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Macbeth: Act 1, Scene 6
* Hoboys and torches. Enter KING [DUNCAN],
MACDUFF, ROSS, ANGUS, and Attendants.
1 This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air
2 Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself
3 Unto our gentle senses.
This guest of summer,
4 The temple-haunting martlet, does approve,
5 By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath
6 Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze,
7 Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird
8 Hath made his pendant bed and procreant cradle:
9 Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed,
10 The air is delicate.
Enter LADY [MACBETH].
See, see, our honour'd hostess!
11 The love that follows us sometime is our trouble,
12 Which still we thank as love. Herein I teach you
13 How you shall bid God 'ield us for your pains,
14 And thank us for your trouble.
All our service
15 In every point twice done and then done double
16 Were poor and single business to contend
17 Against those honours deep and broad wherewith
18 Your majesty loads our house: for those of old,
19 And the late dignities heap'd up to them,
20 We rest your hermits.
Where's the Thane of Cawdor?
21 We coursed him at the heels, and had a purpose
22 To be his purveyor: but he rides well;
23 And his great love, sharp as his spur, hath holp him
24 To his home before us. Fair and noble hostess,
25 We are your guest to-night.
Your servants ever
26 Have theirs, themselves and what is theirs, in compt,
27 To make their audit at your highness' pleasure,
28 Still to return your own.
Give me your hand;
29 Conduct me to mine host: we love him highly,
30 And shall continue our graces towards him.
31 By your leave, hostess.


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Deserts and Beyond
Desert view
Living Desert Reserve, Palm Desert
Sunday, January 20, 2013
More effects
After my last post, I decided to head over to PicMonkey and try some of their edits. I actually like theirs better! Here are some examples. The top one is my original photo...Next is "dusk", and the third one down is "boost". Next is "dark edges" while still on "boost"...then "orton". "Orton" seems to make the colors more vivid. After that is "frost", and "soften". Finally, there is "yestercolor". Thank you for advising me to also try "PicMonkey". I really like some of their effects and I think next week I'll try some on another photo!
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Led by the dual-threat of running backs, Daniel Allen and Denzell Simmons, the Bulldogs were able to pound out 349 yards on the ground and 400 overall as they ran away from visiting Scott City for a 46-13 win.
"Probably, overall, that was our best effort this year," Portageville head coach Jeff Bullock said. "The biggest thing I can say right now is I'm hoping we're starting to click. It felt like it. The offense is starting to click and the defense has ben pretty steady all year.
"We had some lapses, yet we still manage to keep people out. We played a really good football team tonight."
Though featured back Allen still got the lion's share of the carries against the Rams, Simmons provided a nice complement as he was seeing extra snaps in place of an injured Dion Foster.
Besides carrying for 108 yards on 15 carries, Simmons provided a pair of critical third quarter touchdowns as Portageville was putting the game away.
Having already totaled 694 rushing yards coming into the contest, Allen added another 165 yards to his total on 26 carries while scoring three touchdowns.
"When you have two tailbacks back there that can do that it makes it tough to be stopped," Portageville head coach Jeff Bullock said. "People have been trying to stack up on Daniel a little bit and Denzell, you can't say enough about him. He's waited and put his time in. He got his shot tonight and took advantage.
On top of his efforts in leading the Bulldogs' offense, it was a late second quarter pick by Allen that kept Scott City from fighting their way back into the game.
With Portageville holding a 21-6 lead, Scott City got the ball back with under two minutes before the half and marched down to the Bulldogs' six-yard line where they faced third down with just over just 30 seconds remaining.
Rams' quarterback Jon McFall pitched to running back Zach Haynes as Scott City tried to catch Portageville off-guard with a halfback pass. The throw into the end zone, however, found its way into the arms of Allen, allowing the Bulldogs to then protect their 15-point halftime lead.
"That was a huge stop," Bullock said. "(Scott City) would have got the ball to start the second half and could have cut it to a one score game.
"Instead we come out, get a stop right off the bat and then we score."
Coming back out in the second half, Portageville forced Scott City into a three-and-out on their opening drive before the ensuing 48-yard Bulldog drive was cemented with a three-yard run by Simmons to pull ahead 33-6.
By the end of the quarter, two more scoring drives by the Bulldogs, capped by runs from Allen and Simmons respectively, pushed Portageville ahead 46-13 entering the fourth.
"People stepped up," Allen said. "At first we did struggled some, but we really picked it up in the second half and came away with a big win.
Added Allen on the Bulldogs' stellar night on ground, "That's what we do. Nobody has stopped it yet and that's what we'll keep doing."
For the second straight week, Portageville defensive lineman Carlos McGee found his way into the scoring column.
With Scott City at their own 12-yard line early in the second quarter, a high snap from the line sailed over McFall's head.
McGee pounced on the ball in the end zone to put his team ahead 21-0 after the point after.
On a night where the Rams gained 201 total yards, including 168 on the ground, running back Travis Phillips provided the bulk of the offense. Carrying 17 times for 118 yards, Phillips scored both of the Rams' touchdowns.
"We turned the ball over early and got behind, then they just brought the wood to us.," Scott City head coach Jim May said. "They're a good team and they play physical. Once they got the train rolling we kind of laid down and that really irritates me.
"I just wish we'd have brought more fight tonight."
|Scott City
First Quarter
P -- Daniel Allen 7 run (kick missed), 4:21
P -- Hunter Cook 17 pass from Bryce Wallace (Denzell Simmons pass from Bryce Wallace good), 2:41
Second Quarter
P -- Carlos McGee fumble recovery (kick good), 9:29
S -- Travis Phillips 13 run (pass bad), 7:47
P -- Daniel Allen 4 run (kick missed), 1:52
Third Quarter
P -- Denzell Simmons 3 run (kick missed), 8:12
P -- Daniel Allen 8 run (kick missed), 5:06
S -- Travis Phillips 3 run (kick good), 2:43
P -- Denzell Simmons 4 run (kick good), 0:06
|Total yards
|Passing yards
Rushing -- Scott City, Zach Haynes 7-24, Travis Phillips 17-118, Jon McFall 6-17, Caleb Sykes 3-8, Drew Short 1-1. Portageville, Daniel Allen 26-165, Denzell Simmons 15-108, Dominique Walker 6-41, Caleb Gooch 1-(-5), Bryce Wallace 1-0, Brandon Riggs 4-14, Jon Garrett Kellams 4-(-4), Tyler Jones 1-0, No. 44 8-32.
Passing -- Scott City, Jon McFall 2-12-0 33, Zach Haynes 0-1-1 0. Portageville, Bryce Wallace 3-4-0 51.
Receiving -- Scott City, Brett Dirnberger 1-16, Ryan Fortner 1-17. Portageville, Dominique Walker 1-11, Denzell Simmons 1-23, Hunter Cook 1-17.


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The Red Room
by H.G. Wells
The Narrator Timeline and Summary
- The narrator announces to the old custodians that he's not going to be easily scared by any ghost, and that he doesn't believe in ghosts in the first place.
- He affirms that he will spend the night in the red room.
- In spite of the warnings of the old custodians, the narrator holds firm in his intention to stay in the red room, and asks for directions to it.
- The narrator leaves the custodians behind in the housekeeper's room, takes a candle, and walks up the spiral staircase to the long passageway. He thinks about how strange the custodians are, and dismisses their superstitions.
- At the top of the stairs, he thinks he hears something, but listens and finds only silence.
- In the long passageway, the narrator encounters the Ganymede statue, and stands still. He is afraid it is someone lying in wait for him. He grasps his revolver. Then he recognizes what it is, and continues to the room.
- The narrator enters the red room and makes his "systematic examination" with his candle (32). No ghosts to be seen. He lights the candles in the room as he walks.
- The narrator lights the fire and sets himself up in front of it with a table and chair.
- Troubled by the shadows in the alcove at the other end of the room, the narrator walks over and sets his candle there.
- The shadows are gone.
- Inspired by that idea, the narrator goes back into the hallway to round up all the candles there. He sets them up throughout the room, which is now lit by seventeen candles total.
- After midnight, the candle in the alcove goes out, surprising the narrator. When he goes to light it, two other candles behind him go out.
- Going to light those two, the narrator sees more candles go out. He starts running around the room to keep the candles lit, and they start going out more quickly.
- Frustrated with his matches, the narrator grabs the bedroom candlestick to help him light the candles more quickly.
- The narrator stumbles and falls when he runs into the table, losing his candlestick. All of the lights are out except for the fire now. Then that goes out as he tries to light a candle in it.
- The narrator screams three times.
- The narrator makes a run for the door, crashing about and battering himself as he goes (and screaming more). He gets knocked out after a blow on the head.
- The next morning, the narrator awakens to find the custodians caring for him. He doesn't remember what happened.
- After being told about the red room and the condition in which he was found, the narrator's memory slowly comes back.
- He announces the red room is indeed haunted: by Fear.


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The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
Analysis: Booker's Seven Basic Plots Analysis
Christopher Booker is a scholar who wrote that every story falls into one of seven basic plot structures: Overcoming the Monster, Rags to Riches, the Quest, Voyage and Return, Comedy, Tragedy, and Rebirth. Shmoop explores which of these structures fits this story like Cinderella's slipper.
Plot Type : Tragedy
Anticipation Stage
Edna starts letting her hair down and her Inner Edna out.
While vacationing on Grand Isle with liberal Creoles, Edna realizes that she's not cut out to be a "mother-woman" who always puts her husband and children first. She begins feeling more and more unfilled in her marriage and in her role as a mother. She turns to art as a way to express herself. She also starts spending a lot of time with a good-looking young man named Robert Lebrun.
Dream Stage
Edna goes to a party and swims successfully for the first time.
Edna has a beautiful, magical night. She attends a party given by Madame Lebrun, swims successfully for the first time, and defies her husband's orders to go indoors. She's really starting to loosen up and listen to the Inner Edna.
Frustration Stage
Edna asserts her independence.
Robert goes to Mexico, leaving Edna alone. She goes home to New Orleans with her family, but cannot stop thinking about Robert. She spends a lot of time trying to get information on him, but at the same time begins an affair with Alcee Arobin and moves out of her husband's house.
Nightmare Stage
Robert says good-bye. On a scrap of paper.
Robert comes home but avoids Edna. Finally, the two declare their love for each other, but realize they want different things. Robert wants marriage while Edna hates the idea of marriage. Edna is called away but asks Robert to wait for her. When she returns, she finds only a note bidding her good-bye.
Destruction of death wish Stage
Edna commits suicide.
Edna lies awake all night, feeling terribly depressed. Soon after, she goes to Grand Isle, walks into the ocean, and drowns.


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To switch-hit or not? Even on a day when he played his first game of 2014, batting exclusively from the right side, Shane Victorino wasn't ready to answer the question.
"There's no answer," Victorino told reporters of whether he was giving up switch-hitting. "I feel like you guys all are trying to get an answer. There's no answer yet. If I had known, I would have answered it. If [Red Sox manager John Farrell] had known, he would have answered it. I think you guys keep beating that drum. For me, that's the part where I'm just like, 'OK, it's something that I don't even know.' I'm working through the process."
On the one hand, it seems hard to fathom that with the benefit of an offseason to think about his 2013 performance, Victorino has yet to make up his mind. After all, he excelled after switching almost exclusively to hitting right-handed (an injury-driven decision) last year, posting a .300/.386/.510 line with six homers in 115 plate appearances as a right-handed hitter facing right-handed pitching. Those marks were considerably better than what he produced (.274/.317/.389 with three homers in 229 plate appearances) batting left-handed. In the postseason, Victorino became the first player in big league history with the game-winning RBI in three different clinchers, accomplishing the feat in each instance while batting right-handed against a righty.
Those performances alone would suggest an easy decision. Yet to view Victorino's decision solely through the lens of one season -- or even based on his career statistics -- does a disservice to the 33-year-old's career and the place switch-hitting holds in it.
It wasn't until his first full season of pro ball that Victorino was introduced to switch-hitting in 2000. He's experienced a history of organizational reversals regarding whether or not he should continue to cultivate the skill -- with the Dodgers showing greater indecision over a period of multiple seasons about whether he should or should not switch-hit than the outfielder is now showing. He fought through that uncertainty to embrace the art and imagine it as a central part of his baseball identity and a critical factor in his career success.
"I always think about switch-hitting being a big part of my success and why I'm here today. It's not something I want to give up on," Victorino explained late last year. "People are going to start questioning it. … This is something I'm going to ride out and work hard on each and every day."
It was as a 19-year-old, coming off a solid but hardly dazzling performance (.280/.335/.391, 2 homers, 20 steals) in Rookie Ball in 1999 that Victorino commenced the experiment. A great deal was being thrown at him -- the Dodgers asked him both to start switch-hitting and to move to second base -- but the fearless Hawaiian was open to the challenge.
"Shane at the time was a tremendous athlete, a lot of raw ability, and his speed just made a good fit for him attempting switch-hitting," recalled Damon Farmar, Victorino's hitting coach for Short-Season Single-A Yakima in 2000. "I think he was dealing with a lot of frustration at the time. They were trying to make him a second baseman. He was playing out of position.
"And I just looked at him and said, 'Look, if you want to be, you can be an everyday center fielder, switch-hitter and productive in this league. That's what I see for you. But you have to make up your mind, commit to that and decide that's what you want. You can't decide because someone else wants it, they think that's best for you. That has to really be in your heart. It's going to be tough. It's not an easy thing, especially having hit right-handed your whole life and then making that transition as a professional and using to learn a wood bat.' ... But being a competitive guy, he was willing to take that on."
Farmar saw what the Dodgers saw. Victorino had tremendous speed, something that could be a significant asset to a left-handed hitter whose starting point was a few feet closer to first base in the batter's box. At the time, he hadn't shown much power, and so the calculus about whether to be a full-time right-handed hitter wasn't the same as it was by 2013.
"I just believe you're more of an asset as a switch-hitter," said Farmer -- who, in an odd coincidence, was introduced to switch-hitting at the start of his pro career but, after a brief experiment, was told to go back to hitting exclusively right-handed in a pro career that topped out in Double-A. "Situationally, being on the left side, there are times when he can pull balls and advance runners. If he comes up in at-bats later in the game, it forces pitching changes. It's just much more of an asset to the team and to himself as being a switch-hitter."
Farmar apprised Victorino of the fact that he willingly would have to embrace short-term struggles in order to add left-handed hitting to his skill set. But he also made clear that the 1999 sixth-rounder had the natural ability to succeed if he remained committed to switch-hitting.
"He had tremendous bat speed from both sides of the plate even then," said Farmar. "I knew at some point he would figure it out. He's a smart kid, he was determined, he was willing to work at it and I guess that's half the battle. Good for him. He stuck with it, people believed in him."
That wasn't entirely true. The Dodgers told the prospect go back to hitting right-handed full-time in 2001, with improved performance across two levels of full-season A-ball. Victorino, who went back to playing outfield full time that year, hit .281 with a .346 OBP and .397 slugging mark in 2001.
Still, he hardly represented the eventual five-tool All-Star he'd one day become. It was with that in mind that in 2002, his Double-A hitting coach, Gene Richards, suggested he pursue the undertaking again.
"I thought he had a much better shot at making it to the major leagues as a switch-hitter with the tools that he had and everything. I thought it would play very, very favorably," said Richards. "Sometimes you can see things down the line. You've got to project. I felt it was gong to be a little tougher at that time to make it as a right-handed hitter. You've got a lot of right-handed players that, at that time, I felt could play with Shane. He had to do something to separate himself from the competition. With that, I thought it would give him that extra tool, that ingredient to project him higher.
"He met the criteria, a guy that in my opinion had a little bit of a struggle with breaking balls," Richards added. "At that level, I saw him with the right-handers throwing breaking pitches giving him a little bit of trouble, and I thought hitting from the left side would alleviate that problem."
It would have been understandable had Victorino become exasperated at a time when it seemed like he was chasing his tail. The number of reversals in a short period of time were startling: Right-handed (1999) to switch-hitting (2000) to right-handed (2001) to switch-hitting (2002); outfield (1999) to second base (2000) to outfield (2001 and forward).
But through the potentially disorienting ordeal, Victorino remained mindful of the bigger picture.
"I never ever thought about what are these guys doing? Why are they doing this to me?" Victorino recalled. "I was 20, 21 years old and happy to be playing, grew up in Hawaii and never thought I would have an opportunity in pro ball. I never looked at those kinds of things. Now, looking back on it, it's like, 'Wow,' the transition, the things that went on where it was one year do that, one year do that, it was like four straight years of flipping, flopping. But it was all part of the process of being where I am today and who I am today. It challenged me in the minor leagues to be who I am today as a player. Those things helped mold me."
Richards praised Victorino's willingness to embrace the challenge. Still, he noted that there were times when the 21-year-old required some prodding.
"I know there were times when he became frustrated. He would ramble and talk as if he wanted to stop it. I would just tell him to shut up," said Richards. "He understood I wasn't going to give in. I wasn't going to give him that opportunity to quit so fast until he had given it his all."
Richards made the young protégée accept that the payoff for his conversion to switch-hitting would come several years down the road. At a young age, Victorino was forced to understand that the decision about whether or not to switch-hit required him to think beyond the immediate term -- a form of perspective worth considering as Victorino wrestles now with the issue of whether or not to switch-hit going forward.
"[Richards] would always tell me, Shane, it's probably going to take you 3-5 years to really understand, really figure it out," said Victorino. "He was right."
While Victorino came to understand that it would take him some years to find his form while batting from the left side of the plate, his decision received almost immediate validation following that 2002 season with Richards. Victorino's performance was very similar to what he'd done under Farmar in Yakima.
He hit .258 with a .328 OBP but a microscopic .318 slugging mark with just four homers that season in Double-A. Yet the tools -- switch-hitting outfielder capable of playing strong defense and impacting the game on the bases (Victorino swiped 45 bases that year) -- were promising enough that he was taken after that season by the Padres in the Rule 5 draft, giving him his first opportunity to play in the big leagues.
Victorino couldn't stick at the time. He hit just .151/.232/.178 in 36 games with San Diego before getting returned to the Dodgers. But once back in Los Angeles' system, Victorino's career commenced the upward trend that eventually laid the foundation for his big league success. He hit .296/.347/.397 in 2003, then saw power come to his game as a 23-year-old in 2004, swatting 19 homers between Double-A and Triple-A (more than he'd hit in his first five pro seasons combined). That performance, in turn, led the Phillies to acquire him in the Rule 5 draft after the '04 campaign and to make a trade to retain his rights for the 2005 season.
Thus it was that Victorino had the opportunity in 2005 to receive extensive personal instruction from Sal Rende, the hitting coach in Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. The batting cage in Lackawanna County Stadium was located at an inconvenient distance down the right field line, necessitating a trek to get there. As a result, a number of Victorino's teammates would filter down to the cages close to game time. Victorino would arrive early to work with Rende, both to hone his mechanics and to talk through his process as a hitter.
"The biggest thing mechanically left-handed is he couldn't get his stride right," said Rende. "Right-handed was unbelievable. He wouldn't face a lefty for a week, a guy would come in, he'd turn around right-handed and just clobber it. It was unbelievable. I couldn't believe he could do that. You try to mimic, a little bit, the same swing for both guys. But most guys aren't able to do that. With Shane, we just kind of forced him to let the ball travel and catch it deeper left-handed than right-handed. Right-handed, he had a real good idea of his contact point and left-handed he did not. That's what we worked on."
The work appeared to pay off. Victorino posted outrageous numbers against lefties (.403/.472/.685), but more than at any other point in his switch-hitting career, he also showed the ability to impact the game from the left side of the plate. Victorino hit .278/.344/.484 from the left side of the plate, with 11 of his 18 homers coming left-handed.
He was hardly a finished product, but he'd shown enough to make clear that he was ready to be a major league switch-hitter. He was named the International League MVP in his fourth season of renewed switch-hitting -- the midpoint of Richards' predicted timetable for Victorino's skills to develop from both sides of the plate.
"I remember thinking, 'Gene was damn right when he said 3-5 years,' " said Victorino.
He made his debut with the Phillies that September, had 17 of his 19 plate appearances from the left side of the plate and never looked back, emerging as an everyday player and two-time All-Star anchor of the Phillies starting in 2006.
Given all the work that went into developing his skills as a switch-hitter, it was fascinating for Victorino's former hitting coaches to see his success down the stretch as a full-time right-handed hitter in 2013. Rende, Victorino's Triple-A hitting coach, glimpsed snippets of a Sunday night game in which Victorino batted right-handed against Dodgers righty Chris Withrow.
"I saw the highlight and said, 'What the heck is he doing?' " Rende recalled.
Victorino homered.
"I sent him a text," Rende said. "'Why did you ever bother hitting left-handed?' "
In retrospect, at a time when Victorino is deciding what his future relationship with batting from the left side of the plate should be, that question resonates. Yet while Victorino is now questioning whether he should or should not hit exclusively from the right side going forward, it's noteworthy that no one seems to believe it was a mistake for him to adopt the practice in the first place.
Indeed, Victorino and his minor league hitting coaches remain convinced that his eventual big league accomplishments would have been impossible had Victorino not become a switch-hitter. And if he hadn't?
"I hate to say this, but I think he would be at home doing another job. That's the way I feel," said Richards. "Switch-hitting allowed him to be an elite major league ballplayer. It put him in a position to do that. If he hadn't done that, he would have been an average ballplayer at the minor league level who would probably have been playing Triple-A ball for a long time, and would have eventually been released. He would have been a journeyman, with a call-up here and there. Switch-hitting made him a major league ballplayer in my opinion.
"If you watched his track, they were moving him all over the place. He was in a grouping with a lot of ballplayers. There was nothing separating him from the competition. With him being able to switch-hit, with speed and all those other things, a little bit of power coming, that made him [something of value]. And then he got over to the Phillies, endeared himself and they let him know they loved him and appreciated what he was doing, and then he took off."
Indeed, the fact that Victorino batted almost exclusively from the left side in 2005 when in the big leagues with the Phillies further underscores the point. His big league opportunity came in no small part because of his ability to hit from the left side.
"I think as I recall that our organization felt that if he was going to be a major league player, he was going to have to switch-hit," said Rende. "At this point, you say right or wrong, you don't know, but looking at his numbers from the past, it was probably the thing that had to happen. But obviously, now when you see him, he's a much better hitter. He has a better idea of his swing and pitchers, so now he can probably go right-handed and have some success as he's doing. But could he have done that back in 2006 or 2007? Probably not. I think at that point, we said if this guy is going to help us at the major league level, he's got to hit left-handed."
Victorino recalls pinch-hitting for the right-handed hitting Aaron Rowand in Philadephia in echoing the notion that his ability to switch-hit played a considerable part in his career development.
"You look back on that moment and ask if I would have been where I am today if I was just a right-handed hitter? Who knows?" said Victorino. "I think being a switch-hitter definitely added a different element and helped my career."
If anything, Victorino's primary regret appears not whether he should have switch-hit, but why he didn't commit to it full-time at an earlier point in his career.
"Kids always ask me, when did you become a switch-hitter?" he relayed. "I say, 'I started at 22. Don't start when I did. Start now if you want to do it.' "
Yet the undertaking, Victorino insists, has made him a better, stronger hitter.
"You fight demons on both sides," said Victorino. "There's an element that you have to think, work through and think about how to be a better overall hitter."
That outlook, in turn, likely plays into his reluctance to make a definitive declaration about whether he will resume switch-hitting going forward. For not only has the 33-year-old seen his career take shape as a switch-hitter, but he's also been taught a powerful lesson when it comes to his handedness: Never say never.
A man who has switched multiple times from batting right-handed to switch-hitting is in no rush to make a definitive, irreversible declaration about his future now. Nor, given the value that he's seen switch-hitting add to his career, is he about to dismiss the potential value of the craft going forward.
Victorino's history with batting from both sides of the plate is complex and rich. Given that past, it should hardly seem surprising that his current stance is hardly a black-and-white matter.
Christian and Chris talk about overrated Pats players this season and in the past and then get into the QB issue on the team. They talk about all three guys, what they bring to the table and if they can keep their head above water without the best QB in the league for 4 weeks. Then...Karlos Williams was released by the Bills - should the Pats consider adding the overweight second year running back? Christian also brings up Dante Scarnecchia and gets Price's opinion on if this one man can truly improve a shaky offensive line.
Christian Arcand is in for Tanguay for NFL Sunday with Chris Price. The guys talk about the victory over the Bears, Jimmy G's progress and their expectations for the Pats defense this season. Arcand thinks that there are more holes on the D than some fans realize.
We check in with Bill Belichick after the first Preseason game for our weekly "Patriots Monday" discussion.
Sam Packard is joined by Celtics 2nd Round draft pick Abdel Nader to discuss his path to the the NBA and how he plans to improve his game. Sam then talks to Player Development Coach Nick Friedman from Elite Skills Training, the pre-Draft camp Nader attended. Friedman also gives his opinion on the Celtics performance at summer league and the development of Jaylen Brown.
Isaiah Thomas talks to Glenn and Lou about why he loves Boston, the NBA Money Bump, oh, and some Durant guy
Danny Ainge joins Glenn and Christian to explain the Celtics draft process; and he also discusses the trade rumors that permeated the night.
Joe and Tim talk with Red Sox right fielder Mookie Betts after the Red Sox beat the Tampa Bay Rays 2-1
David Price pitched a gem and Andrew Benintendi makes one of the top highlight catches of the year as the Sox take the first game of four against the Rays, 6-2. Christian Arcand recaps the game and takes all of your Sox calls.
Joe and Tim talk with Red Sox outfielder Andrew Benintendi, who made a highlight reel catch nearly going over the wall in left field robbing Steven Souza Jr of a home run
Joey Mac joins Ken Laird on his Saturday show to discuss the David Backes addition and Loui Eriksson departure in NHL free agency
DJ and Pete continue to assess the season that was for the Bruins and look toward the future for the franchise and how they can improve.
DJ and Pete are together for the final Sunday Skate of the season. They get into their overall thoughts on the season, the Bruins keeping Claude Julien on as head coach and the end-of-season press conferences last week. They discuss the rebuild process, what the Bruins need and how they can obtain it. Plenty of callers have their own theories and opinions on all of these topics as well.
Gerry, Kirk and Mut discuss the firing of a Philadelphia radio host who ripped a rival host for having a white producer who imitated a fake black caller.
Kirk, Gerry and Mut get into some David Ortiz legacy talk in the 8am hour of the Thursday show.
After Kirk & Gerry get their digs in on Mut and some movie news, they move on to some Patriots QB talk with an eye on Friday night's game in Carolina.
Glenn, Lou, and Christian debate the value of playing Tom Brady in the preseason, and they opine about whether or not he should even be on the team plane.
Glenn, Lou, and Christian talk Benintendi's knee injury, and compare Big Papi's season to other 40 year old players. And the juicing question comes up again...
Glenn, Lou, and Christian debate John Farrell's decision to stay with Porcello into the 8th, and his use of the bullpen.
We check in with the red hot rook of the Red Sox live from Tampa and talk to him about his first experiences in the big leagues.
We check in with John Farrell from Tampa for our weekly feature as the red hot Red Sox look to keep it going for two more wins at the Trop.
In honor of the announcement that the Sox will be among the team's at Tim Tebow's workout next week, we look at four pro athletes who tried their hand in a second sport and it didn't work out too well for them.
Kirk Minihane is joined by his long time nemesis Bart Hubbuch. Kirk and Bart discuss the incident between the two that led to Kirk being let go from Comcast and the long standing issue of deflategate. Bart annoyingly wouldn't get of his speaker phone. This is an explosive interview between two guys who admittedly dislike each other.
Kirk Minihane sits down with former producer Chris Curtis? Or is it current producer Chris Curtis? Either way, Kirk and Chris talk about what happened in their previous tenure together, where it went wrong, and why Curtis is now back with the show.
Kirk Minihane and Gary Tanguay sit down together on Enough About Me for the first time. These two divisive figures talk about Gary's career and his late evolution into a controversial broadcaster. Nobody is spared from Kirk and Gary's wrath on this episode and it will surely make some people at the two sports radio stations very uncomfortable.
Kirk Minihane is joined by his long time nemesis Bart Hubbuch. Kirk and Bart discuss the incident between the two that led to Kirk being let go from Comcast and the long standing issue of deflategate. Bart annoyingly wouldn't get of his speaker phone. This is an explosive interview between two guys who admittedly dislike each other.
Jerry is joined by Red Sox legend Bill Lee to talk about his new biopic "Spaceman," Lee's unique philosophy, political beliefs, drug use and what makes him a cultural icon decades after he retired from baseball.
Christian Fauria and Dr. Gill talk about the process and steps football players have to take when rehabbing injuries during the off season. Focusing on Dion Lewis, Nate Solder, and Sebastian Vollmer
Tom Brady returned to practice after his unexplained days off to shed some light into his mysterious scissors injury that prevented him from playing last Thursday's preseason game.More from this show
Gerry, Mut, and Kirk discuss the Benintendi catch from Monday and what's looking like an incredible outfield for years to come; also the guys discuss the probation sentence given to an East Longmeadow youth charged with sexual assault.More from this show
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Minihane, Callahan and Mutnansky dive further into the Brady - Belichick dynamic as Tom's four-game suspension gets closer.More from this show
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"Success is getting what you want and happiness is wanting what you get." Ibo proverb*
The next gathering of the Harris and Stafford Families will be on Sunday, May 3, 2015.
Make plans to attend our fellowship reunion, especially Sunday,
to meet and greet our elders like we did when Mama Elsie
lovingly looked upon us in the crowd of relatives and friends.
Paying homage to our Ancestors
"Gone but not forgotten"
Barry Lewis Harris, Sr.
June 23, 1948 – September 30, 2014
Parents: B.J. & Lena (Campbell) Harris
Paternal Grandparents: Bennie & Elsie Robelia (Stafford) Harris
Maternal grandparents: Ethelbert "Guy"& Lulu Elizabeth (Tilghman) Campbell
The "Praise The Lord" Services honoring the life of Barry Harris will take place on
September 25, 2014.
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Elizabeth Hines Atkins
11/20/1941 – 07/16/14
Memphis, TN
Parents: Robert and Bernice Collins Hines
Philana A. Harris' mother, wife of Antonio Harris
Antonio is the grandson of our family patriarch,
B.J. Harris and the late Lena Campbell Harris
Thursday, July 24, 2014; 5pm to 7pm; R.S. Lewis Funeral Home
Friday, July25, 2014; 11am; St. Augustine Catholic Church
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Anaerobic soil disinfestation (ASD), a non-chemical alternative to methyl bromide (MeBr), was developed in Japan and the Netherlands where it is used to control soilborne pathogens and nematodes in strawberries and vegetables. The ASD system can be utilized in urbanized areas where buffer restrictions would limit the applicability of alternative fumigants and, unlike many other biologically-based alternatives, has a broad-spectrum of activity, impacting most pests that are currently controlled by MeBr:chloropicrin combinations. In addition, this work will allow transfer of this technology to multiple cropping systems in many geographic locations and across differing soil types and environmental conditions. In a previously funded project, we confirmed the potential of ASD in Florida vegetable and coastal California strawberry production. To further that work, the goals of this project are threefold: .


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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Standard Bank PLC (Standard Bank) £7,640,400 for failings relating to its anti-money laundering (AML) policies and procedures over corporate customers connected to politically exposed persons (PEPs).
This is the first AML case the FCA, or its predecessor the Financial Services Authority (FSA), has brought focused on commercial banking activity. This is also the first AML case to use the new penalty regime, which applies to breaches committed from 6 March 2010. Under the new regime larger fines are expected.
Tracey McDermott, director of enforcement and financial crime, said:
"One of the FCA's objectives is to protect and enhance the integrity of the UK financial system. Banks are in the front line in the fight against money laundering. If they accept business from high risk customers they must have effective systems, controls and practices in place to manage that risk. Standard Bank clearly failed in this respect."
Standard Bank is the UK subsidiary of Standard Bank Group, South Africa's largest banking group. Standard Bank Group is an international banking group with extensive operations in 18 African countries and operations in 13 other countries outside of Africa.
Between 15 December 2007 and 20 July 2011, Standard Bank failed to comply with Regulation 20(1) of the Money Laundering Regulations because it failed to take reasonable care to ensure that all aspects of its AML policies were applied appropriately and consistently to its corporate customers connected to PEPs.
As with any financial services activity, commercial banking business can be used to launder money, particularly in the layering or integration stages of the money laundering process. In order to prevent financial crime, banks operating in this sector must have effective AML systems and controls in place ensuring that all the participants in commercial banking transactions are subjected to effective and appropriate due diligence. This is particularly important where the transaction involves PEPs or other high risk customers.
Guidance issued by the Joint Money Laundering Steering Group (JMLSG) provides that where a corporate customer is known to be linked to a PEP, such as through a directorship or shareholding, it is likely that this will put the customer into a higher risk category, and that enhanced due diligence (EDD) measures should therefore be applied. During the relevant period, Standard Bank had business relationships with 5,339 corporate customers of which 282 were linked to one or more PEPs.
The FCA reviewed Standard Bank's policies and procedures and a sample of 48 corporate customer files, all of which had a connection with one or more PEPs. The results of this review highlighted serious weaknesses in the application of Standard Bank's AML policies and procedures.
This meant that it did not consistently:
The FCA considers these failings to be particularly serious because:
The weaknesses in Standard Bank's AML systems and controls resulted in an unacceptable risk of Standard Bank being used to launder the proceeds of crime.
Standard Bank and its senior management have co-operated with the FCA investigation and have taken significant steps at significant cost towards remediating the issues identified, including seeking advice and assistance from external consultants.
Standard Bank settled at an early stage of the investigation and qualified for a 30% discount on its fine. Without the discount the fine would have been £10.9 million.
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Congratulations to James B. Stewart on a superb New York Times article yesterday on Boeing's 787 crisis. As he has pointed out, fully 35 percent of the manufactured content of the 787, the troubled, if superbly advanced, new Boeing jetliner, is being sourced from Japan. This reflects a highly organized, subsidy-drenched effort by the Japanese industrial system to succeed the United States as the world leader in aerospace. All in all, 70 percent of the 787 is being manufactured outside the United States, up from less than 2 percent for the 747 in the late 1960s. A reasonable guess -- if
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Sept. 18, 2013 – Ducks Unlimited (DU) and Sonoma Land Trust (SLT) now have the next key piece to a North San Francisco Bay wetlands restoration project, after being awarded $538,000 by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Association (NOAA). The funding is part of a total $1.5 million request for the multi-phase Sears Point Restoration Project, which will enhance and restore tidal marsh habitat and seasonal wetlands and grasslands in the San Francisco Estuary.
"It's incredibly exciting to break ground on a site that hasn't been touched by tidal waters for more than 100 years," said Renee Spenst, regional biologist for DU. "Within three years, we will see a dramatically different landscape from the vantage point of the Baylands Center next to San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge headquarters as bay front levees are lowered and breached in two locations.
"Sears Point is a nearly 1,000-acre project. The impressive coalition of partners, combined with the measurable habitat improvements, will be a model for future large-scale projects, so funding these ongoing efforts is critical. We're thrilled NOAA is supporting us and we will continue to seek additional funding from other sources as well."
This is the first year of an anticipated three years of funding from NOAA. In addition to DU and SLT, partners on this restoration project include the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Wildlife Conservation Board, California Coastal Conservancy, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Integrated Regional Water Management Plan through the California Department of Water Resources and many others.
Following construction, the Sears Point tidal habitat restoration will benefit canvasbacks, scaup, mallards and northern pintails, and 22 fish species, including Chinook salmon. As the marsh continues to develop, it will support clapper rail and salt marsh harvest mice as well. The public will also benefit, as the project will add 2.2 miles to the San Francisco Bay Trail.
Sonoma Land Trust purchased the Sears Point property nearly a decade ago and has been planning for its restoration ever since.
"It's taken the hard work of so many individuals to get to this point," said Julian Meisler, baylands program manager for SLT. "We are exceedingly grateful to Ducks Unlimited, NOAA and all of our partners for helping to bring the financial and technical expertise that will make the restoration a success."
Restoring fish habitat in the San Francisco Estuary is vital to recovering threatened and endangered species such as Sacramento River Chinook, Central Valley Chinook, steelhead and green sturgeon. It will also help recover their habitats, benefit other commercially important fisheries and maintain or improve the economies of surrounding communities.
"Roughly 90 percent of San Francisco Bay's wetlands have been lost to development and other causes," said Christopher Yates, assistant regional administrator for protected resources at NOAA. "This project will be a big step in returning land back to tidal marsh—important habitat for threatened and endangered fish like Chinook salmon and steelhead."
The Sears Point project is part of a larger $50 million effort to restore Napa-Sonoma marshes extending from the Napa River to the Petaluma River along the northern edge of the San Francisco Estuary. The San Francisco Bay and Estuary were designated a RAMSAR Wetland of International Importance in January 2013.
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áááÑ ANOTHER FAMILY- OWNED BUSINESS, WITH A LONG HISTORY IN MAINE, IS CLOSING ITS DOORS. "CENTURY TIRE" IN PORTLAND IS CLOSING IN TWO DAYS - AFTER 88 YEARS IN BUSINESS. W-M-T-W NEWS 8'S JIM KEITHLEY IS LIVE AT THE CENTURY TIRE STORE IN BAYSIDE WITH THE DETAILS. HERE ON KENNEBEC STREET - ON A PROMINENT CORNER OF FOREST AVE AND MARGINAL WAY - CENTURY TIRE HAS BEEN IN BUSINESS FOR NOT QUITE A CENTURY - BUT ALMOST. ON VALENTINE'S DAY - THE BUSINESS WILL CLOSE FOR GOOD. DICK ARONSON IS THE MAN BEHIND "CENTURY TIRE" HE'S BEEN WITH THE COMPANY FOR 53 YEARS - BOUGHT IT FROM HIS FATHER-IN- LAW IN THE 1970S. IT BEGAN AS "DEERING TIRE COMPANY" IN 1926 AT "DEERING TIRE COMPANY" IN 1926 AT ITS ORIGINAL LOCATION OFF WASHINGTON AVENUE AND MOVED TO KENNEBEC STREET IN BAYSIDE IN JUNE 1944 AS THESE OLD NEWPAPER ADS SHOW - THEY HANG IN THE SHOWROOM, WHERE TODAY A LINE OF LOYAL CUSTOMERS CONGRATULATED ARONSON ON HIS LONG-OVER DUE RETIREMENT. "I understand it, and I'm sorry. I hate to see it happen, but it has to happen." HE'S 78 AND WANTS TO SPEND MORE TIME WITH HIS FAMILY. "It's time for me to do some other things with my family and I've been here for 53 years." ARONSON SAYS THE BUSINESS ISN'T WHAT IT WAS, HARDER TO COMPETE, WHEN ASKED WHAT HE'LL MISS MOST? HE SAID - HIS CUSTOMERS. "After awhile you start believing all the nice things people say to you so maybe we did contribute something and I never doubted the fact that we gave the best servIce of any tire company on the planet." ARONSON SAYS CENTURY TIRE'S LOCATION IN THE BAYSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD MAKES THE LAND MORE VALUABLE THAN THE BUSINESS ITSELF. HE'S ALREADY SOLD THE PROPERTY TO A DEVELOPER FOR AN UNDISCLOSED PRICE. ALTHOUGH THE LAND AND BUILDING ARE ASSESED AT 1.4 MILLION DOLLARS- ACCORDING TO CITY RECORDS. THIS NEWS COMES LESS THAN TWO WEEKS AFTER BILL BENNETT OF "OAKHURST DAIRY" SAYS HE'S SELLING THE BUSINESS TO A NATIONAL DAIRY CO- OP..AFTER THREE- GENERATIONS THERE WAS NOBODY TO TAKE IT OVER. DICK ARONSON IS CLOSING SHOP FOR THE SAME REASON - HIS THREE SONS ALL LIVE OUT OF STATE AND HAVE NO INTEREST IN THE TIRE BUSINESS. "So it's kind of bitter-sweet you know. I'd loved to have had them here. One of my son's was here working behind the counter for 12 years. They're all doing their own thing - which is good." ARONSON SAYS HE'S NOT WORRIED ABOUT HIS TWO DOZEN EMPLOYEES - THEY'LL ALL GET JOBS HE SAID. AND WHEN I ASKED HIM WHAT HE'D LIKE TO SEE ON THIS CORNER AFTER THE DEVELOPERS TEAR THE BUILDINGS DOWN AND RE-BUILD? ARONOSN SAID A CLASSY OFFICE OR MEDICAL BUILDING - WOULD MAKE HIM PROUD. LIVE IN PORTLAND JIM KEITHLEY W-M-T- LIVE IN PORTLAND JIM KEITHLEY W-M-T- W NEWS 8.
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Hungary in Row with EU over Tax Exemption on National Booze
Brussels took Hungary to the European Court of Justice again, this time hitting a very soft spot: Hungary's national alcoholic beverage, the palinka.
Allowing people to make below 50 liters a year of their own palinka without having to pay excise taxes was the first move Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government made when it came to power in 2010. It was a very popular measure–distilling palinka is very widespread in the Hungarian countryside, the higher the alcohol level (measured in degrees), the better.
Drinking homemade booze is not unique to Hungary in the European Union, that's why the Brussels regulation is also very tame on excise tax for quantities below 50 liters a year per household. Below this quantity, EU law allows countries to apply a discount excise tax on liquor made from home-grown fruits and ingredients, but at least half of the excise tax level of the given member state.
Tax-free is not an option, however, that's why the case went to the European Court of Justice.
Hungary's economy ministry said it would fight there to keep the exemption. Some EU countries such as Austria, Germany, Slovenia and Portugal make tax exemptions for small amounts of home-distilled spirits, it said.
Very strong palinkas are called "fence-jaggers" and are a good way to indicate one's Hungarian origins. Many Hungarians tell tales of making their Polish friends drink palinka and watch them go down.
Hungarians consume about 1 million liters of palinka a year, and there was a slight rise in 2011, Napi Gazdasag reported earlier, adding consumption is on the rise among 30-40-year-olds. Fresh 2012 data will be available on Friday, said Laszlo Mihalyi, the president of the National Palinka Committee.
A court verdict against Hungary would mean a heavy fine for the country, but neither the ministry nor the European Court gave an estimate of the amount.
There are three infringement cases against Hungary at the Court beside this one, and Mr. Orban's government has already been made to amend some of its regulation in line with court rulings.


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"Did you think you were coming back here? Brave. Brave of you to think that."
A rainy night in Manchester. Colin finally returns home to face up to his past, but wife Helen is struggling to rebuild what is left of their broken home.
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Few fighter's nicknames exemplified their fighting styles more than Rosenbloom's "Slapsie Maxie." His open-gloved fighting style earned him the moniker and his overly defensive approach directly led to his extremely low knockout total. Rosenbloom's speed, reflexes and timing enhanced his effectiveness while also making his opponents look clumsy.
That may be why it took Rosenbloom nearly seven years and almost 140 fights to gain his first title shot. NYSAC light heavyweight titlist Jimmy Slattery had beaten Rosenbloom three times in their previous four fights, so he felt comfortable about the prospect of facing him for the world title vacated by Loughran. Fifteen rounds later Rosenbloom gained vengeance by earning the decision. Over the next four years he sprinkled in an amazing 101 non-title bouts (including 16 losses, 15 draws and two no-contests) with his seven title defenses before losing it on points to Bob Olin.
Rosenbloom faced a Who's Who of opponents and beat most of them. He holds title-fight victories over Slattery (in a rematch) and Mickey Walker and non-title wins over Leo Lomski, Lou Scozza (three times) and John Henry Lewis. Other resume enhancers include wins over Dave Shade (twice), Scozza (once more), Johnny Wilson, Tiger Flowers, Pete Latzo, Ted "Kid" Lewis, Leo Lomski (twice more), James J. Braddock, Lou Nova, Lee Ramage, King Levinsky and John Henry Lewis (twice more).
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Jon Evans will leave Collahuasi
Compañía Minera Doña Inés de Collahuasi announces that, at the end of this year, the Company's Chief Executive Jon Evans will leave this position to return to Australia, where his family lives, and take up another post in the mining industry. Jon Evans has led Collahuasi since mid-2008, during which time he consolidated a first class human team, whilst advancing the Company´s expansion plans that in the future will allow Collahuasi to produce more than one million tonnes of fine copper per year.
At that time Giancarlo Bruno Lagomarsino, currently Vice President Operations of Collahuasi, will assume the position of Chief Executive. Giancarlo is a Civil Mechanical Engineer of Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María and an expert in Risk Prevention of Sernageomin (Chilean Mining and Geology Service). He has held the positions of Risk Prevention Manager and Mine Operations Manager in Anglo American's Los Bronces Division and also General Manager of Mantos Blancos Division and El Soldado Division, also in Anglo American. Since 2008, he has held the position of Vice President Operations of Collahuasi, in northern Chile's Tarapacá Region.
Xstrata Copper Chief Executive and current Chairman of the Collahuasi Board, Charlie Sartain, thanked Jon Evans for the contribution he has made to the Company during this period. "Jon has led significant organisational change and important business improvements since he joined Collahuasi as Chief Executive in 2008. I thank him for his commitment and achievement in taking Collahuasi into a successful growth stage. We wish him every success in his new professional challenges. I would also like to congratulate Giancarlo Bruno and offer him the Collahuasi board's support to successfully guide Collahuasi and its expansion plans".
John Mackenzie, Chief Executive of Anglo American's Copper Business Unit and a member of Collahuasi's Board, said: "Jon Evans has played a fundamental role in the management and development of Collahuasi during the last few years and, whilst being sorry for his departure, we want to wish him the best in the next steps of his professional career. At the same time, I want to express my satisfaction for the nomination of Giancarlo Bruno, who brings all his experience in the mining industry to lead the next growth stages at Collahuasi".
Toshiki Inagaki, General Manager of Mitsui's Base Metal Division and a member of Collahuasi's Board, said: "For the last two years, Jon exercised strong leadership and overcame every difficulty to unlock the potential of Collahuasi's huge resources. We also expect and believe that Giancarlo will maximize the value of Collahuasi for the prosperity of future generations".
Compañía Minera Doña Inés de Collahuasi SCM is Chile's third largest copper mine with production in 2009 of 535,000 tonnes of copper. Its shareholders are Xstrata plc with 44%, Anglo American plc with 44% and a consortium of Japanese investors led by Mitsui.


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NEW DELHI: Metropolitan Police of London may take a few tips from their counterparts in Delhi on beefing up security arrangements for the Olympics in 2012. This is part of an elaborate action plan for co-operation between Metropolitan Police and Delhi Police. The plan is likely to be finalised after the meeting in London in July this year.
The London police, in return, will help Delhi Police track economic and cyber crimes, said Tarique Ghaffur, assistant commissioner of Metropolitan Police.


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Where he's wearing the Breton-stripe shirts?
Yeah, amazing. So I think it's just a timeless thing, and hip-hop has clearly very much influenced the world of style and application of style. Everybody from Slick Rick to Chuck D, there's been some real icons for us.
Are there any designers that influence you as an artist?
Paul Smith is a big inspiration in terms of fashion. In terms of architecture, I like Zaha Hadid very much. But fashion designers in particular? Definitely Paul Smith. Ale et Ange completely has my imagination right now. I'm really a huge fan — clearly, I'm in so much of it.
But it depends on the era — in the late '90s/early 2000s I was rocking 'Lo Gooses, Timberlands, and cargo pants and then started rocking Marc Jacobs leathers and his variations on sneaker culture in New York.
Like the Vans collaboration?
Even before that! When he had the brown leather sneakers with the white laces, and thick white bottoms. There's a lot of inspiration out there. I'm inspired lately by Martin Greenfield's tailoring game.
For me, Slick Rick is the archetype. Period. He's my favorite MC.
Yeah! His stuff is so on point! Having been around musicians and fashion designers for so long, do you think there are ways that they can inspire each other?
I mean, for artists in different mediums, the key is always inspiration. I couldn't say any specific ways, per se, because everyone's process is so different and what inspires people is so varied, but yeah, just an appreciation of form, beauty, and application — as well as character and personality. For instance: Paul Smith with his stripes, or someone who can create a staple. I'm inspired by people who can say something over and over again but say something new every time.
We've talked a lot about European brands, especially ones with a strong focus on tailoring. Do you think this is something we'll start to see more of in the hip-hop world?
It's understandable. I mean; I'm certainly not the first. Kanye has been out here in all types of custom tailored gear, kilts, all that. It's really not unusual, it's actually quite commonplace. There's shots of Cam'ron in houndstooth check double-breasteds with the shirt out. There's a still of him in an editorial he did in suits, so it's not unusual.
For me, Slick Rick is the archetype. Period. He's my favorite MC; he's the MC that had the earliest influence on me. Not even the fur and the multiple rings, but his style was just — man, just so clean, and it also has roots in early hip-hop culture — where you see the suede fronts, the Bally boots, the Clarks, the sharkskin pants, the Kangols, the Jamel Shabazz era you know?
And even before that, you had groups in Africa like Les Sapeurs dressing head-to-toe in European brands. Is your style influenced by that subculture?
Les Sapeurs! Yeah, I have a book about them. They're a very interesting group. And there's another group in South Africa, photographed by Nontsikelelo Veleko. This amazing design collective —these young people in South Africa who just… they don't have money, and they got so much style and swag. They're incredible. That collective is really, really amazing. To quote Paul Smith: "you can find inspiration in everything."
Hip-hop fashion has evolved a lot from where kids rocked their sneakers laceless and ironed-on the letters of their crew's name on Screen Stars T-shirts to people like Kid Cudi designing jackets for Surface To Air and Riccardo Tisci providing creative direction for Watch The Throne. Is the hip-hop and high-fashion crossover a status thing, or a further validation of hip-hop as an art form?
Malcolm X is one of the most, if not the most stylish man of the 20th Century.
For me it's less of an expression of social status, and again, more an expression of taste, style, beauty, and balance, you know, and drawing relationships. Some people are great at putting patterns and colors together — it's artistry.
When people see it applied well, it has a positive impact. It makes the active participant — the person wearing the garment — feel well, and brings aesthetic pleasure to the person viewing the garment, and it provides a practical function.
It's not unusual, Harry Belafonte, Malcolm X — El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz — is one of the most, if not the most stylish man of the 20th Century, and that's the era when John F. Kennedy was running around! So I mean, [style has] been there: Martin Luther King, Paul Robeson, it's not unusual — everybody from Poitier to Puff.


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ShuChef©: Nash Money X Sole Dxb "The Bedouin" Visvim+NB1500 Custom
One of the illest sneaker customizer on the planet Iron ShuChef© Nash Money has freaked another pair of Visvim FBT.
This time he traveled to Dubai to link with the Sole Dxb crew to prep for surgery.
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"Nash came to Dubai a week prior to the Sneaker Summit to meet with the creators of Sole DXB's, Hussain, Josh and Kris, who's purpose was to highlight and represent the growing sneaker culture in the Middle East, and to offer enthusiasts an event that they can call their own.
After sharing his first sheesha and much conversation with the DXB misfits, Nash was brought up to speed with the life, history and new growth of Dubai. He immersed himself in their sneaker culture and its core influences: performance, luxury and of course lifestyle.
Finding inspiration in the local markets of Satwa, amongst the haberdasheries & high-density shawarma cafes. The founders were adamant that Nash brought their goals to life in one of his signature Visvim hybrids. The Visvim to represent luxury,together with a twist of performance and one of a kind mash-up with the New Balance.
A final element yet to be incorporated was the historical culture of the Middle East. The answer of which lay in the use of the local traditional 'Majlis' fabric on the skirting of the FBT. 'Majlis' which fittingly means a place of gathering, as 4000+ visitors including the sneakerheads and brands of the region gather at Sole DXB for the birth of this truly one of a kind shoe.
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Comp-U-Dopt was founded on the belief that every child deserves equal access to education and opportunity. This is not just a moral mandate. The long-term health and welfare of our society depend on the education, skills and resources we provide to today's children.
Early access to computers and computer literacy are essential components of modern elementary education. More than simply a tool for homework assignments, regular computer access enables children to naturally explore, investigate, and develop critical-thinking skills essential for continuing education and eventual employment. Despite the prevalence of computers in our nation, far too many children do not have adequate access to educational technology.
The genesis of Comp-U-Dopt came from our recognition that a typical computer in a business setting today has a life cycle of only three years or less. The majority of these computers -- millions of units -- are warehoused or scrapped rather than being put to good use. A working computer that is too old to be useful in a business setting may nonetheless be a dream come true for a enthusiastic young learner whose family cannot buy a new computer.
Comp-U-Dopt collects lightly used computers, services them, and installs educational software designed to encourage and challenge the children we serve. Environmental stewardship is central to our mission as well. Every computer that is donated to a child is one less computer in a landfill. Thus, two positive results can be obtained through a single donation of a computer.
With your donations of computers and financial support, we strive to:
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Thanks to the technical, logistical and financial support of our donors and volunteers, an excellent Board of Directors, and our executive director, Comp-U-Dopt has helped foster the educational aspirations of thousands of Houston-area children. But our work has just begun. We invite you to donate computers, financial support or volunteer your time. Come see for yourself how your donation can make an immediate difference in a Houston child's life.
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Oil Traders: Reserve Release Chatter A Wake Up Call
By Christian Berthelsen and Dan Strumpf
Oil traders loathe releases from emergency crude stockpiles in response to high prices. Today is no exception.
Though a US official has denied a report that such plans are in the works, the market's gyration is reviving anger over last year's IEA release of 60M barrels amid high prices and fears of a supply shortage because of the Libyan civil war.
"Personally, my opinion is that strategic petroleum reserves are not for price manipulation," says Pete Donovan of Vantage Trading from the Nymex floor. "There's definitely nervousness in the market."
Today's conflicting reports are at the very least a reminder to market participants that such an event remains a possibility, says Carl Larry of Oil Outlooks and Opinions.
"With this idea in the back of its mind, I think the market's going to be a little sketchy going forward. Nobody wants to take a risk going long," he says.
Indeed, crude sharply pares its losses following the competing reports — but is still well off its highs. Nymex crude down 0.3% at $105.15/bbl after falling as low as $103.78 earlier.


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Weather Journal: Get Ready for the Hottest Day
Thursday marks the fifth day of an unrelenting heat wave that's clutching Greater New York in its sweaty grasp.
The large dome of high pressure responsible for our remarkable heat and humidity is slowly meandering west, but a few more days of sticky weather are in store for the region. Thursday is set to be the hottest day of the week, with blistering temperatures forecast for the entire tri-state area. The day's high temperature should top out at 95, with highs for Long Island and coastal Connecticut running a few degrees cooler. By Thursday afternoon, the humid air that's saturating the region will drive the heat index up to 100 degrees, and beyond that in New York City and northeastern New Jersey.
Partly cloudy skies and a slight chance of showers or thunderstorms in the forecast for late Thursday may provide an occasional break from the blazing sun. Nighttime temperatures fall into the high 70s, a bit lower along the coast, guaranteeing another sultry evening for Greater New Yorkers.
A heat advisory issued by the National Weather Service is in effect through 8 p.m. on Thursday. With the region's first heat-related death of the year reported in New York City on Wednesday, officials are urging Greater New Yorkers to take heat advisories and warnings seriously.
How do steamy summer days like these affect your health? National Geographic discusses the effects 100 degrees can have on a human, which range from dehydration to stroke. Their description should inspire you to take care of yourself – and your pets – for the duration of the heat wave.
For those looking to cool off outside this week, but not necessarily bake on the beach, Surf Week kicked off on Wednesday in Long Beach, New York, with surfing contests, music and other festivities running through Sunday. Those who prefer to cool off indoors can take advantage of the air-conditioned cooling centers New York's Office of Emergency Management (OEM) has opened in each of the five boroughs; several cities and town in New Jersey and Connecticut are operating cooling centers as well.
Thursday's Greater New York forecast roundup:
- WSJ Headquarters in Manhattan:
- Actual High: 95; RealFeel High: 103
- Actual Low: 78; RealFeel Low: 82
- Weather: Mostly sunny, very hot and humid
- Brooklyn: 95/77
- Queens: 95/79
- Bronx: 96/78
- Staten Island: 95/77
- Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: 94/70
- Trenton, N.J.: 96/76
- Islip, Long Island: 90/74
- New Haven, Conn.: 92/72
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Retailers to source more UK Christmas trees due to costsBusinesses looking to boost profits this Christmas with festive trees have been forced to source them closer to home, according to the British Christmas Tree Grower's Association.
Higher real tree prices could see bumper sales for fakes
The weak pound against the Danish Krone and the Euro has made importing trees up to 25% more expensive and therefore restrictive for businesses already suffering reduced cash flows.
Even without the economic conditions traditional UK favorite, the Nordman fir imported from Denmark, has not had the best growing season and both factors are likely to reduce supply and increase price.
A spokesman for The British Christmas Tree Grower's Association, said while there was likely to be less trees imported a wet summer had meant a great growing season in the UK.
However, he also feared a cost increase because of the rising cost of fertiliser and fuel would leave people potentially facing up to 10 to 20% increases on some varieties.
He said: "In response to the increased cost of trees imported from Europe, we would like to assure customers that for the 2008 Christmas season there will be more than enough real trees available from UK sources to meet demand.
"Greater transportation costs will most likely lead to an increase in cost for British grown trees, but the range of species is wide and the varying sizes means there will be a tree suitable for every pocket.
"Due to previous shortages in Europe and the increase in value of the Euro relative to the GBP, it is unlikely many trees will be imported from outside the UK this year."
Department stores have also been stocking up on fake trees with a view to widening the appeal of plastic against natural firs.
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Scarborough police say they have tracked down the owner of a 1987 class ring that was recovered last week following an arrest.
Police said the ring belongs to Jerry Pottier, who graduated from Mt. Empire High School in 1987.
According to police, a woman who was arrested at Walmart had the ring and could not prove ownership.
Police said a crime analyst spent three days trying to locate Pottier, whose name was engraved inside the ring.
Pottier was a member of the football team and said he lost the ring 25 years ago in Massachusetts.
Police are planning to ship the ring back to Pottier.


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Definition of rent roll in English:
rent roll
Entry from British & World English dictionary
1A register of a landlord's lands and buildings with the rents due from them.
Example sentences
- The centre also provides a genealogical service which is backed up by an extensive computer database, based on church records, school registers, rent rolls, cemetery records, census returns, local newspapers and street directories.
- Agencies that provide a management service are responsible for monitoring the rent roll, service charges, the day-to-day running of the property and regular inspections.
- They include property administration, facilities management, administration of the rent roll, maintenance, risk and revenue.
1.1A landlord's total income from rent.
Example sentences
- The three upper floors are let as offices on shorter leases and in all, the current rent roll amounts to more than €79,000 per annum.
- The future rent roll from the property, which otherwise would be subject to income tax at 42 per cent, is sold on or securitised.
- The fund's share of the current £8 million annual rent roll from the shopping centre will be used to service the borrowings.
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Children's author and illustrator Brad Sneed will share his artwork and stories from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 6 at The Well, 101 N. Main, in McPherson. Sneed was raised on a family farm in Newton, and uses animals and other farm equipment as inspiration for his drawings and artwork. While pursuing an art degree at the University of Kansas, Sneed decided to focus on illustrations for children's literature. He enjoyed the process and creative freedom that drawing and illustrating for children provided. Since his first book, "Grandpa's Song", he has written or illustrated nearly 20 award-winning books including "The Bravest of Us All," "Aesop's Fables," "The Boy Who Was Raised by Librarians" and "The Big Bad Wolves at School." A holiday book, "Twas the Mouse Who Saved Christmas," can be personalized for young readers. The program is presented by the Sunflower Reading Council, a local council of the Kansas Reading Association. Refreshments and door prizes will be included in the event. All ages are welcome at the free presentation.
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