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Adele Goes Casual In LA With New Baby Son Fresh From Golden Globes 2013 Win
15 January 2013, 11:17 | Updated: 16 January 2013, 08:53
The 'Rolling In The Deep' singer and her new son were seen out and about in Los Angeles this week.
Adele was spotted dressing down and casual while out with her baby son this week in Beverly Hills, fresh from her big win at the Golden Globes 2013 last weekend.
The 'Someone Like You' singer picked up Best Original Song during Sunday's (13th January) ceremony, where she was widely praised for her glamorous red carpet look, but opted for more casual attire while arriving at a private residence in LA on Monday (14th January).
Adele was pictured hurrying into her car while carrying her four month-old son in a baby carrier, covered with a blanket to leave only the baby's blue socked feet on show, while surrounded by a heavy detail of personal security.
The 24 year-old singer kept her look simple in a black cardigan and polka dot style pyjama bottoms with her hair tied up in a loose bun, less than 24 hours after dazzling photographers with a full length black gown for her red carpet arrival.
Check out a picture of Adele out in Los Angeles this week fresh from the Golden Globes 2013 below (Credit: WENN):
Adele won Best Original Song at this year's Golden Globes for her James Bond theme 'Skyfall', and gave an emotional acceptance speech during the ceremony where she dedicated her win to her boyfriend Simon Konecki and "lovely" new son.
The couple welcomed their first child together back in November 2012 but have yet to announce the name of their newborn son.
Adele is widely rumoured to be preparing for a performance at the Oscars 2013 next month (24th February), where she is also up for Best Original Song.


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December 17, 2013
I love this photo! It's from earlier this past Summer, on the Cape in Massachusetts, where I grew up and where my family all still resides. My brother and I had taken a trip to the beach an walked about for a bit to explore. This beach is beyond amazing. The marks in the sand from where the water hit, the clouds and blue sky above, the color of the rocks covered in algae. Everything about this photo I just love. And that guy in the photo, on the rock, well that's my younger brother Steven. Today's his birthday. An I'm proud of him every day, but especially today as he decided to celebrate his birthday on a new adventure, somewhere sunny, somewhere new he's never been to before, exploring the great outdoors, an creating his own special memories on this day. I hope your birthday vacation is going well little brother, much love and missing you always.
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"What do we do when they're gone?" That's a question that's been asked frequently at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center; 72 years after the end of World War II, many Holocaust survivors are now passing away. And since encounters with survivors tend to be the most meaningful part of any visit to the museum, staff decided to find a way to preserve that legacy after these unique individuals are gone.
That's where the Take a Stand Center was born. The result of more than three years of work, the center is designed for ages 11 and up.
Its centerpiece is the Abe & Ida Cooper Survivor Stories Experience, a chance for visitors to hear from real Holocaust survivors with the help of 3-D holographic technology. Thirteen Holocaust survivors–including seven from the Chicago area–worked with a team of filmmakers at the University of Southern California to record their memories. Interviewers catalogued the thousands of most-asked questions for Holocaust survivors, creating a truly interactive experience that is the first of its kind in the world.
The docent-facilitated experience allows visitors to ask questions–everything from "Do you have any pets?" to the more topical "What was it like in a concentration camp?"–and the survivor to respond in real time. If the question is too off-the-wall, the survivor will redirect the conversation, but Kelley Szany, director of education for the museum, says it doesn't happen very often.
The Survivor Stories Experience is a free, timed-ticket session, but you won't have to twiddle your thumbs while you wait. The rest of the Take a Stand Center is equally inspiring and well-conceptualized. The Goodman Upstander Gallery features 40 individuals, called "upstanders," who have fought against injustice and stood up for worthy causes, from Malala Yousafzai to Chicago's own Jane Addams. Kids can also learn about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, and how the struggle for these same human rights continues today.
Then in the Take a Stand Lab, visitors can follow in the upstanders' footsteps, choosing how they can stand up for what's right, seeing success stories of others who chose that action (including kids from the Chicago area!), and making a pledge of how they will take action themselves. In addition, the Act of Art Gallery highlights art as a form of social action and activism, using the artists' own words to discuss this important topic.
It all works together to address the question of what will happen when not only Holocaust survivors, but all the rest of us, are gone. And with these upstanders on the case, it's nice to know that the future is in good hands.
If you go
Take a Stand Center
10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday-Wednesday; 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursday
Opens Oct. 29
Free with museum admission
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By Charlie McAtee
Dominique "DJ" Boggs vividly remembers one of his early days playing in the Indianapolis RBI program. It was a Spring day in 2013 at the first practice for his under-12 baseball team.
DJ had played baseball since he was three, and his dad had been his primary coach. But not everyone that day was ready for the season.
"I remember some kids showing up at practice and they didn't know whether they were right-handed or left-handed," explained DJ. "They had never been taught how to throw a baseball, so the coaches had them throw with both arms to see which one was better."
From that moment, Boggs realized that he was fortunate to have so much when it came to the game of baseball, and life.
Boggs is one of 15 local players representing Indianapolis this weekend at the RBI Central Regional Tournament in the senior (16-18) division. The tournament gets underway Friday at Grand Park, Noblesville High School and Westfield High School, and runs through Monday morning with the championship games at Butler University.
The tournament will feature 28 teams from Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City and Indianapolis. Winners will advance to the RBI World Series in Vero Beach, Florida in early August.
RBI (Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities) is a program of Major League Baseball created in 1989. MLB has expanded the program to more than 200 cities throughout the U.S. and Caribbean with about 250,000 boys and girls participating each year.
Locally, almost 2,000 play in the Spring and Summer making Indy one of the largest programs in the country, and possibly the largest program in a non-Major League city.
"RBI is a great because it gives coaches and parents an opportunity to work with a lot of under-privileged kids," said John Boggs, DJ's father and coach of the Indy senior team playing this weekend. "RBI helps many kids see a different side of life, and many kids realize that not everybody has the things that you might have."
The RBI Regional Tournament is divided into three divisions: Senior boys baseball (16-18), Junior boys baseball (13-15) and Girls softball (18U).
While DJ hopes to play baseball professionally in the future, he will attend Ohio Valley University this fall and pitch for the baseball team. He's undecided on a major at this point but knows that he wants to do something that's meaningful and makes an impact on the community.
Just like the RBI program.
"Ultimately I want to do something that I enjoy and allows me to care for my family," DJ said. "I want to be able to give back to the community the way RBI has given back to my community."
For more information about the RBI program, visit www.playballindiana.org
IndyRBI hosts 2019 RBI Central Regional baseball, softball tournament this weekend
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One of her rescuers dubbed the stray dog in the photo, "Miracle." She had a raging case of mange, and was afflicted by heart worms, dehydration and starvation. After she finally was coaxed into the back seat of a car, the Humane Society of Northwest Indiana in Miller Beach took her in. Donations arrived from people saddened by her condition and hopeful for her future. She was only a year old.
After weeks of vet care, affectionate attention and sessions with an animal behaviorist, Miracle had to be euthanized.
"I hated making this decision," said Frieda, the shelter manager. But she felt obligated. The more Miracle's health improved, the more unpredictably aggressive she became.
The first time she lunged at a shelter worker, she latched onto his beard as he reached to leash her. "She'd be wagging her tail at you, and then if you moved the wrong way, she'd come at you," Freida said.
Freida wasn't ready to give up. Maybe the constant commotion from all those barking dogs was the problem. She brought Miracle up to the front of the shelter, where she could lounge quietly behind the counter near the entrance. An animal behaviorist was brought in to work with her.
Three more attempts to bite followed. She began jumping up on the counter, alarming staff and visitors.
The decision was made when Miracle clamped down on the arm of Sandy, an employee, as Sandy bent down to the floor to pick up something. Sandy had worked with Miracle more than anyone, yet this time the bite left bruises.
None of those donations were wasted. They allowed Miracle to be given every chance to recover her health and to demonstrate she could safely be adopted.
Meanwhile, a Rottweiler was brought in with a badly broken front leg. It had to be amputated. But he's healing and has already been adopted. The miracle is that the shelter sees far more happy endings than not.


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This past weekend I had the pleasure and privilege of speaking about and signing my novel, "Lady in the Window," at the Barnes & Noble Booksellers on Telephone Road in Ventura (Saturday, July 15) and on Westlake Boulevard in Thousand Oaks (Sunday, July 16).
The events were well attended, and I had the opportunity to speak to so many interesting people about the book, as well as writing for TV, Film, and Print. It was also a joy to have attendees share their personal stories with me.
Below, please watch (and share!) my Facebook LIVE Event (also found on my Facebook Page VIDEOS) from Saturday in Ventura.
"Lady in the Window" captures Aloha Magic, Karmic Romance, and the Infinite Mother-Daughter Bond. Hardcover and eBook available at Barnes & Noble: http://bit.ly/2lOIotS
Award-Winning Screenwriter, Producer and Author Maryann Ridini Spencer Discusses and Signs her new novel "Lady in the Window," which captures Aloha Magic, Karmic Romance and the Infinite Mother-Daughter Bond at Barnes and Noble on July 15. Hardcover and eBook at Barnes & Noble: http://bit.ly/2lOIotS & Amazon: http://amzn.to/2qD4YVO
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United Way of Southern Nevada's Volunteer Center hosts thousands of service projects throughout the year. From soup kitchens to clothing drives and everything in between, Las Vegans have so many opportunities to give back. Of all the current projects available, the Martin Luther King Jr. Day beautification project at City Impact Center caught my attention.
For some, Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday is a free day from school or work. Most forget the actual purpose of the day. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is the only federal holiday observed as a national day of service. It is reserved as a time for Americans from all walks of life to work side by side to strengthen and improve their communities.
More than 200 volunteers pitched in to continue Dr. King's legacy of equality, justice and peace for all. Children as young as five years old, UNLV students, Starbucks street teams and adults joined in the effort to celebrate the holiday by painting murals, cleaning apartments for senior citizens, landscaping the grounds and picking up trash around the campus at City Impact Center (950 E. Sahara Ave). I spoke to several volunteers to find out why it was important to serve on their day off and a single message resonated: to follow Dr. King's footsteps by helping and serving others.


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After nine years at Real Madrid, Cristiano Ronaldo is leaving the global soccer giant for the Italian Serie A club Juventus. The deal is worth at least $340 million over four years, according to Forbes sources.
The tally includes a $140 million (€120 million) transfer fee owed to Real and a net annual salary for Ronaldo of roughly $35 million (€30 million). The latter does not include any known bonus or incentive, per sources.
Based on Italy's top tax rate, Ronaldo's new gross salary equates to $64 million, a pay cut from the $66 million he was expected to have made this upcoming season in salary and bonus if he stayed at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium. This lags behind the gross pay of Lionel Messi ($84 million) and Neymar ($73 million), both of whom received new deals last year from their respective clubs, Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain.
No soccer player is close to Ronaldo in terms of endorsement earnings, though. With the $47 million he earns off the pitch from endorsements, appearances and licensing, he is still on track to bank at least $111 million through the upcoming season, enough to keep him the second-highest-paid soccer player in the world.
The move marks the end of a remarkable tenure for Ronaldo at the Bernabéu, where the 33-year old Portuguese forward became the club's all-time leading goal scorer, won four of his five Ballon d'Or awards and led Real Madrid to four Champions League titles.
Perhaps that is why his transfer fee held up. Nine years ago, Real Madrid paid Manchester United the equivalent of $133 million in today's dollars for Ronaldo. Today, the team recouped that plus $7 million from Juve.
Juventus is Italy's most storied soccer club, but it can't approach the scope and platform of Real Madrid. Forbes' latest ranking of the world's most valuable soccer teams ranked Real second at $4.088 billion, a shade behind Manchester United, while Juventus ranked ninth at $1.472 billion. Real's revenues were $735 million, compared with $442 million for Juventus.
The move was reportedly caused by a dispute with Madrid president Florentino Perez over a new contract, with Ronaldo having fallen behind rivals Lionel Messi and Neymar in terms of playing salary. Forbes' look last month at the world's highest-paid athletes had Ronaldo third overall, behind Floyd Mayweather and Messi.
In a statement on the move, Real Madrid said, "Real Madrid would like to communicate that we have listened to the wish and request expressed by player Cristiano Ronaldo and have agreed to his transfer to Juventus FC."
Ronaldo is a one-man economy, thanks to his role as the dominant personality in the world's biggest sport. He has more than 300 million followers across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and his personal Facebook page alone has 122 million fans, 20 million more than any other person on the planet. He generated $474 million in value for his sponsors over the last 12 months on his social media accounts, according to data from research firm Hookit. The Nike lifer even generated $216 million in value for Adidas on social media, thanks to posts in which Ronaldo was wearing his Real Madrid uniform, which includes Adidas' Three Stripes logo.
Facebook is in talks with Ronaldo for an original series on its Facebook Watch platform, according to Variety. The deal could be worth as much as $10 million for a 13-episode docu-series.
Ahead of this transfer, Ronaldo inked a deal with the Associazione Volontari Italiani Sangue, the Italian Blood Volunteering Association. The agreement with U.S. laboratory Abbott, which has the rights to a worldwide campaign, will see that his image is used to promote blood donation throughout the country.


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The close relationships we have with our farmers, many of whom have grown alongside us from day one, gives us access to the best of their crop at their very best prices.
Garden of Elveden
Garden of Elveden are a specialist fresh potato business based on the 22,500 acre Elveden Estate in the heart of East Anglia's farming region. Farming has taken place on the estate for almost 100 years. The estate has been privately owned by the Guinness family since 1894. Rupert Guinness transformed the land for agriculture in 1927. Rupert was very forward-thinking, planting Scots Pines as windbreak hedges to prevent the topsoil from blowing away.
Potatoes from Garden of Elveden come from UK, Red Tractor farms and are BRC certified. The site boasts new grading facilities and long-term cold store units to offer year round continuity of supply. Garden of Elveden are passionate about their brand, taking pride in the product and offering the highest standards in terms of quality and consistency.
Oliver Kay have been working with Garden of Elveden since 2010. We buy Salad Potatoes such as Maris Peer and Leontine varieties, as well as Baking Potatoes including Melody and Nectar varieties. Salad potatoes are available in 2 different sizes – 20-30mm (tiny tots) and 30-42mm – our standard size salad potato. Bakers come in 40's, 50's or 60's.
The Westwood Family grow our Yorkshire Forced Rhubarb and have been farming since the late 1800's.
Yorkshire Forced Rhubarb roots are grown outdoor in the fields, for two to three years, before they are lifted in early to late November, to be taken into the forcing sheds. This can only happen after the roots have received enough cold which helps break the dormancy of the rhubarb crowns. During the two years' the rhubarb is grown outside, it requires lots of sunshine and nitrogen to build up the energy in the root as once in the forcing sheds, it received no more feeding. The nitrogen comes from the "shoddy", which is released slowly over a three year period. Ideal for the rhubarb.
Once bedded into the sheds, the roots are heated and supplied with the right amount of water, and three weeks later the forced crop can start to be harvested. The rhubarb is grown in complete darkness and harvested by candlelight, to keep the stems bright pink and the leaves yellow. The forced crop tends to be very tender and much sweeter than the rhubarb produced outside.
Woodlands Farm
Woodlands Farm covers approximately 25 acres near Knutsford, Cheshire & the Halman family have been farming in Cheshire for 123 years and are now proudly into their 5th generation.
Oliver Kay Produce & Roy Halman have worked over 15 years together to build a very successful relationship & it is this continuity of trade & affiliation that has allowed Oliver Kay Produce to offer the finest quality Outdoor Grown Rhubarb, Lollo Rosso,Lollo Biondi, Oak Leaf, Cos & Flat Lettuce that the North West has to offer.
Some of the products are grown under glass to extend their growing season, ie: Flat Lettuce.
The lettuces & Rhubarb are picked fresh every morning & packed in the field ready for dispatch. We collect them from the Farm around noon for delivery to you the following morning. Their products are always first-rate in terms of both quality & consistency & (importantly) yield.
We pride ourselves with the close relationships that we have with our farmers & growers, many of whom have grown alongside us from Day One. This gives us access to the best of their crop(s) at their very best prices.
Black Gate Lane – Pak Choi
Peter's father Barry, who is now 81 years old, started the business approximately 50 years ago, growing lettuce & tomatoes. As his father took on a less demanding role dealing with paperwork and the accounts, Peter decided that the business needed an alternative product to grow. Pak Choi fitted the bills as it will grow all year round and Little Gem Lettuce as a summer seasonal product. They have been growing these product for past 15 years.
The farm is 6.5acres of which 1.25 acres are under poly tunnels built exclusively for the growth of Pak Choi. The farm has a staff of 7, which allows Peter to fully turn his attentions to growing the products. They deal with wholesale markets and leading supermarkets, caterers and the business is a member of the Red Tractor Scheme, Assured Produce and Salsa.
Bangor's Green Farm (Celery)
Alan began farming the land in the highly fertile area around Ormskirk, Lancashire in1990 with 5 acres. The farm now stretches to 363 acres, growing mainly celery & cabbages for us.
For the early part of the season the celery is grown under glass, which enables us to have English Celery earlier than most.
The farm possesses excellent storage facilities for their cabbages, which means they are available for most, if not all, of the year.
Orders are picked during the day and delivered that night for us to deliver to you the next morning.
The Firs Farm
The Firs Farm, Yorkshire grows the lion's share of our Parsnips & Carrots. The land is ideal for these root vegetables due to the sandy soil. The products are grown, washed, packed & distributed all from the farm to enable them to control all aspect of the production. Guy also has close relationships with other growers in Suffolk and Scotland, allowing him to cope more easily with busy times and bad weather They have supplied us for many years and we have found them to grow consistently good products.


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It was a little sad watching the progress of Cosmos 1 over the last couple days. Or rather, watching people try to find out what any progress of Cosmos 1 might be.
Though at a few points the Cosmos 1 team believed they had some form of limited contact with the solar sailing craft, today they believe that a rocket malfunction occurred in stage 1 firing.
I guess you get what you pay for, and even if you have the resources to pay a lot, riding up into space on a wild rocket is still a risky proposition.
I wish the Cosmos 1 project met with more success. I love the thought of sailing ships travelling around up in space. It has a peaceful quality, reminiscent of the true age of our universe – less hasty.
There's a very interesting report written by Theodore Cotter of Los Alamos National Laboratory back in 1973 on solar sailing. According to the Federation of American Scientists it expands upon a 1958 paper by Richard Garwin in the journal Jet Propultion and a 1951 article by Russell Saunders in Astounding Science Fiction.
Strangely, this report has been classified as "restricted to selected government agencies" by Los Alamos, part of the thousands of documents that have been removed from public access since the "terrorism" started.
However, in a rare moment of love and kindness, the House actually decided to fund the Public Interest Declassification Board in 2006 – it was created 5 years ago by law, but has never convened. The House Appropriations Committee wants to give them $1 million. Hopefully this will actually happen.
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See? I know! I told you so: Self-reliance.
Maybe living out of this car is alright
Just as long as both of us get sleep this night.
Our alliance
Like warm breath inside of our car condenses
As the night surrounding us freezes one inch
Higher than our habitat. Struggling, I cinch
All my senses
Eating cold fried French-cut potatoes plus cream.
Was I always out-of-it? Giving someone
All my time and someone else every hard won
Claim to my dream?
In the hour before dawn, with my goblins
I steal silver shamefully from the newsstand.
With it we have just enough bait and both land
Egg McMuffins
That we eat in just three bites. Then we eddy
To the bathrooms. Fumbling with the water
Rubbing soap onto my beard, starting slaughter,
Hands unsteady
With the old disposable razor I kept.
We drank all that bottle of Nyquil last night
Fifty-proof cold medicine outshines Bud Lite.
You and I slept.
Still our heads are really numb. Was it worth it?
Wine's not cheaper. Harder to fit my jacket.
So to steal it isn't as smooth a racket.
Holy horseshit!
Toilet paper! Don't forget that again, please.
You can stuff it into your purse for later.
I am not an underwear cultivator.
Facing stories
In the mirror, taking a last look feeling
Far away from everything that I still see
Widely split. I can't get around it in me
All that we believed-in is gone into haze.
One year this day (am I again to be old?)
Our fish market had to be closed and then sold.
Recall replays:
Kissing you upon the full moon
(You were just the sweetest sixteen).
Bumping heads the very next day.
(Thoughts of mine were really obscene).
Getting that new job on the First
(In the month of no Halloween).
Hurt my head again two more times
(Somehow, somewhere there in-between).
Tea I drank and poetry thought.
(Even now who knows what I mean?).
In the meantime:
Pardon me for day-dreaming in this bathroom
While you open alleyway doors and break-out
In those red marks over your face as I doubt,
Like a bridegroom,
Waking up from everything he knew better,
Asking himself "Can it be eating too well
Is the thing that's making her stomach out-swell
That loose sweater?"
As you stumble up against that last frontier
Slumping back and sliding-on down to cold ground
Eyes closed, laughing "Since I am clearly earth-bound
I'll wait right here."
Hope you hear that cop stopping in his rover
Kneeling so you focus on him saluting.
Please hear "Madam President, no disputing:
Fun is over."


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This is another from my series from a hide at Hampi, Karnataka, India.
Thats what the bear seems to be saying to me :-) Maybe a bit more warmth in white balance ?
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I made this image in Sand Hollow State Park, UT
I saw these birds foraging in distance. So I picked my foreground/background with my camo wear
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Ive spent most of my time where I grew up in Colorado, but moved south to Arizona a few years ago. I live in a small town just
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A Bulbul from my trip to Hampi, Karnataka.
ISO 8000 Manual Exp, Auto ISO, bean bag support from
A sloth bear on the rocky hillocks of Hampi, in Karnataka. Wished for a catch light here but I liked the pose he/she gave.
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Captured this recently arrived Savannah Sparrow a couple of days ago at the same grassland area I was seeing all the Bobolinks. C&C welcome.
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City green lights bike share program, more projects
Midland is in high gear for 2017, and developers have a clearer path for a bundle of projects rolling out this week, this year, and beyond.
Here's a look at what Midland City Council approved at its Monday meeting.
City's first bike share program
Momentum Midland's "Bike Midland," a three-year pilot bike share program, officially launches today. Thirty-five community bikes are spread across seven stations in the city – at the library, Northwood University, near Senior Services/Midland Brewing Co., the community center and three sites downtown. Users can take a bike from any station and pedal around for a fee. Bikes are accessible with a smartphone app. Zagster, a Massachusetts-based bike share company, is supplying its "Cruiser" bike model, which, according to its website, has eight gears, automatic lights, a bell and a front basket. Bikes also come with locks. Read more at http://bit.ly/2t2Tewy or search "Bike Midland - Bikeshare Program" on Facebook.
The plan is to have bikes available year-round for three years.
"Right now, to get around in Midland, you either have to use Dial-A-Ride or you have to own your own vehicle, which can be very problematic to people who are middle class or lower," Chelsea Rowley, program manager at Momentum Midland, told the city council.
One project goal, Rowley said, is to create more sustainable transportation in Midland.
Zagster plans to work with local bike shops to rebalance, or recirculate, the 35 bikes to stations as needed, according to Rowley.
Mayor Maureen Donker said it is a great way to promote nonmotorized transportation in the city, citing Midland's bronze recognition from the League of American Bicyclists for bicycle-friendly communities.
Boosting business
The city council also approved a three-year extension of an ongoing agreement with Midland Tomorrow for promoting business and industry expansion and attracting new businesses. The city will pay $150,000 for services in 2017-18, $160,000 for 2018-19 and $175,000 for 2019-20.
Projects in the works
MidMichigan Health now has city approval to build a $57 million, 160,000-square-foot cardiovascular center on campus. The project also requires state approval.
The 328-bed hospital is working with Three Rivers Corp. to take on a two-phase project in September. It would add a three-story facility on the medical campus at 4000 Wellness Drive and combine outpatient cardiovascular services, specialty clinics and diagnostics and imaging services under one roof. Read more at http://bit.ly/2rdKQbX
Dave Rapanos has city approval of his $26 million plan to build an 86-unit site condo project at the northeast edge of the city. "Diamond View Farms" would have ranch style homes sized 1,560 to 2,200 square feet with five different floor plans and would start between $260,000 and $330,000. Read more about it at http://bit.ly/2r9e8O5
The city plans to solicit bids to resurface a rough Jerome Street from Buttles Street to the M-20/Karl B. Robertson Bridge. Officials peg the cost at $175,000.
The plan is to fortify Jerome for traffic changes starting spring 2018, when contractors over two years will hammer out MDOT and the city's $26 million project to rebuild the bridge. State inspections have deemed the bridge structurally deficient for years. When it was completed in 1955, standing 726 feet, it cost $1 million. Read more at http://bit.ly/2sLeZkT
As a $440,000 project continues to fit the exterior fascia of the library with a green-blue channeled glass, harking back to the visionary Alden B. Dow, the city council approved Director Melissa Barnard's decision to retain Baker & Taylor for book processing services – cataloging, production, placing labels, barcodes and book jackets. The contract affords up to $225,000 for services.
"We buy somewhere between 18,000 and 20,000 new titles every year," Barnard told council members.
Fun fact: In terms of circulation, 655,256 physical materials and 54,791 electronic materials were checked out in 2015-16. That's enough for every person in the county to have checked out eight books for the year.


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Fess Parker, who starred as Davy Crockett on the wildly popular 1950s TV series of the same name, died Thursday of natural causes, The Associated Press reported. He was 85.
Parker died at his Santa Ynez Valley home in California, on his wife Marcella's 84th birthday, family spokeswoman Sao Anash told the news service. Anash also said Parker was coherent and speaking with family minutes before he died.
Parker rose to national fame when Davy Crockett debuted as part of an early Walt Disney anthology TV show in 1954. He was also widely known for his portrayal of another famous historical figure in Daniel Boone, a TV series that ran from 1964 to '70.
During its heyday, Davy Crockett inspired a national craze for coonskin caps and the hit song "The Ballad of Davy Crockett." At the peak of the coonskin craze, 5,000 caps were sold a day.
Crockett was killed off in 1955 in the third episode, "Davy Crockett at the Alamo," but due to popular demand, the series was quickly brought back for two more episodes.
"Like many kids growing up in the 50's, Davy Crockett was my first hero, and I had the coonskin cap to prove it," said Disney CEO Bob Iger. "Fess Parker's unforgettable, exciting and admirable performance as this American icon has remained with me all these years, as it has for his millions of fans around the world. Fess is truly a Disney Legend, as is the heroic character he portrayed, and while he will certainly be missed, he will never be forgotten."
After the series went off the air in 1955, Parker worked regularly in both TV and films. He starred as the father in Old Yeller and starred in the TV version of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
After Daniel Boone ended in 1970, Parker largely retired from acting. He went into real estate and opened a vineyard on California's Central Coast with his wife in 1989 — the Fess Parker Winery. A Texas native, he graduated from the University of Texas.
Parker is survived by his wife, two children and 11 grandchildren.


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Have you ever been asked "how long does the task list need to be?" If so, has this struck you as code for something else?
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The mind behind the God of War series believes gameplay must always come first, even at the expense of the story.
If you were on the internet on October 24, 2011, you might remember that Eurogamer awarded the upcoming Uncharted 3 a very respectable 8/10. You may also recall the intense backlash that followed. Many of the comments for this piece made it sound as though the reviewer, Simon Parker, had personally murdered each poster's pet. Never one to shy away from criticism, God of War director David Jaffe stepped into the fray and defended Parker. Moreover, Jaffe used the review's criticism of Uncharted 3 as a launching point to discuss the role of narrative in games. When story and gameplay clash, says Jaffe, story must always take a backseat.
"I want our games to serve the gods of gameplay first and foremost," writes Jaffe on his personal blog. "[Our] team's desire to tell a story/make a movie may or may not get to be fulfilled (depending on the game) but if we do tell a story, it will never come at the expense of the gameplay (the thing that makes our medium matter and special)." He goes on to explain that he will - and has - cut story content because it got in the way of the interactivity and experimentation inherent in gaming. Of course, Jaffe is hardly against a good narrative to go hand-in-hand with a game's mechanics. "Ideally, the best games are those that do both."
With this mindset, Jaffe believes that Parker's review is fully justified. "[The review calls] out what some people consider a fundamental flaw in many of today's console titles where making 'cinematic experiences' seems to have become a more important goal than making games. How refreshing that a great, hyped, and soon-to-be much loved game can be praised ... [and] criticized for what a reviewer thinks (agree or not) are genuine issues." Jaffe cites games like Madden, Mario, and Modern Warfare, suggesting that while good gameplay and a great story will generate respectable sales, a strong narrative is almost irrelevant where the industry's megahits are concerned.
For those who have played Jaffe's games, it's pretty clear that the man has a great respect for gaming both as an interactive and a storytelling medium. As games become more and more cinematic, it's difficult to tell where the hammer will ultimately fall. Is it fair to criticize a game for being too scripted if the trade-off is a cinematic experience that would leave moviemakers jealous? On the other hand, how strong can a game be if its narrative falls flat?
Source: DavidJaffe.biz
This is an odd turn around from Twisted Metal Black where the gameplay was kind of meh, but the stories were insanely awesome.
I can agree with this.
If you can't have both, choose the gameplay.
I have to say I agree with him, and like he said I think it's very possible to do both gameplay and story well. The fact is though, there are other mediums to enjoy a good story, and after all, they're called "video games", not "video stories". I know, that's a bit pedantic, but I firmly believe the root of a video game is the gameplay. A video game can just be further enhanced by having an amazing story, too.
tldr; For me, this guy is right on the money.
I guess it would depend on the desired level of immersion. (I doubt for example that Vampires the masquerade bloodlines would have been better if they ditched on the story and atmosphere in favor of improved gameplay.)
Ripping off the heads of Greek mythological characters is pretty awesome, storyline wise. I never cared for the quicktime events in the game though, so I'm not sure what I think about this.
And in other news, Yahtzee hates motion controls and Darth Vader is Luke's father.
Yeah but it doesn't mean you shouldn't even try with the story.
Worked for Taito's 500 million dollar enterprise.
Yeah. But I'll put up with a shitty story for good gameplay, and rarely ever will sit through gameplay I hate just for a good story. I also find gameplay lends to replay value more than story. I did multiple playthroughs of Bioware games to play as another class, not to see where my choices would lead me.
How can you not recall the amazing storyline of their games? Remember that part where you shoot the thing with your gun-laser? And the emotion you felt at taking a life?
Like the guy said, any decent game should be able to deliver both.
Madden, Mario, and Modern Warfare, the examples given, are all crap ones to support gameplay trumping story. Those games all succeed because they capture a tone and atmosphere perfectly. Mario delivers lighthearted fun and (more importantly nowadays) nostalgia, Modern Warfare delivers gritty military realism and presumably Madden captures the feel of American football very well for people who give a shit about that. Even if their actual stories aren't up to much in the sense a book or a film's narrative is, the narratives and moods of these games play a big part in their success.
The man speaks the truth. If the gameplay is shitty I dont play it since that is what I would be doing for the majority of the game. A good story will never ever make up for bad gameplay but amazing gameplay can make up for a shitty story. Obviously it is better to have both a good story and gameplay but that isnt always possible.
I read the comments on the review, is it really worth getting worked up over two points difference, he still gave the game an 8/10.
The importance of story vary from game to game, some games I'd never play without the story and others I really wish would just drop the story completely.
I thought the invasion of France was a little forced though.
I agree with the guy... Kinda.
In my opinion it's not so much the clash between story quality VS gameplay quality where I'd favour gameplay, so much as player control VS automated actions. I can totally get behind games in which the gameplay is merely functional, doesn't try to do anything particularly astounding or flashy, but is instead a vehicle for the story. However, the crucial point is that they still remain as games - in which the player is the one in control, they're driving the narrative, they have some agency over how the events go, they overcome challenges, yadda yadda yadda.
What I can't stand is when games start to take control away from the player in order to make their experience more in line with what the developer wants. That is the point where the game begins to move out of video game territory, and more towards interactive movie territory - where the way the game progresses is set in stone and the player's only input is to press buttons to move it along.
And actually that sort of gameplay can be fine - that's pretty much the definition of adventure games, after all, but there the gameplay comes from figuring out which button you have to press and where. In games like Uncharted or Heavy Rain, on the other hand, where the challenge supposedly comes from the execution of the actions, not working out what actions to take, execept the way you perform those actions is completely pre-scripted and pre-determined in every way, and laid out on a plate for the player so as to allow the minimal amount of deviation from the script possible...
That's what I don't like, and that's where I'd agree wholeheartedly with Jaffe.
The thing I don't like about the stories in a lot of games is that they limit choice. I don't like feeling as if I'm only able to do what the character wants to do, I want the character to do what I WANT IT TO DO.
Even with a linear story, there's room for choosing which power-ups you use, which side-quests you do, which order you do the components of the quest in (if you do the quests at all). Even in games like GTA, where the missions will lead every player down the same path, you still get to spend time collecting weapons and causing mayhem between missions.
I hate to use FFXIII as an example (I do that a lot here : S), but I felt like they just cut that game down to it's bare-bones in terms of gameplay; there was literally almost no decision making to be made until about 20 hours in (and even then all the side stuff is in the same area *yawn*), there was no back-tracking, virtually no character customization, and very little party customization until near the end. I would have gotten just as much out of the game having watched a "Lets-play".
Interesting that Jaffe was "the mind behind" God of War, but not God of War 2 or Gof of War 3. IMO, the first God of War had a great story, but storytelling definnitely took a hit in the sequels.
I disagree. Both should be treated as one flowing whole that adds to the overall game, not two very seperate, very alien entities.
If you absolutely have to pick one over the other, sure, pick gameplay. There's no point in having a wonderful story if you can't actually get to it.
EDIT: Or, in the case of the Final Fantasy series, put in a decent combat system in and make sure the player recognizes and play around with the decent combat system by dispensing plot pellets every fifteenth hour of random battles.
That being said, if it's a game with mediocre gameplay but a epic tale, then absolutely, make THAT game. Story is very important for some genres, otherwise you're just pressing buttons without any context and that's not good.
Plus, if you're just running around shooting guys without knowing who they are, that's not heroism, that's sociopathy. Heh.
Then again, I'm one of the nutjobs that played and genuinely enjoyed Heavy Rain, so maybe I'm just crazy.
I think that plan will work some places, and not work in others, but as far as God of War is concerned, as long as I get to punch a Gods face into a red pool then I'm okay with a lack of story
I tend to agree with this. I've put up with some dumb-ass stories because the actual playing of the game was really satisfying. I can happily play an "OK" game because it has a good or great story, but I can not play through an awful game regardless of how amazing the story seems to be.
The problem is that so many big-name games are "cinematic" AND have a shitty story. This is huge cognitive dissonance to me. Such narrow level design, so many cutscenes, and for what? Why do this if not to tell a good story? Is it so I can watch a scripted explosion? That's only going to impress me up to a point. An experience like that needs a good story to keep me truly enthralled.
I agree the game play should come first, as they are after all games and if the game play isn't solid and fun you may as well have made it into a book or a movie.Also this is one of the best posts I have ever seen.
And this surprises us, how?
After the transition from GoW 1 to GoW 2 makes this completely and utterly obvious, especially with abandoning the whole idea of making him a tragic character (in the sense of a Greek tragedy).
And he's 100% correct, of course. What makes games different from books, TV, or movies is the interactivity. And if that aspect isn't the best it can be, whoever made it kind of missed the point. If I want a cinematic experience, I'll go to the cinema, but when I want to interact with something, I'll pop in a video game.
As for Uncharted, sure, the games play well. But when #2 was just more of the same (both in terms of gameplay and the shamelessly copy-pasted plot with just some nouns changed), it did start to feel a bit old towards the end. And I'm sure 3 will also be more of the same in terms of gameplay. I just hope they keep things feeling fresh with a different story this time (it doesn't need to be the best story ever, just not the same story Uncharted 1 had). Lord knows the awful multiplayer won't help the game out any.
Makes sense.
I will forgive a few story mishaps if the gameplay is awesome, but I will not forgive horrible gameplay even if the story is awesome, and it's rare that I will play through a game like that. I love a good story in a game, but the gameplay better be up there so the story can shine.
I really think it comes down to the gamer's liking. If you have a gamer who is mostly in to RPGs they are going to expect an awesome story and let go of the mishaps with the gameplay. However you get an FPS, RTS gamer they are going to want gameplay over story.
Me personally I believe a great story can distract from the broken gameplay. If it's subpar gameplay I find myself pushing through it just to finish the story. If it's broken to the point that the game is almost impossible to play, there is nothing that can save it.
Any competent developer should be able to whip out an AT LEAST decent story, anything completely awful is beyond being made up for by gameplay. Well, maybe if the game has a very good atmosphere as well (alan wake for example, I Hated the story and characters, but loved everything alse).
Note that I said awful and not minimal, or non existent.
As long as he didn't say "visuals...."
Well, good. Story is great, but the media itself near necessitates that story takes the backseat. Yes, there are prime examples for all of us where story and gameplay were life long buds, and are never separated, but we each play games that are almost entirely the gameplay. Prototype, CoD/BF/Killzone/Halo, Portal, Plants vs Zombies--these are all games where the story sits back, and gameplay leans forward. It usually doesn't matter who or what you're shooting, as long as you're shooting at it, whether it's zombies, various nationalities or ethnicities, robots, milkmen, patches of wall, or grandmas. What changes is how you shoot them. That is one of the fundamental premises of gaming, is that you actually get to shoot such a variety of things. For gameplay to sit back means a game isn't being played. I can read a book for a story alone, or see a movie for a prefabricated story to be granted specific visuals, but gaming takes it one further, by saying I control the advancement of the plot. No other media allows that. Gameplay drives the car. Story might sit upfront, riding shotgun, but gameplay drives. They might swap for short periods, but it's gameplay's trip, and story is tagging along.
Someone never saw the sequel.
You do realise David Jaffe wasn't the director for God of War II? He only directed the first God of War.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/space-invaders-movie-script-leaked/ In fact, here's a touching copy of the leaked script for the movie adaption. Can you say Oscar?
God of War had quicktime events? Where? I can't recall a single instance of quicktime events in the games. I can recall plenty of Action Commands, but there's no way you could be retarded enough to actually confuse the two terms when they're so completely different.
The problem is the way the guy writes it sounds like an arbitrary point that he decided to harp on about and take away from the score for no reason. Despite having no actual qualms with the gameplay, he attacks it pretty much because its linear.
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The University has excellent sports facilities at both the Rethymnon and the Heraklion campuses. These include well-equipped gymnasiums and, in the Heraklion complex, an indoor pool, as well as playing fields and mooring berths. A wide range of sporting, athletic and gymnastic programmes are offered on the campuses, ranging from yoga and Tae Kwon Do through to football, tennis, and sailing. The University also has teams training and competing in inter-departmental and inter-University league games and other contests in a number of sports, including basketball, football, and sailing.
For information on the full range of sports facilities and activities at each campus see:
the Rethymnon University Campus Sports site (in Greek)
Contact: the Sports Coordinator, Nikos Provias.
Tel: +30 28310 77598 /600 /594
e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
the Heraklion University Campus Sports site
Contact: the Sports Coordinator, Stelios Zachariodakis
Tel: +30 2810 393427 / 545230
Fax: +30 2810 545247
e-mail: email@example.com
Last update 23/09/2019


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Titletown Open 2018 Website is LIVE!
Hello again everyone! Our TTO 2018 website is now live for you to register and create an account. If you've registered an account in previous years you will need to do it again this year. We started from scratch this year. ENTRY registration opens February 1, 2018 but you can still get an account created and see competition details. There will also be a couple special codes coming so keep an eye on your email!
Welcome to 2018! Website Updates and Things!
It's a brand new year with a couple new officers joining the ranks! John Parsons is now the President and Neil Froelich is now the Vice President. In addition to that Neil will also be a new webmaster for the website. There will be several changes coming soon to breathe new life into a few things. Stay tuned, we hope to make more frequent updates and have some new and fun club activities this year!
Its coming up soon….
Full details will be announced soon! Start planning now!
Ahnapee Homebrew Showcase
This past weekend was Ahnapee Brewing's first annual Homebrew showcase in the blustery Algoma.
Set your calendars for next year! Already have a date of October 13th 2018!
The 2017 Rackers picnic anything goes contest is..
Paul Chambers with the 420 Mead!
Also want to give a big thanks to Bryan Halverson for hosting again this year. It was another great one.
November Club Brew/Learn to Brew Day
More details coming.. keep this date open


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Candice Swanepoel Looks 'as Fierce as Ever' Posing on Vogue Brazil's Powerful November Cover
Vogue Italia Features Three Photographers and Two Same-Sex Kisses on Its September Covers
"This can't be a September cover. Too generic, boring and lifeless!"Read more
Kendall Jenner Proves (Once Again) She's No Match for La Perla in the Fall 2017 Campaign
"Its almost like she has no spirit, no picture of her ever comes alive."Read more
Angelina Jolie Makes Her First Cover Appearance in Two Years on the September Issue of Vanity Fair
"This is possibly the worst cover of Angelina I have ever seen!"Read more
Gigi Hadid Stars in Vogue Eyewear's 'Cheap and Corny' Fall 2017 Ad Campaign
"While she totally make sense for Vogue Eyewear... it's a mess!"Read more
Kendall Jenner Returns for La Perla's New Ad Campaign for Pre-Fall 2017
"The only reason they cast her: free publicity!"Read more
tFS Forum Members Hate the New Louis Vuitton x Jeff Koons Campaign Almost as Much as the Collection
"A boring actress and tacky looking bags, what a disaster for LV!"Read more
Katy Perry's New Look on the Cover of Vogue Falls Flat
"It's a waste of Katy Perry, and it's probably the worst I've ever seen her look."Read more
Vogue Italia Celebrates the New Beautiful With Model Sara Grace Wallerstedt
"Boring. Looks like they tried to imitate Meisel's style for Vogue Italia!"Read more
Selena Gomez Smolders on Vogue's Summery April Cover
"Best I've ever seen Selena, she finally looks properly sexy and mature."Read more
Kate Moss Just Made Her 38th Appearance on the Cover of British Vogue
"The lighting is washing her out and that background is not helping."Read more
Valentina Sampaio Is Vogue Paris' First Transgender Cover Girl
"What a beautiful cover, dramatic with ton of glamour, and I am so happy for her!"Read more
Donatella Versace, Jennifer Lopez, Kate Moss and More Pose for W Magazine's Cut-and-Paste March Cover
"The cover looks like those promotion picture for America's Next Top Model."Read more
Gigi Hadid Lands Her Fifth Major Campaign for Spring 2017 (and Our Forums Hate It)
"She looks like a drowned cat!"Read more
Irina Shayk, Transgender Model Lea T and Others Come Together for Givenchy's Spring 2017 Campaign
"The location shots are great and the girls look amazing in their portraits."Read more
Irina Shayk, Joan Smalls and Stella Maxwell Go Topless for Replay's New Campaign
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Emma Stone Sports a New Pixie Cut on Vogue's November 'Vote' Issue (Forum Buzz)
"I hate crop tops and this one is so short it gives me literally shivers."Read more
Irina Shayk Goes Blonde for Vogue Russia's Gorgeous September Cover (Forum Buzz)
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Taylor Hill Outshines Bella Hadid on Vogue Paris' Disappointing September Cover (Forum Buzz)
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Eva Green Is a Welcome Sight on W Magazine's August Cover (Forum Buzz)
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In order to be recommended as a high limit gaming site, operators must be prepared and willing to accept large deposits, 24 hours a day and seven days a week. At the Legends Sportsbook for example, their Money Transfer payment method is a quick and convenient way to fund your betting account that offers an unlimited deposit ceiling. Legends also offer maximum payouts of $100,000 on many of their sports betting options. This is what a high roller is looking for from a sportsbook. They are willing to risk large sums of money, and for that reason alone, deserve to be catered to and have no roadblocks placed in their path. You might also want to seek out a sportsbook that offers reduced juice on its wagers. Even a slight difference in the odds can make a major impact when you are willing to play large sums of money.
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I wish I had met Kay Thompson, the creative whirlwind who inspirits the second act of Liza Minnelli's new show, "Liza's at the Palace ...," or simply had the chance to sit at her feet and absorb her presence. From the moment Ms. Minnelli joins forces with a male singing and dancing quartet to resurrect parts of a famous nightclub act Thompson created in the late 1940s and early '50s with the Williams Brothers, the Palace Theater blasts off into orbit.
There it remains, deliriously spinning until the end of a 2-hour-20-minute show (with intermission) that leaves the star in a state of breathless exaltation. The end of the opening-night show on Wednesday found Ms. Minnelli panting, drenched in sweat, her hair matted, as if she had just finished running the New York marathon, which in a sense she had.
Thompson, Ms. Minnelli's godmother and a pal of Judy Garland's, died in 1998. But Thompson, also the author of the "Eloise" books, can be glimpsed via YouTube.com as an elegantly dizzy dame cavorting in production numbers from vintage TV variety shows. In the 1957 movie "Funny Face," her character, a fashion magazine editor who suggests a hybrid of Auntie Mame and Diana Vreeland, sings and dances and nearly steals the movie from Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire. But Ms. Minnelli's tribute to a woman she calls her "sophisticated fairy godmother" soundly trumps everything I've seen of Thompson.
But even in today's climate of omnivorous video recording, it is useful to remember that nightclub acts remain evanescent, word-of-mouth events, percolating under the cultural radar. So who knows how accurate these re-creations may be?
It is enough to say that beginning with Thompson's song "Jubilee Time" and running through "I Love a Violin," Ms. Minnelli and the quartet execute production numbers that are the last word in modern pop-jazz virtuosity from an era when the term modern meant sleek, cool, jet-propelled sophistication. Clad in identical black suits, white shirts and skinny ties, delivering impeccable, jazz-inflected barbershop harmonies as they swoop and glide, Johnny Rodgers, Cortes Alexander, Jim Caruso and Tiger Martina perform astounding feats of singing and dancing coordination. They are assisted on the piano by Billy Stritch, who breaks in to provide creamy vocal fills.
Their mile-a-minute rendition of the Gershwins' "Clap Yo' Hands" has the furious velocity and compression of a jazz-flavored rap. The director Ron Lewis's choreography belongs to the vintage variety-show sort, but is stripped of clichés to the point that it transmits joy and enthusiasm to the audience like an electric charge.
I would love to report that Ms. Minnelli's voice and physical agility have been magically restored to their former glory, but those days seem to be gone. On Wednesday night her voice was in tatters, her diction unsteady. When she belted, her wide vibrato wobbled to the breaking point. Most of her s's were slurred sh's. Frequently short of breath, she swallowed phrases. Many of her highest notes were dry, piercing caws.
But there were still occasional moments of beautifully focused dramatic singing. She wrung every drop of emotion from "He's Funny That Way," turning the phrase "crazy for me" into a sweetly exultant cry.
As for movement, there were no kicks or even half-kicks, although Ms. Minnelli can still strut stealthily and sprawl across a director's chair in sensual abandon. She moved mostly from above the waist, where her signature gestures were intact: an arm flung upward, a flutter of fingers frantically beckoning the audience to "come to the cabaret."
Once the show began to soar, though, Ms. Minnelli's force of will became a triumph of spirit over flesh. As she insisted on doing what she can no longer do, her audacity was inspiring: her message was you do the best you can, and if you have to, fake it. She trusted the listener's imagination to fill in the blanks.
Ms. Minnelli's stage philosophy, after all, comes from the perspective of someone who grew up in a show business bubble and may never have questioned that life is a never-ending performance starring oneself. Within that bubble, catchphrases like "life is a cabaret, old chum," and "the show must go on" make perfect sense and become poignant imperatives. As the years pass, Ms. Minnelli, now 62, seems increasingly aware that she is one of the last of a hardy vaudeville breed and the foremost custodian of that tradition. The high point of the first act was a revised version of a vaudeville tribute her mother performed at the Palace.
A pure entertainer like Ms. Minnelli and there is none purer is at once voracious and extravagantly generous. If you're onstage 24 hours a day, you have no choice but to give life everything you've got. That was a belief Thompson instilled in her, Ms. Minnelli declared, as if it were gospel arriving from on high.
By Liza Minnelli and David Zippel; directed and choreographed by Ron Lewis; conducted by Michael Berkowitz; musical supervisor, Billy Stritch; sets by Ray Klausen; costumes by Roy Frowick Halston; lighting by Matt Berman; sound by Matt Krauss. Presented by John Scher/Metropolitan Talent Presents and Jubilee Time Productions. At the Palace Theater, Broadway at 47th Street; (212) 307-4100. Through Dec. 28. Running time: 2 hours.
WITH: Liza Minnelli; Cortes Alexander, Jim Caruso, Tiger Martina and Johnny Rodgers.


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This one was taken not far from my apartment complex. The building on the right has appeared in a number of my shots.
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beautiful sky again
Have you ever read Maya Angelou's "I know why a caged bird sings"? In it she has a page—only a page,but a very striking one— about falling into the sky. I think you might like it. I will see if I can find it. xxx svb
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Thai Man Jailed for Insulting Monarchy in Facebook Posts
The nation's strict lèse-majesté law, which translates literally as 'injured majesty', makes any insult of the king, queen, heir, or regent an offence punishable by up to 15 years per count. Convictions under the law have surged since royalist generals toppled the elected government last May.
The Thai government and the media take the measures very seriously. Even when they report on these offences, media outlets must be careful not to repeat them, as this could be seen as illegal. Now that the country is ruled under martial law, others like Sriboonpeng found guilty of insulting the monarchy cannot appeal their sentences.
In March, Tiensutham Suttijitseranee was jailed for 25 years for posting defamatory pictures on Facebook in a closed-door sentencing – effectively a life sentence for the 58-year-old man. Tiensutham's sentence was also halved because he pleaded guilty, his lawyer Sasinan Thamnithinan told Reuters. Reports suggest that the lèse-majesté law has also been used to justify censorship and online snooping. YouTube was blocked by the Thai government in 2007 for hosting a video it deemed insulting to revered king Bhumibol Adulyadej. The site was banned after Google declined requests to remove the 44-second film showing graffiti over the king's face. In 2014, the law justified mass surveillance 'specifically targeting those producing and reading lèse-majesté content.'
International rights groups have lambasted the 'preposterous' defamation rules and called for an end to lèse-majesté law. Critics of the law say that it is being used in a targeted fashion against political enemies of the royalist elite. The UN has urged the Thai government to amend the law to bring it in line with international human rights standards, but so far they have shown no signs of budging. 'Until the law is amended, such laws should not be used arbitrarily to curb debate on critical issues of public interest, even when it involves criticism of heads of state or government,' UN rights spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani told a news briefing in Geneva on Tuesday.
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Firefox takes a long time to connect to websites on start.
This problem is weirdly specific, I have tried other browsers and firefox is the only thing affected, so its firefox specific. When I first open firefox, firefox itself o… (funda kabanzi)
This problem is weirdly specific, I have tried other browsers and firefox is the only thing affected, so its firefox specific. When I first open firefox, firefox itself opens and loads within seconds perfectly fine, I can do things with it offline perfectly fine (like using it to open a file) But when I try to go to any website, it takes ages to load and function normally. It doesnt even matter how many tabs I open, I can load one website, or three, it takes the same amount of time.
Once it has loaded the website(s) it functions completely normally! I can load new websites or pages just fine, and everything works perfectly, until I close firefox and open it again. Its driving me insane because I'm not going to just leave firefox open at all times (This is a gaming PC, I try to not have too many unnecessary programs running in the background)
I have tried several things, I reset firefox, didnt work. I have reset my PC, didnt work. I ran firefox in safe mode...worked! So it must be a add-on or extension, right? ...Nope, turned them all off one by one and every time it didn't work. (I only run uBlock anyway)
So whatever the issue is, has something to do with something safe-mode would prevent/turn off, but not add-on's/extensions.
EDIT: Forgot to also mention, I tried clearing cache/cookies/history as well, so pretty much everything short of a completely clean re-install of firefox with none of my personal data, but hoping to avoid the nuclear option if I can.