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In terms of popular leisure, music hall declined in popularity in the second quarter of the 20th century, but it left its mark on much of British culture, not least on the motion picture, which hastened its demise, and on television, which followed its end. By 1914 there were 4,000 cinemas in Britain and about 400,000,000 admissions per year. By 1934 this had more than doubled, and admissions continued to rise steadily to reach a peak of 1.6 billion in 1946. This was a particularly popular form of entertainment, especially among the working class: the lower down the social scale one was, the more likely one was to visit the cinema. The suburban middle-class motion picture audience of the 1930s was important but remained a minority. It is difficult to exaggerate the dominance of the cinema as a form of entertainment. In 1950, out of over 1,500,000 admissions to forms of taxable entertainment (and this included horse racing and football matches), cinema made up more than 80 percent. Hollywood films dominated, though until World War II there was a thriving British film industry. This domination continued after the war, although British cinema asserted itself powerfully from time to time; for instance, in the Social Realism of the 1960s, notably in the work of director Lindsay Anderson, and later in the films of Ken Loach and Mike Leigh. Parallel to these artful dissections of British life were the less high-minded but extremely successful "Carry On" comedies, which drew on the music hall tradition.
Reading matter continued to be produced within Britain, above all in the form of the newspaper. The British are inveterate newspaper readers, and there was mass consumption of a nationally based daily and Sunday newspaper press as early as the 1920s. This did much to create cultural uniformity, although, as with motion pictures, there were considerable differences of taste and preference regarding newspapers. However, after 1950 the emphasis on uniformity became more marked and was reinforced by the progressive concentration of ownership in the hands of a few proprietors. This circle of ownership became even smaller as time went on, so that at the beginning of the 21st century the empire of the most powerful of these media moguls, Rupert Murdoch, not only dominated much of the popular press and made considerable inroads into the so-called quality press in Britain but was also international in scope. Newspapers, however, were but one component of Murdoch's and similar empires. The revolution wrought by new information technologies put control of a wide variety of communication forms, most importantly television, in the hands of these powerful individuals. Their political influence swelled as politicians of all persuasions were compelled to accommodate their power and, in a form of spin, play their version of the political game.
The development of a national mass culture seen in the previous period, in which the distinction between "popular" and "high" culture, if still important, was to some extent bridged, was to continue into the 20th and 21st centuries. (Cultural homogeneity was also intensified by increasing social and lifestyle uniformity.) To a considerable extent, from the 1960s, all culture became popular culture, so that differences of gender, class, and ethnicity became if not merged then renegotiated in terms of a mass, "shared" culture. In this process, the older class differences were eroded, in line with other changes in class structure, particularly in the manual working class. At the same time, new differences and solidarities also emerged, particularly around age and levels of consumption.
Popular music—or pop music, as it came to be called from the 1960s—became an important area in which identities were formed. Pop has modulated through many forms since the 1960s, from the punk of the late '70s and early '80s to hip-hop and the rave culture of the '90s, and distinct styles of life have accreted around these musical forms, not only for the youth. The development of a uniform popular culture, at least as expressed through popular music, was greatly beholden to similar developments in the United States, where social identities were explored and developed in terms of black popular music, not just by African Americans but also by young white Americans. Given the great importance of Afro-Caribbean immigration into Britain after 1945, and latterly south Asian immigration, the experience of ethnic minorities in Britain to some degree also paralleled that of the United States. Concerns about national identity, as well as personal and group identity, became more important as Britain became a multicultural society and as the growth of European integration and economic globalization increasingly called British—and English, Welsh, and Scottish—identity into question.
The liberalization of the 1960s appears to have been crucial for many of these changes, with shifting gender roles being only one part of a broader international agenda. The civil rights movement in Ireland, student protest, and the anti-Vietnam War and civil rights movements in the United States were all part of the assault on the still-strong vestiges of Victorianism in British society, as well as, more immediately, a reaction against the austerity of postwar Britain. Change in family life and sexual mores was represented in the 1960s by a range of legislative developments: the Abortion Act of 1967; the Sexual Offences Act of 1967, partially decriminalizing homosexual activity; the 1969 Divorce Reform Act; and the abolition of theatre censorship in 1968. Moreover, debate concerning sexual mores continued in Britain throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, not least regarding the ongoing attempts to change the legal age of consent and the controversial Section 28 Amendment to the Local Government Act in 1988, which prohibited local authorities from promoting homosexuality. Legislation enacted by Parliament in 2004, however, made same-sex civil partnerships (civil unions) legal throughout the United Kingdom by the next year, and in July 2013 Parliament legalized marriage for same-sex couples in England and Wales. While that law generally allowed religious groups to opt in to performing same-sex marriages, prohibitions against same-sex marriage in the Church of England and the Church in Wales remained in force.
Change was also based on the relative economic affluence of the late 1950s and '60s. The disintegration of older values (including middle class values) was evident in the "rediscovery" of the working class, in which films, novels, plays, and academic works depicted working-class life with unparalleled realism and unparalleled sympathy (including the works of the Angry Young Men). The working class was therefore brought into the cultural mainstream. This was ironic at a time when working-class communities were in fact being broken apart by slum clearance and the relocation of populations away from the geographical locations of their traditional culture.
Changes in higher education, with the development of the polytechnics and the "new universities," meant that, at least to some extent, higher education was thrown open to children from poorer homes. There was also the liberalization of educational methods in primary and secondary education, along with the emergence of comprehensive schooling, ending the old distinction between the secondary modern and the grammar schools. In practice, many of the old divisions continued and, indeed, increased. However, rather than being accompanied by increasing cultural divisions, the opposite was the case. There was a much more positive understanding of the "popular" than before. A more fluid, open, and commercial popular culture was signalled by the development in the 1950s of commercial television and, with it, the slow decline of the public broadcasting, public service ethic of the BBC. With the explosion of new channels of communication in the 2000s, particularly in television, there was a noted "dumbing down" of all media, which was especially evident in the celebrity culture of the new century and not unique to the United Kingdom. The new television gorged on this, as well as on reality programming and on the enormously increased popularity of professional football. These brought all classes together in a new demotic culture, although at the same time differentiation according to income, taste, and education became increasingly possible because of the technologies of the new media.
The various lifestyles associated with different genres of popular music are one telling indication of the way that lifestyle can determine an individual's identity in modern society. This development reflects the withdrawal of the state from the direct intervention in social life that was so characteristic of the third quarter of the 20th century. The state's turn to the market as a model of government has been reproduced in terms of the market's direct role in the formation of cultural life, so that the relationship between public culture and consumer capitalism has been close, in many ways the one constantly trying to outguess the other. This game of one-upmanship, marked by ironic knowingness, has been labelled "postmodern." However, this term has come to describe much of late 20th- and early 21st-century international culture and society, not only in Britain. It points to the growing understanding of the relative nature of truth, itself a reaction against the prevailing supposedly "modern" certainties of the 20th century (reason, freedom, humanity, and truth itself), which indeed have often had an appalling outcome. However, it was a sign of the times that these antifundamentalist currents, themselves critical of much of Western culture, emerged at much the same time as new fundamentalisms emerged in the forms of American neoconservatism and certain strains of radical Islam. The ferment of intellectual and cultural changes involved was inextricable from the massive changes under way in the transition to the novel forms of society made possible by new information technologies.
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MANILA, Philippines—Local stocks were mostly higher on Monday on news of the recommissioning of one unit of the Bacman geothermal plant as well as expectations of further cuts in the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas' special deposit accounts rates.
The main-share Philippine Stock Exchange index added 5.08 points or 0.08 percent to close at 6,732.22. Across the region, trading was mostly sluggish partly due to the weak jobs report in the US.
At the local market, news that Energy Development Corporation had re-commissioned Unit 2 of Bacman geothermal plant at the full capacity of 55MW had perked up Lopez-led index stocks EDC (+1.9 percent) and FGEN (+1.46 percent).
The index was also boosted by the gains of Petron (+3.49 percent) and BDO (+2.04 percent). Bloomberry, Philex, Globe, Meralco, BPI, San Miguel Corp., SMIC, URC, Metrobank, AGI and MWC also contributed gains to the PSEi.
On the other hand, the day's gains were tempered by the decline of index heavyweight PLDT (-1.8 percent). Likewise among the index decliners were ICTSI, MPIC, DMCI, SM Prime, AC, AEV and RLC.
Dealers said expectations that the BSP would slash SDA rates further as early as its next meeting on April 25 given the benign March inflation rate number spurred demand for equities from yield-seeking investors. The rate on SDA — the mechanism by which BSP borrows from a broader market – has been slashed by 100 basis points so far this year to 2.5 percent.
By counter, the financial, industrial and mining/oil counters kept the index afloat while the holding firms, services and property counters ended in the red.
Value turnover for the day amounted to P10.81 billion. There were 77 advancers versus 78 decliners while 45 stocks were unchanged.
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The Harlan Fiscal Court adopted a final budget Monday at a special called session for the upcoming year that begins in July.
The county's general fund budget, which includes services such as protection to persons and property, health and sanitation, social services, recreation and culture, airports, debt service, capital projects and administration totaled $6,842,130. The road fund was budgeted at $2,791,000 and the jail fund at $2,542,800.
The LGEA (Local Government Economic Assistance) Fund, a revenue sharing program, which returns a portion of the coal and minerals severance taxes to local governments in areas where the minerals were extracted, was budgeted at $1,244.300. Federal grants for health and sanitation was budgeted at $615,10 and the bond sinking fund at $867,500.
The LGED (The Local Government Economic Development) Fund was budgeted at $3 million. This fund is a revenue sharing program created by the 1992 Kentucky General Assembly to provide coal producing counties with the means to diversify their economies. The governing statute mandates that 35 percent of coal severance tax revenue be returned to coal producing counties. Two thirds of the funds are distributed to individual county accounts using a formula based on coal severance taxes paid from the county, surplus labor rate, relative mining earnings, and relative mining employment. One third of the dollars are reserved for the Multi County Fund for joint projects. Kentucky law limits the use of the LGED Fund to industrial park development projects, regional parks and job development incentive grants made to individual firms. Currently, 39 of the 45 original counties receive coal severance allocations. The E-911 fund was budgeted at $460,500, for a total budget of $18,363,330.
"We are solid at the moment with the projections moving forward don't look as good because the coal industry is down badly," said Harlan County Judge-Executive Joe Grieshop. "There will have to be adjustments as we move along based on what we hear on the coal industry and the actual budget income."
Grieshop said they "basically used the same budget" they had last year. "We will have to make a few cutbacks that probably should have been done before," said Grieshop. "But, those will happen as we move along and we'll keep watching. We want to stay on top of it because the county can't afford to get behind like a lot of counties around us have because they didn't make adjustments throughout the year."
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International News Archive - October 13, 2008
Executives of three leading Chinese dairy companies apologized on state television for their firms' involvement in the tainted milk problem affecting infants.
Text of report in English by South Korean news agency Yonhap [By Shim Sun-ah: "Unification Ministry Expects US Delisting to Positively Affect Inter-Korean Ties"] SEOUL, Oct.
Text of report in English by South Korean newspaper Chungang Ilbo website on 12 October [Editorial: "'Normalizing' North Korea"] The United States has removed North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism.
By Ross Lydall A RESCUE package being agreed between European leaders will help restore confidence to the global banking system, Gordon Brown vowed last night.
President Dmitri Medvedev oversaw the test firing of an intercontinental Topol missile on Sunday and vowed to commission new generation weapons for Russian armed forces.
By Choe Sang-Hun Choi Jin Sil, a movie star who shed maudlin tears on screen but fought like a tigress in a messy real-life divorce from her baseball- player husband, was the closest thing South Korea had to a national sweetheart. So when the actress was found dead in her apartment on Oct.
Asian consumers seeking a safer alternative to China's tainted milk products are turning to Australian dairy farmers, but their demands may be difficult to meet because Australia's grass-fed cattle can only produce so much milk.
By PETER LEONARD By Peter Leonard The Associated Press BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan An American computer game designer reached space Sunday, fulfilling a long-deferred childhood dream that began with the flight of his astronaut father.
The Associated Press BAGHDAD Suicide car bombers struck twice Sunday in the northern city of Mosul, killing at least six people and wounding dozens of others, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. A car bomb killed seven other people in Baghdad.
By MARY BETH SHERIDAN By Mary Beth Sheridan The Washington Post BAGHDAD The Iraqi government on Sunday ordered security forces to increase protection of Christians in northern Iraq, where hundreds have fled their homes in recent days after a wave of killings and threats.
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A team of robotic beings land on a desolate planet to use its scant resources, but not before leaving a wonderful gift. Richard Mans' Abiogenesis is a unique and beautiful short film. Check it out here! * Text and image from http://vimeo.com/103389185
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Reese Witherspoon will be squirming in shame this morning as footage from her embarrassing drunken arrest has emerged on TMZ.The footage shows the 37-year-old arguing with the police officer about being an American citizen before throwing down that awkward, 'don't you know my name?!' line.
Reese's husband, Jim Toth can be seen being arrested, before Reese gets out of the car claiming she's pregnant and needs to use the bathroom - which she now admits was a lie.
She then decides to try and stop the officer arresting Jim, using a string of bizarre comments about her rights.
The initial conversation goes like this:
Reese: "I'm an American citizen ... I'm allowed to stand on American ground."
Reese: "You better not arrest me."
Reese: "I'm being anti-American?"
Officer: "Yes, please sit down."
Reese: "Wow!"
Reese: "You're harassing me as an American citizen"
The officer then arrests her for being drunk and disorderly, to which she comes out with THIS corker:
Reese: "I have done nothing against the law."
Officer: "Yes you did, you didn't obey my orders."
Reese: "I have to obey your orders now?!"
Reese: "I'm now being arrested and handcuffed?"
The whole things ends with Reese being escorted into the police car, where she can be overheard throwing down that awkward entitlement comment:
Reese: "Do you know my name sir?"
Officer: "Don't need to know."
Reese "You don't need to know my name?"
Officer: "Not quite yet."
Reese: "You're about to find out who I am!"
Reese was arrested two weeks ago and later released an apology following her behaviour, stating that she had clearly "had one drink too many".
She said: "I clearly had one drink too many and I am deeply embarrassed about the things I said. It was definitely a scary situation and I was frightened for my husband, but that was no excuse.
"I was disrespectful to the officer who was just doing his job. I have nothing but respect for the police and I am very sorry for my behaviour."
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"The situation has changed with the All-India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) winning the by-elections [Gummidipoondi and Kancheepuram]. Till then, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) was in an upbeat mood and hopeful of sweeping the Assembly elections in 2006."
He said while constituents of the DMK-led Democratic Progressive Alliance (DPA) were in a "bargaining mood" as elections approached, the AIADMK was strengthening its base. In such a situation no one could ascertain whether there was an anti-incumbency factor.
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The BJP was firm on going it alone in the Assembly election and efforts were on to make it an alternative to the two major parties in the State. "It will take time but we will do it in phases."
People were unhappy with both the AIADMK and DMK. They wanted a change and the BJP would work to meet their aspirations.
The party would take out a rally near Parliament on August 9 to oppose the five per cent reservation for minorities.
"We are not against Muslims. But we oppose reservation based on religion."
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Mr. Dattatreya rejected charges of double standards against his party over the Cauvery issue when it was pointed out that the BJP in Karnataka opposed the release of water to Tamil Nadu. "That is why we stress linking of rivers. There must be a debate in Parliament over this issue," he said.
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The Faculty Art Invitational Exhibition 2010
The Faculty Art Invitational Exhibition 2010 is the latest in an annual series presented by UMUC to honor teaching artists. This year's exhibition presents the creative expressions of 25 Maryland artists, including faculty members who teach art at University of Maryland University College (UMUC), art faculty members from other University System of Maryland institutions, and special invited guest artists.
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10 Days of Utah Desert Madness!!
Hello people. I've decided to try and do a trip report about a recent cross country journey. I'm asking myself why do I want to take the time to do this? To promote myself and look cool? I suppose deep down there must be a little of this but I probably won't look too cool next to many of these trip reports on Adv Rider. Really what I've come up with as an answer is I'm doing this to inspire others who don't get the opportunity to do such a trip. To maybe make them look outside the box a bit. Maybe act as a catalyst for someone to change their life enough to be able to make a motorcycle journey that they've wanted to do. Oh yeah, I'm also doing this to give my friends a little laugh!
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So, I suggested a 10 to 14 day dirt journey to some people I know. The route would take us from <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on">Salt Lake City</st1:City> into <st1:State w:st="on">Colorado</st1:State> then back into the <st1:State w:st="on">Utah</st1:State> desert and back up to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Salt</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Lake</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. One friend committed to the trip and one tagged along for 3 days. Our plan was to go minimalist style with the route getting into a lot of demanding off road riding and we'd sleep in the dirt. Our choice of bikes is large 4 strokes built for desert off road racing. The current favorite is the KTM 520/530 series. These bikes are very agile in demanding terrain but have a nice 6th gear for big gravel roads or short stretches of pavement. We put 6.6 gallon tanks on which are a must for many portions of the route. Here are the bikes.
Well, the day before we were supposed to leave I was doing some maintenance and found that my intake valves were out of adjustment and I couldn't get any more clearance. Unfortunately, I knew what this meant but didn't want to accept it. Luckily, a good friend of mine gave me his old SX as a parts bike so I was able to swap heads. Not what you want to do hours before heading out on a long journey. Well, I went at it with no torque wrench, no cam chain tool, used the old head gasket, slapped it back together and seven hours later fired it up and took a quick test ride through the neighborhood.
Here's the two heads. You can see the intake valves sunk in to the head on the right one. It's nice to have a parts bike!! Since I've been slowly combining the SX and the EXC I now have a SEXC which I like to refer to as "SEXY"!!
We decided to leave the next day. So, the wrap up for the first day:
Mileage: none
Repairs: a lot
Fingers: raw
Doode...Black text on grey background is impossible to read...:1drink
burly day one!
I can see this is going to interesting. 10 days in the desert and untested heart surgery. Subscribed!
Oh yeah, black text on gray background is very hard to read....Doode.
And were off. Were going minimalist. No GPS, no maps (well get a few along the way), no tent, no stove, no odometer. Just the clothes on our back, an extra half gallon of water and a bottle of whiskey. We head east over the Wasatch mountains and heres our first view.
We stop off and pick up a friend with his WR. He informs us his odometer still works so well know mileage for a couple of days. Packing is easy when you dont have much.
And were back on the trail. This day was pretty tame. Mostly gravel and two track roads.
We worked east into the Uintas and down to Strawberry reservoir on more gravel.
A quick gas stop for the WR and
a cold Clamato for the KTMs.
We climb and follow a ridge road east.
We pick up a nice section of single track.
Nice and smooth flowing in 2nd and 3rd gear.
By this time were already used to the large tanks and the extra gear on the rear fender. These bikes are a pleasure to ride on this stuff.
Were back on the two tracks now with a good amount of mileage behind us already.
There are so many routes through these mountains, many marked on maps, many not. You just have to pick one and see where it takes you. We started following less traveled routes.
After a couple of dead ends and some route finding we got on to a gravel road heading down to Duchesne. Dead ends are frustrating but theres no way to avoid them when you are searching out these less traveled routes, trying to link them all together.
Then we set up camp for the night. It doesnt take long to put your kick stand down and lean up against the front tire. Boom, your home!! We build a fire and through some potatoes and corn on. We stick some steaks onto a fork and cook them over the fire as well. A little whiskey and were blah blah blahing about the successful day.
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Mileage: WR-200 miles, KTMs-around 240.
Route: Mostly gravel and two tracks with a great section of single track.
Difficulty: Easy riding.
In the old days, (before throw away bikes) when you ground the valves you also took some off the stem so that the rocker fit at the same place.
I think it is a forgotten art.
Great trip.
Great action :thumb
Good morning! Great sunrise viewed from my sleeping bag although the photo isn't as good as I'd hoped.
Here's one of the guys with his shelter deployed. We do a couple of these trips a year and there's just something great about being on a journey with not many possessions and nothing to be concerned about.
Since we were camped close to Duchesne we decided to check out a local "puke and choke" and get a little grub. We embraced the place and went with chicken fried steak and eggs. Classic!!
Duchesne would be the last stop before we headed south into the Roan cliffs where we'd never ridden through before. So, not knowing where we'll end up we stock up on food for the day and the next morning. We fill our tanks and discuss the fact that the KTM's will probably have to share a little fuel with the WR to make it to I-70 where the next fuel is available. We stop off at a ranger station and discuss routes a bit and……..
We're off again. We follow a two track along a canal and try to link gravel roads together until we get across the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on">Green River</st1:place>. It's difficult with lots of private ranches and drilling sites. We stop and talk with someone coming out of a ranch and he tells us it's best just to shoot the pavement to the <st1:place w:st="on">Green River</st1:place> and then we'll be back on gravel again. He was great. As a matter of a fact, I find that when I approach most locals throughout <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Utah</st1:place></st1:State> on my bike they are very friendly and accommodating.
After a longer stretch of pavement then we wanted we were back on gravel roads. This is drilling country with lots of industrial trucks and semis traveling these well graded roads and drilling sites ALL over the place. We stopped of at this overlook for a quick break as we worked south toward the Roan Cliffs.
A while later we leave the majority of the industrial sites and start climbing a drainage into the high country.
This ends up being a very stunning and casual ride through with numerous small ranches scattered along the bottom.
The route today is very easy as expected. Usually when we roll through new territory we stick to a well used route and get a feel for the terrain. We look at all the drainages and ridges and then plan possible alternative and less traveled routes for future adventures.
This drainage went on for quite some time with spectacular scenery around every corner.
We come around a corner and, well well well, what do you know? An industrial site with a couple of full gas cans. Call it bad kharma or unethical but we took some fuel and left some money.
The easy riding continues.
The route tightened up as it started a steeper climb.
This was a cool little slot that the road passed through.
The road then topped out at around 8000 feet and followed a ridge that provided great views all around. Here's looking south with the Uncompahgre Plateau in the center with <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Grand Junction</st1:place></st1:City> on the left of it and the La Sal Mtns on the right.
Our route followed a road that switchbacked down and spit us out into the desert toward I-70.
We followed the gravel until it teed into old highway 6 and followed it 10 miles into town where we found some cold beer.
It was late in the day so we went out of town and found a place to rest for the night with the <st1:place w:st="on">Colorado River</st1:place> in view.
We relaxed, built a fire and cooked up some sausages, corn and other vegetables. A little more whiskey and the blah blah blahing started!! Also, we were treated to the sounds of some washed up 80's "hair" bands that were playing at a weekend concert not far away. Bonus!
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Milage: 200 miles
Route: Pavement, gravel, two tracks
Difficulty: very easy
Heavy Metal Band Rating: off the chart!!
Awesome..looks like a great time. Makes me itch for a westward bound trip!!
GReat Report....
I love Utah...:lurk
nice shots, cool route, perfect western (light) style
Love the minimalist approach and report! :freaky
Looking forward to the rest! :lurk
It doesn't get any better than Utah! Excellent report! :clap :clap :clap
Cool pictures!!!
Isn't the motto 'get gas when you can' ?:wink: :lol3
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State health officials say a Franklin County judge has dismissed a lawsuit seeking to block implementation of certain Medicaid contracts.
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Though Milagro del Mar has not yet announced which international hotel group has agreed to manage its beachfront tourism project, developer Roger Keeling says the paperwork is signed, the financing is in place, and the sun is finally shining.
"In the next few weeks, we will be making a full public statement about who our hotel partner is going to be and what the project is going to look like when it opens in the first quarter of 2014," Keeling told The Nicaragua Dispatch. "Several major hotel projects have been planned on the Pacific, but because of the reorganization that we have gone through, we will be the first to market."
Milagro del Mar operated within the landmark master development Gran Pacifica, a sprawling 2,500-acre coastal project one hour west of Managua, originally started construction on its 42 oceanfront condo project in 2009.
"The complications of the financial crisis on our investors created a perfect storm and we had to make a decision to step back and reevaluate the project and take it a different direction," Keeling says. "So we spent the past two years putting together a new plan with a new face. But the good news is we have weathered the storm, we have persevered and this week we started construction again to complete the project by the first quarter of 2014."
"In the second week of November we will restart our destination tours, and that is really our sales experience,"
Phase I of the Milagro del Mar is for 42 condos, a restaurant, lobby and offices. Phase II, scheduled for completion near the end of 2014, will be 42 additional villas that will go on sale starting in December. Phase III of the project will be 128 hotel suites, bringing the total hotel project to 212 units. In addition to resuming construction, Milagro is also working to improve and expand its golf course.
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Erasmo Ramirez has been Thursday's expected starter since the Mariners designated Jeremy Bonderman for assignment Monday. But the M's wouldn't officially say who they were planning promote to fill Bonderman's slot in the rotation. On Thursday, the Mariners finally made their move, recalling Ramirez from Triple-A Tacoma and optioning Carter Capps to make room on […] [Read More]
Potential trade chips for the Seattle Mariners
Also, check out our gallery below of the most memorable Mariners trade-deadline deals in franchise history. [Read More]
Mariners' Nick Franklin named to Baseball America's 'All-Rookie' team
When second baseman Nick Franklin joined the Mariners in late May, expectations for the youngster were high. After posting a .324 batting average in 39 games with Triple-A Tacoma, Franklin was inserted immediately into a flailing Mariners lineup, expected to provide an offensive spark to an otherwise listless offense. Now more than 50 days removed […] [Read More]
Former Mariners standout Danny Tartabull is L.A.'s 'most wanted' deadbeat dad
Former baseball star Danny Tartabull, who started his 14-year MLB career with three seasons in Seattle, is wanted in Los Angeles County for failing to pay more than $276,000 in child support. He tops the SoCal county's list of "most wanted" deadbeat dads, owing more money than any of L.A.'s other fugitive fathers. Tartabull, 50, […] [Read More]
Mariners' Hisashi Iwakuma not pitching like an All-Star
While second-year Mariners starter Hisashi Iwakuma prepares to pitch in his first All-Star Game next week, his performance on the mound lately has been anything but All-Star-caliber. After soaring in his first 14 starts of the season and claiming baseball's best ERA, the Japanese implant has plummeted back to mediocrity in recent outings, capped by […] [Read More]
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Jon Lester says he wants 'a Dustin Pedroia deal' to stay with Red Sox
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With the recent mega-deals handed out to the likes of Clayton Kershaw and Masahiro Tanaka, questions have arisen about the future of the Red Sox' own left-handed ace, Jon Lester.
Speaking during the media availability at the Boston Baseball Writers Association of America awards dinner, Lester made it clear that despite the possibility of a major payday on the open market, he's more than open to signing an extension with Boston rather than pursuing free agency following the 2014 season.
"I want to be here until they have to rip this jersey off my back," Lester said. "I want to stay here. This is what I've known. I grew up in this organization. I've had plenty of good and bad times here. I enjoy it, my family loves it here, all my son talks about is going home to Boston, and that's what he thinks is home. If it all comes down to it, we want to be here."
Though elite starting pitchers are garnering big money on the open market, Lester said that he's open to taking a hometown discount in order to remain with the Red Sox. For the left-hander, familiarity and commitment to win weighs heavily in his decision.
"I've never been the type of guy to take more money from somebody else to suck. I don't want to do that. That's no fun. I want to win, and if that means taking a Dustin Pedroia deal, to take less money to be happy and competitive and win every year, let's do it," Lester said, referencing the eight-year, $110 million extension that his teammate signed during the 2013 season.However, Lester acknowledged that the lucrative deals and extensions signed by starting pitchers this offseason are difficult to ignore.
"It's hard not to pay attention to it," the pitcher said. "As a player, it's good for baseball, obviously being in this situation that I'm in right now, you can't help but notice it and wonder and think and talk. You never want to be the guy that takes the market backwards. With the way the game's gone over the past couple years with TV deals and revenue, you're just going to see those deals creep up."
Lester hopes to hammer out a deal before the regular season gets underway.
"Any time when you get into this situation, I think that's everybody's goal is to reach some type of ground in spring. That way everyone's relaxed, everybody is in the same place and when the season starts, you don't have to worry about it, you can just focus on baseball," he said. "Ben has told me that spring training is going to be that forum to sit down and talk and see where we're at. But I'd love to stay here. Hopefully we can get something done. These guys are my priority, and I'm going to listen to them first."
It will be up to the pitcher and the Sox to see if they can balance the two interests of keeping the pitcher in Boston long-term and finding a deal that makes sense. Sox general manager Ben Cherington noted that progress has not been made on a extension to this point, but that there is an open dialogue with Lester.
"There are guys that move into a category that I think makes them a little different and gives them the right to have a conversation, and Jon's in that category, and Pedroia's in that category and David Ortiz has been in that category and there will be others," said Cherington. "When guys are in that category, we want to keep a dialogue going and the door open and we'll do that with Jon, and I'm sure there will be a conversation. But until we get to that, it's hard to say much more than I'm glad he wants to be here and we want him to be there so we'll see where that leads to.
"A guy like Jon Lester, we'd love to keep in the organization, but because we haven't really had a conversation yet, I don't want to start putting a calendar on it, I don't want to limit ourselves or limit the process in any way. We haven't even gotten into the process yet. We certainly share an interest in talking about a way to keep him here, and we'll find a time to do that, to start that conversation."
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Thanks for all the thoughts ladies!
@dillonsfan01 - I really like Hattie and Betty (or Betsy) with the boys names, thanks!
@fairchild - Oooh, I forgot about Clementine. Helen was on my list at one point but I like Helena too, and especially Nell.
@mclola - I looove Winifred NN Winnie but worry it's too fussy! Mildred and Edith are GPs of mine, and I'm liking Estelle too. Thanks!
@aj_bear - I think you really nailed my taste, actually. I love Leona, Estella, Flora, Amabel, Martha, and May. The names in your sig are to die for, btw... I love Flora Catherine and Araminta Jane, Edmund Atlas and Barnaby Oswald! Stunning.
@bibliophile - I dig Rosalind, Miriam, Lyra (pron. LEE-rah) and Willa. Thanks!
@handsallover - The only one really to my taste is Penelope and it's getting a bit popular, but those are all stunning names! Just a bit 'frillier' than my style Thank you anyway!baby #1 arriving november 2015
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this post is riddled with stupidity. do not follow that advice
all em power abilities bounce the same cooldown,
so taking 2 em weapons and 2 em shields means half of the abilities are wasted and never used. this is not efficient by any means. because as soon as you use 1 em to weapon or em to shields, the other 3 go into cooldown.
you need, 2x em power to shields, 1 em to aux (for healing), and 1 aux to structural.
if you feel you need to, take a direct energy mod and eject warp plasma. direct energy mod is capable is bypassing shields but at the cost of more weapon power. i have run a a mobius with em to weapons and direct energy mod and the dps output is staggering, how ever you are left with little survive-ability.
cruisers, even during broadsides, are not going to do super duper dps.
if you want to play dps, grab an escort and some cannons.
as for energy types and dps there is no substitute for disruptors.
the only ships to consider for dps role are
breen (4 dhc/4 turrets) is only 130 dps below a 5 tact console escort
fleet mvae (5 tact) - heavy damage, sort of brittle
mobius (only escort capable of duo sci or engi boffs)
jem hadar bug (5 tact)
fleet armitage (not normal armitage which is only a 9 console)
fleet tactical escort retro
blockade runner from steam.
fleet defiant (last resort)
NOT the fleet escort retrofit or the escort retro and their sub-par .7 shield modifier.
for best dps ability, you will want a 5 tact escort with 10 consoles total. accept no substitutes.
if you are intent on playing a cruiser, I might also suggest you acquire a ferengi d'kora, which is more along the lines of a cruise-scort when in battle mode, yet can still abuse cannons.
You do realize you put both Fleet Tactical Escort Retrofit and the Fleet Defiant together right? They're the same thing ^^


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In this weeks 'Left-Hook Lounge' Q&A Mailbag session, we take a look at a few questions directly from the fans. As a Boxing scribe, it's easy to discuss these questions from the comfort of my office space, but for the two men standing in the ring come Saturday night, any true fight fan knows that nothing involved in this fight will come easy. Not the questions pondered by the fans, and certainly not the answers rendered by the fighters in the end. Our first question today comes from...........
Ricky S. (Dallas, TX): Antonio Margarito has been in the sport longer, but he has not faced as many big names on a stage like he's about to take part in. Do you think the fact that Miguel Cotto has been in these type of mega-fights before gives him an edge?
Vivek W. (ESB): I think that to a certain degree, headlining PPV cards and being on such a big stage against marquee fighters in the past will help Cotto. The flipside to that argument, however, is that Cotto has fought arguably all of his big fights while being supported by a very partisan New-Yorican crowd. Any one who has ever been in sports can attest to the adrenaline rush received when thousands behind you are chanting your name. The true question could end up being how well does Cotto handle a spectacle this large when he gets in trouble during the fight and people are raving for the opponent who could be trying to finish him off? That's a scenario few have openly considered, but hey, this is Vegas, not New York. When on the east coast, Puerto Rican fans come a dime a dozen. That following isn't as large near the west coast which is predominantly a Mexican base. I think this question ultimately plays just as big of a role as Cotto's past success in big fights before a crowd partisan in his favor. Bottomline, for the first time, probably ever, Cotto finds himself on someone elses turf in a big fight, and I have to think that accounts for something. If not now, it will when he gets wobbled and notices in his peripheral that the people are standing to their feet, but only this time in support of the other guy.
Marco Reyes (Miami Lakes, Florida): People said Zab Judah would be too much for Cotto. Then they said Shane would be too much for Cotto. Neither was in the end, so why should we believe that Margarito would be better than those two?
Vivek W. (ESB): Personally, I feel Miguel Cotto defeating Judah and Mosley was an accomplishment, but I fall in that silent minority that feels this accomplishment may not be as grand as some may purport because these two fighters - stylistically - are one in the same. One would think that with Shane being more of a veteran he would have fought a better veteran fight, but Shane got caught up into a promise he made many members of the media, which was that he would "take the fight to Cotto". It backfired. Judah used more defense but unfortunately, was not as durable and subsequently fell on the short end of the stick because of it. Other than that, both are relatively the same style of fighter. Both have fast hands and basically use that speed to keep opposing fighters on their toes due to the fact that you rarely know when they're gonna hit you until you've been hit. Cotto is a masterful boxer and his lessons learned against a fast, yet not as complete vet like Judah helped him ultimately develop a blueprint to defeat Shane. What makes Antonio Margarito a bigger challenge is a totally different dimension. Judah and Mosley are both fighters who use alot of traps to set an opponent up for a big shot. Margarito, in contrast, is the type of fighter that literally throws every shot with wicked intentions. There are no traps, and no bait. Whether it's his left-hook, his right uppercut, or whatever else in between, he throws them all with intentions to put someone in the ultimate star-gazing position. That's part of the allure that makes him a deadly opponent. One other thing, alot of people will say that Joshua Clottey had good success against Margarito as a smaller fighter and is similar to Cotto - with his straight ahead aggression. My response, and I might add that I have yet to hear anyone discuss this, (media or non-media), but by Clottey's own admission, the reason that both of his hands were hurt going into the fourth round was because he landed the very hardest shots he could land, as flush as he could land them, constantly in the first 3 rounds. Clottey is a power puncher, so to hear him say that he hurt his hands due to the frequency and power that used against Margarito tells me that Margarito has a head made of granite. It says alot when a fighter loses confidence and feels pain as a result of his hardest shots not being effective. Although Margarito is nowhere near as fast as Judah and Mosley, he doesn't have to be because with a chin that strong and power-shots that wicked, chances are, he's gonna hurt Cotto before Cotto hurts him. I could go on for days, but in a nutshell, this is why he is a tougher challenge. He will be willing to take far more punishment than Mosley and Judah, because he knows that he can, and when he delivers his own, it comes 10x worst.
Vernon Williams (Bronx, NY): How much of a factor do you think the height and reach advantage for Margarito will play a role in the final analysis?
Vivek W. (ESB): It all depends on what strategy Miguel Cotto employs. If he comes in and uses his gift to box from the outside and use his speed to pick his spots, Margarito's size and reach advantages mean little to nothing. If Cotto decides to employ a brawling strategy, although he has the power to land clean shots and make them sting, he could end up taking more punishment than he needs to, and subsequently losing the fight as a result. Cotto simply can't allow himself to stay within Margarito's 'kill zone'. If he doesn't create enough space to help him nullify the height and reach advantages, the results will undoubtedly speak for themselves in the end.
Marty Brooks (Norfolk, VA): Do you see any scenario where Antonio Margarito will beat Miguel Cotto if the fight goes to the cards?
Vivek W. (ESB): No. The only way I see Margarito defeating Miguel Cotto on points is if Margarito lands multiple knockdowns and Cotto keeps coming back, resulting in a few 10-8 rounds. (Possible, but very improbable). One other scenario that could play itself out is one in which Miguel Cotto gets confused with strategy. Cotto has evolved into a master boxer, but if the pressure of Margarito becomes too great, none of us know what to expect from Cotto if he gets uncomfortable coming in - (based on Margarito landing power-shots) - and also fails to get into a rhythm from the outside based on the constant flurry of pressure from Margarito on the outside. Once again, I don't see either of these scenario's playing out, but they are all possible, which highlights exactly why this fight is so marveled. Literally, anything can happen, and I think fight fans on both sides of the spectrum should prepare themselves for anything because we have two phenomenal talents that could change the fight at any given moment.
Paul J. (Sacramento, CA): Win or lose, what do you see in the future for both men when the results are in Saturday night?
Vivek W. (ESB): A victory for Miguel Cotto almost certainly means a shot at Oscar De La Hoya in December. As crazy as it sounds, a lost on the other hand may yield the same results. I think the money fight for Oscar is clearly Miguel Cotto. I was beginning to think that Oscar would lean towards a showdown with Pacquiao but Oscar De La Hoya was quoted within the last day or so telling a member of the media that he feels Pacquiao needs to basically settle his score with Marquez before he considers anything else. While I would agree with Oscar De La Hoya, the fact that he would say that about a man who is open and actively lobbying to get a mega-fight with him tells me that he's not too interested. We can all speculate as to why that might be. Antonio Margarito on the other hand, a win for him could potentially leave him still looking for a meaningful fight. Sure, the winner of the Clottey/Judah showdown may want to fight to unify a few straps, or Williams may want to do it all over again with him, but does Oscar De La Hoya step up and face his fellow Mexican? Considering that his last fight is tentatively set for December 6th, and there's no way to piggy back off of a festive Cinco de Mayo Mexican crowd to pump the fight up, he's gonna argue that there's a bigger fight somewhere out there with his name on it. In all likelihood, for me personally, if Margarito wins convincingly, I wouldn't mind seeing him jump up in the future somewhere near the Middleweight ranks to challenge Kelly Pavlik. Williams and Margarito are the only welterweights that I think could come close to doing this with reasonable success. If he's able to handle Cotto's power, I would love to see how he handles that of a Kelly Pavlik, and more importantly, how would Pavlik handle his work rate and power, combined with his gritty chin. Some may laugh at the notion, but they did the same thing back in September of 2007 when I said we would see Hopkins/Pavlik by Summer '08, (revisit the article), and in an apparent prophetic moment, we now learn that the prediction itself was only 2 months off! Trust me fight fans, anything is possible in this sport. Some guys truly want to make the best fights, and those are the guys whose name you will see time and time again. Pavlik and Margarito fit that mold.
Day 4 is now officially down.....Only 3 days remain
(Check out tomorrows fourth installment of the '7-Gun Salute' to these two brave warriors: "Cotto/Margarito: The Men, The Myth"....which will take a look at the lives of the two men in and outside the ring, providing truths, dispelling rumors)
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