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I've had the opportunity to witness what Damon Marks and the Traveling Guitar Foundation have been doing for the kids and their schools..not only is he an inspiration for these young musicians but also for us adults that forgot how music can change your life.
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I got to see first hand the joy that the school kids had when they saw what the traveling guitar foundation was donating to the schools music program. To see the way the kids had a chance to interact with the musicians was great.
I think what Damon Marks has done for the children of Elizabeth is wonderful! EVERY child deserves to not only be given an education but also be exposed to the gift of music. This is a basic form of expression and it is being lost on a generation of children! Music has saved many of us. It is a safe place to express yourself, find solitude, express joy and sadness. Damon has given a selfless gift back to the children of his hometown through his foundation. As more and more funding is being cut from the arts, it's nice to see someone who understands it's importance, especially in the inner city, and is willing to do something to stop this unfortunate trend. BRAVO Damon!
I think what the Traveling Guitar Foundation is doing to help kids is just wonderful! They give children a second chance. Music has the power to save people from not so wonderful environments and it empowers them to grow, to be better everyday and it also keeps them away from trouble.
I come from a third world country, Venezuela, and I know many people whose lives where saved from drugs and poverty through learning music and developing a career as a classical musicians in the well known National Orchestras from Venezuela with "El Sistema".
I truly believe, that The Traveling Guitar Foundation is making a difference in those children's life! I highly recommend everyone who can help them to contribute any way they can so they can keep on changing lives with beautiful music!
What TGF has done for the public schools has gone above and beyond expectations. The children are really receptive to this positive influence that they would not have otherwise receive. What Damon Marks is doing is such a great thing that we all should take a cue from.
Damon's contributions to my community through the Traveling Guitar Foundation has been amazing. I recently attended a Traveling Guitar Foundations school event and can say the instruments they have donated are of extremely professional quality and their work with the students is above and beyond.
What a great way to give back. With music education so quick to be cut from school programs, if's heart warming to find an organization willing to invest in kids and music. Keep up the good work Damon!!!
Damon is doing a terrific job with the Traveling Guitar Foundation, providing musical instruments to kids in need. This is especially important right now, with looming budget cuts, arts are one of the first programs to get cut. Damon and TGF are keeping hope alive for those kids in danger of losing possibly the only thing that they look forward to in school, sometimes their music their music is their only outlet, their only form of self expression, their only reason for going to school and their other classes in the first place. Keep up the great work with TGF, Damon!
What Damon Marks is doing is ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL! Music has been a life saver for my 19 year old daughter, and if not for the music program in her school I am not sure she would have graduated. The sad thing is that we are dependent on programs such as this to keep such a fundamental right to the arts alive in our public school system. More artists need to take Damon's approach and draw some much needed attention to this area.
The Traveling Guitar Foundation fills an important void in today's schools that are cutting back on music education. Matt Gibson is a veteran and we love it how he's using his platform for kids and veterans alike...
I just found out about this nonprofit and it sounds great! I am always interested on helping musicians or people that are interested on music. This foundation really sounds like it is needed on many places.
They are truly Earth Angels giving of themselves to raise hope and love for other generations yet to be . The energy of music that is shared is out of their hearts infinitely .
I work at Apperson Street School and the Traveling Guitar Foundation came to our school last year. The assembly they presented was awesome. They inspired so many of our students and they donated guitars to our school. This organization is extraordinary.
I love the way The Traveling Guitar Foundation gives back to the community. They put on great performances for the children at schools & donate instruments.


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Choose one of our Mykonos villas and experience the allure of a truly legendary destination. Greek mythology tells us that Mykonos was formed when Hercules defeated the Giants and flung their bodies into the Aegean, where they petrified and became the voluptuous island that we know today. It was worshipped in Ancient Greece and it is still revered today, though for much different reasons now - most commonly those stunning Mykonos villas - rather than its ties to the Gods. Here the beaches are powder soft and the drinks flow freely, if that's what you're looking for near your Mykonos villa rental, but there are areas of a more tranquil energy too in its twisting village alleys and quiet mountain landscapes.At a Mykonos villa, you can live a combination of lifestyles any way you choose in the true laidback fashion of this easygoing island. In short, Mykonos has a little something for everyone. Mykonos villas are what brought the first tourists to this scenic island, and they have been coming back for more ever since. Who wouldn't want to have a Mykonos vacation rental, charmingly stereotypical in immaculate Greek whites and blues, all to themselves? The views alone from your villa will be enough to soothe the weariest of souls, though the aforementioned beaches surely won't hurt. Most Mykonos villa rentals come with staff services and private pools that seem to drop off into the Mediterranean. Also included with your Mykonos villa? A little slice of mythological magic. You can thank Hercules for that.
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Bulging disc treatment
A bulging disc occurs when a disc in the spine becomes compressed between two vertebrae and is squeezed out beyond its normal parameter within the spinal cord. A bulging disc is often classified as a degenerative spine condition because it often develops slowly as time and age wear down the spine. Some patients with a mild bulging disc may not even be aware of their condition until the bulging disc worsens, compressing a nerve root in the spinal canal and causing severe and chronic pain.
If you are already experiencing the symptoms of a bulging disc, such as chronic and radiating pain in the neck and head, as well as limited movement in the neck, and you have been diagnosed with a bulging disc by your physician, you may want to begin researching the treatment options available to you. While many cases a degenerative spine conditions like bulging discs respond well to physical therapy and other conservative methods of treatment, some more severe instances of bulging disc may require surgical treatment.
Conservative treatment for a bulging disc
Treatment for a bulging disc in the neck almost always begins with a conservative, non-surgical course of action. Typically, the symptoms associated with a bulging disc will begin to lessen over time. You should stay with a conservative treatment for about 2 – 3 months before determining if this treatment is effectively reducing your pain and symptoms. Conservative treatments include:
- Physical therapy
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- Behavior modification
- Epidural injections
If these or other conservative treatments are not enough to find relief from neck pain, your physician might recommend a surgical treatment.
A safer, more effective surgical treatment for bulging disc
There are two types of surgery from which you can choose to treat a severely bulging disc: traditional open neck surgery and minimally invasive stabilization surgery.
Traditional open neck surgery is a highly invasive procedure that is performed in a hospital and requires two to three days of postoperative hospital stay for monitored recovery. The surgery begins with the surgeon making a large incision in the neck, cutting through the surrounding muscles and soft tissue to access the spine. This invasive incision increases the risk of infection and excessive blood loss. Cutting through the muscles also increases the recovery time while the muscles heal and rebuild. Once the spine is accessed, the diseased disc is removed and a bone graft is inserted with metal to fuse together the surrounding vertebrae. The recovery time for a traditional open neck fusion could be about 3 – 6 months, with some patients waiting a year before being able to return to daily activities.
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When it comes to choosing a used car, actual owners of the model you're interested in, offer the most unbiased reviews. That is, of course, when they're not trying to sell you their own car… As you probably already know, Consumer Reports (CR) not only tests cars, but it also asks its almost 1 million subscribers each year how their vehicles are doing through its Annual Auto Survey.
While CR's reviews may offer first-hand details on certain qualities and faults of new vehicles, usually long-term ownership reveals how good a car is. This is why the publication compiled a Best & Worst Used Cars list for model years 2003 through 2012.
Based on feedback from its subscribers and on Consumer Reports' own reviews, the report names the best budget sedans, SUVs and small cars available in four price categories – from $10,000 or less up to $25,000.
Less than $10,000
In the most economical category, CR found the 2009 Pontiac Vibe to be the best small car. It is the only U.S. brand that won a category (it also helped that the Vibe was a twin of the Toyota Matrix). The best sedans in this price range are the 4-cylinder 2008 Hyundai Sonata and 2004 Acura TSX, while the 4-cylinder 2004 Toyota RAV4 was picked the best SUV.
$10,000 - $15,000
The best cars in this segment are all Japanese. The best small car title is shared by the 2011 Honda Fit with the 2011 Mazda3, while the sedan category is an all-Honda affair, with the 2006-07 Honda Accord V6 sharing honors with its more upscale sibling, the 2005-06 Acura TL. The 2006-08 Toyota RAV4 and 2005-07 Honda CR-V tie for the title of the best small SUV, while the 2004-07 Toyota Highlander V6 and 2003-04 Infiniti FX share the title of best midsized/large SUV.
$15,000 - $20,000
The 2010-11 Toyota Prius and 2011-12 Hyundai Elantra sedan are the best small cars in the third price range, while the 2011-2012 4-cylinder Toyota Camry and 2006-07 Infiniti M are the best mid-size sedans. The SUV award goes to the 2007-08 Honda Pilot and 2009 Mazda CX-9.
$20,000 - $25,000
Surprisingly, the only German car to win a category is the 2009 BMW 328i, which shares the best sedan title with the 2009 Infiniti G and 2010 Toyota Avalon. Best SUV goes to 2007-08 Acura MDX and 2008 Lexus RX.
And the worst are…
Consumer Reports' list also includes 20 models from the 2003 to 2012 model years with multiple years of "much-worse-than-average overall reliability". The list is dominated by U.S. brands (with 7 Chrysler Group vehicles, 4 GM cars and 2 Fords), but there are also German cars (BMW 7 Series, BMW X5, Mini Cooper S, Mercedes-Benz GL-Class and VW Touareg), as well as Korean (Kia Sorento V6). You can take a look at the full list here.
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A MacBook Pro with a 13-inch screen featuring retina display sells for $1,350 at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot exchange, where the slogan is "Core Brands Corps Value."
The same-sized MacBook Pro, also with retina display, sells for $1,099 at Best Buy.
A 72-pack of Huggies Newborn diapers retails for $19.59 at the Navy Exchange on Santo Road in Tierrasanta, where hundreds of military families live and shop.
Walmart offers the same diapers for $17.97.
Despite the goal of military exchanges and commissaries providing discounted merchandise to service members, veterans and their families, many of their products actually cost more than they do at traditional retailers.
The mark-ups are not across the board. A U-T Watchdog review showed that some merchandise can be bought for less at military exchanges. But routine foods and other products stocked at San Diego exchanges often sell for more money than they do at name-brand markets.
Military officials note that exchanges do not charge sales tax, a savings that can translate to 9 percent or more in some communities. They also point to their price-match policy, which offers any product at the advertised price of any other store.
"We work very hard to offer the most competitive price on the products we carry every day," said Kathleen Martin, a spokeswoman for Navy Exchange Service Command, which generated $2.7 billion in sales last year at more than 300 locations worldwide. "We want our customers to be confident that they are getting the best value on their purchases."
Do you think military exchanges offer bargain prices?
Yes 30% (81)
No 70% (185)
266 total votes.
Some current and former service members say that exchange and commissary costs are too high.
Michael McCarthy, a retired Navy surgeon from Carlsbad who has shopped at military stores for years, said he finds products both large and small priced lower at regular retailers.
"You can get things considerably cheaper at Costco and Walmart than you get on the base," he said. "The explanations I've been given, none of them have made any sense to me."
The exchanges date back to the 19th century, when the government first authorized traders to sell to service members.
Prior to that, peddlers often followed armies in order to sell soldiers basic supplies like soap and razors -- provisions that were not then provided by the military.
These days, exchanges are operated by the Navy, Marine Corps, Army, Air Force and Coast Guard.
The exchanges are designed as for-profit enterprises that sell everything from uniforms and basketballs to gasoline and haircuts. The profits help fund recreation and welfare programs for service members.
Commissaries are run under a different Department of Defense program supported by congressional appropriation. The rules require commissaries to sell their merchandise at cost, plus 5 percent.
Exchange and commissary customers have to be active-duty, veterans or military dependants to shop at the stores.
Service members and their families say they appreciate the discounts that are offered inside the exchanges, but several told the Watchdog that they are selective about what they buy there.
"No sales tax is nice, but it may be a little more expensive," said Jilliene Pearsall, a nanny for a military family who was outside the Navy exchange in Serra Mesa recently.
"I wouldn't shop there for groceries; the diapers and formula seem more expensive," she said. "But for a soda or bottle of water, it's fine."
The Watchdog compared prices at Navy and Marine exchanges with the same products available at for profit companies like Walmart, Target and Amazon.com.
In many cases, the merchandise sold for less at stores open to the public.
An 8.9-ounce box of Cheerios, for example, sells for $3.09 at the Navy exchange -- 51 cents more than the Walmart price. A 9-ounce bag of Ruffles Original chips sells for $4.29 at the exchange and $2.98 at Walmart.
The Apples to Apples Party Box retails for $19.99 at the exchange; the same game sells for $2 less at Amazon.com. Target sells a 12.3-ounce box of Eggo Homestyle Waffles for $2.29, a half dollar less than the exchange price.
Not every item was less expensive at mainstream retailers.
The Spalding Neverflat 29.5-inch basketball was selling for $34.99 at the Navy exchange. The same NBA official game ball is $39.99 at Target and Dick's Sporting Goods.
Anita Roberson, the head of merchandising at NAF Business and Support Services Division, which runs the Marine Corps exchanges, said her agency works to keep prices as competitive as possible.
She said buyers and field personnel regularly conduct shopping visits at discount and big box retailers to make sure their members are receiving the best deals the military can offer.
"Specifically, the electronics categories are shopped weekly based on the volatility of the pricing in this category," she said.
The Marine Corps conducts a "market basket survey" every year to see how much service members save on an average cart of groceries, Roberson said. The review includes a grocery cart filled with random household goods also sold at traditional markets and discount retailers, she said.
"Survey results in 2013 showed that Marine Corps Exchange shoppers on average save 23.6 percent compared to outside the gate retailers," Roberson said. "Our shoppers also do not have to pay local sales tax which results in even great savings."
Michael, a Marine sergeant and customer who did not want his last name published because he is not authorized to speak to reporters, said the exchanges are a good deal for larger purchases but not so much for routine shopping.
"With the bigger exchanges, it's worth the effort to compare prices," he said. "You save money on the sales taxes and the price matches are very helpful (but) for smaller stores, it's not the best way to do it."
Martin, the Navy Exchange Service Command spokeswoman, said her agency surveys show members save an average of 22 percent on a basket filled with routine groceries when purchased at an exchange.
She also said 70 percent of profits are returned to sailors in the form of financial support for various morale, welfare and recreation programs. The rest is spent building and renovating new stores.Copyright © 2017, The San Diego Union-Tribune


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Spotlight On: Thomas Nelson Fiction
Thomas Nelson is committed to giving readers what they want, how they want it.
Serving a wide spectrum of readers
"We need to be format agnostic," said Allen Arnold (right), senior vice-president and fiction publisher at Thomas Nelson. "Our job is not to force people to love the smell of ink and print. Our job is to give [readers] freedom to get their content to them in the way they want to read it."
And Thomas Nelson does just that. With around 45 titles released every year in a multitude of genres, Thomas Nelson cares about reaching readers with multiple stories told from the common denominator of a Christian worldview.
In an effort to stay fresh and relevant to these readers, Thomas Nelson recently created a survey to poll the most passionate Christian fiction fans. The feedback was overwhelming and they cut off the survey after 5,000 responses.
Survey said…
The majority of responders indicated they want to be entertained.
Readers were asked the main reason they pick up Christian fiction: reading for entertainment, for inspiration, to learn Christian information, or as an evangelistic tool. The majority of responders indicated they want to be entertained.
When asked Thomas Nelson's thoughts on the idea of escapist fiction, Arnold said it's a both/and situation. "If I want a sermon, I'll read nonfiction. If you're not entertaining, you don't earn the right for anything else."
How can I be a part of this?
Arnold offered tips for writers seeking to hone their craft or break into the business:
- The more in your face the issue is in a manuscript, the more in your face the Christianity should be. Don't shy away from dealing with the hard issues.
- Pitches should be honed and crafted into an articulate sentence or two. If he's confused by your story after 15 minutes, there's no way he can convince retailers to carry your title.
- No genre is out. It's only out until the next person hits big on it.
- Men rarely read female authors, while women read both. Male authors trying to break in have a bit more of an advantage and more of them are succeeding.
- Thomas Nelson enjoys working with authors who enjoy the publication process. They try to gauge how flexible a new author is. "If the author says, 'This is my story—take it or leave it,' most of the time we leave it," Arnold said.
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Awesome advise Mark! I know this is a BIGGIE for a lot of shooters.
When I was shooting the loose grip was shown by allowing the bow to swing forward after the shot and we all used to have wrist straps to aid in letting the bow free after pulling the trigger. Do they still recommend that?
Next you should talk about squeezing your shoulder blades prior to the shot, or how to have a buddy pull the trigger for you to help with anticipating the shot and wincing. Just some ideas cause I think your advice to new shooters is GREAT!
Keep up the good work!
Very good tip! It will improve shot groups for sure!
Thanks Ted!
Definitely do still recommend the wrist sling. I use one myself! And I also think you make a great point about squeezing w/your shoulder blades, and using the buddy technique to work on not anticipating the shot. Look for something about that coming soon.


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Juventus latest side to join Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United in £12m striker race
MOUSSA DEMBELE will have yet another major club interested in his signature when his current deal expires at the end of the season according to reports.
Moussa Dembele will not be short of options if he stays at Fulham until the summer
The 19-year-old has yet to sign a new contract with Fulham who acquired him from Paris Saint-Germain in 2012.
Dumbbell quickly established himself in the under-18 side at Craven Cottage before making his Premier League debut at the end of 2013 at the age of 17.
Now in the Championship, Dembele has started 20 league games for the Cottagers with nine goals to his name.
It is that form and the player's availability which has attracted a number of Premier League suitors with Liverpool the latest club to throw their name into the hat.
However, according to reports in Italy, Juventus are also interested in the France under-20 international and have the advantage of being a foreign club, which allows them to approach the player directly before English clubs can.
But should Fulham wish to cash in on their contract rebel, they are reported to be looking for around £12million for a January transfer to happen.


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La Botica Mezcal
Our friends from m ss ng p eces recently returned from making a video in Mexico City with bottles of a smoky, complex mezcal labeled "La Botica." Turns out La Botica is a small mezcaleria in the trendy Condesa section of the city that's rebranding the humble liquor for a new audience with beautifully-designed packaging and an artisinal approach. Since opening a couple years ago, La Botica has opened four more branches in Mexico City.
Playing on the name La Botica (Spanish for Chemist or Pharmacy), the bar features walls lined with the diminutive bottles that themselves look like bottles of medicine. Available in 20 varieties, the one I tried was the añejo (aged) but other varieties include pechuga (a traditional method that's distilled with a vaporized chicken breast to balance out fruit flavors) and cremas, which are more like liqueurs.
Photos courtesy of Eduardo Towers Veytia.
La Botica
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Mexico City, Mexico
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In a Financial Times op-ed piece published on Monday, June 21, Felix Goltz, EDHEC-Risk Institute's head of applied research, argued that the indexing industry should offer investors viable alternatives because the academic literature does not support investment in cap-weighted indexes. Goltz based his argument on a paper he and a colleague, V?ronique Le Sourd, published in January.
Entitled "Does Finance Theory Make the Case for Capitalisation-Weighted Indexing?", the paper reviews the evidence in the academic literature and concludes that only under very unrealistic assumptions would cap-weighted indexes be efficient investments. "In the presence of realistic constraints and frictions, cap-weighted indices cannot, according to the academic literature, be expected to be efficient investments," the authors wrote.
Russell Investments is now offering an alternative. In June, the longtime developer of market-cap-weighted indexes said that it had joined with Research Affiliates (RA) to launch a new index series based on RA's Fundamental Index methodology, which selects and weights securities by fundamental measures of company size. The new indexes are designed to give investors the opportunity to obtain alternative beta exposures that may be appropriate for their portfolios, Russell said.
At the same time, Russell insisted that the collaboration with RA had not change its belief that its market-cap-weighted indexes were the best description of the investable opportunity set and thus the most appropriate benchmarks.
RA chairman Rob Arnott demurs. "Fundamental Index strategies are rapidly gaining acceptance around the world," he said.
Investors have yet another alternative in equal-weighted indexes. With this methodology, securities are assigned the same weighting or representation, regardless of their market size, financial metrics or other factors, according to NASDAQ. For example, the S&P Equal Weight Index has the same holdings as the cap-weighted S&P 500, but each company is assigned a fixed weight of 0.2% and is rebalanced quarterly. This indexing strategy prevents stocks with the largest market size from dominating the index, NASDAQ says.
Michael S. Fischer (firstname.lastname@example.com) is a New York-based financial writer and editor and a frequent contributor to WealthManagerWeb.com.


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Life is a sweet melodious rose
From the territory where we are living,
The choice of life we choose
love is about sharing and giving.
When the world is unforgiving
Nations are born into one blood
We must be strive to live loving
And practice being good.
The rhythm of enchantment
Can hear musical melodious tune,
Swept along the earth's movement
Dispel darkness and gloom.
Little is known apart from a name
Given at birth by strangers
A treasure full of butterfly pain
We grow and live among the dangers.


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Solid Gold 200
Plastic Toy Camera & FED 3
UP Diliman campus & Manila Bay (from Manila Ocean Park Bayside Deck)
October 2009 & October 2010
I am amazed. Speechless.
Here's a happy accident and a pleasant surprise I will only get from film cameras. There's a roll of Solid Gold 200 that I didn't get to rewind properly (the film leader was still exposed) the first time I used it. I eventually forgot about it, but a year after, I picked it up again (thinking it's unused film) and loaded it on my FED 3.
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Faces of the campaign: Alejandra Gomez
Name: Alejandra Gomez
Job Title: Central Arizona Regional Field Director
Hometown: Pomona, California
Based in: Phoenix, Arizona
Q1. What does a day at work look like to you?
Every day at work is a new opportunity to get President Obama closer to re-election. My organizers and I work hard to ensure that we are having one-on-one conversations, phone banks, and voter registration events that will bring new people into this movement and expand the electorate here in Arizona. We want to make sure that our community is voting for President Obama, as someone who represents our values.
Q2. How did you first come to the campaign?
I thought I was interviewing for an organizer position and it was actually for a position as regional field director. I was intimidated but super excited to be working for President Obama, who had inspired me since I first heard of him in 2004.
Q3. What's your favorite part of your job?
Meeting people from all walks of life and diverse backgrounds who are so passionate about re-electing President Obama. Our volunteers step up and take on leadership and responsibilities that they never thought they could—and they excel at it. It's great knowing that we are all fighting together to re-elect the President so we can keep moving this country forward.
Q4. What's the most unexpected part of your job?
Having the opportunity to see President Obama speak, and meeting Campaign Manager Jim Messina. Both were amazing and unexpected treats for me and my team.
Q5. Tell us a fun fact about yourself.
The first time I played on a softball team, we won the championships—and I got MVP. That was a fun experience.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Raiders cornerback Michael Huff took obvious glee in analyzing the performance of former teammate Stanford Routt in a joyous winning locker room Sunday.
"Started off good for him but went downhill from there," Huff said after the Raiders prevailed 26-16 at Arrowhead Stadium.
Routt, whose release was the first big move by first-year general manager Reggie McKenzie, intercepted a Carson Palmer pass intended for Darrius Heyward-Bey on the first snap of the game.
No flag was thrown on a play in which Routt appeared to jostle and push off Heyward-Bey before making the interception. After making between a reported $15 million and $20 million from the Raiders from a contract extension negotiated by Al Davis, Routt was cut in March before a $5 million roster bonus was due.
It was Routt's second interception for the Chiefs, who signed him for a reported $19.6 million over three years and instantly integrated more man-to-man defense into their schemes.
Routt got a lot of action afterward, and none of it was good.
Near the end of the first quarter, Routt was called for illegal contact on third-and-7 at the Kansas City 42 for an automatic first down, extending a drive that resulted in a 35-yard field goal by Sebastian Janikowski.
Just before halftime, with the Raiders facing third-and-8 at the Kansas City 9-yard line, Routt was the closest Oakland defender to Denarius Moore on a 9-yard touchdown pass from Palmer.
It got worse in the third quarter when Palmer threw to his left and connected with Heyward-Bey for a potential short gain with Routt covering. Heyward-Bey spun out of the tackle and raced 32 yards for a touchdown and a 23-9 lead.
Palmer said the plan was to go at Routt from the outset.
"He made a great play on the first play of the game," Palmer said. "I have to give Darrius a better chance to make that play. We tried to set the tone with that one, but he got the best of me."
Routt wasn't interested in getting into details.
"Obviously, they were trying me," Routt said. "You think about that with every team and every quarterback you go against as a corner. It wasn't anything deeper than what you guys are trying to make it out to be."
In describing the play, Heyward-Bey didn't call Routt by name.
"I caught the ball, made somebody miss, got in the end zone," Heyward-Bey said. "Brandon (Myers) did a good job blocking downfield. Simple as that."
Asked if there was any talk with his former teammate, friendly or otherwise, Heyward-Bey said: "I don't care. It's about the Raiders and the Chiefs. He's an ex-teammate."
Chimed in Myers from the next locker: "It's not about Stanford Routt. It's about the Raiders and the Chiefs."
Safety Mike Mitchell, whose locker was next to Routt's for three years, said his former teammate wasn't in much of a mood for conversation after the game.
"Stan didn't want to talk to me," Mitchell said. "He's a little hurt."


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Professor Ruth Milkman (Sociology), a scholar of labor and labor movements, has been a prominent voice in recent national news coverage of paid parental and sick, following President Barack Obama's call to make paid leave a national policy. Read more
The Economic Benefits of Paid Parental Leave
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You couldn't help but giggle, sitting behind wizened little Stanley Marcus at the world premiere of Blind Lemon: Prince of Country Blues as actors sang or spoke lines like "I can't even make enough money to buy me a loaf of bread." You had to wonder whether Marcus, who was attending a benefit night for producing entity Documentary Arts, could relate to Dallas' most influential bluesman, who started off dirt-poor and died in relative affluence, a hugely successful recording artist who may have frozen to death in Chicago, where he recorded his most famous songs from 1926 to '29. One individual in the audience introduced himself during intermission to the buttoned-down, cane-carrying Mr. Marcus and said something like, "It's a pleasure to be in the same room with two pieces of Dallas history."
That was, of course, a well-intentioned compliment phrased clumsily, sort of like when a Fort Worth audience member referred to a visiting Lauren Bacall a couple of years back as a "relic from Hollywood's Golden Age." Yet there was a certain thrill being in the audience of the Majestic's basement Experimental Theater for Blind Lemon: Prince of Country Blues. As a native Dallasite, a blues devotee (more so of the female singers in that genre), and a current resident of Deep Ellum, I was sometimes fascinated by the narrative of the play--written by historian Alan Govenar and actor Akin Babatunde, who also directed. Blind Lemon Jefferson was a sightless black man who felt his way with a cane across the railroad tracks to sing and play guitar at the corner of Elm and Central in Deep Ellum, a place where ethnic immigrants and African-Americans mingled for commerce and contraband, partying and professional transactions.
Office of Cultural Affairs member Margie Reese has said she wants Blind Lemon to be a signature piece for Dallas, and with that she's on to something far more significant than Trinity River levees or a new sports arena or a Starbucks in Oak Cliff. This burg will never be a "world-class city" until it goes back in time and investigates and understands its colorful historical figures. Dallas' biggest sin is a monomaniacal obsession with the future to the neglect of the past. Many people around the country think we're superficial not because we lack taste or talent, but because we're clueless as to where we came from.
So, Govenar and Babatunde's Blind Lemon: Prince of Country Blues helps to satisfy a hungry void with the story of the title musician (David Peaston) who became America's best-selling blues artist for three years during the late '20s. But as pure theater, they've devised a trifle, a bloated reverie that provides poseurish flourishes where facts about the still-mysterious Blind Lemon can't be summoned. You could argue that all the amenities with which Blind Lemon Jefferson's story is outfitted in this musical are antithetical to his raw, angry, plaintive sound. While trying to fill in the blanks of a legendary performer's life, Govenar and Babatunde wind up inflating and trivializing the man's mystery. Part of the overheated quality of this production might be because there's a whole lot of twisting, gyrating, hollering, and moaning going on in what is a tiny, cheaply overhauled rehearsal space.
Dallas Summer Musicals head Michael Jenkins has said much about wanting to contribute to small, original Dallas theater, but rumor has it this underground space is way overpriced for its paltry benefits. As is, this "theater" offers many deficits--namely, overhead lights that are unintentionally positioned to blind audience members sitting in several different vantage points. The space, or lack thereof, offers a terribly claustrophobic experience for actor and ticketbuyer, who are mashed together with rows stacked three deep on either side. Under certain circumstances, this wouldn't be a big deal. From the Undermain space on Main to Theatre Too in the revamped rehearsal room for Theatre Three, Dallas is no stranger to intimate, elbow-to-elbow performances. But for the most part, edgy dramas or comedies with small casts happen in those places, and Blind Lemon: Prince of Country Blues has too mythic and musical a heart (and too big a cast) to squeeze into this miserly cabinet.
No doubt about it, there's some incredible singing in this revue, starting with David Peaston as Blind Lemon Jefferson. Govenar says that Peaston deliberately made no attempt to mimic Blind Lemon's voice--his vocals were intended to invoke a blues mood. The bald fact is, when you compare Peaston's and Jefferson's voices, Peaston has far and away the superior instrument in power and delivery. But that's part of the problem with this show--the Grammy-nominated lead actor has a voice that's too good, too polished, too much influenced by Andrae Crouch and even (dare I guess) Luther Vandross. We know this because director Akin Babatunde makes an appearance as Blind Willie Johnson, a competing bluesman, and performs a vocal cutting contest with Blind Lemon. Peaston blows Babatunde away with his elaborate lilts and twirls, but Babatunde delivers a Howling Wolf-like rasp that feels rawer and bluesier than anything else in this show. Anything, that is, except for indispensable Dallas actress Liz Mikel, who I feared would be delivering various monologues in this show but would never be allowed to showcase her daunting vocal chops. She does finally and gorgeously cut loose--as Lillian Glenn, a forgotten area blueswoman done up in Bessie Smith-ish sequins and hair feathers, belting a tune called "Cravin' a Man." Mikel makes you wonder what a musical devoted to Glenn would be like.
There's another awesome Dallas actor in this show, Terry Martin, whom I didn't expect to sing but was enlisted to be the eyes through which we see the story of Blind Lemon Jefferson. He plays the historian part, the Alan Govenar role, a man named Eli who trudges through Wortham, Texas, looking for Jefferson's grave. As written here, it's not a role, but a catalyst, a reactor, a recorder. The actor who plays it isn't given much to do onstage, but the superlative Martin is one of those rare talents who can turn famine into feast. He spends a lot of time listening to stories with a serious expression on his face, but Martin's never ponderous or insignificant when he's in a scene. He can be silent and contemplative and still hold your attention. He also does a brief, crisp turn as the racist Paramount Records executive who takes over (and takes credit for) Blind Lemon's national career.
All that praise can't be heaped upon the chorus of dancers in Blind Lemon: Prince of Country Blues. Once again, I'd like to see this show in a larger, more appropriate venue to judge the success of SMU choreographer Joe Orlando's hip-swaying, shoulder-dislocating, pose-striking moves. In the Majestic Theatre's itty-bitty basement, the dancers aren't embarrassing, just unnecessary and occasionally obtrusive. We feel as if the life of Jefferson is being expressed through the cast of Fame in a high school variety show. All that movement looks and feels pretentious, antithetical to the spontaneous streetcorner raspings and bellowings of Blind Lemon Jefferson. Indeed, the whole production, riveting as it sometimes is, feels as plotted and canned as the directions that Jefferson reacted against when he was invited into a Chicago studio by opportunistic producers.
Blind Lemon: Prince of Country Blues runs through June 12. Call (214) 515-0543.
If you haven't gotten your chick fix in a while and you're jonesing bad about it, then let Echo Theatre be your Dr. Feelgood. Echo Presents... is its evening of five selections by women actors-writers-musicians. Anna Brownsted presents a "multimedia poem" about being old at age 25 called Matron, Maiden, Main-Dish Tart; Ground Level Dance Company performs original choreography; singer Laurie McNair delivers original tunes; and actress Jane McFarlane performs Gretchen Elizabeth Smith's one-woman show about Sarah Bernhardt, Writing the Legend.
The evening's centerpiece, though, is a half-hour solo performance by SMU professor and writer-actress Rhonda Blair. American Jesus is a fictionalized semi-autobiographical meditation on growing up female in a Christian fundamentalist household, a little bit like an American theatrical version of Jeannette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.
"Hmm, how personal should I get here?" Blair wonders aloud when asked about her own religious upbringing. "I'm not a Christian anymore, I'm a Buddhist. It was a 10-year journey after high school for me to reconcile my love of theater with my spirituality, to fully understand that I and my friends weren't going to hell because we disagreed with the values of my childhood."
American Jesus is a reaction to that, using hymns and Bible text and character monologues to make connections between gender, the human body, and literal readings of Christian law. There is another aspect to the show that Blair says makes it uniquely of these United States.
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"Besides being about God or Satan, heaven or hell, it's also about Taco Bell," she notes. "I mix fundamentalism with product marketing. It's the links between the deepest faith and our beauty and economic power. Part of my challenge is being respectful of differences in belief. I don't want to replicate the judgmentalism, the splitting apart in certain aspects of religious fundamentalism."
Blair's last major performance piece was I Used to Be One Hot Number for Dallas Theater Center's Big D Festival of the Unexpected in 1996. American Jesus has been performed only once before, at the Performance Studies International showcase in Wales. Blair, like many performers, is wary of the term "performance art," but she does relate in many ways to a famous Los Angeles-based performance artist with whom she has worked.
"Tim Miller fascinates me. I so value what he does," Blair says. "He's trying to recover the fact that spirituality is connected to the body [Miller works with progressive Protestant seminaries to foster a greater Christian appreciation of sexuality]. I so respect that he's working with seminary students in Los Angeles to do that. I've actually included an e-mail from Tim in the show."
Echo Presents...runs June 3-5, 8 p.m., at Frank's Place in the Kalita Humphreys Theatre. Call (214) 824-7169.


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Today the Vatican announced Pope Benedict XVI's intentions for the month of February. They include prayers for scholars in their search for the truth and that the Church embraces her missionary identity in faithful pursuit of Christ.
The Holy Father's general intention for February is: "That by means of sincere search for the truth scholars and intellectuals may arrive at an understanding of the one true God."
Pope Benedict XVI's mission intention is: "That the Church, aware of her own missionary identity, may strive to follow Christ faithfully and to proclaim his Gospel to all peoples."


text: My Faith/The Catholic Church/Theology The Last Pope Ever: The Truth About the St. Malachy Prophecy by Joshua Madden Are you tired of all the 'end of the world' talk yet? Recently, you might have been feeling lucky to be alive upon waking up on December 22nd … the day after the supposed Mayan Apocalypse of December 21st, 2012. Or perhaps you were glad that the United States government narrowly escaped having to call Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck to fly into outer space and save us from being hit by an asteroid a few weeks ago (Armageddon anyone?). Well buckle up, because there's one more end of the world prophecy floating around out there'Ìâ‰âÂÌâ_ The Saint Malachy Prophecy In the late 16th century there was a prophecy published that supposedly contained what The Prophecy of the Popes; this prophecy was supposedly linked to an Irish Bishop, Saint Malachy, who lived in the 12th century. Here's the deal: The prophecy contains a list of the names of 112 popes, beginning with Pope Celestine II who reigned over the church in the 12th century. The list ends with a pope by the mysterious name of Petrus Romanus, 'Peter the Roman.' When you count out all the popes, Pope Benedict XVI is supposed to be the last pope before 'Peter the Roman' is elected When 'Peter the Roman' is the pope, Rome will be destroyed and the Apocalypse will begin So basically, the prophecy states that the next pope elected will be the last pope the Catholic Church will ever have and the world will end during his pontificate. This is definitely not a teaching of the Catholic Church. It's true that plenty of saints have been granted visions, and God is constantly revealing things to his prophets and apostles all through the Bible. However, there are two big obstacles that stand in the way of being able to label this 'prophecy' as anything close to legit. The Historical Facts First, while the prophecy is supposed to have been written down by Saint Malachy in the 12th century, it was never spoken of even once before it surprisingly appeared out of nowhere at the very end of the 16th century. For a prophecy that supposedly predicts the Apocalypse in great detail, that's an amazing fact! Would a true prophecy really go more than 400 years without being mentioned even a single time? I don't think so. Second, while the prophecy proves to be rather accurate about all the popes before the 16th century, it is extremely vague and inaccurate for the popes who came after. Basically what that means is this: The 'prophecy' was written at the end of the 16th century So, whoever originally wrote it could simply look at the history of who had been pope, and be extremely accurate up to his own day For the list of the popes who would come after, it was just an elaborate and imaginative prediction of what would happen The Scriptural Facts If all the evidence so far hasn't convinced you, perhaps we should just look at what Jesus had to say about this sort of thing. For that, we turn to the Gospel of Matthew: 'Heaven and earth will pass away, by my words will not pass away. But about that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father' (Matthew 24:35-36). In this chapter, Jesus is speaking to his disciples about the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and the end of the world; these particular verses are specifically about the end of the world, and what does Jesus say? Nobody knows! Jesus says that no one knows, not the angels who are in heaven, and not even Himself in His own human knowledge (don't forget Jesus was one person with both a human nature, and a Divine nature). Knowing when the world will end is a purely divine privilege, something known only to the Holy Trinity … Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Now this isn't to say that we shouldn't care about the end or the world; in the Gospels, Jesus is constantly telling His disciples to 'be watchful,' and to always be ready for His return. However, expecting Jesus to come back and living a faithful life with the hope of His return is far different than marking your calendar and planning an end of the world party. 'The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints. Amen' (Revelation 22:21).


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Hans will be mad
Digging: Julien Baker - Turn Out The Lights
Yea not surprised, Hank III isn't all that great. Even new era Jr mainly isn't good either.
Will probably stay clear of this.
this is probably fucking awesome
Hank III is great, this is just a bad album.
can we please make cattlecore the hot new sputnik fad?
propane nig
Havent heard this. Some of his stuff rules hard but yeah he's put alot of shit out too, so it wouldnt surprise me if this was bad.
That made me laugh more than it should have.
Yeah, tried listening to this once. Once...
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Wahid: Generals should stand trial
Indonesian generals accused of human rights abuses in East Timor should be put on trial, President Abdurrahman Wahid has said
Speaking during a BBC interview, Mr Wahid said that if commanders had issued orders which led to abuses then they should face justice.
Earlier this month, the Indonesian Defence Minister, Juwano Sudarsono, said senior officers would not have to face court because they were only implementing government policies.
Last week, the Indonesian parliamentary commission investigating atrocities in East Timor said it would summon several generals, including former armed forces chief and Mr Sudarsono's predecessor, General Wiranto.
Wiranto singled out
Independence leader Xanana Gusmao also singled out General Wiranto as responsible for the violence that followed East Timor's independence vote in August.
"I believe that General Wiranto, as [then] minister for defence, was responsible," Mr Gusmao said at the end of November.
He said the wave of destruction had been planned and organised, and that he had asked General Wiranto several times to prevent it.
Mr Gusmao also blamed senior officers in Indonesia's elite special forces command, Kopassus, for the mayhem carried out by anti-independence militiamen.
"I have to say that the Kopassus generals were very, very involved in the destruction," he added.
Political violence
United Nations officials and a state-appointed Indonesian investigative team also said that the army and police had orchestrated the September rampage.
General Wiranto stepped down as armed forces chief last month, and he has been appointed co-ordinating minister for political and security affairs in President Wahid's month-old government.
About 100,000 East Timorese died in 24 years of Indonesian rule.
Hundreds of thousands of people fled their homes in terror after the independence ballot and many were forcibly sent to camps in Indonesian-held West Timor.
Aceh: 'No chance'
On the question of independence for another of Indonesia's trouble spots, the province of Aceh, President Wahid said his government's policy remained unchanged. He said there was no chance of independence.
"Democracy can be expressed in different way - as long as we are open, as long as we have discussions, as long as we have dialogue," he said.
Pardon for Suharto
Mr Wahid was also asked whether his government would give in to pressure from within Indonesia and abroad to bring former President Suharto to justice for involvement in corruption.
President Wahid said he should be pardoned, no matter what the outcome of an official inquiry is.
"He has to undergo an investigation whether he is involved or not.
"Whether he is wrong, whether he does something bad or not ... as a president he will be pardoned if he returns it.
"The condition: If he returns the fortune that he got."
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Aleksandra Wozniak and Eugenie Bouchard will play Canada's first two singles matches in its Fed Cup World Group 1 playoff tie with Slovakia.
Wozniak, of Blainville, Que., will open the best-of-five tie Saturday facing Jana Cepelova in the first singles match.
Then, Bouchard, of Westmount, Que., will play Kristina Kucova.
On Sunday, Bouchard will open against Cepelova before Wozniak takes on Kucova.
The final match will be a doubles contest with Toronto's Sharon Fichman and Ottawa's Gabriela Dabrowski taking on Cepelova and Janette Huscova.
The matches were established at the official draw Friday.
The tie will be played on an indoor hardcourt on the campus of Laval University.
The winner will advance to the World Group I for 2015, while the loser will compete in the World Group II.
Canada and Slovakia have only met once in Fed Cup play, with the Slovaks winning 5-0 in Bratislava in 1997.
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"You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico."
"The Dominican team is very good and has a lot of offense, and so does Puerto Rico. So do we. It all depends on the pitching. As long as we keep pitching, we will do well. So far, it's been good."
"[The fifth Puerto Rican to play in the NBA, Arroyo, 24, had an excused absence on the third day of training camp so he could attend a reception in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month held at the White House. The highlight came when President Bush thanked Arroyo for attending.] Honestly, ... I was sort of surprised he knew my name."
"I didn't know Port St. Lucie had so many Puerto Rican fans. That was great to see. They should do these games more often, because it brings the fans to the ballpark, there's excitement."
"If you're going to play bad, play bad down in South Carolina, or in one of those tournaments in Puerto Rico or something. For a lot of people, especially those watching on TV, this might be the one time they see us play."
"You wait till you see that Dominican team. You wait till you see Puerto Rico. You wait till you see Venezuela. . . . Matsui is a great player. The Japanese team needs him."


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April 24, 2013 BY Brendan Dunne
The Nike LeBron X Low in violet force/volt will release on May 25th, 2013. The sneaker is one that's been straddling the line as far as the "Sprite" nickname is concerned. It does the volt part of the equation, but the main tone utilized is a purple one, suggesting that these have more of a "Summit Lake Hornets" theme going on. Unfortunately there's no badge to indicate a clear connection as on the high version of the Nike LeBron X. Continue reading to see a new set of photos for this Nike LeBron X Low, remember that they're releasing next month, and purchase yours a little early from prc.kicks on eBay.
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Homemade Ornaments Are the Best!
I have ornaments hanging on my tree just like everyone else. I have the ones I bought 20 years ago that are made of glass and, every once in a while, break.
But the ones I hold dearest to my heart are the ones that are handmade by the ones I love.
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I'll tell you when I start to worry. I start to worry when "officials" tell me not to worry. This is why I am very concerned about the following Associated Press report, which was sent to me by a number of alert readers:
"RICHLAND, Wash.--Radioactive ants, flies and gnats have been found at the Hanford nuclear complex, bringing to mind those Cold-War-era `B' horror movies in which giant mutant insects are the awful price paid for mankind's entry into the Atomic Age.


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UK Gives Obama & Islam A Big 'F**K YOU!' – Votes To LEAVE The EU & Muslim Terror Refugees – #BREXIT
In a massive victory for Brits who were tired of EU bureaucrats dictating to member nations, especially on the topic of Muslim refugees
The United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union today. In a massive victory for Brits who were tired of EU bureaucrats dictating to member nations, especially on the topic of Muslim refugees, UK voters told Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron, the EU, and Muslims, "to hell with you, we'll decide our own fate from now own."
Obama spoke to British voters in April, basically threatening them that if they left the EU, the UK would be the last-in-line in terms of trading partners with the U.S.
BREAKING: World Markets In FREE FALL Over UK Exit Of EU – All Because EU FORCED Muslim TERROR Scum On EUROPE
CNN reported:
With flattery, poetry, and a blatant threat, President Barack Obama on Friday urged British voters to remain in the European Union — a controversial intervention into the referendum debate rocking America's closest ally.
Obama rejected claims by anti-Europe campaigners that he was interfering in internal U.K. politics, and in a serious blow to the "Leave" campaign, warned Britain not to bank on a free trade deal with Washington if it quits the EU.
In the most significant policy exchange of the hour-long news conference, Obama inflicted a serious blow on the "Leave" campaign, which maintains that Britain could make up for the loss of tariff-free access to European markets by quickly sealing a free trade deal with the United States.
"The U.K. is going to be in the back of the queue," Obama said, pointing out that the United States was already working on concluding a free trade agreement with the European Union itself, noting that in the current political environment negotiating such deals was a heavy lift.
That didn't sit well with the Brits. Pro-Brexit campaigners said that Obama was "interfering in internal U.K. politics."
Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), "unveiled a Brexit poster showing thousands of male refugees flooding into Europe," last week according to the UK's Daily Mail.
Farage warned all of Britain that Muslim refugees would soon overwhelm the UK, and urged citizens to vote to leave the EU. He was branded a "racist" by pro-EU government officials.
The charge of racism didn't deter UK voters, though. They voted overwhelmingly to leave the EU, and to control their own destiny, and their own immigration policy.
BOOM! #Brexit #brexitparty @AJDelgado13 @Nero pic.twitter.com/m3vI4ppRZy
— Clayton Keirns (@CKeirns) June 24, 2016
This is the year internationalism and multiculturalism are challenged. Good for #Brexit for standing for the free world and sovereignty.
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) June 24, 2016
The bigger the government is, the more it needs to be broken up.https://t.co/waa0LJJZbS#Brexit pic.twitter.com/7RG7QtG0Rl
— Matteo Wyllyamz (@mouselink) June 24, 2016
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— (((BaconRose))) (@RitzyBacon2) June 24, 2016
The first casualty of Britain's decision to leave the European Union? Leftist British Prime Minister David Cameron. He announced he is resigning.
WATCH: @David_Cameron resigns, confirms new Prime Minister will be in place for October.https://t.co/87gvhBQZb8
— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) June 24, 2016
Proud of our brothers & sisters in the UK, today. They took a step towards freedom.
All that's left to complete the revolution is for other nations to leave the Islam loving EU, and for us to vote Trump in in November.
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Hillary Begged For Forgiveness And Didn't Get It, Now Look Who Was Just Found Dead In Field Today
Another day and another dead body with a connection that cannot be ignored as Hillary Clinton's body count seems to be on the rise once again, after a brief reprieve of no sudden, mysterious casualties. The latest is possibly the most shocking yet in the truly startling trail of dead bodies that keep accumulating around this crooked woman with major secrets she's desperate to keep hidden no matter who has she has to kill off to ensure it. Hillary begged for forgiveness and didn't get it and now someone whom she owed "penance" is suspected of being caught in her wrath.
In what's being reported as a freak, unfortunate private plane and helicopter accident, where the two aircrafts collided mid-air, leaving four dead, is far more mysterious than is being said, based on who was on board and is now dead. Air traffic control "staff shortages" have been blamed for this collision which is a convenient excuse to cover up a connection one of the victims has to Hillary who always seems to come up in random tragic events like this.
The Telegraph reported on the mid-air collision, with a not-so-ironic landing spot:
"Four people have been killed in a mid-air collision between a helicopter and light aircraft flying from an airfield where air traffic control had been shut due to 'staff shortages.' Wreckage from the aircraft tumbled from the sky and landed just over a mile from the former home of the Rothschild banking family at Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire, yesterday lunchtime."
"Members of the Rothschild reported hearing a 'loud bang' and a plume of smoke could be seen above trees."
"The Air Accidents Investigation Branch said the collision involved a helicopter and a two-seat Cessna 152 aircraft, each carrying two people, both of the craft had taken off from Wycombe Air Park, 23 miles away near High Wycombe."
"A Notice to Airmen was previously issued to warn pilots the air field's air traffic control services would be closed during three 30-minute periods on selected days between November 7-30 due to a 'staff shortage.'"
"The crash occurred around half an hour after the latest closure was due to end."
What makes this collision strange, outside of how it happened, is that it took place right outside the Rothschild estate and only three of the four victims have been named. It's being speculated that Lord Jacob Rothschild is among the casualties and if true, this could be really bad for Hillary. So far, the only victims to be identified, perhaps on purpose, is the pilot of the helicopter, Captain Mike Green, and a student and flight instructor aboard the Cessna, 18-year-old Saavan Mundae, who was being instructed by Jaspal Barha, according to The Sun. So, was Jacob Rothschild, with a very big connection to the Clintons the fourth victim. Several sources seem to suggest that's the case but the Rothschild estate has not confirmed nor denied Jacob's well-being.
Your News Wire reports:
Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, is a member of the powerful elite Rothschild banking family.
The Rothschild's are commonly believed to have engineered WWI in order to force the British government into creating Israel by getting them to sign the Balfour Declaration in 1917.
Lord Rothschild also boasted that the New World Order, which his family heads, would be in place by 2018.
We must reiterate that it's not confirmed who the fourth passenger is, but it's suspicious that this victim has not been identified when the other three were. Sources suggesting that it was Jacob are only doing so as an assumption. What is fact, is that this collision took place near the Rothschild estate which is strange considering it could have gone down anywhere and perhaps there was a reason the aircrafts went down here.
Here's Hillary Clinton's connection with the Rothschild and why she had previously begged them for forgiveness, according to True Activist:
Hillary Clinton asked Lady de Rothschild "Let me know what penance I owe you" after requesting Tony Blair accompany her on official business, preventing him from attending a Rothschild event scheduled for that same weekend.
Several politicians, especially those who are the most willing to bend over backwards for wealthy interests, have made their careers by catering to the whims of the Rothschilds and other families like them. In US politics today, there is no better example of this archetype than Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. In fact, less than two months ago, Clinton flew just 20 miles in a private jet to attend a private Rothschild fundraiser in her honor. Yet, this is just one of the latest examples of her intimate relationship to the banking dynasty.
In emails from her private server made available to the public by WikiLeaks, Clinton's close relationship to Lady de Rothschild is evident due to their warm exchanges which include phrases such as "You are the best […] Sweet dreams," "I remain your loyal adoring pal," and "Much love." This is significant as, judging by Clinton's other emails, her communication style is almost always curt and concise, never approaching the outright declarations of affection found only in her exchanges with Lady de Rothschild. Lady de Rothschild, married into the Rothschild family in 2000 after being introduced to Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, who alone is worth $20 billion, at the 1998 Bilderberg Conference. War criminal Henry Kissinger served as the couple's "match-maker."
Yet, the most bizarre interaction between Clinton and Lady de Rothschild took place in an email titled "Info for you" (ID#1606), which was sent while Clinton was serving as US Secretary of State. In the email, Clinton tells Lady de Rothschild that she had to ask Tony Blair (then-Prime Minister of England) to accompany her to Israel due to the Middle East peace negotiations taking place at the time. Blair had previously planned to spend the weekend in Aspen, Colorado with the Rothschilds at an unspecified conference, but accepted Clinton's invitation. Clinton then says "I hope you all understand. […] Let me know what penance I owe you." For those who are not familiar with the word, penance is defined as follows: "An act of self-mortification or devotion performed voluntarily to show sorrow for a sin or other wrongdoing." Does this sound like something Hillary Clinton would normally say?
Hillary Clinton never seems to be able to escape scandal and as long as she's a free woman, rather than being locked up where she belongs, she will be continued to be questioned in everything that she has any kind of connection to.
What This Hotel Just Banned Has Muslims Ready To Riot Around The World Right Now
Now, this is a smart move in today's world.
The Malaysian Association of Hotels or also known as MAH has now defended its members' policy of prohibiting their frontline staff from wearing the hijab, or headscarf while at work saying it is international practice and not meant to be discriminatory.
A spokesperson for the hotels, Cheah Swee Hee, said the hotels, especially the international hotels in Malaysia, which has a huge Muslim population, followed a standard operating procedure and policy on the matter and that it shouldn't be called discrimination because these hotel companies have international policies to follow. He later added that it's not about "Islamophobia" because the practice of not letting women wear headscarves has been done from the beginning. But of course, the left is going crazy over this policy.
I regret that Muslim women in Malaysia still face religious discrimination, when it comes to the wearing of the hijab, which is a religious requirement that many of them adhere to.
This is according to the report by the Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF).
MEF executive director Shamsuddin Bardan said he had received complaints from hotel employees regarding the banning of headscarves or hijab at the workplace.
This is something we should not tolerate especially when there's no plausible explanation as to why the hijab is a hindrance to the nature of their work.
This is even more so in a country which holds Islam as the religion of the Federation.
Simply being in the private sector does not exclude the party from respecting one's right to practice their religious requirements.
This argument also applies to our national airlines, Malaysia Airlines, where there are also calls from flight attendants to be allowed to observe their religious requirement in wearing hijab.
The fact that flight attendants with hijab had been serving the pilgrims during the Hajj season in flights to Mecca is testimony that wearing the hijab does not determine inefficiency.
With regard to hospitality industries, it is not easy for these women to actually lodge reports, especially when allowances, salaries and placement for internship are involved.
If these are students, we know that internship is part of the requirement in their last semester before they can graduate.
Our Muslim students are trapped in a systematic discriminatory process along the line.
I urge Muslim ladies who face such discrimination to come forward and report it to us at [email protected] We promise to maintain their confidentiality.
Now here is the thing. No one is forced to work at this establishment. Just like an individual can pick and choose where they will work, a business should have the right to dictate what and what should not be worn by their employees, especially those who have direct access to the public. I am sure this rule must have been in the contract every employee needs to sign in order to get employment from this company.
The Malaysian Insight Reports:
Wafiq president Associate Professor Dr Rafidah Hanim Mokhtar said the NGO has received four direct complaints while her personal Facebook page has received dozens of grouses .
"Since we have many universities producing graduates in hospitality and tourism, it's kind of a setback to have international hotels having (such) standards.
"It's discriminatory against our citizens in terms of employment and training. I'll have to work with the respective ministries, such as higher education and tourism (on this matter)," she told The Malaysian Insight in a WhatsApp message.
Syukri, a hotel banquet manager in Kuala Lumpur said the hijab policy had been in place for at least 10 years.
"At a five-star hotel in KL where I once worked, Muslim female staff were not allowed to wear the headscarf so as to attract customers.
"If a woman wanted a job as a waitress, she could not wear a scarf. It was considered unfashionable and unattractive," said Syukri who did not want to give his full name.
As he was in charge of hiring temporary workers for big functions, he had to tell recruits that they could not wear the headscarf. He said the policy consistently applied to those working in food and beverage, such as servers, and in frontline positions, such as receptionists.
Syukri left the five-star hotel three years ago and found another job at a hotel that did not have such a policy.
"I moved to another hotel because I did not want to be a part of that kind of practice," the 39-year-old said.
Farisha, who has worked for a year as a receptionist at a five-star hotel in Putrajaya, said she removed her headscarf whenever she went to work
"To be a receptionist at this hotel, you can't wear the 'tudung'. They say that this is in line with the image of an international hotel.
"So after I finish work, I will put it back on. I just don't wear it at work. What else can I do? It is not easy to find a job now," said the 29-year-old. – November 11, 2017.
Let us be honest with ourselves. This isn't about a headscarf. This rule has been applied for years. I bet if any of us worked there we wouldn't be allowed to wear a New York Yankee's hat. All this is is the left and how they try to push Islam on the rest of the freedom loving world. And if anyone dares to say "NO" they are branded as racists, bigots and "Islamaphobes" which is a term that doesn't even exist. It's all part of the globalization movement and some of us just aren't having anything to do with it. This is a great example as to why we elected President Donald Trump. We are sick and tired of people pushing their own beliefs and culture on us while if we do the same we are branded as criminals.
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BREAKING: BIG Gov't Bust In Vegas Massacre With Who Gave Shooter Meds – Here's Why The Story Vanished
It's been a month and a half since the nation's largest mass shooting in modern history happened with more questions lingering than answers – until today. It's been strange, in the least, that a crime of mass casualty has been swept under the rug and all but forgotten as authorities and the mainstream media have abandoned the story altogether, seemingly hoping that the American people would move on. However, now it's become clear as to what the supposedly sloppy investigation has been hiding all along, and it's clear as to the reason why now that it's been revealed as who gave the shooter his medication and perhaps why.
It's been known since the beginning shooter Stephen Paddock was on Diazepam, which is a drug used to treat anxiety, muscle spasms, and seizures. The known side effects of this controlled substance it's likely to cause paranoid or suicidal ideation and impair memory, judgment, and coordination. Paddock was a known drinker who often over-imbibed which has particular damning effects on someone taking Diazepam. "Combining with other substances, particularly alcohol, can slow breathing and possibly lead to death," but can also dramatically increase the effects of the drug.
So either Paddock was dishonest with his doctor about his alcohol use, abused the medication on purpose, or was prescribed this particular drug with an ulterior motive by the prescriber. Considering who gave it to, seems to suggest the latter as well as the reason why the government is so desperate to hide the details of this horrifying mass casualty case.
SOTT reports:
The physician who last June prescribed accused Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock Diazepam (a drug used to make some more hypno-suggestible or "hypnotizable" and induce amnesia), according to Las Vegas Review-Journal and is Dr. Steven P. Winkler of Las Vegas, NV. Winkler is the Chief Medical Officer of Nevada-1 DMAT (Disaster Medical Assistance Team). DMATs operate under the direction of the Department of Homeland Security and Winkler is thus what is known as an intermittent federal employee and also serves on a number of professional committees. NV-1 DMAT is also a division of Nevada's Clark County Emergency Management agency who just prior to the October 1, 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting, hosted at least one multi-agency mock-mass casualty terrorism response exercise in Las Vegas. CIA code named "MK-ULTRA" "mind control" programs experimented heavily with amnesia-inducing hypnosis, facilitated by certain drugs like Diazepam.
It's hard to believe that the very doctor who prescribed the shooter with the exact drug his group talked about using, and also staged a "mass-casualty" even prior to the real thing happening, had nothing to do with this massacre. It raises a lot more questions as to who else was involved and exactly what they were trying to accomplish in the long run with this but could answer why the story of this deadly incident seems to have disappeared.
The question of government involvement has come up more than once with one particular tie that Paddock had with government contractors that added a lot to the thickening plot last month. With this tie-in, things are getting even stranger.
If you suspected a government involvement in the scrupulous planning that no average joe is really capable of doing on his own, you were probably right.
The mysterious Stephen Paddock is an average, faceless guy who blends into society despite being rather wealthy. Paddock had several investment properties and apparently at least one private plane which ended up in unusual use after he reportedly sold it to an intelligence contractor who was part of Obama's administration. While that raises some eyebrows, what else was discovered about this alarming sale pretty much blows the investigation wide open as to why the FBI is protecting and even changing so many facts about this crucial incident that killed 59 Americans and wounded over 500 more.
"A few internet sleuths have taken matters into their own hands after the obvious disinformation campaign by the mainstream media surrounding the Las Vegas shooting," the Daily Sheeple reported. Before you board the skepticism train the proof is in the information provided on via the FAA. Of course, this isn't something that CNN will be quick to expose, as it reveals the attack is worse than we thought and may not end with these 59 victims.
Mike Toke is limited to a certain character count in the written portion fo the tweet so his message only says so much. However, he lets the evidence he lays out say far more than what the site limits him to writing. It's now becoming more clear than ever that the government is hiding the facts from us to protect themselves.
BREAKING: Users on /pol/ have discovered flight records and a plane that belonged to the Las Vegas Shooter. It is connected to an intelligence contractor who's owner previously worked for the Obama administration. pic.twitter.com/T7RMrEfTuV
— Mike Tokes (@MikeTokes) October 4, 2017
The Daily Sheeple explains what the evidence in this tweet means and is not looking good for Obama's administration. Not surprisingly, the former president is nowhere to be seen since initially trying to come out as a hero, pushing for gun control, of course.
"Looking closely, the first thing you will notice is that the shooter, Stephen Paddock, had a pilot license and owned two planes. This is well-established fact. The tail number of one of those planes is N5343M, a Cirrus SR-20. You can see that this was owned by Paddock by going to the website Flightaware.com. But Paddock doesn't own this plane anymore. It was grounded three years ago, and it's now in the hands of none other than Volant LLC, which there is little information on."
"However, Volant Associates is none other than a Department of Defense contractor. Meaning Paddock's plane has been in the hands of the United States government for the past three years and grounded since – if Volant LLC is being used as a way to hide information. Considering what Volant Associates does, that wouldn't be so far fetched. But the plane's information is all easily verified here on Flightaware.com. It's been in Roanoke, Virginia since April 25, 2014."
"Volant's describes it's mission on their website as providing 'the industry's preeminent professionals to discriminating U.S. government and intelligence-and-defense-industry customers.'"
"The registration of this plane is also listed as "active" even though it hasn't been flown in three years. Strange enough yet? Well, it gets even better. The FAA should have this same information. But they don't. Their website shows that a different aircraft, a Cessna 152, maintains that tail number and it was last registered to a person in San Diego, California. The FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) is a government agency, and it appears that it has scrubbed this plane's information. Now, why would they do that? Well, the plot still thickens."
In the age of the Internet with every reputable business being represented by some kind of a website, it's strange that a contractor company successful enough to purchase an airplane is practically nowhere to be found online. The only plausible reason for this is something to hide, or perhaps Volant LLC is a cover company for the defense contractor. If so, inquiring minds want to know what they're trying to hide and why.
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Pisier, Marie-France
|Marie-France Claire Pisier
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|10 May 1944 at 15:25 (= 3:25 PM )
|Da-Lat, Vietnam, 11n56, 108e25
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French actress and director born in Vietnam where her father was stationed, she is a member of a noted family. Her sister's husband began "Doctors Without Borders" and her brother is a renowned mathematician.
When she was 12 her family moved to France where she later caught the eye of director Francois Truffaut. She had her film debut at age 17 in Truffaut's movie, "Antoine and Collette" (1962) and worked with him on other films, including "Stolen Kisses" (1968). Perhaps her most famous movie internationally was "Cousin, Cousine" in 1975. She directed two films, one in 1990 ("Le Bal du Governeur") and the other in 2002 ("Comme un Avion").
Married twice she had a son with her first husband.
On April 24, 2011 she was found drowned in the pool of her Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer home. Further details were not immediately forthcoming.
- lover relationship with Cohn-Bendit, Daniel (born 4 April 1945)
- sibling relationship with Pisier, Évelyne (born 18 October 1941)
- Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1962 ("Antoine and Collette")
- Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1975 ("Cousin, Cousine")
- Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1990 (Directorial debut: "Le Bal du Governeur")
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Paddy de Jabrun quotes birth certificate. Although the ACS Atlas gives a 7-hour differential from Greenwich, extensive research by Dr. Alois Treindl confirms that the nation known as South Vietnam observed an 8 hour differential as late as 1975. Supporting materials include an excerpt of a memoir found online at Military.com by Tom Fowler: I Was A Kid When I Was A Kid, copyright 1997; a scholarly paper found at http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/calendar/cal.pdf and a Time magazine article dated May 12, 1975 entitled, "The Last Chopper out of Saigon," all of which support the 8-hour differential given in Gabriel's "Traité de l'heure dans le monde."
Same data in Didier Geslain archive, 'acteurs et comédiens' pdf file, p. 203.
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African airline, Kenya Airways says from midnight of August 19, 2014 it will suspend commercial flights to Liberia and Sierra Leone in response to Ebola outbreak in the West African countries.
In a press statement signed by its CEO, Titus Naikuni, the airline explained it took the decision "based on the situation risk assessment by Kenya's Ministry of Health."
Kenya has already banned flights from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the three countries worst hit by the Ebola outbreak.
The World Health Organisation has warned Kenya was vulnerable to the Ebola scourge that has hit many West African countries because it was a major transport hub for flights from the sub-region.
Ebola has so far claimed over 1,000 lives since renewed outbreak in March.
Read below parts of Kenya Airways CEO's release on the suspension of flights to Monrovia and Freetown:
"To our esteemed guests who are booked on the suspended flights, we wish to express our sincere regrets for disrupting your travel plans. We further wish to confirm that we shall be providing for a full refund of all tickets earlier booked and paid for prior to this suspension.
"The provision of air transport services during such critical moments remains a crucial component of the outbreak containment and overall management. At the height of the Ebola outbreak, Kenya Airways has remained a key air transport solutions provider. We have transported medical staff, supplies and equipment to facilitate the management of the outbreak.
"I take this opportunity to thank our customers for their continued confidence in our services, and our staff for their passion and dedication.
"I wish to confirm that Kenya Airways will continue operating all its scheduled flights to Nigeria and Ghana. However, in the interest of public safety for both our esteemed guests and staff, we reserve the right to cancel our flights to any other destination should the situation warrant."
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DHAKA, Bangladesh, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Bangladesh Islamist leader Abdul Quader Mollah, who was scheduled to be hanged on a war crimes conviction, won a stay pending a new hearing Wednesday.
A Bangladesh Supreme Court judge, acting on a last-minute appeal from attorneys for Mollah, ordered the stay only 90 minutes before the man was to be hanged, the Bangladesh Daily Star reported.
CNN reported two U.N. human rights experts had earlier urged the hanging be halted, saying Mollah's trial may not have been fair.
The Star said jail authorities had completed all preparations for the execution two days after the death sentence was issued for Mollah, accused of war crimes during Bangladesh's 1971 war of independence from Pakistan. He had denied the charges.
State Minister for Law Qamrul Islam told the Star the government would move the apex court to vacate the stay order. The hearing on the review petition was set for Wednesday morning before the appellate division of the Supreme Court.
Mollah had been assistant secretary general of the now banned Jamaat-e-Islami party and his sentencing by a tribunal set up by the government had sparked rioting in the streets, CNN reported.
He was previously given a life sentence but the Supreme Court gave him the death penalty.
The brutal 1971 independence war from which Bangladesh emerged as an independent country, however, resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and left deep scars in the minds of the Bangladeshis. Mollah was accused of being part of a group that did not want to split from Pakistan and aided the Pakistani military's crackdown.


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The Daily Breeze, August 7
August 7, 2013
Week 31
Sunrise 5:47am
Sunset 8:11pm
Local Weather (Subject to Change!)
Expect partly sunny skies at the Harbor today, with a high near 76 degrees and the chance for showers and thunderstorms in the late afternoon. We might experience some gusty winds today, as well.
Guest News
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Resort News
Get out on Basin Harbor's beautiful Audubon Certified golf course! Fun fact about our golf pro Paul Meunier:VT Native PGA Tour Member and PGA Champion Keegan Bradley was a student of Paul's when Keegan was a Junior Golfer in Woodstock VT! In fact, Paul was awarded the VTPGA Junior Golf Leadership Award in 2011. Take advantage of this great BHC resource and sign up for the Junior Golf Clinic for those ages 8-13 on Thursday. Please register at the golf shop in advance. For the golfing ladies out there, our Women's Golf Clinic will be happening Friday.
Did you know that the Dutchman's Pipe vine on the porch of the Main Lodge is over 100 years old? Or that there are French soldiers buried in a little-known gravesite right on Basin Harbor property? Attend the History of Basin Harbor with Bob Beach, Jr. this morning and learn all about the origins of your favorite vacation spot.
Have you enjoyed a meal in the Main Dining Room yet? If so, you know the quality of food that comes from Basin Harbor's famous kitchen. This afternoon you'll have the opportunity to see where the magic happens and meet the crew behind it all! Hop on board the Kitchen Tour and learn a few secrets about your BHC dining experience.
If you're feeling crafty, we have a number of options to satisfy your creative energy while on vacation! Join Asia for a Jewelry Workshop this morning, where you can design your own accoutrements to wear at dinner! If you've been admiring our flower arrangements around Basin Harbor, let our floral guru Claire L'Esperance show you how to make your own lovely bundle in her Flower Arranging class. If painting is more your thing, sign up for Nature Painting with Abbey, where you'll learn how to make egg tempera paint using natural pigments found in your kitchen or your own backyard! Sign up with the concierge for all classes.
Ann-Marie will be capturing candid images today at all camps. A slideshow of this week's candids will be running this evening in the Champlain Lounge. Our last Family Portrait Special is available tomorrow morning at the Wilderneath Garden. Please sign up with the concierge by this evening. Private Portrait Sessions are still available throughout the week.
Those who joined naturalist Matthew Witten for the Adirondack Hike on Monday know that he has a wealth of information and humor to contribute to your Lake Champlain adventures! Tomorrow morning, join Matt and try your hand at Rowing a 19th Century Replica Longboat during one of two time slots. Matt will tell you all about the history of these colorful, seaworthy crafts as you synchronize with your crew and enjoy a lovely morning out on the lake! Sign up in advance for this simply wonderful and unique opportunity. Sea Shanties may or may not break out during your row.
BHC holds two very special events tonight for your evening entertainment. The Burlington Ensemble will present "Starry Night," the final of four concerts in a series held here on property. Tonight's program, beginning at 7:30pm, highlights a concerto for bass by Bottesini, music by film composer Bernard Hermann (Psycho, North by Northwest, etc), and Mendelssohn's Octet. Tickets are $30 apiece and may be purchased from the Burlington Ensemble website. For those seeking a few hearty chuckles after dinner, head to the Ranger Room at 9pm to laugh with the Vermont Comedy Club, who will be bringing their best improv comedy to Basin Harbor during this hilarious event.
Quote of the Day
"Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul."
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The third installment of SONIC SYNDICATE's "Sonic TV" is now online and can be viewed below. This episode documents the Swedish band's hijinx while on tour in Europe with SOILWORK, DARK TRANQUILLITY and CALIBAN.SONIC SYDICATE is currently making its U.S. live debut with AMON AMARTH and HIMSA. The band will be returning next May as direct support to NIGHTWISH. SONIC SYNDICATE's video for the song "Enclave" has been posted at YouTube. The track comes off the Swedish metal band's sophomore CD, "Only Inhuman", which entered the German Media Control chart at position No. 64 — an impressive feat considering the group had never performed in the country prior to the album's release. The CD also landed at No. 22 on the Swedish chart. SONIC SYNDICATE's video for the first single off "Only Inhuman", "Denied", can be viewed at this location.
SONIC SYNDICATE: 'Sonic TV' Episode Three Posted Online
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