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Plus-Size Barbie sparks debate over health and image
A plus-sized Barbie is creating polemic and debates about body image and the impact it can have on health. The plus-size models, (it means, anybody who is over the so-called standards for the models' world), serve as models for a growing market and also to show society that there are different kinds of bodies all over the world. It means, women who are healthy should embrace their shapes, instead of seeking patterns that are not compatible to their types.
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VANCOUVER — Scientists say it's normal for viruses to acquire small changes or mutations in their genetic alphabet as they reproduce.
Just a couple of months after the novel coronavirus was discovered in China last March, a mutation called D614G emerged that made it more likely to spread. It soon became the dominant version in the world.
The coronavirus is becoming more genetically diverse, and health officials say the high rate of new cases is the main reason. Each new infection gives the virus a chance to mutate as it makes copies of itself, threatening to undo the progress made so far to control the pandemic.
Here's a look at some known variants of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19:
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control says this variant is believed to have first emerged in the United Kingdom in September.
It has now been reported in at least 30 countries, including Canada, where it was first found in Ontario on Boxing Day.
It spreads much more easily, says the CDC. While early reports found no evidence to suggest that the variant has any effect on the severity of disease or vaccine efficacy, scientists in the U.K. say evidence shows that it may be associated with an increased risk of death compared with other variants.
The CDC website notes that this variant was first identified in Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa, in samples dating back to the beginning of October.
It was identified in Zambia in late December, at which time it appeared to be the predominant variant in that country. It was first found in Canada in Alberta on Jan. 8.
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The Public Health Agency of Canada says one case of this variant has been reported in Ontario.
The CDC says it is more transmissible and can potentially reinfect people.
Like the variant from South Africa, there is some suggestion that the Brazil variant is less susceptible to treatment.
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— With files from The Associated Press.
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RAPID CITY, S.D. – April 14, 2021 – The Bike Skills Park north of Omaha Street will remain closed through the end of this week, to allow crews to work on a detention pond northeast of the park. The bike path on the south side of the Bike Skills Park is open but does not provide access to the Bike Skills Park.
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In This Moment Celebrate First Major Label Video with Choreographed Dancing
There are two things I really, really like about "Sick Like Me," In This Moment's first video for the first single from their first major label album, Black Widow.
One is the moment at the 1:11 mark when one of the guitarists (the one without dreadlocks) punches his guitar. Punching your guitar looks pretty cool, but it doesn't actually produce any kind of pleasing sound. This seems like a perfect metaphor for the entirety of ITM's existence.
The other thing I really like about the video is all the choreographed dancing. In This Moment's transformation from a metal band into a pop act is now complete — and as a pop act, they really don't bother me. Pop is already full of anonymous musicians and divas who are willing to distract their audience from their own mediocrity via the use of skimpy outfits. Pop is where In This Moment belong.
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Meghan Markle's nephew, Tyler Dooley, recently appeared on "Good Morning Britain" to share some thoughts about his famous aunt's upcoming nuptials — but that wasn't all he shared!
Dooley appeared on the show with his brother Thomas and mother (Markle's former sister-in-law) Tracy to share some potentially embarrassing footage featuring a a 9-year-old Markle posing alongside her newborn nephew.
Dooley was asked by hosts Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid to comment on the speculation surrounding whether or not Markle's father Tom will walk his daughter down the aisle at the royal wedding.
"It's all about what Meghan wants. Traditionally, yes, a father would walk the bride down the aisle, and that's traditional," Dooley said. "But in this circumstance, it's just whatever Meghan feels like she wants to do, whether it's traditional or not," he added.
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"And what's best for everyone, I think," Tracy added. "What's best for him, and what he's comfortable with."
According to US Weekly, Markle plans on asking her mom, Doria Radlan, to walk her down the aisle. Dooley, however said Markle's father Thomas Markle, who lives in Mexico, wanted to be part of the ceremony.
"He loves his daughter probably more than anything in the whole world, and of course he wants to be there, and he wants to be part of that," Dooley said. "I don't think what he wants, though, is to be bombarded by everyone."
Dooley said Thomas Markle, a fairly private man, would be happy to be a part of the ceremony, if he gets an invite.
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This isn't the first time Dooley has shared some retro footage of the future duchess.
Another video recorded in 1991 and shared with Inside Edition shows the 9-year-old Markle at Encino Park in Los Angeles hanging out with baby Dooley.
"She was the fun one, she was the one who just said to us, 'Hey, yeah, you can stay up late,'" Dooley told Inside Edition.
"She is Meghan, who is the same Meghan as she was growing up — vivacious, smart, talented," Tracy added.


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Lincolnshire Man Prosecuted for Waste Failings
Peter Higgins given suspended sentence for illegally storing and burning waste at Gedney Dyke
A South Lincolnshire businessman has been given an 18-week suspended sentence for storing and burning waste illegally at a site in Gedney Dyke, despite repeated warnings from the Environment Agency. He was also ordered to pay costs and a victim surcharge totalling nearly £7,000.
Peter Higgins, 73, the owner of PJH Bathrooms, Kitchens and Tiles Ltd, based at Yew Lodge, Hallgate, Gedney Dyke, stored waste on ground next to the company showroom without a permit for over 2 years. He was also responsible for lighting fires that released polluting chemicals into the atmosphere and caused a nuisance.
Lincoln Magistrates' Court heard how on one occasion Environment Agency officers, investigating reports of thick black smoke at the site, found the remains of items unsuitable for burning, including a chest freezer. Photographs taken by the officers showed waste including plastics, cardboard, polystyrene, textiles, mattress springs, toilets and glass strewn across the site.
Environment Agency prosecutor Sarah Dunne told the court that Environment Officers had made every effort to support Mr Higgins, providing advice, writing letters and giving both formal and informal warnings over more than 2 years. Mrs Dunne explained that they had visited him at least 6 times and gave him many chances to become compliant. Despite their efforts, Higgins continued his illegal activities.
Passing sentence, District Judge Peter Veits told Higgins:
This was deliberate. You had lots of opportunities to work with the Environment Agency but you treated them with contempt when they came to give you advice. You have had 2 years to work with the agency but you have taken an arrogant attitude to the officers. You have single-handedly not protected the environment.
Environment Officer Jamie Holloway said:
Storing and burning waste in this way saved the cost of legal disposal and put the environment at real risk. Mr Higgins was able to operate at a commercial advantage and undermine his lawful competitors.
We welcome this sentence which sends a powerful message to anyone in Mr Higgins' position that waste crime will not pay.
The incidents took place between 5 February 2017 and 6 June 2019.
Higgins was prosecuted under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016, and the Environmental Protection Act 1990. In addition to the suspended sentence, he had to pay court costs and a victim surcharge totalling £6,787.
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Under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016, the deposit, treatment and storage of waste are permitted only with a permit issued by the Environment Agency.
The Environmental Protection Act 1990 prohibits the storage of waste in a manner likely to cause environmental pollution or harm to human health, including causing pollution by fire.


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Israeli Right Wants End to Peace With Jordan
Israel has big plans for Jordan, but they don't include King Abdullah II
Israel has big plans for Jordan, but they don't include King Abdullah II. A long list of articles by right-wing commentators, PR hacks for the government, which were published over the past month in media (Caroline Glick in Israel Hayom, Aryeh Eldad in Maariv, Motti Karpel in Makor Rishon and others), raised similar arguments and identical conclusions.
Coincidence? Maybe. It is more reasonable to assume the similarity stems from briefings by the same official. All these articles have the same objective: Blowing up the peace treaty with Jordan.
It seems that annexing the Jordan Valley is a tactical move meant to kill two birds with one stone: Both to bring about the annexation of the West Bank and also to lead to the rescinding of the peace treaty with Jordan. The strategic goal is the overthrowing of the Hashemite royal house and fulfilling the dream of Jordan as Palestine.
The Israeli right – be they Bibi backers or supporters of an alternative such as Gideon Sa'ar – is a partner in this vision. This of course includes Sa'ar himself, who is an enthusiastic supporter of the idea that Jordan is Palestine. The right wing hates Abdullah and speaks about him as the "servant who rose to be king," an arrogant Arab who dares to lift his head. According to the right, the Hashemites were artificially put on the throne by the British and as a result their rule is foreign and illegitimate.
The racist ego of the right is outraged and angry in light of the backbone Abdullah has been demonstrating. Who is he after all to dare to oppose the annexation of the Jordan Valley by Israel? Israel is holding him by the balls, his continued rule depends on Israel and its benevolence. If he just dares to open his mouth about the Jordan Valley, Israel will turn off his water supply. The goal is to humiliate Abdullah, to drive him crazy, until he suspends or revokes the peace agreement – and then it will be possible to act to remove him from power.
The Israeli right is hoping for a "Jordanian Spring," an uprising by the Palestinian majority in the kingdom that will flood the streets with protests until the revolution is carried out. When Abdullah is expelled in disgrace and the Palestinians rule Jordan it will be possible to complete the annexation of the West Bank and the establishment of a confederation between the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Palestinian Jordan. The Palestinians in the West Bank will receive political rights in Jordan, and not of course in Israel. That's the plan. Abdullah is interfering with its implementation. The peace treaty with Jordan is interfering with its implementation – so they will be removed from its path.
Jordan is also bothering the right on the Temple Mount. Another flood of articles in the right-wing media concerns the desire and right of Jews to change the status quo on the Temple Mount. The most minimal demand is to allow Jews free access to pray there. The maximalist demand is the demolition of the al-Aqsa Mosque and the rebuilding of the Temple. The Jordanian Waqf is in the way – they are also too proud and arrogant.
- Israel's Campaign to Destabilize Jordan
- Jordanians Now See Israel as an Implacable Enemy, Despite 25 Years of Peace
- Why Jordan Conducted a Major Military Drill Against an Israeli Invasion
This is another reason to remove the person who is giving the Waqf his backing, King Abdullah, and to revoke the peace treaty that recognizes the special status and role of Jordan on the Temple Mount.
In this respect, Abdullah's decision not to renew the leasing agreement for the lands of Tzofar and Naharayim plays into the hands of the right, and maybe that is why Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not make a particularly great effort to change it. Maybe this is also the reason (in addition to the rebuke he suffered from his son Yair) why Netanyahu embraced the Israeli security guard who killed two Jordanian citizens.
The right wants to heat up the region, to fill it with bad blood. This treaty is also seen as just another remnant from the period of the traitorous Oslo Accords, even before the traitorous act of the traitor Yitzhak Rabin. Overthrowing Abdullah is the key as far as the right is concerned to annexing the West Bank without annexing millions of Palestinians without rights.


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Director: Paul J. Smith
Release Date: July 14, 1958
Stars: Woody Woodpecker
Rating: ★★★½
'His Better Elf' starts with Woody Woodpecker being poor, full of debts and living near a city dump.
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'His Better Elf' is a genuine gag cartoon, but it's a pity the wish concept isn't used more, but instead taken over by a routine cartoon chase. There's a shot featuring a moving background when Woody is caught by two policemen, a rare feat since the early 1930s.
Watch an excerpt from 'His Better Elf' yourself and tell me what you think:
This is Woody Woodpecker cartoon No. 85
To Woody Woodpecker's debut film: Half Empty Saddles
To the next Woody Woodpecker cartoon: Everglade Raid
'His Better Elf' is available on the DVD-set 'The Woody Woodpecker and Friends Classic Cartoon Collection Volume 2'
Director: Walter Lantz
Release Date: August 11, 1941
Stars: Woody Woodpecker
Rating: ★★★★½
'The Screwdriver' forms an important step in the evolution of Woody Woodpecker.
Woody had been a clear woodpecker in his first cartoon, 'Knock Knock' (1940), and he remained a forest animal in 'Woody Woodpecker'. Now he had become more or less an American citizen, capable of driving a car. In fact, the cartoon opens with Woody driving his rather silly vehicle, singing his theme song from 'Woody Woodpecker'.
The bird soon turns out to be a road maniac, but the gags really start rolling in when he's confronted by a police man. The woodpecker gives the officer a hard time, driving him nuts, in a string of fast and funny gags, greatly helped by an inspired score by Darrell Calker.
Watch 'The Screwdriver' yourself and tell me what you think:
This is Woody Woodpecker cartoon No. 2
To the first Woody Woodpecker cartoon: Woody Woodpecker
To the next Woody Woodpecker cartoon: What's Cookin'?
'The Screwdriver' is available on the DVD-set 'The Woody Woodpecker and Friends Classic Cartoon Collection'
Director: Dave Fleischer
Release Date: September 29, 1939
Rating: ★★
Alright, that's something we had never seen before: anthropomorphized vegetables…
It's night in a kitchen, and all vegetables are sound asleep, when an evil cloaked figure arrives and kidnaps mother carrot and her kids. The entire potato police force comes into action, but like in the Silly Symphony 'Who Killed Cock Robin?' (1935) the police force only manages to arrest a bunch of innocents from a bar.
Most of the 'humor' origins in the typical tortures the police men apply to their victims to make them talk: a cob is made into popcorn, an orange squeezed out, a 'hard-boiled' egg fried. In fact, it's rather painful to watch these scenes. In the end the villain turns out to be four mice, who are caught in a mouse trap, and immediately to start a fight among themselves.
'The Fresh Vegetable Mystery' makes little sense, and can hardly be called funny, but the cartoon is alleviated by its original setting (which anticipates 'Sausage Party' from 2016), making it stand out among more generic Color Classics.
Watch 'The Fresh Vegetable Mystery' yourself and tell me what you think:
'The Fresh Vegetable Mystery' is available on the DVD-set 'Somewhere in Dreamland – Max Fleischer's Color Classics: The Definitive Collection'
Director: Rudolf Ising
Release Date: October 3, 1931
Stars: Foxy
Rating: ★★★½
'One More Time' is an aptly titled short, as it marks the third and last cartoon to star Foxy, Warner Bros.' fox-like Mickey Mouse rip-off.
In this cartoon he's a police officer, fining a hippo lady for driving too fast, and rescuing his Minnie Mouse-like girlfriend from some thugs. He does so riding a mechanical horse, a relic from the Oswald the Lucky rabbit cartoons (e.g. 'Ozzie of the Mounted', 1927), on which Harman and Ising had worked previously. Strangely enough, Foxy is machine-gunned by one of the gangsters in the end. Perhaps this is why he never returned to the animated screen…
The short has a strong urban setting, uncommon in the Hollywood cartoons of the time, and it features some dazzling perspective animation, but otherwise it's just another mediocre entry in the early Merrie Melodies canon.
Watch 'One More Time' yourself and tell me what you think:
'One More Time' is available on the DVD 'Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume Six'
Director: Ub Iwerks
Release Date: May 2, 1931
Stars: Flip the Frog, Honey
Rating: ★★★
'Ragtime Romeo' initially seems to revisit a theme that Ub Iwerks had explored before with Walt Disney in the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit film 'Rival Romeos' and the Mickey Mouse short 'The Barn Dance' (both 1928), when we watch both Flip and a Pete-like character ride their anthropomorphized cars to Honey's house.
But when Flip starts to serenade Honey, events take a different turn. Flip serenades her on a guitar, while yodeling and whistling, and on a piano, waking up all the neighbors. Surprisingly, they all respond enthusiastically, urging Flip to play more, except for one, who desperately tries to block out the noise. In the end she calls the police, which arrests the still performing Flip and Honey.
This short contains a piquant scene, in which Flip's portrait watches Honey undressing. Later, the real Flip watches her naked silhouette through the window curtains. Iwerks's studio would add more of these risque moments in future shorts, like 'What a Life', 'The Office Boy' and most notably 'Room Runners' (all from 1932).
Watch 'Ragtime Romeo' yourself and tell me what you think:
This is Flip the Frog cartoon No. 10
To the previous Flip the Frog cartoon: Laughing Gas
To the next Flip the Frog cartoon: The New Car
'Ragtime Romeo' is available on the DVD 'Cartoons That Time Forgot – The Ub Iwerks Collection Vol. 2'
Director: David Hand
Release Date: November 17, 1934
Stars: Donald Duck, Fifi, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Pete
Rating: ★★★★★
Mickey and Donald (in his third appearance) are policemen hunting Pete who has 'dognapped' Minnie's dog Fifi. The chase, which includes a lot of gunfight, ends in a sawmill where all three have to cope with a runaway circular saw.
The cartoon is outstanding for its fast pace and high content of gags. Mickey and Donald are staged as a duo, but, like in 'Orphan's Benefit', Donald Duck is given the last shot. 'The Dognapper' would remain Mickey's and Donald's only genuine duo cartoon, but it set the stage for the famous trio outings of the late thirties in which Mickey, Donald and Goofy would fight the odds together. Goofy, the only missing element, would join Mickey and Donald a few months later, in 'Mickey's Service Station' (1935).
Watch 'The Dognapper' yourself and tell me what you think:
This is Mickey Mouse cartoon No. 70
To the previous Mickey Mouse cartoon: Mickey Plays Papa
To the next Mickey Mouse cartoon: Two-Gun Mickey


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Vedic rituals are an integral part of 'Sanatana dharma', which is not just a religion, but a way of life. At the core of the Vedas lie several facets of scientific spirituality that resonate with the cosmos at every level. When practiced consciously, these rituals become positive habits that will transform and empower our lives significantly.
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Listed below are eight such Vedic rituals that will guarantee the practitioner a life full of bliss and joy.
Waking Up Before The Sun
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The Vedas talk about the predominance of Sattva or positivity in nature at this time, making the intellect pure and radiant. It is claimed that during 'Brahma Muhurta', the human mind is at utmost peace and this is the best time for performing tasks related to the pursuits of knowledge, righteousness and wealth. Nobility of virtues, the ability to concentrate on karma, gaining control over our senses and becoming compassionate towards all creatures becomes easier to practice if we can wake up early every single day.
Cleansing The Body
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After drinking at least two glass of warm water early in the morning, we must gargle with water, brush our teeth and clean the tongue to activate the taste buds. This process removes 'ama' or toxins, from the tongue and stimulates the digestive system. Splashing cold water on the face and spraying some rose water to clean your eyes will not only activate the system instantly, but also keep our vision sharp and healthy. It is highly advised to rinse the mouth with a spoonful of coconut or sesame oil for healthy teeth and gums. This process massages the larynx, vocal chords and tonsils, eliminating any day-to-day bacterial or viral infection. Evacuating your bowels is perhaps the next step. It is important to examine your stools every day for a first-hand report on how your internal system is working.
Exercise And Breath-work
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Our ancestors believed that between 6.00 am and 9.00 am, the body is in its strongest phase, physically. Hence, working out, walking, jogging or practising asanas sets the tone for a fabulous day ahead. Vital hormones are released in this process igniting the digestive fire, burning fat and promoting the feeling of peace and joy within. It is highly recommended that we practise Pranayama for at least 20 minutes a day. This will help breath and energy to flow freely improving our breathing pattern and calming us down.
Abhyanga And Snan
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Massage or abhayanga is a de-stressing technique that helps to activate energy centres in the body. This 'me-time' ritual will calm the nerves, increase body stamina and fill vitality into our system. Taking a bath every day is considered a conscious, almost meditative exercise. Showering after 'Abhayanga' will tone muscles, hydrate skin, remove dead skin, increase glow on the face and maintain moisture in the body.
Daily Meditation
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The Vedas instruct you next to pray or meditate. It is a way to seek communion with God and expressing one's gratitude, love and devotion. Next, light a lamp to bow down to knowledge as the greatest of all forms of wealth. Meditating for a few minutes every day is a sure shot way to introspect and bring attention inwards.
Healthy Eating
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Maintaining a wholesome, nutritious diet throughout the day at a fixed time is insisted upon in the Vedic way of life. 'Ritucharya' or eating according to region and season is practiced to facilitate immunity and health. Offering gratitude before every meal grounds us helping us cheerfully accepting everything that we ingest as an offering. Eating in accordance with our prakriti or humours (Vata, Pitta and Kapha) will enhance our internal balance not only protecting us against chronic disease, but also helping us promote better health.
Fasting once a week or on special occasions like festivals was always insisted upon. Called 'Upavaasa', this practice is known to be very good for the digestive system keeping the body clean and alert at all times.
Drinking Milk And Sleeping Early
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Western science has proved that not getting enough sleep could lead to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, sleep deprivation, depression and cognitive dysfunction. Ashtanga Hrdayam, the classical Ayurvedic text states that happiness, nourishment, good health, strength, sexual prowess, wisdom and life itself is dependent on sleep. Early sleep is restorative and therapeutic for brain function and is considered a form of unconscious meditation. Drinking warm milk just before sleeping with a sprinkle each of turmeric, cinnamon, cardamom, and ground nutmeg will put you to bed instantly. This ritual will lengthen the duration of your sleep time and promote healthy digestion, which will also help you sleep peacefully.
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[UPDATE 4:40pm: According to Sgt. Michael Anderaychak, "The police department has not received a report of a sexual assault of the morning in june 18th on 19th and Capp. However, we strongly encourage any victim of any incident to come forward."]
Update II: SF Appeal has more up-to-date details on the alleged incident.
Update III: SFPD has identified the alleged victim and is investigating the similarity between this incident and a previous attempted sexual assault that occurred five blocks away on June 15th.
Mission Mission reported on an alleged incident of a brutal rape that occurred at 19th and Capp shortly before 2 a.m. on Monday morning. A source had emailed them on Wednesday night detailing the attack:
She was walking to her home two blocks away from Bender's. She was dragged into a driveway by two unknown assailants after leaving Bender's. They took all her cash and both of them raped her, so severely that she now has eight stitches in her cervix. The entire lower half of her body is black and blue.
The rape was reported at SFGH as well as in a police report, and also to SF WAR. If necessary, my friend is willing to provide hospital records with her name blacked out as evidence.
We are all so shaken by this event and feel powerless to do anything. We decided, with the approval of the victim, to maybe try to get this information out via the community blogs, so people can take the necessary precautions when walking home.
The story was also posted on Reddit.
The victim, who claims to still in a great deal of pain, contacted Mission Local last night to talk more about the story. The victim says she punched and scratched one of the assailants, likely causing visible bruises and scratches. She described her assailants as: "Two Hispanic men, one was a tall guy, one was short."
She also noted that the spot where she was dragged was very dark, and a Mission Local reader said the streetlight at that intersection always breaks shortly after getting fixed, which might be attributed to an increase in prostitution on the block.
SFPD has not yet confirmed with SFist that they have record of the incident. We'll update when we know more. Those with information about the case should call SFPD's non-emergency number at (415) 553-0123.
Update: SF Appeal also penned an extensive piece about the alleged rape, confirming as well that SFPD claims they received no report.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Cannabis supporters call it the "green rush" as interest among farmers to plant hemp, which is a close cousin of marijuana, continues to increase.
Several thousand people showed up to a packed KCI Expo Center to learn about growing and harvesting cannabis and hemp.
"I'm very interested in having a distributorship and growing some medical marijuana and some hemp," said Todd Leonard, who owns a bar in St. Joesph, Missouri.
Leonard said he wants to help sick people, whose symptoms could be mitigated by medical marijuuana.
"I see a lot of old people and I don't want to see them suffer," he said.
Leonard attended the Cannabis Education & Business Start Up event to network with others of a similar mind.
"I know I kind of want to get in with a small business and kind of make it the Amazon of whatever weed," said Aspen Sennewald, a student at Mizzou.
Sennewald hopes to get her foot in the door of a growing industry — no pun intended.
"It's really hard to enter an industry that is so taboo and awkward to talk about," Sennewald said.
During a recent legislative session, both Missouri and Kansas passed hemp laws. Missouri has a 2,000-acre cap, but there's no cap in Kansas.
"There's hundreds of millions of dollars being deployed in Kansas right now," said Mike Arnold, a large-scale cannabis operator originally from Parkville, Missouri, who now lives in Oregon.
Arnold said about 20 acres can produce more than $800,000 in revenue.
"If they're not growing cannabis or hemp in their field, their neighbors are getting very wealthy," Arnold said.
Missouri voters took it a step further last month by approving Amendment 2, which will legalize medical marijuana in the state and allow registered caregivers to grow up to six plants. It imposes a 4-percent tax on marijuana sales.
Medical marijuana remains illegal in Kansas, but the state's governor-elect, Laura Kelly, said she is in favor of some form of medical marijuana.
"I think there's a little more influence from the governor of the legislature taking up cannabis reform a priority," said Eapen Thampy, a marijuana and hemp lobbyist.
Event organizers plan more of these learning events as interest continues to build in the region.


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We're glad to announce that Antigro has become a member of The Polish Chamber of Promotional Products!
The PIAP certificate, which is received by each member, is a guarantee of the high quality of provided services, reliability and credibility of the company.
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With a father that made a living scamming women, Sophie has learned to depend on herself and guard her heart. When her theater ends up with some fire damage, she suddenly finds a hot cop invading her life.
The hot woman in pink lingerie caught Finn's attention right away but her guarded heart is giving him quite the challenge.
Sophie and Finn are about to be hit with a hurricane of past hurts, family drama, and sexual chemistry.
Maybe she'd give him a chance. The thought flashed through his mind. Maybe he'd like theater. Or maybe this was an opposites-attract thing. That seemed more likely. Or hell, maybe they could just date for the sex.
Third in the Opposites Attract series, we have our guarded heroine Sophie and open hearted hero Finn. Sophie's two girlfriends were the heroines of the two previous books but I had no problem starting here in the series. If you like Jill Shalvis, you'll enjoy this couple's similar in tone playful encounters. The first half of this book was incredibly delightful with Finn and Sophie meeting and acting out some great fun and hot chemistry.
How he wanted to say sweet things like how gorgeous she was and how lucky he felt that she'd let him close like this. Close was hard for her. This was not sex-only dating, and he knew she knew that.
A fire gives our couple their meet-cute but Sophie actually ends up being the great theater friend Finn's mother had been raving about. Finn is the oldest and every since his father died, he's taken on the role of leader and taking care of everyone. I liked his calm, cool, and take care of business attitude that was also accompanied with a sense of humor and sexy demeanor. He was a great companion to Sophie's kickboxing, I don't want any part of a family, and feisty self. The first half was them meeting, feeling each other out, and sparking off each other and I enjoyed it immensely. After that, it seemed their relationship was a bit rushed with their second meeting kind of snowballing into a pretty invasive personal talk and not a ton of long interactions. The story started getting a bit repetitive with Sophie fearing getting close to Finn and his family, being hot and heavy with him, and then proclaiming she must stay away.
And he wanted to eat ice cream in bed with her. He wanted to read out loud to her. In bed. And he wanted to talk dirty to her. In bed. In the shower. In the kitchen. In his truck. There were so many dirty things he wanted to say to her, do to her, hear from her.
After our leads sweet, lively, and down and dirty beginning, I was little disappointed in the second half not providing some more depth to their relationship. A vast majority of the scenes take place in the theater, Sophie doesn't spend any time with her friends, and not a ton of scenes of Finn and Sophie interacting with the large amount of secondary characters. For the big role Finn's mom plays in the story she actually stayed a bit too much to the sidelines along with Finn's brother and partner. Having Sophie and Finn's friends and family stay to the side too much gives the story a lack of depth that small town (this actually takes place in Boston but there is clearly a community of people that the author is focusing on to provide a small town feeling) contemporary romance is known and loved for.
Sophie's father provided a good antagonist to keep our leads from an easy happily ever after but for the most part this story was pretty heavy angst free. This was a sweet story that wasn't afraid to also get down and dirty. I greatly enjoyed visiting the Kelly family starring Finn and will look forward to his firefighter brother Colin hopefully getting top billing next time.


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The City Dark
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Partially filmed in Montauk, The City Dark is a feature documentary about light pollution, including interviews with astronomers, naturalists, biologists, and ornithologists describing the effects of the loss of darkness on our health and well-being.
Described by the New York Times as: "A documentary about light pollution that is entertaining and thought provoking" . . . the "interviews explore what our increasing inability to see the night sky means for us philosophically."
If skies are clear bring your family and friends to Montauk County Park and explore the night sky with Montauk Observatory astronomers.
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Essays, Manifestos, Statements, Speeches, Maxims, Epistles,
Diaristic Jottings, Narratives, Natural histories, Poems, Plays, Performances,
Ramblings, Revelations, and all such ephemera as may appear necessary to bring
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Reviewed by Richard Deming
Kafka, in discussing Georg Trakl's suicide during World War I, said of the poet, "He had too much imagination. So he could not endure the war, which rose above all from a monstrous lack of imagination." One could make the same claim about Walter Benjamin, who in 1940, believing he was about to be apprehended by the Nazis and interned in a concentration camp, took his own life. Beyond question, Benjamin was possessed of inordinate intellect and imagination and his work stands at the nexus of philosophy, critical theory, theology, and literature. His oeuvre amounts to a staggering productivity that often defies generic distinctions, a fact which has both helped and hurt its reception since his death. Such accomplishments are all the more admirable because he produced so much despite frequently negotiating bouts of severe depression, with no fixed professional position and living hand to mouth. Thus, Benjamin's life was constantly at the edge of crisis, physically, emotionally, and historically.
Given its brief, tragic intensity, this thinker's life is ripe for operaand one, called Shadowtime, now exists, with a libretto by poet Charles Bernstein and music by Brian Ferneyhough. Fortunately, the libretto may also be read on its own terms. Present are all the ludic disruptions characteristic of Bernstein's work, and his attention to wordplay is as strong and surprising as everfrom transliterations to anagrammatic rearrangements of Benjamin's name (e.g. "I'm a lent barn Jew" (71)) to puns and paronomasias. But what is also present in the sequence is a kind of emotional intensity that isn't always present in Bernstein's poems. The poet's commitment, by turns political and philosophical and guided by a subtle and consistent intelligence, marks his essays and critical work, but his poetry, in working against conventions of lyric subjectivity to undercut the claims the lyric might make on authority, can often obscure the mechanisms and markers for discerning Bernstein's investment in his own poems.In Shadowtime, however, Bernstein's unsentimental yet passionate investment in Benjamin acutely raises the stakes of these poems.
Set on the evening of his last day alive, Shadowtime's Benjamin is visited by phantoms (from Hölderlin to Groucho Marx) and phantasmagoria and he himself transforms into various voices and personae. This destabilized dramatic figure (and isn't the "I" always such?) works so well for Bernstein perhaps because the historical Benjamin provides an a priori cohesion for Shadowtime's explorations, which offer neither a mimetic portrait nor cohesive narrative. Rather than elegy, Shadowtime is an evocation. From the sequence's affective register, it becomes clear that Bernstein cares about his subject deeply, and the work belies surprising vulnerability and even intimacy; Bernstein's genius is to reconfigure that intimacy as a measure of one's relationship to language. Although one might suppose Benjamin's investment in historical materialism to be what draws Bernstein to him, it is the spiritual register of Benjamin's work that shapes and marks Shadowtime and makes it a masterwork. Gerhard Scholem, closer to Benjamin than almost anyone else, said of his friend, "There was about him an element of purity and absoluteness, a devotion to the spiritual like that of a scribe cast out into another world, who has set off in search of his scripture." It is this restlessness, this desire to commit to the world, neither blindly nor unreservedly but intensely, that Bernstein evokes in Shadowtime. As such, perhaps this collection reveals not only new ways of reading Benjamin, but new ways to re-read Bernstein's own body of work, his own restless, ethical inquiry.
Although Bernstein has long been at work on Shadowtime, it is poignant that it appears amidst another war that arises from a monstrous lack of imagination. A
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Looking Back at 2018 – 10 Things I've Done & Learnt
The Lifestyle Flipper blog has laid dormant for the last 12-months yet a lot has changed in between. Here's what I've achieved & learnt in 2018.
It's been over a year since my last blog post! Crazy how fast time flies by and how quickly things change.
It made me think about why I stopped writing these blog posts and to be honest I really miss it! I love sharing what I'm doing with you guys – what's working, what's not working and helping out as many folks as I can along the way.
But at this time last year, I knew I had to dig my feet in and really work hard to be able to achieve the goals I set for myself in my Business Growth Strategy.
As I look back now I see that I never cut out blogging. But, I did include something that I've stuck to over the past 12 months "Focus on the 20% that yields 80%" (misspelling and all!)
My Plan
My last post was just after I got back from the DSL Mexico retreat which was amazing. I came back energized and full of ideas and tactics to implement.
But ideas are useless without an action plan which is why after a call with my buddy Brian Angel (we actually recorded a call as I was considering starting a podcast. Check out what was going to be Episode 1. of the Lifestyle Flipper Show below and let me know what you think!)
Brain shared with me a template for what he uses as his long and short-term goal planner. I filled mine in after having a long hard think about what I wanted to achieve and how I can reach those goals.
Here's the full Business Growth Strategy I wrote for myself in November 2017.
"To grow my eCommerce stores to become the authority in their respective markets whilst maintaining a healthy amount of time within each business. Also to grow my personal brand with the sole focus on helping others."
I pretty must stuck to the first part of this but of course, ditched the second part by not keeping up with Lifestyle Flipper.
- Have a plan
- Focus on the 20% that yields 80% (analytical approach)
- Don't tweak – BUILD
- Serve people, and the profit will follow
- Outsource everything I don't enjoy or that I'm not good at doing
- Stay excited for Monday
- Think long-term
- Stay just outside of my comfort zone
Everything on my values list I stuck to and I believe it's paid off so far.
So, What's Happened In The Past 12-Months?
I'll probably forget a lot of things. I can't remember what I did last week let alone a year ago (another good reason to start blogging again!) but here it goes anyway…
1. Got sucked into the crypto bubble and bought at the absolute worst time.
Yep. I was that guy who got caught up in the hype and fomo and decided to put a good chunk of my business profits into something I knew nothing about based on the fear of missing out.
A good buddy of mine was doing amazingly well in late 2017 from crypto investing having turned $40,000 into almost $2m. I put off investing for months at stuck to my plan, thinking that the bubble would burst. Then, as I got in, it did.
Lesson learnt: Follow Warren Buffett's advise and be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.
Also, that If I were to invest any time soon I should really educate myself first and not rely on the hype of the masses to influence my business.
I read Warren Buffett's book "The Snowball Effect" and Scot Papes "Barefoot Investor" since getting into the crypto market and now know infinitely more than I did before about investing.
Johnny FD's "Invest Like A Boss Podcast" has been another great learning resource that I will listen to more of when I chose to get back into investing.
2. Started my own brand and imported products from China
This has to be the biggest change and achievement I've made over the past 12 months. I decided to refocus on importing my own brand of products in January (after realising I'm not going to be a crypto millionaire any time soon).
I say 'refocus' as I always knew that importing was going to be a focus for 2018. My buddy Dan and I attended an importing seminar in Melbourne in October of 2017 (I think?) and I was sure that this was the next logical move for my business.
I'll go into more depth in another blog post, but basically, I looked at my most popular products and saw that the second best selling brand (by revenue) was all imported items. I was paying a bunch of middlemen and not controlling enough of the process such as quality, stock levels, features etc.
In January I started searching for and contacting overseas suppliers. By February I was receiving samples and in May I visited 6 of the best suppliers in China with my brother and dad.
Negotiations followed when I got back to Australia and I then ordered 2 x 40ft containers from 2 suppliers.
3. Moved into a factory
Of course, all the stock I just ordered had to go somewhere, so I sourced and found a 250m2 factory and office space not too far from where I live. I set it up with a forklift, pallet racking, office furniture a computer and a whole long list of things that are required for a warehouse to operate which I'll dive into more in another blog post.
As a side note, I did consider using a 3PL (3rd party logistics centre) to warehouse and despatch my items and visited one to see how they work but decided against it, favouring my own warehouse instead.
4. Began wholesaling my own brand
It's early days yet, but I've started to get my brand of products into brick and mortar stores. I don't want online retailers to sell my brand as my website is the best place to buy my products online. It doesn't make sense to me to have other retailers compete with me for SERP rankings and in the bidding auction for PPC ads.
But the customers I can't reach are those that walk into their local store to buy. By selling my products at a cheaper rate to brick and mortar retailers I capture almost the entire Australian market.
Early Q1 2019 I'll be working with a buddy of mine named Jacob to test a LinkedIn targeting method that will hone in on finding the decision makers of these companies that I want to sell my brand. I'll let you guys know how it goes!
5. Started a Hire branch of my business for one of my stores
One of my stores' products are also used by hire companies that offer 1-day to 1-year long hire for people and businesses to use the products.
I've allocated each of my own branded products to hire and have already seen some great results, capturing another market.
6. Set up as a company
As I wanted to import my own products I had to move from being a sole trader to a company for liability and tax reasons.
The importer is deemed to be the manufacturer of a product so if something were to go wrong with any of the branded products I sold I was personally accountable. Not something I wanted to have on my mind when sleeping at night!
The move was quite detailed but I had the support of a great accountant who made the move as simple as possible.Along with being a company I now have to have insurances for this that and everything in between. I'll put this on the list of blog topics, too 😉
7. Bought a car to carry my products
I used to drive a small Toyota Corolla – Amy's old car before she upgraded to a Rav4. It was great but not suitable to carry around some of the big products I was now importing and selling.
My accountant advised me of a few Government incentives that I was eligible for that would allow me to claim 100% of the vehicles cost on the business and for it to be a 100% tax deduction from that year's tax return.
I needed to find a ute with over 1-tonne carrying capacity and for it to be less than $20,000 (ex. GST) to qualify.
I found a great 2012 base model Mazda BT-50 with a canopy and roof cage which was perfect for carrying around the bulky items I sell and sometimes would need to haul.
8. Hired more team members
My stores have grown exponentially over the past 12 months. Just this month alone we've done well over 500 orders. So our team has expanded as the businesses have. A lot of people were trialled and many let go. I've learnt a lot about outsourcing, hiring and how important it is to find the right person to fit the company culture.
… another blog post idea!
9. Closed a store that wasn't working
I started a store in mid-2017 that I was certain was going to be a winner. Everything seemed too good to be true!
But after 9 months of trying and losing approximately $10k on fee's and ad spend I pulled the pin :(All was not lost as I was able to merge the products with one of my other stores where customers still occasionally purchase.
… I'll go into more depth as to why it failed in yet another blog post.
10. Started another store
I was going to sell one of my stores to focus on the best performing one. With the profit, I could expand my branded products faster and have more time to focus on growing that business. But I realised recently after the DSL Bali Retreat that I had a great business that was bringing me consistent income. I'd be crazy to sell.
In fact, I want to grow my portfolio of stores next year to 5 and keep growing my amazing team to support it.
The synergies that come from owning multiple stores are fantastic. Plus, I love the buzz of starting a new venture and getting that first cha-ching!
2019 Is Going to Be Even Better!
There are a tonne of things I missed or didn't mention here that have been great achievements or lessons learnt and I already have so many ideas to chase for 2019. Especially after coming back from the DSL Bali Retreat (which was amazing!).
Stay tuned for my 2019 Business Growth Plan post soon.


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GAMBIT is Daniel Zelvenski, from Israel.
Genre: Hi-Tech; DarkPsy (Live Guitar)
Born in Russia but grew up in Israel,
used to live in Goa , India, and currently taking over Toronto , Canada.
Since 2012 he has given a lot to talk, and dance in the psychedelic scene.
Producing fusion of Hi-Tech/DarkPsy with Live Guitar.
Manager in Enterprise Records, from Goa.
He also has another duet project called ASSASSINS.(GAMBIT+SAIBOT)
GAMBIT is Daniel Zelvenski, from Israel.


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Thais Machado-Borges is Associate Professor in Latin American Studies. She is a social anthropologist who works on popular culture, gender, consumption, and social inequalities in contemporary urban Brazil.
Juan Carlos Cruz Suárez is doctor, master degree and graduate by the University of Salamanca (Spain). Currently he is associate professor at Stockholm University
He is author of the book Ojos con mucha noche. Ingenio, poesía y pensamiento en el Barroco español. Peter Lang (2014). In this field he has published several articles to depict the main characteristics of the Spanish Golden Age thought, culture and literature. At the same time, he is co-editor of three collective volumes devoted to explore the collective memory and its relationship with literature and culture in Spain and Latin America. These three volumes have been published by Peter Lang.
On the other hand, he has been co-director and editor of the academic review Diálogos Latinoamericanos (University of Aarhus), co-editor of the digital review Revista Caracteres (Spain, Editorial Delirio), member of the editorial board of the academic journal La Gaceta Literaria (Universidad de Salamanca) and member of the follow research groups: Research Group "The Novelized Memory" (University of Aarhus); Asociación Española de Emblemática; The Nordic Network for Renaissance Studies; Grupo de Investigación Reconocida "Seminario de Discurso, Legitimación y Memoria" (Universidad de Salamanca); and Grupo de Estudios del Siglo XVIII (Universidad de Salamanca). Currently he is the coordinator of the international network Memoria y Narración.


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After an Away Team mission gone badly, Riker wakes up sixteen years in the future to find he is now the Captain of the Enterprise, and with his memories of the intervening years gone. He also discovers her is a widower and has a young son. Riker eventually figures out that this future is a fantasy, apparently created by Romulans in order to gain secret information from him. Riker then discovers that this too is a fantasy, created by a very lonely alien boy in command of a powerful Holodeck, who is looking for company. Riker convinces the boy that he can leave with him, and that he no longer needs to be alone.
Written J. Larry Carroll and David Carren. Directed by Les Landau.
Previous Episode: Reunion • Next Episode: Final Mission
I've never seen Future Imperfect before, or at least not the whole thing. But even knowing the episode's denouement, I was looking forward to checking it out, and seeing Star Trek's take on the classic plot device which TV Tropes refers to as a "Faked Rip Van Winkle" – where a character is tricked into believing that they have lost months or years of their life, usually so some bad guy can ferret out secret information from him. It was used in more than one Mission: Impossible episode, and I've also seen it Battle of the Planets and later in Stargate SG-1 – now it's Star Trek's turn!
And they do a pretty good job. The "future" production design and performances are all pretty clever (even if most of the characters don't really look 16 years older). Most interesting of all is Patrick Stewart's Picard, in his new role as Admiral and sporting his longer hair and beard. Jonathan Frakes' Riker is a solid anchor for the story, with some suitable responses of confusion and uncertainty over everything, especially the discovery of his "son". That said, the episode could have gone further exploring how it would impact Riker to discover that he eventually found the ability to have time for both career and family. The choice between the two has been the essential question for the character' over the series, and so more should have been made of it.
This is at least the series' second example (counting The Survivors, though there may be more, I can't remember) of a story in which a serious danger is built up only to have it turn out to be something actually quite different, and nowhere nearly so menacing. On one hand, that double twist is what keeps the episode from being completely predictable, but on the other hand, I'd have welcomed the return of Tomalak and the Romulan threat in such a direct way. But on the other other hand, the underhanded and devious Romulan plotline that we ended up getting over the fourth season was better and less predictable, so it's probably all for the best.
So all in all, it's a fine episode with no major problems. It makes very clever use of returning character Minuet (although it's disconcerting to discover that Riker's passion for her is still so "real" in his mind). But it does not achieve the greatness of many of the stories from this season so far. So it ends up being more memorable for it's gimmick (kind of like Remember Me) than it's actual drama.
Shout Out to the Past:
• Tomalak re-appears, once again played by the great Andreas Katsulas, putting a face on the Romulan threat. He appeared previously in The Enemy and The Defector, and will show up one more time. This episode is his only appearance as more than a face on the screen. Riker makes a brief reference to the events of The Defector.
• Carolyn McCormick also reappears, very briefly, as a fake version of Minuet, from 11001001. The events of that episode are briefly mentioned here.
• 11001001 also featured Riker's interest in the trombone – which I don't think has appeared since.
Guest Cast
• Chris Demetral, who plays Ethan / Jean-Luc Riker, appeared in a few episodes of Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, was a regular on Dream On, and played Jules Verne in a series I have never heard of called The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne. He also played Christopher Ewing (Bobby's son) in a Dallas reunion movie (Dallas: J.R. Returns).
• Patti Yasutake makes her first appearance as Nurse Alyssa Ogawa – she will go on to appear in 15 more episodes of the series as in Star Trek: First Contact.
• It's Riker's birthday! I don't think we've had a birthday on the show before, have we?
• That Science Officer on the bridge at the start is pretty weak at his delivery of his one line.
• Wesley does not appear in this episode – convenient and sort of necessary since he would be harder to pull off as "aged"
•It seems like they should have been able to detect these potentially dangerous gasses, and then take some precautions before beaming down.
• It's the second time the series has had to employ "old age" make up – though it's not as extreme as in Unnatural Selection.
• Nurse Ogowo only appears in the fake future segments, but presumably she must already be part of the real Enterprise crew, or she wouldn't have been pulled from Riker's mind for the fantasy version.
• A lot of nice touches with the future concept: Geordi's implants. A Ferengi officer. Data as First Officer. Commbadge looks different.
• Troi wears a standard Starfleet uniform for the first time (barring that odd thing she wore in Encounter at Farpoint).
• It's a little absurd that Riker would have to fulfill these negotiations, but I guess things like this are acceptable considering the falsehood of the situation
• Riker instantly assumes that he was married to Jean-Luc's mother. I appreciate that.
• There is brief reference to Kyle Riker, though not by name.
• Some good stuff from Riker to his son: "I'll have to take your word for that because I don't remember any of it. Your first step, your first tooth, nothing. And I want to remember. I guess there's only one thing we can do. We've got to build some new memories." All the better since apparently this scene was added at the last minute because the show was coming up short. Although as a parent, I have to say I don't really remember my children's first teeth.
• Riker's change of tune when he sees Minuet is quite effective.
• I like the upset Riker yelling, "You're incapable of that level of incompetence, Mr. La Forge."
• Ethan punches a Romulan, which seems absurd, but then we eventually find out that it is.
• Ever so briefly, the simulation continues to go on for an instant after Riker leaves the Bridge. But maybe that's how these advanced super-holodecks role.
• Alien Baresh is not quite convincing, though there is a game attempt to make him alien
• In 16 years, Riker actually will be a Captain, and married to a ship's counselor!
Crazy Talk: Captain Riker (Huh?)
Well, this is an episode that flat-out would not have worked in the scenario of Riker being promoted to Captain following the Borg attack. I mean, you could have still had Riker doing the faked Rip van Winkle, but the impact of it would have been lost. Alternatively, you could do it with Shelby, but it wouldn't have had any of the impact, not this quickly into her time on the series. So I guess in this alternate universe, you'd have to have rewritten the episode and moved it into the place of one of those clunkers from Season Seven. In its place we could have had a Shelby-centric story, I guess.
Dialogue High Point
My favorite line is ultimately Riker telling faux-Picard off:
I said, shut up. As in close your mouth and stop talking.
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Live, at the Apollo
January 26, 1934: The Apollo Theater opens. A theater at 253 West 125th Street was built in 1913-14 and originally called Hurtig & Seamon's New Burlesque Theater. It was of a neo-classical design by George Keister and was a Whites Only venue. Hurtig and Seamon were famous burlesque producers and obtained a 30-lease on the building which seated over 1,500 people. In 1928, Billy Minsky took over running the theater. By the early 1930s the theater was in disrepair and closed. In 1933 it was purchased by Sidney Cohen who also owned other theaters in the area. Lavish renovations were made and on this date, the new theater opened with the show "Jazz a la Carte" headlined by Benny Carter and his Orchestra, Ralph Cooper, and Aida Ward. The theater now catered to the African-American citizens of Harlem, New York City, and the world.
On Valentine's Day of 1934, the first major star came to the Apollo in the form of jazz singer and Broadway star, Adelaide Hall. She appeared in Chocolate Soldiers for a limited run. Sam Wooding's Orchestra was featured and the engagement was highly praised in the press which helped seal the Apollo's reputation as a stellar venue. The theater was managed by Morris Sussman and had great competition from other theaters such as the Lafayette which also provided big name entertainment (Louis Armstrong, Bojangles, and Bessie Smith). In the beginning, the shows presented at the Apollo were similar to a vaudeville show complete with a chorus line of pretty girls. That changed as time went on.
The Lafayette was the first to offer amateur night but the Apollo soon took up the idea as well. Winners of the Amateur Night at the Apollo included Ella Fitzgerald and Pearl Bailey. Ella was only 17 when she first performed there and when her chance came, she almost chose to dance instead of sing, but was intimidated by the Edwards Sisters. She performed two numbers and won the first prize of $25. Jimi Hendrix won first place in an amateur musician contest in 1964. Other big names whose careers started at the Apollo are legion and include Billie Holiday, Sammy Davis, Jr., James Brown, Gladys Knight and the Pips, The Jackson 5, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, and many more.
The 1960s was the Apollo's most successful decade but as the neighborhood declined, so did the venue. As drugs became more prevalent, robberies and thefts in the area made it unsafe for people to go to the theater. The theater closed in 1976 after an 8-year-old boy was shot to death. Two specials were aired on TV in order to help raise funds to revive the theater. The venue changed hands several times in the ensuing decades. Once again, renovations were undertaken and today, the Apollo Theater draws about 1.3 million visitors each year. It is on the US National Register of Historic Places and is a New York City Landmark.
The Apollo probably exerted a greater influence upon popular culture than any other entertainment venue in the world. For blacks it was the most important cultural institution–not just the greatest black theatre, but a special place to come of age emotionally, professionally, socially, and politically. – Ted Fox
I told them the rules: "If you like the performer, cheer. You know how to cheer, don't you?" And the audience let out a roar that rattled windows all over Harlem. – Ralph Cooper
I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That's how I started with doo-wop. Now I've come full circle. I did all kinds of music. I used to work on Broadway and Tin Pan Alley. – George Clinton
Forget what you heard—there's no place like Harlem. Uptown, baby, is where the magic happens and deferred dreams materialize. – Kenya N Byrd
Also on this day: The Hills Are Alive – In 1905, Maria von Trapp was born.
Phantom – In 1988, The Phantom of the Opera opened in New York City.
Bald Eagle or Wild Turkey? – In 1784, Benjamin Franklin debates using the eagle as engraved on the national seal.
Brilliant – In 1905, the Cullinan Diamond was found.
Missing Children – In 1966, three Beaumont children went missing, never to be seen again.


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Another Sherlock Holmes thing! Did you hear me groan out loud? There are So. Many. Sherlock. Holmes. Things. So many reboots, revamps, rethinks, resets and revivals. Sometimes the real mystery to me is … why? And then, whoa, along comes Enola Holmes, whose sole mission seems to be to charm the knitted socks right off us. Mystery solved!
Based on a series of YA novels (and clearly meant to be the first in a series of movies), Enola Holmes spends a few minutes setting up the titular character's situation: teen girl who lives with her mother (Helena Bonham Carter, in a part that contains an edge of unexpected darkness) in a (preposterously alluring) English countryside house where they practice indoor archery and Mummy teaches Enola all about everything (it seems like they might have spent a lot of time on … anagrams?). Along the way, you find out that Enola is the youngest sister of Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes, both of whom show up to get the plot churning. Oh mmm hmmm, there's a plot: something something, Mummy disappears, Enola goes to find her, missing Marquis, something something else, suffragette bombs, Superman plays Sherlock, something else happens and voila, it all works out. None of that matters—this thing is all about Millie Bobby Brown's performance as Enola, which is so hugely enjoyable that you half wait for Sherlock to show up and launch an investigation into why he's not making more of an impression.
Fair warning: you will spend a lot of time pausing and looking at all the frippery. Clothes, curtains, vines that cloak the manor house, art hanging on the walls (I went nuts for the chrysanthemum paintings), a magical treehouse in the woods. It looks like it all cost a zillion dollars—er, pounds. You will also spend time wishing this was already a completed series and you could watch just one more.


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Open KU football practice provides hints of what depth chart could look like
If Kansas football coach Les Miles and his assistants currently have a depth chart they feel good about during the final stage of spring practices, they're certainly not making it public.
However, during the Jayhawks' open practice on Thursday — a light, pads-free warmup for Saturday's spring game — the 11-on-11 session provided a glimpse of what KU's two-deep just might look like right about now.
The first-string units that were in place for the 13th practice of the spring may not even look exactly the same when the Jayhawks reconvene under the lights for No. 14, when fans will get to watch KU scrimmage at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium.
Still, this particular practice was the first prolonged opportunity those outside of the program have had this spring to watch the offense and defense go toe-to-toe.
More players will join the roster in the summer, and some undoubtedly will factor into the two-deep at preseason camp. So it's safe to describe the current state of the various position battles as fluid.
For Thursday at least, here's who started on each side of the ball when the team period began inside KU's new indoor practice facility.
QB - Thomas MacVittie
RB - Dom Williams
WRs - Daylon Charlot, Andrew Parchment, Kwamie Lassiter II
TE - Jack Luavasa
LT - Hakeem Adeniji
LG - Malik Clark
C - Api Mane
RG - Chris Hughes
RT - Clyde McCauley III
DE - Cody Cole
NT - Jelani Brown
DE - Darrius Moragne
Hawk - Azur Kamara
LB - Drew Harvey
LB - Dru Prox
CB - Hasan Defense
S - Bryce Torneden
S - Mike Lee
S - Davon Ferguson
CB - Corione Harris
After all of those presumed current starters took a fair amount of reps, coaches rotated in other Jayhawks.
Here are the players who showed up most often in reserve roles as KU spent most of its afternoon session pitting the offense against the defense.
QB - Carter Stanley
RB - Khalil Herbert
WRs - Takulve Williams, Ezra Naylor, Stephon Robinson Jr.
TE - James Sosinski
LT - Earl Bostick Jr.
LG - Jacobi Lott
C - Andru Tovi
RG - Adagio Lopeti
RT - Antione Frazier
DE - Willie McCaleb
NT - Sam Burt
DE - Jelani Arnold
Hawk - Najee Stevens-McKenzie
LB - Kyron Johnson
LB - Cooper Root
CB - Kyle Mayberry
S - Ricky Thomas
S - Jeremiah McCullough
S - Shaquille Richmond
CB - Elijah Jones and Elmore Hempstead Jr.
Other reserves got their fair share of reps at the practice, as well. These are the other backups who participated during the 11-on-11 work.
QBs - Miles Kendrick and Torry Locklin
RB - Donovan Franklin
WRs - Kameron McQueen and Evan Fairs
FBs - Sam Schroeder and Mac Copeland
OL - Joey Gilbertson and Kevin Feder
DL - Jalan Robinson
LB - Robert Topps III
S - DeAnte Ford and Julian Chandler
Again, there were no pads involved, so there wasn't any real hitting or tackling. But there were some players who stood out as the KU football program opened its practice up to both the student population and members of the media.
A senior safety, Mike Lee, intercepted two passes on the afternoon. Another defensive back from New Orleans, junior safety Ricky Thomas, made another pick.
Although several receivers had a crack or two at some deep shots, it was junior Stephon Robinson Jr. who hauled one in successfully, despite solid coverage.
What was the most impressive catch of the day? Quarterback Thomas MacVittie gave that honor to one of the tight ends.
"I think our tight end, Sosa, had a one-handed, kind of behind him," MacVittie recalled of a snag by senior James Sosinski that drew oohs and ahhs from his teammates nearby on the sideline.
"That just shows how athletic he is," MacVittie added of the grab.
KU's spring game is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. Saturday. It will be available to stream on ESPN+ and broadcast locally and throughout the state on various cable platforms.
Jerry Ryan
Where is Petty Tom Keegan and his idiot minions complaining about disclosure of depth chart and no other head coach would keep information private?
Dillon Davis
Hi there. Not disclosing a depth chart before even having the spring game is much different than waiting until the first week of the season to announce who your starting QB will be.
Chris Spangenburg
sorry but no one ever complained about depth charts in the spring fella
Dirk Medema
Benton - Parker was the big catch in recruiting. Do you see him making the 2 deep? Are there others to look forward to?
Dirk Medema
I'm seeing on the e-network that we signed a kid named Kenny Logan out of Saint Augustine, FL. I don't remember any discussion of him on NLOISD, and haven't heard anything about him since. It says he signed 2/6/19. It is a real nice list of schools/offers.
Will you do a post-spring FB roster update, look into the future?
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Quote:Arguably because the facts don't support your argument. How many were murdered over money? Look its clear...you hate Christianity. Atheists and Muslims and every other religion just get along so great right?
Quote:Let's be absolutely clear: I'm not keen on any religion, not just Christianity.
Quote:Ok that's fair. But is it also fair to point out that I don't think I have once seen any other religion so harped against as Christianity on this board when its coming from Atheists? I personally am Agnostic. But those against religion on this board are always using the word religion or Christianity in their examples...and often Muslims and other religions are given a pass even if its only by omission?
Haven't we had this conversation before? Can you explain to me why you don't understand that people from countries that are overwhelming white and Christian have a bone to pick with people who are white and Christian? They say "write what you know," and maybe that also means "complain about what you know."
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Fallen comrades. Arlington. The solemn price of freedom. Of answering the call. Of duty, if you will. If only there were a way to properly honor those who gave their lives. If only I had the right words. Or, like, a magic button. Bro, wouldn't that be tight?
Call of Duty has always been about huge, cinematic blockbuster gaming catering to a mass-market, mostly male demographic. But Advanced Warfare's big sci-fi war story needs just a touch of that human element, too, so people get enough emotional roughage along with their powered exosuits and drone swarms and nefarious characters played by Kevin Spacey. Hence the average CoD campaign and its cast of cardboard roughnecks, who get characterized just long enough to get blown away, as a testament to the hell-esque realities of war.
And, the thinking goes, games have to be games, not movies: any time spent passively watching the screen is time spent "not gaming," wishing American Sniper would hit theaters already. And so you get pointless interactivity in the form of "Press F to pay respects," which packs all the silly inanity of the famous Press X to Jason meme, but with an extra kick of disrespecting our veterans, to boot. What's the point of this? What "respects" am I consenting to with a single button press? Whatever, no time to think, Taylor Kitsch says it's go time!
When the series's trademark quicktime events are put to their proper use, the results can be damn exhilarating, like this:
At a funeral, though? Let's give these poor fake soldiers some space.
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