant at school), Mary hides deep reserves of anger and darkness that are suddenly set free when she tastes the power that comes with practicing her own form of "medicine", achieving a strange kind of celebrity and earning her own money. The thrill of that empowerment is what makes her unresponsive to Billy's growing interest in her. It's also what makes her blind to the growing danger she's in.
American Mary Blu-ray, Video Quality
American Mary was shot with Red Epic cameras by Brian Pearson, a frequent second unit DP, who also served as cinematographer for Final Destination 5 and The Butterfly Effect 2. Pearson used darkness and shadows effectively to create atmosphere and extract the maximum visual value from the Soskas' tight production budget. Most of the film takes place indoors, and Pearson's spaces are always dim and mysterious. The image on XLrator's 1080p, AVC-encoded Blu-ray is clear, detailed and sharp, as is generally the case with projects originated on Red. Blacks are deep, with well-delineated shadows and detail, so that items that are supposed to be visible in shadow can be seen, if only dimly. Details of faces, costumes and props (including bizarre surgical implements) are readily discernible whenever they are in focus. The generally cool hues of Mary's environs (notably, med school and her residences) contrast with the warmer tones of Billy's club and a few outdoor locations, but overall American Mary is a chilly-looking movie. Even the redness of blood has been somewhat dulled, probably in post-production. Some light banding occurs here and there, but most viewers will never notice. Otherwise, no artifacts were in evidence. Red footage generally compresses well, and except for a few scenes, American Mary doesn't have a lot of rapid activity. The average bitrate of 19.94 Mbps appears to be sufficient.
American Mary Blu-ray, Audio Quality
American Mary's DTS-HD MA 5.1 track is atmospheric more than immersive. It has a general sense of ambiance for various environments, but the film is generally set in locales and features actions that offer little in the way of opportunity for elaborate surround activity. Even the Bourbon a Go Go club and a raucous party that Mary attends do little except place music at appropriate volume into the surround array. The dialogue is clear, and the sound effects are appropriately unsettling. The score by prolifie Canadian composer Peter Allen contributes to the creepy atmosphere, but more notable are the multiple versions of "Ave Maria" heard at key points throughout the film. Their reproduction is flawless; their effect is increasingly disturbing.
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One can quibble with American Mary on numerous points, and it's easy to imagine studio executives "noting" the film to death. Mary's backstory remains opaque; the character of Billy hovers somewhere between thug and white knight; and it's hard to believe that the underground culture of "body modification" manages to flourish without a frightening number of casualties from post-surgical complications. But all this is beside the point. Effective horror movies aren't about realism, but about establishing an alternate dreamworld that feels real while it lasts. The Soskas have done that with American Mary in a manner that stands favorable comparison with acknowledged masters such as Clive Barker and David Cronenberg. Highly recommended.
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The Moremi Game Reserve, which is bordered by Chobe National Park in the northeast, covers much of the Okavango Delta's eastern side. Sometimes it seems as if a large proportion of Botswana's 70,000 elephants have made their way here, particularly in the dry winter season.
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On Mombo Island, off the northwest tip of Chief's Island, this legendary camp is surrounded by wall-to-wall game. Although there is plenty of surface water in the area (marshes and floodplains), it's strictly a land-activity camp. The camp has exclusive use of a large area of Moremi, so privacy is assured. Its great wildlife, including all of the large predators, has made this area one of Botswana's top wildlife documentary locations—National Geographic and the BBC have both filmed here.
The stunning camp has identical guest rooms divided into two distinct camps: Mombo has nine rooms, Little Mombo only three. These camps are among the best known, most expensive, and most sought after in Botswana, so be sure to book months in advance. Each spacious room is built on a raised wooden platform with wonderful views over the open plains (you're almost guaranteed to see game as you sit there), and although the en-suite rooms have a tented feel, they are ultra luxurious. The dining room, lounge, and bar are also built on big wooden decks overlooking the magnificent animal-dotted savanna. The atmosphere is friendly, and the personal attention, food, and guides all excellent.
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- Our Botswana online travel guide
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Ngorongoro Crater Lodge
Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania
What You'll See
One of only three UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Tanzania (the other two are the Serengeti and Selous Game Reserve), Ngorongoro Crater is often called the eighth wonder of the world. It lies in the Biosphere Reserve of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, which covers 3,204 square miles in northern Tanzania.
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Imagine walking into a Hollywood film set where the spectacular setting is literally "Great Zimbabwe ruins meets SS Titanic baroque." Clusters of stilted rooms with woven conical banana-leaf domes and fancifully carved stone chimneys cling to the crater's rim and somehow blend in with the natural surroundings. Your palatial abode has polished wooden floors, leather armchairs, and a dramatic mix of furniture and styles including crystal chandeliers and hand-wrought local lamps. Ceiling-high swaths of silk taffeta drapes frame a small veranda with some of the world's most awesome views. Hand-carved doors lead to a massive bathroom with fresh cut roses, a freestanding tub, and a tessellated tile shower straight out of a Roman villa. The main dining room has a 1920s ocean liner stateroom feel, but the adjacent lounge comes straight from an old English country house. It's a daring glamorous mix of competing styles and themes that somehow works. However, the standards of food and service don't quite match the boldness of the architecture and opulence of the interiors.
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Thanda Main Lodge
Thanda Private Game Reserve, South Africa
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Located in the wildly beautiful part of northern Zululand, Thanda is one of KwaZulu Natal's newer game reserves. Rangers often have to work hard to find game on this 37,000-acre reserve, but the rewards are great.
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There's a palpable feeling of earth energy in this magical and exquisite lodge that blends elements of royal Zulu with an eclectic pan-African feel. Beautiful beehive-shaped dwellings perch on the side of rolling hills and overlook mountains and bushveld. Inside, contemporary Scandinavian touches meet African chic—from the "eyelashes" of slatted poles that peep out under the thatch roofs, to the embedded mosaics in royal Zulu red and blue that decorate the polished, honey-color stone floors. Creative light fixtures include chandeliers made of handcrafted Zulu beads and lamps of straw or filmy cotton mesh. A huge stone fireplace divides the bedroom area from the comfortable and roomy lounge. Each chalet has a different color scheme and is decorated with beaded, hand-embroidered cushions and throws. Dip in your personal plunge pool after an exciting game drive, sunbathe on your private deck, or commune with the surrounding bushveld in your cool, cushioned sala (outdoor covered deck).
Later, after a meal that many a fine restaurant would be proud to serve, come back to your chalet to find a bedtime story on your pillow, marshmallows waiting to be toasted over flickering candles, and a glass of Amarula cream. Or dine alone in your private boma by the light of the stars and the leaping flames of a fragrant wood fire. The spacious, uncluttered public areas—dining decks, bomas, library, and lounge—are decorated in restful earth tones accented by royal Zulu colors, beads from Malawi, Ghanaian ceremonial masks, and Indonesian chairs.
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Ivory Lodge
Lion Sands Private Game Reserve, South Africa
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Separated from Kruger National Park by the Sabie River, this family owned and operated reserve, part of the greater Sabi Sands Reserve, has 10,000-acres of undisturbed wildlife that's available only to its guests.
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If you seek the ultimate in luxury, privacy, and relaxation, look no further than this gorgeous lodge. Suites are really more like villas, as each has their own private entrance, separate sitting room, and bedroom that are joined by a breezeway. Superb views overlooking the Sabi River and Kruger beyond are had from every point, especially on the decks, which come equipped with telescopes—you actually never have to leave your suite to catch views of incredible wildlife.
The simple, elegant suites are decorated in contemporary African-European style with wood burning fireplaces, an indoor and outdoor shower, and a free-standing tub in which to relax at the end of the day. You'll also have plunge pool to cool off in and a personal butler to look after your every need, including delivery of your morning tea. Relax with intimate dinners and on-the-spot spa treatments, sample some of South Africa's finest wines in the on-site cellar, or head out on a game drive in a private vehicle with your own personal ranger. You won't even know if Brangelina or Ewan is in the next villa. TIP: If you're looking for something even more special and over the top, inquire about spending the night at the Chalkley Treehouse.
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Ntwala Island Lodge
Caprivi Strip, Namibia
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One of Namibia's best-kept secrets, the Strip lies in northeast Namibia (and is sometimes simply referred to as northeast Namibia) at the confluence of the Zambezi and Chobe rivers. It serves as a gateway to Zimbabwe's Victoria Falls and Botswana's Chobe National Park.
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East of Susuwe Island Lodge is the breathtaking, daringly beautiful Ntwala Island Lodge. Only 80 km (50 mi) upstream from Victoria Falls, the four art deco–meets-Africa chalets are built on an untouched Namibian cluster of small islands linked by floating wooden walkways. You can fly in from Namibia or Botswana, but there's also a road option. Drive to Kasane in Botswana, then board a small boat that skirts rapids and dodges hippos as it takes you to your very own Treasure Island. A gray, mosaic-edge, kidney-shape pool surrounded by white sand shimmers outside your cream-color, tile-roof chalet, just a couple of yards from the rushing Zambezi. The braying of trumpeter hornbills, the liquid notes of the robins, and the startled calls of francolins greet you.
The chalets are spectacular by any standard, with huge rooms, circular wooden canopies echoing the circular bed platforms, carved half-moon chests, handwrought light fittings of metal feathers, and bathrooms big enough to host a party. Freestanding canvas and wooden screens are topped by metal Prince-of-Wales's feathers, matching the metal curlicued towel rails and bath accessories trolley. Try your hand at tiger-fishing, marvel at the industry of the reed cormorants as they continuously crisscross the sky carrying nesting material to their heronry, or watch the sunset herds of elephants and buffalo. You might also glimpse the unique Chobe bushbuck, or a group of impala, or if you're really lucky (in the dry season) some thirsty lions.
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Kichwa Tembo Tented Safari Camp
Masai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya
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About 171 miles southwest of Nairobi, Masai Mara covers an area of 702 square mi and is demarcated by the Serengeti in the south, the Loita Hills in the east, the Esoit Oloololo escarpment in the west, and the Itong Hills in the north. It's also part of the Serengeti ecosystem that supports one of the largest populations of animal groups on earth.
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Kichwa Tembo, which means head of the elephant in Kiswahili, is one of Kenya's most sought-after camps in Africa. Perched on the edge of a riverine forest below the Oloololo Escarpment, the camp lies directly in the path of the migration. The en-suite tents are spacious and have seemingly never-ending views of the plains from the verandas. You'll be surrounded by the unforgettable sounds of the African night as you drift off to sleep. During the day you can take a dip in the shady pool between activities or just relax on your veranda while you fi ll out your bird and mammal lists. Don't forget to keep an eye out for passing animals: there'll be predators galore, as well as blue- and red-tailed monkeys, the mischievous banded mongoose, and if you're really lucky, the endangered black rhino. The candlelighted dinner on the banks of the Sabaringo River is a must-do for anyone. The staff here is attentive and charming, and the seductively stocked curio shop will have you swiping that credit card in no time.
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Dollar Financial Corp Announces Opening Of 500th Company Operated Store In The United Kingdom
DFC Global Corp. (NASDAQ: DLLR), a leading international diversified financial services company serving primarily unbanked and under-banked consumers for over 30 years, today announced that its wholly owned United Kingdom subsidiary, The Money Shop, opened its 500 th company-operated store in the town of Thetford Chase. The new store will offer the entire portfolio of the Company's products and services, including short-term loans, secured pawn loans, check cashing, gold purchase, Western Union money transfer, foreign exchange, debit cards, and others.
Commenting on the store opening, Jeff Weiss, the Company's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, stated, "We are very pleased to reach another milestone in the development of our global footprint with the opening of our 500 th company-operated U.K. store. The rapid expansion of our store footprint in the United Kingdom, which represents the largest retail financial services store network of its kind in that market, continues to strengthen the Money Shop brand as the leading provider of financial services to the unbanked and under-banked consumers in the United Kingdom. In addition, the successful expansion of the Company's store network in the United Kingdom, Scandinavia and Spain have positioned DFC Global Corp. as the leading provider of pawn loans in Europe and the second largest pawn lender worldwide.
Our initial entry into the United Kingdom in 1999 began with the acquisition of eleven stores, which served to provide us with a foothold from which to familiarize ourselves with the particular nuances of the U.K. market. Over time, we built upon this foundation through de novo store development and the purchase of other small store chains and internet lending platforms to create what is now the largest provider of financial services to the ALICE (asset limited, income constrained, employed) and ARTI (asset rich, temporarily illiquid) demographics in the United Kingdom. This is the staged development approach we are currently employing in the countries we recently entered (Sweden, Finland, Poland and Spain), which similarly also began as store based acquisitions."
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DSW Inc. Raises Full Year Guidance And Announces Special Meeting To Approve Two-for-One Stock Split
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- DSW Inc. (NYSE: DSW), a leading branded footwear, handbag and accessories retailer announced net sales of approximately $558 million for the second quarter ended August 3, 2013, compared to $512 million for the quarter ended July 28, 2012, an increase of approximately 9%. Same store sales for the quarter increased by approximately 4.3% for the comparable period in fiscal 2013, compared to last year's 4.2% increase. These exclude sales from the company's luxury initiative.
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Management is raising its full year earnings guidance to $3.60 to $3.80 per share from the previous range of $3.40 to $3.60 per share, excluding one-time and luxury related charges. This updated earnings guidance assumes low single digit same store sales growth for the full year.
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Design submitted by Peter from the UK.
Peter says: This is "Shuriken" and as the name suggest this design is inspired by the throwing stars made famous by Samurai warriors. The blades of said throwing stars provide the shape for the analogue hands in this back to basics design.
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Design submitted by Igor from Serbia.
Igor says: When Rob Halford from Judas Preist wore studs in 1979. in "Breaking the Law", he didn't knew that his trade mark will become a one of the most popular detail ever. Especially now. You can see them everywhere so why I can't design a female watch in that manner? Women watches are often becoming a bracelets too, part of a accessory.
Design submitted by Firdaus from Malaysia.
Firdaus says: Analog movement + art + freedom = ARTNALOGY.
This is an analog watch design with electronic paper display. This is not a new idea, but an idea, refined. A normal analog movement watch with changeable face background, customizeable by user. The purpose is to maximize talent of analog movement, in a watch! ((There will be storage mechanism, either by using micro sd card or built in memory with usb connectivity.))
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